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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1900 UESDAY APRIL 10, 1900 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. tddress Al Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. n = | posed to be the gift of fate to the United States. OUR FRIENDLY CRITIC. HE Humboidt Standard returns to its kindly at- tention and rebuke of The Call in relation to the status of the tropical islands which are sup- As a gift they have so far been much like the whip found | in the Christmas stocking of the small boy who had PUBLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, 8. F. | | community, able to lend money to Spain, Cuba and Telephone Main 186S. EDITORIAL ROOMS Telephone Main 1874. Deltvered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. Simgle Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Muil, Incinding Postage: DAILY CALL Gnolué: BUNDAY WEEKLY CALL One Year. Sample eoples will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE.. ...1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. tenager Foreign Advertising, Marguette Building, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. CARLTON......... Herald Squere NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH .30 Tribune Bullding CHICAGO NEWS STANDSt Sherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Nortbern Hotsl: Frement House; Auditoriu NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: ‘Weldort-Astoria Hotel; A. Breotana, 31 Union Square] Murrey HIl Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE......-...... Wellington Hotel MORTON E. CRANE, Comespondent. BRANCH OFFICES—27 Montgomery, corner of Clay, opes ontfl $:30 o'clock. 800 Hayes, open until §:80 o'clock. 639 ter. open until :30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until % oclock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. Bixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1086 | ators and twelve expected to find sugarplums. The Standard says that Porto Rico was a wealthy San Domingo, and was enjoying itself with four Sen- Representatives in the Spanish Cortes. The Standard seems to be of the opinion that the islands had all of this swept away in last year's hur- | ricane. We do not see any reference to the hurri- cane in the demand made by Porto Rico for free trade with this country. The Examiner is moving the peo- ple to mutiny and rage by a picture of Porto Rico as a lovely “female lady,” stretching her plump but manacled arms over a pile of coffee, sugar and to- bacco, and labeled, ‘Starving in the Midst of Plenty.” No explanation is offered of why the lady does not fall to and fill up on tobacco, coffee and sugar, which is undoubtedly the “plenty” in the midst of which her only breakfast is pulling her belt up another hole. Our statement that tropical people are always poor is not disturbed by the Standard’s statement nor the Examiner’s pile of sugar and things. We deny that Porto Rico and the Philippines are entitled of right to any privileges under the constitu- tion, and we combat, therefore, the contention of the Bryan Democracy, including the war paint and | feathered Iroquois Club of San Francisco, that their people are our fellow citizens. We don’t want free trade with them, nor fellow citizenship, now nor bereaiter, world without end. Just what the Standard has to complain about in our position we are unable to see, for that paper, 2261 | after a column of fault-finding, says that it “does D T as A sobe kil | not believe that these islanders became citizens of the | corner Twenty-second and Kentucky. | United States when they were taken away from Spain. R | It does not favor free trade with these islands, nor the | free importation of coolie labor now in the Philip- | ‘pines. That is what the Democrats are contending | for, and what a few assistant Democrats in Congress | cess attained by them does not justify the conclusion that 2 civil service school would be equally beneficial. To fit 2 man for command in war, either upon land or sea, there is required a special training widely differ- ent from that required in any peaceful pursuit. Nosuch radical difference of training is required for the civil service of the Government either at home or abroad. Our colleges and universities can be safely trusted to fit an ample number of young men and women for all such positions. It is to be borne in mind, moreover, that, notwith- standing the usefulness of the Government schools at West Point and Annapolis, they have