The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 9, 1900, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1900 I ..JANUARY 9, 190 RECKELS, Proprietor. ations to W. OFFICE. .Market and Third, 8. F. Telephone Main 1865, LEA Manager PUBLICATION EDITORIAL ROOMS....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Main 1574, Deltvered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Copt 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (neluding day), one yenr..$6.00 Ly (ALl decluding Sunday), 6 months.. 3.00 153 CALL (incloding Sunday), 3 months.. 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Month.. ces @Be| SUNDAY CALL One Year... ees 18O WEEKLY CA Oue Year..... 4000000 100 M postmesters are authorized to receive | subscriptions. Sampic eoples will be torwarded when requested VAKLAND OFFICE.. ....P08 Broadway €. GEORGE Yannger Foreign Adver ing, KHROGNESS, g, Marguette Build- Chicago. NEW CARLTON TORK C(ORRESPONDENT: C. ¢ .Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY KENS JR...... 20 Iribune Building CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House; P. 0. News Co.; Great North- eri Hotel; Fres t House; Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldori-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Unton Sguare: Murray Hill Hotel WASHINGTON (D, €. OFFICE. . Wellington Hotel J. . ENGLISH, Correspondent. BRANCH corner of OFFICES Clay Huyes, 30 McAllister, open Lurkin, open until 141 Mission, open until 10 rket, corner Sixteenth, open 096 Valencia, open until 9§ nth, open until 9 o'clock. wenty-second and Kentucky, o'clock. o —— e AMUSEMENTS. i BYINGTON’S PLAIN DUTY. BYINGTON lit eer i b of to wever, it y to e official in compels | e language ors shall be pur that there is one as some politi- | It does ithy offender and pea- | It does not point out a Joophole and a prison cell for Ster It for infractions of any of its pro- | his as well as anybody else, 1e did not before, that Mayor an offender against the law. He should prosecute 1 friend, Mayor Phelan. i e . ear. the total transactions of United States last y 1 ar at y one hundred billions i 1 expenditures of the Govern- exceed 1 per cent of it. r near Whenever the e to talk husiness the other nations have to take eat and let Uncle Sam do the oratory. Kincaid, member of the new Board | »w probably aware that the game of | to the vas nothing less than an act of re- | he part of Director Mark to regild ose Gage bricks and hand it to the lady at et of her official career. veral points not known bers’ Association at Sacramento was | iscussion concerning the problems of | was said about the problem of get- ter earning them. or divorce Julia Marlowe con- | od’s name was Sarah Frances | she changed it when she decided | Ii there’s anything an actor or | 1 frost | ird of Health carries out its threats | record of the first day in New | ! like a report from the Boer | Probably for the sake of getting relief from the | tion about the century mark, the New York Post »een moved to ask “Is McKinley sure of re-elec- That ought to be an easy one. L S Do their best, English ncwspapers cannot keep under the question of the seizure of American flour in Delagoa B That flour is seli-rising and bound itself sooner or later. It looks as if Buller had about made up his mind to hold his own at Tugela River and let White do the | best he can to hold Ladysmith. y 1o assert mirage effect on minds debanched by misuse, prosti- | possessions, called by the ever accursed name, “colo- | Tanforan will have to include Gatling guns as neces- | sary adjuncts of the game. | preliminary survey, he says, between the coast | States ship Nero has been engaged since April last in | ward to the Philippines and Japan. | developed two unusual features along the route b; table things about the recent conven- | . P & 4 loi the surface; the other being an | between Honolulu and Guam, one by way of Midway | advised that one of those routes be selected as a | cable and so increase the original cost that it would jthan fifty minutes per day in order to earn the income MATERIAL FOR REPUBLICS. ~HE imperi s are affected with that visual in- ’—[ firmity called “far cight.” This does not mean that they see into the future nor backward to the past. They merely see at a distance things which are underfoot, but unseen. More than this, they af- fect to see at a distance things which are not there, but are near by, though unseen by them. This is a tuted by the habit of putting what they wish to be for t is. The actual reality near at hand, though invisible, app n the distance like those phantom scenes on the desert, in which clods become houses and spears of dry weed wave the inviting foliage of a fore: The most defiant imperialist in California is General Otis, who sometimes crosses the Rubicon es edits the Los Angeles Times. He is 3ritish in the South African contest and cans who will not worship with him e feet of British power. denounced the name and title, “United frica,” particularly because it was of nd “the invention of charlatans and signed to work upon the prejudices | 1 | d som fiercely pro- at | | | States ¢ | o do not take the trouble to look beneath the surface of great questions.” The general then to look beneath the surface of great