The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 13, 1901, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, MAY 13, 1901 - MAY 13, 1901 MONDAY JOH Address All Commaniostions to W. 8. LEAEE, Manager. MANAGER'S OF ..Telephone Presx 204 D._ SPRECKELS, Proprietor. PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS 217 to 221 Ste Telephone Precs 202. I’l‘ | NO CAUSE FOR ANXIETY. 1 ITH no little satisfaction The Call is able ‘W!o announce this morning that the arrival | of the President and Mrs. McKinley in the | city yesterday ahead of time does not imply ‘any | serious illness on the part of Mrs. McKinley or entail j any considerable change in the programme 4arranged | for receptions between Del Monte and this city. The explanation of the movement is that Mrs. McKinley | has been overtaxed by the continuous strain and ex- | citement of the receptions and fetes along the route Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. | since leaving Washington, and it has been thought Single Coples, § Centsx. 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Correspondent. | prising. | best to relieve her as much as possible of further strain. She has therefore been brought here to rest until the time comes for the Presidential party to | start on the return to the East. At midnight The Call had the assurance of the President’s secretary that there is no occasion for alarm. Mrs. McKinley’s illness is not serious. A few days of rest with relief from the trying ordeals of incessant receptions will restore her strength and enable her to make the return journey without dan- ger. That rest is needed by Mrs. McKinley is not sur- given to the President all along the route and the numerous calls-upon Mrs. McKinley have been suffi- cient to tax the strength of the strongest. The won- der is not that she needs rest at this point, but that she has borne so well the combined fatigues of travel- ing and of social functions. None but a resolute | spirit could have borne up so bravely throughout the distance between this city and Washington. Unless the unexpected happens, the arrangements BRANCH OFFICES—IT Montgomery, corner of Clay, open untfl $:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 c'clock. 3 McAllister, open until $:30 o'clock. €15 Larkin. open umtil £20 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Eixteenth, open until § o'clock. 109 Valencia. open urtil § 'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. NW. cor- ner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until 9 o'clock. | | | | | | | | AMUSEMENTS. | Columbia ‘Seg Harbor.” Alcazar—*‘Friends.” and Opera-house—“Government Acceptance.” California—"'Barbara Freitchie.” al—The Bowery After Dark.” | he Toy Maker.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Olympla, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. | sies, Zoo and Thester—Vaudeville every afternoon and | evening. Fischer's—Vaudeville. Sutro Baths—Swimming. Emeryville Racetrack—Races to-day. | AUCTION SALES. By Wm. G. Layne—Tuesday, May 14, at 10 o'clock, Ger- man Government Artillery Horses, at 721 Howard street. 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUNAER. ©Call subscribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their mew séddresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This psper will alse be on sale at all summer Fesorts amd is represented by a local agemt & all towss on the coast. | WALL STREET AND TRADE. 1 HE public is familiar with the leading feature in finance last week. It was the cyclone in Wall street, and was one of the severest ever known. It had several features, however, sufficiently peculiar | to warrant a passing cbservation. In the first place there was no crash. Quotations dropped sharply, only to recover more or less again, like the schoolboy’s kite that suddenly “dives” high | up in air and immediately rights itself. On previous similar occasions values have descended to bedrock before regaining their balance, leaving the downward path strewn with financial wrecks. Nothing of the sort took place during the panic last week. It wasa derangement, not a collapse. The stock market of Wall street is still up in the air like a balioon. careened in a gust of wind, but is still up in the blue. The collapsing cord has not yet been pulled. Another peculiar ieature is the remarkable kind- heartedness, benevolence, compassion, or whatever one chooses to call it, of the victors in this gigantic combat up among the financial stars. stock has been waived by the winners, at least for the moment, and all the losers have to do is to settle. And the settling price has been made comparatively | Such magnanimity is seldom seen in stock mar- But, perhaps, the enormous money interests low. kets. saw that to enforce delivery of stock would cause ugly | failures, which would be a bad thing just now. So they let it pass. A third peculiar feature was the utter absence of any influence of the stock panic