The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 30, 1899, Page 6

FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1899. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. PUBLICATION OFFICE.. Market and Third Sts., S. F Telephone Maln 1868. EDITORIAL ROOMS......... 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Telephone Main 1874, DELIVERED EY CARRINRS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Eingle Coples, 5 cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one year. CALL (including Bunday Call), ¢ months. CALL (inciuding Sunday Call), 3 months CALL—By Single Month CALL One Year. LY CALL One Year 1.00 All postmasters are auth recetv: subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded twhen requested. OAKLAND OFFICE.. ©08 Broadwuy $6.00 DAIL DAILY C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Forelgn Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT ¢ C. C. CARLTON . Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS dJR... +.29 Tribune Buildieg 3 CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. Sherman House; P. O. Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium 1. “Ho NEW YORK NEWS STANDS. Waldorf-Astoria Hetel; A. 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Our development from the Atlantic to over practically uninhabited terri- ines are already densely peopled 1 environment unsuited to and are resentful of the intrusion of was while the Phi the whi iis is a flat and frank admission of tion of anti- Imperial ion is a 1 ty before unknown and foreign to and with no parallel in our national ex- hes out for a country to which white Therefore the only other rac th whole mperialism. fou policy, elves. those who are there nov [ race prej these grounds have been The Call, and w ent of McKinley’s id further that “to treat the isl- things to ov held ported by th Are now hilippine Co mission.” I is as our pos ion, with which we may do as we please, is too not mer u; The terms “ownership and possession” headedns he denounced as * rbarous survival when applied to any r n betw one people and another.” This rebukes the free use by imperialists of the terms “subject and ct people,” applied to the Fili From the beginning of the unfortunate ir until now those people have been treated as our subjects, over whom we have the sovereignty, which ised, because we bought it and paid for considering them as subjects that we ify characterizing them as rebels and stigma- 1eir opposition to the flag. Professor Schur- vs that “our relations with the Philippines will be misref ed as long as we retain that fatal con- fusion of government and property. This being so, the whole argument of the imperial- ists in justification of their position must be aban- dored. The; re have not a leg left on which to stand nor a 1 in which it may be clad. T professor, after cutting every bit of ground from under them, offered his opinion that we are to educate and elevate the Filipinos and aid them governing them the “whose dearest ideals are the political traditions of Americans.” This displaces one discus- sion for another. The country will wait for the pro. fessor’s calm judgment upon the effect of our co- n and aid, offered to a race “resentful of the intrusion of other races,” and “whose dearest ideal is our- traditions,” formed before we took their sov- ereignty by purchase from a power they hated and had expelled, and appeared among them to assert our -sovercignty by fire and sword, with a demand for un- 1 al surrender. He said: “Although Ameri- can sovereignty must be established by force, shall we ever dream of the policy of extermination?” - We answer that, taking his own statement of the case, our demand for unconditional surrender is nothing short of a threat of extermination. Nowhere yet in the history of man have conquer- * ofs aided the conquered in such co-operation as he looks for. If he is correct in his estimate of their _“dearest ideals,” nothing is left but extermination. His views have increased the harrowing nature of the ! situation. They obsolete the hard commercial view expressed by Denby and Carter and propose to re- tire it as a motive. For it he substitutes the belief that we can follow slaughter by elevation, which is obviously incompatible with his conception of the “dearest ideals” of the people whom he proposes shall be born into liberty by the Caesarian operation. in na ope conditior SEPTEMBER 30, 1809 B Address All Communications to W. S, LEAKE, Manager. 3.00 1.50 lfl::;_w Continental Europe began to flow in to such an ex- Unfon Equare; | sness of heart, it is only muddle- | elves, in fraternal co-operation with | ~TRADE AND IRRIGATION. OMMERCE is the exchange of the products of C industry. If a people have no surplus of these | products they have nothing to exchange and | therefore have no commerce. A few years ago the | ery all over California was that we were planting | orchards and vineyards so extensively that we would | ruin ourselves by overproduction. Still the planting | went on. The surplus increased. Wherever a great | surplus of the articles of. commerce is found the com- | mercial ingenuity of man is at work to find a mar- | ket. The annual increase in our fruit output has gone | on, but the overproduction is not apparent. The | State Board of Trade made an exhibit of our fruit, in all forms, at Hamburg. Immediately the orders from | tent that European Governments were driven to find | pretexts for artificial interference with the course of trade. But this temporary hindrance has not chilled | the mercantile ingenuity of our people, and this year the driers and canners of California fruit have a | larger market, a better demand and are making more money than ever. | We are looking for trade in Asia and Oceanica. The means of getting it are not occult. They involve no sorcery. We need not conjure for it with charms and invocations, nor seek it with sword and rifle. We must find out what the people with whom we seck commercial exchange require, and then must produce it in larger volume and at a lower cost than anybody else, and the trade is ours. | General Chipman has recently quoted Li Hung | Chang to the effect that China has passed the point of self-supply of food for her people. Her popula- tion has headed and passed the capacity of the rice crop to feed it. It has been proved in India and in China that rice-cating Asiatics readily substitute wheat | for rice. While wheat is one of the early steps away from grazing the land with sheep and cattle, and is | not the highest use to which land in California can | be put, yet on millions of acres in this State it must | always remain the best use, because their soil and | situation are not such as to make a change of uses | profitable. In wheat and other products of the soil | we must for generations seek that surplus which will be the basis of our trade with the Orient. This makes stability of production the one over- mastering necessity in our commercial situation. We say deliberately to the bankers and business men of Francisco and the other cities of California which ndle the trade of the State that our future lies in the soil. We cannot improve our climate, for it is in- comparable.’ None other in the world is so affection- ate to the soil. None other kisses it into such de- light of fruitfulness. None other is adapted to win from the land such a bewildering variety of the com- forts, necessaries and luxuries of life. But the ele- ment climate and the tireless sunshine cannot woo crops out of land without water. Water is the gastric juice of the soil. The land of California is more pr ctive than other land, because it is richer in plant food, but that food must have water as its solvent before it can feed the plant. If the animal stomach have no gastric juice as a solvent it may be cd with food while the animal starves for lack Without water as a solvent the richest vium shows no verdure and nourishes no plant e. With water the desert, rich in all the mineral ements which the plant cells transmute into human food, blossoms and bears like the garden “planted eastward in Eden.” Therefore let us not be diverted from the funda- mental réquirement of California commerce, It is water, water everywhere. Our topographical sitwation is such that all the water needed forever is ours for the taking. Two im- mutable of nature hand it to us. Evaporation d gravity work while men sleep. Man has no monopoly on them, and can neither arrest nor ac- | celerate them. But he may harness them to his pur- pose. The proposition to invoke the resources of the State government to impound flood waters and thereby irrigate every available acre and bring it into action is a proposition to increase our trade with Asia and with all the world. At present in the waste of this water is the waste of all this land that it might | serve, of all that it might produce, of all the profit of that production and of all the commerce it would generate, and of all the taxes the State might derive from its advance by cultivation. This is a waste of money that might build schoolhouses and maintain schools, and is a waste of the power of population, which would come if invited by the stability of pro- duction which the storage of water will at once es- tablish. We are reasonable when we say that no land on earth ever wasted as much as California by her in- attention to this subject. | Every interest here is involved, and all should be roused to co-operation in the effort to secure the action of which the State alone is capable. None can dispute the direct connection between water storage and foreign trade, and now when our commercial sensibilities are so aroused is the time to strike. cramr of nutrition. I all If, under the law, a man’s house is his castle, what |is a woman's? It's not, according to a policeman who pads the Natoma street beat. On that theory, at any rate, he arrested a Mrs. Lillie Gray last Sunday and charged her with having committed an assault | with a deadly weapon for having fired a shot at a former lodger who was trying to force the door to her room. '( A QUESTION OF TERRITORY. EFENDERS of the British in their aggressions D upon the Boers have advanced at one time or another many curious arguments to justify the | aggressors and condemn Kruger and the stalwart patriots who are backing him, but about the most curious of all is one put forth by the Philadelphia | Record. in the plea that the Boers have no right to | independence because their country is too large for | the population. The Record says: “It is assumed | that the Transvaal is a compact little republic, and that | the Boers are in danger of being crowded out of their | patrimony by unwelcome foreigners, when, in fact, | the area of the country is greater than that of