The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 2, 1901, Page 6

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(long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619.") NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: €. C.CARLTON...cc.ovcvssesvesss Herald NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH ..30 Tribune Building + NEW YORK NEWE STANDS: Waldorf-Astoris Hotel; A. Brentado, 31 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Shermen House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Premont House; Auditorfum Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1406 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—&7 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open untl $:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 632 McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until #:30 o'clock. 1841 Miseion, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, cormer Sixteenth, open until § o'clock. 1086 Valencia, open until § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until § o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until § p. m. AMUSEMENTS. California—*A Btranger in a Strange Land.” Tjvoli—‘The Gelsha.” The Streets of New York." ‘An Efiemy to the King.” ‘The Girl From Maxim's.” Orpheum—Vaudeyille. Grand Opera-house—Matinee, “‘Le Nozze di Figaro.” ing—'La Boheme” and ‘‘Cavalleria Rusticana.” Chutes, Zoo and Theater—Vaudegille every afternoon and e ] Fischer's—Vaudeville. Oskland Racetrack—Races to-day. Even- AUCTION SALES. By Wm. G. Layng—Tuesday evening, December 3, at 7:45 o'¢lock, Thoroughbred Horses, at 721 Howard street. CONTINUED TRADE ACTIVITY. ENERAL trade showed no material change G st week. The country’s bank clearances exhibited a slight gain of 9.2 per cent over the corresponding week last year, the gain at New York falling to an increase of only 7.4 per cent, while Boston, Baltimore aud New Orleans showed small losses. The largest gain of the most important cities was 42.7 per cent at San Francisco. The failures for the week were 198, against 184 last year, and were generally sma!l and unimportant. Wall street was quiet during the week, and the only ircident was< a sharp break in copper stock (due to the reported cutting of prices for copper) to the low- est point since the floating of the Amalgamated Cop- per combitie. Otherwise the street was featureless. The recent exports of gold to Europe, as previously mentioned, have bzd no effect on the market, as the stock of monetary gold in the country November 1 was ahout $1,170.000,000, which is being continually augmented by Pacific Coast receipts from Alaska and Australia and the regular home production, so, as one New York banker puts it, “the exit of a few millions to Europe need cause no concern, especially as it will afford reiief in Europe, where most needed.” The same authority says of the current occasional shrinkages in Wall street: “Had prices been allowed to react to 2 more natural basis in response to the United States Steel strike, the corn crop disaster and the assassination of President McKinley we sho“ld have now an excellent situation for legitimate activity and advancing prices, but the powerful and persistent manner in which the market was sustained against those adverse {actors made outside buyers hesitate.” The merchandice business of the country is proceed- ing smoothly, apperently regardless of what is going on in Wall street. Scarcity of rolling stock en the great railroads is still hampering the output and mar- keting of many manufactured products, and some iron mills have been obliged to close down, not be- cause of lack of business, but wholly owing to their inability to obtain engines and cars to deliver their output. Yet the different works are turning out cars ang engines as fast as they can. This condition, while working hardships in some individual cases, speaks well for the activity in trade throughout the country. As far as the call for goods is concerned, it seems as if the country never would get iron and steel enough to satisfy the demand, which is breaking all records, in spite of the increased production and the recent advance in prices. The textile trades are re- ported in better condition, there having been large sales of cotton goods for China, which have materi- ally increased the export valuations of this product for the year. The woolen mills are also actively em- ployed and the retailers and jobbers report a brisk call for heavyweight goods. The boot and shoe tride continues to send out good reports, most of the New England mills being in opeggton, with an active de- mand for their output. Wheat has not changed much during the past week, the price having been sustained by the strength in the minor grains, which are scarce | throughout the West and Southwest, and by the re- appearance of the French as buyers in the American markets. Thus it will be seen that the trade situation