The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 13, 1899, Page 6

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(_‘ OVERNOR SAYERS of Texas, who issued the invitation to the Governors and Attorneys to attend he vario: tes and Territories tion in St. Louis for the purpose yrm legislation for the suppression ot be well pleased with the sup- If such be the case the General of devising hile the invitation d the time for holding r, the Governors of but and but seven Attorneys ttend. It is true that ten sed a willingness to be es permit, but such expressions an polite methods of declining the fore will fall a long months ago is drawing his oW s his own. 1 the Il the States of the Union. that the Governors who have pror i to all of them Democrats. The only Republicans of note among are Pingree of Michigan and Tanner of Illinois, 1 representative of genuine ree is something of a political short of representing a , moreover, attend are nearly is vagaries as a Popu- list and beir { believer in many of the trines of Tanner is not much wiser, and certainly does not represent the conser- State or of his party. nti ssembles it will find itself | ndicapped at the start, for the Governors and At- torneys General of twelve States and one or twd Territories cannot take action or adopt any policy ng upon all the States. The meet- v do more than give utterance to the vague discontents existing among a considerable portion of the people concerning trusts. It may pos- »pt a set of very strongly worded resolutions, freak, having a cor ism. state SO n sense of h vative co When the c n that will be bi ing will hard ot but strong words will not stop the organization of | trusts nor even lead to any comprehensive legislation :st them. e futility of the proposed convention is inevit- | 2" .> because of the lack at this time of sufficient ex-} * perience with trusts to determine wherein they are | good and wherein they are harmful. Until the true | nature and the ful} extent of the problems are known | 10t be possible to determine even whether such | ev s exist can be best remedied by State legisla- tion or by action of the National Government. | At the recent meeting of the American Bar Asso- | Gation Edward Q. Keasbey read a paper on “New | Jersey and the Great Corporations,” in the course of | which he dealt with some of the evils of the huge | jons which have been lately in- corporated in that State. He pointed out that be- | tween January 1 and August I of this year there have been organized in New Jersey alone 1,336 corpora- | tions having an authorized capital of over two thou- | sand millions of dollars. After giving a strong | presentation of the evil of such combinations, many of which are hardly than huge gnmb]ing schemes, Mr. Keasbey virtually admitted that he did | not know how the evil could be remedied. } The issue is one that must be dealt with in the near | future, but no safe guidance can be expected from an | anti-trust convention called by men who are preju- | diced at the start and who meet with the avowed ob- | ject of suppressing trusts altogether. From the Civic | Federation Conference on the subject, to be held in | Chicago, much good may be expected, but from the | St. Louis meeting of a few Governors, most of whom | are hardly more than second rate politicians, it is | not likely that anything will result of benefit to the | country. i s s e The massacre of the French mission by the savage African tribe of Tuaregs is rather convincing evi- dence that it takes more than a scratch of a pen now- adays for even the great powers to convert reluctant | people to their way of thinking. The Tuaregs be- | lieve, even if they are savage, that they have one or trusts and combi more two privileges left. _— It was entirely unnecessary for the New York cor- respondent that sent out the dispatch announcing the loss of Lieutenant Peary’s toes to add that the ex- plorer intended to proceed on a new basis. Four hay cutters held up a train the other day in Arizona. They are likely now to change their oc- cupation to hemp stretchers. School Director Kemp admits that he ought to be kicked. There is not a doubt about it—and not for his honesty, either. | proceed against the ci 4 Consul General Wildman says officially: AN ISSUE OF FACT. E recently admonished the Portland Oregonian Wthat it was wronging itself by imagining vain things about the Philippine situation. It is a very able paper and is not under the necessity of doing things in a smgll way. It chooses to advocate imperialism and to submit reasons for our Philippine policy which have no existence in fact, and to