The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 28, 1900, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1900. ISPBAY .o oo crniacaiars MARCH 28, 1900 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. e A1l Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. Address s : - o e PUBLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, 8. F. Telephone Main 186S. EDITORIAL ROOMS....717 to 221 Stevensom St. Telephone Main 1874, Delivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. nol 2383 88 ALY Year A postuasters are authorized to recelve sabscriptions. «d when requested. Sampile coples QAKLAND OFFICE ...111S Broadway KRO RGE GNESS. Marquette Building, Chicago. rald Square PRE! NTATIVE: 29 Tribune Building STANDS: Brentano, 31 Union Square; Wellington Hote! CES—£27 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open 00 Haves, open until 9:30 o'clock. 639 1l 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open untfl Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 unti) o'clock. 1098 stil 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, 1 9 o'clock. apitan.” Vaeudeville every afterncon and nd Bddy streets, Specialties. fouse—*I1 Trovatore.” Scientific American and ts in Rev. Mr. Sheldon’s re- per, The Call said yester- lasgow were by public c taxation other than on the n of fact in- European le to shift pub- public utilities. the city of Glasgow show are taxed in the on the annual in Glasgow for , schools, poor 9-16 per pound, he rental value; the owner of also 1s 7d 7-16 per pound rental, The owner who occupies his pal purp was 3 th taxes, equal to 25 per cent A i to this the general nd revenue department, n inhabited house tax. i cent of the rental value. ne of £300 per annum, rs another tax of 84 s income ide which San Fran- seems light as air. Our levied on annual income, e of property, and our per- ly irom realty. In rentzl value and the in- Tieu of all other forms of he Glasgow tax to be about $14.50 alue of the property, which ome value to be 5 per cent per ce between the Scotch town and situation and population is the average advantage in es bes separat are in as- es the rer The in this Glasgow is free from municipal and pub- s the result of owning public utilities. < no foundation in fact admonishes mination of all statements made on hip. Each case is individual culiar to itself, either in physical ture of government, that cannot be d applied to all cases, because physical v the idea became fixi © ownel governmental features cannot be carried along with the civic policy b —— Uncle Sam has discovered that the railroads tried to rob him in their charges for the transportation of troops. It is refreshing that these corporations occasionally tic 1 their attention away from the pub- Alameda citizens are evidently not fearful that nany of their boys ever intend to enter the blissful state of old bachelorhood. Instruction in sewing for be vs has raised 2 howl of indignation. Another hole has been punched in the charter by the courts. If this interesting process continues 't might be wise to save the holes on which to base a city government. nev Lord Roberts is beginning to say boastful things 2bout his march to Pretoria. General Buller ought to be able to give the old gentleman a few pointers on what not to say. it The reverend gentleman whose indiscretions have invoived him in a turmoil of reproach ought to be able to write an interesting dissertation on “What Happened to Smith.” The order has gone forth that Chinatown guides must ply another trade. The Board of Health is probably on the trail of that bubonic germ at last. [ BRYAN THE PROPHET. { OLONEL BRYAN is again in the midst of us, C displaying his opportunism in politics, search- | ing for the microbe of discontent, and breeding it in the culture bed of his facile speech. His place !in national politics very much resembles that of the San Francisco Board of bad Health. He pretends to discover social and financial epidemics, which he only can eradicate. He is the cholagogue required to purge the public system of the ills which he diagnoses with such offhand freedom. : It is quite amazing ‘hat he is able to put an entirely new lot of prophecies on the market to succeed his catalogue of 1896, and find people who are willing even to pretend to have faith in his prevision. In his book, “The First Battle,” published aiter the campaign of 1806, appear many of his speeches of In one of these he shut his eyes and opened his mouth and raised his voice to the altitude, and said: “The gold standard er