The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 27, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1899 INDIAN SCHOOLS. 1 HE Indian School Teachers’ Institute, in its T 1eeting in Los Angeles, resolved in favor of the immediate establishment of ten Indian schools, | for 300 pupils each, “in well-populated and ‘suitable | districts, as remote from the tribe as possible.” E;m ! \}'l1i1c appreciating highly the spirit of sclfls:acrificc 22 08T | which animates the men and women engaged in edu- cating Indian youth, we must insist that there is much | room for criticism of the method employed. Actual civilization must precede education. The Indian in his | natural state lived by the chase. The dog and horse | are the only animals he has domesticated. The horse served as a means of transportation, for the chasing | of game, and in the pinch of famine botlt horse and | dog were used for food. The natural progress from e Iddress All Communications to W. 8. L| PUBLICATION OFFICE ..Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Maln 1868. 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When this failed to sup- | ply sufficient forage the next step was taken by the domestication of plants and their artificial produc- | tion. This was the beginning of agriculture, the mother of all the arts. When man had developed that far he was in control of his-food supply, and there- | fore of the means of civilization by the development of wants in excess of the primitive need of food and shelter. -When all his time was occupied in supply- | ing these he had none left for development. Applying this natural process to the Indian, one is impressed by the sickening mistake made by our Government in dealing with him, if, indeed, it desire to civilize him and preserve his race. He is put on a reservation, where he has no cattle nor sheep to take the place of the game on which he has lived, but he is leit his pony and dog, the connection between him and the chase and therefore the link between him and sav- Then his children are taken away and sent, “remote from the tribe,” to school in a strange cli- mate and in the midst of surroundings not natural to them, and are taught algebra and the catechism to equip them for self-support! When they are educated they go back to the reservation, to its degraded con- tacts with degraded white men, to its white vices and their awful results. Having had a glimpse of a better state without the least equipment for sustaining them- selves therein, their smattered education is a millstone around their necks to drag them deeper than they would have sunk if leit to their gee-string and blan- ket. If the greed of the white man could be re-\ strained from invasion of Indian rights, would dictate the training of the red men in taking care of tle and sheep; in the agriculture necessary to produce food for flocks and herds; in the preserva- tion of the products of their animals, the meat, hides, pelts and wool and their preparation for use as food, clothing and shelter. It is known that wherever an Indian has become the owner of cattle and has been protected in his right to them he has prospered. Ii this course were pursued every reservation would supply its own beef and mutton and tlie hides and | wool would in exchange bring back shoes and blan- | kets and clothing. All these are supplied now by the | Government, while the Indian is idle on his reserva- | be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE... 908 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. €. 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THE BABAYLONES. been added to the tribes, septs, found refusing to cts of our impe- NOTHER h A ilippines ms the United States that C: men of the Sixteenth Infan- t 450 Babaylones, on the island of yonets and clubbed tion, sweltering in the vices acquired from white men. While he was in his savage independence, the prim- itive wants, food and shelter, developed in him the en- terprise and craft needed to supply them from the to clear away, but was able to He reported the loss of one man killed and one wounded, while one hundred and nes were actually counted, one fiiteen dead Babaylo s stores of nature around him. He is jumped out of was taken prisoner and many were wounded. This | ¢5¢ independence on to a reservation, is fed and happened 1 Bobong. clothed, after a fashion, by ‘the Government and is out from Manila and | seem like lit- Jorts sent ters in those par ttenreports of W not permitted to take for himself the first step toward | civilization by learning to substitute the lost game with the domestic animals which take its place. It is idle to