The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 17, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1899 L Call o OCTOBER vE SR “JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprieter. Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. _.Market and Third Sts.. S. F Telephone Mais 1868 ROOMS 217 to 221 Stevenson Strest Telephone Main 18574 Address A PUBLICATION OFFICE EDITORIAL BEY CARRIERS, 13 CENTS PER WEEK ngle Coples, 5 cents. ° ©AKLAND OFFICE.. C. GEORGE KROGNESS, nager Forciga Advertising, Marquetts Building, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLTON . Herald Square NEW YORK RiIPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR ...29 Tribune Bullding STANDS. i Great Northers Neotel; WASHINGTON D d. L ENGiIsH _ Welilngton Hote! Correspondent. cry street. corner Clay, yes et. open un ctreet. open until 923 cpen unt!l 930 o'clock. 0 £2C" Market pen untll § o'clack. 1096 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventd 2 c'clock. NW. corner Twemtys ucky streets, open until 9 o'clock AMUSEMENTS. we are willing he State. We appeal ble number of people Pacific Company with road managers have so the lawful prey of the rail- difference between them e to the road is service to e people a different idea prevails i the Southern Pacific Company jects are directly hostile to the pub- whom Huntington would ber of the Interstate Commerce »n is the man whom the people will have 1 to distrust. No man can serve both ammon, neither can any serve both Cali- d the Southern Pacific. 1 was prompt to commend a movement on the Traffic Association to obtain a Pacific resentativé on the Commerce Commission. continue to support that movement until the red end is attained, but by a representative of the agent or an attorney of the just such a con- the guard is proven >wed the first stone it threw The end as ¢ men ma Grove Ayers caa consider himself the luckiest man It is true, as a result of the fire that broke is person last Sunday, that he will have to wig on his wishbone, but he can congratulate i that he escaped alive, in spite of the fact that out the day before. in town. out on k his fire The regord of having expended in the fifty years of its work ir fornia more than $56,000,000 for ity and one.the Odd Fellows of the State may well be proud of, and the State is proud of them. Such liberality of aid attests a fra- ternalism of the rig d Will wonders never cease? On top of the infor- mation that there is a project under way to erect in Gotham a hali-million dollar hotel exclusively for women comes the statement that up to date the pro- posed location of the hostelry has been kept a secret We can now have another great international cone test with our British friends by starting a rivalry to see whether Otis can whip the Filipinos before Buller whips the Boers. A forward march of both the con- testants would beat the yacht race. s o G. W. Lanorette, who has been traveling with the Main circus as the “Starved Cuban,” died suddenly at Merced! Tt is supposed his taking off was the ré- sult of apoplexy induced by over-eating. Wishing to divorce himself from the cares of busi- ness for a few weeks, it is appropriate that President McKinley should pass some of that time in South Dakota. \ | _ {was asked to name representative men who would i to have been conceived in error and born of ignor- | T = | will undoubtedly respond in time. FEach executive WATER STORAGE. 1 HE Escondido Times, which may be regarded | really attend the convention, and it is hoped thers | Tas the California organ of the National Irriga- | will be many delegates irom other States who “’“1! | tion Congress, says of the coming water stor- | later be active at home in promoting the policies age convention in t! “This movement appears | agreed upon. The time is propitious for the mining States of the ance of the real needs of California and the irrigation | West to act with success in prometing the measures i the West.” | necessary to their interests. Public opinion has now hat the real need of California and the | been fully awakened to the importance of the problem of conser e water supply and of pro- | tecting the streams and the valleys by the construc- {tion of impounding dams. So also much has been | done to form a sentimen favor of a revision of the mining laws and of establishing a department of the Government to administer the affairs of the vast in- dustry of mining. | { d Washing- | »The war in the Transvaal is going to turn in this | | direction