The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 16, 1901, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1901 Che +Zadase Call. WEDNESDAY "l;);N Adéress All Communications to W. 5. LEAEE, Manager. MANAGER'S OFFICE. . PUBLICATION OFFICE. .. Market and Thir Telephone Press 201. .JAY\'U]\RA\' 16, 1901 D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. S. F. EDITORIAL ROOM Tele; 217 to 221 Stevemson St. Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples. 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postages DAILY CALJ, (Including Sunday), ope year. 380 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), § month: 100 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 mont] L1850 DAILY CALL-—By Single Month. SUNDAY CALL, One Yeer WEEKLY CALL, One Year.. - All postmasters are anthorized to receive subser fons. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. 1.00 | Mafl subecribers fn ordering chanee of address should e particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to msure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. v...1118 Broadway OAKLAND OFFICE.. C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Musager Yoreign Advertising, Marquetts Building, Chicago, “Central NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. €. CARLTON..... «++Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. ..30 Tribune Bullding | NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldors-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 81 Union Square: Murray HIll Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House: P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel. 3 WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1408 G S MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent AMUSEMENTS. Aleazar—*Ne | Cotu Fast.” “Cinderella " “The Two Orphans.” Time.” Central Theater ‘A Breezy Vaudeville every afternoon and Californis Jockey Club (Oakland)—Rac AUCTION SALES. tle t when dowed de rgies nerosit onomical eans of pro- we royed =R e people, to the abatement c eir energy eans the enfeebling of the T P he problem to be solved is the ecor zing t production. That volves restor f ¥ of the ranges s they have been de se common, they can never be polic; As the price of beef 1ge feed becomes more in price and fall in the reflected in the increasz | in murde itted on the ranges in battles for | their possessic There was never less food, nor ore murders, than during last sea- “ score of lives have been lost and | s have been killed is time the relent | It for econom ess competit sts to ¢© sider the proble i for the stock interes a | to reasc | One reason for opposition to protecting newing the ranges by 2 leasehold system is the unjus- fied f of the small stock men and agricultural the le will be put up for sale to the jer, event the great stock- d corporations would outbid the other in- : i opolize to them should not be necessary to ol ses and lves the It 2 1t ngement wolild ever be sanctioned by the ra d-own: er become the law. 1ge to leaseholders it is proposed y er and every stock-owner shali | have his share stted and assigned to.him at a com- | mon rental per acre, to be fixed by the Secretary of | Agriculture. In addition to this, the law will protect | the right of the mineral prospector and the new agri- I‘ cultural settler, against whom the leaseholders’ rights have no sacredness With these safeguards and the | application made optional to counties, we are con- vinced that there is no ground at all for opposition. The meat consumers are in every State, all over the Union. They have certain equities that cannot be | ignored. They are owners in common of the public domain on which the ranges lie. They have an in- defeasible right to say that their property in the ranges shall be so preserved and used as to return to them a consideration in the economy of living and the sufficiency of their diet. The ranges are a means of production. The consumers of that product have 2 superior right to the maintenance of that means in | all its vigor. [ It seems clear, from the viewpoint of an economist, t the people of the whole country have rights | which the stock men and politicians must respect. They have a right to prevent the destruction of their property and the decadence of their diet. All of these considerations appeared in Australia. The problem obtruded itself there upon public atten- tion and did not retire from view until it was effi- | ently solved. Shall we admit that we have less fa- | | i \ THE BELSHAW POOL BILL. resolution on Monday approving the Belshaw bill for the regulation of pool-selling and book- W _1 making he undoubtedly designed it as a step toward { the reopening of Ingieside Park for such practices. | The step was fortunately baffled by the action of