The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 3, 1900, Page 6

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Unten Squars Wellington Hote POLITICAL OBJECT LESSONS ) the conclu that ut the most instructive s who have in 1 Thereiore, decent ght to be well pleased by the fact that I brought to light j ve object lessons in e is first the man named ged from the witn: > to skin game gam- is the man named Her: lector Lynch as € who shall party or the Demo- n ne of have in this district or in ns and Herrin—with oon, Lyn ns in the di in the internal nce watching their stimony Crimr g to Rumble’s ns, ves prot on to skin game gam Lynch’s tall talk Herrin gives ins, seemin without asking a Democrat, Crimmins calls nd the two are going to run city. They are going to nbly and Wolie to the State iolph once described a famous polit- his time as “a combination between eg; a partnership between The parallel between that ce is not quite complete, for a Puritan, but it is near enough Such is the hog combine that has jertaken to * in the Republican party, dictate the candidates for whom the working- business men, the professional men and the ts of the party shall vote. and Black Georg and the ins Herrin is not exac local be suggestive th publicans that would show more clearly the offensive- ness of boss rule than that which is afforded in Rum- ble’s testimony and Lynch’s brag? Here is the p: tron and protector of a nefarious trade getting a rai road Democrat to help him boss the Republicans of this city, and a railroad boss getting a Republican | Collector of Internal Revenue ‘to help him dictate in the Second District who is to be the Democratic nominee for Congress. If that mixture had not been corrupt at the start there would have been a corrup- tion produced in it by the very fermentation of its incongruous elements. It can hardly be necessary to appeal to decent Re- publicans to refuse to submit to any such dictation ich comes out of the Mint gin mill ani the law office of the Southern Pacific Railroad. Tn the schemes of these men the honor of the Republi- can party and the welfare of the State or the natio: are accounted as nothing. To Crimmins all politics i a skin game and to Herrin it is all railroad “busi- ness” and the difference between the two is a differ- ence of name only. No loyal Republican will submit to the domination of either the Mint ‘saloon or the railroad office. Should these corrupt forces succeed in forcing the nomination of such men as Dibble and Wolfe, the decent Republicans of their districts wili vote against them. The issue is one that the intelligence and the morality of the party will not shirk and the would-be bosses may as well understand that at once. Witnesses have testified in the Goebel investigation that armed mountaineers were shipped to Frankfort simply to show that they were interested in political affairs. Tt would be interesting to know just what form of activity these men would have shown if they had become enthusiastic. If one is to judge from the number of very worthy citizens who are trying to sacrifice themselves for their country by serving in the State Legislature, that old story about the office seeking the man must be decidedly out of date. ——— The mugwumps who are trying so persistently to any form of lesson be given to decent Re- | AS TO HOSTAGES. OMEWHERE | doubts about his ability at concealing his prop- ! erty from the assessor being greater than the ability shown by somebody to lie about the Eastern situa- | tion. | There is much evidence that the flood of stuff which | has been used to fire the Occidental heart had its | origin among the representatives of the nations which | desire to cut up China. There is nothing very new nor complex about the situation. The people have rebelled against the mis- | sionaries, in whom they see simply the forerunners | of the division of their country and their own sub- | jection to other governments and races. The revolt | has passed beyond the missionary compounds and t all foreigners. The Government of | China was not able at once to cope with it, and was probably in sympathy with it, and why not? What e that squares with international law can be offered for the past and recent seizures of Chinese territory? How came Portugal in Macao, England in Hongkong, Germany in Kiaochau and Russia in Manchuria? What right have these nations to complain if their Ministers are held hostages against the further theft of Chinese soil? The first proposition to hold a Minister as hostage de in France, where it was advised that the Chi- Minister Yu be held as hostage for the safety of the French Minister in Peking. Perhaps the Chi- rese took the suggestion from the French. No one heard any deprecation of it when a Chinese diplomat was to be