The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 15, 1900, Page 6

THE SA FRANC JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. LEAKE, Manager to W Communicat PUBE ATION o Telephone Maim 1868, LDITORIAL 7 te 221 Stevensom St. ain 1874, COMS. .. Telephone Delivered by tarriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: RG.00 00 » DAILY CALL ¢ DAILY CALL uding Sunday), one year cluding Sunday), 6 months. ding Sunday), 3 months. CALL—By Stugle Month. CALL Ome Year....... KLY CALL OBe Year......ocoeee- postmasters are astborized to receive subscriptions, mple copies will he forwarded when requested CAKLAND OFFICE 1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manuger Foreign Advertising, Marquette Build- ing, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON. E E ve...Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PFERRY Tribune Building LUKENS JR CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House: P. 0. News Co.: Great North- ern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditoriam Hotel. YORK NEWS STANDS: storin Hotel: A. Brentano, 31 Unien Square: Murray Hill Hotel. WASHINGTON (B. C.) OFFICE. . Wellington Hotel J. ¥. ENGLISH, Correspondent. HIRANCE OFFICES—S527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, until o'clock. 300 Hayes, 639 McAllister, open o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until lock. 1941 Mission. open until 10 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open 1096 Valencia, open until 9 106 Eleventh, open until 9 o'clock. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, until ® o'clock. ope e, o'el uutil 9 o'clock. o'clock W open nies in Fairyland.” “The Girl From Pari She Loved Him So. Seen Smith." Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and cormer Of Manom a 1 Eddy streets—Specialties. Anima! Show. + Friday afternoon. Races to-day. AUCTION SALES. Horses Market st A DUTY OF THE COURT. GENERAL FORD has asked the of the ils-Fargo Express Company on and decided at too far to assert it to be to advance case argued grant the request. The case r every day of delay means that t ss company to shift which Con- 1 of the fact that when red a deci ity of the e issue before g rent ty s found at that s promptly from one court s of the tax w hed the supreme tribunal. equal promptness in decid- g express company? Lik= e et it is an issue affecting na- al re the public at large. not the courts act in this case as ne and, on the ground of public ex m ar and give it a nce of cases which ai- als. mpany should shirk its taxes is ion, but that it is permitted r years despite the repeated corpor: a disgrace to the courts le to the courts The ment against the corpora- lower have re heed to them than it does given upon Sinai—“Thou shalt »oration claims it is waiting 't. The people are waiting It is said the briefs on appeal er is fairly at issue. Under learly the duty of the court the Attorney Gencral and ad- e hearing and decision al b suffering from t be taken with large allowances. ormia counties cover an cxtensive area and rieties of While some sections re flourishing. imate. nion there may be con- contestants in the agreement that the settied until somebody atucky each of her contending to be afraid of the other, and every shotgun point diploma: pones everything until another crisis e to form. McKinley said at the Ohio Society banquet York here can be imperialism,” he @ the right thing, and he would had he said there shall be no took the people about twelve years to settle the riff for this country, and now the little island of rto Rico threatens to break up the whole thing and s a widespread belief that Mayor Phelan will irely satisfied with the celebration of the estival of the great dragon unless he be to ride the dragon. h are showering a thousand compliments v, but it is a safe prediction that 2s the war is over they will return ¢o the old ish just no on Bryvan insists that the silver question is still wait- g an answer in this country, but we note that all agitators and yellow organs prefer to talk of some- g else. PICE. .Market and Third, S. F. | THE FINEST WRITING. | i | ALIFORNIA will have many exhibits of her materialities at Paris. All that lives and grows in wind | Cnr water or on the land will be there in every state of preparation to'eat, drink, wear, look at, feel of { and listen to. It will all be officially watched and tended. and public authority will shepherd it and be its