The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 10, 1900, Page 6

6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, 'SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1900. The 4 Call ..MARCH 10, 1900 SPRECKELS, Proprietor. All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager Third, S. F. YUBLICATION 17 to 221 Stevemson St. Main 1574, CDITORIAL ROOM Tele; Delivered by Carrie 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, § Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DALY CALL (Including Sunday). one year : DAILY CALL ¢neluding 8 ¥). # months.. 8.00 DAILY CALL (Including S ¥). 3 months.. 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Mont 65¢ SUNDAY CALL Ome Year 180 \ KLY CALL O Ye . 1.00 postiunsters are authorized to receive UAKLAND OFFICE C. GEORGIT KROGN: Momager Forelgn Advertising. Marquette Build- ing. NEW YORK L. €. CARLTON.... SENTATIVB: Bullding NEW YORK LUKENS JR CHICAGO NEWS STANDS She:man e: P. O. News Co.: G ern Hotel: Fremont House: Auditoriu e PERRY NEW YORK Walderf-Astoria Hetel; A. Brentano, 31 Umion tguare; Murray Hill Hotel WASHINGTON «D. C.) OFFICE J. F. ENGLISH. 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" VHEELER who b ust retu: s wit military ¢ mmis ele tion to Congress , has 1e Philippines , he looks upon pre ment of the used to look He imate where there keepers i easy to rob »or except that of luding Sulu, ad ry and set in the path that leads he wants the islands, the Sultan of be the plan on which the The compromise people » of these tropical isl States. e to be It will rrid junk in the second n to incur such a peril rag fair, ke an interna- rid them of in 1 to cherish any hope e going to stand in the tlar nonsense and folly none tting a tariff of 15 per cent and are to hand the whole American people, back t is compelling Americ the ans to unty of on their ists of Porto Rico hire la- cheap wages at home and an of 15 per cent ought to make them per cent s a day the maze of contradictions, plans, | i schemes that hovers over this ques- g into the grimacing faces at the ouse. A Southern Democratic ng. “Hold the Philippines; r Southern cotton,” magni when the islands 1 the cotton and garment fabrics they Another breaks into a smallpox of ver the opportunity to establish manu- la to compete with the home manu- rd is assuring the home manufac- great market among the Tagals, Pampan- le of the paradise of the West Indies ) be starving to death on account of production of the necessaries of life! "heeler adds his recipe to the list of nos- v on file, and will soon appear in Con- ress to add to the Democratic situation his vast e subject L s e — she has a silver Id Governor, bimetallism and bi and now whenever the e chief executive of the common- gitimately take two drinks. be a fight of Gorman against Bryan convention, and, while Bryan has to be satisfied; once; ever of winning, it is to be noted that Gor- ng a good many wires, and some of em are pretty sure to be barbed. Bryan has traveled 03.000 miles in his for the White House, but he has clearly winging in a circle all the time, for he is not rer than he was when he started. hiladelphians have not yet raised the $100.- paign bit ne 000 req is evident they are living up to theit reputa- tion. There is nothing fast about them. toria’s proposed trip to Ireland will be a good Buller’s first possession of Spion Kop— but brief, and a hot time while it lasts. plague Health with yellow journalism ...Herald Square | LAWLESSNESS ON THE RANGES. of Agriculture and the proceedings of the Pacific Stockmen's Association in this city, comes news of the renewal of violence and bloodshed on the common ranges of Arizona. The same system Las been followed there that has destroyed the forage of all the arid West. As an overstocking of cattle i the crop of natural forage, sheep have followed to obliterate what remains. Twelve years ago the situation was acute in that Territory. Vast flocks of sheep were driven from one part of the country to another, leaving the ground stripped and dusty behind them. On the pastures of the Tonto basin they found great herds of cattle and destroyed the pasture upon which they were feeding. In the resulted between the cattle and sheep men forty lives were lost. ce then there has been no restoration of good and the cattle interest has every year become feebled by the impoverishment of the ranges. The whole community hgs been compelled to take an the It has been discovered that