The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 3, 1900, Page 6

FEBRUARY 3, 19 lOHr\ D. SrRECKE'S. F‘ropr'e or. ress All Communications to Y. S. LEAKE, Mlnige' {BLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, 8. F. Telep! Main 1S6s. I ITORIAL ROOMS. . 217 1o 221 Stevemsom St Telep! 1874, Delivered by Carriers. 15 Centa Per Week. Single Coples. ls Centw. Terms by Mafl. ¥ DALY CALL ne Snnday), one DATLY CALL tinel nz Sunday), 6 months.. 3. DAILY CALL (nclnding Sunday). & months. . DAILY CALL—By Single Month S NDAY CALL Ome Year.. WELEKLY CALL Ome Year.. . All portmasters are authorized fo reocive subscriptions. aple coptes will be forwarded when requested +++.008 Broadway ing. Chicage. NEW VYORK CORRESPONDENT: €. €. CARLTON....... EW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: LUKENS J .20 Tribune Buiidioe TERRY s Tale” 4l Mechanics' Amsocts won and AUCTION SALES. POST-MORTEM ACTION. In the Occ t the system is upon Drake, der of | the i the Howards, and other England, descend to their progeny. and 5, t tates, titles, pensions, bene- and exercised fre- hless ser mtirely wor P return to the - stats, 1 paying t for deeds € The Chinese m is far i sound principle of rewarding 1 and moral ions, and sugh gener. seful to his staté and ic regalia, ritual gland vast i from the grasp of the dead by <‘< pc“;«e and the ‘an ¢ burden « » those who are doing in their own day and genera- d from a different Ingland been striggling monument o dpoint ‘m has lately certain . public er had his day and he made for the Cavaliers and for English ro r jrom being periect. but he never the solar plexus of an adversary and { good deal and fought a good '..,, nary views and their successful 1one m ng for England. He relieved I vassalage to France to which by the ted of -~ her akness After restora- Lord Protector” was d"z out of his grave | soned bones were hung in chains and thie hands of men wha n had ap- 1 his skeletc Now there i fested a disposition in England to preven ortem honor.” The ‘English should | redle aper to give Oliver a monu- ment ¢ ort whole bronds of his descend lic treasur; P ited £ n the post-mortem way. rs - ago - Massachusetts - banished Roger had not stolen horses, acted d tates the de e has appeared to do nor srderly. He was guilty of hold at. variance with vthing but that would be forgiven. But one Roger was regarded as the bad man The Puritans had raced half around the globe in search of liberty of conscience for them- selves and the power to deny it to everybody else. werefore Williams was insufferable, and he was ex- communicated and cast into outer darkness - spirit- 2 views Puritans. A for that of the colony. ficient punishment. They could -shet him out: of heaven, bur they thought that was light punishment compared to shutting him out of Massachusetts. He might endure deprivation of the society of the angels ds the society of the Puritans® Therefore they put upon him the heavy penalty of banishment, and sent him over the colony line to perish. Roger patiently sted it down the coast, found a pleasant place, pirched there his tent. and devoutly called it “Provi- deace,” a city which endurcs unto this day -and can he seen from any part of the State of Rhode Island After nearly three hundred years Massachusetts wants Roger to come back, so there is now pending in the 1 egislature at Boston a bill for an act to revoke the It should pass. Two and tvo-thirds centuries is a long time to-find out-a- mis- tuke, but it costs little to- correct it. With these post- mortem issnes foremost in England and America, et us take the hand our Celestial brother of far Cathay, <'u(‘\ the ways of Kung the Wise, and cease girding at the economies of his post-mortem phil osaphy. seatence of banishment: | l | trade! i mnum to bie waged with- such hardships to then as | not. wish ‘to interiere with the schedule and standard While they | of othes ‘nations. | them raised to. our | of ours | jabor, on jower wages, pour through the gap, dis- weee..Herald Sgoare | displacing the labor itseli and pauperizing the. la- | of Mr. Kasson's policy. | and vineyardist to add to the profits of the manufac- ex- | A g | mined to furnish an issuc for the enemies of protec- kward and works inexpen- | | 'would be interesting to know what Mayor Phelan and | Two hundred | those of the | t the Puritans did not consider that a suf- | But how was he to stand exclusion from | A\R,- KASSON'S TRE‘RTIES. R KASSON, the - Reciprocity Commlssn)ner of this Government; has been. heckled: before a cammittee of Congréss. . He wis compelled M to -plairily. state: what ‘he considered “to be: the puz- { pose of a protective tariff, and. the basis ‘of his per- He declared that he regarded .protec- ~ | tive duties only as.a means of nagging’ vther nations | into a’‘system of reciprocity that.amoynts to free | sonal ‘policy. This-is f from the ideas and the prin- ciples of -American ‘protectionists.