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The *eg;i%% Call, THURSDAY.. ....APRIL 12, 1900 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communicetions to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, 8. ¥. Telephone Matm I EDITORIAL ROOMS Telepho Main 1874. Deltvered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Weel. single Coples, 5§ Cents. Terms by Mail, inciuding Postage: DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), obe year.. DAILY CALL uding Sunday), 6 months (ncluding Sundey), 8 months .Y CALL—By Single Month. Y CALL Ove Year CALL Oue Year. DAILY CA DA Semple copies will be forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE......s:5++..1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Manager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. NEW YORE CORRESPONDENT: LU R [ T———— LR ] NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH.... 30 Tribune Bullding CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Ehermen House; P. O. News Co.; Great Nurthern Hotsl) Premont House; Auditorium Hotel NEPW YORK NEWS STANDS: Weldorf-Astoria Hotel; A Brentamo, 51 Union Square{ Murrey Hill Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C) OFFICE. .....o...... Wellington Hotel MORTON E CRANE, Comespondent BRANCH OFFICES—2] Montgomery, corner of Clay, opes untl 8:30 o'clock. 800 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 639 McAllister, open until 9:80 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until 9330 o'clock 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 ® o'clock 1098 Market, cormer Eixteenth, open until Valencia, op ntil o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until ® o'clock corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, lock. P AMUSEMENTS. “James Wobberts, L S. 8., Boston.” Romance." * and Hambourg, Monday afternoon, a—Wests's Minstrels avalleria Rusticana.” ater—Vaudeville every afternoon and and Eddy streets—Speciaities. ned Animal Show, Saturday, wiing, fishing, etc., every Sunday. n—Races to-day. .217 te 221 Stevemson St. ANOTHER RACETRACK VICTIM. —~ UPERINTENDENT LEACH of the Mint, in 5 ting upon the arrest of Benjamin C. a charge of stealing gold bullion ' department of the institution, is y reasons for suspecting him were not good. He was a d I also heard that he played we have what a young men who had e career, and every in- the trust the Government o the hopes of his family and he charge against Bergen prove to be nk added to the devil's nd remorse that has drawn across the community. It will be g of the direful effects of gambling ence that hardly any place of busi- me is safe from the blight of its in- new lesson comes timely to revive pub- the efforts now being made to spur ce force on to the suppression of all places where gambling is practiced. It is through the doors 1 dens t men and youths, and not in- en, enter upon the downward path to dr i Can it be that further be sacrificed this way before popular will be sufficiently strong to compel the 1orities to exert the force of the law and close the doors? have another lix d crime length these ¢ has no desire to make extended comment iis case. It directs attention to it solely for the purpose of making the moral of it clear and plain. | it - was he was a confirmed card-player and be- ase it was reported he played the races. The em- ployers of the city have learned that employes who indulge in such practices are not safe. dom <h. The accused person was suspected because ca The same wis- Id be learned by the people at large. The y of business and the happiness of the home have 2 common interest in the issue. San Francisco has been too long a city wide open for the opera- nblers. The time has come to close it them and to keep it closed : securi e in the good State of Kansas distinguished oy electing 2 town government composed exclu- omen, so it is worth while noting that this cted a ticket made up wholly of men. so good as variety, and Kansas has iles has announced himself as a candi- e Presidency and has also advocated the from the Atlantic to the Pacific of a smooth enough to play marbles on, the general wishes to have an easy when he gets started. A Boston paper booms the condidacy of Secretary Long for the Vice Presidency by running communi- cations on the subject under the flaring head line “A L Call for Long,” so we might as well have a California candidate and start “A Long Call for Loud™ W. K. Vanderbilt has recently purchased three rail- roads—the Reading. Lehigh Valley and Erie sys- tems—so it begins to