The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 25, 1901, Page 6

= FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JULY 25, 190 X THE SA i diieiiiniommimanes Che 2o Eall. s esaessssssJUEY 25,3901 'k'H URSDAY JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. - Address All Communiestions to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. MANAGER’S OFFICE Telephone Press 204 s e e e e e e e FUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. Telephone Press 201. ..217 to 221 Stevenson St. e Press 202. EDITORIAL ROOMS Telep! Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Weelk. Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Posiages DAILY CALL (including Sunday), obe year. u.: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), § months. 3. DAILY CALL Gncluding Sunday), 3 months, 1:: 1.50 1.00 WEEKLY CALL, One Year... All postmasters are suthorized to receive { subscriptions. Bample coples Will be forwarfied when requested. Mafl subscribers in orderiag change of address should be particuler to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in erder o insure & prompt end correct compliance with their request. DAKLAND OFFICE. ..1118 Broadway ©. GEORGE KROGNESS. Manager Yorelgn Advertising, Marquetts Building, Chisago. (Long Distance Telephone “Central 2618.") NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON......cvzzeezne....Herald Square NPW YORK REPRESENTATIVE:! STEPHEN B. SMITH........30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldort-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square; Morray Hill Hotel. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open until 9:80 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until §:30 o'clock. €33 McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. €15 Lerkin, open until #:3) o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 c'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until § o'clock. 186 Valencia, open untl] § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. NW. rorner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until 9 o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open untll § p. m. —_—— AMUSEMENTS. Alcazar—*“The Country Girl” Grand Opera-house—*‘Paul Kauvar.” Central—"“Trilby.” Tivoli—“The Toy Maker.” California—*“The Case of Rebellious Susan,” Monday, July 28 Orpheum—Vaudeville. Columbia—“‘Garrett O'Magh."” Olympia, corner Mason and Eddy streets—Specialties. Chutes, Zoo end Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. Fischer’s—Vaudeville. Recreation Park—Baseball. Sutro Bath#Swimming. -AUCTION SALES. By DUnion Stockysrds Company—Monday, July 29, at 10 e'clock, Packing-house Machinery, at Rodeo, Cal. <= 70 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. | | open seasons to follow, and so on alternately; and Call subscribers contemplating a change of | that like close periods for other game, determined by citzens resideance during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their mew This paper will also be on sale at all summer resorts and is represented by a local agent im DOMINATION OF BOSSES. l IEUTENANT GOVERNOR NORTHCOTT address to the Bar Association of that “State that 2 member of the Senate over which Mr. North- legislation of the last session of the Illinois Legisla- ture. He is reported to have added that the man who rarely heard on the floor, and showed no outward ation of leadership, nevertheless his dictation fact that he represented the political machine. Republicans of San Francisco will hardly read that demnation upon the people of Illinois who submit to such domination at the hands of bosses. They will Governor Northcott be true, then the freemen and voters of Illinois are false to every duty of American bestowed upon them. What, then, shall be said of the Republicans of San ies are giving such a boss as Martin Kelly a chance at least of obtaining domination in municipal in this city as in any other in the nation, It confronts the rank and file of the Republican party to-day just at the last session. The victory for honest politics, genuine Republicanism and good municipal govern- lute t6 perform all their political duties, To every stanch and true Republican the issue of seli-respect, for what honorable man can tamely submit to permit his party and his city to be domi- surround him. Throughout the Republican ranks there is at this effects are to be seen in all sections of the city, and in every district where clubs are being organized for of men who stand aside and take no part in the fight. They are not unintelligent men and they would rightly sddre; n the comst. of Illinois is reported to have saiduin a recent cott presides