The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 29, 1900, Page 6

THEE SAN FRA ISCO CALL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1900 THURSDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. A A tddress Al Communications to W. S, LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFICE. .. ..Telephone Press 201 PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. NOVEMBER 29, 1900 EDITORIAL ROOMS. ....217 to 221 Stevemson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carrlers, 15 Cents Per Weel. Single Copies, & Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: 1~By Single Month S]NDAY CALL, One Year WEEKLY CALL, One Yea: All postmasters are anthorized to receive ubscriptions. be forwarded when requested. Matl subscribers in ordering change of address should be particu give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request Sample coples w OAKLAND OFFICE... - 1118 Broadway €. GEOR KROGNESS, Maneger Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicago. (Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619.”") NEW YORK CORRBESPONDENT: C. 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December 12, at 12 o'clock, PRIMARY LAW PROBLEMS. of the year for which good not give thanks to-day is the sreme Co 1 consequen! rt in overth one of the th s is that they may have the Legislature this winter. e given on that score, however, they anied by 2 resolve to watch the is- to it that when the time comes re shall provide a law in the , and not in that of the - known in politics is for a primary law and tation with W. F. He cific Railroad, on the sub- received orders from the Southern Pacific to change his g rterest in the law is certainly on the side of honesty. The man Kelly and Crimmins back to power in sought to procure Dibble’s re- e, and who profited so much naries of the year, is not'likely which will give honest men a fair Consequently the report that ,sulted on the terms of the proposed gh to warn good citizens to be on their w rimaries. v law, drawn in such a way as to ds that were committed in the pri- es at the last election, is an essential to good ). 1 rnia. There is no other way nest men can have a chance to control T and assure the nomination of for every office at stake. Such a law must men who desire hones The tools of and the lawyers of the railroad will not i of law. Either they will so frame ain the power of the bosses, or liberately embody in it some uncon- so as to have it killed by the 1e next election. n as yet to abandon the hope that the new management of the Southern Pacific will take ions the corporation out of politics. Still, we must not trust too much to that hope. Mr. Herrin's activity continues to be re pernicious to the State than beneficial to the railroad company. The Republicans of California can beat him, however, if they set them- selves resolutely to the task. He was beaten in the last Legislature in his effort to elect a disreputable tool of the railroad to the United States Senate. He was beaten at the last election in his efforts to defeat who had opposed him in the Senatorial and also in his efforts to elect some of the most notorious of the railroad gang 1o the Legislature. From those victories of the past the people can draw omens of victories to come, pro- vided they be equally resolute in fighting for them. The issue is worth meditating upon, even on Thanks- giving day. We can take no chances with the tire- less, astute and unscrupulous men who are now scheming to defeat the popular demand for a primary law in the interest of Lonest politics. e e Kwang Su, the Chinese Emperor, declares that he is opposed to a return to Peking while the foreign troops are there as he fears he will “lose his face.” He should have a care or his head will be included in the loss of his face. men fight, / When Mrs. Lively of a Maryland town chased her husband and tore away his shoulder with a rifle ball the gentleman must have been sorry that when the lady decided to accept his name she took it alto- gether too literally. - —_— The suicide who cooked himself in a Colorado hot spring was the very personification of selfishness. He might have had at Jeast some consideration for those who intended to use the spring after him l THANKSGIVING. | 0 T | O give thanks to whatever force protects and | T preserves man has been instinctive in the human | race in all ages and nations. In our high civili- zation the giving of thanks takes on a refined, ethical form and joined to the religious idea is ornate with ‘sonoro“s ritual and impressive ceremony. But at bose it is just the same feeling that moves the light- hearted Japanese to celebrate the safety of the crop of | | rice, and the Chinese to give thanks for the generous | vield of good tea Thanksgiving was in this | land long before a white man trod its coasts or pene- | trated its vast continental spaces. There are relations | between all life, brute and human and organic and | inorganic. The same great statutes of natural law are | over it and in it all. 3 Our red races had ceremonies expressive of grati- tude, for the bounty with which nature sustained their simple lives. The presence of the beaver and the otter, the deer and wild fowl, supplying skins and fur | for clothing and meat for food, was acknowledged by.