The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 16, 1900, Page 4

THE - SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 16, 1900. vess2.JULY 16, 1900 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor, tddress All Communice‘ions to W. S. LEAKE, Manacer. MANAGER'S OFFICE PUBLICATION © FICE..Mnarket and Third, 8. F. phone Press 201. EDITORIAL NOOMS. 217 te 221 Stevemsom St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carrifers, 16 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cemts. Terms by Mail, Including Postages DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), one Year...... DATLY CALL (including Sunday), § months DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. 3 Y CALL—By Single Month. FUNDAY CALL Ope Year.. WEEKLY CALL One Year All postmasters are muthorized to receive subscriptions. Sampie coples Will Le forwarded when requested. Mail subscribers in ordering change of address should be particul , give poth NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order o insure a prompt and correct compiiance with their request. CAKLAND OFFICE.............1118 Broadwaj C GEORGE KROGNESS, serte Building, Chieago. **Central 2615."°) XEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C C. 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NW cor- per Twe: y-second and Kentucky, open until 9 o clock. on and Eddy streets—Specialties. ater—Vaudeville every afterncon and Leaves” AUCTION SALES. 15731 11 o'clock, Grocery and Geary sts. 16, at 11 o'clock, Horses, at Monday, Jul r Webster a —M MIDSUMMER M@ERKETS. is now down In the East- get away from d, trade in the country or at the sea- are left to pick up the few stray Wall street is deserted, and there is This least come zlong probably last for at f al ation, ob- nk they discern more tone to business. ent in merchandise is light, to be sure, fi lines. The settlement mployers and employes 1 situation somewhat, and however, some But the large iron nable to control wer price ind themselves d last year, and another sharp cut in tened. Still rather more move- continues very ool wea rners are now offering their r y refused some time ago. we finding buyers. The hide and 1 shoe trades continue to report 1 accumulating ay and neglected ak ) wil s are brisk one d: se down grade for some days. crop damage in the Northwest i individuals has had have let go and the The talk now 000,000 bushels, and though ade operators characterize the it is having its effect on The dry her specter the corn market, and the end of the corn less rain comes will go, too. Missouri, Towa and arked in passing. that along at the last minute, st as it does in Cali- ion of the crop. her bugaboo out herz, w that the supposed enormous ested in May and June was i) 1 that good grain hay is ve been going up right 1 in July. There is , but not enough of the e scare 1 the Cured Fruit Association ous reduction in the size of heavy drop and the stoppage in ruit, due to hot weather at the : of Otherwise the promising as turned 1 s. w in the Santa se: spring ra seem to be a the year. The merchants ir y rather more business than r, thanks to the continued 3y of the port. far this ycar have been remarkably te the at development of the de- for this the town would be rather 3 clearings last week showed a 21.1 per cent compared with the corre- last year. The failures were 196, 169, both records being below the normal. e e Jake Rauer is v—dvnfrlfl—\'mg knocked out one of k is with a hammer. Jake should have used th T he received in the Sullivan case and then | pleaded justifiable retaliation. It is feared that the official representatives of America at the Paris Exposition are losing their rea- son. They their salaries. The shipments out of | srth, the Pacific Islands and the Orient, | PUNISH ALL THE SCOUNDRELS. HE preliminary examination of the self-con- T fessed scoundrel, John M. Chretien, the shame- less robber of the dead, who was stopped in his criminal career by The Call, will begin this morning in the Police Court of A. J. Fritz. There never has | been, perhaps, in the history of this city an investiga- tion of more vital moment to the integrity of our | courts than this will be. The most sacred relation- | ships of the courts to the people are involved. The estates of the unprotected dead must be guarded if the living are not to be injured and despoiled by ghouls masking as attorneys. The Call has uncovered the appalling condition of affairs which exists in one of our probate courts. There is not a family in California which is not in mately concerned in the outcome of that ex- pose. The Call has revealed the shameful fact that an estate can be stolen by legal thieves, scrutiny of lawyers, Judges, witnesses and notaries, and that a duty, deeply solemn in its nature, can be ig- It is the duty of the court to see that nal