The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 11, 1900, Page 6

6 THE SAN. FRANCISCO -CALL, FRIDAY, MAY 11, 1900. The 1% Call. MAY 11, 1900 DAY o — JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. “ddress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager t UHBLICATION OFFICE..Market Telephone Main 15685. ! DITORIAL ROOMS 217 teo 221 Stev Telep! e Main 1874, Carriers. 15 Cents Per Weelk. Delivered JAILY CALL «ncluding Sunday), 6 months JAILY CALL tncluding Sundey), 3 months. AILY CALL By Single onth aeraEs tUNDAY CALL One Year. 1.80 +EKLY CALL One Year. 849 All postmasters are authorized recetve scbscriptions. €ample coples W UAKLAND OFFICE C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Wanager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. (one Distance Telephone *‘Central 3619.” NEW YORE COKKESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON Herald Square .1118 Broadway EPHEN 30 Tribune Building CHICAGO 8 Eherman House: P. O. News Co.; Great Nerthern Hotel: nt Bouse: Auditorium Hotel. YORK NEWS ST, NEW ANDS: A. Brestans, 81 Waldort-Astoris Hotel; Muray HIll Hotel HINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.... MORTON E. CRANE, ' Uston Square: Wellington Hotel Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES - ontgome Hayes, corner of Clay, open until 9:30 o'clock. 639 Larkin, open untii o' clock. 1 Market, MeAl Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. cater—Vaudeville every afternoon and clogk, at 721 How- and 2 p. m., at 11 o'cloek, ion street ck, Horses AKIZONA @AND THE RANGES. A the p ¥ of leasing the arid r been zon has quoted ges to with a view to protect and renew the m sture-holding capacity of the r irrigation. He is said o0 ese ranges to the States. ic his Terr ory does not agree with him. It 1 12 But its plains ondition were clothed with grass > plants. The roots made the soil r from being muddy land, anyway. water. by water. This conservation ente i rapid evaporatio . The water < affluen: the deep spring ed into the streams, main- rately deliver w e overfeeding that has fc ranges as commons. No one | 12 protecting the forage. It has S’ roots. The grassy plains are hls 1okt ifs porosity. The ¥ to the streams. They rage as Evaporation also takes up | go deep into the earth to feed the fin v not only that her ranges interest disappearing and her t thereon in disorder, but the cli- 1z more arnd. d with incre: There is less water sing dryness more irri- These conditions generally impress e Territory, and they are pearly n of the ranges by protecting of the University of Arizqna, in ess this year. compared the beau- of years ago, when waving grasses, upon which nd antelope, with the barren and of to-day. the grass and plant life of nd tramped out by overstocking ey were covered with of de iay 1 e the ranges, resulting disastrously to the stockman and the rancher. H i: “Before this destruction the grass roots kept the <oil loose and porous. The water evaporated but slowly from the loose and shaded soil but the misgovernment of man. that so great a_por- tion of the earth lies waste But how may we expect remedy the desolation about us? Private control of the lands n, and I believe the only affairs. With secure tenure oi the ranges the stockman will have every inducement to improve his territory. This has been the history of the range in Texas, and sooner or later it will come to pass in Arizona.” The Arizona Range News says: is the sc one, of this state of “The determina- tion to incorporate option in the leasing law is an ex- cellent plan.” The Tucson Daily Star says: “Leas- ing the grazing lands will create a fund for the build- | ing of reservoirs, which will furnish water for the irrigation of land which can be served by them. The stockmen will secure better results under the leasing’ system. The reclamation of arid lands to agriculture will create additional wealth-producing resources, fur- nish homes for farmers and add to the taxable wealth of the country. The leasing policy will prove of great vahue to stockmen, farmers and the Territory.” The press of Idaho and Wyoming is speaking out in the same way, and it is apparent that the leasing pol- icy 4s a very live issue, that it is coming soon and will come to stay. e e e A student of the Normal School at San Jose has been accused of insanity because he denounced the evistence of politics in the institution. The voung man may not be insane, but under the conditions rling at the school it must be admitted that he cer- tainly is indiscreet. American soldiers are still finding documents which prove that Aguinaldo really intended to fight. It was always contended that documentary evidence would be necessary to justify the suspicion. It is evidently not the fault of nature, | | he raptly exclaims: | With that system—force, tissue