The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 26, 1900, Page 6

THE SA FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1900. UARY 26, 1900 FRIDAY. JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. E, Manager. Address All Com munications to W. 5. LEAK PUBLICATION OFFICE..M: arket and Third, 8. F. M 1868, mon St. Delivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Single Coples. 5 Cents. 11, Week. Terms DAILY CALL DAILY CALL DAILY CALL (including Sui DAILY CALL—By Single Month. SUNDAY CALL Ome Year..... 1.50 WEEKLY CALL Ome Year... . 1.00 All postmasters are authorized to receive subscription 1.50 650 . Sample copies will be forwarded when requested | OAKLAND OFFICE.. C. GEORGE KROGNE! Manager Forelgn Advertising, Marquette Build- ing, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: ©. CARLTON......000essssee..Herald Square c. YORK REPRESENTATIVE: Tribune Bullding NEW PERRY LUKENS JR CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: P. 0. News Co.: Gre t House: Auditoria NEW YORK NEW STANDS: ri-Astoria Hotel: A. Bremtano, 31 Union i Murray Hill Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.. Wellington Hotel 3. F. ENGLISH, Correspondent. BRANCF OFFICES—327 Montgomery. corner of Clay. open muntil 9:30 o'clock. Hayes. ° nntil 9:30 o'clock. 639 McAllister, open :30 o'cloc! 6156 Lurkin, #:30 o'clock. ope o'clock. 226i Market, corner Sixteenth, open encia, open until 9 til 9 o'clock. Kentucky, s Eve ‘Queen’s Lace Handkerchiet."” Island.” audeville every afternoon and s streets—Specis s, Recital to-morrow afternoon. day, street. at 1 a m and 2 p m, By Turkish Ru Turkish R 1 g Co.—Th 49 Stocktc ciples of South Caro- Till i nan hior! 1 party, and f the Net Their prey was not the ccd bag, with which amateur pursuers of fox themselves. It was any and z in the country that showed signs of thriit banks, companies, manufacturers, all and singular, keeping out of bankruptcy offended 5 d they sleeplessly nagged at t were high treason and it was a or to be solvent and a felony to be out- e poorhotise or jail. great phy for sixteen consecut te with a pi to exterminate: appeared ka Populists, amuse insurance acquired a cal reputation by ve hours against the re- peal of the ged Sherman silver bill in 1893, and tha ough in the présence of an empty Senate and applauded only by snores that chorused from the cloakrooms, where the Senators slept unea in their togas, planted the seeds of green-eved jealousy in the breasts of his Populistic colleagues. It is known that some of them sent 1o their constituents an accurate time schedule of the speeches they made in the same session and on the same subject, and claimed the right to join them all together like links of sausage and consider them as one speech, exceeding in longitude that of Senator Allen. As far as material goes there was not lacking a certain resemblance between the substance of these speeches and that in which the substance of sausage is inclosed for the market, so that the claim had a certain merit. But still the palm remained with Allen, and on his return to the Senate his reception has not been cordial. His motions grow stale waiting for 2 second from his side of the chamber, and in many ways he is made to feel that he took an advantage when he risked his lungs in that sixteen-hour speech in 1893 Recently he determined to do something that would bring his Populist colleagues to his side, and so he tilted his lance and rode headlong at trusts. Don Quixote charging the windmills, or laying about him at the flock of sheep, and wearing the barber's basin for the helmet of Mambrino, never was more knightly or errant than the Nebraska Senator. He saw trusts on the face of the moon, and his caterwaul rose higher than the bald pate of the bronze eagle that roosts on the head of the Goddess of Liberty, whostands clothed in verdigris and virtue on the Capitol dome. At the end of his purely muscular exertions the Nebraska Senator found himself antagonized by Tillman of South Carolina, whom he immediately and hotly ac- cused of being a tool of the trusts. Tillman retorted that Allen was a dog chasing a “hant.” This knocked Allen out as completely as Curran knocked speaking erforn out the fishwoman by calling her an isosceles triangle. | He didn’t know what a “hant” was, and by the time he had consulted a South Carolina negro, wise in the plantation idiom, and found that it is a ghost the occasion for getting back at Tillman had passed. We fear these experts in misery and calamity have reached the parting of the ways. If Tillman says that the trusts are merely “hants” and those who pursue them are only like ghost-chasing dogs, we are un- | able to see how they can ever get together again. Castor and Pollux have quarreled. Each must here- after play a calamity solo. That duet of misery, in honor of insolvency, pestilence, famine and every- thing typhoid and bubonic, has been sung for the last time. Allen has paid the penalty of his staying qualities, the Senate is avenged for the speech of '93, and a colemn warning is issued to Senators who propose oratory on the vaudeville plan of one continuous and uninterrupted performance. e Governor Gage’s sixteen reasons for calling an extra session seem to be summed up in the first, “To elect a United States Senator.” He is like the impe- cunious individual that had a dozen reasons why he didn’t take a trip to Europe, his first being that he didn’t have the price. vv222.