controlled well nigh absolutely all the exerted that control took little part in debates, was was virtually undisputed. His power was due to the declaration without pronouncing some sort of con- admit that if the statements attributed to Lieutenant p, and are scarcely worthy of the franchise Francisco who through indifference to their political aff; The issue of boss control is drawn as sharply. as boldly as it confronted the Legislagure of Illinois ment can be won only by good men wha are reso- comes as a matter of personal duty. It is even one nated by such a creature as Kelly and the gang who time a strong movement against the bosses. Its work during the campaign. Still there are a number resent being termed bad citizens, but none the less by their neglect of political duties they show themselves careless of good citizenship, and by their wilkingness to compromise with the bosses, or at least to avoid a conflict with them, they exhibit a lack of an intelligent conception of the dan- ger of boss rule eitherjin the party or in ti city. In a contest of this kind there is really no middle, course possible. A voter is either for the bosses or for the people. Those who shirk their public duties are virtually on the side of the bosses. It is very well known to Kelly and Herrin that if many Repub- licans remain away from the primaries it will be a boss victory. The gangs on which the bosses count will be sure to vote. It is only the indifferent citi- zen who is a doubtful factor in the contest. No true Republican should permit himself to be counted as a nullity in such an issue. He should make sure that he has been properly registered. He should enroll himself with his friends in the Primary League Club of his district. He should make himself count as a strong factor for the people and against the bosses. Democrats in Massachusetts and in Pennsylvania are getting ready to follow the lead of Ohio, and it looks as if Bryan were going to have more toboggan slides this year than 2ny man in the country. Now that the riflemen have learned they can make better records at shooting in this climate than' any- where else in the country, th:y’had better come back every year. g - s by motifying The Call Business Office. | THE GAME LAWS. OR the great value of many of its statements F and for the frankness of it all we are glad to publish the letter of Game Warden Welch. : He is entirely in error, however, as to the posit_lon of The Call. We can see no propriety in destroying game that is in stock in the normal course of business at the end of the open season. It is a waste of food and a loss to the dealer. Nor do we believe that the same date for an open season is applicable to the whole State, for it finds birds and deer in one section nesting and rutting, and unfit for food, while in other sections they have passed into the state of edibility and may be taken for the only purpose for which they should ever be killed, for human food. It is a ques- tion for further consideration whether these features in the law are corrigible under our constitution. -By reason of varying altitude California has the physi- cal differences and conditions that by latitude on a level reach from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic circle. Naturalists readily understand what this means as to the conditions of animal and vegetable life. This State has the best facilities for the permanent preservation and supply of game that can be found on the continent, because more than half its area, being mountainous, will never be permanently inhab- ited, and if protected from fire will always offer ade- quate cover. Therefore we agree with all that is said in favor of strict and wise game laws strictly enforced. But such laws are for the benefit of all the people, and not for a class. Here we part company with our very able correspondent, Game Warden Welch. A game law that forbids the sale of game and is for the benefit of “sportsmen” only is class legislatior, re- pugnant to the people. Let the game be rigidly pre- served, the bag that one gunner may take limited, but let his surplus go into the market, where the pub- lic can buy and enjoy it. No one man can eat/ three deer. Let one man take only three and send what he does not use to market. The result will be a reasonable supply for-the benefit of the public. The same limitation of bag may apply to ducks, quail, grouse, woodcock and other game birds, but let the sn}plus of the bag, over what its taker can consume, go to market. Only a small minority of the people are of the sportsman class. The kind of law favored by Warden Welch would be for the pleasure of that minority only, and the general public would never know the