ballots, etc. B | want to know what <! ! they should be frank in their platform. | | the pictures we see of them in some newspapers there | is small wonder that their victims fail to recognize | them. | would rob anybody of his senses. THE NEW LEADERS. HERE seem to be two fountain-heads of ex- Tprcssion in the Bryan party. Of course Colonel | Bryan himself is the principal head, the ever- flowing fountain of everlasting oratory. He has waked more echoes and made the weikin ring oftener than any other. He is the ever-recurring political comet, with an orbit the center of which is the White House. He flies off into the ample space of far New England, or the remote valley of the Puyallup, and in due time approaches the Executive Mansion again, as comets do the sun, with a long tail of streaking the political sky behind him. The lesser fountain-head is on the shoulders of Mr. Willis J. Abbott of Chicago. Willis slays with the pen. He drops into manuscript, and what he writes is sent out in paper matrices, for ready use in the worshipiid press which teaches that there were no Democrats before Bryan and thateAbbott is his prophet. Mr. Abbott fulfills the spirit of the California sig- nature law. He signs what he says. No grim and frowning statute is required to make him do it. He loves to look upon his name in print, as the sighing lover does to look into the liquid eyes of his sweet- heart. One of Mr. Abbott’s late signed and circulated articles is in the form of a decree of greater excom- munication against Cleveland, ex-Governor Campbell and all their kind. Indeed it is to be feared by the friends of those gentlemen that Abbott has no use at al] for them in his business. They have fallen un- der his displeasure. He is the party bouncer and sends them sprawling into the street. | and that seems to be what is the matter with Mr. | Abbott’s party. | and is not ashamed of the way he gets it. 1 A confessed ballot-box stuffer makes a fine figure at | No, indeed | United States Senate. | immunities and privileges, is extended to the people | Rico and the Philippines.” Averting his face from them and all their works, “I see in my own party Bryan, Williams, Altgeld, Towne and Tillman firmly hold- ing places of influence and command.” Right he is, Tillman is accustomed to command In a speech in the Senate recently he describes the neans used in his State and its neighbors to reach and hold his place of influence and command. Find- | ing themselves in the minority at the polls he said: “We took the government away. We stuffed ballot- boxes. We shot them. We are not ashamed of it. we got, So we called a constitutional con- vention and we elimated the colored people.” A man who wins by murdering his opponents is to have influ tired ourselves. ace and command among men who admire that way of getting and keeping office. the head of a national party. Mr. Abbott admires | him and compliments him, declaring that “the people eir leaders think,” and that Till- speech | ! know not that, then it knows more of dog fights than of politics. The McKinley administration has done what it could to foster and forward the great enter- prise, and if it be defeated or postponed the blame will rest upon those who, while pretending to be sup- porters of the canal, have united with the railroad in denouncing the administration for making the treaty. e e Ancther authoritative announcement has been made that the war in the Philippines is over. It would be interesting to know what sort of a game the Washington authorities consider that pastime in which hundreds of Filipinos are reported. killed daily. A GOOD FIGHT WELL WON. INCE the authorities at Washington have in- structed the Collector of the Port to make an examination before they leave the ship on which they arrive of all Chinese seeking admission to this country, even though they claim to be natives of the United States, there is a good prospect that the practice of importing coolies under that claim will be broken up. The neglect of & preliminary examination on ship- board has been a heavy handicap upon the officers of the Government in making examinations in court, since it permitted the Chinese to be landed and coached as to what they should say when brought into court. A preliminary examination immediately upon their arrival here will put the coolies on record and forestall coaching. It will furnish the law officers with a basis of fact upon which to conduct the inves- tigations in the courts, and enable them more readily to detect any false testimony which the professed na- tive born may be induced to give. The law upon which the Washington authorities base their instructions is that clause of the exclusion act which provides: “That before any Chinese pas- sengers are landed from any such vessel the Collector or his deputy shall proceed to examine such