is favorable all around. Locally there is nothing new. The recent rains throughout the central and northern portions of the State have enhanced the general fecling of confidence, and the sale of over 20,000,000 pounds of prunes at San Jose to an Eastern syndicate has infused new life and strength into the dried fruit market. ' Exporters, wholesalers and jobbers all report a good demand for merchandise, with easy collections, and the retailers are doing a brisk holiday trade. The situation in this city and State is fully as flattering as in any other section of the United States, which is saying a good deal. . Tolstoy says that after working in the fields he can do his mental work better than when he gives his THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 190 FEDERAL RELATIONS TO TRUSTS. that President Roosevelt intends making some recommendation concerning trusts in his mes- sage to Congress, while at the same time there seems to have been a presentation of the question in the Northwest, where the Governor of a State threatens to attack the recent railway combination. While much has been said, little is really under- stood about this question of trusts, which, in the many details of most interest to the public, is riot as complicated as might b.c supposed. The jurisdiction of the Federal Government extends: only to matters relating to interstate affairs. Where the question lies wholly within ‘the territory of the State no Federal question is involved. | s Congress, by the Sherman anti-trust law, passed in 1890, imposed stringent restrictions and penalties upon all contracts in restraint of trade, and upon com- binations and monopolies; but of course the applica- tion of this act was limited to the Federal questions, that is, interstate questions. It wijl bt remembered that some time since, in this city, the Coal Trust was prosecuted in the Cifcuit Court presided over by Judge Morrow, and judgments and penalties were re- covered in the litigation, and it will also be remem- bered that not very long ago the United States Su- preme Court affirmed the judgment of the lower courts which held that the great Traffic Association of the Eastern railways was void. : There are a number of corporations recognized and existing by virtue of Federal franchises, it being held that the power. to create such Federal corporations was necessary in order that the Government might carry out its constitutional powers; but no one has ever for one moment contended that the Federal Gov- ernment could clothe a Federal corporation with authority which would authorize it to invade the terri- tory of any State and there assume corpdrate func- tions without the direct permission of the State itself, except where the business was between the States. A Federal railway corporation seeking to enter the boundaries of California is subject to all the regula- tions appertaining to all railways in the State of Cali- fornia. It can acquire its land only in the manner pointed out for all railways, and, in fact, possesses no immunity from State control except where, by virtue of its extension through other States, it acquires that interstate character which makes its interstate rates and freights a matter of Federal control. Foreign corporations, that is to say, corporafions organized under the laws of other States or of for- eign countries, have no power nor right to enter the territory of any State and perform or do any business within that State except by permission of the State itself. They exist in all other places than the place of organization only as & matter of comity and not of right. The constitution of this State provides only that foreign corporations shall not be allowed to do busi- ness in the State of California on any more favorable terms than are allowed to domestic corporations. From all of this it would seem that the question of trusts, except in so far as a Federal corporation is engaged in a Federal enterprise, that is to say, be- tween States, is entirely subject to and can be ‘con- trolled by the Legislature of the State. They may be debarred from entering and doing business within the State, and why is this not a practical solution of the trust problem? . In Texas, which has gone as far, if not farther, than any other one State concerning the anti-trust propo- sition, a statute was passed which provided that any PUBLIC attention has been gitven to the report corporation holding a charter under the laws of the State of Texas which should violate any of the provi- sions, should forfeit its charter and cease to exist, and that every foreign corporation violating the same pro- visions should be deniedj the right and prohibited from doing business witlfin the State. This law was upheld by the Supreme Court of the United States, and illustrates that proper legislation by the State of California will present to the people the solution of much annoyamce resulting from corporate combina- tions. An