The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 6, 1900, Page 6

THE SAN FRA ISCO CALL, T SDAY, MARCH 6, 1900. 6 The- Call TUESDAY.... MARCH 6, 1900 .’UHNVD SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. et b e S i e PUBLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third. S. F. 1868. Teleph Main ROOMS. ...217 to Telephone Maim EDITORIAL 221 Stevensom St. 1874 by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Delivered Terms by Mail, Inclu Pontage: PATLY CALL (Including Sunday), one year..8$6.00 DAILY day). 8 mo; 3.00 DAL ¥), 8 months 1.50 SUNDAY CALL Om: WEKKLY CALL Al ...1118 Broadway GNESS. . Marguette Build- NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT C. G CAELTON...... vess.Hernld Square CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Shezman Houwse; P. O. News Co.: Great North- crn Hotel; Fremont House: Auditorium Hotel NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hetel; A. Brentano, 31 Unio Sguare; Murray Hill Hotel J NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PEREY LUKENS JR......20 Tribune Buil WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE..Wellington Hotel J. ¥. ENGLISH, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgzomery. corner of Clay. 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until until 9:30 o'clock. 639 McAllister, open $:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until clock. 1941 Mission. opem catil 1¢ . 2261 Market, corner Sixteen: mtil ® o'clock. 1096 lencia. open ! 106 Eleventh. open until 9 o'clock. and Kentucky, r Agat heater—Vaudeville every afternoon and nd Bddy streets—Specialties. d_Animal Show cert Wednesday morning. esday, March 7, at 11 o’clock, gton street, ~Wednesday, et 11 & m., at 327 Sixth hursday, at ! NTENDENT HESS, who was brought \ the t to assist in organizing the so- - tment of the Southern Pacific hronicle of ployes of the road should offered by the road instead to sustain them i course of the by the ( yesterday to their Mr. interview r instance, of an employe he widow is content with the bene- »and’s membership in the relief de- er to she will immediately receive ath benefit, and would have to Is, which, if her husband’s death riod of illness, would otherwise rge i she is not content with these bene- e company she will lose all that is com- 1 the relief department and may be for her living and that of her nsiderable period. Her case might g in the courts for several years, and if she igment you don't suppose Railroad companics the y it, do you? gments in damage suits. The case 1 it might be years before she company. By the time she did mount would probably be en- wyers' fees and other expenses. better for her if she accepted the red by the relief department.” presents in a clear light one of the poration tyranny—that of making e purposes of injustice and wrong. 1at in the case put by Mr. Hess he »w of the employe who was killed has evils of co € e of the law, but asserts that despite the justice on the side of the widow the rat ould refuse to pay damages, would take one court to another, prolong litiga- knowing it was going to be defeated in z satisfaction in the knowledge that other expenses would have “eaten ow's portion before the end came. ion to defeat the laws of the land has ed policy on the part of aggressive cor- /e have an example of it in the course taken by Wells-Fargo Express Company in shirking | posed by the war revenue bill. Suits in f the corporation to impose a stamp nvolved have been heard by the again, and in every instance judg- still the ontinues to shirk the tax upon the pub- force a new lawsuit whenever a shipper pro- st the wrong It is clear that in this practice on the part of cor- we have an evil for which remedial legisla- d be provided. It should not be left in the er of wealthy corporations to defeat justice by ainment so costly and so difficult that ersor f ordinary fortune cannot achieve it. When iered there will be found something to dignation in the mind of every just man in this Jen declaration of the railroad official that even 2 widow has a good claim against the corpora- er rights will be fought in court after court so t “by the time she did get a settlement the amount i be entirely eaten up by lawyers’ fees and other , given against the company; + would be well for the Judges themselves to give heed to the bad use which the corporations are thus making of the courts. Our tribunals were established ho'ld law not to afford a means of evading it. e P Parkhurst has announced that hereafter he will | fevote his energies exclusively to his own parish, in- stead of trying to reform New York, and now it is a 1 o'clock, mt 1625 Market es under the law, nor does he deny | e of resorting to the courts and to pro- | maintain and do justice, not to defeat it: to up- | | THE REBUKE OF A FRIEND IS KIND | A i HE Humboldt Standard republishes and ap- proves very strongly a recent Call editorial in 1 behalf of maintaining the Republican doctrine of protection to the American schedule of wages and the American standard of life. Our Eureka friend ?calls this “a sign of returning reason” in The Cali, |and suggests that “it continue its work along