victim, but when China proposes to pre- serve the integrity of her soil by going into the hos- is a grave infraction of international in this Chinese business lies retrial of Ananias. There are was m business it I'he plain truth is that the .whole difficulty would 1 week if the allies who are getting ready vance on Peking would agree to respect the sov- vy of China over her soil, to abstain from steal- ¢+ more of it and to treat China as they do each n the family of nations. The gates to Peking open at once, the legations would be safe and has been done would not be dif- rg this it is probable that aa advance on the capital will be made, which will mean e over in atonement for wh ficult Instead of rtain death to the Ministers, who will be the vic- v, but of the gross greed ies of the nations they repre- not of Chinese barbari abbing propensi sent Ii the latest phase of the affair prove true, if the s are alive and under the protection of the Chinese Government, it will be seen at once that s no cause for attack on the Taku forts and none for the sacking of Tientsin and that as far as is known there has been more truth in the Chinese than the European reports of the situation. As far a e United States is concerned there should be no departure from the policy already announced by the President and extended in his reply to the Emperor. there w We are not interested in helping the other nations | steal that country. We insist that the best way to make China act like a civilized nation is to treat her like one, and not one of the European powers has ever given her such treatment. Their attitude toward her has been so grossly in violation of her interna- tional rights as to make ours seem the very pink of international comity and amity. Colonel Denby, who served more than twelve years as our Minister at Peking, has put the whole case very strongly by asking how we would feel at being partitioned, if France should claim New Orleans and a strip on both sides of the M ippi, and Portugal should take Charleston and England claim New York as her share, while Russia raised her flag over the Gulf of Mexico and took what would be left from the Rio Grande to Key West? That describes just what has been done and threatened in China, and 2s we would not stand it if we could resist, and would applaud mobs that would kill the Ministers of all the countries concerned in our humiliation, consider the value of a little policy instead of a great deal orce in dealing with China. Kelly and Crimmins seem to think that when the Supreme Court declared the Stratton law for primary clections unconstitutional it intended to submit a ten- derloin saloon as a substitute. Decent voters ought to destroy that impression by an overwhelming re- pudiation. /V\ Republican party is on the defensive. It will talk prosperity, but we will be willing to take the votes of all the people who have not had their share of prosperity and leave them the votes of the | people who have had their share.” The return of the Assessor on file in the office of the County Clerk | in Lincoln, Nebraska, proves that Mr. Bryan may be | classed with those who have had their share of pros- perity and therefore belongs in the Republican col- umn. His assessment, rendered under oath by him- | self, has run as follows since 1893: ABOUT PROSPERITY. R. BRYAN said recently in Chicago: “The | 1893 . $ 280 - { 1804 . 200 1895 . 340 ‘ 1896 270 | 1897 1,483 } 1808 2,980 1899 2,0% | His assessment during the four years that his party was in power and he was in Congress helping run the Government averaged $272 50. During the four years of a Republican administration, that has run the Government without his help and in a way that he said “would write the history of the people in blood crushed out of them by the gold standard,” his aver- | age assessment has been $2908 75. | Another singular fact is that whereas up to the close | of 1896 he appeared in the city directory listed as a lawyer, since then he has not been put down for any occupation, whatever. We suppose he was working hard at his profession during the four years preceding McKinley's administration, and since his professional | income was part of the time supplemented by his | salary as a member of Congress, yet he only managed | to accumulate an estate of the average value of $272 s0. Since McKinley beat him he has had no occupa- tion, has not practiced law nor done anything as a 1 regular vocation to even earn his daily bread, yet his | estate rose from $270 in 1896 to $1485 in 1897 and now | figures, obesely indeed, at $4550! We should say that an increase of his estate by nearly 300 per cent in one year under such circum- stances is evidence of great prosperity. Its increase | from 1896 to 1000 from $270 to $4550 is something i