try to make a blacksmith or carpenter out of him, a painter, sailor or soldier. He must have the natural entry into the arts through agriculture, and must know that it takes the place of the chase by | which he once lived. | When he has made that much progress give him | <chools for his children in the midst of the tribe, and | let the curriculum be such that the savage father sees | his son better equipped by it for getting food and‘ shelter. Then the influence of education will be upon | i reputa- i erre were acquired in just such 1s the glorious victory at Bo- something in the climate that does it? itk know that in a ith common ned party of sev- sense t between an a , no such redult ur hundred and fif asted of in this typic sent by the censor at Manil When Weyler was out there he reported enough such victorious and glorious could follow as bc al war bulletin engagements to have depopulated the Philippine | voung and old. group; and yet when we got there we found the Span- B ish bottled up in Manila and lloilo, and the natives There is a little splutter among experts in the East | in peaceiul possession of the rest of the country ad- | to determine exactly what relation the automobile ; ministering government, protecting property, ready ' man bears to the machine. He is not a driver, for he for the alli negotiated with them by Pratt, Wild- | does not drive it,"nor is he a conductor, nor an engi- man and Dewey; and existing in sufficient numbers | neer, nor yet a brakeman. It is admitted he does | to put up a ht against us when we violated | something more than ride the vehicle, but we haven’t ey believed to be the nce between us. attle of Bobong ended with the capture of a From this it appears of suppl probable that a village was attacked and there must have been nobody at home but very old women and any word in the language to express it. MUNICIPAL ECONOMY. O general has been the approval given to the S plan proposed by the Merchants’ Association | for the purchase of supplies by the Fire Depart- ment, there can hardly fail to be a feeling of surprise | that it, or some similar plan, was not adopted long ago. It is strange we should have gone through years of experience with the existing system before discovering that a better one could be easily devised. The plan suggested is a simple one. Under its terms the Fire Department will prepare each month a list of éverything it will need during the ensuing month and will submit statements to.the reputable merchants of the city with requests to send in bids on the entire ldren, of whom one hundred and fifteen ; been killed, and probably one of | our men died of the heat and the exultant exercise of winning this victory ashed, wiped and exhibited by admiring countrymen, there is nothing in it to arouse any enthusiasm at home. The American taxpayers, who are putting up eight hun- dred thousand dollars a day for such victories, were never wronged by the Babaylones of Bobong, never received any injury at their hands, never heard of them until this war bulletin brought the news that y part of their money had been invested in butchering ‘ list. In this way the department will get the advan- one hundred and fiiteen Babaylones; chasing the rest | tage of getting goods at competitive prices in the 1y and capturing their food stores and other prop- | open market at figures based on current market rates. It will compel the department to keep the department within its monthly allowance and by doing so assure merchants in legitimate business that their claims will be audited and that they will not be subjected to loss by arbitrary rejection of bills which have been con- tracted against depleted funds. The Fire Committee of the Board of Supervisors Upon the face of it, the censor to erty. If it give the taxpayers a feeling of value re- | ceived we have no objection, but as it was the_only victory won on the 19th of July we protest that it cost more than it was-worth. The exact cash value of the stores taken is not stated, so that we have no definite set against the bill of expense, but the slaughter of the Babaylones cost us just $6936 per head. We | have no doubt that is about the cost of killing every | Filipino that has fallen since General Otis sat down | has decided to report it favorably to thé board at the to his typewriter in the palace of Manila and took up | next meeting. The prospects are it will be adopted the wondrous tale of valor where Weyler quit. | by the board and put into effect, for the Republican Our military officers: of high degree seem to have | majority of the Supervisors have shown themselves not only taken on imperial Spanish manners of