guide, philosopher and friend, through the trials of examination by the world's eye in that great show. But these materialities will, after all, be subordinate to the exhibit of intellect that is put on view in the | official polyglot pamphlet, printed in ten colors and three languages by the California Commission. We file it in any (ompetition of composition as proof that the noble rhetoric of understatement is a myth. Pity ! "tis that its pulsating periods have to be reirigerated in such verbal cold storage as the English, French and Germzn languages. The torrid, iridescence of Arabic or Persian would do it greater justice. Confined to i~ three tongues in which it is luminously embalmed its opalescence is of the same moonlight type ¢ the sober effulgence of the glowworm, when, in more fervid garb, it would rival the glory-hole of the furnace of a glass factory. 5 Its introduction establishes the altitude of the whole magnificent streamer of language that follows. Please bate vour breath with anything handy and read: “California, the sun-kissed State of the Ameri- can continent, needs no herald to sing her praises, for long ere this her fame has been sounded by golden trumpets throughout the civilized world. Realizing, though, that the countless multitudes in attendance wpon the Paris International Exhibition will, attracted by her exhibits, seek further information regarding her resources, the California Commissioners to the Fair offer this Souvenir Album as evidence of the glories and advantages of the treasure land of the Far West.” Then, to show how easy it is for a commission to outsing a herald and outblow a trumpet, that official body addresses itself to a task which it announces to be unnecessary. Perhaps we should pause right here, impatient as we are to mine in this Golconda of adjectives and sevel in this Ind and Ormus of superlatives, to give that opening salvo as it appears in French: “La Cali- fornie, celui de tous les etats americaines que caresse le plus amoureusement le soliel, n’a plus besoin qu on chante les louanges, car il y a longtemps que renommee a ete repandue a son de trompe par toute le monde civilise.” The satisfaction of putting on a language that per force has to admit the supremacy of “California” by italizing it and demoting “American” to lower case, is dimmed by a mean advantage which the French on in omitting the adjective “golden,” descriptive of the trumpet which It is a mean French attempt to leave the matter open | cap translator takes of the comm has run the risk of bronchitis in spreading our fame. to suspicion that it may have been a tin trumpet or a tawdry trombone. But, let that pass. The second statement of our resources is romance, with a dash of the tragedy of obstetrics: “Born in romance, nur- tured amidst excitement and existing to-day as one of the most picturesque communities under the sun, California’s career, brief as it is, forms one of the most interesting chapters of the world’s history.” The jealous spirit of the French translator puts much of the light of that under a bushel by renderin it: “Avec ses legendaires origines.” We hope the commission will consider this when it pays the bill. Continuing, the commission patriotically twists the tail of the British lion by calling Sir Francis Drake ! an “English buccaneer.” and as the French and German languages are just now anti-English, this goes in as “boucanier” and “englischen freibeuter,” respectively. This symptom of a new dreibund is worthy the at- tention of the sleuths of international pol But we must pass on. What home-seeker can resist this description of the resources of the St in which the commission indulges immediately after classifying Drake with Captgin Kydd and Lafitte: “Mountains whose snowclad crests reach far into the sky, giant trees rearing themselves aloft like mighty pillars supporting the heavens, huge forbidding rocks whose stern rugged grandeur bespeaks-the infinite, the soft churning of a rippling stream as it courses over its mountain bed, while in the distance echoes the hoarse roar of waterfalls dashing themselves to pieces upon the rocks beneath—well indeed can awe-struck man gaze at such a scene and with the psalmist say, ‘How wondrous are the works of the Almighty!"” Well, you bet that is what awe-struck man will say, and of the millions of things that have been “said with the psalmist,” David, who knew a good thing at a long distance, will admit that it takes the