The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 3, 1899, Page 6

I RANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1899 FRIDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor, PSSRSO SIS UER T O S S SO Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Managen =S i P i FPUBLICATION OFPICE .Market and Third Sts., 8. P, Telephone Main 1568. EDITORIAL ROOMS. 217 to 221 Stevenson Street Tel AMuin 1674 DELIVERED BY CARRIERS, 18 CENTS PER WEBK. £ingle Coples, 5 cents. Terme by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), one year. 86.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday Call), 6 month: 3.00 DAILY CALL (noluding Sundey Cail), 8 macnths 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Moanth 650 BUNDAY CALL One Year. 1.50 | WEBKLY CALL One Year 146 asters are authorized to recelv. subscriptions. Sumple copies will be forwarded when raquested. OAKLAND OFFICE... ...908 Broadway. C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Forelgn Advertising, Marquette Bullding, Chicago. E8P - Shrisgas NEW YORK CORR! C. C, CARLTON..... 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The menced the contest by the official ballot, and, prospect that it will is eve a hatred of humbugs s of this political vendetta It is our individual opinion had never accomplished » suppression of the Non- tled to the support of every if ever community, for is this so-called sses are false organization is dangerous politi- with the cloak of respectability; pon which it appeals for votes is an arrant fraud. Partisan party has been used followers as a club for braining 1 for office. emocratic that it has justly On one used to throw the government into and Rainey, two of the worst sses who ever ruled the city. On another on it placed Dan Burns in possession of sev- portant later it has trained en- 1 the interest of Phelan and his machine. one of its conspicnous members stole into - Republican camp and sought a nomination like Benedict Arnold, to betray y and accept a commission from the enemy. ts work gt idate D tic sideshow.” and for ervisor, only, )+ Phelan ever secures the power and does not pay this man the price of his perfidy he will reg r a sharp departure from accepted Non- Part methods. To obliterate a political fraud of this character is glory enough for the Rickard ballot law. If it shall fi membered, li est battle It is be will play itself be effaced, it cannot fail to long be re- e Wellington, as the hero of the great- it. is statute that the Non-Partisans this cam- paign, but, small as this engagement is, it is Demo- cratic. In their advertisement the “party” indorses three Democrats out of four candidates for city and One of these Democrats, if elected, will appoint commissions which will disburse $3,000,- 000 worth of patronage in two years. This patronage, coupled with a towering ambition, may make two Democratic Congressmen from this city and a United ates Senator from the State. Out of eighteen Su- pervisors indorsed eleven are Democrats. If Mr. Fitch’s advice is followed in this case the legislature of the city will be thrown bodily into the hands of the Democ e fou, se of th subordinate engagement in county officers cy. This is Non.Partisanism with a vengeance. A yet this humbug * nd rty,” led by a Republican traitor, serts that its indorsements are earned is the faithful Heyer, Re- impudent] } put 1 candidate Assessor, and the faithful Lackmann, Republican candidatc for Sheriff? Or, better still, the faithful Davis, who has served his | country, his city and his party for forty years with- out once departing from the straight and narrow path? We congratulate the Rickard ballot law on having wiped so palpable a humbug off the official ballot. 1f it shall finally manage to dispose of the Non- Partisans forever it will be entitled to a monument in Golden Gate Park. The ages will not record a greater or more beneficent victory for political in- and civic reform. General Joubert has very kindly invited the Brit- ish to send physicians to look after their wounded | who are prisoners in his hands, and if he continues | to bag a regiment or so every other day he will have | to ask them before long to send a commissary with a ‘ wagon train of provisions to feed them. ! People who have been trying to make themselves | believe that talk is cheap may be able to prove it as soon as J. Pierpont Morgan’s big anti-telephone syndicate gets its wires working. j DEMOCRATS ON PHELAN. | HERE is something direct and potent in .tl‘m | expression of their opinions by the straight i Democrats who support Dr. Cleveland for | Mayor and reject Phelan. At their meeting in Met- ropolitan Hall a spade was not cnllerl_ a