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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1900. Proprietor. RECKELS, JiHN D. SP tddress Al munications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE..Market and Third, 8. F. Teiepho Main iS6S. EDITORIAL ROOMS....217 1o 221 Stevenson St. Teiephone Main 1874, Delivered by Cnrriers. 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples. 5 Cemts. Terms by Mail, lncinding Fostager DAILY CALL ng Sunday). year. se00 DAILY CALL < Sunday), 6 months. 3.00 DAILY CALL ¢ncluding Su 1.50 sday), 3 months. CALL—By Single Zfonth. ¥ CALL One Year 1.50 ¥ CAI me Ye: 1.00 All postmasters mre anthorized to recelve subreriptions. ed. Sample coples will be forwarded when reques CAKLAND OFFICE. c Foreizn Adverticin .1118 Broadw: GE GEOR KROGNESS, , Marguette Bui (Long Distance XEW YORIK CORR CARLTON NEW YORK RE SMITH CHICAGO S STANDS: herman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: Fremont House; Auitorium Hotel CC _Herald Square SENTATIVE: .30 Tribune Building B STEPHEN NEWS STANDS: A. Brenmtano, 3i Union Square; Wi Correspondent. gton Hote! MORTON BRANCH OFFICES—I Monigomery, corner of Clay, untnl 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:39 o’clock. McAliister, open unt!l 9:30 o'clock. 613 Larkin, open Mission, open until 30 o'clock. 2261 . cpen untll 9 o'clock 1008 3 o'clock. 106 Eleventh ocpen until corner Twenty-second snd Kentucky o elock. AMUSEMENTS. unti! Wizard of Nite. Gay New York.' streets—Speciaities le every afternoon and “La Traviata.' w Vaudeville. Concert House vilion—Dog AUCTION SALES. at 11 o'clock. ap to Port Huron, a way for return cf After declaring stick to the y appointed “The Gold Demo- nd their coming 1 that they are convinced to the party. will viny oi ey taken by party in 1896 was right were wrong, or they can say that be- s that have arisen, and whicn form, they are now will- a whole.” It is so kind for him to , to give them the y can pass the Pop- v gate! I idea of m ng the Chi- €ago e by diluting it with new is- sues is wo! study. He proposes to put the poi- son of 1896 in a tub full fresh water and ask the gold men to come and drink it “as a whole.” It is apparent that any considerable number will rust sup of his diluted swash. The trouble with Colone; n is that he has been proved to have been Every statement he made false, wrong on every issue he raised in 18g6. n that campaign is proven This mak country suspicious of his judgment about new He desires to sugar-coat the old pill with new issues, but there is a suspicion that the coating is glucose His anxi to bring the wandering gold sinners back to his ver home is undoubted. It is manifest in frequent rumors that the said sinners are leap frogging each other to get at the mourner’s bench. Not long ago Mr. Cleveland was represented as on the way, clad head, and Carl ¢ exile. But not long aite camp Mr. gave Mr. B jaws ache, a fect that he r every prophecy has failed kelot reported as a returning these rumors thrilled the silver Brooklyn dinner letter nder that made his political now Carl Schurz is quoted to the e ards Colonel Bryan as a curiosity, a sincere curiosity. d Cleve n at an mos The same could be g skeleton and the fat lady in the sideshow Colonel Brya picuous accessions are mnot | from the Gold acy. He has acquired Gov- er Mich . 2 Populistic Republican, nor Pingree of hick as ticks on a heifer h Tex His career as Governor of nguished by appointment of to office, many of whom are now fugitives from ce, and some of whom are in the peniten- tiary joining the Bryan camp is significant of a quality n that is most repugnant to Gold Demo- crats. It is the sand in which all sorts of isms, and milk theories breed. ve to every kind of fanaticism. The sort, s straight-and solid. They don’t like to touch ows with Populists, who think the law of gravitation can be repealéd by an act of Congress They would rather have no holiday" than picnic with Altgeid and Pingree. hat no Gold Demnocrat avoid the rush. There w Therefore it is apparent red go to Bryan early to be none, Secretary Root’s declaration tk have to fight to uphold the Monroe doctrine has caused more talk than it should have done. As a matter of fact, the thing was understood in that wav old Monroe gimself and it was for that reason he established the