The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 1, 1899, Page 6

TIHE AN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY 217 to 221 Stevenson Street in 1874, . 15 CENTS PER WEEK. S cents CAKLAND COFF! C. GEORGE Manager Forcign Adverti Chicago. te Building, NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON. Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: : PERRY LUKENS JR ..29 Tribune Building WS STANDS. CHICAGO NE N ; Great Northern Hotel; TANDS. 0, 31 Union Square WASHINGTON (. C.) CFFICE Wellington Hotel | d. L. ENGLISH, Correspondent. SALES. AUCTION SEATING E OF QuAay. TH , Utah and Cali Democr: a at goes f ors are from ath and for the fu- | /ith the | ve jurisdic results | quite interesting nteresting speculations, ts and policy in resp in filling its seats furtl r be expected to follo of gov at body settles the issue in favor of | fiction in the Governor after the great will ng the election of Senators to elect momentun be lature and Governor and giv- I Then, w gnation, death or otherwise, people en a vacancy s in the lan- ge of the constitution, the Governor will of neces- | 1 a special ave extended to him the power to c election for Senator, as he d when such dvocates of the seating of Qua 2 California, Utah | are to pass in by the same door, hold, with | oar, that every State is entitled to have its 5 in co oes now for Representa- | office. | cy occurs in t nator from 1is as an erroneous view, with all due | the distinguished gentleman who origin- upon that clause of the consti- 3 in the construc- | The Legislature is the electoral lause te in the choice of a Sena- iectoral body chooses not to elect a | y age in the Senate. There in the matter. The State’ sent of the State to tempo: essed through v I per- vhole cannot express he calculations which jus- prediction that Quay be seated are cor- ision of all three | te to change an interpre- Senators Hanna, Jones | of the National Democratic and | re known to stand together in the | the change. v that it stands where it did | ussion of this matter, in line with | jurisdiction to appoint departs from the Governor when the Legislature meets and does | ot return to b by the failure of that body to elect. | s e s ch and Butler, Ce men respect mittees the Republican, pulist parties, The Call need in the f ormer d rine that his ic a great year for the Wheelers—one in the | Berkeley and one for the Inter- | = Commerce Commission.. Each one is the right | t place and doing honor to his name, the President will now give us a representative | of the Pacific Coast on the Interstate Commerce | Commission we will respond to his thanksgiving | | proclamation with increased alacrity. 1 , one | in the w | Call in obt | dents of the , which will | [ arations for putting it into service. | offices only that its possibilities are being studied. [X'rom early in June until late in October. So large { are the property interests involved that a land line wonld have been established up and down the coast had it not been for the difficulty of preserving such a line from destruction during the winter. Wireless telegraphy offers a solution of the problem. By means of it communication can be es- tablished along the coast and notice can be thus given | where the best fishing is to be found at any particular | | season and also where shipwrecks occur and men are in need of assistance. At the invitation of the New- foundland Government Marconi’s principal assistant | has undertaken to study the problem, and ere long | preparations may be begun to put it into effect next: GOING INTO DEBT. g, and true, that Governments and debts in good times to be pai T is an old sayi | l Francisco may not be able to boast of much | ovem but she can rtire freedom from municipal debt. from the burden of debt, how- 1e finest public park in the world, treets are bordered by as fine nts, of municipal st boast of alm With this in any city can boast. a reasonable expendi for r to a reasonable bond | ture but the peculiar campaig nade by | summer. { to ambush a sumptuous and These are issues of the day, and sooner or later I 1e and gay carnival to be enjoyed | proceeds of a mortgage to be put upon the f ¢ millions. The volume qum of say five ions, and if is more likely to be the ount. If that be its volume, | nterest to be paid annual every newspaper in the country will have to give | some space to them. Wireless telegraphy can no | { longer be ignored. 1s to a max HOT ABOUT *WATER. | E are still surprised by the heat shown by the National Irrigators against the coming water storage convention. pon it greater than the less it will be seen that the is a sum so large that if it were devoted directly to 2 fr e 2 ) N ‘O i ovements 'without issuing, bond:} A snowstorm of tracts, letters, papers, periodicals s e P | and pamphlets is falling all over the State, in which at all levied-annually during the same | £ = 3 fa bond is produce more | the supposed projectors of the convention are de- peri e of d s | > $ : soie nounced as lawyers and other things, to be regarded money for public use than the original principal of ¥ g with suspicion. | These letters advise the people that national irri- | gation means irrigation without debt, for its plan is: the bond issue i While we are not opposing any ready means that will effect such improvements as are eded, we desire to call attenti to the most|? e 3 el hod of = =S | “Federal reservoirs for the storage