when the soil is stripped of its vegetable covering and the roots are killed sheep tramp it into dust. The rain falls withont penetrating the ground and turns this surface dust into a sort of cement, which glazes the surface and Lolds the water for evaporation or compels its speedy drainage into streams that be- fls if to emphasize the position of the Secretary has rec feud which interest in issue. | come torrents, and the water is wasted. The people are now startled to discover that in twelve years the average annual run-off of the streams has decreased e-third, with the same annual average rainfall as before. Hundreds of springs are going dry through the dehydration of the earth’s crust, and the whole Territory is likely to suffer in consequence. of these facts it is not to be wondered at that the war In view | of the Tonto basin is about to be renewed. The Secre- While the merry madness goes | iired to provide for the Republican conven- | San Francisco has to fear is not the laway from San Francisco to find that evidence: . but the evil combination of a Board of fact, perjury has become so common as to constitute tary of the Interior has granted permission to drive sheep upon the Black mesa, which is part of a forest servation, and the shepherds have mobilized their flocks and started to feed them across the Tonto basin again. The general increase in aridity from the cause stated has gr reduced the forage of that basin, nd there is | enough to carry the cattle The cattlemen have turned the sheep back, ch side is gathering an armed force to fight it This is no novel situation. In some degree it the arid belt, and common fomain of the West. There nge except force. It is commons. s much, and as little, legal right to r. Cattlemen and sheepmen want the forage crop of the present season, and in one ther they fight for it. this war goes on its cause increases by rea- ture. Vast is chronic throughout over the whole grazing ¢ is no law for the One man has t1 its use form or the rapid deterioration of the pa tract ve already been fed back to desert and will support neither sheep nor cattle. These exposed and biear surfaces add to heat and evaporation, injuriously fiecting the whole region by increasing its aridity. iculture, present and future, is smitten vitally by e conditions, and an indifferent public looks on at destruction of life and property as if there were ne dy. The Secretary of Agriculture has suggested the sole remedy. Tt does justice to cattle, horse and sheep rangers alike, and protects the mineral prospector and the agricultural settler. This remedy is leasing these ing lands, and compelling each lessee to keep his to avoid overstocking it, and to renew as rap attle, horses or sheep on his own lease- as possible the natural grasses, white sage and other forage plants which clothed it in its primitive cc We can conjure no objections to this sane and law- ful and orderly policy. It will end strife and murder. | It will increase the moisture of the arid region by covering the ground again with vegetable growth. It will restore the annual 1un-off of the watercourses Tts revenues will go to the States and Territories to be spent in gation works to increase the breadth of their sown lands and add to their taxable valuation Tt is indeed pitiful that men should look with in- difference upon existing disorder and murder and Ic when a remedy for it all, so en- and make dry springs again affluent s on the ranges ht and so easily attained. s s As two successive Boards of Health have now tried to work the city for money by getting up a bubonic plague scare, and each attempt has failed, there will probably be no further resort for some time to come to that particular trick. One of the effects of the f: the part of the people at any announcement of pes- tilence, even if it should happen to be true. ilures, however, will be a feeling of incredulity on INDUCEMENTS TO PERJURY. —3OR the purpose of bringing about the arrest r nd conviction of the assassin of Goebel the Kentucky Legislature has offered the enormous reward of $100,000. The magnitude of the sum has given rise to a good deal of discussion upon the ex- pediency of offering such large rewards for the con- viction of offenders, and the prevailing opinion ap- pears to be that they tend not so much to promote justice as to defeat it by the inducements they hold out to persons willing to commit perjury for coin. A recent case in Missouri is cited as an illustration of the