the attention of mining capitalists seeking | ional Irrigation | investments. or not will be| Whether they inve: largely determined by th islation and other con- tions under ng is carried on in this erefore, to remedy all abuses and to give such assistance as is expedient to promote the mining enterprises of nation. A convention, representing the great | rining States of e Union can do much to ac- | complish these desired ends, and for that reason the Governor Mc- whic HE meeting day Metropolitan Temple on Satur- evening to rat l ;‘ i KET RATIFIED. ’ | ; I the Republican mu- nicipal ticket was and an incident of so and temperate address Hon. Horace Davis was a keynote from opening salute | to its last word. It supplied, irom a source of unguestioned integrity, a group of facts that had bscured by the mperate utterances of Mr. | n and his supporters. The new charter, from ion to its ratification by the Legislature, depended upon Repul an favor, in- and votes for its installation as the organic | e city. It would have been beaten at the been ¢ It was adopted by a Republican Legis- lature, wherein the right of home rule was recog- nized. The new primary law, which Mr. Phelan says necessary adjunct of the charter, was intro- cuced by a Republican Senator and passed by a Re- i The Republican party having share in securing reform in the funda- ible thereior by Republican votes without which | on in Democratic strongholds would have beaten it, and having accepted final responsibility for it in a Republican Legislature; is now denounced | {by Mr. Phelan as not to be trusted to organize the | government which is to issue from it! Saturday night's meeting distinctly repudiated this assumption and was the party’s declaration that the | law it made it intends to adr ter. Having the | and being representéd by a ticket which com- | 1 1fidence of every independent votet in | d that has the enthusiastic support of ublican who feels the impulse of his civic responsibility, the Republican party appeals with con- fidence to the conscience of every well-wisher of the The speech of Hon. Horace Davis was the utter- | ance of a man who appreciates the solemn respor bility of public auth . and who approaches its | assumption with no ambition other than its faithful adm ation. No lorging for the dress parad: common to men who make spectacular use of one position that it may be a stepping-stone to another, is found in his address. It is the speech of a business ho knows keenly the relation between good the prosperity of the people. an he. believes that a municipal a business organization, to be run on | iples. Its officers are chosen by a ma- as their directors and agents, ‘o As a m: y of the voters in v are unquestionably in favor of the ideas and licy of Mr. Da it would be an act of folly to an, who does not represent either the elect Mr. P! politics or the municipal policy of that majority. spo ernment an As a busi corporati <ti s, almoner, there w cern the present gene r they will be the hope o BOERS AS FIGHTERS. ERAL BULLER, ziter his appointment as commander in chief of the British forces in South Africa, went according to custom to taks | 1 leave of his sovereign, and when her Majesty impressed upon him her dislike of war and her desire for its speedy termination, he is reported to have at- | , “The war will be t buried in soil so dry | | | that will h h policy ignorance,” for do v “conceived in error and born hard words irrigate no land. We will admit that, like troublesome but not dangerous. s meer things unseen, the sub- | Ajlowance is to be made for the circumstances pense o e under which the general spoke. .He could hardly not But Ca o g else to a woman and a Queen ab- come. St and fetch and eager for a return of peace. Itis them. Tt : vember 14 | quite probable, however, the general really meant is for, and to its de les of Fed- | what he said. Despite the disastrous experiences of eral irrigation by m } Majuba Hill and other conflicts with the Boers, there |is a strong belief among the British that the success of the Boers in those engagements was due more to bad management 6n the part of the British com- ! manders than to any extraordinary excellence of the | Boers themselves. Predictions have been made in Lonflon that the war will be ended within three | months after the British forces are feady to take the | aggressiv: Men who have lived in South Africa, however, take | a different view. For example, James Say, ex-chair- ! man of the Rand Stock Exchange, is