upon general business. Merchandise did not even quiver. The foreign and domestic business of the country, wholesale and retail, merchandise and produce, went on its way unaffected. Reports from all parts of the country indicated uni- form serenity. The only effect which could be de- scribed by the most observant eye was the checking of some speculation in grain and provisions, owing to the diversion of attention to Wall street. The leading cities all showed a pronounced gain in bank clearings over the same week last year, and the failures were only 193, against 192 last year. The grain markets were dull and weak, and the prospects for large crops | everywhere acted as a damper on speculation. Pro- visiong' were unsettled, but did not fluctuate much. Wool continued slow, though there was more doing in new goods. Boots and shoes are again increasing activity, and the trade is in better condition than r several weeks. The iron and steel trade is appar- ently as active as at any time lately, the mills being crowded with orders, and running to their fullycapa- Textiles, as a rule, are the dullest things visible. railway earnings continue to show a marked in- crease over corresponding periods last year. Other- wise there is nothing in general trade worthy of com- ment. @ Here in California similar conditions prevail. Pros- perity 2bounds on every side. Markets heretofore ac- tive continue so, and some which have been dull are showing more life. Many lines of trade report busi- ness better than at this time last year, and some say that it is better than ever before. Ocean tonnage may not be quite as active, but there is no surplus in ships and wheat freights have recently advanced, showing a strong carrying market. Wholesale mer- chants engaged in the export trade report liberal or- ders for shipment to the usual points. ‘'Crop pros- pects are brilliant, and new produce thus far received has been bringing higher prices than usual at this city. time of the year. All indications continue to point | to a very successful year in trade. It looks as if Wall street had reached the top of the boom and was ready for the chutes, 3 | money. | as well as the clergy to interfere. F It has | Delivery of | made for the President will not be changed. From San Francisco as a center he can visit the surrounding cities such as San Jose and keep his engagements there. Mrs. McKinley, however, will remain here and rest. Some of the functions provided for her will doubtless have to be omitted from the programme. That will cause disappointment, but no ill-feeling. Indeed the one wish of all citizens is now that the days of rest which she will enjoy in our bracing and invigorating climate will so completely restore her | strength that she will return to Washington stronger than when she left it. The crusade in New York against the gambling of | fashionable women has reached the flashlight point, and we are now getting strange stories. Accordipg to one of these a society woman played cards with a schoolboy visiting her son and won all his pocket If that story be true it is time for the police MAKE IT A HOLIDAY. ROM the committee having in charge the ar- rangements for the reception of the President in this city there has come a recommendation that the afternoon of Tuesday be declared a holiday | by all business houses so that the employes may have | 2 chance to join in the welcome to the chief magis- trate. The recommendafion is a good one. It should | be universally adopted. | The arrangements for the reception on that day are fitted for a popular holiday. The President’s train is due to arrive at 3:40 p. m. The grand marshal of the day with the reception committee, civic, military | and naval officials, accompanied by an escort of honor composed of bluejackets and marines from the navy | and troops of the United States army and of the National Guard, will await him at the depot, and from there the column will march down Third street to Market, to Montgomery, to Bush, to Kearny, to Maj- | ket, to Van Ness avenue, and along the avenue "t | between Bush and Pine, where it will countermarch } and pass the reviewing stand on the west side of Van | Ness avenue, between Sutter and Post streets, where | the President will review the column. In the evening | the citizens’ committee will go in carriages to the corner of Clay and Laguna streets, where it will meet the Signal Corps/ of the Second Brigade, National | Guard, and escort the President, via Van Ness avenue, | to Golden Gate avenue, to Market street, and thence | to the ferry depot, where the formal welcome to the | city will be extended by Mayor Phelan and a public reception held. What more can be needed for a jubilant half-holi- day? | The parade through so many streets will occupy | virtually the whole of the afternoon. During that | time the thoughts of the people will be given wholly to the President. Even should the business houses keep open, very little business will be