The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 8, 1899, Page 6

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Maxnil ming Races, etc AUCTION SALES. 2 back—This day, at 2:30 o'clock, Turkish Geary street. Von Rhein & Co.—Thursday, August 10, at 12 o'clock, state, at 513 California street. SULTANS, SULU @AND UT@AH. HE Mahometan Sultan of Sulu is rattling in the pocket of his broad-hulled trousers $10,000 in can gold and has on file a contract, made ame of the American people, for the payment annual subsidy of $20,000 in the same c rd for being a Yankee and acknowi- edging our jurisdiction. The taxpayers who furnish | may wonder why we paid Spain twenty for the sovereignty of all those islands and n pay the Sultan a salary to admit our title. The umption is that in default of the salary he would sputed our authority, and there is room for re speculation why we salary him and shoot he Christian Filipinos. greement with him stipuldtes that we must m undisturbed in the religion and institutions people.” That religion is Mohametan, and the s are polygamy and chattel slavery. While d our jurisdiction over the Koran polygamy and salary the Sultan who Dbe- in the one and practices the other the Stripes, protecting the harems of u, waves as a banner of virtuous vengeance to rike terror into the harems of Utah. The Book of on and the continuing revelations that pro- ject it, like the Koran, teach polygamy as a religious Bl med exactly as a burden but rather as a offsetting certain austerities in the obser- 1ce of creed and ritual. Pious as Mormondom is, Utah basin would smile if a brother should lead his 1 1 mates to the altar protesting against the privilege as a burden and a frowning providence not lined by a dollar’s worth of silver. The Book of Mormon is built on the Koran and the Code Napoleon. It establishes in Utah one of itutions which we recognize and protect in the It is on the principle that surfeit of a good to the in lus. thing is impossible, and throughout it converts ; spiritual purposes that cheerful song— “When you get a good thing Keep it, keep it.” Whereas the Koran stops at four wives per husband, | the Mormon establishment puts no limit on the | game. But, it is a praiseworthy institution, de- serving a salary and distinguished consideration in Sulu, what's a limit among friends? But the United | States, which looks upon plurality of wives in the Sulus and calls it good, looks upon the same in Utah and calls it an abomination before the Lord! | When Utah was admitted as a State the United States made a contract with her which bears no re- semblance to the one made with the Sulu Sultan. Congress bound Utah to observe the principles of the Declaration of Independence and to forever abjure | polygamy or_ plural marriage. Congress forced the | incorporation of the Tucker-Edmunds law into the | first statutes of the new State, fixing fine and im- | prisonment as the penalty of keeping a harem. In| Utah there are twelve Sultans. They are cailed the First Presidency of the Church, and are sometimes known as the Twelve Apostles. One of them, the Sultan Angus Cannon, determined to live up to his religion and obey the spirit rather than the statutes, | has been getting married at every drop of the hat for the last year or two, until his harem numbers ladies. But his further career as a family man has | been cut off. The law has its grip on him, and he has | pleaded guilty to an act which is repaid with a fine and jail in Utah and with an annual salary and protection in the Sulus—all under the flag and jurisdiction of the United States! The Utah Battery has just returned from the Phil- ippines. In it are many Mormons and a grandson of Brigham Young. , They left the Sultan of Sulu in good health, well and abundantly married and paid a salary. They find one of the Sultans of Utah, also well and abundantly married, pining in a dungeon therefor. They also find the same flag over the Utah jail that they have been engaged in nailing to the Philippines. May we not expect a great emigration movement from Salt Lake to Sulu? six The flattery of England has accomplished in the Transvaal what the force of arms could not do. Oom ! Paul has agreed to settle his troubles with the aid of | diplomacy, | | annexation crowd. | organ of annexation insisted that under the joint reso- | | possible and coolies could not enter the islands. The | | Call at that time pointed out the fallacy eof this state- | | tracts, and an energetic effort has been made to gez" | now existing under ogir flag | enemy. { from his district and vote for those whom he knows HAWAIIAN LAEOR. an interview on the “wide open” coolie and con- tract labor policy in Hawaii Senator Perkins de- clares that his act to prevent the importation oi‘ coolies would have passed the Senate except for an | objection interposed by Senator Morgan of Alabama. | Senator Perkins, therefore, charges Morgan with the regponsibility of permitting the violation of every promise that was made the American people by the It will be remembered that every lution of Congress, which