money; dearer money means cheaper prope cheaper property means harder times; harder times means more people out of work; more people out of work means more people destitute; more people destitute means more people desperate; more desperate people means more crime.” The gold standard has been maintained ever since 1896, ever since this house-that-Jack-built prophecy was uttered. It has in that time been definitely fixed by a stive legislation. Every dollar of currency in the country has been by express law made re- | deemable in the gold standard, and its value is par with gold. The condition which Mr. Bryan talked about has been upon us ever since, but not one re- sult that he prophesied has come to pass. Property has a rising and more stable value; times have grown better every hour since his defeat four years ago; more people are employed than ever before in | the history of the country; fewer people are destitute; | fewer people are desperate, and crime is on the de- crease, notwithstanding the demoralization of war. The only serious public disturbance is in Ken- tucky, caused by Colonel Bryan's partisans attempt- ing to reverse a Republican majority of 40,000 by force and fraud. Every manufacturing center is a humming hive of industry. Instead of making money dear the gold standard has made it so cheap that the Government cen refund all of its outstanding bonded debt at 2 per cent, and the new bonds, at that lowest rate ever touched by a public security in the world, command | a premium of 7 per cent. Colonel Bryan is out again prophesying. Let him face the failure of all his predictions made four years ago. He spoke two hours and a half at Sacramento | this week, and when he descends from the north in a few days will talk a streak through California. He is that year. prophet means ¢ marketing a new lot of predictions. What guarantee can he give that they are any better than the old lot ' which failed? He and his partisans fail to see that he is fallen to the plane of a mere agitator. He seizes upon the burning issue of the hour, whatever it may, be, treats | it empirically, appeals to that side of it on which he thinks there is the most prejudice, appeals to the | heavens, the earth and the waters underneath the | earth, and tells what will happen, direful, dangerous, | dark and dreadful, if he is not elected President. Be- tween him and Debs and General Weaver and old Solon Chase and his steers there is not the slightest difference in methods, ideas or capacity. That he is able to retain the leadership of the Democratic party is merely evidence of the decadence of that organi- zation. Debs or Weaver would do as well as he. Parties may be composed of politicians, but they must be led by statesmen. Statesmen adopt certain fixed principles and adhere to them. They have a correct idea of results that will follow the success or the failure of those principles in government. They do not go out guessing at results to catch votes, as Mr. Bryan does. No man ever appeared in our public life as full of warnings, of forecasts, of predictions, as he. His every utterance in 1896 was of that character, and not one has been justified by events. Not one of them is | even dormant still and likely to sprout in fulfillment, | for they have all been specifically negatived. Now it | is not in the nature of things that a public man | whose views have all failed, have all been negatived, have all been shown worthless and umsound, should be trusted when he appears so soon with a new set of views, which he presents with equal confidence and backs up with the same pretense of insight and parade of prophetic gift. The report that Captain Leary is to be recalled from Guam at the end of the fiscal year is disappointing. i The captain is the only man who gave to imperialism the glow of minstrelsy and mirth. His recent request for a number of banjos and other musical instruments | for use among the people of Guam gave promise that some part of our colonial empire would have a merry i time and help us to forget the pestilence in Porto Rico and the slaughter in the Philippines. ———— o —— S in South Africa we have had occasion to note evidences of the loss suffered at our Atlantic ports by reason of the decreased facilities for ship- ping caused by the withdrawal of so many British vessels from that trade for use in the war. Not long 2go we noted the complaints made of delay in trans- Atlantic mails from that cause, and now there come still more serious complaints of a lack of facilities for | handiing the freights of the