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

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MON JULY 23, 1900 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. B O Communica‘ions to W. . LEAKE, Mana .Telephone Pi iddress A er MANAGER'S OFFICE VUBLICATION OFFICE.. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL XOOMS....217 Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers. 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies. 6 Centn. Terms by Mail, Incinding Postage: uding Sunday), one year. dncluding Sunday), § months. dncluding Sunday). 3 months. 3 1By Single Month. X CALL Ope Year .l WEEKLY CALL One Year. % D1 All postmasters mre avthorized to receive subseriptions. Semple coples will be foriarded when requested. subscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order o iusure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. ...1118 Broadwna)y OAKLAND OFFICE. C GEORGE KROGNESS, Wznager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. (ong Distance Telephope “Central 21.”") YORK CORRESPONDENT: Heraid Square C C. CARLTON.... NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH., .30 Tribune Building CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Eherman House: P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: Premont House, Auditorium Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldors-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Uniom Square; Murray Hill Hotel WASHINGTON D. C.) OFFICE. ....,......... Wellington Hote. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. LM ANCT AFFICES 527 Montgomery, cerner of Clav. oren untf] §:30 o'cleck. 00 Hayes, open until $:30 o'clock. 3% Mcallister, open untsl $:30 o'clock. €15 Larkin. open until #:30 o' clo 41 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market. corper Sixteesth, cpen until § o'clock. 109 Valencla, opea untt ock. 106 Eleventh, open untll § o'clock. NW cor- cond ané Kentuck: open until § o clock. AMUSEMENTS. “The Great Ruby sh City."” ntry Girl” £pr every oon and m and Edy stre ~Vaudeville afiern: cater of Painting. AUCIION SALES. July 25, ket street sday, at 11 o'clock, % @ SLACK ScASON IN TRADE- THOUGH the markets still wear an aspect of duliness there 1gns here and umer These ¢ Coast, and particularly the nd ere of renewed activity signs are es- arked the Pac or , whick soon bustle with pen the dispatch of troops 3 foreign war. T most of this wnition, i great point of a arms, 7 etc., will b2 « 1s, camp parapherna c and the familiar activity of t h war will be repeated in our streets. T of national y be brisk. ndications of the fall trade i Another month must ' s : ere r winter buying sets in. If hot er i tion will last just so in the demand for 1 the ath, W 1 Northw e staples arc generally without feature, there being | hing new ort in wool, cotton, hides, leather, } i es and pr&Visions. Corn has weakened. ¢ and wheat continues *o 000,000 bushel has been material hot weather, which pinched the grain while by ates are below those of a - observers think they see signs of improvement in the iron and steel trade fol- in quotations, and there is t has about lnuachc«! bot- mere speculation, though Europe is reported. the country last week were st 174 for the same week last year. The were 12.5 per cent lower, with alternate reported down the list of leading Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Kansas City and New showed a gain, but all the other large cities showed a loss Wall street is sleepy and featureless, as usual during the midsummer vacation. The public still keep out of it and the professionals have it pretty much to them= selves, with the usual result of a dull market. The local markets, like the Eastern, are devoid of feature, though we feel the midsummer dullness less on this coast. Grains closed the week firmer, under better foreign cables and a local Government demand for the army. Almost all farm products are bringing lowing growin m. This, hov rather more The f: f+ir returns, though several lines are dull at low prices. | send at once.an army corps to back it up, but the Merchandise is reported in average movement for this time of the year and prices, as a rule, are somewhat gher than for several years. Collections are reason- ably easy and there are no large failures reported. The supply of money is ample for all needs, and sol- vent borrowers have no difficulty in finding accommo- dation on ordinary securities. Otherwise there is ing to remark in the local situaton. not French critics may be willing to fight duels in sup- port of their opinion that the United States building at the exposition is an architectural monstrosity, but it ie safe to say that they will be respectfully silent in 1eference to American athletes. The men of muscle @re carrying everything before them at Paris. it Supervisor McCarthy has voiced an emphatic pro- test to the policy which prompted the Board £ Health to