anti-trust law placing proper restrictions upon foreign corporations, honestly enforced, would obvi- ate most of the objectionable features of the trust question, so far as the sale of the product of such combinations in this State is concerned., FOGS AND DISASTERS. Y the awful accident of Saturday evening, when B the ferry boat Sausalito ran into the San Ra- fael and sank her, one more lesson was given of the urgent need for the invention of some adequate method of guarding against the dangers of fogs. At the present time we know of no better safeguards for ships than those of moving slowly and keeping the whistles sounding. It appears that both of those pre- cautions were taken by each of the colliding boats during the heavy fog of Saturday evening, but they availed little: In that fact there is nothing of novelty and no occasion for surprise. On the foggy Atlantic, and particularly around the British isles, where the waters are crowded with shipping, accidents of the kind are numerous, and it is now recognized that slow movement and fog whistles do not afford sufficient security for ships in times of dense fog. The human mind is not accustomed to rely upon a single sensc for the understanding of any phenom- enon. The eye habitually helps the ear to determine™ from what direction and from what distance a partic- ular sound comes to us. When sight is obscured by a fog and we hear a sound coming to us out of the darkness we cannot readily locate the position from which the sound comes. Hence the frequent disas- ters that occur at such times. The officers of each ship may hear the fog whistles of the other and yet never know exactly where the approaching vessel is until it is so near that collision is inevitable. Over and over again efforts have been made to de- vise a certgin method of determining at what distance two ships are from one another no matter how dense the fog may be. Up to this time, however, all such efforts have fgiled. Lately there have been great hopes [ that wireless telegraphy may be found efficacious in solving the problem.. It is believed that the apparatus can be so arranged that vessels equipped with the system would not only communicate with one another gutomatically as soon as they came within a fixed distance, but that the instrument could be made to disclose whether or no the ships were drawing nearer after the first notice of approach, and thus a clear warning be given of the increasing danger of colli- sion. It is to be hoped that these expectations will be fulfilled, for certainly some such method of giving and receiving automatic warning is sorely needed. It is an old saying, “Accidents will happen in the bést regulated families.” The wide acceptance of the proverb attests the general belief that the complexi- ties of life are such that no human foresight or care { can guard against all possibility of accident. We must, therefore, not be too prone to attribute fault or. blame for the accident of Saturday evening. In due whole day to that kind of work. which is equivalent to saying that when in the fields he doesn’t toil very hard time there will be an official inquiry and we shall then learn how far all precautions were exercised and to what extent there was negligence. With that evi- denice before us it v;ifl be time to pronounce judg- ment. i Enough is now kdown to show that we may well than it was. It might easily have been that the dis- aster .would have carried mourning into hundreds of homes. As it was, most of those involved in the dis- a‘nd coolness as could be expected of any mixed mul- titude of men, women and children under such dire- ful conditions. Taking the country as a whole, the palling accidents. They occurred in fires in crowded fenements, in mines and on railways. Our local dis- aster, which might easily have proven one of the most N —— CONGRESSIONAL CAUCUSES. F ROM the proceedings of the caucuses of the the public can form a fairly correct estimate of the conditions under which the two will enter upon the work of the session. In the Republican conven- In the Democratic caucus, on the other hand, there was displayed so much of dissension that certain reso- lutions submitted for adoption had to be got rid of put them to a vote would have resulted in a split in the party then and there. As was expected, the Republican caucus unani- to the Speakership. In addition, all the officers wh served during the late sessibn were renominated. I is well known that Speaker® Henderson will make in important places, consequently the House will be ready to begin business abeut as soon as it is organ- ized. in Congress must be as gratifying to the country as to the party. There is a great deal of important work before Congress, and, to accomplish any considerable ness from first to last. In’accepting his nomination for the Speakership General Henderson said: “There is always more activity at every Congress preceding will require all the wisdom