of flood waters, sconpmica Micliotiol SRy . .. | to be built through appropriations under the river gular in that u; y ! gives Gist ) and harbor bill, as recommended in the Chittenden report.” We are not favored with a copy of the Chit- | ownership oi‘ oy ) _ ) tenden report, but we favor it. The convention will | and water works and | Ges whiohi favor it. If something can be had for nothing, Cg}i. r stock. | fornia will be the last State to refuse it. Bu( w)u!ci el | the promoters of the convention feel that spirit toward sire an out. | the national irrigators, the latter are making the wel- | { kin how! with attacks on the convention. They have | | issued a circular which reads like a penny dreadful nd is as lurid as one oi Cobbett's lampc , in which they say to those who receive it by mail: “Will you ure the necessary appointment (as delegate to | he convention) immediately, so that you may attend | ~‘!::ls convention, and write informing me whether you | | mprove- | de by the h under exist g ill appear a bonded debt on ext people y the that the most he opinion will require lic ownership of many can do so, and whether we may have your support | and co-operation in the national movement? Should | you be willing to attend the convention, and not be | able to secure an appointment under the call, please they now exist are contributing tax ‘:xd\-ife nmnev(limel.\' and some arrangcment. may }vwc o thes bute, except ‘ possible which will SL‘C‘I’X\'C for you the desired right{ their revenue zs busin Tf the scale |0 abterid'as a delegate, 2 This is a cold-blooded proposition to pack the con- eld will | veation with the inflexil_»lc adherents of the na!inn:\l‘ et Its impropriety will be seen when it is known | that the convention is called not to antagonize that plan nor to indorse it, but to consult upon of | of vast interest to California, leave open the right of ; and see whether the day of annot be hastened by some other than opinion runs that that These alled there will occur two t will cease | plan, recoup subject it will be experience shows W storag= to all plans of waste water | the modes that have been a long time in action with- | out catching any water. ‘ | g each other in prom- nd gas and . between the present taxes de for water , in the interest of Federal appropriations, will harm only the We desire to say that a packed conventi n < and the { course be made up by ta interest that is spending rhetoric, denunciation and | of | cash to secure it | rents and publ ownership ire discussed it all comes back to the st how far benefit derived 1 Trrigators seem to be full jeweled. | They maintain offices in Chicago, Washington, St They have that supports a costly propaganda. Al | v may come out of the flowers which are to | bloom on the nationally irrigated lands in the future, but its lavish use now suggests inquiry as o source. go in con- | 5 Lou om the pro- | ; a treasur ate of taxation is | 3 1€ b I an Francisco and Los Angeles before the ceeds of bonds is nullified by the this ho a question interest and needful of cool delibe Politicia runt tion its candi es for office get heated 1 frequently over-promise beyond | ity of the city to perform and protect its in- N e 7 | One 1 : The e M.I L oF Sl Mr. Phelan’s attempts to induce Republicans to | e thing X! of pub- 5 : 1 1 1 ”1 ; | vote crooked while the Democrats vote straight has | nership of public utilities will be tried m San 5 16 | tances un- | 1ad no effect thus far except to make himself crooked. | 1d it will be tried under circ yrable to i e to be added to an | cisting load of large bo There BRITISH WAR REPORTS. fore proposed policies should not be permitted to A G et neutralize each other, nor should the mere t; and | f : HORTLY aiter the publication ‘Uf official dis- | ed indebtedness. tactics of politicians be permitted to confuse the pub- | patches announcing the success”of the British lic mind as to the straight way to all that is required | forces at Glencoe, near Dundee, there came | by the public interests The Pretoria account of the results of the | battle were widely different from that sent out by the | British, and The Call in commenting upon the dis- | crepancy stated that the events to follow in the next i few days would show which report was the more | accurate. There is now no longer any doubt on the " question. The Boers were not defeated at Glencoe. Their advance has been continuously forward, and of | the British, despite their claims of victory, have had | wireless telegraphy accomplished first by The | (o fall back from every one of their advanced posi- | ing a report of the arrival of the trans- | tjons. port Sherman off the Golden Gate, and later by The Notwithstanding the retreat of his army, notwith- Call and the New York Herald in reporting the inci- | standing the imminent danger of complete defeat cht races, are going to have some diffi- | which threatens it at Ladysmith, General White con- culty in catching up with the news of the day, for | tinues to send boastful dispatches to London an- wircless telegraphy, either in its achievements or by | nouncing victorious attacks on the Boer lines. These experiments to be made with it, is to furnish some of | dispatches are doubtless designed to be reassuring, the most important news items of the time. | but they have ceased to have that effect. Reports York announce that naval | from London show that the people are in a high state Is are