The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 5, 1899, Page 6

1899. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER E HAWAIIAN GOVERNMENT. e e of the Nicaragua Canal Commis- I HE S I l ] DEN I V OL U N I EER. E ********* | sion to investigate the exact conditions of the scheme. = | manner and form of government to be provided | ability. At the Army and Navy Club at Washington s | for the tropical incumbrances which have re- | he said he proposed to get at the bottom of the BY David starr Jordan. HE public topic of greatest interest now is the | He was selected because of his known engineering =! cently fallen into our possession. scheme and show it up. He was then sent to Eng- walked Not alone from Harvard, but from every college North SEPTEMBER 35 A Stanford boy not long ago in Germany JOH rietor. Eddress All Communicatios "TE;_I\;ATKDN OFFICE ......Markat a Telephone Main 1868 EDITORIAL ROOMS 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874 N D. SPRECKELS, Propi ns to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. nd Third Sts., S. 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NW. corner Twenty- second and Kentucky streets, open until 9 o'clock. 9 o'clock, Persian lock, Horses, at 1701 A CENTER OF EXPRESSION. e number hools. The State University, though loc rlceley, between the bay and Grizzly Peak, has been ban institution of Oakland, known as Attic reputati works on the d excellence of d in 1g been AKLAND of the Pac m the s y a subu to the ward school in which Pro- rites the “Man With a Hoe” ani is the act h a rawhide who inculcates i tellectual gu among the young, these schools have enjoyed a reputation which justifies the nick- and from i r Ma wi name their work has not been in vain, nor the Greek reputation of the city unjustified, is being proved daily. Oakland has become the center of ex- n. There have been extracted possibil ysed to have existed in the English language. is made to the guild of Grecian orators vho have 1 spangled the air with figures of speech so d that birds are charmed to the glowing scene of their performance and bees gather honey from the atmosphere sweetened by eloquence. There is developed in Oakland another besides this high art which converts speech into perfumery. The city officers, chosen by the people, who live and move and have their being according to the scholastic canons, who increase in a geometrical ratio d decrease, die and pass hence aiter the philosophic rules set by Socrates, in their public exits and en- nces and their official forms of speech have re- wed the best traditions of the peripatetic school es not T and talk not only like books but like new books, as new as those of the Elizabethan age were in their time. Recently the Assessor of this center of expression was summoned to Sacramento to justify his official judgment of valuations. The experienced tormentors who compose the State Board of Equalization put him on the rack and proceeded to extract perspira- tion from him by way of answer to their quiz. Pro- ceeding from one extreme of official curiosity to another, they finally reached the limit of Attic en- durance, and the Assessor expiained that the only answer flowed from his pores, because “no live, liv- ing man could answer that question.” Put this beside St. Paul's “most straitest sect,” and Shakespeare’s “most unkindest cut of all,” and “Oh, that this too. too solid flesh would melt,” and it looks level into them all. Its antithesis, “no dead, dead man,” rises in immediate strength and fully equipped for use. The Assessor is not the only fountain and source of expression. The Mayor of Oakland not long since, desiring to avoid some asperity of feeling aroused in the Auditor’s office by a criticism of its chief. wrote and published a letter in which the criticism of the chief was admutted, but the admission was hand in hand with the solemn declaration that the Mayor did not have the Auditor in mind when he criticized him! That zlone was delicious, but after all it was merely the honeycomb which contained the mayoral sweets of expression, for he added. “In fact. 1 believe I may ¢ that I have almost said, perhaps more than once, that you were the best equipped man ever elected Auditor.” Surely there is an expression that may go down in the Auditor’s family as an heirloom. It is an ex- pression that can no more be painted than the lily nor gilded than refined gold. Oakland Felis Happy Athens of the Pacific. where such expression has become as natural to the people as their songs to birds. The story of Adam and Eve and the fruit was re- versed the other day at Taunton, Mass., with disas- trous results. A young woman ate an apple given her by her sweetheart. Ten minutes later she became speechless and has so remained. What an ideal mother-in-law she will make some day. Two San Quentin convicts, insane as well as crim- inal, have resorted to the Kneipp cure. There is a water cure, sometimes administered in the dungeon, that might prove efficacious in modifying the perver- sity of the penitentiary