Su- had it referred to the Police Committee. The resolu- tion is none the less significant of a willingness on th2 part of some of the municipal authorities to set aside the existing restrictions upon pool-selling and book- making, and consequently is a matter to which the people of San Francisco should give immediate at- tention. The Belshaw bill prohibits the selling of pools or animals or machines, or the maintaining of any place where such bookmaking and pool-selling is carried on, except within the inclosure or building in which the contests take place. That is to say, it prohibits pool-selling and baokmaking outside of racetracks. but permits it within the inclbsures that surround the tracke. * The bill applies equaily to the selling of pools and to the making of books upon coursing matches, prize-fights or any other form of contest used for the rurpose of that kind of gambling When the bill was made public The Call obtained legal advice as to the effect it would have upon the cipal regulations prohibiting bookmaking and pool-selling within inclosures as well as without. The authorities agreed thzt the State law would not inter- fere with the municipal lawt City Attorney Lane, one o | of the authorities consulted, stated that the Belshaw bill as presented leaves it in the power of the city to prohibit bookmaking and pool-selling at the tracks. The exercise of police power by the State in prohibit- ing certain practices outside of certain inclosures does not prevent the city in the exercise of its police pow- ers from prohibiting the same acts within those in- closures. According to that legal construction the Belshaw act in itself is not a menace to the city, but the: Mc- it may be made use of to revive at Ingleside those evils of which San Francisco has had such disastrous experience. Supervisor Stafford therefore deserves the commendation of all good citizens for his action in preventing its immediate adoption. It to be noted, moreover, that something of a e appears to have come over the minds of sev- There Joseph He has been known as an oppo- nt of gambling, and, in fact, once introduced a reso- on prohibiting downtown pool-selling and book- making on all sorts of contests, but on Monday he was one of the Supervisors who expressed himself in favor of permitting it for a “limited time.” It is true that in she discussion on the subject the rvisors who favored the resolution were careful hey favored a limited “racing period,” and did fav T s was, however, but an evasion. nce of the city that prohibits racing of the Supervisors, is Tobin, for example. Sadoc ored a ‘“‘gambling period.” use of term careful There is no ordin: ordinance which resulted in closing Ingleside and virtu driving the gamblers out of the ci goes no further than to prohibit pool-selling and bookmaking within the inclosure. The so-called races were but fakes. Their sole purpose was to provide a means of gambling. When the gambling was stopped racing stopped. Consequently those who now advocate a “racing period” can have no other intent than that of permitting the kinds of gambling which are necessary to render that sort of racing profitable to the promoters Upon this showing it is clear the Belshaw bill should be rejected by the Legislature. It is at best and immoral measure. If bookmaking and pool-selling be pernicious outside an inclosure, cen it be any less pernicious when carried on inside an inclosure Is there in any fence or wall ever erected a magic of sufficient power to render harmless ctices that are notoriously evil here? Belshaw bill may seem upon it3 face, its effect woull be ‘to confer upon Easte gamblers who control racetracks the privilege of pool- sdlling and bookmaking while denying that privilege It would not have the direct .effect of within its i However fair the to outsiders. | reopening Ingleside, but it w ould undoubtedly tend to That much is made evident by the McCarthy resolution. The old evil out of which there came so much of fraud, defalcation, theft, crime, murder and ide is once more threatening the city. The danger is not to be ignored. The people should take action against it at once do so. 1i the Daingerfield-Graham contest is typical of ths others which were recently decided in this city it might be well for the Election Commission to estab- lish for citizens a school designed to instruct intelli- gent electors in the art of voting correctly. WICKEDNESS ON THE QUIET. pl[ll.,\DELPHI.