-D08 Broadway | IN POLITICS. THE RAILROAD ROM the fact that Governor Gage called the r:extra session of the Legislature only after a con- ference with W. F. Herrin and J. B. Wright of the Southern Pacific Railroad it is evident that the |Kemucky corporation has not ceased its efforts to dominate California politics, and is to-day engaged with all its forces to elect Daniel M. Burns or some man of the Burns stripe to the United States Senate. When the stalwart Republicans of the Legisiature | sion they baffled the railroad for a time, but by fail- ing to elect a worthy man to the Senate they left open a way for the corporation to renew the contest. The railroad managers were prompt to take advan- tage of the opening. Hardly had the Legislature ad- journed before the agents of the road were busily at work trying to obtain from the legislators pledges | that they would vote for Burns or some other rail- road candidate in case an extra session were called. How far they have succeeded in procuring such prom- ices is not yet known, but since Herrin and Wright | and Burns have counseled the Governor to call the extra session it is clear they have some reason for le_\perllng success. | Other circumstances of the call, however, afford a reason for believing that while the conspirators ex- pect to attain their ends, they are by no means cer- tain. Were they assured of the votes required to elect | their candidate it would not have been necessary for | them to resort to such a transparent trick as that of | summoning the Legislature to assemble within six days from the date of the summons and to arrange | for taking a vote on the Senatorial question on the | very next day after the Legislature assembles. The | evident determination to hurry the business through | before the people have time to protest shows that there is weakness somewhere in the programme and that to avoid a break the corporation and its allies have had to resort to the tactics of desperation. | Such, then, is the situation that conironts the Re- | publicans of California. By the man whom Repub- licans elected to the office of Governor the Republi- can party has been betrayed to the Kentucky corpora- | tion; and two Democrats in the employ of the cor- | poration, W. F. Herrin and J. B. Wright, are per- | mitted by the Governor to arrange in secret a pro- gramme which Republican legislators are expected ‘o carry out. It is a situation so monstrous in its nature that no precedent for it can be found in our politics. | Of course the Southern Pacific Company cares ! nothing for the good repute of California, nor for the honor of the representation of the State in the Sen- ate: neither do Herrin and Wright care anything | about the interests of the Republican party in the ap- proaching campaign. As a matter of partisan politics indeed they would be glad to see it fall into the ditch | they have induced the Governor to dig for it. All that is clear enough, and, therefore, from the stand- point of the railroad and of its Democratic agents the conspiracy may be regarded as a very clever piece of political trickery, but what do the Republicans of the State think of it? What is the judgment to be pro- nounced upon it by men whose political fortunes and the maintenance of ahose political principles are at stake upon the issue? Had the conference between Gage and the railroad | agents remained secret and unknown to the public the danger of the success of the conspiracy would have been great. Fortunately, The Call has been able to expose it in time for the people to organize for resistance. If that be done promptly and reso- lutely the final victory for genuine Republicanism cannot be doubtful. The importance of the issue, ! however, must not be overlooked. The Republican party is at last face to face with the Southern Pa- cific Railroad. There is no longer any concealment or evasion. | now to show forth openly before the whole State | whether they accept orders from the Democratic | bosses of the railroad or whether they are true rep- esentatives of the people who elected them and trust |in them. It seems unkind that Mayor Phelan has no power o create a bureau for the adjustment, modification |and explanation of ante-election promises. | Honor seems to have more need for such a body than | for anything else at present. [ - - ‘ THE OPEN DOOR. O UR commercial policy in the Spanish islands is approaching a crisis. We have