| Pequod and Narragansett on the cold New England coast. Sioux, Blackioot and Omaha welcomed the coming of the buffalo, and when the great herds re- tired to winter in the valley of the Arkansas and on the plains of New Mexico, in the soft Indian summer of the Dakotas and Minnesota and Nebraska, the red children of God offered thanks for the season and .its abundance of meat and robes gathered against the blear northern winter and its needs. None can know but what man shares this grateful heart with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air, which utter themselves in tongues not known to | us and.may take.thought in common with man. | The human race, the greatest manifestation of evo- [ lution, the refined product of creative force, subject- ing all things unto it and given dominion and power over all things else in the material world, moved upon by the spirit of gratitude for its position and its power, yet bows its head to the unseen law by which its pri- macy is made useful, through the multitude of the animate and inanimate, given to it to rule and to use. The people of the United States have special cause for thanksgiving every year. Given the the continents, productive of everything required by man’s material wants, and having the potency of that | wealth, beyond the necessities of existence, which en- ables the satisfaction of refined tastes, the patronags of art, the development of literature and pursuit of science, they are by destiny the most fortunate of all the nations that have enjoyed the earth and the full- ness thereof. Within the wide borders of this land is every iety of climate that man can seek to be at one with physical conditions and in harmony with his | environment. We have the moist, the dry, the level ard the rugged, the low coasts and the great moun- tains that liit their heimet-clad summits to the sun, challenging the tempest to battle. We have the capacity for every industry that man follows for supply of his daily wants and the gaining With this surpassing ph; 1 endowment it is not wonderful that here we have the latest, the adest and the best application of science to art | that is to be found in the world. Time was that the | distribution of power from the falls of the Rhine at | of riches. Schaffhausen, using wire ropes and pulleys, was a Now we excel the world in deriving power marvel. | ses and sending it on electric | | | from our water cou wires so far that by curvature of the earth the great rim of the planet rises betwegn its source and the light it sheds or the machinery it actuates. Bringing to Dbear the resources of science upon the inchoate wealth of our country, one man. touches a button and ac- complishes more than 10,000 men could do in the age of the pyramids and the sphinx. So, looking around us upon what has been by our growing knowledge of natural law, the heart of man swells with pride and gratitude and the ments of | his spirit of thanksgiving are the s simple senti- ments that made the shepherd kings give thanks the fruitful overflow of the Nile, and the red men | 1ift their hands and hearts to an unseen power in | gratitude for the coming of the buffalo. In the midst of it 2ll, let not man debase himself as a poor worm of the dust. He is the prince of creation. Aifter he reached self-consciousness he con- quested the material universe by seli-development of | his own faculties. The ox nips the herbage now as he did on the plains of Shinar. The bird nests as she | did in the cedars of Lebanon and the spider spins his web no more cunningly than he did in the willows that grew by the waters of Babylon. But man, | princely man, no longer houses in a cave and wears | the skins of beasts. His genius has woven garments, invented the arch, planned truss and buttress and pilaster. It has harnessed the expansion of steam, made rivers toil for him, compelled the earth to change its yield to nourish him, and all along his path change and progress are written, even in the ruins he has made in his march from darkness to light. So, let us be thankful, hopeful and of good cheer; love our families and our fellows in the great world’s work; lift up the lowly and cheer the disin- herited. The world is good, and if it be the begin- ning of a cycle of worlds and of existences, let us get our share of it, and be thankful, before we pass on. @ QUESTION FOR THE SENATE. QUESTION of considerable nicety is engag- fl ing the attention of political experts in Wash- ington in connection with the case of Mr. Clark of Montana. It will be remembered that when that | distinguished statesman presented his credentials at | the last session of Congress a fight was made against | him; it was alleged he had obtained his election by bribery, and a committee was appointed to investigate the charges. The committee reported that the charges had been sustained, but before the Senate took