country. | The Boston Herald, in commenting upon the situa- tion as viewed from that port, says: “The pressure \ for freight space on the steamers that are left behind has been so great as to materially raise the price | charged for transportation, a‘nd thus both reduction | in accommodations and increased cost of transporta-— | tion have stood in the way of the progressive develop- | ment of our export trade. ~Whether merchandise | shall be sent out of this country for sale is determined | to quite an extent by the price demanded for trans- | porting it thither, and when this price is exception- ally high it must in many cases trench so far upon possible profits as to make such shipments an unat- tractive venture. By having this barrier raised HURT BY OUR OWN FOLLY. EVERAL times since the outbreak of the war ; 1 | around our frontier our trade must suffer to some extent, just how much can be better determined when the reports of a term of six months or so of these new conditions have been compiled.” 1t needs no elaborate argument to show that what- ever checks or diminishes our export trade injures the whole nation. Farmers and manufacturers, whose producté are largely dependent upon foreign markets for profitable sale, are directly affected by a decrease in transportation facilities, accompanied by an in- crease in rates, and through them other classes of | citizens are indirectly affected. Consequently we are now compeiied to suffer a considerable diminution of prosperity because the British are at war with the Transvaal. It will not do to shift the blame for that loss upon either the British or the Boers. Neither of those peo- ples is bound by any form of obligation to furnish shipping for our exports. If we have goods we wish transported to foreign markets we should provide ves- sels to carry them. In the loss we are now sustain- ing, therefore, we have no right to blame anything éxcept the folly of our own Government, which for so long a time has excluded the shipping industry from the scope of its protection. In a recent address on the condition of the country Senator - Frye said: “Last year, with all our emor- mous imports and exports to and from Europe, our ships did not carry quite 2 per cent, and in all the world they did not carry quite g per cent. The Prod- uce Exchange a few years ago made a report that 1750 ships in that year cleared from New York for foreign markets loaded with our products, and seven of them carried the American flag.” Consider the complaints of a lack of shipping fa- cilities because of the South African war in the light of the statements of Senator Frye, and it will be se2n at once where the responsibility for the loss lies. We have ‘neglected our own interests and been content to depend upon the British, and now we see the in- evitable consequence. It is to be remembered, more- over, that Great Britain is at war with a very small power. What would have been the loss upon the transportation of our exports this season if she had entered upon war with a great power? If Congress be wise it will learn the lesson taught in this case and not postpone the enactment of a liberal merchant marine bill until a heavier loss and a more disastrous lesson teach us wisdom. If the Republicans of any locality of the State are without representation at the convention of Repub- lican League Clubs at Los Angeles next month it will be their own fault. There is ample time yet for them to organize a club and elect delegates to represent them. S earnest efforts to procure for the people of Alaska something at least of the improvements they have been asking for in their governmental sys- tem. The rapid increase of the white population since the rich gold discoveries has brought about a condition of affairs that cannot be properly controlled GOVERNMENT IN ALASKA. ENATOR CARTER has of late been making | under the existing forms of government, and as a re- sult there is a good deal of justifiable discontent with the situation. In commenting upon the urgent need of the Alaskan code bill now before the Senate, Carter is quoted as saying: “The district of Alaska has yielded to the treasury of the United States and to the peo- ple of the country a million dollars for every thousand invested in purchase, and is destined to be the great unfailing gold supply for this country. I am anxious to see the people of Porto Rico and the Philippines taken care of, but the people of Alaska come home to us. They are of our own flesh and blood. They go there from every State and Territory in the Union. Do not