The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 23, 1900, Page 4

TH SAN FRANCISCO CALL, ONDAY, APRIL 23, 1900 OHN D. SPRECKELS, Propretor. LEAKE, Manage: munications to W. dress A OFFICE..Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Main 1868, PUBLICATION EDITORIAL ROOMS....717 to 221 Stevenson St. Teiephone Main 18 Delivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies. 5 Cents. including Pos ne ye: tage: 6sc 1.50 mre authorized to receive Al postmasters sabscription Sample ter forwarded when requested. OAKLAND OFFICE......ccconnns 1118 Broadway tano, 31 Union Square corper ock. AUCTION SALES. e for the public to take sides in he sure thing men. It can hese d ! e as men have ever to take. ings, deprived their fami- , have borrowed m ases have been tempted to osures must the evil that has resulted from rried on at Tanforan and for a ie track under the management of here is something frightful in the are now being made. Men have been 1 wasting their incomes to profligacy, to to gross crimes, to exposure, to ruin, rison or to suicide; and all for nothing, 1 a chance to win, for not so much as 2 track gamblers, arranging the races to suit themselves, con- ckeys and having everything in their ave not given their dupes even the slight t they seemed to have on the face of the s been no “sport” in the game at any , it is to be borne in mind that we are but he revelations of crookedness tions do not become suddenly t the disclosures of their own tri ks, and n fear abandon their controversy, we sh y more frauds on the tracks. acts now charged against cer- n of 1 ners are all that have been com- should the specific charges of fraud lies, there would still remain fastened gamblers the crookedness that im- ion of San Francisco upon the evil of gambling ought now to be complete. The rec- ft 1 courts and the Morgue show the e gambling, and the disclosures of fraud jockeys and their managers show the ich those effects are wrought. What more can be required t6 confirm the people and the mu: 1 h ies in a firm resolve to put an end to this ne! trade which injures legitimate racing and e breeding by degrading “the sport of kings” to a common swindle and a public curse? According to a report of the quartermaster general the cost of the army transport service since the out- brezk of the war with Spain has been $25.800,000 for me. The country will not grumble at the bill, for the expenditure was necessary, but it is worth while asking why a nation that expends that amount for ships in time of war should hesitate to vote a frac- tion of it for the purpose of upbuilding a merchant marine in time of peace. vessels al | tinually growing proce: A VICTORY FOR THE LAW AND THE PEOPLE, Y publishing the records of the Chinese Bureau in this city The Call exposed the extent to which Chinese immigration has been going on for the last three years, and revealed the portentous fact that a considerable number of the immigrants B have been admitted not only to the country but to citizenship as natives of the United | The publication was made not for the purpose of discrediting any official, but solely for the general good and to the end that all officials in authority should be aroused to the exercise 0 It is there-| ing to be able to state that the exposure has had an immediate wholesome | i greater vigilance in the enforcement of the exclusion act. fore grati effect, and that for a time at least San Francisco will not be so wide open a door to THIS MAN'S Mongolian coolies who claim citizenship in our country. When the records of the Chinese Bureau were published in The Call and their sig- clear, Collector Jackson rashly undertook to defend the manner in which been executed under his administration. nificance made the I He challenged investigation, as-! erted a willingness to have all the records opened for inspection, and declared he sought! that which the records upon law = complete examination would all accepted the challenge. It guaranteed to deiray the whole & : | ense of such on. It was ready then as now to publish the truth, the whole but the truth, whether it were to the credit or the dis other obj and nothi credit of any | , there g no ct on the part of The Call-than that of making known ublic how far the exclusion act has- been enforced and how far it has been After issuing the ge, tor of the Port suddenly remembered an order from his official su~ at \Washington forbidding him to permit the inspection of the customs records by - except persons interested or entitled to the privilege, and he promptly decided that! The Call is not among those who have the privilege. The Call and its representatives were demed igation undertaken or permitted. the C even permission to find out what disposition had been made of Chinese 1 I brought port within the last month. Evidentiy the Collector had taken a second thought means of vindication than that which would be atforded sout to seek some othe cord in the Chinese Bureau. Collector, however, counseled him to more than an 1 cl = nge. 1sion of his ow They convinced him of the errors of his st in landing He to decide cases of Chinese claiming ad- mission as natives of the United States, thus compelling them to have recourse to the 3000 Chinese as native sons, and of the need of adopting new methods in future. e will refuse hereafter nounced that s now a He is quoted as saying in a recent interview that he has come to the conclusion n in such matters, and