wrong done in that way. A reward of $3000 was offered for evidence that would convict the as- sassins of a Mr. Bennett, a prominent citizen of St. Louis. Three young men were arrested because of | circumstances which led them to be suspected. Then a negro woman came forward and identified them as the guilty persons. running away from the victim; she had seen the face of one (McDonald) distinctly, and heard the | others call him by name. McDonald was able to prove an alibi and was acquitted, but the other two were convicted, and would have been hanged, had | not the Governor distrusted the woman’s testimony and commuted their sentence to life imprisonment. The rest of the story is told by the Philadelphia Record, thus: “A few months ago this same woman as a witness in another murder case swore to what was a physical impossibility, was tried for perjury and sent to prison for seven years. A detective, who looked up her record, discovered that she had been a professional perjurer for years at Kansas City, and had fled to St. Louis to escape prison. She was two | miles from the scene of Bennett's murder when it occurred, and all she knew of it she learned from the | newspapers. When the reward was offered she told several friends that she intended to get the money.” It is not likely there have been many cases of that kind in the United States, for the number of persons | willing to commit a perjury that dooms an innocent | man to the gallows is small. Still there is abundant | evidence that perjury has become an altogether too frequent crime among us. We do not have to go In a menace to the community. Moreover, it is to be htened and in line with prudent government, is in | She swore she had seen them noted that neither the bar, the bench nor the grand juries seem to regard it with any great degree of) abhorrence, and therefore the danger of it is all the more serious and menacing. The offer of the huge reward for evidence as to the | assassin of Goebel is sure to lead to the arrest and trial of somebody. The sum of $100,000 will be very tempting, and as soon as some one is arrested against whom there appears a chain of circumstantial evi- dence, or whose record is in any way clouded by sus- picion, there will come forth a ready perjurer to tes- tify against him and gain the coin. Rewards that lead to the conviction of criminals may be necessary at times, but whenever they are offered great care should be exercised to guard against the perjury to which they tempt the vicious. B e e Pleased with the prospect that the census of this vear will show that South Carolina is the second largest cotton manufacturing State in the Union, the | people of Charleston propose to hold a grand inter- state exposition in 1901 to advertise the fact and show L e it a s e e e Aa e da e dad i B e 004040004900+ +0+0+0+0+0000000+2+0+0 the world what the South is doing. e . DARKNESS, PLAGUE, BANKRUPTCY. SAN FRANCISCO in reality stands at the dawn of a new day. All the natural conditions of the | time are brightening in the glow of an increas- ing prosperity, not only in the city itself and in the State, but in the East, where her present markets are, and in the Orient, where her developing trade is rapidly expanding. Very different, however, is the aspect of the municipal administration. Under | Mayor Phelan and his combine our affairs have been | so administered that it would seem the new era be- gan not with the dawn, but the twilight. Steadily the shadows have darkened and the gloom increased. Now, with streets unlighted, we have the city re- ported to be infected with the bubonic plague, and steps taken which tend to produce the impression it is financially bankrupt. : The Finance Committee of the Supervisors have lunder consideration a proposal to berrow $250,000 from public-spirited citizens to relieve the “financial stringency.” For the purpose of cartying out the plan it is proposed the citizens shall advance the money, and then $20,000 of the amount be used to de- fray the expense of an election to authorize the is- suance of bonds to repay the loan. The project, it will be perceived, is a very pretty one. The citizens are to loan the money and take chances on an elec- tion to authorize the city to repay it. If the scheme be carried out we trust the public- spirited citizens will fare better than did the man who advanced money to the State to relieve the farmers of the drought-stricken sections of Monterey and San Luis Obispo counties. That