force them to protect themselves as best they can from the strong arm of mob law. The Senate | should pass the bill providing for their government.” There can be no question of the soundness of the statement that the Alaskan people should be pro- vided with a government strong enough to save them from having to resort to the rude law of mining camps, but it is doubtful if the code bill will wholly satisfy the adventurous element that has recently en- tered the gold districts. Like all Americans, they have high political ambitions, with a strong desire for local self-government and representation in Con- gress. There have been several schemes put forward in the way of providing a better government for the Terri- tory. One of these is for the establishment of a Terri- torial form of government similar to that in other Territories of the Union. Another proposes the ad- mission of Alaska as a State. A third advocates the division of the Territory into two parts, one to bear the name “Alaska” and the other to be called “Seward,” in honor of the statesman whose diplo- macy added the territory to our possessions. In 1884 there was established in Alaska a district government, with a Governor and a district court. Recently a new military department of Alaska was created, and it was stated at the time that this fore- shadowed the establishment of military rule in Alaska temporarily for the purpose of forming a precedent for such government in other remote possessions, should it be deemed expedient to resort to it. Military government will be of advantage until something of order has been brought out of the situation, but then the other projects will have to be discussed and acted upon. Alaska is large enough not for two only but for half a dozen States, and therefore the suggested divi- sion will find many supporters. It is probable that one section of it may so rapidly advance in popula- tion, industry and wealth as to deserve a Territorial if not a State government, while the remainder con- tinues unfitted for anything bettqr than the govern- ment which now prevails. If that be so, a division of the territory is quite likely to occur, and it may not be long before the question of the admission of Alaska as a State will be an issue of practical politics. —— According to late reports from South Africa the Boers have caught Kitchener as well as Buller and Methuen in a blunder and made the British army pay high for it. Roberts is moving slowly, but his turn may come next. AN ORIENT EDITION. OR the purpose of making known the splendid l:prospects of American trade with the Orient, and the effect the development of that trade is likely to have upon the commerce of Minneapolis, the Times of that city has issued an elaborate compilation of facts, figures and prophecies concerning the sub- ject, under the title, “The Times Northwest Orient Edition.” As the connection of Minneapolis with the Pacific Ocean is not so direct through San Francisco as it is through the ports of Puget Sound, those localities naturally receive more notice than is given to the metropolis. That was to be expected, and yet the disproportion of notice is excessive. Two pages each of descriptive write-up with pictures are given to Seattle, Tacoma and Portland, while Washington State receives another page, and, moreover, each of the cities has in addition a page of advertising of leading business houses. Los Angeles and San Diego receive no notice at all, while San Francisco is given the same amount of space as is accorded to Victoria, one page. - . Fortunately for us the one page allotted to us pre- sents the commercial interests of San Francisco so ' strongly that her pre-eminence on the coast will be apparent to any one who reads the edition with care and does not rely for his information wholly up-on the pictures. The number is a notable one and forms a compilation valuable to all who wish a comprehen- sive idea of the magnitude of Pacific Ocean com- merce. The showing made for Minneapolis is highly creditable to that city and will go far toward adding to its prestige. ? 