effected the union of | Hawaii to this country, contract labor would be im- | 2 | ment and predicted just what has happened. Nearly | 30,000 coolies have been imported under penal con- Italians and Portuguese under the same form of con- tract. Between coolie contract labor in Hawaii, as and jurisdiction, and slave labor in the South before the Civil War, if there be any difference, it is in favor of the slave la-| bor as far as the condition of the individual is con- | cerned. There has been talk in Honolulu of convening the | Island Legislature to repeal the penal clause in the labor contract laws. It will be remembered that while annexation was before Congress a bill to effect this repeal was introduced in the Hawaiian Legislature, and the annexation agents from the islands and the American newspapers they had bribed gave the moste solemn assurances that the repeal should be passed. | Millions of Americans read this premise, and bclievci even now that it was carried out, but it was not, nor | will it be until the people of this country force these | manipulators to keep faith. The statement by Senator Perkins is of first impor- tance because it fixes responsibility for this condition of things. Senator Morgan tried in vain to dictate a foreign policy to Mr. Cleveland, and, failing, turned | and fought the administration of his own party with ! a rackless disregard for truth and for the decencies of | official life that tarnished throughout the world the | reputation of public in this republic. He has wrought ceaselessly to impose his fantastic ideas of foreign policy upon President McKinley's adminis- tration, and good Republicans have omitted any ex- | pression of pleasure at seeing the counsel of men like Senator Hoar and ex-Senator Edmunds rejected | while Morgan made himself a mouthpiece of an ad- | is the natural political | | ministration of which he Morgan's party in the campaign next year will at- tack the Republicans upon the very policy which he tried to force upon Cleveland, and it is well to bear that poli sent Morgan as n examination of in mind the origin of President McKinley sioner to Honolulu to make status in the islands and report a code to Congres for the government of that country. This work was supposed to be done, and at any rate was paid for by the Ame N taxpay It was expected by Ameri- | can employers that the employers of labor in the | to assume leg: Commis- | the | a islands would be at once forced equality with them. It was also expected by Ameri- | can laborers that their wages and their hours of labor | would not be imperiled by coolie contract competition | in Hawaii. And by the whole people it was expected that the solemn promises made by the annexationists | But every one of these expectations | has been disappointed. Every promise has been bra- zenly violated, and nator Perkins states publicly that Senator Morgan is responsible, and the people believe him. The Democracy of California made a | ribboned ox out of Morgan when he was here. Their | official and personal attentions to him were of the highest order. His leadership was hailed in voices scented by every variety of spirits used to keep up | party courage, from steam beer to Mumm. He es- | pecially delighted them by coarse and ribald abuse of | Cleveland. Now it appears that instead of going to | Hawaii to do his duty to the Republican administra- | tion which honored him, and to the people who paid | him, he went to consult the island tricksters and to | concert ways and means for maintaining servile labor | there, to the damage of American workmen, and re- | turned to deceive the President who sent him by im- | peding the performance of promises for which the | administration was responsible. The Republican | party, remembering the words of Lincoln, insists | upon equality before the law for everybody within the jurisdiction of the United States. | When Great Britain abolished slavery Freedom | touched with her emancipating chrism every foot of British soil. It became and has remained the boast of British statesmen that the of umversal | emancipation spread her wings over the empire, and when the foot of a slave touched that soil his chains fell off and his bonds were broken. Among the other national shames that are upon us shall we have to blush for the betrayal of American labor and denial to it of universal equality before the law wherever the flag floats? That is the position in which the Morgan policy has put us. Will not the leaders of the Republican party extricate us from the control of this Alabaman Mokanna? e e would be kept. genius Deny it as he may, Emperor William can no longer disguise his hostility to America and Americans. He threw off the mask the other day when he proffered the services of the skipper of the Meteor to sail the Shamrock against the Columbia. It will be difficult for headline writers on the great dailies to refrain from referring to the walkout of New York compositors as “Another Case of Sunstroke.” fl booths and vote for the candidates who repre- sent the better elements of citizenship. That