done. The crowds that throng the streets will be there not for the | purpose of shopping but for the purpose of greeting the President, consequently the merchants and others will lose nothing by closing their stores and offices and getting out among their fellow citizens and help- ing to swell the acclamations that welcome to San Francisco the man who is not only President, but the best loved statesman of this generation. The people wish to see McKinley, and the wish | is a laudable one. The statesman whose name is more closely associated with work and wages and prosperity than that of any other President in our history and who has conducted the affairs of the nation with such | conspicuous skill and sagacity is rightly dear to tie popular heart. It is not a passing enthusiasm due to his presence in the city, but a deep and abiding confi- dence in the patriotism of his statesmanship and per- | sonal sympathy with his genuine Americanism that prompt the great masses of the people to unite with one another in making his welcome one that will be memorable for all time to come. The managers of our great business houses and employers of every degree should respect this feeling of the people; for it is one in which they themselves | undoubtedly share. Then let the recommendation of the committee be followed. Let every man and woman have a chance to join in the welcome to the President as he moves through the streets on his arri- val. Let us make the afternoon a holiday for all A SOUTHERN PROTEST. | O protest from the South against a good deal of florid writing done by certain Northern corre- spondents concerning the so-called decline of section- alism among the Southern people since the war with Spain. The Southerners declare there has been no bitterness among them against the Union or the Northern people for many a year. The civil war ended in the spring of 1865, thirty-six years ago, and since that time a new generation of Southerners has arisen; a generation that has been too busily engaged in building up industries to have had any time for the nourishing of old hatreds or old prejudices. This new generation is too well aware of the benefits re- E of the significant signs of the times is the The continuous ovations and receptions | sulting from the Unicn to be in any way hostile to it; and in drawing prosperity from it they have learned to love it. % The feeling of Southern men on the subject is so strong that in a speech at a banquet given to the President at Memphis when on his way to this coast Senator Carmack of Tennessee referred to it, and after saying that at no ‘time since the surrender of Lee has there been in the South any question of a sincere acceptance of the situation, he added: “If there was no occasion until the war with "Spain for us to show our loyalty, the fact was our misfortune.” There is no reason to doubt the validity of the Southern protest. The writers who have suddenly discovered that the South is no ‘longer. embittered against the Union and has been ‘“reconciled,” are fully thirty years behind the times. Because the dis- covery is a surprise to'themselves they deem it new to all-the world and spread abroad glowing accounts of “reconciliation” as if it were an unheard of thing. As a matter of fact there are thousands of Southern men in the North and thousands of Northern men in the South. The people of the two sections having been working together harmoniously for years. The only sectional thing now remaining about the South is the abomination of unnatural politics, and even that is passing away. This protest coming from so many sources in the South shows a sensitiveness on the score of loyalty that is an excellent evidence of genuine patriotism. Hereafter the North should remember that while the war with Spain afforded the first occasion for a con- spicuous showing of Southern patriotism, the feeling itself has been in existence ever since Southern men surrendered in good faith and turned away from war and slavery to build up a new South devoted to the Union and to liberty. & THE McKENZIE CONTEMPT CASE. D ISPATCHES from Washington announce that Attorney General Knox has forwarded to the President an opinion that the executive has power to commute the sentence of a prisoner serving | time for contempt of court. The dispatch adds: “As this applies particularly at this time to the case of Alexander McKenzie, the Alaska mine receiver, now in Alameda jail serving a sentence of one year, it is presumed the President will commute his sentence.” While there may not be any dispute as to the sound- ness of the Attorney General’s opinion, there will certainly be a protest against the assumption of the dispatch that the President is to exercise the power to commute the sentence of McKenzie. Nothing has appeared to justify and such presumption, nor is there anything of a palliating nature in the offense of Mec- Kenzie to make him a worthy object of executive clemency. The story of McKenzie’s