1 | lounged about like a picnic party. | or two officers, who appeared to have no | part in the work of the battery, stood | “it's like good liquor, to be barreled and | B R g ¥ % IN A BATILE —— Some of the Perils That Newspaper Correspondents Are Compelled to Face Under Fire. —_— E had reported only one battle be- fore this. He had gone into it gayly, with 2 journalist's longing for a new sensation. But something had happened that was not in his programme—a lot of things, in fact. ‘While running down the railway em- bankment he had all but stumbled over a corpse, with one shoulder and breast torn away. Fascinated, he turned to look at it, and saw that it was the body of a splendid fellow, who had sat next to him at mess the night before—an officer of the Grena- dier Guards. The unclosed eyes were looking at him. They seemed to follow | him as he turned away, sick at stomach and at heart. His horse was still {rying to graze, and must either be ridden or turned loose. As | this was too close to battle for him toi make himself a target on horseback, he let it go and ran for the men in khaki, and the crackle of their rifle fire, which was like the sound of frying fat. The bullets sang all around him, like darting, angry bees disturbed. They even buzzed between his legs, and he fell flat on his face and said to him- self that he ¢id not get salary enough for such an experience, and that the war cor- respondent who eXposed himself to fire was recreant to his duty and an idiot as well. He I:X flat on his face, and lo! the firing ceased. There was only now and then a shot and here and there a reply, and he looked up and saw the men in khaki rilhouetted against the shiny black rocks, all boldly upright and rushing up the hill. They had driven the unwashed, unshaven, odorous enemy out of its rocky nests, and the day was won. And now another day had come and an- other battle was on. Another battle was on, and to be in it and safe at the same time he was with the battery of naval | guns. So he and another correspondent were with the naval men in their broad- rimmed straw hats covered with khaki with their loose, crouching attitudes and movement—so different from soldiers, witnout being any the worse for the dif- ference. When they saw anything at which to fire they were busy for a min- ute or two, but between whiles they It was one-sided warfare till the rank and hairy Boers got one of their batteries into position behind a ridge a mile and a half away. Then it became two-sided, like a game of pitch and toss, in which it seemed that very time we sent them a shell they sent it back. A Royal Artillery battery rumbled up and unlimbered near | us, sending its limber of horses a little | way back and opening heavy fire on the urglenx’z Iaefi = | pening heavy fire—and meeting heavy | fire. Z-z-z-0-00-woof! came lheg shel‘l’s’.’ ripping the air, gashing the ground and | throwing up fountains of red earth and broken iron. The eorrespondents and one | near a raliway culvert of solid masonry | and strolled into its sheiter every time they saw the flash and smoke of a Boer gun. It may not have been very brave, | b;‘n they had no call to be brave just then. “Courage 1s not a thing to brandish | about like a horse-pistol in the hands ot a madman,” the correspondent thought; tapped when called for.” 1 ““Hello, there goes that gun! That's go- ing wide of the R. A.'limber. Hi, thers goes the chap who is shooting at us! Let's | see if he gets any nearer than the next county. Look, there goes the Johnny who's after that bunch of transport wagons! By Jove! look at them scamper' Hanged if he didn't chuck dust all over | that near buckwagon!” In this way the idlers chronicled every | | him. The sound came from behind his WITH TH BY JULIAN RALPH. ’—*04—0—0—0—*04— o000 @Q R S S B S e e e o S i .0~Q+0+0+0+0+0-0-0—0-‘ shot that was addressed to us by the en- emy, until—until 2-z-z-0o-woof! went a shell Into the R. A. limber, and two horses fell, one minus a jaw and the other with its stomach torn out. Somebody began the remark that “That Johnny had got the range,’” when z-z-00- Woof! came a shell straight under the first of the naval guns. Every man arourd it stood his ground, and death licked his lean chops as he reached a bony hand to- ward them, but—the shell did not explode. “No. 1 gun"” was quickly hauled back a hundred vards, and the while it was mov- lgf a shell chased it up and exploded thirty yards behind it. “I get no pay for this,” sald the hand- somer and younger of the correspondents. “Let us go over and see what the hea: rifle firing is about on the far right.” An hour later each sat upon his se] arate anthill on the extreme right of the battlefield, where an_ endless, awful vol- leying of rifle fire had sounded ever since daybreak—for hour upon hour. The cor- respondents were yards behind the | firing line of the British, who lay in rows upon thelr bellies firing at unseen Boers in an invisible trench, which spat out bul- lets as a needle-bath sprays water. I fancy the younger correspondent