\ has furnished the new century prise. hest citizens have In the first place a committee of her in a formal document declared Ler to be more wicked than New York, and in the cecond place they have applied to a New York Hishop to come down and move them to repentance. That Quakers should turn to Episcopalian Bishops for guidance, that Philadelphia should admit a need | of New York inspiration, are strange things them- selves, but the strangest part of the whole wonderful proceeding is that so much wickedness as is reported to be in Philadelphia should have kept itself quiet for all these years. Of course the country has been aware at times of | rumblings in and around Philadelphia, but has never suspected any serious disturbance. Whenever the rumblings have been sufficiently noisy to attract more than a passing attention and to induce outsiders to inquire the cause of them an investigation has gen- erally shown nothing worse than Matthew Quay shaking the plum tree and John Wanamaker and the rest of the “hog combine” squealing for the plums It now appears, however, there is and has been for a long time serious wickedness in the quiet city. At a recent mass-meeting called by the reform commit- ! tee the chairman, in introducing Bishop Potter of New York, said: “The statement made by the com- mittee in their Jetter of invitation to Bishop Potter, that the times of Tweed in New York scarcely sur- passed in corruption those of this day in this city, ceem to me to fall gvite short of the truth. At no time nor place in history does a-corrupt and thieving ring seem more skillfully and completely and hope- lessly to have gained ascendency than here and now. Not only is there a continuous and large majority in councils, 70 per cent of whom are supposed to be purchasable, of men who make no concealment of y of adjustment than was shown by the people of 2 crown colony of Grezt Britain? their principal purpose being to violate their solemn oath of office and make traffic of the great franchises | of the city for bribes, but in corroboration of the y resolution in the Board of Supervisors shows | = G gty 5 & | the Germans in their islands, say that in Tutuila Telephone Press 204 | pervisor Stafford, who objected to the resolution and | ¢ | hookmaking on any trial or contest between men, l‘ ship noted. She does an enormous business, her in- Bishop's statements as to the Police Department n New York, it could be shown here how policemen, HEN Supervisor McCarthy introduced his | by bribery and threats, although their office was cre- ated for the protection of the weak and the assailed, have sought in their official dress to tempt innocent maidens .from the paths of virtue—how they have aided, instead of preventing, the violation of law at the polls, and in various ways become the servants of crime and foes to the law.” That is certainly a heavy arraignment to be made against a city that has always been pointed to as the typical American community and the model for all others. As it has been made by a committee of rep- resentative citizens it is to be presumed to be accurats. It may be taken, therefore, as another illustration’ of the quietness with which Philadelphia manages in some way to take the lead without having her leader- dustries are in many respects larger than those of New York or Chicago, and yet she is never heard to blow about her enterprise. Now she comes forth to start the new century as the wickedest town on earth, and the country will be more than ever puzzled to know how she manages to do so®many things without | making any noise. His Highness the Mayor has again unloosed his tongue upon the newspapers. It might be well for him occasionally to go into executive session with himself and reflect upon the manifold advantages of | discretion. PROGRESS IN SAMOA. E are having so much in the way of weariness W of the flesh and vexation of spirit in the man- agement of the white man’s burden in Porto Rico and the Philippines that we have reason to be thankful for the crumb of comfort that comes to 1s from Samoa. It appears we are doing well in those far-off islands, and by contrast with the Germans in Apia are winning golden opinions from all sorts of | natives. Late reports from Tutuila, after recounting certain unpopular and seemingly unjust acts on the part of under -American rule affairs are booming and prog ress is being made in every direction. It is announced: “The traders are doing more than double their pre- vious business, and the natives are contented and happy. They are the envy of their cousins-in the neighboring islan Some details are given to illustrate the general state- ment. work is progressing favorably; that the natives have willingly agreed to cell an important front on the beach to the Government, and that they intend to use the money received for the concession to build a handsome church. It is added that work has begun in constructing a road around Pago Pago harbo- and that as soon as that is completed further roads will be constructed. Such reports are gratifying, and it is to be hoped the money due to the natives for the water front will be promptly paid. It would be too