The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 6, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN -FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY. AUGUST 6. 1899. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. B e ions to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. Address All Communicati PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Main 1858. EDITORIAL ROOMS...... .. .217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Matn 1874, Single Coples, 5 cent Terms by Matl, Including Postage: DATLY CALL ( ding day Call), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), § months Sunday Cali), 3 months | DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEX. | | are wiithor! receive subscriptions. be forwerded when requested. A1l postmaster Bample coples wiil veve.....908 Broadway OAKLAND CFFICE ... C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Maaeger Forcign Advertising, Marquette Buallding, Chicago. RESPOI INDENT 1 NEW YORK COR .....Horald Square C. C. CARLTON. .. PRESENTATIVE : N ......29 Tribune Bullding PERRY LUK W YORK RE NS JR CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. Sherman Ho P. 0. News Co.; Great Northern Hotelj Fromont House: torfum Hote! YORK NEWS STANDS. Hoty A. 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MERCENARY EXPANSION. ~~ ONGRESSMAN BERRY of Kentucky, 2 o I w Adter the wer in the Philippines is.over we will com- | Dem J: crat, 1 for expansion for purely commercial his country to gain new markets. t mand the trade there.” | This sentiment is echoed by such Southern Demo- cratic papers as the Atianta Constitution, the Chatta- emphis Appeal ceded to expose the novelty of | It is purely mer- | suc- res and nooga No ar 10tive 2 Our have had n every case the rights of man, ideas rooted in nd of person, have been the 1ment 1 American policy. ars heretofore waged, and alw: cena 1 incffable principle as their rea- cessinll I son liber have gladly borne arms The mercenary feature v died in bat imate profits of human d nd secondary. Emerson put it in oston anniversary: opportunity were | are plow and sail all mane reason and the rights of freedom fa enterec on the Spanish war resol 1 1e hu doubts in favor of men denied The declar are to ma , not liberty; to e ofits of commerce, not the rights of r res that we call upon our ound the world, under a young men ¥ verti uniriendly climate to die in battle § nt of the opportunities of | money, not m. Let it be remembered that this view i v It is not an a r the policy. but remselves. ken by those who f: deliberate If the peo- d bear the consequent drain of 1 ts, and treasure, it wiil go on. No one can resist that | which a majority of eighty millions of people agree te do | But to do it is inconsistent with the past genius and | character of the rerican peaple. We have been the | when the stake was But we are asked to lay dowr onr lives for the sale of more pork and flour. The poetic hich inspires heroism in war is lacking and | to be pointed to are not the many made willing fight most principle w the rest happier e secure in the common rights of | man, but the few made richer by profits of a commerce | field manured by the blood of free men. kets of any nation and | drop of blood. | outstripped the commercial nations that have | i people to extend their com- | ho believe | by commercial intelligence fruit of carnage. We have now the best r they did not cost a tear. 2 wound nor We have on nk they are ¢” scare has so far worn off in the Toast that the boys and girls are organizing sing bug trolley parties” to ride out into the suburbs on < in search of the beast; and accord- | | | | s in some of our most reliable contem- | ald automobile will surely reach | y is by no means certain that any ! poition the mechanism that started from New | York will be in the vehicle when it shows up in our | of POt o effects of the coming yacht race are already the East, and in that section of the country a ot talk of the Shamrock without saying: a slip "twixt the cup and the Lipton.” “There's many s from San Domingo announce the out- break of a revolution by Jiminez. He must be a rela- of Jeewhilikens. It is a dead sure thing Aguinaldo can never be whioped by a censorship. | othy, turnips, potatoes and ¢ | Timott | The sa "eradi | on our wheat ranches. | waste of fertilizers, produc ! tion is not the only recourse of the C | tory positions for them. | to be welcomed home in the fullest sense of the word. rom the amount of repairing nec- | n l CALIFORNIA FARMING. i ~HE Secretary of Agriculture has given a too ~[ brief examination to the rural industries of this clusions, all of which are interesting, while some Yre | hasty. | His visit has been too brief | that our agriculture is a quite di of the hot summer and cold winter prairie States The Secretary sees here crop year after year andpoint, to permit him to see fierent art from tha of the Mississippi Valley. wheat fields that are seeded to tha and, reasoning the prairie-land warns us of the