was congratulating himself upon his safety, but as he did so there came a sound like heavy hail upon a tin roof, and bullets whistled, pinged and spatted all around back. The Boers had made a flank movement, dashing furiously toward the ambulance and transport wagons, bang- ing at them with a volley and setting all the drivers and horses in a panic. In the same panic the two correspondents ran straight into the danger zone of the main | battle. { They fell when they thick with bullets as ever a pudding was | with plums, and when, wherever they put | down a foot, there was a spurt of sand | from a falling shot. | “There was no other way to run,” they | said to one another. “It looked as if the | Boers would cut us off in the other direc- | tion.” | “Putt-putt-putt-putt,” sounded the aw- tornado of one-pound shells raked the air | over their heads with seven screaming | missiles at a time. Zlzz-zit! hummed the | Mauser, and the Martini-Henry bullets, like magnified bees in swarms. e air was thick with flying lead. Bits of the friendly anthill were clipped off. Spray from the dust jets thrown up by bullets fell softly on the hands of the corre-| spondents. Thicker and thicker came the hail, for the Boer sharpshooters seen the two men run and drop and were sending a cross-fire where they lay. They buried their noses in the red sand and talked and thought. They talked and thought—about what? “] "wonder what's come of our horses?"” “Hello! Here's the guards doctor. Doc- tor, how can that mule stand there 100 yards ahead of us where the bullets are iike raindrops in a slanting rain? T bet the ;ru;ie is full of ho‘les and doesn’t know it. Perhaps we are, t0o.” 5 ds doctor. Doc- “Hello! Here's the tor! doctor! come and tell us what’s go- ing on. 'ghe guards doctor is nothing loth. He dashes over to the correspondents and in doing so awakens a new fury of rifle and machine-gun fire. A “I can't stay long,” he says. “We've got found the air as | t-putf | showed that this had been lceml:ed as i Th | blimed ‘tired of plantin’ me nose in the E BOERS. —_— Vivid Picture of Tom- my Atkins in a Rain of Bullets, and His Attempts to Find Shelter. SRS great many wounded up there and I ::un Jook after them. How's the fight g0~ ing? It's simply going on, forever, and neither side is budging. You think the bullets are thick here. Watch me go for- ward and when you see me drop you may know it's a bit thick. There's one ahead where the shot comes in mlldy streaks, like telegraph wires. Well, ta-tal 1 must make a dash for it.” As he runs the correspondents see the tiny sand fountains spurt up in front of, beside and behind him. At last he drops | and for half an hour lies still They see a Coldstream Tommy run to & tiny sage bush that wouldn't stop a pea- shooter and gratefully take l“:n lh;.l!:r” pe They see another Tommy lying flapja{‘k and reaching stealthily, blindly over the ground to gather little stones— none bigger than a hen's egg. He j:t:’ five or six of these and builds a whim: shelter four inches wide and three inches high. He is content until—ten minutes later an explosive bullet hits his foot and smashes it. He calls to the corwgo‘ndmu to _bring the stretcher-bearers to him. Two of them have been hiding behind an an for a while. To them the ursuing blizzard of e, too, calls P the cgrmpondnt-. “For heaven's sake, gentlemen, fm me to an ambulance. I've been wounded like this for ten hours. The correspondents forget themselves an their danger and, telling him with the shattered leg to go and lie by him with the crushed foot, they start through the rain of bullets to try to rouse the two bearers. A word of command to those stretcher- bearers brought them quickly to thelr feet. in they lay a long time. A bullet touched the hair of one; another flew between their heads, not edfl!s%n inches apart. Three Tommies in ful flight saw them, and ran toward them, br = a cloud of shot with them. K “Keep away—keep away, you fools!" the correspondents shouted. - “Get yourselves killed as much as you like, direct the t’lr‘;I on us.” Lie down by your- selves, yow idiots.” Next a bullet-headed Tommy darted up from behind and dropped beside the ounger correspondent. Just heaven. how e was sworn at and abused as a new hail of bullets showered around the three— loosened by his dash across the veldt! “If you would pull in that blooming tin pail and put it under your stomach you wouldn’t git so much o’ the bleoming bul- lets. It shoines lofke a hellograph. He was right. He referred to the two-quart. bright, new tin water-bottle