quoted by a London paper as having said just before the butbreak = i THE PROBLEMS OF THE MINERS. | & : S = | of hostilities: “Great Britain, if she goes to war, wiil i g convention in .San Francisco this year | begin the worst day’s work for herself in her history. T 2 mbly. he | : Juare :han‘ a State assembly. The | South Africa would tirn the country into a hell for | problems of Western miners are many, and as most of them are as important to one Western or Pacific ii:::;o :roemfe‘.u:;l:etr:afol:;1;2:1d_v;f0£§h}ti:er: t::: Coast State or Territory as to another, it is desirable once defeated Johannesburg wi!i be razed and the they l?c— dAs_cussed by representative men from Egold mines destroyed. It will cost Britain $75,000,000 all sections of the Greater West so that there may be l¢ " ©ew machinery alone Milner's has been a sad, unify of action in carrying out any line of policy that-{ mad po!ié ” % s 2 ma&" be dcer:edlad\'isa_t{.e, i ! A race of men and women of that character, oc- Among the larger issues to be dealt with by the | cupying a large and sparsely settled country compara- | convention are the revision anq codification of Fed- | tively inaccessible, can prolong a war almost indei- | eral mining laws, the conservation of water, the pro- | initely and make it costly and dangerous for an in- | curement of appropriations from the Federal Govern- | vading foe, no matter how much stronger the foe ment for the construction of restraining -dams, and | may be in numbers, discipline and military stores. the promotion of the movement begun some time | 'Tpe Boers, accustomed to border wx-riare..will nm’ af:n::'n‘:';?gaa::‘;;ti:::e:;‘;? by ‘hed)‘“,"ma) Gov- : rush in fanatic folly to slaughter as did the dervishes = e S anc mutngs i be They will resort to every strategy P T $ el 2 | at Omdurman. 3 un ‘cr t):: irection and control of an official of Cab- | their skill can devise and make full use of every ad- et rank. 7 ‘ _, | vantage the w.ild nature of their country affords. Vic- Su.ch. issues affect the whole 9i the Greater West, | 4012 16 growing old and she may not live to see the and it is desirable they be considered as broad na- : erid of the conflict her general <o jauntily told h tional problems rather than as local questions. The | 3 st oo ! his race. His brother Baldomero is imprisoned at Filipino headquarters and will sooz be shot for trea- ted of the embezzlement T gent treasury. Aguinaldo de- clares that he will not interfere to prevent the execu- tion of sentence. s ROM every point of view it is gratifying that efforts have been put forth to make the annual mini | A would be “troublesome but not dangerous.” efforts made to procure a general representation of o v { | other mining States and Territories have met with | It is said that the plans of W. K. Vanderbilt's new | good success. It has been announced that the Gov- | house at Oakdale, L. 1., have been copyrighted. 'The; ernors of Colorado, New Mexico, Idaho and Wash- | supposition is that the millionaire wishes to conceal ington had last week reported the appointment of ten | from a curious public the exact Jocation of the closet : delegates each, and all the other Western Governo-s | intended as a hiding-place for the family skeletons. i | British vessels as transports for troops to | DISTRIBUTION OF THE WATERS OF OUR STATE. Here Is the Opinion of a Man Who Has Spent Forty-Four | Years Studying the Froblem. DITOR THE CALL: In your issue of September 30 you have a very excellent artiele on “Trade xn: ylrrlgation_" in which you indorse “The proposltiag to invoke the aid of the State government to impound the flocd :vat!erhxn thereby irrigate every available acre and bring it 'into acuun.h' h spent the best years of my life in the endeavor to do this same t! .mg.'1 ex: ing commenced to write on it as early as 1855, and to make surveys at x?) :“‘ues_ pense as early as 154, and have taken an active part in every phase of the quess | tion since then, but I have learned something. and one of the most Impofant | things 1 have learned is that the habits and practices of a |:|e0p!e~ ean;\ e | ed in a day, and that all things are subject to the slow processes of S0 " | LUTION. Did you know that as a fact if you should fix Ty _f-;im e fornia for the water and put it at the highest point on the land, with nothing 1o do but to open a gate and let the water run, there would not be one In S the present farming population who would use it and that not one acre ot hundred would be watered? Did you