amazing. It is an increase of thousands per cent and | more than one thousand per cent per annum aver. it is well to | get up a so-called “Third Party” ought to be sociable | age. Beside it the profits of the hated trusts pale and divide up among the socialists. They have thres | their ineffectual percentage. Yet Mr. Bryan quit tickets in the field and the division could be made in | work at his profession at the very beginning of this thirds all right. i period of prosperity. He could get together an estate | of only §270 while practicing law, but during the | 0000000OOODO@@O:i i i--F i+ years of McKinley prosperity he has got together an estate of $4550 doing nothing! Is it possible that Mr. Bryan is himself one of those sinister, secret, dark and midnight trusts? The Board of Health has filed an emphatic objec- tion to being compelled to pay for its own stationery. The board is probably planning some new campaign of absurdity which will require reams of paper to ex- plain. PROPOSED APPELLATE COURTS. Y reason of the controversy among the officials B at Sacramento concerning the two proposed amendments- to article six of the constitution, relating to the judicial department, the attention of the public is called very opportunely to the subject. One of the amendments and possibly both will be submitted to the popular vote at the coming election, and as each of them is bad it is just as well to have voters make up fih‘eh’ minds at once to defeat the whole scheme, no matter in which form it be pre- sented. The origin of the controversy on the subject is that | one amendment was proposed by the Legislature at the regular session and the other at the extra session. They differ in matters of detail, but the essence of each is the same. The chief aim is to create three new tribunals, to consist of three Judges each, mak- ing nine new officeholders, and to empower the Gov- ernor to appoint his favorites to the positions until the next succeeding general election. Both amendments contain the following language: “Section 3. The State is hereby divided mto three appellate districts, in each of which there shall be a District Court of Appeal, consisting of three Justices. ¥ * . % The Justices of the District Courts of Appeal shall be elected by the qualified electors with- in their respective districts at the general State elec- tions at the times and places at which the general State officers are elected; and the term of office shall be twelve years from and after the first Monday aiter the first day of January next succeeding the election; provided that ‘on or before the first day of January after this amendment takes effect the Governor shall appoint three Justices for each District Court of Ap- peal, to hold office until qualification of Justices to be elected at the next succeeding general election.” It will be seen that no matter what may be the minor divergences between the two amendments pro- posed, they present in common the objectionable fea- tyres of adding to the machinery of the State three | { additional courts and nine additional Judges, with the inevitable addition of clerks and bailiffs and other court officers, and place the whole of that patronage for a time in the hands of the Governor. With other features of the two schemes we shall have occasion to deal later on. For the present it suffices to call at- tention to the considerations involved in the points noted. Why should the taxpayers of California be bur- dened with the cost of three appellate courts? Is the number of cases on appeal so large that the Supreme Court cannot attend to them? If so, why is it the | courts encourage appeals on every trifling technical- ity of law, frequently permitting a case to play, back | and forth between the Supreme Court and a Superior Court as if it were a shuttlecock? Would not one suffice? If we are to have nine new Judges why permit a man of the reputation of Gage to appoint them? Has not,the Southern Pacific Com- pany already a sufficient control of the bench? Whichever of these amendments be submitted to the people it should be rejected. If both be submit- | ted both should be rejected. We have courts enough. | @ waste of public money. | of Garibaldi. We have had sufficient experience with the kind of men that Governor Gage appoints to office. Should | he be permitted to name the nine new Justices they would have a hold on the office which would go far to enable them to get the nomination for election and the creatures of the railroad would be thus fas- tened on the judicial department of the State for years. o The whole scheme is a bad one. It would entail It would be a source of corrupt jobbery between Gage and the railroad bosses. It should be killed by an overwhelming vote of the people. i The Supervisors are