taste of game at all. Having no interest in the law its enforcement would be difficult, for Americans even on juries resent par- tial and class legislation. The people would not re- spect a law which, furnishes the spectacle of well equipped sportsmen from the town roaming the fields and beating the cover for game which is denied to the use of the public. We believe that the people would sustain a close season for deer of five years, with five years limited its breeding and the rapidity of its renewal, would be sustained. But the law must not exclude the pub- lic from its benefits and include therein the small mi- nority of sportsmen. ' The present season deer will be killed lawfully that are unfit for food. They will be killed because it is the only chance to take them, and the venison will be wasted. It is just as much waste as that wanton sac- rifice by the hide-hunting Indians of Oregon de- scribed. by Mr. Welch. : We are, with our present lights, uuable to see wherein sportsmen themselves can disagree with the foregoing statement of our position. As for the ex- isting law, whatever its defects, we will do what the press can in supporting its enforcement for the sake of the measure of protection it affords. The Governor of Georgia, by way of showing his appreciation pf the hospitality of a pretty woman, has made her a major general of the State National Guard; so now let war come—Georgia is ready. A DANGER AHEAD. HILE we are rejoicing in our vigor and \;\/ are sanguine that for many a generation yet to come the American race will go forward to new enterprises with undiminished vigor, the British Medical Journal forecasts a change in our characteristics and even intimates that we are in danger of becoming conservatively sluggish and fall- ing under the dominion of a fat emperor. The prediction is due to certain studies made by some statistical fiend concerning the increase of cor- pulence among the people of New York. The in- vestigator is said to have discovered that among New Yorkers over the age of 20 a large per cent showed an abnormal development in the abdominal region. The report goes on to say: “In a poor quarter the percentage of fat men was about 14, but in Broad- way, where the well-to-do most do congregate, it was 35. In the corridors of a high class residential hotel the number of obese individuals in a.total/of 100 was 70, while in a humbler caravansary the percentage sank to 11, the lowest point anywhere noted. Altogether among 1500 adults, taken at random, 447 were cor- pulent to the degree of deformity, giving an average of 29.8 per cent.” Having that statement of facts to start with the Medical Journal proceeds to argue that fat men are not so enterprising or so pugnacious as lean men. It recalls the remark of Caesar that men who are thin as Cassius was are dangerous, but that no harm is to be feared from those who are fat and sleep at night. It cites the cpinion of military experts that the main cause of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo was that he was too fat to act with his old time vigor, and says:* “If Louis XVI had been less protuberant in the paunch he might have kept his head on his choulders.” Thence it proceeds to lay down the proposition that the increasing corpulence of the American people may have very important conse- quences in the world of industry and of politics. Warming up to the real issue of the subject, the writer goes on to say: “The role of fat in political physiology cannot be summed up in a simple formula; but for practical purposes it will be found tolerably safe to assume that thinness makes for revolution and fleshiness for repose, which, expressed in terms of politics, means conservatism. The ideal demagogue is lean—tourmente par son caractere, as Mme. de Stael said Napoleon oughtto have been. A man who has a full, round belly, with good capon fined, is by the law of his physical being a conserva- tive, whose principle is quieta non movere, though he may delude himself and others with the fancy that he is a radical. Those of vur American friends who think that the well being of the United States depends on the maintenance of a republican form of government will do well to take steps at once to repress the tendency to abdominal expansion among their citi- zens, or they may live to see the President trans- foryued into an’ emperor.” There then is the danger that confronts our people by reason of the tendency toward corpulency. How to guard against it is not easy to say, but something might be done by sending every fat man to prison as a traitor to his country; or else by limiting the Presidency to men who are.lean and hungry. Southern people who yent North to spend—the