The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 4, 1901, Page 6

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SMITH. +30 Trib CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Gherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: Fremost House; Auditorium Hotel NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldort-Astorfa Hotel; A. Bremtano, 31 Unlon Square: Murray Hill Hotel ———————————————— AMUSEMENTS. Tiveli—""The Belle of New York." Central—*‘Northern Lights.” Grand Opera-house—"The New Boy.” Grand Opera-house—Grand opera, commencing November 11. Alcazar—*Nancy & Co.” Columbla—*"The First Duchess of Marlborough.” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Californfa—*In Old Kentucky." Chutes, Zop and Theater—Vaudeville every afternoon and evening. Pischers—Vaudeville, . . . . . Oakland Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTION BALES el 283 258 All postmnste: Bullding G. Layng—Monday, November 4, at 7:45 p. m., Yearlings, at 721 Howard streel, ON OLD-FASHIONED LINES. OR some weeks trade has been uniformly active F 2nd featureless. It is the same story, day 2ftey day, of briskly moving merchandise, large uaperts, ism prices and general commercial content- ment throughout the land. Even Wall street, which is the most sensitive spot in the country, has been without a ripple, if the recent decline in the copper stocks be excepted. The great staples have moved along smoothly, passing from the farmto the mer- chant, and thence to the consumer or to foreign countries, without especial feature. The labor tron- bles have been left in' the wake, and at the moment the great commercial sea is as tranquil as a mill pond. A glance at the country’s bank clearings for the past week tells the story. There was the usual monotonous increase in the volume of trade over last year, the gain being 235.3 per cent, not an important city showing a- decrease. . The failures were 172, against 165 last year, and were mainly smail and un- important. -The iron and steel trade sent in the old stereotyped reports of an active demand for struc- tural material, with the mills many months behind their orders, and with new business being turned down because it cannot be attended to with the desired promptness. The manufactdrers. of footwear, as intimated a fortnight ago, have been obliged to make a small advancz in their quotations, owing to the higher prices far hides and leather, both of which are active and firm. The textile mills are fully em- ployed, the woolen mills have all the orders they can fill in the near future, and their purchases of raw wool are keeping that product firm, the transactions at Boston alone last week amounting to between 15,000,000 and 20,000,000 pounds. If there be any distinctive feature to trade at the moment it is the scarcity of cars, frequently men- tioned of late. This condition applies to all parts of the United States and is hampering trade every- where. California is calling for cars to move iis grain, hay and fruit, and the coal regions of the East are unable to meet the enormous domestic and large foreign demand for this fuel in cdnsequence of this lack of transportation. The railroads are doing their best, but cannot supply cars any faster than the mills, rushed with all sorts of orders, can get the material and build them. This condition shows the general activity in trade throughout the country. Were there sufficient cars to_carry all the freight offered, the business of the v::mntry would be phe- nomenal. Another feature is the improvement in wheat and corn, ‘the latter leading in point of activity. The Southwest is seriously short of this important staple, and the shortage is zffecting wheat and provisions. The farmers in the Mississippi and Missouri valleys are feeding large quantities of wheat to their stock in lieu of the usual yellow staple, and provisions are also feeling the effects of the shortage. Kansas is buying corn in Missouri, and- the latter State is buying it in Iowa, and much of the usual flow of this grain to Chicago is being thus diverted to the Southwest. Germany is short .110,000,000 bushels of wheat and 37,000,000 bushels of rye, and France is short of wheat, so between all these conditions the grain market has been steadier than for some time, though there is no excitement. There is plenty. of wheat in the world, apparently, for the English