cake. That sentence inspired the French translator with a sense of the fitness of things that fit, and he put it down as “La terre des Dieux.” It is a pity to find a gnat in such a pot of the precious ointment of language, still we think it is weak- ened a little by merely sticking the snowclad crests fast in the sky. They should have punched a hole clear through it After several pages of this, in a style that makes hyperbole feel like the man with a hoe, and makes metaphor feel as naked as the Greek Slave, the commission catches its breath and remarks: “At times a | glimpse of Paradise and then a savagery of surrounding that strikes terror to the heart—sublime in its im- pressiveness, soul-stirring in its majesty—such is California, the fairest, most beautiful and most gifted land eternity has ever known.” The commission then observes that: “A small native oyster flourishes in countless millions along the coast,” and that “the epicure need have no fears regarding a supply of game, for it reaches the table in endless variety. All kinds of ducks, quail, doves, larks, geese, plover, pheasant, pigeon, snipe, deer, antelope, mountain sheep and goats, lions, panthers, grizzly and cinnamon bears, leopards, lynxes, wolves, wildcats and other sport-furnishing quadruped,” are present to quiet the fears of the gourmet. Yes indeed, the tasty feeder can sit down to a wildcat stew any time. We regret that the too numerous grouad squirrel and our own jackrabbit are omitted from the inventory. After disposing of the game dinner feature, the commission passes to the health that waits on appetite, and, folding its napkin again, takes its pen in hand to observe: “Despite all her wooded and mineral treas- | ures, her prolific soil and her unequaled commercial position, the principal claim California makes unon; the attention of the world is that of her unsurpassed climate. Ponce de Leon, in search of the elixir of | life, might have almost asserted the right to have found it had he journeyed as far as California’s hospit- able shores, for the State is virtually one huge sanitarium, especially for those afflicted with pulmonary troubles.” S 1 This is a proper rebuke to those narrow-minded people who do not desire the presence of the narrow- | chested here in great numbers. The commission gets off the key a little in saying that: “The nights are deliciously cool, and cloudless skies prevail at all times, except during the rainy season.” Even Jove will nod sometimes, but we think the spirit and symmetry of the production should have seen preserved by insisting that rain falls from a clear sky. Again, the commission inadvertently puts us in the vulgar company: of other States by admitting that “the rainfall fills the creeks and rivers.” That is what the rainfall does elsewhere, and it should not act that way in “La terre des Dieux.” Space forbids that we display the art treasures of this album. It abounds in chocolate nougat ferry- | boats plying the bay: in seal-brown ladies erect in beautiful isolation on mountain peaks; "in primeval for- ests of navy blue;: in yellow farmhands carrying home the harvest of red hay, and olive derricks getting pink petroleum out of the d blue ground. But these things must be seen to be appreciated. To call it all fine is a cowardly evasion of one's plain duty to declare it simply resplendent. Hotels and real es- marks the development of artistic taste in this | tate agents should get ready for the ru | [ l country and the growing spirit of public im- provement than the widespread opposition manifest | in all progressive communities against the long es- | tablished nuisance of bill board advertising. That form of defacement of city property and rural land- | scapes is evidently doomed in the more enlightened portions of the country, and in all probability it will ere long be abolished or greatly restricted where. Even in Chicago, where the commercial and in- ‘du<trial enterprise of the people.inclines them to look | | with favor on anything and everything that tends to has |advertise business and promote its activity, there has in |arisen a strong popular sentiment against any further toleration of this particular kind of advertising. The shrewd business sense of the leading men of the city has learned that bill board advertising works the wrong way; that is to say, it advertises the lack of taste and lack of public spirit in the community much more than it does business. In other words, the