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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1899. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. nmunications to W. S, LEAKE, Manager. Address All PUBLICATION CFFIiCE. ....Morket and Third Sts.. S. F Telephone Main 1868, | EDITORIAL ROOMS..........2I7 to 22! Stevenson Street | ephone Main 1874, DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Single Coples, B cents | Terme by Mail, Including Postage: { Sunday Call), one year. anday Call), 6 months. Sunday Call), 3 months CALL—By Single Month CALL One Year. All postmasters are authorized to receiv. subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when raquested. OAKLAND OFFICE. -:908 Broadway | C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT : C. C. CARLTO! Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: | PERRY LUKENS JR. ..29 Tribune Building | CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. Sherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel WASHINGTON (D. €. OFFICE. .......Wellington Hotel d. L. ENGLISH, Correspondent. AMUSEMENTS. Orpheum Vaudeville.” fa—"'A Br A ach of Promise.” k White Flag.” nspirators.” audeville every afternoon and M ABOUT STRAIGHT TICKETS. R. BRITTON is being somewhat overworked in the Democratic campaign. The Mayor started out by assuming personal responsi- bility for denouncing Horace Davis as a traitor and the Republican party for treason to the charter. When it seemed necessary to the personal comfort of Mr. Britton to make him feel at home in his de- | sertion to the D‘en‘.ocmcy Mr. Phelan hit upon the | plan of using him as a witness against the Republican party. So, in the Thirty-ninth Assembly District, Mr. Phelan said: “I will not say Republicans are antagonistic to the charter, but Mr. Britton is a man of honor and he says so.” He puts Mr. Britton in ition of turning State’s evidence and uses him It was a saying of Burr that the posi in that capacity. | pessed into an axiom at the bar that “the meanest If Mr. Phelan | rascal always turns State’s evidence.” choose to put Mr. Britton in that position it is his affair, not ours. Mr. Britton suffered himself to be nominated as a Republican candidate for Supervisor, and after waiting until effect would be given to his declination and announcement of his support of Fhelan he did both. Now Mr. Phelan in every speech praises Britton as the “grand old man,” but abuses the Republican party, which desired to put this grand old person on the Board of Supervisors. If Mr. Britton is really the virgin personality described by Mr. Phelan, nothing is proved except the desire of the Republican party to nominate men of that kind when they chose him. It goes without. saying that any other nominee of the Republican party who.will join Mr. Phelan in imploring Democrats to vote their ticket straight 1 und Republicans to bolt theirs will receive the same | { escription of purity and high character that is be- | Wheeler of this city, is an ideal man for the posi- | stowed on Mr. Britton. But all this would be only 1 tion. While the delegates from the various States | additional proof that the Republican party was ac- tuated by no other purpose than the nomination o llis streets—Specialties. THE EXPOSURE OF ScCANDALS. | /"\ JOURNAL devoted to the welfare of society | ion of news care- well to the dissemi 1s from the publication of scandals ls as long as it is to the community. become notorious and who by reason of their es have admis- | f womanhood to expose the | fender may be known and t the against him. effect of notorious wrong- 1d social position to | im: wealth a vicious course with ce I s re g. Persons thoroughly inno- ‘ \ uently made the s s because in their | ne unexposed rascal | persons from that to make public the | wder, then the exposure be- ss owes to the public. 1 i depraved tastes and | tite violating the estabh | fo thics who can be restrained persist in evil courses d up to public scorn. ent press, ready to ma r favor, acts therefore as Even where it dm’si zate m pursuing a gives notice | of the city on tion of private of- | sagreeable acts which most care- | even th for v te and any | pect to the public. | | week to make an elabor- | by | The fusion party in that | county and town rtunes therefore | in the contest. are in | ue of his 1 the fused elements of diminish his prestige renomination for own making, sup- | dis- | and the | of the State have not evaded the ly willing there as else- k irom a contest against the : the Presidency. They have | vigorous campaign and have pushed i that Bryan himself has found | om his campaigning in other home. n in | 7 the, chief office to tice of the Supreme Court, was s year. The ) was 102,838; : and scattering = vote for Governor the Re- e State by an 3000 plurality e less than 200.000. It