work shall not be continued in San nored. vie F us Crif ancisco. As far as the facts of this particular case are con- | cerned there is nothing further to say. They were published in their startling entirety in The Call last Monday, and the allegations of this paper were sub- stantiated by the sensational testimony which was given before Judge Troutt. One of the scoundrels concerned in this crime against the living and the dead, John M. Chretied, confessed his guilt in court. He has since made four other ““confessions,” all of them lies in part and none of them containing a fact which The Call did not pub- lish before he, in shameful self-abasement, admitted his scoundrelism. It is the duty of the courts and of ing officers to see that the other rascals were concerned Chretien shall not be confessions,” but shall pay with him eir atrocious crime. prosec: hc with shiclded by the penalty B of the Southe a formidable menace to honest politics not for this year only but for ten years to come. The alliance of the ward gangs with the corporations has not been arranged upon any of the great national issues before the country, but upon a programme for controlling the Legislature, so that this winter they may fix the Assembly, Senatorial and Congressional districts to it their purpose, and that purpose is to put them- selves in a position of vantage in all legislative or Congressional elections for the next ten years. Because the electoral districts of the State are to be Y the combination which has been effected ong the ward bosses and the political touts n Pacific road there has arisen st reorganized this winter a double importance is given | to the approaching election. The better class of citi- zens have not only to defeat Bryanism in the nation, but they have to prevent the bosses and the tools of upting corporation from obtaining control in the State. If the Southern Pacific Company h the power to fix the various Assembly, Senatorial and Congressional districts for the coming decade, it is 2 foregone conclusion the districts will be so gerr: mandered that in many of them the railroad will 1 le to elect almost any one it chooses—even its yel- low dogs. It will have control of the Legislature, and through that control it will have power to vi tually dictate who shall be chosen to represent or mis- represent California in the United States Senate. The danger is one against which the voters must be on guard, and the responsibility of vigilance rests particularly upon Republicans, for it is to that party the people look for good government this ycar. Cali- fornia will surely vote for McKinley and Roosevelt, and in all pr delegation to Congress.” That being so, the voters will naturally be inclined to cast their votes for all other Republican candidates, so as to make a clean sweep. It is therefore of the highest importance that the Repubiican legislative tickets should be com- posed of men who are not in any way subservient to either the bosses or the corporations, There is but one way in which the fight for honest litics can be won this year, and that is by induc- o ing every loyal Republican to register, so that he will this | »bability will return a solid Republican | | | tive that prompted the folly. There are some who | | | | | | | a good many the thing was as easy as eating pie. Our | of Chinatown to the communit have a right to vote, and then enroll in a Republican | club, so that he can take an active and efficient part in the campaign. It is beyond dispute that if good citizens organize and work they can win, and that ii they do not win it will be their own fault. In Kelly following. Those bosses are already in the railroad camp along with the Democratic bosses, and on election day will 'kmre Republican candidates should the railroad managers give orders to that effect. They are fight- ing now, as always, not for the party, but for their own gang; not for principles, but for the spoils. They would like the privilege of arranging the political dis- tricts of San Francisco for the next ten years, and to obtain that privilege they will not hesitate a minute | to betray the Republican party. The path of safety for Republicans is that of straight, honest politics, | 2nd along that path there can be no walking with the corrupting managers of the Southern Pacific or the corrupted bosses of the grog shop gangs. e T —— S cratic convention in reasserting the free silver demand of the Chicago platiorm and renomi- nating Bryan that to z considerable number of intel- ligent men the thing seems to require explanation. They can hardly accept the result as but another evi- | dence of Democratic capacity for blundering and in- | capacity for statecraft, and are persuaded there is some .hidden plot or plan in it that ought to be brought to | light. | Among those after the motives that | prompted