teaspoon nor a pickax a toothpick. Their principal speaker, Mr. Harris, concluded his arraignment of Phelan by “save this city from bossism vicious and intolerant than a head in San against the unequivocal asking his hearers to infinitely more absolute, | any which has ever reared its h}'dr | Francisco. Do this by voting Phelanistic-Examinerism, which is an insult to society, dangerous to public gnorals, an in- clean journalism, sult to the public conscience, to ; | clean government and genuine progress, and is op- | posed to commercial and industrial enterprise, to ‘lru(‘ Democracy and in general to that fair fame of San Francisco, which all good citizens desire to up- hold.” ; In quoting this we cannot say the “italics are ours,” for in accent and emphasis it is all the work of a recent political associate and supporter of Mr. Phelan. If it cast a light on the situation which makes men blink, it from Republican but Democratic sources. These gentlemen have grown familiar with the Mayor's methods by intimate association with him in the same party, and they are supposed to testify ro! undance knowledge. They have the nat- wral feeling of party men who desire that party vic- tories shall be properly credited, and the proposition to have a personal victory for Mr. Phelan, ignoring is not the party, is repugnant to them. From their frequent and frank expressions it is evi- dent t they not only resent his assumption of being better than his party, if not too good for it r, but they regard him as not as good as , and put forward his methods as evidence Nothing doné by a common, unshaven boss was ever grosser than Phelan’s forcing of Geary's nomi- nation and his remark that “Geary may be a scrub, ,but we must have a soldier on the ticket.” In ridiculous background to this is Geary’s declara- tion that Phelan is “our war Mayor” and his intim tion that the war Mayor's influence reached the Phil- ippines, and was more potent than the Federal Gov- | ernment in nerving our soldiers to pursue the Fili- | pino skedaddlers. No wonder there is some nausea in the pit of the old Democratic stomach at the | spectacle of a war Mayor and a scrub standing as candidates of the old party while denying its existence and ignoring its principles. Dr. Cleveland, Mr. Har, } 1is and their colleagues are certainly entitled to pub- lic respect for their attitude on straight politics. | The Phelan leadership by Gavin McNab sugges | other funny combinations and strange bedfellowships. the employment of union bands to play for the pro- cession. The result was that no labor organizations appeared in the parade, and Barry’'s Star opened every vial of its celebrated wrath on him and change:l his name in its columns to “Gavin McScab.” Now McNab is pulling the stroke oar for Phelan, and the Star is in noisy accord with the combination. Such a mixture of fish, flesh and fowl makes the gorge rise in the throat of old-fashioned Democ; racy, and its representatives are warranted in oppoS- ing such a political burgoo One of the surprises of the Ohio campaign has been the success achieved by Senator Hanna as a It was known that he is a good or- ganizer, but doubts were felt concerning his abi stump orator. to make a speech and mix with the people. These have now been dissipated and it appears there are no mass-meetings of the canvass more largely at- tended than those at which he is announced as to speak. The announcement of further difficulties in the way | of the settlement of the Samoan question is a matter of no surprise. United States, Great Britain and Germany try to get on to so small a group of islands with both feet there | @ NOT@BLE PETITION. is bound to be trouble. ]F\'F.R before did there go from the people of I\ California so strong a petition for the appo ment of a particular individual to a political office as that which will request President McKiniey to appoint William R. Wheeler to the vacancy in t Interstate Commerce Commission. be safely said, for among the organizations signing the petition through their officials are some which, like the Merchants’ Association of this city and the Chamber of Commerce of Los Angeles, have never before urged upon an appointing power the selection of a particular candidate for any office. The extent to which all the commercial and in- dustrial organizations of the entire Pacific Coast have united in supporting the candidacy of Mr. Wheeler is not only complimentary to him but is significant of the prevailing feeling of the people of the coast | States upon the issue at stake. Our merchants and manufacturers have now to meet the aggressive | claims and demands of Chicago and St. Louis and at the same time guard against the schemes