The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 21, 1899, Page 6

‘ THE SAN FRANCISCO JALL WED&ESDAY, JUNE 21, 1899 The s WEDNESDAY 89 _ILX\"E 21, I JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor i 1 Compnieion 1o V. 5 LEARE, g PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Main 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS......... 217 to 22 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1576 DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEE. Eingle Copies, B cents. Terms by Mall, Including Postage: PATILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one yea $6.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 6 montl 3.00 DAILY CALL tincluding Sunday Call), 3 monthi 1.50 | DAILY CALL— By Single Mo:th.. = {I'NDAY CALL One Yea: WE Y CALL, One Year All postmasters are authorized to receive rubscriptions. Gumple copies will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE.. .....908 Broadway NEW YORK OFFICE C. GEO. KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS. Waldorf-Astor Hotel; A. Brentano, SI Union Square; Aturray Hill Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE........Wellington Hote} C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. 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Baths—Swimming Races, etc. AUCTION SALES. rsday, June 22, at 11 o'clock, ~ and Market street THE STORIES 'OF THE ®YUKON: '\Jl that r dreamed of desperate ad- em- 1e early reports bring e Yukon adventurers dur- ceivable event g from the record. rich strikes is missi he rapture of 1nibalism. fe that civilized men have iter. One report tells how ging a hole in the frozen of nuggets being as much as er tells ost their way e bodies were found it ion that the flesh of one f to furnish food for 1d by famine and cold rich strik along 1wn to be rich, of other discoveries ers on newly explored creeks and bodies found exposed t with wounds that signify mur- s of the founding of promising lictions that they may grow other tale of a frantic fight inter- revelry and resulting in the out- early swept the metropolis of the face of the earth pole found great chunks how three men exhausted their sup- various stories of ehensive narrative of the winter 1 if told by araphic realism of Defoe: would 2 man who possesses most thrilling, blood-curdling romance of It is uselc or writers to go back to the ages to search for stirring themes. No age has ever furnished a wider display of every faculty of man from the highest courage to the most de- 1 cowardice than has the Klondike country since the gold rush began, nor has any land set that pon a more impressive stage or with a more round than that furnished by the derness with its winter of ice and dark- ed with auroral lights, charming the soul ry of its heavens and torturing the body he rigors of its cold back It may be ccepted as certain that Alaska and the adian Northwest Territory are to have a con- us development in civilization. Gold has been 1in such quantities as will induce men of capital to expend money, skill and energy in searching out and exploiting the quartz rocks from which the gold has been ground out by glaciers and washed down by to the placers. That the wealth expended in obtaining the gold will exceed all that can be taken out may be accepted as a matter of course. That fact will not deter the sanguine. Each will believe himself destined to be the lucky one who will succeed where the others fail. The Arctic gold fields will therefore be fully developed, and with the progress of the development there will come a safer life for those engaged in promoting it.: We are get- ting the worst of Alaska now, and those daring and adventurous men and women who have gone through it all will have good reason to recall it and boast of it in future years. — the spring torrents It is evident that no Filipino is whipped until he killed. Driving him from the field does ‘not count, as running away and coming back again as s00n as our troops move on are parts of his war tactics that he most delights in. has bee: It is not strange, no matter how it may appear, that a man in Ohio stricken dumb fifteen years ago has re- covered the power of speech. Numerous politicians ire likely to find tongue as miraculously once Mark Hanna i in Europe. is saf st arriving at the conclusion that Oom” Paul is getting ugly. Is it possible that there lias never been a shipment of the Boer President’s photos to England? Britishers are j Murderer Moore of Nevada City has occasional sleeping spells