argue from them as its premise. Replying, that able paper says that The Call said: | “The Filipinos had already conquered all of Luzon outside of Manila when the Americans appeared. | This, even if true, would be no answer to the Ore- gonian’s statement. Bandits, indeed, were largely in control of the country outside Manila; but Aguin- aldo, aware that national independence was hope- less, had sold out to the Spaniards for a heavy sum and left the country, and Spain was increasing her preparations to crush thg bandits when the Americans appeared.” We must again admonish the Oregonian that mis- 1epresentation of what The Call said is an impro- priety that requires an apology, and that a gen= misrepresentation of the facts is a wrong policy, which it should not pursue. We did not say that the Filipinos had conquered Luzon outside of Manila when the Americans appeared. The facts, we stated them, are historical, and we quoted one of Dewey's officers in their support. The Filipino insurrection against Spain was ter- minated by a solemn treaty, in which Spain agreed to pay an indemnity to / aldo of $800,000 and to in- stitute the reforms in administration which the tives demanded. In his report to the State Depart- ment our Consu!, Wildman, at Hongkong, “There has been a systematic attempt to blacken the name of Aguinaldo and his Cabinet on account of the terms of their surrender to the Spanish. It has try for gold, but as says: been said that they sold their this is conclusively disproved, not only by their own statements but by the speech of the late Governor o | General Rivera, in the Spanish Senate, June 11, 1898, | He said that Aguinaldo undertook to submit if the | Spanish Government would give a certain sum to the widows and orphans of the insurgents. Rivera then admits that only a part of the sum was given to Aguinaldo, and that he (Rivera) did not find it ex- pedient to keep the other promises made Artacho, llower of Aguinaldo, desired to divide this money between the native leaders, but it is in evidence that Aguinaldo refused, saying it was a trust fund for his country and should be used to renew the ! insurrection if Spain failed to keep the treaty and She did moment armed resi e 1es that he opened nego- which it promised Th to institu fuil, as Rivera admitted tance ceased she violated ! solemn promi Wildman's report co tiations with Aguinaldo’s Cabinet with Admiral Dewey, and t Aguinaldo was was negotiating with Wildman avite on the McCulloch May 16, 18g¢ Wildman then says: mediately on the arrival of Aguinaldo at Cavite he issued a proclamation, which I had outlined for him before he leit, forbidding pil- lage and making it a criminal offense to maltreat reutrals. He of course organized a government of which he was dictator, an absolutely necessary step it he hoped to maintain control over the natives, and from that date until the present time he has been uninterruptedly successful in the field and dignified and just at the head of his government. The insur- gents are fighting from freedom from Spanish rule and rely on the well known sense of justice that con- trols all the actions of our Government as to their future.” Following events in their chronological order, our next witness is that ardent imperialist, ex-Minister John Barrett, appointed to Siam from Oregon. In an addr rett said: “I saw Aguinaldo put aboard a United States dispatch boat in Hongkong harbor last May, 1sul General iter consultation in Singapore, where Consul Pratt Admiral Dewey for his return to Luzon sent him to C by permission of Admiral Dewey and C Wildman, for the direct purpose of going to Cavite | to organize an army and a temporary government to make war on the Spaniards in co-operation with the merican forces. IHe has organized an army out of nothing, which he has developed into a force of 30,000 | men, armed with modern rifles He captured ail Spanish garrisons on the island of Luzon outside of Manila, so that when the Americans were ready to v they were not delayed and Moreover, he has troubled with a country campaign. | organized a government which has practically been administering the affairs of that great island since | the American occupation of Manila, which was cer- | tainly better than the former (Spanish) administra- tion.” One of Dewey’s officers, writing from Iloilo, says: | “Aguinaldo reached Cavite May 20, 1898, at which me there”was no evidence, that we knew of, of & native organization. time and immediately commenced to win victories. These were to us at the time astonishing, for he de- feated detachment after detachment of the Spanish army, took fort after