The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 9, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, OVEMBER 9, 1899. THURSDAY D. Plopnetor. LEAKE, Manager JOHN SPRECKELS, ions to W, _Market and Third Sts. S, F ne Main 1868, 2IT to 221 Stevenson Street £ DITORIAL m}flm. - DELIVE] ED BY CARRIE RS, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. Coples, § cents. . including Postage: ¥ CALL (inelr afterncon and alttes. row night. Races. November 10, at 11 vember 14, at 12 mber 16, at 12 o'clock, THE MAN FOR THE PLACE. 1OW t re over and the politi- cal cc year have been settled, the i le Coast would better return ich all are or ought to be 1g the appointment of a rep- to the vacancy on the Inter- 1 for the st, but the tted that two candidates ward from the co: cause much, he two is not diff s been nominated cult to t f the Soutl Pa- ¢ ed by a con- t ' and Manufac- were esenta- 3 , Cali O The first candidate and by such Stubbs. Tt t and support of ¢ r 1 organization of note have ¢ Commerce Com- [ ailroad or the rep- I g Oreg California 1 ¢ ( € ion is divided i land States, the lle St Mis- s Vallc nd the I ¢ of the com- t of the created that each « n should have a r the Middle S have al- e oo The 1 open se- t ow men of Wa Ore ( united to make the nated for the o 1 inter- udy of would not ¢ would be 1 not only on Pa ( s but t all questions that at there ought to be By c G of business. hast repre- alled upon to ected cal Jaw. by As Wheeler would be n of the country 11 d in e exactly the right man in refore, would t h subscriptions have been ik since the announcement f th se of home circle appreciate the profit them. rease of subscriptions the State, to the and to e year tend to promote . but people fu intenc by approach season other riptions due to such causes ase which can be accounted that of the popular papers of an educa- s now publishing. So prompt a response on the part of the public to this undertaking is in the highest degree gratifying. The studies are of a nature that appeals to the intel- ligence of the community. The widespread favor with which they have been received is therefore an evi- dence that among the people of California there are thousands who know the full worth of the highest culture and who liberally support every effort to at- tain it. New subscriptions come in every day and are daily counted by the hundreds. They are received from every part of the State. This is a proof that the bet- ter the studies are understood the more they are As the series goes on the circle of readers th r for upon no othe appreciation of th tional character which es of The Cail approved widens, and each new reader is a new advocate com- mending and approving the course. Thus the circula- tion of The CaN augments with a surprising rapidity both in the city and in the country, and that, too, among the best class of readers. d | accomplish double re- | vhen ample allow-* THE REPUBLICAN OUTLOOK. EPUBLICAN stalwarts in San Francisco have no reason to be downcast over the condition of the party or the prospect of the great Presi- dential campaign that is coming. On the contrary, there is much that is encouraging in the outlook, and the more the situation is studied the more satis- factory it appears. Just before the prlm“r\ elections the condition of the party was indeed depressing to its loyal support- ers. achinery had largely fallen under the con- trol either of ward bosses or of men who had close such bosses. There well among the rank and file, and the leaders. So demoralized and so weak the party spirit t not a few men of influence in the party were dis- posed to yield the municipal election without a struggle. It was argued by thése men that it would better to indorse Phelan than to put up a candi- date against him; better to let the issue pass than to ipt to rid the pa Burns Kelly and imins and make a fight for the control of the arter. were affiliations with grounded discontents fights *among ion ion the organiza be of and Cri under the new ¢ Thanks to the energy of loyal Republicans such weak counsels were set aside. The business men, the taxpayers and the intelligent workingmen who make up the real strength of the party were rallied. ~The At the conven- city bosses were routed in the primaries. tion a ticket was nominated that every true Repub- | lican, that every good citizen, could support without hesitation. The Honorable Horace Davis, one of the st eminent men of the city, accepted the