cleanse private property in Chinatown. I it possible that the Supervisor had particularly- in mind that filthiest spot in the Chinese quarter—the ivan property? R According to the Philadelphia Ledger Boss Croker of Tammany was known in the early ecighties as “Honest Dick Croker,” and if that be-so the old man has changed 2 great deal or else the people of those days were great liars. When asked a few days ago what he thought of the chances of the Bryanites to carry Maryland, Gor- man replied that he is more interested in farming of | | EXPERIENCE IN CONGRESS ! et ANY times has The Call had occasion to point $ out to the people of California the importance of maintaining at Washington a delegation composed of men who have had experience in Con- | gressional sgrvice and have acquired a personal in- fluence with the leaders of their party and with Con- gressmen generall New men in any line of endeavor are handicapped by the very fact that they are ne: Other things being equal the man of experience in any line of business is worth more than the newcomer. California interests at the national capital have suf- fered in the past because the people have so fre- quently changed their representatives; because many members of the State delegation neither knew the leaders of Congress nor were known to them. The contest now going on in the Third District for the Republican nomination renders it necessary to re- peat the counsel so cften given. The Republicans there are called upon to determine whether the pres- ent member, Mr service and has acquired experience and acquaintance ship in Congress, shall be renominated and re-electe or be set aside for a new aspirant, who, in spite of whatever personal good qualities he has, will enter thc House ignorant of its methods of doing business and without and influence among its members S0 Metcalf, who has ‘rendered good any extensive acquaintance itor against the present repre- Dalton, a man who is just The leading compet sentative is Henry P popular among his fellow citizens of Alameda County, | and whose political record attests his efficiency in the public servicd. Against him personally The Call can have no objections; but to support him in the contest he is now making would mean the denial to Mr. Met calf of that ment which his fidelity in Congress has merited, and to deprive the Republicans of the Third District of the service of an experienced repre sentative for the purpose of substituting a new man in the office. It is, of course, understood that when a Congress: man does not represent the views of his constituents on great policies of government he should be set aside. A conservative constituency whose welfare is depend- ent upon the maintenance of sound finance and pro- tection should not send to Congress a man who will vote for free silver or free trade, but where there is no question of party policy at stake a constituency is fool- ish when ‘it dismisses a representative of experience a new man a chance.” Metcalf has won the for the purpose of “givin During his term of service Mr esteem of his colleagues and the favor of the leaders of his party. That was made evident by the statements published in The Call yesterday from Congressnman Loud: Judge McPherson of Towa, who sat in the last f Congress with Mr. Metcalf; Senator Foster se n of Washington and Speaker Henderson. Of thesz statements that of the Speaker is worth requoting becanse it comes from the man who, in all probability, will be Speaker during the next Congress and assigun | < committees, and who, moreover, speaks with the authority of a long experience in Washington. Mr. Henderson said: It seems impossible that there should be any doubt as to Mr. Metcalf's retura. It would be a very great mistake not to return him to his seat in Congress. Mr. Metcalf is an ®rnest, con- scientions, intelligent and untiring worker. Califor- nia has never sent to the Congress of the United States within my recoilection a man who in his first term has achieved such an enviable standing as has Mr. Metcalf, and it will be unfortunat the Third ('ongrmsumnl District but for the State of California, if he is #ot returned.” In the Eastern States the people have long since fearned the value of re-electing faithful representatives. In many constituencies in the South and in New Eng- land such men are kept in Congress for life, and as a result those States have a prestige in national affairs altogether out of proportion to their wealth and their population. Towa is one of the few Mississippi Val- ley States that re-elect good men term after term, and ult is she now has the Speakership. Tt is time fornia to learn the lesson not only for ONG ago it was known and said an army can- THE NATIONS A@ND THE ISSUE. not be well commanded by a debating society, L.nu! it is now becoming apparent in China that the command is even less effective when intrusted to an international council. The powers that