look as if the entire transporta- tion facilities of the Eastern States would soon be- come the private property of the Yanderbilt family. The policy of “benevolent assimilation” in the Phil- ippines has evidently been put on cold storage, or em- balmed like army beef, for up to this time there has been no exhibition of either the assimilation or the benevolence. ———— A French scientist is said to have discovered that there are nearly twice as many microbes in street sweepings after sprinkling as before, and now we may have to fill the sprinkling carts with microbe- killer. : b Bryan’s refusal to speak in San Francisco this trip may have been intended as a snub, but we are none the less grateful. appears | e curse of track gambling, | embered that a year ago the town of THE REGULATION OF TELEPHONES. MONG the local issues which ought to be fl dealt with by the people of California in the coming campaign is that of providing for an | adequate regulation of telephone corporations, to the | end that the public may no longer be exposed to the | extortions now practiced. The need of a regulating power is felt wherever telephone monopolies exist, but that need is especially felt in this city and this State. The time is approaching when candidates will be | nominated for legislative offices, and accordingly the subject should be at once taken up for consideration in every Senatorial and Assembly district where tele- phone corporations ply their trade. It is not a par- tisan issue, nor is it a local issue. It is one that con- cerns the community as a whole, and should be acted upon by the conventions of all parties that put legis- lative tickets in the field. No man should be nomi- nated by either party who does not give to his con- stituents a specific and emphatic pledge to support, if elected, legislation next winter directed to the end of providing the desired supervision. In San Francisco, where the question is of particu- | lar importance by reason of the boast of the corpora- tion that if taxed it will put the taxes in the bills of its patrons, the issue cannot be ignored, even if the politicians should wish to do so. The popular de- mand for so amending the charter as to give the municipal authorities power to supervise and control telephone corporations in the same way as other cor- | | porations operating public utilities are supervised | will not antagonize any movement toward State con- trol. On the contrary, it will aid and strengthen such a movement, and consequently the legislative tickets nominated in this city will be expected to de- %clarc as emphatically for State supervision as those | nominated elsewhere. State issues are too often overlooked in the excite- ment of national campaigns. It is therefore impera- tive to press them upon the notice of politicians early in the canvass. That is the duty which confronts the people of California at this juncture. The time to make the fight for good government is now. If the people are resolute they can readily obtain from all candidates for the Senate or the Assembly clear and explicit pledges on this issue, for the need of some regulation upon the telephone monopoly is a matter about which there can be no dispute among intelli- gent and honest men. The subject, therefore, should be taken up throughout the State by men of all par- | ties. Let us have the wrong of telephone extortion and tax shirking righted when the next Legislature | meets. B An interesting decision as to what is and what is “Free lunches, or night, are unlawful, and for a nominal consideration are free lunches. Pretzels, crackers and bits of one kind of cheese, set out upon the bar or served to customers with drinks, do not constitute a lunch; anything beyond or other than pretzels, crack- | ers and bits of one kind of cheese constitute a lunch.” Thus a man who has eaten a loaf of bread and a | pound of cheese has not lunched, but if he takes a ham sandwich it is different. Reading, Pa., to this effect: whether by day lunches furnished in | WAR TAX REVISION. | oo ECRETARY GAGE, in reply to a request of the S House for information concerning treasury es- timates for the current and the coming fiscal years, has sent a statement to the effect that for the current year the revenues from all sources will be about $3560,000,000, and the expenditures $490,000,000, | leaving a surplus of $70,000,000. For the fiscal year | | ending June 30, 1901, the estimated revenues will be $577,000,000, and the expenditures $495,000,000, leav- ing a surplus for that year of $82,000,000. Thus the