of the Southern Pacific Company. Just why the Southern Pacific should be at this time antagonizing the coast is not clear, but the antagonism is mani- fest, and in defending our interests before the Inter- | state Commerce Commission as well as in secking to obtain the appointment of a Pacific Coast repre- sentative on the commis: the merchants and manufacturers have to beware of railroad hostility at | home as well as the open contest made by the big cities of the Mitsissippi Valley. The petition to the President sets forth that the delay in its presentation has been due solely to the | determination of the signers not to indorse any one on, | for the place until such time as they could indicate to the President “the unanimous choice of the busi- | ness interests of the whole coast.” They are now | able to do that. As the petition says: “A conven- | tion has just been held in this city of the Pacific | Coast Jobbers’ and Manufacturers’ Association, | which was attended by representatives from every : line of business from the States of Washington, Ore- gon and California. At that convention the matter of indorsing some one for the vacancy caused by the | resignation of Mr. Calhoun was taken up, and Mr. | W. R. Wheeler of this city was the choice, without | one dissenting vote.” | The organizations which unite in the petition in- clude almost every important commercial or indus- t1ial association on the coast. Mr. Wheeler therefore stnds as the representative of the business interests | | | of this section of the Union, and those who oppose his candidacy are virtually opposing the selection of any man from the coast at all. Fortunately no op- position has thus far manifested itself except that of the Southern Pacific and the organs of that com- pany. Even that opposition ought now to cease It When three great nations like the | That much can | has been declared over and over again that in the movement for protecting the trade interests of the coast there is designed no injury to the railroad. It will, in fact, serve the welfare of the roads to build up the trade of Calffornia, Oregon and Washington. Mr. Wheeler represents a force which is working for the.benefit of all, and his indorsement by the people of the coast should be made unanimous. the whom the shafts of scores of societies are aimed, has Congressman Roberts, polygamist, against at last found a champion. She is a woman, lives in Chicago, and insists, with a woman's logic, that Roberts ought to be seated as a member of the House is of Representatives. Her reason the customary ABOUT BLACKMAIL. ladylike one of “simply because.” R. E. L. COLNON of the Stockton Mail /\/\ goes to the trouble and expense of lampoon- ing the proprietor and manager of The Call. He indulges in most extraordinary statements of his | code of ethics and exudes malice from his intellectual | pores until the result makes him appear like a hip- | popotamus indulging in a red sweat. In defense of | his code of morals Mr. Colnon says: “What would ibo grossly immoral in one country might be quite the proper thing in another.” And to this he adds: “A newspaper is not an agency for the elevation of the morals of a people and cannot be made such.” We are sure that all readers of the Stockton Mail acquit it of any attempt to elevate morals, or even to let them stay as good as it found them. Because The Call has said that certain leprous | practices can be limited by letting the light of pub- | licity fall upon them Mr. Colnon is sure that we in- i tend to blackmail somebody. We don’t know what | he has been doing lately that he ducks his head when- | | ever exposure is mentioned. His reference to the proprietor of The Call in con- | nection with the subject of blackmail suggests the | attempt he made to stand up the Valley Railroad for | a large sum of money and its exposure to the direct- ors by the proprietor of The Call. Mr. Colnon has certainly lived down to his code of ethics, not only in journalism but in office. While people were com- pelled to do public business with him as secretary to the Governor of California they were not long in finding out that he held peculiar views as to the op- | portunities of his position. When application was | sent through him for removal of penal disabilities, | with full explanation of the case, he did not con- sider the reasons sufficient for consideration and re- | quested the parties concerned to “dig up” sufficient testimony in the case to justify his attention to it. | How many may have “dug up” and who, during his | erm as Secretary, are things unknown to the pub- | But as he considers what is immoral in one | | | | | | | | | | | lic. t Mr. Fitch’s Non- | When McNab