ques- ven if Kruger and his coterie to e the provinces of ed under a republican form of gov- r to that of the United States, it would f ch a thing could be done to se- | the co-operation of the people of South Africa, an government must of necessity, if it pon the consent of the governed for the rests, opinions and affiliations are so ity of race, of s, of purposes of opinions, is wanting, and without it concert | ion would be impossible. The ited States of South Africa would be a house di- st d foredoomed to go down in n and anarchy, if leit to its | | | would b impossible ogen armony of tsel! of revo devices.” herefore, he argues, Great Brit: must be per- | ed to tal d govern those people as she sees | But Great Britain is not a republic. In England, d and Wales that Government is a constitu- a it is Such it will be in South f its arms prevail, for such conquests must be ting force and vigilance, pre- ed States of America is a republic, a Gov- hose powers are delegated to it by the General Otis declares homogeneity of ations, opinions and purpose and consent of | ed to ry to the stability He nis clearly and correctly while | to far 7 Why does he not see it while He is fiercely intolerant of oppo- That policy means ag and jurisdiction probably be neces of sees Africa. n imperialism. people, alien to us in race, opinions ® be brought v of them will never 1 they see the flag that it is the emblem of , the banner of a master and not the They are to be denied voice in ment which we will rule and repress sort of republican government will such in mainly 1 Otis attempt to run away from the ob- swer that it will be despotic government— | United States will be a constitutional repub- at home and an absolute monarchy in the new nies”—he must then admit that these twenty millions of tropical aliens are to be incorporated into our body politic, to have our and lacking that homogeneity, the absence of which he so deplores in South Afri their presence will foredoom the re- public to go down in the red ruin of anarchy and revolution. It is remarkable that such men as Otis are republicans only for the purposes of tyranny and spotism. They hold the true Tory idea that the many must be ruled by the few lest the many make nmistakes in ruling themselves. It ‘is the same argu- ment that was made against our forefathers. General inst the Dutch and’ against all peoples who long for the light of liberty and are struggling toward it with arms in their hands and are dying with its sheen in their dazed eyes. franchise, Otis takes the same position If Corrigan continues to combine his ideas of what social ethics and horse-racing ought to be visitors to E of the most valuable contributions yet made AN AMERICAN PACIFIC C@BLE. O to the discussion of the problem of construct- ing a ¢able telegraph across the Pacific from the United States to Asia is contained in a paper read at the recent meeting of electrical engineers in New York by Captain George Owen Squier of the United States army. Captain Squier declares there is no longer any doubt of the practicability of the Pacific cable project from a technical and engineering point of view. A of California and the Hawaiian Islands was completed by the Navy Department in 1892, showing the entire practicability of that part of the route. The United a survey of the bed of the Pacific along the proposed route of the cable from the Hawaiian Islands west- This survey has of Midway Island, one of them being a sub- marine mountain rising fronr the floor of the ocean having a depth of 2200 fathoms to within 82 fathoms abyss of 4900 fathoms, one of the deepest yet discovered in the sea, at a distance of about 500 miles east of Guam. These and other obstacles which may be found Captain Squier says can be avoided in laying the cable by making detours around them. Two routes are discussed for covering the distance Island and the other by way of Wake Island. It is cable direct from Honolulu to Guam would be about 3650 miles long, including “slack” wire, and that length would so, reduce the through speed of the be cheaper to establish and maintain the intermediate | station, | It is estimated that to yield a revenue which will re- pay the cost of maintenance and repairs the cable will have to earn $025,000 a year. The cost of transmit- ting messages is calculated at about 8 cents a word, and the present commercial rate from Washington to Manila is $2 38 2 word.* Captain Squier says: “It is | seen that at the present commercial rate to Manila, | after allowing for the present land rates to San Fran- | cisco, the proposed cable is required to operate less | ballots in favor of a new set of officials the of $925,000 per annum. If the rate per code word oi an average of eight letters is placed at 50 cents, then upon the above estimates the cable need operate daily less than four hours to put the enterprise upon a sound financial basis.” The arguments upon the advantages to be derived from the cable need not be repeated, as they are fa- miliar to all. Our rapidly expanding commerce with the ‘Orient renders it highly desirable that our mer- chants should have direct and speedy communication with all oriental ports. The proposed American cable would of course be connected with the Japanese and Chinese cables