meddled with China in time of peace are now muddling in time | of war. The “concert of Europe” is seemingly no ! better fitted to contend against Asiatic zeal at the be- ginning of the twentieth century than it was in the days of the crusades. For weeks the powers have been massing troops at | Tientsin, but after the first abortive attempt under { Admiral Seymour have made no effort to relieve the legations and-their Christian supporters at Peking. In fact, according to a recent dispatch from Admiral Remey, the international column will not begin its advance before the iniddle of August. | It is said that among the officials at Washington opinions differ as to the cause of the delay. -Accord- !ing to one opinion the toreigners in Peking have been | aiready massacred and there is therefore no reason for | haste in beginning th= campaign. According to the other there is so much friction among the command- ing officers that no agreement can be reached as to what action should be taken. Our Government, it is | s2id, has repeatedly urged a vigorous forward move- | ment, and the Japanese are said to have offered to | erging has been in vain. The officers of the other | powers have decided to wait until “the roads are in better condition.” | Of course, the advantages that will accrue to the allies by waiting until they have larger forces and | the roads are better will be many, but the same delay | will give the Boxers time to strengthen their positions | and increase their forces, and to that extent the ad- vantages will be offset. Consequently it is very likely :‘lhc determination to gcstpone an advance movement | has been largely due to friction among the com- | manders. Late accounts of the attack on Tientsin | attribute the heavy loss of the Americans to a mistake | of orders, and the mistake occurred in the transmi | sion of the orders from ‘General Durward, the British | commander, to Colonel Liscum. Now, if @ blunder !so costly can occur between officers of such rank, | who speak the same language and have a hundred ireasons for affiliating with one another in a foreign | 1and, what is to happen when the French are giving orders to the Germans, or the Russians giving orders | to the Japs? N Another reason for believing in the theory of fric- ! tion at Tientsin, is the confusion that exists among | European diplomatists and statesmen on the subject. | The confusion is so great that up to this time no na- | tion has felt itself at Liberty to “recognize a state of | war.” The Chinese have actually invaded Russia, and | the Russian Government has given the Chinese Min- ister his passports, bur as yet war has not been de- | clared. It i up to this time nothing more than a free there is no contraband law in force and accordingly | ammunition to the Boxers has a right to do so. The concert of Eurcpe is in need of a leader There is only one man of sufficient rank to take com- | mand without exciting jealousies, and that is Kaiser William. He has frequently proclaimed himself a war lord, and now is the time for him to get to the front. ; THE NEBRASKA . UGAR CASE. T that body some years ago, known as the Ne- braska sugar case, is of interest to Pacific Coast mer- chznts, inasmuch as it has a direct bearing upon one | of the specifications of the complaint now before the commission from the St. Louis Traffic Bureau—that | ol graded rates. We refer to that part of the latter | complaint protesting against terminal points, and fa- ing graded rates. % The Nebraska sugar case grew out of a complaint brought before the commission by the merchants of | Kearney, Neb., against the Unidn Pacific, Southern ;I..cific and other transcontinental railways, alleging { that said railways were making a lower rate on sugar | from San Francisco to Omaha than to Kearney, the | lztter being situated some 150 miles nearer the point ;nf origin than the former, and both located on the | main line of the Union Pacific Railway. | The commission in its decision acknowledges the i HE recent decision of the Interstate Commerce Commission in the complaint brought before Vo establishment by the evidence offered of the following facts: There are two lines of vessels from Honolulu, | the point whence raw or unrefined sugar is shipped to the United States, one via Cape Horn to New York or Philadelphia, to other to San Francisco. Hawaiian sugar is refined in all of these three cities. The rate from Honolulu to New York or Philadel- | phia by sailing vessel is so low that in combination | with the rail rate from the latter cities to Omaha | stch through rate is accomplished as to force the transcontinental railways to make a rate of 50 cents per hundred pounds from San Francisco to Omaha or lose the business. Such competitive conditions are roi found to exist at Kearney. The rate from San | Francisco to Kearney is, say, 85 cents, this being the sum of the competitive rate from San Francisco to }()mnha. 50 cents, plus