passen- gers, comparing the certificates with the list and with the passengers, and no passenger shall be allowed to land in the United States from such vessel in viola- tion of law.” Commienting upon the order Collector Jackson is reported to have said: “I suppose you have heard that The Call has won its fight. I will obey the com- mand of the Treasury. Native-born Chinese immi- grants will be examined on board the steamer by the Chinese Bureau as usual. Native-born Chinese come | to this port without certificates of any kind, but they will be examined, nevertheless.” With the victory won for the people by the earnest | and continued efforts of The Call, this phase of cor- ruption practiced in connection with Chinese 4mmi- man does “not u$® language to conceal thought.” He merely uses a gun and stuffs ballot- | boxes to get into office, and brags about it in the Bryan and Senator Jones, chairman of his commit- tee, that the cons titution, “with all its blessings, of the Philippines and Porto Rico,” and raise a cry about the Porto Rican tariff on the score of humanity. Why not extend the constitution to the people of South Carolina? “eliminated” Why not consult them as to the relative humanity of being shot for voting against Tillman or paying a small tariff? Does Mr. Abbott regard ballot-box stuffing as one of the immunities and blessings of the constitution? He arraigns the Republican party for its theory that the islanders are not under the constitution. What good would it do them to be under the con- | stitution if Tillman were among them and they re- fused to vote as he wished, and he had his gun and his stuffing for the ballot-box? The Kansas City platform should read: “Resolved, That we insist upon the continued withdrawal of the constitution from the eliminated blacks of our South- ern States and its extension to the blacks of Porto | “Resolved, That while we shoot our own citizens for asking rights already given them by the consti- tution and are not ashamed of it, we view with alarm the refusal of the Republican party to extend the same rights to people who never had them.” If they are as frank as Mr. Abbott says they are, If the faces of our local footpads look anything like Faces like these behind the muzzle of a pistoi THE CANAL @AND THE TREATY. W by the House, but that the Senate would hardly take | it up at this session. The accuracy of the forecast has HEN the Nicaragua canal bill was about to be reported our dispatches from Washington an- nounced that the measure would be adopted been confirmed by the events. The bill was passed by the House, but at the meeting on Monday of the Senate Committee on Interoceanic Canals there was manifest a strong opposition to reporting the bill until action has been taken on the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. Commenting upon the situation thus disclosed, The Call pointed out that the defeat of the bill at this ses- | sion, which now seems imminent, is due to'the men who have antagonized the treaty, which was nego- tiated by the administration for the sole purpose of promoting the speedy construction of the great water- way. That statement has disturbed the Woodland Democrat, and it charges The Call with ignorance or unfairness in making it. Other Democrats have doubtless been equaily disturbed, for the issue is one of no little importance, and should the bill be held up in the Senate the people are going to know the reason why. Certain facts in the case are beyond dispute. The contest for the canal was virtually won. The admin- istration arranged a treaty which opened a way for entering at once upon its construction. The oppo- nents of the canal seized upon the treaty as a means for fighting the canal itseli. They denounced the treaty as a surrender to Great Britain and demanded its rejection. Certain yellow journals of the Bryanite stripe saw a chance to make campaign capital against the administration and they promptly went over to the opposition and joined in denouncing the treaty. Thus the project has been brought to a standstill. The deadlock may possibly be broken, for it has been disclosed that in the Senate itseli there is a strong feeling in favor of imnjediate action, but if there be postponement the delay will be due to the men who insist upon the rejection of the treaty by which the construction of the canal has been arranged for. It is to be regretted that this enterprise should be made one of partisan politics, but those who have made it so must bear the responsibility. The men who opposed the canal all along are now among S gration will be brought to an end. There will be fewer Chinese added to the number of citizens here- after. The exposure made by The Call will put a stop for a time at least to work of the ring which has been importing natives with so much profit to its members. Tt