-- They do not re- gard protéction as'a deelatation of war against other 1y-10.a surfender, a protocol and a4 trea ce trade peace.” On -the contragy, mc, hold pro:, s to be a policy of defense and not offerse, and- y o defend the American schedule of wages and’the ‘American-standard of life. - They do would. rejoice: to seg. oppose thté lowering'| to meet them. They know, as Mr. ‘Kasson must know, that wherever ffie-defense of protection is lawered or withdrawn the =~ products of foreign placing the proddcts of our own labor and therefore borer. The jogic 'of it is inexorable: Mr. Kasson | does not answer it, because he cannot, - His theory. hat we use protection, not-to retiin for ourselves: our rket, riof to maintain the better wages of ottt own labor, but to force free trade, fo'the loss of our home market and the degradation. of American. labor, is not tenable from any American standpoint. From some Republican sources has issued an un- m-of certain Democrats of the old-school in Congress upon whose votes California, certainly, depends to defeat the Kasson treaties. -They are ac- cused of inconsistency. Such a charge “does not rightly ‘lie against them.. It is easy to see that pro- tection must be a-general and nota-partial system. The products of the soil sre as much ‘entitled-to it as those of the manufactory. . When it is the policy of it'is the duty of every Dem- wise crith the country, as it is now; ocratic ' member to see to it that his constituents are not left outside of the system, to. bear its burdens and get none of its benefits. That is the e¢xact effecy In his treaties he sacrifices without mercy, the interests of the farmer, orchardist | turer. - The ‘effect is to compel the farmer: to sell a free trade market and buy He must produce oranges, fruit, wine and brandy in competition. with the islands and France. and sell at the price of their -lower laber; but he must buy in a in a protected marke: and at the | higher price incident to such a condition. F see that a commercial system protecti of manufactures alone has in it the ‘elements of -the The prosperity rket protected against competition ve: country’s undoing under ~ such 4 i Ii-horse, half-alligator system .is’ of necessity ‘par- and. not general. It is a grotesque system, to.| which entire free trade is so preierable that, if - Mr. Kasson prevail, protection may be expected to van- ish and the country to be left open to “the stricted competition of the low wage nations: Either protection is right or it s wioug. unre- | It can- not be half right and hali wrong. and the people just | in no temper to' tamper with it, ‘or com- Mr. Kasson seems to be . deter- now are promise it away. ik i alie Hhs ascentTE the Seoubiteln * As they are <earching day| tion, party a ready-made polic and might, by rule of thumb, for . something - upon which to go before the people, ~why “find ‘it- for them? Surely if Republicans support the. Kasson policy they will present an issue from:which they’ will be sure 16 hear in the next campaign During the recent tampaign Mayor- Phejan lost no. opportunity - to laud Joseph Britton as ‘the jdeal “of | Ie independent, incorruptible American- manhood. THE FAMINE IN INDIA thinks of Joseph Britton now: OMMENTING upon the reports of large ‘sums. C sibscribed by the native princes of India to the British .war fund, a London - correspondent. of the New York Timessa From what I"know of - In- dian ideas, and I.may say ‘even of the views.af Indian princes; 1 do not believe that these subscriptions are spontaneous: © ‘Presture is-being. piit npon them-to ‘chov\ their “loyalty, and. that at a“time which.could not be more ill-chosen. - Every rapec the wealthy peo- ple of India can find or spare oughtto be devoted t5 | the reliei of famine sufferers, whosé numbers prom- + | jse. soon to_exceed 4,000,000, in spite. oi “cvery: effort made by ‘the Government officials to keep: ‘thém down.” : 1 ‘The view taken by the correspondent is