is the duty of every citizen; it is in a special sense the duty of taxpayers, of property-owners, of indus- trious workingmen, of all who constitute the intelli- gence, honesty and the progressiveness of the com- munity. Fair-minded Democrats can see no prospect of good government in their party, dominated as it must be either by the faction of Buckley or by that of Rainey and the Examiner. Within the Republican party, however, there is a bright prospect of victory for intelligence and honesty. If the citizens who have | a true regard for public welfare will act in accordance with that regard, all will be well. Good men will con- trol the Republican convention, and thus there will be assured the nomination of a ticket which good men of all parties can support against any ticket that may be named by either the Buckleyites or the Rainey- ites of the Democratic camp. The Call has no special set of men to champion. Tet each Republican go over the list of candidates THE DUTY OF THE DAY. TTEND the primaries. Go to the polling to be gcod and true. No man known as a tool of the bosses or of the railroad should receive the support of an intelligent voter. Such men cannot have the wel- fare of the community at heart, nor can they be | counted on to vote in the convention for the nomina- | either, | and the city should have its lamps lighted every night | clared: ' proportion by all classes, and that in the assessment tion of able, public-spirited men. It is, in fact, to de- feat just such candidates that good citizens should at- tend to their politica! duties. Every taxpayer, every business man, every indus- trious workingman, has a personal concern in the struggle of the day. An honest, progressive, busi- ness-like administration of municipal affairs will be of personal benefit to every good citizen. Bad govern- ment will entail deficient public services and heavy burdens of taxation. For their own interests, there- fore, as well as from a sense of civic patriotism, all should make it a point to take part in the primaries. By the votes cast to-day it will be virtually deter- mined whether San Francisco is to have a good gov- ernment under the new charter or not. It is now# possible to elect good men to the Republican conven- tion and so assure a strong and reliable ticket. He who is willing to act for the city as well as to talk must act to-day, must attend the primaries to-day, must vote for good men to-day. To-morrow it will be too late. The Pullman twins were advised the other day by their mother that they would have to quit trying to preserve themselves in alcohol or prepare to eke out a rum-sodden existence in poverty. They started at once to taper off. At last accounts George had suc- ceeded so well that he was rapidly becoming purple in the face. PLEDGES FAITHFULLY KEPT. ITH the adoption of a tax levy within the dollar limit the Republican majority of the W Board of Supervisors have kept faith with the public on that issue, and the party can now point to a record of official service remarkable for its fidelity to campaign promises. The subject merits the attentive consideration of voters. As it is the rule to denounce an official who proves false, so it should be the rule to give honor to those who are faithful, and under that rule the Republican Supervisors deserve and should receive the commendations of their fellow citizens. The Republican platiorm, after declaring in favor of municipal ownership of public utilities, went on to say: “Until that result is accomplished we pledge our nominees for Supervisors to fix a water rate which will et the Spring Valley Water Company not more than 5 per cent on its capital stock, providing that the operating and constructing expenses of the corpora- tion be reduced to an amount that is fair and equal. To that end we pledge our said nominees to make a careful and methodical investigation of the books of the company.” That pledge has been kept, and water rates both to the municipality and to private consumers have been reduced in accordance with it. On the subject of the lighting supply of the city ‘;lhe platiorm said: “The charge for gas and electric light should be reduced and the quality improved, in the year. The lighting of the city constitutes a large and necessary item of public expense. We fa- vor legislation which will encourage competition for this contract and secure to the public the maximum of efficient service at the minimum of expense. We | are in favor of placing underground all electric wires, | and we pledge our nominees to secure these results.” The three demands set forth in that plank have been complied with. The cost of lighting has been re- duced to the municipality and to private parties, the Supervisors have provided for competition by grant- ing franchises to competing companies, and electric wires-are required to be put underground. The platform asserted: “The affairs of the munici- pality should be conducted upon principles of hon- esty and economy that prevail,in private business. Conducted on these principles a tax of one dollar per hundred dollars of an assessed valuation of $350,000.