doctrine and stood by it. There is talk in London of having the Queen’s new regiment of Irish Household Guards uniformed in kilts like the Scotch guards and the scheme is cer- tzinly a taking oné. Micky Free in kilts with a sham- yock in his Glengarry cap would be a“sight worth a journicy to sce and an ornament to any court. ,.and with ashes on his | at we may some day THE NEED OF LAND SURVEYS. HE demand for'a renewal of the public lands surveys in this State has been made by the State t Board of - Trade. ‘At its last session the Legis- ~ |lature considered this subject and requested action | by our members of Congress. California has several millions of acres unsurveyed. 1 This land has mineral in it, timber growing on it, an | much of it is fitted for agriculture. The intending | settler from other States continually inquires of the | State Boari of Trade for Government land and wants [to know if it is surveyed, as no one cares to take the risk of settling on unsurveyed public domain. As these inquiries increase the amount of surveying | done decreases. With the exception of Nebraska, California had the least benefit from surveys last year | of any of the public land States. As Nebraska has | but Tittle public land left, it may be said that of all | the States needing surveys California was treated the worst. The accepted surveys for the fiscal year ending | June 30, 1800, in the various States and Territories were as follows: South D Utah ... & 9 acres 0,842,415 acres, of | which California had ecighty-five thousandths of one per cent! The law and regulations have taken away the over- | sight of these surveys from the Surveyor General and put it in the General Land Office nstead of an inspection of surveys by the Surveyor General, examiners are sent out from Washington. These men are usually theoretical and not practical i land surveyors, and they are far from satisfactory to the Western people who are interested in having the public domain surveyed. They seem to be especially uniriendly to California surveys, and amuse them- selves with condemning the same, while no more ac- curate surveys elsewhere are passed and accepted. i It is perfectly apparent that some bureau in the | General Land Office, taking advantage of the per- { manency of tenure of the bureau and division forces iand of the impermanent tenure of the Land Commis- s sioner, has so manipulated regulations and influenced | the amendment of the law as to centralize all author- ity over the surveys in Washington, depriving the Surveyor General of the power which is the reason { for the office he holds. This burcaucratic policy has been driven to extremes, and there is some substan- | | tial reason for believing that it is even able to con- | ceal from the Land Commissioner facts that he should now officially. The General Land Office requires surveys to be requested by scttlers. The petition of three settlers will secure the survey of a township, o f d. One settler may secure the survey of 8000 | acres by petition. It would appear on the face of things, then, that only one settler requested surveys last year in this State. The State Board of Trade, however, has information that the applications for sur- veys of four hundred settlers in this State are pigeon- holed in the Bureau of Surveys. This means that out | of requests for the survey of 3,200,000 acres in Cali- fornia only one was granted, and about 8000 acres r 23, were surveyed! Such a situation is insufferable. Its continuance is extremely unjust to California. The system of examiners should be abolished. Its operation often costs more than the surveys exam- ined, and it is far less efficient than the former over- | sight by the Surveyor General. The local authority of the latter officer should be restored, and he should | have power to prevent the pigeonholing of the re- quests of settlers for a survey. They should go into his hands, and his recommendation of a survey shouid be respected by the General Land Office. 