this line. It has said so much already against expansion; | it has arraigned the administration for its Philippine | policy so frequently, that it is high time for it to | stand in line and fight the common enemy. Carnegie, | Bryan, Belmont, Altgeld, Tillman and the rest of the aggregation are in the field to defeat McKinley and turn protection down. The paper which professes to )l)e a Republican organ cannot afford to give these o imen aid and comfort in their scheme by denouncing 0 | any principle for which the administration stands. | Let The Call stick to the position above stated and it may undo a part of the mischief it has already done by standing in with the Atkinsons, Pettigrews, Alt- gelds and Tillmans of Democracy on the Philippine i question.” | The rebuke of a friend is kind, but we wish the | friend were a more attentive reader of The Call. If | he will go back to the beginning of this issue, which arose upon the annexation of Hawaii, he will be | pleased to discover that we opposed tropical expan- sion because it would involve imperialism, or the | inevitable competition of coolie and servile labor with | the American workingman, to the loss of his wages |and the degradation of his standard of life. ~From our columns can be compiled a textbook of accurate | facts upon that subject. We warned the Republican | party and the country of what was coming. We | pointed out fundamental errors in_the Republican | position, -which were sure to precipitate .upon the | country in the campaign of this year a series of most afflicting questions. These torments are now upon {us. It is not our fault that the President recom- | mended free trade with Porto Rico, and that the Re- | publican party had to bolt from his policy and put a tariff wall between that island and American labor. | It is not our fault that this bolt broke the integrity of the Republican majority in the House, and gal- i vanized the Bryan Democracy into the first sign of life it has shown since it knocked jts own brains out in the Chicago convention. It is not our fault that Congressman Littlefield of Maine, and the' Republi- | cans who stood with him for the free trade recom- mendation of the President, were denounced as bolt- ers from protection by their colleagues in the House. It will not be our fault if all Republicans fail to stand together to re-elect this administration, retain | control of Congress and reach a sane and safe basis for legislation, to extricate the country from the con- sequences, which we foretold, of the follies into which it has gone astray. In January we advised that Congress refrain from legislation to our external burdens, cast upon us by the Spanish war. subjects were too imperfectly understood to make such legislation wise, and that to attempt it would re- veal party division. The result in the case of Porto Rico has proved the soundness of our advice. Surely the Humboldt Standard was not edified by the spec- tacle of a Presidential recommendation overridden by his party, and the chairman of the Ways and Means Committee forted to acutely turn upon his own sol emn utterances and vote against what he had declared to be the solemn duty of the party? We beg to advise the Standard that a few feet of foresight is worth miles of regret, and that the sole glimmer of hope in the Bryan party has been lighted, not by anything we have done, but by doing what we The responsibility is upon those who have supplied Atkinson, Pettigrew et als. ich the Porto Rice bill proved that they have the sympathy of Dingley’s successor, and a sufficient number of Republicans in the House to compel a humiliating compromise as the price of hold- ing the party majority. If the Standard think it good politics to see the Democratic minority in the House upholding the President’s recommendation and quot- ing his message against the position of the Republican majority, we must differ. We ask now, and will ask again, that legislation on these external possessions be held in abeyance, and advised should be omitted. with an issue in wh that the party platform favor a calm study of all phy- | sical and political conditions therein before action .is had. — The announcement that the Kaiser thinks of calling Herbert Bismarck to accept the former position of his illustrious father as Chancellor of the German empire is somewhat surprising, but not half so much as it would be to see Herbert get in and fill the place as his daddy used to do. WHAT THE CABINET WANTS. ‘EDWARD H. COLEMAN contributes to the current number of Ainslee’s Magazine an article concerning statements of six members of the Cabinet as to the work they desire to see achieved in their respective departments of the ad- ministration. The six officials are the Secretaries of War, Navy, Treasury, Interior, Agriculture, and the Postmaster General, and their views comprise a val- | uable compendium of important, measures now be- fore the country. The Secretary of War desires mainly the reorgani- zation of the army; the Secretary of the Navy wishes a settlement of the armor plate controversy, and an act providing a suitable reward for the naval officers who took part in the Santiago campaign, as