France. | Thege is not the slightest reason to fear that 100,000 | Boers and 200,000 or so of Outlanders cannot live in the country without jostling one another, even though | they should multiply tenfold. Now, it is one of the | unwritten laws of nations that no man nor people | can claim a monopoly of the world’s unoccupied lands, nor of their natural wealth; that these un- | peopled places and all they contain are the heritage | of all mankind, and it is the natural right of man to | emigrate to any locality and abstract from the ground to which he can obtain a just title the bounties locked up therein.” If that doctrine be set up as a valid principle of in- ternational law it would be difficult to defend in a court of arbitration our claims to the territory we possess in the United States proper, and we could not defend it at all to what we possess in Alaska. In that ‘Territory we are now holding an area of land many times larger than France with a white population much smaller than that of the Transvaal. The full absurdity of the argument, however, is appar- ent only when it is remembered that it is urged in justification of the right of the British to conquer the Transvaal. Now the British in Canada, in Aus- tralia and in South Africa claim dominion over large and very thinly populated regions. The Boer has as much right to own a country as big as France as the British have to own a quarter of the earth. S— A local controversy over the propriety of placing an Internal revenue tax upon patent medicines has disclosed the fact that the national authorities never intended to tax medical advice. The Government probably reached the merciful conclusion that that sort of advice is high enough already. MARCONI @ND HIS TELEGRAPHY. UGLIELMO MARCONI, the expert in wire- G less telegraphy, has been somewhat unfortu- nate inasmuch as his arrival in this country has occurred at a time when the public has no atten- tion to give to any one but Dewey. The yacht race for the America cup, which is to be reported for The | | Call and the New York Herald by his system of | telegraphy, is for the moment forgotten, and his ar- rival in New York some days ago was almost un- | noted by a people watching and waiting for the com- ing of the hero of Manila. Marconi, however, will have his day in due time. The success accomplished by The Call in procuring by wireless telegraphy an earlier notice than any of | its contemporaries of the arrival off the Golden Gate | of the transport with the California Volunteers was an illustration of the value of the new telegraphy to practical journalism. That feat will be memorable because it was the. first use of the system in actual newsgathering, but it was comparatively simple. The work to be done in connection with the yacht race will be more complex - and more difficult, and yet there is no reason to doubt it will be accomplished fsuccessfully in every respect. The man whose experiments have made wireless telegraphy possible is one of the few men of genius to whom it has been given to achieve an epoch- making feat at the very beginning of manhood. Marconi is but 26 years old, and he has been working | at his system only about five years. He began by !trying to send electric messages without wires from | one pole to another on his father’s estate in Italy. He attained some success, and then went to England. Of late the improvement of his system has been rapid. ‘When he first came before the public he did no more than exhibit some amusing experiments. Now he has given the world an invention of vast usefulness in many directions. During the recent British naval maneuvers mes- sages were sent between ships eighty miles apart across intervening land, and it was thereby demon- strated that neither tall buildings, steel masts, moun- | tains nor the curvature of the earth stops the com- | munication. Since such things do not count as ob- stacles, it is difficult to set a limit to the extent to which the new telegraphy may not be extended. The | British are now about to make an experiment of send- | | ing messages for 300 miles. If that be accomplished greater distances will next be undertaken, and per- | haps before the century closes the age which prided itself on the electric wire will find the wire useless |and dispatches across the occan will be transmitted | through the air. All of these wonderful probabilities are the results of some experiments made by an Italian youth mainly | for his amusement while a student at the University of Bologna. They would of course have been at- | tained without him, for hundreds of others were work- ing at the same problems. He alone, however, has had the genius to perceive the value of the dis- clostires made by each new experiment, and thus move rapidly on from one step to another. Marconi | merits every honor this country can give him. He | has done a great work for the world, and fortunately is young enough to receive in his own person much of the benefit that will flow from it. . Latest advices indicate that there is much distur- | bance in the interior of Jamaica. Can it be that the | brand of ginger for which that country has been so justly celebrated is losing its grip? Fcampaign it is evident the imperialists are en- deavoring to make it appear as an appeal to the country on the issue of imperialism. They declare the Republican party stands for the imperial policy, and