The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 26, 1899, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, " JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. iddress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE ......Market and Third Sts.. S, F Telephone Main 1868, i DITORIAL ROOMS 217 to 221 Stevenson Street n 1874, 3 to recelve subscriptions. ded when requested. 908 Broadway OAKLAND OFFICE BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 387 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 639 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 618 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street. open untll 10 o'clock. 2291 Market street, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 2518 Mission street, open untll 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty- | until 9 o'slock. second and Kentucky streets, open AMUSEMENTS. {a—*‘Heartsesse."” Sans Gene.” iter—Vaudevijie every afternoon 4 Ellis streets—Specialties. Market street, near Eighth—Bat- nd 8 reet. , at 12 the sweep of fires over wide s repeats for Californians ssons of the past. lesson with the dry season, s this nd the population of the State in- sses increase. The aggregate es and the woods sible to ac o say the amo be required to prevent them by n efficient system of forest pro- varning lesson is going on San Andreas. The fire broke and by midnight had ept forward fully seven miles rtin t f Monday from the scene of the g PO dis- h the fire is now raging is the and agricultural section i timbered, with heavy belts burns like oil, and against The fire has been gaining despite the fact zealously laboring e to fight. vesterday mornir f men have be to prevent it spreading alaveras River bed may prove a barrier to If this hope is not realized the conflagration e raging in the mountains back mne Hill and along the Upper Stanislaus. is endangering the Amador Canal Com- while the latter is in heavy timber and n that region.” e people of California are too intelligent learn wisdom in the end from repeated ex- »f this kind. The San Andreas fire is not n isolated case milar occurrences have been fre- tent every and in every part of the State. ore the rains come this fall we shall have to chron- lisasters of the kind, and‘ some of them »e even more destructive than that which is now will occur in the valleys and in the tains, along the coast and in the Sierras. Hardly sitation, and the total mount high up into the millions ng. ty will escape their ge done will It is the old question, put to the people of Califor- nia: “What are you going to do about it?” These fires are to a large extent the result of negligence. If the people, acting through the State government, will exercise a due carefulness in protecting the forests, they will be able to rid themselves of the menace which returns with each returning dry season. Expe- rience teaches everybody except fools, and if we do fearful lessons experience’ has ght in this matter, we will be among the fools whom nature delights to destroy. B — THE RETURN OF THE INVALIDS. OR the reception of the wounded and the sick F officers and men, brought home from the wars and the pestilential climate of the Philippines, there can be of cou nothing in the way of a grand popular demonstration. Triumphal arches, strains of itary music and the clamor of rejoicing thousands e of no avail here. It must be by the tenderest and 1ost loving ministrations that the joy of the public over their return and the popular pride in their heroic service must be made known. It would not be right to reserve for those heroes of the war who have the good fortune to return safe and sound all our public manifestations of honor and of loyaity. There should be open and exultant or the wounded, as well as for thole who come "unscathed to share with us in the joyous civic festi- Is we are preparing to receive them. Something. should be done to cheer the invalids with the proud assurance of the gratitude of the nation and of the people. In a few days we shall have the gratification of greeting the Nebraska Volunteers with a cordiality not less than that with which we welcomed the Ore- gons. Later on we shall make a week: of festivals for rejoicing over the return of our own boys. All these will give ample opportunities for parades, for music, for theater nights and popular receptions; with ban- quets and all the glad uproar of public demonstra- At present we are in the presence of the in- valids—the men who bear the scars and the diseases of the war. They are the heroes who have suffered. To them our deepest sympathy goes forth, and that sympathy