the bosses at Kansas City is Senator Cal- fery of Louisiana, who, looking at the proceedings from the standpoint of a Southern Gold Democrat, has come to the conclusion that the Southern dele- gates were swung to Bryan and free silver by the de- | sire on the part of a large number of powerful South- ern interests to_bring about the re-election of Mec- Kinley. The South has been very prosperous during | the last four years, and the leading business men of that section have sense enough to understand that the | prosperity has been due mainly t6 Republican legis- | lation. They do not wish a change. They wish an- other four years of prosperity.. The politics of their | States is such as to prevent giving the electoral vote | tc the Republican candidate, and therefore their only - way to help the good cause of continued prosperity was that of getting the Democrats to nominate a man whose record and whose platform would assure defeat. The suggestion is ingenious, but does not account for all the facts. Some of the foremost Southern s contest it will be folly to make terms with and Crimmins and their saloon TRYING TO EXPLAIN IT. O utterly foolish was the action of the Demo- seekers have voluntarily agreed to a reduction of | States objected to a reiteration of the silver plank, and would have gladly dropped it from the platform al- | | assert that Croker acted from passion merely, that that a bogus heir can pass successfully the winking | i 010 motive was a hatred of Hill and his only ob- | ever, who maintain that Croker is never so angry but the public become with the problematic icatures of ! way complex, but quite simple and very easy to be | it not as simple to require the owners of property in | any personal rights or property rights that run con- | Chinatown property-owners to clean up their prem- together. Thus it has been noted that “16 to 1” was forced into the Democratic platform by delegates from Iowa, Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Mas- sachusetts, Oregon, North Dakota and Washington, against the votes and protests of sure Democratic States like Virginia, Texas, Tennessee, Florida, Geor- gia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi and North Carolina. The part that New York played in the convention has also been the subject of a good deal of comment. The vote on the silver plank in the committee on plat- form was so close as to justify the conclusion that had Hill been a member of the committee he would have been able to defeat it. Thus Tammany is largely re- sponsible for making 16 to 1 an issue in the cam- paign, and as that has materially lessened any chance the Democrats may have had of carrying the State, there has been some speculation concerning the mo- ject that of humiliating him. There are others, how- that he keeps a cool head to look out for the main | chance and profit by it. These declare a conviction that Croker is persuaded that Democracy could not carry New York this year under any circumstances, and therefore he stood in with Bryan because that would give him a chance to hold the radical and Populist vote in New York City and thus give Tam- many a local victory, no matter what happened else- where. 3 All of these explanations are amusing contributions to the campaign. They serve to keep up public inter- est in the Bryan movement and reveal the folly of it. Of course none of them are worth much. It has been said of old that an ass eats thistles because he is an ass, and the same reason explains why Democracy nominated Bryan @ PLAIN WAY CPEN. to our as a | HINATOWN is known people | “problem.” Every issue that ariscs out of it is called by that name, and so impressed has fooferimfeefosforielont the relation of that district to the rest of the com- munity, a good many citizens overlook the fact that | some of the issues connected with it are not in any solved by any municipal administration that will go about it in a plain, straightforward way. Why should the enforcement of sanitary regulations in Chinatown be a problem? What mystery stands | in the way there any more than elsewhere? Why is : Chinatown to keep their premises in good order as ! it is to make that requirement of owners of property | in other parts of the city? The law is plain, and as the violatioh of the law is also plain to be seen and readily proven, the application of the law to the vio- lators ought not to be anything very difficult in the way of a problem. | In the years following the war, when gold was at : { | 2 premium, the resumption of specie payment was re- | Sta d the wear and smen garded as a very complex subject. awake at night thinking about it, tear on the American brain was something tremen- | dous. By and by some one suggested, with cautior that probably the best way to resume would be to | resume. That view was scouted at first, but