1t is the duty of our members of Congress to end { this discrimination against California, and in doing to facilitate surveys in all the public land States. | The other States and Territories, however, fare better <o under the present centralized and inapt system than Washington. | 040 acres | all they can to avoid confusion and give the Americans who visit the Paris Exposition every courtesy upon their- arrival ~home.” : @ THREATENED OUTRAGE. REPORTS from Oakland are to the effect that since the officials of Alameda County refused | to take from the State insane asylums certain feeble-minded patients they have been notified by the | Insanity Commissioners that the patients will be taken into the county and turned loose without fur- | ther ceremony. Upon that notification the Alameda officials are now grappling with the problem it pre- sents, and it is a serious onme, for the county has no institution designed for the care of such patients. Upon the showing of the reports the notification by the Insanity Commissioners that they will turn feeble- minded patients loose upon the county oi Alameda is essentially a threat to commit a gross outrage. It may be true that the State insane asylums are not | properly charged with the care of feeble-minded pa- | tients. It may be true that such patients must be cared for by the counties from which they were sent |as insane patients to the asylums. If such be the law then there is a legal and orderly way to enforce it. There is a way by which the counties can be com- pelled to provide a refuge for the unfortunates and | receive them there and care for them. It is the duty | of the Commissioners to follow that legal process. i They are bound by the responsibilities of their office, | by humanity and by decency, to exercise a reasonable care of the patients under their charge, and shoul:l | they carry out the threat they have made, and dis- | miss into the streets a number of feeble-minded peo- | ple, they would speedily find themselves the objects | of a widespread, deep and intense popular indigna- | tion. Sheriff Rogers of Alameda, in a communication to the Supervisors on the subject, states there is no law which permits him to receive into the County Jail feeble-minded persons until after an application for their examination has been heard in the courts. He questions the authority of the Insanity Commission- ers to compel him to receive feeble-minded persons sent by them from the State insane asylums located in | other counties, and asks: “If the Commissioners can do so, then are they empowered to bring the feeble- minded persons without legal process? Must not the Commissioners resort to the usual method provided | by law, by application to the courts to have such pa- | tients committed to the Home for tlhie Feeble- Minded?” | Sheriff Rogers is right in his questioning, and the | answer can hardly be doubtful. Even if the Insanity Commissioners have authority to compel Sheriffs to receive in the jails patients sent from insane asylums, they must still pursue the processes of law. The issue is one that affects every county in the State, for if the Commissioners can send feeble- minded patients to Alameda with instructions to the attendants to turn them loose in the streets if the Sheriff refuse to take them, then they can do the same thing in any other county. It is hard to be- | lieve the Commissioners can have been serious in making such a threat, and if they attempt to carry it ‘iqm practice the outrage will recoil upon their own heads. IN SHIP BUILDING. %:conomy UGENE T. CHAMBERLAIN, Commissioner | E of Navigation, has recently pointed out that one of the advantages we will derive from a liberal policy toward our ship-builders and ship- owners is that of increasing the economy of ship con- | struction exactly in proportion as we increase the | extent of it. In other words, the scale on which an | industry is conducted has much to do with the degree of its efficiency in competing with rivals. | As an illustration of that fact Mr. Chamberlain “The railroad mileage of the United States is considerably greater than that of all EuropPe, and in all that relates to railroad construction, the building | of locomotives, the manufacture of structural steel for railroad bridges, and the m:zking of steel rails, Ameri- can capital and labor are employed on a larger scale, and consequently are much more efficient than any- where else in the world. For 1808 our greatest single | says: we do. Therefore it is evident that some one, €Xport of steel manufactures was $4,613,376 of steel clinched by civil service in a bureau position, is | 'ails, and our next greatest (except