nomina- tion for the mayoralty and entered upon a canvass that won the respect of all. As a result the party re-formed its organization, revived the spirit of its members, recalled many an indifferent Republican to his duty, and polled for the head of the ticket 'more than 21,000 votes. showing made at the polls appears the more excellent when it is remembered that the campaign Republican side strictly nate and honorable lines. Nothing in the way trickery or personalities was made ass was not only but it was est plane of pol 1 endeavor. the irritations 1sed by the was made on the upon \goguery, The can of. conducted on the hi Notwithstanding personalities of the Democratic candidates and the use clean, gross the scur- press that supported them, notwithstanding mpooning of Mr. Davis and the spying prac- rilous ticed upon him, notwithstanding the foul trick of issuing a forged circular in the name of the Young Men's Institute designed to injure the Republican andidates, the Republican press and the Republican andidates refrained from retaliating in kind.. Not a vote cast Davis, therefore, cast for him by reason of false pretenses or misrepre- His vote may be taken as the measure of ican strength of the city—the strengt! for Republican ican candidates in every con- single for Horace was sentation. the loyal R ed on to stand With that much of assured strength the party can face the future without fear. The old bosses have been driven fro: he party organization, and its ma- chinery is now in the hands of men in whom the ran and file can have confidence. The spirit of victory been reawakened and party loyalty restored. When the time comes for San Francisco Republican- ism to prepare for the Presidential campaign it w be found in excellent condition. There will be har- loyalty and discipline. The municipal con- test has not been fought in vain. mony, The \‘cw Yo Post announces the retirement of | 2 DN 3 from active work on that paper. The retirement for the purpose of giving Godkin a rest, and the readers will also have a rest which they will doubtless enjoy. WATER STORAGE POLICY. | /‘\ T last the ndido Times has made a state- ment of what the Federal irrigators expect to It says that Governor McCord of Arizona said at Missoula: “Those who say that it is idle to expect that Congress 1, in this or the next generation, adopt a system of national irriga- tion are either ignorant or dishonest. They should 1at Congress at its last session came very near appropriating $213,000 to begin work upon a national system of irrigation for the arid West, and that the aders agreed with Senators Warren and Carter that at least that sum should be appropriated by the next Congress if they would consent to let the matter go ov o w! know herein we have the measure of what is promised by the next Congress. There are nine States and Territories concerned together in this matter and the sum promised will amount to less than $24,000 each. | The Federal irrigators insist that the proposed work | in California will cost so many millions that the State | cannot afford it. For illustration let us put the cost at $10,000,000. At the rate of $24.000 a year men now living their descendants for twelve genera- tions will have no interest in the result. The Times insists that a system of equitable distribution of the stored water must precede storage. It puts this as }“impcm(i\'c," and we admit it. But how is the Fed- | eral Government to arrange that within a | State? Under what grant of power to Congress can | it be done? What kind of a tem will it be? Will ‘ki( involve the construction by the Federal Govern- | ment of canals and ditches to carry the water to the head gates of every user? The Times says that: “Federal irrigation means the reclamation and settlement of the millions of acres of arid public lands by the construction by the Government itself of the irrigation works necessary | to reclaim them, the purchase by the tiller of the soil of Government land at Government price, plus the | actual pro rata expense of the reclamation of the land [and the water distribution.” This may well apply to the States and Territories where the land is yet part of the public domain. But in California the land that is suffering for a constant supply lies in the and system valleys of Southern California and in the valleys |of the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers, and on the rim of those valleys in the foothills. Where, within those