contempt of court is one of the most extraordinary in our annals. It was an act of such flagrant violation of law, was committed in such open defiance of the decrees of the court and | was attended by circumstances of such an aggravating nature, that te pardon the offense or to commute the sentence imposed would be to belittle the dignity of the law and to encourage similar offenses hereater. The Call has already pointed out in reviewing the case that as a part of the history of McKenzie's career at Nome, it is related that after he had been made receiver of nearly all the valuable mines in that local- ity, and ‘was confronted by orders of the United States Circuit Court granting app,a]s from the decisions of' Judge Noyes, he exbiorted the members of his gang to stand firm in defiance of the court and told them of his past experience with courts, conventions, legis- latures and the like, in which he had never met defeat, boasting of the political power that was behind him, and assuring them that he had backers who would carry his schemes to success despite the Circuit Court. He practiced what he preached. He defied the or- ders of the Circuit Court of Appeals, and it became necessary to arrest him and bring him before the court to answer for his contempt. Having been convicted he took an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States, but that tribunal upheld the Circuit Court and he was sent to jail. C Since that time the powerful influences of which he boasted have evidently been at work. An effort | was made to arouse sympathy for him by starting a report that he is sick and cannot bear confinement. There has been much talk also about his influential friends in the Senate and elsewhere, and suggestions have been made that the President would pardon him. Now comes this latest dispatch from Washing- ton “presuming” that the President will exercise the authority, which the Attorney General says is his, to commute the sentence of the offender. There has never been a scandal affecting the ad- ministration of law by United States courts more seri- ous than that which has developed out of the pro- ceedings of Judge Noyes and McKenzie at Nome. The action of the Circuit Court was no more than a vindication of justice. The imprisonment of Mc- Kenzie makes him a wholesome example to others who may be tempted by reason of their powerful friends to disobey orders of the court and violate its decrees; but if the scntence be commuted and the offender go free, the moral of the stdry will be any- thing rather than wholesome. To pardon him indeed would be to vindicate the offender and to reflect dis- credit upon the courts and the Judges who preside in them. 3 B A New York publisher who has just returned from England says: “The United States has become the great book market of the world. I am fully convinced that the keynote of success in American publishing is the American work by American authors. There is no reason why we should not lead the world in litera- ture as well as in the manufacture of steel.” That is a most excellent sentiment. Now let the book trust employ a company of authors and proceed to run a race with the steel combine and see what will come of it. P e The Boston Herald says: “As we have many friends both in New York and Chicago, we do not care fo be specific in indicating just where the world’s metropolis will some time be found.” What is the matter with San Francisco? Has the Herald no’ friends here? 5 5 A great deal of undue praise has been given to Massachusetts because her Legislature has passed an act forbidding the sale of cigarettes to boys under 18 years of age. The passage of such an act is easy; the trouble will come when she tries to enforce it. : . So far as the President’s tour is concerned there are just two classes of American people. One class | wishes tq see the President, while the other wishes to show itself and be prominent. Russia’s offer to guarantee the Chinese indemnity may be an act of Christian kindness, but it looks like a scheme to enable her to pay the debt and foreclose on the country. . ; Rk PAPERS ON CURRENT TOPICS. 'PREPARED BY EXPERTS AND SPECIALISTS FOR Thirteenth Article of t portunity and the \ By George Timothy ‘Kinney, the “sheep king,” one of the remarkable men of the West, has’ compelled success by adding to opportu- nity a quick intelligence, great persever- ance and much hard work. On the bar- | ren and uninviting deserts of Southwest Wyoming he has found wealth, and under his careful management that wealth grows at a rate which seems almost in- credible to those who are not familiar with the sheep industry as there conduct- ed. ‘Personal attention to business” is the motto which he has followed, and to this rule Mr. Kinney points when asked to name the winning quality necessarily found in men of large affairs. Even now, when his business has reached enormous proportions and is on an excellent footing, he pays careful heed to the smallest