The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 18, 1899, Page 6

THE SA ¥FRANCISCO CALL, ¥FRIDAY AUGUST 18, 1899. FRIDAY. JOHN D. SPRECKELS; Proprietor. Acdress All FUBLICATION OFFIC ..Market and Third Sts., S. F lephone Main 1868, ¢ EDITORIAL ROOMS... 217 to Tclephone Main 1574, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. AKE, Manager. Comr il abas o WS DELIVERED EY CARRI zed to recely. subs OAKLAND OFFICE... C. GEORGE KROGNESS, p Marnager Forcign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT C. C. CARLTON... ...........Herald Squaro NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR..... 5 CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. Sherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel NEW YORK NEWS STANDS. ‘Waldorf-Astoria Hctel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Equare; Morray Hill Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.. “Wellington Hotel d. L. ENGLISH, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery street, corner Clay open until 9:20 o'clock. 200 Hayes street. open until 9:30 o'clock. 639 McAllister street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin street, open untll 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission street, open untll 0 o'clock. 229! Market street, corner Sixteenth, open untli 9 o'clock. 2518 Misslon street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty- second and Kentucky streets, epen until 9 o'clock. er Show. Oakland—Cakewalk Car- Benefit, Wednesday and acramento—September 4 to 16. AUCTION SALES. COME UP WITH THE COIN. ¢ California Volunteers will ver recepti we are to ac- t be prepared for in that t 1 asked for $30,000, that being t <e the welcome State. Something the d of cribed or raised by er of the required must be made to the citizens, and it the be close of this » various Sierite Hor he rema im an appeal contributions should ng ions and wealthier com- fused.to contribute at s far below the measure ct of them. Doubtless re in the gratification ¢ they could give or and that The great are of another nature. volunteers, ¢ acted after their kind. he people, howeve won her proud reputation for Soine mean persons we have indeed in the but they In this i - in former , we can get along with- enut them and give our heroic volunteers a “u]_cm e o has not and g enerosity without deserving it. commun ¢ comparatively few. instanc iwhich will be all the more gracious because these nig- ) part in it. 5 pirited Californian who does not iards will have He is but a poor feel something of a thrill of joyous expectancy in the knowledge that the California Volunteers We have. given a patriotic will be liome. in so short a time. welcome to the returning heroes of our sister St but ouar hearts have been waiting for the coming of The d In a short 1 hear the booming of the guns that an- rrival of the transport at the Golden es, our own s will pass rapidly. time we sha nounce - the Gate, and then the grandest festival in the history of the city will begin £y in any w stival Eve st not fall short of popular desire f be brilliant, beautiful and required for the completion of the great preparations now under way ought to be in the hands of the committee before Saturday ht. Upward of $35.000 has been ‘raised. There is needed about $13,000 more.” San Francisco can_easily raise that in two days ii her people give heed to the need of it. Come up with the coin. s ture of it must 'he money iphant. Reports from ento indicate that Governor Gage has put his foot in it in letting an unauthorized contract for an executive mansion. It is some conso- lation to know that he will not put his foot in the msion—net next term, ment of the Mechanics’ ht. The m ir has made a curious ove In the programme of sports it has made no provision for foot-racing, in which, to judge from the reports from Manila, the countrymen of Aguinaldo excei. The Yaqui Ir ns are at a great disadvantage in their war with Mexico. Until they secure a few type- writers and establish a news agen. they must ex- pect to be beaten out several columns daily in the papers, Uncle Sam is playing the coquette with his soldiers in the Philippi He has ordéred severai thousand pounds of candy for them. The dispatches do not say that the sweetmeats are to be sent out to the firing | lines. The new batch of French revolutionists, headed by the noisy and harmliess Paul Deroulede, might make a good conspirators’ chorus for a new comic opera. The only drawback would be the lack of novelty. Lady Frances Broome