tl 1at he can find no statute giving him au- T'he attorneys for reatened to mandamus me, but they will have to take what steps they please, for I am determined to take the course I have outlined.” these cases; and he is reported to have added: 1ese le is one of the instances where “better late than never” is a good rule. Therc of the C must be kept secret, it has nese to be natives must be remanded to the courts. The ning that if the publication in The Call inese Bureau Collector Jackson that the records 1s of Chi also r attorneys will of course hasten to devise some other m s of effect- ing to the United States, for the trade of importing coolies is too valuable to surrendered without a fight. In the meantime, however, much has been gained by ng up the practice in its present form, and while public vigilance must not be re- laxed, The Call has the satisfaction of knowing it has not only exposed an evil of por- It tentous ma gnituc has brought about the application of an immediate remedy. is a victory for the understz of t menace which Chinese immigration holds for American labor, law, civilization. 1 morality anc GR LAW. | las* week, and the failures were 161 against 187 last ; i year. The latt g is a good one, as it points goods mentioned | oyt that the price liquidation now going on is healthy h has been the fea- and does not imply hard times. On the contrary, the abundance of money in the country tiv 1 some albeit in com- zinn g was ¥ is a safeguard against any seri- So there is nothing to fear. B I i STANDING OF FREE SILVER i UDGE TARSNEY of Oklahoma is not a jurist ] of national repute, nor a statesman of fame, nor a political leader of renown. rcantile ob- | gus reverse. of the Perhaps the reason why he has attained to none of those eminences is everything he is a man of singular candor d reveals the that his very appears like that excessive frankness which is kncwn as rankness; and thus his neighbors look upon him not so much as a candid friend as a pudding- head. The Judge has recently given his advice on the po- al situation to the Democrats and the Populists his neighborhood, and in the course of it he sai “Bryan represents the silver question, but every- | ows that is a settled question, and nobody will get scared over it. If I had the writing of the A glance 2 of the leading manufac- | platform, opposed as I am to the silver craze, I be tured staples will show this co e | lieve that I would put that 16 to 1 business in just to on, so vast in 1809, has become so | catch the wild-eyed fellows who cannot understand anything else, and know but little about that.” There is candor. Free silver is dead and the Judge , an g down We had a boom last year, and like all booms me to an end. Production has passed the involuntary halt has taken place. kings of his mind in such a w guile it ha demar an and again red go goods, ahead In the meantime prices mu accommodate themselves to th 1 ¢ purse, and that is what is going on to-day the conditior production of of plates and bars has de- Wire Com- off, unwieldy that clined $5 per ton, the P the pri American Steel and pany has closed its mil i buyers are holding is opposed to reviving it, for he deems it nothing expecting lower pri Boots and shoes are | more than a craze at best, but he would nevertheless and all the factories are not working; some are | declare for it in a national platform. According tn ring on half time and others have not a month’ ahead. The high prices have scared off buy- d as the price of leather, in the face of this held up, there is a block 1f leather is allowed to his view the Bryanites are spreading taffy for flies | and fools in this campaign, and in his judgment any- | thing that tends to catch them is good. There are not many politicians who would have the frankness to speak out as the Oklahoma dignitarv has done, but a good many of them who will be loud in disclaiming his ‘leadership will sneakingly follow his advice. They will call him a fool and then act upon his plan. That is Bryanism. That is standing | | by free silver. de: ers, a condition, is still obstinatel to business in consequence. decline to the margin-of-profit point boots and shoes will probably m Wool is in the same boa! Producers ask so much for their wool that the manu- facturers cannot operate at prevailing prices without | advancing final quotations, which the public refuses to pay, so wool is in the hole along with iron and baots and'shoes. Cotton goods; too, are selling at concessions, for few expect present prices to last. And thus it goes, all along the line, and every few days some other branch of industry joins the con- 1on. ove again. o s o The United States Government pays salaries to a rrmber of gentlemen to serve as a board to deter- wine the correct spelling of geographical names, and vet Congress does not follow the spelling adopted by the board. Tt looks, therefore, very much like mak- ing an expenditure of money for useless work, and the members of the board might as well be granted an. unlimited leave of absence without pay. While the war with Spain was going on the country and its statesmen seemed well pleased with the work done by the National Guard in furnishing a volunteer army for the service of the republic, but it turns out that hardly anything was right about it, and a scheme is now before Congress for reorganizing the guard throughout and depriving the members of the right of electing officers. The matter