de- tails in his bank, in his mercantile house { and on the range. Career of a Friendless Young Man. Born in Ireland in 1846, young Timothy Kinney began at an early age to struggle against the poverty that surrounded him. hen he was it years old he had secured | emough money to pay his passage on an emigrant ship, so he sailed for the United States, landing in New York. As soon as | he was able to do so he made his way to Madison, Wis., where he arrived without money or friends. He became a,day la- | borer at such work as his yo would permit him to perform. After several years he went to Rawlins, Wyo., where he secured work as a car repairer in the Union Pacific Railway shops. At the end | of a year he was transferred to the rail- way office as a clerk, and after another | year he was made station agent at Rock | Springs. Some months after that he be- came ticket agent at Omaha for the Union Pacific. He resigned from the service soon, however, and visited his relatives in Ireland, returning in 1874 to become once {more the Union Pacific agent at Rock i Springs. He remained in that position until 1881. By that,time he had saved | enough money to begin the business of | cattle raising in a small way on Bitter Creek, west of Rock Springs. Disaster in Cattle Raising. For eight years Mr. Kinney made money rapidly in cattle, but the severe storms of the winters of 1889 and 1890 near- ly brought his affairs to ruin, as he lost | more than 75 per cent of his stock. Dur- | ing thé following two years he recovered {in part from his losses, but fearing a | return of his former disastrous experience | he disposed of his cattle interests in the | fall of 1891 and turned his attention to | sheep raising. He purchased 16,000 sheep, | the total cost of which was about $35,800. As he had had no experience in hand- | liag sheep his new venture was supposed ito be in danger of proving unfortunate | for him but, on the contrary, his flocks | increased steadily in value and the num- ‘ bers of the animals multiplied at a won- | derful rate. By the spring of 1893, when sheep men all over the country were sell- ing out their holdings on account of the threatened panic, he could have realized 70 per cent. on his investment. He would i not_sell, however, and through the suc- | ceeding years of panic his sheep contin- |ued to double in numbers every twelve | months. Had he been compelied to sell | them then at the prevailing prices they | would not have brought. enough to pay | his debts, but his creditors had faith in | his judgment and left him free to wait for better times before making a settle- ment with them. Finds Huge Profits in Sheep. From 1594, when the prices of sheep and wool were at their lowest, to 1899, prices [for both wool and mutton advanced steadily, and as Mr. Kinney during all | those years disposed only of his wool clip and a few old animals each season, his flocks grew to enormous proportions | while every pound of them. continued to | increase in value. Tt may be of interest | to mark the steps whereby he turned a part of his vast holdings into money, “when the price finally reached a point at which he was willing to_sell. ¥ In the fall of 1899 Mr. Kinney made Hhis first large sales of sheep, disposing of PERSONAL MENTION. Pr. E. Welton Young of Seattle is at the California. W. H. Lee, a publisher of Chicago, is a guest at the Palace. Railroad Commissioner Blackstock 1s registered at the Grand. < W. C. Price, a prominent mine owner of Pasadena, is at the Grand.. Dr. J. Clark, a leading physictan of Gil- roy, is staying at the Grand. Railroad Commissioner Edson is regist- ered at the Occidental from Gazelle. E. A. Warren, a prominent merchant of Chico, is at the Lick with his wife. J. Grover, a popular merchant of Ven- tura, is a late arrival at the Grand. Charles Monroe, one of the leading at- torneys of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. J. W. Hogan, a jewelry manufacturer of New York, is a late arrival at the Lick. John Costa, the well known mine owner, of Downleville, is one of the guests at the Lick. G. W. Towle, an extensive land owner and millman of Towle, is staying at the Grand. { G. B. Smith, a prominent resident of Toronto, Cenada, is one of the guests at the Occidental. M. P. Stein, a well known merchant of Stockton, is at the California, accompa- nied by his wife. M. V. Hartranft, the editor of the “Fruit World,” is registered at the Palace from Los Angeles. Joseph- Scott and Henry R. King, two prominent cattlemen of Miles City, Mon- tana, are at the California. Horace B. Meikel, M. D., is here from Seattle, to attend the convention of the Order of Eagles, and is registered at the California, with his wife. Thinks the New King All Right. A London correspondent, having watched closely King Edward's exercise of his new authority eleven days, con- he is ‘“ail right” and will ne?. lmit of bis contitn. tional authority. e observer says: *“ renders it abundantly clear that his Majesty knows what kingship means and is not disposed to depute the things that are meant for his own hand to the hands of other people. There are to be no lead- ing-strings for Edward VII, no prompt- ers, ‘no wise old councllors, who must have everything their own way, and who would limit ‘limited monarchy’ until it be- an tacl has been run by his ent sing nephew, the Kaiser, bu{ his constitutional rights are his and, if we are to judge from these ays, he does not purpose to be al is a cert: the whole England seems to lik A as I have said, the verdict up to now is in ‘Edward’s favor.”’