exhaustion of the soil and preseribes jon of crops. On the prairies a farmer has all s including corn, that noblest of the grasses. th them he has clover, red top and tim- A more exten- from rrots. mination of the physical peculi the Secretary that over the sive e a fornia would have shown most of our wheat region such rot 1l not grow under the same at in this State. the root crops. Our alfalia fields igation can be used, and that a system of rotation, because ation is impossible. and red clover wi s and in the same soil as w conditio: re is true of are located where crop is not possible ir when once established the plan: cation is difficult as well as undesirable. Alfalfa \eing mostly impossible on our 1dom tured where they are successors to wheat here rd. These have isun and scores t is perennial and its and the root crops. | wheat lands, wheat is Almost the only Lave been the and crowded grain out of Napa, V Like wheat they flourish there unir- They They soils grown. vin orchard other e not rotated with wheat. ted. become its permanent successors to the soi occupy a wider range nd a greater v y of and exposures t} either wheat or the root crops. heat is driven from the bottom lands and int 1e great alluvial depesits like that of linas, and is grown h rivers as the Creek on the elements derived from disintegration of the rocks. Jts quality here depends upon the conditions found in such localities. It gets no T2 er A grows, y that it is cut ady for the mill blooms, ripens and dries so thorou nd threshed in one operation and is 1 le in the field. an hour aiter it felt the sick Of course, it exhausts the soil he Secretary might b enough for the strawstack and manure pile These means of fertilizing ong. ve remai to look in' v ©d the neglect of them is # ed on the ation of what should take the place of an im- wheat region. It is but little used ches here is the dis: possible rotation of crops in ot the dry season is unfavorable to the imm go back true that diate assimilation of the plant food that would with the straw and manure, but it remains in the so:l to yield its food under the influence of the rainy season But this neglected substitute for an impossible rota- lifornia wheat rancher. He is perfect] are of the exhausting quality of wheat. He has seen land fall from thirty sacks per acre to ten and five, and he knew the rea- son before the Agricultural Department was estab- To rest and recruit the soil the California e back to an agricuftural bulle- wn i lished. wheat rancher has gon tin issued by the first Secfetary of that art kn history. He lets his land lie fallow according to the advice of Moses to the Israelites, who were raising al conditions almost identical with wheat under phy those of California. Rotation of crops is properly practiced when pos- ible to avoid loss of the use of the land. Summer as practiced by the wheat ranchers of Cali- llowing ly its substitute. fornia is chemically and economic: It restores the soil and on one year’s rest it produces It is not practiced in the the crops of two vears. though it might be used with good effect on the thin 1Is in the prairie States. There fail soils of the clay hi ing t of frost to mak plowing is practiced to get the eff stiff soils more iriable, but the land is cropped an- nually, Fir it is worthy of note that the sugar beet is promising a rotation with wheat that is not offered by The Secretary has pointed out that sugar one any other crop. the East and West Indies can produce cz quarter cents a pound cheaper than we can pro- duce beet sugar. The margin is the difference between free labor here and servile labor there. We want the <ugar beet as an addition to our crops and valuable for rotation, and we want the land and labor which produce it protected against the tropical soil and ervile labor of all the Indies. e and Police Judge Treadwell has a chance of which he seems to evince a commendable disposition to avail at Lawyer Isaac Thorne and y accused “Brick” McPher- himself. It is plain Mrs. Carroll, after havin son and his gang of swindlers, are now preparing to drop the prosec In some way or other their ands have been satisfied and they are selfish gh to allow the arch conspirator and his minions It remains ion. de enot tc go free to prey again upon the public. with Judge Treadwell to see that the prosecution proceeds. CUR HOME-COMING VOLUNTEERS. “IFTY thousand dollars is the sum asked for by the committee intrusted with the task of pre- paring the reception for our home-coming vol- unteers, and there are now fair assurances it will be duly forthcoming. Many liberal subscriptions have been already sent in and others have been promised that can be counted on. It is to be borne i mind the reception is to be something more than a holiday of parades and festi- vals, though these will be stately and impressive, It he intention of the committee to arrange for the is t boys to resume work in their former places of em- ployment as far as that can be dofle, and where it is it impracticable, to provide