mar- keis decline 'to get excited over the current bullish reports and fluctuate but little. This is the general condition of trade, and it is satisfactory. The major part of the' world seems to be carfying on business on old-fashioned lines, without any ‘more speculation than is necessary, with plenty of money to meet its bills and with a fair profit on. the goods. What more does it want? T ——— By Wm. Thoroughbred NDER the new charter there is no more im- THE DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE l I portant office than that of the District At- torney, He has exclusive charge of all the criminal courts, Without his consent no complaint can issue for the . ‘arrest of auy one. This power in the hands of a weak .or dishonest man-would be a most severe menace to the peace and welfare of our city. ) The administration of the incumbent, Mr. Lewis F. Byington, has been honest, capable and successful. He should be re-elected, .~ N . oy THE SAN FRANC HEN Herrin and Jere Burke, the Democsatic railroad bosses, undertook to dictate a yellow dog Supervisor ticket to the so called Republican Conven- tion in this ‘city they were aware they could not make their fight alone.| The corporations back of Herrin and Burke are powerful, but not suffi- ciently so to dominate the city. It wasnecessary to have allies. Those allies could. not be found among decent Republicans, and consequently they were sought. among that class of people who are in favor of running a wide open town in the interests of gam- blers, poolroom touts and the parrons of side door saloons. The candidates for Supervisor nominated by the “convention at the dictation of these bosses are pledged not only to grant specified favors t¢ the corporations, but to do whatever Herrin commands. ' The activity in the campaign’ of Gunst, Goldbeérg, Sam Rainey and Dan Burnsis ample warning to the peopleof what will happen if the cor- poration ticket be elected. We shall have a renewal of 3ll'those disgraceful vices whose suppressio}l cost the city such a prolonged fight. The poolrooms will once more be open for the enticement and the ruin not of men only but of boys and even of girls. We shall have new stories of embezzlements, fobberies; defalcations, murders and sui- cides. Dan Burns and his gang do.not do politics either for their own health or for the health of the city. They are.in it for coin, and, in view ‘of ‘the frequent results of| their methods of getting coin, we might say they are in it for blood. : When they set about selecting candidates for Supervisors the conspiraters chose men most of whom are utterly unknown to the city at large. They bound those men to specific pledges befure they gave the nomination. The character of the men is such that Mr. Wells, the nominee for Mayor, has himself said that had he known what sort of men were to be nominated for Supervisor he would not have accepted a place on the ticket. It is such a set of men as attracts the support of Sam Rainey from the Damo- cratic camp and of Dan Burns from the obscurity in which he had been living ever since he was beaten for the Senate, / & It is not for nothing that Burns, Gunst, Goldberg and Rainey have rallied to the sup- port of the Burke and Herrin ticket. - No intelligent man can be so credulous as to sup- pose these men have been brought together by a mere accident of politics, They are well khown predatory politicians. - They are out for loot. They have a ticket of Super- visors pledged. to do what they wish, and if that- ticket be elected San: Francisco will be the prey of gamblers, touts, toughs and every class of men who net only.fatten upon | the vices of society but breed vices in order that they may fatten upon them. We have then to face in the firét place a seti of rapacious corporations seeking to obtain unfair profits from their ‘dealings with the city, and. in the second place a set 'of gamblers seeking an opportunity to ply their nefarious trades openly where every way- farer may be subject to their enticements and their deadfalls. It is an issue of honesty and morality against dishonesty and immorality.. It isa contest between those who are seeking to give San Francisco a good government and those who are seeking to subvert the government to the uses of vice. ; There is not one defense to be made for the Burke and Herrin ticket. The men who compose it are personally unfit to-make