may have taken the law into hér own hands at Santa Barbara, but all the testimony shows that she made a clean sweep of the town Mar- shal and his deputies. RN e Following the example of Adelina Patti-Nicolini, Lillic Langtry has taken unto herself a young -hus- band. It is J, be heped she will be a real mother to him, ¢ 221 Stevenson Street | .29 Tribune Building | THE TRANSVAAL. HE Dutch settlements in South Africa had in T them the wholesome.element and fair promise f)f ‘a real colondal plant. They were in a congenial climate, in the south temperate zone. The putch race was there stoutly perpetuated from generation to generation, and did not die out as in the Dutch plan- | tations: in Java and other hot islands in the Indian | Ocean: The Dutch settlements in temperate Africa had_ a natural growth, and features exactly in common \\.'nh | the growth of the English colonies in North America, | which by natural increase have overgrown a continent. | The Datch planted liberty and religion as the founda- tion of their materialities, and there grew-up genera- tians that ‘know no other fatherland than the Boer tions of the Dark Continent. ery right-minded person in the world knows and 3 feels that the interests of humanity, the welfare of mankind, the preservation of the germs of liberty, | require that the Dutch of the “ransvaal be leit to | work out theif destiny by natural growth. They have taken kindly to physical conditions there. Their in stitittionis are such as to preserve their. national and | racial characteristics, and the foundation they have laid { | is broad enough to hold the superstructure of a great | nation dedicated to the principles of William the | lent and John of Barneveldt. If the mission of England were to promote the spread "of ‘civilization and the extension of those civil | institutions by which her people have profited at home, she would gallantly salute the Transvaal Re- public and thank it for assuming so much of her bur- den, and leave it in security to work out its great des- That England does not do this, but instead is making tons of dumdum bullets and shipping to South Africa every terrible engine of war that can niutifate and murder men, proves the cordial hy- of her claim to be the patron and promoter of civilization. It is not to the credit of the United | States that we helped England at the Peace Confer- ence steer so well through that no tribunal | was provided in which a people like those of the | Transvaal ‘can appeal for justice to the conscience of | the nations. Ahab covets Naboth's vineyard aga tiny. pocrisy taking it away let this nation remember Jezebel’s fate. | England is guilty of ingratitude to the Dutch. Under | her Stuart s she was practically vassal of Her gs accepted an annual subsidy for the privy purse from Louis XIV. She was under | Gallic suzerainty from Charles I to James II, with exception of the short reign of the Lord Protector. Her military energies and her- commercial progress were subordinate to the interests of France. From this humiliation she delivered by the Dutch. The grandson of the great Stadtholder raised her out of the gutter where she groveled at the feet of France and made her stand upright in her rightiul | place among the nations. It is said that one generation owes no gratitude nor | hat has preceded it. The author of“that much discussed book, “The Social | Compact,” ¢arries this into the domestic relation and applies it to parent and child, the one being under no obliga This brutal phil- | osophy scems adapted to the British policy in her in- ternational affairs, and she moves, well armed and | jocund, to the slaughter of the weak, to the murder of liberty, to the effacement of the best civilization in Africa, though in so doing she is a matricide in cut- ting the throat of a principle which s the mother of her’ own liberty. The patriots of the Transvaal can turn nowhere for help and sympathy. Their motherland, long de- bauched by ‘the wealth that has flowed from oppres- | sion of ‘the Javanese, holding a .robber’s title to the : land of ers and to the bodies of men in Asia, not- dispute the right of ‘another to rob the raal without condemning herself. X This republi¢, to which until now the eyes of be- have turned in distress, to be cheered by our sympathy, having indorsed the doc- trine of the divine right of a monarchy to buy and sell land and people without their consent,” and being | in the -honeymoon’ of a conquest which pride and policy combined to make necessary, can make no sign te cheer the Boers. | They .are leit alone, with their rifles, their Bibles | Kin a France. was incurs any obligation to any ion to provide for the other. can- Trans- leaguered freemen and their God. May fortune send them another | Majuba Hill. : S | The ritle of the School Board that lady teachers | marrying while in the department must fesign has been enforced in the case of Mrs. Mary F. Beanston. Why not?