any action upon the report Clark resigned. It is row fairly certain he will be re-elected, for he has the | Montana Legislature in the hollow of his hand. The question is whether the Senate will admit him on his | new credentials or -eject him because he has once been ‘found gilty of bribery. One authority says it is very probable a majority of the Senators will hold that disqualification on ac- ' count of bribery cannot be evaded by a resignation clearly intended for the purpose of escaping condem- nation, and that having been disqualified once upon that ground the offender cannot afterward become eligible. It is further argued that the case against | Clark is the stronger because it is certain that in the | last campaign he spent more money to procure an | clection than he ever did before. On the other side it is argued that while the Senate can purge itself from a membership obtained through improper methods, it would unduly stretch its power should it undertake 1o say that the man denied mem- bership in one instance shall not attain it thereafter | posse: | in question. M cven if there be no charge of bribery in the second instance. It is claimed that if a man guilty of pro- curing an election to the United States Senate by bribery is to be disqualified forever, the disqualifica- tion should be the result of State action and not by an arbitrary act of the Senate itself. < l Of course no one has at this time any information as to how the Senators are likely to vote on the ques- tion. Nor is it even certain that the issue will be ac- tually' raised in the Senate. It has been taken up in Washington because s fight against Clark would al- most certainly entail = fight against other aspirants for the Senate as well. It'is quite possible that if Addicks be elected from Delaware or Quay| from Pennsylvania there may he charges of bribery brought against them. Furthermore, it has been suggestedl that the seat of Blackburn of Kentucky might be dis- | puted on the ground of frauds committed by the Democrats under the Goebel law. The question, it will be seen, is a wide one. The Senators doubtless desire to maintain the honor and integrity of their membership, but whether they will be able to establish a rigid rule in the Clark case remains to be seen. —— aS OTHERS SEE US. ROSPERITY in America will be the theme of p ten thousand discourses to-day; and there may be on the part of some a suspicion that we are cverrating our greatness and exaggerating the wealth our industry, our enterprise and our thrift have developed from the rich resources of our matchless country. It is, thergfore, worth recalling that our progress has been noted abroad as well as atShome, and that it is not patriotism only that causes us to exult. The facts justify our enthusiasm and our jubi- lation. Foreign authorities as well as thdse in our own land have noted our progress with admiration. The London Economist in a recent review of the financial and industrial situation of the United States saia: Never has the American naticn poscessed so much accumulated wealth ready to flow into any enterprise of promise. Never have her industries been so well able to meet competition in the home and in the world's mar- kets. Never has the production of her mines been so great. Never have her farms produced more valuable crops of cereals and cotton, mor the farmers possessed more numerous and more valuable flocks and herds. Never have the railroads been able to transport her products and people more economically, expeditiously and profitably, and we may add that never have the railroads been so strong, both physieally and financlally, as they are now. Whatever form new enterprise may take, that there will be an outburst of it is reasonably certain, bearing in mind how great the savings of the country have been during the last four years and how little outlet there is for investment profitably of those savings outside American jurisdiction. Within the nited States itself and in its new colonies acquired from Spain there are, on the other hand, almost bound- less opportunities for profitable investment, and there- fore an outburst of new enterprise is to be looked for as almost inevitable. As to our political condition and prestige as a worl, power, Sir Robert Giffen, statistician of the London Beard of Trade, said a few days ago: If we consider that an empire like that of Britain has its strength rather diminished than increased by the sion of territorles like India, then the United States, having & larger European population than that of the British empire, may be covsidered the most pow- erful state in the world as far as population and re- sources are concerned. No doubt Russia has a much | larger population, but the inferiority of the units is so great that the pre-eminence of the United States is not Germany, Russia and the United Kingdom have all grown, while France and Austria have oy com- parison remained stationary, so that now the great world powers are four only, the United States, Britain, Russia and Germany, with France a doubtful fifth. Those quotations may