the | determined to keep their pledges to the people and to date of Philip IT and Charles V, but those other flam- | carry out reforms in the direction of economy in all boyant ways which led Cervantes to satirize such vic- | departments of the city government. tories as Bobong by the charge of Don Quixote on| The Merchants’ Association having been thus suc- the flock of sheep. _ | cessful in devising one means of saving public money - | may possibly be equally successful in drawing up a John J. Ingalis has announced a willingness to re- | plan by which the dollar limit can be maintained turn to Congress if the people desire it, and we sha!l | without crippling or rendering inefficient any depart- now have a chance to see whether prosperity has so | ment of the municipal administration. The task is not turned the heads of the Kansans as to lead them to | so easy as that which has been accomplished, and it look in his direction. is a foregone conclusion that even if attained the re- T6 it be-tre, as reported, that the latest Chicago | s\_flt will not have the 3’“1(?5[ unanifnous approval city directory contains 163,000 more names than any | Vet Athe plau fospurchasing supphe_s. other book in the world, it may be put down as the" By 'uflprovcmcnt clubs a'nd 2 Fons:derahle pum: greatest volume of depravity on record. ber of citizens W!'AO sympathize W"}l them desire to R | have the dollar limit pledge set aside in order that The California boys are on the transport and the | the tax levy may provide money enough not only for transport is on the way; so now get ready for the | maintaining the efficiency of the departments, but for Ay wisdom | | nic: has agreed with the public in approving the plan and | the taxpayers, however, will support any well-consid- ered plan for providing an efficient administration of municipal affairs within the dollar limit of taxation. It is’to be hoped the association which was so potent a factor in demanding the pledge will be successful in devising a means by which it can be kept without injury to any branch of the government, or entailing a parsimony which is the opposite of economy. [ Call with having assumed the attitude of cham- pion of Christopher A. Buckley and with aiding William F. Herrin, the representative of the Hunting- ton monopoly, in the work of meeting its vitriolic fulminations against that resuscitated boss. It also repeats its accusation of subserviency by The Call to Kelly and Crimmins. : All these assertions the Examiner absolutely knows to be false. Its campaign, under boss influences, in | favor of Mayor Phelan and Assessor Dodge, is per- | haps the lowest and most contemptible in our munici- pal history. Condoning or extenuating the crimes against. public decency for which Boss Rainey is re- sponsible, it initiated its present struggle for the mu- nicipal spoils by a series of falsehoods, which it has now reiterated, and by republishing its own particu- lar version of Boss Buckley’s record. That represen- tative of unclean politics retorted in kind, but more acutely and with direct and conclusive evidence that the Examiner was as deep in the mud as he had been in the mire. The opportunity furnished by this sud- den quarrel between ancient allies was too good to be lost. Without taking sides, in the interest of good ! citizenship as well as of its own party, The Call pub- | lished Christopher A. Buckley’s version of the former relations between the Examiner and himself, and at | the same time offered to print any rejoinder that | might be furnished. It thus rendered a valuable pub- | lic service, and it is to be observed that, while Boss Buckley and the Examiner confront eact: other with lowering brows and with eyes glittering with rage, no answer to Boss Buckley's specific explanation of | former intimacy in the realm of municipal corruption | has even been attempted. The revelations on both sides are disgusting and MORE EXAMINER MENDACITY. N its issue of yesterday the Examiner charges The | the veracious history of the combinations that de- graded San Francisco, until during this present year the Republican party, aided by The Call, determined { to introduce sweeping and lasting reforms into polit- ical management. The Examiner is probably the most arrant hypocrite in the United States. Its venomous falschoods render it personally innocuous. | But that, with a record dripping with filth, in which | both the past and the present are involved, it should impudently assume the attitude of a public censor, i | a phenomenon that defies imitation. The organ of the fusion Democracy with Sam Rainey behind it pretends to advocate decency within | the ranks