we possess and all the pa- triotism, for we have a great danger to confront us continually, and that is the surplus in the treasury. in mind that this is a danger, and that if we be wise in the presence of that danger we will find approval of the American people.” From that speech it will be the session with a true appreciation of the difficulties before him, and no better guarantee could be given of faithful work from start to finish, : with two exceptions all those members of Congress who have hitherto called themselves Populists dropped their pretensions to form a third party and that looked something like the establishment of har- mony among the varicus elements of the opposition, but the appearance was deceptive. Representative tions outlining a policy to be pursued by the opposi- tion during the session. No sooner were they read than a row began. Mr. Ball of Texas offered as a ensued. Fitzgerald of New York said: “We can never win if we do not discard the heresy of free sil- ver.” Mr. Ball of Texas replied: “We can never win national platforms of the Democratic party.” Then, for the sake of peace, Richardson of Tennessee, who was nominated as the party candidate for Speaker, which was agreed to, and the row ended for the time. The various resolutions, or at least a report of the committee concerning them, will be submitted to the that time an attempt will be made to formulate a party policy with respect to the Philippines, ship sub- sidies, currency legislation and other important anything approaching harmony of action be manifest at that caucus we shall be able to learn from it what in the elections next fall. If, however, there should be discord, everything will be in as much confusion cal guerrilla warfare, with a different Democratic pol- icy to the front in every district. ETWEEN Inventor Gathmann and the army officers who made the test of his great gun of opinion concerning the results of the test. It ap- pears the officers deem the gun and its peculiar am- reported as asserting that the merit of the weapon was conclusively demonstrated. constructed. It is, in fact, the largest of guns firing the modern shell. It is 44 feet long, weighs 59 tons, long weighing 1830 pounds. The shell contains about 500 pounds of guncotton, and the theory is exploding guncotton would be sufficient to shatter it into instant wreck. In the tests made at Sandy after inspecting the extent of the damage came to the conclusion that it was caused almost wholly by exploding guncotton. Should that judgment stand the gun will have to be classed as a failure, for the to discharge a shell %o loaded that when it bursts be thankful the loss of life has not been far greater aster appear to have acted with as much of courage Thanksgiving week was marked by a series of ap- destructive of human life, has been one of the lightest. two parties preceding the meeting of Congress tion there was periect harmony from first to last. by rtf_erting them to a committee, because to have mously nominated General Henderson for re-election very few changes in the House committees and none This hArmony of action on the part of the majority part of it, the session will have to be devoted to busi- a Congressional election than at any other time. We 1 appeal to all my colleagues, Republicans, to keep seen that the Speaker will enter upon the work of The Democratic caucus was notable, first, because entered the caucus as Democrats. On the surface McClellan of New York introduced a series of resolu- substitute the Kansas City platform. A discussion unless ‘men calling themselves Democrats support the moved that all resolutions be referred to a committee, caticus at a meeting to be held early in January. At measures likely to be taken up during the session. If will be the main features of the Democratic platform as ever, and we shall have to face once more a politi- S—p— GATHMANN AND HIS GUN. B there has developed a considerable difference munition to be virtual failures, while the inventor is The gun is'one of the lostliest and largest ever has an 18-inch bore and fires a projectile 71 inches that when the shell strikes a vessel the force of the Hook the target was broken, but the army experts the impact of the massive shell itself and not by the great merit claimed for it by the inventor is its power \nothing that floats could withstand it if struck by it. Mr. Gathmann in defending the showing made by the gun in the tests said that while the first shot fired was not effective either of the other two would have sunk any battle-ship. The second shot, he alleges, “drove back the plate of the target thirty-three inches at one end and a foot at the other, while the third broke the plate in two from top to bottom and drove it back still farther with its cofferdam structure crushed and the timber braces smashed.” Had the target been a_bn'nle-ahip, he said, nothing could have stopped the incoming water, while the explosion of the