never been popular. It has always been a source of complaint that they have made our army and our navy among the most undemocratic organizations of the kind in the world. The graduates of these schools constitute a caste according to their own notion, and outsiders, however well fitted for promotion in the army or the ravy, have been antagonized by the West Point and the Annapolis clique. That evil the people have borne because compara- tively few persons have desired to enter the army or navy as a profession, but it will be quite different if all the civil, consular and diplomatic offices of the Government are to be given to a class educated at % great Government school. The average American may not wish an office, but he delights in knowing he may aspire to it whenever he chooses. A new regu- lation, which would shut him out of the civil service as effectually as he is now shut out of the army and the navy, would cause a discontent that would abolish the school almost as soon as the effects of it began to be felt. ORANGE FREIGHT RATES. ROM the Los Angeles Saturday Post it is learned that the railroad companies intheir efforts to extort from the industries of the State all the traffic will bear have imposed upontheorange-growers a burden in the way of freight rates that may prove to be more than they can bear, and which in the end may result in a serious injury, not to the orange men only, but the whole of California. The evil to which the Post objects is the raise in the amount of oranges which shippers are required to ship to make up carload lots. It is said: “This is szar rand Ope: alifornia. use—*'James Wobberts, L 8. §., Boston.’ A Bachelor's Romance.” Wests's Minstrels. House—‘Cavalleria Rusticans ™ Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and corner of Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. al Park—Gentry's Trained Animal Show, Saturdey, neing, bowling, fishing, etc., every Sunday. 1 Association—Races to-day. Horses—At Ormonde Stable, 1515 Mission street, at 11 o'clock. R Treasury Department for is now more gold, more sil- larger total of money of all kinds in of the of the country. That moreover, attended by a widespread v and a general activity in trade in all sec- e U Such is the condition that con- Bryan as he wanders about the country cing the gold standard, howling against trusts alamity into the ears of all who will EPORTS of tt A w ther g the people e in the history is, treasury s reveal the fact that the mnt of money in circulation is not only absolutely b but it has more than pace with the increase in population, and the per is the highest known. The total excess of $2,000,000,000, and the to $26 12. It is to be noted, more- rease has been one of steady and gression since 1896. stati in previous years, i satisfactory fea has been an increase in the circulation of both sil- The amount of gold and silver certifi- circulation on the 1st of the month was $727,748501 April 1, 1899; . 1898; $554,582,006 April 1, 1897, pril 1, 1896, the increase during the $206,604.044, or 60 per cent. The silver in crculation, including standard silver dollars, subsidiary silver, silver certificates and treasury notes of 1890, which were issued for the pur- chase of silver bullion and are to be retired when sil- and put in circulation, $631,133,689, against $626, 661,729 April 1, 1808; $560,024,775 April 1, 1897, and 4,447 April 1, 1806. 1 of this vast sum of money in circulation is as good as gold and honest as the day. We have not at- tained a fictitious display of wealth by scaling down the value of the coin of the republic, as the Bryanites desired in 96 and as Bryan continues to advocate now. Workingmen get their wages, clerks get their salaries, and farmers, manufacturers and miners get the price of their product in money that is equal to the best on the globe. The Republican policies of protection and sound money have once more been put to the test of practice and have demonstrated in operation their efficiency in promoting the welfare of the whole peop Once more, then, we enter a campaign in which the voters will be confronted by a condition in opposi- tion to a theory. A widespread prosperity prevails in the land, and every form of industry is benefited by it. That prosperity is guaranteed by the legislation of the land, which prevents it from the tinkering and the blundering of incompetent and discontented poli- ticians. So long asthe Government is in safe hands so long will the welfare of the people be preserved, but it would not take the Bryanites