just acted | for and with England in demanding of con- | tinental Europe the guarantee of the open door in | China. This has been acceded to, and the commer- | cial nations thereby agree to stand equally ig the trade | of that empire. The issue is, shall they also stand | with us, equal in access to the trade expected in our | own tropical possessions? That is the English pol- | icy. Wherever she is there is equal access to the | market. If we ordain free trade between ourselves | and our Spanish islands, will we concede the same | open door to the nations which we have by mild | duress forced them to concede in China? | If we maintain a tariff barrier between us and our Spanish islands, will we put the other nations on | an equality with us in that respect? | It is obvious that the hope of those imperialists | who have what Senator Wolcott calls “a sordid mo- | tive” has been that the constitutional provision de- manding an equality of tariff rates throughout the | United States would be extended to these islands. | Such extension would establish free trade between them and us, but would exclude the other nations o the extent to which our protective tariff works such exclusion. This would give to our capital and com- | merce an exclusive and profitable advantage. It would give us a monopoly as factors of the island | products, and cutting them off from free exchange | with the rest of the world, would confine them to our | market in which to seek the supply of their necessi- ties for which they must resort to outside sources. This advantage to our capital and commerce, how- | ever, is countervailed by island competition with our | continental production, which employs millions of | American laborers at the continental scale of wages, | who must compete, therefore, with tropical labor at a | wage scale which cannot be evened with ours except | by reduction in the American wage scale and a retro- gression in the American standards of life. Porto Rico makes the first demand for extension to her of our tariff, and therefore for free access to our markets and for competition between her labor and ours. This precipitates the combat between finan- cial and commercial interests and the American la- borer and his wage scale. The reports indicate that this contention is approaching its acute stage at Washington. 3 Porto Rican settlement will be a precedent for the Philippines. The nations that have surrendered to our demand for an open door in the East are wait- ing to see if we will keep our own door in the same region closed. | Our own people are also waiting to see if we will try a variant and opportunist policy, which will - pre- sent a closed door in the Western Hemisphere and an open door in the Eastern Hemisphere. l The situation suggests an incompatibility between prevented the election of Burns at the regular ses- | | ing upon the American policy of protection and ap | reached the parting of the ways? Will we by extend- our constitution and the functions and responsibili- ties of what is grandly termed “a world power.” Our prosperity, heretofore the most remarkable in ! history, has been properly ascribed to the constitu- tional equality of our system of government. Decid- plying to it the constitutional injunction upon Con- gress to “provide for the general welfare,” we have sheltered under its brooding wing the interests of abor and capital alike. Have these interests now ing the principle of protection to tropical labor de- stroy the advantage it has heretofore so richly be- stowed upon American labor, but at the same time gild commerce and capital more richly by giving them the double advantage of protection and cheap labor? These are the difficult questions which porten- | | His | Meantime all Europe is looking on, aware that the | | the committee which investigated the claims of Con- | | gressman {Roberts for a seat. | all. | least hope that Colonel Bryan can be elected. | will be more overwhelming, his rejection more pro- 4 iy | nounced, than in 1896. The Republicans of the Legislature are | tously emerge from the Spanish war. All of the is- sues impinged upon it, which affect the materialities of our people, must be regarded as domestic ques- tions. Unfortunately, up to this time the mind of the country has been engrossed by what may be called the sentimental politics presented by conquest abroad. One side has considered the interests of the conguered in the light of their inherent right to self- government. The other, equally conscientious, has devoted itself to developing our duty to educate and enlighten and raise up a people declared to be at pres- ent unqualified for even a small voice in their own government. This contention has not prepared us for present consideration of the commercial and indus- trial problems, which have sole and serious effect en- tirely upon our own people. Our industries stand in battle array against the re- ciprocity treaties. They