fort, captured regiments with arms and ammunition, and in a few months had cap- tured every Spanish soldier in the island of Luzon or had driven those not captured into Manila. Time and again I have witnessed whole battalions of Span- ish soldiers marched as prisoners into San Roque. Before August 13, 1808, these insurgents had actually captured the whole of Luzon, except Manila and Cavite. After taking all of Luzon, with the excep- tions named, they conquered the Spanish in the isl- ands of Negros and Cebu,and before we reached Tloilo they had this city and the whole island of Panay oa which it is situated. Besides these there are hundreds of smaller islands which are under the authority of Aguinaldo’s government at Malolos, More remark- able to me than Aguinaldo’s military actions has been the civil organization which he has perfected through- out these islands, which now governs and rules them except in Manila and Cavite.” These, in their order, are the facts of history. We have named our witnesses and given their testimony. From it the fact is incontestably establ’ Aguinaldo did not “sell out” to Spain; th: s peo- ple were not bandits; that he held $400,000 in trust for his countrymen; that Spain violated her treaty with him; that Consul Pratt went to seek hm in Singapore, and, after negotiating with Wildman and Dewey, arranged for him to turn back to Cavite; ‘that Wildman wrote his proclamation by which his gov- ernment was established and his army raised to co- operate against Spain with ours; that “the direct purpose” of his return, as arranged with Dewey and the Consuls, was the organization of the government which he formed, and that he, with his army, cap- tured, conquered and possessed the four islands of Luzon, Cebu, Negros and Panay, except Manila and Cavite, and that the surrender of Spanish sovereignty over them was to him and not to us, and that under the laws of nations and the laws of war his govern- | ment and not Spain was the sovereign power there when we bought his people of Spain for two dollars a head. Yet, the Oregonian says: “In fighting qual- ity and all other qualities they (the Filipinos) are far below our original North American Indians.” Bnt “In con- ss at Shanghai, China, last January, Mr. Bar- | He created an army in a short | hed that | clusion I wish to put myself on record as stating that the insurgent government of the Philippine Islands cannot be dealt with as though they were North American Indians willing to be removed from one reservation to another at the whim of their masters.” Now will the Oregonian please to call its witnesses and quote their testimony? e ————— If there is anything in the Dreyfus case that reaches the sublime it is perhaps the absurdity of | suggesting a boycott upon the Paris Exposition by the Congress of the United States. While certain Congressmen by breeding and education have the unqualified right of making themselves ridiculous, they should show some toleration for their fellows. /@ CHANGE IN RURAL NEW ENGLAND. SOME years ago the abandoned farms of New England constituted a topic which engaged the attention of the whole country. The number of idle farms was so large in some localities that sev- | eral States went to the expense of advertising them lat public cost for the purpose of attracting settlers | and preventing what threatened to be a,widespread | decay of the rural industries of that section of the Union. The advertising given to the lands has had its effect and most of them have been taken up. There are no longer any great bargains to be had in the way of ‘ahandnm‘d farms, and, according to a late report on the subject, “One may travel far through even the !remate sections of New England without finding any | large number of farms that may properly be called x * x deserted. In one way or another the list of | abandoned farms has been greatly reduced, until in | many sections the number is not greater than would | be expected under normal conditions.” S Theic ange has not been brought about, however, by the reoccupation of the farms by a class of genuine mers, nor even by people retiring from the cities to | undertake farm work. We are told some have been | bought by wealthy and fashionable people and turned iimo more or less elaborate summer places. Others | have been taken up by professional men of limited | means, drawn by the prospect of obtaining a vacatioa home at small expense. A good many have passéd into the hands of owners of adjoining property, who | have at last come to see that, other things being equal, | a large farm is likely to be more profitable than a | small one. Some