estimates are the total surplus of revenue for the two years will exceed $150,000,000. On that showing there is certainly ample justifica- tion for those who are now seeeking to bring about | a revision of the war revenue tax at this session of | Congress. The nation is rich and the people are fully | able to pay the existing taxes, but since there is no 1 i ; i longer any need for the whole amount of the revenue | | derived from them, the taxes should be diminished as | 2 mere matter of business. It is a poor economy to | draw money from the channels of trade and industry | for no other purpose than that of locking it up in the | treasury. | The Congressmen who are seeking to have the war ; tax revised and reduced at once have a strong sup- { port in all parts of the country, and from influential | papers, irrespective of party, for the issue, fortunately, has not been made a partisan one, either in Congress or out of it. Thus the Baltimore American, in com- menting upon the resolution of the House asking for information from the Treasury Department, said: “If the existing law shouid be so modified as only to save the merchants and manufacturers of- the country the monthly surplus that is now accumulat- ing and lying idle in the treasury, it would have a tremendous effect on business. One hundred millions vearly turned back into the channels of legitimate trade would go far to make a marked increase in our national prosperity.” The Chicago Record says: “The stamp taxes are | burdensome and should be repealed for that reason. Fairness to the people requires that taxes levied for carrying on the war and paid cheerfully because of that fact should be removed as speedily as possible.” The New York Post says: “The payment of the premium on the refunded bonds will absorb a large part of the present surplus, but a new surplus will accumulate behind it.” The Boston Herald says: “With so much money idle in the treasury vaults, the circulation is decreased to that extent. Should the Sec- | retary deposit it in banks he fears he would be accused of favoritism.” The New York World says: “A fur- ther reason for repealing some of these taxes found in their discriminating and exasperating na- ture. Last year the Government collected $43,837,000 from internal revenue stamps. A considerable pro- portion of this amount was realized from stamps on telegrams and express packages, which it is fair to assume Congress meant should be paid by the rich | corporations, but which a convenient ‘interpretation’ these conveniences. Nearly all the rest of the $100,000,000 and more of special war taxes is col- lected from the consumption of the people, in one | form or another.” It is not worth while to multiply quotations. The statement of the Secretary shows that the revenue is largely in excess of the needs of the Government and the extracts cited attest the public demand for tax revision. The California delegation in Congress are each and all of them specifically pledged to favor such a revision as will put an end to the am- biguities of the act and prevent the practice of tax shirking and’ extortion on the part of the express company. They may be counted on, therefore, to favor revision at once. There are many other Con- | gressmen who are similarly pledged, and conse- not a lunch has been recently made by a Justice | is | of the law shifted to the individuals making use of | quently if the revision be not undertaken a good many Congressmen who are candidates for re-elec- tion this fall will be called upon by their constituents “ to tell the reason why. THROUGH @ SLAUGHTER-HOUSE. ENRY WATTERSON is the author of the H famous phrase about “marching through a slaughter-house to an open grave.” He ut- | tered it as a warning to his party against the policy “ of renominating Cleveland in 1892, and it then proved | to be a vain warning, for Cleveland was nominated ‘ and elected. He is now, however, counseling a course of action which will fulfill the words of his warning to the letter, for he is actually advocating the renomination of Bryan and his support by con- servative Democrats who refused to vote for him in 1896. Watterson’s argument on the subject is sufficiently | curious to be worth quoting. He says in a recent issue of the Louisville Courier-Journal: “If there be those who do not realize that the money issuc in its | old shape is as dead as the institution of African slavery, and who require 16 to 1 to hold them in line, | 16 to 1 shall not in the least frighten us away. In the matter of expansion—which will absorb all