controlled the committee for the cele- | country may be highly moral in another, the transfer 1e Rickard ballot law | bration of the Fourth of July he was so rancorous | of that idea to official life is easy and he would find | ever rest until they |against union labor organizations that he prevented | no difficulty in making it. As he stood at one end | of the process of “digging up” and the digger stood | | at the other, what to the digger seemed highly im- | moral, to Mr. Colnon may have seemed moral an proper, as he insists that right and wrong are not | actval, but are interchangeable according to the | point of view. | When the “digging up” probably got bad, Colnon | | was transferred to the Harbor Commission and be- | came its president. His record there is written in | the judicial findings in the case of Irwin vs. the | commission. From the testimony in that case it is | evident that the water front was in luck that it did | i not get carried off. It was said that even the clock lin the ferry tower, having its good manners cor- rupted by evil associations, was frequently seen to | hold one hand behind its back, and the time ball | breathed freer every day when it slid up the pole pre- paratory to its meridian fall, for things that could rcost high were safer. We have no doubt that Mr. Colnon's secret soul | atters itseli out of his personal experience wl‘cn he says in his lampoon: “Publicity of crime increases crime. The Call's fool notion that the fear of pub- | licity wiil deter those wrongly inclined is all ‘that | could be expected from a man with half a head.” i We admit that from the standpoint of ex- perience with Colnon he is right. We have no rea- | son to believe that any fear of publicity, or even the glare of a judicial exposure, ever made him bat an eye or drove him off the trail of a job that he had in | sight or scent. Our only justification is that we believed him to be | the exception that proves the rule. We do not pre- | tend that any publicity would affect him, but we | hope there are others, whose good name has not )'ctf become a reminiscence, who would turn away from | the lure of passion or greed and put temptation be- | : hind them for sheer pride in a good reputation which | exposure and publicity would destroy. { In this world, where traps are set on every hand and where the steadfastness of men is often shaken by the example of flourishing iniquity to which Mr. Colnon has been a contributor, society requires that no influence should be omitted that will keep men in the straight path. If the fear of publicity is one | such influence, the newspaper which holds it over the man that is poising between right and wrong, uncer- | :tain whether to take the plunge or stand upright, is |a proper agency in the elevation of morals which | prevents transgression by the certainty of exposure. While publicity did not succeed in reforming Col- non, the fear of it may so deter others as to leave him the distinction of standing alone, a monument of incorrigibility, standing on his reputation like a crow on a carcass, cawing his belief that all meat is carrion. | q our i | | | | A late dispatch from Ladysmith announcing that a number of stragglers from the regiments captured | by the Boers have made their escape and returned to that city, adds: “A number of mules with a por- tion of the mountain battery have also come in.” It | is therefore evident the mule has not been so pesky as was reported. By bringing back some of the guns | he has done something at least to atone for stam- peding and upsetting the ammunition wagon. When the United States acquired the Sulu Islands | there was a distinct understanding that the rc-J‘ ligious beliefs of the natives were to be respectet{. Among the beliefs thus honored is one which makes the killing of Christians a passport to paradise. This | very interesting fact may suggest, perhaps, that the | Sulu Islands are first-class places for enthusiastic | missionaries to shun. The Republican party has put a clean ticket in the municipal contest, and if the voters give it a clean victory they will receive in return a clean adminis- tration in every branch of the city government. | —_— According to the rulings of Justice Rodden of San Rafael the game laws are dead in Marin .County. | How nice—dead game laws for dead game sports. | A railroad is to be constructed in Persia under Rus- §iax3 supervision on money furnished by French cap- italists. Now who will own the road? | | 'BLACK AND WHITE | finds herself leading up to new | tions. | plause. | of a ripe watermelon | whip-poor-will_tone a | 2 Versa. | greedy people demand bij THE COLOSSAL STATUE DESIGNED BY A QUEEN OME, Sept. 10.