The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 11, 1900, Page 6

6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1900 ..JANUARY 11, 1900 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. hddress All Communications to W. PUBLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, §. F. Telephome Main 186S. S. LEAKE, Manager EDITORIAL ROOMS....217 to 221 Steve st. Telephone Main 1574, Deltvered by Carriers, 15 Cen Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cent Terms by Mail, Inclunding Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year..$8.00 CALL (including Sunday), 6 months.. 3.00 CALL (includizg Sunday), 3 months.. 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Month 4 . 65e SUNDAY CALL One ar. . . .o . 1.80 WEEKLY CALL Omne Year oo 1.00 All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample copies will be forwarded when requested OAKLAND OFFICE. .908 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Mamager Forelgn Advertising, Marquette Build- ing, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. G. CARLTON. . .Herald Sguare NEW LUKENS JR... YORK REPRESENTATIVE PERRY 29 Tribune Building CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House: P. 0. News Co.; Great North- ern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Sguare; Murray Hill Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE..Wellington Hotel J. F. ENGLISH, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES-—527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clo 639 McAllister, open until $:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth. open until ® o'clock. 1096 Valencia, open until O o'ciock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 o'clock NW. corner nty-second and Kentucky, open uutil 9 o " AMUSEMENTS. *“The Princess and da, Butterfly.” ¥ afternoon. ev udeville every aft rnoon and is strects—Specialties. THE CURSE OF PUBLIC GAMBLING. | R PHELAN annual message charter. he attributed mainly to g from the Chinese quarter, “where pro n and gam- exist by connivance on demora went on in these words, whose disputed and whose warning ought s and upon every matters: ng to poverty records of its and practice ce in th contai; To the track gambling at time of its existence could be traced blood as Comparatively element of the community po ce record g the gement 2ils of frand and of to town few per- the enticements of China- wed by de track debauched and ruined men in all grades of society. The large houses, women of high social stand- yes of business t spider-web of gambling, and ned utterly and escaped prison de. ne well in pointing out th se rs and recal attention pervis: ng publ » the record of the results of public familiar enough during the f popular indignation the track t induced the late Board of Super- They were al against the nefarious trade, but they may f them no hat the gamblers 2 majority of the present board to resume the old practices. F 1 experience enough with that to all of its people for the rest San vice to the University of Chicago has de- honetic spelling may be due to a con- pt p he part of President Harper that it will be n g more than proper for the university founded by Rockefeller to imitate his contempt for the as a witness in a Jawsuit in New ing that a woman who puts powder on her face is no mportance of inquiring into the sanity of seems never to have occurred to anybody. Portugal seems to have arrived at the conclusion nat it is better to be looked upon as a small nation as a contemptible one. Her statesmen, yrts be true, are insisting that the nation must tool. if be recognized as no ne When a party clamors for more money and then denounces a Secretary of the Treasury for putting ion all the money he can, it is not worth | the proceeding inconsistent; it is suffi- cient to say it is Democratic. Secretary Hay, having doffed his coat and shot his cuffs to demand an explanation of the Delagoa Bay seizures, Britich statesmen accuse him of resorting to “shirtsleeve” diplomacy. Well, suppose it is? It suits us, The British have frequently been accused of trying to own the earth, but the first definite indication that they wanted to get off the earth was that they are, according to reports, living in caves at Ladysmith, some extent, and it is timely | v.4 paralyzed the Judge and jury by declar- | HONOR THE HEROIC DE@D. RMY headquarters report that the body of the fl late General Lawton was shipped from Manila on the transport Thomas and is expected to reach this port about the 1st of February. There will be of course a military demonstration in honor of the memory of the hero when the transport ar- rives, and the body will be received with observances | due to Lawton’s rank and service and his death on ! the field of battle. | It would be altogether right and fitting for the { Mayor to take action fo mark the occasion by a civil as well as a military display. Something should be done by the city to show the respect which the peo- ple of the, whole country have for the illustrious dead. It should not be left for his military com- rades alone to do honor to his memory. The great body of his fellow-citizens, for whose interests he fought and for whose flag he died, should be repre- sented by dignitaries of civil life taking part in the solemn ceremonies which attend the return of his body to his native