striving to devise ways and means by which we may have light. It is sincerely to be hoped that the honorable gentlemen may dis- cover a way in which they may secure a little illu- mination themselves THE MURDER OF HUMBERT. ITHIN two years the anarchists have mur- W dered an Bmpress, a republican President and a King. The school of Nicholas Bakounin has occasion to boast of its success in murder, but rot in the obliteration of government. The Austrian empire, the French republic and the Ttalian kingdom still live, and the form of those governments will be changed, if at all, by the will of their people and not by the act of assassins. Humbert succeeded to his father, the gallant King, at a critical period for united Italy. The union of Ttaly under the crown of Savoy was really the work He was not deterred by his first failure at Monte Rotondo, but persisted until the way was open for the personality of Victor Emmanuel and the statesmanship of Cavour to unite Italy and make Rome the capital. The steps to this consummation were difficult. Austria had to be expelled from Venice, the grand duchies had to terminate and the states of the church had to go off the map. The lat- ter was the most difficult to accomplish.and has left the most enduring menace to the kingdom. The feeling between the Quirinal and the Vatican was turned into a feud during the pontificate of Pius IX and has not abated during the reign of his suc- cessor. The effect has been to bring to the support of the house of Savoy the strong anti-clerical party and most of the socialists. Humbert has supported the vicissitudes of power with philosophy. has ruled with prudence and has shown great address in dealing with the Pope, who ghooses to consider himself a prisoner, confined in the Vatican and never going farther away than the Basilica of St. Peter’s. . Perhaps no executive of any government in the world has had a more difficult task and performed it more skillfully. The different Italian States, long separated, were not closely united in sympathy. The valley of the Po and Naples and Sicily are not as far apart in geography as they are in the origin and char- acteristics of their people. Yet the United Kingdom under Humbert came to be supported by Neapolitan and Sicilian and Piedmontese alike and from Palermo to Torin there was a cordial loyalty, as there will be sincere mourning. Y > ——— Kaiser William is one of the fellows who should either keep his mouth shut or tie his feet. If there need be | some intermediate court between the Superior and | the Supreme Court, why establish three of them? | (ing to the charter that pertion of the | e ettt i el b el el 9000600 00000000 MATTERS OF INTEREST TO ILLOCAIL TAXPATYERS ©00006000000000 -i--iwiwiiviviviedrbrbbdrirlrirtrlelelrivibrbiet bkl FRAANCHISEON ~ VALLEY ROAD FIRST STREET 15 1N DOUBT Company Must Show Super- visors That It Is Not Abandoned. —_——— Permission to Use Electric Power on | Bush street, From Kearny to 1S FRMCHISE Privilege on Illinois Street Recommended by the Committee. gt Supervisors Believe It Will Be for Best Interests of Community Battery, and on Fifth to Allow Operation of « Street Favored. Branch Line. Attorney J. T. Burke addressed the Your committee reports in favor of the application of the San Fran- cisco and San Joaquin Valley Rail- road Company for a franchise on Illi- nois street. We have heard all the testimony of protesting property-own- ers representing about 500 feet front- age on Illinois street, and while we Street Committee of the Supervisors yes- terday regarding the rights of the Mar- ket-street Rallway Company to cperate a street road on First street. Burke con- tended that the company had not for- feited its franchise on the sireet named. Commissioner Maguire of the Board of Public Works, however, held that accord- franchise on First street had lapsed be- cause no car had been operated thereon | | street were parts of a system intended to | the company had been granted valuable | | tracks was reported upon favorably | | that Smith be perpetually enjof for six months at least. Burke said that one car had been run on First street every day, and the original franchise of the North Beach and Mission read did not compel the company to perform any stat- ed amount of work. Edgar Painter of the North Central Improvement Club said the property owners were clamoring for the road. Burke said Bush street and First agree that they have redress in equity for whatever damage they | may suffer still we believe that the granting of the franchise will be of so much value to the commercial in- terests of our city that to deny the | petition would be an injustice to the | whole community.