miscellaneous | amusing himself at our expense, and this should | builders’ hardware) was $3883719 worth of loco- cease at once. | motives. We can export locomotives, rails and ADVICE TO TRAVELERS. PPRAISER WAKEMAN n; the New York f\ Custom-house has recently suggested to the Treasury Department the advisability of issuing | for the benefit of persons going to the Paris Exposi- Ition a circular giving information concerning the | tariff regulations as to the importation of wearing ap- parel and other personal effects, to the end that on | their return the tourists will know to what extent they will have to pay dutics. The department -officials have the subject under consideration, but as it may be some time before the circular is issued it will be | without waiting for it. The clause in the tariff to which the Appraiser de- sires attention directed provides: “That in case of | residents of the United States returning from abroad | | all wearing apparel and other personal effects taken | tries shall be admitted free of duty, without regard ro their value, upon their identity being established, un- by the Secretary of the Treasury, but no more than $100 in value of articles purchased abroad by such residents of the United States shall be admitted fres- of duty upon their return.” In his recommendation to the Treasury Department Mr. Wakeman suggested that “a circular describing fully the provisions of the personal baggage law be | issued - for the information of all passengers going abroad; that this circular of information and instruc tions be accompanied by a blank declaration such as the passenger is compelled to sign,upon his arrival here; that this circular of information and instruc- tion and declaration be placed in sealed envelopes and that the masters of the various steamships en- | gaged in trans-Atlantic trade be requested to place a | copy of this circular, instructions and declaration in flhc hands of each passenger soen after sailing from { abroad.” It will be perceived that if carried out the plan wil give the passenger an opportunity of careful prepara- tion of his declarations before arriving in port and would moreover fully explain to him the provisions of the law and thus enable him to avoid the trouble | which would result from mistakes. There will be, of course, an immense amount of baggage to be handled when the rush of the returning tourists comes upon the Custom-house and unless the passengers have a fair understanding of the law there is sure to be fric- tion and discontent. It is to be hoped the Treasury Department will carry out the plan; for, as Mr. Wake- man says, “the officials of the Government should do well for travelers to post themselves on the matter | { by them out of the United States to foreign coun- | der appropriate rules and regulations to be prescribed | bridges in competition with Great Britain, because | our railroad system is eight times greater than Great | Britain's. Great Britain can ‘export’ (i. e., sell to | foreigners) stecl steamships because she manufac- tures on a scale from fifteen to twenty times greater than the United States. During the calendar year 1809 Great Britain not only built practically all her own shipping, but also sold to foreign nations, or ‘ex- ported,’ $43,000,000 of shipping.” From that fact it is easy to draw the conclusion that even if the upbuilding of an extensive merchant marine in our own shipyards should be more costly for a time than it would be to buy ships from Great | Britain, it would not be long under a liberal policy before we would develop a ship-building industry on |a scale sufficiently large to enable us to beat Great | Britain in ship construction even as we beat her now ! in railroad construction. We should then draw to our own yards much of that enormous foreign pa- tronage which employs so many British workmen in the shipyards and adds so much to the wealth of the i kingdom. S 2 From 1889 to 1898, inclusive, Great Britain built | 0,682,829 gross tons of sea-going steam -vessels, or | over 8o per cent of the world’s ‘total product of | 11,045,937 gross tons for the decade. A very large ‘proponiop of the British-built tonhage, moreover, was constructed for foreign nations. The demand for | steamers increases of course with the expansion of | commerce, ‘and thercfore the