summer this year‘are now wishing they had stayed at home, but had they done so they would probably be wishing they had done the other thing In fact, the only way to be contented in summer is to come to California. A NEW CANAI TREATY. ROVER CLEVELAND in his Princeton lec- G troversy says in reference to the settlement of the question: “The fact must not be overlooked that notwithstanding this treaty was promoted and negotiated by the officers of our Government, the par- ties to it were Great Britain and Venezuela. This was a fortunate circumstance, inasmuch as the work accomplished was thus saved from the risk of cus- tomary disfigurement at the hands of the United States Senate.” That statement is pertinent to the recent dispatch from London that Lord Pauncefote made a statement to the Associated Press to the effect that on his return to Washington in October he will bring with 'him a new isthmian canal treaty, which he “hopes” will be satisfactory to President McKinley, the Secretary of State and the Senate. In expressing the “hope” Lord Pauncefote was doubtless using language that has more sincerity than is usually found in diplomacy. In view of the rejection of the former treaty made with Secretary Hay, and Cleveland’s reference to the “cus- tomary disfigurement” of treaties by-the United States Senate, it will be recognized that his Lordship is not justified in entertaining anything more than a hope. It is well known that ever since the British Min- istry rejected the treaty proposed by the Senate Sec- retary Hay and Lord Pauncefote have been busy in drafting' a new one. Mr. Hay has been in consulta- tion with leaders in the Senate, and of course ~has sought to frame a treaty in accord with their views. It is understood that Pauncefote carried that treaty to London with him, and his recent statement to the press is taken as an assurance that the British Min- istry accepts it. The rest remains with the Senate. The main point of the controversy is the abroga- tion of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty and the recognition of the right of the United States to fortify the canal. It will be remembered the British strongly combated the right of the United States to annul the Clayton- Bulwer treaty, and insisted that it should not be super- seded without giving Great Britain something in the way of an-equivalent. Since Pauncefote has hopes that the new treaty will be satisfactory to both nations, it is fair to assume that the old stumbling-blocks have been removed. He is reported as having said in the course of his in- terview: “It goes without saying that the President has made himself cognizant of the opinions of the Senate and of the Secretary of State. * * * You may be sure whatever is agreed upon between the two Governments will meet the approval of the Senate.” It would seem from that statement that the British are at last willing to abrogate the old treaty, and that we are in a fair way of getting rid of that ob- stacle to the much desired canal. Tt will then be seen what new objection the opponents of the en- terprise can make. Public expectation of an early beginning of the work has been so often disappointed that few persons will be sanguine of immediate suc- cess even now. Still there is good cause for gratifi- cation in the reports of progress made in preparing a satisfactory treaty, and the people of this country will cordially share Loord Pauncefote’s hope that it will be of such a nature as to meet the approval and receive the ratification of the Senate. mrrr——— s In one of the suburbs of Chicago the authorities/ collected 101 unlicensed dogs, and then offered a prize to the man who could kill most of them in a given time. The prize was won by a policeman, who dispatched thirty-six. O flicted the corn States, and this visitation ap® pears to be even worse than the former one. The rains of a few days ago which promised to break the heated spell and mark the beginning of cooler weather bave proven deceptive. They have passed rapidly away and the intense heat returns. In the country crops are being blighted in the fields, and in the towns and cities men and animals are falling prostrate in the streets. The intensity of the heat and the damage done by it to the farmers can hardly: be understood here, where even in the dryest years we never have any- thing approaching the fearful conditions that now afflict nearly the whole of the great valley of the Mississippi. Some idea of the condition there may be formed from the report that a rain of fifteen min- utes around Wichita was estimated by the people of the district to have been worth $10,000,000 to their fruit and corn. . Orne of our exchanges in describing the joy