bad to have the building of that “handsome church” delayed by red tape at Washington. We have started out well in the island and have now the favor of the people. It will be our own fault if the present good conditions change to evil, and instead of a number of well-pleased na- tives we have a discontented and suspicious popula- tion to deal with. Let us hope, furthermore, that the reported “boom” at Tutuila is not going to attract that class of American speculators and office-holders who, in their greed for gain, would not hesitate to defraud not only the natives but the Government itself. e The Collector of the Port threatens to abolish the Chinese detention shed on the Pacific Mail dock be- cause of the frequent cscape of coolies from the place. Why not force the derelict corporation to erect a shed on one of its ships and become criminally and civilly | responsible for its horde of yellow “native sons”? C | weekly newspaper. POLITICAL HIPPODROMING. OLONEL BRYAN proposes to stay in focus nd to remain wn object of public interest. It was expected that he would content himself with the opportunity for publicity afforded by his But he has long depended upon the word of mouth and refuses to substitute expres- sion per plumbago irom the pencil's dreadiul point. Therefore he plans further hippodroming over the country. His first efforts will be spent upon Texas. But there are signs that the Lone Star will not twinkle <o kindly upon him as heretofore. The Democratic press of that State is saying that other men have a right to be heard and heeded. The Texan press even goes so far as to say that the people of the South are tired of Casabianca oratory, and that the boy who stands on the burning deck so long with cold fea: s not an object of sympathy or interest. In fact, they don’t believe the deck is burning at all, and say Colonel Bryan was mistaken when he said it was. | They think the country, South and all, is doing very with something in the nature of a double sur- | well without free silver, anarchy and other prescrip- tions for its welfare proposed by the Nebraskan. As he has relied on the impetuous-emotions of the South for applause and support, this cold-blooded estimate of his oratory will be a painful surprise. Yet it must remain among the possibilities of the future that he will seek and win the nomination in 1004. As a hypnotizer of conventigns he has no peer and unless the delegates are examined by doctors and certified proof against he-hysterics we may again see this political Casabianca and, what is worse, hear him as a candidate. Developments in the sharp contest for the vacant marshalship at Nome indicate that the most success- ful way of mining for gold in the frozen north is to know how to pull political wires at Washington. It ig remarkable that this sort of a desperate game has not already resulted in a tragedy. —_— Kwang Su wants to return to Peking. There cer- tainly should be no objection to a gratification of his wish, particularly as he will place himself in a po- sition where he may be made personally responsible for acts of horror which he condones if he does not indorse. . B U Russia has announced that she will not permit Ger- many to buy the island of Cyprus. This international fever for the purchase of islands seems to be ketting lots of people into trouble—first ourselves, then Eng- land, and now Germany. —_— California is to be honored by the Federal Gov- ernment with a warship bearing the name of the State. May the vessel never be called upon to prove her prowess, and if she does may her name be one of dread to her foes. The Committee on Public Morals of the Assembly seems to have been chosen primarily with a view of placing before the people of the "State an interesting group of horrible examples, ‘ These are to the effect that the Government | OFFICIAL TIME FOR THE NATION Government Naval Observatory and Its Equipment. L) - 155 EQUATORIAL DOME OF THE UNITED STATES NAVAL OBSERVATORY AT WASHINGTON, D. C., WHERE UNCLE SAM RECKONS OFFICIAL TIME FOR HIS FELLOW CITIZENS. L3 HE famous naval observatory in Washington, says the Boston Post, dates back only to1844, although for thirty years previous to this time efforts had been made to induce Congress to found a national observatory. In 1838 Lieutenant J. M. Gilllss, a young naval officer of very superfor intellect and enterprise, began a series of observations in an improvised observatory on Capitol Hill. His work was so successful that Congress passed a bill appropriating $25,000 for the erection of a suitable bullding. Lieutenant Gilliss planned the structure and remained in -charge of it several vears Additions were made in 1847, 1848, 1868 and 1873. The two first instruments which were placed were a 4.1-inch Troughton and Simms mural circle and a 53-inch Ertel