should hdve its expression in a manner that will be visible and audible to all. They cannot share in our festivals, but we can share and ought to lighten as far as possible the burden of the suffering they have undergone for the flag. praise f tions. _ | forty-nine years, without any serious interruption, in- | a front nearly ten | dis- | It is hoped | prove the most disastrous ever seen | at electric power lines that are being | THE DEATH OF LLOYD TEVIS. HE death of Lloyd Tevis has made a gap in the'| T ranks of the capitalists of the Pacific Coast. The vast properties he had accumulated, how- ever, identified him with the East as well as ‘with the West. Indeed, his name and his financial standing | were broadly recognized throughout the world. For | 1 | spired by a steady purpose and exercising great abil- ity, energy and perseverance, he traveled the road of | progress, until, when his life culminated, he stood among the magnates of this age of concentrated achievement and intense activity. There was a wide distinction between Mr. Tevis and many of his wealthy contemporaries. His reputation | did not depend upon the realized fortune he had | amassed. It was based upon his individual capacity, manifested through a long succession of years in enterprises and in transactions of unusual magnitude and complexity. He belonged to that unparalleled emigration of 1849 that ever since has shed luster | upon our State and upon our national’history. After | working a rocker near Ringgold, in El Dorado | County, for two or three months he conceived a bril- | liant financial scheme, almost his solitary failure, which | he often claimed had retarded his financial growth | for nearly a year. He constructed a bridge across | the South Fork of the American River, at a | point which all the immigration wagons that reached | | California by the Carson route had to pass. His mis- | calculation was that, instead of paying tolls, the im- migrants of 1850 took possession of the property, | | which he was forced to abandon. He went straight to ]Sacramsnto, labored night and day in the Recorder’s i office there, saved and invested his money, and, be- | fore the end of the vear, had formed his. famous part- | nership with J. B. Haggin, which, in the very nick of | time and when property in the State capital had | reached its highest valuation, was transferred to San | Francisco. The details of his subsequent life would | fill volumes, and will undoubtedly be preserved in | | permanent form. | Mr. Tevis had received a collegiate and a legal edu- | cation and in his early years became conversant with | practical business. When his identification with San } Francisco was complete, in addition to the constantly | enlarging investments of his firm, he was employed | as referee in very important cases, in which his clear S | discrimination and his sound judgment commanded fees of almost fabulous amounts. Still later, in con nection with railroads and express companies and in other relations, he displayed extraordinary adminis- | trative ability. Perhaps he settled more lawsuits than any man of his day, not excepting even the late John B. Felton. In diplomatic management, in the com- | bination of breadth of view with the most precise | attention to details, he was unrivaled. When the Col- ton case was brought and followed by a trial for | which, outside of the Blythe contest, there are few |if any precedents, it was pithily remarked by the late Hall McAllister that it was useless to attack ment that had passed under “the legal optics of Sam- uel M. Wilson and the financial orbs of Lloyd Tevi i The traces of Mr. Tevis are discernible in hundreds of the heaviest transactions that mark the record of the State and far beyond its boundaries, even into the | financial centers of Europe. | equaled by his working power, which appeared to be arily, both individ- {ually and in his joint enterprises, an extensive em- | ployer of labor, but the secret of his almost uniform | success was the fact that he paid the most rigid atten- | | tion to business, whether in his personal matters or in | the affairs in which he filled a representative position. | He possessed a settle- His mental strength was almost unlimited. He was nece absolute self-control and was never swayed by passion or by any morbid element in his character. In fact, his equanimity was as marked as his ease and his freedgm of movement, which at tracted general admiration The world is rarely just to men of great wealth. . It ]aunhu:us to them a hardness of nature and a lack of | philanthropic feeling that in nine cases out of ten is | unjust. This is especially