guncotton would have killed everybody on board. / : Such is the inventor's side of the story. Perhaps in the end the Government may be induced to pay the cost of another test, though such things come high. 5 ; —————— Colonel Bryan announces in the Commoner that the Philippine question will probably be the chief issue before the country next fall, so it will be seen the colonel keeps his car high up in the air and a long way from the ground. S BRITISH ADMIRALTY INVESTIGATING A STRANGE GUN PRACTICE ACCIDENT HE terrible accldent on board the British battleship Royal Sovereign while at gun practice, November 10, oft the Greek coast, is being inquired into, and in the mean- time the cause remains somewhat mysterious. One offi- cer, Captain Spurway of the marine artillery, and five men were killed—Commander R. Arbuthnot, Lieutenant James and seven men more or Jess severely injured and ten men were slightly hurt. The accident occurred with a six-inch shell, and it was first reported that the breech had not been closed when the shell was discharged, which, however, is unlikely. An offl- cer gives his views in the London Chronicle and discards the idea that the shell could have been ignited by any fragment of smoldering cartridge left in the gun from the previous shot. The probability is that there was a misfire; that is to say, the shell had failed to go off when fired by electricity. It Is the rule when a misfire occurs to allow a certain time to lapse be- fore opening the breech, but in this case the time allowance may have been insufficient and the charge went off just as the breech was opened. Electricity plays strange pranks and may in this case be the cause of the accident. The British cruiser Thetis, 3400 tons, built in 139 and first “commissioned in July, 1892, has been overhauled at a cost of $65,000. Her steam trial of six hours under forced draught came off October 19 and gave results far in excess of the estimates. The horsepower was 112 short of 9000 calculated, but the speed averaged 217 knots, an excess of 175 knots. The ship made about 20.5 knots on her trial in September, 1891, and the recent outlay appears to have been a good investment. The damage to the armored cruiser Eurayalus by fire some months ago while under completion at Barrows has been sup- plemented with another accident. The ship was docked at at Birkenhead ‘when the keel blocks canted and the vessel's bottom was greatly damaged: The keel, frames, inner and outer skin, will have to be renewed from the stern to the en- gine-room, involving an expense of $500,000. The London Engineer states that the Admiralty contemplates changes in administration which will in a measure throw open the deSigning of ships to public competition. New records have been made with the British 9.2-inch and 12-inch guns, from which it appears that the former can dis- charge two 380-pound projectiles every thirty seconds, and the 12-inch gun can fire a projectile weighing 80 pounds at the rate of one in thirty seconds. A The Japan Gazette of November 2 states that the Uraga Dock Company is reported to have received an order from the American Government to construct six gunboats for use in the Philippines, and that Sakurai Jozo, an official of the company, left for America on October 24 to se- cure the contracts. The cost of these gunboats is esti- mated at from $75,000 to $100000 each. The foundation for this report is probably the recent recommendation of the Secretary of the Navy that six gunboats of about 200 tons and of light draught be buflt for service in the Phil- ippines. The late Congress did not authorize any such vessels and the Navy Department could, therefore, not ::uebre l:t‘:)"::onuuch for the payment of which there were no money. In the event of the building of these boats the most likely place would be on this coast, Where they can be built as cheap and better than in Japan, notwithstanding the higher cost of labor in this connlr{. ey . ted Ttallan firm The establishments of Ansaldo & Co., the no of shrpbullden, are numerous and second in the world in their extent and importance only to that of Elswick. The firm was established at Genoa in 1846 and has prospered, as evidenced by its many ramifications. It has two yards at Genoa, engine shops at Sampierdarena, a shipyard at Sestrl Ponente, electri- cal shops at Cornigliano and several foundries. The total area vards and ::::e‘;; 1’.5.0&). Between 1857 and 1900 the yard at Siestri Ponentas out 33,800 tons of war vessels and 82,300 tons of mer- lc‘;;r:t“?‘hel:aplnx. The engine shobs at Sampierdarena have a yearly capacity of 200 locomotives, 100,000 horsepower of marine and stationary engines, 2000 tons of finished boilers and 1000 tons of blacksmith work. o b SO N torpedo cruiser Agordat, , as con’l;kplretle(y:!n:atesm trials. The keel was laid at the Castella- mara dockyard in February, 1897, and the launch took pla:,: October 12, 1899. At her final trials the engines developed 4670 horsepower, giving a speed of 18.8 knots d‘urlnl six hours unde hotural draught, and under three hofrs’ forced draught th horsepower averaged. 