have been acquired for the timber | they bear, and a few have been bought for speculation. The use of the farms for summer resorts, hunting | grounds, forest reserves and speculation does not on | the face of it give much promise of upbuilding the rurual industries of a country, but it appears, never- theless, to have had that effect. The persons who have purchased the farmis have had money enough to im- prove them, and therefore have given the neighbor- hood an appearance of thrift and prosperity which has had the effect of stimulating the residents to improve | their farms also. Moreover, a more scientific system | of farming has been introduced by the new comers, Labor-saving machinery, scientific tillage, has become the order of the day, and the value of stock and | orchards has advanced. | Along with all that there has been a marked change 3 in the social conditions of rural New England. The farms are passing into the hands of men who instead of tilling the soil themselves hire others to do the work. Thus the rate of farm wages is rising, and the old-fashioned farmer finds it harder than ever to make | a living. Summing up the whole situation, a writer | for the New York Post says: “That the process will | eventually give us a type of alternating town and | i country life, akin to that prevailing in England, is by | no means improbable, if, indeed, such a type is not | already established. The resident farmer, on the other | hand, has but two courses open to him if he wishes o be assured a comfortable living. He may accept the new conditions, and become himself a landed pro- prietor and agricultural entrepreneur on the new a hired man. For there is going on quietly, in our day, a social and industrial change likely, before many years, to give the development of the farms of New | England into the charge of men who thenselves never swung a scythe or held a plow.” OUR MINERAL PRODUCTION. | WING to the great variety in the units of | measurement, says the official summary | of the mineral production of the United | States for 1808, the only factor common to all min- eral products and the only means by which the com- parative totals can be expressed is the value. Taking that common measurement, the statistics show that since 1880 the increase in the mineral pro- duction of the United States has been from an output valued at $309,319,000 to one valued at $697,880,002 in 1898, or nearly 9o per cent. It is noted that the increase has been very irregu- lar. The average during the nineteen yeats under | review has been an increase of $18,000,000 annually, t but from 1804 to 1805 the increase was nearly $100,- 000,000, while in the following year it was but little more than $1,000,000. In the two years from 1892 to 1804 there was a decrease of over $121,000,000. From 1806 to 1897 the increase was about $8,000,000, while from 1897 to 1808 it was $66,070,534. The output of 1808 was the largest in our history, exceeding that of 1802, the next largest, by nearly $50,000,000. All the metals made large gains except mnickel. Copper, lead, zinc, aluminum and antimony reached their maximum both in quantity and in value, but it is notable that while the amount of pigiron produced in* 1808 was greater than in any other year, yet the value of the product was considerably less than in 1890 or 1892, though it increased $21,434,701 over the value of the output of 1897. Thke non-metallic products increased during the | year from $327,710,066 to $352,783.872, a gain of $25,- 072,006. The largest contributor to the gain was | bituminous coal, which increased from $110.567,224 in 1807 to $132,586,313 in 1898. The value of the out- put of anthracite coal, on the o er hand, fell off nearly $4.000,000. The other non-metallic products showing important gains were stone, petroleum, nat- | ural gas and mineral waters. In the summary given of the output and value of | the precious metals it is noted the gold product con- tinued to increase, and in 1808 was valued at $64,463,- 000, as compared with $57,363.000 in 1897. In 1896 it was $53,088,000. The coining value of the silver product in 1808 was $70.384,485, while the commercial value was but $32,118420. In 1897 the coining value was $60,637.172 and the commercial value $32,316,000. This is an increase for the year of $747,313 in the coining value and a decrease of $197,580 in the com- mercial value. The quantity of the production in- creased from 53,860,000 ounces in 1897 to 54.438,000 ounces in 1898. In 1896 the product was 358,834,800 onnces. s e A cablegram from Marseilles contains the informa- tion that extensive fires are raging in