> It seems to be a rfegulation based on | equity,.and takes for granted that every teacher con- tracting ‘matrimony ‘has regard enough for herself to | select a man able to support her. That being the cas | she should step aside and allow some other young | lady, not so fortunate, a chancé for a salary and | maybe, ultimately, a husband with earning capacity. Down at San Jose, where the young idea is taught to shoot in the winter and to can in the summer, the | School Board has come to the rescue of the canneries. The opening of the schools has been -postponed for two weeks in order to allow of the employment during | the rush of the city’s school children. This is a com- mendable phase of infant industry. THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE. TATESMEN and other impartial persons who have made up their minds not to be biased S on the issue of imperialism until they have learned what the voters think about it may study with some profit a poll recently made by the Farm and | Home, one of the most widely circulated of our agricultural journals. For thé purpose of obtaining | the views of its readers on the various points involved in the expansion policy it invited replies to a series of questions and received 21,000 answers. In a summary of the poll'it is stated about 10 per | cent of the answers came from New England, 23 per ! cent from the Middle States, nearly 40 per cent from the Mississippi Valley, and the remainder about | equally from the South and the Pacific Coast. The poll of course is but a small proportion of the voters | of the United States, but it is the most extensive yet ' made, and may be considered fairly representative of " the sentiment of that part of the -farming community that takes enough interest in public affairs to care to express an opinion on them. } According to the digest of the poll from which we | qucte. the first question was, “Should the Filipinos be beld in-subjection to the United States, or should they be allowed to form an independent government?” | The answers from each of the five sections of the ! country were largely in favor of independence, the } totals footing up 12,520 for independence to 8416 for | subjection. The majority was still greater for Cuban independerice—13,199, as against 7362 for annexation, | On the other hand, a large proportion f:lvogthe an- nexation of Porto Rico to the United States—11,897, | as against 6004 for its independence and 1746 for its | anniexation to Cuba. Finally, not to go through the | whole list, the expressions of opinion were most em- phatic on the comprehensive question, “In general, lshculd the United States adhere to or depart from its | { | | o I Jezibel | tucky it m | an if Tnite a ve ac Z S part mn .| and if the United States have acted Jezebel's part in { o 0 .o ee | to the bolters. oned telegram sent from the Matterhorn | | and otlier feuds in the mountain counties proc I'in danger of being shot while riding sk | the speaker does not please them.” former policy-of non-interference with nations beyond cither ocean?” There were 15,624 replies in favor of acherence, as against only 3887 in favor of the new departure. “A vote of that kind is significant. Farmers do not skim newspapers carelessly- as city people do in the rush of many things attracting their attention from great issues. They read the news carcfully. They study it and form fixed convictions on subjects that interest them. TFhe vote taken by the Farm and Home, therefore, means the matured and well consid- ered judgment of intelligent and thoughtiul men upon subject they have well considered. Persons who are not in the habit of writing do not take the trouble to answer a long list of questions for mere pastime. The men who replied to the queries are in earnest. meant what they wrote and are not likely to change their well formed opinions between now and election | day. We may then justly regard the ballot as an expres- n of the farmers of the country. By a vote of nearly five to one they declare the United States slheuld adhere to the old: policy of noxvimerfcr;nce with nations beyond either ocean. Statesmen