the Jlocal rate of the Union | Pacific Railway Company back to Kearney, say, 35 | cents. In the face of these findings the commission decides thar the rate from San Francisco to Kearney is ex- | cessive, and orders that same be reduced to 65 cents. The basis of this decision is that it is fair to presume that the transcontinental railways are not carrying sugar from San Francisco to Omaha at a loss, there- | fore, accepting 50 cents per hundred pounds to be the cost to them of the service between San Francisco | and Omaha, the cost oi like service between San. Francisco and Kearney would not be greater; on the contrary, would be slightly less, inasmuch as the haul is some one hundred and fifty miles shorter; hence | a charge of 85 cents for the transportation of freight costing something less than 50 cents is, in the opinion of the commission, excessive, unfair and unreason- able. That the enforcement of the commission’s decision be seen at a glance. Whereas now the rates from | Atlantic seaboard and Middle West cities to points situated east of Pacific Coast terminals, such as Ellensburg and Walla Walla, Wash.; Pendleton and Baker City, Or., and Truckee and San Bernardino, Cal., are in most instances based on transcontinental sea competitive terminal rates, and the local from the, nearest terminal added, under the decision in this case the basing rate would be accepted as the maxi- mum cost of the service, and rates would be estab- lished to intermediate points which, in the opinion of the commission, would pay the carriers a reasonable profit, regardless of the local rates in force. The jobbers in the terminal cities would thus be placed in a most unfortunate position, inasmuch as the same commission is powerless to maintain said: jobbers’ relative position with respect to the trade of the towns affected by ordering a corresponding reduction in local rates, the Interstate Commerce Commission having jurisdiction over interstate rates only. The logical result of the establishment of a rate- making principle such as outlined in the Nebraska sugar case decision would be to curtail the distribu- tion by the coast jobbers pf goods originating on the Missouri River and east thereof to the confines of the jobber’s own city, inasmuch as it is plain that the Middle West jobbers would have a decided advantage in all intermediate territory. P Great Britain is getting things red hot in all sorts of forms this year—a famine in India, war in South Africa, insurrection in China, troubles on the Afghan border, and now the heat has been so intense in Lon- don that sunstrokes have been sending people to the hospitals at the rate of half a dozen a day. The Republicans of California cannot afford to let the railroad managers and saloon bosses control the next Legislature and apportion the Assembly, Sena- torial and Congressional districts for the next decade. That fight will have to be attended to as well as the one against Bryanism. i ‘And now the United States military authorities are looking around for an island to which to exile cap- tured Filipino leaders. It is sincerely to be hoped that necessity never will be found to send a Cronje there. The report that our great and good friend the Sul- tan of Jolo objects to American troops passing through his domain is rather startling. What does the old fellow think we are paying him for? The whale that sank the pilot boat may feel very cocky over his success, but some day he will try his | little game on a torpedo boat and then old Neptune will see a commotion on his premises. The recent rise in the price of silver under the be- nign influence of protection and sound money is the latest refutation that prosperity has given to Bryan- ism in time for the campaign. —_— Recent developments in one of our Superior Courts | more or less pleasant to the persons concerned in- dicate that the trout season has opened with the bait- ing of some pretty large fish. There is always a drawback to greatness, a fate from which not even popular favorites can escape; a baby crocodile in the Philadelphia zoo has just been named Teddy Roosevelt. % . Having tried his hand at painting, music, poetry and the drama, Kaiser William is now posing as a prophet. He claims to have foretold the Chinese terror. : According to the latest reports there appears to be everything at Cape Nome except gold or a chance to earn it. s — Tt is still in order to ask, Have registered yet? If you have not, it is time you were about it. is fraught with danger to Pacific Coast interests will | any one who wishes to get rich by selling arms and |o‘oacmmm*fi**ttt**tt*fit**fim\fi*fi*t*wwwfi*@*@*fifl'@: FRANCHISE ASSESSMENTS DEFEYVDED. Assessor Dodge’s Answer to Attorney Pillsbury. Ak AR Ak Kk i g HAVE read with interest the published statement in The Call of Attorney Pillsbury, who represented before the Boarad of Equalization certain corpora- tions that objected to the assessment of