true of Mr. Tevis. While he made no ostentatious donations, and his aspira- | tions for posthumous honors can only be determined | by his will, there was hardly a public object of any | kind for which he could not be relied upon for a sub- | | scription, and the poor rarely applied to him unsuc- | | cessfully for help. After the Civil War, coming, as he | | did, from a Southern State, his purse was always at | | the service of that numerous class of intelligent and refined men and women, who had been reduced to | poverty by the vicissitudes of battle, and yet retained | their personal sensitiveness. It was the habit of Mr. | Tevis to render his aid practically and without humil- | iation. He would place the numerous persons in whom he became interested either in salaried posi- tions or in occupations in which they could care for | themselves, and furnished them with the means they | preliminarily required. - And it was observed of him as of few other men, similarly placed, that he did not | grudge his personal services and that the prompt | fulfillment of his word, after he had once given it, was certain. There may be and there probably will be a diversity of views upon the influence which Mr. Tevis, although never a candidate for office, exercised in public affairs. But, as one of the California pioneers, thor- | oughly identified with the land of his choice, and largely represented by his relatives and by his friends, it will be generally conceded that his withdrawal from | our midst is a distinct loss to the community. fl the effect that the great strike on the lines of the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company was due primarily not so much to any discontent on the partof ! the workingmen as to the instigation of certain par- ‘ ties who wished to bring about a strike for the pur- | pose of afiecting the price of the company’s stock in | Wall street. | A story of that kind is of so improbable a nature | that strong evidence is required to sustain it. Mr. Rossiter, president of the company, asserted it early in the strike, and while admitting he had not evidence | enough to prove it in a court of justice, claimed to | have proof sufficient for a moral conviction of its | truth. Since then a good deal of outside testimony has been added to that of Mr. Rossiter and the charge | appears to be well sustained. According to the New York Tribune, the state- ment of Mr. Rossiter is squarely, flatly and emphati- cally corroborated by Mr. Parsons, the general mas- | ter workman of the Knights of Labor, who declares himself ready to make some startling and convincing revelations on the subject, while those against whom the accusation is directed meet it not with the prompt and indignant denial with which innocent men might be expected to repel so foul an aspersion, but with a cynical evasion which falls little short of an admis- sion of guilt. 5 % An offense of the kind charged is so monstrous that if there be anything like sufficient evidence to maintain it, the matter ought to be made the subject of something more than newspaper condemnation. 1f unscrupulous brokers are going to instigate strikes or other industrial disturbances for the purpose of | THE BROOKLYN STRIKE. CURIOUS story is current in New York to ! | during his entire political career. promoting their stock speculations, the sooner we Mr. Rossiter, Mr. Parsons and the New.York Tri- bune have a good deal of responsibility in the issuz. most portentous nature, one which seriously con- cerns every great industry in the country, and it is guilty parties if such can be found. THE . POLITICAL “SITUATION. I savagely attacked Christopher Buckley is the introduction to a controversy that may have rally his forces for a struggle with his former asso- ciates, may be justly amenable to the charges formu- retorts with a pithiness and with a force that must have pierced the Examiner’s cuticle and filled its pro- The Call has no stomach for the details of these malignant controversies.between resuscitated bosses. of corruptionists that represents the Huntington mo- nopoly, in all its phases, it has uniformly protested publican organization the independence and the char- acter of its voters have been fully vindicated. Eighteen have severe laws against such practices the better: They have asserted the existence of an evil of the their duty to push the investigation and prosecute the HE displayed page in the Examiner in which it useful results. The blind leader, who now seeks to lated against him. ~But he explains, contradicts and prietor and its editor with bitter exasperation. Against the entire boss system and