of the people at the coming of the rain says: “The farmer who drove into town announcing the first raindrops caused a jubilation. It brought out the brass band. Hundreds of men and women began to cheer and sing hymns as the rain fell. Factories closed to allow their employes to stand in the rain until soaking wet, for the mercury had been standing at 115 degrees. The whole was followed by a grand march of the peo- ple into the churches, soaking wet, where thanksgiv- ing was offered.” That is the value put tpon rain by people from whom it has long been withheld. The lesson ought not to be lost upon any part of the country west of the Mis- sissippi, for over all this vast region there is danger of dry years. The comgervation of water should be one of the most careful tasks of every Western ‘com- munity. The duty is as important in California as anywhere else, and it is to be hoped it will soon be undertakesr on scientific principles and on a com- prehensive scale. —— Some spelling reformers insist that we ought to write Newyork, Newjersey and Newengland. so as to make the names look proper, and in the East the suggestion has actually become something like a burn- ing issue. THE VEALUE OF WATER. NCE more a blasting wave of heat has af- A New York physician has arisen to say that the massage treatment may easily hecome excessive and injurious. so taking all things into consideration the average invalid had perhaps better stick to bread pills. . If that Sampson and Schley controversy be ever re- ferred to arbitration it is safe to say that Maclay, the ! historian, will never be one of the arbitrators. ture on the Veneziglan boundary con- | MODE RN BUILDING TO REPLACE DICKENS’ OLD N R SR s ke S el el R SRR B “CURIOSITY SHOP” MAKE WAY FOR AN UP-TO-DATE STRUCTURE. N HOUSANDS of people in every part of the world will feel a pang of regret at the intelligence that the original of Charles Dickens' “Old Curlosity Shop” is to be torn down to give place to a modern structure. It is said by those who watch the sightscers that no place except the Tower of London attracts so many intelligently interested vis- itors as this queer little place that lives in the memory of every reader of Dickens as the home of Little Nell and Grand- father. Looking into the old-fashioned windows from the street one can imagine how the impossible Quilp back of one of them lay and gurgled in the tiny bedroom of Little Nell while she and her grandfather stole out and away from the sorrow that had cast so deep a shadow over them. “The place,” says Dickens, ‘“was ome of those receptacles for old and curious things which seem to crouch in odd cor- & is ottt WARDEN OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY MAKES PLEA FOR IT WILL INTEREST EVERY READER OF CHARLES DICKENS TO KNOW THAT THE SHOP,” ABOUT WHICH THE GREAT ENGLISH NOVELIST WROTE SUCH A DELIGHTFUL STORY, IS TQ “OLD CURIOSITY % ners of this town, and to hide their musty treasures from the public eye in jealousy and distrust. There were suits of mail standing ke ghosts in armor, here and there: fantastic carv- ings brought from monkish cloisters; musty weapons of vari- ous kinds; disterted figures in china, and wood, and iron: tapestries and strange furniture that might have been de- signed in dreams. The haggard aspect of the little old man was wonderfully suited to the place; he might have groped among the churches and tombs, and deserted houses, and gathered all the spoils with his own hands. There was nothing in the whole collection but was in keeping with himself; noth- ing that looked older or more worn than he.” The queer old place has been turned into a waste-paper shop in recent years, but has never lost that curious appearance which must have originally attracted the novelist. THE ENFORCEMENT OF OUR FISH AND GAME LAWS Says Foreigners Are Greatest Offonders and to Them Is Due the Depletion of the Fields and Streams. The Call does not hold itself responsible for the opinfons published in this column, but presents them for whatever value they may have as communications of general inte: Editor San Francisco Call: For a great many years I have been a subscriber to and an admirer of The Call and its policy, but I cannot agree With it in its views in regard to our game laws. I was born and raised in this State, and ever since I was old enough have hunted and fished from Oregon down, and I believe that I have some practical knowledge:of the deer as well as other game. Had such a law as the present one been in force in this §te for the past fifteen years there would be plenty of game for all now, and I speak from personal knowl- edge. I have seen the natural resorts for game of all kinds de- stroyed by the rapid