that vicinity, at least ten miles of forest being ablaze. If there is-any country on earth that seems just now to need puri- fication by fire it is France. and the old-fashioned farmers have profited by it. | scale, or he may resign his independence and become | FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1899. iy dl y hiamul gy “\rfi iy i I A NEW TRICK. i e |"m|‘;w‘!fi’m i \ H side in the fewest moves possible. Each move forwards two coins of the at either side. The numbers are used to ways of starting and moving, it will not was reached. There is, however, a lower ERE is a coin-moving problem which can be introduced at any gathering you may attend. A plece of paper with twenty squares marked on it will do, care being taken to have the heavy marks in the right place. is to get the nickels over to the penny side and the pennies to the nickel one space. The barriers, indicated by the heavy lines, cannot be crossed. Start i MHMI B Y The idea same kind, but each coin must move but define the spaces. As there are so many be necessary to explain how your result limit than some will discover. - UNHAPPY WIVES SEEK FREEDOM IN DIVCRCE LYMAN I. MOWRY IS CHARGED WITH CRUELTY. Mrs. Emma Stierlen Accuses Her | Husband of Unfaithfulness and | Names Rose Scott as Co- Respondent. Elizabeth R. Mowry flled sult yesterday against her husband, Lyman I Mowry, the well-known attorney, for a divorce. | Cruelty is alleged as ground of action. In her complaimt Mrs. Mowry states that she married her husband November 2, 1887. As specific instances of crueity she alleges that notwithstanding that she is_a singer and has a tender throat her husband insisted on smok- | ing in the house. While they were | living at 316 Haight street, at 1719 Oak | and at the Berkshire, she says, he fre- | | auently remained out late at night, and | | when ‘expostulated with would use un-| seemly epithets and threaten to kick | | down the door. Her suffering was all | mental, she admits, but sufficient to war- | rant her a decree as prayed for, Mrs. Emma Stierlen, the wife of George | Stierlen, a capitalist well known in this | city and Los Angeles, also filed suit against her husband for divorce. She | alleges desertion and infldelity, naming Rose Scott of Los Angeles’ as co- respondent. Mrs. Stlerlen alleges that her | husband is now living with Rose Scott and refuses to give any attention to her pleas for aid. Hence she asks for a divi- sfon_of the community property, valued at about $50,000, and for $250 a month ali- | mony. —_—————————— e e o o POSTAGE ON SUNDAY CALL. ‘ SUNDAY CALL wrapped ready for mailing—postage 2¢ to all points in United States, Canada and Mexico, and 4c to all for- % | eign points. AMUSEMENT IN VARIETY AT THE ORPHEUM INCE the advent of the American Biograph at the Orpheum about everybody stays to the end of the programme, and they all feel glad they do at the finish. If any particular subject happens to be dull it is forgotten in the interest of the others. The pic- | tures seem to be the outcome of keen ob- servation and well chosen opportunity. The attention of the most unappreciative every-day mind is_closely held and re- warded. . Of the new people, White and Harris, the singing and dancing duo, were par- ticularly interesting to me up to a cer- tain point. The young woman sings “My Ann Eliza” with such a rush of spirits and dances with an abandon and exuberance that leaves me quite minus a | descriptive adjective. I never saw the like. She reappears after her first exit gowned like an inverted French poppy, is never still a moment and never out of breath. The other member of the team puts in a few ‘falls” with her sixteen summers to the inflnite amusement of the onlooker, and does other rational things very cleverly. Until they begin their burlesque acrobatic work they are ex- cellent. After that their act is just a lit- tle silly, but the orchestra plays so in- cessantly and steadily that you can't think and you don't realize it until later. It is like having a tooth extracted with- out pain. s he good afterwards?”’ said young America at my right when Charley Case was singing his first song. It was a | brutal question, but since he was—and very good—it doesn’t matter. He has a little patent for humor all his own—an after explanation of facts in themselves simple and without interest, It takes a deal of quiet thought to make such things effective, and I don't believe he has many idle hours. His song about the press being represented everywhere might be added to indefinitely without danger of wearying. I wonder if Montrell ever handles things rationally. I should hate to invite | him to dinner. He might take a notion to juggle with the glassware and small Dlates, and it would be an awful example for the children. His spinning firebrands are more beautiful at second view than at first and his apparent lack of clever intention half the battle of his success. It seems a fitting close to the little chil- dren's engagement that they should sing “Dinah.” San Francisco first fell in love | with Arnold at the Tivoli in just that song and Hazel makes a most effective Dinah. They are both such.fresh looking stage children. They seem to have just | wandered out from the cool and quiet of | @ nursery and they both look thoroughly | happy. The Crawford sisters are quite picturesque enough to be interesting, but they have hardly force or experience enough to be convincing and they should not do coon songs. Coon songs are not for all people. Their jockey dance was very graceful and very clever and with singular discretion they put it last, leav- ing a pleasant impression upon the audi- ence. The boys' band plays better this week than last. Suppe’s “Light Cavalry” and the Strauss waltzes won well-deserv- ed encores. “The Bachelor Club Quartet’” finds favor chiefly through their songs. They seem to me sort of prophets of a new day. If some one will take their idea and bulld upon it, he will make one of the very best vaudeville attractions of the future and find the amusement lover hun- gry for mnovelty rising up to call him lessed. Finally, if T could not go to the Orpheum once a week I snould be much hipped and out of humor. CHARLOTTE THOMPSON. | of seven consecutive years, and recelved the | | that there has SINGULAR CHANGE IN NATIONAL GUARD LAW NOVEL INTERPRETATION OF THE WORD “CONSECUTIVE.” To Be Out Ninety Days Is to Be Con- sidered Faithful Consecutive Service—Resignation Ac- cepted. General orders No. 8, {ssued a short time | since from superior headquarters, of | which the following is an eatract, have been the subject of considerabie ccmment in National Guard circles: Former members of the National Guard who have been honorably discharged for ‘‘expira- tion of term of service” or on account of “removal’” and have returned to the limits of their commands, and officers who have re- signed, been honorably discharged, or whose terms ‘have expired, who re-enlist or re-enter the guard within ninety days of the date of their discharge or the expiration of the term of office, will be given credit for continuous service and the enlistment will be considered consecutive. This is an amendment of paragraph 260 of “The Rules and Regulations’ govern- ing the National Guard of this State. Section 1941 of the Political Code says: The commander in chief is authorized and has power to establish and prescribe such rules and regulations, forms and precedents not inconsistent with the provisions of the codes, as he may deem proper for the use, government and instruction of the Natlonal Guard, and to carry into full effect the pro- visions of the codes relative thereto, ; In section 1936 of the same code the.e 52 non-commissioned officers and served in the -space | All officers, privates who have faithfully military service of this State for the certificate of the adjutant general certifring | the same, are thereafter exempted from further | military and jury duty except in time of v.r. According to the code it must appear | been seven consecutive vears of faithful service before an officer, non-commissioned officer or a private can | obtain a certificate of exemption. All the authorities agree as to the meaning of | the word ‘consecutive,” and the defini- | tlons of that word are: “Following in a | train, succeeding one another in regular order, successive, uninterrupted in courss or succession.” The amendment places a new construction on the word by saying | that a break of ninety days, during which | period the individual is in no way con-| nected with the guard, is “‘continuous ser- | vice,” providing, of course, that at any | time within those ninety days the honora- bly discharged individual shall re-enlist or re-enter the guard. 