land General Lawton well merited every honor that can be conferred upon his memory. In his career he rap- resented the best type of the American soldier. cavalry leader he exhibited a remarkable faculty for war, and had he had the fortune to command a large body of troops in 2 great campaign would doubtless have ranked with Sheridan and Stuart among the foremost cavalrymen the world has known. has been the thing of greatest value we have yet had to pay for our possessions in the Philippines, and | San Francisco, as the representative of the civil bodies of the country, should unite with the army and the National Government in receiving his remains with due honor. Amid the musical, sweet sounds of the time is a song containing this verse: For I am the Mayor bold, And I'll be the entire crew. It may be necessary to state that the song is not de- signed for the Mayor of San , but the Mayor of Baltimore. | e e | THE TAXATION OF TELEPHONES. O JR Eastern exchanges are giving no little con- tion to a recent decision of the Supreme side Court of Ohio upon the taxable value of tele- phones, in which the court laid down which if generally accepted will lead to a marked change in the osition of taxes upon all kinds of corporations. It appears from the reports that the cost of a tele- phone is about $3 40, while the rent charged for the e of it in Ohio is $14 a year. The telephone com- ies contended that the tax rate should be assessed upon the cost value of the telephone, but the Su- preme Court has decided that the renting value should govern, and accordingly $ustained an assessment of each telephone at a valuation of $233, capitalizing at 6 per cent the annual rental value. It is stated that the decision is in line with a de- cision made by the sa court a few years ago in an issue Company. In that case it was conceded that the value of the property of the express company in Ohio was hardly more than $500,000, but that the earnings of the company in the State amounted to several mil- The court held that the company must pay taxes upon the earnings and not upon the mere value of the apparatus used in the business. According to the New York Sun, the opposite doc- trine prevails in that State. “Our Court of Appeals,” it sa decided in the Union Trust Company case that the intangible good will which the company has created by the skill, enterprise and integrity of its management, and which leads buyers to pay for its stock a vastly higher price than is warranted by the a principle al lions. mere book value of its assets, is not a proper subject | of taxation. It is analogous to the professional reputation of a lawyer or a physician, or to the credit of a banker or a merchant, which, indeed, have a pecuniary value to their owners, but which, being incapable of transference to other owners, should not be taxed.” The argument of the Sun that the income of a tele- phone or an express company is analogous to that of a professional man cannot be sustained. The profes- sional reputation which enables a successful lawyer | or physician o make large earnings cannot be sold or transferred, and is therefore not to be regarded as property; but the earning power of a franchise like that of a telephone corporation can be sold in the | market, and is sold whenever any of its stock is mar- keted. There is, in fact, none of that “intangible good will,” of which the Sun speaks, involved in the value | of telephone or express business, for it matters noth- | ing to the managers of either of those monopolies “ whether they have the good will of the community or | not. The wide differences which exist in the methods of various States in dealing with questions relating to | corporations are by no means creditable to the sagacity of our lawmakers or our Judges. Experience | must by this time have shown which State has reached | the best method of taxing them, and what principles | of law are most applicable to the justice of the issues | between them and the people. Nevertheless the whole subject remains in confusion, and what courts of Ohio declare to be justice those of New York regard as something very like confiscation. It is about time something like uniformity prevailed on such issues, for they have now become among the most important in our politics. The Chinese mind is slow in acting, but it is gener- ally sure in its conclusions. Resident natives of the Flowery Kingdom have met and decided that the list of dead in the local war is large enough and hostilities must cease. THE FIGHT AGAINST MORGAN. ENATOR MORGAN’S specch on Monday S upon the negro problem was doubtless in- tended more for effect in Alabama than for the couvntry at large. The Senator’s political fences at | home are being thrown down on every side by an ag- gressive set of antagonists, and from the far distance | of the national capital he has to sound a trumpet hote that will rally his followers to look after his interests and protect them during his absence. It is significant of the force of the attack against Morgan that while the election of the next Legisla- ture in Alabama does not occur until August, the primary contests in the Democratic ranks have been | going on for some time. Already quite a number of | primary elections have been held, and in each of them | the chief fight was between Morgan and anti-Morgan candidates. Shortly before