advance of civillzation. Deer, duck and quail have been shot, trapyed and driven from their natural resorts and breeding grounds at all seasons of the year, and no regard has been paid to them except by a few sportsmen of this and near-by States, until now they have become very scarce. While on a hunting trip in Southern Oregon in August, 1892, T counted the carcasses of seventy-two deer lying along- side the trail I was traveling in one day. All these deer had been killed for their hides: and on the same trip T met two half-breeds with nearly 300 depr hides on two mules. These deer had been killed on Gevernment land that had not even been sectionized. They Informed me that they got from 10 cents to 65 cents apiece for these hides. These men could have been easily prosecuted, but there was no Warden, no Judge and ap- parently no law, and if there was. there was certainly no re- gard for it. These deer had been killed during the spring and while they were following up the snow and when no man would kill a deer under any circumstances. The hides were taken across the line to “Smith River Corners,” in California, and sold, and the half-breads got on a drunk with the proceeds. Even in this late day mother quail have been shot off their nests and their young left to perish. This was done in this county the other day. However, I was fortunate enough to convict the violator for his dastardly work; but in some locali- tles, notably in the vicinity of San Jose, juries composed of those who call themselves citizens and men havd released the violators when the wardens have been able to detect them in the commission of their crime. Let me ask vou to look over the names of those who have been apprehended for violations of the game and fish laws of this State and see if you do not find nine-tenths of them to be foreigners—men who would not be allowed to have a gun in their possession in their native country. But the moment they arrive in this glorious State of ours, where they are permitted to own a gun, the first thing they do Is to get one and go forth and shoot anything they see, regardless of law or nature. This State is full of this class of people, and particularly where he most game Is, and to this class of people is due the rapid decrease in our supply of game and fish. They care nothing for you or I or the future. Tt is the present with them and the “almighty dollar.” This class of men have Invaded our fields and streams with everv device conceivable for ‘the de- struction of our game and fish, in seasoh and out, until our supply of game is nearly¥iall gone and it s hard to take a re- spectable bag of game or a decent creel of fish; and to these PERSONAL MENTION. W. S. Bay“s‘o( Fresno is at the Palace. 0. McHenry, a banker of Modesto, the Palace. until Saturday. “Billie” Mead, is at the Palace. ‘B A. Gilbert. a grocer of Sacramento, is at the Grand. Phil Cahn, a merchant of Stockton, is at the California. NEW YORK, guest at the Occidental. Telk, at the | at the Astor: of San Jose, is at the Palace. i George L. Barker, a'lawyer of San Jose. registered at the Lick yesterday. F. K. Towney of Redwood City. accom- panied by his wife, is at the Grand. + o H. Morgan Hill. the well-known ciub- | [L°2TN: 2 ihe Sincla man. is up from Del Monte. He is at the | o 8y California. . B. F. Brooks, an oll man of Bakers- fleld, is in the city on business. He is staying at the Palace. General Passenger Traffic Manager E. 0. McCormick is expected to arrive from the East Saturday evening. L. V. Dorsey, who conducts a general merchandise store at Grass Valley, is spending a few days at the Lick. Edward Chambers, trafic manager of the Santa Fe, with headquarters at Los Angeles, is registered at the Palace. J. M. Herbert, manager of the Pacific at . D. McCarthy, the Gilsey. gomery street. svstem of the Southern Pacifie, left for Sacramento yesterday. et the local agent of the Chicago and Northwestern road at Port- land, Or., and one of the best known Elks ‘W. O. H. Martin, a miining man of Reno. | on the coast, Is at the Palace. —_————— Californians in New York. Juiv Californians have arrived at the hotels: San Francisco—Miss Beckley. at the Ev- J. F. Shechan Jr. of Los Angeles is a | orett; F. H. Davis. Miss C. Eelk. Miss G. X Manhattan: Jackson Hatch, the well-known attorney | Franklin. at the Tmperial: C. Hadenfeldt, Miss A. Keefe, T.awton, Mrs. R. Preseott, at the Victoria: H. 7. Donovan, B. Honing, at the Holland; | MeCurdo at the Broadway Central.N. E. r; F. G. Hammon, at Phillins, dt the Holland: G. H. Serwin, at —_—————— Choice candies. Towrsend's, Palace Hotel* —————— Cal. glace fruit 50c rer 1b at Townsend’'s.