enthusiasts, ! The extended statements made by all classes of lead- ing people in Hawaii, which appeared in The Call last are a vivid revelation of the condition of pub- lic opinion in the islands regarding their future gov- ernment. With inconsiderable exceptions the prefer- ence is declared to be for a Territorial g novitiate for complete agreed tha 1 cl fensive and should be abolished. that this is meant by all who speak of those co and the erroneous op n scems to be entertained that abolishing 1 put the contract tem in line with his is an error. labor contract law passed st lien upon the real and per: generally statehood, t the pen > The laws but it provided a property of the contract I2 on. The w substituted by a s labor under borer to pay the cost was finally repealed and ate forbidding the importation of contr The civil lien in the gue of the penali clause in the impor Cct. any { iian contract. It was the meang of enforcing ! the contract. As to the the United States, and es- Inasmuch as the Atlantic seaboard States a labor from Europe by immigration, it is held t the islands should get theirs from Asia. For its immediate source Japan and the Philippines are pre- red. T n has decided strength derived the current cult that as our Atlantic co: Europe and has there its trade and thence derives i igration and labor, so the Pacific Coast, facing pecting its trade from there, should ve its labor. This view is applied to the lands, whose people declare that they have source from which to r or that can be used in their industries. It is natural and reasonable that such expectations shall go with the expansion and commercial policies now st in the minds of men on this side of the nd interior, gat upp continent. i The opinion is generally expressed on the islands, and it is not by any contradicted, that white men can- in the leading industries of Hawaii on ac- climate. The productions of the islands re tropical, and the labor that produces them must to the climate in which they flourish. terviews betray a feeling of unrest at the nous form of gow existence. ing complaints are made against the per- that government, and some demands are made that none of its members be recognized ir officiary of the government to come. The C opinions and aspirations of H Already it seem who is reported to have declared for the goverr T T guided by ion, will be crystallized against the time of action by Congress. Objections to putting the islands in line for state- hood will arise in the fact that it v dent for the Philippines. Already speaks of a Philippine goverr of transition.” While it is true that every argument made for statehood to Hawaii will apply to the Phil- ippines, it is also true that there is widespread aver- sion to statehood for the Philippines and citizenshin for the Filipinos. It will be regarded as an attempt to put the whole expansion policy in line with our ch contemplates no other extensio: of our area except by the admission of new States into the Union. The population of the greater part of the Philippines, especially on Luzon, Panay, Negros and Cebu, 1s as well qualified, by civilization, citizen- ship, Christianity and education, statehood as that of Hawaii. This is not intended for a certificate to the fitness of either. But the prin- | ciple of civil equality throughout our jurisdiction is believed to be the only one that can perpetuate the republic. The British colonial system, which has been studied by our statesmen for application to our torrid posse: nment now n the e the Ameri- to have impressed the rmation of aii be: 1 has now spread th can public. President | Territor form ¢ opinion, h of info 1l become a prece- the President r “their period constitution, wi for the duties not with ours, and it is probable that the demand will increase for a preference for our own institutions rather than for those of Great Britain. In its final analysis this will mean that we are to hold no terri- tory that cannot be adapted to our system and receive no people that cannot, by reason of race, assimilate with us. This is the crux of the whole issue. At the root of it lie the differences in physical conditions. In these germinate the industrial problems which penetrate the whole subject. If our labor laws, con- ditions, wages and regulations, extended to the ics, make profitable production there impossible, ssions in the torrid zone will bring us no profit. as we have heretofore shown, is the growing shadow upon tropical ownership by Great Britain The most profitable labor system in the tropics chzttel slavery, the next is servile labor under penal contracts, the last is free labor, under the eight hour law and the American scale of wages. Great Britain forbids chattel slavery, but promotes servile labor un- der penal forms. We have no doubt that if our labor laws and system and wages are extended to Hawaii production will be curtailed and its profits will cease, and the prosperity of the islands will follow the same downward course that has made of Jamaica an industrial wilderness. There