will adjust itself, and probably without difficulty or serious inconvenience. There is a law of supply and demand, which sooner or later asserts itsel spite of the efforts of trusts and combinations to evade or crush it. It is asserting itseif now. We bought goods so furiously in 1899 that we only stopped when we had overstocked ourselves, and now we do not want any more for some little time. Hap- pily the process of adjustment is slow. Money is plentiful and there is little danger of any grave hap- pening. But thousands of goods which were sharply advanced in 1899 will have to come down to the level of the public pocket, and no power on earth can ar- rest the descent to this level. When the adjustment is finally completed we will start in and do it all over again, for that is the way of man. Commercial authorities are busy just now in ex- plaining away this subsidence in prices, precisely as the defeated party explains away its defeat after elec- tion. Most of them lay it to the weather. Any old excuse will do, and the weather is something that —_— With a string of British generals being sent home in disgrace from South Africa and over forty Russian naval officers under arrest for corruption, it would seem that Old World war affairs are no joke after all. It would be interesting to know how many “native sons” Collector Jackson has created in the last twenty days. This is information which the Collector very carefully keeps to himself. | there were none for sale. | new whart, which w B I e R T R T O R & THE ABOVE GER ISAR SPE QUEST FOR OIL CONTINUING IN MARY SECTIONS One Company Extending Its Operations Far Imo | .o 1 the QOcean. {b e s Oil Exchange Seats in the L have risen to a premium. The limit of | membership has been placed at fifty and | the price prise last week when that he would observer | a mom ftement broke | loose. The bid was d by $ at a time until $100 was offered for a seat, but The final bid use by the brok- | he same day that was recefved with ers and spectators. this enthuslasm was manifested the ex- change broke its records for The | shares sold numbered 6700 and the price paid was $4540. The Duquesne Ofl Company, operating | at Summerland, has let a contract for a 1 accommodate elght | This will give the com- | The operations of | | | { | | plz more derricks. pany thirty wells. the company, while exter ocean, are not considered troublesome The wells are shallow and drilling is not difficult. The company has one-half mile | of water front and room to sink 200 wells. While it is an incorporation, the stock is | reported to be held exciusively by Thomas Wood of Pennsylvania and R. H. Her- ron of Los Angeles. Messrs. K. Cnickering, E. T. Howe and Louls Brown, officers of one of the larg- est ofl concerns in the cc /. have been inspecting the fields in the south and say that they will pay the same attention to them in future that has been given to the Eastern fields. A. H. Ricketts of the California Miners’ Association expresses in the Mining and Sclentific Press the following ideas con- ing out into the cerning the proper conditions for filing upon ofl iands: “In the opinion of the writer, lands etroleum ofl lands, and which present such indications of the existence of that or other mineral oils that the claimant is willing to spend his time and | money in exploring it in the expectation of finding such fluid minerals in paying quantity, supported by expért testimon: showing that the land contains such I dications as to make it it likely that pe- troleum or other mineral olls will be found therein in paying quantities, or the fact that nelghboring territory is pro- ducing ofl and that the geological condi- tions warrant the conclusion that the oil stratum’ underlies the ground sought to be appropriated by the mineral claimant should be sufficient basis for a valid pe- troleum placer location or to withdraw such lands from agricultural entry at least a reasoiable length of time, dur- ing which expioratory work should be prosecuted with reasonable diligence or the claim be forfeited. But that is not the law and nothing short of Congressional lelg}slmlon will make such conditions pos- sible.” ‘While Los Angeles is in the throes of protest against the location of ofl wells in certain_districts in that city San Diego comes forward with a similar complaint. An effort will be made to locate oil wells inside of the city limits on land recently leased from the San Diego Land and i Town Comgany back of False Bay and north of the valley of the San Diego River. The lease of several hundred acres of pueblo lands was made by one company. It is estimated that by May 15 there will be about eighty wells in the Kern River oil fields in a condition to pumr ofl. ‘With possibly one exception the railroad has secured rights of way into the dis- trict. The Southern Pacific Company has romised to begin the construction of a ?rnck as soon as the complete right of claimed as | of Phoenix, | Pasadena. Cal | Mann of San Francisco is at the Nether- way is cleared up. The Los Angeles Times of April 13 says: “The Oil Exchange delivered a knockout blow to the gropoumon of dealing in wild- never denies what you say. So it has been the pre- ferred scapegoat ever since creation. | % The country’s bank clearings fell off 12.5 per cent At last the final blow has been given to Admiral Dewey’s ambition. The Republicans of his native State, Vermont, have indorsed McKinley. cat stocks by po.tg:n!ng