- 000 will be amply sufficient properly to operate the municipal government. We therefore pledge our can- didates for the office of Supervisor to limit the annual tax levy to an amount not exceeding that which will be produced by a tax of one dollar for every hundred assessed valuation not exceeding dollars of $350,000,000.” By the action taken yesterday that pledge is ful- filled, and after years of struggle the people will at last, thanks to the Republican majority of the board, have a fair test made of the dollar limit tax. On the subject of assessments the platiorm de- “We pledge our nominees for the Board of Supervisors, sitting as a Board of Equalization, and our nominee for Assessor, to the levying of all assess- ments upon an absolutely fair and equal basis. We insist that as between rich and poor, corporation and private citizen, there shall be no discrimination, that the burdens of government shall be borne in equal of corporate franchises care shall be taken to de- terine the reasonable value of such franchises in their relation to more tangible property vested in the cor- porations assessed by deducting the value of the en- tire tangible property of such corporations from the market value of their stocks and bonds.” The Republican party did not elect the Assessor, but the Republican majority of the Board of Equali- zation set itself earnestly to the task of revising the | assessments made by the Democratic incumbent of that office. They increased the assessment of the| Market Street Railway Company, and would have | increased that of the Sutter street line and those of other corporations had not the Democratic minority by dilatory tactics prevented. Even with such ob- stacles to contend with the Republican Supervisors acting as Equalizers have fulfilled that plank of the platform to the extent at least of giving the city the fairest assessment of property made within the life of this generation. . Such is the record of pledges fulfilled by the Repub- lican Supervisors. The six great issues which made up the points of popular interest in the campaign last | year have been met in accord with the demands of the people and the promises of the party. First, water rates have been reduced. Second, gas and electric rates have been reduced. Third, competition in gas and eledtric lighting has been encouraged and pro- vided for. Fourth, electric wires have been required to be laid underground. Fifth, the dollar limit of taxation has been adopted. . Sixth, assessments have been equalized better than ever before between the private citizen and corporations, between the rich and the poor. On that showing of fidelity and honesty the Re- publican party can justly ask the continued support of the voters in the municipal campaign. B e If the war in the Philippines is to be continued many army officers think that it is in the cards for Uncle Sam to play red trumps. They select the Apache Indians, 40,000 of whom are now in the Southwest as wards of the Government, to make things hum for the wild tribesmen of Aguinaldo. During the course of a recent thunderstorm at Paris the Eiffel tower was struck ten times by light- ring. And the poor thing wasn’t running for office NEW YORK HE| MADE. SCH , ! 0 RESO 00L INSPECTOR HE appointment of Miss Elsle Clews as school inspector for the Four- teenth District, New York, which has just been made public, is & recogni- tion of the educational philanthropy the young heiress has practiced since her graduation. On emerging from Barnard in 189 Miss Clews' first public work was done in the interests of the Citizens' Unifon and Seth Low’s cam- paign for the Mayoralty. from New York’s wealthy and exclusive The Woman" s Auxiliary of the union was recruited class—women who had dabbled in poli- tics only in the abstract, as a study of the aspects of the municipality. Miss Clews’ was one of the earliest signatures in the list of those publicly pledged to support the union. She was one of the busfest workers in the organiz- ing of meetings in all parts of the city, and -‘was one of those on the platform at the blg mass-meeting in Cooper Union when ex-Mayor Strong was chalrman and Low, Choate, Waring and Carter among the speakers. Miss Clews is a member of the League for Political ‘Education, which contrib- uted so large a guota to the Union Auxiliary. The league has achieved its political ends, which are purely educational, largely through sociological means. The As- sembly district work, one of its specialt! fes, brought its members into direct con- tact with the lives of the families of voters In each district, with a view of improv- ing existing conditions and so helping to an Intelligent comprehension of muni- cipal needs. Miss Clews’ inspectorship will naturally prove of value in smoothing out school difficulties. She is the only daughter of the banker, Henry Clews. Her mother has ‘been famous not alone as a belle but as one of the best-educated women of the Four Hundred. - | of the Navy sent them. - éshouldn’t smoke at all.’’