other but equally satisfac- The volunteers are in fact and are to find that welcome not only in the social but in the industrial circles where they are known and honored. Every citizen should find pleasure and pride in con- | tributing to the fund needed for these purposes. The | volunteers of California were the first to enlist for the war. While in other States there was some delay and o little wrangling over the legal problems involved in the transfer of whole regiments of men from the National Guard to the United States Volunteer serv- e, the Californians responded at once and left it to the authorities to*settle the law problems later. Thus our boys have the honor of being first to enlist, and | are among the latest to return home. Such distinction | of service entitles them to a distinction of honor, and | the welcome accorded them should be of a character | to_attract the attention of the nation and attest the | pride of California in her heroes. i | work shown a genuine appreciation of what is re- | quired. The members have been earnest, patriotic | and energetic in their Jabors. They have not spared | and profitable addition to our country, but we note themselves. They have planned the welcome on broad | there is already a call from the island for charitable lines and set themselves resolutely to accomplish it. | contributions to feed the poor. State, and has announced therefrom some con- j arities of Cali-| | ment something in the shape of a “pucky rope.” The reception committee has at every step of its than a week ago? l To such leaders the business men, the property own- | ers, the public spirited citizens of San Francisco owe | a cordial support. Let ail unite in the movement. | Make the contributions liberal and prompt. Let Cali- fornia’s welcome to her volunteers stand as an ex- ample for the emulation of her sister States and for future generations. Since the sudden leaping into fame of Poet Mark- ham well beloved county of Alameda, has been | producing men with all sorts of agricultural imple- ments. The latest is a man with a spade. His name is John Hayes and his wife says he used it on her head. ; THE DUTY OF GOOD CITIiZENS. | | N this day of rest from the absorbipg pursuits O of work, it will be well for the business men, the taxpayers, the intelligent workingmen, the good cil s of San Francisco, to give heed to the issues involved in the approaching municipal election. The primaries will take place on Tuesday. In the Democratic party there is a faction fight between Euckley on one side and Rainey and the Examiner on the other, so there is no hope-for the independeng voter in that quarter. In the Republican primaries, | however, there is an easy way for the taxpayers to | win a triumph which will provide San Francisco with a good administration. The strategic point of the municipal contest is the Republican convention. If that body be controlled by sterling citizens all will be well. A strong. clean ticket will be nominated, and a strong clean County | Committee appointed to conduct the canvas Suc- cess at the polls on election day will be well nigh as- | sured, and every prospect of the city will brighten. Good men, free from pledges to the bosses, can ob- tain control of the convention only by the support of good citizens at the primaries. 1f the property owners and the taxpayers stay away from the polling booths | cn Tuesday the bosses and their gangs will have their own way. Who, then, will be to blame if the Republi- can convention fail to nominate a ticket which the O HIHOKPXORIX | best people can support? THE SHAMROCK. LEO: She’s a good looker. BRITANNIA: So were the others. Ames e 35C T2T R0 —Life. QXPXOROXIXPLOROROXD % OO %X XOABTSEPXDESXGXOROXPA PR OX S Boston brains are buzzing like so many buzz saws over the very pertinent question: “Where does the devil spend the summer?” It is con- ceded by all that he spends it among his friends, but there is a radical and somewhat heated difference of opinion as to whether his friends are found in the city or at the summer resorts. Of course such a guestion would not give rise to any earnest discussion here. The Californian devil may be at Santa Cruz, Shasta or somewhere in Amador, but we know he is not in San Fran- cisco, and therefore it would be im- possible for even the most disputatious man to raise an argument on the issue. Nevertheless, as a matter of leisure day amusement it will be worth while Every duty in life carries with it a reward for those who are true to it and a penalty for those who are | false. If the taxpayers be true to their political duties will have their reward in a municipal administra- they tion which will advance their welfare and lighten their | If they be false to those duties they will have | taxes. to and heavy taxes. The e cannot be evaded. The primaries will occur on Tuesday. The bosses and the taxeaters have ady marshaled their gangs and are ready to fight | - spoils. Shall the taxpayers fight for good gov- | | the penalty by submission to bad government aire; for