and land telegraphs and would put | us in direct relations with those lines, so that from San Francisco it would be easy to communicate at once with any part of the Pacific coast of Asia. The project of constructing such a cable has long been under consideration in Congress and will be brought forward at the present session. Whether the enterprise will be favored will depend of course upon the nature of the measures proposed to carry it out. If they be wisely devised the great project may soon be under way with the general approval of the public e e ——— Ii the Weather Bureau will pay attention to the public mind at this juncture it will notice marked signs of a demand for dry weather. S oftice of Tax Collector the man whom the peo- ple elected to fill the position has brought about a fight which disgraces the city and came near cost- ing the life of at least one man. Sheehan’s only ex- cuse for this display of violence and brutality is that —— THE SHEEHAN CUTRAGE. HEEHAN'’S determination to keep out of the he deems the election of Mr. Scott to the office to | have been invalid. In that belief he has taken it upon self to usurp the authority of the courts, pro- nounce judgment in his own favor, and to resist by force the attempt of Mr. Scott to enter upon the duties and take possession of the office to which he been elected. <. guilty have been committed in Chicago, but, we be- lieve, in no other American city. Even in Chicago they have been rare, for it requires a very unscrupu- lous and very bold office-holder indeed to attempt to retain the position in defiance of the law after the ex- piration of the legal term. San Francisco has had to bear the stain and disgrace of many political scandals, but such a thing as a fight with clubs and pistols for 1 the possession of office has never until this time black- | ened her record. The story of the fight will of course be reported far and wide, and the good repute of the city will be in- jured. The new era in municipal government, which in other respects has opened auspiciously enough, has in this regard been marred by an outrage worse than any known to the past. It is due to fortune only that we have not to record the affray as one resulting in h as well as in bloodshed, for it was evidently the intention of Sheehan to hold to his office at all haz- ards, whatever might be the consequences to others and to the community. In Spanish-American politics an election lowed by a fight. When the people have cast their members of the old regime barricade themselves to rrender the offices. That is the style of politics Sheehan would like to introduce here. He has made the attempt, and the result has been the most dis- graceful political outrage in our annals. The offense of Sheehan is the more gross because the question of Scott’s eligibility to the office is now re the courts for adjudication. Sheehan’s deter- nation to pass judgment on the issue himself- is | therefore something in the nature of contempt of ccurt as well as a violation of law and of public de- cency. It was his duty to leave the decision of the matter to the court, where his rights would have ample protection, and in undertaking to assert his claim by force he has disgraced himself and the city without in the least strengthening his position in law. It is to be hoped there will be found adequate means of punishing offenses of this kind. We cannot tolerate here the Spanish-American practice of accompanying each election with a free fight. Our laws are sufficient for the protection of the right of every citizen and of every office-holder, and nothing can justify such ac- ticns as that of which Sheehan has been guilty. B Out of fifty-four Senators invited to dine with Sena- tor Quay only fifteen accepted the invitation, so it is evident the prestige of the Pennsylvania man is not anything like as big as it used to be. FRAUDS IN FOCDSTUFFS. FFORTS made in New York to obtain the par E dop of two men sent to prison in that State for violating the oleomargarine law by remov- ing from the packages the marks by which it could be distinguished from butter have had the effect of re- viving the ‘discussion there concerning the extent to which the food laws are violated, and as a result some very interesting figures are made public. It appears that during the past year the State Com- missioner of Agriculture reported to the Attorney General for prosecution no less than 731 cases of vio- lation of the agricultural law. That of course covers only such frauds in foodstuffs as affect those which are produced by the agriculturists of New York. It affords, however, a basis upon which to found esti- mates of the frequency of such offenses. When so large a number of offenders are detected in a single year in a single State it is clear that such practices in the country at large are of portentous frequency. The argument of those who are seeking the par- don of the men who were passing off oleomargarine for butter is the familiar one that the product they offered was in every respect as good as butter; that no harm was done to the consumers. Such an argu- ment, however, is really worse than none. It has been put forward in defense of almost all kinds of adul- terated or sophisticated foods. The answer to it is plain. If