—The colossal statue . gherita herself, has been unveiled rests on a massive pedestal on ina 150,000 school children, their tribute to th tion of the rescue of the members of a c anche—a rescue so remarkable that the soldiers aseribed it to the direct influence of the Virgin, to whom they prayed in th Graven in the pedestal is an invocatio guard the frontier of Italy. est peaks in the Italian Alps. The statue was paid for by the contributions of of the Virgin, designed by Queen Mar- and dedicated. This enormous bronze ccessible Rocca Melone, one of the high- | e Virgin Mother in grateful commemora- ompany of Alpine militia from an aval- eir stress. n from the Pope praying the Virgin to MERITS OF THE CALL'S Now Running i San Francisco, Oct. 30, Editor Call—Dear S Study Circle'' seems {0 and efficient means for promoting education| among those who have already finished their <¢school'' education. work willbe indirect proportion to the care- fulness and faithfulness of the supervision. Very truly yours, it VL e Principal Lowell High School. “HOME STUDY CIRCLE” n lts Columns. | where they arrived 1899. ir{ The Call's me to afford a simple ¢ ‘Home | i The efficiency of the AT THE ORPHEUM | The nine d wonder stretched to | fourteen this time and then ceased. Mlle. | Lotty has been thrust back to the first division of the Orpheum evening, and she | attrac- | Mile. Lotty has to depend upon her | flags to make the house ring with ap- Her act is old, and must pave the | way for Louise Dresser, who holds the | The king Is dead, live the place of honor. king. Miss Dresser has cheeks like the heart n, and her ribbons ac- | n green. Altogether eatable is | She stands temptingly be- | tween two wide-mouthed pickaninnies and the whole is a jovful Wabash picture, There is an old theory, upheld by Mr. Morrisey, that a ‘‘natchel bohn coon” is far behind a burnt cork performer, but the theory isn’t worth a dumb canary while Miss Dresser's pickaninnies can be seen upon the same stage as Jack Nor- worth, The first glimpse of the little brown boys conjures up visions of melon patches and chicken roosts such as burnt cork never Sugges And there is a n the genuine negro voice, a queer little wail that is the right- ful heritage of these same youngsters and that can no more belong to the fairer race than can the shiny moon. Jack Norworth, on the other hand, has jokes that patter fast enough and are new enough to keep ome's wits bobbing. But he has no reason for his blackness. There is not one Southern sway in ais body, there is not one Southern siip In his words, He i{s most emphatically a be- blacked white man, and in so being ne flfes in the face of Providence and the re- sult is his come-up-ance. The coon mono- logue is too old a fad to support the monologist of {ts own strength. Only when he is much more clever than Mr. Norworth can he revive the fad. There was a remark made some time 0 about the Ethiopian and his skin. @ "> . . Ada Palmer-Walker {8 “The Bohemian Girl” at the Tivoli. It is a case of cold-blooded murder. She is thrusting the daggers of her voice through ‘I dreamt I dwelt,” and the re- sult makes one shudder. The daggers were never sharpened to such a nicety be- fore. Besides, one minds more when the victim is a dear old darling like the “‘Marble Halls’' song. . In happy contrast stands the fact that Mr. Greene and Mr. Schuster, as Thad- deus. and the Count, are making them- gélves more agreeable than ever. There isn't a man in all the Tivoli many who is a more all-round satisfactory singer than Mr. Schuster. He can be a agted to any occasion, being as grand as he is comic and_as comic as he is grand. He has a ood voice, a good presénce, and the only lar;ger is that he may prove too good to ast. Caroline Knowles, the new comer, is a stunning gypsy queen when one need only look, but she is unfortunate when one must listen. She has a muffled voice that shrinks weakly nwai'(from its opportuni- ties. But as Miss Knowles came to us with ‘‘comedienne” for her degree, it would not be fair to judge her by her work in “The Bohemian Girl.” Did any- body Sflg that she pretended to sing? The bitterest disappointment ?! Alt Whelan’s Devilshoof. Tt might pass for mediocrity if Mr. Whelan had not in one rash week of “The Mikado” shown how positively good he can be. Tt is fatal to any man’s peace of mind to once win a reputation for clevemen.h Thereafter things of him, and they complain sorel ’t he é‘l’ves wh’:« would be called enough from an every- day person. Mr. Whelan has climbed $two brands of clgars are as oil paint and is much cheaper: lack one-half bushel of unslacked lime with boiling water, keeping it covered during the proce: Strain it and add a peck ot