The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 17, 1900, Page 6

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BRANCH OFFICES—IT Montgomery, corner of Clay, opes ti 9 ock. 300 H. open untll 9:30 o'clock lister, open until 9 ock. 615 Larkin. open u o clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 61 ket, oo th, open until § o'clock. 1096 § o'clock. 1306 Eleventh, open until sroer Twenty-second and Kentucky. leria Rusticana.” Vaudeville every afterncon and Ities. Show. . every Sunday. BUILDING UP THE WEST. * »ast our tern exchanges have siderable attention to efforts now certain raj WEy companies to pro- older States to those re- ¢ tributary to the lines of R e efforts € ppears from reports have met with marked westward flow home- the of improvement plans for 1d the Rocky Moun- the expenditure of millions of n to present population from ne of at leas 200,000 new peopls of ill appear on the maps of the West from 300 to n is to be added, already number cighteen months. The number , or those to which lieved this number will ex- ted in the past while trunk receiving the closest attention it is neg g are oners and traffic man- ration in the estimate there can be no ng West are very large, and raiiroads are going to prove building up the sections through is said the railroads undertaking a Fe; Chicago and Northwestern; ce and St. Paul; Northern Pacifir; t 1 Illinois Central: Chi- It will be noted that ific and the Southern Pacific lines are at are striving to build up the me-seckers is not to be brought Our only consolation is that whatever rt of the Great West must be helpful his State, and therefore, while the rail- s lines that center here are doing nothing to pro- mote our progress, we shall advance in spite of them 10is; to this city and wa; It now scems well assured that the Convention of Republican League Clubs at Los Angeles will be weil nded and that a sufficient amount of enthusiasm ened there to start the campaign with vim and vigor all along the line. a will be aw Vanity Fair of London is of the opinion that Brit- ficers in South Africa play at war rather than If that be the case Vanity Fair will at the game thus far has not been child's ish of carry on war. r the officers. If reports be true Oom Paul could organize an army of his own and not leave the family circle. He now has in the war thirty-three grandsons, four sons, nd numerous other relatives, It will be remembered it took Kitchener two years to make ready for his famous advance inte the Sou- n, and cs now as if he had persuaded Roberts to repeat the tactics in the Transvaal. six sons-in-law Sculptor Wells, who loses his home for giving as- sistance to Ezeta, the revolutionist, probably has learned the lesson that it is wise not to concern one's self in the affairs of others. Ex-Coroner Hill is before the public again; this time as an amateur pawnbroker. He probably drifted into the role naturally, having had his reputatien so often in pawn. - The admirers of Queen Victoria may admire her courage in taking a recent drive in a drenching rain, but they certainly will not praise the old lady's dis- cretion. —_— General Miles, it is szid, is casting longing eyes on the Presidency. He probably has discretion enough, Lowever, to Fealize that he is miles from the goal. Otis not only failed to catch Aguinaldo, but is com- ing home beiore catching his second wind. Great Northern Hotel: | ortant part of this work are: Atchison, | DEWEY’S CANDIDACY. HE offer of Admiral Dewey to take the Presi- dency has become of interest only by reason i of the casual rifts in the veil of mystery which disclose the motives that induced it. These motives are external to the Admiral. The | idea evidently did not originate with him, though it | found in him a congenial culture bed. This has | been true of a large number of able men, who breathed in the Presidential microbe from the atmos- phere around them and were forever after changed | men. In some cases a nomination cures the disease. | But in no case has it ever disappeared when no nomi- ! nation was applied to it. There is reasonable ground | for the fear that in the Admiral's case the infirmity will Be chronic, since there appears but little prospect that the nomination cure is possible. It is known now that his candidacy is the result of the straits of the Democratic party. Certain gold | Democrats who supported the Indianapolis platform | are anxious to eliminate the features of the “new | Democracy” brought into fantastic existence with the advent of Mr. Bryan as the party leader. These goid | men want to get back into the organization, but they cannot as long as they must accept the revolutionary propositions of the Chicago platform. These gentle- men are reinforced by a very large contingent