measure fairly the damage those conventions threaten to American labor and production. That damage has its radix in the cheap labor of the tropics. The further issue is, will we multiply the harm by adding to the small amount of such labor in Jamaica the millions of tropical toilers in our awn islands? There is a touch of grim humor in the opposinz conclusions of the majority and minority members of | The minority wants to give his. seat and then kick him out. The majority insists that he shall not be allowed in the House at It appears to present a choice of two evils. W BRYAN'S LAST BATTLE. HEN Mr. Bryan pulled himself out of the wreck of 1896 he gave his voice a vacation while he wrote a book, called “The First Bat- tle.” Its sale was limited to the orders taken before | its publication. As a political romance it was far be- | low Coin Harvey's fiction. As a certificate to the | ability of its author it was even like unto that fur- nished by the works of the “Sweet Singer of Michi- | gan” and “The Bard of Shanty Hill.” | Colonel Bryan is now girding him for his last | battle. He is seeking some issue of expediency which will act as a buttress to free silver and opposi- tion to our judicial system. He has declined to the | plane and place of a pretender to the Presidency. | Europe has been full of pretenders to thrones since | the English chair of state was pulled from under | James 11 by the convention of 1688. Colonel Bryan | is the Don Carlos of American politics, and is pre- paring for a final struggle. It is impossible to find amongst his nominal supporters, in Congress and out, one who, when he sincerely utters himseli, has the The conviction is practically unanimous that his defeat Indeed it may be said with perfect confidence that a large percentage of his nominal supporters not only believe he will be de- feated, but hope he will be, and so wishing will con- tribute only a perfunctory support to his claims. The Democracy faces the future unflushed by hope of success. Its calmness is of despair, not of cour- age. It is like the patient ox depleted of strength by the suction of a parasite he cannot shake off. His hope is to outlive it, that the worm burrowed in his back may die first. As the Democrats in Congress have been de- | bauched by Colonel Bryan until they have no prin- | ciples to contend for, and as they dare not spea% freely their minds about their Mokanna, they are | driven to a policy of mere nagging of the Republican majority. But even that fails to enliven the situation. | When a man is ill and begins to pick at the quilt with | his fingers all know that it means the end is near. | So the nagging of the Democracy in Congress and in the country is recognized as mere picking at the quilt on its deathbed, and rouses no sentiment ex- cept a curious pity. Considering the Southern electoral votes as the | mere reflection of a local necessity and sectional preju- dice, and looking only upon the vote of those States | which are actuated by nationality alone, the re- election of President McKinley will more nearly rep- | resent unanimity than any that has occurred since that “golden age” of the republic, in which Monroe became President. i The Governor probably thinks that the character | of the raid which he has authorized upon the treasury will be masked behind a cloud of words, but in every clumsy line of the extra session proclamation he that | runs may read the story of the Mexican's preposter- ous ambition. Count de Castellane indignantly denies that he is a gambler. It seems strange that any one should sus- | pect him of being a gambler. He is one of those in- | teresting gentlemen who illustrate the difference be- tween a good fellow and a good thing. Japan appears to be in the position of the bad boy looking for a fight. She wants now, so the dis- | patches indicate, to lock horns with Russia. The | Mikado evidently wants to dispose of some of his out- | lying districts. California shippers may now route their goods as they see fit. C. P. Huntington very kindly gave his | consent the moment the Interstate Commerce Com- mission pointed out a Supreme Court ruling to that effect. Those who are directing military affairs in South Africa have decided to provide British soldiers with breastplates. Recent events in the Transvaal ought | to suggest the propriety of supplying backplates as well. The San Jose society man who has been arrested for forgery seems to hdve mistaken the application of the | suggestion of his associates to cut a figure. He ap- pears to have cut the wrong figure. The people of California have to pay dearly for the luxury of having Dan Burns among them.' It might be cheaper to award him a pension and send him somewhere else. R N If the comments of the dramatic critics be just the society for the suppression of vulgarity might find a rich field for activity in one of our local theaters. % g COMMENT OF THE INTERIOR PRESS ON THE GAGE-BURNS