is to be borne in mind, however, that where there is so much to be gained there will be always new methods devised by unserupulous men to defeat the ‘Ia\\'. Continued vigilance is therefore necessary on the part of the people, the press and the officials. The law is now to be eniorced. and it remains to be seen that the enforcement is not perfunctory merely, but is done with zeal and fidelity. Several gamblers have been arrested at San Rafael. This indicates that with Sausalito as the center of the poolroom evil the theater of the crimes which are in- spired by the racecourse may temporarily be removed from this city. SALISBURY'S SPEECH. ALISBURY'S reference to what he called “the intricate Irish problem” in his speech before the Primrose League was one of those characteris- tic British utterances which have done so much to make that problem a lasting and bitter one from generation to generation. Something more than a lack of tact was necessary to lead a statesman to say at this juncture that the lesson to be learned from the South African war is that the Irish people cannot be trusted with self-government. In that war the Irish are fighting for the empire, not with more courage perhaps or more patriotism, but certainly with more distinc- tion, than the English themselves. It is an Irishman who commands the armies of the empire, an Irish- man who has led the cavalry with most success, and Irish regiments which have borne the brunt of the fiercest fighting. Those facts are known to all, and yet the British Premier says: “We fow know better than we did ten years ago what a risk it would be if we gave a disloyal government in Ireland the power of accumulating forces against this country. Having made that taunting and brutal speech about men who are fighting for his country’s flag, Salis- bury went on to speak of the feeling against the Brit- ish among the people of continental Europe as “a root of bitterness which I am unable to explain.” His Lordship has only to read his own speech with a proper degree of intelligence in order to find an ex- planation of the root of bitterness which is against the British everywhere. The poet who described a typical Englishman as “an oiled and curled Assyrian bull” was himself an Englishman, and the phrase fits to perfection. It is that brute bull nature showing itself in the words and/the actions of British states- men that offends and irritates the instincts of man- kind. Solomon has said, “He who would have friends must show himself frierdly.” When the British lead- ers have shown themselves friendly to other nations they will have some right to expect friends. Cer- tainly they can expect none when a Prime Minister who has been trained as a diplomat speaks in the way Salisbury has just spoken before the applauding Tories of the Primrose League. * Representative Baker of Maryland says that his bill to repeal the Chinese exclusion act possesses abso- lutely no significance. Is it possible that he thinks that the administration of Collector of the Port Jack- son makes a measure of repeal unnecessary? —— The Shah of Persia is going to “do” Europe in company with his favorite wife. What a lovely time the other ladies of the harem will have in the absence of their master, and what a reception the favorite will receive when she returns. Bryan insists that the, Democrats, Populists and Silver Republicans must stand together. He is,right, perhaps, in thinking that they should fall together all in one heap. . The Alaska murderer who was lynched at his own earnest request must have been a member in the days of his youth of some society for the suppression of crime. —_— It was hardly necessary to telegraph from Con- those who oppose the Hay-Pauncefote treaty. They are the most vociferous in their opposition, and their allies are the Bryanites. If the Woodlahd Democrat stantinople that the Sultan is not worrying over our claim for indemnity. hhw-homduingfln'm s HARRY LEHR, WINE DRUMMER. ENTERTAINER TO THE "400" @000 +046+000000640000000000000 08000 — Is Received by Exclu- sive New York So- ciety, for Which He Will Do Anything to Provoke a Laugh. ARRY LEHR, one of the most re- markable figures in New York so- ciety, has not yet, it is said, reached the climax of his daring. It is now rumored that the New- port colony is to see this summer stlll more astonishing evidences of Mr. Lehr's originality than he has here- tofore displayed. Many of Mr. Lehr's exploits have been made vublic. ‘When he induced Mrs. Frederic Gebhard to wade In a Baltimore fountain at 2 a. m. people gasped. When he paraded a rag doll about Newport people gasped again and declared that sublime folly could go no further. And this photograph of Mr. Lehr in soubrette costume, in which he danced and sang rag-time songs before a small audience of the most exclusive ma- trons in New