who ac- cepted the platform of 1896 and supported Bryan, be- cause he was the reguiar candidate, and they preferred not to break with the organization, but to stay with it, hoping to see better days. It must be admitted that among these are the best politicians that were with Bryan in 1896. They are of the class that support the ticket, pack lamps and en- courage the boys by shouting, though they may in cuss the candidate and roast the platiorm. priva It must be said that Senator Jones, chairman of B National Committee, and his managers, are | neither politicians nor statesmen. They belong to the class of public men who think that things will occur because they wish them to. They have neither fore- | sight nor hindsight, nor do they see sidewise In They are supérstitious and | expect to secure political results by conjuring. Bry uits them exactly. His idiotic optimism, his orator prophecies, which never come true, the numerous things he knows that are not so, seem to suit them exactly. With them faith is that faculty which enables them to believe what they know is not | true. They are pitied, feared and hated by the gold | Democracy and the politicians in the regular party, and those two classes have combined to break the spell by which they hold the organization in bond- age. Qut of this issues the candidacy of Dewey. t, they don’t see at all. n The re- calcitrants in the Bryan camp and the gold Démo- crats, who want to get back and be regular, have got together and wigwagged the Admiral, until he wig- ;. thinking that the country is signaling i assistance. His name is to be at the Kansas City convention as a out the differences which split the party four years ago. and aiter that those who have brought him out | don’t care much what happens. What will happen is already plain to men who heed Patrick Henry's sions of hope. vention can be elected. The Chicago convention was on a large scale a repetition of the Stockton conven- tion held in this State in 1884, which turned red-eyed and used a cleaver to split the party from chin to chine. Thousands of Democrats pull quietly until that tumultuous aggregation of dema- gogues is thought of, and they get mad and cease to pull or be quiet. | The American Democracy will never win until it is born again, and in view of Colonel Bryan's injurious volubility, the country will be glad to have it still- born, if possible wags ba 1 to come to k sponge to wipe advice against indulgence in the illu- No nominee of the Kansas City con- go on and s e Another suit for damages is to be filed against the telephone monopoly because of the criminal negli- gence of the corporation. The patrons of the com- pany might save time and defense in securing their rights by organizing a defense society and establish- ing a central bureau for complaints. NE of the most interesting and valuable re- |THE GERMAN MERCHEANT MARINE. O ports made by our Consuls for a long time is that of Frank H. Mason, Consul General at Berlin, reviewing the rapid progress made by the Germans in building up an extensive merchant marine, and setting forth the means by which the presént great results have been attained. The report comes as a timely contribution to the discussion of the merchant marine bill now before Congress, and contains an important lesson for our lawmaker It is to Bismarck Germany owes the beginning, of that wise and liberal legislation which has made her one of the foremost commercial nations on the globe. After the establishment of the imperial Government Bismarck foresaw that the time would soon come when Germany would change from an agricultural to | a manufacturing and commercial nation, and would | require a foreign market for her surplus products. With his usual sagacity and vigor he set about pre- | paring for one, and at once devised legislation to that | end. In 1881 the Prince, who was then Chancellor of the empire, submitted to the Reichstag a long and clabo-l rate memorial based upon a review of the French mercantile marine act of that year, which appropriated $4.500,000 per annum for ship subsidies. The me- morial also showed in detail how Great Britain was paying annually at the same time in postal subsidies | $3,118.448 to steamship lines carrying her commerce ! as well as her mail to all parts of the globe. His ap- | peal to the Germans to follow the example of these nations was cordially received, and a liberal system of subsidies to German shipping was inaugurated. In this, however, as in many other things, Bismarck was in advance of the ideas of his countrymen. We are told that when he proposed the construction of German vessels in German shipyards the great mer- chants were skeptical. Even after the governmental navy-yards at Kiel and Wilhelmshaven had con- .f‘s(mcted several