is esti here are 225.000 voters in the ne vote is.therefore the de- If the Re- can bring out a f: on of their dis- ed or indifferent v vear, while the are less successiul, they will easily over- ke tl on a total ¥ t the present contest. r prop ters of last come the slight superiority the fusion vote of the last two years. If, on other hand, the Bryanites are the more successful ig rousing their voters, the victory will be with \hcn‘ It is for that reason Bryan has gone home. He has arranged for a special train and will travel over every line of railway in the State, having made en- gagements for upward of one hundred speeches in the ty counties of the commonwealth. It will be seen e man does not lack energy. He shrinks from no ue and is apparently capable of almost unlimited The task before him, however, is one that will probably prove too great for even his capacity or speechmaking and spellbinding. This is a year The large Republican gains of last over the preceding one show that as prosperity ances the calamity vote falls off. The boy orator win out, but it is going to be a close call for fa t ng. of prosperit | was, no more, no less. | ot a Continental combination against T men who would best serve the people by the faultless | administration of the charter and the law. There would be much merit in Mr. Phelan’s pro- fession to Republicans of non-partisanship if Mr. | Britton had remained on the Republican ticket and Mr. Phelan had daily and nightly eulogized him and | was sked people to vote for him Mr. Britton neither more nor less a grand old man when the Re- publicans nominated him than he is now. But the Phelan vision was never clarified to his merits until he joined the Phelan standard. The Republicans are now accused of treason to the charter. Did they show it when they nominated Britton? The fact is that in making up their ticket the Republicans scught and found candidates supposed to be just h good citizens as Mr. Phelan describes Britton o be, and .nominated him among the rest in a con- company. That he ¢ air. His former associates have seen no reason to alter their estimate of him, except such reason as Mr. Phelan has supplied by declaring it would have | been treason to the charter to have voted for him as {a Republican candi e for Supervisor. The other Republican candidates chosen as Mr. Britton was, and for the same reasons, and with the me unbroken purpose, are just as worthy as he If he or Mr. Phelan can give to Republicans a reason for bolting the ticket of a convention that was modeled upon the exact char- acter now ascribed to Britton by Phelan, we would like to hear it. linton R. Breckinridge, who is credited with a knowledge of statecraft, believes that the United States should go to England’s assistance in the event the British. People who know less about statecraft but possibly | | more of the eternal fitness of things than Brec ridge believe that Uncle Sam ought to mind his own business. WATER STORAGE. HE Escondido Times, organ of Federal irriga- tion, has discovered “a literary bureau” in San views on water storage. It has also nominated and | elected Mr. John P. Irish the leader of that opposi- tion and proceeds to souse him in flood waters and other,’in a baptism that ought to drown him or make him stay good. It may be necessary to say that the men who know that our flood waters belong to the State of California, are its property and asset, are not particularly in need of the leadership-of Mr. for. November 14 to consult upon the best way to se- cure the use of this State property which is now run- ning to waste. In spite of any aqueous argument made the cam- | by Mr. Irish, they are entirely willing that any com- | 4 | monwealth in possession of a similar property and | A defeat in his | asset shall give it to the United States or throw it at | birds. Indeed the convention may conclude that California should do one or the other with it. But an existing property; it belongs to the State, and only the State can dispose of it. It is assumed it is | at the outset that the Irrigation Congress at Mis- soula has the right to dispose of this property, and that its conelusions of policy are proper and indis- putable. Still as a matter of law the United States cannot enter the State of California, take possession of its property, control and distribute it, without the | consent of the State. The Irrigation Congress is admitted to be a very able body and very representa- | tive, but it is a voluntary organization, has no statu- tory existence, is not a legal entity. and advise and use its American right to pass reso- lutions, but it cannot pass laws nor alienate the property of a State without the State’s consent. Perhaps the Times will agree that the convention of November 14, as a State affair, may be usefully in- formed of the Federal