their franchises as made by the Assessor. In reply to his statement I submit for the consideration of taxpayers the following: Every good citizen must agree that | when a public officfal takes his oath of | office he is bound to enforce the law as he finds it, and the remedy of those who feel aggrieved is to have the law amended, contest its legality in the courts or submit that the right of the majority to make and enforce laws is the correct principle of government. In my official position as Assessor 1 asscssed according to law the franchises of corporations. To this action | certain corporations objected, and em- ployed an attorney to contest the assess- ent before the Board of Equalization. Naturally one would think a lawyer ap- pearing before such a board would plead | “law,” but instead of doing so Attorney Pillsbury presented no legal authority or | decisions of courts to sustain his position, but instead of that makes a threat. He says practically: ““We are a favored class, I ask you to make an exception of the corporations represented by me. If you |tax us for our franchise we will move |away.” After finding but two votes in the | board who were at all influenced by his argument the attempt Is then made to try | the case In the newspapers. In his published statements he questions the actions of the Assessor rather than the law involved, or the Board of Equall- | zation, who had’the authority if he pre- sented good reasons to grant his request and cancel the assessment. Before Boards of Equalization in adjoin- ing counties when Attorney Pilisbury is pleading for a reduction in corporation | assessments he makes the statement that | the action of the Assessor in San Fran- | cisco is driving capital away. | To this charge I will answer, first, that it has been my endeavor to enforce the {law as I find it, This franchise tax has | been upheld by’ several decisions of the | Supreme Court of this State and by a | number of decisions of the United States | Supreme Court. 1In one of the latter de- cisions Justice Miller lays down the law | as follows: “It is obvious that while a | fair assessment of a corporation may in- | clude all the tangible property, It may not | include all its wealth. There may be prop- erty of another class not visible or tangi- ble, which ought to respond to taxation | and which the State has a right to subject |'to taxation, and which ought to pay its share of the taxes. This element the State of Illincis calls the value of the franchise. That the franchise, the capital stock, | business and profits' of all carporations are Hable to taxation admits of no dis- | pute at this day. ‘“Nothing can be more | certain_in_legal decisions,” says this court, * than that the privileges and franchise of a private corporation may be taxed by the State for the support of | the State Government.” This is the law | as established by the highest court in the land. Can any language be more explicit? And yet our Attorney General gravely as- Serted that he objects to the taxation of franchises because this puts a tax on n- tangible property! The charge that capital is being driven from San Francisco by this attempt to enforce the law of our State is based on an alleged attempt of two corporations to organize under the laws of the States of Oregon and Washlngton. One thesc corporations is the Sunset Telephone, of the State of California, acting with the Interstate Telephone Company dolng business in Oregon and Washington. These corporations propose to organize a trust corporation that will include and direct ail its sub-companies on the entire Pacific Coast, the headquarters of these consolidated corporations to be in Oregon. At present the telephone business in Saa Francisco is done by the Paciflc ‘l“el‘ev phone and Telegraph Company of Cali fornia, which does not propose to ruu away. The telephone business outside of San Franelsco is done by the Sunset Tele- phone Company. The statement of At- torney Pillsbury that they will take their surd. It has no employes In San Fran cisco to speak of. The company does not ntend to move its poles and lines to Ore- on, or relinquish its revenue obtaincd from he Eood people of the State of Cali- fornla, nor will it cease to ask for the pro- tection of the same laws that is given to other taxpayers at the expense of the Government. Furthermore, the move- ment looking toward the establishment of the headquarters in Oregon for these con solidated telephone companies was begun months ago, before any franchise assess- ment was made against this corporation, as the attorney well The charge, therefore, that the assessment on this franchise has detegmined this step is an insincere one. The Alaska Packers' Association is the other corporation that thinks it can save $5000 a year in taxes to its wealthy stock- holders by moving to Seattle. Apropos of this migrating tendency of corporations who seek to escape from the burdens of