de- facement of the streets by staring and often vulgar signs injures the repute of the city to a great degree | without materially benefiting the men who are fool- ish enough to trust to that method of making their business known. As a result of this newly awakened sentiment there has been started in Chicago a movement which will in all probability soon place the city on an equality of the output of the mines of the whole common- |with the best administered cities in the world, so far wealth makes a very good showing for the south. |as the protection of the streets from the bill board Thus in the letter addressed to Mr. Waters and ac- | nuisance and fence and wall advertising is concerned. companying the resolutions forwarded to' him the The evil in that city has been increasing for a long committee declares: “It is safe to say that the State |time and has now become well nigh intolerable. Tt | pmduied minerals in 1800 to the value of nearly $30,- .I'las been carried to such an extent that a serious in- 000,000, out of which is taken the production of |jury is done to the property rights of citizens by che Southern California. There will remain about §ar,- | extent to which some men permit their walls and 500,000 for the balance of the State. Of the fifty-two |fences to be defaced for the sake of the private gain. mineral producing countics of the State a ratio for | Commenting upon the injury done to the commun- the southern counties already mentioned is far above |ity and to private property in some cases by the the average, which for the same number of counties, F'm-‘imi‘y of unsightly bill boards, which in many taking into consideration the whole State, is about |instances even shut out light and air from adjoining $4.630,000; that is, the average for each county of |houses, the Chicago Chronicle says: “It is hardly the whole State is $578.865. while the average of each |necessary to speak of the impossibility of making of the counties of the southern group is approxi- | Chicago a metropolis of artistic exterior embellish- oiately St 0% ments so long as these insufferable excrescences are The issue is one of no little importance, and it is to | 2llcwed on public thoroughfares. There should be be hoped the presentation to Congress of the facts set rigid municipal enactment against the alleged free- | forth by the miners of the south will have the effect | dom of a property-owner to barter the rights of his | of defeating the scheme of the opposition. The min- {neighbors for private gain. No public-spirited ci "eral resources of the southern counties are as yet |7¢r will tolerate a nuisance on his own premises, and g MINING INTERESTS IN THE SOUTH. ROM a letter addressed by Congressman de F\'nce to W. C. Ralston, president of the Cali- fornia Miners' Association, it appears there are certain elements at work at Washington to eliminate the southern counties of California from the operation | of the mindral lands bill. As was to have been ex- pected, the information aroused the miners that section of the State, and earnest steps have been taken to protect their rights. At a special meeting of the California branch of the Miners’ Association a number of reso- Jutions were adopted setting forth the reasons why the mineral lands bill should be made to applw to the | south as well as to other sections of the State, and Representative Waters of the Seventh District been urged to present them and support them Congress. The resolutions declare that the mineral products of the southern portion of California, including gold, silver, oil, asphaltum, etc., amounted in 1808 to value of $6, while that for 1899 was about $8.361,542; that it is the sense of the meeting that the entire State should be included in the mineral lands bill, and that an emphatic protest be made against the proposed elimination of the southern counties from its operation. One of the effects of the resolutions will be that of giving a wider publicity to the rapid development made in the mineral resources of the southern coun- ues in the last few years. A comparative statement THE DOOM OF A NUISANCE. ARDLY any feature of the time more clearly of S outhern every- a ISCO CALL, THURSDAY, : hardly understood fully even by the residents of the section. Every facility should be afforded by the Government for their developnient, but at present serious obstacles stand in the way. Thus the com- mittee says: “We have not been able to get at the