irrigation, and perhaps may be | successfully importuned to adopt it, and induced to | advisé the next Legislature to turn its asset in the | flood water over to the United States. It is to be regretted that Mr. Irish’s tendency to epigram has caused excitement by being taken as the statement of an inflexible policy. | The Times mistakenly says that “the promoters of | the State scheme seem to start out with the idea that | the first thing necessary to be done is to kill off the | national movement.” This is a misapprehension en- | tirely. The promoters of this convention don’t wish | to kill anything, but to make all alive. The killing | it leaves to the drought, to the forest fires, to the | Fabian policy of waiting for the distant gods to hear our prayer for fruitfulness of our fields while the means to make it run to waste down our mountain sides. If the national irrigationists would cease their uneasy and tormenting suspicions, which impeach the ! motives of people who are hand in hand with them in pursuit of the same object, and, dismounting from their national high horse, would sit down and talk it over like reasonable men, the situation would lose | the friction for which they alone are responsible. The situation is that millions of dollars of property belonging to the State are running to waste every | ycar. We all want to know how best and quickest to save it. By getting together in the coming conven- tion a way may be found to that end. There is no use of using Mr. Irish as a scarecrow. se to desert it is his | Francisco which fulminates in opposition to i(sl It can consult | | He and General Otis of Los Angeles can be staked off together, and then we can all trust to the ability | of General Otis to give that soft answer that turneth away -wrath to conquer any unruliness. The British Colonial Office has received advices from South Africa that the Basutos are listening to | overtures from the Boers. That being the case, the | world will probably learn within a very short time whether or not there is any truth in the. saying that | music hath charms to soothe the savage breast. 'W. R. WHEELER FOR COMMISSIONER. | S is to be found in the manner with which the Pacific Coast jobbers and manufacturers have entered upon the task of guarding the interests of the coast in matters of transportation. There has been a cordial co-operation among the people of all | the coast States, and every step thus far taken has | been with the approval of their representatives. | The conference in this cjty, which was attended iby delegates from Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Los | Angelcs, Sacramento and Marysville, as well as from | San Francisco, has formulated a wisely devised lv:::'u'rse of action, and has, furthermore, unanimously ;agreed upon a candidate to be recommended to the | President for appointment to the vacancy on the In- jtcrstate Commerce Commission. The accomplish- ment of that much augurs well for the ultimate suc- | cess of the whole movement, inasmuch as it assures | a continuance of that combined and harmonious | energy which has brought about the good results | thus far attained. The candidate selected OMETHING more than ordinary gratification for the office, W. R. were in session a dispatch was received from the Portland Chamber of Commerce urging them to agree upon a business man as the candidate of the coast for the commissionership. The request has been fully complied with. Mr. Wheeler is a business | man in the strictest, in the fullest and in the best sense of the word. He is familiar with the business of the coast and understands its needs. He has the ability and has had the training necessary to enable him to apply his knowledge to the greatest advantage | in the transaction of affairs, and if appointed to the ;commission will soon be noted as one of the most | useful and efficient of its members. | It is to be noted that the consideration of freight | rates and other questions of transportation affecting | the interests of the Pacific Coast has long engaged | the attention and the study of Mr. Wheeler, and the work expected of him if appointed to the commission | will not find him unprepared. appeared as a representative of Pacific Coast {‘merclmms when coast rates were under consid- 1emtion before the representatives of the trans- continental railroads. It was the high reputation which he has won in that way as an advocate and supporter of the rights of the coast that inclined the conference to Mr. Wheeler and won for him the honor of the unanimous recommendation for the office. | We have now the plan of campaign and the leader. The rest is for the representative men and organiza- tions of our merchants and manufacturers to do. | There should go from every important point on the | Pacific Coast strong indorsements of the