who have their ears-to the ground waiting to hear what the people say need listen no longer. If they cannot learn-something from that vote they would not learn if the ground shook from center to circumference. The readiness with which the military witnesses in the Dreyfus trial conjure copious tears to their eyes and then blackgnard the accused suggests that even in hatred there is sympathy or weakness. Or perhaps it is absinthe. B Guerin, the French agitator, says he is willing to die for an idea. It would not be a difficult task to name some people who certainly would expire if ever they were attacked by the affliction that Guerin is }\‘iI]ing | to die for. THE OLD KENTUCKY HOME. W HEN the long-winded West Indian hurricane approached our South Atlantic coast heard of the Democratic campaign in Ken- have remarked to itself, “Two of a trade and then dived into the ocean or went up into the welkin. Immediately following Governor Altgeld's declara- ‘ion of a vendetta against Goebel, the regular Demo- cratic .nomince for Governor, and the expression of his opinion that Colonel Bryan would not go to Ken- tucky, the colonel announced his dates for that State and his intention to go there and employ his every orical tooth and nail in behalf of the nominee. Colonel Wattersen, with that intellectual effrontery which is as matchless as his literary style, proceeded to administer Colonel Bryan as a bitter pill The latter recalled Colonel Watter- ora son’s impa in 1806 demanding a bolting candidate against Bryan, and the colonel's anti-bolting purgative was returned to him with the sugar licked off, and Kentucky, from Beargrass to Bluelick, began to seethe. Not since the days of Daniel Boone has the dark and bloody | The local | ground turned up blacker and more gory. Chautauqua summer school occupation of lynching Mormon elders was suspended. The Hatfield-McC aimed an armistice, and people in that section ventured un- armed out of doo distilleries for spiritual refteshment. In the presence of a political cyclone all smaller storms were forgot- | ten. Even W. C. P. Breckinridge could be seen in the neighborhood of a female seminary without the chutters being put up and the dog untied. How seriously it is all taken may be seen by the warning issued by Congressman Berry that Bryan is yward on the Mrs. Bryan, faithful lady, climax of a Goebel speech. | has expressed a fear that the colonel is liable to per- cased her solicitude foration, and Mr. Berry has in, by announcing that “Kentucky passions and they do not hesitate to use revolvers if In 1896 they used eggs that were too ripe for uttérance in rum | omelets on Mr. Carlisle, and we believe they also per- verted the hen industry in the same way to convince Simon Bolivar Buckner that his style was disliked. That form of literary criticism is as nothing, however, | to the expression of disapproval with a gun. To add to the interest of the situation Governor Altgeld declares that if Bryan go to speak for Goeb:l he will stump the State against him. This is énly fair. If the bolters take a pot shot at Bryan it is proper _that the regulars should have a. chance at Altgeld, who says that Gocebel stole all of the nomi- nation that he didn’t buy. i The call to arms is general, and not since the days of John Morgan and Humphrey Marshall has the old Kentucky home been sulphurous and full ginger. As Congressman Berry is a great Bryan man there is room to suspect that the situation is created for as advertising purposes. Colonel Bryan was in the mili- | ’(nry service for a year, but did not plant a squadron in the field nor get outside of cantonment. He is by nature a Thespian, but carries no jewels, except the pearls of speech. As he does not lose these, he can become an object of interest by being put under fire on the stump. «It will round out his military career. o The very threat is of great value, for it fits in with his stage properties, useful in his business. It has’ been supposed that the Philippines were torrid, but they are a sideshow. 