York soclety, might be sup- posed to be the supreme effort of even so oy h 18 e orieel Who Is Harry Now, as to the original, 0 Lehr? What is he? # By the grace of Mrs. Astor and the con- tinued favor of the smart set he is the leading favorite in New York soclety. By birth he is a German—the son of a German Consul who went to Baitimore some fifteen years ago and later died, leaving his son penniless and with no other visible assets than a certain useful quality which it were unkind to call as- surance. By trade he is an agent for champagne. Ans by virtue of his liberal natural endownment he lays claim to the follow- Ing talents: e sings—just enough to amuse a small audience. He dances—most successfully in costume in _fashionable drawing rooms, He leads cotillon! He tells extremel He does daring ‘‘stunts. He chooses, designs and criticizes women’s gowns. He is a soclal diplomat. He moves on practically no income in a society composed of some of the richest people in the world. It may be surmised funny stories. Intelligently that this phenom- | enal social success of a penniless German from Baltimore is du But, e to his personality. | as a matter of fact, he has rdinary personality. He | vears old. He is short and not particularly slight. His eyes are blue, his hair falrfand he h shaven, rather heavy face, which becomes attractive when he smiles. ~He s neither | graceful nor distinguished in appearance. | Nevertheless, he has varfous engaging | traits. And one of them is an infinite | good nature which nothing has ever been | known to ruffle. Another is a sense of | humor. Nothing funny ever escapes him. He is also fflmo‘g for his readiness at im- provisation, whether a song or story, and | for his mastery of the negro and other dialects. a square, smooth- | IR Arnd finally, he has a lisp. Tt is claimed | by those who have coveted this particular- | Iy winning grace that a lisp cannot be | bought or acquired. Mr. Lehr's is inborn, | inimitable. Some time before Mrs. Willlam Astor | swung open to him the modern gates of | pearl Mr. Lehr won a pretty little repu- | tation in Baltimore. Penniless young men who vainly wonder how society may be | stormed are advised to study the follow- Ing incident: . * i g e e Pesed e * * Mr. Lehr once left a Baltimore cotillon at 2 o'clock In the morning in the com- pany of Mrs. Frederic Gebhard, formerly Miss Lulu Morris, and a number of others. As the carriage drove by a public foun- ain Mr, Lehr, who was in a merry mood, stumped” Mrs. Gebhard to wade in the water. Mrs. Gebhard took the dare, laid aside her shoes and stockings, and hand in hand she and r. 1 promenaded around the fountain eers of the others in the party. j 3 The social and commercial value of this incident to Mr. Lehr cannot be overesti- .ehr to the chi mated. | Mr. Lehr's name has never been con- nected with anything in the nature of a romance. To girlish charm, even with a heavy background of parental pocket- book, he seems singularly unsusceptible It is rather to matrons that he persistent- ly devotes himseif. It is with the married women of the smart set, for insta that Mr, Lehr flies kites in the surf at Newpert and plays tennis on the sand in bathing costume. And it was in the company of Harry Lehr in Trim to Entertain. %—0—0*@4—@ -3¢0+ P-4 B B e B e e L e S S 2 Gererereieresese® Mrs. Oelrichs and Mrs. Fish that the fa- s ragdoll incident occurred. verybody remembers how last sum- these three started out one day to ish Newport. It was Mr. Lehr's at suggested isit to Annie ) n Bellevue avenue. mood Mr. Lehr then d most beautiful i, and announced to the party d down the ave- one of the doll's chs the other, and Mrs. Oelrichs. tion eame when aby talk to the dol ‘00 look like "00 papa?’ asked .. bending cver it tenderly. “Is "ittle tootsie’s foots like papa’ further inquired Mrs. Oelrichs, anxiously g feet e add walkes ng Mrs. ( Iking b 1 the “the court 3 appointment. No ! or displace him. And no one PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. L. H. Meade of San Juan is at the Russ. Dr. C. A Palace. Dr. J. J. Miller of San Jose is a guest at the: Palace. J. C. Ruddick, the well known attorney, of Ukiah, is at the Grand. Willlam Junker, manager of the Del Monte Hotel, is at the Palace. C. D. Galvin, a well known fruit grower of Sacramento Valley, is at the Grand. R. E. Jack, a wealthy land owner of San Luis Obispo, is stopping at the Palace. J. J. Croxon of Hollister will be at the Russ for a few days. He is in this city on legal business. T. M. Lane, who has large mining inter- ests in and about Knights Ferry, is reg- istered at the Lick. E. 8. Valentine, the insurance and real estate man, arrived yesterday from Fresno and is stopping at the Lick. Lewis T. Wright, manager of the Iron Mountain mines, i§ down from Shasta County and is registered at the