know as a fact that tflerf is now only an infinitesimal portion of the available water used for irrigation? The gentlemen who are forming the society for the purpose of promoting the storage of water by the State mean well, but they are putting the cart a long ways ahead of 0 horse; they have not been through the mill. They are good, earnest men. and their efforts were turned in_ the proper channdl they might do some Z: i Looking over the list it seems that most of them are £00d business men, aad ' either one of them owned a large tract of land that needed irrigation he wou - “;” i build expensive reservoirs before he had utilized the one-hundredth part of the water available without the expense. If you should ask any one of these gentlemen if he would not utilize the available water first he would fell you unhesitatingly that he would. Then if he had tenants who would not use what was running by their doors would he insist on spending a whole lot of money to get more for g vhy K 12 spend the money for reser- If he would not, then why ask the State to lpha\-e e them? voirs until her people learn to use what tney have? o lrngalpmnpfor the last forty vears, and am just as enthusiastic on n\g: °t as ever, and would not for my right hand throw cold water on an mf' t might lead up to good resuits, but there are some earnest men in lhls__m;\: i who wish to d6 good to the State, and who do not want to inaugurate a move fo | the mere purpose of giving some cne a chance to talk. raments Valley th the great river -unning through it ks and rivers ruuning into it on both sides! nough to irrigate five thousand square miles of magnificent land! How much of it ? enty-five square miles is irrigated. Go on up the San Joaguin | Valley and what portion of the watets of the Cosumne, the Mokelumne, the Cala- | veras, the Stanislaus, the Tuolumne, the Merced, the San Joaquin, the Kings, the | | Kern 'and numerous other sireams heading in the eternal snows of the Sierras are utilized? Do the waters of these streams serve one acre in fifty that they ought 1o serve? There is some attempt to use some of the waters of the Kings and Kern rivers, but owing to the utter lack of laws for the proper distribution ot the water nothing like the full capacity is reached. Now if all this land be- longed to any one of the business men who are talking about forming a society for the purpose of getting the State to build reservoirs, and all the people were ten- ants, don't you think he would teil them to make a beginning on the water ru ning to waste p their doors before he would undertake to spend millions of | money in reservoirs? { When we get across the ridge into “Southern California” we find but little | land fit to cultivate and but little water. The people were forced to begin to _| use it, and as they could not take any pride in advertising ‘‘fruit grown without irrigation,” ‘the process of evolurion had to take faster steps than up porth and they are ready for that system of reservoirs—that is if they can find any water with which to fill them! They have not feit down there so much the want of a law for the distribution of the water as they have up north, because the water was nearly all developed water, or water in streams s0 small that it made distribution comparatively easy. Just what might be done | with reservoirs there I am not prepared to say, but I believe not much in com- | parison to the cost. Better let people get on to land that can be irrigated without so much cost. When we have made available all the water that may be picked up cheap, the State will have a rural population of two or three millions, and. the reservoirs will then come. ‘What we most need is some proper law for the distribution of water that will be sustained by the people and the courts. ‘We first had the riparfan contest, and that was followed by the district law. The district law may not be perfect in all {ts details, but it is correct in prin- ciple, and there can be no thorough distribution of water without bringing into operation the essential principles of the law. For the mere verbiage I am will- ing to “let fools contest.” It is now fashionable to rail against the district law, but suppose we had a reservoir in every canvon in the mountains, how would the peoplie get it without a law regulating bution, and in that law every iangl-ovlvlner must have equal rights and every one be made to pay; all the rest s detail. E The discussions at the several irrigation conventions beginning about 18%4; the