request for the appointment of Mr. Wheeler. The issue, as we | have repeatedly pointed out, is one that affects almost every industry and interest of the three States. Cali- jfornia, Oregon and Washington have in this matter | identical interests. It is full time that this coast had a representative on the Interstate Commerce Com- | mission, and now. that a man in every respect fitted | to fulfill the duties of the office has been named for ] it, there ought to be strong, vigorous and unanimous the support given to him by ail among our people. influential forces The enthusiastic supporters of Mayor Phelan are | now dubbing him “the little giant” of San Francisco. His Honor’s claqueurs evidently forget what hap- pened to another Democratic “little giant” in the last | State campaign. O Francisco will be the thirty-first anniversary and reunion of the Ancient Order of United | Workmen, which is to occur on Friday evening. | The occasion will serve to recall to public attention | the vast benefits to modern society which have re- | svited from the work of those fraternal associations of which the A. O. U. W. was the pioneer. The order has in California 267 lodges in addition THE UNITED WORKMEN. NE of the noted events of the week in San lodges, to which women are admitted, and through | which they are made sharers in the benefits of the association. The membership in the State is about 21,000. According to recently published statistics the order had at the close of last year 360,006 members and the total amount paid out up to that time to the beneficiaries of the society was $88,400,820. So vast a sum paid out during the thirty-one years of its history by a single fraternal association shows in a striking manner the immense benefit which can calculate the amount of good that has resulted from the work of this and the kindred organizations which | have followed it. It must be borne in mind that the various sums which go to make up the great total | have been in every case expended just where and | when they were needed to save the widow or the orphan_from suffering the privations and the dis- }trcsses of poverty. Not a cent of it has been given | in that kind of cold charity that humiliates the re- cipient. It has been merited because it has been earred for his family by some member of the asso- | ciation, who by helping others has won the right to have help for his own when he in his turn has been taken from them. : | It is gratifying to note the flourishing conditions of such associations in California. It has been largely | through them that a system of mutual helpfulness on | a vast scale has been built up among a people who coming not only from all parts of the Union but from all parts of the world might otherwise have had but little of that fraternal spirit which is essential to the welfare of acommunity. The Ancient Order of Unitel Workmen can with just pride review the achieve- ments of the past years and make their reunion an occasion of genuine rejoicing and mutual congratula- tions. | | The wish of Midas seems to have been granted in the Alaskan gold fields. If the returning miners could eat gold they might be able to live to tell the story that death forces to remain untold. Actual war has demonstrated the fact that the au- temobile will never wholly supersede the horse. Just think of a starving army eating its automobiles! If the people of San Francisco could only see Democratic candidates as they see themselves the era of the truly good would begin, He has repeatedly | to the Grand Lodge, and fifty-three Degree of Honor | be accomplished by mutual helpfulness. No one can | eration that has been shown Mr. Bryan. and not the honor that attracts me.” was in it and not for the honor. didate. (Santa Rosa Republican.) The San Franciseo Call publishes what purports to be the fac-simile of a letter written June 11, 1889, by William J. Bryan to J. Sterling Morgan, both men being residents of Nebraska. Mr. Bryan was at that time a candidate for secretary of the Railroad Commission of his State. He is accused of writing to Mr. Morton, assureyouthatitis themoney thatisin theoffice and not the honor thatattract The letter appears to be genuine in evéry respect, and Mr. Morton, who is said to have received it, was Secretary of Agriculture under President Cleveland. It is a very remarkable declaration to_come from a man who has received the consid- . prominence and vouches for its authenticity. e (Los Angeles Times.) Colonel Willlam Jennings Bryan is in trouble. wrote to the.Hon. J. Sterling Morton that he wanted the office of secretary of the Raflroad Commission in’Nebraska, saying, “It is the money that is in the office In September, 1889, Mr. Bryan sald to a newspaper reporter that he had never said he wanted office for thé money there L And now a letter in