8500 and the _speed 22.2 knots. The co tact horsepower was exceeded by 300, but she fell short of the 23 knots anticipated. PR ersonnel suffers from congestion in pro- e e e manders of twelve to thirteen years in the grade complain over their inability to get prom’uted. Le Yacht suggests that the plan mow followed in the United States be adopted; namely, to relieve the block by voluntary or cdmpul- Sory retirement in the next higher rank. It would, no doubt, work as well there as it has in our navy, where some good officers have accepted the privilege of retiring wm? 1ncrea;s:<§ rank, and it has also removed some from the active list that were only in the way but whose political and social influences dismissal. u\;hden;:::“gc;:' one of three new French sr_mored cruisers, had a builders’ trial last month, averaging 2085 knots, with a foul bottom, on 18,200 horsepower. The contract calls for 19, 800 horsepower and 21 knots speed. & 8 Russ! orpedo boats, Filin and Ssova, built at the Ne‘lv‘::y rv{v‘;:kl:.n B:. lge!eruburg. had their steam trials in Octo- ber and made 26.94 and 26.81 knots, respectively, under forced draught. At a subsequent four-hour trial u:lder nine-tenths power the boats made 245 knots. They are of 240 tons displace- ment. D e 2 i e WWW [ ] ANSWERS TO QUERIES. PALMISTRY—G. BE. R, City. The Call has discontinued articles on palmistry. CAPTAIN BARR—M. 8., City. Captain Charlie Barr, who sailed the Columbia, is a native of Scotland. A DOLLAR OF ’'9%—M. E., Lodi, Cal Eastern dealers offer a premium of from 50 cents to $1 for a United States dollar of 1796. PULLMAN CAR—Subscriber, City. The cost of a Pullman car is from $11,000 to $15,000, but some extra elegant ones have cost as much as $25,000. CAPITAL PUNISHMENT—W. C., City. Capital punishment is forbidden by law in Maine, also in Colorado, Rhode Island, Michigan and Wisconsin. PRESIDENT'S SALARY—Civis, City. The salary of the President was in- creased to $50,000 a year by an act of Congress of March 3, 1873. FRENCH REPUBLIC—W. F. City. The present form of republican govern- ‘ment in France dates from February 2, 1875, the date of the-constitution. VOLUNTEER'S ' PAY—Vet, Rohner- ville, Cal. Volunteers who came into ex- istence under the act of March 2, 1899, are not allowed two months’ extra pay. EDISON—J. J. 8., City. Thomas A. Ed- ison was born in Milan, Erie County, O., February 11, 1847. He has two sohs by his first wife. The oldest is about 20. MARK HOPKINS INSTITUTE—G. A. L., City. The free admission day at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art is the first Friday of each month, from 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. CARNEGIE-S. J. K., Watsonville, Cal. The New York address of Andrew Car- negie is 5 West Fifty-first street. This departmént has not the name of his pri- vate secretary. DIMES OF '31—H., Acampo, Cal. Dimes of 1831 are not premium coins. Dealers offer to sell such for 25 cents for speci- mens in fine condition and 50 cents for such as have not been circulated. O'DONNELL AS CORONER—G. M. L., City. Dr. C. C. O'Donnell ran for Coroner of San Francisco in 1884, when he was elected, and he ran again in 189 for the same office, when he was defeated by R. Beverly Cole. CAPE BARROW—G. E. R, City. Cape Barrow iIs in 71 23 north and 156 31 west. There are a number of picture dealers in this city that can furnish you photo- graphs of the northern country, but this department does not advertise such. THE GHOST—A Reader, Georgetown, Cal. During the production of the play of “Macbeth® some individual represent- ing the ghost of the dead King stalks into the banquet room and takes a seat at the table. The ghost is seen only by the audience and Macbeth. —a KIMBALL—A. O. 8, City. Herbert C. Kimball was chosen one of the twelve ‘Mormon apostles in 18%5. He alded in es- tablishing the Mormon colony at Great Salt Lake and in 1847 became the coun- selor of Brigham Young. He died in 1568, STATISTICAL—O. R., Parlier, Cal. Sta- tistical information relative to new rail- roads, cotton mills, mining, etc., can be found in the Commercial and Figancial Chronicle of New York. Bradstreet's, Poor's Manual of Railroads and the pub- lications of the American Statistical As- sociation of Boston, Mass. TAMALPAIS—Curiosity, City. Tamal- pais is Spanish for tamale country, and was in early times a word used to desig- nate the country of the Tamale Indians. The mountain in Marin County called Mount Tamalpais derives its name from the country where those Indians lived. SPECIAL ORDERS—E. 8. C,, City. This department has looked at paragraph 8, special orders 148, Department of Cali- fornia, 1899, and as it is not of general in- terest, cannot give space to it. It is not of general interest to state that at a cer- tain time a certain captain was ordered