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This paper will also be on sale at all summer reworts and isx represented by a local agent in all to on the st. By & an & Dovle—Wednesday, March 27, McKENZIE UNRELIEVED. hie Supreme Court of the United pplication of Receiver Alex- for a writ of habeas corpus to risonment in the Alameda jail ntempt rendered against him nce to the process of that court. so at the same time denied Mc- writ of certiorari to re- Court of Appeals in This action would seem nt of the judgment which Mc- e S deszrves and will b€ a wholesome mple to those who may hereafter feel inclined to A But the good work t stop with McKenzie. The testimony taken these contempt proceedngs shows clearly that cer- aided and abetted in the commission of One of them, in endeavoring to save ly testified that the receiver acted un- As attorneys are popularly supposed rs of the courts in which they practice and expressly bound to uphold the dignity and honor of it will not be clear to the ordinary 1e clien: can commit a contempt by the e Ci iing with the Federal courts. advice te be o those tribunals, ad the same dereliction. To the contrary, it would seem to the average understanding that the attorney was the more culpable. Nothing has occurred for years the United States affecting the administration of the law which has ex consternation as this Nome exposure. be nothing left undone to make the vindication of the courts €omplete, Nor should the Judge who caused this bu g scandal be permitted to longer wear the ermine which he has so defiled® The President of the United States should act promptly to relieve the bench frc uch a disgrace. It is true that the friends and defenders of Noyes and McKenzie have been found in high places, geing even so near the President as his Cabinet and the Senate, but thus far their influence and power have been unaw«iiing vy Senator Hansbrough of North Dakota his seat in the United States Senate s “friend” Judge Noyes. As it is well t this Senator is the creation of McKenzie e peculiar political methods in which he is it was only natural that -Hansbrough should come to the frent when McKenzie pulled the string. in known th: thro an exper The Los Angeles man who has offered Bryan $1o00 te have a public debate ‘with him is biddnig a seem- ingly fair price for advertising, but he will have to get in and make a reputation first. He cannot expect the chiampion ring-talker-to’ meet an unknown nor count on the press to give much heed to his challenge. A thing of that kind has to be worked p slowly by lots of preliminary jawing in the local ring. No man can get a chance in the national show for $1000, without a record behind it. A bill granting suffrage to women was introduced into the Massachusetts Legislature, but it remained there only long enough to afford an opportunity for a debate, being then summarily thrown out. Woman suffrage is in fact one of the things on which Massa- chusetts talks much but does not act, nor, indeed, think much. The latest novelty in technical schools is reported from Berlin, where it is said one is to be established t teach hackmen how to drive through crowded streets, and incidentally perhaps to teach them also hew to drive a bargain without overcharging a cus- tomer. - Court of Appeals on ac- | attorney while the latter is exempt frot | ited such widespread interest and | There should | SENATOR CARTER DISCOVERED. THE Eastern press, and notably the New York Independent, has at last discovered Senator Car- ter. Eastern papers started to sail an unknown | sea in quest of.an economist, and supposed they had found one when they landed on the Montana Sena- tor’s thirteen hour speech against the river and harbor | bill. Just so Columbus started to sail for India and thought he had found that land when he bunted against an island in the Caribbean Sea. The economi- | cal heart of the East is bowed down by the discovery | that Senator Carter’s motive was not economy, but | quite otherwise. He wanted money in the bill for irrigation works in the arid country of the West. He wanted a larger and not a less sum total appropriated by the bill, and in default of that talked the measure to sleep. The inci- | dent is illustrative and suggustive, and we are glad that the press of the country has found its true rea- son. In the first place it illustrates the log-rolling | method by which the