at his trial. It may not be long before his sleep becomes permanent. That old phrase, “Our friends, the enemy,” is be- _in;z sharply illustrated by the treacherous “amigos” in the Philippines. Room 188, World Building | e % ; A il | have faced in that wet and poisonous archipelago it | Panorama Co., Market street, near Eighth—Bat- | THE PHILIPPINE SITUATION. YHE undeclared war in the Philippines has now | been on nearly twice as long as the time that | passed between our ultimatum to Spain and the | call of Cambon in behalf of the Spanish Government | to ask for a peace parley. The Filipinos, without ef- | fective artillery and lacking military formation, have | proved their touch and common feeling with all peo- i ple who are fighting for the soil they were born on j and for independence and seli-government against an | invading host. The Greeks did it at Marathon, the Romans at Metaurus, the Germans in Teutoburgher | Wald, the Belgians at the battle of the Golden Spur. | We did it through the eight years of our Revolution, | and when a British army invaded our country in the | war in.1R12, and after the battle of Bladensburg put | the torch to Washington City, burned the Capitol and | White House and put. the Government to flight, a thorn was planted in the American heart that rankled | until now that British flattery has drawn it. In estijnating the difficulties that our brave troops | must not be forgotten that our superior arms, aim and formations, our great guns and the support of | warships that with one broadside can destroy a town | and leave its men, women and children heaped in a | mass of torn flesh to spume in th& sun, all have been nearly equalized by the horrible climate, the vertical | sun, the noxious evaporation. To all these the natives are as accustomed as a toad to the vapors of a fen, therefore, though the sym- pathy of the nations is forbidden them and the Gov- ernments that have cursed the world with war and con- quest and wetted it with the tears of the weak and the blood of the brave are leading us in their footsteps and out of the ways of our own fathers, nature fights as an ally of the Filipinos. With less resources and not a ship they have proved themselves far superior to | the Spaniards as fighters, gnd to overcome them is an ! achievement that will merit brighter laurels and greater honors than are due the soldiers who touched the tottering power of Spain and saw it fall. The French and English, especially the latter, in- structed our Government that the Filipinos were not | to be treated as human beings, but that they must be pursued like beasts of prey until the remnant that survived would submit, abandon a dream of freedom, | cease to aspire to independence, and bend the neck | to whatever yoke we fashion. The advice has been followed, and that has been | followed by consequences that might have been ex- pected. destroyed the country by raiding, the natives have fought as they Our inadequate force has retreated and their hosts have closed in behind our ater closes after the hand advancing columns, as that is drawn through it have come out of the jungle and sat in the ashes oi The women and old men their poor huts and have felt just as Greek, Persian, Roman, German and American have felt in the pres- ence of the invader. Meantime General Otis has been dealing “crush- ing blows.” He has ended the “rebellion” repeat- edly. There has been frequent joy in the Cabinet that the business was over and we could settle down to | the profits of conquest and teach the natives that it | is their Christian duty to love their enem and w But the “crushing for them to fall upon our necks blows” do not crush. sands of these people who never heard of us until we invaded their country with the flag of the free. There is much mourning in American homes. The first- born of many a house has died under a blistering, tropical sun, a hero, because his country ordered it. Our troops have pushed the unavailing butchery Yet the barefooted enemy, remembering his hut burned and his paddy field destroyed, lurks in the jungle and war with uncomplaining endurance and dash fights. It is time to do one thing or the other. human life, or do what was eas treat them as human beings, “unconditional surrender” to a people who know that we are already disarming Cuba, and see whether the orders we have taken from Great Britain to never treat the Filipinos as human are correct or not. The latter course will not be pursued. Then the former must be. The troops must be raised and