Palace. Commander E. D. Taussig and wife are guests at the Occidental, en route to Ma-~ nila, where Commander Taussig will take charge of one of the ships of the Asiatic squadron. Mrs.W. O. Gould, president of the Young Women's Christian Association of San Francisco, and Harry F. Gould, assistant actuary of the Pacific Mutual Life Insug- ance Company, leave the city this even- ing to visit relatives in New York and Boston. —_———————— CALIFORNIA LANDS SURVEYS. Ray of Gold Hill is at the The Call does not hold itself responsible for the opinions published in this column, but presents them for whatever value they may have as communications of general interest, Editor The Call: Your editorial in refer- ence fo the need of land surveys in our State meets with general approval and is very much appreciated by many settlers, who are interested in Mendocino County. In the past several years numerous peti- tions have been sent to the Land Office by settlers, asking that lands upon which they have located be surveyed, thereby enabling them to secure patent and he en- abled to make use of timber and bark, that otherwise could not be utilized and is of no value to them. In no instance have these requests been favored with the least attention or encouragement that anything would ever be accomplished to enable them to secure patents to their homes. In nearly all cases porilons of townships bhave been surveyed for several years, but in every instance some so-called red tape defect in the survey would cause the same to be rejected, théreby leaving thousands of acres of valuable land wide open to the mercy of scrip land agents, who have been enabled to cover the best portions ‘with forest reserve scrip, greu.usr enriching themselves and tying the lands up for ears to come to capitalists who have no {nteren in our county and who are hold- ing it as t“ |nvdelsllx;nmt. mo:dt %kel);“ror great-grandc] n, an epri §§2"‘.ouxd.ni bona. fide settiers from ob taining lands justly beionging to them. Qn:fiuulz on record may be found in the case of wnship 13 north, Range 1§ west, Mount Diablo wmeridian, showing how the smooth, Italian hand of the land agents, with the assistance of the red tape manipulations of Government land of- ficials, can steal the lands from settlers. sev: years, 10 my personal wanted claims a ht to them upon sectlons of these unaccepted lands and endeavored to get their land surveyad, but could accom. fllnh nothing and were obliged to abandon he same, Intending tod.o upon the land ! as soon as surveys could be made and E result, like many other ca: was that the land remains unsur- veyed, but secured by the Sutro heirs in San Francisco, through the agency of land agents and forest reserve serip, 18 now out of the market and h of :fl.‘, :& e react settlers, who righttully Your ns ln- 't‘hm :n point, Ul‘; ce tl re oolznl of our in ds of t] S S e Sy sured that the settlers’ requests would not be ignored, but would be promptly attend- ed to and their rights fully respected, | we are confident that it only a matter of a year or so when every acre of the timber lands of our county will be covered by scrip and those who desire and should be entitled to the right to take a claim will be entirely deprived of this privilege and all will be in the hands of those who are not personally interested in the wel- | fare of our county. Yours truly, C. A. MeFAUL. Union, Cal., Ma 1900, —_—e————— California and the India Famine. Editor The Call—Dear Sir: The cry of India still comes across the water, “God has taken away our bread, what shall | we do?” Every day's message seems more | desperate and hopeless. Pirst it was 25,000,000, then 40,000,000 and 60.000,000 and now it is 90,000,000 of people threatened with starvation. All the world should re- spond to such a call. No little local sub- scription can meet the case at all. Shall | not California do something—send a whole cargo of wheat or several of them? 1Is anything of this nature being done? We hear of subscriptions being taken on a small scale, but what are these among so | many millions? There is abundance and to spare in every part of California. Is there not some way of using a part of this abundance to save the lives of some of these millions? We have been requested by a vote of | our Yolo County Ministerial Union to bring this matter to the notice of the three leading San Franclscg papers, The Call, the Chronicle and the Examiner, and what if anything ean be done, and the t. most practical way of getting at it? Yours in behalf of the Yolo County Min- | isterfal Union, 2 | EGBERT D. HAVEN, Secretary. J. A. Van Anda, President. | Woodland, May 8, 1900, —— ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. | A BILL ON SUNDAYS-N. P, City. The payment of a bill on Sunday is law- ful in California. TRAINMEN—C. C. B., Oakland, Cal. No bill was passed at the last held ses- | sion of the Lemslature of California au- | therizing trainmen to arrest any one try- ing to beat his way on a railroad. NO ACTION COMMENCED-C. P. F., | M Lackawanna, Pa. The records of the Supe- rior Court of San Franciseo fail to show that at any time since 1803 Mrs. Georgle Beatty commenced an action for v from John Beatty. v POLL TAX A LIEN-P. T. Cal. If a man owns real estate in Cali- fornia and does not pay his poll tax that | tax is a llen on the property, to be col- lected in the same manner as other taxes. | The law for this is to be found in section 3560 of the Political Code. BUILDING IN CASINO—E. x, (‘lly.