fight over the district bill introduced in 18855 and the discussions that naturally followed brought about a furor in fa of irrigation, and when a district law did pass in 1857 there was a rush in the forma of districts. Seme were formed In the southern part of the State on wi less land for the sole pur- | pose of selling bonds, and in some cases bad judgment was shown, and in none was there unanimity. These all put bonds on the market. "Briefless lawyers found in the dissensions a chance to make fees, and what were called the “Kick- ers” were encouraged to begin suits. Scon a ‘“Protective League” was formed that fought all districts and all bonds. As no paper can be sold under fire the work all along had to stop. The Turlock district in Stanislaus County, under the general direction of Judge James A. Waymire, did pull along, and under fire for ten vears did get water. % Columns of detail might be brought forward to show that the district sys- tem did not have a fair test, but it is simply the desire now to call the attention of the gentiemen who propose to form a storage society to the fact that the great matter in hand is DISTRIBUTION! W. 8. GREEN. Colusa, October 16, 1599, VIOICE OF THE PRESS. That Damaging Bryan Letter. Ukiah Republican Press The San Francisco Call publishes whzat purrorts to be a fac simile of a let- ter written June 11, 1889, by William J. Bryan to J. Sterling Morton, both men | being residents of Nebraska. Mr. Bryan was that time a candidate for | secretary of the Railroad Commission of his State. He is accused of writing 10 Mr. Morten, "I assure you that it is the monzy that is in the office and nct the honor that attracts me.” The letter appears to be genuine in every respect and Mr. Morton, who is said to have received it, was Secretary of Agriculture under President Cieveland. It is a very remarkable declaration to come from a man who has received the consideration that has been shown Mr. Bryan. fl-‘i.(};e Call gives the letter all possible prominence and vouches for its authen- city. | | | | | al g n Examiner’s Faked Interviews. Stockton Independent. The Examiner published a fot of alleged interviews with officers of the | Twentieth Kansas Volunteers criticising General Otis and in the next day’s | Chronicle all the officers repudiated t.e statements of the Examiner. Some of | them deciared that they had not talked with a reporter at all and others de- | clared the published Interviews pure fakes. In one instance the alleged rait | of the officer was published and tha: proved to be a fake, was no!ghls ppol?iurfl at all and he had not even talked with the reporter. General Funston was in- dignant at the misrepresentations of him and repudiated the alleged inter- view as a whole. This merely {llustrates the methods to which the Examiner £toops in carrying out its spites. It cannot be believed in the commonest mat- ters. Its reporters cannot be believed because they have strings on them. Why should it not require a Government license to practice wholesale lying? Ab- solute prohibition ‘of falsehood wou!d be too severe on the vellow journals. It would amount to virtual confiscation of some valuable properties. But a tax of two bits a line on self-evident lying would yleld a larger revenue in San Francisco than the levy of the Supervisors. Examiner i ust Change Tts Methods. Auburn Republican-Argus. The Call is as proud of the ‘‘wireless telegraphy’* as a boy over hia first tin whistle. Of course, if Marconi has i1ken a step in advance of the wires and The Call-Herald is in on the combination it is a matter of good luck and—dollars. Their bulletins of the yacht race were certainly considerably ahead of their co. tems. We won't undertake to expiain it, as we have never seen a satisfactory explanation yet. If without interruption matters of interest can be sent across the continent with hardly a b»erceptible loss of time it is worthy of note ana this The Call claims for this latest development in electrical science. Mar- coni, the inventor, Is not to be taken to task because his name has macaroni flavor about it and the Examiner will be compeiled to adopt other methods | ! { ] 1 ! | | than simply slurring his name. The Marconi System. Springfield Leader-Democrat. It would seem that the crowning event of the nineteenth century along the | lines of scientific discovery is to be that of the Marconi system of wireless | telegraphy. The best illustration of its utility as well as its practicability has H been given by the inventor in