eventually | those in authority decided to try it. The Govern- ment resumed specie payment, and to the surprise oi municipal authorities czn learn a lesson from that ex- perience of the nation. The best way to enforce the law in Chinatown is to enforce it. - The that many of the relations as a whole are in their nature so complex and so involved with personal and property rights that they constitute genuine | problems which can be dealt with adequately only after careful consid ion and probably at a great cost; but it does deny that the enforcement of sani- tary regulations within the Chinese district is in any way a complex issue. Neither the tenants of China- town buildings nor the owners of the buildings have Call does not de trary to the health laws of the community. There is nothing in the enforcement of the laws which calls for much worry on the part of official brains or of much cost to the community. In this, as in many other cases, the plain way is the best way. The difficulties that loom up across the path of public improvement are frequently imaginary and vanish as soon as they are approached with clear vision and a resolute will. Let the Health | Board and the police authorities give notice to the | ises and keep them clean, and if the order be obeyed, then let arrests be made summarily and im- | partially, as was done in the case of the garbage-cart offenders, and within a very short time that phase of the Chinatown question will be settled and the way cleared for considering the problem that remains. e o et e not | | of the Spaulding hopes that the recent bubonic scare inci- | Assistant Secretary Treasury General | dent has been closzd. It never will be, the dis- tinguished gentleman may be assured, until we have heard the, last of our bubonic Board of dealth and have reason to regard Kinyoun as a disagreeable memory. The Board of Education is convinced that physical culture must be taught in the schools on a physio- logical, psychological and pedagogical basis. This is probably the longest way of saying that some poli- tician's favorite is to be honored with some public | pap. ——— If the bubonic Mayor and his “reform”’ govern- ment continue St. Mary's Park may never be a reality, but the fund upon which the taxéaters haye made so many desperate attacks will be at least famous in local history. ALt Crimmins and Kelly can have at least one congratu- lation in this campaign. No one has the slightest doubt of who they are, what they are or what they represent. The leopard does not change its spots. ‘While the peculiar court victories of the Contra Costa Water Company may drive the people of Oak- land to drink, it is reasonably certain that the bever- age of consolnion will not be water. —_— It can matter very little to Mr. Towne of Minne- sota whether he run for Vice President or not, and to the people it matters nothing at all. They seem to be having everything at the Paris Exposition except a royal or imperial time. As a king show the thing is a failure. - About the best chance that most of the adventurers at Nome have found there has been a chance to get home again. California expects every Republican to do his duty in this campaign, and the first duty is to register. | to belong to the middie par: | the whole empire. | traveling men on the coast, left for Los 4 N CALL’S EXPOSE OF PROBATE FRAUDS Commented Upon by the State Press. DAY NDN MMMMMQ¥NQ¥0‘Q-‘Q‘<>:?‘Q’Q-{M"' - * B e e D o O journalistic achievement of recent years has been more widely commented upon than The Call" posure of the frauds practiced in the probate of the estate of the late Joseph Sullivan in Superior Ju Troutt’s court. This paper was actuated in publishing the scandal by the duty s ex- ndge t owed to the public. It asked no other reward than that the rascals should be punished. It was gratified that, following quick on the pub- lication of the story, the main conspirator, John M. Chretien, was put behind the bars, and now it takes added satisfaction in knowing that its contemporaries throughout the State feel justified in applauding its course. A few of the many editorial utterances on the matter are herewith given: THE MONITOR. The bogus heir industry receives a temporary check by the revelations in the Chretien swindle, in Judge Troutt's court. The Call is entitled to praise for bringing about the exposure of this umsavory transaction. R e OAKLAND ENQUIRER. The Sullivan fraud was far from being Lawyer Chretien's first misstep, but it was the first one which landed his foot in a bear trap. And but for The Call this robbery might have been carried through successfully. The rest of San Francisco's crooked attorneys will now resolve to be more circumspect, but not, we fear, more honest. PO e HOLLISTER FREE LANCE. The San Francisco Call performed a splendid plece of jour- nalistic work this