annual output of new :vcssels will increase steadily. It will be seen, then, | that supremacy in the ship-building trade is a prizz worth contending for. = It will require wise legisla- tion, however. to enable us to attain it, for the com- | Navigation. says:- “Two British shipyards, one with | an output of 77,501 gross tons and another with an output ‘of 82634 gross tons, each built more steel steam vessels during the year just closed than the en- tire outptit of stgel steam v'vessels for the year on the whole seaboard of the United = States—34,643 * gross | tons—yet our construction of this description was the’ fargest in our history. When it is further considered | petition will be strong. As the Commissioner of | | that our own product was :_rli'_nosx wholly under the protection of the coasting laws, while the British | product is almost wholly for foreign trade, the long lead we have to avercome is even more patent.” e : Wharton Barker of Philadelphia is noted for many things, but he is not satisfied, and has now made a {'bid for fame as a prophet by predicting that the Democratic convention at Kansas City will nominate for the Presidency either Admiral Dewey, Groyer Cleveland or Richard M. Olney. It is safe to say, | however, that he is not willing to bet high.on his SCOTT DEMANDS LIGENSES DUE ON TELEPHONES Official Notice Served on the Local Monopoly to Pay Up. —— Large Amount Owed the City Under 0ld Ordinance Which Has Never Been Enforced by Muni- cipal Officials. SRS (RN Tax Collector Scott sent two communi- cations to the Pacific Telephone and Tele- graph Company yesterday, in which for- mal demand was made for the payment of licenses due under an old order which has never been enforced, and another adopted by the present Board of Super- visors, which imposes a license of 50 cents per quarter on nickel telephone machines. In the first letter Scott called attention to the provisions of order 158 imposing a license tax of §2 per quarter for each and every telephone of which the company has been proprietor, from October, 8, 183, to April 2, 1900, cott also demanded the immediate pay- ment of the sum of §2 per quarter for each telephone having a nickel attachment during_the period from October &, 1898, to April 2, 1900. He further requested the company to furnish forthwith a complete detailed and itemized statement of all such telephones referred to and for which payment of license is demanded. In Scott’s second communication the Tel- ephone Company is notified that under the provisions of ordinance No. 28, which be- came a law April 2, 1900, there is due the city for every telephone instrument ope- rated and maintained by the company for which a rental charge is made, a quarter- Iy license of 9 cents for the quarter com- mencing April 2, 1900. The following warn- ing was also served upon the company: It is unlawful for you to operate or main- tain in the city and county of San Francisco any telephone instrument for which a rental gr_charge is made without first obtaining a license for each telephone instrument so oper- ated and maintained. By sald ordinance you are required on May 8, 1800, and quarterly thereafter, to furnish me a complete list of every telephone instru- ment operated by you in the city and county for which a rental or charge is made, which list shall give the location of every instrument and the names of the individuals renting the same, On May 8 190, I will call on you to collect sald license for said quarter now due and owing by you and will demand of you the payment of the same to me on sald date. For failure to pay sald license you are liable to be punished by a fine not exceeding $100 or by imprisonment for one hundred days. | or by both sgch fine and imprisonment for each and ever® such telephone instrument for which said quarterly license shall not be paid, and I hereby notify you that the penalties im- posed bx' said ordinance will be by me strictly enforced. %Wa—o—o—, FASHION HINT FROM PARIS, + ‘—.