areas, are the millions of acres of public Jand that can be made fruitful by water and 1 sold with the cost of the supply added to the Govern- | ment price? The need of California is water to irri- gate constantly, in all years, wet or dry, the land now ‘in private ownership, which the Government has | already sold. Here is just where the Federal idea, | whatever may be its merit, does not apply, éxcept | perhaps on the Colorado Desert, and no one opposes | its operation there or wherever it will apply. The j point to the whole matter is that the policy of Fed- | eral irrigation has for its sole the recla- mation of Government lands as a Federal policy, to make them valuable and secure their sale and settle- | ment.” In that view of it alone can Congress be asked | to interfere. That policy may be entered upon at any time, and perhaps ought to be. The argument for it is the same that warrants the river and harbor ap- | propriation for securing the navigability of mean- dered streams, and to keep harbors open for deep reason Iwater commerce. But any man, though he may be “ignorant and dishonest,” according to the fine and | argumentative characterization of Governor Mc- Cord, must see that the vast acreage needful of irri- | gation in California, now in private ownership, is expressly excluded from Federal benefit by the very reason for which that benefit is asked. The public domain is Federal property, and the constitution gives Congress the power to dispose of it, and that carries | | the power to appropriate money to make it market- | able and tax the cost of that process te, the buyer. | What California needs is constant water to irrigate private lands that were never public domain, like the Spanish and Mexican grants, or that have long since been patented by the Federal Government to private ywners. This State wants also constant water to| | operate her patented mines and to supply therefor | | hydraulic power. Therefore the purposes to be served | here are not directly Federal purposes. They are private purposes entirely, and can no more be served | by the use of any grant of. power to Congress than can any other private purpose for personal profit. As| | well might we ask Congress to appropriate Federal | money to build for any citizen on his own land a pri- vate fishpond. : It seems clear, then, from a correct analysis of the | | Federal plan, that it stops short where Federal pur- poses cease. As far as Federal purposes go in Cali- | | fornia everybody is willing that they shall have Fed- eral service, and, instead of opposing, all Californians | will work for it. Our situation requires that for our arger interests, which lie outside any possible Fed- | eral purpose, the State shall supplement Federal ac- tion. There are a great many things involved in this Fed- i eral policy. The public domain in Western Kansas i was sold to settlers as agricultural lands. Year after | | year armies of farmers have moved up to those lands | to face starvation, and retreat, defeated in the at- tempt to make them yield. The Government received about thirty millions of dollars for those lands. The | men who bought them have been making for years) an organized effort to get their money back from the | Government. As soon as Federal irrigation begins | to fit other arid lands for fruitfulness on the public | ; domain the case of the Western Kansans has a high | color of equity, and the question of refunding their 1 money has a standing which it never had before. To | them will be joined every buyer of the public do- | main who has shared their fate, and a new issue is presented to the Federal Government. I The local question is, Can California wait outside, on the desert, in company with the horned toads and | tarantulas which now occupy lands formerly part of the Mexican and Spanish grants, which may be made fruitful by an effort at self-help? There is going to be a great deal of explanation over the vote in Ohio for the next month, and very | few of the explanations will attribute the big vote of Jones of Toledo to any devotion on the part of the | i voters of Ohio to the golden rule. Toff year elections which may be studied by poli- ticians with benefit to their parties. As far as Mr. Bryan is concerned the result is a hardly polite | invitation to him to vacate the leadership of his party, to come down and get out of the way. He may mis- | interpret the message that is plain to everybody else and continue to divert