was given to those who were at Manila. The Secretary of the Treasury is of course chiefly interested in meas- ures affecting the monetary standard and banking and currency. The Secretary of the Interior regards a most reform of the pension laws as the most urgent issue | in his department, while the Secretary of Agriculture sceks to bring about improvement in the highways | of the country and the cultivation of tea in the United States, and the Postmaster General announces his principal desire to be an act putting an end to the abuse of second class postal rates. Most of these measures have been so fully discussed that the public is fairly familiar with what the admin- istration is doing with respect to®them. The work | of the Department of Agriculture, however, in pro- moting road improvement has been but little roted, | owing to the fact that as the National Government has | no control over highways the work of the department is necessarily confined to educating the people on the subject. Tt can do little that attracts attention, and the indirect help given does not make much of a figure in the news of the day. In a late report the Secretary. in dealing with the | subject, says: “There is a great demand upon the | Department of Agriculture for assistance in road- making, in addressing the students at our Agricultural Colleges, and in giving instruction regarding the best :me!hnds of using what material may be found con- venient.” For the purpose of obtaining information | on these questions the Secretary recommends the ap- 1pointmmt of competent men in each of the great sec- We warned the party that the | upon the road-making material obtainable, and at the same time give lessons in the actual construction of roads. He also notes the necessity for a scientific inquiry into the composition of road material in the different localities, and the best methods of combining the materials so as to make'good roadbeds. While in the end the work of road improvement must be done by the local authorities, it is gratifying to have one of the great departments of the National Government interested in the subject. Much can be done that will be of great assistance to States and counties by the Agricultural Department, and cer- tainly no other issue is now of more importance to the farmers of the country than that of highway im- provement. If Secretary Wilson can urge the work forward he will have rendered a great service to the people, and it is gratifying to note he is giving par- ticular attention to it. o ———— The report that the Dutch are thinking of asking annexation to the German empire as a means of es- caping British rapacity is a very good story in its way, but the Hollanders will not surrender indepen- dence for the sake of avoiding danger until they have degenerated a long way from what their ancestors were. U pitious to farmers and fruit and vine growers as any within the memory of man. The rains of the autumn and winter were abundant and timely, and were followed by a period of uninterrupted sun- shine long enough to allow for plowing, planting and all other forms of winter cultivation. Now, with the spring, new rains have come in such measure as to insure the crops against all danger of injury by drought. One of the most gratifying features of the recent showers is the fact that they have fallen with consid- erable profusion in nearly all parts of the State. Even in the sotthern counties, where there has been a bad lack of moisture for some time, the recent rains ap- pear to be fairly abundant. Reports from Los An- geles are to the effect that the showers in that vicinity on Sunday gave a fall of nearly an inch, and thar, while they came too late to be of much benefit to the wheat and the barley crops, they have assured an abundant yield of hay and potatoes. From San Diego the reports are that in all parts of the county there was a generous downpour, and that thousands of acres of grain have been saved by it. Taking the whole country south of Tehachapi gen- erally, the rains appear to have brightened the pros- pects of all rural industries and given promise of vast benefits. It is therefore not surprising to learn that the hearts of farmerd and of business men have been gladdened by their coming, and that there now prevails throughout the south a sanguine expectation of a prosperous business year. In other parts of the State there is no longer any | doubt of the crops except such as may possibly be | injured by late frosts. The tains were, in fact, not !necded in many localities owing to the abundant | showers of the winter, but in others they came in the | nick of time to give late sown grain a good start. In | the mining counties the fall has of course been doubly | welcome, for even when the agriculturists of those | localities are not in need of it, rain is always welcome Ito the miners. | | D SR THE RAIN IN SEASON. P to this time the season has been about as pro- ——— Philip D. Armour Jr., who has just died, left an es- tate estimated at a value of $8000,000, and as the young man was notable only as the son of his father it is evident that the pork-packing business has mil- lions in it for whole families. THE