t ernment or surrender without a struggle? That is the question every intelligent voter should ask himself Senator Sammy Braunhart says his visit to Herrin | had nothing to do with Democratic politics. He | might induce the people to believe that he was trying to sell the head of: the Southern Paci law depart- | | BUCKLEY AND HIS WICKED PARTNER. | : the mines fell out at last and became enemies. | One of them, an ambitious, brainy fellow, announced himself as a candidate for the Legislature, whereupon the other one, out of sheer antagonism and deviltry, declared himself an opposition candidate. The “boys” of the camp insisted upon a joint debate, and the rivals NE of Bret Harte’s best known stories tells how two men who had long been “pards” in were brought to the meeting. The first fellow proved himself something of a nat- ural born orator, a master of the fierce invective of the border, so when he opened the floodgates of his wrathiul words upon his opponent the camp felt it | 10ney’s worth and wondered why thc; was getting its m No one expected him to be other fellow didn’t shoot. able to reply to the charges made against him, andE shooting seemed the only thing for him to do. When | it came his turn to speak he made no attempt at ora- tory. “Boys,” said he, “this man has said many mean | things about me, but he has not said the worst. 1| must coniess to a lower depravity than anything he | has charged upon me. I have reformed now and I | am going to do better, but I must acknowledge to you that for ten years I\was that man’s partner.” That old story of the mining camps of the early days | has its parallel in the reply of Buckley to the pages | of vituperation poured out upon him by the Exam- iner. Buckley claims to have reformed, but he ad- mits that for ycars he was the Examiner’s partner. He aided the Examiner with money, with work and with council. He assisted its former proprietor in | contests for the Governorship and the Senatorship, | he assisted its managing editor to become a member | of the Legislature. He knew of its deals with the railroad and with parties working corrupt jobs with | Supervisors, and he did not expose them. Now that | the Examiner assails him as boodler, looter, robber, thief, unconvicted criminal, and forty other vile j'hings. he bows himself and acknowledges a lower | depravity still. He was for years the partner of that gang. According to his showing there were some schemes of the Examiner in which Buckley, even while train- ing with the yellow journal, would have no share. “They say I am in the employ of Huntington,” he ex- claims with indignation. “That’s a lie! I am not in the employ of Mr. Huntington and have never been. | But it is well known to every resident of this com- munity that a short time ago the Examiner was in the employ of Mr. Huntington, under a contract of one ! | thousand dollars a month for thirty months. And 1 want to say right here that that is not the only time | to my knowledge that the Examiner sold out to Mr. | Huntington.” Referring to the indictment against him by the Wal- | Jace Grand Jury with respect to the franchise obtained by Mayne, and which constituted a great scandal at | the time, Buckley asserts he had nothing to do with it, he refused to sanction the scheme and advised his friends among the Supervisors to reject it; and he adds: | “Had they indicted the Examiner or the people who | were running it they would have been pretty near cor- tect. Mr. Mayne aiterward informed me that he had a contract with that paper for printing and advertising for $12,500 and a part of that contract called for the Fxaminer’s aid in the passage of the franchise and | having the Mayor sign it. To corroborate my state- ment I refer you to the editorials of the paper about that time.” These are but samples of what Buckley has to tell of the doings of his wicked partner. Why is the Ex- | aminer so suddenly silent on the issue? Why has it dropped the subject with a dull thud? Why does it turn all its rages against Otis thousands of miles away | and leave a fight it took up so hotly scarcely mor‘e Some people say Porto Rico is going to be a rich | nearly always worth having; and be- | in life, maintains the devil goes to the | noted with something of surprise that d tesone. Wa shonld be very sorry to to take a look at the subject from a Boston standpoint. A Boston view is sides, to talk of the devil is such a variation from municipal politics that even if considered as a novelty merely, it will be found of interest to all moral- ists and summer resort people. . One Bostonian, who evidently believes | duty and work to be the supreme things | mountains and the sehshore as soon as the summer season opens. He says: “Of course, Satan lurks about the hours of idleness, the hours of absence from ordinary associations and re- straints, the hours of vacation abandon, to tempt to every form of evil, to all pride, and selfishness and self-indul- gence.” Another of the same creed, and pos- sibly of the same complexion, but