taking great interest in the tests with the | of anxiety concerning Ahe situation, and compara- system of telegraphy which are being made | tively little trust is put in the official assurances that under the direction of Marconi. The tests will be | all is well. continued for some time, so that the system can be | The unreliable nature of the official reports given tried in all sorts of weather and under all sorts of to the public was exposed in Parliament during the conditions. It is also announced from London that | short session called to vote money for the war. On the British are to make use of wireless telegraphy in | the floor of the Commons it was openly charged that the South African war and have already made prep- | the Secretary of State for the Colonies was suppress- | the affair. The Boers have offered 300 acre ile land for | the head of Cecil Rhodes, dead or alive. This is perhaps the highest price ever offered for a deadhead. O WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY. UR contemporaries, which for reasons satis- factory to themselves ignored the feats Dispatches from New fiici new | ing or misrepresenting dispatches from the front. | The experiments by our Government and the tests | The charges were indignantly repudiated, but the re- made in actual war will give to wireless telegraphy | pudiation only shifts the responsibility a little further a prestige which even yellow journalism can no | back. Clearly the truth has not been told, and if the | longer afford to ignore. It will be in vain such jour- | Ministers in London have not altered the dispatches nals resort to fakes to match the accomplishments of | then the general at the front has misrepresented the science and inventicn. The marvels of truth cannot | facts. long be suppressed even by the falsest of journalists, | Judged by the results, Weyler's dispatches of vic-! and ere long the very papers that mocked'at the new | tories over the Cubans were not more false and mis- | triumph of human ingenuity will be giving up whole | leading than those which the British authorities, in | pages to exploiting its achievements. It is to be | South Africa have sent out concerning the battles of | noted that the Examiner recently admitted to its | the present war. They have claimed successes in every columns a dispatch from New York giving an, ac- | engagement, have repeatedly asserted that the Boers count of the tests made by the Navy Department, and | were driven back from point after point with heavy saying: “While the board has set the seal of official | loss, and yet the movements of the campaign show secrecy on dts verdict, there is no denying the fact | that it is the British who have had to retreat, the Brit- that wireless telegraphy is an finqualified success.” ish whose losses in killed, wounded and prisoners The new system of telegraphy, moreover, is to | have constituted the serious features of the fighting, serve other than war purposes. It is not in war |and the British who are now in peril of being forced to surrender their army to save it from annihilation. | At the present time two important projects based | Over and over again British critics have denounced upon wireless telegraphy are under consideration by | the censored reports sent out from Manila under the men of means and enterprise. One of these is a plan | orders of General Otis. Over and over again they to arrange for communication among the islands of | have assumed a superior virtue in lecturing the Amer- the West Indies by the system, and the other, more | ican people upon the misrepresentation of news. far-reaching still, is a scheme for opening communi- | Ncver, however, has there ever been committed by cation along the coast of Labrador. the officials of this country, whether civil or military, | The latter enterprise is one of more than ordinary | any such wholesale and extraordinary misrepresenta-i interest. Every vear a fleet of sloops and smail | tion as that which is now being carried on by the steamers from Newfoundland go to the coast of Lab- | British general in his reports from the seat of rador, where they engage in fishing. It is said that | war. It is not surprising to learn that even his own | some 12,000 fishermen of Newfoundland embark ! countrymen do not believe him, and, despite the best every year in the venture, and there has long been | efforts of the Government to reassure them, the feel- a demand for some means of communication be- |ing in London continues to be one of intense tween them during the fishing season, which lasts | anxiety. | {Sir | from Pretoria a report giving the Boer version of | _ | authorized spokesmen, announced an in | cents, or for a rental that would NOVEMBER 1, 1899, The Statue of De Lesseps at Port Said. This colossal figure, forty feet high, made by Sculptor Fremieh of Paris, will be erected within a few days at Port Sald, at the entrance of the Suez Canal, of which M. de Lesseps was the projector. and representatives from all nations will It 1= a gift of gratitude from France, be present at the dedication. THE CALL'S “HOME STUDY CIRCLE” X they know what they are about and this talk about this 10-cent rent who has taken the trouble to analyze it and even think to himself what a magnificent hum- ug it was? bTfim’re are other points yet that Oughl to be showed up. but I haye exhausied your patience. W. S. GRE! Colusa, Oct. 30, 1899. AROUND THE CORRIDORS | W. P. McFaul, the Santa Rosa mine | owner, is at the Grand. John 1. Husband, a traveler from Lon- don, England, is at the California. JFred B. Jackson, a tourist from Ol4- ham, England, is a guest at the Palac W. W. Turney. an influential attorne of Campbell, {s among the recent arrivals at the Grand. Frank Hall, a millionaire mining man of Trinity County, is registered for a short stay at the Lick. Joseph McClay. a wealthy mining man of Calavaras County, is among the late arrivals at the Russ. M. B. Tuttle, one of the foremost busi- ness men at Watsonville, is at the Grand for a short visit to the city. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Neel, two prominent soclety people of Hanford, are among the arrivals of last night at the Occidental. Judge J. F. Posten, a prominent resi- dent of Selma, is at the Lick on a short business and pleasure trip to the city. L. Merle, a traveler from Paris, is at the Palace, accompanied by his wife. They are touring the State on pleasure | bent. District Attorney I. G. Zuenwalt has come down from his home in Colusa for a short pleasure trip to this city. He Is at the Lick. Charles L. Merrill, a leading oll specu- lator of Coalinga, 1s one of those who ar- rived in the city yvesterday and went io | the Lick. Dr. B. W. Wallace, a well-known phy- siclan who has spent some time in Mazat- {lan, is at the Occidental. Mrs. Wallace accompanies him. Frank L. Chance. the famous catcher { of the Chicago Baseball team, is a guest at the Lick. He is on his way East from his home in Merced. J. A. Chansler, W. H. Graham and J. P. Kerr, three wealthy speculators from Ofl City. are registered at the Palace, | where they arrived yesterday. | 'G. H. Cooper, C. A. Clapp and J. C. | Carlisle, three prominent and wealthy business men of Boston, were among the arrivals at the Palace last night. | Colonel A. W. Jones, a well-known rail- [road man of Pacific Grove, is a guest at | the Lick. He is in San Francisco attend- ing to some business concerns in which he is largely interested —_— e ——— | CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON | WASHINGTON, Oct. 3L.—W. R. Ellis of | San Francisco is at the St. James; H. C. | Davenport and wife of Oakland are at | Willards. D IS AN ADMIRARL e P AN e SACRAMENTO, Cal., To the Editor of The will contributie to the Circle. enjoy its development. Very truly, It seems to me unnecessary that I should speak of my approval |of the plan of The Cal before its readers the good and strong thoughts of such ‘men as The plan appears so ad- . mirable that I am certain I shall October Call—Dear 5, 1899. 1 to bring ] Home Study Principal Sacramento High School. PROPOSITIONS ON THE SCHEME OF NATIONAL IRRIGATION W. 8. Green Says the Plan of Raising a Fund by Renting Our Arid Lands for Ten Cents an Acre Is All Humbug. Editor Call: T have been criticized for ying that the National Irrigation Con- | gress was a magnificent humbug, and ore | | paper says that it this congress that brought out the point “That if all our arid lands were rented or leased for a term of vears at 10 cents per acre, | this amount would create a fund that if applied to the purpose of building | | reservoirs, would build all that was re- | quired,” etc. This congress, through its come of $£500,000 from these 10-cent lands. | Now I sald “magnificent humbug,” and if I do not prove it take my head for a football. Let us first see about this 10- | cent business. This congress presumes to | be a teaching body, and should be toler- | ably correct in its statements and calcu- lations. Who is to rent this land at 10 cents an acre, which superficially looks cheap? | Land is worth in Europe its rental value | for from thirty-five to forty years; in the | | Eastern States the value is placed at its | rents for about thirty years, and in Cali- | fornia it is certainly worth its rental value for twenty years, Ten cents an acre | for twenty vears is §2. Now, money on | long loans can be had at 5 per cent per on an kind of a loan if he could pur-| chase {and at $2 an acre rented out at 10 pay for it in twenty years, getting his income every | f’onr? This s, of course, unimproved and with no expenses whatever on it. To assume, therefore, that we have five millions of acres that will rent right | away for 10 cents an acre, we must as- | sume that the land is worth as it {s, with gut any speculative future, %2 an acre. | Is there 20,000 acres of land in all Cali- fornia except timber lands, not in private | hands worth $2 an acre? I think not. | There is certainly not five millions. But we will all admit that land is worth what it will rent for in ten years, for this is 10 per cent interest. | Now, a falr sample of the lands that would 'be for rent is the unentered lands on the line of the Southern Pacific, be- tween Bakersfield, and say, Saugus. | Every little water place Is of course in | private hands. Now, if vou had “money to burn” would you'give $1 an acre for all the Governmeént land in sight of the road? You are to take it, be it remem- bered, without any speculative value, but | you are to make your money back in rent- | ing it or using it in its present -ondition, | Do you think there is a single quarier | section for which you would give $160 cash under such conditions? If you were going into the sheep business would you | take all the unentered land for ten miles each side of the road, between Lancaster | and Saugus, for nothing? 