COMMERCIAL CONGRESS. OR the purpose of giving a wide fame to the | Fprocecdings of the recent Commercial Con- gress and perpetuating the records of the event | the Philadelphia Commercial Museum has published | a handsome quarto volume containing full reports of the addresses made and work done during the seven- teen days the congress lasted. From the record it appears the congress was at- itended by representatives of thirty-eight foreign Governments and 112 Chambers of Commerce and in- | dustrial organizations in all parts of the globe, and | there were presented to the congress over 150 papers | on subjects concerning commercial affairs and the | trade interests of nations. Among the resolutions adopted were those in favor of the assimilation of trademark laws and the establishment of a common standard: in favor of | the extension of the parcels post system; in favor of a uniform system of gathering and presenting trade statistics; in favor of an international bureau for the collection and dissemination of the agricultural | reports of commercial nations as to their cereals; | recommending to the various Governments and com- mercial bodies the Philadelphia Commercial Mu- | seum, and enlisting for it their active co-operatio; | in favor of the creation of international courts of ar- | bitration; urging the construction of an isthmian | canal on the Western Hemisphere at the earliest prac- | ticable moment; favoring the free exchange of art | and artistic works between nations; and calling atten- tion of capital to the opportunity for the formation of | new international transportation lines. The publication of the volume shows the compre- hensive manner in which the Philadelphia Museum carries on its work, and will doubtless serve as a stimulus to the merchants and manufacturers of this coast in promoting the Pacific Commercial Museum. It is, in fact, a notable volume, and one which clearly marks the beginning of the new era in our commer- | cial development. ——— Now that Bryan has made his own renomination fairly certain he would better put in some time arrang- | ing matters so that he will not have another brace of Vice Presidential candidates to overdo his ticket as it was before. % ! — The capture of a Boer general’s handkerchief has created a spasm of congratulatory excitement among the British soldiers. They probably considered that the trophy was worth blowing over. To an enterprising man with an eye to the main chance Montana during a Clark and Daly campaign offers more bonanzas than any gold district from the Klondike to the Transvaal. The ex-School Directors who will escape a trial for fraud because of a defective indictment probably think that there is much virtue after all in that Scotch ver- dict of “Not proven.” By this time the British taxpayers have concluded that suzerainty in the Transvaal is a pretty costly whistle for Joe Chamberlain to play “Rule Britan- nia” on. The Democrats who are fighting Bryan may have something up their sleeves to spring on the conven- tions of the Union, who would ascertain and report | gion, but it is saje to bet it won’t be a laugh /l“ \‘/,\ A I |\\‘ e e ] | il [ \ .+.*w+mfl+»mw+ow+o+owflfl GENERAL BULLER’S FIRST SIGHT OF LADYSMITH. General Buller —Goodness, Ladysmith, how you've changed. You're thin as a rail. TP EIOC P4 P PIPI DI P0P 0 P00 0P P00 0P 000800000000 0000000080000 0800000 Ladysmith—Well, you're a pretty tough-looking customer yourself. —Minneapolis Tribune GOP 4090+ To0 00004000+ 0040000340606 0600000+0+00000e APPLICATIONS FILED FOR POLICE PENSIONS Ex-Commissioners Tobin and Alvord Take Advantage of Act of the Legislature. Secretary Cadwalader of the Police Commission was greatly surprised last Saturdqy when he received two applica- tions for pensions signed by ex-Police Commissioners Robert J. Tobin and W liam Alvord. The applications were ac- companied by a letter written by Attorney Joseph Dunne, stating that he was acting for Tobin and Alvord and requesting that the applications be taken up at the earli- est possible moment. Both applications were written on the | regular blanks and were drawn up in legal form to the effect that the petitioners ap- plied for a pension under the provisions of section 3 of an act of the Legislature of California to create a police relief, health and life insurance fund in the several counties of the State, approved March, 1899, and they conclude as follows: 1 am over 60 years of age and was duly ap- pointed, sworn and qualified as a member of the regularly constituted Police Department of San Francieco, with the rank of Police Com- missioner, from April 9, 1S75, until 1898, com- prising a period of twenty years. 