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6 THE SAN FRANCISCO. CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1901, +++...AUGUST 10, 1901 SATURDAY. ..o .iiceres JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietar. Address All Communications to W. "ANAGER’S OFFICE.. I L HLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, . F. Telephone Press Z0L. L DITORIAL ROOMS 217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, § Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday). one year. $6.00 DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), € months. =5 DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), 3 months. 15 DATLY CALL—By Single Montb... L3 FUNDAY CALL. One Year. e WEEELY CALL One Year. 10 All postmasters nre autiorized to recelve subscriptions. Bample coptes Will be forwarded when requested. | Mafl subscribers in orderiag change of address should be rarticular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRFSS in order to imsure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE. -...1118 Broadway €. 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Layng—Thursday, August 15, Trotting Horses, [ been duly published in The Call of yesterday, and now THE FIGHT FOR REPUBLICANISM OMPLETE nominations have now been made by district clubs of the Republican Primary League, the names of the candidates have the issue that confronts genuine Republicans is that of electing every man on every district ticket. No one can mistake the question submitted to the Republicans of San Francisco in this contest. It is that of determining whether the party is to be self- governing and maintain honest politics, or is to sur- render to the control of bosses and>become the sup- port of predatory politicians. Kelly and Herrin and Gage have formed a com- bination for the purpose of controlling the politics and the municipal administration of this city. They have brought to their aid the State machine, the water front push, a gang of bosses from other counties, a part of the Federal brigade, the slum element that follows the heels of Kelly, the Southern Pacific crowd that is dominated by Herrin and the followers of the Democratic boss, Sam Rainey. By the aid of those forces the bosses hope to carry a sufficient number of districts to give them control of the convention. Should they succeed they will put into the field under the Republican name a ticket that, with the excep- tion of a few men nominated to give it respectability, would be wholly under boss control and would mean anything rather than good government. No stanch and stalwart Republican can donsent to yield the party to the control of such men as are now gathered around Kelly; nor would any independent citizen support a party that should consent to such a surrender. A Kelly victory at the primaries would mean a Republican defeat when the municipal elec- tion takes place. The whole issue of providing San Francisco with good government is therefore at stake upon the Republican primaries. That fact should not be overlooked by any citizen. The issue is clean cut and Republicans must face it. That the bosses will resort to all sorts of falsehoods and trickery for the purpose of deceiving the unwary is to be expected. Dirty politics is their element. They delight in it and would practice it even if there were no profit in it. Consequently voters must be on the lookout for frauds on election day or before. Doubtless many a Kelly heeler will pretend to be an anti-boss candidate on election day, and will seek votes by such misrepresentations. Men who have not posted themselves on the course of the campaign may be deceived by such tactics, and accordingly at 721 Howard street | 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER. Call! subscribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their mew | resses by notifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer | resorts and is represented by a local afemt im il towos on the coast, every genuine Republican should make sure that he has the right ticket when he goes to the polls. Only a few days intervene between now and the date of the primaries. They should be days of activity 2mong the better elements of the Republican party. The bosses are active and are working day and night to rally every voter, whether he belong to the Kelly or to the Rainey push, so that they can swing the whole crowd at the Republican primaries. It is a fore- gone conclusion that the vote at the Democratic pri- maries will be light. Nearly the whole body of the in the sulky have all the argument. Cresceus is not without supporters who believe him to be the best horse that ever lived. One of them, for example, writ- ing for the Springfield Republican, says: “Alix’s marlz of 2:0334 was reduced a half-second in five years, but here s a hotse that cuts the mark down two halves of a second in & week, and thereby upsets the cal- culations of mathematicians who figure that if Alix’s mark was reduced only a half-second in five years it would be something like 1930 before the two-minute mark was reached. And it must be considered that Crescetss is a stalllon, while the record-holders have always been mares or geldings, Cresceiis is without doubt the finest horse the world has ever seen, and if he does not succeed in making a mile in two min- utes he is likely to ptit the record below its present figure.” T