river and harbor bill is built up and voted through. Objects of expenditure that have no merit at all are included in it to secure votes. It is the purpose of those who were behind Senator Carter | to force to the front another object of very large ex- | penditure, and beat the bill until that object receives | an appropriation. g ! The taxpayers would be glad to see the objects of expenditure decrease rather than increase, and will by | their representatives soon open a more active cam- paign for the limitation of taxation. We are not am- bitious to hold the ribbon permanently as the costliest Government on earth, though we do not insist that the cheapest is necessarily the best. But a billion dollare is a lot of small change, and the expenditure of that sum per year is already in sight unless Congress puts on the brakes. It is well for the whole country to examine the | policy for which Senator Carter spoke thirteen hours without stopping. It is proposed to ask Federal ap- propriations to build irrigation works in the arid re- gion, in order that soil now barren for lack of mois- | ture may be made fertile. Leaving out of the question the erratic nature of | such appropriations, their wasteful expenditure, and forgetting such experiences as the venerable proposi- tion to make a harbor in Oakland, a Western man may well put himself in the place of the Eastern farmer and taxpayer. Tth' distant but good fellow citizen of ours has had no help from the Government. . He has planted and reaped and gathered into barns, while the Government has been indifferent to his rainfall o~ | the fertility of his fields. Outside the public land | States that taxpayer Lad to put up a high price for his land, and acquired it by no such cheap and easy method as the pre-emption or homestead law. He feels taxation and the burden wears upon him. He gets tired and rests one leg while he stands on the | other. Senator Carter desires to tax him to aid farm- ers in the West who under the homestead law can get land for nothing, provided the Government will water it for them, at the expense of the unaided Eastern | farmer, for whom the Government does nothing. Is | it any wonder that heads are shaken and discontent is voiced in those Eastern farmhouses? Again, the Eastern farmer is a citizen of the repub- | lic and part-owner of the public domain.” He used | to keep sheep on his farm, under fence, and found them profitable farm stock. That part of his busi- | ness is broken up. On his property, the public do- | main, out West, sheep are grazed without paying him | anything for what they eat. To raise them costs noth- | ing in comparison with the expense of raising them on his inclosed farm. He cannot compete. He has parted with cne valuable means of diversifying his in- dustry and turning an easier perny, and he sees his rival getting rich rapidly on pasture that does not cost a mill. So these two Western visions disquiet him. The property of which he is part-owner is used |'without rental, and its use is destroying its sole value, and he is called on o pay taxes to water another | man’s land. Honor bright, is such a situation just | to our hard-handed fellow citizen, and is it creditable to American statesmanship? What would an individual business man do under such circumstances? He would solve both problems at once. He would make the stock grazier pay rent for the public property he pastures and would devote | the proceeds to irrigation works. | The arid ranges, under leasehold control, would | yield nearly $10,000,000 a year. An idea of the proportion .in which such a fund would be earned in and allotted to the States and Territories may be obtained from the amount of pub- lic domain remaining in each. Of their total area the . | following percentage is public land: California . 58 per cent Arizona, 76 per cent Montana 78 per cent | Utan ... 89 per cent Nevada 95 per cent Wyoming 86 per cent Idaho .. 89 per cent | An examination of the above shows that the public domain remaining in Federal ownership rises with aridity and falls with moisture. The States and Ter- ritories most needful of irrigation, therefore, have the greatest amount of public domain to rent for provision of the means of irrigation. California, needing the least, would get it. Putting the total revenue from the leasing of the | public ranges at $10,000,000 a year, divided equally among the foregoing arid States, the amount would be to each $1,428,571. By giving to each a percentage of the latter sum equal to the percentage of public land to its whole area the allotment would be: California $828,571 18 Arizona . 