is, then, an irrepressible conflict between the principles of our constitution and the interests of those whose profits depend upon a labor system suited to the torrid zone. The revolution in San Domingo having ended in his favor, General Jimenes can leave his Cuban seclu- sion and accept the Presidency with all the satisfac- tion of a man who gets office without having had to do any of the fighting for it. THE CASE OF CAPTAIN CARTER I RANK P. BLAIR, attorney for Captain O. M. Carter, convicted by court-martial of a series of grave offenses, among which was the robbery of the Government of sums aggregating $1,720,000, has made a statement to the press contradicting certain reports concerning an affidavit filed with the Presi- dent. in the course of which he denies he ever charged General Otis with subornation of perjury. He asserts his affidavit goes no further than to show prejudice on the part of the general. He then makes this strong statement: “I believe Captain Carter is the victim of a conspiracy to degrade him. It is an An erican parallel to the Dreyfus case. The same gen- | eral features are in both cases. The accusers and | prcsecutors of Carter are of the general staff of the army, as are those of Dreyfus. Jealousy and a de- | libcrate attempt to carry out the wishes of superiors, te pender to political influence, has actuated the ma- | | jority of men on the Carter court-martial.” | By way of explaining why there should be a con- | spiracy against Carter, Mr. Blair says: “Carter was governmentasa | , | developments in the case. uit the only form | ons, is in accord with the British constitution, but | | land as military attache of the American Embassy. | On his return he was placed under arrest chargsd | with defrauding the Government. 1 believe that if he | had never announced his intention to prick the plans of the promoters he would not have been accused.” The statements are sufficiently sensational to be in- teresting. Of course allowance will be made for the fact they are statements of an attorney for the de- | fense. Nevertheless they promise to give rise to new The conviction of Carter was pronounced nearly a year and a hali ago. The | court had been in session for four months and had made investigations covering Carter's transactions ia | connection with harbor improvements for nearly ¥ and it was after careful deliberation pro- fourteen upon the evidence the verdict of guilty was nounced. The public will be slow to believe there was any conspiracy against the accused, or that the officers of the general staff of the army would be the accom- pl One feature of thecase has, however, been the subject of much comment. De- ¢ his conviction Carter has been enjoying his erty and full pay. Nothing has been done to enfor the judgment of the court, For that reason there has | been a widespread belief he has a strong backing | among men in power at Washington. Thus there ap- | | peared to be a conspiracy on his side, and the allega- tion of a conspiracy against him adds to the interest Certainly there is something extraordin- in the situation. If Carter be guilty, why is he not punished. Ii he be not guilty, why is he not acquitted? Under the circumstances a revision of the e in an open trial would not be displeasing to the public. es of such a conspiracy. b- 3¢ of the case. ary ca: e e e Emperor William has established a precedent that | the people of this country might do well to follow. cials who voted against his pet canal bill have been off the payroll. Similar treatment the op- ents of the Nicaragua canal project might hasten work on that great waterway. Ofh cut of nel Du Paty de Clam seems to be the first of generals to indicate that he has He has confessed that he Colos the discredited Fri still a shadow of decency. is a scoundrel. EUROPEAN SUBSIDIES FOR SHIPPING. ‘/\\R. CHAMBERLAIN, United States Com- missioner of Navigation, directs public at- commercial marine of tention once more to the advantage given the | might have been their Declaration of Independence. ropean nations by the lib- i eral subsidies granted them, ostensibly for carrying { mail, but really for the purpose of enabling them to | extend the trade of their The theme is an old one and every argument relating to it has been gone over time and again, but until our ! Government has been impelled to profit by the les- son it teaches it can never be repeated too often. According to Mr. Chamberlain the most important of these postal contracts at this time are th of Great Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Austria-Hungary | a, China, These five nations spend | annually $4.500,000 for their mail lines to the east | coast of Asia. The United States, it may be added, | for its tic mails in 1897 p: 000 to American steamships and $14,000 to foreign steamships. | That this sum expended annually in the name of | postal contracts is not designed for the purpose of advancing mail facilities so much as for that of pro- | moting commerce is made clear by Mr. Chamberlain’s demonstration that if rapid