sent. If théy will not volunteer they must be conscripted. The ranks must be filled by force if need be, and we must push our conquest as all conquerors have to. evident that we must reduce the archipelago to com- five months ago— cease the reiteration of plete desolation, and leave only the inferior manhood living that is found among the tribes that are too cowardly to fight. The Chicago Journal and other leading Republican papers join The Call in this demand as supporters of the administration. As Otis must be fatigued with punching the bag, let him be rested and send another commander in chief. War is hell. We have made a hell in the Philippines; let us get through with it as soon as possible. O Democratic politics of late is the sudden rise of Gorman from the retirement enforced upon him by his defeat for re-election to the Senate to a po- sition of seemingly greater power than ever in the party. The discredited leader who could not obtain a Senatorship from his own little State now stands forth as a personage of such importance that he is | looked upon as a dangerous rival to Bryan and as a probable candidate for the Presidency next year. The unexpected appearance &f this astute and forceful leader in the thick of the confusion of the Democratic camp, and the activity of his efforts to { form a faction of his own among the discordant hosts, { have naturally given rise to a great deal of comment. In those States where the gold element prevails, and to a considemble extent in the South, Gorman's can- didacy has been received with maiked favor, and has been given something of a boom. The declarations in support of the ex-Senator have | been confined by no means to irresponsible parties. Several men known to have weight and influence in the councils of Tammany have been outspoken in ad- vocating his nomination, and it can hardly be doubted that’ powerful organization is at his back. In other States also men of great influence among conserva- | tive Democrats have been equally vigorous in up- holding his candidacy, so that he now appears as the man who is most likely to be chosen to lead the op- position to Bryan when the Democrats assemble to | select their standard bearer for the campaign of 1900. | Under these circumstances it is interesting to note | that in his own home there is by no means so enthu- siastic’ a support as elsewhere. The Baltimore Ameri- | can, while a stalwart Democratic paper, is known to be opposed to the boss-ship of Gorman,and allowance | will be made for its opposition now. Nevertheless it | has the advantage of a proximity to Gorman which | other papers do not possess, and therefore can ap- | praise the elements of his strength and his weakness !heuer than any other. It sees him from the stand- ! point of an intimate enemy as it were, and that is by | no means the worst point of view from which to get a true idea of such a man as he is. The American insists that Gorman’s A HOME VIEW OF GORM@N. NE of the most notable features of national nomination it | We have probably killed thou- | Either send 100,000 men at once and besom the islands bare of | It is| would involve a political absurdity, inasmuch as he | has been faithful to neither wing of the party. He iopposed the Cleveland administration and was the | leader in the Senate who defeated the Wilson tariff by | so amending it as to virtually destroy it. He is a gold ;moncy man, who supported Bryan in 1806, but sup- ported him in such a way that it did Bryan no good. | He is therefore distrusted by the gold men, the silver men and the free traders: and for that reason the American holds that despite all that may be done for him by Tammany and other political machines, he will not be able to command strength enough in the national convention ta obtain the nomination. The American takes another view of his activity at this time. It says: “Mr. Gorman merits the reputa- tion he has acquired as an astute politician, and it seems clear that he is playing national politics. He knows that the nomination of Bryan will mean that | the party will be led through'a slaughter-house to an open grave: that the party's salvation depends upon | the nomination of one who c¢an satisfy = the uitra- {rndiml Demacrats as well as those who bolted Bryan in 1896, no matter what the platiorm he is run on. | Mr. Gorman knows that he is not that man, because he could not hold the ultra-radicals. But in his mind Bryan must go down. Since he cannot, therefore, be the Edward of Democracy, the next best thing is to be its