1t is claimed that if there is authority to grant a leave of ninety days the tim: can be extended to years. A man once dis. charged from the service of the State sey- | ers his connection therewith —absolutely | and the force of this is recognized in gen- eral orders, in which is: “A man once discharged from the Na- tional Guard can become a member again | oniy by enlistment or commission as pro- | ed by law.” Certain rewards or privileges are often allowed in the United States army for re- | enlisimént, but whatever they are is dis- | tinetly stated in the law governing the ac- | tion, 'such as section 1280 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and other cns, but there is nothing in the law governing the National Guard of Califor: nia that gives power to any one to d clare that any honorably discharged so dier who has been out of the guard for ninety days may on the last day of that | pericd re-enlist in or re-enter the guard and be glven credit for continuous service | frem the date of his discharge. The purpose of this change Is not under. stood, unless it is to give any individual who feels so inclined, an opportunity to | serve two or three days after enlistment, | “remove” and be homorably discharged, | and then at the end of ninety days re-en- | . “remove”’ and continue re-enlisting | ‘removing’ until he has served *'sev- en consecutive years ™ faithfully” and | obtain his certificate of exemption with- | out doing any military duty. Brigadier-General Warfield has been ranted leave of absence for forty-five ays, with permission to absent himself | from the State. The new bids for new uniforms for the guard will be opened-on the 7th of Octo- | er. The resignation of Lieutenant W. C. Bean of Company F of the Fifth Infantry has been accepted. An election has been called for in Com- pany. ¥ of the Fifth, vice First Lieutenant . W. Cobbledick, term expired. Captain J. B. Dixon of C and Captain | V. J. B. Cheda of D, Fifth Infantry, have | qualified and their bonds accepted. | Lieutenant-Colonel J. G. Gelsting has gone East, and Colonel Whitton of the “ifth, being the senior officer of the Sec- ond Brigade, is In command. | ———— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. SHERMAN AND GRANT-C. F. 8§, City. The Sherman is a larger vessel than the Grant as to length and tonnage. The Grant is a little broader than the Sher- man. NEVADA—Subscriber, City. Nevada was originally a part of Mexico and was ceded to the United States by the tre: of Guadalupe Hidalgo, in 1845, It awas op. ganized as a separate Territory in 1861, and was admitted as a State of the Union, October 31, 1864, by the President’'s proc- lamation, in accordance with an act of Congress, LIEU LAND—J. M. V., Genessee, Cal. The State is entitled to all the land em- braced within the sixteenth and thirty- sixth sections within its limits. As very many of these were found to be within Spanish or Mexican grants which had been confirmed and were appropriated by the grantees or their assigns the State has authorized locations to be made upon other public lands in lieu of the lands in the sixteenth and thirty-sixth sections. TAHICHIPI-W., Ornbaun, Cal. This department has not been able after an extensive research to discover any reason for the change of name of the town in Kern County from Tahichipi, the original Indian name, which means ‘“‘valley of the oaks,” to Tehachapi. Prior to the rall- road accident, which happened near that point many years ago, the original name prevailed, and_it was so down in the guide as the Postoffice name, but after| that accident the name appeared in the apers as ‘“‘Tehachapi,” and that spelling Enu been followed ever since, it even ap- al Guide. In the pearing so in the P t gazetteers, latest issue, the name is given as “Tahichip{” or “Tehachapl.” If any of the readers of this department can fur- nish an explanation for the change, the same will be published. e POEPP9000000000000 : PRESS COMMENTS OPPPP0P0009000060 0 «Yellow Journalism” of the Journal. New York Herald. PARIS, Sept. 2, 1899. To the Editor of the Herald: The letter ublished in the New York Journal of Rligust 15 was never written, dictated or igned by me. e " HYACINTHE LOYSON (Pere Hyacinthe). It was unlikely that the great French preacher would ever see a copy of the journal in which the alleged communica- tion from him was printed in big type, with flaring headlines. But the unexpected happened. Some friend perhaps mailed him a copy. In some way it was brought to his notice, and in an outburst of indignation he wrote the above note embodied in a special cable dispatch from Paris to this morning’s Herald. | Recently the journal against which Pere Hyacinthe now complains published what pur%oned to be a dispatch from the eminent Parisian journalist, Francis de Pressense. When this gentléman’s atten- tion was called to it he publicly, through the columns of the Aurore, denounced it as a forgery. It i quite unnecessary to make any comment on such facts. They speak for themselves. Women Who Lead in Philanthropy. Sacramento Bee. Among the Abou Ben Adhems that have arisen among the women in this country surely