serve as examples of what is thought and said of us by students of economic and political questions abroad. Many more might be quoted from all civilized lands and from authorities of almost all kinds. We stand to-day the richest and | the strongest of the powers of earth, and, moreover, cvery prospect promises greater prosperity and greater power in the years to come. MARCONI'S IMPROVEMENTS. ARCONT'S improvements in wireless teleg- raphy continue to furnish some of the more important items of the news of the day. The man is a tireless worker and is rapidly extending the powers and perfecting the methods of his invention. So far has he progressed that there are now really valid reasons for believing that within a compara- tively few years wireless telegraphy may almost com- pletely supersede telegraphy by wire. The latest reports are to the effect that certain experiments made by Marconi demonstrate an ability to telegraph without wires over distances so vast that the inventor deems himself on the verge of accom- plishing the feat of sending messages across the At- lantic. Such a feat would not be more remarkable than what he has already achieved, for since a method has been devised for sending dispatches through the air, over mountains and in the midst of storms, for a distance of fifty miles, the extension of the dis- tance is a mere matter of increasing the force of the radiant energy at the point of discharge. ; We directed attention a short time ago to experi- ments made by the British postoffice authorities for the purpose of determining whether they could profit- ably make use of wireless telegraphy in the postal telegraph system. The results of the experiments, it appears, have not been altogether satisfactory. The London Chronicle, in giving an account of them, says: / It seems highly probable that before long the various channel steamhoat companies will be licensed by the postoffice to make use of wireless telegraphy fnstalla- tions as a means of communication between the different vessels and the shore. Regarding its general adoption on land, however, it is pointed out that the present “wire’” system is capable of far greater speed than is possible with the Marconl apparatus. The latter does not appear to be capable of transmitting more than cight or ten words a minute, whereas the Wheatstone Instrument at present used by the telegraph department transmits from 200 to 300 words in the same time. If the Marconi mbem could do this the postoffice would be only too g to get rid of all its present wires. It will be seen the cnly objection to wireless tele- graphy for general use at present is the lack of speed in transmitting messages. It is certainly not too much to expect improvements will be shortly made which will overcome that defect. The question of long dis- tance telegraphing seems virtually settled, according te the London correspondent of the New York Her- ald, whose dispatch of yesterday stated: Signor Marconi’s infinite capacity for taking pains has enabled him to construct an apparatus whereby he can lengthen the air waves to an almost unlimited extent. Furthermore, by the same ingentous device sound will be made to travel close to the surface of the ocean over. the whole distance, thus circumventing the dreaded difficulty presented by the curvature of the earth. Hence the masts erected at Souttampton and on Long Itland need not, it is now contended, be higher than the roof c¢f a New York skyscraper. We are thus p{omised wireless telegraphy across the Atlantic within the coming year. Truly Marconi’s invention moves rapidly. . i e —— There are well defined rumors that a powerful South American combination intends to attempt ag- gressions upon Chile., Some of these days a big boy among the nations will go down to South America and thrash the whole squabbling outfit into peace. —_——— Venezuela has bought that dangerous toy known as Gould’s yacht and intends to convert it into a boat of war. We may expect soon to hear the news which generally follows when a child plays with a dangerous toy. And now, it is announced, Germany has a bone to pick with the S: of Turkey. It is reasonably safe to say that the bird at the feast will not be a crow, “PULDEKA ORPHAN —_——— York Horse Show Judges. ooy AT v Horsk [HoW. e ULDEKA ORPHAN,” brushed and combed from ears to fetlock, proudly strode onto the tanbark at the recent New York Horse Show in company of twenty-five equally well-groomed thoroughbreds competing for blue rib- bon honors in the saddle class. A glance at the catalogue showed the fol- lowing entry: ‘Puldeka Orphan—by Metropolitan, dam Electricity.” Had the judges read slowly, says a writer in the New York World, they might have noticed that Puldeka Orphan is in rhythm very like “pulled a car often” and have learned that ranker counterfeit never figured in a horse trade than “Pul- deka Orphan,” reincarnation of a car horse and relic of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company before electricity took the place of horse motive power. Brian G. Hughes, practical joker, had foisted Puldeka Orphan