Congress assembled the held several joint debates in the principal cities.of the State, and the audiences appeared to be about equally Asa; His life | fecting the assessment of the Adams Express | Senator and his chief competitor, Governor Johnson, | i divided between them. Thus the Senator finds it im- | perative to do something at Washington to counter- ‘act the work his opponents are doing at home to . weaken his influence with the voters. Morgan entered the Senate in 1877 and had at that time a notable array of Southern colleagues, among them being Lamar of Mississippi, Garland of Ar- | kansas, Isham G. Harris of Tennessee, Ransom of | North Carolina and Ben Hill of Georgia. Of that group Morgan is the only one left. He was ac- counted a radical Democrat in his time, but now he is too conservative for the young men of Alabama, and the fight against him is being made ostensibly on the ground that he is not loyal to Bryan, not suffi- ciently devoted to the cause of free silver. To meet the fight of the Bryanites he falls back upon the old familiar Democratic battle-field of the South and makes an effort to rally the people to him by standing forth in the Senate as the champion of the white man !against negro equality. | Reports from Alabama show that the conflict be- tween the contending forces is doubtful. Morgan is a strong and resourceful leader, but he is old, while his opponent, Governor Johnson, has been in that office for two terms and has political patronage as well as comparative youth on his side. Fortunately for the Senator, the opposition is divided, and two other candidates share with Johnson the hope of suc- ceeding to his seat. His defeat would remove a no- table figure from the Senate, and one of its most influential members, for ever since the retirement of Edmunds Morgan has been recognized as the ablest lawyer in the upper house. It would be the more | noticeable because Senator Vest has announced that he will not be a candidate for re-election. Thus Democracy would lose two veteran leaders at once, | and it is doubtful if'their successors would be able | to fill their places. | - British military authorities complain that they can’t see the Boers, and consequently can’t hit them. The doughty invaders had possibly been practicing at man targets and thought the Boers would be ac- ;commodaxing enough to act as substitutes. NOVELTIES OF INVENTION. | OME of the inventions for which patents have been recently sought are sufficiently novel to be them may prove to be of little value for practical use, | they show the infinite variety of purpose to which the minor inventors of our country are directing their | thoughts and energies. None of them are so sensa- tional as that of the Russian who is trying to discover a serum to prevent men from growing old, or of the Frenchman who is making experiments with dead bodies in an effort 'to find a means of restoring life, but they are nevertheless ample evidences of the in- genuity of our people. | As American life is essentially utilitarian, mostof our inventions are devised to effect a saving of labor in some way, or to improve the methods of perform- ing some common act of work. One inventor has de- vised a plan by which mail carriers driving in carts can collect mail from boxes by the wayside without getting out of the cart. Another has a method of fastening an animal to a post in such a way as to al- low opportunity for grazing without getting entangled in the rope, or getting the rope wrapped around the post. One of the most ingenious things is a new style of picture devised by a Georgia artist. He paints the background upon one piece of glass or other trans- parent substance and the various objects of the pic- ture on other pieces. These separate pictures are then stacked together, the foreground being placed first and the others in their order between it and the background. The different pieces are separated from | one another by spacing blocks. When looked at the eye passes through the transparencies to the back- ground, and it is said very fine effects in perspective can be obtained in that way. One of the advantages | of the method is that it is not necessary to make the | different pieces fit exactly, and it does not matter it | the various objects painted on them overlap. If there was a tree on the second sheet and a house directly behind it on the third sheet, the tree trunk would ob- scure just that portion of the house which it would under actual conditions, the house showing through the branches of the trees in a natural way. Conse- quently, as the observer changes his position the tree will cover different portions of the house behind it, thus altering the angle of perspective of the picture and producing an effect upon the eye which closely | resembles the change of perspective in a landscape or | other scene when the position of the observer is changed. Housewives and professional cooks may be pleased to know there has been devised a method of roasting boneless meats without binding them together with | wooden skewers. An Illinois man has invented a | system of elastic binding which holds the meat to- | gether and tightens automatically during the cooking process, so that the meat can be cooked in any shape | desired. | Another notable invention is that of putting up | electricity in capsules for home