laws-for ithe city. " The pledges théy have given to the corporations are in violation of the first duty of an honest candidate. “The class of bosses whom they have called to their support rouse the suspicions of the intelligent, and the manner in which they are making their canvass by evasions, dodges and subter- fuges confirms the suspicions and infuses the community with a moral certainty that if elected they will open the treasury and the streets to the corporations; and the ¢ity to Burns and Gunst. Against that ticket, whose members were selected solely because the conspirators be- lieved that in this campaign “yellow dogs” could win, there is in the field a body of can- didates nearly every one of whom has served on the Board of Supervisors and has proven himself faithful, efficient, careful of the public interests and indisputably honest. Not a single scandal has arisen out of the proceedings of this Board of Supervisors. Mr. Wells himself has borne testimony to their worth and to the value of their service. They are bound to no corporations nor to any bosses. No disreputable man is active in their behalf. All the bosses and thé boodlers are against them. They stand forth as the champions of law and order and Wecency.. Their record is at once their platform and their guarantee. They merit the support of .every Republichn as well as that of every Inde- pendent and every Democrat. There is no tiSe to talk about -partisasship in #n affair of this kind. Where such Republicans as Burns, Gunst and Goldberg are combined with such Democrats as Herrin, Burke and Rainey, it is time for good citizens to unite to save the city from the vultures. ; ¢ BY FALSE FRETENSH EVELOPMENTS of the campaign have brought to light the fact that the so. called “Union Labor” party with its candidate, E. E. Schmitz, is making the campaign largely by false pretense. The very title of the party is deceprive, ! since it implies that the party is representative of organized labor, whereas it | represents nothing of the kind. Many of the strongest labor unions in the city have | denounced it, repudiated and emphatically declared that it does not in any way stand for union labor principles or for the welfare of organized labor. 1 " The protests of genuine labor unionism against the political adventurers who are try- ing to get votes under the name of union labor have not been spoken hesitatingly ‘or in a corner. On the contrary they have been proclaimed with the utmost vigor and given the widest publicity Organized Labor, a journal published by the labor unions of San Francisco, said to the union workers in its issue of Saturday; - _H you desire to vote prosperity. away from San Francisco; if you desire to vote to disband your unions; if you want to vote the money out of your own.pockets; if you like to vote the bread away from your wife and children—then vote the class ticket, the worst class ticket, the Union Labor party ticket, ¢ am':l you will have accomplished all these. Yes, more, you will have put a nall into the coffin of trades | unionism as far as San Francisco is concerned for the next ten years. * * * History is replete with stich examples. Take the bleeding State of Kansas under its Populist administration, or any other com- monwealth or community where a semi-class party secured control of the reins of government. The result is-always tl!e_ same. Capital hassgone into hiding and labor is begging for employment. Do you want s}:ch a condition in San Francisco? Do you want your unions torn to pieces, your wages reduced to $0 75 a glay and your hours of work increased to ten or twelve? If so, vote the “Labor ticket! Vote against your union! Vote to disband! Vote yourselves into the same condition as those who voted with Dgnls Kearney, who are now working on the outskirts of the city for their board and 25 cents a day, while the S?lldlot agitator is a millionaire. Vote away your independence and self-respect. Vote away the p-osperity of the city—but remember that Organized Labor, as a trade union paper, gave yotl the warning! Shis i That wam?ng uFtcrcd by Organized I:.abor shows what the genuine union working-| men of the city think of the effort that is now being made under the name of “Union Labor” to intrude class antagonisms into municipal politics and to involve ! ‘labor unions in political controversies. Class antagonism in politics would retard the progress of the city and, seriously injure all lines of industry, while the introduction of politics into the unions would inevitably result in disrupting them. \ " . 