against the brood and with a fair measure of success. Within the Re- Republican clubs have been organized and their ranks | are being filled by the best material in the party. This is the pointed application of the representative | system to local politics that the new primary law was | intended to secure. It was a complete defeat of the blanket proposition which is the only step toward the revival of bossism that, on the Republican side, has been attempted during the preliminary movements for the approaching campaign. The aid of the Central Republican Club to insure the selection of unassail- able delegates to the municipal convention has not been rejected, but, on the contrary, is strictly in line with the very practical reform, of which such clear evidences have been already furnished. If Mr. Z. U. Dodge was correctly reported in yesterday's Exam- iner, he has very grossly and unnecessarily miscon- ceived the situation. But the local attack of the Examiner on Christo- pher Buckley, in one of its aspects, deserves notice Was it real or only a diversion? Buckley alone was the subject of ‘the local vituperation of the fusion organ. What of Rainey ‘and the forces allied with him? Why were they not assailed? This must neces- sarily mean that, if there is a genuine fight on hand between the two bosses, the sympathy and the infiu- ence of the Examiner are with one as against the other. The result is that the newspaper, which has appropriated Mayor Phelan and Assessor Dodge as its patron saints, is working on the boss system. And this view:harmonizes with the local methods adopted by the fusion Democracy last year and which it is now proposed to perpetuate. The assertion of his own individuality has filled the hat of Mayor Phelan In 1808 the fusion clubs and forces of every ¥ind were ranged under his banner and transacted their party business almost ex- clusively in his name. Recently separate Phelan clubs have been formed in different parts of the city. The Democratic County Committee is an oligarchy, divested of any truly representative character. No matter what sentimental declarations may be edito- rially expressed in the Examiner, the acts of the fusion Democracy, from which that paper cannot sep- arate itself, are inconsistent with any true and inde- pendent selection of a convention or of candidates and identify the party with the worst and most dan- gerous form of bossism. The weak-hearted criticism of Rainey by the Ex- aminer, in which it compliments that dead light of politics upon his practical wisdom in withdrawing from any effort at manipulation, will deceive nobody. Whether the raid on Buckley is sincere or hypocrit- ical, but for the editorial comment to which we have alluded Rainey was left in peace. The opinion of the public on the relations between him and the Ex- aminer, and through that medium, with the spotless Mayor and the immaculate Assessor, will remain un- | changed. Municipally, unless folly unexpectedly regains influ- ence in the councils of the party, this is a Republican year. The Call demands that all the pledges of the last few weeks be fulfilled and that, both in its con- vention and in its ticket, the Republican organization establish a new and wholesome precedent in San Francisco. ———C—— OIL SPRINKLING FOR ROADS. ONSIDERABLE attention has been given in C the East to the recent incorporation under the laws of Delaware of an organization known as the “Locomotive Smoke Preventive-Company.” It is said to be made up of large capitalists and its object is to acquire patents and manufacture devices for pre- venting smoke from railway locomotives and to en- courage economical operation of engines and small consumption of coal. The discussion which has followed the granting of the franchise to the company has gone beyond the | question of smokeless locomotives to the wider fssue of ridding American railway travel not only of the smoke but of the dust that constitutes such an annoy- ance. As a suggestion to that end the New York Times says: “A few years ago a great and good man discovered that crude petroleum, .evenly and liberally sprinkled on the roadbed, was a permanent remedy for the twin nuisance of surface dust, which had been only in part | abated by stone ballasting. This oil sprinkling is now | coming into general use. A railroad that does not employ it owes an apology and reduced rates to its passengers. With smokeless locomotives and an' oil- coated roadbed railway travel would become luxu- riously comfortable, even in the nineties. Thousands of persons ride on the open trolley cars on hot days and nights to get relief from the heat. Steam rail- ways