3 The chief of all the Mormon missionaries said re- cently that politics. Their elders were stripped, whipped, ridden | on splintery rails and ducked in unconsecrated water for political reasons. " If this were so they must’be thankful that by politics they are also delivered, and that the prospect of getting a shot at a stump speaker afflicted by a chronic case of Presidential candidacy has given them a truce wherein to take up the work of salvation. Throughout the country orderly people will have time to think of what would follow putting the | National Government in control of a party which en- forces correct style in stump speaking at the muzzle of a pistol. As far as known these are the happiest days Sena- tor Blackburn has seen since his term ended. No danger that his speeches will be blue-penciled with a Kentucky revolver. He is for Blackburn and doesn’t care an imprecation who knois it. The mantle of Clay and Crittenden is his vest pattern. Statesman- ship is his profession; he works at it as others do at poker or craps. He is solid with the regulars and bolters alike, and, having a leg in both camps, does not care who eclects the Governor so he can get the Legislature. On the whole we commend Kentucky to Governor Roosevelt s a place where the “strenuous life” may be enjoyed without a declaration of war or enfeebling the digestion with embalmed beef, Advices pouring in to thie various local campaign committees indicate an early crop of office-seekers. An early irost is anticipated. They | and | regulay | and freely visited the moonshine | people are of quick | of | on’s troubles in the South originated in | AROUND THE CORRIDORS Dr. B. L. Wright, U. 8. N., is at the Oc- cidental, ’ L. M. Blinn, the Los Angeles capitalist, is a guest at the Palace. L. H. Briggs, a prominent fruit grower of Riverside, is at the Russ. A.'H. Barr, a prominent merchant of Etna, is a guest at the Grand. J. C. Conn, a large mine owner of Silver Lake, is registered at the Palace. ‘W. J. Berry, an oil operator of Selma, is among the late arrivals at the Lick. T. F. Fitzgerald, the Los Angeles rail- road man, is staying at the Occidental. Willlam G. Arpe, one of St. Louis’ lead- ing business men, is a guest at the Pal- ace. H. H. Patterson, a well-known mining man of Edgewood, is a guest at the Grand. Dr. E. B. Merchant, a leading physician of Portland, Or., is registered at the Occi- | dental. George W. Hunter, one of the leading merchants of Boston, is a guest at “the Palace. L. A. Richard, a large ranch owner of Grayson, is at the Russ. He arrived last evening. V. S. Frost, a well-known attorney of Merced, is at the. Lick, accompanied by his wife. Captain W. H. Sweeney, adjutant of the Colorado regiment, is a guest at the Occidental. Simon Bray, one of the best known business men of Austin, Tex., is staying at the Lick. Mr. and Mrs. Ayres, of Ayres Business College, are expected home before the end of the month. J. V. Paul of TucSon, Ariz, secretary of the Rallroad Firemen’'s Assoclation of | that State, is at the Russ. W. H. H. Green, a wealthy mill owner of Seattle, is in the city for a few days. He is staying at the Lick. Hugh Wallace, a well-known mining man and prominent politician of the State of Washington, is a guest at the Palace. John W. Mitchell, one of the leading at- | torneys of Los Angeles, arrived in the city yesterday and registered at the Pal- ace. 8. Castner Jr., one of the foremost citi- zens of Philadelphia, is at the Palace, ac- companied by his family and a party of friends. L. O. Stephens has come down from his home in Fresno, and is at the Grand, where he will remain during his stay in the ci Dr. - W W. McCormick, a well-known physiclan of Santa Rosa, has come down | from his home for a short stay in this city and is to be found at the Lick. J. A. Fillmore, manager of the South- | ern Pacific Company, and E. Randolph, superintendent of the company’s Tucson division, will leave to-day for Bartlett ! Springs on a vacation which will last a month. Mrs. Randolph and Miss Fillmore will acer mpany them. e G+ Whenithajoyer ® land arrived the WANTED other night there was among its | | NOTHING BUT et et sh a areled [{|* THEREST 2 | " ohale P @ couple, evidently +&———®+ yde and groom. | They went to the Palace, where the man, Jeaving his wife in the Turkish room, walked up to the desk to register. “Is this the best hotel in town?” he in- | quired of the clerk. said that functionary. I think good as any you can find any- . T wanted to know, for nothing but the best will suit me. Now I want the | best you have in your house on the Eu- ropean plan. A suite consisting of a bed- room, parlor and bath. By the by; what will !t ccst me?” “Ten doliars a day without meal: “Ten dollars? Um. Ah. Have you not | something a little under that?"” | “Seven dollars?" “That seems a little steep, don’t it?" “Five dollars?” “Well, that is | next price?” “Well, we can give you a small inside more like it. What Is your | single room for yourself and wife for | three dollars.’ “That’ll do very nicely. You sece, we | only fntend spending a few weeks in the | city. Have you change for twenty?” “Yes” “Well, never mind. I think I cay find it here in my pocket. And he did find it, and that was about all he found-excepting a couple of odd | dimes. But the swell who was only ac- customed to the best and feared that the Palace was not good enough for him paid his three dollars in advance and went up | with his wife to his suite of apartments. | He registered from Boston. B e e CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Aug. 17.—William Kelth of San - Francisco is at the Fifth avenue. | Howard D. Thomas Jr. of San Francisco | is at the Hoffman. Albert Barron of San | Francisco is. at the Martin. Jacob Cana- of San Francisco is at the Bay State. D. A. Coieman of San Franclsco is at the Cosmopolitan: e CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—8. A. White of San Francisco is at the Riggs House. W. | C. Fuller of Los Angeles is at the St. | James. — s Will Get Her Diamonds. Judge Mogan issued an order for the return of the diamonds stolen by James McElroy, porter at the Hotel Richelicu, . G. Weld of Bos- from a guest, Mrs. W. et | ton, and they wll be forwarded to | to-day. The diamonds are worth and after McElroy had stolen them‘he‘ sent them on to Chicago, where they were intercepted by the manager of Wells- Fargo on instructiops from Chief Lees and sent back here. ilcElroy was arrest- ed in Chicago, but as Mrs. Weld refuscd to come here to prosecute him he was re- | leased from custody. Now after a lot of | formalities have been gone through the lady will get her diamonds. A MELODRAMA AND A MERRY COMIC OPERA If “Under Two Flags” was selected to finally and triumphantly prove the ve tility of Miss Roberts the play has served its purpose. Trained in the incumbrance: of a fan, a lace handkerchief and an oc- | casional train she comes on as Cigarette weighted with a pistol, a dirk, a canteen and cup, a mail bag, a half dozen pack ages, a swagger and a rather questionable vocabulary, and handles them all as though born to the station. She keeps her emotions trimmed down to the necessities cter and becomes to the life s: . valiant, faithful, hotheaded ittle trooper. : That we do not like to think of Miss Roberts in melodrama is no cause for a quarrel, and although some of us do not like the play the houses indicate that there zre a few others who do. With judicious cuts—the death of Rake in the desert, for instance—and given on tne scale of “The Soudan,” it may yet prove a mine for some enterprising manager. The locale gives the latitude for specta- cle so potent as a drawing attraction and the action is rapid and varied. The sand- it 1 storm is quite realistic. By selection of incident and choice of dialogue Bertie Cecil, Interesting in the book, becomes merely a languid martyr in the position he is, merely because he has not spirit and character enough to get out of it. It is well for the Berties that they have their Cigarettes in every sense of the word. The play is well staged and judi- clously cast, and‘ Wll‘dly .app auded. After the gl m and morbidness of ‘“Hedda Gabler” it was refreshing to lis- | ten to the merry, tuneful “‘Dorothy” and be put again in a singing, swinging rhyth- mical mood by the rattling good chorus t the end of the second act. The music in Dorothy” is just simple enough and pcp- ular enough to come within the intelll~ gence of all. It is one of the most enter- taining things the Grand Opera-house has put on. The principals are good, the choruses good, and of special interest as a funmaker is Bessie Bairbarn, the Pris- cilla Privett. She is a regular man com- edienne in petticoats. Her solo about “A Lovely Summer Morning"” starts out with nd the w s of disappoint- s never reached. There is variets to her humor, too. One can fancy her lo: ing her identity in a dozen different S at least. Georgie Cooper has one virtue those grouped about her might copy. She is always interested in the incidents of the overa and the emotions created by | this interest find expression in her face. So many singers, especially those of the chorus, sing with such a happ: lincnn- cern of anything but the melody and with thei ch beautiful blanks. ‘‘Dor- il followed next week by ' CHARLOTTE THOMPSON. —_———— PATRICK KEEGAN’S CASE. Prosecution Has Rested and the De- fense Is Ready. Joseph E. McGrath was accepted yes- terday as the last jurer to try Patrick Keegan, alias Patsy Hogan, charged with the murder of his wife, Anna. The jury was then