other | questions—we stand pat upon the fact that ‘we done | expanded.” Fifty years hence we shall still be in the Philippines unless some power turns up strong enough to put us out. Porto Rico ought to be at once established as American territory, just as Alaska | is established; just as Hawaii is being established. Cuba is merely a question of time. If the Kansas City convention should adopt an anti-expansion plank as radical as might be dictated by Carl Schurz and Grover Cleveland, and Mr. Bryan should: be elected, the flag would still wave over the Philippines, and over Hawaii and Porto Rico, as it waves to-day; but, instead of an orgy of greed, carpetbaggery, re- divivus, we should administer the new possessions on | Jeffersonian and not on Caesaristic lines. The plat- form ought specifically to say this. But, whether it does or does not, the result will be the same. No | platform can stay the movement of mankind or im- pede the progress of American arts and arms.” In all that declaration there is nothing of rhyme | and less of reason. It amounts to just this: Bryan is for free silver and against expansion. It will be im- possible for him to enact a silver bill or to prevent expansion; therefore, vote for him. Back of such counsel as that there must be some motive not re- | vealed in the counsel itself. Why vote for Bryan if | he can do none of the things he promises to do? Why | support a negative platform and a nullity candidate in an era of great issues? The Boston Advertiser, in discussing a movement | going on among the gold Democrats in New Eng- | land, makes a statement which throws some light on the subject. It says a considerable number of old Democrats who bolted the party in 1806 now pro- pose to return to it, in the belief that Bryan is bound to be defeated, @and that they, if they be then in the party ranks, will have an opportunity to get to the front and profit by the reaction against the calamity | leader. following that plan, the motive of his advice will be apparent, but the matter will remain as unreasonable as ever. The money issue is not dead, nor will it be so long as there is a strong party in the country willing to support for the Presidency a candidate pledged to | reopen the issue and degrade the currency if the jpcwcr be given him. A Republican Congress has enacted a sound and safe currency and banking bill, | but a Democratic Congress could repeal it, and were Bryan President he would use the whole strength of | administration patronage to induce Congress to do so. To that extent, then, the money issue is still vital. Bryanism is not so dangerous as it was four years ago, but it is still a menace to the financial and busi- ness interests of the country, and no man who voted against Bryan then can have any reason for voting for him now. THE PORTO RICAN BILL SENATOR FORAKER in the current number of the North American Review characterizes the Porto Rican bill, which has just been adopted, as a measure designed to give rise to “ques-- tions of unusual, far-reaching and world-wide impor- | tance.” He goes on to say that as a general rule it | is not expedient to enact laws for the mere purpose of raising questions, but justifies it in this case on the ground that it will be difficult to devise any compre- hensive policy of dealing with Porto Rico until the Supreme Court has decided the position which the people of the island occupy in our governmental system, The issue is complex. In the course of the debate on the bill in the Senate Senator Tillman asked Sena- tor Spooner whether the Porto Ricans are citizens of the United States, and Spooner promptly replied, “They are not.”” “Are they aliens?” asked Tillman. “They are not,” said Spooner. “Then,” said Tillman, “if they are neither citizens nor aliens, what are they?” “They are colonists,” said Spooner. That far the questioning went in the Senate and prompt answers were given. There remains one other ques- tion, What are the rights of colonists of the United States? That question is the one which the Porto Rican bill raises, and which Congress passes over to the Supreme Court. It will not be long before the question will reach the court. The New York Herald, in fact, has al- | ready taken steps to bring the issue to trial, though not exactly in a way that will test the constitutional- ity of a tariff upon Porto Rican goods imported into the United States. The Herald has entered into a contract with a certain Porto Rican named (Jorge Cruz and brought him to this country to labor under the contract. It is said the agreement