of its own party, and claims that, through | the manipulation of William F. Herrin, indorsed by | The Call, the Republican organization is under the control of Kelly and Crimmins. These are deliberate and palpable falsehoods that will be detected and appreciated by every respectable voter in San Fran- cisco. ances, the boss system has been utterly and finally overthrown. Daniel M. Burns was defeated for the Federal Senate and in every effort to domirtate the State and the municipality William F. Herrin, and | all the influences he represents, have not only been | confronted but ignominiously beaten. They have | utterly failed in the attempt to control the preliminary | Republican organization for the approaching munici- | pal campaign, and have thus been thwarted, down to the present date, in the conspiracy to deliver Califor- nia to the fusion Democracy next year to which the aminer has lent all the assistance in its power. There is nothing bad in party management for which the Examiner and its shadowed Philistines do not stand. But the Republicans of the State have controlled the elements within their own ranks, have achieved brilliant victories over monopo- listic usurpation, degrading bossism and all classes of corruptionists, and have supplied guarantees for mu- pal officers who will gain upon their merits and not through illegitimate combinations. The Examiner has inaugurated a low and a scur- rilous canvass, but, when the election takes place, it will probably discover its inability to swing the ax or to project the spear. This will be a Republican year. PREPARING FOR THE WELCOME. “YROM the steps,that have been taken toward pre- paring a reception for the California Volunteers unclean success i on their return from the Philippines, it is prob- able the result will be in every way satisfying to the wishes of the people. The work of arranging for the occasion is to be widely distributed and a host of willing hands will take part in it. For the purpose of getting assistance from all who are warmly interested in the reception, the executive committee has decided to call a meeting of the com- mittee of the Native Sons and Native Daughters, the eral Dickinson, General Warfield and General Muller. At this meeting, which-is to be held on, Friday, it is designed to determine upon the plans for the recep- tion and to assign to various committees the work expected of them. The transport beariég the Californians is now on its way home. It is estimated thirty days will be re- quired for the voyage. We have, therefore, just about a month in which to prepare for the welcome. That time is ample for the purpose, but there should be no unnecessary postponement in beginning the actual work, for a month passes quickly and everything should be ready before the transport is sighted, so that there will be no rush or confusion at the last moment. = It is scarcely necessary to say the general public will cordially respond to whatever appeal may be made by the committee in charge of the reception. All hearts are in sympathy with the movement to make the welcome a great popular demonstration, and the more extensive the ovation is made the better will the people be pleased. Because two-thirds of the applicants in that city for enlistment have been rejected, the St. Louis papers claim the standard of the army in the Philippines will be the highest ever known. The argument is clearly unsound. Every St. Louis applicant might be rejected and still the standard remain lower than that required of California volunteers. If Aguinaldo has any desire to catch a Tartar, now's his chance. There are a pair of them headed his way: General Joe Wheeler and the army transport bearing him to Manila. ‘When Buckley gets through with his reminiscences, the Examiner will have a face on it like that of a plugugly caressed by a kissing bug. Alger has the satisfaction of knowing the thud that \ transport of the welcoming day. | undertaking public improvements. The majority of followed his fall was by no means dull. relatives of the volunteers and the military officials of | the State, including Adjutant General Seamans, Gen- | vividly delineate before the people the true causes and |- Within the Republican party, to all appear- | IS WHEELING ACROSS THE CONTINENT. rnia Boy Is Followin This Califo g mobile and Will Try NEW YORK, July 27.—Messenger No. who has only one arm, and who attracts ease with which he rides a bicyele with New York to San Francisco in record-h Tuns of from sixty to seventy-five miies follow the route taken by Mr. and Mrs tomobile for The Call and New York Her No. 574 in private life is Albert V. Roe. lives at Mills Hotel No. 1, in Bleecker stree hing cars at Los Angel s nearest living relatives, live in Grinneli, Iowa, and he'means shoulder while swi and three sisters, h to call on them in passing. I g the Route of the Davis Auto- to Break the Record. 