taxation, I can say that I have a number of letters from Assessors of the State of Washington asking about our franchise laws, with the intent of having the same adopted as the law of that State. In fact, a considerable portion of my daily mail is made up of inquiries from different State officials asking for coples of our franchise laws, and warmly commending them, while expressing a desire (o have them incorporated in the laws of their | State. Granting the direful predictions that | certain capitalists of San Francisco, who prefer to invest their capital in nen-tax- able bonds or in stocks of corporations that pay so little in taxes that they may practically be classed as non-taxable se- curities, should for the noble and com- mendab) purpese of escaping taxation away, what would be the effect? re other capitalists who propose to long as they are only asked to pay their just proportion. of the taxes. Out of the total roll of $405,000,000, $288,000,- 00 is assessed against real estate in San Francisco, and only $116,000,000 against all five hundred employes to Oregon is ab-| B TR TR TR TR TR T R TR Rk Kk ok ok ok ke ke ok kR K K Rk R R AR A R R R R e SR T @ personal property, including househoid furniture, merchandise, solvent credits, money and franchises. The total fran- chise assessment, exclusive of the quasi- public corporations, is less than $,000.4 - There is $125,000,000 of non-taxable bonus still listed on the San Francsco Kxchang to select for investment, to say nothing of Over $200,000,000 of stocks listed on the ex change, It is an attempt to make tn> holders of these desirable securities pay some tax that has led to this franchiss assessment. This compels the corporation to pay the taxes on the stock held by I's wealthy stockholders. The prosperity of San Franeisco d»p»ml:: on that of the agricuitural community this State to a great extent. If the mon of the San Francisco banks and capitai- ists was loaned to or invested more freeiy in farming or manufacturing interests in- stead of belng put so largely -in quas:— public bonds and stocks possibly busine: in San Francisco would net suffer by change. = As this change ine; tne assessment roll the rate would decline until San Francisco would be the lowest taxed efty in tne United States. This would Invite capital to San Francisco instead of driving it Section 15, article 12 of the constitu of the State of California provides * corporations organized outside of the State of California shall not be allowed to transact busin /ithin this State on more favorable conditions than are p scribed by the law to corporations ganized under the laws of this State. It Is just possible that by organizing in Oregon or any other State a corporaticn may not escape just taxation in Cali- fornia and that for the privilege of doing business in this State they mav be re- quired to pay a just propc of taxe At any rate, the argument that we shoull not tax some corporations because thev threaten to move away and thus deprivy San Francisco of some money which otherwise might be expended here is no more reasonable than it would be to con- tend that taxes against rich men for per- sonal property should be remitted, for many of these do take up their residenc out of San Francisco in order to avoid being taxed. On being requested by the Assessor to make a statement of their personal property, including monevs and solvent credits, they claim residence in adjoining counties. When, however. tAe taxes paid by them in adjoining counties is ascertalned It is found they are paying on household effects only. To use the argument of Mr. Pillsbury, then let us exempt our rich citizens who can afforl to move away from all taxation on per- sonal property, In the hope that thev wi'l maintain their residence here as well as their business. and thus benefit San Francisco by disbursing the money which a home here would necessitate. This s practically the argument that corporation attorneys advance in behalf of the cor- porations they represent Shall we abandon the principle Involved. ignore the law, do injustice to the many that a favored few may escape taxation simply because it is within their power to run away and thus escape the payment of a fair, equitable and just tax? Never! | WASHINGTON DODGE, Assessor. PERSONAL MENTION. | guest of the Lick. | | tered at the Grand. J. M. Mannon, a prominent resident of Ukiah, is at the Grand. W. E. Shaw of the United States army Is registered at the Palace. | are stopping at the Palace, | J. H. Baird, a prominent fruit grower | of Marysville, is at the Lick. A. B. C. Dowdell, a publisher of Sacra- mento, 1s a guest of the Grand. L. McDonald, a mining man of French Camp, 1s registered at the Lick. G. G. Kimball, a prominent citizen of Red Bluff, is stopping at the Palace. 