records showing the contests where mineral -lands were involved—in fact, there seems to be no classi- fied record of those cases—but, if our memory serves us right, there have been a great many. pro- _tests filed against the application for patents to land i said to be agricultural which was in reality mineral, gand in every case the miner has been obliged to fight | the case with his own resources.” | From the showing made by the new charter thus |{ar, it appears to be about as full of holes as a sieve. those who lack public spirit should be made amen- able to the law. The bill board nuisance is a sur- vival of the crudest and most inartistic methods of new and undeveloped communities. It has no place in a community that makes pretensions to metropoli- tan proportions.” 5 Such is the attitude which the more progtressive cities of the East have now taken toward the bill board nuisance, and in self-defense San Francisco will have to follow the example. Not even in Chicago has the nuisance been carried to a greater extent than kere, npd it is high time to put an end to it. The promise of the fruit crop this year is simply immense, ‘and, what is more, the promise is almost safe enough to bank on. MARCH 1 1900, INSURANCE SCHEMES OF RAILROADS. - The Call does not hold itself responsible for the opinions published in this column, but presents them for whatever value they may have as communications of general interest. Editor The Call: Referring to the com- munication of John P. Irish in your issue of March 9, under the head of ‘‘Insurance Schemes of Railroads,” which was brought to my attention by an employe of the Southern Pacific Company, who asked my opinion of the scheme and Mr. Irish's argument in particular, I have also been asked by a great number of others, to all of whom I have replied that it is insur- ance in two days, viz, that it Insures Collis P. Huntington a return of part of the hard-earned salarfes of the employes, and will, if kept in force, insure him the downfall of all their labor organizations. Further than this, it is a farce. This is | my opinion, based on an ewperience of a considerable length of time with the | greatest life insurance company in the world, viz., the New York Life. We are each entitled to our individual opinions. | The fact that the basis of income is the salary of the member and not his age makes it a money making scheme. Life Insurance is based on the age of the in- | surer, not his income.. Then again, all the | comparison with the life insurance o S lleve twenty-six weeks after the accident and then dies he gets $250 only. vania Rallroad as an example of the bene- fits under this scheme. it may be well to say in this connection that the employes of the road mentioned are the lowest paid railroad men in this country. They are inexperienced, cheaply provided for, and no employe of this road is a member of any organization. Why? Because this same scheme has frozen them out. What is the result? The emmployes are sergwed downl to \h(i, last mm:lh and really have no privileges of any kind. ‘Why, if the idea is a good one, are the new employes compelled to join this de- partment? Simply this: To cozapel a re- turn of a part of their wages znd later on. when every employe is a member, 10 . new regulations whereby the mem! will not be allowed membership in &0y labor- organization. The executive com- mittee, 1 believe, has power to enact new rules, etc., and_can if it desires legislate the members off their feet! Now as to cost. We will sake of argument that th years of age and gets a salary month. The cost is $3 60 per month in this relief department, or $43 20 per year. We will have to figure on the supposition that he will die on duty in order to make any con- tract. What does he get? Viz., $1000. And it he takes the natural death benefit ssume for the sured Is 30 of $75 per present employes (prior to ch 1) are | he has to pay extra for it. If he quits taken without regard to ‘hyl‘CI’} condl- | paying thr%ugh discharge he loses his tion, age or medical examination. If this | chances for benefits and all he has paid scheme is legitimate life insurance, is this fair to those who are healthy and young? Certainly not, as a man 60 years of age, | in the last stages of consumption, has the | same chance as the healthy young man | of 25, if there be a chance. | Mr. Irish says if they are killed in the | service of the company the indemnity is . Very well; but suppose his salary is only $35 per month, what then is his in- in. He cannot assign some or borrow on it, and he binds himself not to sue the company if injured; bu‘l this will not stick n_law. What does it cost In the New York Life? Twenty-four dollars and _ thirty-eight cents. What does he get? One thousand dollars and his share of the profits in cash, which are estimated to be From all of this we must draw the fol- demnity? Only $500, and if he lives I be- lowing conclusion: CONDITIONS AS TO— NEW YORK LIFE. UTHERN PACIFIC RELIEF DEPARTMENT. No conditions Must be killed in the service. -|No_conditions Must be killed in the service. | ‘No conditions............ T Must be killed in the service. Military service.... No conditions . Must be killed in the service. Non-forfeiture conditfons after epecified number of pre-| miums have been paid. extended for in policy or given One premium pald—Insurance|ls void i mot pald for regularly period shown| No extended pald-up policy| insurance or paid-up policy .| feature. and In advance. in payment of pre- Grace death grace policy terest |One month’'s grace—In case of during month_ of paid in tall,| less the premium and in No grace. Loans on policy.. |1t policy is two shown loaned at 5 annum years In force| amount (about % per cent) in policy will be per cent per ...|No loans. Thus the advantage is shown and the money making proposition of the South- ern Pacific compared to legitimate life | insurance. Some have said that if this can be argued in favor of the New York Life it is a poor rule that won’t work both | ways. Very true, but the rellef scheme has really not a single feature on whieh to buuec?nygéu‘l;nefitl l"‘:'nurs. ete., CL . LEOD, Suisun, San Francisco, lr!acrch 13, 1905‘. % o AROUND THE CORRIDORS Judge I F. Posten of Selma Is staying at the Lick. D. H. Jackson of Placerville is a guest at the Grand. M. J. Wright of Sacramento is a guesl‘ at the Grand. Dr. and Mrs. C. W. Dunlop of New York are at the Palace. Attorney J. H. Moore of San Jose is a guest at the Grand. E. 8. Valentine, man, is at the Lick. George K. Rider, a merchant of Sacra- mento, is at the Grand. a Fresno Insuranca E. S. Smith is registered at the Palace | from Washington, D. C. Arthur L. Levinsky, an attorney of Stockton, is at the Palace. Colonel John R. Berry is registered at | the Lick from Los Angeles. M. B. Kerr, a wealthy mining man of Grass Valley, is at the Palace. James McCudden, a wealthy Vallejo con- tractor, is registered at the Grand. Charles C. Derby of the New Almaden quicksilver mines is at the Occidental. e A. Carr, a traveler from London, v\'g'seo:nong the arrivals last night at the Palace. Theodqre Voorhies, vice-president of fl_\s Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, is in | Southern California, and will soon visit this city. D. B. Hodgson, general manager of Huntington's Guatemala railway, is at the Palace. Mr. Hodgson has come to this city to meet the president of the South- ern Pacific, who is now en route here from New Orleans. George Warren, for many years assist- ant manager of the Palace Hotel, has re- tired from that position owing to the del- jcate state of his health, which makes it jmperative that he have more rest. He will go East within nently reside. Mr. Warren's place will be filled by Obadiah Rich, chief clerk of the Grand. ESTATES OF THE DEAD Wills of David N. Walter, Emily F. Currier and Celia Hagan Filed. The will of David N. Walter, who died March 3, leaving an estate valued at over $500,000, was filed for probate yesterday. Decedant devises to his widow, Hannah Walter, all insurance policles o= his r;n'e. he northeast corner of Van Ness o lot on he Bacramento streets, all of the furnishings of their home and one-half of the residue of the estate. The residue is devised in trust to Isaac N. Walter and Clarence R. Walter to invest for the use and benefit of Adele, Clarence R., Rosa and Herbert D. Walter, decedent’s chil- dren. will of Emily F. Currier, who died F;rbhrilary 23, was also filed. Decedent be- queaths an _estate valued at $15,000 in equal shares to Christopher B, Currier, her hus- bard, and Loulse W. Tyler and Letitia C. Hendry, daughters. The will of Celia Hagan, who died re- cently, bequeaths an estate exceeding $10, 000 in value in equal shares to Louls H: gan, Charlotte Kanfman. Carrie Roth- child, Daniel and Martin Hagan. —_——e————— DOCTORS FOR MANILA. A Score of Them to Be Sent West on the Transport Meade. Orders regarding the salling 6f the transport Meade were issued vesterday.'