1 never re- signed, nor was I dismissed from said Police Department. Wherefore 1 respectfully pray that I be granted such pension as Police Com- missioner. Tobin recites that he has been tweny- five years in the department. His salary as president of the commission was $250 per month, and according to the statute he will, if his claims are recognized, re- ceive $125 a month as a pension. Alvord's salary was $100 a month and his pension rge $50 a month. When Alvord was seen last night he stated that he had acted in accordance with the advice of his attorney and that he thought he was legally entitled to the benefits of the &&Yh sion Ylw after having served faithfully during the past twenty-two years in the department. Tobin was of the opinion that the legislative act applied to the Commissioners as well as to their sub- ordinates. Police Commissioner Mahoney was thun- derstruck when he was informed of the applications. He was not prepared to say what action would be taken. The matter will come up regularly before the Police Rellef and Pension Commission, of which he and his three colleagues are ex-officio members. No meeting has as yet been held the latter body, but one will be called the near futu AROUND THE CORRIDORS J. M. Hale, a Sacramento capltalist, is staving at the Grand. L4 H. McMurchy, the champion wing shot, 1s a guest at the Grand. E. 8. Valentine, an insurance man of Fresno, is a guest at the Lick. Dr. J. W. Jesse, a prominent physician of Banta Rosa, is registered at the Grand. C. D. Fontana, a well-known mining man of Copperopolis, is a guest at the Lick. Professor Bmory Smith of Btanford is registered for a short stay at the Occl- dental. H. F. Doutherty, a wealthy stock raiser of Carson, Nev., is one of yesterday’'s ar- rivals at the Grand. George K. Brown, a leading merchant of Los Angeles, is registered at the Califor- nia, where he arrived last nig) j C. A. Knell, a prominent business and mining man of Denver, Colo.,, is at the Occidental, accompanied by his wife. Rev. V. Day of Helena, Mont., and Rev. Francis Van of Billings, Mont., are among the recent arrivals at the Occldental. H. J. Small, superintendent of motive power of the Southern Pacific Company at Sacramento, is & guest at the Palace. Colonel Thomas H. Barry, adjutant gen- eral to General Otis in Manila, arrived in the city yesterday from the Philippines and Is staying at the Occidental. D. Buckhalter, superintendent of the Moj: Company at Bakersfleld, is a guest at the Grand. Epes Randolph, superintendent of the Tucson division of the Southern Pacific Company, is at the Palace, where he ar- rived yesterday to be predent at the con- ference held on sition. sciences of anything that Miss Rena Van der Naillen. ———————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON L;-::‘mx. “March B—Professor ve division of the Southern Pacific | the benefit fund propox Professor A. Van der Naillen, who for nearly thirty years has been at the head of an engineering school in this city, left last Friday for Paris, where he intends to make a thorough study of engineering may be of in- terest to us. The professor was accom- panied by Mrs. A. Van der Nalllen and Moses of the University of Call- arrived In Washington to-night and is at the Shoreham. He will call upon the President to-morrow. Lieutenant A. F. Fletcher of Mare Island is visiting here. L H. Hellman and wife of San Fran- cisco are at the Arlington; Ed B. Louis- ;on of San Francisco is at the Shore- am. D HOW ARE. THt MIGHTY FALLEN. Wasp. It is a matter of comment that Mayor Phelan’s name is beginning to be missed from newspapers. There was a time, not so long ago, when his Honor's portrait or patronymic appeared on almost every page, till men marveled that he could stand the strain of so much celebrity. The | other day the Examiner contained a page | report of the Board of Supervisors' meet- ing, and in the four columns of small print. a microscope could not reveal the | name of Phelan even once. Before Esola | was turned down it would have been | strewn all over the page. His Honor has not endcared himself to the Examiner, | we should think, by resurrecting that old | scandal of the 'Monarch's World's Fair | edition when the railroad company w: stood up for $30,000 and the gas company | for 32500. It appears from Mr. Crockett’s reply to his Honor at the board meeting | that the Examiner demanded $5000. but | got only half that 7 ‘ount. His Honor | made it appear that he was trying to sad- | dle the scandal on The Call and was sur- | prised when it suddenly transpired that is old journalistic ally was the free- booter. But was he surprised? ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. LADYSMITH—J. §. L., Meridian, Sutter County,” Cal. The pulation of Lady- smith, also writte: idismith, South Af- rica, is about 3200. | NOT THE SILVER GRANT-W. B, Centerville, Cal. U. S. Grant, who was a | candidate for the office of United States Senator, Is not the silver Grant. It is his | brother Jesse who is. LICENSE—A. E., City. To conduct the business of palmistry or fortune-telling by any method a. person in San Francisco is required to have a license. The Super- visors may issue a free license. | THE QUEEN'S SHILLING—P. E., Sac- ramento, Cal. There are recruiting ser- geants in Great Britain and Ireland at this time. The Queen's shilling is still given to those who enlist in the British army. RULES FOR PILOTS—Subscriber, Oro- ville, Butte County, Cal. Card rules for steamboat pilots are issued only to steam- ers, two for each, by the United States authorities. Such are not for sale. TO ADOPT AN ORPHAN—W., Janes- ville, Lassen County, Cal. In order to adopt a child from an orphan