fac-simile, Mr. Bryan's own hand, has been made public, showing that the Nebrask man and tin soldier actually did write such a letter to the H Morton on January 11, 1889. Just how Colonel Bryan proposes to get out of this hole into which he has placed himself remains to be seen. however, that this letter may have something to do with the removal of Mr. Bryan from the position of an all-the-year-round, year-in-and-year-out Presidential can- ~ W. J. BRYAN’'S AWKWARD POSITION. E The Call gives the letter all possible Tn the year 1889 Mr. Bryan on. J. Sterling it 4s not improbable, country. |entertainment. great daily paper. COMMENDABLE INNOVATION FOR A GREAT DAILY PAPER Rev. William Rader Expresses a Very High Opinion of The Call's *Home Study Circle." San Francisco, Oct. 15, 1899. Editor of the Call—Everybody who believes in the dissemination of knowledge will appreciate your effort to bring the readers of The Call into close personal touch {with the leading educators of the I am glad there is to be a department for the boys and '8 lgirls, and that the courses out- pev. wu rapER lined are for study, rather than This new departure is not only a benefit to a |large number of people who are hungry for knowledge, but a commendable innovation for a Yours truly, Pastor Third Congregational Church. Third Congregational Church. the street. gade.—St. Louis Republic. UNIQUE FIRE DEPARTMENT, CONSTANTINOPLE. F all the queer things to be found in Constantinople none seems so stupld as the fire engines, if they can be called by so big a name. that city are almost all built of wood, and if a fire does start it burns fast and flercely. There is a constant watch kept on the summit of the old Genoese tower In Galata, on the tall tower of the Seraskierat in Stamboul and on a hill behind Candili, one of the suburbs. cannon is fired to give warning of a fire, and when this takes place the watch- men of the city knock on the shutters of all the houses, crying, in such and such a quarter.” And then the fire department comes running down | It consists of a long barrel, carried on the shoulders of half a dozen . men. Arrived at the scene of the fire, there is tremendous confusion. All the fire- men get in one another’s way, and perhaps in the course of an hour a few feeble handpumps are playing gentle streams of water somewhere in the neighberhood of the burning buildings, if the fire has not burned itself out by that time. far there is no case on record of one having been quenched by this funny bri- The houses in From this last place a | “There is a fire | So AROUND THE CORRIDORS Dr. S. S. Young, U. 8. N., is registered at the Occidental. F. T. Duhring, an influential attorney of | Sonora, is at the Occidental. D. Clark, a prominent mining man of Spokane, is a guest at the Lick, 0. J. Smith, a leading attorney of Reno, Nev., is a guest at the Palace. J. B. Peakes, one of the most popular | bonifaces of Santa Cruz, is a guest at the Palace. 4 Ex-Senator R. Linder of Tulare is at the Lick for a short visit of pleasure to | the city. W. P. Lynch, a wealthy mine-owner of | Oroville, s among the recent arrivals at | the Lick. : | Dr. David Powell, one of the leading medical men of Marysville, is a guest at | the Grand. R. Charlebois, one of the most extensive fruit growers in the vicinity of Ventura, is at the Lick. C. J. Wilcox, a wealthy oll speculator of | Oil City, Is among the arrivals of yestar- | day at the Grand. | L. E. Goble, a prominent educator of | Humboldt County, is in the ecity enjoying | a short vacation. G. 8. Nixon, a leading politician ofNe- vada, is registered at the Palace for a | short stay in this elty. H. J. Small, superintendent of construc- tion for the Southern Pacific at Sacra- mento, is at the Palace. Edward M. Greenway returned to the city yesterday after a prolonged business trip through the Northwest. Fred Dodd, a well-known and well-liked hotel man of Fresno, is among thoss who arrived at the Lick vesterday. Dr. Humphry, one of the leading physi- clans of Honolulu, is in this city on a visit of pleasure. He Is registered at the Grand. State Superintendent of Schools Thomas J. Kirk is at the Grand, where he arivel yesterday with his wife from their home in Sacramento. Alden Anderson, Speaker of the Assem- bly, is registered at the Grand from his home in Suisun. Mrs. Anderson accom- panies her husband. Robert T. Devlin, Prison Director and prominent attorney, is at the Occidental, where he arrived yesterday from his home in Sacramento. B. Lapham, a prominent business man of Great Falls, N. Y., is at the Palace, accompanied by his wife. They are mak- ing a pleasure tour of the coast. David Starr Jordan came up yesterday from Stanford University to attend the installation of President Benjamin Ide ‘Wheeler. He is registered at the Palace. Victor J. Robertson, one of the