reporting the international yacht races bet the culumbnh’nnd the Shamrock. Edison, the electrical wizard, has b?en':exe perimentin T years to accomplish the same result and pays a manly tribute to Signot Marconi in saying, “He succeeded where I failed.” ! { Future of Wireless Telegraphy. San Diego Union. ‘Wireless telegraphy showed its possibilities at New York the other day | when it was able to send from the ocean a denial of the cruel rumor that the | steamer Grand Republic had sunk with all on toard. The incident suggests | the thought that the time is not far distant when every ocean steamer will | have a wireless telegraph connection with the land and thus be able to commu. | nicate at all hours the vessel's exact position. There seems no limit to the achievements of invention in these times. —~ en the st red it indicates enl!.su:el;xg: g:r ar. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. :l}lmmenm Wh th | The goid stri TRANSPORTS —A. O. S, City. The | The gold stripe that is worn by ma; United States Government has chartered | {he ii?s‘;cgfi.?“’"m Properly belones on the Philippine Islands. ThnAgm AGE — Curtls, Lompoo, e | There is no law to prohi B Tfldsbnfigusygozz;&; s s jat st marone "?‘mel:"isls'-‘:e:mmn“' Third Uni ates " | desire to secure a license and dg cated on Angel Island. The name of the | gira 15 give th and do Grum malor is Arndt. bt s et 255, of the intended GOVERNMENT LAND-W. W. T.|}&72n8 over'If she'be more“than it rnment land apply a e marriageable , nam {and Office, San Francisco, in person or | 18 for woman. = "omey 2! for man and by letter. e e SINS—U., PAYDAYS—S,, City, All the State """‘I Cal. Marriage between %c::h lch::lxnesh); tutions of California have regular pay-| not prohibited by law in the State of Cal days and do not pay at other times, par-| ifornia, but is in Arizona, Arkaneas it ticularly salaries to employes. If dis-| nols, Indfana, Kansas, Misonrs st oioil charged between paydays, the party so Nevada, New Hampshire, North e na, discharged must wait until the next pay-: Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dno:l. day. ko Washington and 'Wyoming. The mam".;e' SPOKEN ENGLISH—S. A, City. If a! gf,c‘}l’s;gg‘;‘s‘nils’ Wrong. for the result of person was asked “Is that Jack Smith?" ' are not perfect, ' 27 2PI¥ children that and the individual spoken to was in the | habit of speaking English as it is spoken | _VALUE OF C by Mose Gunst his reply would be “That's | ¥ Piece of 1834, him,” but if he was in the habit of cx- | the legend “E Plurlbus TUnum,” com- pressing himself In ordinary English his | mands a premium from dealers of from s reply would be “That is he. | 10 82, bat if you ;;m i | be charged from to"t‘l)&b“{! She dotn 1 AUTOMOBILE—Subscriber, City. Ae- not got the I . m“mnd" | cording to the Century dictionary auto- | premium. ufi:?u‘x‘- ggelsm's":;o:g not coms mobile is pronounced as if written a-to- | MANG a premium, nor does & Ralf-dolier mo-bil. In that the a fs to be sounde] as | Of 158, unless it {s one without ayrows au in naught, the o in to as 6 in Democrat | 2t the date or Tays around the eagle. A and the i in the last syllable as short and | half without such arrows or rays com- the accent on the penult. Those who pre- | Tands a premium of from $18 50 to $24 50, fer to adopt the French pronunciation | propounce it as if written = “o-toemow. THE MORMON TEMPLE-S.. City. The 5 2 | great Mormon temple in Salt Lake City, STRIPES—B. T., City. The 'mnghlch occupied forty years in building, was dedicated April 6, 1383. The bulidin; ‘.’.l?a?fn"‘c’.f&“‘d."m:"n"i’mfi’% cuft "ot a | Proper Is 167 feet high, with one tower - X tates army | 3221 feet high and the other 219 feet. The represent enlistment;; two stripes, two ' butiding is 156% feet long by % wide. It | quirers, Ci | carded, | however, it is too late to ta | New York, is among the recent arriva | inent society people of Los Angeles, subjects who are registered at the Palace. | and have been touring the couw | pursuit of information pertaining to min- poses. | business office should have one. cau. | i OINS—Subseriber, City. A | if it has on the reverse | is built of granite, almost white and cost has been variously estimated at fro 000,000 to $12.000,000. It was built fr plans drawn by Truman O. Ange! M mon, and it is said that as an arch design it is not duplicated by any anefent or moder PASSPORT—J. G. City. 8., United States passports are to citizens thereof. only made a declaration to becor zens are not entitled 1o