week in exposing the nefarfous operations of 'a crowd of scoundrelly lawyers who were endeavoring to loot an estate. Judge Troutt, in whose court the transactions occurred, stands in an unenviable light before the public, and owes it to himself, to prosecute the scoundrels to a finish. A newspaper that accomplishes the exposure and overthrow of villainy performs signal service to the community, and The Call is entitled to all possible credit for its good work. 56 e ALAMEDA ARGUS. There is one thing in connection with the Chretien disclos- ures that will strike some people as queer, and that is the apparent ignorance of court and attorneys concerned of his character. Even the atmosphcre far from the court, where Chretien ne ver came in the flesh, was heavy with the general odor of his crookedness. How it came that the Judge, who must know more or less of the general reputation of all who practice at the bar, and the lawver who “‘wanted him to make B R s PARTIES IN THE CELESTIAL EMPIRE ~>=>> Described By << KANG YU WEI b N order properly to comprehend the inner affairs of the Chinese empire, the first thing needful is rightly to distin- guish the different parties in China. The Empress Dow- r holds on to the old ways; her party is known as the mpress’ party.” The Emperor and his friends. who de- “Emperor's party.” Then there the “‘middle party which is chiefly its own interests and dares not interfere in ths of the people and officials are comprised H sire reform, are known as the is a third party, known a concerned with notwithstanding that she is the few or no friends outside of Otherwise her influence is nchus. Yung Lu, appointed by pecial commissioner for the collection 1 revenues from the provinces; Prince Tuan, Yun Yu, Bwai-ta-pu, etc. The only clever man among them is Yung Lu; the rest are densely ignorant and care for rothing but and official rank. Of the high military Tung- iang belongs to the Empress' party and hi-Kai to the emperor's. All the remainder may be said Thus I am right in saying that the Empress’ party are few in number, although at the mo- The Empress Dowager, ad of the ruling party circles g | ment their power is great. on the other hand, is spread throughout The majority are in their heart of hearts devoted to the Emperor, admiring his intelligence and recti- The middle party tude. 4 these are alarmed and angry at the Empress’ usur- pation. They know how ignorant she is and what a dissolute life she has led for the last thirty years, and that the weakness of China is largely due to her misdeeds. But the high officials are too old; they sit blinking in the twilight, not daring to act, a fee,” and the various others who had to do with the mattes were so blissfully ignorant of his nat will constitute a mys- tery indeed. NEW: John M. Chretlen, as er his profession, has confessed. ¢ heroics he has taken the blame of everything upon hi hat was his last piay. It now remains for the officers of the law to find a charge upon which he may be legally convicted, for he is a self-confessed scoundrel, forger, thief and robber of the dead. Judge Troutt, who appointed Chretien as the representative of the absent heir, was elected to office through the influence of Martin Kelly, an unspeakable politiclan. Kelly owned the convention and nominated Troutt. Chretien has long been known as Martin Kelly's office boy. It was he who took the messages in and brought the messages back for the waiting Kelly at the conventions. Ruef. a lawyer whose Teputation is anything but a bouquet, is Martin Kelly's personal represen- tative. It is said that Ruef suggested Chretien as the attorney to represent the absent heir. Now, Chretien’s reputation was so well known as to have made it impossible for Judge Troutt to be unconscious of the kind of a man he was selecting for & responsible tru And so through weakness or political pres- sure Judge Troutt has put himself in anything but a dignified position. Chretien has confessed; for the first time In his lifa ke has sworn away the reputation of the right man. His con- fession may be a pose, in it many important details may be omitted, but there is enough sincerity in it to send any thief to jail, and this man ought to be put out of sight of honest people. We pay our compliments to The Call, which had the enterprise and courage to secure the first positive evidenc Chretlen’s guilt and make it known to the world. Whe nalism concerns itself in driving rogues from the pathway honest folk it is good journalism and deserves the respect of public. THE REFORMER. e e el o 8 but leaving success or ruin to come, as the Emperor or the Empress gains the upper hand. s; both officials and people, new methods, but while the Empr: they are in dread of severe punishment At the time of the coup d’etat the Empress fa sserted that the Emperor's party was planning