himself with dreams, but a leader who has lost every battle in which he com- | manded gets stale. Already the term “poor Bryan” is current, and that prefix ends a man in public life. It drove Franklin Pierce into dense obscurity, even | i’frmn the high of the Presidency. i | The center of interest to Republicans in the result | is the failure of Nash to get a majority in Ohio. It | is a surprise that industrial conditions there, supposed | to be in a flourishing state, should permit such an | immense margin of discontent as is shown in thei Jones vote. Future peril lies in the possible combi- nation in that State of the supporters of Jones and McLean, which would far outnumber the Republican | strength. Another matter for Republican reflection is the fact that the Jones-McLean fight in Ohio was made mainly and pointedly against imperialism and the foreign policy of the administration. While the result presents a gratifying personal victory for Judge | Nash, it leaves the administration in a heavy minority in the President’s own State in test of popular opinion ! | upon the leading feature of his- policy. | The Republicans have lost Maryland for the same | | reason, and the warning that Senator Wellington | gave his party proves to have had ample justification. [ THE OFF YEAR ELECTIONS. HERE are certain admonitory features in the | S While there is justifiable exultation that the party | has fared so well, there is in the result an admonition | that the future will be more secure if the party hasten | to become Republican again. Then its portentous | | pluralities will be turned into wholesome majorities, | and it will not need to tremble in fear that a common | ground may be found upon which its opponents can combine to defeat it. To return to poor Bryan. creased by the situation in Kentucky. that contest has raised up enemies for him throughout | the South. People down there are waspish about out- siders interfering in a family quarrel, and when the | family gets together again the outsider makes the un- pleasant discovery that he has no friends in the com- His misfortunes are in- His course in | bination. So his appearance in Kentucky is likely to increase the Southern tendency to buck and fling | him. He has Nebraska to fall on, and no doubt there | is some local office there which he can take for its profit and not its honor, and in which he can | grow old and amuse himself by shouldering the parts of speech and showing how ficlds are lost. i e There is a report that the intercollegiate football‘ men have requested the British Government to have | no battles in the Transvaal on dates that would con- l flict with football games, and that may be the rea- | son the censor is shutting off the news from the seat | of war. Murderer Suisser is trying to make a jury believe | that he does not remember the killing of Sheriff Far- ley of Monterey County. He will be painfully re- minded of it, however, when they put the rope around | his neck. Once more the British are claiming a victory over the Boers, but the intelligent reader will take notice | that the siege of Ladysmith goes briskly on and there are no signs of retreat on the part of the besiegers. Admiral Dewey has given the American people another proof of his heroism. New York dispatches confirm the report that the hero of Manila Bay has been out shopping with his intended. As at present organized the Republican party in San Francisco is in good shape for the coming cam- paign, and when next it meets the tiger it will have the tiger's skin for sale next day. President Kruger is said to have sixteen children and 104 grandchildren, of whom about fifty are in the army, so his fight with the British seems to be something of a family affair. E | i | The Judge came poundin | Out airing his great judicial mind. | Madera, . § : i 1o- ! : : B e o e e B o Will the Gentlemen Around the Corner Interfere ? —New York Tribune, PP S S S SIS R SR SRR G A e e e O B B S O O O o am s s anCat SR S 2 @+ G +O+-+0 4 MAUD AND THE JUDGE AGAIN. Maud Muller jumpcd ;:n her time-worn For :r‘:kevenlng hit at the dusty pike. W &fg:fi'&’ e TiRe steoping dead " couid along behind, He noted the figure neat and trim ! And graceful motion of hidden limb. And li!ehsald to himself in his grave de- b W hms ma(tel‘ with Maudie? She's all He drew beside her and asked her flat Why she rode such an old ice cart as that. And she said saleslady could {ll support Such wheel as the Judge of the