A Texas desperado was sentenced a few days ago to fifty years’ imprisonment for murder, but justice will not be satisfied until she tries him for two more murders, The blind lady of the Lone Star State must think that her criminals are immortal. A PROBABLE ROYAL VISIT. AMILTON KING, United States Minister to H Siam, is reported to have been informed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of that king- dom that King Chulalongkorn would like a pay a visit to this country in the near future. It appears he is to visit Japan next year, and would be glad of an opportunity to extend his tour to the United States, but he does not intend to come unless he can be sure that he will be received in a way that will not lower him in the eyes of his people. His Majesty, it seems, is the more particular on the subject of his reception by reason of certain mis- representations which were made of his tour of Eu- rope some years ago. He wishes to guard against similar misrepresentations or misinterpretations should he visit us, and accordingly there will have to be a good deal of diplomatic work done in arranging for the visit. The Bangkok correspondent of the Philadelphia Record in discussing the intention of the King says: “He appreciates that for one monarch to visit the realm of another means an invitation from the sov- ereign host, and more or less recognition on the part of the Government to which he is of necessity in the position of a guest. He at the same time appreciates that with our republic it must be quite otherwise, and while he fully understands this and would be glad to go to the United States in a private capacity, if he could do so, for the sake of the education it would be to himself and to his people, he feels a fear that to go in such a manner might be regarded in Siam as in- dicating something of hostility, or, at least, indiffer- ence, to his country.” Americans residing in Siam are reported to be de- sirous of having the King make a visit to this country, as they believe it would have the effect of promoting AN AMERICAN MILLIONAIRE MAY BE MASTER OF OSBORNE HOUSE < TO LEASE THE PLACE. HERE is every prospect that an American will soon be- | come master of the royal palace, Osborne House, Isle of ‘Wight. King Edward has determined to get rid of it for two reasons—its inaccessibility and the fact that it costs $60,- 000 a year to keep up. The latter is, of course, the more im- portant reason in the estimation of his Majesty, whose econom- ical trend has been shown by the sale of sherries from the royal cellars and by his discharge of the old retainers of the late Queen Victoria. At first the King decided to sell Osborne House outright, and it was then understood that Willlam Waldorf Astor would pay for it any price his Majesty might name. Mr. Astor’s in- tention was to present the famous royal residence to his daughter on the occaslon of her marriage to the Duke of Rox- burghe. There {s, by the way, a hitch in the arrangements for this wedding becauvse of the Duke's objection to the stringency of the marriage settlements. His Majesty’s private lawyers, however, called his atten- tion to a clause in the will of his mother, Queen Victoria, un- der which he was only given a life title to the palace. It was the late Queen’'s favorite residence. At Osborne she relaxed the royal etiquette, cut out all formality and became quite neighborly . with the folk in her vicinity. There she delighted In entertaining her old friends informally and in storing her = - 5 KING EDWARD FINDS THE LATE QUEEN’S FAVORITE RESIDENCE AN EXPENSIVE OLD PILE AND IS ABOUT IT IS SAID THAT EITHER WILLIAM WALDORF ASTOR, CHARLES T. YERKES OR SENATOR W. A. CLARK MAY BECOME THE LESSEE. - favorite books and bric-a-brac. mnm:gonz could not sell the palace, King Edward deter- mined to lease it, and his advisers were Instructed to look around for a lessee with “good money.” These advisers have decided on an “American millionaire” as the most likely to appreciate the tangible and sentimental value of the property, expressed by the conversational powers of the realm’s coin in appropriate and necessary proportions. Senator Willlam A. Clark of Montana is anxious to lease the palace, and it is said he has written to the King asking him “how much he will take.” Another millionaire ambitious to waik with the feet of own- ership where royalty loved to tread is Charles T. Yerkes. Mr. Yerkes some time ago publicly stated that an American mil- lionaire could not lead a desirable life in America; that Eng- land was the only field for true money domesticity, and that he intended to select for himself a quiet residence “among the green lanes of Albion,” or words to that effect. He sees his op- portunity in the lease of Osbérne House, and he, too, is ready to pass to his Majesty a check for the desired amount. Mr. Astor is still a bidder, though the hiteh in the marriage arrangements of Miss Pauline Astor may lead to hesitancy on his part. The 0ld servants of the late Queen could very likely be pro- cured by any of the milllonaires and the royal atmosphere be thereby preserved. > | L e 30 2 e e o 00 o o o “EMPLOYER” REPLIES TO “WORKMAN” AND DECLARES trade. Consequently they will make an effort to get et the President to extend an invitation to his Majesty. If the tour be arranged the King will come in his own | touts and toughs that support the bosses of that camp | will this time help Kelly and Gage and Herrin to | capture the Republican nominating convention. That EVERYTHING BELONGS TO EVERY- BODY. Temperance Union, in session at Pacific Grove, | has been enlightened by several learned men | on social snd economic questions. Professor Fowler | of the State University finds all existing industrial and | social conditions subject to indictment and trial on | several counts, and to sentence to public ownership of | public utilities as a remedy. In his view such solu- tion to immediately happify labor and put the | demon capital in a clese cage, where he can do no | more harm to the world. The public ownership of all the large utilities is the rule in those parts of Europe where labor is the unhappiest and the most anxious to escape. We are receiving our largest, and probably our least welcome and least desirable, im- migration from countries on the continent of Europe where these experiments in state paternalism have gone the farthest. If public paternalism is capable of | taking the spider out of labor’s biscuit and lifting | from its back all burdens, the tide of immigration should be from this country instead of to it. Human instinct seems 2 more reliable guide than the misdi- rected ifftelligence of men. Nothing is easier than | to dream a Utopia. Fourier, Gronlund and Bellamy have created ideal conditions in their dreams, but wherever the attempt is made to concrete those ideals and put them in every day practice one may look for the very centers of human discontent. American advocates of public paternalism go fur- ther than is proposed in Europe. ers at Pacific Grove recognized the advantage of the trusts in economizing production, and, as they were 2 good thing that far, in his estimation, proposed that they be passed around by the government assuming ownership and administration of their business. This means public ownership of the metal, textile and ma- chinery manufacture of the country, and the prosecu- tion of all those industries as a public enterprise. The only industry left out of this generous pro- gramme scems to be the tilling of the soil. Just why the government is not to be the only farmer in the country as well as the only railroader and manufac- turer is not made clear. If Uncle Sam can hold the lever of a locomotive, make cloth, machinery and steel ingots, why can’t he take in hand the plow and pruning-hook and produce anything from prunes to spuds? There is no instance on record of permanent bene- fit to any nation or people that sought contentment in any of these experiments. Trials of artificial schemes in finance, industry and other things which normally are the evolution of natural causes have always failed to bring the results promised by dream- ers. Men have rushed to the place where these rain- bows touch the earth to dig for the promised pot of gold, but have never found it. They have returned to the old way of work, thrift, temperance and eco- nomy, and, walking therein, have continually bet- tered their condition and added to their basket and their store. Wise men prefer to depend upon themselves to get their share under conditions that make it their own rather than run the risk of sharing all with the lazy, thriftless and drunken in a state where everything is everybody’s. THE economic saction of the Women’s Christian | S Once more the rumor has been sent Broadcast that Pzul Kruger will visit us. It is said that he will land in the United States about the middle of September. Much as we may sympathize with his cause, the won- der is, Why is he coming? Clifton R. Breckinridge has emerged from retire- ment to say free silver is dead in Arkansas; so it seems that even that State is keeping up with the pro-« cession S The Democratic statesman who said “There is no political situation this year” was slightly mistaken, " There is situation enough, but there is no Democracy #n it, or even near enough to it to see it. One of the speak- | s the danger that confronts Republicanism. ‘Without further delay every Republican should ob- tain a list of the delegates nominated by the Republi- can League Club in his district and carefully com- pare it with the tickets offered him for voting on election day. The only way to beat the bosses is to vote for the candidates nominated by the Primary League. A vote cast for those delegates will be a vote for true Republicanism, honest politics, a strong ticket and good government. Kitchener seems to have found that burning the homesteads of the Boers has about the same effect as knocking down a hornets’ nest. THE .HORSE OR THE SULKY. RESCEUS’ wonderful performance in lower- ing the trotting record has naturally given C rise to a good deal of discussion as to the probability that we shall have a two-minute trotter within the near future. Some experts, accepting the record of Cresceus when compared with that of for- mer trotters as an evidence of the immense advance which breeding has produced in the speed of the American horse, calculate it will not be long before a horse will be bred who can make his mile in an even two minutes. Other cxperts insist that the increased speed shown by trotters of late years has been due not to the breeding of the horse but to the improve- ment of the sulky. They even go so far as to in- sist that it is doubtful whether Cresceus could beat the record of Maud S if he had to pull the old- fashioned