mail ser desired | it could be better obtained by promoting steamship lines to and from Amcrican port this continent is the quickest by which mail between Europe and China can be On that point he | | say “The establishment of a fortnightly American | service from San Francisco to Shanghai will bring Berlin and Paris, not to mention British ports, | within twenty-cight or twenty-nine days of Shanghai, various countrie | for mail service to the eastern coast c | Japan, Cochin-China. etc. ice were s the route across ried. cs | | | and under favorable but not extraordinary conditions within twenty-seven days. while the best British | achievement and best German promise by subsidized | routes is now thirty-two days, and the average is| { thirty-three or thirty-four.” As a matter of fact the pretense that subsidies | granted to shipping are designed for mail facilities is no longer kept up by any nation except Great Brit- ainn, and even there it deceives nobody. As the Coni- missioner says: “The Peninsular and Oriental, Nor German Lloyd, Messageries Maritimes, , Societa Navigazione Italiana and Lloyd Austriaco companies are now backed up liberally by their respective Gov- ernments as a means of promoting trade, and es- pecially export trade, in manufactured goods of Great Britain, Germany. France, Italy and Austria-Hun- gary with China and Japan. There is no effort at | concealing this fact in the reports of the companies every year, and there is nothing discreditable about | it to conceal.” The nation whose ships can most cheaply carry | abroad the goods which foreign markets demand will obtain the trade of those markets. The industries of | that nation will consequently be profitable.and flour- ishing, while those of otheg nations lag for lack of ability to sell their products. At one time Great Britain, by having almost a monopoly of the carry- ing trade of the ocean, became something like the industrial center of the world and did an enormous percentage of its manufacturing. By sagacious sys- tems of protection other nations built up manufac- turing industries of their own, which in time produced an output greater than the local demand called for. Then the French and the Germans began by subsi- dized ships to pramote their foreign trade, with the result that Great Britain now finds them active com- | petitors in all parts of the world. . The United States have reached a point where for- eign trade is necessary for the extension of their vig- orous industries. An American merchant marine paying the high wages of American labor in ship- yards and on shipboard cannot compete against the subsidized ships of other nations. It is time, there- fore, for our Government to learn the lesson the ex- perience of other countries has taught. With a lib- | eral policy of governmental aid to American shipping industries there would be no need to undertake wars and conquests for the sake of commercial expansion. | The married woman of Keswick who was nearly blown out of her home by dynamite may entertain more than ever pronounced opinions that the “blow- ing up” prerogative belongs exclusively to the fair head of the house. AL Chicago has turned up her nose at Kipling, holding that his work is too coarse for Sunday-school library circulation. Heaven help him if she ever turns up the toes on her justly celebrated feet! Admiral Dewey set foot yesterday on the rock of Gibraltar. Numerous cases of heart failure may be expected from Madrid for the next few days | work of the men of Harvar: | William and Mar through a Eranconian forest and found by the wayside a voung man, a soldier in his first uniform, lying with a broken head. Hehelped carry the boy to his peasant home, and when his mother saw him bloody and insensible, but alive, she thanked God that he was saved from the army. lsletxer a broken cripple than a soldier against his will, and on unwilling service rests the military glory of the great powers of Europe. In the history of man, two ideas have always barred his progress. These are, first, that the individual man be- longs body and soul and property to the State, and second, that the State is the man or men who happen to be at the head of affairs “The State,” said Louis XIV, “the State—that is I, the King”; and at another time he wrote: “The King does what he will"; and so, as the King is the State, the men beicngs body and soul and property to the King. It was to protest against all this that the citizen sol- dier arose; the ldier who wore his own clothes, not the livery of any King. The citizen soldier through the ages is the man who fights wrong with eyes open. When the wrong is made right, he goes home to his work, a soldier no longer, but a man, and it is his greatest herolsm that he comes back a man unchanged by all that happens to him. The citizen solder is as old as the struggle for freedom. It is only such that have made war an instrument to human progress. Oliver Cromwell was a citizen soldier and Miles Standish and George Washington. The embat- | tled farmers of Lexington, who “fired a