1f you did vou | could easily be sent to the lunatic asylum! | Yet that, and millions of other such acces | would have to come in on the l.-cent | progosfllon, | Then to get their 300,000 a vear they ! must find 5.000.000 acres or 7811 square | miles worth §2 an acre without the | privilege of taking off any timber! A Frea! teaching body. that is going to en- ighten all the United States, is barred out from pleading the baby act by saying it was a guess. Apropos of estimating the value of grazing land, I know of some parties who | some thought it a good speculation to locate “lieu” on some grazing land toler- ably high up in the mountains. The land ell watered and will grow potatoes' in abundance and all other thin, will mature at an altitude of 5000 feet. They located it and paid the State fees, but could not make the first payment, so it is State land. Knowing of this I gave a rich stockman of the same county a map of it and told him he could get it for $12 an acre. He examined it and sald it would not pay. Now one acre of this land is worth a whole section of some of the land one can see from the car window between Lancaster and Saugus, and yet | if it can be rented for 10 cents an acre the State would not keep it long. The wild ranges of California are used up to their utmost now, and yet little valleys and watering places in the moun- tains that have commanded range have not sold for much more than $2 an acre. We must count on sheep from which to get our revenue—our $500,000. Suppose we assume that one-third of our three mil- lion sheep are fed on Government land? We would have to get 50 cents a head out of them for the use of the land! Now I admit that quite a revenue might be had from leasing the Government lands, but these people have told us 10 cents an acre and $300,000 as the result, and they must not be permitted to plead | annum, but who would take the chances | the Daby act—they are great teachers, If the lands should be rented to the best advantage it would be to large syndi- cates, who would crowd growers, and this would be an evil: an evil 8o great as to make it a debatable question as to its policy on that alone. If the Government shoul on a scheme of land leasing it would have to make different prices on the land, be- cause there is a vast difference in it and this would give rise to fraud and favorit- fsm. Then to make it all one price—10 cents—everybody would have to be kept off Government land who would not pay that price, hecause if not nobody woul: rent. and then all land not worth $2 an acre would not be used, and that would | be to the detriment of the State and its people. Then the authorized spokesmen of the congress tell us that they are going to build reservoirs in the mountains then have no system of distribution other than voluntary co-operative companies! That is a thousand fold worse than that 10-cent humhug. They are going to build reservoirs up on the headwaters of such a river as the Kings, with say 200 square miles to be served, and let a lot of little voluntary co-operative companies go after it as best they may! No law to protect the rights of those too weak to protect their own, no laws to make those pay who | The congress, or the prin- | ought to pay! cipal part of it, made money fifh!lnfl the distriet plan of distribution, and it all the time announced. that that work must go to the wall in order that the fee may be earned. If it is provided that all must pay who get benefits and all in the range of benefit shall have a right it comes to the basis of the district system, and the fee pnid the congress would not be earned! Alongside this sort of humbug- gerv the 10-cent price falls into utter nothingness. It is sald that there were a whole lot of good men in that convention. Of course there were, but take the proceedings and gee that a very few run it. We have all been in conventions of the sort. A few prepare a programme and all the rest out smaller | ound | enter | and | CAPTAIN BARR—Subscriber, City. Captain Barr of the yacht Columbia is a native of Scotland. It has been announced | that he is a citizen of the United States. SHERMAN—A. §.Woodside, Cal. Gen- | eral Willam T. Sherman was born in Lancaster, Ohio. His branch of the fam- ily is traced back to Samuel Sherman of | Essex, England, who came to this country ln5i1634 with his brother, Rev. John Sher- man, and his cousin, Captain John Sher- | man. | NOT ONE PREMIUM—Subscriber, City. | Of the list of coins submitted not commands a premium. A half dollar of 1831 may be purchased for T cents, a (‘uuar!er of 1853 with arrows at date and | rays around the eagle for 5 cents, a | twenty-cent piece of 1875 for 65 cents, a !"dime 1529 for 25 cents, a silver three-cent | plece of 1851 for 15 cents, a nickel three | cent plece of 1555 and one of 1868 for 25 | cents each, copper nickel of 188 flying | eagle with small letters for twenty cents, | Same _pattern and date, but of pure cop- per § and one cent copper nickel of 1859 for five cents and one of pure copper 32 50. { There has been published a story that | stolen gold was thrown into a melting | pot of one cent pieces in 1858, but the Story has been denfed by the Mint offi- clals [ — Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.* ———————— Special Information supplied daily to | business houses and public men by t.e Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mon - | gomery street. 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