the concoctions of various kinds with which the market is flooded be as good as pure foods they should be sold under their right title and the pur- chaser given the choice to take them or reject them. It is unfair to permit spurious food to be palmed off under the title of pure food. The law which forbids such practices is just, and so long as violations of it are so frequent there should be no pardon for those who are convicted. The efforts of the States to put an end to the mis- representation of foodstuffs have proven unavailing. It will require a national statute to adequately deal with the subject, and such a law, it is to be hoped, will be enacted by Congress this winter. A stringent label law is what is desired, and ample provision should be made for enforcing it. If there were nearly a thousand offenses against the New York law in one year it is safe to say the national law would be vio- lated so frequently for a while at least that a strong body of officers would be needed to maintain it. A year or so of vigilance and firmness, however, would put an end to the greater part of such practices, and | then the makers of pure foods would no longer be exposed to the ruinous competition of unscrupulous dealers in fraudulent articles. h offenses as that of which Sheehan has been | - NEW FRENCH TORPEDO FOR HARBOR DEFENSE. 000060060600 Weapon Called the “‘Lege,”’ Recently Invented, Is Designed to Be Towed in Series on Endless Chain Across Entrance to a Port. ey B T o S ST SR S 1 | being allow It poses simpl range: wheel is set | chain patro | Graphie, as will be seen by reference sketch. An endless chain is stretched round gine on shore. | torpedoes are attached at intervals, and the idea is that as the B the new towing torpedo, the “Lege,” the weapon recently invented by a Frenchman. Though it can be used much in the same way as the old Harvey torpedo. with which some of the British ships were equipped before the advent of the Whitehead, by towed at an angle under an enemy's ship, provided she ed the operator to approach near enough to do so, its principal function is the defense of ports and harbors. differs from the Brennan, which to all intents and pur- is an automobile weapon, but at the same time it {s much er and probably much less expensive, though special ar- ments have to be made for its use, says the London Daily to the accompanying four horizontal s or pulleys so as to cover the portion to be guarded, and in motion by means of a second chain driven by an en- To the first mentioned chain a series of Lege moves round on its rollers the channel is constantly lled, as it were, by two lines of traveling mines moving in opposite directions, so that it would be practically impossi- ble for a ship to pass through this guarded zone unscathed. >0 @ R R e R ) B 0000000600000 0000000006006000000600000+0+000800+000 0800000 e J folds back againet the head, and in so doing moves a safety catch into such a pesition as to prevent striker in the point of the torpedo moving. In this posi may be struck or handled with fmpunity, but it is claimed ¢ the moment it is towed through the water it becomes more a deadly peril to any ship that may graze it. The Lege torpedo is constructed of Delta metal, while being as strong as steel, is not liable to rust and sion from immersion in water. The charge is of shape and is easily Inserted and removed from the torpedo, so that the apparatus can be stoved with perfect ready to hand, while the charges are placed out of harm's w in a magazine. Other advantages claimed for it are those of automatica adjusting itself to the depth required, and on encountering the defensive nets of an ironclad, of assuming a vertical position, diving beneath them and striking the hull with its point as soon as it is clear. The great point in favor of the new weapon would appear to be its simplicity, but on the other hand i not seem impossible for an enemy to so damage or destroy the endless chain as to stop its motion, when the whole set of tor- pedoes would at once become innocuous. Nor, for that mat- it automaties whi is always | Immediately the chain is stopped harmless, for on the strain being taken the torpedoes become oft 1he towing lever ter, does it seem very improbable that its working might be affected by the explosion of ome of its own torpedoes. A PLEA FOR ENGLAND IN THE TRANSVAAL The Call does not hold itself responsible for | opintons published in this column, but | ents them for whatever value they may ‘ e as communications of general interest, P hav Editor The Call: I hope you will give a | bace in your columns to-a word for | ish rights in the present struggle Boers. The columns of all the large dailies are open to the sentimental trash bred by prejudice, envy, traditional | hatred and ignorance, and it is only oe- | | casionally that any paper seems willing | o publish even a small part of the truth | regarding the causes which brought about | the present war. In the first place, the Boers are the only | Christian nation on the face of the earth to-day that are slave owners and that | adopt the most merciless practices in se- | curing their slaves. History tells us that | their first quarrel with "ngland was in their deflance of her ant s.ve laws. They left Cape Colony becauss .hey would not give up their slaves and went north, but | have never been outside of territory over | which England claimed to bave suze- | rainty. Neither did the Mormons, when they left Illinois because they were not allowed to | have their peculiar institutions in that State, leave United States territory, al- | though they went to Utah, where the foot | of a white man had never been before and | hewed out of the wilderness a paradise. We claimed them as subjects and de- stroyed their l’ellglun in so far as it did not agree with the laws established for | the whole people; and it was right. How | much more would it be right if they had | appealed to us to save them from annihi- lation by the red men, as England has had | to save the Boers from the blacks? | How much more would it have been | right if Brigham Young had sent com- | m?ulnnerl to the Eastern States asking | for men and money to heip them develop | the resources of Utah and when they ary rived had violated every promise made? | But leave the question of England's suze- | rainty out of the discussion entirely. Eng- | lish subjects were in the Transvaal doing | business under promises made by Presi- dent Kruger, and those promises were ig- nored to that extent that their property was fast becoming confiscated ~without any future hope of redress. It had simply become impossible to secure citi- the mother country. Jameson's raid dem- onstrated that local revolution was a fail- ure, and the home Government was ap- ealed to. l‘b“r'hat would have English colonies have done if England had said we will not heip vou? What*would the foreign nations Lave saild if England had ignored the rayer of her people? And England said | t must be remedied. Diplomacy was adopted until even Eng- land was taunted with being afrald, and the result was that President Kruger felt that he was master of the situation. He refused to do what he had promised to do, and he was cunning enough to take advantage of the situation. He heard the clamor of the nations who were envious of England and saw that she would be Dramed for trying to oppress his people for commercial reasons, and he knew that if in a_war he was successful his people would be the galners of billions of wealth from English owners, and If he lost he would be in the same position as any English colony. There is no wonder that he declared war. If England had made any concession in the face of that declara- tion she would have deserved the con- tempt of the world, but she has not and dare not. If England was the tyrant some of our imported citizens wish to make her, what ;x)snlon would her colo- nies take to-day? Certainly not the one they are taking In furnishing her with men and money, and their action is the best refutation of the mean, cowardly at- tacks made on her. In the foregoing I have not gone into details, which would greatly emphasize her right, but have only stated what is known to the world, wl({xom bias or prejudice. I am an Amer- jean-born citizen, and since I can remem- | ber anything I have always honored Eng- | land for her care for her subjects, and | rived in the city yesterday on the Japan- ese steamer from the Orient. Lieutenant Romanoff, an officer of the Russian army, s at the Palace. He ar- rived yesterday from Vladivostok and Is on his way to Europe. B. Mano, professor of mechanical en- gineering at the Imperial University of Tokio; J. Kono and 8. Tsukaguchi, two wealthy cotton merchants of Osaka, and K. Kubota, a banker of Tokio, are at the Occidental, where they arrived yesterday from the Orlent. They are visiting the United States on business. —_—————————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Jan. 8.—J. N. Hackett of San Francisco is at the Mariborough. A R. Buffington and wife, C. R. Buffington, Miss May Buffington, of San Francisco, are at the Westminster. e CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Jan. 8.—D. F. Oliver of Oakland is at the Riggs House; S. M. Little of San Francisco is at the Arling- ton; Ambrose Bierce of San Francisco is at the Ebbitt House; John P. Irish of San Francisco is at the Johnson. Surveyor General Dustin and Collector of Customs Ivey of Alaska have arrived in Washing- ton. ———————— 'ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE CENTURY DISCUSSION—G. M. an old subscriber, City. The century ques- tion was discussed at length in the issue of The Call o Sunday, January 7, page 19. CENTRAL PARK, NEW YORK—Bona Fide Voter. City. Work on the layi of Central Park, New York, was com- menced in 1857, at the time that Fernando Wood was Mayor of that city. BOER—G. P., City. farmer. It is applied to any one of the population of Dutch descent in the South African district. The first Boers immi- grated from Java in 1662 and were rein- forced by Huguenots in 1657. AN OLD PAPER-IL W‘ D., Pleasanton, ip there. I ask you what could they gzx;shxhnt" was only (ywo ways out of the | Cal. An old copy of “Wide West,” pub- difficulty—logal revolution or an appeal to | lished in San Francisco in 1856, has no particular market value. It is worth either what the possessor wants for it, or what any one desiring such would be willing to pay. TWO COINS—A. C., Ceres, Cal. There is no premium on quarters and half-dol- lars of 1853 except they