supported y reports which have come irem other sources con- | cerning the extent of the famine which now prevails over large districts in India. - Recent advices from "llm country were to the effect: that 3,000,000 of peo- ple are working ‘on Government relief. works, and the dispatches went on to say: “The sale of children by starving parents is becoming common. Families are breaking up; each member for: himself, in search | of food. Abandoned children are found with fre- quency. Tt is a famine ‘of water-as well as food. Cattle are dyving off by thousands and no rain is ex- pected until June.” Under. ordinary from soliciting or even accepting conditions Great' Britain, o far sub- ;tcri;\(i(flu from the princes of India, would be exert- ling all the powers of her. Government and all the | charitable forces of her society to send food " and | money to aid the starving people her . Indian possessions. The war in South Africa, hiowever, im- poses upon her the necessity of leaving India to the famine in order that every shilling available:from any | source may be used for advancing her struggle for the | conguest of the Boers; 1t is quite possible this dread affliction that has be- ! fallen India may ‘yet result in forcing Great' Britain to i stop in the war of further conquest and devote her energies ‘to maintaining the empire: she ‘has. Wher- ever there is famine there is sure to be discoritent with the Government, and men made desperate by star- ! vation not infrequently take up armis in the hope that | by revolution they may better their condition. Some- thing ‘of that kind may occur before ‘the summer. is over to recall to India General Roberts and. every soldier he can take with him. There are large districts in India Mlere the paople depend . for life upon the. coming of -the monsoon | rains, for the poverty of the laboring class and the" | peasantry is such that they five on each-season’s crop as it comies, and the failure of crops. for'a year means death. - Last June the monsoon éurrent began favor- ably, but ere long'it was deflected, and over a tract of vast extent, embracing the Deccan, the Central ‘Prov- inces, Central India, Gujerat, Rajputana and. -the |. Southern Punjab there fell ‘hardly any rain.: Not only | did' the crops that should have becn harvated hu' unsolicited of fall was: mmnsslble for the peasints to plow Or SOW . seed: | for crops of the coming spring. As long ago as last fall it was- announced that cattle were dying by thou- sands, and now it appears the peasants, like their cat- tle, are perishing: Certamly under such' circum- stances if 1s not likely- the Indian princes-would will- ingly subscribe money to a British war fund. - They have need “at the doors of their own- palac:s for all -It:is difficult to understand how the Mexican could make forty-five votes out of twernty-seven unless he was aiflicted by a serious case: of mental obliquity of i legislators could only vote doubie as, well as look so Bums jmight be elected: THE BRITISH “AND THEIR HRMY \v Affican wat in other respects, it is fairly cer- 5 tain ‘it will.lead to'a marked increase in the: military strength of Great Britain, and to something like a‘revolution -in.the organization of the .army. ision. ‘There has been a.tendency of course to find a scape- | ‘goat for the disasters that have followed ong another | so rapidly ever since the war opened, but there is a growing opinion in Great Britain that the real cause of all is that the empire has not been provided with a military: force adequate to its needs. Even the Liberal pap:rs, which are naturally dis- posed to lay as much blame as possible on the Min- istry for the sake-of discrediting -the Conservative party, admit that the Cabinet is not wholly to blame and that the army miist be increased and reorganized. British expansion has, in fact, outrun the défensive’ power of the nation on the present military basis, and either the one must be checked or the: other aug- mented, Great: Britain is rich enough to support as large an army as any nation on the globe, and her population is sufficiéntly numerous to furnish ‘the men, but for all that the task of ificreasing the army is not going to be easily performed. In the first place, the British people have long prided themselves on being a non- military nation. They have looked upon conscrip- tion as characteristic of the- military powers of Conti- nental Europe, and regarded it as something alien to