will be able to make their cars not less cool and comfortable when the use of electric or other non- | smoke-producing locomotives and oiled roadbeds permit wide open doors and windows, and perhaps special devices for cooling aeration.” : It is perhaps too much to demand oiled roadbeds of the railway companies in California, but the county Supervisors might well profit by the suggestidn. Crude petroleum is comparatively cheap in California and in some of our counties its value for road uses has long been understood. There is no reason why the use should not be made general over all roads where there is a considerable amount of traffic. . It is to be borne in mind that oil sprinkling means not only an improvement .of the highways for driving purposes, but an economy in their preservation as well. 3 e ————— Judging from' the “work” of the Coroner and his crew in the Florence Parker case, and with reference to the Japanese sailors ffom the Nippon Maru, Hill and his men are ready to find any old thing to suit the circumstances of any old case. Another exposure of their methods is imminent in the Wachendorf trial. 1899, TRICYCLE BUILT FOR A FAMILY. The Warren family ‘'on wheels arrived last night at New Brunswick, N. J., on their way from Philadelphia to Yonkers. Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Johnson anu their four little ones were happy and well, and the tricycle that bore them seemed as clipper as the day it was built. Although you might not think it from the tricycle’s looks, Mr. Warren says it makes him proud. He built it himself, and there is no other like it. Its base s an ordinary bicycle built for two. with an outrider fitted with a third wheel. In the center is a box, fitted with seats, wherein the little Warrens sit. In this box also there is room for all the Warrens’ clothes, a tent, .lankets - and provisions. riders from sun and rain alike. pounds and is geared up to forty-two. Over the box stretches an awning All told, the entire machine weighs eighty-five that serves to protect the The Warrens left Philadelphia Monday and expect to reach Yonkers Saturday noon, In clear weather they have camped out, but during Wednesday's thunder- storm they had to take shelter in a farm house. Most of their riding is done in the morning and toward evening, and so far has not proved w risome. The youngest child is a girl eighteen months old. @@OOO*O@@@@@@@QOOO : COMMUNICATIONS : P02V POPPOPOISISIOIOIOS AT THE GRAVE OF ROBERT INGERSOLL By the continual revolution in nature by which every being and all matter are transformed, the body of Mr. Robert In- gersoll has succumbed to the unayoidable. As he is now, he is still living by the words he has uttered and action com- mitted and the seeds of mental progress he has sown are still sprouting and blos- scming on and on, and the works he has left to the world are as a concrete ped- estal supporting a column of wisdom and mental tranquillity towering as a shining beacon over, his last resting place for the uidance of the superstitious into the aven of enlightenment, Truthful and honest in his opinions and way of thinking, he made his mark and left the grafted trees to bear a better fruit. A mind free from superstition, liv- ing in the sunbeams of free thought, shunnlnf the reign of all that which tends to envelop the human mentality with doubt and darkness, he has liquidated his obligations. : As the end of birth is the beginning of death, he has made good use of the time between the beginning and the end. Gifted by nature with a superior mind, he ad- ministered well to the self-thinker. It was.his natural calling to foster and sup- port the soaring of ain unshackled spirit and loving disposition, undisturbed by any influence of controversion and contradic- tion. He formed his own train of though!s to be piloted by him into the world to light and progress. His spirit, thought, words and action were not of a borrowed character but issued from a pure and un- trampled intelligence and understanding. Bclng an issue of nature, he was not re- sponsible for his existence, but while liv- ing he well knew to distinguish between the real and genuine and the imagin- ary and fictitious, never allowing his mind to meander among the unfathomable. Ig- noring all that of which never a proof of the fact of its existence has ever or can ever be found, he was the searchlight for veracity, truth and honest reality. Barren of all superstition, with a char- acter that would revolt at the thought of disloyalty to the laws of nature, his very life blood would throb with emotion of knowlnfi of having paved and smoothed the pathway to knowledge and an intelli- gent understanding, elevating science against stubborn ignorance. 