editors of the Commercial News and treasurer of the Commercial Publishing Company, has returned from a long visit to the Eas: re- stored to health, Secretary Varney Gaskill ef the Paris Commission has left for Chicago. He goes to attend to some business matters connected with his official position and will be absent quite a little while. Mejor Truman of the Paris Commission is soon to leave for the capital of France. ‘He expects to be absent over a year and will spend his time in looking after the interests of California at the Exposition. _ Walter J. Burke, president of the Asso- clated Camera Clubs of New Zealand, is registered at the California, with his wife. He is here on a vacation and will return to his home about the first of the | month. | Surrounded by a number of relatives | and intimate frlends Henry G. Hahmann | and Miss Elizabeth Saunders were made husband and wife in the parlors of the Grand yesterday afternoon. 'The bride is a well-known society girl of this city and the groom is one of the most prominent of the younger business men of Santa Rosa. —————————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Oct. 2.—W. L. Stewart of Santa Paula is at the Holland; Mr. and Mrs. M. V, Mellville, Mr. and Mrs. R. S. | Chapman and Miss R. Chapman of San Francisco are at the Marlborough; Paul Haguennauer of San Francisco i€ at the | Martin, | —_——— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. CAPS—X., City. This department can. | ?:l‘%g\'sll‘[lse ((he name of any one dealing ass of caps mame Fle s d in the letter | DRAMATIC SCHOOL—A. O. R., City. An individual 17 years of age is not too | young to enter a dramatic school with a | View to becoming an actor or actress. | TO CRYSTAL SPRINGS—E. A., City. Crystal Springs, in San Mateo County, may be reached from San Francisco by rall, twenty-one miles, and four miles by team, or afoot. The road leading to that place from San Mateo is in a westerly direction. H THE CRYSTAL PALACE-E., Oak- | land, Cal. The Crystal Palace in New York | City was chiefly of irbn and glass In the shape of a cross with a large dome. It was commenced in October, 1852, and the | exnibition was opened in August, 1853 The building, with its contents, as | exhibited by the American Institute, was | destroyed by fire in September, 1839. | ELECTRICITY—N., City. was known to Thales 600 years before | Christ. Otto von Guericke constructed | the first electrical machine in 1647. Frank- | lin announced his theory of a single fluld i terming the viterous electricity, positive, | and the resinous, negative, in 1 and demonstrated the identity of the elec- tric spark and lightning by drawing elec- tricity from a cloud by means of a kite in 1752. Galvini, in 1780, observed the con- Vulsions of the muscles of a dead frog ‘when brought in contact with two metals, | and after studying the phenomena in- | Vented the galvanic battery. Volta, in zmflncn;i?unced hl!a ?lscovery of the e composed of discs of zine silver and moistened cards. e SAINT CECILIA—A. D. W., Oakland Cal. St. Cecilia is the patroness of mu- sic. It is recorded that she suffered martyrdom in 230. Her heathen parents, who are said to have belonged to a no- ble Roman family, betrothed their daugh- ter, who had become converted to Christ- ianity, to a heathen youth named Vale- rian. This youth and his brother Tibe-' rius became Christian converts and suf- fered martyrdom also. Chaucer in “The Secunde Nonnes' Tale” has it that one gay she told Valerian that an angel ‘Whether she was .awake or asleep, was ever beside her.” Valerian requested to see this angel. and she sald he must be ba&tlzed first. Valerian was baptized and suffered martyrdom. en Cecilia was brought before the ge!ect Almachius and r:tua‘ ht:tv;:::h;g mmkln deities she a e night and day. with great free’ bt “oo: Electricity | res,” but ‘‘feit xecutioner to cut off her head, “but for f\f\egnanner of chance could he smite her fair neck in two.” Three days she lin- gered with her neck bleeding, preaching Christ and Him crucified all the while; then she died and Pope Urban buried th body. As early as the fifth century there is mention of a_church dedicated to her at Rome, and in 821, by order of Pope Paschal; her bones were deposited therc. St. Cecilia is regarded as the inventor t‘-t the organ, and in the Roman Cnt};ultc church her festival day, November 22, i3 celebrated with splendid music. Ra'phucl, Domenichino, Dolce and others have rep- resented her in fine pictures. —_————————— NEW ZEALAND AFTER FAST MAIL SERVICE COLONIAL GOVERNMENT TO GRANT SUBSIDIES. Oceanic Company Offers to Put on a Fast Line of Steamers Under Certain Conditions. Secretary Scott of the Chamber of Com- merce is in receipt of a communication from the Hon. J. H. Witherford of New Zealand showing ‘hat great efforts are being made in that country