574 of the Postal Telegraph Company, attention everywhere in Harlem by the Jut handlebars, has started to ride from preaking time. He hopes to maintain a day for the entire distance. He will in their great transcontinental au- rald. nineteen years old and usually left arm was cut off at the Cal., two years ago. A brother Roe rides a wheel geared to ninety-one, and steers it by a crotch four inches long, or the head of the machine. A skeleton rack built over the rear wheel will carry his baggage. He has ridden a hun to put him in condition for the journey. ndred miles every Sunday for ten weeks THE POSSIBILITIES OF VAUDEVILLE HE stage that is vet to come con- tains our chief interest. This has been said befor but will bear repeating, for it serves to intro- duce the subject of vaudev and its patrons, The vaudeville horizon is so rapidly widening that the possibili- ties of its future sweep are limitl Tony Pastor was perhaps the first to offer the public what is now common enough in our midst, the first class attraction. “Sta of undisputed cleverness, of ac- knowledged and applauded dramatic abil- ity, forsook the legitimate and other flelds at his beckoning and trod his stago to the horror of critics and the despair of their admirers. But one can’t live on ad- miration, and many of the “sta who were crowded out of the dramat! Pav- ens by the elbows of more pushing but less gifted twinklers answered the beck for need. The success of the venture was instantaneous, and managers with an eye to the future heeled him closely, thus raising salaries and bidding effectu- ally for the best. Patrons of the high class @rama shivered and drew back their skirts from the doors that led to beer and pipes and vulgarity and the ultimate de- terioration of the stage. Drew back their irts Is the needed phrase, for the r legs of man and boy walked in and on till the seats were filled, and if there were some dull spots in the evening they were well chalked out by “artists’ who “sketched” with power. The trouser legs found it good, and the skirts that ventured were not much soiled after all. But they were soiled a little, and :he better class kept away and the evolution of the vaudeville went on. A few years ago one could not go to the Orpheum without in the course of the evening feel- ing a blush of shame mount to her ch but now if things are ever a little color” the tint is such that the young and pure in heart know naught of its mixings and hence are not stained. Attractions are now so wortt tirely good and clean, that the m servative are yielding to their influe and bestowing thelr patronage. This is a century of specialists from the highest profession to the lowest, and through all the world of artisan skill as well. 1f you are particularly adapted to some special stage work, if cultivating that specialty to the utmost yields a large weekly salary in return for a twen- ty-minute performance, will yvou choose instead the drudgery of stock work, with seldom a part to your taste? Indeed you will not. The soul of a true artist/ would cry out against forsaking a fine company with a powerful managerial hand work- ing its issues, and we who love what is best and worthiest in the world dramatic would take up the cry and echo it to a finish. But many a knocked-together stock ship, launched upon this town with a mighty flourish, had bettér be broken on the rocks of opinion into vaudeville sections, small and great . with our blessing, may the small slip through the cracks in the stage and strike oblivion with a killing whack! Yes, the stage of the future contains our chief interest, and in the realm of waudeville as well as any other realm we shall make of it what we will. Applaud the best, encour- age the artistic, refuse the coarse and vulgar, but remember the while that the vaudeville stage is a big world tp be tak. en hold of with many hands, and the fact that we cannot appreciate it all is evidence of natural limitation. we can all recognize the fit and decent, and let us give the sanction of our ap- proval to nothing else. The star among the new people at the this week is _unquesti oprano voice with a s contralto quality, she sings negro melo- dies and copies the coon walk so per- fectly that one imagines she went to the source for instruction and is not surpr to learn that she was bred in the sunny South. Her Irish dialect is musical and not overdrawn and her stories good and simply