transit. They were extremely good In- struments for that time, and it was con- sidered that g great deal of money had been spent 1873 a 26-inch Clark equi- torial was purchased at a cost of $46,000. This is the third largest telescope in the country, the two largest being the Lick, ments.” Great telescopes of this kind are used principally for measuring faint double stars, satellites and in observations for stellar paralla. The satellites of Mars were discovered by Professor Hall with the 26-inch equitorial at the naval obser- vatory, | Besides the telescopes, the observatory {own many _chronographs, clecks, chro- nometers and assoclate apparatus, photo- heliographs, transits, etc.. many of them being of antiquated type. In fact, the 36-inch, and the Yerkes, 40-inch, instru- | storerooms of the observatory are verit- able museums of obsolete scientific ap- | paratus. A very tory is devoted to clocks. FHere all the | chronometers for issue to naval ves- | sels are rated and tested, and an exten- sive time service is maintained. Included |in this is the daily automatic correction | of some hundreds of clocks in the Govern- | ment buildings at Washington_and _the | | dropping of time balls in New York, Bal- | timore. Philadelphia. San Francisco, Hampton Roads, Savannah and New Or- leans. The present site of the observatory is ahout a mile and a half from the original building. which was abandoned in 1891 It is one of the most complete and con- venient establishments of the kind in the country. the best feature of its construc- tion being the small detached bufldings for each of its principal Instruments. The main bullding Is given over to the offices and computing rooms. Duiring many vears the observatory was purely a naval institution and was under | the Bureau of Navigation. Line officers of | the navy were detailed from time to time to be its suverintendents and its instrue- | tors were for the most part naval men. This has been changed within very recent | times, and although the institution is still | under the care of the Naval Department, and is controlled by naval officers, its | | astronomical director, professors of mathematics and most of its astronomers are university men. The present super- intendent is Captain Charles H. Davis and | ‘the first and second assistants are Lieu- | | tenant Commanders Charles H. Fox_and | | Benjamin W. Hodges. Professor Stim- | son J. Brown is astronomical director and ! director of the Nautical Almanac. Judging from the number of bills intro- duced in the General Assembly the work of the bad bill killer will be extremely arduous this session.—Los Angeles Even- ing Express. | The Legislature has committees and clerks enough to smother about nine- tenths of the bills presented, and that would ke the best thing to do with most of them.—San Jose Herald. Our State legislators while at Sacr mento will, of course, make history within the next few weeks. The Orange County Assemblyman has already made one page. ZSanta Ana Evening Blade. AT A member of the Legislature has made complaint of the unsanitary condition o the State Capitol building. That Is th first intimation we have had that the Legislature is in_Sacramento for its health.—Woodland Dally Democrat. " PR There are thirty-two lawyvers in the present Legislature. A few years ago this fact would have been a fruitful theme for the funny writers and sa- castic paragraphers of the press. But not so to-day.—Stockton . . The State Legislature started off har- moniously by apportioning $16 per diem patronage to each Senator and half that amount to each Assemblyman. This amounts in the aggregate to the insignifi- cant sum of $1024 per day. In this way a lot of useless legislative offices are created for the dear friends and relatives of the anointed legislators and “Jones he pays Daily Record. . STATE PRESS COMMENT ‘ ON LEGISLATIVE DOINGS In Course of Which Some Editors Wax Merry and Others Sad. i [ | the freight.” In other words, the tax-| payer grins and annually puts up his | shekels for the cause.—Lodi Sentinel. - & e Bills are being Introduced in the| Legislature on every conceivable subject. | One bills provides for the protection of wild birds and their nests. It Is to be hoped that some practical measure may be evolved for preventing the ruthless | destroying of the wild birds of California. | The State is noted for its feathered beau- | ties and steps should be taken to preserve them ere it is too late.—Stockton Dally Record. ; s S Our Assemblyman, Dr. Foster, has been given a place on the Committee of Edu- cation; not the chalrmanship, however—a | member by the name of Gans was given | that position. It is not to be expected | that the university district will know | enough about educational matters to hold a chairmanship on that or any other com- mittee. Perhaps the Fifty-first was| originally for Anderson for Speaker. | Thanks, we always take comfort from a crumb.