long to precipi- tate a period of financial disaster, industrial depres- sion and commercial stagnation. The very menace of a free silver act would send gold into retirement, suddenly restrict the currency, and plunge the nation into a state of confusion in comparison with which the disasters of the Wilson tariff would seem like good times. and gold. amount o ver is coir amounts e e From the extent to which the South has induced the Federal Government to establish and maintain parks on the battle-fields of the Civil War, future generations may come to the conclusion the heroes of the contest were butchered mainly to make South- ern holiday grounds. The North Pacific and the Great Northern rail- roads are doing all in their power to center the Oriental trade of the United States at Puget Sound ports, and in the meantime what are the Southern and Central Pacific roads doing? The stm;ges( thing about the organization of a club in Chicago pledged to follow health laws which it is believed will enable them to live a century is thar eny one should have a desire to prolong life in such a city. ’ United States | ture of the showing is that there | to | 2804 April 1, 1899; $610,- | [ [ [ | | | | A | City of Mexico, to consider commercial and other is- | sentation. are trying to help them bring about. Rather than make citizens of this motley horde of people the Standard would favor cutting them adrift and allow- ing any European country which is strong enough to take possession of them. But we are not reduced to that alternative. They may be held and taught the art of self-government, educated and made free, un- der the fostering care of the United States,” Now the Standard has been reading all that ex- cept the last clause in The Call for two years. Will it explains now what it means by “made free?” What | condition precedes being made free, and while they are under our fostering care, which they are resist- ing with teoth, nail, bolo,' machete and bamboo spear? Are they free now, and what are they to do, what will be their political status, when “made free” by us? 5 T is a subject for exact thinking, and not for vague phrasing and iridescent dreams. Let the Stan- dard do a little of that kind of thinking and report the result to these headquarters. A PAN-AMERICAN CONGRESS. RRANGEMENTS are reported to have been made by the Mexican Government for a con- gress of all American countries, to meet in the sues affecting their welfare. Secretary Hay is said to attach great importance to the meeting and to have promised the Mexican Government cordial co-opera- tion in promoting it. The enterprise is the more attractive to the people of the United States since it is but another step along a path in which the United States led the way. The congress which Secretary Blaine called together did not result as beneficially as was expetted, but it is to be borne in mind that Blaine did not have the privi- lege of making full use of it, and that the Democratiz administration which came into power neglected to take advantage of such benefits as it yielded. There happened, moreover, the repeal of the McKinley tariff, under which reciprocity treaties with several South American nations had been arranged, and the hard times, which paralyzed industry and commerce to such a degree there was little inclination anywhere to expand our trade southward. Since then the war with Spain has given our Euro- pean competitors in Spanish American countries an | opportunity to rouse something of antagonism to the nited States among the people there, and we have thus been handicapped in our efforts to promote trade with them since our commercial activities have re- vived. The proposed meeting in Mexico will give us a chance to prove to the delegates that the true inter- | ests of all Central and South America are to be sought in closer trade relations with the United States. We are large consumers of the coffee, hides and fine woods which they produce, and can in return furnish them with machinery and manufactured goods better and cheaper than they can be obtained else- where. The interests of California and other States of the Pacific Coast in the proposed congress will be not | inferior to those of any other section of the Union, and whenever it meets we should have ample repre- In the wonderful possibilities of the in- creasing trade of the Orient there is much to attract our attention away from the countries and the mar- | kets to the south of us, but the latter will be well worth striving for. As soon, therefore, as the