EXTRA SESSION Legislators Warned of the Trap Set for Them by the Men Who Have Conspired to Control the Gathering: VALLEJO TIMES—This call seems a move in favor of Burns, and the Governor will discover later that he has made a great political mistake. RED BLUFF SENTINEL—The people of California know Burns, and an overwhelming majority do not desire him as their Senator. HEALDSBURG TRIBUNE — On those who vote for Burns will rest the responsibility of disrupting the Republican party in California for the time being. LOS ANGELES TIMES—The legislator who desires to commit hara-kiri will never have a better opportunity than he will have at Sac- ramento next week by casting his ballot for Burns. DAILY TULARE REGISTER—The man who will cast his vote for Burns for Senator will be branded by the people, justly and indelibly, as a traitor to his party and State. 5 VALLEJO TIMES. Governor Gage In his call for an extra session of the Legislature gives six- teen reasons for so doing. Reason 1 Is—Elect a. United States Senator. The other fifteen reasons are as thin as the thinnest kind of charity soup. It seems clearly a move in favor of Colonel Dan Burns, and we believe the Governor will discover later on that he has made a great political mistake. & 8 RED BLUFF SENTINEL. The long-talked-of extra session of the Legislature has been called by Gov- ernor Gage to meet at Sacramento next Monday. The first reason given for calling it Is the election of a United States Benator. The other fifteen reasons for the call relate to legislation In regard to the San Franeisco water front, the State Board of Public Works, the wide-tire law, the location of mining claims, sale of school lands, the Lunacy Commission, to remove appointees for cause and to confirm appointees. It has been frequently stated that the extra session would be called to elect D. M. Burns Senator, and his friends are mak- ing all sorts of claims, just as they did at the regular session. As the Sentinel has frequently stated in the past, the people of Californla know Burns and an overwhelming majority do mot desire him as their Senator. We, furthermore, do not believe that he will ever secure 61 Republican votes to elect. P R HEALDSBURG TRIBUNE. Governor Gage has called an extra session of the Legislature to convene on Monday next. The ostensible purpose is to pass or amend a number of acts, but the real object of convening the State body is the election of a United States Senator. It is pretty well known whom Gage desires to have the Legislature elect, and the opening of this dictatorial masked battery is not a surprise to the State. The election of Dan Burns is not desired by the honest Republicans of California, and to secure sufficient votes to elect him there must be a falling down of those who so0 nobly and honestly resisted his election through a battle of 104 ballots. On the last ballot Burns received but 30 votes, 61 being required to elect. Is the Governor assured that he has secured that number of votes, and is he convening the Legislature on a sure thing? We opine not. Nor do we believe that a sufficient number of votes can be obtained to elect Burns, and place this State in opposttion to the Republican party at the national elec- tion next November. The election of Burns will surely do this thing, and on those who vote for and. thus secure his election will rest the responsibility of disrupting the Republican party In California for the time being. DL LOS ANGELES TIMES. The log jam has at last broken and California is in for an extra session of the Legislature, the Governor of the State having, at noon yesterday, Issued a proclamation to that effect, giving sixteen different and distinct reasons why the taxpayers of the State should be called upon to pay the expenses of a ses- sion of the Legislature for which there is no demand on the part of the people, and which has for its purpose the election of a notoriously incompetent and un- fit man to the United States Senate to take the place of that distinguished statesman and honorable man, Stephen M. White of Los Angeles. 1 The people of California must now face this calamity with a stout heart, resolute purpose and unflinching determination to defeat the unholy ambition of Daniel M. Burns to represent California at the nation's capital. The Times does not believe that there ara enough men in the Legislature of | California so lost to self-respect and so indifferent to public opinion that they will fall down to the small boss who has forced himself into a candidacy which, should it prove successful, means a disgrace to the State, a reflection upon the intelligence of this people, and an affront to every good citizen who is jealous of his honor and proud of the land in which he makes his home. Still the Burns gang is rich in expedients and unscrupulous to noend, there- fore if the nefarious purpose for which an extra session of the Legislature has been called is to be