has been most carefully drawn, and is beyond all question in viola- tion of what is called the alien contract labor law, in case the said Cruz is an alien immigrant. It admits of no doubt that he is an immigrant, in the sense of com- ing to this country for the purpose of carrying out his contract to labor here, and he has beendetained at Ellis Island and ordered to be deported. The question to be determined is whether he is an alien or not, and his counsel have applied to the Circuit Court of the United States for a writ of habeas corpus. The presentation of the issue in that way can hardly fail to determine the status of Porto Ricans, for even if the court hold, with Spooner, that the people of the island are neither citizens nor aliens, but colonists, it will still have to decide whether a colonist is or is not entitled to privileges which are denied to aliens. Senator Foraker is therefore clearly. right in saying the bill is designed to raise questions of world-wide importance, and the trouble is that no matter how the court decides there is sure to be a difficult problem of government left. B ] The demand in the East for a half-cent coin is growing. It seems to be regarded as a necessity of the bargain counter, and while it won’t come high, we must have it. If Watterson be one of those who purpose | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1900. GCre Oreatment of Catholees and fiws in the Oransvaal N wrote to Hon. Montagu White, representz]{ v him to make a statement in regard to the politica 2 English press is continually repeating the false statement that Catholics and Jews coul The following statement, W gt l “HE corresponding secretary of the Transvaal c the Transvaal republic. ever with English misrepresentation: “I am astonished to find that the pro- South African republic on account of * A {:ews were emancipated in England, and there are stifl - Every British sovereign before ascending the throne of the Catholic faith as false and idolatrous. “Certain offices in England can only be held by Protestants, Lord Chancellor. “In the Transvaal the only restriction which may be said to operate against Catholics and Jews is d the Volksraad must belong to members of the Executive Council an obtain their votes; they can be, and are, in fact, civil officials, Protestants and burghers. 4 “The chief official in the War Department is a Roman Catholic; e Executive Council is another; two clerks in Dr. Leyds’ embassy are Catholics, the civil service of the Transvaal. “There are also some Jews in the Government employ, financial and commercial occupations, “The ground on the gold fields, upon which nearly all the m: § - Jewish synaggogues. are built, has be’enppresented to these communities by the Transvaal Govérnment, and with one exception, which I have quoted, namely, that the members of the Volksraad and of the Executive Council must short time ago ommittee of California, Theodore P}nther, a : ive of the Transvaal republic at Washington, D. C.. requesting 1 status of Catholics and Jews in the Transvaal, because the 1d not obtain full citizenship in ritten by an Englishman by birth, should do away once and for- i i i inst the British advocates of this war should bring accusations agains its treatment of Roman Catholics. It is hardly fifty years since Catholics and certain disabilities under which Catholics labor in England has to take an oath to the effect that he or she holds the tenets such as the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and the that the the Protestant faith. Catholics and Jews can and they enjoy all the other privileges and rights of one of the confidential secretaries of the and there are doubtless many others in though there are not many, as most of them prefer where there is a wider scope for making money. Roman Catholic churches and convents, as well as the be Protestants, there is absolutely no difference made in the exercise of civil rights between a_member of the Dutch Reform church and a Catholic or Jew. MONTAGU .WHITE.” @00+ s 00 % °0 COMING DOWN FROM HIS PEDESTAL. } i } : ‘f® MARILA. ! ! L 4 % 1 5 $ ® L3 @ L | | | country would like to possess. Any one who goes there with the idea of engaging in business must, like all who go to a new country, take chances. No one here can assure an intending busine: man thlnt any certain business will be success- ful. CENTVRY SERIES—W., Philo, Cal The series of essays tirat are issued un- der the title of “Centvry” are the “Cen- tury” series, the letter being substi- tuted for the ordinary RELIABILITY OF