1,085,713 96 Montana 1,114,285 38 Utah 1,271,628 19 1,357,142 45 1,228,571 06 1,271,628 19 +. 88,157,540 41 This would leave a balance of $1,842,450 50 to pay the cost of administering the leasehold system. ‘When Colorado and New Mexico are included in the calculations the sum is slightly less to each State and Territory. 3 We would be glad to know of any more statesmanlike and feasible method of taking care of the public range and deriving a revenue for irriga- tion. After the British and the Russians had by mutua} agreement retired from the disputed strip-of ground along which that famous Tientsin siding was being laid, the Russians took a second thought, went back and adorned the ground with several Russian flags, and now it remains to be seen whether any power will have the nerve to pull them down. ———— \ The managers of the Pan-American Exposition at Buffalo are said to be still debating whether the show shall be open on Sunday; but it is a safe bet that when the discussion is closed the exposition will remain open 5 4 THE RUSSIAN CUTBREAK. l: OR the first time y years the discontented elements of Russia have broken out into open fighting. To what extent the rising has gone it is impossible at this time to tell. Reports of Russian affairs are hardly ever reliable, for the censorship is not only strict, but is powerful enough to so enforce its orders that the full truth concerning any particular event of‘a disturbing nature leaks out only by slow degrees. The reports that have been sent abroad of the affray in St. Petersburg on Sunday night may be exaggerations, but it is just as likely they are under- statements. Consequently the outer world does not know whether the Russian’ Government at this time is confronting a mere outbreak of riot in the capital or the first symptom of a widespread insurrection. Two features of the report stand out with sufficient clearness to afford reason for believing them to be ac- curately reported. The first is the announcement that the disturbances were caused partly, by workingmen and partly by students, and the second is that the situation was sufficiently grave on Sunday to cause, the Czar to hurriedly summon a council of Ministers. Those facts lead to the conclusion that something more than a riot has occurred. A cause which will bring together two classes of perspns so distinct from one another as are the university students and the laborers in a country like Russia is evidently one which has affected with discontent nearly. the whole mass of the population. The troubles between the universities and the Gov- ernment are of long standing. It will be remembered that last year the students at the University of Moscow came very near precipitating a riot in that city by rea- son of the refusal of the Government to grant certain concessions the students demanded. The outbreak was promptly suppressed at the time, but the discon- tent continued. We are now informed that at the meéeting of the council at St. Petersburg on Sunday it was decided not to repeal one of the laws to which the students most strenuously object, but to refrain from enforcing it at present. It would appear, therz- fore, that the Government has learned something of wisdom and the students have gained a virtual vie- tory. A law that is not enforced will soon become obsolete and in time may be quietly repealed. In that way the university men will have gained redress to that extent at any rate and the Government will have “saved its face.” In the meantime it will be noted that the outbreak of open revolt implies that the pelicy of conspiracy and assassination which the nihilist leaders have so long maintained in Russia is no longer regarded by the excited populace as sufficient to bring about the reforms they desi-e. Such conspiracies may go on and assassinations may be attempted and even ef- fected, but the surging discontent of the people is not going to rely any longer wholly upon those methods. The spirit of revolt can no longer be held in subjec- tion by the Government nor restrained by the leaders of the conspiracies. There is to be open fighting. The whole world has an interest in the struggle that is going