‘ In the game of casino a player cannot build upon his own buila. if there is laces an ace upon it, is adversary failing to upen it, A cannot play :;lsd ‘c-H "b e|¢ht‘. but m our; but prior to taking it make another build of any dgnom‘l'remfl:iny AN ACCOUNT-F. . Oakland, | making it four, | take it or build a four upon i ust take it with | C. J., Rio Vista, Cal. Itralpenwn receives a paper for a period Of SIx years after his first year's sub- scription has expired he clnnoyt nt(‘er the expiration of seven years be called upon to pay more than two years of that ac- count, which is known as a one-sided one. If the party notified the office or pub- lisher to discontinue the T after the subscription expired the 'z)-:i’y is not lla- e bill be sent. | candescent electric | cation issued by any rafiroad in the country. | E. Jobnson, T. P. which was supposed to be presented the configuration of the stars. Th were supposed to have been invented b Egypt and refer to the division of the ons. These are aries, taurus, gemini esenting spring; cancer, leo and virgo, sumr. r; autumn libra, scorpio and sagittarius and capricornicus, aquarius and winter. The first sign begins at nt of the equator where the sun passes at the time of the vernal equinox in the upper h here. They are count- ed onward. proceeding from west to east according fo the annual course of the sun around the circle. The use of these signs in the common almanacs is a relic of the past, founded on the superstition of the dle ages. when it professed to show vhat parts the moon governs in mind and body, corresponding to the twelve signs named. —_——— Cal. glace fruit 0c per Id at Townsend’s.* —_——— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- gomery street. Telephone Main 1042 - —_—— Held for Burglary. Richard J. Nolan and Robert Hoffman were held to answer yvesterday before the Superior Court by Judge Cabaniss on a charge of burglary. On the night of April they broke into the Club saloon on arrell and Taylor streets and stole [; some bottles of liquor and boxes of cigars. —_——— The “North Coast Limited” Is the name of the new train the Northern Pa- cific Railway has put into service between Port- land and St. Paul. This magnificent train equipped Wwith wide vestibules, stes! plat- forms, leather upholstered tourist cars, the latest Pullman sleepers and dining cars, while the entire train is brilllantly lighted with in- lghts. A luxurious ob- servation car contalning all the comveniences of any first-class hotel for the accommodation of both ladies and gentiemen is attached to the rear end. Send G in stamps. for {liustrated book ‘““Wonderland,” the most beautiful publi- T. K. Stateler, G. A, 633 Market st, 3. F.; C. » 1233 W, Third st., Los e Finer and Faster Than Ever. Beginning May 13 the “OVERLAND LIM- ITED,” the Union Pacific's splendid #9-hour “fiyer” to Chicago, will leave San Francisco daily at 10 a. m. instead of 3:30. The FAST L will leave daily at § p. m. instead of 6:30, with through Pullman and tourist sieepers for Chicago. Perfect dining car service on both trains. D. W. Hitcheock, ,General Agent, 1 Montzomery an Franciseo. Angeles. ——————— Sudden Death of a Banker. J. B. Jackson, a banker of Salinas City, died suddenly yesterday in the office of Dr. Abrams, his physician. bad been und for heart Mr. Jackson er treatment for four years ease. 2 ADVERTISEMENTS, PNEUMONIA leaves the ‘lungs weak and opensthe door for the germs of Consumption. Don’t wait until they get in, and you begin to cough. Close ble for the amount of t that may S., Tulare, Cal. FIREARMS-F. The ?r{’fl‘q‘““ of revolvers or other firearms e streets of San Franci b d s pronibited by ordinance. The oo dinances do not make any distinetion as doing are liable to ar- THE ZODIAC—G. K.. Moores Fiat, Cal. The zodiac is an imaginary belt in the heavens, within which the mations of the '& l!lnn_ru‘. an:“.- prineipal planets are con. of the signs of the ‘mbi, “Imml the “Ohjects “Besignated, the door at once by healing the inflammation. Scolls Emudsion. makes the lungs germ- proof; it heals the inflam- mation and closes the doors. It builds up and strengthens the entire system ‘with wonderful rapidity.