of a livelier disposition and more pictur- esque style, jumps into the controversy with the exclamation: “One moment, if you please, while I telephone an order to hell for my win- ter's stock of fuel. Now, then, friends, | what can I do for you? An excursion to hades! Well, come on. Start at Paradise, take the man and the woman briefly stopping there; go by way of the modern parks, the mountains, the harbors, the beaches and the sea. On, now, with ‘seven-leagued boots’ to hell and return.” In that outburst are three statements which may be regarded as among the most interesting news items of the day. One is the announcement of the exist- ence of telephone communication be- tween Boston and hell, another that it is practicable in that city to obtain fuel from hades and the third that one may go to hell and then return to Boston. It is true that no one having gone to hell has ever been known to return to Boston, but that is not sur- prising when you come to think of it. wi e The arguments of those who maintain that the devil spends his summer in the city are weak even as the theory is weak. He is but a sentimentalist who believes Satan would stay in town with the workers when he could go to the summer resorts where the flirters are, and accordingly the arguments of such a man run naturally to sentiment. One of these says: “The devil—to adopt that convenient dramatic figure —is a specialist in the emotions. The bounding life which humanity enjoys, in common with all nature, during the season from seed-time to harvest affords him a very particular oppor- tunity, provided he can get the condi- tions which he desires. The desired conditions are supplied on a very large scale by the narrow streets, ugiy brick walls, dust and aggravating strips of dull-colored sky, which go to make up the city landscape. During the winter it may be endured. During the sum- mer it is impossible.” Another advocate on that side de- clares there is at every summer resort something which overcomes the devil so that he cannot stay there and has to return to town. He says: “Nature is the eternal inspirer of curiosity and the prime source of healthy mental growth. Nature calls forth unrepressed sentiment. Nature removes discouragement, which is only ‘disenchanted egotism’; and by its reach, its power, its perfection, supplies a new perspective, which makes and keeps a large-hearted way of life easier than it was before.” s Thus stands the dispute. Tt will be | not a single disputant in Boston thinks it worth while to raise the question whether there be a devil or not. . e e Painters and sculptors have so fre- quently and so emphatically denounced the masculine garb of our time as an abomination incapable of artistic treat- ment it is interesting to learn from the high authority of expert tailors that these complaining folks are talking of something they know nothing about, and the pictures they paint of the gar- ments of the time are but caricatures of the really attractive dress tailors make for men. The critic of the London Art Fashion Journal has reviewed with care the por- traits exhibited this year at the Royal Academy, and in his heart he mourns over what he saw there. “The tallor,” he says, ““has to study how he can in troduce effect into the costume of his customer in such a way as to empha- size the points of beauty and hide any features of ugliness that may exist. In the majority of the portraits to be seen on the walls of Burlington House on this occasion we feel that as tailors we have been grossly libeled. There is a lack of harmony in the outline, a disregard of seams, an irregular place- ment of buttons, and a use of orna- mentation which s altogether gro- EDITORIAL VARIATIONS. BY JOHN McNAUGHT. $ i i ¥ HPAPROXOXBHOXOHOX XA XOX SO think that any of these portraits are to | be handed down to posterity as a rep- resentation of nineteenth century tail- oring skill.” From that statement we may learn at least there are two sides to the ques- tion of the relation of modern clothing to art. Certainly until artists have learned how to copy a coat properly, they have no right to declare the gar- ment incapable of artistic treatment. When a tailor by his skill has con- cealed the defects of the masculine form and made a man look presentable, it isgelearly libelous and unjust for a pain’ or a sculptor to rise and remark the dress {tself is ugly. It is one of the gayest and also one of the grimmest humors of the time that the jingo press, which but a little while ago were clamoring to all the powers that be for a censorship of the mails to prevent the sending of un- censored news from this country to Manila, are now making an equal amount of noise because a censorship | at Manila prefents the sending of news to this country. They denounce as a military outrage in the Philippines the very policy they insisted upon inflict- ing upon all of us at home. The old conundrum ‘“What makes more noise than a pig under a fence” has been answered at last. It is jingo journal- ism with its foot in its