money, it will be remembered, by the spite of Governor Gage, remains to this day unpaid, and if citizens are going to put their trust in the city on a similar venture, they would best assure themselves beforehand that Phelan will | not work the Gage gouge on them in the end. The fact that this scheme for raising money has been brought forward will of course be taken advan- tage of by yellow journals to discredit the city. It | | is another blight which Phelanism has put upon the community. It follows close upon the sensational scheme of taking a diseased Chinaman and turning his dead body into a means of getting up a scare over the bubonic plague. Through the organ of the Mayor and his Board of Health the world at large has been induced to believe that San Francisco is infected with | | pestilence, and now we are to have the further ill re- | pute of being unable to pay our debts. The evil effects and influences of these repeated acts of municipal maladministration are far-reaching, and | the full extent of the injury they have inflicted will | perhaps never be known. The absence of street- lighting at night, for example, entails much more than the discomfort it gives to the public and the advantage it confers on criminals. It has sériously | incommoded the Fire Department, for the engines [cannm with safety be driven through dark streets at full speed. Thus the danger of fires is greater and insurance companies begin to look upon city prop- erty as a more doubtful risk than before. So the evil spreads from one interest to another, and the total in- | | jury is enormous. A striking illustration of the effects of Phelanism is Jm be seen in the contrast between the black dark- ness of the midnight streets of the city itself and the lighted water front. During his campaign Phelan was i loud in his claims that the water front and the docks | should be under the control of the municipality in- | stead of the State. It was his frequent declaration that under municipal administration the water front would be better managed than by the State officials, and many believed him. The water front under State control is lighted, while the city under Phelan is in darkness. Thus at the very beginning of the new era Phelan- ism has brought upon the community three blight- ing clouds—reputed plague, reputed bankruptcy and actual darkness. It is a dreary record, but, fortu- nately, there is in the situation itself the consolation that it can be no worse. The wild Examiner reports oi bubonic plague will die out, the street lamps will be relighted after a time, and the financial stringency | will pass away. Even in the better times, however, | the effects of the present evils will linger to the in- jury of the community, and we shall suffer many a | day from the consequences of Phelan’s method of Putting the quarantine cinch on Chinatown may seem to the Board of Health a very nice sort of fun, but the evil effect of the thing will be felt by the whole city, for in a senseless game of that kind the Chinese are not the only sufferers. St The story that Cecil Rhodes is using the British to | whip the Boers with the intention to rouse all South Africa afterward to drive out the British and thus make himself a kingdom of his own, is a very good one—but don't bet on it. LR R The proposition to call an election to amend the charter so as to give the Supervisors authority r> regulate telephones should not be forgotten. That is one of the things every citizen wishes a chance 1o vote on. Just fancy what a snap the darkened streets and the Chinatown quarantine would have been for the gam- blers had the Mayor’s little scheme for turning the Police Department over to them worked out suc- cessfully. In sending Cronje to St. Helena the British may not have been needlessly cruel, as that may be the only means of preventing him from breaking out in the magazines. SoEn g The flour trust, it is said, has collapsed. An insti- tution so generously provided with dough, it was hardly expected would fail to make both ends meet. A Boston paper wishes to know why the Demo- crats could not nominate Olney for President, and the answer is an easy one—they haven’t sense enough. THE SMALLEST STERNWHEELERS AFLOAT. HE Fulton Engineering and Ship-building Works has just completed two of the greatest curlos in marine architecture ever seen on the bay of San Francisco. They are stern-wheel launches, each of which is thirty-five feet long, with a twelve-foot beam and only