Warwick, and it's Warwick's role Arthur Pue Gorman is playing these days.” | OUR VANISHING FORESTS. H. MILLS has returned from his trip through Northern California and Oregon, W‘ bringing another warning of the rapid de- | struction of our forests. During his trip he has had | occasion to note with more than ordinary care the | woods of the country along his route, and he reports | that where a few vears ago there were vast stretches | of unbroken forests there is now nothing but bare | hills and blackened stumps. While the destruction of the kind referred to by | Mr. Mills is not as bad as that caused by forest fires, | it is none the less sufficiently extensive and wasteful | | to demonstrate the need of a better supervision and é]xmtcc(inn of our woodland wealth. In one place | five sawmills were noted, which cleared over 200 |acres a week. The mills of course do not use any but | trees that furnish merchantable timber, and yet the process of the industry is such that it completely de- | vastates the forests, or so nearly so that it requires about 4000 acres of the land cut over to furnish the | fuel required annually for the locomotives of the rail- ‘roml passing through the district. “ In commenting upon the subject Mr. Mills said: | “There should be no timber cut without the super- | vision of the forest wardens. They should mark the | trees to be felled and no others should be taken. As it is now all the best trees are selected by the millmen, and in getting these out they destroy not only all the | other old trees but the young ones as well. The clear- | ing of the forests is also affecting the water supply. | i they go on as they have been going it will not be | | long before the Sacramento River will be nothing but a small stream. In these vast extents of cleared lands, | where when the trees stood you could not go any | distance without crossing a stream, there is now not even a spring; the hills are drying up. When the rain falls it runs off the slopes as it does off the roof of a house; the streams rise and run like torrents, and then dry up again as soon as the rain is over. | Snow melts as quickly as it falls almost, and the lamdi | dries before spring is past. | j The problem involved in the destruction of our forests is one that never can be too oiten discussed or too often brought to the attention of thoughtiul | | men. It is one of far-reaching importance, and pro- foundly affects the welfare of the State. It must be borne in mind that beyond the mountains that shut | the Pacific Coast States from the interior there| . Counts It a Privilege fo Aid the MAYOR R. W. SNOW PLEDGES OAKLAND'S SUPPORT TO THE DEWEY MONUMENT Commitice. AYOR PHELAN, the chairman, and Captain Fletcher, the secretary, of the Dewey monument committee some days 2go sent communications to the Mayors of twenty of the principal cities in the State, setting forth the purposes of the committee, the debt of gratitude the people of the Pacific Coast stretches a vast/ region of almost treeless and tim- | berless country. As that region settles up the inhab- | |itants will look to the coast States for their supply | of lumber for all purposes. The drain upon our for- | ests, already large, will therefore increase with the | rears. and the evil become at last one whose menace | | cannot be mistaken by even the most thoughtless. | The great progressive States of the East have | begun to take steps not only to protect such forests | as remain to thent, but to replant many districts which | have been stripped of their trees. The example of such States will of course have its effect sooner or | { later, and we shall in the end follow them in their wise course. It would be better, however, if we should | join them in taking the leadership in the matter and set an example to other Pacific Coast States. Onei | thing may be regarded as certain—if we would pre- | | serve California for future greatness we must preserve | her forests from present destruction. B been made by its readers for the publication in book form of the many striking cartoons that have marked its pages of late, the Los Angeles Times has issued in a very attractive form a volume containing them, the object being partly to preserve the cartoons and partly to provide a valuable and in- teresting premium to its subscribers. The cartoons are by the gifted Will E. Chapin, one of the most versatile satiric artists of the time, and cover the very interesting period of the war with| Spain and the recent political contest that ended in the