3 Although gone from where no kind words, no good advice, can be heard, he is not dismissed nor forgotten, but missed by all intelligent self-thinkers, and will live on in the thoughts of. the living by the memorm} of his labor, work and lit- erature instilled in the minds of. his ad- mirers. M. P. SCHETZEL. R VINDICATION OF STRAUS, SAN JOSE, July 25, 189 To the News Editor San Francisco Morning Call—Dear Sir: On July 14, 1899, your paper published an article regarding the arrest of Leon M. Straus, my son, charged wfth perjury. The eharge was fully inyestigated here on July 19, 1399, before Judge Gass of this city. As per inclosed clipping you can see what dispo- sition was made of it. s I ask vou, in all fairness, that, in view of the fact that your paper published the fact of the charge and arrest, you will please publish his vindicafion. ATTORNEY STRAUS ' EXONERATED. CHARGE OF PERIJURY DISMISSED AT SAN JOSE. SAN JOSE, July 2L—At the request of Deputy District Attorney Jarman, after a thorough examination, the charge of perjury made against Leon M. Straus by Mrs. Sylvia Allen has been dismissed by Justice Gass. Tes- timeny was given by Justice Wallace, Attorney W. C. K M. Murphy and Joe Kennedy. Cennedy, Mrs. Anais Christie stated that Straus was employed as an atforney by her to secure a divorce for her from her husband. She agreed to_pay him not to exceed $60 for his services. | Bhe had given him small sums of money from arch 22, 1899, up to June 22, the date of the receipt. At that time she paid him $, and Straus had given her a receint for $60. Upon this showing Assistant District Attor- ney Coolidge asked for a dismissal of the charge on the ground that there was nu evi- dence to sustain the complaint, which had stated that he had. received $60 at that time, and which was due him at the time of the sup-, plementary proceedings. Justice Gass granted the request, stating at the time he would have dismissed the com- plaint himself' had not the mation been made. Yours respectfully, . EUGENE A. STRAUS, Cashier Wells, Fargo & Co., San Jose. R POPPC000090000600 0 : PRESS COMMENTS $ P00 09000090000 A Promised Spectacle. * 7 Los Angeles Times. Here'srichness. The notorious San Fran- cisco Examiner and the equally notorious Sam Rainey, .despite the fact that the former has in past seasons designated the latter as a “political pariah™ and a crea- ;u‘ra it}::etd l': 'uu:‘»enk;bly“ “infamous,"” ve jol rces for the alleged pur; of elec little Willie Hearst gt ?: York to the United States Senate from California. Those who thought that the utmost limit of political indecency had . = been reached when the attempt was made to elect Dan Burns to the Senate now have an opportunity to gaze on a per- formance which is at least deserving of classification along with the one in which the Mexican Colonel starred with such conspicuous unsuccess. With the Demo- cratic boss from the purlletis endeavoring to elect the Knight of the Silver Bathtub and the Republican boss from the same quarter working to elect himself to the United States Senate, the State of Cali- fornia would be a sight to make angels weep, tear the feathers out of their win and otherwise exhibit disgust in carlos But pause—just as likely as not the z:eonlt- of California will have something 0 say about these things. b Bena Who Pays Commissioner Creelman? San Diego Evening Tribune. James Creelman, who is a stench in the nostrils of decent journalists, hobs up in the columns of the San Francisco Exam- iner is a vilifier of General Otis. The Examiner should get Aguinaldo’s Junta to vouch for Creelman's twaddle. On the face of his report it looks as if Filipino money paid for the fellow's utterances. ———————— | ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. RECRUITING—W. T. D., City. For in- |‘apply at army headquarters in the Phe- lan building, or at the Presidio. REVENUE STAMPS—A. R., Dinuba, Cal. A revenue stamp must be placed on an order for money, but the law does not say that such a stamp must be placed “on an order of any description.” A STILL—J. S., Bscondido, Cal. To set up a brandy still you will have to put up a bond equal to $1 10 per gallon for as any gallons as the still wfil produce in fifteen days. R THE POUNDMAN—A. 8., City. There is no law that prescribes the hours when the poundmaster may catch dogs, and in the absence of any such law he may take up dogs at any hour of the day or night :{ found on the streets without a license ag. TERRITORIAL LIMITS-S. B., City. It is eight and a half miles from Castle Garden to Harlem