on in Russia between the people and the Goy- ernment. Bad as the Government may be it is prob- ably the only means of saving Europe from an out- burst of Pan-Slavism that would fill the Continent with a war in comparison with which the French Rev- olution would be a little thing. The Russian Govern- ment desires conquest in Asia, but the Pan-Slavs de- mand the union of all the Slavonic countries in Eu- ropc. They desive to absorb not only.the Slavs of the Balkan states, but all the Poles of the Austrian and the German empires. Consequently the Russian menace which the Czar’s Government now holds over China would, in the case of the success of a popular revolt among the people, impend over Europe. How long the military government at St. Petersburg can hold down the growing power of the people it is impossible to predict, but it is safe to say that in the end Europe will have to reckon with the spirit of Pan-Slavism, and the reckoning may be called for much sooner than is generally thought probable. DANGERS OF THE CENTURY. O MUCH has been written concerning the S bright prospects of the new century and such full expression has been given to the optimism of the time, that it was a happy thought on thé part of a newspaper man to get a declaration from many of the leading men and women of Great Britain con- cerning the chief source of danger menacing the pub- lic welfare. Their opinions may be no great addition to the world’s stcre of learning, but they are none the less interesting as Allustrations of the points of view from which some of the most earnest thinkers of the day survey the prospects of the time. / Dr. Alexander, Archbishop of Armagh, is.repbmd to have declared the chief danger of our civilization to be: “Fine-spun themes played by politicians be- fore the ‘eyes of the Maker, impossible to realize and leading to fierce revolution.” The Earl of Wemyss takes very much the same view, though he expressed in it specific instead of general terms, thus: “Social- ism, the state and municipalities trying to play the part of Providence”. Sir William Howard Russeli says: “Mammon and the unrestrained luxury of women, that menace honor and virtue in social and political life”; while according to Frederic Harrison our dangers most portentous are “The struggle for military and commercial ascendency among nations, and the struggle between labor and capital for mas- tery in the industrial world.” The Bishop of Llandaff sums up his views in three words, “Infidelity and anarchy.” Ian Maclaren be- lieves the danger lies in the collision of the Western powers in the East, accompanied by the development of anarchy among the masses at home. Lord Charles Beresford says “The Chinese Question”; Keir Hardie, “Militarism, which not only inclines to costly and cruel wars abroad. but to the suppression of liberty at home,” and Dr. O'Donnell, Bishop of Rapahoe, says “Mutilated education—that is, education without re- ligion.” % There are some others that are interesting. The Bishop of Gloucester pronounced against “self-adver- tising vanity”; Max O'Rell “an irresponsible and un- bridled press”; T. M. finly agrees with O'Rell and says tersely, “Newspapers.” Arthur Pinero says “Trades unions”; Alma Tadema, “The increasing disrespect for work.” Lady Battersea says “Hurry,” and Ouida emphatically says “Tyranny—the tyranny of majorities, tyranny military, scientific, political”; while Max Nordau declares “The chief danger of the time, one that threatens civilization itself, is that infernal selfishness called by pseudo philosophers individualism.” 3 ; ; 1t will be noted that hardly any of fl\e.(arci. or tendencies wlgdt are thus described as menacing to civilization have exhibited ferious evil effects in this part of the world. To us various declarations will appear-as academic opinions merely. Individual- ism, socialism, anarchy, militarism and all the rest may > { they all at last met on the banks of Lake | Elaborate, Costly and Enlighte Observed by France in the Govern- ment of Her Colonies. el LRI By Robert de Caix. FOREIGN EDITOR OF THE JOURNAL DES DEBATS. (COPYRIGHT, 101.) e TEA L SOl LR VI—-THE COLONIAL A look at the map will show that the French republic has®acquired a veritable empire. Her flag now floats over more than 3,500,000 square miles and 50,000,000 natives of all ,colors. All this territorial progress was accomplished within a score | of years. When the third republic took | charge of the destinies of France that country had but one laxge colony—Algeria | In- more distant reglons she possessed | only a few microscopic remnants of the ! vast colonial domain of the old monarchy; a few islands in the West Indles, Guiana, settlements without hinterland on the African coast and five miserable pieces of inclosed land in British India, the only remains of the great work of Dupletx. To this colonial dust the July monarchy hail added New Caledonia and the second em- pire Cochin-Chiga. Such had been, 151?