—] Miss Clews herself holds the degree o lumbia. She is with her family at Newport. f doctor of philosophy, conferred by Co- 0429009060000 0069 * COMMUNICATIONS 3 PPOPBLOODPIIPSIOPPIOPISOTD Volunteers—A Lapse Memory. Editor of The Call: Your paper this morning announces a scheme on foot to secure 10,000 Apache braves for use against the Filipinos, for whose sole offense of loving their country and hating subjec- ten we are now at war with them. In this it would appear that the Jingo advocates of this benevolent scheme have Apache suffered another lapse of memory as to | the text of the supposed to be immortal Declaration of Independence. Not that their past record renders this further evi- den one more among an eloquent aggregation of facts, showing '‘a mighty cleavage vn their part, away from the principics of just government. They either forget or lgnors those passages of _Jeflerso chless. . indictment against George, wherein 1t is charged: “He has plundered our seas, ravaged our coasts, burned our towns and destroyed the lives of our people. “He has excited domestic in- surrection among us, and has en- deavored to bring on the inhabi- tants of our frontiers the merci- less Indian savages, whose known rule of warfare is an undistin- guished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.” ‘Without claiming for the proposed di patch of savages to prey upon the Fili- pino patriots any greater degree of incon- sistency with American doctrine than marke: I would gladly learn by what alchemic process an_act becomes right when prac- ticed by McKinley upon the Filipinos which_was atrocious when practiced by King George upon the Americans? CLARENCE W. ASHFORD. San Francisco, Aug. 7. 18 pinas Sy Give the Naval Reserve a Chance. Editor The Call: California furnished ixty-five men and ten officers from the Naval Militia at San Francisco, who gave up their homes and positions to serve for 0ld Glory. They enlisted in a body at the breaking out of the war and served throughout on board the United States steamers Iroquois and Vigilant. Although these men did not see active service, they were ready and went where the Secretary Ask Captain L. H. Turner, who commanded the Iroquois ormerly the tug Fearless), also Captain unn of the Vigilant, and I'am sure thev will have nothing but praise for their men. Although they are the only volun- teers San Francisco: furnished from the militia besides our homeward- vy are not included in any of thedfestivities mapped out. There are seventy-five of them, nearly all of whom since their discharge serving the State on board the Marion. If nothing more, they are at least en titled to be included in the honorary es- cort of our home-coming heroes. Hoping The Call will see justice done to her San Francisco volunteer sailo: respectfully, e} San Franc LATEST STORIES of the FUNNY MAN. In the Wild West. “I'm here to clean out the place,” an- nounced the six-footer with long hair, a slouch hat and a choice selection of side rms. “Ah!" exclaimed the little editor from the far East, “I see. The-new porter. Just begin operations in the basement, my good man.” First Populist—I'm afraid our party'll never amount to much. Second Populist—Why not? First Populist—Well, when times is bad the rank and file is too poor to con:.ribute anything to the campaign fund; and when times is good they're too prosperous to vote the ticket.—Puck. ““It,” said the hen, as she surveyed the size-and-a-half egg she had just laid “will take a pretty good hailstorie to equal that.” Even in the lower walks of na- ture there is ambition and emulation."— Indianapolis Journal. Father (to son from whom he had just accepted a cigar)>Excellent! How much did you gas ? s(o;n_’]; spy'l[‘e' tAhrseltor a quarter, “Great Scott! And I content myse two for a nickel.”” ygell with “That's a different matter. If T had large a family as on‘:ltto support I e t of 2 at all surprising, but it furnishes | the course of the Jingoes to date, | 2066260000600 000000 * PRESS COMMENTS $ EXTEEEEE SIS 22 2 X4 ‘What the Oregonians Say. | San Francisco Star. | While the Examiner confined its inter- | views with the returned Oregon volun- teers wholly to their opinions of the con- | duet of the war, The Call has broadened | its interviews to the availability of the | lslands for white labor and the character of the people. Their views as to the en- tire unfitness of the climate for whites are unanimous as to every one of the thirty-four men interviewed. They differ as to the avatlability of the Filipinos for citizenship, some holdin Ther auld make excelidnt citizens and | others quite the contrary. Let them be | citizens of their own country and not of | ours is the consensus of opinion. In other words, leave them alone, and they will work out their own salvation. | In another column will be found ex-| tracts from a letter to The Star from Mr. Howard W. Bray, exactly concurring with these men as to the unfitness of the | climate for white men. £ Glad to Get The Call. Editor of The Call: I desire to express | my thanks for your kindness in sending The Call to me in this far-off country | and the pleasure