shot that was | heard arcund the world,” were citizen soldiers. They stood for the right of manhood to manage its | own affairs, they turned their muskets against the idea | that the State owned them body and soul and property. | They declared that George III, his Cabinet and Pariia~i ment, in whom they had no part, nor lot, nor representa- | tion, was not their State. | Cromwell’s word on the statute book of Parliament | SCATTE just powers, under God, are derived from the consent of the people.” The citizen soldier would not consent to injustice, and | so he fired that shot at Lexington. | It was the citizen soldier who died at Bunker Hill, who starved and froze at Valley Forge, whose way was blocked at Stillwater, Long -Island and the Brandywine, but whose resolute persistence turned defeat into victory. | It was the citizen soldier who swelled the guerrilla bands | of Marion and Sumter, who fell at Quebec and conquered | at Yorktown. | In like fashion, the citizen soldier arcse again in 1861. | In the South, at the call of his State, the State that be- | longed to him; in the North, at the call of his Nation, the Nation he had made. Not that Nation or State had owned him and forced him forth from farm or shop. It was his State, and he swore that her soil should not be invaded. It was his Nation, and he swore that her integrity “must | and shall be preserved.” So North and South alike it was | the citizen soldier, burg and Shiloh, at Malvern Hill and the Wilderness, from the Potomac to the Chatta- hoochee, from the to the Cumberland. ! Citizen soldiers wer v all and when they came back from Appomattox Courthouse, one and all, all that were | left of them went home to the plow, to the forge, the | teacher’s desk and the counting-house, to whatever place was left to them. In the fighting South it was just the same as in the North. When the cause was lost and its banner furled the men came home, the gray ghosts of all that had been fairest and strongest in the South, and each took finally the place the Fates held open—the place of citizens of the | United States. - And the lost cause of State’s rights merged into the | greater cause of human freedom. | There were »ge students in 17775, but those | few made the infant repub The constitution was the and Yale, of Columbia and e days we have become a | Whatever else America has done, she g men and women. Her college men are the choicest of all her citize Whatever else our uni- versities may be they are not asleep. They are keenly awake to all that takes place in the world around them. It is said that in 1859, when Robert Lincoln entered | Harvard, but one man in the college, Professor James Rus- sell Lowell, had e heard of his father, Abraham Lincolin. Then our colleges were asieep. They dreamed of Olym- pus and babbled of Arcadia while the bad dragon devoured | their land and their patrimony. X But soon came the awakening. In 1861 the student soldier was born. There is a long roll in Memorial Hall of the Harvard men ce the nation of student is training her yo Whose faith and truth On war's red touchstone rang true metal, Who ventured love and life and youth I the great prize of death in battle. This roll telis us that in *61 Harvard had heard of Lin- coln and of all for which Lincoln stood. | ye breed.” or South went forth the student soldier. In every battle of the great war the college student stood in the front on either side, and he fought as no soldier ever fought before the battle of convinced right- eousness. On the one side “a missile steeped in hate”; on the other a defender ““of the poor and oppressed and who are just as good as I or you and as precious in the sight of God.” The college soldier is at once the best and the worst of all fighters. He is an intelligent unit of war, not & shooting machine. The great warriors of the past, the Caesars and Napoleons, would have had no use for him To them a man was a mere implement; no more capable of self-direction than the cartridge and of no more use when exploded. ‘What, though the soldler knew one had blunderéd; beirs not to reason why, Theirs not to make reply. This cheapening verse was not written of college men. ‘When they kn “some one has blundered” it is for them | to help correct it. At the worst they must reason why a have their own opinion of blunders and blunderers. other words they have heart and brains as part of their equipment 1f heart and brains are demanded. From their ! ranks rise war's football heroes, the Funstons and Roos; velts, the men who can speak as well as fight and whom the people cannot choose but listen. But folly and incompetency, cowardice and pretensa find no critics so severe as these same football heroes. The wrong kind of captain dreads the college man, and the right kind, of course, delights in him. The war for Cuban freedom touched the heart of the college man. In every company the university was repre- sented at Manila. There were perhaps 150 from the col- leges of this coast. Sixty from Stanford, at any rate, be- sides the few who went from there