told. Her age presence is charmingly refined. T.a Fafalla, the lotus flower, was conceived in the bud ° with clumsy intentions but born amidst such gpéctacular surroundings that grace al- most—but _not quite—became her god- mother. The spectacle is what we are charmed with and what we applaud. Laura Joyce Bell is—well, a little coarse, Why must we be forced to look at a woman with a cigar in her mouth? Hor- rible! Her sketch is well constructed on old lines and the curtain fall_is a clever stroke _of playwright skill. When Phil slaps Polly on_the back once it is funny, but when he does it thrice it is about as humorous as the same joke printed three times in a column. The Phoites 1°cannot criticize for 1 don’t understand them. I am in the con- dition of the art critic who ‘‘was looking and perhaps to-morrow he would see.”’ Next week I shall try again. The noise is jolly. The Eldridges are good, but we are a little tired of them. The old peo- ple have new specialties and continue to please because they~are clever. CHARLOTTE THOMPSON. MIDWEEK DRAMATIC NOTES. “‘Haartease as presented by Henry Miller and the special company at the Columbia Theater has proved a success and the theater has proved too small to hold the immeénse crowds seekmg admis- sion. The demand for the play is so great that it has been arranged to con- tinue it next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, and in addition there will be .a special matinee on Wednesday. The rounds of applause 3 which greet every act of the play at of the brilliancy and artistic worth of Mr. Miller's production. 1 %o note that Monday night’s performanc of “Heartease” will be the fiftieth per- formance of the Miller season at the C lumbia Theater, and the management ha arranged to commemorate the event by making it a souvenir night. The first production in America of the great London Garrick Theater succe “Brother Officers,” will be staged by the evening of August 7. xt Monday evening with a fine open : production of Verdi's masterpiece, ““Aida,” with an exceptionally strong cast. Among the newcomers from Europe are: Fraulein Ella Prosnitz, a dramatic so- prano from La Scala, Milan; Baron Ber- Willlam Mertens, an Al ard been before are: Lichter, Signor Wanrell, Herr Schuster, | Inez Dean, Signors Avedano and Salassa. The management of the Tivoli claims that never before in any city in the world has | so fine a list of lyric artists been an- nounced to appear in opera at | prices, and with a increased chorus the forthcoming season has every promise of being a brilliant one. Business has been excellent this week at the Alcazar. “Faust” is holding the is Lewis Morrison’s farewell week at the Alcazar. Florence Roberts will remain Some five weeks longer and be seen in several of those old reliable emotionai dramas. “Romeo and Juliet” will be the bill all of next week, to be followed by “The Lady of Lyons.”” “Faust” is playing to good business at the Grand Opera-house. Next week the tuneful *‘Boccaccio” will be revived. The Frawley Company is being well re- cefved ir. “Madame Sans Gene i playing to crowded houses. Sea selling for “One of Our Girls,” to follow “Sans Gene” on Monday. ————————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. COMPANY 32-M. R., City. This de- partment has not been able fo discover anything about *‘Compa: A MILE SQUARE—M. G., city. One one mile square contains the same amount of land, consequently there is no difer- square mile. A. 8., City. There record of any man having run a mile un- minutes, The records are: Eng- 3 G. George, London; Au- g merica, 4:15 3-5, Thomas P. Conne ers Island, August 20, 1895. THE FIRST CALIFORNIA—G. C., City. The Sherman, having on board the First California Regiment of Volinteers, should reach San Francisco in about thirty-two vs from the time of departure from Ne- gros Island. DRYDOC J. H. G-, City. The Govern- ment drydock is to be located at Mare Island. To obtain a copy of the law au- thorizing the construction of that dock address a communication to the Repre- sentative in Congress from the district in which you reside. OLIVE OIL—Subscriber, City. Experi- ence during a number of years shows that California produces as fine and as pure olive oil as has ever been produced any- where, and that the pure California oil will keep good much longer than imported oils because of the care taken in its prep- aration. In Italy it is claimed that the finest and the purest oil is produced in Lucca and in Nice. FOR THE WAR- F., City. The Gov- ernment is mustering out of the service the volunteers as rapidly as the work can be done. Those who enlisted from this State have in part been mustered