election of Governor Gage. It has, therefore, a historic as well as an artistic value, and may be ac- counted a notable contribution to the political history | of the time The subscribers of the Times are to be congratu- lated on the opportunity for obtaining so attractive a souvenir of American public opinion during the Spanish war, and such. witty illustrations of the fally | of the fusion campaign of last year. Mr. Chapin is also to be congratulated on the excellence of his work and the appreciative way in which it has been pre- sented to the public by L. E. Mosher, who contri- butes the introduction to the volume. CHAPIN’S CARTOONS. Y way of complying with the requests that have It is now said the defegates at the Peace Confer- ence are waiting for Kaiser William to make up his mind whether he will consent to agree to arbitration or not before they go further in any part of their work except that of dining with the notabilities of The Hague and drawing their salaries. It seems to be a situation in which they can wait as long as the Kaiser and will not hurry him, but it is hard on the taxpayers of nations that have to pay the salaries, and harder still on the aristocrats of The Hague who have to put up for the dinners. —_— Imperialism brings militarism, and military govern- ment brings the sort of thing now going on at Ward- ner. Is it any wonder the people have taken a sec- L ond thought on the subject of foreign conquests and are more resolved to preserve their own liberties than to suppress that of the Filipinos? Loomre e A few pgoplc are reported to be on their way from the Klondike with gold, but the great majority of | clan instead of pre | pointed as a board of officers | one doctor | of the department, ordered the necessary those who joined the rush to the diggings are still digging away with no gold in sight. 1 owe to Admiral Dewey and the officers and men under him for saving these shores from .the guns of a hostile fleet, appealing to the patriotism of the peopl calling upon the Mayors of their respective cities to give the movement every assistance in their plained that although the monument w; San Francisco, it being the chief seaport of the coast, it was the intention to have it the offering to the great admiral and his subordinates. With a view to ascertaining the sentiment in the inte- rior regarding the movement, The Call has had the gentle- -men addressed prepare a statement o these are daily being received. From them it will be seen his officers and men with with as great favor that the plan to honor Dewe a magnificent monument meets throughout the interior as it has in San appealed to will give it their heartiest short time funds from north and south and east will be pouring in to swell the splendid co made by the local patriots. .Following R. W. Snow of Oakland, who upon.receipt of the commit- tee’'s letter made a speclal trip across with. Mayor Phelan on the subject* e of California and power. It was ex- as to be located in of the whole State f their views, and Francisco. The men support, and in a ntributions already is the statement of 040404040404 0404040404 0404040404040+ V404040404 the bay to confer © +0404 0+ 040404040404 040404040404 040@ E$) +04040404040404040404040404040404040404040 B S e §MAY0R R.W. SNOW, OAKLAND. + @4040404040 404 04040404040 +0404040+40+8® CAKLAND, June 20. Editor San Francisco Call—Sir: I count it a privilege to aid the Citizens’ Committee to erect a monu- ment to the American navy, and in commemoration of Admiral Dewey’s victory at Manila Bay. The generous subscriptions of Mr. Spreckels, Mayor Phelan and others are a guarantee of the success of the undertaking. A subscription list is now open in the Mayor’s office in this city. The money our citizens will give will by no means measure their admiration for the great admiral, or the man behind the gun, but I am confident that they desire to help build this monument. Let it suggest the majestic power of the American people. Let it be as broad and as high and as permanent as the principle for which the war was waged. Other generations will take their children into the shadow of it and teach them to be also ready to do great deeds when their coun- try answers again to the call of hweanity. 