time and scope of the congress are definitely announced, our manufacturers and merchants should set about arranging to profit by every opportunity it may offer for an increase of our trade @ SCHOOL OF CIVIL SERVICE. ENATOR ALDRICH'S bill proposing the es- S tablishment by the Federal Government of a school for the education of young mien and young women for the diplomatic, consular and civil service of the United States has received in the East a good deal more commendation than it merits. There is not the slightest need of such a school, and the operation of one would undoubtedly rouse more or less antagonism, because it would inevitably train up a favored class of persons, to whom would go nearly the whole of the offices of the Government. The Aldrich bill, it is to be noted, does not di- rectly provide for the establishment of such a school, but only for the appointment of a commission to con- sider the matter and report upon it. The commission, however, will very liRely favor the school, for its es- ubl‘hm:m would mean more appropriations and more offices for political patronage. It is therefore just as well to consider the matter upon its merits or demerits at once and have done with it. The proposed institution is to be somewhat analogous to those now maintained at West Point for training officers for the army and at Annapolis for training naval officers. Each of those schools has proven of great advantage to the nation, but the suc- | a raise in the most injurious way. The object seems | to have been to make the raise in a masked form. | The shippers have added the thirty boxes the rail- | roads insist on charging freights for. This over- | crowds the capacity of the cars for safe carriage of | fruit, with the result of continuous and often heavy | losses from decay.” If the results be as disastrous as is thus stated by our well informed contemporary, the offense against public welfare is one of the most serious the railroads have committed for a long time, and earnest efforts on the part of the people should be made to remedy it. It is pointed out that the railroads under the old rate took one-half of the gross proceeds of the orange crop of Southern California, and that out of the remaining half had to be paid the cost of man- aging the groves, cultivation, irrigation, fertilization, | labor, taxes, and also all other costs other than freight rates, such as picking, packing and selling. Thus the | increased burden put upon the growers seriously menaces the profits of the industry as a whole. Commenting upon the probable outcome of the situation the Saturday Post says: “The railroads in | these things have made an ill-considered move that discourages development not only in orange growing, | but in everything. To raise freight rates on a | business with reduced profits is not wise from an ex- | clusive railroad point of view. The subject is of in- terest to all the people of Southern California. The | orange business brings from five to six million dol- lars a year into Southern California. In fact, taking supplies, etc., into consideration, this crop causes about twelve millions a year to circulate. The wel- fare of this important interest is of great moment to merchants, railroads and all. The railroads should | in their ‘own interest help rather than injure it.” The issue in the case does not affect Southern Cali- fornia alone, for an injury done to that section is bound to have a hurtful effect upon the prosperity of every portion of the State. All shippers should therefore make a common cause with ‘the orange- | growers in seeking justice. United effort may attain | success where the orange-growers acting alone would fail. This is one of the occasions where Californians should put the strength of co-operation to the test. | @ STATESMAN OF THE TIME. 1 EPRESENTATIVE GIBSON of the Second | R District of Tennessee is a candidate for re-elec- tion, and by way of opening his canvass has | sent to his constituents a letter in which he sets forth | the record of his services as a statesman. According to the preamble of the constitution the Fedefal Gov- ernment was organized to “form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and to secure the blessings of liberty.” It is there- | fore worth while to take Mr. Gibson's statement of his | work and note how far it conforms to the intentions of the founders of the Government. A summary of his labors runs thus: Eight hundred | and twenty-three war claims put through, amounting | to $1,200,000; sixty-five private pension