‘ from tre conquest of Algeria, the only a¢ dluon, 1o France s colonial aomain duriig the first three-quarters ot the nineteenth century, while she had been a prey inces- santly to the paralyzing siruggles of hos: tile doctrinaires, makers and unmakers of constitutions. Suddenly toward 1880 France came out of her torpor. About that time all Eu- rope, indeed, arrived at a historic turning point. Italy and Germany had become something more than mere geographicai terms. The nations were uvnited into great, solid masses that offered no longer the same opportunities for war, since they had -become so much more terrible than gles 'that gave rise to this last concentra tion of the great nations, thrown back | upon the world beyond the sea by the | formidable might of their neighbors, | turned to the work of colonization. in | which England until then had been su- preme. Extending Colonial Possessions. France reached out into Asia and took an active part in the apportionment of Africa. She took possession of the east- ern half of Indo-China and secured Mada- gascar, which she conguercd a little later. | Algeria, enlarged by Tunis, began to ex- | tend across the deseri toward the south while Senegal, the small colonies of th coast of Guinea and the French Congv, | became real territories and stretchea toward the center of tile continent, so that Tchad. This joining of all the African | possessions of France into a single empire became a concrete reality on the day when three columns, one from Algeria, a sec- ond from Senegal and a third from Congo, united south of Lake Tchad and crushed and killed Rabah, tre last great slave- holding chief, who had.continued to lay waste the interior of the African conti- nent. Such an expansion could not fail to have an important influence upon the people concerned in it. In the opinion of all the ounger generation the real adversary of France 5 mo longer the nation which taok Ywo provinces from her thirty years ago, but rather the one she has met for twenty years on every road that leads her toward = colonial empire. Certainly no Frenchman yet renounces the hope of re- gaining Alsace-Lorraine, but at the 'boi- tom of their hearts frenchmen expect it no longer from a war agaihst Germany, which was considered only a few years ago a necessity to ve accepted almost gladly; now they hope for it mainly through the advent of a sort of European millennium. To-day the French must ex- pect eventful clouds of war rather from the northwest than from the east. Cost of Colonial Armies. Under such conditions it seems that the uppermost care of France would be the defense and domination of her colonial empire. One's first care. generally is to keep what one has acquired. France has amply provided in that direction. In fact, 139.%3 ench soldiers are maintained in thé colonies, or 22 per cent of the total army, at a total annual cost of $38,000,000. The colonial army is particularly burden- some, requiring twice the list of officers actively employed normally, for the peri- odical sojourn of those officers in Europe for the sake of health, including both voy- ages, takes up as much time as their stay in the colonies. The size of the army and of the budget shows with what weight the colonies press upon France, and also to what de- gree the country has become enamored of a colonial policy that lays such burdens upon it. Some even gn 80 far as to say that it compromises her security in Eu- rope, and it is certain that the distribu- tion 'of such an Important share of the French military forces in various parts of the globe would render her weaker in the presence of a Continental storm. To Defend the Colonies. The colonial forces need a further word of explanation. They do not serve merely for the purpose of maintaining order among the natives. They are augmented because of