® —_——— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont- Telephone Main 1042. ———————— ‘Work in the Woolwich arsenal, Eng- land, has now somewhat slackened down, and many hands have been discharged. L pot-hunters and poachers is due the depletion of our flelds and streams. We Lave as good a set of game laws to-day as it has been possible to get with our present constituticn. Any kind of a law, unless rigidly enforced, is of no avail, and if such great papers as The Call would look carefully into the matter and instead of trying to tear down what honest and true sports- men have built up would lend their power and influence toward the enforcement of the laws we have, and the betterment of them, we could accomplish much. Such editorials as the one of July 14 in a paper like The Call conveys to those not thor- oughly informed a disregard for the law, and instead of assist- ing in creating a healthy respect for the value and benefit of our game and the necessity good laws to protect it, and the rigid enforcement of such laws as we have, in order that we /may revive our.fast decreasing supply of game. it leads them to believe that they should regard no la d that in violating the law they would receive the of your valuable paper (which T do not believe they would receive). Neverthe- less it creates a disregard for the law 1 makes it hard f9r wardens to make them see the wrong they are doing. Tt le true that there are a few minor changes that might be made in the present law, but they are of no very great importance where one law has to cover the whole State, as the present law does under our constitution. The sale of game ghould never be permitted. The sale of game places a bounty on its distribution. and it can never be successfully protected as long as it can be sold. In my opinion. if the quail law ovens on October 1 the desr law should run until October 15. This would give thoss who go out into the mountains on a hunting trip a chance to shoot deer. quail and catch trout for fifteen days—or in other words, would leave an open season of fifteen days on all game and fish—which I believe wquld be right and would result in no harm. A limit should be placed on the bag that may be made in one day and in the number of trout that may be taken in one day. and these laws—all of them—should be strictly enforced without fear or favor. Wardens should be appointed irre- spective of politics or pull and should be maintained as long 23 they perférm the duties of their office faithfully, and when they neglect their duties they should immediately be dis- charged. The wardens should receive the support of the pub- e and the press In the discharge of their duties In the en- forcement of the law relative to the proteetion of game and fish. As a warden I have no.hesitation in doing my utmost to enforce the present game and fish laws, as T believe they are about as near rtight as it s possible to get them under the present circumstances. There are a few minor measures that may be improved upon. but in the main they are all right. I have hunted for market and sport and sveak from my own personal knowledge covering a peripd of thirty years, not one O Honing you will cxcuse me for taking Mok oping v - akin, < valuable time and that you will be able to take a Hitle d';;feyr(e):; view of our game laws and he able to render us some support in their nrcoer enforcement, I beg to remain v - Soquel, Cal . ours very truly, Tuly 18. WALTER R. WELCH. Fish and Game Warden, Santa Cruz County. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. HELEN GOULD—Mrs. T.. Denmark. Or. The residence of Miss Helen Miller Gould is 5719 Fifth av p oo b o venue, New York THE ANGORA GOAT—W. H. F., City. The Angora goat was first introduced Into |'the United States in the State of South Carolina In 1849, He will be away 21.—The following HOBSON'S DEED-—§., City. Tt was on the 3 of June, 138, that Naval Construc- tor Hobson sank the collier Merrimae at the entrance of the mouth of Santiago harborl He and his volunteer crew of six men e taken prison Cervera. . A Mrs. J. L. Miss N. the Sinclair: A. A. Best Way to the Yosemite. The Santa Fe to Merced and sta; thencs via Merced Fails, Coulterville, Bll'o: Green, Merced Big Trees, Cascade Falls and Bridal Vell Falls, arriving at Sentinel Hotel at 5 the next afternoon. This is the most popular route and the rates are the lowest. Ask at 641 Mar- ket st. for particulars and folder. Yosemit o . osemite, i troduced and maintains the mod- erate rates of $2 per day, $12 per week;: less than $40 for an eleven-day trip to Yosemits Via the Big Qak Flat routs, 630 or Santa Fe route, 641 Market st. @ C. M. Hays. H. P. ———,—————— Stop Diarrhae and Stomach Cramps. Slegert's Genulne Imported n:utun —