out and pnsslblf' within six weeks from the time of sailing from Negros Island the California Regiment will be mustered out in this city. Those who enlisted in the regular service enlisted for three years. The fact that such as enlisted during the war with Spain in the regular service were not discharged upon the termination of the war with that country is proof that they are to be held to tlleir three years’ enlistment. SPECIAL DELIVERY—OIld Subscriber, Callahan, Siskiyou County, Cal. If - a party addresses a letter to “James Madi- son, Chicago, IIL,” and places a spgcial delivery stamp thereon the postal autho: ities in Chicago would be unable to de- liver the same unless it should happen that there was but one James Madison in that city, and his name was éither in the city or postal d)rcctor} If there should happen to be a dozen James Madisons in that place, the postal authorities would not be able to determine which one (n de liver, it to, and it is not to be expected that the carrier, who is allowed but a few cents for the speclal delivery, would go out hunting every James Madison to as- certain if the letter was for him. The postoffice departments make diligent search for any one if a clew is given to his business or place of residence. BILLTARD PLAYING—S. F. B, City. The following is the record for billiard playing: Best run at three-ball carom rail game, Harvey McKenna, Boston, Mass., December 21, 1887; average, 416 2-3. Best at four-ball carom game, 1483, J. Mec- Devitt, New York, January §, 1868. Best at champion’s game, three-ball caroms. “14x28 lines, 398¢ George Slosson, match of 3000 points (600 per night), Paris, France, January 30. to , 1 every performance are sufficlent evidence | It is interesting | Henry Miller at the Columbia Theater on | i The Tivoli's grand opera season Wil | Foneari, an Italian tendr from Genoa, and | merican barytone. | 2 { Mere | Goodall and Miss Bates having known Linck, Miss Anna | each other in years gone popular | facts I never forget. owerful orchestra and | square mile contains 640 acres and a tract | ence bétween one mile square and one | is no | America, R. Heiser, 600 point - match, New York City. Feb- ruary 14, 1804, Best at _English spot stroke barred game, 1392 points, John Roberts, in match Manchester, Eng- land, May 3_and 4, 18%4; push and spot barred. 430, John Roberts, London, Eng- land, June, 1896. spot stroke game, 3304, W. J. Peall, 15,000 up. wondon, November 3-8, 18%., Fourteen-inch balk line game, with_anchor nurse, 566, J Schaefer, New York, December 16, anchor nurse barred, 339, Frank Ives, ( cago, IlL., December 6, 1894; eighteen-inc Ik line, anchor barred, except for five shot: in 600 points up, F. Ives, New York, April 2. 18%. Cushion caroms, 300 points up. 85, F. . Boston, Mass., April 14, 1806. Tighteen-inch balk line, one shot edach in balk and in anchor, 140, in 500 up, with average of 31 4-16, F. C. Ives, New York City, December 2, 1897. WEYLER—W. C., Manka, Solano Coun- ty, Cal. General Weyler, the Spanish General, accofding to the various ac- counts that have been published about him, must be like Topsy—"never was born, jes growed: dat's all”—for none of them tell the place of his natlvity, and in several accounts he is declared to be the descendant of parents of Spanish, French and Irish birth; that is. three dif- ferent accounts differ as to the national- ity of his parents. Another account states that he was born on an island off Sraln. but does not give.its name, but all agree that he was born_in 1836 —_— AROUND THE _ CORRIDORS E. Burke, a Hanford capitalist, is at the Lick. H. Haslacher, a large grain buyer of Oakdale, is a guest at the Palace. W. W. Wright of Sacramento is one of the late arrivals at the Occidental. W. R. Crithers, a prominent business man of Santa Rosa, Is registered at the Lick. H. J. Crocker will make Burlingame his summer residence. He has leased a cot- -tage there. J. B. Peakes, proprictor of the Sea Beach Hotel at Santa Cruz, is registered at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. C. Friedericks, two trav- elers from the City of Mexico, are stay- | ing at the Palace. Robert Effey, ex-Mayor of Santa Cruz, is staying at the Grand on a short pleas- ure trip to the city. Marfon Biggs Jr., a large rancher of Oroville, is among those guests who ar- rived at the Grand yesterday morning. . A. Jastro,-chairman of the Board of Supervisors of Bakersfield, is among the guests who arrived at the Grand yes- terday. . Mr. and Mrs. Claus Spreckels have coms up from their country home at Aptos on a brief visit. They are staying at the Palace Hotel. Colonel Charles C. Hood, commanding the Sixteenth