on the Horse Show managers, fooled a credulous public and scored another joke But his horse ‘won no prize. So completely had Mr. Hughes carried out his plans that after the exhibition the judges were still unaware of the trick perpetrated on them. He succeeded in placing as his entry in competition for a prize against the highest class horses in the country a steed which formerly romped in front of a Fifty-ninth street cross- town car from East to North River. Thousands who have toured the stalls at the Horse Show have looked on Pul- deka Orphan and have been none the wiser. The old car horse was stalled in No. 603. Mr. Hughes spared no expense in decorating her stable. It was covered on each side with red velvet. Chrysanthemums, roses and lilac were decked about the walls. All evening two grooms in full livery stood at either side of the stall. None of the true blue thoroughbreds received half the attention and outer show that graced the quarters of the car horse. Puldeka was ridden for Inspec- tion by Miss Clara Hughes, Mr. Hughes' 1S-year-old daughter, who recently grad- uated from a convent, where she was valedictorian. She has inherited her fath- er’s love of a joke. " The story of Puldeka Orphan dates back to last September when Mr. Hughes bought her for $1150 and sent her to his country place at Brighton. There with proper feeding the animal showed marked fmprovement, and Mr. Hughes decided to bring her up to the Horse Show standard. “I had her properly fed,” Mr. Hughes said, “and consulted a veter- inary surgeon as to the best way of developing her best qualities. We gave her a tonic pill consisting of strychnia, dialyzed iron and arsenious acid. This pill Pul- deka took regularly, and the way she took on sleekness and flesh was marvelous. I hired a groom especially for her and told him if he could get Puldeka in such shape as to win a prize half of the money should be his. “After the mare looked presentable I had my daughter ride her and get her accustomed to the saddle. I found it difficult to break Puldeka from starting whenever a bell rang, and at first it was almost impossible to get her to go ahead any other way. 5 ““The judges and veterinary surgeons made their preliminary examination and decided Puldeka was a fit steed to compete with the other high-class horses. This is in itself a great victory. Think of it! An old skate of a car horse officially judged to be an animal of class high enough to compete at the National Horse Show.” Mr. Hughes once successfully exhibited at the Cat Show a Bowery cat, de- scribed with a bogus pedigree, which took first prize. He has perpetrated various other jokes which have received much publicity. PULLED A CAR OFTEN Broken Down Street Railway Skate Fooled New | ! | terms of honorable p the Philippines. Without di | question_ that ‘will come b | preme Court in the Porto Rieo ¢ may be said that there # in the Ut | States the strongest possible f | against surrendering any privileg, | | ownership in the Philippines. 1If laws are enacted the Philippine Is | |1y and_permanently EDITORIAL UTTERANCE IN VARIETY No Policy of Bleod. The United States will tolerate no policy t | of blood. cutions will lead to peac dong wrong a must take the —consequerces, but w hould not insist cna degree of punishment which will cost us our self-respect. —NEW | | YORK HERALD. i | Kitchener’s Policy. Lord- Kitchener's adoption of We methods should be suffi President Kruger th: and that the people Is unc sistance while a PHILADELPHIA N To Stop Train Robberies. If it were known that every press treasure would be strongly guar | Bnd every passenger train rme /| and fully instructed what to do in case of A | attack. there would be practically no | | more train robberies. To-put guards | | espeeially hagardous sections is better than not to have them it i= not all that should be—D TIMES. | Opposed to Any Surrender. | ‘As far as the treaty is c are not bound to any partl will become a base for American trad Asiatic. waters. This Is what we hava been® striving for.—CHICAGO INT | OCEAN. Army Reorganization. Thers will be differences of opinion the House and the Senate when the prop- ositjons for reorganization of the are ‘discussed, and Mr. Hay may be among the opponents of any plan t enlarge the army. But there is reason to believe more to hope, that there will be ficient number of Democrats to agr him as to the maintenance of the | force until our affairs in the Phi | will justify anv material reduection army.—NEW YORK TIMES. Should Refuse to Be Led. To use a homely expression, the Demo- crate of the South ought to refuse longer to be led around by the nose by the Dem- ocrats and Populists of the North. The excuse has always been the fear of negro domination, but, whatever may have been true of the past, there are now few States in the South where there is any danger 14 regro dominati Under such eircum- stances there be no reason why the th should continue its blind following after a disrupted and discredited North- ern faction.