British liberty, and yet it seems it' will have to be resorted to if the arimy is to - be largely -increased. Thus the first step-toward augmenting the military force of the empire will have to be taken by trampling upon one of the most venerated traditions of the | people. That the probability of a military conscription con- fronts them is well understood by the more intcHi- gent among the people, and the leading papers- are now discussing ‘it as-a matter of practical politics. The Westminster Gazette presents the situation thus: “YWe have to take facts as we find them, the first fact being that we are involved in a military operation six thougand miles away which strains all the resources of the empire; the :next fact, which lies just ahead of it} being that at the close of the war and on the very best assumption we shall have for many vears to come to provide a arrison of from forty to fifty thousand men ‘in- South Africa. How are we going to do this, and how, at the same time, to avoid being taken by surprise by other inevitable wars which may be in store for us? We have about reached the limit of numbers which can be got by our present. system of recruiting, and however laudable may be the patriotic spirit, we cannot permanently rely on the hasty-improvisation of volunteer forces for foreign service: - Yet, so far as we can sec ahcad, there is no immiediate chance of limiting our liabili- ties. ‘In addition to the new South Africa which im- | perialists contemplate, there is the new Soudan in uncomigrtable . proximity to the ~highly ~organized arined power of Abyssinia, to.say nothing of the new | | game last spring burdens in the Far East, of possible upheavals on the Indian’ frontier when fhe Ameer -of Afghanistan <ible “contingencies which: any one can suggest for | | himseli.” The army reorgarization, moreoxyer; will mean much more than an increase in numbers. At the pres- ént fime the British army ic a very aristocratic-insd- tution. It officers ‘are almost wholly drawn from the wealthy: cJasses, Many young men enter it less from 2 military instinct than for the social prestige which accompanies army ‘rank, -That system s doomed. The .nople: Jords who - are now leading the. British regiments in South “Africa are brave enough, but it is clear they do not understand the business of war, After the reorganization takes place British officers | aental. | may ‘not- have: as much' social: prestige as they now have, but they will know more about their trade. ;. T AL S T Harland Whittaker; the first:man suspected of the shooting of Ghbebel; still protests his innocence, de- spite the fact that three revolyers and -a dirk were found upon him when taken into custody. If the innocent are loaded in that fashion with arms, the guilty must be walking arsenals. The Queen of England, in Her speech from the throne, has praised the brave men that have been vic- tiriis of Boer bullets *for laying down their lives for their country.” It” will require something more than a platitude, perhaps, to compensate for death’s harvest in the Trani\'aa‘. e Britishers who are of the belief that their army has been going against a bunko game in South Africa will undoubtedly be glad to hear that the Boer shell factory “at Johannesburg has been wrec¢ked. There are. rumors also that the pea crop is in danger. Cable dispatches are authority for the statement that General Buller intends to take another route to Ladysmith. It is safe to predict that he will be longer lin- taking the new road.than: he was in leaving the old one. Mayor Phelan says the Esola affair is-only a news- paper mess after all. Can his Honor have reference to the petition in favor of Esola that was circulated by an Examiner bureau and paid for with Examiner . money? . . The Montana legislator who accepted money for his yote but emphatimlly'dcnied that he had been bribed ‘must at some stage of his career have studn:d in the Burns school oi pracncal polmcs 3 — § * Mayor Phclan says - that the Pohce Commlssmn needs the knife and that he is the surgeon. His Honor sh-mld have . a care or he wxll commit hara kiri. : A m:ghty ‘blow has been struck at the success of the ‘Nicaragua. canal.. C. P Huntington hts an- nounced himself in’ earnest advocacy of the project. e b ‘Phelan says ‘he will use the surgebn s kmfe on (he Police Commission. If he follows his usual meth— ods he vul» huen it in- somebody s back “O6m- Paqls fate i is sealed. “The solons at