use. According to the claims of the inventor a three-grain capsule of it, put into an ordinary battery cell, will yield enough electricity to run a sixteen-candle power incandescent | light for one hour. It is said that the chemical can | be sold as cheaply as calomel. It is also said that the | new agent will not consume zinc in the battery as | rapidly as the solution now in use. These are by no means all of the novelties. There are others even more whimsical. For example, an in- ventor at Helena, Mont., has patented a horseshoe sharpener. Two ladies of Harrisburg, in Pennsyl- vania, have patented, jointly, a “serving-maid’s step- ladder,” guaranteed not to upset when in use. A Wisconsin man has patented a collapsible coffin, sep- arated into subsections and as portable as a hand- satchel. A Minnesota man has patented a disappear- ing visor or peak whereby mechanically a soldier's hat may be turned into a polo cap by pressing a but- ton to be found over the left ear. It will be seen from these things that while the European scientists may lead us in efforts to obtain immortal life or to raise the dead, we are leading in the arts that make such life as we have more enjoy- able and easier on the worker. Up to this time our ingenuity has been devoted almost wholly to devising appliances for industrial or domestic life, but pe-haps we may soon direct it to municipal needs, and then we may get an automatic Mayor or self-regulat- | ing Police Commissioners, and be spared much trouble that now harasses us. Eliza Rope and James Rope of Oakland, husband and wife, do not seem to pull well together. Mrs. Rope, who was spliced to James a dozen years ago, has applied for a divorce. She bases her request upon the assertion that Jim is too strong to work. Roosevelt has joined the crowd that denounces trusts, but, like the rest, he merely swells the chorus and does not undertake to provide a remedy. The House did up the debate on the financial bill in fine style, but now there is danger the Senate will muss it all up again and make more trouble generally ifiteresting. Though a good many of s B R R o T ST S o 3 | | Representative Kahn of California in a Characteristic Pose THE HOUSE PICTURE GALLERY. s D e ebesede B e e e A SR SR Y ~Washinton Star. CONVENTION WAS PACKED, THINKS MEMBER KEARNEY Cattle ‘Men Dictated Its Policy. FLOOD SAVERS WERE FOOLED | FORESTS ENDANGERED BY THE COURSE TAKEN. AR M. Theo. Kearney said last night, In an interview, that the recent California water and forest convention was “packed” by the cattle men for the pur- pose of getting iIndorsement for their scheme to have the Government lease to them timbered land in this State for the grazing of their herds of cattle and sheep. “I was a member of the committes on platform at that convention,” said Mr. Kearney. “I fought in the committee to have a declaration against the use of | timbered lands by the cattle men. 1 brought In a minority report from the committee on platform, opposing the leas- ing of timbered lands. P. A. Buell, In the | committee, proposed the Insertion of the word ‘untimbered’ in the resolution con- cerning the grazing lands, so that it would | have read: ‘We favor the leasing of the | untimbered public grazing lands at a nominal rental,’ etc. We fought to have the word in and we won the fight then for the time being. The committe worked all night. About midnight there was an attempt to have the word ‘untimbered’ dropped, but the attempt failed. But, in | the morning, when some of those who had stood up for the proposition to ex | empt the timbered lands from the pro- | visions of the resolution were absent, the | word was stricken out and the report| went to the convention in that shape. | “The convention was nearly over when | the discussion concerning the grazing | lands came up. Some of the delefiams hac gone home. Some of the city delegates, who understood the matter, were disin- clined to make a fuss. 1 objected to the adoption of the resolution as it stood. So did Wil 8. Green. The attorneys fought | for it. The telegraphic dispatches from | Washington tell of the progress of the | Foster Dbill providing for leases of public grazing lands. The cattie men are represented as being dis- satisfled with the chance to lease the lands for ten years, and they say that they should have at least flifteen years, and they would like to have the leases for twenty vears. In ten years the for- ests would be ruined. The verdure wouid be gone, and the land would be packed hard. The raintall would run off and be | lost, for the soil would no longer be| spongy as it now is. i ‘It is no new thing for the cattle men to work against the interest of the other ple of the State. When the cul- | ?.??n settlers_first began to plant in the | San Joaquin Valley it was all their lives The cattle men did not want They let their cattle in to | destroy the wheat. The fight to make them ~fence their ranges took years before success was reached. They fought the irrigators in turn. Mr. Maxwell, who led the national irrigationists in the late convention of the Water and Forest Asso- ciation, has been the attorney, so I am told, in nearly all the suits against the irrigation districts organized under the ‘Wright law. When the late convention was proposed the national irrigators, who are the cattle men, fought in every way ossible. They did not