—NEW YORK TRIBUNE. | To the Moral Element. When the moral element in this country performs its duty every day in the week instead of one day In_ten vears, when it denounces the bad in the egg as well as in the dragen, wien it takes an abiding in- terest in the political business of the land and not a sentimental hankering for its | own glorificatt of polit then we may see the beginning of bette things. When the bosses of New York and Philadelphia see a - hind these talkers th: otherwise they mask_on_occasi ind_whic] see.—FLORIDA TIMES-UNION. Make Them Life Senators. It would be eminently just to make our ex-Presidents ors for life, not only to have the bene their ripe experience | in public affa but to assure them a moderate income, Few of them could be | as fortunate as Harrison in commanding liberal rewards for professional services, and most of our ex-Presidents have re tired really without a competency and unfitted for any pursuit that coula give them a generous income. As a matter of Justice alike to the Government and to our ex-Presidents, our constitution should be o amended as to continue all ex-Presi- dents in the service of the country dur- ing life.—PHILADELPHIA TIMES Foreigners to Blame. The present troubles in China have he produced very largely by the for { themselves. Their deliberate aggress | s0 often humiliatipg to Chinese dignity, and not less often deadly assaults upon the political independence and power of the a 1 can Chinese people, brought on a popular re- Editorial Opinion on Matters of Interest. The Coming Legislature. The coming Legislature will United States Senator to elect, but it might popularize itself by ghflnr the | greater part of its time to repealing a thcusand and one vicious laws that may be found in the statutes.—SANTA MON- 1CA OUTLOOK. The New Ballot. The new ballot has been subjected to a | test and worked fairly well. Its primary effect was doubtless to lead to a stricter | party vote than had been customary un- der the old form of ballot. The difficulties giving people little or no time to have no | of the road. While cows are less they do considerabie damage. Some cow: tody’s vegetable garden. these animals persist these fine days.—AMADOR RECORD. Oranges at Oroville. No town In SPIRIT OF CALIFORNIA PRESS From All Parts of the State‘i | through the streets at lightning speed, t out anger- ous to human life, vet it may be said that | the States heaped more | volt which naturally made war upon for- eigners wherever they might be found. It was a great patriotic tumult. The conclu- sion from all this follows swiftly. China must pay for her tumult® yet if the pow- ers take advantage of a situation for which they themselves are largely at fault to impose Indemnities so prodigious as to force China into political and territorial liquidation , their whole course, from first to last, will be that of plundering freeboot- Jer;—s?m.\‘nnmm EPUBLICAN, PERSONAL MENTION. Judge J. W. Turner of Eureka is at the 2re experts at opening gates and they | Russ. very often find palatable focd in some- If the owners of in_turning them loose on the streets they will hear of Mr. | | A or B having migity cheap beef some of | is at the Grand. Dr. J. G. Thompson of Oakdal Palace. A. W. Fox, a mining man from Oreson, is at the | Mr. end Mrs. Felix Nelcke are going to | Burope for six months. Solomon Levy, a prominent Visalla mer- of counting seem to be more pronounced in California than in any other State in | the Union. We know more about the vote of the Eastern States on election night | than we do of California the next day— RED BLUFF PEOPLE'S CAUSE. Sonoma County Boulevard. The road connecting Santa Rosa and Sebastopol should be a beautiful boule- vard with a row of thrifty and beautiful | trees on either side. The portion of the | road that is not traveled should be cuiti- | vated and kept free of weeds. It would be well if all the fences were removed ex- cept where pasture lands border the high- way and these should be kept in good con- dition. ' The proper improvement of this piece of road would add !ur%ely to_the | selling price of bordering lands—SANTA | ROSA REPUBLICAN. Voting Reform Demanded. One reform in voting is imperatively de- manded. The voting machine is an urgent need. The people will not long continue to wait for this reform. The politicians might as well take note of this. They can no more prevent the adoption of this method of voting than they could prevent the adoption of the Australian ballot sys- tem, e all remember how hard they tried. But they had to give way before the determination of the people to have a better system of voting. Now they will have to give way before the same determination, for voting by ma- the next step in ballot chine is simpl; re(um.—WOS];LAND DEMOCRAT. Sutter Creek’s Need. One of the nieeds of Sutter Creek at the resent time is a ?ound ard. The cattle hat parade our sfreets day after day are a nuisance and it has become intolerable. Horses are turned loose on the streets and are permittd to roam wherever the: please, endangering the lfves of small children, as well as older persons, for it is no uncommon thing to see a horse tearing | when we first began to cultivate | second growt! abuse upon Oroville than Los Angeles | chant, is registered at the Grand. here for commercial purposes. ’ls::“l.