Sacrau ‘mento WQU let hm:; break into_the extra session of the Leguhulre even in'a rcsolntmm i HATEVER be the outcome. of the. South g | sisted by Burbank Sommers and: Percy are we going | | mann. | peared an article stating that a ‘member | 3 | of Nevada's basket ball team of 93 is i passes from the scene, and of’a variety of other pos- | Mfe of baghel ball: ‘| san Francisco.and Lee L. Gray and wife THE QA\ FRA\CISCO CALL SATURDAY, FEBRUABY 8, 1900. . but the grouind: was so parched and dried it NOW IS THE T[ME TO STR[KE Jon DECLARES THE lNTERlOR pRESS TheY Soe Nothmg but Defeat for Burns at Sacrainenta +f e Honest Legislators Stand Together. One - Explanation. of Why the Exammor Inclines to Burns. SAN LEANDRO STANDARD. No, the:Standard isn't going to say anything about Burns. If we were to express-our honest opinion as to his.candidacy Marshal Geisenhofer would .arrest us for.indecent exposure of the English language, -Constable Gatllet. * would yank us into court for disturbing the peace, and, oh, horrors! Street Superintendent Garcia would round us up: for violating a city ordinance. So 3 bemr we-don’t say nothm but just thmk and think and think. * VENTURA SIG» AL. ‘The papers ‘of California are a unit against Burns for United States Sen- “ator. They have got together on that point and there is no question but that they have accomplished much. - Now let them get together for a good and _acceptable ‘man ‘upon -whom to: confer the henor, and there is little doubt of ‘the outcome, Legislators opposed to Burns are looking for a proper man to vote for. Thomas R. Bard is that- man. _If the anti-Burns papérs take up Bard they can elect him. Now is the time to strike. « - * SAN DIEGO UNION. The. négative sort of support“which the San Francisco Exammer ac- cords to Dan Burns. has been attributed by some pcop}e to that paper’s de- sire that the Republican party in this State should give itself a black eve by :sending him to the Senate The recent investigation of Lieutenant Esola at San Francisco, however, throws new light on this subject. At that inquiry ' ‘the fact was brought out that Esola owed his appointment on the police force to Burns, who was then a Police Commissioner, and that the latter aided Esola at the request of the editor of the Examiner. From all of which it would appear that the paper is now merely paying the sditor’s debt to the Mexican colonel. - - = LOS ANGELES TIMES. With an open vote in the caucvs and a full majority of the Republicans necessary to a choice for Senator, the calamitous appearance is somewhat relieved, but the Burns gang is adroit, unscrupulous and tricky. It will be well for the majority to look to their guns and ammunition or the wily bushwhackers, under the leadership of Lawyer Herrin, may draw them into an ambush.. The fact that the anti-Burns force was able to defeat the com- mon enemy last winter gives encouragement to hope, howe\ er, that the boss and buccaneer has fetched up against the “real thing.” The breathing spell of a week, which has been given us because of the failure of the Burns gang to commence their indecént raid to-day, is a de- cided defeat to those forces, as has already been said, and a matter for great encouragement. to the respectable and decent men in the Republican party, who demand that a man and a gentleman, a statesman, a scholar, a man of affairs, shall be elected to the ‘office of Senator, and not a creature with neither social, business nor-political standing in the community of California. The commencement at Sacramento is well. There cannot be a failure for the ngh: 1( our representah\ es will do their duty. CONFETTI AT [ Exch will receive %0 a mo THE coTlLLON snm every other month, This t‘_arrled out until the end o Therese Morgan l.eadsl IMPROVEMENT CLUBS MEET. the German of the | The San Francisco Association Will Friday Fortnightlys. Organize Permanently. The representatives of the San Fran- The Friday Fortnightly gave its regular | olaco Assocfation of Improvement Clubs e otillon. Hall. - As ldsR‘:zc\)euahlls:lq:::’gia‘l':s(ot (h{\l; e A met last night at B'nai B'rith Hall te de- attendance was large and extremely fash- and revive Interest in improv lonable. Miss Therese Morgan led, as- provement clubs. chairman, Leon Samuels secretary and P. King. Three figures were danced, the 1ast [, Cahill sergeant-at-arms, of which was a ‘“confetti figure.”” ~The Fortnightlys will give only one more eq, after which the meetng