—Providence Journal. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. —_——— he Series on “The Op- Man,” Being the Story of Wyoming’s “Sheep King.” S. Walker. COPYRIGHT, 1901 10,000 two-year-old wethers, for which he received a trifle over $4 apiece. He also sold 4000 yearling wethers at $3 60 a head and 3000 iambs at $2 65 a head, the total being ,350. In 1895 and 1896 these same grades®of wethers sold for §2 to $2 50 and lambs for §1 to $150. This gives some | Mr. Kinney idea of the profits made b three through holding his shéep for years. ’ In 1399 Mr. Kinney’s wool clip amounted to over 600,000 pounds, which he sold at 11 to 15 cents a pound, it netfing him about $72,000, which, with his es of sheep that year, brought him in $134,350, all from a $35,000 investment, he still hav- ing thousands of sheep left. Taking the Wool Clip to Market. In that year Mr. Kinney’s wool clip was hauled to the Eastern market in a special train of sixteen cars. Last year a special train of twenty-five cars was required to haul the wool clip. Those two shipments were tne largest ever sent to market by an individual wool grower. After shipping his wool last fall and re- ceiving $90,000 for it, Mr. Kinney began to seil off some of his sheep. At that time his flocks numbered about 135,000 head and he was the largest individual owner of sheep' in the United States. He first sold 47,000 ewes and later disposed of 24,000 wethers, 34,000 lambs and 700 bucks, a tetal of 106,700, for which he recelved in_round numbers $324,000. During the two months following these sales prices jumped upward and it Is esti- mated that had Mr. Kinney sold his sheep two months later than he did he would have received $440,000, or about $116,000 more than he really ot for them. Caring for His Great Flocks. Some idea of the magnitude of Mr. Kin- ney's sheep and wool raising business may be gained from the following fig- ures: ° ¢ During the year 1909 it required 100 men to look after his sheep. This force con- sisted of a general foreman and an as- sistant, these receiving $75 and $60 a month respectively; herders, camp movers, and teamsters, $40 a month each, and general hands $35 a month. The men on the range are supplied with board, which costs from $15 to 330 a month for each man, this bringln%oshe total monthly pay- roll up to about $6000. Mr. Kinney’s home ranch is on Smiths Fork in Uinta County, Wyoming, near the Idaho line. He controiS a tract of State land eighteen miles long bordering on the stream and a large number of school sections, which he leases from the State. Along Smiths Fork and its tribu- tary streams the ‘‘sheep king'’ cuts thou- sands of tons of hay annually, which is fed to his sheep during storms on the plains in winter. . Long Trips From Ranch to Ranch. During all seasons of the year Mr. Kin- ney is a very busy man. He travels from Rock Springs to the main ranch and from it to the auxiliary ranches in a buck- board drawn by two horses. His bedding and his cooking utensils he carries In a box under the wagon seat, for the “sheep king” frequently spends a night on the open prairie many miles from the nearest house. He has selected good men to look after his flocks, but he seldom trusts them wholly, and he makes frequent trips from camp to camp to superintend the work of caring for his large flocks. Mr. Kinney was recently reappointed a member of the Wyoming Board of Sheep Commissioners, of which he is the presi- dent. The board is doing much in the in- terests of the sheepmen of the State, and under the watchful care of its members diseased sheep are not allowed to be driven or shipped into Wyoming. The board recently. issued a pam that Wyoming leads all ot wool production and value of sheepn. His Other Business Interests. Mr. Kinney owns a controlling interest in the First National Bank of Rock Springs, of which he is president. He is also the head of a large mercantiie house at Rock Springs. These Institutions are in a flourishing condition. Though a million- aire, he prefers the wild and uninhabited desert and the companionship of his t?yusl?tnds of sheep to the refinements of city life. L S O N ] ANSWERS TO QUERIES SULPHUR—A. D., Oak Bar, Cal. Sul- phur is classed as a mineral. ROCKETELLER FAMILY—Subscriber, City. The residence of the family of John D. Rockefaller is at 4 Fifty-fourth street, New York City. TO CLOVERDALE—Enq., Ci The road between Tiburon and Cloverdale ‘was opened May 29, 1889; that is, the first regular train to the last-named place was run on that date. - SOLICITOR’S LICENSE—L. C., City. If by “solicitor” you mean peddler, you can- not transact business in San Rafael with- out a license; if by that word you mean ‘“drummer”’ for an established house and you_ are to sell by sample, you will not need a license. THE RIO JANEIRO—Subscriber, Mo- desto, Cal. The wreck of the steamer Rio de Janelro, which went down while enter- Ing the harbor of San Francisco on the 22d of February, 1901, had not been located on the 3d of May. It is supposed that she s?nk in mmfhll:mtel and was, by the strong current thaf runs tl Golden Gate, carried out to thgrg::‘egal.