to report at a certain point. BUILDINGS _IN _CHINATOWN—A Reader, Santa Rosa, Cal. The majority of the buildings in the Chinese quarter of San Francisco are owned by whites. There are a few Chinese who own real estate in the quarter, which they acquired prior to the adoption of the constitutional e\rgi;as relative to aliens and real prop- erty. B LEASED LAND-J. W. M., Alameda, Cal. 1f a party leases a piece of land to sow crops thereon, but finds that certain trees are a hi to a successful raising of the mfl‘h‘ cuts trees down with tie permiseion of the owner of the land, the cord wood that might be secured from the trees vests in the owner of the land and not the tenant. A MINOR'S EARNINGS—W. K. L., Vallejo, Cal. The law of California is that the father of a legitimate unmarried and earnings of such minor during the period of minority. So in the case cited in letter of inquiry “a ‘boy who earns a A CHANCE TO SMILE. “Pa, what is a pre-glactal man?” “Why, man before he had to pay ice bills, of course.”’—Detroit Free Press. Dolly—I wonder why that man glared at me so. Polly—Why, you’ve got on a shirt waist just like his!—Puck. talks, sald the “Money waliter. “Yes, I know,” said the diner. I'm going to give you a quiet tip.” kers Statesman. He—You appear to be alarmingly igno- rant in horticulture, I'm afraid you hard- ly know one flower from another.” She—Guess you're about right. Not even graham from white.—Boston Transeript. She—I thought that the Rev. Mr. Cross- roads was expecting a call to a city chureh. He—So he was; but after the members of the city church heard his trial sermon they came to the conclusion that he had missed his calling.—Smart Set. you know,” Sponger—What is that expression? Be- tween the “what” of a dilemma? Kraft—No, you -don’'t. You want me to say “horns,” and you think thatll re- mind me to ask you to have one—FPhila- delphia Record. “What is he going to do now?” breatk- lessly asked the agitated young weman, with her eyes on the daring aeronant, who was clinging to ha parachute. “He s about to sever his connection with the balloon,” replied her escort, “to accept a position a little lower down."— Chicago Tribune. “Yes4' sald the old inhabitant, ‘a mule kicked him ’crost a ten-acre fleld, an’ when he landed a bull tossed him into a pine saplin’, an’ when he got thar a cyclone blowed the saplin’ down an’ then he give up farmin’ forever!'—Atlanta Constitution. “He speaks of making headway in the ‘teeth of the gale.’ ” remarked the editor. “False!” sald the yachting correspondent, who knew there had not been even a rip- then I will put it the ‘false —Philadelphia Record. “I don’t want to see Lydia when she comes back from that summer school.” “Why not?’ “Oh, she will be bursting with knowl- edge, while the rest of us have been sit- ting around here in the heat forgetting what little we know."—Detroit Free Press. e @ it @ dollar a week out of school hours” is bound to give that money to his father. INAUGURATION DAY—Enq., City. The next time that inauguration day will fall on a Sunday will be in 196, It will again fall on that day in '17, ’23, 28, '34, *45, ’51, '56, '62, '73, '79, "84 and 1990. A LITTLE BIRD—A. Y. G, City. “A little bird told me so,” a quotation that is frequently used, is not from the Bible, but it is probable that it is an adaptation from the following, Ecclesiastes, X, 29: “Curse not the king, po, not in thy thoughts; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber; for a bird of the air shall carry the volce, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.” PUBLIC LANDS-I, Honolulu, H. T. There are public lands vacant and sub- ject to entry and settiemment in Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Louis- ana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi. Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washing- ton, Wisconsin, Wyoming. For informa- tion about such lands application must Dbe made to the United States land offices of the State or Territory in which the party wishes to locate. PRIZE MONEY AND MEDALS-G. C. D., and 8., City. No prize money has vet been distributed to the men who took patrt in the naval battle in Santiago July 3, 1898. The matter is still before the Court of Claims. Medals for men of the United States navy who were in the West Indlan ser- vice have not yet been distributed, for the reason that they are not ready. Due notice of the time and place of distribu- tion will be given by the proper authori- ties and announcement will also be made as to place for application for such. NAVAL TRAINING STATION—A Sub- scriber, _,Cmn :1 l{:fl between the ages of 15 and 17 may with the consent of paren et e e -nlul‘l to lerva‘ in n:: United States navy until he attains the age of 21. One who desires to enlist at the naval tinining station at Goat Island must undergo a physical examination by the medical officer of the ship and must come up to the following requirements: At 15, 4:11 feet