FIRM—B., Auburn, Cal. This department does not furnish information as to the rellability or stand- ing of any firm or business house, as it has not the means to obtain that infor- mation. Such can be obtained from mer- cantile agencies. REVENUE STAMP-J. A. W., Live Oak, Cal. Dealers in stamps charge from 50 cents to $15 for a conveyance revenus stamp; 50 cents to §150 for a mortgage stamp; from $1 to $750 for a probate of will stamp. These three denominations are red and of the face value of $2. he price is regulated by the condition in which they are. ROCKET BATTERIES-Y. O. 8, City. Rocket batteries {n the army have been superseded by the modern mortar. Rocket | batteries when set at four or five degrees | carry to a ?olm 500 or 600 yards away; at 3 | an angle of forty-seven, from 1760 to 2200 yards. The weight of a 2%-inch diameter shell fired from a rocket is § pounds and | one of 3% inch diameter is 16 pounds. MONEY IN BANK-Subscriber, City. | If husband and wife deposit money in & bank with the understanding that either | can draw it out, there is nothing to pre- | vent the husband from drawing out that | money and placing it in another bank in his own name. If it is community prop- erty the husband has control of the same; | if any portion of the money was the | wite's separate property she would have | & right to make her husband account for the same. REGISTRATION—Miner, Jacksonville, Cal. A man when he registers in ordgr to | enable him to vote must make oath that he is elther a native-born or a naturalized | citizen. If any one knows that he made | a false declaration that person can have ih]m arrested for perjury. This depart- ment cacnot advise you how to find out “that a man who registered is not a citi- zen and find out if he has naturalization papers.” You cangot bring a man into court on mere susPicion and make him prove that the suspicion is unfounded. THE TORRENS SYSTEM—J. B., Fa- moso, Cal. The claim is made for the Torrens system of registration and trans- —Chicago Tribune. N o = = S i A B = + . 5 i ® MISS M. THOMAS TO BE A BRIDE D. 0. Mills and Whitelaw Reid Guests of Honor at J. D. Grant’s Luncheon. The engagement is announced of Miss Molly Taomas, daughter of Willlam Thomas, to Latham McMullin. Both Miss Thomas and Mr. McMullin are favorites in the swell younger set and were kept busy vesterday recelving the congratulations of their many friends. No date for the wedding has as yet been set. Miss Molly is to be ome of the brides- maids at the wedding of her sister, Miss Mamie Thomas, and Mr. Kimball of Los ‘Angeles, which will be celebrated on the 2%5th of this month at the Unitarian church. : Joseph D. Grant gave an elaborate luncheon at the Pacific Union Club yester- day in honor of D. O. Mills and Whitelaw Reld. It was a most finished affair, made doubly pleasant by the fact that it was a gathering of old friends. Those at table were: J. D. Grant, D. O. Mills, Whitelaw Reld, Wiliiam Alvord, Professor Bernard Moses, Judge John Garber, Collls P. Huntington, Charles P. Eells, Charles R. Bishop, Christian de Guigne, Julius Kruttschnitt, E. B. Pond, Claus Spreckels, Irving M. Scott, Robert r Mmowfi Hérul:; 0 !;!alt, l'y{“p“ %_ Donohoe, . E. Huntington, Russel . Wilson, Frank J. Symmes, Charles Webb Howard and R. P. Schwerin. WILL GIVE SEA FLORA TO THE PARK MUSEUM Forum Club Members to Purchase Miss Westfall’s Collection for the City. The ladies of the Forum Club are about to purchase the wonderful collection of sea flora belonging to Miss Westfall and bave arranged to present the same to the Golden Gate Park Museum. To make this purchase possible the la- dies of the club will place the collection on exhibition in the art gallery of Mechanics’ Pavilion and the sum realized from the exhibition will form the nucleus of the purchasing fund. Miss Westfall's collection is the most beautiful and finest of its in exist- ence and contains 180 differen es between 500 and 600 specimens. The exhibi- tion will open this afternoon and continue until May 3. The specimens will be on view from 10 a. m. until 5 p. m. daily, dur- ing which hours Miss Westfall will be on hand and deliver interesting lectures on the subject of sea flora. Many donations have been promised the ladies of the Forum Club, and with the money thus received the club proposes to send to the pupils of the different schools tickets whereby they may visit the exhibit and receive the benefit of the lectures. The collection has been approved of by the museum commlittee. Gold Badge for the Coroner. Coroner Cole was presented yesterday