first-class warships, the shipowners hesitated to make the venture. It was not until fifteen years after the launch.of the Preussen that the Norch German Lloyd and the Hamburg-American lines ven- tured to trust their home ship-builders and withdraw I,:hcir patronage from British contractors, and that | they did this at all, it is said, was mainly due to the | ] | fact that they were forced into it by legislation. Under the pressure of Bismarck's vigor, then, Ger- | many entered upon the work of building her own | ships and extending her commerce. The empire was | handicapped at the start by want of resources and | experience in iron-working, and still more by the | general lack of confidence. The work went on, how- | ever, and now the results are before the world. At ithe present time the German commercial marine is | second only to that of Great Britain. In 1871 Ger- 1 many had in her merchant fleet for ocean service only 147 steamers, with a tonnage of 81,004, manned by ! 4736 men. On January 1, 1898, the date of the last loficial statistics, she had 1171 sea-going steamers of 060,800 tons, and crews numbering 28,266 men. She has twenty-seven regular lines of steamships to Euro- pean ports and thirty-four to the rest of the world, carrying the products of her industry to America, | Asia, Africa, Australia and every island of the sea that offers a present or promises a future trade to the fatherland. That is the object lesson which Germany presents, and unless our statesmen are blind they will profit by it. ~ e —— The Bryanites of Pennsylvania adopted a State platform declaring for a vigorous foreign policy, ac- tion “to maintain the independence of the Transvaal and the Orange Free State,” the fortification of the Nicaragua Canal, and wound up with: “We are op- posed to the increase of our standing army.” Per- haps they think if Bryan were President the nation could act vigorously in foreign parts by lung power. DEMOCRATIC HARMONY. T is interesting that the réaction against the vaga- ries of Colonel Bryan and the most intolerant in- sistence upon them are both found, side by side, in the West, more plainly outlined than elsewhere in the country. At his late reception and dollar dinner in Seattle there was an all-sided riot over the tickets Accommodations had been provided for 1000 gues and the committee concluded it would be a fine chance to put the company on record, so they pre- pared a printed blank application for a ticket in this form: o I hereby make application for a ticket to the Bryan banquet at Armory Hall on Monday evening, April 2 1900. I am a member of the party and indorse the Chicago platform. Signature . Address Tickets §1 each; positively not transferable. Com- mittee reserves all rights, To the great surprise of the managers the tickets did not sell. It finally became plain that not 500 voters could be found in Seattle who would sign an indorsement of the Chicago platform and pay a doi- lar to hear Bryan eat and see him speak. To keep the victuals from spoiling the conditions in the appli- cation had to be withdrawn and the tables were fairly filled by people who came from curiosity and had to listen to a speech by Colonel Bryan reported to be the dullest thing known on the Pacific Coast since a Seattle carpenter used a carrot for an auger. About the time that this repudiation of the Chicago platform and f{ree silver was going on on Puget Sound the 16 to 1 howl was echoing on the well sea- soned shores of Salt Lake. The Salt Lake Herald rose and said: “Men talk about what the gold Demo- ¢rats want. It doesn’t make any difference what they want, they won’t get it in the Democratic party. The advocate of a single gold standard is not a Demo- crat.” Now, there you have it! Not enough Democrats in Seattle to keep a ban- quet from spoiling who will indorse a silver standard, and the Herald reading out of the party all who in- dorse the gold standard. The situation suggests that the Kansas City convention declare for no standard at all, but for any well executed counterfeit monev that will pass. States roundabout. But fancy the Herald reading gold standard men out of the party and Bryan sol- emnly calling them ‘“assistant Republicans.” It is eniough to make the dust of Jackson burst its cere- ments and jump out of the grave yelling “by the | Eternal” and other cusswords and feel around for a gun, for Jackson said, “Gold is the universal and only honest standard of value.” If he were alive now he would be an “assistant Re- publican,” according to William Jennings Bryan, the boy beautiful and Jack Cooke of Democracy. There is no use kicking over the announcement that the name of Jay Gould is to have a prominent place in the New York Temple of Fame. It would he better to congratulate ourselves that the name