defeated there must be an immediate consolidation of the forces in opposition to Burns, looking to the election of a candidate who poss- esses the elements of statesmanship, and who has the confidence of his fellow- citizens. It is clearly apparent that an attempt has been made to take snap | judgment by calling the Legislature to convene next Monday at noon, with the hope that the Burns opposition will be unable to mobilize their forces and destroy that individual’s chances of election. The conspirators are as likely tobemistaken in this as they were mistaken last winter when they asserted, day after day, that Dan Burns would surely be elected. Every member of the Legislature understands that a vote for this notorious candidate means political damnation to thc man who casts that vote. The leg- islator who desires to commit hara-kirl will never find a better opportunity than he will have at Sacramento next week by casting his ballot for a man who is unfit to hold even the smallest office within the gift of the sovereign people. That man is Daniel M. Burns. It is the duty o fthe decent and honest members of the Legislature to get to- gether and agree upon a candidate and to stay with him, even though this extra session should last until the crack of doom. California must not be disgraced! e e » TULARE DAILY REGISTER. The Register will not attempt to predict whether or not the extraordinary session of the Legislature called by Governor Gage will prove a fiasco and the serious undoing of the Republican party. There i{s but one irreparable mistake that it can make and that is to elect Dan Burns to the United States Senate. All else will be forgiven it so that be not done. The test is simple and crucial The people of the State are in de: earnest. It is likely also that Burns and his touts are in dead earnest, too, a will leave no stone unturned to secure the election of the head of the San Francisco push to the Senate of the United States. Dan is not a man to let go until he is forced to let go. i ‘We will not say that the election of Burns will cost the Republican party the State of California in the next election, but we will say that the hazard will be great and needless and that whatever befalls Burns or his party ne man who supports Burns will have a political future. A caucus should not be consented to nor participated in unless it is previously determined that such caucus can not be controlled in Burns' interest. The risk is great. The people are | watching with an intensity of interest that has not characterized them for many years and if they are betrayed into the hands of the one man who, of all men in the State of California, represents in the public mind the embodiment of all that is most objectionable in the political life of the State, those who be- tray them will not live to outlive the odium that will be heaped upon them. ! Extenuations and apologies are and will be in vain. The people know that Dan Burns owes his political eminence to being at the head of the San Francisco push, that he is and essays to be the boss of the Republican party of the State of California, and the idea of electing such a man to represent California in the Senate of the United States is obnoxious to every honest-hearted man and woman in the State, whether Republican, Democrat ot what not. This is no time to mince words or to have patience with those who confuse the issue. The man who will cast his vote for Dan M. Burns for United States Senator will be branded by the people, justly and indelibly, as a traitor to his party and his State and an enemy to clean politics and to a self-respecting constituency and good government. @+0-+640+9-+9+0-25+0 the patent Issued on May 15, 159, to Ed- | @ | ward A. Duchow for 160 acres of mineral I ADAILY HINT FROM PARIS. 3 land lying between Columbia and Sonora, in Tuolumne County. The allegation is R et S I e i ot ol ] | made in the complaint that Edward A. | Duchow obtained the patent by falseiy | representing the land to be valuable for stone and timber only, when, in fact, it | | was not valuable for timber at all, and was valuable only for minerals, a fact which Duchow knew at the time he made | the affidavit. It is alleged further that Duchow sold | the tract to his nephew, Arthur D. Du- | chow, and that he rented ten acres to be worked as a gold mine. FEARFUL OF ESOLA. Alameda Argus, January 23, 1900. The election of a Chief of Police will probably take place in San Francisco to- night. We predict that the man elected | will be Lawrence’s Esola—and then may the Lord have mercy on everybody in that great city who Is Innucen!