that every vote for the Republican candidate will be a vote for imperialism, while every vote for the Democratic candidate will be a vote against it. Such pretensions are without justification, but they are cunningly made. It has been the aim of the im- perialists all along to identify the Republican party with their policy, and to effect that they have not hesitated at any kind of misrepresentation. They perceive ample reasons for feeling well assured of Republican success in Ohio against such an opponent as McLean standing on a platform that reiterates the demand of the Chicago platform for the remonetiza- tion of silver at 16 to 1, and with no little craft they are devising a means of claiming the victory as their own. U The falseness of the claim has been exposed by the investigations into the situation in Ohio by a cor- respondent of the New York Post, who asserts that McLean will not in any way represent the anti- imperial sentiment of the people of the State. He says: “Of every ten men who abhor and despise im- perialism not more than five can be induced to vote for McLean as a method of exhibiting this abhor- rence and disgust. The other five will say that the remedy is worse than the disease, as they will await a more favorable opportunity for expressing their sentiments.” The conditions in Ohio are, in fact, of such a na- ture the vote will hardly signify the sentiment of the people upon any issue other than the general one of keeping in power the party of prosperity and keeping out of power the party of discontent. It happens the Republican candidate for Governor is a man of known ability and integrity, who when hardly more than a boy served as a Union soldier and who in manhood has filled many offices and positions of public trust with fidelity and efficiency. His oppo- nent is one of the most corrupt men in American politics, who has been not only antagonistic to the better interests of the people generally, but a bitter and unscrupulous faction fighter in his own party. In such a condition of affairs it is clear that if Mc- Lean should be elected it would be a proof that the tide of sentiment against imperialism is running so strong that the people, rather than give even a seem- ing indorsement to it, will vote against a good man who has been charged with imperialism by his oppo- nents, and trust their State for a time to a man who othegwise would not be able to poll the full vote of even the Democratic stalwarts. THE OHIO CAMPAIGN. ROM the tenor of the comment on the Ohio 4 QUARANTINE AGAINST CONSUMPTION. While & Few Newspapers Are of the Opinion That It Is a Step in the Right Direction, the Majority Regard the Proposition . a3 Selfish and Inhuman. HE proposition of the State Board of Health to bar consumptives from California has excited considerable interest throughout the country. News- papers in all sections of the country comment upon it freely. Some con- sider it a prudent move on the part of the State’s Board of Health, but gen- erally it meets with disapproval. The views of a number of leading jour- nals are presented below: Chicago Journal. The proposal of a member of the California Board of Health to slam the door in the faces of consumptives by means of a_State quarantine against af- flicted ¢rgons secking to prolong their lives In the California climate 15 so self- ish and inhuman that it borders on the barbarous. Were it necessary to the purp?se it might have the plea of self-preservation, but it is not necessary. It recalls the ignorant and panic-stricken shotgun quarantine of the South during a_yellow fever soare, and has not half their excuse. If Californians are afrai of catching consumption, let them keep away from consumptive persons. The State is large enough for consumptives and healthy people, too. Philadelphia Public Ledger. It consumption is really a contaglous disease, and there are strong reasons for thinking that {f is, the action of the California board is strictly in line with the precautions taken’ against the diseases mentioned, and while its threat seems a cruel one, it might be the best thing that could be done for humanity - at large to put it in execution. That course would open the eyes of the peo- ple as nothing else would to the danger which lies in promiscuous and unre- stricted Intercourse with consumptives. New York Journal. The California State Board of Health by unanimous vote has decided to ‘‘con- sider the propriety of quarantining against human beings and domesti¢ animals Wwith tuberculosis entering the State.’’. This is the first step in a direction in which sanitary science strongly tends to go. Tuberculosis is now known to be a strictly contagious disease, and tho most malignant one known.to man, if judged efther by the number of its victims or the percentage of deaths to cases. 