sworn and the work of putting in the case of the prosecution began. After testimony as to the autopsy and plans of the dwelling in which the murder | “Clover. | cum thaps when one of the wheels struck Miss Mary Baird, living at 1414 Hyde street, and knocked' her down. She was sent home in a hack and a physician was summoned. Swickard was arrested and charged at the City Prison with battery. —————————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. COMMON MULLEIN—M. M. M., City, The common mullein—in botany, Verbas-, s—is not known in-San Fran- cisco, but it grows plentifully in Santa Clara Valley. LAND IN MENDOCINO—B. M. C,, Ala- meda, Cal. For information about unoc- cupled land in Mendocino County, address the United States Land Office at Kureka, Humboldt Coun . MARRIAGES—N. PROHIBITED Y, City. The laws of Oregon prohibit the marriage of any one nearer of kin than cousin and in the State of Utah the prohibit’ the mm!'(rl[nge of first cousins fir: law: and those neare: NOT THE BUG—W. F. K., Aromas, Monterey County, Cal. The “bug” sent to this office for classification is not “the ing bug,” but the Longicornus Coleop- tera or long-horned beetle. It is quite common in Alameda County and not un- common in Monterey County. RIFLES—L. W.; San Mateo, Cal. Tt is generally asserted that rifles were firs invented by Gaspar Zoller of Vienna were first -made se of at target pract in 1498 at Leipsic. In 1600 rifles were as a_ military weapon by armies. 3 regulation rifle musket was_adopted by the British Government in 181, and was nd a used by the English forces during the Crimean war. BASKET BALL—Reader, Susanvile, Cal. The game of basket ball is scored by points, by two methods, goals from the field and goals from free throws Basket ball bears a striking resemblanca to association football, but the players cannot carry or kick the ball; its progress is restricted to passing, batting and drit bling. The game is played in two hal of twenty minutes each, with a rest of t minutes between the first and the seco half. There are five players on a side. The rules and description of the game can be procured for you by any book desler, NO MORE CONTRACT WIVES—Sub- scriber, City. This correspondent ask “Under the laws of California how I does a woman have to live with a ma she can assert herself as f California recognizes but one wa by which & woman can assert herself 4 the wife of a man, and that is by r riage by a person duly authorized to - emnize a marriage. Contract marriage that is, where a man and woman to recognize each other as man and w are no longer valid. A woman live with a man for any number of y and she would have no legal right to nounce herself as the wife unless she was legall FRENCH MILITARY DUTY—P., Oak- land, Cal. Every French n s lable to military duty unless he is e physical disability or .for I He is liable to perform ths 20 years of age, and i ¢ performance the ained the age of 4 serve three years wit the reserve of the ac the territorial arm torial reserves. Studen men serve only one all who have their duties and c be furloughed ind, service is merely tec has served with the ¢ where he chooses, being 1i | called and sent into the reserve to which his service assigns him. In the case of | a boy born ‘of French parents in France i States and . then should = would be liable served o n re | who was brougnt t | remained until ck | he go T occurreqd had been given, Ella_ Keegan, v of the accused, took the stand. tified that her father came home before noon on the day of the and then went out to purchase some meat and pastry. He was out some time, returning about 12:45 o’clock. The parents of the witness then went into a side room and conversed time, when Mrs. Keegan shouted, “Oh, Keeg don’t!” Then she heard a Shot and afte ward found her mother wounded unto death. Other witnesses testifled to about the same facts and then Officer Charles Nask testified that when he found Kee gan a knife was sticking in his breast. e ordered Officer Phillips to remove the knife, which was done, and then the Wwounded were taken to the hospitak There Mrs. Keegan made a dying statee ment and shortly afterward succumbed te her wound, O. Heyneman corrobor- ated the officer’s statement, after which the case of the people rested. “The de- fense, which is being conducted by Attor- ney T. J. Lennon, will go on to-day. ————— WHY McQUIRK CUT MUDGETT. A Husband Attacks the Man Who Alienated His Wifé’s Affections. The preliminary examination of Cor- poral Thomas McGuirk on the charge of assault