bills; forty- ] one men commissioned in the army by his influence; } twenty-nine postmasters appointed; seventy-four new | | postoffices established; twelve thousand calls at the Pension Office; twenty-nine thousand packages of seeds sent; twenty-seven thousand pamphlets and books sent; one hundred and sixty-seven thousand copies of his own speeches sent out; forty-seven thou- sand letters to his constituents. As not one of these things can be said to tend to establish justice, provide for the common de- fense or to secure the blessings of liberty, it is prob- able all of them were intended by the Congressman to insure domestic tranquillity or to promote the general welfare. The war claims, the private pensions, the | twelve thousand calls at the Pension Office, the pack- ages of seeds and the pamphlets sent out and even the Jetters written to his constituents may be regarded as | contributions to domestic tranquillity, if by that phrase we _signify the quiet and happiness of the private homes of those who received the pensions, pamphlets, seeds and letters. That sort of tranquillity, however, has been paid for at the expense of the general welfare | and all that has been given in return is the estab- | lishment of seventy-four new postoffices, the commis- sion of forty-five politicians in the army and the cir- culation of 167,000 copies of Mr. Gibson's speeches. It is evident that domestic tranquillity in the Second District of Tennessee is one of the things we must have, but it comes high. Mr. Gibson is a fair specimen of the modern states- man in this country. Most Congressmen have but two ambitions—one is to fill the treasury and the other is to “rake her clean.” The Pacific Coast has neglected that sort of statesmanship and the result is we are far short of our share of appropriations. In the East they are wiser in their generation, hence the vast amount of “domestic tranquillity” that prevails in most of their Congressional districts. 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. BY J. 8. TAYLOR. DITOR THE CALL: As the time approaches for primary elections in this State at which delegates will be chosen to county and Congres- sional conventions, which delegates will have the nominating of legis- lative and Congressional candidates in the aifferent parties, It Is Important that members of the grange and other farmers in this State should use their best endeavors to have delegates elected at the primaries in their own party who repre- sent farming interests and who will nom- inate such candidates to the State Legis- lature and to Congress as can be relied upon to carry out the wishes of their con- stituents. Farmers, put up good, reliable men of your own class—men who command the respect of the community in which they live, men who are able to make a good speech and to argue and hold their own with the shrewd, practical politician, the man who makes politics a profession, usually a second-class lawyer who is in politics for what there is In it. If farmers ever expect to obtain legis- lation favorable to their interests from Congress in the shape of postal savings banks, a national pure food law, an ef- fective anti-trust law, a law controlling raflroad charges, a law prohibiting gam- bling on grain and provisions, a constitu- tional amendment requiring United States Senators to be elected by popular vote, a law to secure the speedy construction | and ownership of the Nicaragua canal by the United States Government and an in< crease in _the appropriation to further ex- | tend the free del?very of mail in rural dis- tricts, they must see to it that men of their own_calling are elected to represent them at Washington. Aside from the pendin, upon which thefe is an of opinion, farmers are intensely inter- est«f’ and practically united upon many important economic questions. Prominent among them is the question of taxation. Farmers want to know how to meet the present high rates of taxation with de- ereasing receipts from the farm. They want to know why taxes should not be assessed equally upon all kinds of prop- erty. They want to know why oificial | salaries under existing conditions should be at the highest point ever reached in | this State. They want to know why the demand for retrenchment in State ex- penditures is not heeded by our legislat- ors. They want to know why the State Railroad Commission does not exercise the authority glan it under our laws in preventing the railroads of the State from raising fihelr rates for transportation when it suits their convenience. If this commission cannot be made of service to the public it should be abolished. What service has the Highway Commission, at an expense of over $11,000 annually, ren- dered to the State? It has failed to ac- complish anythlngj_ except to draw sal- aries and report. This commission should be abolished. What necessity is there for an attorney to l:: S,;lte Board of Health at a salary > of 30007 ted on good authority that from 35000 Lo $10,000 In the shape of sal- arfes can be cut off from nearly all the State offices and their efficiency be in no impaired. w:’r’ld";t‘!