by the attaches of his office with a gold badge, as a token of their respect and ap- preciation. The presentation ch was made by Stenographer Emil Pohll. The Coroner was taken completely by surprise. The donors were: P. J. McCormick, chief davl#ly: C. W. M H. Fivnn, deputies; messenger; Thomas Emil Pohli, stenographer; Dr. Thomas B. W. Leland, autopsy surgeon. —_—————————— In the Divorce Court. Decrees of divorce have been granted Theresa B. Sims from Edward F. Sims for extreme crueit; nright from John J. Enri from Hugh Gi vide and Mary Grii for cruelty. Fil relll has sued Gia- Ve o Filippelll for a :?";' ppel orce, alley cru- as cause of action. e | fer of title to real estate that it frees land titles of the expense of conveyance, the perils that have always attended real estate transactions and the expense of in- vestigating chains of title back through former owners. It provides for an officer, or set of officers, experts who can make an examination of title once for all down to a given time—that is, down to the time of the application to have the title reg- istered; and the title being found to be in the applicant, to certify that fact, en- tering tbe certificate in a book called the register, and delivering a copy to the owner, which certificate is conclusive as to ownership. —_— e Solid cream Easter eggs. Townsend PERSONAL MENTION. . D. Robinson, a merchant of Sebastopol, is at the Russ. Dr. J. Trullinger and family of San Jose are at the Russ. Dr. John Dickson and wife of Baltimore are at the Palace. ‘W. H. Perry, a lumber mill owner of Los Angeles, is at the Lick. P. R. Schmidt, a big wine grower of Calistoga, is at the Lick. 0. T. Atwood, an electrical goods dealer of Stockton, is at the Grand. J. W. Barbour and D. R. Cameron, oil men of Hanford, are at the Lick. John Ragglo, age line owner of San Andreas, and his wife are at the Grand. Colonel Edward Boyle, superintendent of the Franklin mine at Nevada City, Is at the Russ. } Little Japs in Jinko Easter novelties, Sc. Townsend's, 629 Market st., Palace Hotel.* # California Glace Fruits, 50c Ib.; in etched boxes. Townsend's, 639 Market st.* e Chocolate cream Easter eggs. send’s. . Town- . Special information suppiled daily to E. M. Preston of Nevada City, a direct- | pusiness houses and public men the or of the Preston School of Industry at | Press Clipping Bureau (Alien’s), 58 Mont- Ione, is at the Grand. gomery t. Telephone Main 102 * —_——— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON ‘WASHINGTON, April 1.—E. R. Brain- erd of Los Angeles is at the St. James. e r———— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. WITH ARROWS—G. W. G., Priests Valley, Cal. A half-dollar of 1853, with | arrow heads at date, does not command a premium. It is the half-dollar without arrows at date or rays around the eagle | that commands a premium. THE POUNDMASTER—S. F. L, City. If you own a dog and he is beside you on | the street without a collar and tag there- on, denoting that the license has been paid for the current year, the poundmas- ter has a right to seize him, providin, that the animal is not under your control by chain, strap or rope. CAPE NOME—A. 8, City. Dealers in books have a number of works that give information about Cape Nome—cost of | gfternoon by turning on the gas. She was transportation, provisions and such in- | taken to the Receiving Hospital and was formation as intending visitors to that|scon pronounced out of danger. ALASKA COMMERCIAL COMPANY «.FOR... Nome, St. Michael, Dawson wsAND... ALL POINTS ON YUKON RIVER. CARRYING THE UNITED STATES Art Exhibition and Concert. Mark Hopkins' Institute of Art is open dally from 9 till 5. Concert to-night from 8 till 10. Admission 25 cents. . —_—————— Central Pacific Directors. There was & stockholders’ meeting of the old Central Pacific Rallroad Company on Tuesday, at which the following direc- tors were elected: W. F. Herrin, J. C. Stubbs, J. Kruttschaitt, R. P. Schwerin, J. L. Willcutt and J. M. Hanford. The meeting was & merely formal affair, and the directors are not much more than figureheads. P —— Ladles never bave any dyspepsia after o wineglass of Dr. Slexert's Angosturs Bitters. P D — Triet the Gas Route. Julia Kennedy, the colored woman who has come Into prominence through the case of Lottie Robb, the young girl found by the police in her room, 24 Turk street, attempted to commit suicide yesterday NOME DIRECT: FOR NOME, MICHAEL AND ALL OTHER FROM SAN FRANCISCO...ccourmermurmmnnnrnnenssoosassessmnnsosd 8. 8. “ST. 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