action on the matter for six months. There was a desire on the part of some of the members to have the stock of reputable prospects called, but as there was no way to sepa- vata the sheep from the goats it was FACE GIVES ENGLAND A SEVERE PAIN R i i The Latest Portrait of Oom Paul. > ROM THE LONDON SPHERE OF THE ONLY PHOTOGRAPH OF MR - " v KS PRIOR TO . SIDENT MADE HIS MEMORABLE o> - D D A D A A s S S ST S ST APy thonght that the only way in which the | France $20 to 354 and nited ange be safe was to exclude ' Seates the range v rything except producing companies. vote to six months was Puet B The Albatross, t built by Thorneycrof: recently had her « engines with 20 pou y lutt dimensions of the Albatross are 227.6 fe length, 21.3 feet beam and 8.4 feet m draught, placing 380 tons. The Japanese naval maneuvers began o | March 25 last and wera to continue for a le of weeks. may t Redding. in ate. {s building ns, and e future | been re notified by ot to approach the v Native fish- ermen were like ordered to keep away. Of the thirty-three vessels in ac- tive commission at least twenty-five ara participating in the maneuvers, including four battle-ships, three armored cruisers, twelve cruisers, two gun vessels, one tor pedo gunboat and four torpedo-boat dee stroyers, besides a number of torpedo< boats. The new battle-ship Shikishima was due at Saheho, the rendezvous, on is at the Palace. April 7, and was to join the fleet, If In con- Dr. W. W. Eastman, & physician of So- | ition after her 15,00-mile voyage from - ngland. nora, is at the Lick. | PERSGNAL MENTION. W. F. Detert, a mining man of Jackson, 1t the Lick. Leuis Fround, a Maidenlane jeweler, is The British Admirality has just acoepte® the Fervent, a torpedo-boat destroyer of Henry E. Kemp, a wealthy mining man | 27 knots contracted for as far back as 13%. Ariz., 1s at the Occidental. Eight other boats of the same type wera Leeper, a shoe manufacturer of | delivered in 1596, but the Admiralty is » guest at the Occldental. | chiefly responsible for the faflure of tha contractor to come up to the require« ments. The Admiralty expressly stipu- lated that the Fervent and her sister boat Zephyr were to be fitted with ordinary marine bollers, with ‘the result that neither of them came anywhere near the speed contracted for. It is asserted by Labouchere that thers are doubts if the Fervent, after her year of preparation, has actually come up to the 27 knots speed, | which, in these da of 3 and & knot boats, is rather slow. Cal. glace fruit #c per I at Townsend's.® ——e——— Captain N. E. Bayes, owner of the Agua‘ Rica Springs, at the Lick. | w. H New York, G. ford Hotel at Salt Lake, is a gue Palace. Lieutenant Arthur Cranston and Dr. H. W. Stuckey, army officers on their way to Mantla, are at the Grand. George R. Tingle, an Alaskan salmon- packer, and his are at the Occidental They arrived last night from the north. W. H. Buster, a wealthy resident of Co- lusa, and his wife are at the Occidental on their way to Los Angeles to attend the | conclave. A. A. Thaver and wife, F. G. McLean and wife and Oscar Robinson and wife, | Cameras and photographic supplies, also all of Colusa, are at the Grand, en route | printing, developing and mounting. at for Los Angeles to attend the Knights| Sanborn & Vail's, 74l Market street. . Templar Conclave. i e e S§. Holems, proprietor of the Knuts- at the PR I R | Spectal information supplied dally t> business houses and public men by tha CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. pril®Cl iing Bureau (Allen's) 0\ treet. Telephone Main ———————— Spiral armlets of copper form good pro- tection for the arm in battle, and King of Dahomey uses his as defensive weapons. NEW YORK, April 22.—T. B. Bassett of | S°MeTY & is at the Holland. H. F. T jand. H. L. Haskill of San Francisco is at the Buckingham. ADVERTISEMENTS. The French navy budget, as finally passed, amounts to $62,000,000, which is $1,200,000 more than the appropriation for the year just ended. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. | Krupp is steadily adding to his vast| - establishment at Essen to meet the de- | Yi117] s’o" mands for war material in armor, guns | and projectiles. The latest improvement consists In a lot of new bulldings covering | Qures Coughs and Colds four and a half acres at a cost of $575,000. The labor payroll at Chatham dockyard during one week last month was $65,000 for men employed in the building and repat- ing of ships. This sum exceeds by at least 50 per cent the total amount pald at all the navy-yards in the United States for like purposes in one week. |cures them quicker and better than any cough mix- ture ever made. It does | more. It enriches the The horsepower required for various | - mazimum speeds of torpedo-boat destroy- | blood, strengthens mind and body, gives vigor and vital- ton displacement: 26 knots, 12% horse- power; 27 knots, 15%; 30 knots, 20; 32 knots, The price of armor In forelgn navies is | £ considerably less than is demanded by the | dce! ated, stubborn coug hs. navy has been charged $4% to $500 and France paid $45 to ${75. For Harve ers of about 320 tons displacement has been figured out to be as follows for each ity. Cough mixtures won't 24%, and for 35 knots it required 31l d 'h. " e S | do this, nor will they cure two plants in this country. For plain ar- mor England pays $415 per ton, while our Scatt’s Emulsion armor the cost Is 30 to 5 tn Engiana, | Will. Try it! Atsidpes