—0—} B——ot——o——5—0— @ i e S R SROSL IO = B e S & 404005 ebdb e et ese@® PRETTY INDOOR DRESS. The tunic of the dress represented is of ;vh(te ground pompadour taffetas, which orms two panels on the skirt. T ~ mainder of the skirt is of black andh:hll-:a striped silk, forming a princess fourreau. Round the bottom is a wide white lace flo:xlncc, headed with bows of black liberty satin. —_———— Bhi 444444 44444004044 Don’t miss the first install- ment of the series of exclusive articles written by General i Joseph Wheeler, to appear in mnext Sunday’s Call. % +444 44444444 4444440404440 —_——— HUGH J. GLENN—Dr. Hugh J. Glenn, was murdered at Germantown, Glenn County, California, F o Ry ornia, February 1.1. 1883, by JESSE JAMES—C. J.,'_Port Costa, Cal. Jesse James, the train robber, was shot and killed by Robert Ford + MARY ANDERSON — L. M., Sacra- mento, Cal. Mary Anderson Navarro, the @ctress, who some years ago retired from the stage, is now a resident of Hampstead, England. FARMER—W. E. G., Souris, Cal. The term farmer includes every one who cul- tivates land. THe synonyms of farmer are agriculturist. husbandman, tiller of the soll and cultivator. "Orchardist is used to designate specifically one who owns or cultivates a fruit garden. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTORS—-J. D., Georgetown, El Dorado County, Cal. Tha Republican 'Electors from California at the last held Presidential election were: Thomas Flint, Elwood Cooper, Cla Spreckels, Joseph Spear Jr. vI’lmll “A.' Powell, John alli Georse M. v'nr‘-ncu.LDu_ncln cKinlay and Irving ORIGIN OF KISSING—H. B. W., City. The origin of kissing is beyond the ken of the present generation. Kissi b% agrecflonnt‘e salutation wnnc'nubt)«;mzs-y among near relatives of both sexes. hot! in patriarchal and later times. See Genesis X ssing is spoken of in Scripture as a mark of refl‘ct or adoration of idols. 1 Kings 19; Hos. x‘lfl!. SENATORS - AND REPRESENTA- TIVES—J. D.. rgetown, El Dorado County, Cal. The Senators for the State ‘of Califoxnia are George C. Perkins T&gmn Bard; the Rmu&l‘v':: A. Barl , Marion de Vries, H. Metcalf, Julius Kahn, Eugene - Russell J. Waters and James C. am. LS ARCHBISHOP RIORDAN—C. R., City. Archbishop Riordan of this city was born in New Brupswick, A His boyhood was spent in icago, re he ‘went to a select school; after that he went to Nn‘:'e Dame, Indiana. He &ndm(“ s Pl hass 'mo]nrfotmr’rh ot ur 8 o & of the l.n-r{ of St. lnw‘l Z} pa: wi , was after thai 1868 was E 1.; in or of St. Mary's urch ai Jollet, T Temaining there un, g e b el Miae ol T consecrated n Tiss. i Archbishop &l q and made coadjutor, with right of su n to the see of San Francisco, to which he succeeded ber 28, 1884. DICTIONARY AND CYCLOPEDIA—F. l..CIl{. The difference between a dic- { | will go short of good substantial tionary and an encyclopedia is that the former is a book containing the words of a language arranged alphabetically with their meaning, while the latter is a book professing to give information, more or ess full, on the whole circle of human knowledge. An unabridged dictionary is one that is given just as prepared by the author. THE CABINET—-J. D., Georgetown, El Dorado County, Cal. The members of President McKJnl‘e)é‘s Cnbinet ar évo:: Hay, Secretary of State; Lyman J. Gage, Sec¥eury o(n{he Trensurw Elihu Root, Secretary of War; John W. Griggs, At- torney General; Charles E. Smith, Post- master General: John D. Long, Secretary of the Navy: Ethan A. Hitchcock. Secre- tary of the Interior; James Wilson, Secre- tary of Agriculture. JAPANESE IMMIGRATION AS ONE FARMER VIEWS IT The Call does mot hold itself responsible for the opinions published in this column, but presents them for whatever value they may have as communications of general interest. Editor The Call—Dear Sir: In my opin- fon the farmers of California are not with vou in seeking measures for the exclusfon of Japanese laborers. Without them it will be almost impossible to harvest the fruit and grape crops. Farm labor is scarce now and entirely too high priced in comparison with the present cheapness of hay. grain, fruit and grapes. Nor is it true that the Japanese work for cheap wages. 