‘n. e MABIE—Student, Gold Run, Cal. Ham- ilton Wright Mabie, writér and editor, was born in Cold Spring, N. Y., 1846. He graduated at Williams _Coll studied at the Columbia Lu.‘?w 55;001{: r}aflv' York, graduating in 1863, but instead of following the law he engaged in a literary -life. He wrote “Norse Stories,” and ed- ited Michaud's “History of the Crusades,” adding a chapter thereto. In 1879 he be- came assistant editor of the Christian Union and was for a number of years as- soclated with Dr. Lyman Abbott. VARIOUS COINS—F. H., Sacr: Cal. A $3 plece of 150 commands a presy: um of from 25 cents to §1: half dollars of 1814, 1828, 1831, 1832 and 1833 do not com- mand a premium; silver 3-cent pieces of 1851, 1852 and 1853 are net such coins as dealers offer a premium for. The on} 3-cent nickel for which a premium Is of. fered {s that of 1877, and the amount is T cents. The only flying eagle cent that g:lt!e' ggr &e‘_’“-fllm r{l. that which bears e DI £ Sl T et il o word ‘‘cents” is not a premium coin. - DAUGHTERS OF REVOLUTIO; N—E. V. R., City. The qualification for ade_ slon into the Daughters of the American Revolution"is that the applicant ‘‘shall be 18 years of and descended from an ancestor who, with unfailing loyalty, rendered materfal ald to the cause of in. dependence as a recognized riot, as soldler or sailor, or as a civil officer 1n one of the several colonles or states, or of the united colonies or states.” Every application must be endorsed by at least ‘o;’m mell?bertuf t.h: national socie agd o a icant mut e Claim of ancestorsnip. ° ¢ Prove the RENO MARRIAGES-D. E., Cal A recent decision of the g::’r‘e’r‘z?s‘ Court holds that if a person one State to another for the m"; evading the law of the ) not to sit on such a |the departure is taken State from which for the purpose of “But_you oniht 11; this,” said the mis- ot ol slehs as this’ said e mic The girl looke: thou exitylnz her ignorance, and answered: . evading the divorce I the ‘State Visited the. mandmiarries in only in the State in_ which it ."h' con- d at her a minute as| tracted. Under that deci: then | California. is divorced: he or she’ ain: marry a after granting of the decree. and 1t the paci should . Nev., to marry before the of time the marriage would be valid only in the State of Km“ showing | er States in | | WORLD’S NAVAL NEWS, @aptain Hedworth Lambton, the gallant commander of the Powerful, has succeed- ed Vice Admiral Fullerton in command of the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert. RO Armor contracts for six battleships building In Russia are now being filled by the Carnegie works and the first consign- ment will be shipped on May 15, from Philadelphia. The aggregate amount is over 12,000 tons. LR A During a heavy gale at Woosung, on Ayril 17, the British battleship Centurion parted her cable and drifted, colliding with the battieship Glory. The latter’s ram penetrated the Centurion, doing, however, no serious damage. The damaged ship went to Hongkong for docking and re- pairs. The Glory was unminjured. et % e Five submarine boats of the Holland type are being built at the works of Vick~ ers, Maxim & Co., for the British navy. They are of 120 tons displacement, 63 feet in length, akd 11 feet 9 inches beam, with a guaranteed surface speed of 9 to 10 knots and 6 to 7 knots when submerged. The complement will be seven officers and crew, and the first beat is to be launched this month. . . Surveys of the bank in the Baltic known as the Adlerground, shpw the charts to have been defective. The depth was found to .be only 28 feet, while the chart indicated 41 feet. Captain Thiele, who was in command of the Kaiser Friedrich IIT der Grosse when the ship ran aground, has been entirely exonerated, and given the captaincy of another new battleship, the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse. PG A serious mishap occurred at the new Dower fortifications while a 9.2 inch gun, welighing twenty-seven tons, was being hoisted .from ship into position. A link in the jib chain suddenly sna~med and the gun went crashing through the ship’s deck and hull, penetrating the bot- tom, and the vessel was sunk. On the next day divers patched up the breach, and the vessel was pumped