‘ in regard to the State Univer- ‘national issues onest difference WHY NOT CONSTRUCT A NEW ONE, UP TO DATE, COLONEL? —Cleveland Plain Dealer. POLITICAL RESPONSIBILITY OF CALIFORNIA FARMERS J.'S. Taylor of the State Grange Appeals to Them to Elect Rep- resentatives at the Coming Primaries Who Will Look After the Farming Interests. « Isl!y. While the people of California are | disposed to be liberal in_the-expenditure | of money raised by taxation for the pur- | poses of education, yet they demand that | such expenditure shall be applied in an | economical manner. The Harbor Com- | mission at Francisco, according to the report of a Senate committee ap- pointed three years ago, has been | cause of more leaks from the public treas- ury than any other. It spent $350,000 more on the Ferry depot than was originally contemplated, because of the failure to in- clude the foundation in the first estf- mates. This had made it necessary to use the money of the harbor improvement | fund, which had resulted in the stoppage of work for several years on the sea- | wall. The commission had from fifty to seventy-five absolutely useless employes on the payroll. In three instances em- gloyes were carrled in two capacities and rew two salaries. chasing department maintained at a cost of $9000 a year, the purchases by this de- ra.nmem amounting to only $22,000. There s no occasion for the employment of a harbor police force, it being the duty of the city tc protect the property. Farmers, if you will nominate and elect reliable representatives to the next Legis- lature you can reduce the amount of money necessary to be raised by taxa- tion for State purposes by at least $300,- 000, as shown above. The salaries of the county officials of the various counties of the State can be justifiably reduced in many Instances, and fees that are now paid to county offi- cials turned into the public lren!urmhul saving to the taxpayers ancther 000, making a clear saving of $1,000,000 per an~ num. Is the farmer capable or qualified to yave a voice In the formation of laws which are to regulate his financial inter- ests? We say yes, and he iIs personally responsible for not having more tillers of the soil in the State and national legisla- tive halls. Grange members understand, and their influence is extending to all farmers, that they are the judges on all matters affect- ing their interests, whether they be local, State, national or international. They are beginming to see and feel that their sacred Hfihls have been trodden under | foot of esigning men. They are no longer willing that the litician, or any one else, should think for them and teil them what to do. They propose to anal- yze all questions for themselves and use their influence in_ legislation, State and national, to crystallize into laws such leg- islation as they may find necessary to place agricultural interests on an equality with the other industries of the country. ‘There never has been a time in the his- tory of this country when farmers have taken as much interest in questions affect- ing their interests as at present. Farm- ers have also learned to stand by and work for and maintain their rights in the great battles of trade and In the inter- change 5f commodities. This independent, self-reliant spirit will give new vigor and importar.ce to the agricultural classes and secure for them fairness in the inter- change of commodities and fair and just legislation. e farmer recognizes that the founda- tion and gerpe!ult)’ of this srelt republic rest on the rights of the individual man, whether that man is rich or poor, laborer, mechanic, lawyer, professor, merchant or farmer. If the rights of the individual | be surrendered or if the individual man be robbed of his right by combinations of men or combinations of money, or by law, then the individual ceases to a free man, but exists as a slave, and the crown- ing glory of the republic has departed. J. 8. TAYLOR, the Lecturer_Californfa