8. R. Porter of the Ballol mine, Sutter Creek, is stopping at the Occldental. W. Batchelor, a wealthy Chicago, is registered at the Palace. Otto Isenberg, a wealthy planter of Ha- wali, s at the Occldental, on his way home. B. F. Frazer, an official of the Southern Pacific Company at Sacramento, is at the Grand. E. J. Baber, one of the best-known wine makers of the State, Is a guest at the Grand. James McDowell, superintendent of the Stanford ranch at Menlo Park, is regis- tered at the Grand. W. H. Buster, a capitalist of Colusa, acecompanied by his wife and daughter, is registered at the Occidental. Alexander Mackie, secretary of the Val- ley road, returned from a “paying off” trip vesterday. He says business is lively and that every train on the road was filled to its capacity. ————————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, July 22—C. N. Smith of Los Angeles is at the Normandie; L. Darr and wife of San Francisco are at the Empire. 1 e et B R e e ] FASHION HINT FROM PARIS. % \fl D e B R e e e ) @ ¥ ;—No'o-oflo—o R e e e R S 2 LACE DINNER DRESS. The dress represented was worn by Mlle. Sorel in her latest dramatic creation of ““Ma Bru.” It is a lace forreau In the empire style, over white Liberty satin, trimmed with narrow black velvet ribbon round the decollete and the sleeves. e e — — are not required in Euro) That {s to say, a passport is not 2 to secure lon to any of the countries | except Russia and Turkey. - 4 Judge A. P. Catlin of Sacramento is a Dr. John J. Tully of Stockton is regis- | A. M. Chaffey and wife of Los Angeles | resident of | S ol Y 0—0-0-0-0-&0-0—0-00-0-“ PRESS COMMENT ON THE PROBATE FRAUD @+ttt itte LOS GATOS MATL. | Thanks are due the San Francisco Call | from the general public for the manner in which it has exposed the fraud going on | In some of the San l-:rancisco courts. | + . STOCKTON T EPENDENT. The service of the San Francisco Call in ,Ernhnfie through attorneys of absent heirs | has earned for it the gratitude of the pub- e, to expose to the public gaze, but such ex- | posures are necessary as long as the bar |is cursed with conscienceless hyenas hang- ing around to lcrzt th’e de_nd. MODESTO HERALD. | The San Francisco Call this week ex- { posed a plot through which Attorney John | M. Chretien imposed a false heir on the Superior Court and looted a $5000 estate. | committing forgery, perjury and other | crimes. Investigation following the ex- | pose Pow he has confessed. Chretien is a bril- | llant man and has in the past figured conspicuously in Bohemia and in clubdom {as well as at the bar, but an apparently inherent vein of crookedness has been his undoing. Whispers of illicit transactions |1ong ago shadowed his reputation and he began to go down the social scale, until now he is fairly at the bottom and the ,g:ues of ‘San Quentin are to close upgn | him. MARYSVILLE DEMOCRAT. By the confession of Chretien the charges of The Call concerning the comspiracy to take possession of the estate of Joseph Sullivan have been proven beyond a doubt. That confession, however, was not needed to sustain the charges. | It came, In fact, because the charges had been | proven by ample testimony and .because fur- | ther attempts at conceaiment would have been | futile The only valie of the confession is that | #t completes the exposure of the crime and re- | veals the thoroughness of the victory which The Call has obtained in its efforts for justice.—San Francisco Call. The Call is entitled to great credit for the excellent work In exposing the rascals, but it must not relax its vigilance until the guilty persons are landed behind the bars. The Democrat had experience in | this line. and it speaks advisedly when it | warns The Call to not only watch the ac- | cused, but the officers whose duty it is to ! see the laws honestly enforced. In Yuba County after the Democrat exposed the men who were crooked and after a Grand Jury of the best citizens had ordered pros- | ecutions justice failed, and the conspira- tors were whitewashed by manipulating a ‘{majoflly of a second Grand Jury. PRIVATE COLLEGES—E. D.. Newcas- tle, Cal. This department canpot adver- tise the names o:‘firlvnle colleges that will prepare young I universities. CIVIL SERVICE—A. M. S, City. For | information in regard to civil service ex- | amination under the municipal govern- | ment of San Francisco make application 10 the secretary of the Civil Serv . mission at the City Hall. oY, O PHYSICAL CULTURE—C. R, City. There have been published a number of | works on physical culture at prices vary- ing from 25 cents up. These may be had at any first-class book store or may be | seen at the Free Public Library. | B bt | REGISTRATION—Subscriber, City. A man who will attain his majority on or | the day before election can be ri tered | and vote at that election on making affi- | davit before the Registrar that he will be &f legal age to enable him to vote on elec- on ¥ City. James J. Corbett and Tom Sharkey met in a twenty-round glove contest at the Lenox Club, New York City, ber 2, 188, Jim McVey. one of Corbetes secon