‘:y ¥ I R RS Y + + James C. MacInnes’ resig- nation from the ministry has created a stir; not so much the mere fact that he has seen fit to give up his calling, but more on account of his reasons for so doing. Read his own signed statement of the mat- ter in next Sunday’s Call. G+t + 444444040404 440490 ——————— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. j 2 = NO SUCH 'CONFESSION-Z. B. W., | Kiantone, N. Y. No one has ever ap- | peared and confessed that he was the one e S S S ol T e e T R R R Raaan e SR s io—‘-o—o—o—o*—o—o—o—o—o-o—‘-o—. MOUSE COLORED VELVET DRESS. The costume represented is of bright Bflmy of the murders for which Theodore t suff moties SoloYed FRIREE: TIa: corsage’oéne | A0 T sukerud tiie penkiEy of death. over a_white velvet front embroidercd | VALENTINE'S DAY-M. L. P., City. with silk and steel. The lapels are edged The custom of sending anonymous mis- with sable, and bands of the same fur de- sives of love on St. Valentine's day is one scend to the bottom of the cqrngg and | that is followed by individuals according down the skirt. The lapels at the bottom to taste, and it is observed more or less of the skirt open over a skirt of the same | {n all parts of United States. materials and style the corsage front. e 77 A - - ?N’E OUT OF FIVE—B. M. W., Upton, ‘al. There is no um 0-cen NOT TIMBER LAND. plece of 1330, -cent plece of 188, copenc | stock, $5, $ and $9 each. | In tmproved wid Suit for the Cancellation of an Al- | PenPy,of UFL 20T pn s, qovper mickel 32 leged Fraudulent Land Patent. !;vm 14 to 34 cents on a silver 3-cent plece Assistant United States Attorney Ban-|°* %7 e ning vesterday filled a suit in equity In| MOHAVE—M. D, City. You and your the United States Circuit Court to cancel | friend have been disputing over a matter in which both of you right. It is G’o{)er to_write Mohave and to write Mo, jave. The ordinary run of people use Mohave, the postal authorities use Mo- jave. You may write it either way, and you wiil be right. K% SOUTHAMPTON-NEW YORK—-A. B. C., City. The fastest time on record be- tween Southampton and York is by Der Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse of the North German line, March 30 to April 3, 1808, 5 days and 20 hours. The next best record is by the St. Paul of the American line, August 8-14, 1896, 6 days 0 hours and 31 minutes. THE AUTHOR WANTED-D. M., Santa Rosa, Cal. This correspondent wishes to know who wrote the following lines. Can any reader of this department furnish his name? Thou great maneater, unheard of eplcure, Without a fellow, whose every day Is carnival, The verfest gluttons do not always cram. Some Intervals of abstinence are sought To whet the appetite, thou askest none. USELESS WORRY—W. B., City. Thers is no way that you can stop publishers in different parts of the States from sending you sample copies of their re- spective publications. t is useless for you to worry about the matter. If you receive a sample copy, that does not bind you to taking the pa If the sending is continued refuse the paper from the mail carrier and send notice to the publisher that you do not want his publications. That will relieve you of responsibility. AROUND THE CORRIDORS A. S. Rix, an attorney of San Jose, 1s at the Lick. Ex-Judge W. D. Crichton of Fresno is at the Grand. O. W. Powers of Salt Lake City is a guest at the Palace. 2 F. A. Wise, 2 mining man of Alaska, is a guest at the Palace. ‘W. E. Sharon has come down from Ne- vada and is at the Palace. H. C. Chandler of Los Angeles is stay- ing at the Occidental. A. M. Vanderlip, a leading business man of Merced, is a guest at the Lick. D. H. Dollar, a well-known rancher of Usal, Is registered at the Grand. E. O. Miller, a wealthy landowner of Visalia, is a guest at the Palace. O. McHenry of Merced !s at the Occi- | dental, accompanied by his daughter. James F. Peck, an attorney of Merced, is among the late arrivals at the Lick. Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Robertson are reg!s- tered at the Occidental from Livermore. Dr. and Mrs. D. F. Maitland of Chicago are registered for a short stay at the Pal- ace. State Senator H. V. Morehouse is regin- tered at the Lick from his home In San Jose. F. W. Griffen, a wealthy young mining man of Oroville, is a guest at the Cali- fornla. C. B. Chaver, president of the Fresno Flume and Canal Company, i3 & guest at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Whitmer, prominent soclety people of Portland, Or., are reg- istered at the Occidental. Captain V. T. Cattman, U. 8. N,, has returned from Manila, having completed his term of service on the Asiatic station, and is at the Occidental. Lieutenant James Romyne and Dr. C. Y. Brownlee, U. S. A, who arrived from Manila on the City of Peking, are reg- istered at the Occidental. C. S. Bradford, a former journalist of Honolulu, who has been engaged in busi- nesss in Manila for some time past, s at the Occidental. He arrived here on the | City of Peking. Lieutenant Commander Benjamin Tap- pan, U. S. N., has returned from Max and is at the Palace. He is on his way | home after having completed his term of service on the Asiatic station. —_——————————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. 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