revo prohibited newspapers, killed and drove out hundreds and exiled numbers of high officials to the fro f the refor rs executed were high metropolitan offic one a member of the Grand Council and one whom th nperor had nominated to be Prima Minister; all were the Emperor's personal friends; they beheaded without trial, while h dreds of small chal thousands of the common people were proscribed. ures were carried out in order to clip the Emp Why were all these leading men w selves with the reform party? Tb yet they are the real re- hey long for reform and party hold the power loyal subjects, anxious to_save 1 and deserve the Emperor's benevolen You o o read the Chiness newspapers. Ko-wen-pao, published in Tientsin; S a =shed In Shanghai: Chi-hsin- », published at published at Yokoh re—these are all publ g0 are able to speak the trutk 3 with the party of reform. The Japanese newsp the same view; their criticism is independent Dowager is a licentious old woman. She s not the real mother, and she had nc titation In deposing him so as to retain her power. But she was wrong in taking Yung Lu's advice to depose the Emperor and place the power g bis (Yung Lu's) hands. As soon as ne got control of the northern troops Yung Lu threw off the mask and did what he willed, and the Empr;fis lives in constant dread of treachery on the part of her eunuchs. : Tien-nan-pao, i under foreign protec nd all n and tio PERSONAL MENTION. T. W. Patterson, a Fresno banker, is at mkhl\'man H. H. Bleod of Bakersfleld the Grand. arkley, the well-known politician, | red at the Lick. 1 . Terry, a well known Sacramentan, | opping at the Palace. | 2. Chenowith, a noted 4i is a guest at the Lick. D. Vincent, a druggist of Nevada AT THE Talented Wri To- w. City, is stopping at the Lic! { Stanton L. Carter, a prominent attorney of Fresno, is a guest at the Lick. Dr. L. E. Cross, one of Stockton's most prominent physicians, Is at the Grand. | J. W. Gaskill of the Van Voorhies Com- pan;, Sacramento, is in the city on bus- iness. v ;. Andrews, one of the best known Angeles on the “Owl"” last night. 0. §. Eskridge. U. S. A, a son of Colonel kridge of the Presidio, Is at the Oecci- dental. He is on his way to the Far East. E. J. Kramer, E. W. Clark and William | Stephenson, all of the United States army, are at the Occidental, en route to the Qrient. » British Consul Mortimer of San Diego. | accompanied by his family. is here on a pleasure trip. He is registered at the Oc- | cidental. J. T. Mareau, a prominent citizen of | is at the Palace. accom- R S R R S 1 @ 0o |COMING LECTURES | eler to Deliver Them Expected Here | | ler of Parls. (g 4. 64640+ 0+0e0e0e@ LOUIS F. BROWN. \NEWS OF THE NAVIES. COLUMBIA —f ter and Trav- The Essex class of British armored cruisers will have three funnels. The six armored cruisers for the Japan- | ese navy ordered under the new naval programme were built in England, France and Germany. | At the Kiel dockyard steam power i3 to Day. | be superseded by electricity for driving ! machine tools in the several shops. A central plant of 300 horsepower is being | bullt, which, besides suppiying power for yard tools, will also operate the pumps of the dry docks. ____ The British Admiralty has decided to establish a torpedo depot at Falmouth, where all destroyers and torpedo boats of the western division—not in commis— | slon—will be laid up. The armored crulser Triumph will be sent to Falmouth to be used as a floating torpedo depot. Not a single accident marred the recent naval meneuvers of Japan's fleet. The final inspection by the Emperor took place | in Kobe Bay, in which 5 battleships, 3 coast defense ships, 13 cruisers, 1 torpedo tender, 1 torpedo gunboat, 10 torpedo boat yers and 17 torpedo boats partici- ‘This final show was witnessed by | representatives of all navies except that | of the United States. | e | Tn the demolition of the Belleisle the 'y Majestic expended $ twelve-inch common b shells, 7 twelve-inch armor-plercing - R R S SRR SO S shells, 200 six-inch lyddite, 40 three-inch, 50 three-pounders and an unknown num- panied by his wife. Their visit here is for 4—@4—@-0—0—&@4—0*—94.@_._.“ Nhrl (;’f ngxlm shots. The distance at pieasure. ¥, 3 43 which the firing took place ranged from United States Senator Daniel and son of (‘:il ,I‘S_ FR?hl:CIg an\}?A who 1s to | 1700 yards at bow and stern and 1300 yards Virginia were the guests of Congressman 17 \;r‘ - (‘“;mnb! r’vr{mm tec- | on broadside. It was estimated that 30 Kahn yesterday afternoon. They were | r:';;ni;ion ew"g u:r;mamimm;”iln to 40 per cent of the shots were effective. driven to and through Golden Gate Park, ler season during July and Augu is Model experiments nks are multip! to Sutro Heights, the Presidio and Pre- sidio Heigh The visitors expressed un- qualified astonishment at the many beau- a native of Boston. his summers in foreign lands in compa with Mr. Holmes, obtainthg material for ing. I The latest s that of Norddeutsc! He has been spending yd at Bremerhaven, the omly one ! rmany and utilized by the Governmen ties the drive displayed to them. They will be escorted to Mount Tamalpais some day this week —— CALIFORNIANS. IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, July I5.