2. . . . . 5 3 While the party itself is thus making false pretense in calling itself by the name and title of union labor, the candidate for Mayor, Mr. Schmitz, is no better than his party. Responsible union workitigmen have charged him with playing double during the strike, and of violating the principles of unionism in his dsalings with non-union shops. The clxarges have been supporlted by evidenee which has been published in-The Call, and they remain untefuted. Thus Mr. Schmitz no more than the.men who nominated him is a representative of true unionism. He is the representative only of the disturbing ele- ments of the community. His clection would encourage every demagogue, every agita- tor and every discontented blatherskite to at once set about trying to cause new strikes, new class antagonisins and new outbreaks of violence. . p False as are the pretenses under which the Schmitz campaign has been codiicted, it is none the less formidable. It is sure that as soon.as the advocates of a wide open town perceive that the defeat of Wells is certain, they will swing their vote for Schritz. There is but one way to save San Francisco from the - double dange:'\hat menaces, Henry Watterson is reported to have assured the temperance people that they will have no occasion to complaip of the tise of wine at the. White House should he be elected President, so it looks as if Henry had started his campaign-in earnest and expects to | { run on an-anti-Bourbon platform. N Th( Judge who degideé that a woman ht !;ot. to be punished for swindling ‘men who imhe for wives evidently believes that all imony is some- '.hi;ng o‘li a swindle and that there ought not to be any unfair distinctions as to the methods by which swindle is worked. © © Shuciict GIRLS OF FLORO BY SALLY SHARP. - HAVE found out what the Doctor's Daughters' swell “Florodora” double sextet girls are going to wear. The _ whole thing is supposed to be a dead secret, but the girls, " ‘naturally excited over fetching gowns, stunning hats, swell shoes and “just the dearest boas in the world,” got to tell- ing a_few ‘‘nearest and .dearest” about it—and it came to my ears. At first 1 was not going to divuige tha secret, and then I realized’how anxlous the public was to know it and how very anxious I was-to tel it. Well, the gowns are dreams. They are of white crepe. made perfectly plain and clinging with a twelve-inch accordeon pleated rufe around the skirt, which is cut en train.. The sleeves reacl. only to the elbows, and the corsage is finished oif with a “baby neck.” The hats are, of course, the regulation Florodora hats—all black and covereg with nodding black plumes. Long black gloves will be worn and dainty ‘“colonial” tles. The most fetching feature of the costumes, I think, is the pink boas, with long streamers and big pink roses. All the girls In the sextet are pretty. And with that costume on— . » . 3 Now that the girls have settled on their costumes, I under- #tand that the men are passing through the same form of trouble—what to wear. The vexed problem with them is, Shall it be frock coats or Tuxedos and manilas or straw sailors or silk hats? It is a mighty question to decide, and I know that the “gentle strangers” are doing some pretty hard thinking. In the meant!me rehearsals are going on every day., and Bothwell Browne, who Is rehearsing the sextet, has taken to drilling the couples ifidividvally, Hard work and close atten- tion is the slogan these days, and there is not the slightest doubt in my mind that the soclety amateurs will outshine the. professionals who lately charmed us at the Columbia. s « - . . 1 understand that a surprise verse is to be sprung. by the #extet. George Carr has *‘dropped Into poetry” and has reeled oft a verse that is witty, snappy and telling, and jwhich deals out little love pats to the Bohemians who are to take part in *The Billionajre."” 3 % . . The Marguerite Auxiliary of the ‘Childfen’s Hospital gave a delightful dance on Saturday evening at Cotillon Hall. It was an invitational affair, 'but all who attended paid 50 cents at the door, and the sum thus collected was turned over to the hospital. s : The officers of the auxiliary are: Miss Ruth Merrill, presi- dent; Miss Carol Moore, vice president; Miss Merritt Reld, sec- | ond vice president; Miss Helen Ashton, secretary; Miss Maud Payne, corresponding secretary; Miss Kathleen Bull, treasurer. . . . 