salt, dissolved in warm water; three pounds of ground rice put in boiling wa- ter and boiled to a thin paste; half a pound of powdered Spanish whiting and a pound of clear glue, dissolved in warm water; mix these well together, and let the mixture stand for several days. Keep the wash thus prepared in a Kettle or portable furnace, and when used put it on as hot as possible with a painter's or a whitewash brush.” SOUTH SEA ISLANDS—M., Placerville, Cal. Any first-class bookscller can fur- nish literature on the South Sea Islands and books on boatbuilding. The question “‘Are the South Sea Islands a good place for a young man to go for busines: is too broad to admit of a general an You shouid select the island you would iike to go to, and if there is a United States Consul there, write to him, telling him what line of business you would like to engage in, and he will advise you. MAN-OF-WAR—S., City. Man-of-war is a phrase applied to a line-of-battle shi contrary.to the usual rule of the Engli language by which all ships are feminine, Talbot {n *“Words and Their Origin” say “The use of this term probabl the following manner: Men- heavily armed soldi A shi them would be called a man-of-war ship. In process of time the word ship was dis- carded as unnecessary, and there re- mained the phrase man-of-war.” After the “ship” was dropped from the phrase man-of-war became the appellation of the vessel Instead of the man, as originally, and now the individual is known as a man-of-war's man. The plural of man-of war, either individual or vessel, is men-of- war. AROUND THE CORRIDORS A. Masse, a wealthy tanner of Napa, is a guest at the Grand. J. Blels, a mining man of Sonora, {8 registered at the Lick. W. H. McKenzie, a prominent attorney of Fresno, is a guest at the Lick. Frank H. Buck, the millionaire fruit man of Vacaville, is a guest at the Palace. Louis Sloss Jr. has returned from Alaska after a hurried trip over the gold fields. Douglas §. Cone, the Red Bluff million- aire, is ut the Palace accompanied by B. Epperson. Arthur L. Pearse, a traveler from Lon- don, Eng., is among the recent arrivals at the Palace. R. Body, a wealthy mine owner of Angels Jamp, is registered for a short stay at the Palace. Dr. F. Sellick, one of the leading phy- sielans of Chicago, is registered at the Palace with his wife. J. A. Dexter, who has been mining in Alaska for nine vears, came down on the steamer Portland yesterday. George Morris, istant Librarian of Congress, is in this city on a visit of pleasure. He comes directly from his home in Washington, D. C. General J. B. Frisbie, a wealthy banker of the City of Mexico, is among the re- cent arrivals at the Occidental. He is accompanied by his wife and daughter. H. H. Johnson, A. P. Hubbard, C. D. Leary and C. S. Blackett, mining men from Cape Nome, who arrived in this city vesterday on the Portland, are staying at the Occidental. E. M. Vail, F. A. Benjamin, W. H. Granville and A. M. Baker, a quariet of fortunate mining men from the Cape Nome district, are registered at the Russ, vesterday morning from the steamer Portland. Attorney George Knight has returned from his recent trip to the East. While away he met the President, and on his W home he made several political speeches in the various States through which he passed. Bishop Moreland of Sacramento arrived in the city yesterday and left on the even- ing overland for the East. He goes in connection with his religious work, ond while absent will deliver a number of lectures 1n various cities throughout the East in behalf of the General Convention of the Episcopal Church, which is to be held in ¢his city in October, 1501 e — CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, 2—C. A. Ranier and wife of San Francisco are at the Wellington; John C. Crane and wife of Oakland are at the St. James. Lask’s new opera. The opportunity is of the best. Good luck to the enterprise. | “The Conspirators” will close this week | and “A Merry Monarch” follows. A hus- band-and-wife farce goes on at the Alca zar and Nance O'Neil returns to the Cali- fornia. SARAH COMSTOCK. e NEW COURT RULE. Supreme Court Changes the Order for Holding Examinations. At every quarterly examination by the Supreme Court of applicants for admis- sion to practice the number of would-be | lawyers is astonishing, and the number | seems to be increasing. The Justices nave | decided to change the mode of holding ex- aminations, for yesterday they issued the | following new order: Order Amending Order Relating to Examina- tions of Applicants for Admission to Practice | Law—®ppilcants for admission to practice law | | will not hereafter be examined in open court at the sessions held in Sacramento and San | Francisco. In pursuance of the amendment | ‘ln section 276 of the Code of Civil Procedure the Commissioners of the Supreme Court or! | any three of them are hereby designated to | conduct public examinations of all persons who | present applications filed in due form. Such | examinations will be held at the Supreme Court | | rooms in San Francisco on the second Monday | | in March, June, September and December of each year. No person rejected shall be at | liberty to renew the application earlier than | the second regular examination next after. such | | rejection. Until otherwise ordered applicants | who are bona fide residents of any of the counties of the Los Angeles district will, if | they so desire, be examined at the beginning | of each session of the court In Los Angeles | as heretofore. The next examination will be | held December 11, 1899, | —_———— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. l JACK DEMPSEY'S DEATH-_Reader, City. Jack Dempsey, the pugllist, died the 15t of Novembes 95. i % GOLDENSON'S CRIME—J. H. M., City. Mamie Kelly was shot and killed in San Francisco by Alexander Goldenson on th 10th of Novembe 6. e THE PALACE HOTEL—W. W. N City. The cost of erecting the Palace Ho. tel, in San Francisco, was between three and one-half and four millions of dollars, MANILA CIGARS-S., City. Ninety- manufactured in the city of Manila, P, 1., and thirty of these have band gs, around them. JOHN DAVIS AN WIFE—W. T. H., Stockton, Cal. John Davis and wife, who attempted to run across the continent in an automobile, returned to the point whence they started. AGAIN THE CENTURY—An Ol4 Sub- scriber, City. The next century will com mence ‘on the Ist of January, 191 Why, i Is fully explained in an answer to another correspondent in this department Octo- ber 22, 1899. LOS ANGELES' DIRECTORY—A. O. City. A copy of the Los Angeles Dire tory may be seen in the office of the City Directory in this city, In the riuudmg on Bush street, near Sansome, occupled by Crocker & Co. A SMALL BOOK—L. C., City. A book “one inch long, three-quarters of an inch wide, containing illustrated fables and songs in French, gflmed in Paris, France, in 1'&2 ,"" is probably one of the smallest books ever printed. Such a book has no market value, but is worth just whatever it will bring from one who may wish to buy it as a curiosity. WHITEWASH—Subscriber; City. The following receipt for whitewash is the one high _enough to feel th sh%uld l."s. e bump in case he “The Three Musketeers” s George sent out by the Lighthouse Board of the United States Treasury Department. It has been found by experfence, to answer on wood, brick and stone nearly as well 1 —_———————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Nov. 2—Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Hopkins and son, P. C. Hopkins, of San Francisco are at the Fifth Avenue; R. Hale of San Francisco is at the Ma- Jestic. e Cal. glace fruit 50c 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. Tclephone Main 1042. * —_———— ‘Welburn’s Third Trial Set. The trial of ex-Internal Revenue Col- lector Osca M. Welburn has been set in the United States Di ict Court for 11 a. m. on Wednesday next. This will be Fis third trial for the offense: charged against him, and his second trial on the present indictment, hich charges him with sending false vouchers to the head of the Revenue Department at Washing- ton. —_——————— “Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used for fifty years by millions of mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soothes the child, softens the gums, allays pain, cures Wind Colic, regu- lates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or other causes. For sale by druggists In every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Svrup, 2%c a bottle. HOTEL DEL CORONADO—Take advantage of the round-trip tickets 5 steamship, including fifteen d tel; longer stay, §2 30 per day. Apply at 4 New Montgomery street, San Francisco. —_— e———— Brown Deceived Her. Catherine Halgh filed suit against Cy- rus Elwood Brown to recover $20,000 dam- ages for breach of promise. Plaintiff al- leges that on August 22, 1867, at Cincin- nati, Ohio, defendant requested her to become his wife. She consented, but sub- sequently, in January-of this vear,.she discovered that Brown was a married man. ADVERTISEMENTS. Growing Time Children must have just the right kind of food if they are to become strong men and women. A defi- ciency of fat makes children thin and white, puny and nervous, and greatly retards full growth and develop- ment. They need It supplies just what all delicate and growing children require. Soc. and $1.00, all druggists. SCOTT & BOWNE, Chemists, New York,