mouth, bawling because it can’t swear. S There are now visible in this country signs and symptoms of a worse censor- ship than any we need fear from either Major Generals or Postmasters General. It is the censorship which by a slow | but steady movement is being extended over the universities of the country. ‘We have not felt-it in California, but | in the East it has shown Its baneful | power from New England to Kansas. | ‘When the trustees of Brown Univer- sity demanded that President Andrews | be silent on financial problems, a storm | burst forth that forced the trustees to vield the point for a time. They re- colled, but they did not retreat; and in the end Andrews had to leave. Since that occurrence there have been many simflar happenings in varfous univer- sities, but the public seems to have lost interest in the subject. There are no more universal protests, and the censors are steadily gaining an ascend- ency that threatens to render free thought and free speech well nigh im- possible in a university career. siide e Outstde theological seminaries, where dogma is frankly and rightfully made the foundation of all teaching, Chicago | University is the seat of the most dog- ‘matic censorship ever established over | intellectual freedom in the United | States since the days when Puritanism died out because it was too hide-bound to grow. The secretary of the univer- sity recently sent to all members of the faculty this warning: “While it is the privilege of every member of the university to entertain whatsoever opinion he may choose con- cerning controverted questions of pub- | lic interest and to express that opinion | in any proper way and on any proper occasion, it is nevertheless desirable | that great care should be taken to avoid involving the university, even by remote implication, in such contro- verted matters; that all actions and ex~ pressions of opinion on such subjécts should be scrupulously dissociated from all university relations so far as pos- | sible; that by such scrupulous regard | for the good standing of the university | in the opinion of all classes real free- | dom of speech and action will be pro- | moted.” Such a letter following so closely after the dismissal of Professor Bemis from the university has not unnatur- ally given rise to a good deal of agita- tion among university men who deal with economic problems. Thereis hardly | a department of economics that is not now more or less subject to political | discussion, and if professors are to ab- | stain from taking sides on controverted issues of economics it will not be easy for them to talk at all. It is then not | surprising that the letter of Goodspeed has caused a flutter in university cir- cles. The surprising thing is that the | public treats the whole affair as a | matter of course, and seems to regard the issue as a part of the private bust- ness of FPresident Harper and Mr. Rockefeller. | | s e ‘Were Chicago University the only seat of liberal learning where a censor- ship has been put into operation, the issue might indeed be passed over as a matter of comparatively little moment. ‘We cannot in reason expect Mr. Rocke- | feller to be much more liberal in schol- arship than in the oil business. Unfor- tunately the censorship practice is very ! attractive to trustees, and accordingly | it has been tried of late in more places than one. A professor from the Uni- versity of Syracuse, in New York, and another from the Agricultural College, in Kansas, have been disciplined for taking of economic prospects certain views which the trustees couldn't see. That these dismissals have followed one another so rapidly and so shortly after the outburst of popular indigna- tion over the attempt to discipline Andrews is a proof that the evil is a growing one and will bear watching. Since in these days it is the’ custom to denounce politicians and laud the business man, it is worth nothing in this connection that in State universi- | ties where the trustees are appointed by Governors, and where their selection is largely determined by political con- siderations, there have been almost no evidences of an attempt at a censor- 1 great-great-grandmother, AOROROAPXDXOXDRS XSRS XOXSXOXOXO%x4x0 | on such institutions, and a censorship over a State university would raise a storm indeed. It is only in universities where trustees are not responsible to public opinion that the censor feels his | oats and cavorts like a wild ass in the ‘; desert, or an Otis at Manila. |AROUND THE CORRIDORS J. H. Rohrbacher, U. §. N., is at the Oc- cidental. Dr. H. D. Lowehead of Woodland is at the California. Dr. E. T. Buckhart of Davisville is a guest at the Grand. A. N. Fox,»a mining man of Grants Pass, is a guest at the Grand. Dr. H. Hillard, a leading physician of Honolulu, is a guest at the Palace. S. H. Hayes, a prominent lowa politi- cian, is a guest at the Occidental. W. E. Rogers, a wealthy mining man of Kern County, is a guest at the Lick. J. C. Erickson, a cattleman of Eureka, is among the late arrivals at the