4 Springfield Republican. The growing sensitiveness of California to being known as a home of con- sumptives is manifested in a resolution adopted by tne State Board of Health suggesung a quarantine against all “human beings and domestic animals with tuberculosis entering the State.”” It is claimed that 20,00 patients go to Califor- nia yearly from other sections and spread contagion broadcast in that State. The contagiousness of tuberculosis is now so well established that Incidents of this kind, while they seem harsh, are to be expected. Some time there may be special hospitals for consumptives in every State, and as much pains taken to prevent the spread of the disease as smallpox or diphtheria. Boston Herald. California will be likely to lost much of her popularity as a resort for con- sumptives if the action of the State Board of Health there, calling for the estab- lishment of a quarantine against all persons afflicted with tuberculosis and the strict isolation of all victims of the disease, is rigidly carried out. Still, it looks like the part of prudence on the part of California if it values the welfare or its own citizens above that of the world at large. Chicago News. California should go slow in barring consumptives from ‘“the land of sun- shine.” Quite a resgectable percentage of its population went to California for the benefit of its air and sunshine and it would come with bad grace from these to deny others a similar right. Besides, if California puts up the bars against the rest of the States in this respect it may occur to the latter to treat it to a dose of its own medicine in financial and commercial ways, to which the inhabitants of the “‘Golden State” would vigorously object. Chicago Democrat. Consumption s not such a dangerously contagious disease as to demand quar- antine. That precautions should be taken to prevent contagion is certalnly just, but that California has a right to establish a ‘“‘corner” on light and .air in this case may be seriously questioned. Indeed, doctors disagree on this subject as well as on the value of the climate cure. Philadelphia Evening Telegraph. The actlon of the California State Board of Health looking toward the quar- antining of that State against consumptives is likely to cause much comment and }vrntest. But the public should not be too quickly alarmed. The California State Joard has by no means established such a quarantine; it has only resolved that the board ‘“‘consider the propriety’ of such action. The movement is clearly tentative and meant to open up the question and encourage debate. The chances all are that California will not commit herself to a policy in which she ‘would be certain to be condemned by the world at large. Philadelphia Call. If California leads the way, other States will follow, and if so a serious harm would be done to many afilicted people, who should have universal sympathy in their efforts to regain health. But, on the other hand, if consumption is an infectious disease, carrying danger to the community wherever it goes, there is no reason why the precau- tions found necessary to prevent the spread of other infectious diseases should not_be applied to it with equal rigor. ¥ But it is to be hoped that safe and ample quarantine measures may be de- vised without barring from the land of the Golden Gate those who look to it as the land of hope. Boston Journal. The establishment of this proposed quarantine would be a heavy blow to those who have found relief every winter in the sunny districts south of San Francisco; vet California assuredly could not be condemned for adopting measures to insure the sound health of her own citizens. However, the question still remains, if other semi-tropical States should take similar steps what would become of many vic- tims of this worst of dlseases? ‘Washington Post. California has acquired a notoriety that is not distinctly creditable or ad- vantageous for freak legislation. It is now seriously proposed, and not by cranks and irresponsibles, but by so important a body as the State Board of Health, to bar consumptives out of the State. We have seen casual allusions in newspapers indicating that the people of California and Colorado were dis- pleased with the practice of Eastern invalids going to those States, but this ac- tion of the California Board of Health is a long step in advance of occasional paper complaint. It comes very near being an official notice to consump- or those who appear to be tending toward consumption, that the time may soon arrive -when they will not be permitted to enter that State. Hereto- fore these unfortunates have been invited by eirculars and newspaper adver- tisements, issued by owners of health resorts, to come and breathe the healing air of California. Is that healing to be denied them? * St. Joseph (Mo.) Herald. The people of California are fearful that they will contract the deadly dis- ease of consumption from the large number of cases constantly in their midst. How such a_law could,be executed is one of the hardest problems to be con- sidered—harder, in fact, than the solution of the question, whether it would do any good. With all its’ difficulties, it is not at all likely that such a law will be enacted or enforced. Philadelphia Inquirer. Few people could have supposed that the suggestion lately made by a Cali- fornian doctor that the State establish a quarantine against consumptives would be carried into effect and for that reason the representations now being made by members of the profession with regard to the impracticability of accom- piishing what was proposed will attract only an academic interest. It is, how- ever, gratifying to find that the profession generally is inclined to feel indignant at the idea of attempting or even thinking about a procedure at once so self- ish and so inhuman. That Is a sentiment with which the great majority of people will heartily sympathize. Most of us have not yet schooled ourselves to regard disease from the purely Scientific point of view, as something to be stamped out without any consideration for the feelings or the welfare of those who suffer from it. Salt Lake Deseret News. = It is easily understood that California does not enjoy the reputation as a health resort, which brings thousands of consumptives to her citles and towns and villages to inhale the balmy atmosphere, particularly in view of the danger of infection they carry with them. But if one class of sufferers is to be ex- cluded from any particular spot in this free country, why not all? How many diseases are there that are not ‘“‘catching?”’ The modern tendency is to establish special institutes where people suffer- ing from pulmonary troubles may be treated, but no civilized State has as yet esfablithed quarantine against the unfortunates of that class. It is not proba- ble it can be maintained in California. SHOULD BE MADE TO PAY THE WAR TAX Opinion of the Interior Press on the Way Wells, Fargo & Co. Is Evading the Law. Windsor Herald. Several Judges have decided lately that Wells, Fargo & Co. are liable for the revenue war tax stamp required on their orders, receipts and packages received by them for transmission, and yet they refuse to pay it and still persist in making the people pay the tax for them by refusing to accept packages for transmission or to do any business with the people at all until after the people have paid for the war tax stamp which the law requires the express company should pay for. This is as unpatriotic as it is dishonest and unjust on the part of Wells, Fargo & Co., and they should either be made respect the law and pay their just share of the war tax or surrender their franchise to do business in a country whose laws they do not respect and under the protection of a Gov- ernment to which they.are neither loyal, honest nor profitable. o iiene Livermore Herald. It would appear that Wells, Fargo & Co. will at last be compelled to pay their proportion of the war tax. In the Superior Court at San Francisco last week Judge Troutt gave judgment against the company in a suit brought in the name of the people of the State to determine whether or not the company should pay for the revenue stamps required by law to be afilxed to its bills of landing or other receipte for goods to be transported over its lines. While the decision must now stand the test of the Supreme Court, there seems to be no doubt but that it will be sustained. The telegraph companies should then receive the samie atten- tion, and a great victory for the people will have been achieved. el e Chino Valley Champion? Wells, Fargo & Co. are getting a thoroughly good and well deserved roasting from all over California on account of their refusal to pay the war revenue on the business they do and their shifting this burden, which rightfully belongs to them, upon the people who do business with them. On top of this Superfor Judge Troutt of San Francisco has rendered a decision holding that the company must pay its tax. For these joint and several reasons J. J. Valentine, president of the sneaking corporation, has been flooding the country with anti-expansion and anti-war circulars. Valentine and his precious company deserve their roasting. They should have some more of it. And then they should be severely let alone in a business way. They have been fostered and pampered until they have grown rich and fat and arrogant and dictatorial. { - i Placer Herald. . Superior Judge Troutt of San Francisco has declded that Wells, Fargo & Co. must pay the revenue stamp that must be affixed to a package. It is pleasant to learn that the company has to pay it, but it Is not an occaslon for hilarity, as the public will pay it finally by reason of increased rate. ATy Berkeley World Gazette. The words of Congressman Marion de Vries on the question of whether the telegraph and express companies should pay their war taxes strike the key note of the situation. He says: “In my opinfon it was the intention of Congress that express and telegraph companies should pay the war tax attempted to be levied upon them in the revenue act.” This is true. Congress aimed the tax at these corporations and did not intend that the people should pay them. No more unpatriotic attitude has ever been shown against the United States than has been shown by these rich companies. No better law could be passed b; Congress than one compelling these corporations to pay this tax and proh(bmny the shifting of it to the patrons; or else cancel their corporate privileges mfi close their doors to business, ) | | | affected with uisease, | that the cattle are afflicted AROUND THE ; CORRIDORS Lieutenant Thomas C. Hart, United States navy, is at the Occidental. R. C. Miner, a prominent attorney Stockton, is a guest at the Lic H. Guernsey, a prominent cattleman of Nevada, Is registered at the Lic W. P. Harkey, Sheriff of Yuba County, is among the arrivals at the Russ. W. N. Wallace, the rich Fresno mining of | magnate, is registered at the Grand. Dr. Wallace, one of the leading physi- cians of Yreka, is a guest at the Lick Edgar T. Wallace, a wealthy mine owner of Yreka, i$ a guest at the Palace. J. B. Staley, a returned Klond: whose home is in Sydney, Ohio, is a gu at the Lick. C. D. McPhee, the millionaire lumber- man of Denver, is one of the recent ar- rivals at the Palace. D. C. Mitchell, a mining man of Idaho, and A. Mierson, a