twenty-four inches depth of hold. Loaded they only draw six inches of water, and under trial have made seven knots an hour. light the heart of a curiosity hunter. pactness and strength. chines and carry it away. The two boats are intended for the Amoor River (Siberfa) trade. The little river boats are perfect in every detall and would de- ‘The engines are marvels of lightness, com- A longshoreman could easily pick up one of the ma- They have been bullt to the order of a Russian firm and will go from here to Vladivostok on the tramp steamer Leander. MAIL STEAMSHP MARIPLSA HERE FROM AUSTRALI Naval Hospital Ship Solace Arrives With Many Sick Sailors. : Cruiser Philadelphia Sails Sunday for Central America—H. C. Tabrett Remembered by Marine Engineers. YR The mall steamer Mariposa and the naval transport Solace arrived ye!!lerdl‘lv)'. The former came from Sydney, N. 8. W\, | via Auckland, N. Z.; Apia, Samoa, and Honolulu, H. I, while the Solace is from Manila, via Guam and Yokohama. The Mariposa only stopped a few nours at Honolulu, and neither passengers r.or crew had any communication with the ghore. In consequence Dr. Kinyoun did not detain the mail boat very long, and she docked about 5 p. m. She brought up the following cabin passengers: “rom Sydney—A. E. C. Kerr. Mr. and Mrs. B.";|m(‘m:s|n.’ Master H. Cassin, Mr. and H'rn. 3 Dufty, C. K. Hall, Thomas Irons, Miss Nel- lie Irons, F. Lyall, J. 1, Mrs. A. Dunbar, J. B. Teal, John Crotty H. Thurber, Mrs. M. M. Géarin, Miss Grace Gearin, H. C. Gearin, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Washburn, H. C. Cashman, Miss Susie Darchy, Vincent '.-\hMIL P.A. Ash, Hon. J. P. Bray, Hon. J. W. Buck- 1in; J. Quigley, Mrs. George Gray. Trom Auckiand—A. G. Horton, Miss Hort Mr. and Mrs. W. §. Wiison, Dr. J. Somervill Miss Somerville, Dr. J. M. Case, wife and child. ¢ T._D. Farley, R. H. Mason, H. Gilpin, How- ard Reid, J. D). Walsh, Miss Allene Crater, Migs Viola Gilletti, Mrs. M. McCoy, Miss Lizzle i fiae “ooke, Miss McCoy, Miss Nellle McCoy, E. G. Emma’ Seigell, Samuel Marion, Mrs. M. Layen, se_Karkech, M K. Karkech, Al >owall, C, S, Laferme, Mr. and Mrs, C. H. Farnam, Alexander Knight. From Apia—C. G. Lioyd. The Hon. J. W. Bucklin is one of Colo- rado's State Senators, who has been on a holiday jaunt to the antipodes. Miss Susfe Darchy comes here from Sydney to le ture on the natural resources of the Aus- tralian continent. Making a Tour of the World. Mr. and Mrs. Farnum are wefll\hr Americans making a tour of the worl They were to have stopped off at Hono- Julu, from which point they were.going to the Orient, but the spread of the plague spoiled their plans. They will go from here to Hawali on the next steamer and from there will continue their journey to Japan, China and Europe. he Hoyt-McKee “Trip to Chinatown” company also re- turned on the Mariposa. A. G. Horton and W. S. Wilson, part proprietors of the New Zealand Herald, were passengers by the mail boat. Mr. Horton is_accompa- nied by his daughter and Mr. Wilson by his wife. They will make a tour of the States and will then g0 to the Paris FEx- position. N. C. Walton, the former pur- ger of the Mariposa, came back on the steamer from Sydney. He will go back into the Spreckels employ. The Solace was forty-one days coming from Manila and seventeen days from Yokohama. Many of the passengers were sick leaving the Philippines, so the voy- age was prolonged in order to give them all the sea air possible. The naval officers who came up on her were: Lieutenant commanders—C. E. Vreeland, Wil- llam R. A. Rooney, rs H. t, 3. A Shearman, D. J. C. Gilmore. Lieutenants—A. W. Dodd, W. V. Bronaugh, J. E. Quinby, W. W. Buchanan, H. G. Gates, L. R.de Steigner, L. A. Kaiser, W. K. Harrison, M. H. Signor, L. A Bostwick, William A. Gill. M. C. Gorgas, Hoscoe Spear. Paymaster, Z. W. Reynolds: carpenter, John H. Gill; pay clerk, Robert Lit- tle; draughtsman, A. L. Dennison. Besides_these the Solace brought up 175 . B.’s, all of whom are now convalescent. The Solace will go to the navy-yard at 10 o'clock this morning and from there the sailors will be shipped home. Philadelphia to Sail Sunday. The cruiser Philadelphla came down from the navy-yard yesterday and on Sunday will sail for Central America. She will relleve the battleship Iowa, which will come to San Francisco for an over- hauling. arry C. Tabrett, marine superintend- ent of the Risdon Iron Works, was made the recipient of a very handsome Masonic jewel by the marine engineers