—Street Committee's report on application of San Francisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad Com- pany for franchise on Illinois street. benefit the northern section of the city. | Chairman Curtis said he was in favor of the building of street railways, but he did not like to establish a precedent al- lowing the Market-street Company to abandon a road for six months or ye six | rs and then have it operate the road | at its own sweet will. The city’'s he said, should be protected, as The Supervisors' Street Committee de- cided yesterday to recommend the grant- ing of the application of the San Fran- cisco and San Joaquin Valley Railroad Company for a franchise to operate a steam road on Ilinois street from China asin to First avenue south. This will enable the road to tap the industrial sec- tions of the city and permit it to bid for some of the freight traffic in that local- ity. After hearing the attorneys for the protesting property owners and repr: atives of the railway company, th mittee, which is composed of Supervisc Curtis, Connor and Dwyer, concluded that it was to the best interests of the city that the petition should receive favorable consideration. M. Mullaney, attorney for the protest- ants, contended that the company admit- its, privileges. The committee decided to postpone fur- ther consideration of the matter until this afternoon, when the corporation is to fur- nish evidence to prove that it has not »andoned the franchise on First street. The petition of the Market-street Rail- ¢ Company to take up certain unused by the committee. Attorney Burke agreed for the company to restore the streets to their former condition after the tracks have been removed. | petitions of the company for per- | Wi mission to use electricity as a motive power on Bush street from Kearny to ¢, also to permit the use of electric ispended along Bush street | from Kearny ansome, and ;o op;;flte #n electric road on Fifth street from Mar- | ted that da . ket to Bluxome and thence to the east line “l‘,”‘b‘"! (‘«:Tn yenitpe dow o e of Fourth street were all favorably re- | eTty. but that no offer to compensate the ported upon and resolutions covering the | ©Wners had been made. same were ordered prepared. ““This board,” argued Mullaney, “has no | power to grant a franchise to a transcon- SIDNEY M. SMITH IS ,llrllf'lrlllnl !sleam ;t;a(lh lam:h'el any of the . | public streets. the board grants the CHARGED WITH FRAUD petition it snould first see that the prop- erty owners in the neighborhood are re- munerated for any loss they suffer. This board should not countenance the crush- ing of a few poor people to satisfy the 0ld Scandal of Pacific Vinegar and | Pickle Wcrks Has Been R | greed of the combined forces of the Revived. | Southern Pacific and the Atlantic Pacific, Charges of fraud and conspiracy against | two mighty corporations.” Sidney M. Smith, late president, and | A. H. ¥ n, vice president of the Santa Fe, denied that any combination existed between the Southern Pacific and the Valley road. . Ki ecretary of the e Works, have | it filed yester- . one tims ic Vinegar and been officially made in a day by the corporation named, in which judgment is prayed canceling four notes | issued to the order of the Pacific V¥ and Pickle Works by the Californ ck- | ing Company, by its president, E. J. Cote, | geregate a face value of | ordinance, and ording to the complaint | your guide.” their delivery to | Attorney Stafford. for the protestants, negar and Pickle Works | argued that the City Attorney had simply fraudulently assigned to Sidney M. Smith | stated that the board had only the power in his individual capacity for an alleged | to grant steam railroacs the right to ope- valuable consider: i y M. ! rate along the water front. Stafford inti- i ing 2 I | mated that if the franchise were granted The pl fon prays | the matter would be taken to the coi ed from | Joseph Scheerer, representing the Mission ’ said Captain Pay- pend the money it is it were not gnflnHo compete with the Southern Pacific. e City Attorney ha unequivoc; ¥ d that the board has the power to pass the that opinion should be son, “would never intended to spend works, negotiating these notes and that judgment | Federated improvement Clubs, was canceling the same be entercd by the ! heard in support of the petition. ks < this road should be given : R TR | the franchise,” s > for it Insolvent Ligquor Dealer. iis a competing line without doubt. The s record of the Santa Fe road shows it has rday in the | prought presperity along with it.” a petition in | Attorney Preston held that the decisions a liquor dealer, doing | of the Supreme courts of all the Western His liabilities are | States overruled the point of Mr. Stafford ts are $425 cash In lan to the award of public streets for pub- lic use. . Virgilio Bianchi filed vest United States District Cou