are of the issue that have not two arrow points at ihe date nor rays around the eagle. Neither is a premium offered by coin collectors for a balf-dollar of 1856. A TELEPHONE MESSAGE—L. M. € City. up a gentleman by telephone and wishes him a merry Christmas’ does not make it obligatory on the gentleman to send the meet him on the street and express a sim- {lar wish. CITY CIVIL SERVICE—OlA Subscriber, City. If this correspondent and all others who are Interested in the civil service ex- aminations under the new charter will on- ly watch the local columns of The Call they will be informed as to what the com- mission is doing and when the examina- tions will take place. A LEAKY HOUSE—If an individual taining from the landlord or agent an as- free from leaks. he would not have any redress, but If the landlord gave him the assurance that it was waterproof the ten- that is her only crime in this war. A. ROBINSON. Benicia, Jan. 7, 1900. AROUND THE CORRIDORS, Captaln F. W. Wise Is registered at the Grand from Victoria. H. W. Adams, a well-known raflroad man of Los Angeles, is at the Lick. Dr. Edward G. Parker, U. S. N. among the arrivals at the Occidental. A. Ekman, the Oroville capitalist, 1s | among the recent arrivals at the Grand. Dr. M. J. Davis, a popular physictan of Golconda, Nev., Is registered at the Pal- ace. George H. Stewart, a Los Angeles mer- chant of prominence, is at the Grand for a few days. D. D. Wishom, a well-known land owner of Visalia, is registered for a short stay at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. H.G. Stevenson have come up from their home in Menlo Park and are at the Palace. Dr. W. A. Hendry, one of the leading medical men of Los Angeles, is at the Oc- cidental, accompanied by his wife. D. T. Hughes,one of the prominent busi- ness men of San Jose, is at the Lick while on a short pleasure trip to this city. Dr. G. G. Baar, a distinguished Vienna specfalist. is at the Occidental. He ar- l CIGAR With Mouthpiece 1O cents for 10 Monopol Tobacco Works Boer is Dutch for | The fact that a “young lady calls | lady a present any more than if she should | rents a house “just as it 1s,"” without ob- | surance that it Is in good condition and | ant would have recourse against the la: a- lord, and he would probably be justified in withholding the rent until the ho was put in good condition. vHE MUST HANG—A Subscriber, City. | When a man is convicted of the er of murder and the penalty is death court directs the Sheriff of the county to hang the eriminal. If by some char rope as the body is dropped through trap breaks, that d not rel Sheriff of the respe out the court's order In such a case he would the individual, retur: and drop him a s MESSENGER SERVICE—A. O. land, Cal. If you should request the Su set Telephone Compan with some one in San Francisco, the pany should inform you that the I use ang the pris have to him to the scaffo wished a messenger across the ba liver the message, and you sho swer yes, that would amount to an gagement of service that you woul to pay for. It would not make a ence because the messenger could not £ the party in at the San Francisco dress. CITIZENSHIP—A Subscriber, City. Anv a allen of the age of 21 years a who has resided in the United t 3 years next preceding his arriving at that | age, and who has continued to therein up to the time he makes applica tion to be admitted to citizenship, ma after he arrives at the age of 21 and aft he has resided five years within United States, including the three of his minort be admitted to ci ship, but he must make a declaration « cath and prove to the satisfaction of th court that for two years next precading it had been his bona fide intention to come a citizen. —_———— Cal. glace fruit 50c per b at Townsend's.® —_——— upward years Guillet's Ice Cream and Cakes. %05 Larkin st.; tel. East 198, . Spectal information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mon gomery street. Telephone Main 1042, * Big Cargo of Opium. The tramp steamer Algoa brought into port last Sunday 21,361 pounds of Chinese opium, the du!K on which s $128,168 and the value of which, duty paid, is' $341,775. —_—— Personally Conducted Excursions In improved wide-vestibuled Pullman tourist sleeping cars via Santa Fe Route. Experfenced excursion conductors accompany these excur- sions to look after the welfare of passengers, To Chicago and Kansas City every Sunday Wednesday and Friday. To Bostom, Montre and Toronto every Wednesday. To St. Louts | every Sunday. To St. Paul every Sunday and Friday. Ticket office, 623 Market street. —_———— Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters fs known ail over the world as the great regulator of the digestive organs. —_———— | The Fastest Train Across the Conti- nent. The Californfa Limited, Santx Fe Route. Con- necting tratn leaves § p. m., Monday, Wednes- | day, Friday and Saturday. Finest equipped | train and best track of any line to the East, | Ticket office, 628 Market street. e . Counterfeiters on Trial. F. Gray and J. Horton were placed on | trial yesterday before a jury for the sec- ond time in the United States District Court on a charge of having in their pos- session tools for making counterfeit | money. The case will be presented to the jury this morning | RUSSIAN ETTES