sulky. One of these experts writing for the Philadelphia Enquirer states the case in this way: “The sulky that Lady Suffolk pulled in her record of 2:20%4 weighed 95 pounds. The sulky that Flora Temple pulled in her record of 2:1934 weighed 65 pounds; the one that Maud S pulled in her record of 2:0834 weighed 48Y4 pounds. They were all high-wheel sulkies. The bike sulky that Nancy Hanks pulled in her record of 2:04 weighed 40 pounds; the one The Abbot pulled in his record of 2:03%4 weighed 20 pounds. It has always been conceded by all practical horsemen that the dif- ference between the bike sulky weighing 40 pounds and the high-wheel sulky weighing 484 pounds to the average horse is 474 to 5 seconds. Nancy Hanks’ record of 2:04 to a 40-pound ‘bike’ sulky is 434 sec- onds faster than Maud S's record of 2:0834 to high wheels. Now, any genuine trotting horse man admits that the difference between the high wheels and bike is from 4% to 5 seconds, which places Nancy Hanks on an equality with-Maud S. The sulky The Abbot pulled in his record of 2:03% weighed half as much as the one that Nancy Hanks pulled, and his record is three-quarters of a second faster than Nancy Hanks’. Now, the whole thing is in a nutshell. Does the weight that the trotter pulls when making extreme speed count or not? count, then the trotting horse is 5% seconds faster than he was fifteen years ago. And if weight and fric- tion do count, then the trotter is about where he was ‘in speed’ fifteen years ago.. And you can’t make anything else out of it. Facts don't lie, and you can’t smother facts with theories.” That breeding and training have immensely bene- fited the American trotter is not to be doubted. It is asserted that at the beginning of the nineteenth cen- tury there was not a three-minute horse in the United States, while now we have something like 17,500 trot- ters with records of 2:30 or better. The improvement naturally enough has advanced most rapidly in late years. It took twenty-five years to reduce Flora Temple's record of 2:1934 to 2:10 with the old high- wheeled sulky, but since the introduction of the bike sulky the time has been lowered by trotter after trot- ter, until now the horse that will reach the coveted two-minute gait is thought to be almost in sight. It must not be supposed that those who believe the increase of speed to be due mainly to the improvement If weight and ffiction don’t,| yacht to San Francisco, and from this point will travel as the guest of the United States. The reception of a royal personage always entails a great deal of expense and no little trouble and an- noyance to American officials, but in this case it would seem to be worth while undertaking it. There is a considerable demand in Siam for the products of civ- ilization, but at present nearly the whole of that de- mand is supplied from Europe. Still, American trade is making considerable progress there. The corre- spondent of the Record says: “The stars and stripes have not been seen in the harbor of Bangkok for over six years, but American commerce is finding its way there, and her products are commending them- selves in competition with the cheap stuffs that flood the Orient. Japan has opened her doors to Ameri- can goods, and the ways of Japan are the ambition of her little sister. All of this makes the King the more desirous of knowing the United States.” The subject is worth the attention of the Pacific Commercial Museum, since the King’s project seems to offer an opportunity to extend our trade in Asia. The directors of the museum might at least encour- age his desire to visit us by assuring the President that if he will invite the King San Francisco will guar- antee him a royal welcome. e A West Virginian was fined §5 the other day for cursing a trial jury which could not agree upon a verdict. Since it is reasonable to suppose that the punishment fit the crime it is hardly necessary to ad- monish reputable people not to hazard their interests in the keeping of West Virginian juries. SHIPPING FRUIT. THE proposition of the Agricultural Department to make practical study of foreign markets for fruit, and of the preparation.of the product to meet the taste of the consumer, is perhaps misunder- stood. One great bar to our export trade is the failure of the American exporter to study his market. He is in the habit of preparing his product in a certain way for the home consumer, and if the foreign consumer does not like it that way he can let it alone. Our meat products did not appeal to the foreign market until foreign packers came to this country and cut the meat in such packages and cured it in such a way as made it acceptable to the trade abroad. Germany has been expanding her foreign trade by doing just what the Secretary of Agriculture pro- poses to do. Scientific attention and the bringing of trained minds to the assistance of the producer ac- count in great part for Germany’s success in com- peting with England. It is now proposed that the Agricultural Department induce the fruit-growers to entrust the picking, packing and preparation of their product for export to scientific oversight, in order that by commercial honor and intelligent study of methods they may capture a market. Toeinduce this, risk is transferred from the producer to the Gov- ernment. Not many producers will avail themselves of this offer, but their experience will enlighten the entire