adjourned: dancs this seaSon | - . o i+ oatitavites Crdentiale I Schwartz, W. P. Johnson and | tions for a tea at her home, 2119 Broad- Organization—H. L. Ladd, R R. Russ Grat- s T saalfield, J. M, Wilkins, 8 o L SRR B llams, J. Rlfl?l’(v, fil(‘hlm KEHH’, T. Tracy and C. W. Pope. Invitations were directed to be sent out to each lm{prnvement club requstlnx fl\e i ay. on weune«a.fi February 14. in hono up of Mrs, Alphonse eru and Miss Feld- —_———————— BASKET-BALL PLAYER WAS NOT INJURED = .'v n Taizell, To the Editor of The Cn]l —Dear Sir: In | a recemt issue of your paper there ap- | A FORTY-NINER—N. W. R., City. No premlum is offered for a $10 plece of 1840, he dealers’ price date is 313 30, . 1 ox:; OF 1308—M. K., City. A half-dol- lar of 1808 {s not one of the kind a5 It is true that Miss mc;).t;{e‘;le[g;; ;us“l:elfi i B S p:fl;’“umf s?xcholncgo?; she had wmplueflb recfi\er\ed »,é“ o { can. be purchased for 5 cents. ent she is attending the Nevada e = S iversits and expeets to sraduate next Geglq_%ge OFFICERS-Market Street, June. Moreover, she has been in regular ; attendance at college ever since the game, :-)e’f, Bflfl’:%;‘:m; Lfi“&:’"}l&.’:nfihfi;g; Will you kindly publish® this letter in e vour next issue and greatly oblige? | Yours | standing while ‘the privates lie fow -and sincerely, Baskel Ball Cnpluln DEPEN: IBoR 4 = = ENDS UPON THE TIME-G. N, SN Y Mare Island, Cal. If a ma ndeserted from dying from an Injury received during a with Berkeley. We therefore deem it our duty to:eorrect a mistake which might prove fatal .to the a fracture of the nose Reno, Nev., Jan. 2 the United States army and is now in the marine corps, whether he could be pun- AROUND THE e e o e CORRIDORS. | tary service and the time that has elapsed 5 since, He can be punished for such deser- | tion at any (Ime durlnc two years after for upon the time he enlisted for in the mili- B. V. Sargent of Salinas is at the Occl- | the te; he enlisted has ex- pired. J. 'W. Knox Is registered at the Paluce from Merced. Marion Biggs Jr., the Oroville capitalist, | is at the Grand. V. G. Frost. an attorney of Merced, is registered at the Licky C. R. Scott, the Portland railroad man, is a guest at the Occidental. T. L. Reed, a wealthy rancher of Reed- ley, Is a guest at the Grand. J. M. Bowhay, a leading merchant of Hanford. is a guest at the Grand. A. G. Newton of Los Angeles is one of |, the late arrivals at the Occidental. Judge Charles Silent, a prominent attor- ney of Los Angeles, is at the Palace, W. H. McKenzie, the Fresno banker and capitalist, is registered at the Lick. James F. Peck, one of the best known of the legal fraternity of Merced, is at the Lick. J. W. Oshorn of Georgetown, Ky., is at the Occidental, accompanied by his wife and family. W, E. Guerin, a well-known business man of Seattle, is staving at the Palace for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Clark, prominent soclety people of Napa, are at the Lick on a short visit to the city. G.. W. Crystal, a wealthy: land owner and fruit man of Vacaville, is registered for a few days at the Grand, Colonel D. C,. Dodge, general manager of the Rio Grande Western Railroad, left the clty yesterday for the southern part of the State, whence he will proceed to his home in Denver. B. U. Steinman has come. flown from ‘Sacramento and is staying at the Palace. Pr. A. E. Osbourne, head of the Home for Feeble-Minded Children at Eldridge, Sonoma County, 1s one of the arrivals of — —e——— cnnronms IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Feb. 2—F. Tillmann of of Fresno are at the Arlington. R. H. Warfield, John J. Mahoney and A. G. Hutchins of San Francisco are at the Raleigh. Dr. R, L. Buchanan of Los An- geles 1s at the St. James. et e et CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. " NEW YORK, Fab. Henry M. Turner and Willlam M. Needham' of San Fran- cisco are at the Savoy. -Theodore W. Mason of Los Angeles is at the Empire: —————— g Inlp‘cton to S:rve on Half Pay. *-On account of the stringency of funds in the Health Department it was déemed impossiblé to assign the ten assistant san- ‘tary” inspectors to d\lty at one time, so llva were ulo'ed t in lltumto t éntered. w&vun the K _serve gether and the salartes be divided so that nth instead of lan will be the fiscal T"}reon as | velop a plan of rmanent organizati Ly L. | her death was caused George R. Fletcher was elected temporary | °UF e 528 Properiy The following committees