Mrs. Leland Stanford and Mrs. Phebe Hearst lead all the rest. In ster- ling philanthropy — that philanthropy which does good with money while the philanthropist is alive, and does not hoard all the treasures until death, scat- tering them when the philanthropist could not possibly do anything else—it is doubt- ful if the modern world has seen any better examples than those furnished by these two women of California. ‘What Mrs. Stanford has done at the Le- land Stanford Jr. University has been rivaled by the magnificence of the dona- tion given by Mrs. Phebe Hearst to the State University, Together or separately these women furnish shining examples of a philan- thropy which is the wonder and tne admiration of the entire civilized world to-day. —_———— Klondike Gold Output. Under date of April 29, 1899, Consul Brush of Clifton says: *“An authority whose estimates have heretofore prov- ed conservative brings word from Dawson that the wash-up from the Yukon this year will aggregate $19,- 000,000, apportioned as follows: Eldo- rado, $2,5600,000; Bonanza, $2,500,000; French Hill, $1,500,000; Gold Hill, $1,500,000; Big Skukum, $1,000,000; Lit- tle Skukum, $1,000,000; Dominfon, $4,- 000,000; Hunker and Quartz, $5,000,- 000; total, $19,000,000. These figures leave out of consideration a number of important locations, including Sulphur Creek, Stewart River, Upper Klon- dike and Scroggie Creek.” ——— The Farmers’ Vote on the War. New Whatcom Blade. Farm journals taking votes among their subscribers in every 3tate in the Union prove that the Declaration of In- dependence still lives in the United States. Of all the returns we have seen quoted the average is at least two to one in favor of granting independence to the Filipinos. AROUND THE CORRIDORS ‘W. R. de Lamar of New York is a guest at the Palace. W. H. McKenzle, the Fresno banker, is a guest at the Lick. G. W. Towle, capitalist and large land- owner, is a guest at the Grand. Charles Edde, a leading citizen of Los Angeles, is a guest at the Palace. John Lee, a w;althy resident of Wads- worth, Nev., is a'guest at the Russ. Dr. A. M. Gardiner of the Napa Asylum is among the late arrivals at the Lick. Edwin Tilly, a mining capitalist of Ne- vada City, is one of the recent arrivals at the Lick. William Rawlins and A. F. Afong are among the passengers from Honolulu who arrived in this city yesterday and went to the Occidental. Dr. and Mrs. D. N. Taylor have come up to the city from their home at Belmont nd are staying at the Occidental. C. K. Cadman, a well-known and wealthy contractor of Pinole, is among the arrivals of yvesterday at the Grand. Harry C. Turner, formerly known as the “King of Stanford Dudes,”” is at the California with his bride. He comes from Los Angeles. E. S. Babcock, manager of the Hotel del Coronado at Coronado Beach, is in the city on a short trip which combines business and pleasure. C. D. Hazzard, a wealthy mine-owner of this State, returned last night from Min- neapolis, where he has been attending to some private business. He is at the Occi- dental. C. G. Wilcox, an ofl man of Oll City, and Dr. Nat Green, one of the leading physiclans of Watsonville, are both reg- istered gt the Grand for a short stay in the city. D. A. Ray, secretary of the Hawalian Government Commission, has returned from Honolulu and is at the Palace. He reports everything prosperous and happy in the islands. J. C. Sims, secretary of the Pennsylva- nia Railroad, arrived here Monday night in his private car and left yesterday for Los Angeles. He is accompanied by his family and is traveling on pleasure bent. At the Palace are registered ex-Con- gressman B. T. Cable and party of Illi- nois. Mr. Cable, who is one of the di- réctors of the Chicago and Rock Island Rallroad, is traveling on pleasure, and ar- rived here yesterday in his private car. His party consists of the following no- tables: Baron and Baroness von Ameri- neigen of The Hague, Mrs. G. A. Castle- man of St. Louis, Baron von Kaing of Stuttgart, Mrs. Postlewaite of St. Louts, Count Ereste Odazio of Milan and Dr. George A. Taylor of New York. Mrs. Cable is with her husband. The party will remain hére a few days sightseeing and will then go south. —_———————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per b at Townsend's. * —_—————————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clippm§ Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, —————————— Divorce Suits Filed. Ann Gorman has sued Patrick Gorman for a dlvorce, alleging cruelty as a cause of action. Suits for divorce have also been flled by Louisa J. 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