—Charles de| Young of San Francisco, a son of M. H. de Young, is at the Waldorf, en route to Europe. Henry Sturges of San Francisco is at the Empire. . “THE POTHOUSE BO3SES.” (Calaveras Chronicle.) Speaking under the caption of “The Pot- house Bosses”” the San Francisco Call says that Kelly and Crimmins have about | as much right in the Republican party as | a “burglar in a bank,” and further says | about them that “it is better to keep a polecat out of your house than to let him in and then try to put him out.” Correct. In the name of political decency and com- mon sense, don't allow the Republican party to be the baven or refuge for Demo- cratic skunks. They are good for nothing other than to raise a stink and infect any organization In which they are permitted to parade to the extent of driving out re- spectability. Bury them deep In oblivion, where they belong. Those Infectious ani- mals are altogether too offensive to the olfactories of decent people. They have ! stunk up their own nest so as to be un- bearable to their old-time political asso- ciates, and 1t is no wonder that they must be run out. —————— WORSE THAN “BROKE.” Harduppe—Say, old fellow, lend me a hundred, will you? Riggs—A hundred what? Harduppe—A hundred dollars, I— Rigg: h, stop your {okm{i Harduppe' (earnestly)—Joking? 1 was never more serious in my like. 1I'm broke. nggs—uy dear man, {ou’re not broke, You're cracked!—Catholic Standard and Times. ——e——————— Greater New York proposes to expend ,000.000 on two bridges. the lectures to be given during the ensu- ing winter. Mr. Brown has been for the past_three months in Europe, visiting the ssion play of “Oberammergau’” nn?l the 'aris Exposition: in the interests of sev- eral New York magazines, for which he is to write a number of articles to appear during the winter months. Mr. Brown | sailed for the United States June 21, and arrived in San Francisco yesterday, visft- ing the Grand Canyon of Arizona en route where he put the finishing touches to his lectures on this marvel of nature. The first lecture in the double course to be fl by him at the Columbia will be on | Manila, b: last summer, the | . date beéing Thursday afternoom, July 19, ———e—— THE NEW AND THE NEW, The New Woeman = N ity 2 deh::l’::dh::::lf ::: e limet sid hestiyea’ i ta" she ————— BOUND TO BE A]TEOPl'LAR FAVOR- “I've a song here that T ¢ W “Is there any sense in ll?!"‘nk by = y tune in 1t?" Not a morsel. & “Leave it. If it answers your deserip- tion it will tu kD Som 4, vall turn out a gold ‘mine."—Lon- T ANOTHER EXAMPLE. The Professor—Did it ever how everything in the worl i adapte the condition which enviro: I‘l".‘ad.p"d 2, indeed. hundreds of professor, how ad- et e tee and “Boetan GROUNDS FOR COMPLAINT. y«;’-.?r"'m%‘:."&"‘.‘ morming. M Blogay ™ . J;‘Elouy—wo. It don't seem to may ‘ot ke the cofenbutt i Lo lod Ve like you.—Philadelphia Press. L vou | The tank and its accessories square feet. There is a hall 560 feet ! length, at the sides of w model foundry, the model chine, the electric batterfe: n towing power, store rooms, workshops and offices. The tank has an interior length of 520 feet, a width of 2) feet and a depth of 10 feet. Arsaldo, the ndted shipbuilding firm at Genoa, is to modernize nine ironcls the Turkish navy, and the yard at Kiel. own by Krupp. | one. As the estimated cost is | 202,000, the renewal will be confin ermania is to have only $,- 1 chiefly to modern armament and the renewal of | boilers and engines where the old ars | found absolutely usele: Nothing is to | be done to improve the armor and the ex- pense is practically a waste of money, as the ships are now from twenty 0 thirty-four years old and are slow and altogether obsolete. The fighting value of torpedo boat de- stroyers has yet to be demonstrated, but | their expensiveness is already fairly es- tablished. A large number of the Brit- ish boats—and probably alse those of | other navies—are in a questionable state | of efficiency and very few of the one-year- old crafts would be able to come up to their trial speeds. The latest crippled | destroyer in the British navy is the Os- prey, which, although only three months in commissfon, has developed such serfous defects in her machinery as to make it | mecessary to pay off the crew and turn the vessel over for repairs at a dockyard. —_— Cal. glace fruit 50c per b at Townsend's. * ——e Traveling librarfes are in Pennsvivania he resent the libraries By Private: contrivutions, ' ERERE R >