whieh the elder man had left beside him on the | ful Vickers-Maxim quick-firer, and its | ground. Of ali the sublimated fools In any army this Tommy was the worst. He nex* asked for a drink, and, taking a covered bottle, ralsed himself on his elbows, put up his head, lifted the bottle high began to quaff. A thousand rifle and ten minutes’ play of the challenge. Again Tommy was sworn at fdlot—a.nd what was his mlg!”" T know it. When I was loying there be'ind a hant-"{ll I "eld up ‘bloom- in’ 'elmet an’ got a hole put through 1t before I could git it down again. He was quieted by the Impressive assur- ance that he would get a pistol ball through his skull at the next provecation. and for another half hour he lay quiet. suddenly he said: ts, I'm t. What I one in a dif- oomin’ Boers a R‘.‘myr said the sand and waitin’ for it to say is, let's run for it, eac! ferent direction, so the bl won't know which to “You're a general, correspondent; “we're with you. He gave the word. All three ran like mad in different ways, and the Boers di- rected all their fire on the young and handsome correspondent. It was dusk. and jets of flame sprang out of the veldt all around him. But he was not hit. AN ml.im;f.w: T R \1‘911‘;?:;1;{;‘%1;,‘ ) i i THE EFFECT OF WAR ON SUPPLY. M1ld individual—And—ah—what entrees have you, waiter? Waiter (with military salute)—We've boar’s head and Kruger sauce, kcpgu a la dumdum, sorties a la Ladysmith, Cronjes on toast, Maxims and howi i a la Methuen; but I think the lyddites and shrapnels are off, sir.—Fun. | every Qe e 60 0006060600006 000P0008 000000 t AROUND THE _ CORRIDORS Dr. J. Loeb of Chicago is at the Grand. Surveyor General M. J. Wright is at the Grand. W. F. Detert, 2 mining man of Jackson, is at the Lick. J. M. Walbridge, a mine owner of Yreka, is at the Grand. % L. Chaddock, an attorney of Fresno, is at the California. J. W. Turner, a merchant of Lodl, and his wife are at the Lick. A. B, Jackson, a big land owner of Sa- linas, is at the California. 5 H. Komada, a prominent business man of Kobe, Japan, is at the Palace. H. H. Negley of Pittsburg and his wife and daughter are at the Occidental. John Ross Jr., a mining man of Sutter Creek, and his wife are at the Grand. Mark R. Plaisted, editor of the Fresno Evening Democrat, Is at the California. C. G. Ballentyne, business manager of the Honolulu Advertiser, is at the Palace. Colonel J. A. Hardin of Santa Rosa, ex- tensive land owner and capitalist, is at the Russ. J. B. Inderriden, a wealthy Chicagoan, 1s at the Occidental with his wife and four daughters. D. B. Spagnoli and his brother, Ernest Spagnoli, prominent merchants of Ama- dor, are at the Grand. . robbed by sharpers of a large sum of nioney. Lieutenant Victor Blue, the young naval officer who distingulshed himself at San- | tiago by a special act of bravery, is at | the California. He has been ed | flag lleutenant on the staff of Admiral Kempft, and {s now on his way to Marila to take his new station. At Santiago he swam ashore and spied on Cervera’'s fleet, glving Admiral Sampson a full descrip- tion of the warships, their classification and thelr position in the harbor. He was for three days in a hostile country, prac- tically without food and always in great danger. —_—— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON ‘WASHINGTON, March 27.—T. E. Gib- bons of Los Angeles is at the Shoreham; W. N. Woodson and wife of Maywood Colosy, Cal., are at the St. James. H. S. Reinstein and wife of San Francisco and W. L, Woodsow and wife of San Jose visited the Executive Mansion to-day and were Introduced to President McKinley by Representative Kahn. ————————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, March %1.—W. E. Howell of San Francisco is at the Astor; F. F. Bockwegnt!nrmdmuumlnh_ erland. and when in the clouds drop an ape earth by means of a A many years ago a balloonist up s lamb and let it down by means of & para- chute. LICENSE—W. H. 8, City. If the City and County Attorney has declared that a | certain class of dealers must, under the | new charter, pay a license, such parties will have to pay the license unless a court should say that it is not within the power of the authorities to collect that license. KILLING A TREE-P. W. K., City. To kill a bluegum tree by means of salt- peter the tree must be bored to the depth of the pith, a short distance above the ground. The quantity required varies with the size of the tree. The ax is a much more effective method of killing a bluegum. CANNED GOODS—J. 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