insolvency. He siness in this % and his L R R R R A AR A R A A R R R S S ReReReN+O $ ¢ STRATTON PRIMARY LAW DECISION & ;’:How It Is Viewed by the Press of the:': + Interior of the State. b 2 - A HeBeBNeBeReNoNetoeReBoRoNesBeReNeBeke® REDDING SEARCHLIGHT. Tn declaring invalid the Stratton primary law the majority opinion of the Su- preme Court was not only a driveling argument for the preservation of the in- tegrity of political parties, but was practically an announcement to the people of California_that it is beyond their constitutional power to ever secure legis- lative relief from the corruption, the bossism and the penitentiary politics in general that criginate from the lack of statutory safeguards surrounding the citizen in the Initial as well as the final stages of an election. e, SANTA CRUZ SENTINEL. Now that the Stratton primary law has been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the State, the old law is in force, a case of go for delegate as you please, the few voters ruling the majority, and often the most deserving being entirely ignored. % s . STOCKTON INDEPENDENT. There seems to be considerable mourning over the nullification of the Strat- ton primary law by the Supreme Court. No doubt some of it is sincere, but much of it is mock grief. However, there is little question of the publie desire and political need of some primary law that will permit of a full expression of opinion on the part of voters and a free choice in the selection of delegates without the dictation of party bosses. . ' ALAMEDA ENCINAL. Under the Stratton law a man could vote but once and for one party. but under the old system, with the primaries held at different times, thousands of unscrupulous men voted at both and were bought and sold like sheep. All sorts of unserupulous tactics were resorted to, illustrations of which have not been found wanting_this side the bay as well as in San Francisco. The Stratton law prevented all this, but it seems that in the g0od pleasure of the majority of the Supreme Court this was not to be and now we must go back to the old open primary with all its corruption and crookedness. PR STOCKTON RECORD. Some legal minds are reported to be puzzled to decide what law, if any, gov- erns primaries now. They are alleged to believe that the law just pronounced invalid repealed all existing laws. If an invalid law can have such power— fe 14 very doubtful—then primary elections will be governed by th e i the' respective parties. - M i gt e VISALIA TIMES. So far as the country is concerned the members of all parties will probably feel relieved to hear that the cumbersome law is of no effect, for the reason that it has never been difficuit to hold an honest primary in the interior. There is rarely a contest from the country in State conventions, and county conven- tions nesflr always represent the voters of the party satisfactorily. 1In San Francisco it is different. There an honest primary was never held, and some of them have been so disgracefully conducted that a Chinese Boxer would be nshnmeg “to l?mdp?:et ?l‘n It:el‘n tg u:; constitutional .l:‘m&mem to be voted his fall will perm| e Legislature mlpflm‘r{ W that will apply gg the larger cities it ought to be ratified by the people. oy fyeaba e SAN JOSE HERALD. The Supreme Court has declared the Stratton primary law unconstitutional. The decision is probably good law. The right of the people to form political par- ties, to freely assemble and organize nng, to take the preliminary steps to put ir ideas in operation is fundamental. The thing to do. apparently. s to h "i';:{ primaries as hegetofore, each party making its conditions, regul 3 0?1!: o] through its regular organizagion. e LOS ANGELES HERALD. " Altogether, the outlook for clean primaries is not encouraging. The fate of the Stratton law will be deeply regretted by decent eitizens of all parties. There - should be no relaxation of the efforts in behalf of the needed reform until it is | est rates. T. in a form that will stand the test of the Supreme Court. 15 T0 RECENE TRDERSSUED ON ENROLLMEAT TOPRINCIPALS Webster Countermands the Schedule of Board of Education. ey Teachers Are in a Quandary, but Di- rectors Say Controversy Will Be Settled in Court. il —— Superintendent of Schools Weéhster is- ued a circular to the principals of the ublic schools yesterday in which are contained his orders for grading the schools. As has already been published the Superintendent backs his action with the Political Code of California, which he contends gives him the right to grade and classify. He rules that first and eighth grades shall comsist of not more than forty-five pupils enrolled and the second to the seventh grades fiot more than fifty. “Foreign” or “adult” classes in evening schools must maintain an