out. The new guns forming the battery will carry abous fifteen miles across channel. WL The armored cruiser Kent, building at the Portsmouth dock-yard, has been sub=- jected to a severe.test of her water-tight compartments. The port engine room was pumped full of water, no air-space being left, but the weight of 1,000 tons of water did not cause a single rivet to weep, and the bulkheads stood thestest without bulg- ing. The trial was made with a view of ascertaining what the result would be in the event of the engine-room being flood= ed through collision or other accidents on the sea. Naval schools are to be located at each of the principal dock-yards of France, for the education In the principal servics requirements, such as practical and theo- retical marine engineering, torpedo work and gunnery. The applicants must be be- tween 13 and 15 years old, and are to enlist at the age of 16 for a five-years’ service. The school term covers four years, and the studies embrace mathematics, physics, chemistry, mechanics, engine design and practice, drawing, history, geography, English and French. Besides the practical application of these studies in use of tor- pedoes and target practice, the pupils will also have six months‘ work in the yard or on board ships at the station. The object of these schools is to supply the navy with intelligent young men to fill lower official positions, especially in the engineer de~ partment, in which latter successful grade uates may reach the higher grades. " A tfansport namcd the Vaucleuse was launched at Rochefort April 18 last. She was begun in 135 and has thus been six- teen years on the stocks. The hull, bee ing of wood, has therefore had a thorough seasoning, conducive to a long . service of usefulness. The Vaucleuse beats the record of the Mohican in our navy, which was bulilt at Mare Island. The keel was laid in November, 1872, launched December 27, 1883, and sailed om her first cruise June 27, 1885. As the Vaucleuse has only been recently launched it will no doubt take a year to fit her for sea, thus making her period of construction seventeen years, against less then thirteen years for the Mohican. The French transport is of only 1615 tons displacement, and has engines of | 800 horse-power, intended to give a speed of 11 knots, and the Mohican is of 1900 tons displacement, 1000 horse-power, and 10.65 'knots. As to the cost of the two ships, that of the Mohican has never been figured out with any degree of accuracy, and the cost of the Vaucleuse is probabl also somewhat uncertain. 2 A CHANCE TO SMILE. “I was singing ‘T'd Leave My Ha; Home“fgr You" when the landlord Well > “He said If we didn" rent wa'd both have to Bo. toF a Eacire® Mrs. Cackle—The Rev. Mr. Longface said in his sermon that he was tempted to throw a few torpedoes among the sleeping members of his congregation, Mr. Cackle—Why doesn’t he throw a few' into his sermon?—Ohio State Journal. Mrs. O'Hoolihan—An’ how’s all th’ folks e SieGonteal1t's all wen s, M t's he exceptin’ me owid man. Ha's becd cjort in’ poor health fer some toim, but this mornin’ he complained of feelin’ better.— Chicago News. Mr. Hilton—Have you opened tha tle of champagne, Bfldletp;n st Bridget—Faith, I shtarted to open it an’ it began to open itself. Shure, the mon that filled that bottle must 'av’ put in two quarts instead of wan!'—Philadel phia Record. No Room for Doubt.—You speak w great positiveness about the sincerity our friend’s religion.” p ““There can be no doubt whatever of his sincerity,” was the answer. ‘“Why, sir, that man would rather go to church on S'.Td" than play golf.”—Washingto T . ith of She—Do you believe In this theory about spreading disease by kissing? i!lle—Well. they say there’s something n it. “Did you ever catch anything by kisg~ ing a girl?” “*Yes, once: her father saw me at It."— Yonkers Statesman. “The thief thoroughly ransacked the house,” said a Hutchinson paper, ‘“but falled to find anything of value.” And the next day the lady came furiously into the office and told the editor that she had as many things of vdlue in her house as any- bgldy—m there, ncw!—Kansas City Jour- nal. Jack—I made two calls this afternoon, and I must have left my umbrella at the last place I called. Tom—How do you know but that you left it at the first g};‘-\ce‘r Jack—Because that's where I got it.— Scotsman. g “No, I don’t like Dr. Thirdly,” sald Mrs. Kilduft emphatically. “What's he done?” asked Mrs. Tenspot. “Well, he asked all the ladies in the con- gregation to s"m;" ':Jkd hats. And it was Easter Sunday, Nt ou!” —Clev land Plain Dealer. o g Chelce candies, Townsend's,” Palace Hotel* —_———— Cal. glace fruit 50 per 1b at Townsend's.* —————— Townsend's Califorhia glace fruits, Sic a pound, in_fire-etched boxes or Jap bas- Kets. 639 Market, Palace Hotel b\:tfdna.' —_—— Best eyeglasses, specs, 10¢ to 4e. Look out for 81 4th, front of barber and grocer. ® —_—— ‘The world deals good naturedly with good natured person. "