of George Gould is not to be put there also. S troduced into the Senate, and Representative Lentz in the House, bills providing for the is- sue of “post checks,” for the convenience of the pub- POST CHECK NOTES. ENATOR McMILLAN of Michigan has in- lic in transmitting small amounts of money through | the mails. The measures have been framed in ve- sponse to an urgent public demand. The present postal order system by no means fills the require- ments of the time. It is costly and inconvenient, and, moreover, does not serve all the purposes desired. The two bills now before Congress are essentially alike. They provide for the issuance of “United States post check notes” in denominations of five dollars, two dollars and one dollar, to replace the entire issue of money represented by those amounts, and fifty million dollars ($50.000,000) in fractional notes, of fifty, twenty-five, fifteen, ten and five cent denominations. Each note to contain blank spaces for the name and address of the payee and his signa- ture and that of the person who sends it, such signa- ture to make it payable at the postoffice where the payee resides, and transforming it into a check on the United States Government, to be used the same as a personal check or the present money order. In lieu of the fee for issuing the note, a two-cent stamp for notes of $1 or upward, or a one-cent stamp for notes “of fractional parts of a dollar, to be affixed to each note by the person using the same to transmit it through the mails. When redeemed the notes to be reissued. 3 It will be seen that under the proposed system it will not be necessary to go to the postoffice and make out a blank application for a money order every time a person wishes to send any sum from five cents to five dollars through the mails with safety. The person desiring to transmit the money can take any postal check in general circulation and use it for that purpose. When once it has been indorsed in the manner prescribed it will then be valueless for circu- lation and be fiaynble only to the person to whom it is drawn. Money transmitted in that way will be as safe as if sent by a bank check or by express, or by the present system of postal orders, while the con- venience and cheapness of it will be a vast improve- ment on either of the present methods of sending small sums across the country. The proposed reform being now fairly before Con- gress, it is to be hoped it will be taken up and enacted at this session. It will be a measure of immediate benefit to all, and it would be well for commercial bodies to press upon Congressmen the importance of providing the system as soon as possible. Democrats, Silver Republicans and Populists are striving to unite upon a running mate for William Jennings Bryan. When the unfortunate is finally chosen it would be interesting to know to just what set of principles he is pledged. Since the British are now agreed that what they need most is army reform they should bring their army back from South Africa and set to work. In that ‘way .they could reform themselves at the same time with the army. That would please Missouri and the | | BHTTLE FOR THE PEOPLE I THE FIFTH DISTRICT The Republican Congres- sional Committee to Meet Next Thursday. i Democratic Press Outery Against Pri- maries Designed to Divert Atten- tion From Phelan’s Pro- | gramme. e R The Fifth Congressional District Repub- | lican Committee (Max Goldberg, chair- | man) will meet next Thursday evening to conslder the subject of holding primaries for the election of delegates to the con- vention. Mr. Goldberg is not committed to the plan of appointing delegates. J. Alva Watt, another member of the com- | mittee, recently assurcd the State Central | | Committee that primaries would be held | in the Assembly districts of San Francisco | belonging to the Fifth Congressional Dis- | trict. Word comes from Santa Clara | | County that the followers of the Good | Government League in that county will | | not submit to the appointive scheme. The zeal of the Democratic press in op- { Posing Republican primaries is the topic | | of much comment. 