to murder was commenced before Judge Mogan yesterday. McGuirk went into Mayhew's drugstore,114 Fourth street, on Sunday night and attacked George A. Mudgett, a clerk in the store, with a razor. cutting him on the neck. The.case for the prosecution was concluded and the defense will be taken up on Monday. It will be shown by the defense that Mudgett offered to settle the case out of court on payment of $100, which was re- fused. It will also be shown that he had alienated McGuirk's wife's affections and had been living with her while McGuirk was serving his country in Manila. ————————— Colonel Ingersoll’'s Writings. The following dispatch concerning the publication of the writings of the late Colonel Robert G. Ingersoll will be read with interest by all admirers of the great agnostic: | DOBBS FERRY, N. Y., Aug. 15, 195. W. 8. Chapman, Palace Hotel, San Francisco: There is absolutely no truth in the story about Colonel Ingersoll's writ- Bvery word will be published. d Y 97" MRS, R. G. INGERSOLL. murder —e———— Knocked Down a Young Lady. H. Swickard, driver of a delivery wagon, was turning his wagon abruptly at Third IN CASE OF INVASION—R. H. P., | Gridley, Cal. By the c ution Con- | gress alone has the to declare | national or a foreign war. It c clare war against a Stz an power e or | of States by virtue | constitution. | the Pre; =5 He is bound to take care that the laws ara executed. He is commander of and navy of the United States and of the militia of the séveral States when called into the actual service of the United States. He has no powe | ate or declare a war either a | eign nation or a domestic | the acts of Congre: and March 3, 1507, he is @ nd use the military s he United States in ¢ | v a foreign nation, and | suppress insurrection against the Govern- | ment of a State or of the United States. 1f a war be made by sion of a foreign not only authc nt force by force. He does not initiate the war, but is bound to accept the challenge withoms ting for any special legislation or legislative authority. Cal. glace fruit 50c per ™ at Townsend's. * —_— ee———— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by ths Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Monz- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. ¢ — e Yesterday’s Insolvent. ‘Willlam Emden, clerk, Stockton, $524 35; no assets. The debts were contracted in Indianapolis, Ind., when Emden was a merchant doing business in that city, and all the creditors are Eastern firms. —_————— “Mrs. Winslow’s Scothing Syrup” Has been used for fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regu- | lates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. ‘For sale by druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs, Winslow’s Soothing Syrup, Zc a bottle, —_————— Very Low Rates East. On August 29 and 30, the popular Sants Fa route will sell tickets to Philadelphia and re- turn at the very low rate of $58. Occa< sion, Natlonal Encampment, G. A. R. Call ag 628 Market st. for full particulars. e HOTEL DEL CORONADO—Take advantage of the round trop tickets. Now only 360 by steamship, including fifteen days' board at hotel; longer stay, $250 per day. Apply at 4 and Bryant streets yesterday afternoon, New Montgomery street, San Francisco. —{ transport, and from that record or all together, at the pleasure of SR The terms of the contest are: All guesses must be made on a coupon cut from the Daily Each person is allowed to fill out as many coupons as desired and they may be the decision will be made. the guesser. 0; Sunday Call. Can You Guess the Exact Time of the Arrival of the California Volunteers. [F SO YOU CAN WIN $50 AND ALSO HAVE THE HONOR OF DONATING $50 TO THE GENERAL FUND OF THE ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE. VERYBODY is on the tiptoe of expectancy as to the date of the arrival of the California vol- witeers. Can you guess the exact time, if not how near? To the person who guesses the near< est to the exact time (day, hour, minute and second) the Sunday Call will give $100, one-haif of; which (§50) goes to the lucky guesser and the other half ($50) will be donated in the name of that person to the general funds of the entertainment committee. The Merchants’ Exchange of this city will furnish the official record of; fl}e sighting "fl tfl ‘mailed each day No coupons will be received or cntered into the contest that bear a postmark later than August 20, Fill out this coupon and mail to Coupon Editor Sunday Call. 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