merchant of Placer- ville, are at the Grand. . F. M. Whitney, one of the leading by ness. men of Santa Barbara, Is at Occidental on a short visit. W. T. Ellis, the Marysville cs is at the Palace, accompanied b; ily. He will remain for some H. C. Short, a wealthy stockm: peka, Kans., is at the Palac > came to witness the return of the Kansas vol- unteers. R. H. Steven, one of the 1;:m1§nu mer- pitz ist, his fam- cantile men of Syra N. s at Occidental. He is combining business and pleasure. Mrs. E. P. Buckingham, who owns one of the largest fruit orc ds in the State has arrived at the Palace from her homg in Vacaville. Cyrus Mulkey, manager of the Spreckeis stables at Napa, who has been spending the last two years among the mining camps of Alaska, has returned from Cape Nome. He has been staying at the Grand, but left last night for his home. —_—e—————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. FIVE DOLLAR PIECES—Mrs. J. R, Calaveras, Cal. There is no premium of- fered for $ pi; of 1836 and 1838. No premium is offered for coins of that de- nomination coined later than 1834 PRESIDIO POSTOFFICE—A. O. R, Alameda, Cal. The postoffice at the Pre- sidio of San Francisco has since last July been a third class office. 1 | the postmistress there is §1600 a year. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING —D., Newcastle, Cal. By communicating with the recorder at the University of Cali- fornia at Berkeley you will be able to obtain infprmation as to the study of electrical engineering at that institution of learning. SAND SOAP—M. G., City. Sand soap is prepared by adding to the melted soap about one-half its weight of fine silicious sand. Some persons use tne shelly sea sapd, sifted from the shells nd -wel “‘jshcfl For the finer q es finely 2 powdered pumicestone is used. A PRUSSIAN COIN—H. M., City, The coin of which you send a drawing in your letter of inquiry is a four “silber grosch- en,” colned during the reign of Frederiok Wilhelm of Prussia (Borussia), 1787 to 1840. A groschen is 2 cents. As an coin” it is worth just whatever an indi- vidual who would like to be possessed of it would be willing to give for it. Such can be purchased from dealers at from 40 to 75 cents. e FRANCO-PRUSSIAN WAR—M. E. B, City. The Franco-Prussian War origin- ated in the French Emperor’s jealous the greatly increased power of Pr through the successful issue of the wi with Denmark in 1864 and Au ia {n 186 The German confederation was therel annulled and the North German Confe: eracy established under the Supremac Prussia, to which -d_Hanover, t and other. provinces. Nzsen, Frankfc DISEASED CATTLE—L. H. M., Valley Ford, Cal. The Board of Health of San Francisco has the right to quarantine cat- tle if there is suspicion that they are and if it appears it may or- der the same disposed of in the man- ner that is best for safety. If it should turn out that the cattle were not affected by disease, and they had been disposed of by the Board of Healtly, the party who is the sufferer could com: mence an action against the board for damages. But in order to do that, much would depend upon the circumstances, as to whether that was cause for action. L Cream mixed candies, 25¢ 1b. Townsend's* e e e e Peanut tafty, best in world. Townsend’s* e e Treat your friends to Townsend's Cali- fornia Glace Fruits, 50c Ib, in fire-etched boxes. 627 Market st., Palace Hotel, * s Sl o Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 ¢ ey Sues for Maintenance. Sarah Hartman filed suit yesterday against her susband, Adolph E. Hartman, for maintenance. Plaintiff alleges that Hartman deserted her in May, 1893, and has since failed to contribute toward her support. ———— Northern Pacific Railway. Upholstered tourist sleeper through to St. Paul every Tuesday night. No change. This car s nicely upholstered in leather and 1s ex- tremely comfortable in every respect. Pullman sleeping cars of the latest pattern on every train. Tickets sold at lowest rates to all points East. T. K. Stateler, Gen. Aat., 635 Market st., San Francisco. Cheap Rates. September 29 to October 5 inclusive, the San- ta Fe Route will sell tickets to Chicago at very low rates. Occasion, corner-stone laying Government building and fall festivitfes. Get full particulars at 628 Market street. —_————— Faded bair recovers its youthful color and softness by the use of Parker's Hair Balsam. Hindercorns, the best cure for corns. 15 cts. e — Travelers should know that Dr. Siegert's An- gostura Bitters neutralizes impurities in water and corrects stomach troubles. e Yesterday’s Bankrupts. 3 ‘William A. Ballinger, house and card painter of Sacramento, $591 37; no assets, George R. Hart, railroad engineer, Oak- land, 3311 10; no assets. ke WHAT D0 YOU KNOW ABOUT OIL? There are two kinds of investors in speculative enterprises. One who in- vestigates, nsks where are your lands? How much money have you on hand? How much work has actually been done? By what title do you hold your lands, ghow your deeds, leases and con- tracts? THE OTHER Just buys, accepting Whatever s : to him by the seller as truth, iy Which Makes the Best Investments ? We ask you to investigate r books are open to inspection, our decdy and contracts can be seen. Send for our {ilustrated souv - ing a history of the oll indast AMERICAK OIL AND REFINERY COMPANY, 922-323 PARROTT BUILDING, SAN FRANCISCO, o, OAKLAND OFFICE... 460 TENTH ST. ROOMS