to Santiago and an- other few who were stalled in the swamps of Tampa. Of the eighty-five names on the roll of the fallen, one is from Stanford—Ralph Coates of Rohnerville. Three are | trom the University of California; one—Bruno Putzker of | Berkeley—the son of an honored professor. All is well with America so long as the citizen soldier | alone can fight her battles. No honest nation ever had, | none needs and none can ever rightly use a mercenary army. When America shall make war professional her glory has departed. for a great army and a great repub never aid and never can exist together. There can be no “government of the people by the people and for the pe« ple” when “the red-coat bully in his boots” shall “hide th | march of men” from us. But the soldier of the republic has never yet been the “bully in his boots,” of whom Thackeray wrote. His movement is part of the march of men itself. One word more. The citizen soldier costs the nation as no other soldier does. The citizen is part of soclety, with the dependence of love and helpfulness. When he falls on the fleld of battle he does not die alone. The bullet speeds to his home, to his wife, his sweetheart, his mother, his children. The soldier of fortune has no in- cumbrances. Nobody owns him. He owns nobody. He lives and dies for himself. The soldier of the republic dies twice and more than twice—in his home, in his hopes, in the hopes of others. And this is not all; only the beginning. The citizen soldier is the best of citizens. It is from his loins that the better citizenship of the future should come. When he dies before his time the stock of manhood is lowered. It is the fighting nation that becomes the nation of cowards when the fighting men are dead. “Send forth the best This is Kipling's cynical advice, and when we follow it we breed second-class men only. It was glori- ous war that undid Greece and Rome, that has wasted | France and Spain. For the bravest century after century have fallen and the coward the army could not use becomes the father of the family. To this day we mourn the heroes of the war | of the rebellion—North and South, East and West, in each family is at least one vacant chair. But the nation merits more than all this. Not alone the million who fell to expiate our debt, the negro’s body and rights we stole, “for every drop of blood drawn by the lash another drawn by the sword,” but more than these—the millions who should have been and are not. The sons and daughters of our fallen brothers should be with us to-day. The nation needs their strength, freedom needs their voices. we need their sympathy; we stretch forth our hands toward them and behold they are not: they have never been and they shall never be. Of all the curses of black war—and all war is black, whatever its ne ity— this is the deepest on the nations. The hero falls with him the issue of the hercism. When nations throw away men'’s lives for glory. for conquest or for commer- cial supremacy, these are the wounds that time can never heal. And so it may be the Franconian peasant mother is wiser than she knows when she says “Thank God. my son is saved from the army.” We may imagine that the guardian spirit of Germania. stern Amazon that she is. looks down on this mother in pitying approval—looks down on this mother with a smile of pitying approval. ALL’'S ONTEMPORARIES ONTINUE TO OMMEND THE GREAT SOUVENIR EDITION. Woodland Democrat. The demand for the souvenir edition of The Call, of the California volunteers, was something marvelous and un history of California journalism. in three days, and of a ond edition of 10,000 but few copies Artistically and typographically it was one of the handsomest issued in this State. Historically considered, erature of great value on account of i C) -and the g which the part the California volunteers played in the Philippine campaign was presented. eras Citizen. All the papers of San Francisco have been publishing a lot ter of the reception home of the F liforn but common that The Call be given credit for the best wor aminer, The Call “‘scooped” it at every point, and throughout t tion easily held its lead. Hearst's young men several very bad hours. Cala issued in honor of the return An edition of 100,000 extra copies was exhausted vas a contribution to current lit- Despite the bluster of the Ex- The Call did, excellent work, and must have given Mr. made in The Call of the Zith of April, 1899, are located on the Carbon River in the Carbon district north of Mount Rai- nier and sixty miles east of Tacoma. The mines are about six miles distant from the Fairfax Rallroad. A CRIMINAL—Subscriber, City. If a subscriber will state in at part of the world the notorious criminal was exe- cuted this department will look up the precedented in the |€Xact date. EARTHQUAK , City. No shock s remain unsold. | of earthquake was felt either on the 25th publications ever | or the 20th of July, 1880. There was no n this shock of earthquake in July. 1 = city, of which there is any & 3, rd, after : ¥ raphic manner in | ¢ J'th of the