were appoint- | ermbe o at “he mg:gng flgk}h will be at Fmemity }Inll | for a tenner of that | or vress MERCHANTS SEE DANGER TO Th VALLEY TRADE Protest Against New Tariff. i Oncé more ‘the merchants of San Fran- cisco are compelled to take steps to pro- tect thelr trade territory. A tariff has been issuéd by the Southern Facific Com- pany, In which the Santa Fe unites. giv- ing Los Angeles an advantage over San Francisco - in - frefght to Bakersfield, amounting to 13 cents per 10) “‘pounds on fourth class and 1§ cents on first class, or $2 60 per ton on the higher class freights. When the merchants saw the tariff yes- terday there was great indignation. This may lead_to a meeting of the merchants, for the effect of the tarift is to draw the line within which San Francisco will be able to meet Los Angeles on even terms as_far north as Delano. The general impression is abroad here that the railroad people are throwing a sop to Los Angeles at the expense of n Franclsco to offset the trouble that hey ~ are having with the citrus fruit shippers of the south in the matter of routing. This opinion was freely ex- prcssed in the wholesale section ye-m-- The first move that will be made S0 be & conference with the oficials of both the Southern Pacific and the Santa Fe. This might have taken place yes- !erd&}. but- Mr. Bissell 15 out of town. The purpose is to have the conference before the tariff e into effect, which will be in a few days. Unless the desire to give Los Angeles something as a solace for the hostile measures ~adopted concerning the cit- rus frult growers s the reason for the measure of discrimination against this city, it is difficult to find one based in equity. It is true that the mtileage from Los Angeles to Bakersfleld {s less than from San Francisco to Bakersfleld, but the merchants say that topography is al- ways an element of rate-making, and the road from Los Angeles to Bakersfield runs over mountains and largely through a barren country, whilé the route through the San Joaquin Valley is almost level, and it passes through a_ fruitful country that provides a large volume of freight Once before the same fight for trade in Bakersfield took place and San Fran- elsco was victorious. Then it was sup- posed that ths matter was settled for 0od. The tariff making so heavy a dif- erential will not go into effect without a vigorous protest. Will OLD SYSTEM SUSTAINED. Board of Education Enjoined From Changing School Copy-Books. Judge Hebbard has issued an fnjunction restraining the Board of Education from changing the system of handwriting now in use in the public schools. The injunc- tion was issued at the Instance of J a taxpayer, to prevent the board unnecessary expenditure for new book- by the parents And guardians of | pupils. —_————————— Caused Her Own Death. Further Investigation into the death of Miss Maggie Reilly reveals the fact that ¥ her not turniag e . Tea served free to customers in Town- send's Japanese Tea Carden, 135 Market ¢ e Ib, in fire 735 Market st.® California glace fruits. otched boxes. Townsend's, Townsend's famous broken candy. made of pure sugar, lic Ib while at 735 Market.* Special lnformmon supplied daily 0 busin ell houses public men by the Press Clij pln‘ Bu'rnu uul 3), m ont- gomery. in 1042 ¢ Jvet, Teiminag. Ty Pensions for Disabled Firemen. The City Attorney yesterday. fied an opinion with the Board af Fire Commis- sioners In which he holds that the pro- visions of the charter affecting the fire- men's relief fund do not nuliify the ex- isting order granting pensions to disabled firemen. e — Personally Conducted Excursions In improved wide-vestibuled Pullman tourist sleeping cars via Santa Fe Route. Experienced excuréion conductors accompany these excur- sions to look after the welfare of passengers. To Chicago and Kansas City every Sunday, Wedneaday and Friday. To Boston, Montreal and Toronto every Wednesday. To St. Louls every Sunday. To St. Paul every Sunday aad Friday. Ticket office, 28 Market street. e Mothers give Dr. Siegert's Angostura Bitters €o their children to stop colic and looseness of the bowels. B W The Fastest Train Across the Com- tinent. The California Limited, Connecting trains lea Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. Finest equipped train and best track of any line to the East. Ticket office. 628 Market street e ————— Says “It’s a Boy.” The Story of California’s Oddest Tourist. The Padrone System in San Francisco.