the fear of a’ possible nvasion from without. France's colonial troops constitute much less an army of dominion than one of defense. It would, in truth, be a serfous mistake to belleve that the con- quest of the French colonial empire has given rise everywhere to struggles with the natives. The history of the warfare in Algeria must not create-a wrong im- {)ren on in that respect. It was only hrough a number of mistakes in Mussul- man politics, which even an extraordinary display of military heroism could not cor- rect, that the conquest of Algeria has ex- tended over more than twenty years and has often put in movement more than 100,000 soldiers all at once. Bes{des those to Algeria France has or- ganized but three hcavy military expedi- tions—that of Tonquin, where were em- ployed 25,000 men; that of Madagascar, which required 15000, and finally that of Dahomey, of much more modest propor- tions. s to Tunis, France sent many troops there, but it was much less a ques- tion of crushing the natives, the majority of '{m?ham n;n e\‘riu make aln -tt:mpt 1o resist, than of making an imposing po- litical demonstration. As an offset: 101 these military movements there are col- onies whose conguest dld not put any 'soi- diers in motion. The immense region of the Congo has been gradually occupied by the progress of civil administrators, who advanced as diplomatists in the midst t without cohesion and who but had to fall back upon the the mere police escorts that accompanied them. In the Western Su dan, on the contrary, the French have warred Incessantly. but the conquest was achieved very slowly, employing scarcely any more forces thai those normally at- ched to that dépendency. To-day the ench posts which stretch on one side from Senegal to Lake Tchad, other from Lake Tchad to the Congo, are held by fewer than 10,000 men. . Complications at Fashoda. It is, therefore, not the mass of natives, but rather the bility of outside dan- ger that compels us to maintain in the colonles such large forces. g’l’xth[ l?‘nm:e rk?'..i.??f" eonfllt hout onsidering in %o.nm?f' Z.’r‘a'}';‘ ‘war. .‘flu Fre.ic r‘wu' conquered finally a vast empire without providi :.Eh nt for its defense. PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR THE SAN Francisco CALL. : ICS. ned Policy POLICY OF FRANGE. ; +_t——-? Queen Ranavalona IIT Madagascar. ! <+ A of ar with the Boers show what the trou- bles would be if even the greatest naval power were to attempt an attack upon the colonies of a nation prepared to disturb her military transports. There has been adopted in France a naval programme carrying $140,000.000 for vessels and maval | stations from 191 to 1907, without count- ing the $60.000.000 which we devote regular- ly_each year to the navy. Moreover, an effort is in progress to adopt a positive military method for the | defense of the colonies. The creation of a s%eclal colonial army has just been voted. . Organizing a Colonial Army. The colonial army will be composed of 3299 artillerymen in the colonies and about the same number in France, 28,186 soldiers of colonial -infantry and 24,968 native sharpshooters, haif of whom are to be drawn from Indo-China, the other half from Africa. All these troops have a pro- portionate number of officers, ensigns and special corps. Of the ‘8.16‘ soldiers of co- lonial infantry 16,373 will be in garrison in France and will form, with that part of the colonial artillery also sojourning in Europe, an army corps capable of partici- pating in the defense of the metropolis. Tt is probable that instead of endeavor- ing to increase the number of permanent {rdops stationed in the colonies, reserves will be organized there that can be mobil- ized at first call. In Reunion, Guadaloupe and Martinique this is already being done, and in each of these islands 6000 men could be cailed together in case of war. In more extended possessions the same system will be applied on a much larger scale, and already the desire is clear to look no longer upon the colonies merely from the viewpoint of military defense, but rather to find in_them elements of strength for France. Such elements have been revealed already in Algeria. In 1870- 71 the Algerian troops played an import- ant part in the war with Germany. Soldiers From Algeria. The garrison of Algeria never has been distinguished from the army of the re- ublic, whose nineteenth corps it forms. e