1 have paid them as high as $1 25 per day during last season’s vintage, when white labor was not obtainable. We are obliged to export our surplus product and sell in competition with coun- tries where labor costs less than one- fourth of ruling wages in California, and | unless we can get labor at moderate rates | many of our farms cannot be worked profitably and will be abandoned. Ten thousand respectable Japanese farm laborers would be a boon to the country, and, would net deprive the white of one X - er; Tl ours. S "WILLIAM WEHNER, Evergreen, Santa Clara County, April 29, 1900. More Hopeful Gold Hunters | Start for the Arctic | El1 Dorado. —_—— Steamer Albion Gets Away With | Nearly One Hundred and Fifty Miners Bound for the Frozen North. ——— Another Cape Nome passenger vessel got away vesterday. The rush may now be sald to be on and from this time forth until August not a week will pass with- out a vessel leaving port headed for the gold fields of Alaska. The Portland, with over 250 passengers, sailed Monday and the Albion of the Kimball line got away yesterday with nearly 150 gold hunters aboard. Every passenger was provided with the best of accommodation and the butchers were still cutting up fresh meat and putting it in the cold storage when the steamer pulled away from the wharf, so no one food during the voyage. There .were no stowaways on the Al- bion, neither were there any on the Port- land. The crews of the two vessels saw to it that ne one was aboard who was not entitled to be there. A “Man Overboard” Scare. The captain and crew of the ferry boat Berkeley declare they were made the victims of a miserable hoax on the 11 a. m. trip yesterday. While the vessel was in mid stream the cry “A man over- board!” went up. The deckhand who heard the alarm at once signaled the pilot house. The Berkeley was stopped and a boat lowered. A search of the wa- ters within a hundred yards of the ferry boat was made, but not a trace of a would-be suicide could be found. The captain left the chief officer in charge of the pliot house and made a personal can- vass of the passengers, but not a soul who saw a man jump overboard could be found. Instead there was some slight evidence that the whole thing had em- anated from a band of practical jokers, so the matter ended there. If it was a false alarm it was a very poor kind of a oke: if it was not, one more unfortunate as met his fate in the waters of the bay. . Sailing of the Warren. The transport Warren sailed for Manila yesterday via Honolulu. The plague has now disappeared from the islands and in future all the transports will stop there on their way to the Philippines. Over 400 recruits marched down to the transport wharf just before the Warren sailed and | went aboard. It seemed like old times to see the boys in blue on their way to the seat of war, and Folsom street whart wore an animated appearance for a short while. Captain Edward L. King of the Eleventh Cavalry was in command of the detachment. Quite a number of medical officers and hospital nurses went out on the Warren. VESSELS LOST ON SHAG ROCK The Government engineers have not yet finished their soundings over the spot where Shag Rock reared its ugly head. Tu order to carry out the contract there must be 30 feet of water on the spot at low water, and the chances seem to be that some more work will have to be done before the engineers are satisfied. Not a few uninformed people have the idea that the money spent- foy the de- struction of these rocks is being thrown away. The matter has been thoroughly investigated by the Chamber of Com- merce, which was one of the bodies that urgenily recommended that the bay be cleared of these obstructions. A resolu- tion was sent to Congress two years ago asking that this work be done, and in :?port of the request was a list of ves- s known to have been totally lost or badly damaged on & and Arch rocks. The 1ist shows the following wrecks: January, 1853—Pilot boat Sea Witch: total oss. g October, 1861—Clippe (with Do)} damate s Vinged - Races anuary, —Cli " shi Dra Sy ‘-}‘Lmr 3 Flying Dragon une, 1863 ‘orrent. - ; e drifted-on the rocks; October, i865—Bark Lenox; dam: April. 1363—Clipper ship Antverat (wiin miioh): total 1oss, $100,000. . May, 1S73—Schooner J. B. Lunt; damage December, 1551-Bark Columbia; badly dam- ptember, 1852 : hfi:,’fl"'{““'& p :chooner_hlo of Anglena; . 1883_Bark Emilie: A ;. a A e i & Water Front Notes. aptain Woodside, wi the 3hip Sintram for’ eleyen yonrr and wor in command of L): C‘l;-r]u E. Moody run to Honolulu, has bger: a) polr.i‘tlg l']nonnsE ter of the ship May Flint. Captain Davis of the Flint will take anothdr vessel. Harry Edwards and his wife were ar- Tested on the water front yesterday and charged with malicious ‘hief -at the Harbor police station. Mrs, Bdwards b secured :l ;ll“:on:e and alimony, and when slightly wi Harry to pay zaulted him with 2 ezgfz". e e followed considerabie g e e iaere went trik %.32.