| They assign to her three female nurses, seventy men of the Hospital Corps, thirty or forty recruits and a score of surgeons. The medical men assigned to the trans- ort are: Major John D. Davis, surgeon g‘h‘st Lieutenant Clarence J. Ml,nlefi as: Sistant surgeon; First Lieuienant Eimer Dean, assistant surgeon, and the follow- ing acting_ assistant surgeons: Willlam Donovan, C. J. Fitzgerald, Charles Roem- Hugh Goodwin, Thurston Smith, Henry G. G. Schmidt, William E. Vose, Meyer Herman, Porter V. Ballou, George W." Ely, George H. R. an, Hen‘r)y Menage, Samuel Friedman, Frederick D. Pranch, John F. Leeper, Wi H. Walker and Rufus F. Dorsey. port will sail on the 17th inst. . The 'l:ed'lcn:n;lie lyr"(nenllb l;o' e&gfld‘: ri e fea. of a plan to establis| s valescent hospital at Vancouver bar- a con Tacks, Washingt There is on. ut one company of the Twenty-fourth Infantry tormvl‘l’\ thegl.rrlson there, and there are all thp%aclll les of a hospital such as con- valescents meed. One hundred men could be accommodated, and this would make more room at the Presidio institution. —_————————— A Painter’s Bad Fall. Orville Hose, a painter residing at 328 | Prospect avenue, Oakland, met with a serious accident yesterday afternoon. He and his brother were on a scaffold paint- illlam e trans- ing a_house on Pacific avenue, near th; “| Pre: end H sldio gates, when the on which he was sitti ve wa: find he fell ound..anilu ance of thirty feet. Hl: :2: ken to:the H . Hospital, where it found hi m&fl%fl:lfllfltqfimbflkfi a short time to perma- | .—0—0—0—0—0—0-0—0—0—0;0—’ FASHION HINT FROM PARIS, Q—H—o—o‘o—o—o—o—H—o—é S e SRS = 0—0-4-‘0—@—0—@-0—*0—0 L e I e w1 BLUE VELVET DRESS. Lzha dress represented is of royal blue erty printed velvet, trimmed with - eled silk fringe. The lapels are f;c‘:d with yellow guilpure over white cloth. The apron is of plain white cloth, and the trimmings of the same and silk fringe. ————— Teachers and Merchants Agree. The litigation between the merchant creditors of the School Départment and the teachers will be finally settled within a day or two, and the money held by the Union Trust Company will be proportion- ally distribute@ without further delay. About thirty-two teachers and sixteen | but as their interests amount to but a few | hundred dollars bonds will be furnished | the Union Trust Company to protect it in consequence of the neglect or refusal of teachers to sign the release. The teach ers have received 61 er cent of their No. vember salaries and will reeceive about | $15.000, or 12 per cent, more in a few days. | The delay in the distribution of these | funds has been caused by the indifference of certain teachers, who persisted in re- fusing to sign a release to the Union Trust Company. hemfi s\lxbpe‘:med to a;()peu in court and testify In_the case of Thomas vs. Board of Education. e —_——— For the Grand Parlor. San Francisco Parlor No. 49, Native Sons of the Golden West, has elected Thomas E. Hearty, J. H. Nelson dand Ed- ward Rittore as delegates to the Grand Parlor, and Frank Marini, David ndca: Golller g5 Alternalen o PO Mr, Irish refers to tbe great Pennsyl- s | 0040900000000 D+ 0000406440400 janitors have not yet signed a release, | These teachers are now CITIZENS CAN NOW REGISTER AT CITY HALL Republican Voters Should | Enroll Early in the Campaign. ikeglstrlfion for the August Primary Election -Closes July 28—State Central Committee May Advise Electors. S Thomas J. Walsh, Registrar of Voters, | gives notice that all citizens who have | changed their residence since the Jast gen- | eral or special elections are required to re- register before they can vote at the next primary. Registration for the primary cloges July 28, 1900. All citizens must reg- ister for the general election t0 be held | November 6, 1900. Registration for the | general election closes September 26, 1. The registration office is open at the City Hall from 8:30 a. m. to 5 p. m. Clerks are now on duty at the Rej rar’s office and registration may be effected without de- lay or inconvenience. When the Republican State Central Committee meets to outline the prelimi- nary work of the approaching Presiden- tial campalgn, no doubt measures will ba taken to encourage the early registra of all voters in_sympathy with the alms of the party. Citizens, however, are not cbliged to wait until the State Comm!ttes convenes. Immediate preparations should be taken