want to have it. t took money to carry on that fight. The cattle men put up that mone?. in my opin- fon. Delegatlons were fixed all over the State. When the convention came to- gether Willlam Thomas, who had started the movement and who felt desirous of having it a success, was shaking in his boots for fear that he would be outvoted. The cattle men were in a majority. They had the attorneys in the convention, whose business it was to see that the leasing of grazing lands should be in- dors and also to see that there should be no exemption of timbered lands. The Foster bill and the proceedings of the con- vention fit in together. They are all in pursuance of the same purpose and the same plan of the cattle men. My :Ppoulmm was to the lease of the timbéred lands north of Tehachaj California. If there is anythin, ought to preserve it is the timber of the Slerras. 1 said that the other States and Territories were perhaps able to take care of themselves, but that we ought to stand u{ for California. The forest growth and the grass on the mountains constitute the 'ea?nt form of a storage reservoir, ‘eeping back the waters untll a large hare of them is absorbed by the soil. “It is not too late to do something if there is public ngl!rlt in California to take the matter up. The Californfa delegation in Congress should be urged at once to oppose the Foster bill. T am extremely were worth. them there. indignant our State convention should have been so bamboozled as to advocate the dalt'{ueuun of the best reser- voir that we had. “The_ resolution that the adopted was a sham. It revenue arising from the conyention gmvided that the ease of the pub- lands should be applied to supplying us with irrigation works. The rates that thé cattlemen are ready to pay for the lands are from one to three | cents per acre. The cost of collection | would equal the whole revenue and there would be nothing left, as any sensible man knows. That resolution was all rot. A bigger fraud was never put on the peo- ple. If our convention should lead to the passage of the Foster bill then the con- vention could be estimated as the worst that could have been held for our wel- fare. The Government can protect the timbered land by h:lving guardians and keeping off the sheep and the cattle, pro- viding penalties for _infringement that would be respected. If cattlemen must destroy the timber on all the other moun- tain ranges in the country let them leave the ranges of California alome. If the| lands are leased the Government will be powerless to interfere while the forests are being royed.” REGISTERED LETTERS ‘ TAKEN BY CARRIERS | lie grazing CONVENIENCE TO PEOPLE IN RESIDENCE DISTRICTS. fare to Mail Valuable Parcels. The Postmaster General has designated the San Francisco Postoffice as one of | the offices selected to inaugurate the new system of letter carrier registration. The | number of these offices is few, and each has been chosen with regard to the known ability and enterprise of the Postmaster in_charge. The system will go { ! Will Not Be Obliged to Spend Cn-' into effect next | Monday and will be a great convenience to the inhabitants of the residence dis- tricts, business houses in or out of that | district not being included. | Householders will be enabled to mall a registered letter merely by handing it to the regular carrier and taking his receipt | therefor. But all letters must be prop- | erly prepared with the necessary stamps and directions, otherwise the carrier will | not be allowed to receive them. In case | a carrier should overlook the fact that | a letter has not been properly directed or stamped and should hand the same | into the office the sender will be notified | by means of a “held for postage” card. Patrons, in lieu of the stamps, may pay the carrier the money, which fact wiil| be noted-on the receipt to be given to them by the carrier. Rates of postage for Guam and the Philippine Islands have been reduced, and domestic_rates, ification and condi- tions now apply all mall matter for | those islands. —ee—— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. peb s | NOT A PREMIUM COIN—J. G. L., Oak- | land, Cal. A $ gold plece of 1582 is not | one of those fcr which a premium is of- fered by coin collectors. REBATE—A. 8., City. Whenever there is a rebate on taXes paid and a certain amount 1s to be returned to taxpayers, no officer of the city government is author- ized to demand 10 per cent or any other sum for returning the same. SOLDIER AND CITIZENSHIP-J. M., City. Any allen of the age of 21 years who has been in the armies of the United | States and has been honorably discharged therefrom may become a citizen of the United States upon his petition without any previous declaration, provided he has resided in the United States at least one year previous to his agpllt‘aflon and is of | good moral character. It has been decided | that In a case of this class the discharged | soldier need not have lived one year con- | tinuously in any o the States. | FOR BURNS—A correspondent writds | to this department on the subject of “a a | elsco s at the Gilsey. | st.: valuable remedy In cases of scalds and burns.”"