rule has been established that the re- cruits from Algeria shall perform their military service hereafter in the capital of France. Every year 5000 of these young men are thus brought to Paris. Besides, the military organization of the Arab opulation, which is now c Jected, 18 more and more available every vear, and in case of war, Algeria and nis would put into the fleld at least 120,000 soldiers for France. There is already-a question of military utilization of Western Africa. But it goes without saying that the tax-burdened Frenchmen—approximately 100 francs (320) a head, merely for state taxes—cannot be expected to provide all the expenses of such an enterprise. The colonies will have to provide partly for this themselves, This leads us to examining the development of industry in the French colonies in another paper. Paris, France. Note—M. de Caix' article on “The Colo- nies of France—Their Trade and Govern- ment.” will be published next Tuesday. S —— A CHANCE TO SMILE. “How does it happen?” asked the hip- popotamus; with some envy, “that nature has favored you with such a long neck?" . “I suppose,” responded the giraffe, loft- ily, “my original ancestor must have had a pull.”"—Chicago Journal. Penner (waiting for dinner)—I think mu- sie es a man hungry. De Brushe—l am acquainted with sev. eral ambitious young composers who know it does.—Brooklyn Life. Mrs. Crimsonbeak—T see T e it SmterD Rl Y Sa . Crimsonbeak—Well, it's a mistake for any man to give a r|'h'l rings until he can afford to pay for 'em.—Yonkers Statesman. “Uncle Rastis, T am sorry to hear say you like secret socletles better t :: | From Los Angeles—C. | Square; R. H. Brown, at Imperial. From | Oakland—M. Heron, { Vendome. PERSONAL MENTION. W. W. Grey of Merced is at the Grand. George Fuller of San Diego Is at the Palace. Thomas H. Thompson of Tulare is & guest at the Lick. J. B. Rogers, an attorney of Seattle, Is at the California. W. 8. McGrew, a business man of Seat- tle, is at the Lick. D. S. Rosenbaum, a merchant of Stock- ton, is at' the Palace. Frank Hogan and wife of 'Epohne are guests at the Palace. J. B. D. Jarnatt, a mining man of Co- lusa, 15 at the Occidental. E. C. Falling, a banker of Portland, Ore., Is at the California. R. E. Morrow, an oll man of Bakers- field, is registered at the Grand. The Rev. Dr. Wekefleld of San Jose, ac- companied by his wife, is at the Occiden- tal. General C. L. Fitzhugh of Pittsburg, Pa., accompanied by his wife and daugh- ter, arrived at the Palace yesterday. Mrs. Fitzhugh is a daughter of the late General W. T. Sherman. James H. Eckels, the banker, of Chi- cago, returned yesterday to the Palace from a trip north with the Chicago Busi- ness Men's Club. Mr. Eckels, accompan- fed by his wife, will leave to-day for Men- terey. On Friday Mr. Eckels will addre:s the students of the University of Cal- fornia. - . ————————— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, March 25.—The follow- ing Californians have arrived at the ho- tels: Raleigh—E. L. Doheny and wife, Los Angeles; Emile White, Robert White, San Francisco. Metropolitan—John B. Woodruft and wife, San Francisco. Na- tional—T. Ditkson, San Francisco. ————————— CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, March %.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Franeisco—H. Blackledge, at Bay State; J M. Brophy, at St. Cloud: G. W. Buffing- ton, at Westhinster; J. J. Chappell, at St, George; C. F. Fleming, at Cosmopolitan; Mrs. W. Lewis, at Victorfa; S. Levy, at Cosmopelitan; C. A. Mayhan, at Im- perial; R. N. Pease, at Albemarle: M. Remond and wife, at Union Square: T. L. Bran, J. H. Shine, at Grand Union. Krebs, at Union M. Myers, at the ANSWERS TO QUERIES. NO PILING—H. 8., City. The founda- tion of the Crocker building in San Fran- cisco is not laid on piles. ADVANCE—A. NO 8., City. There is | no advance offered on a 35 piece coined in 1853. Neither Is there any advance on & ¢ime of the same year. GREYSTONE WINERY-S.,, City. It is stated that the purchase price of the Greystone minery in Healdsburg when the same was sold by W. B. Bourne to C. Carpy was $115,000. BORING FOR OIL—W. P., Bodega Bay, Cal. By the use of apparatus employed in sinking artesian wells a person can ob- tain an indication as to whether there is oil in the ground, but such cannot be suc- cessfully used for boring oil wells. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTOR—L., Sacra- mento, Cal. A Presidential Elector is elected to perform a specific duty, that of casting his vote for President and Vice President, and the moment he has dis- @harged that duty his officlal life ter- minates. MEXICAN DOLLARS—A. §., City. The | number of Mexican silver dollars that a | person can obtain in Mexico for one hun- dred siiver doilars of the United States varfes with the price of silver. Ordinarily in trade in that country one of Uncle Sam's dollars can be exchanged for two Mexican dollars. POMONA-T. F. M., Bisbee, Ariz. Po- mona, in Los Angeles County, California, is 'distant from San Francisco 515 miles by rail. It has a population of about 6000, Transportation from San Francisco to Po- mena is $15 by rail. There is also a rate of $14 and another of $i3. ACCREDITED SCHOOLS-S., City. Dif- ferent institutions of learning recognizs different other institutions as accredited schools. In order to answer the questions asked it would be requisite to know what institutions the correspondent has in mind when he asked if certain other Institu- tions are accredited. ¢ LAND—J. J., Oakland, Cal. There is no law by which a veteran-of the Civil or any other war van locate United States land by an agent and acquire title. A locator cannot perfect title without com- plying with the provision as to residence, No lands in the Hawalian Islands have yet been thrown open to settlers. CAPITAL—L., Sacramento, Cal. The of- ficial city or town which is the official seat of government of a country, state or province, or of justice in a country, is the capital. In the United States the edifice occupied by Cflreu in the city of Wash- ington, D. C., d in the separate States the statehouse in which the Legislature holds its sessions, is the Capitol. PAYMASTER—J. F. M., City. Paymas- ters In the United States navy are not, as you surpose, appointed under the civil ser- vice rules, and examinations are not held in the State of-California for such posi- tions. A paymaster in the United States navy is appointed from among the officers of the navy. His pay is according to his rank at the time of appointment. TRANSFER—A. C. R., Oakland, Cal The California street line of cars receives a transfer from a passenger who comes from the Union street lina at Hyde street and then gives a transfer to California sStreet line and one to the shore line. to the Cliff. By this system the California street line does not retain any of the half fare it is entitled to from the Union street line. If, however, the passenger does not ask for a transfer to the California street lne, then the company gets the benefit of the half fare on transfer. COTTON GOODS—T. W. C., Pacific Grove, Cal. The United States tarif® on cotton goods is as follows: Gloves, 50 per cent ad valorem; hemmed handkerchiefs, 45 per cent ad valorem; hemstitched hand- kerchlefs. 35 per cent ad valorem; hosiery. 50 cents to $2 per dozen pairs and 15 per cent ad valorem; shirts and drawers, 6 yo\hfll‘o the ch‘:‘rch."y sid “Hit's so, boss.’ Yo' many seskut ‘cleties ex yo* :&1:“;!;3 o e mo” ‘n one ch: P Stoux City Tribune. i Teddy—I wish g Brown’tmsymurm-lzx.h.dn t hllck.d Jimmy Mamma—You see now wrong was, don’t you, dear? e oy m’l;ed‘ —tyt.i: 'clus.m 1 tdldn’t know till n tha was o - v Herala going to give a party. Years in the penitentiary.” ‘“Yes answeted Bronco Bob, pensivi ly; “it's lucky fur him he dldl;:‘t live l.l; imson Gulch an’ steal a hoss."—Wask- ington Star. Sammy Snaggs at the din: g n!:m?':{:fl’" evening, cents to §2 % dozen and 15 cent valorem; pl\ugel, unbleached, 9 cents p‘ee square yard and 2% per cent ad valorem; ‘webbing, 4 per cent ad valorem, and cur- tains, 3 per cent ad valorem. SILVER AND GOLD-—S8everal Subsertb- ers, Glant, Contra Costa County, Cal. A United States gold dollar weighs 25.3 troy nowing the Welght of one dollar of carh :1‘; + it is only a matter of calcula- n to determine what ollara Wil weighe vz omber a¢ Choice candies, Townsend's, hxu.n-u." —_———— m}flh‘emn"#"m”_mm Cal. glace frult 50c per Ib at Townsend's.® one, pap!” g Weil? o £ Gomanoe aay ceu ntgay “But, papa, are there any illegal holi- TN Lo yom > v s one the hext. tme."—bi tsburg ey XA TR about houses and public Lhe maflm X —————————— htvgmcnowem:..\-tmm Dr. Sanford’s Liver Invigorator. ipot shut my eyes I miles —— e false B ~domestic substitutes of Dr. Siegert' Angostura Bitters, great South .