5 It was a genuine crush at the Nokes tea on Saturday. Fully [ IN FACTS RELATIVE ,J N. Dolph, widow of the late Senator Dolph of Oregon, who is 500 invitated guests greeted the fair debutante, Miss Virginia Rodgers Nokes. Invitations had been issued to all the belles and beaux and swell matrons, and there. was not one member of the select circle that was missing. The debutante is tall and slender and fair, of charming mein and most gracious manner. She has enjoyed the advan- tages of a Paris education and extended European travel. She is the daughter of Mrs. N. L. Nokes and granddaughter of Captain Rodgers of the coast survey. At her tea on Saturday the debutante wore a dainty gown of white tulle over while sitk. Mrs. Nokes, the debutante’s mother, was attired fn a stun- ning, glittering Paris gown of spangled net.. Assisting Mrs. and Miss Nokes to receive the guests were Miss Jessle Wright, Miss Louise Redington, Miss Marion Coffin, Miss Frances Allen, iss Helen Chesehorough, Mrs. James Langhorne, Mrs. Dan Kane and the Mijsses Rodgers. The hours of the tea Were from 4tn 7. . Mrs. Eleanor Martin gave npon teas last Friday at her Broadway home in honor of Mrs. . . another of her delightful after- at present Mrs. Martin’s guest. The following guests were m’-’;nt: Mrs. J. N. Dolph, Mrs. Henry L. Dodge, Mrs. Joh son Van Dyke Middleton, Mrs. James B. Stetson, Mrs. Fred- erick Mears, Mts. Willlam M. Thornton, Mrs. Maurice C. Foote, Mrs. James Ward Keeney, Mrs. Charles MclIntosh Keeney, Mrs, Jules Brett, Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Rithet, Dr. John R. Clark. Miss Wagener, Miss Spreckels, Miss Taylor, Miss Mears, Miss Mullins, Miss King, Miss McBean, Miss Jollifte, Miss Keeney, Miss Bllke:nnn. - . J. C. Stubbs and family have left for Chicago, where they vill,make their future home. E. O. McCormick has taken the Stubbs home on Pacific a\.lue.. i rding to ;he gociety writers in the New York papers, Mre o, Geirichs will come to this city for & short visit previous to her trip ‘b""‘:‘,"v 5 - Rumor still continues to fix many wedding days for the nuptials of Peter Martin and Miss Lillie Oelrichs. Some have it that the wedding of this much talked of pair will be cele- brated before the new year, and o:'hl-; :t‘a.ln .t.h;t the inter- lace un r weelk. ““%fi:"gtflu"“ . %amfim the day Mrs. Charles Oelrichs, mother nr.the r cee, is emphatic in d“‘.flfi there s neither season determin i, G e S e R e untors on the Wadsworth estate in the Genesee Valley. TO THE GROWING NAVIES OF THE GREAT POWERS OF THE WORLD HE Russian battleship Retvizan, built at Cramps’ yard, is practicaily completed. The builders have not only turned out a faster ship than the contract called for, but they have also built it in better time than any other contractor for similar vessels. The keel of the Retvizan was lald November 5, 1893; the launching took place October 23, 1900, and the steam trial October 23, 1%01. The time in building and completing this 12,700-ten battleship, including dellvery of armor, guns and other requisites, /was therefore a little less than two. years between the laying of the keel and the launch- ing, and exactly one year between launch and trial, making a total of practically three years' time. The three battleships Maine, Missouri and Ohio, bullding for the United States navy at Cramps’, Newport News and ‘the Union Iron Works, do not show the same speed in construction. They were contracted for in October, 1898, to be completed as follows during the pres- ent year: Maine, June 1; Ohio, June 5, and Missouri, August 30. 