0005000.00000500900.050 005 05 050000005000500008 SURGEON AR WCTIN OF AN HALLUCIATION His Malady the Result of Using a Drug. R IT MAY AFFECT NEALL CASE . COL. FARWOOD SAYS THE SUR- GEON WAS COMPETENT. S Captain Neall’s Friénds Think Differ- ently and Declare Dr. Ware Should Not Have Been on the Court. e ‘The case of Captain Isaac P. Ware, as- sistant surgeon, United States army, is causing much sympathetic comment in army circles. Dr. Ware is highly spoken of as a surgeon of superior ability, whose record for industry and investigation is excellent. When the Government began to make active preparations for the Span- ish war the work of army doctors was greatly increased. At that time Dr. Ware was suffering intensely from a physical ailment, and in order to obtain relief from pain to enable him to perform the many duties assigned to him he resorted to nar- cotics. It is said that his case uld not have reached a dangerous condition if he had sought the advice of another physi- bing for himself. Army officers do not care to disc the health of Dr. Ware, but the admission is made that he manifests signs of physical and mental breakdown. Major Robert J. bson, surgeon; Captain Edward Everts assistant surgeon, and Captain Thomas U. Raymound, assistant surgeon, were ap- to inquire concerning the mental and physical health of Dr. Ware. Wh an officer thought to be disabled physically the judgment of is negarded as sufficient to determine the nature and extent of the disability. When indications point to trouble in the mind the opinion of three physicians is required. A prominent officer remarked yesterday “Dr. Ware is an able man, and 1 have no doubt that he could to- pass an examination readily and ans all ques- tions without faltering; but s suf- fered intensely, and as T he Dr. Ware is a native of Maine and was appointed to the army from that State in 1862. He was ordered to the Presidio about a year ago from Los Angeles, whither he had gone “on sick leave from the Department of California. When he came here his unfortunate failing was known, and his brother officers kept a close watch over him and did everything in their power to prevent his using the drug to which he was addicted. When under its influence his hallucination was as sad as it was humiliating. On all other subjects Dr. Ware was apparently per- fectly rational. He endeared himself to all with whom he came in contact. Some time ago when a suspected case of small- pox was quarantined on the Reservation, Dr. Ware was the surgeon put in charge of the case. When the quarantine was declared off and he was relieved and returned to the go!t one of his superiors was shocked to iscover that the young surgeon's mental condition was such that it was evident he had been freely using the narcotic during the quarantine. The facts were reporteds and Colonel Farwood, the chief surgeon board to examine Dr. Ware. This the board did on Monday, and while its re- port has not been made public, there is hardly any doubt but that Dr. Ware will be ordered before a Retiring Board, al- though it is possible the board may rec- ommend that he be sent to some place for treatment, There Is one fact in connection with the unfortunate case that is of material in- terest. Dr. Ware was a member of the court-martial that tried Captain Neall. During the trial there was much joking at Dr. Ware's expense, because he was un- able to keep awake. It has been rumored that at the time of the trial Dr. Ware was freely using some drug, and that he was in no mental condition to administer Justice. Colonel Farwood declares -that Dr. Ware was mentally fit at that time to sit upon the court, while Captain Neall's friends firmly assert that he was not. It ig a fact that Dr. Ware fell asleep during many sittings of the court. Officers who are posted on military law say that Captain Neall can not have a new- trial, but it is not denied that the very fact of Dr. Ware's being mentally afflicted and that he was a member of the court that convicted Captain Neall may have great effect with the President, in whose hands the fate of the cavalry offi- cer now rests. At present Dr. . are is confined to his quarters. DEMENTED BY DRUGS. Arrest of a Respectable Citizen for Mutilating Gold Coins.’ Thomas D. Wakelee was arrested ves- terday by Secret Service Agent Robert S. Browne on a charge of mutilating gold coins ofsthe United States. The accused was Immediately released on $250) honds furnished by his wife and Timothy Hop- mount sweated off the coins Z amounting to about 2 § cents on ece. and the matter of the insanity of Mr. Wakelee is being re- vived by his friends. He is well to uo and has been in the service of the South- ern Pacific Company for more = than twenty-five vears, but he was operated upon for a tobacco cancer on his face about a year ago and lately the cancer b .gan to make its reappearance. It is be- lieved that the use of drugs to deaden the pain of the disease has demented Mr. Wakelee. AROUND THE CORRIDORS ’ Dr. W. A. Moore of Benicia is at the | Grand. Dr. G. H. Kirchbaum of Los Angeles is at the Lick. James A. McCluskey of Los Angeles is at the Grand. \ H. C. Nash of Stanford University is at the California. H. H. Heineken, a Petaluma wineman, is at the Lick. J. A. Migliavacca, a wineman of Napa, is at the Grand. J. L. Haas, a merchant of Portland, is registered at the Lick. A. B. B. Dowdell, a vineyardist of St. Helena, is at the Grand. Captain Frank Brandt is registered at the Lick from Palo Alto. Adjutant General W. H. registered at the Occidental. T. S. Nowell, a mining man, is regis- tered at the Palace from Boston. Simon Lubin left for New York City yesterday on business connected with his house. J. T. Brennan of Canton, Ohlo, repre- senting a prominent watch factory, is at the Lick. Willard Green of Denver has returned from a short trip to Monterey. He Is again at the Palace. B §. M. Damon, Minister of Finance of the Hawallan Islands, is registered at the Oceidental from Hilo. E. A. Denicke, president of the Mechan- ics’ Institute, is visiting Yellowstone Park and will be gone two weeks. Bernard J. Stahl, a prominent cigar manufacturer of New York City, left for Portland, Or., yesterday om a business trip. 8 W. J. Andrews, Pacific Coast agent of a New York carriage factory, has gone to Upper Soda Springs on a two weeks’ vacation. Carleton C. Crane, Pacific Coast pas- senger agent of the New York Central line, is in New York City on a pleasure trip and will return to this city on July 1. Captain J. A. Broomhead, who came in from sea on the Conemaugh yesterday, registered last evening at the Lick. He will go out in command of the Pennsyl- vania when she sails. —_————————— CALIFORNIAN: IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, June 20.—Henry M. Sher- man of Ban Francisco is at the Manhat- tan, D. A. Hulse of San Francisco is at the Normandie, R. A. Mason and Canton Rogers of San Francisco are at the Rivers, George C. Pratt of San Francisco is at the Marlborough and M. Herman of San Francisco is at the Netheriand. Seamans s ST. JOHN'S PICNIC. The Parishioners Will Gather at El po To-Day. The picnic t8 be given by St. John's Church. at El Campo to-day promises to be a successful affair. The various com- mittees mef last ‘evening and perfected arrangements for the outing. It was an- nounced that there will be 146 gate prizes in addition to seventy-six prizes for races for young and old. The boat leaves Sa salito ferry at 9:30 a. m. sharp, returning leaves El Campo at.5 p. m. Following arc the committees: Reception—Peter Tamony (chair- man), Eugene O'Connor, Thomas Mine- han, John Tamony, Joseph McDevitt, John Cherry, John Mclnerny, Timothy Minehan, Willlam McKeon, Joseph R. Johnson, T. R. Hulling, John Skihan. Gate—Timothy Minehan (chairman), T. R. Hulling, John McInerny. Games—John Cherry (chairman), Eu- ene O'Cornor, T. R. Hulling, Peter amony, John Skehan, Thomas Mine- han, John Tamony. The dancing programme will be charge of Company O, League of Cross Cadets: Floor manager, Captain Wesplear; assistant floor Lieutenant Philip Millerick. _Floor committee—Sergeant T. Cur- tin, Corporal Richardson, Corporal Nicoll, Ben Burns. Ben Bogue, James Bogue, Thomas Conhnolly, Thomas Mil- lerick, Fred de Carteret. —_———— A DANGEROUS YOUTH. Steve M. Harding, Ex-Bellboy, Ar- rested on a Charge of Grand Larceny. Steve M. Harding, an ex-bell boy in the St. Nicholas Hotel, was booked at ‘he City Prison yesterday by Detectives Wren, Dinan and Reynolds on a charge of grand larceny. He is accused of stealing a gold watch and diamond ring from Michacl Daly, foreman in a hardware house, in the Dunlap House, 220 O'Farrell street, about in the Josenh manager, R. W. SNOW. CReT Yot ot Tot ST Yot Yot Yot Iet a week ago. ered. Harding last December caused a sensa- tion by attempting to chloroform and rob Henry Charles in his room in the St Nicholas. He was arrested on charges of attempted robbery, burglary and carr: - ing a concealed weapon, but after thrce s and the juries failing to agree the s were dismissed Sela ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. TLOLA MONT. \\'.,V Philo, Cal. The father of the noted Lola Montez was an The watch has beén rec: nglish ensign named Gilbert. BOSTON TO NEW YORK-W., nce from Boston to < post route is Philo, New 5 A HALF DOLLA ‘M., Bodega, Cal. If the half dollar of 1 is one with arrow eads at the date and with r: around the eagle it is worth 3 cents; if it is with- cut arrows or rays it is worth from $20 to $30. AROUND THE ISLAND— S., City. Dr. Riehl, the great swimmer, once swam around Goat Island, in the b: of San Francisco. from the foot of Market street to the point of commencement, without artificial rest. ARIZON. V MEXICO—Sub- scriber, Cres Cal. Neither Ari- zora nor New Mexico {s a State of tha Union. They are Territories. The first named was organized February 24, M and the latter September 9. 