District Court. | He told her she could on a chainless ride, With a diamond frame, if she’d be his bride. | Or, if she would bust up his solo life, They would tandem together as man and wife. | Maua bit at the bait like a hungry trout, And the old Judge smiled as he yanked her out. They ride on a tandem now, of course, But Maud has to work like a treadmill horse. But the Judge has learned how to sit and And l(t )llfi darling do all the -7ork. He weighs two hundred and fifty-one, But the poor girl thinks it an even ton. And she often says, ‘with a pain-rent ear “I wish 1 was back In my oid ice cart!” “Of all the true words that I ever spake, The truest are these: ‘He's a bloomin’ Ke! o Denver Sunday Post. AROUND THE CORRIDORS a T. T. Alexander of Toklo, Japan, is guest at the Occidental. Otto Ever, the Paso Robles hotel man, is a guest at the Palace. Rev. B. O'Meara has come up from San Jose and is at the Grand. F. M. Mooers, a mining man of Rands- burg, is a guest at the Palace. J. H. Gardiner, a millionaire fruit man | of Rio Vista, is staying at the Grand. Stinson, a Los Angeles capitaiist, stay at the AL R is registered for a short Palace. J. J. Hebbron, a wealthy cattle man of Salinas, is registered at the Grand with his wife. J. J. Gilbert of the Coast Geodetic Sur- | vey has returned to the city and is stay: ing at the Occidental. W. C. Tighe, a wealthy merchant of 1s at the Lick during a short business trip to this city. John Raggio, a prominent rancher of San Andreas, was among the arrivals of last night at the Grand. W. E. Lawrence, a prominent fruit man of Vacaville, is in the city for a few days. He is registered at the Lick. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Waterman have come up from their Honolulu home and | are staying at the Occidental. ‘W. P. Hussey, a leading lumber mer- chant of Indianapolis, is at the Grand on a pleasure trip to the coast. T. Kimera, a Japanese merchant of prominence, is at the Palace, where he registered yesterday from Toklo. Peter Musto, one of the leading busi- ness men of Stockton, was among the ar- rivals of yesterday at the Grarnd. W. F. Wilkenson, John Lind and 8. 8. Mitchell, prominent mining men from Seattle, are registered at the Lick. Lieutenant Chester Knepper, U. S. N., is at the Palace for a short stay. Mrs. Knepper accompanies her husband. ‘William Garland, one of the leading politiclans of Los Angeles, is at the Palace on a sort vacation to the city Thomas O. Moore, a wealthy mine- owner of Vancouver, B. C., is :t the Palace, where he registered yesterday. Dr. B. Nahn, a physician who has been practicing many vears in Guatemala, is at the Grand, enjoying a vacation in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Palmer, two well- known society people of New York, are at the Palace, where they arrived yester- day evening. Major General Nelson A. Miles left Portland yesterday for this city, where he will arrive this evening. He is ac- companied by his wife and daughter. During his stay in San Francisco (.2 general will make the Palace his head- quarters. Pay Director George A. Lyon, U. 8. N. for several years in charge of the United States Navy pay office in this city, has | been detached from duty in charge of the navy pay office at Philadelphia, Pa., preparatory to retirement in December next. tion of being one of the most conscien- tlous and honorable men in the pay corps | of the navy. Pay Director G. Cochran has been crdered to relieve him in the Philadelpnia office. ———————— | CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Nov. 8.—H. E. Hatcher of Oakland is at the Metropolitan; H. F. Norcross of Los Angeles is at the St. James. ——— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Nov. 8§—W. H. Hammond Pay Director Lyon has hosts of | ! friends in this city and hears the reputa- | | of San Francisco is at the Hoffman. C. cies live in groups and appear to be very H. Jordan of San Francisco is at the Bar- | affectionate. Nests of parrots have been 5 el ut rarely seen by scientific observers e Mre. wilson of San Franelsco is | pp*egptivity in France one female bird sanhattan laid four eggs twice a year for thres S S yes , but in one instance hfl!le efig “'(Ti unfroftful. During the hatching the male ANSWERS T0 SORRESEONDENTS. | ik o ety DR, b 1t on guard. TWO HEIGHTS—A. S., City. The fee Ererares I height of The Call building is 827 feet to | o THE WAR IN SOUTH AFRICA-M. R, e Bielat ot aLLO e 8 B oo o | Carson Cily. The