with which it is received and read by myself and my comrades here so far from home. All of us look forward to its arrival on each mail. It is also pleasant to be able to refer to the old files or first files received in confirma- tion of any disputed question. We now expect to leave the islands by August 1 and will be pleased to start once more toward home. Again thanking you for your past favors and also expressing the thanks of others, I remain urs, under obligations, MOSS, First Lieutenant First Washington In-| fantry. Manila, P. L, July 1, I B Why the Examiner Quit. Alameda Argus. The Examiner started in to lay Chris- | topher Buckley out, but when it received | a hunch to the effect that the blind boss | had possession of the political archives | of the past that paper knocked off and turned its attention to borrowing over- coats for the Oregon boys. bbbt Automobiles in New York Solano Republican. | Speaking of the automobile, it is said | that there are 1500 of these “horseless car- riages” in operation in New York City. From this it is intimated that the horse will soon become one of the “things that | were.” AROUND THE CORRIDORS Alden Anderson, the Suisun politician, is at the Grand. Judge J. R. Webb of Fresno is regis- tered at the Lick. | 3. M. Striening, a fruit man of San Jose, is a guest at the Grand. L. Coates, an orchardist of Napa, is at the Grand, accompanied by his wife. W. J. McCormick, the Salt Lake banker, is at the Palace with his daughter. Fred Gerstley, a big hide dealer of Mexico, is among the late arrivals at the Lick. George E. Church, a well-known lawyer and influential politician of Fresno, is a guest at the Lick. Colonel L. F. -Moulton, a wealthy rancher of Colusa, is among the recent | arrivals at the Lick. F. S. Wensinger has come down from his country home at Freestone and is staying at the Occidental. Jose C. Gastarzoro, a wealthy planter of Salvador, is one of the late ar- rivals at the Occidental. J. 1. Barillas, the nephew of the famous Central American of that name, is at the Occidental with his wife. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Henderson from Sydney, Australia, were among last night's arrivals at the Palace. Ex-Senator Marion Biggs of Oroville is at the Grand, where he arrived yester- day on a short trip to this city. Albert R. Millett, the prominent Repub- lican politician of Petaluma, arrived yes- terday on a visit of a few days to the city. L. R. Fields, superintendent of South- ern Pacific lines in Oregon, arrived in this city yesterday on business connected with his position. W. H. Carlin, an attorney of Marys- | head they | any ing merchants of Los Angeles, are both registered at the Lick. J. C. Campbell, one of the foremost at- torneys of Dayton, Ohio, is at the Rups. Mr. Campbell’s visit to this city is taken for the double purpose of recreation and business. L. J. Spencer, a leading merchant of Seattle; J. N. Tood, a big business man of Pasadena, and Nat Miller, a travcier from London, are all among the arriv:ls of yesterday at the Occidental. Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Sheets of Z-m Jose are registered at the Palace. Sheets 1s a nlece of the late Millional Piper, who died a few days ago in the hotel at which she and her husband ars now stopping. Mr. Friedlander o7 o $ was standing ir THE HERO front of the box office at the Cal- FROM ifornia Theater last evening NEBRASKA. watching the crowd file in to 49—+ 1ook at the open- ing performance of “The Fairy God- mother,” when he noticed a young man accompanied by two others. The atten- tion of the theatrical manager was at- tracted toward the youth, for he was but Mttle more than a boy, by the evident pain with which he Hmped along with the aid of a cane. He hobbled around lcok- ing at the photographs of the different men of the troupe which adorn (?) the theater’s entrance, gazing every now and then with wistful eyes at the door through which the people were entering. His two companions followed him. As he passed near the spot where Fried- lander was standing that gentleman heard him say to one of his fellows: “They're getting up all sorts of bemefits to raise a fund with which to entertain the California boys, but we poor devils from Nebraska go around broke, and they never ask us to take a free seat.” Friedlander was touched, and stepbing up to the strangers bade them follow him to the box office, where he told Harry Campbell to give them the three best seats he had left in the house. The strangers took them and went inside. After the performance Friedlander was handed an envelope, in which was the following note: *To my Philanthrople Friend: Many thanks for the tickets. The show was all right. Do you treat all men from Nebraska this way? If there are many more like you here I think I will take up a claim and settle for life in your city. I might incidentally remark that it has been some time since I was in Nebraska, and it will be some time befora I go there again. M last residence in that State was at an institution supported by the public, where I was entertained and taken care of for some three years for selling green goods to farmers. There | the farmers all do business in the coun- oy Ask Friedlander mow about his Ne- braska hero, and then ring for the | Morgue wagon. | e e———— | CALTIFORNIANS IN NEW YOREK. | NEW YORK, Aug. 7.