—Berkeley Gazette. | « e o | In his first blennial message to the | Legislature Governor Gage makes a num- | ber of wise observations and recommenda- | tions, but among those which are not wise | is the one rela:lnf to the affairs of the | University of California. The suggestion that non-resident students pay tuition fees should be rejected; there are other | methods of maintaining this Institution | and.almost any plan would be better than | imposing the student tax. The great State of California can afford to keep the 3oors of her university open to all the world.—Sonora Expositor. | TROUBLESOME DATE. Same old trouble, Same chagrin, ‘When each new year's Ushered in. Making errors In the date, Then in anger Contemplate. Nineteen hundred Long annoyed When we pen and Ink employed. Then two ciphers Were the signs, But instead we Made two nines. After man: Such mistakes ‘We could writ Make no break: Got_accustomed By degrees Till the ciphers Came with ease. Now another Year's And it ne Figure 1. But the cipher Habit clings And we make the Same curved things. Often get the Month all right in a Or_get at and ‘Write again. Soon we'll get it Down so fine That the 1 will Be in line. With the 2. —Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph. —_— SEASON is promised at H A GAY ‘meet- boat- | one time made a ANSWERS TO QUERIES, WIDOW'S PENSIONS—H. 8., Sacra- mento, Cal. For further information in relation to the extension of income to dwldows who are drawing a pension, ad- ress a communication (o the Pe n fice in this city. ey CONSTITUTION AND FLAG—J. C. City. This correspondent asks: “Will you give me the right answer to ‘Does the | constitution follow the flag? " This de- partment would be pleased to furnish the right answer,” but until the “right an- swer” is given by the highest court in the land, an{ answer that might be given would be only an individual opinton. TRUNKS—E. D., Sacramento, There is a law in California that lnll(z:olrI: izes innkeepers to hold b trunks of boarders in case of :::—“eym.::.dx of accommodations furnished. = WWhether | an attachment could be levied on trunks in action for debt would depend upon what they contained. If simply necessary wear- ing apparel. such is exempt from execu- tlon. In order to ascertain what sour rifihtl, it any, are in the case cited you will have to consult an attorney and lay all the facts before him. SCREW PROPELLER—Subscriber, City. The application of the screw to the pro- pulsion of a vessel dates back to 1802, but the practical use was not fully demon- strated until 188 when F. P. Smith and Captain Ericsson placed on the Thames a | screw steamer 45 feet jong and 8 feet wid. with a draught of 27 inches, which tow the Toronto, a 630-ton vessel, against tide at 412 knots an hour. It was not until 1838, however, that tha practical use of { | | the screw to ocean-going steam: incontestibl demonn‘mte‘d. ’l‘h:" ..Zfi: wheel was in use before that period. Or- dinary ferry boats are bui D0t Tor ocean mavisaden. = Tf bay and A WIFE'S DUTY—B., S8acramento, Cal. The Clvil Code of California says that “the wife must support the husband (when he has not deserted her) out of her u{mte property, when he has not sepa- rate pmpens and there is no community ?mpmy, and he is unable, from Infirmity ‘0 support himself.”” "If the husband at Fife of real estate and improvements to his wife for love and af- fection and the papers passed in due form the property is the separate rty of the wife, and though the hu-&gs'bo In- firm, she is not required to keep him on th he gave her if she does not portant room in the observa-| | other side of the water EDITORIAL UTTERANCE IN VARIETY Bryan’s Abdication Cheered. William J. Bryan at the St. Jackson's day banquet formally apnounced his abdi- cation of the Democrafic crown., “T am i now a private citizen,” he saild, “with ex- cellent prospects of remaining such.” FHia | words_ were greeted with cheers. which | must have been somewhat disconcerting, | coming as they did from members of an | organization be: | he had just prai | political fortunes.