mass of producers, who will be equally bene- fited. ‘When a market is attained by such methods let it be understood that it can be held and made perma- nently profitable only by continuing the means that have captured it. Commercial honor, fidelity to trademarks when once established, and treating the consumer in good faith, are the only means of holding a market. One attempt at deception, once putting inferior goods under = superior label, will destroy in a year a market that has been conquered by many years of honest effort. There is a profitable market in the world for every pound of first-class California fruit, and for every pint of first-class California wine and brandy. This market is quite unaffected by hard times, since the people who want these things are always able to pay for them. i DITOR SAN FRANCISCO CALL: “A Workman,” it appears to me, fails to comprehend your editorial on the equality of incorporated labor and incorporated capital. ‘Wherever there is organization there is power, and wherever there is power there is potential abuse. This was soon recognized when capital appeared in corporate form, and the law immediately began to hedge corporations around not to destroy their power for good but to limit their power for evil. Legal responsibility followed them steadily and in the process expanded into the great body of the law of "cor- porations, which the, courts daily enforce. Now labor organ- izes as did capital. Is it likely that the resulting power will be always used so wisely that it needs no legal restraint? The employer of labor, corporate or individual, cannot evade responsibility. He must keep his contracts and agree- ments with his employes and his customers and creditors becanse the courts make him. But a labor union has no legal standing. It may make a contract to-day and break it to-morrow at will. But the same contract can be enforced in the courts against the employer. As T understand your editorial, it was to advocate equality of legal responsibility between the employer and the labor union. The mcmbers of a union can now destroy an employer's business and prevent his use of his plant and property and the law offers hfm no remedy. . As for the contracts which “A Workman"” says are always kept by the union, look at the agreements made and signed in UNION MEMBERS HAVE VIOLATED THEIR AGREEMENTS While Not Disapproving Organized Labor, He Says the Employers Will Re- fuse to Submit to Attempts to Desiroy Control of Their Own Business. claiming a power to vitiate contracts that the constitution denies to the States and a power that the courts themselves cannot exercise, except on the ground of good conscience and public policy. Employers do not oppose organized labor. They approve it. But they oppose and will resist to the end the attempt to use the power of organization to destroy their control of their own business. It is not a question of wages nor of hours. The lawfulness of a purpose may be judged by the lawfulness of the means used in its accomplishment. Will “A Workman" insist that 1t is lawful to use violence and intimidation to pre- vent a non-union workman from getting employment and earning his bread? Is it lawful to compel a man to join any soclety or organization before he is allowed to support himself by labor? Have the police ever been called on to protect one set o employers against personal violerce from another set? it ever been necegsary to call on all the police in the city to pro- tect union workmen against personal violence by non-union workmen or by employers? Is there anything more pitiful in the day laborer carrying his lunch back home to be eaten in idleness than In the work- men in this city who violated their written agreements with their employers at the order of the walking delegate and quit work with no grievance and wept as they did it? Employers will submit to no more invasion of thetr right to do business by a legally irresponsible power. Let responsi- THE SUMMER SCHOOL. Editor San Francisco Call: The Berke- ley Summer School, which has just closed, has been interesting in many ways. The lectures of Professor Stephens have been masterly throughout. On Monday last, as indeed on several previous occasions, the class broke out into prolonged applause. His thorough mastery of detail, breadth of view, felicity of expression, and, above all, his exquisite sense of humor have helped students to get clearer views not only of American and Indian history but also of such general subjects as expansion and the governing of brown people by ‘white. Professor Bacon's lectures on nine- teenth century history were of special in- terest to many, especially his discourses on socialism, Kipling and the Boer war. In Professor Page's class in economics discussions were had on such vital ques- tions as wages, sound money, strikes and unions, and some students at any rate will go away with much clearer ideas on these matters than they previously enter- tained. particularly for students of character, has been that of the cranks we have had from the East. The sensational teacher of rhetoric who dealt in unpleasant epithets was, after all, vastly entertalning. And it is only fair to say that, however strange he may be as a teacher, his bocks show that he knows how to express him- seif on paper in good, clear, forcible Eng- lish. And then this last celebrity, this prophet crying in the wilderness