State Grange. Napa, April 7, 1900 AUSTRAL'AN MAILS CONTRACT AWARDED Privilege for the Term of Ten Years Accorded to the Oceanic Steam- ship Company. J. D. Spreckels & Bros. Co. were notified yesterday by the United States Postmas- ter General of the awarding of the con- tract for carrying the Australian and Eng- lish closed mails to the Oceanic Steam- ship Company for ten years. The service is to be tri-monthly and to begin Novem- ber 1. Steamers will touch at Honolulu, Apia or Pago Pago, in the Samoan group {(whichever place the United States Gov- ernment may select), and Auckland. The contract is at the rate of $2 per mile and the Oceanic Steamship Company is now negotiating with the Australian and New Zealand Governments for carrying of the mails to San Francisco. Steamship Line to Tahiti. Communications were received yester- day from Tahiti, via Auckland, N. Z, that the Tahitian Government had accept- ed the Oceanic Steamship Company’s pro- posal for a steam service from San Fran- cisco to Tahitl. Heretofore the only con- nection between the Soclety Islands and San Francisco has been maintained by schooners sailing at intervals of about a month and occupying from thirty to thir- ty-six days In passage. According to the terms of the agreement entered into be- tween the Tahitian Government and the Oceanic Steamship Company a steamshi, of about 3000 tons register is to be plac in the service, to make eleven round trips per annum, each round lrlr occupying about thirty-five days, which includes thirteen days in port. The distance is 368 knots and the average rate of speed to he made by the steamers will be about four- feen knots an hour, thus occupying about ten and a m.lii Id'!lyn on the voyage under onditions. "}:{:blbc Spreckels, presidét of the Oceanic Steamship Company, states that the bonus to be pald by the Tahitl Gov- ernment is in_the neighborhood of $30,000 r annum and that the details of the con- t are very favorable to this cnmpe.n(. Either the Mariposa or the Alameda will, after being overhauled and the new ma- ‘hinery installed, be Bl‘nced on this route. Hither steamer will capable of a sea d of seventeen knots an hour when e proposed alterations have been made. Tt ?t expected that a lai tourist traffic be worked up with hitl now that communication will be can od of :2‘-:::4“; and comfortable. Insurance Company Sued. The Trans-Atlantische Guter-Versicher- Smpany s prought sult h: the United m o suit nited ilone- &mlt Cfl\l# l‘?lm: nhauser nsg' d‘:o on their accounts as ::zu-o‘; 1"" complainant. > ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A QUARTER OF 1876—Subscriber, City. A quarter of 1§76 is not a premium coin. FIVE DOLLARS—L. M. K., City. A five-dollar gold plece of 1561 does not com- mand a premium. There is no premium l;grs‘colns of that denomination coined after TIN AND SILVER—H. C. M., Bodega, Cal. The value of tin and of silver varfes. You can ascertain the value of each by cl;lnmg:llrllg the commercial department of e X GENERAL SCOTT—W. M. P., City. General Winfleld Scott never was Presi- dent of the United States. In 1852 h the Whig candidate for the office of ;r::l? g;m. but was defeated by Franklin erce. LOSS OF THE CIMBRIA—H. K., City. The delay In answering the question about the loss of the Cimbria of the Hamburg. American line was occasioned by the fact that the information had to be obtained from the office in New York. The vessel ‘was lost on the 19th of January, 1883, FREIGHT FROM CHICAGO—H. C, M. Bodega, Cal. The frelght rates vary ac. cording to the commodity. This depart. ment has not the space to giv, For all kinds of frelght. If the eqrimenrate ent wil designate The Kind of Treighe he wishes to know abou! e rmadt be furnished. i ¥ AUTOMOBILE—H. C. M., Bodega, Cal According to the Century Dictionary, au. tomobile is pronounced as if written . to. mo-bil. In that the a is to be pronounced as au in aught, the o in to as o in Demo- crat and the 1 in the last syliable it und'theluc%r;t :mtl’.he . Those who refer to a B ':lor; Pronounce it as it whitien Qronuncia- eel. THE HONTH_ OF FEBRUARY-—Mel- rose, City. February was one of the two months—January being the other—intro- duced into the Roman calendar by Numa Pompilius, who in the Mythic History is described as the second of the Kings of Rome, being the successor of Romulus, the founder of the city. He extended the year to twelve of these periods. Numa let fall upon it the doom, which was un- avoidable for some of the months, of hav- ing three out of four times a 4 than even those which were to consist of There was also a pur- | ‘written o-toe-mow- | + @ 1 D R R T = S = =Y PERSONAL MENTION. +] C. C. Spinks, a big eil man of Hantord, is at the Lick. .