first engagement of thia Hall is Lo £ present South African war was on the ’ i —_— — UHI of Octobe War was declared on tha SALVINI—Call reader, City. Alexander ,’at 10 o'clock in the morning, South S e e e e O et iimacin was ent on the 10th of that month. vini, tra born in Rome, Italy, Dap b 2 el Florence, | A DEFENDANT—Anxious, City. A des ¥, fendant in a criminal action must be per« PAYING TAXES—A. C. T., Morencl, | Sonally present at all stages of the case. Ariz. The fact that a man pays the taxes fendant must be pre; on the property of another for a numt nted by an r a of years does not, after a certain number | ! A Judge whose e e i t “trom the place where the defendant of ye » give him any title to the iand. 1 Heulomot e fentignto & BRITISH ARMY—W. R. D., City. The | “letter from the defendant denying the i ) ich are false.” Courts can pay of a captain in the Britisk follows per diem: 1d, foot guard 1 al regulars and of volunte recruited un- and punishment £ der the recent call n. Tnited = e | letter of that | evidence. ntry 1ls 7d, ca nd engineers 11s. STATES ARMY-K., | of the United States | ry 1is 7d, artille UNITED status P If a man belonging to the Ger should desert, come to the T after a number of years becom n, and he should in af | turn to Eurépe he would ¥ THE to be maintai be l"hilixxpnws will composed of AGENCY—A., C 1 obligation lm ow on legal evidence, and haracter would not be legal a burg, Cal. an army nited States a the agency of a manufa en- | his birth prior erally enters into a cont with the | the Union firm in order to protect himself, s at | owed his country (Ge in case he works up a good busines: vice, (and ithe f : L firmishall not, in the d of prospe | proof that he did mplete th: take the agency away from him and yice;: consequently’ ¢ was unfulfiile Teito somasmoce Ty aeob hEINTaT AL an obligation at the time he left. The Qrs German Government has the right upon TERRITORIES Miller, Cal. The | hiS return to demand the fulfiliment of Territories of the United States are: New | {4( 9RUERYOR BEC WOLIK, fave the Hebt Mexico, Arizona, Indian Territory, P Sesertic : oUTES 5D trict of Columbia, Alaska and Okiahoma, | JfSertion: This of course applies to one The United Stat 5 of military age. has ; g — e territorial _government aiian Islands, and Cuba, nd the Philippines are not yet provided for the Ha- Puerto Rico under United Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.* — e States military rule. Special information supplied dafly to — = business houses and public men by t.a A CLUB—A. M. H., Glen Ellen, Cal. The | Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mon.- question asked in relation to the s gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, ¢ your club cannot be determined wit R T T an examination of the by-laws, as a great Jong Jay Deported. deal depends upon the wording. The 1aws | Jong Jay, a coolie who was found-:la ms | and without that knowledge it is img ay be self-operating or_ they may we k with a crv\lnu*rffln certificate of re; sible to determine the status of the m. in was ordered bers. If you will send a copy of those I t Judge to Answers to Correspondents an answer will be given. e I Dr. Siegert’'s Angostura Bitters, the world- PARROTS—M. H., Reed Statlon, Marin | ronouneq appetizer and tnvigorator, Is used County, Cal. There-is probably no other | tyer the world, Beware of tritations. }ur;l than the parrot about which so little i s known as to its habi is ed 5 i that they bulld their n n hollow tree Died of His Burns. also in clefts of rocks, and that the Tong Sing, a Chinese merchant, who tWo Sets of eggs a year, two in a was injured in a Chi - is believed that several females la days ago, died yesterday in the City and in the same nest. A number of t | County Hospital. He was 60 years old mmm—— NOVEMBER 12, 1899. n Next Sunday’s_Ca_ll..| HOW I CONDUCTED DIVINE SERVICE ON THE FIRING LINE. By REV. CHARLES M. DALEY of the South Dakota Volunteers INTERIOR VIEWS OF ADMIRAL DEWEY’S NEW HOME. THE' PEARL DIVERS OF SULU. ecsecsccsscssscsssscssessssessons FOUND IN THE PHILIPPINES, By GENERAL CHARLES KING. CULTIVATING TEA IN AMERICA. BOOK REVIEWS BY PROF. H. B. LATHROP Of Stanford University. CALIFORNIA’S PRETTIEST GIRLS DOMESTIC SCIENCE, FASHIONS, THEAT- RICAL STARS, AND A DOZEN OTHER INTERESTING FEATURES The Magazine Section of the Sunday Call is now recognized as the most interesting and artistic Sunday supplement published on the Pacific Coast.