to be- nighted, bigoted, narrow-minded teachers of the United States—what an interesting specimen of warped humanity! The gen- tleman does not seem to recognize what it means when teachers who have been con- fined to the schoolroom for nine or ten months put in their summer not in the mountains or at the seaside but at the university. I for one am foolish enough to be proud to belong to a body of work- ers so thoroughly interested in their work. And do a teacher’s duties neces- sarily make him narrow? As a teacher of history, is he not carefully guarding himself against being in any way a par- | tisan? In dealing with students, does not the teacher study above all things to maintain a strict impartiality? Is he not continually careful of the religious sensi- bilities of the children committed to his charge? Is not the teacher usually found | holding a prominent position in the Ift- erary, historical and scientific societies of | the place in which he lives? Can the pro- fession that thus makes him careful, tactful, considerate, make him at the | same time ‘narrow-minded, bigoted and this city and broken by the unions and their members. Look again at the same kind of contracts made in the Eastern steel mills and ordered broken by President Shaffer, who says to the union workmen that their oaths and obligations to the union But perhaps the most interesting study, | Casey. * PERSONAL MENTION. Count Arnin is at the Palace. Jesse D. Carr, the Salinas capitalist, is a guest at the Palace. ‘W. N. Sherman, an attorney of Fresmno, is registered at the Lick. Dr. H. Thompson is at the Grand on a short visit to this city from his home in Boomville. G. McM. Rosg, a wealthy mining man of Virginia City, Nev., is among the recent arrivals at the Occidental. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Brown, prominent society people of Los Angeles, are among the late arrivals at the Palace. J. H. Bernett, traffic manager of the Nevada, California and Oregon Railroad, is in town on a short business trip. P. Ottersen, Consul General of Sweden and Norway to Yokohama, Japan, is at the Palace, where he arrived yesterday en route to the Orient to assume his post. ZE Californians in Washington. TWASHINGTON, Aug. 9—The following Californfuns arrived to-day and registered as follows: At the Metropolitan—C. H. Merithew and wife of Oakland; at the Naticnal—C. H. Phillips of San Francisco. [ e e e e S R R e e ] ignorant’? Of course there are excep- tions—the gentleman himself may be one of theri—but they are exceptions that prove the rule. But, to leave this slanderer of his more humble co-laborers, I believe that every student who has attended the summer school at Berkeley this year has thor- oughly enjoyed the work. Perhaps no one is more deserving of a word of thanks than the uniformly courteous librarian, Mr. Layman, who with his assistants is always readv to help the earnest “thirst- ers” after knowledge. Let us ‘ever re- member that after all it is these patient, reliable people who Keep the world mov- ing, and who, without traveling up and down the country heralding strange no- tions to attract a passing notoriety, are steadliy performing the duty that iles nearest. And if any have been hurt or discouraged by the thoughtless words of any speaker, let them, as they return faithfully to devote themselves to the dis- charge of their commen round and daily task, remember the words of the Master Teacher, saying that they who help the children shall in nowise lose their reward. August 8. HERBERT LEE, High School, Portland, Or. —_— Over 8,000,000 persons in German insured against liness. iy bility to the law equal the power that is assumed and they will know where they stand. than the law of the land, which tracts at_the dictation of Mr. Shaffer, We cannot have a higher law impairs the obligations of con- Mr. O'Connell or Mr. We are not striking at labor unions, but raor- dinary power unrestrained by law or responsibility. & T oOT ility. precede and are more binding than their contracts. This is San Francisco, Aug. 9. AN EMPLO 7 B oot e S TER. @ il e e e e e b @ ANSWERS TO QUERIES. COUNT IN CRIBBAGE—C., City. Three sixes, a four and a five turned up in bage count 21. e g SNOWSTORM—O. S., City. There is no record of the first snowstorm in San Francisco, which became known by that name in 1347, TWO OLD STEAMERS—A. 8. There are no records in this city nish the dimensions 1 River steamers that thirty or more ¥ ., City. that fur- of old Mississippt were on the river ars ago, RIGHT OF BURIAL—M. N, City. A Catholic owner of a plat in 2 Catholic cemetery is not permitted to have buried therein the remains of a person of a aif- ferent denomination without permission of the Archbisuop in whose u the cemetery is. v COMPOSITUM—E. D. H., Oakland, Cal. Compositum miraculi causa” is Latin Quoted from the works of Tacitus, the famous Roman historian who lived about A. D. 53-117. The words mean “a narra- tive made up only for the sake of the wonder which it may occasion”; one of those fictions the object of which is less to Inform than to startle the reader. From this it would seem that yellow Journalism dates back to that early period. LARGEST HOTELS—S. S., Giant, Cal. The largest hotel in the United States, aside from the temporary ome at Buffalo opened for the Pan- New York city. Palace in San Francisco. 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