—James B. O'Nefll, | E. E. Hewlett and F. M. Ballard of San | Franeisco are at the Gilsey. M. O. John- | son of Oakland is at the Bartholdi. G. M. | Briggs ot Los Angeles is at the Imperial Robert G. Hanford and wife of San Fran- clsco are at the Plaza. R. H. Norton of Tesla is at the Bay State. —_—————————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASlI INGTON WASHINGTON, Aug. 7.—Mrs. W. Dem- ing Smith of San Francisco is at the Shoreham. W. J. Hyram of San Fran- cisco is at the St. James. THE FERRY CLOCK—J. C. F., Vallejo, Cal. The minute hand on the ferry clock, San Francisco. is twelve feet long and the hour hand nine feet long. From center to tip the minute hand is ten feet. BOOK MAKER—O. 8., City. If a book maker on a race track owns three or four books, runs but one himself and has other men to run the others, he owns all, but controls only the one that he individually runs. Fageat NO PREMIUMS—J. E. L., Modesto, Cal. There is no premium on a dime of 139 with an S on it, nor is there one on a dime of 1897, nor on the Japanese 10-cent Diece of which an impress was inclosed in your letter of inquiry SECOND MONEY A. H. R., Soulsby- If three ville, Tuolumne County, Cal. horses run in a three-heat race and A in 2—1—1 and C comes in 1—3—3, B comes mes in 3—2-2, B gets first money and ets second money, having won a heat, Which C did not do. A DEFACED BALLOT — Subscriber, City. The instructions to voters are that they must paste a slip under the party wish to vote at the election to- day, and that if_there is a name erased on that slip and another substituted it invalidates the ballot, and it will on the count be thrown out. THE WINNER—M. W., Oakland, Cal. This correspondent asks a question that has been answered a number of times in this department, but like questions about when the new century will commence they never stop. The question is: “If in a game of casino A wants eight to go and B wants three and on the deal played A gets cards, spades, little casino and hres Aces and B gets big casino and one ace, Which wins?” In the absence of an agree- ment that points are to be counted as made the one holding cards coun E and in this case A, who had cards, hav- ing made enough points to run out, wins the game. DISHONORABLY DISCHARGED— Reader, City. The law of California saj ‘Every member of the National Guard dis- honorably discharged from the military service of the State of California shall be disfranchised for the period of one year next ensuing such discharge. No _ dishonorably _discharged non-commis- sioned officer, artificer, musician or private or member of a company dishonorably discharged from the National Guard shall be permitted to again enter any company of the National Guard, except the offense is pardoned by the commander in chief, No dishonorably _discharged officer of the National Guard of California shall be permitted to hold any office of trust or emolument, nor be permitted to again enter any company of the National Guard except the offense be par- doned by the commander in chief. MARRIAGES AT SE. Reader, City. A marriage on the high sea was, prior to the actin this State prohibiting what. was pre- viously to that time known as a contract marriage, was such a marriage, or rather was so recognized, notwithstanding that a minister or Justice of the Peace united the couple. It is claimed that outside of territorial limits neither has any authority to perform any official act. If suc “‘marriage” took place after the prohibi- tory act went into effect, then it is no marriage at all and there would not be occasion for a legal divorce; the parties would simply have to quit one another. If before that %act, the party wishing to separate would have to estab- lish proof of a contract marriage, and there would have to be an action for a divorce. ——————e Cal. glace fruit 50c per b at Townsend's. * —_———— Trunks, valises, traveling rolls, purses, best goods, best values, at Sanborn & Vail's. . ————e——— Special intormation supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Monc- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * —_——— Court Justice. This evening Court Justice, Ancient Order of Foresters, will give an entertain- ment and social dance in the Social Hall of the Foresters’ building. —_——— President McKinley and his Wife Will travel over the Northern Pacific Rallway when they visit the famous Yellowstone Park. They intend viewing the new geyser that spouts a tremendous stream of bolling water to the height of the Call building. It's a wonderful sight. Send 6c in stamps for book telling all about it to T. K. STATELER, Gen. Agt., 638 Market s F. 1f your stomach is deranged try a half spoon- ful of Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters In a little L ville, and James Curzon, one of the lead- | wine before meals.