‘;:[ Dr. Neil C.\Trevor of the United States ered at the Occidental. Angeles papers made all kinds of fun of | navy, is re this as an orange section and extracts | D. G. Overall, the Visalia hotel man, is stopping at the Grand for a few day: were taken from the journals of that city | J. R. Waiter and C. A. Walter,- prom- twelve or fourteen vears ago would show | many things said of the frozen region | inent Salt Lake City bankers, are at the @ Oceidental. Where we cover our trees with blankets. We recall these points just to emphasiz the fact that within the past ten days five = carloads of oranges have been shipped | W. B. Buckminster, an extensive Bos- from Oroville to—where do you think? | ton mining man, is one of the‘late arri- :::yér‘:;:’g{:"fifiés' G-IrdellaAa S?n xfiew | vals at the Palace. a DS ngeles - bought them ~OROVILLE REPORTER, | Oeorse K. Rider, the well known Sacra- Sor of Rainfall h mento business man, was among yester- It may safely be ‘coneluded that the | oy o marr . the Grand. sources of our rainfall are entirely be-| R: G- Morrison, the Bakersfield ofl man, gond the confines of our State, and equally | is in town and is making his headquarters eyond the control of its inhabitants. And | at the Russ. P fortunate it Is that such is the case; oth- | J. L. Carter. with his wife and child, ar- erwise the rapid destructio - By fire and the ax of rhe. AALHOreSts | rived at the Russ yesterday from Hawaii. vimd belorehmnn‘{ });en.rs lead to the most | Where Mr. Carter owns a large plantation. serfous results. Whatever influences the | Bert Dunn, a merchant of Etna Mills, California forests may have relate to th, Siskiyou County, is in the city, preparing flow of the rivers and sprin; 4 the precipitetion of rain or snow to any | S —_——— material extent. And as regards conserss. | tion of moisture there is reason to believe ‘ Paloma Schramm Concert. A concert will be given at Odd Fellows that the importance of the orj - ests in this State, large as it mumy“;el. ; o been Sreatly SxogEerated by theorists, | Hall, Tuesday evening, December 4 = 0 lave :sedht eir conclusions on the ' der the direction of Loval Rebekah I perience of other countries having sim- | 1. 0. O. F. The principal musici flar climatic conditions. There is much be Paloma Schramm. the child trustworthy evidence gqing to show th, trustworthy evid at | Theresa and Lily Sherwc Qur Clifornia forest aréa, when denuded Savage soon reclothed growth of wi agninst sheep and fire. is | TOUs second | ticipate. seats may s, in most instan | - R affording a ces this | at Byron Mausy's, 38 Post st more protection to the ground than dome tre —_—————— Cholce ¢andies, Townsend s " rimeval forest. from which 1 1< almost ‘entirely absent. and wngs ommt extent of follagé resuits in, the dispersion of enormous quantities of water by trans. piration.—SACRAMENTO BEE. | Townseni's California glace rnJm- | pound, in fire-ctched boXes or Ja | Bets ‘o Aarket, Paluce Hotei buiiding. POPULATION—G. H. B, City. Accord- ing to the census for the current year the population of the State of California is l.l&,fl and tl of the clty of New York, that is Greater New. York, is 3,437,202 BASEBALL—J. B., Crescent City, Cal. If a fly ball is batted with no base runner { on bases and one fielder makes an effort to catch the ball, but it bounds out of his hand and is caught by another fielder be- fore it touches the ground, the batter is not out. If caught the same fielder that tried to catch it batter would be out. If three strikes be called on the s applied to mfmlorpbm“mc “\ ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS, —_ ——————— Specfal information supplied daily to business houses and pubiic men by ths Fress Cipping bureau (Allen $). 310 Mont- gotnery st. ‘Lelepnone Main 142, . \ English nobilit; condition was thar the Hor, estates. 7 few days ago Brown County, ln‘dfi“}‘m?l neither raliway, telegraph nor t the trees should be anywhere within it served for the Te- | telephone factlitics 77 % Bret e h‘}u:yol !h:l!:;ry but If any | porders. It is still minus the two first ities of modern life, but has Invaded Nashville, mbus, In an adjoining mentioned nece: a telephone lin coming from Co county. If You're in a Hurry Take the “Over- land Limited,” Leaving San Francisco daily @t 10 a. m.. via Central Pacifie, Union Pacific and Chicago and Northwestern rallways, and arriving at Chicago at 9:30 a. m. the third day. A solld vestibuled train of superd splendor. carrying Pullman dcuble drawing-room dMming car and buffet smoking and library car. San Francisco to Chicago without change. Only four days to New York and Boston. If you want luxury | and comfort combined with speed and safety take the “Overland Limited.” e Every fall reaps its harvest of deaths eaused by fallure to regain strength and health after a trying summer. DR. SIEGERT'S Angostura Bitters earich the blood. the ot o appifeation ‘of wingtaf 00T hence the \