entered the ring in the ninth round. in variance to rules, and Referee Kell g;h: tn\.I.L' awarded the fight to Sharkey CANNOT HAVE TWO HOMES-G. 8. | City. 1f a man takes up a plece of Gov- ernment land in Méndocino County as a homestead he must live upon it in order to comply with the law to entitle him to a patent. He may absent him . Rrily and be a resident of San S bt | but he cannot claim San Fra; { home and in | vote. A man cannot have two at one and the same time. WALL OF PEKING-§., City. length of the great wall of China is 1259 Pt D e aanaas S e e e aaad I | probing the conspiracy to loot estates in | The Chretien scandal is a sorry mess | demonstrated Chretien’s guilt, and | es for admission to the | | CORBETT AND SHARKEY-W. J. B..l ‘The Guichen, French crulser of 8277 tons, with a trial speed of twenty-three knots has been ordered to proceed to China a high speed, and it is expected she wil make the voyage in thirty-five days The latest Russian naval programme o | the Black Sea is four crufsers and fo transports, to be bullt by the Be company at Nicolaieff. Four destr: are ready for launching at the latter yard, Tt is reported that some of the new Rus- slan cruisers are to have four-inch armor protection over the greater part of their bottoms. The idea Is to protect against torpedoes, which no doubt will not be re- alized in practice. The Highflyer, British cruiser of 360 tons, had a twe hours’ full power trial June 20 and made a speed of 19 knots with 10,355 horsepower. The horsepower exeeed- ed the contract by 185, but the calculated speed fell short one knot. | The Sultan, rated as a third-class bat- tleship and on the effective list of the British navy, is to be located at the Fal- mouth torpedo station to serve as a depot ship for torpedo craft. This Is service for which almost any hulk would be suitable. The British destroyer Shag made an av- | erage of 20.345 knots during a three ho | trial. She was light, drawing 5 fet 3% inches forward and 7 feet 1% inches aft The steam averaged 213 pounds, revelu- | tions 383 and the horsepower 5539, the lat- ter being 159 in excess of requirements | | The new Vickers T'%-inch naval gun is of | fifty calfber length and carries a projec | weighing 200 pounds, which, fired w. | charge of fifty pounds of cordite, at:: 11,825 foot tons. Its complete weight, i | cluding shield and mechanism, s sixteen | tons, the shield being three Inches thick | It can be elevated to sixteen degrees an ! depressed to ten degrees, and six rou | per minute is as fast as that of the six- | inch gun. ! China has three naval colleges, the old- est established at Fuchau in 1870, that at Tientsin in 1582 and at Nanking in 159, | There were 120 students at latest report at | Nanking, one-half of whom were educated | for line duty or deck officers and take a | course of five years. The other half have | to remain six years at the college, and be- | come the scientific officers of the navy The studies are entirely in the English language. The Japanese fleet assembled before | Taku consisted one month ago of fourteen | vessels, of 52,145 tons, carrying about 50 | men. There were seven armored and pro- tected crulsers aggregating 39.012 tons. three gunboats of 1933 tons and four de- | stroyers of 1200 tons. The average age of these vessels—barring the gunboats, whien were about ten years old—was less than three years*and represents the very latest in ships and guns, while those of the European fleets were in many cases bor- dering on the obsolete. The French Chamber of Deputies more than favored the Ministry's project for in- | crease of the navy. in that it added $2.000.- 000 to the estimates for submarine boats and torpedo boats. The new naval pro- | gramme proposes the construction of six | 14,800-ton battleships, five 12,600-ton arm- ored crulsers, twenty-eight destroyers and | as many submarine boats and torpedo | boats as can be built for $3.415000. The | total cost of the entire fleet is estimated | at $23841.500. With the ships aiready in | hand the budget would reach $35,610.600 for | shipbuilding. The ships are to be com- pleted by January 1, 197, requiring an an- nual outlay of $21,000,000. An armored cruiser buflt for Russia at La Seyne, France, and named Bayan, wa. | launched last month. She is 7800 tons, with engines of 16,500 horsepower, caleulated to drive her at twenty-one knots, she con- | tract stipulating that speed for twenty- | tour hours. She has a 7%-inch Harveyized belt and carries a battery of two eight- inch, eight six-inch quick-firers, twenty thirteen-pounders and seven three-pound- ers. Her great length, 5 feet, a beam of only & feet indicates very fine lines. The nearest approximate sized vessels in our navy are the Columbia and Minneapo- lis, which are 7375 tons. 412 feet in length 5 ‘teet 2 m:he:“’ beam and a draught of 2 eet ‘en Inc] or 4 feet more than the Bayan. 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