185). Severa attempts ha been made to have these Territories admi to statehood, but none proved successful. QUEEN VICTORIA—A. A. W., City. Royal families drop their family names and cannot, in reality, be said to bave any. Queen Victoria belongs to a Han- over family, and her name, if she can be said to have any aside from hér title, is Guelph or Welf. Princes of the royal blood are christened and married by their titles on and their family names be- come by intermarriage extinct. The family name of the House of Saxony, of which Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg, who married Victoria, descended, is Wettins, or in German, Wettiner. So, to come down to the common plane, the name of L}ufi?n Victoria is Victoria Guelph-Wet- tins. BORN ON A SHIP—W. O., City. If an English married couple sailsfrom England on an English vessel and as that vessel was entering the Golden Gate of San Francisco a boy was born to that couple, the boy was a native of California and consequently an American. At that time the vessel was no longer on the high seas but in American waters. Had the boy been born while the vessel was still on the high seas he would have been a na- tive of England. The other part of the question _asked: “If that boy was taken back to England and grew up there, could he claim_American citizenship, or would he be a British subject?” ts one the an- swer to which shows the difference be- tween nationality and ecitizenship. The boy, being an American by birth, could, on attaining his majority, elect which country he wished to be a citizen of, and makes that election by, say if in England, refusing to perform the duties of a citizen of that country; or if in the United States, assuming the duties of citizenship, or vice versa. g —_—————————— Cal.glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* —_—e————————— =upplied daily to Special _information men u?s' the business houses and public Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- Gomery sireet. Telephone Matn 1042. * e e——— Whitelaw Is Acquitted. Thomas Whitelaw, son of the well- known wrecking man, w:\ra :(‘([ur!‘lled h_\; e Conlan yesterday of the charge o e Conke trom a minor. The evidence showed that the boy. Jess, picked the plece of iron off the street and got twice as much as it was worth from Whitelaw. —_————————— : Official Route Christian Endeavor Excursion to Detroit. Leave San Francisco § p. m.. June %, via Central Pacific, Unlon Pacific, Chicago and Northwestern and Wabash Rallways, one day spent at both Denver and Omaha Exposition. Round trip rate to Detroft, $81 For reserva- tions and further information address George P. Lowell, Transportation Manager California Christian Endeavor, 1026 BEighth ave., East Oakland, Cal. —_—————— «Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used for fifty years by mifllons of mothers for their children while Teething. with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Collc, reg- ulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, Whether arising from teething or other causes. For eale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, 26c a bottle. —_— Rock Island Route Excursions. Leave San Francisco every Wednesday, via Rio Grande and Rock Island raflways. Through tourist sleeping cars to Chicago and Boston. Manager and porter accompany these excur- sions through to Boston. For tickets, sleeping car accommodations and further informsion address CLINTON JONES, General Agent Rock Island Raflway. (24 Marke: st., S. F. — Low Rates to Detroit, Michigan, for Christian Endeavor Convention. The SANTA FE ROUTE will make rata of $81 for the round trip. Tickets on rals June 2th. For full particulars call at ticket office, 628 Market street, this city, or 1118 Broadway, Oakland, B —_————— HOTEL DEL CORONADO-Take advantage of the round-trip tickets. Now only 360 by steamship, including fifteen days' board at hotel; longer stay, §2 30 per day. Apply at 4 New Montgomery street, San Franclsco.