a few days ago. On the occasion of his becoming a ]fnlght Templar the boys lgot together and planned a “‘surprise for Harry." Tt took the form of the regular Masonic emblem but rarely has a more beautiful plece of work been turned out by a jeweler. Captain . Parsons and Captain H y Struve, who went to Gilroy Hot Springs last week, are back In harness again. Both of the popular masters were on the sick list, but have now recovered their wonted good health. e Harbor Commissioners made a thorough ln%%ectlnn of the water front Jesterday. ey took one of Peterson's [aunches and went under all the struc- . Some of the wharves were found to be badly in need of repiling, but it was a self-evident fact that nearly all the plers can be lengthened at Iittle more ex. emi,ee than the cost of the extra labor and umber. THE BIG TREES AND THE BIG HEAD The Call does not hold itself responsible for the opinions published in this column, but nts them for whatever value they may ave as communications of general interest. Editor The Call—Now that the big trees have been spared the threatened ignominy of reduction to slabs and shakes, the woods are full of those claiming to have been directly and solely instrumental in bringing about the conditfons under which these ligneous giants are to be allowed to continue to stand on end. ‘Women, grouping themselves in the rooms of their various orrniutlona, chorus in solid unison their demand for recognition at the saviors of the sequola Every man interviewed upon the subject points with pride to his published views and winks knowingly as he tells that th: N I vo the joint resol ‘which blocks the achama af tha vandala will doubtless cun- sider himself entitled to a “look in" when the ‘lorf for the preservation of the groves Is being apportioned. Even the President himself, as he affixes his auto- graph to the resolution, will probably have the effrontery to consider that in so doing he has been in some measure inatru- mental in staying the ax. Not so, Mr. President. Not so, all and singular, the rest of you. In the city, erched on the extreme outer rim of the unsetland, the throbbing presses have blazoned to the world the legend: “Through the Examiner the big trees will be spared the woodman's ax.” And now, Mr. ident, and the rest of you, will you be good and allow us to concentrate our gratitude upon the man who alone stood off the woodman's ax? It is all the more ungenerous to attempt to subdivide and divert the credit thus declared to be all his very own at a time when, thrusting aside his editorial writ- ers, he is personally wrestling with the Hay-Pauncefote business in an agony to which great primer is hardly equal to the task of giving adequate typographical ex- pression. It will be observed that the Examiner man simply clalms that his “efforts to save thoge natural wonders, the giant trees of California, have been successful.” Mark the limit beyond which his modesty would not go. What, had it not been for this limit, was to have prevented him claiming that at some remote period of previous incarnation he had influenced the Creator In planting those trees, or even that he had sown the seeds himself? Ab- Snluteli; nothing but that exceeding mod- esty which permits the dead heroes of the Maine to share with him the distinction of precipitating the war with Spain, and which alone stands in the way of his con- testing the other William's exclusive claim to partnership with God. J. B. SMITH. Alameda, March 9, 1900. @ —>——o— —0—04—0-—0—0—0—, FASHION HINT FROM PARIS, i O—+90-0-0-0-0-0—90@ B e T Lo L O S PO PO eHIDbIOIDEOOEOSDOEIT O G0 e sl [ e T e ] BLACK GUIPURE DRESS. This dress, which is suitable for a con- cert, is of black gulpure, over a ground of black lberty satin. The bolero cor- sage is long and rounded in front. The Marie Antolnette fichu is of white mus- lin, with a cockade at the side. The skirt is gathered as far as the hi and the apron is flat. The sleeves are long and tight. AROUND THE CORRIDORS A. B. Hill, a merchant of Petaluma, I8 registered at the Lick. A. S. Mack of the Pullman Gompany ia a guest at the Occidental. B. K. Knight, District "Attorney of Santa Cruz, is a guest at the Lick. Captain and Mrs. C. M. Perkins, U 8 N., are at the California for a few days. Dr. J. J. Mullar of San Jose is Staying at the Occidental, where he arrived last night. Professor and Mrs. J. F. Newman of Stanford University are staying at the Palace. Baron Eyb of Germany has returned to this city