av- erage daily attendance of at least fifteen pupils. Other classes of evening schools must maintain an average of at least twenty-five. If Webster's orders are carrfed out the twenty or more school teachers affected by recent consolidations will be reinstat- ed and one or two of ihe abolished schools may be reopened. The Board of Education is not worrying much over the countermanding of its own orders on enrollment by Superintendent Webster. Chairman Mark said yesterday that the classification might be modified at the meeting of the principals to be held this afternoon. Mark aseribes all the trouble to the fact that prineipals wera ed to consolidate classes too quickly n it was thought by the board that two or three weeks would be required for the change, Director Denman denies a publishéd statement that the salaries of teachers will he withheld if Webster's orders on nt are obeyed. While he would that the teachers might Incur ispieasure of the board by not obey- s order he says that no drastic meas- vill be used nman holds that S has n right to designate the enroliment, but that he can only determine whether schools shall be designated as primary or grammar. He admits that the controversy must be settled in the courts, but will not say which party will take the initiative. The board yesterday decided to reopen the Lafayette School bullding immediately and the sum of $500 will be appropriated to put the building In condition for oec- cupancy. Parents of pupils in the sixth, seventh and eighth grades of the Grant School are up in arms against the action of the board in_transferring those classes to the Pa- cific Heights School. They refuse point biank to send their children to any other school but the Grant and they are formu- lating another strong protest against the action of the board. LIBEL FILED AGAINST THE BELGIAN KING Large Sum Demanded by the Owners of the Tellus for a Col- lision. Two libel suits were filed yesterday in the United States District Court against the steamship Belgian King, the com- plainants being R. Dunsmuir's Sons’ Com- pany and the Dampskibsselskabet-Tellus Compeny. The first named sues for $3259, the alleged value of coal lost and damaged on _July 17 of this year by reason of a_col- jion off Point Arena between the Nof- wegian steamship Tellus and the steam- ship Belglan King. The Dampskibssel- skabet Company asks for $6,000 damages to the Tellus. A few days ago the Belgian King filed a against the Tellus for 1 salvage suit cervices in towing the Tellus to port after the collision. PERSONAL MENTION. Steinman of Sacramento is stope at the Palace. emblyman P. H. Mack of Inyo Coun- is at the Grand, Dr. D. D. Sherman and wife of Tulare are stopping at the Lick. Assemblyman Alden Anderson of Suisun is registered at the Grand. Ex-Congressman de Vries and wife of Stockton are at the Palace. G. H. Coffin. a prominent mining man of Ogilby, is registered at the Occidental. H. s, general baggage agent of the Santa Fe at Los Angeles. is in the city. C. B. Shaver, the well-known lumber man of Fresno, is a guest of the Palace. E. T. Earl of the Earl Fruit Company is registered at the Palace from Sacramento, Harry W. Earle, a well known hardware merchant of Stockton, is a guest of the Grand. Willam Hogoman, the well-known horseman of Marysville, is a guest of the Lick. M. Price, cashier of the Bank of Fresnn, accompanied by his bride, is stopping at the Lick. Charles E. Ford and wife are registered at the Palace. Mr. Ford is one of the most prominent merchants of St. Louis, and is here on a pleasure trip. Prince Eui Wha, heir-apparent to the Korean throne, accompanied by Sin Teh Moo. one of the nobility of the hermit kingdom, is due to arrive on the steamer Peking to-day. The Prince has visited this city before, and is said to be on his way to the Paris Exposition. E. A. Ford, general passenger agent of the Pennsylvania lines east of Pittsburg, is at the Palace. He is accompanied by his family and a party that includes As- sistant General Passenger Agent Moody of the same lln? The party came in a special car, and they are here for recrea- tion only. ——— . NEW YORK. Aug. 2—Major O, M. Brennan of San Francisco is at the Im- perial: H. Prentiss Taylor of San Fran. cisco is at the Hoffman. —_—— Cal. glace fruit 50c per I at Townsend's.* —— e Enforced cleanliness prevails 1o gohiopia of Copenbapen, rnrl:'qqu.“bi week the pupils bave to bathe at the schools, and while they are disporting themselves in the swimming baths their clothes are purified in steam ovens. —_—— A New Yorker recently turned ;)ne h;:flngo and m:vemygvenm'o::bmn: nvention, consis of Which eut twine and erases L&t N marks. erases lead —_————— d pencil Do You Enjoy Comfort When you travel? 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