to secure a full enrollment of all Republican voters. Primary electfons of the old style may not be held to choose delegates to ths State and Congressional district conven- tions, which will assemble to elect d gates to _the Natlonal Republican conven- tion at Philadelphia. It is quite well un- derstood throughout the country that President McKinley will be re-nominated by acclamation and re-elected by the lars- est vote ever cast for a Presidential can- didate. In view of this fact, there is not likely to be much strife in the selectior of delegates to represent California in ths national conventlon. Word comes from Santa Clara County that the Republicans of that loeality are oppcsed to the holding of primarfes for the first convention of the.season. The objection advanced is on the ground of ex- pense. It is held that Republican clubs or committees .can appoint acceptable dele- gates and that such appointment or selec tion will save the cost of conducting pri- mary elections in the various Assembly districts. Next September conventions will be held to nominate Presidential Electors, candi- dates for Congress, the State Legisiature and the Judiciary. Delegates to these late conventions must be chosen aecording to | the provisions of the primary election law | of this State. | such delegates will L As both the Républican and Democraiic national conventions will have assembled | and adjourned before August, the primary election law can have no bearing on tne election of delegates to these natioual | eouncils. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. MARKELL—Reader, Alameda, Cal. This | department is unable to furnish the & Gress of Charles Markell. SPOKANE—S. U., Oakland, Cal. The | climate of Spokane Falls is healthy. Sec- .ond-class fare by steamer from San Fran- cisco is $8. CARROLL-McAULIFFE—J. E. B, City. | Jack Dempsey died in 1885. Jack Me- | Auliffe beat Jimmy Carroll in ten rounds, in twenty-nine minutes, im San Francisco, | November 20, 1896. POISON TO ANIMALS—O. 8., Oakland, Cal. This correspondent asks: “If A kas growing grain and B allows his pigs and fowl to go in upon that grain, has A a right to put out poison to kill the animalis and fowl”' An answer to this is found in | the Penal Code of this State, which is as | follows; “Every person wha wilifully ad- | ministers any poison to any animal the property of another, or maliciously ex poses any polsonous matter with the b ent that the same shall be taken or swal- | lowed by any such animal, is punishable by imprisonment in the State prison not | exceeding three years or in the County | Jafl not exceeding one year and by a fine | not exceeding $500. Though “hens” are not “beasts,” yet poisoning them is an | {ndictable offense. A should properly | fence his land, and if B, after being noti- | fled, allows his animals to enter on the | grotnds A has his remedy at law. el S | Cal glace fruit 50c per I at Townsend's.* ooy ~adbe draduits Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men b& the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. + e e Th At | 1000 catendars published at $1, $150, $2 | and $230 each placed with us to close cut at 10, % and 3 cents each. -Sanborn, Vail | & Co., 1 Market street. . . | ————————e | An East Indian prince, on hIs first visit to this country, suffered so continuously from cold that he contracted pneumonia | and dled. | He was cremated, and, after being some | ten minutes in the crematory, an attend- ant opened a small siide in the sids of the firnace to mote the resuit. The prince was sitting bolt upright the slab and Shouted: “Shut that door!” Bl .o ool N | Personally Conducted Excursions | In tmproved wide-vestibuled Pullman tourist sleeping cars via Santa Fe route. Experienced excursion conductors accompany these excur- jons to look after the welfare of -passengers. To Chicago and Kansas City -every Sunday, | Wednesday and Friday. To Boston, Montreal and Toronto every Wednesday. To St. Louls | every Sunday. To St. Paul every Sunday and Friday. Ticket office, 625 Market street. B Dr. Stegert’s Angostura Bitters, indorsed by | physicians and chemists for purity and whole | someness. —— Mesheck—You must come up to my p‘!au some evening and try one. of my cigars. awner—Thanks, but T don't smoke. “Well, ceme up on-Thursday and have a glass of wine with me.” “Thanks, I never drink.” “Himmel! Then come up and see me every evening.” RUSSIAN CIGARETTES With Mouthpiece 10 cents for 10