'The latter is still on the stocks, the Ohio was launched May 18 last and the Maine July 27. On October 1 last the Maine was 67 per cent advanced toward completion, the Missourl 4 per cent and the Ohio only 43 per cent. At this rate it is cal- culated that the Maine may be turhed over to the Government in October, 1962, and the other two ships in February, 1903. That is to say, they will be from fifteen to twenty months behind thelr contract date of delivery. The chief cause for this delay 1s due to. the armor manufacturers, who tried to overreach the Government, and consequent waste in time to bring them to reasonable terms. There was no such trouble with the armor for the Russian ship, nor were the contractors hampered with the red tape interference by Government officials which greatly retards building of vessels for the United States navy. The Russian batfleship Tsarevitch, 12,900 tons, bullding in France, was contractéd for simultaneously with the Retvizan in the United States, but is still far from completion. Hey keel ‘was not latd until May, 1899, the launch took place February 23 1ast and her trial will not come-off before July, mext year. : . . . Rear Admiral Crowninshield, chief of the Bureau of Navi- gation, complains of the inadequate number of flag officers in the United States navy, asserting that the inferior rank held by commanders of our squadrons as compared with those of other countries is prejudicial to the interests of our country. He pieads .for more admirals, vice'admirals and rear admirais, and gives the following figues of foreign navies in support of his argument: FLAG OFFICERS IN THE PRINCIPAL NAVIES. Vice Rear NAVIES OF Admirals.| Admirals.| Admirals.| Total. 10 2 38 70 53 15 E) 45 2 (3 15 2 u 2 3 a1 1 7 u = 1 18 19 Crowninshield ignores the fact that there nr' twenty-one and not eighteen rear admirals on our navy register, of which Higginson, Evans and Taylor dre carried as additional. Ad- miral Dewey is performing shore duty, and only six rear ad- mirals are at sea, while fifteen are commandants at navy yards, presidents of boards, etc. It would undoubtedly be ad- vantageous to have a couple of vice admirals to represent our navy properly abroad,sbut the chief difficulty lies in selecting such officers without running the risk of having the unsuccess- ful ‘applicants endeavoring to demonstrate the fact that those selected were “caitiffs’ and cowards and altogether unworthy of the honors bestowed upon them, 3 . . . A serviceable class of gunboats, or sloops as they are de- nominated in England, is building for the British navy. Four have been contracted for and four are in course of construction at the dockyards. They are of 980 tons displacement, 1400 horse- power and 13.25 knots speed, and carry a battery of six -inch quick-firers and four 3-pounders. ' The Rinaldo, bulit by Lairds, at a cost of $335,000, made ‘13%; knots on her trial last month. Four of these sloops are sheathed with wood and coppered, which, in conjunction with their light draught, make this class of vessels .very serviceable in tropical seas and particularly useful for mavigation of rivers and shallow waters. It is the type recommended by our Navy Depnrtmenj for service in the Philippines and of which a number will urfdcubtedly be built in the near future. . . In France and Russia all mercantile ships are at the dis- posal of the Government in time of war. In Germany but eighty steamers are subsidized for war purposes, and in Great Britain forty-eight only are subject to Government use by vir- -tue of subsidies. France pays annually $1,160,000 in subsidy for ship. construction and $2,440,000 on navigation. Neither England, Germany, Russia nor the United States pays any ship-building subsidy, and the. sums granted for navigation are 3$337,500 by Germany, $1,639,475 by Russia, including the volunteer fleet, and $330,000-by Great Britain, granted to the West India and Cana- dian. trades. P 2 . . THé harbor’ of Emden on the North Sea is being déepened with a view of accommodadting vessels of the greatesi draught. The outer harbor Is to be dredged to a depth of 38 feet and the inner harbor from the mouth of the river Ems will be 33 feot deep for a distance of ten miles. The harbor is open through- out the year and will be serviceable for the largest steamers and war vessels. & 3 3 In the matter of coaling stations Russia is.the most defi- clent of all- naval powers at the present time, as along the ocean highway from St. Petersburg or Odessa to Port Arthur she has not a single coal bunker. This important question is now receiving the attention of the Government and places ark looked for in the Mediterranean, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. . The French torpedo-boat No. 124 was sunk last month in - collision with another torpedo-boat, No. 139, off the island of Corsica. The bulkhead forward of the engine room gave way, filling the boat. Bhe belonged to the third class, was bulit in 1890 and rated at 20 knots. . . . & It is rumored at the Portsmouth dockyard that one of the new battleships fitting for sea Is being altered to carry a sub- marine boat. .WW%M‘WMW%. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. AN OCTOBER DATE-N., City. The 8th of October, 1865, fell on Sunday. EARTHQUAKE—-W, B. K., City. The earthquake of October, 1868, in San Fran- cisco occurred on the 2ist. NEWPORT NEWS—8ubscriber, .City. Fhe men who went out on strike at New- | port News returned to work on the same conditions as before the strike, SANTA ROSA PAPERS—A. 8., Rich- mond District, City. The newspapers pub- lished in Santa , Cal,, are the Farm- er, Methodist College Bulletin, Democrat, Republican and Business Col- lege Journal. . DQES NOT REVIVE IT—M., Ballard, Cal. Part payment of a debt that has be- come barred by the statute of limitation does not revive the whole debt in Califor- nia. If an individual receivés part pay- ment of ay outlawed debt he is just that much in. / - TO DAWSON—J. A. H, Alameda, Cal. Mail for Dawson is received at any time during the winter months, is sent to Seat- tle, and trom there to Skaguay, from which place fetters only are sent aver- land about the 1st, 8th, 15th and 22d of each month. TRANSPORT SERVICE-R. F. D, Marysville, Cal. One who desires to se- cure a position ‘as porter, second cook or walter on a United States transport must file®an application at the transport service office, headquarters Folsom-street whart, ‘San Franclsco. 3 Shsga sty IN CASE OF DEATH-Inquirer, City. Your guestion :s a general one and is met with the general answer that if a can- didate for office receives the highest num- ber of votes, but dies the day after elec- n, the one- in office holds over until auccessor is elected and qualifies. SUNDAY CONTRACTS—A. O. 8., City. Contracts made on Sunda; suppored to be void. But'this is a matter that largely depends on local statutory law. In the absence of a statutory inhihi- tion, parties may make a valid contract on Sunday as well as on any other-day. and that is for every good citizen, every genuine lubor unionist, every taxpayer, every Wm’ru—mxmt.' N e opponent of corporate corruption and of unlimited gambling to vote for Tobin and for | constitution of Calfornia his Supervisor ticket. ; ; . : e e el PERSONAL - MENTION. Dr. A. W. Hyde, of Brookings, 8. D., is at the Russ. Dr. C. P. Dolan, of Nomie, is a late ar- rival at the Russ. . James Feeley, a merchant of Red Bluff, is at the California. G. D. Plato, a merchant of Modesto, Is staying at .the Lick. Dr. A. E. Hall, of S8an Jose, is one of the arrivals at the Lick. Captain E. R. Sterling, U. B. A., of Port Townsend, is a guest at the Grand. George Le Fish. a merchant of Nome, is registered at ine Palace with his wife. State Senator Thomas Flint of San Juan is at the Palace in company with his wife. . E. C. Merrill and George F. King, busi- ness men of Santa Rosa. are among the guests at the California.b Mary Van Buren, actress, arrived yesterday from New York and is regis- tered at the Occidental. J. P, Lindsey, superintendent of mall service of the Santa Fe Bln::y.n:: registered at the Palace. 3 Paul Dresser, the composer of a num- ber of popular songs, s registered at the Palace from New York. J. H. Arton, a prominent physician of Guatemala, has joined his family, who left New York to meet him, at the Occi- dental. Congressman N. B. Scott and wife West Virginia have engaged apartments | at the Palace. They are accompanied by their son, Lieutenant G. T. Scott and wife of Fort Banks, Mich.,, who were re- cently married in this city. . @ Frinrisibbimrirbincbiir b be a misdemeanor (as, for instan i turbing the peace) the arrest e.:: Kobx of the magistrate indorsed upon the war- may hold court on e i mea mnmmmmnflonm‘ A., Btockten, correspondent wishes WANTS TO KNOW—A Cal. This e ‘A CHANCE TO SMILE. “There are two kinds of grip going ‘“What are they?”’ ““The kind a person gets who can afford to stay in bed and the kind a person gets who ean’t afford to stay in bed.”—Chicago “Record. “*Murdstone, led me $15), will you?" *“What for, old fellow?"” “I want to pay my wife’s funeral ex- Dpenses.” £ ;‘vcvermlnly." g rites check for th a e e amount and hands “Borry to hear of your wite's death, Gagson. When did she die?"\ s ,wAn:out a Ml and a half ago. The ‘woman I'm going to m: to-mor- M’zl,;::}::s;:'ldl ntto::"m first. 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