asylum call upon or communicate with the head of the asylum from which you would like to se- cure a child. BILVER THREE-CENT PIECE—A. B, City. A silver 3-cent plece of 1852 issued from the mints of the United States does not command a premium. Such coin may be obtained dealers for prices vary- ing Trom 15 to 80 cents. g A GUARANTEE-S., City. A verbal gu:r-.ntoedu ':1 goods s‘:ld. l:flmme in the resence of a D o one: but T 1t Is without witnesses it resolves fitself into the statement of one person agalnst another. A person who desires to be safs should always obtain a written guarantes. THE MAYOR'S RESIDENCE—OId Sub- | ages scriber, San Mateo, Cal. The residence of Mayor Phelan at Seventeenth and Valen- cla streets s practically, according to t! compass, on the southwest corner of those :;g.;!‘rfltl. At that t there Is but a true south an WHIST—C. W. O., City. In the game of long whist it takes ten points to make game. Thirteen tricks must be made in each round or deal and seven points may be galned, and if a person Is particularl; fortunate he might have four gfi‘on TS an he would finish the game In that deal. A “slam” is winning every trick in the round, which is onl{ seven, and there are the honors that would not finish the game. tion from the compass as to d west points. MINING CLAIM—Subscriber, Dudley, (Km;; |('m.t‘;"‘(lttll‘ A decision to. be found In inds,” page 140, that “a miner doing business for ngm“’u and In his own name has the right pose of whatever he has acquired by tue of a (mineral) location.” Another de- cision to be found in “Landowner” say: ;‘:she 'f'l::‘t tln:h:he loc'a;z‘)r of a_mining nder ears does t Tender the location invalld." o o vir- In answer to the question, 8 & husband the right to o his wife's letters without bein, unless | Friday. 9 f autho Bly 7" this department will quote the foi- lowing sections from the codes of this State, Drelumlni.hol course, that the ques- | tion refers to ti State. says: “‘Letters other who willfully opens or reads or causes to be opened and read any sealed letter not addressed to himself or herseif, without being authorized to do so, eitheér by the sender of such letter or the person to whom it is addressed, s guilty of a mis- demeanor.™ Aside from the law, a husband who can- not trust his wife without prying into her correspondence does not deserve to have a wife. —_———————— Ancient Order Workmen. Memorial Lodge has elected C. 8. Hofr- man, M. Wiesenhutter and Jacob Schell- ing as its representatives to the Grand Lodge. The Grand Lodge will meet In this city on April 13, and already circulars of tne “fraternal ' politics er,” which were condemned at the last session of the grand body, are being distributed In the lodges by one who has been a candidate for one of the grand offices for some years. In 189 the order made a net gain of 2 - 431 members. In this State 50 applications were received in December of last year, 429 in January and 59 in February. The extension committee paid a wvisit last Friday night to Franklin Lodge. Major W. R. Graham, paymaster, U. S. A., and past supreme master workme: arrived In this city from lowa la week on his way to the Philippines. The following day he was the guest of Past Supreme Master Workman W. H. Jordan of this eity at a dinner, at_which wcro present Past Grand Masters W. H. = and George H. Bahrs. Catholic Knights of Ameriea. At the last held meeting of the Stats Council, in Oakland, State Secretary A. J. Clarke tendered his resignation, which was accepted, and T. C. Rowe of Branch 297 was elected to flll the vacancy. Semi-annual reports recelved from all | the branches in the State show that tho order is in good condition and that but five deaths were reported during the past six months. Up to the first of the current year this order has paid In beneficiary certificates $8.329.983, and the sinking funl has passed the 3$450,000 mark. Assessment No. 683 was levied on the I5th of last month. St. Patrick’s Branch of West Oaklani leads 21l other branches in the matter of initlations. Branch No. 207 of West Berke- ley is still the banner branch of the Statc. Under the direction of Captain J. D. Crow- ley, Commandery No. 1 of the umiform rank, composed of members of the Oak- land branches, is doing well. On the 26th of last month the branches of Oakland gave a joint smoker, which proved a very enjovable affair. Thera were present the following named Stato officers: Spiritual Director Rev. L. Serda, Vice President J. M. Haran, Treasurer B. Schonstein and Secretary T. C. During the evening addresses were deliv- ered by the State spiritual director, vice resident and treasurer, also by Rey. J. E. & J. B. Praught, Pbl ey. R manner “Shelling Green Peas. Cal. glace fruit 60c per Ib at Townsend's.® —_———————— Pyrography outfits and things to burn in artists’ material department at Sa.n- born & Vail's. ——— Special information supplied dally to o e el PR e 'SS. 0| reau . o gomery fil‘fl-‘ Telephone Main 143 * il s S Logomarsino’s Woes. Stephen Logomarsino has sued Roman- do Logomarsino to recover $0,006 dam- % Plaintift all that - i i i 87 % igl i l ES : : ! I Itver tlis, biliousness. Indigestion, constipation. * ————————— el B