} Mrs. 8. D. Post ana Miss Post of Stock- ton are at the Occidental. R. M. Shackelford, a railroad man of Paso Robles, Is at the Lick. Frank Shaw, a prominent mining man of Fortuna, Ariz., Is at the Grand. W. E. Lawrence, a merchant of Vaca- ville, and bis wife are at the Lick. | Munro Archibald, a mining superintend- ent of Angels Camp, is at the Lick. | _R. E. Jack, a banker and land owner of San Luis Obispo, is at the Palace. Dr. C. L. Ruggles of Stockton, president | of the State Board of Heailth, Is at the | Grand. | Louts Halle, editor of the American Ad- | viser of Chicago, and his wife are at the Grand. Misses Julia Dean and Grace Lamkin | and Benjamin Howard of the Neill com- | pany are at the Occidental. | Thomas Couch, a mining man, who has | 1arge Interests In Montana and the north- | ern part of this State, is at the Palace. H. Bradnober, manager of the Rothschild mining interests in California, and his | wife returned yesterday from London and | are at the Palace. 5 | Baron Leo von Rosenberg, the New York | mining promoter who caused a sensation here some time ago by carrying a lantern | through the streets, is back at the Palace He fortunately brought his lantern with Rim. | —_—————— | CALIFORNTANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, April 9.—Attorney Gen- eral Tirey L. Ford and Assistant Attor- ney General Abbott of California are at the Normandle; Louis Glass of San Fran- cisco is at the Raleigh; Mrs. P. McBean | and Dr. A. H. Giannin! of San Francisco are at the Arlington. —_————————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1> at Townsend's.® —_————— Special information supplied daily to b\ulnucuu hp-‘unei and "(’X'x'f m'mm the Press Clipping Bureau len’s), ont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * —_———————— Marceau Case Put Off Two Weeks. Hearing of the petition of Mrs. Amanda Fiske-Marceau-Fennell for the custody of | her minor child, Theodore Marceau Jr., | was postponed by Judge Troutt yesterday | for two weeks. | e ———— | ~ Dr. Sanford’s Liver Invigorator. The best liver medicine. A vegetable cure for liver il's, billousness, indigestion, constipation.* —_—— The fashionable ladies’ corrective tonic is Dr. | Stegert's Angostura Bitters, the world re- nowned South American invigorator. —————————— The Alliance at Kingston. KINGSTON, Jamaica, April 9.—The American training ship Alllance arrived here to-day, seven days from Porto Rico. She has been quarantined. CAPE NOME MACHINERY and SUPPLIES. SAND CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS: & Amalg: s, O KROGH &l PR e 1 SAND CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS. In Operation Daily. €25 Stgth Street. BYRON JACKSON. CAPE NOME ENGINES. FOUR more of these small, light-weight Nome engines have arrived from t; call soon. Rix Engineering and Supply Co., 519 Howard DREDGING PUMPS. Ofl, Gasoline, Steam Holsts, Centri Engines& Botiers. l-myxun.'u‘.'z“mm EXPERIMENTAL MACHINERY & MODELS. L. PETERSON, 54A Mission, S. F.; commual. catiors from inventors strictly confident; MARSH STEAM PUMPS Supply fresh or salt water for siuice Rieh or jow lifts. Simonds, 3 Market st | ROCKERS. | CAPE NOME Force Pump Rocker; hand-power force pump rocker: lightest. cheapest Dbest W. 8. PHELPS for beach and creek mining. & CO., 15 Drumm st. QOL"» SEPARATOR. Cyclone Gold Separator and Aally operation. Wm. H. Birch & GOLD SEPARATOR. MARSHALL Gold Saving Machine. 29 Fol- som_street, Oriental Gas Engine Company. GOLD SAVING MACHINES. The Eureka Pan Motion; The Centrifugal Gold Washer, dally at 26 Beale st. mfls"son's.jl.ult:l WASHER. Long tom. riffles ecarpet combined saves placer xold. VAN WINKLE, 413 Market st. GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS packed. IRVINE B o Howara, -M”mem.n 8 7. LTQUORS- WHISKEY ™ G 8 son. OILS. LUBRICATING Cruds ana | l&%’lfl‘.‘h—rml 3 —_— e S R n . 133 1st. e oy A Kearny. between Sutter and Bush -~ 7l TS P e o T mockems. S Hula-Huia Rocker: _cunter .u“m..m?n.y‘ PARKE thirty days. That is t GASOLINE ENGINI At dhuid Tae = ""g;“‘;gml;;-nce: HERCULES GAS ENGINE wosn'x'a 18 A SRR i el e et e o R 28 R e Al ‘e mont] e 3 N s saied S BB SSTmse ', And e, N S DTy y—— lor im onodnyhvmr‘.brwylmuded:tngz ALBERT HOEFLICH, 118 Grant ave. gust. In that manner F' was TENTS - reduced to twenty-eight days ordi- | NEVILLE & 2D S ovaRs, SELE SU.. Covers. 11 and @ o bagn teata,