Bridge, New York, at One Hundred and Thirtieth street and ‘Third avenue. The territory of New York from Castle Garden to “farlem bridge, betwéen East and North rivers, has an average of two miles in width. SALVAGE-T. G., City. If in a matter of salvage you have been deprived of your rights by an attorney who secured the money due you, you should communi- cate with the officers of the court in which the case was adjudicated and the delinquent attorney may be required to show why he has not paid you the money he collected for y RINGS—N. Shellville, Cal, If a girl is willing to marry, but is not engaged, she wears a ring on the index finger of the left hand; if engaged, on the second finger of that hand. When she marries she wears the ring on the third finger of that hand. A girl who wears a ring on the second finger of the right hand does s0 for ornament. COIN ~ QUESTIONS—Several Corre- spondents. ‘A half dollar of 1807, a $5 piece of 1835, half dollars of 1835 and 1826 do not cnmmands&remlum& Neither does a_half cent of 1805 command a premium. If A. 8., Forest Hill, will send a self-addressed and stamped envelope, the Information about coin dealers will be furnished. This department does not advertise such. POSTMASTERS—N., City. The pay of third-class postmasters is not more than $2000 nor less than $1000. There is an al- lowance on box rents under certain con- ditions and an allowance for rent not ex- ceeding $400 a year. In case of a rush of business such tmaster may be allowed compensation_ for -clerical assistance dur- ing such rush. v TO COUNT IN CASINO—Stev., City. To count in casino on the last deal the one who holds cards counts first, and if he has made enough E?lnu to go out he does so, notwithstanding that his oppon- ent may have made enough to equal the number of points required to go out. If cards_are even on_that deal, then the one who holds spades counts first. The Cards, spades, big casino, little sweeps, if there are any. CLEVELAND'S TERM-J. . P. W, Smith's River, Cal. Grover Cleveland's second term commenced March 4, 1893, and terminated March 4, 1367. During that pe- riod there was in session the Fifty-third Congress, which had on joint ballot March 4. 1863, 162 Republicans and 263 Democrats; the Fifty-fourth Congress, which had March 4, 1895 Republicans and 132 Democrats. The Fifty-fifth Congress had March4, 1897, 253 Republicans and 154 Dem- ocrats, and the [ty-sixth Congress had on March 4, 1899, 240 Republicans and 189 Democrats. 3 VERBASCUM THAPSUS—M. M., City. Verbascum thapsus is the 'botanical name of the common mullein or mullein dock. Generally it is found growing in ne:&c]:wd places. In favorable soil it wAll grow to a height of from four to. five feet. It is furnished with elliptical densely’ woolly “ “leaves, the upper part being = closely occupied by yauor :rwers. It is used as a medicine in pulmonary diseas .and for tha r“mry“ c'.lre? /mflf:ctl:}: I ort.” The dry stalks and leaves were in anclent’ times dipped in | formation about recruiting in the army | grease’| s a substitute for candles and ?nn::p“:r‘icl:.. In Engln,od it is called “hig” of “hag taper,’ ‘on account of a superstition that it was used by witches. In the illustrated Dictionary of Garden- ing, volume IV, page 1#, that is to be found in the reference room of the Free Public Library, can be seén an illustra- tion of the mulleln and a technical de- scription of it. ROREIGN COPYRIGHTS—T. M., City. TFor ‘an American citizen to secure copy- right in Great Britain three conditions are necessary. 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C., does not take charge of anvy eogyflght entries or arrangements with other countries. AROUND THE CORRIDORS A. Fournier, a business man of Fresno, s in town. Henry Disque, a mining man of Colfax, is a guest at the Lick. D. R. Cameron, a fruit grower of Han- ford, is one of the late arrivals at the Lick. D. V. Sargeant, a wealthy cattle man of Salinas, Is one of those who arrived at the Lick yesterday. 