'The joker in this| Democratic performance is not at present | clearly revealed to the public, but the i revelation will be made later on when the | time comes for selecting delegates to the | Democratic conventlon. The programme | of appointing delegates is aiready agreed | upon by Democratic bosses, but they fear | | that the introduction of so much raw ma- | | terial at one dose will disgust the rank and file of the party. In order to divert | attention from the carefully prepared plan to pack the Democratic convention with appointed Phelanites, a_special effort i | being made to discount the value of pri- | maries and persuade Republican voters that appointed delegations will properly represent the people. | 1t is not likely that the members of the | Republican Congressional Committee in | i the Fifth District wiil be governed by | the advice so freely tendered by the Phe- | ilan press. If the Democralic bosses | want to pack their own State convention | with Phelanites let them do so on their | own responsibility. The Republicans can- | not afford to give the Democrats a prece- | | dent for “‘turning down” the people. | | _Seth Mann, chairman of the Democratic | State Central Committee, will ask the | members of that organization to meet in | San Francisco some day near the end of | this month. A meeting of the executive | committee may be held a day or two be- | | fore the general committee assembles. It | seems to be settled that the State con- | | vention will be held in Sacramento, as no | | inducemen ve been offered for a meet- | ing elsewhere. l | . California be | Democratic |is to meet eighteen del | gressional di atorial. The al Committee gressional | | | | | | i i %E % i : : ; % X will represented in the | Convention, which Kansas City July 4, by | s, two from each Con- | trict and two for Sen- 1 of the Democratic Nation- does not provide for Con- fet conventions. The National at eighteen will therefore be | chosen by convention, but the | right of each Cong: nal district to two | tatives will not be denied. No scretlon is given by the National Demo- cratic Committee as to the manner of | choosing delegates to comprise the State | convention, hence the Democrats may ap- | point their delegates without consulting | the wishes of the voters belonging to the party. The call of the Republican National Committee gives no warrant for creating conventions by appointment, but, on the contrary, expressly asserts that delegates must be chosen in the manner of nom- | | inating candidates for Representatives in | Congress. Democrats are greatly alarmed at the prospect of a party demand for a primary election in San Francisco. In order to al- lay agitation and direct the attention of Déemocratic voters from the Pheian pro- ramme a great outcry is raised against ! Republican primaries. It is well known that Phelan could not rally ol | B B o e e S A B T R a sufficient | number of voters under bis new flag to | carry a single Assembly district of San | | Francisco in a primary election. The | scheme to appoint delegates to the Demo- | | cratic State Convention will be carried out in Phelan's interest if the masses of the party do not rise in their unwashed majesty and soak the programme. PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. B. O. Nash of. Hollister is at the Russ. | Dr. C. C. Rounds of Rockport is at the | Grand. J. Ivancovich, a merchant of Hanford, is at the Russ. F. P. Primm, a merchant of Redding, is at the Grand. Professor David S. Jordan of Stanford is at the Occidental. E. C. Farnsworth, an attorney of Vi- jsnua. is at the Lick. Simon Bray, a mining man of Austin, Nev., is at the Lick. { John T. Gomann, a vineyardist of St. | Helena, is at the Grand. | Superior Judge Alfred F. Sears Jr. | Portland, is at the St. Nicholas. | E. Meybem and Thomas Bickwell, mer- chants of Chico, are at the Grand. E. 8. Valentine, a real estate and in- surance man of Fresno, is at the Lick. N. 8. G. Hough of Kansas City, travel- ing passenger agent of the Rock Island roufe, is at the Oeccidental. Charles C. Zoller and wife of Rochester, N. Y., are the guests of F. Willilam Kern, at 2439 Seventeenth street. | W. H. Snedaker, general agent of the Tllipols Central, left lasgt night for Port- of ! | Important Announcement Special 15’000 Ladles Purchase (rarmens FOR CITY AND SEASIDE WEAR. J. O'BRIEN & CO. beg to announce to the public l‘hnt they have closed out the Eniire Stock of a leading manufac- turer in New York City at a discount of 33 1-3 off reguvlnr prices. This purchase consists of Ladies’ Tailor-made Suits. Ladies’ Tailor-Made Skirts, Ladies’ Linen Ekirts, Ladies’ Siik Waists, Ladies’ Duck Skirts, Ladies’ Silk Skirts, Ladies’ Grass Linen Skirts, Ladies’ Tailor-Made Jackets, Ladies’ Pigue Skirts. The Entire Stock will be offered this morning at Lowest Prices ever reached for new and desirable goods. NOTE THE FOLLOWING WONDERFUL BARGAINS: 1200 LADIES’ LINEN SKIRTS will be offered at...2 1200 LADIES’ MOREE.\: SKIRTS will be offered at.33¢c 1150 LADIES’ LINEN SKIRTS, fancy braided, will be offered at....... 1150 LADIES’ WHITE PIQUE SKIRTS, value for $1.00, will be offered at..... 800 FANCY BRAIDED SKIRTS, value for $1.25, will be offesed at.- ... ... 5. 800 LINEN SKIRTS, he-affered Aty 8. hiviciivnas inserting, value 700 NAVY BLUE DUCK SKIRTS, white g, for $1.50, will be offered at By SRR AT W 200 MISSES’ GOLF CAPES will be offered at......