—Th: remedy s given for what it is worth. ‘Castor oil poured over burns or scalds, no matter how extensive, gives immediate relief as an emollient, keeps tha air out, softens the burned or scalded skin to a gelatin, takes out and keeps out the feverish heat, stops the irritation that is so terrible while healing {s In progress, takes away all dry harshness and s a perfect God's blessing. The commeon pu- rified castor ofl, which can be had at any drug store, is what I mean. STATE OFFICERS-L. W. H, Gold Run, Cal. The State officers of California are: H. T. Gage, Governor; Jacob H. Neft, Lieutenant Governor; C.F. Curry, | Secretary of State; E. P. Colgan, Control- ler;’ Truman Reeves, Treasurer; T. L. Ford, Attorney General; Martin J. Wright, Surveyor General; George W. Root, Clerk of the Supreme Court; Thomas J. Kirk, Superintendent of Public Instruction; A. J. Johnson, Superintendent of State Print- ing; George C. Perkins, United States Senator; James A. Barham, Congressman First District: Marion de Vries, Second; Victor H. Metcalf, Third; Fourth: Eug: 1 J. Waters_ Si Seventh District. THE CENTURY-Twenty or more cor- respondents. The ¢ at various times recently has had a number of articles as to the time when the twentieth century commences. These are Interesting read- ing. It is generally understood that the Christian era commenced with the birth of Christ, that being so, that event was 1899 years ago and as it takes one hundred years to make a century and nineteen hundred years to make nineteen of them, we will not enter the twentieth century until 1901 Much argument and ink has been wasted on this very simple matter by (h'o%e who, as some one wittily said, have trie To prove by metachysics fine One hundred means but ninety-nine; While at their wisdom others wondered, But took one ake a hundred. AROUND THE CORRIDORS T. J. Fleld, the Monterey banker, is & guest at the Palace. I. W. Skinner, a wealthy fruit man of Marysville, is staying at the Grand. Judge Stanton L. Carter is here from Fresno and is registered at the Lick. John M. Fulweller, a leading lawyer of Auburn, is one of the late arrivals at the Lick. E. L. Finley, propristor of the Sants | Rosa Press-Democrat, is a guest at the California. Dr. W. T. Barry, a well-known medical man of Castroville, is registered for a short stay at the Grand Thomas Kirk, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, is a guest at the Lick, where he arrived last night from Sacra- mento. John Harrington, a millionaire cannery man of Pillar Rock, Wash., is at the Oe- cidental while on a short business trip to this city. Walter Ellls, a prominent attorney of - Boston, Mass., is at the Palace. He is on a short business and pleasure trip to the coast. K. Tabale, a Japanese merchant who fs on his way home after an extended busi- ness trip through the East, is registered at the Palace. Mrs. K. J. Mackenzte, a prominent so- clety woman of Portland, Ore., {s at the Occidental, en route to Mexico. With her are Miss Belle McKee and Miss Alice Sil- son, whom she is chaperoning on the trip. Edward 1. Rodgers, a member of the New York Board of Trade, is a guest at the Palace, where he arrived yesterday. Among yesterday's arrivals at the Pal- ace is Walter Ellis, a prominent attorney of Boston, Mass. e e CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YOREK. NEW YORK, Jan. 10—Frank Temple- ton of San Franecisco is at the Grand. Georgia Charles win of San Fran- William Beck and Mrs. W. R. Beck of San Francisco are at the Empire. —_——— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—H. S. Browne of Los Angeles is at the Ebbitt House: ex-Congressman John T. Cutting of San Francisco is In Washington. —_——— Guillet’s Ice Cream and Cakes. tel. East 188 e G Townsend's famous broken candy 10¢ pound while at 735 Market street. . i it Specfal information supplied dafly to business houses anc public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * —_———— Cash in City Treasury. The counting of the cash in the efty treasury, which has been going on since Monday last, was completed yesterday at noon and showed the sum of $1.775,437 45 in the various funds. The accounts were found to be correct to a cent, and Treas- urer Brooks signed a recefpt in full in favor of retiring Treasurer Truman. —_—————— Personally Conducted Excursions. In improved wide-vestibuled Pullman tourist sleeping cars via Santa Fe Routs. Experfenced excursion conductors accompany these excur- sions to look after the weifare of passengers. To Chicago and Kansas City every Sunday, Wednesday and Pri Boston, Montreal To St. Louts Paul ry Sunday and 628 Market street. s %5 Larkin . ¥ and Toronto every Wednesday. every Sunday. To Friday. Ticket office, All persons affiicted with dyspepsia will fing immediate relief and sure cure by using Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters The Fastest Train Across the Conti- nent. The California Limited, Connecting train leaves Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Flnest equipped train and best track of any line ta the East. Ticket office, 825 ilarket street. —_——— Wants to Strike Oil. Frank Enos, a seafaring man, whose land residence is in Oakland, filed 4 lfbel yesterday in the United States District Court against the whaling bark Gayhead to recover $125 alleged balance due on his anta Fe Routs, Si 5 p. m., Monday, | “lay”™ of whale oil and bone taken by the whaler on two voyages to the Okhotsk Sea, lasting about three years, Healthy Girls Make Zarina Cigarettes—not Japs or Chinamen Russian Blend— sweet smoke