“.» ers. t.oulo::n;u; m.“ym» . The trouble is_over tem; unionize ;ohmm and th: work now fair of ac- | I_restrained her. afte’ POURED DISCOAL INTO THE EARS OF HER CUESTS Edward Sigourney Cobb Tells Why He Should Get a Divoree. Gives & Detailed Account of What Happened Over in Sausalito When His Wife Got a “Tantrum.” ——— Judging from the expression Edward Sigourney Cobb assumed as he proceeded before Judge Daingerfield yesterday with a recital of the woes his wife, Kate Marla Cobb, had heaped upon him during their years of life together, it was plain that even the memory of the past abounded in bitterness. Mr. Cobb, who is a civil and mining engineer, with offices at 421 Market street, is secking a divorce from his wife on the ground of extreme cru- elty. In a cross-complaint Mrs. Cobb makes like complaint against her hus- band. She even charges that he forced her into a private asylum for the insane at Livermore, and only repented when she escaped and returned to his home, willing to forgive him for his cruelty and to for- get the sorrows of the past Mr. Cobb took the stand when the case was called and without hesitation entared into a detailed recital of the cruelties his wife practiced upon him. He fifst said that he married Mrs. Cobb on December 2, 1893. Since that time she has nagged him, cursed him. called him vile =ames, threatened to kill and maim him, and then, entirely losing her self-control, would act like one gone mad. One of the most interesting specifie charges of cruelty made by Mr. Cobb, he alleges was inflicted upon him while they wera living in Sausalito. “My brother, Benjamin Cobb, and his wife had just arrived from the East and were visiting me,” said Mr. Cobb. “when my wife was taken with one of her tan- trums. I was talking over old times with my brother on the porch when Mrs. Cobb raised the window. opened the door. and then, seating hersélf at the piano, began a most unearthly drumming. She made no attempt to adhere to the laws of har- mony, but successfully carried out her | intention to produce the most nerve-de- | stroving_discord. I stood it as long as T could, then closed the window and the door.” She opened them again. I closed them. She opened them, and then T went inside. She greeted me by tearing her shirt waist into ribbons. Then she tried to jump over the banisters of the porch. exhausting myself, Then she tried to jump out of a window. Others in the heuse saved her life on this occasion. Then she broke away and ran down the street toward the town. I hur- ried after, and with assistance got her home again. She then laughed. cried and screamed. 1 got too close, and she injured me severely. It was a long battle before he was finally calmed. It is such actions these on her part that have injured my health and have unfitted me for busi- ness."” Judge Daingerfleld will take up the hear- ing of the case again next Thursday. PERSONAL MENTION. J. M. Oliver, an attorney of Merced, is at the Lick. Dr. J. A. Cronkhite of Los Angeles is at the Grand. Adjutant General A. W. Barrett is at the California. Charles Teague, an ofl man of Fresno, is at the Grand. Rev. A. Ennor and wife of Los Gatos are at the Occidental. Edwin Taylor, a mining man of Rail- road Flat, is at the Grand. A. P. Fraser, a banker of Stockton, is at the Occidental with his daughter. Commander C. C. Bowman of Mare Tsl- and and his wife are at the Occidental John, Swett of Martinez, one of the old- est educators in the State, is at the Lick. W. H. McKenzie, banker, and 8. N. Griffith, an attorney, both of Fresno, are guests at the Lick. Prince Cupid Kalanianaole of Hawali and his wife returned yesterday from Paso Robles and are at the Palace. A. S. Rosenbaum and P. B. Fraser, who are partners in the mercantile busi- ness at Stockton, are guests at the Pal- ace. —_———————— CALIFORNIANE IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, May 1.—W. J. Beerans of San Francisco Is at the Hoffman; H. A. Howard of San Diego is at the Hoffman. ————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, May 1.—J. F. Haggerty and wife, W. R. Cummings and wife of Los Angeles are at the St. James. Dr. R. W. 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