and Is again registered at the Palace. George Finley, a prominent business man of Portland, Or., 1s a guest at the Occldental. P. M. Baler, a wealthy frult grower of Visalia, is registered for a short stay at the Grand. Dr. G. H. R. Gasman, U. S. A, was among the arrivals of yesterday at the Occidental. Dr. G. W. Dwinnell, a leading physician and wealthy mine owner of Montague, is staying at the Grand. A. H. Barr, a merchant and wheat buyer of Etna, is a guest at the Grand while making a short business trip to this eity. A. G. Horton and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. W. 8. Wilson and Dr. Sommerville and daughter constitute a party of travel- ers from Auckland who are registered at the Palace. A. N. Young, a millionaire Board of Trade man of Chicago, Is at the Palace, where he arrived yesterday, accompanied by his wife and daughter. Mr. Young is visiting the coast for pleasure and for the purpose of seeing his cousin, Willlam Sanborn, the famous raconteur and bon vivant of the University Club. —_——— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. THE ST. PAUL—A. 8, City. The steamer St. Paul sailed from this port for St. Michael on the %th of June, 1899, with troops for St. Michael. DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION—J. F., City. Judge Sewell was nominated by t Democratic_Convention that met in this city September 29, 1888. For an account of roceedln{s see The Call of September , page 10. ORIGIN OF BOER—B. H. T, Clay Sta- tion, Sacramento County, Cal. The word “boer” originated with the Dutch lan- guage or low German and 1s the Dutch pronunciation of “bauer” (farmer) and is used to designate a farmer. —_—————————— Townsend's Cal. glace frults and cholce candies back to Palace Hotel, 839 Market.* —————————— Send your Eastern friends Townsend's California Glace Fruits, 50c 1b., in fire- etched boxes. 639 Market, Palace Hotel. * e Special information supplled dally to business houses and public men the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mon! gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 - —_—————————— Pictures and Frames. Wehaveall the new grays, Flemish, car- bons, seplas and greens in quarter-sawed onks for picture frames. Mahogany, cher. ry, maple and mat gilts in stock, and mat boards in tints to match. We also hava lots of new things in water colors, platino- types, artotypes, etchings and steel e ravings. Visitors always weicome. San- orn, & Co., 741 Market street. * Purim Masquerade. On Bunday evening the San Francieco Hebrew Socfal Club will give a Purim t Odd Fellows' Hall. This th of the serfes giyen by grun will be awarded for aracters. masquerade will be the this club, an costumes and c! Personally Conducted Excursions In tmproved wide-vestibuled Pullman tourist sleeping cars via Santa Fe route. Experienced excursion conductors accompany these excur- sions to look after the welfars of passengers. To Chicazo and Kansas City every Sunday. Wednesday and Friday. To Boston, and Toronto every Wednesday. To St. Louis every Sunday. To St. Paul every Sunday and Friday. Ticket office, 623 Market street. —_—e———— Incredible but True. Passengers on the Union Pacific “Overland Limited” can leave San Francisco fourteen hours later and arrive in Chicago nearly five hours earlier than those via any other line. D. W. Hitcheock, General Agent, 1 Montgom- ery street, San Francisco. —————————— 1f your complaint is want of appetite, try bair wine glass of Dr. Slegert's Angostura Bitters before meals. ————————— Remove the causes that make your hair life- less and gray with Parker's Hair Balsam. Hindercorns, the best cure for corns. 15 ct& —e—————— Stole Two Cases of Tacks. Peter Johnston, a well-known hoodlum, was arrested yesterday morning by De- tective Levin of the Southern Pacific and booked at the Clty Prison on a charge of burglary. He broke into a freightcar on King street and stole two cases of belonging to the Judson Company. The Sunday Call FOR MARCH fi, 1900, AMONG OTHER INTERESTING ARTICLES, WILL CONTAIN: SAN FRANCISCO’S FIRST DANCING MASTER. EXPERIENCES OF A SUNDAY CALL REPORTER AS A SALVATION ARMY LASSIE. THE ROMANCE OF OLD FORT ROSS. HOW TO GUARD AGAINST THE BU- -BONIC PLAGUE. By Dr. Josephine Eltzholtz, who spent five years in Ind a studying the epidemic. HOW TO DRESS THE SCHOOLBOY. LINES FROM “SAPHO,” THE SENSA- . TIONAL PLAY OF THE DAY. BOOKS OF THE WEEK, BY B. G. LATHROP. -FASHIONS, DRAMATIC FEATURES, ETC. THE SUNDAY CALL LEADS THEM ALL.