Russ. Dr. John R. Clark, U. 8. A., is among the late army arrivals at the Occidental. Dr. and Mrs. W. 8. Taylor cf Livermore are among the recent arrivals at the 'Palace. R. L. Peeler, formerly adjutant general of the State, is at the California from Los Angeles. F. G. de I'Estiolle, a big mine owner of Ralston, is among yesterday’s arrivals at the Grand. Fred Coon, the Big Pine capitalist registered at the Russ on a short v to the czity. Dr. Rulison of Honolulu is a guest at the Grand, where he arrived yesterday morning from his island home. J A. V. Chielovich is registered at tha Lick from Vladivostock, Siberia. He ar- rived on the Maru from Yokohama. W. F. Price, a well known pol and fruit grower of Santa Rosa, of last night's arrivals at the Grand. S. Polaski, one of the foremost and most widely known citizens of Los Angeles, at the Lick, accompanied by his wife and family. (. Belefante Osberg, formerly Minister of Norway and Sweden and now Consul General to Egypt, is a late arrival at the Palace. E. Wolkoff, a traveler from Russia, 18 one of those who arrived on the Japanese steamer yesterday and registered at the Occidental. Captain N. J. Watson of the Twentieth Kansas Volunteers was one of the pas- sengers on the Hongkong Maru who went to the Occidental. Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, Superintendent Coast Geodetic Survey, is en route to San Francisco from Washington, D. C., and expects to reach here about the 7th or 3th inst. Dr. W. T. Maupin, one of the leading physicians of Fresno, is among the late arrivals at the Grand. S. Summerfield, a well-known lawyer of the same place, is also staying at the same hotel. Alex McDonald, the well-known capl- talist, has returned from his trip to Walla Walla, where he went to look after some valuable properties in which he is inter- ested, and Is registered at the Lick. General Charles Miller of the Penasyl- vania National Guard is a guest at the Palace. The general came here yesterday evening for the double purpose of seeing the returning volunteers and attending to some private business. Lieutenant S. M. Strite, who fired the historical shot from the Boston ut the battle of Manila Bay that killed forty- five Spanish sailors and destroyed a ship and a 'and battery, is a guest at the Pal- ace, having returned from the East last night. I i3 it cian one _————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Aug. 5.—A. Ferbus Grq- ver of San Francisco is at the Martino. William O. Young of San Francisco is at the Hoffman. Lewis McDermott of Oak- land is at the Marlborough. —_— e CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Aug. 5.—W. J. Hum- phries of San Francisco is at the Raleigh; H. A. Jacobs of Los Angeles is at the Wellington. e ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. NO PREMIUMS -(—)‘F;ERED—Subscfl- ber, Seattle; Cal. No premiums are of- fered for any of the foreign coins de- scribed in your letter of inquiry. THE ARMY—W. F. K., City. The War Department, which has the records, has not yet issued any statistics showing the number of men by nationality who en- listed for the war with Spain, conse- quently this department cannot at this time state what the percentage of for- eign born was In the volunteers. A VALID MARRIAGE—R. W., City. It a man is divorced in the State of Cali- fornia he cannot remarry under one year, but if at the end of ten months or the next day after obtaining a divorce in “alifornia he went to the State of Ne- vada and was married there his marriage would be valid, for the marriage that is \‘;\lid in another State is valid in Califor- nia. QUEEN VICTORIA—L §., Mendocino, Cal. Some time since the department of Answers to rrespondents announced that Queen Victoria, by the birth of a child to Prince Heinrich Reuss, became a and now you Srite that the Examiner says: ‘“Queen Victoria is not a great-great-grandmoth- er. Is that cotrect?’ That such a state- ment appeared in the Examiner is not proof of its correctness. Townsend: California glace fruits, 50c Ib, in artistic_fire-etched boxes or Japane: baskets. 627 Market st., Palace hmelpbh'lxs.‘3 ————————— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mon:- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ = o Burglars On the Relief. Morris Ratter and John J. Dillon, fire- men on the United States hospital. ship Relief, were arrested yesterday afternoo by United States Marshal Shine on a wa;l- rant charging them with grand larceny. It is alleged that the prisoners broke a lock and stole from the quartermasier's department a large quantity of clothing, which they disposed of in this city. —_———— President McKinley and his Wife Will travel over the Northern Pacific Railway when they visit the famous Yellowstone Park. They Intend viewing the new geyser that spouts a tremendous stream of botling water to the helght of the Call bullding. It's a wonderful sight. Send 6c in stamps for book telling all about it to T. K. STATELER, Gen. shin. Public opinion keens close guard Ast. &5 Market st., 8. F.