—Chicago Inter Ocean. | Harrison and Democracy. | Former President Harrison, respondin | to the toast of ‘Hail, Columbia!" | ng his name and which | dedication of e new Columbian C' house at Indianapolis a few nights sin | remarked: **Any Democratic frie 1s wh may share your hospitality to nt pardon me for 1& to any of them | have cast beguiling looks towa T the Democratic party has neve active th ow. No plan ¢ ot zation suggests itself to me except suggested by a waggish Heuterant of m regiment to a captain whose plat were inverted. He said: ‘Captain, if were in your place T would break ranks and have the orderly call the roil Louls Star. Cape to Cairo. Cecil Rhodes" Railway seems ¢ when we are told t tem between th vaneed that of wire are req | The construetion ¢ come absolutely wire In operat opened ever | there will be a at Cairo. The British know whether they are | thunder storm or a revelution | the Mahdf has broken out afresh or monkey is trying gymnastic experime | with the Cape to Cairo direct telegra | Montreal Star Financially Fortified. dream of a Cape to Cairn tangible idedly more the telegrap points Is s = nts There fs no danger now that any littla flurry in Europe send home a flond of Amerfcan securities to b thrown on the market and creat J This country no longer in a dependency of Europe liable info a panic by any being editor natio debtor nation it is now a with plenty of money for home enterpris and a surplus for foreign investme: The credit of ovr Government ix above suspicion and Government honds hearing only 2 per cent interest find readv pur- chasers at home and abr Gohody now fears that the crash in T n will ha fol- lowed by disastrous effacts in the United States — Lynchhurg (Va.) News And Still It Comes. The statement telegraphed from Wash ngton the other day that the Tlnit States freasury now holds the Targest stock of gold accumulated anywhere in the world makes interesting the following comparison of the larze zold stocks at t opening of the pr vear United States treasury 8470 240 250 Bank of France ~ 468571085 Rank of Russi Rank of Austria-Hungary Rank of England 142,398,570 Rank of Germany 120,420,000 Rank of Ttaly 77.510 Bank of Spain...... T 10,005,000 The Bank of France has gained $93,000.- 000 of gold since a vear ago. whila the Bank of Russia las lost 36800000 during the same time.—Evening Wisconsin, PERSONAL MENTION T. L. Reed of Reedley Is at the Grand. Grant Mays, a biy Oregon cattleman, Is at the Lick. C. H. Bacon, mining man at Seattle at the Palace. Dr. H. B. Pitt and opping at the Russ. W. C. Price, a Pasadena mining man i= stopping at the Grand. Former Assemblyman Harry P. Stabler of Yuba City Is a late arrival at the Lick Captain J, H. H. Perhine, U. 8. A., and wife have taken apartments at the Pal- ace. J. W, Rose, auditor of the American Beet Sugar Company at Oxnard, Is regis- tered at the Grand. Almer Moser, train dispatcher of the Rio Grande Western at Salt Lake City, is at the Golden West. George T. Myers. one of the largest sal- mon packers at Portland, is spending a few days at the Occidental. R. L. Alexander and wife of Boston ars at the Occidental. Mr. 1s 'e of Jackson are Alexander is a prominent Eastern manufacturer. H. Bovee and wife of Kingston, N. Y., have taken apartments at the Palace. Mr. Bovee is a prominent Eastern merchant James R. Dunm, chief of the Chinesa Bureau, was on duty yesterday, having recovered from his recent spell of sick- ness. J. M. Studebaker Jr. of South Bend, Ind., is at the Palace. Mr. Studebaker is a member of the well-known wagon man- ufacturing firm that bears his name. Bode R. Smith, assistant city passenger agent of the Rio Grande Western Rail- way In this city, is quite {ll at his Pine- street home with a severe attack of grip. —_————— Choice candies, Townsend's,Palace Hotal * —————— ‘Wilgus ofl burners. Office and salesroom 514A Mission street. Telephone John 2408. * bbb -ttt Townsend’s California glace fruite und, in fire-etched boxes or Ji ts. A mice present for Easte €35 Market street, Palace Hotel e « Fiana. ™ 3. building. —— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s). 510 Mont- gomery st. Telephone Main 1043 - pesi e Sttt According to Herbert Putnam, Congre: sional libraries are growing all out of pre portion to librarians. He directs atten- tion to the fact that whereas there are now some 8000 librarifes in the country, there are not more than 500 or 600 especial« ly trained librarians. New Santa Fe Train. The new Santa Fe train known as the Call- fornia Limited affords servics very much supe- f | rior to anything ever before offered to Coast B travelers. Neglect of the halr brings baldness. Use Parker's Hair Balsam and save your hair. Hindercorns. the best cure for corns. 15 cts. e ——————— Tanner and Pingree lap over into the new century a little way, but in other re- spects it seems to be starting out nicely. —_— ADVERTISEMENTS. “GOES TO THE SPOT” There is food that feeds the lungs and wind-pipes; it feeds thewholebody;butthelung part more than the rest of the body. Scott’s emulsion of cod-liver oil. You think it not food but a medicine. Both. There more lung food, in an ounce of it, than in a pound of porter- house steak; and “it goes to the spot.” What else does “medicine” mean? It “goes to the spot.” We'llsend you a fittle to try, { you like. is 3 care to do so. She can i o o o support him at any SCOTT & BOWNE, 4o Pearl street, Now Vork,