high, 30 pounds weight, chest measurement, bteathing naturally, 27 inches; at 16, 5 feet ) inch, % pounds, 28 inches. Must be al to read and write. Must be at time of accompanied application by parent or guardian. En- listments are made on the Pehsacola at Goat Island. ctfern Dest Iving ctrmrs Voating, bathing, fishing and most amase: ments.. E. 8 Babcock, manager, Coronado, o . PERSONAL MENTION. Rev. Canon O. Mahony is registered at the Palace from Cork. J. H. Bowes, an attorney of Victoria, B, C., is at the Occidental. George D. Lunt, a wholesale jeweler of Chicago, is a guest at the Lick. Louis Gundelfinger, a merchant of Fres- no, 1s at the Palace for a brief stay. E. B. Ryan is registered at the Occi- dental with his daughter from Menla Park. J. 8. Artist, a business man of Hanford, is one of the arrivals at the Lick. His wife accompanies him. E. W. Masten, a member of the Cham- ber of Commerce of Portland, Or., is at the Occidental with his sort. Bishop and Mrs. S. C. Partridge re- turned yesterday from their homeymoon trip and registered at the Occidental. They will sail on the Nippon Maru for Kioto, Japan, where Bishop Partridge has his diocese. House of Whalebone. A resident of Philadelphia, who has just returned from a visit in Charleston, says that a summer house made from the bones of a giant whale, with the jaw-bone entrance large enough for a man on horseback to ride in without bending his neck, is an attraction on Sullivans Island, just across the bay from Charfestom, S. C. Selections of “ribby” backbone are used for comfortable seats in this unique resting place, and Captain John H. Dev- ereaux, in whose handsome lawn the curi- osity stands, has refused an exorbitant price from a museum anxious to buy it for perpetual preservation. The shrill winds from the sea and the great waves wkich frequently ride through the island in the hurricane season have added the bleach to what was once the monstee whale of the South Atlantic waters. This whale was captured in the harbor of Charleston after a most desperate sea battle. With steamers and tugs and row- ¥ |-boats running close and pouring in show- erseof lead, the sea monster had to sub- wit and his mighty head was laid low. When the whale turned into the harbor entrance and swam toward the wharves and the battery he played out by the “Grave Yard,” where the water was deep- est. He was cutting and plowing through the water when the pilots picked him off with the glasses, and the word went out forthwith that an enemy was within the bar. The small boats moved cautiously toward the “Grave Yard,” where the sea monster was cutting antics in twelve fathoms of water, and when the attack- ing force Increased in numbers the battle was begun. Every missile and every weapon within reach was used with more or less effect on his whaleship. When his snout was lifted above the water his troubles started afresh and the attack- ing party closed in. The animal could not withstand the attack, and his life blood drained out. Then his body drifted back and forth with the changing tide and lodged on the island beach. ‘Wagons loaded with cordwood came up, and this was placed around the whale, while buckets of oil assisted the fires to burn. Out of the ashes the great bones were saved, and the pick of them were secured by Captain Devereaux, who q"h ed the summer house by his gate. e chief credit for the death of the whale was due to Genezal Wilmot de Saussure and Captain Frank Porcher, two expert sportsmen of Charleston. Wife’s Loyal Repartee. It was at a National Methodist gather- ing, where the much-mooted question of the right of women to a seat in the con- ference was under discussion. Chancellor J. R. Day, now the head of Syracuse (N. Y.) University, was one of the prominent speakers and he wasn't at all in favor of the women. He said so in language that was unmistakable. A woman in the audience, the wife of another well-known man, who has been a professor in a Methodist institution, " was highly incensed at Dr. ' Day's re- marks. When he concluded she turned to the lady seated neXt to her and said with emphasis: “Well, I'm glad that Dr. Day isn’t my husband!” “S80 am I the unknown lady respond- ed, and then she added, with a quiet smile, “because he happens to be mine.” —_——— “You keep half a dozen of us dangling after you,” groaned the young man, de- spairingly, “and give each one just enough encouragement to make him hope he’s the favored one. Pardon me for say- ing so, but you are what the boys would call pretty smooth.” “Well, what else would you naturally expect me to be?” said the handsome Miss Slick, looking at him archly. And he was her willing slave again.— Chicazo Tribune. ————— Walnut and Pecan Panoche. Townsend. * f Choice candles. Townunl‘g. FPalace Hotel* f Cal. Glace Frult 50c per Ib at Townsend's.” Best eyeglasses, specs, 10c, 40c. Look ous for 81 4th st., front barber and grocery. % " Special Intorml'.lo: supplied dafly &