$1.5 the 5¢C L e T v SN white inserting, value for $1.50, will (o} $3.00 500 LADIES’ TAILOR-MADE SUITS, value for will be offered at...... 500 LADIES’ TAILOR-MADE SUITS, value for $10.50, will be offered at....... S 200 LADIES’ TAILOR-MADE SUITS, appliqued, value for $12.50, will be offered at. $7.50 400 NOV 1000 BLACK CREPON SKIRTS, all sizes, value for $7.00, will be offered at...... 500 BLACK APPLIQUE SKIRTS, in cloth, will be of- fered at $5.00, $6.00, $7.50, up *0.....cc.ve......$12.00 100 LADIES’ SILK WAISTS, in all shades and sizes, at $2.90; $4.75, $6:80, $7.00, UP 0. . cccc e vivcnv-<-312.50 1000 LADIES' TAN JACKETS, TAILOR-MADE, value for $7.50, will be offered at . ceeee.$5.00 1000 LADIES’ TAN JACKETS, TAILOR-MADE, value for $10.00, will be offered at ........cocccecees--$7:50 400 LADIES’ MOREEN SKIRTS, in black and colored, at S0 ST A SERNUP 0 L. i ieisdasansve seaas 0D 500 LADIES’ COLORED SILK PETTICOATS will be offered at $4.75, $7.50, $10.00, up to.............$25.00 1500 LADIES’ CLOTH CAPES, PLUSH CAPES and VELVET CAPES, in all shades and sizes. The entire stock will be ready for sale at 9 o’clock this morning. S Ladies requiring such goods will do well to call early. The above lines are positively the greatest bargains' ever offered. J. O'BRIEN & Co. 1146 Market Street, $8.50, 2L TY SUITS, at $15.00, $20.00, $23.00, up to.. . $635.00 ) O X ] el i * % X % : - * i % .g. - : ) + e ) e e : ; | : land to look after the agency recently es- | tablished there. Dr. John M. Williamson, president of the Board of Health, has returned from Portland, where he has been looking after the interests of the dental department of the State University. ‘Willlam Sproule of the S uthern Pmcifi: Company left last night for Denver, where he will meet the members of the Interstate Commerce Commission and proceed with them to Chicago, where the final hearing of the rate case will take place. H. Braunschweiger, president of the firm of Braunschweiger & Co., left last night for an extended tour in Europe. He will visit the principal cities of the world and the Paris Exposition and remain away for an Indefinite period. ————— CHINESE IMPORTATION FRAUDS B R A A T S O R e e o R, S SR SNCEE SR SO The more the Chinese importation busi- ness is looked into the dirtier does it be- come. It appears that upward of 3000 Chinese have been admitted by Collector Jackson, all of whom claim that they were born in this State, hundreds of whom give the same building as their birthplace and every one of whom re, markably enough left before July, 1883, and are now returning for the first time. The reason for this unanimity as to date is the fact that at that time the Govern- ment began to keep a record of every de- nrl\nf Chinese. On the face of it the fraud s a glaring one, and unless blinded by coin one can scarcely understand how an officer could be so ignorant as to ac- cept any such “evidence.” ———————— STEPHEN WHITE ON THE TICKET. Salt Lake Tribune. It is said that Mr. Bryan favors ex- Senator White of California for his run- ning mate in the coming campaign. W, think that is very natural. E:x-!glenato: ‘White is a bright man, a most lovable man and he has been a righthand sup- orter of Mr. Bryan from the meeting of he Chicago convention four years ago. Koy RUEE B peinels =i carry the State ‘of ‘Califo and ‘surely nothing else can. Ry Alameda Encinal. ! i O+ +0-0—0—0—9—06—0——@ with tartan. nie - b, groun means of of the skirt is of tartan. ——— s The tunic opens down front and is made to Imitate & toipre bo stitched bands. The ® FASHION HINT FROM PARIS, i | B R S R S R e R L e T S 1 TAILOR MADE COSTUME. The costume represented is of sapphire :lu:hilo;h. 'l‘hci jacket, which extends only o ral s trimmed stitched band, and the llyeh'lmll"le 2;‘:::: ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. STEREOTYPE AND ELECTROTYPE —C., Seattle, Wash. There were a num- ber of men at about the same time who discovered the principles of stereotyping. but the first to put it to practical use was William Ged. a goldsmit Edin- burgh, in ¥ ‘The discover: 'hn;)s‘l:\‘(::'x.“_ typing is credited to Thomas Spencer of Liverpool in 1729. POLL TAX—B. A. G, City. The fact that a man earns less than $12 a week does not exempt him from the payment of poll tax in California. The clause in the constitution relative to that tax Is section 12 of article XIII, which says: “The Leg- islature shail provide for the levy and ollection of an annual poll tax of not s than $2 on every male inhabitant of :‘12‘: Sln(e(u\-‘er 21 am!l under 6 years of ge, except paupers, 250 Tadiune Dot lzrlxcll;,k)[s' PP R ROAD AND OTHER TAX—H. T., Tron Mountain, Cal. Poll and road tax paid in one State does not exempt an individual from payment in another State. 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