passports. passport is, all that is required to trave all over Furope. Application for blank y for a forms for one who desires to app! passport must be sent to the Dep: of State, passport @iv s D. C., and the forms party must state if nat or claims naturalization through or father. The fee is §1. THE GAME OF PEDRO—Severz y. One qu is: “Four-handed game of pedro (d A bid and bought. Or discards -pedro of trumps and trumps. B picked them up. that the points should go to the pit and that B had no right to p! Is that correct?” discard in pedro. In draw pedro. probably what the inquirer mean a player discards, the d turned face up, and be player a draw, the 1 the player ha: trump. ~ Shoul the p them back. After a Jead has b “In playing draw pedro ( each has one to go. ‘Trumps, clubs. ame. irst " A A has B has k. Answer—As A has § He sco set back. UND THE CORRIDORS ator of ARC William M. Spencer, an oil spe Selma, 1s at the Lick. Miss Ida Wilhelm has returned to her | home In Grass Valley. A. B. Smith, a leading merchant Fresno, is a guest at the Grand. C. G. Wilecox, a well-known oil man of Visalia, is a guest at the Occidental. E. W. McLaughlin, the San Jo talist, is at the Occidental for a few day John Campbell, the Honolulu capit: is at the Occidental, accompanied family. A. H. Denny, a_well-known land owner | of Etna, 15 one of'the late arrivals at the Occidental. John E. Budd, the Stockton attorney, is a guest at the Lick, where he arrived yesterday. G. W. Huddleson, a silk merchant London, is at the Palace, on his way the Orient. Willlam Graham, a mining expert at the Palace. A B. Carlock, a wealthy banker of Fort Jones, is at the Grand on a short business trip to this city. E. L. Barkers, a well-known bu: man of Oakdale, is an arrival of yes day at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Mead, two prom- registered at the Occidental E. E. Bush, D. R. Cameron and J. W. Barbour are three oil men of Hanford who are staying at the Lick. Charles Wright, a capitalist of Detroit. | Mich., who is on the coast traveling for pleasure, is a guest at the Palace. Henry T. Scott will be in Washington, D. C., on November 1, the time appointed for opening bids for the con 4 Lewis R. Mead. secretary of the Ri Iron and Locomotive Works, last evening from a b trip throughout the East. Charles Hardy of Nottinghamsh England; T. J. Bourne of L« Thomas Davie of Scotland and Dr. E. A Scott of Dublin are a party of Br They are greatly interested in ntry erals. —_——————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YOREK. NEW YORK, Oct. 16.—James W, Byrne, Mrs. M. Irvine, of San Francisco, and Dr. R. W. Hill of Los Angeles are at the Fifth Avenue; William H. Tayler of San Francisco is at the Manhattan. —_—————————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Oct. 16—Henry L. Freeman and wife of San Francisco are at the Wellington. e - Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's. * —_— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mon:- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, * —_— e e—— Yesterdey’s Insolvent. Walter Lounsberry Wallace, saloon clerk, Emeryville. meda County, la- bilities, $1373; assets, $3i2 30. —_—— ".l'he Rock Island Wall Map of ths United States Is the best offered to the public. It is very large and specially adapted to school pur- Every teacher of geography and every Tt will be sent post paid to any address on receipt of fAfteen cents in postage stamps or coins. Address Joha Sebastian, G. P. A, Chicago, Il —_——— The Rpck Island Plaving Cards are the sl est you ever handied. Orne pack will be by mall on receipt of 15 cents in stamps. money order or draft for & A ) cents or same in | stamps will secure 4 packs, and they will be sent by express, charges prepaid Address Jobn Sebastian, G. P. A, C. R. L & Chicago. The best appetizer and regulator of the di- gestive organs is Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bit- ters. Try it. Be sure to get the genuine. Suit on Irrigation _onds. George Parker brought suit in the United States Circuit Court yesterday against the Browns Valley Irrigation Dis- trict to recover $447 on Irrigation bords and coupons issued March 7, I8 He also asked for the interest on the same. Browns Valley is in Yuba County and Mr. Parker is a British subject. : ADVERTISEMENTS. | THE - PEERLESS B COMPANY | Offers 5000 shares of its stock at $1 per share. Capital steck. 100,000 share: Par Value ... Rare. -§10 0 per share. 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