month. The one on that date lasted thirty-one seconds. TATTOO MARKS—A. T. S., City. The Chemical News says that tattoo marks, if of rot in the mat- produced by the insertion of some car- justice demands | bonaceous matter, can be removed by be- ing first well rubbed with a salve of pure acetic acid and lard, then with a solution he brilliant recep- | af aci PARLIAMENT—B. E. H., City. Mem- J‘lolash and finally with hydrochioric bers of the English Parliament are ex- ‘uay, are among FAMILY REUNION AT THE SPRECKELS HOME A night at the Van Ness avenue home of Mr. and Mrs. Claus Spreckels. T was in the nature of a familv T v > sixty-ninth birthday congratulations that after so many years health. In the event there was absence of formality, friends calling to express | sincerely their best wishes and the mem- ; day of primary family interest. AROUND THE CORRIDORS | PLEASANT évening was spent last | union, to which a few friends were in- the aged lady still enjoys unimpaired | bers of the family seeking to observe a T. B. Bassett, a prominent mining man | of Pasadena, is registered at the Grand. W. H. Rohrer, one of the leading at- torneys of Fresno, is a guest at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. A. Boswell of Toronto, Can., are among the recent arrivals at the Palace. in the city yesterday and went to the Grand. F. S. Wensinger, the millionaire fruit grower, has come down from his place at Freestone and is staying at the Ocei- dental. J. F. Thompson of the Eureka Standard and James Simpson, a wealthy lumber- man of the same place, are both regis- tered at the L Frank Wilkens, one of the leading busi- ness men of Colusa, is at the Grand, com- bining business and pleasure in a short visit to the city. T. J. Murphy, a merchant and wealthy mining man of Needles, is one of those who arrived in the city yesterday and went to the Grand. N. H. Falk, a wealthy lumberman of Arcata, is a guest at the Occidental. Mrs. | Falk accompanies her husband on his present visit to the city. { the Colorado River. A. H. Crook, one of the best known mining men in the Coos Bay country, is| at the Russ, where he will remain during | the short stay he purposes making in thl-; city. Mrs. H. E. Huntington and the Misses | Elizabeth and Marion Huntington and | Howard Huntington arrived in the city Sunday evening from a recent visit they have been making in Canada and the East. Mr. Huntington and Miss Hunt- Lieutenant and Mrs. H. C. Barnes have | ington will remain in the East for several come up from Pasadena and are to be found at the Palace. H. L. Johnson, accompanied by his wife, has come down to the city from Napa and is staying at the Lick. Congressman Marion De Vries is regis- tered at the Palace for a short visit to the city from his home in Stockton. John Vail, an extensive land owner and | well-known rancher of Marshfleld, Or., is one of the latest arrivals at the Russ. W. H. Miller, a lucky Klondiker, with several large sacks of the precious dust, is registered at the Russ from Dawson. Alexander Wallace and H. F. Ralston, two travelers from Scotland, are among the arrivals of vesterday at the Palace. 0. M. Thumber, one of Chicago's lead- ing business men, and J. F. Burkhard, a merchant and mining speculator of Skag- | weeks longer. — e stein and Miss Edythe Tilden of San Francisco are at the Hoffman. Josiah N. Wellman of San Francisco is at the Neth- erland. J. E. Carney of San Francisco is at the Imperial. —_——— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. TWENTY-DOLLAR PIECE—J. E. S., Placerville, Cal. A United States twenty- dollar Yloco is not made of gold 100 fine, The gold used is 90 fine. It contains 464.4 total of 516 grains. COPPER MINES-S., Angels, Cal. The CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. & | NEW YORK, Sept. 4.—Alfred L. Meyer- | grains of pure metal, or $19.99898972 pure gold* and_ 516 grains of alloy, making a | those who arrived large copper mines of which mention was empt from jury duty during the sessions of the legislative body, as their duties in that body are held to supersede those ob- ligations required of them as citizens. But during a session of Parliament they are required to attend court if summoned as witnesses, that there may be no hindrance of justice. THE GADSEN PURCHASE—C. L. S, Chico, Cal. This department has exam- ined a dozen books on the Gadsen pur- chase in 1553, but has not been able to discover who was to blame that the United States did not at the time of that purchase secure a seaport at the mouth of Possibly some of the readers of this department can inform the correspondent. A NOVEL—G. T. C., Oakland, Cal. 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Inter Nos Circle, Companions of the Forest of America, having taken new quarters in the Pythian Castle, will cele- brate the event of removal by a ladies’ night this evening. when an interesting programme will be offered. e Dr. Siegert's Angestura Bitters, appstizer and invigoratar, imparts a delicious flavor to all drinks and cures dyspepsia. BLCLLLRNG L0y s SSLSSGR