United States infantry, is a guest at the Occidental, where he ar- | rived “yesterday. Robert Stirrat, formerly a local pho- | tographer and now a Klondike capitalist, has returned from.his home in the north and is in the city. PO —— Captain Charles Miner Goodall How the and Blanche Bates were great Captain Remembered| friends many years ago, but - Blanche Bates. neither one would know the other if 40— ihey were to meet on the streets to-day. Captain Goodall rarely goes to a theater, and, of has missed sceing the talented | very | course, | actress since she became famous, while thald, a phenomenal tenor from the Im- |45 of Miss Bates’ traveling has been perial Theager, Berlin; Signor Vincenzo | g ne on' the Pacific. Strange to say, that fact of Captain by came up over | a question of dates. “I have a very poor | memory for the day and hour on which certain things happened,” said the cap- | tain to some friends a few days ago; “but That advertise- ment” (peinting to the announcement that | Blanche Bates would appear at the Cali- | fornia Theater) *“brings some things that happened nearly thirty years ago to my mind. It was somewhere around 1§73, and I was making my first voyage to sea as a boards and is artistically presented. This |y o®0 "ino"01a Czaroviteh. Those were | the days when there were no steamers and we had quite a number of passengers for Australia aboard. Among them were Emerson's Minstrels, and Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Bates were members of the com- pany. Blanche was then, I should think, about 4 years old, and many a romp she and 1 had around the deck of that old bark.” W. Robertson and W. W. Stousland, two hotel men of Fresno, are at the Lick on a short pleasure jaunt to the city. G. H. Topley, a large merchant and pro- gressive business man of Vallejo, is one of the arrivals of yesterday at the Grand. J. T. Taylor, one of the most promi- nent citizens of Bakersfield, is among those who arrived .in the city yesterday and went to the Occidental. John B. Farish, a wealthy mining man of Denver, is a guest at the Palace, where he will remain during the time his busi- ness will keep him in the city. General F. Canedo, Governor of Sina- loa, Mexico, is a guest at the Occidental, where he arrived vesterday from the south. F. G. Valenzuela accofnpanies the generai. . F. C. Brewer, a banker of Boston, is at the Palace with his wife, family and a party of relatives and friends. Mr. Brewer is visiting California for the pur- pose of seeing his son, who is attending. St. Matthew’s School at San Mateo. The founder of the school, Rev. Alfred L. Brewer, was an uncle of the Boston capi- talist. C. Lisher, a prominent club and so-~ ciety man of Boston, is at the Palace with his wife.” Mrs. Lisher, who was formerly Miss Menzies, a daughter of Commander Menzies of the navy, accompanied her busband when jhe rode horseback from Ashland, N. to the City of Mexico. The trip, which was taken in the way of a honeymoon, created quite a deal of comment at the time. Rufus H. Herron, the Los Angeles oil magnate, is a guest at the Palace. Yes- terday morning he received a telegram from Mining Expert Wilson reporting fa- vorably on a deposit of copper ore be- longing to Mr. Herron in Shasta County. This means that many thousands of dol- lars have been added to the already large fortune of “Mr. Herron, and.“as the de- posit in question is located in the vicinity of the famous Ifon Mountain copper mines, the good fortune may run up into the millions as likely as not. - CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, July 26.—BEdward W. Pen- field and Hugo P. Freear of San Fran- cisco are at the Holland. J. S. Guttmann of Sacramento is at the Imperial. Her- bert Pease of Los Angeles and Mr. and Mrs. L. Tozer of Sacramento are at the Rivers. —_————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, July 26—F. H. Me- Kenney of San Francisco is at the Arling- ton; William A. Thompson and wife of San Francisco are at the St. James. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson sail for Europe on Tuesday next —_—————— ace fruit 50c ner Ibat Townsend’s.® —— Cal.; Special information supplied dafly to business houses’ and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Maln 1042. ¢ ————— Took in the Custom House. . Cadet Taylor, Surveyor of Customs at Omaha, paid a friendly visit to the Cus- tom-house yesterday. Mr. Taylor is here to welcome his two sons who are on the way to this port from Manila. —_———— Nothing contributes more to digestion than the use of Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters. ebruary 3, 1882; best in| Don’t accept an imitation