3 Dr. George W. Robinson, a prominent physician and capitalist of Los Angeles, is a guest at the California. John McMurrey, a mining man ®f Weaverville, and State Senator: Georga R. Steuart of Crows Landing are at the Grand. Edna Wallace Hopper, the little Cali- fornian actress, arrived from the East yesterday and is registered at the Palace with her maid. * Judge R. C. Rust of Amador County is in the city, accompanied by his wife, on a visit of pleasure. He is staying with relatives, and will remain until tre conclusion of his judicial vacation. Charles 1. Brannan,. ex-Congressman from Georgia, who has been in this city during the Jast few days, left last night for Sacraménto. He is in the commission business and is on the coast for the pur- pose of buying California fruit to ship to the Scuth. ) | -Aldace F. Walker, chairman of the board of directors of the Atchison, To- peka and Santa Fe Railroad, arrived from New York last night, accompanied by his wife and iwo daughters. Mr. Walker and his family will leave this morning for Honolulu, where they will spend a few weeks. At the Occidental are a party of nine trained Red Cross nurses who arrived yesterday from New York on their way | to relieve the sufferings of our brave sol- dier boys who are now fighting in the Philippines. All of {hese ladies are tralned graduates of different hospitals in New York and Massachusetts -and fitted in every way to successfully carry-out the | heroi¢ task to which they have set them- selves. Three of them have already seen service at Porto Rico, while others of the party were in the hospitats at Montauk Point and Fortress Monroe during the The names of the ladies are Miss Emma Duersing, Miss Barbara Zei, | ler, Miss C. A. Marshall, Miss M. Miss Lydia Coakley, Miss Helén Fra Miss E. Pope, Miss M. Sammy and Miss Koakel. —_——— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, July 2.—P. Martin, Mrs. J. T. Martin and Miss E. Martin of Pasa- dena are at the Normandie. Miss Burr of San Francisco Is at the Holland. J. BE. Noles of San Francisco is at the Cos- mopolitan. R. L. Knapp of San Francisco is at the Vendome. Mrs. A. Martens of San Francisco is at the Normandie. e e HER TRUST BETRAYED. Maggie Anderson éeéu}es a Warrant for the Arrest of George Folliss for Grand Larceny. Maggie Anderson, a woman about 38 years of age, obtained a warrant in Judga Treadwell's court yesterday afternoon for the arrest of George Folliss qn the charge of grand larceny. She told the Judg= a story of man's duplicity and villainy that made his Honor's blood boil. Miss Anderson said that while employ- ed at Mrs. Levon's Home for Children, 606 Folsom street, over a year ago, she became acquainted with Folliss, who was employed there. He learned that she had saved about $400 and last August be- trayed her under promise of marriage. He inveigled her into buying a lodgin house at 125 Sixth street and got the pa- pers made out in his own name. - She went to the house and they lived together there. TLast May she gave birth 0 a child and on May 31, while she was in a hospital, he broke open her trunk and stole her gold watch and chain. She got a postoffice order from her brother fior $50 ahout the same time, and although she badly needed the money at theé® time he compelled her to give him $30. Since she returned to the house he had been treating her cruelly and yesterday morning, after taking -all the Keys from her, he ordered her out 6f the house, tell- ing her he wanted to have nothing more to do with her. —_——————— Charges a Conspiracy. Alfged R. Brandon vesterday filed an affidavit asking that a judgment enteredq against him by default in the case of Jo- seph R. Brandon, as trustee of the estate of the late Sarah C. Brandon, against Mary Ash, W. P. Ash, Edith Cretcher, Madison H. Cretcher, Julian R. Brandon and himself, for final distribufion of de- cedent’s estate, be set aside. He ciaims that he is entitled to an undivided half interest in the estate and avers that At- torney E. A. Selfridge, Julian R. Brandon and other of the defendants -onspired against him to deprive him of his prop- erty. He states that it was through their efforts that he failed to get his answer In before the time allowed by the court ex- ired. Hence he asks that the judgment e set aside and that he be allowed time in which to retain counsel and join issues in the case. Cal.glace fruit 30c ner lbat Townsend's.® ——— Special information supplied dafly to usiness houses and public men the 53 CI ureau (Allen’ Yonts .oncr_y“lptflu B'l‘el«nhzgne 'n % 0%‘ prbetetStsv st ol In the Divorce Court. Clara McCurdy has been granted a di- vorce from Robert McCurdy on the ground of failure to provide. Farita Mondragon O G lect. Cecilia Scharpen has lued“ ngr Scharpen for a divorce, allegin a cause of action. Sging cruelty as Tt “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used for fifty years by millions of | mothers for thelr children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the ebild, softens the gums, sllays Pain, cures Wind Colfe, regu. lmmvm:umuuu best remedy fot Diarrhoeas, . whether arising from- teething. r:“ui"-fl. Ing from sethi or world, Be sure and ask for M: ‘Winslow’s Soothing Syrup, %c a bottl..h‘ N e HOTEL DEL. 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