to secure Government aid in the matter of grant- ing subsidies to steamship companies to carry fast mail across the Pacific. It is very likely that the movement will be taken up in the United States upon the reassembling of Congress, many people on this coast being deeply interested. In New Zealand the business community is alive to the importance of improving the interocean mail service, but the high offi- clals are either slow or favor the Suez route, as shown by the following letter from ‘Mr. Witherford to Secretary Scott: As active efforts have been made'to improve mail service which rivals the San Franclsco line, T have during the past month been Work- ing hard to get the service to your port estab- lished first, as the premier route for a fixed term of years, beleving such in_the future and San Fra I will send you a_ copy of what I have done for your perusal. Owing to strong conflicting interests, it has been dif- ficult to get the Premier and members of the House to consider the guestion in its true light, as being a necessary auxiliary to the extension of commercial reiations ~between America and the Colones. In the letter Mr. Witherford includes ex- tracts from the Observer of New Zealand, which in part ‘sa J. H. Witherford, who has been to greatpains to get things as far forward as possible, has been so far successful that it only remains for New Zealand to agree to the preliminaries and the service can be in working ordef in time for the Paris exhibition. John D. Spreckels, whose ramifications of trade are gradually spreading over so many parts of this hemis phere, is at the head of the Oceanic Company in San Francisco and his proposal, provided | he can get a subsidy from New Zealand and Australia, Is to put on a fine of fast mail steamers, fitted up In every way as luxuriously the Peninsular and Oriental and Orlent liners. The service will be every twenty-one days, and the time of the passage will be reduced to a minfmum. If carried out, not only Auck- land but all New Zealand will be immeasur- ably benefited by the scheme. There is bound to be a large increase of tourist traffic and the commencement of the cpening up of a great trade between this colony and the United States. Mr. Spreckels very naturally requires that if the line be subsidized it shall be for a pericd of seven years. It stands to reason that no company will go to the enormous ex- pense of putting on a line of fast mail steam- ers without s ds and seven y to ask for. —_——————— Cal. giace fruit 50e per Ib at Townsend's.® —_— e Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by t.s Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mon.- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. —_———— Bad Boys in the Potrero. John Krahn, 11 years of age, Charles Hansen, 13 years of age, we: rested yesterday by Policeman Enni taken to the City Prison, where they wera charged with burglary. They were ac cused of breaking into the fish camp of Giorina Ceruti, Twenty-first avenue and D street, South San Francisco, and steal- ing $12. —_——— Physicians will tell you Dr. Slegert's Angos-, tura Bitters is the best of all -tonics and stomach regulators. Druggists sell it. e eee - Taken Back to Nevada. Victor Bouton, the cowboy accused of cattle-stealing in Nevada, was taken from the City Prison yesterday morning by Sheriff "C. W. McDeid of Humboldt County, Nevada, and escorted to the ferry en route for Nevada to stand his trial. ADVERTISEMENTS. WE HAVE STRUCK OIL. Unlike other companies, we first sunk small test wells to determine positively whether or not our lands were oil-bear- ing before asking the public to invest with the result that we ° STRUCK OIL In our test wells, 740 acres, in the very heart of the Bakersfield district. des- tined to become one of the greatest ofl- producing districts in the world. WE HAVE A CERTAINTY. It is only necessary to lay a pipe line about two miles and put down a large well when we can commence paying dividends. TO DO THIS QUICKLY We are going to sell 10,000 shares of treasury stock at 25c per share, after which there will be a large advance or withdrawn from sale entirely. At this low price you have the cer- tainty of realizing from 20 to 50 times the amount of your investment within ninety days. Application for shares must be made quickly if any of these shares are desired. MAIL ORDERS Will recelve prompt attention. For fur- ther information and prospectus write or call PETROLEUM CENTER OIL CO. 29 MILLS BUILDING, THIRD FLOOR, GRAND eople's Partyan Silver Democratic RATIFICATION MEETING, Metropolitan Temple, Fifth Street, Near Market, Thursday Evening, OCTOBER 26th. Look for a Surprise. A distinguished orator will entertain you. Stlections by McKenzie’s Quartet. Music by Bium’s Band. t no woe.” Almachius. then sent an | Professor McKenzie’s Musical Club. ~