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THE SAN FRANCISCO UALL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1901. The—ibn Call, THURSDAY................DECEMBER 19, 1901 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Adéress Al Communications to W. 8. LEAKE, MANAGER'S OFFICE. .Telephone Préss 204 U TN PUBLICATION OFFICE. . .Market and Third, 8. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Press 202 Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. .00 DAILY CALL (including Suiday), 6 r.onths. . 3.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunda: . 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Single Montl . 65c SUNDAY CALL, One Year.. :z WEEELY CALL, One Year. All postmasters asre authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be iorwarded when requested. Mail subscribers in orderirg change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE. «...1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS. Menager Foreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chioage. (Long Distance Telephone *‘Central 2615.”") NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: . C. CARLTON. ...oeeueneenn.....Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. ..30 Tribune Building NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: ‘Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 81 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House; P. O. News Cc.; Great Northern Hotel; Fremont House; Auditorfum Hotel. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE MORTON E. CRANE, Co: BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open unt] 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, cpen until 9 o'clock. 1096 Valencla, open until § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open untfl 9 o'clocl 2200 Filimore, open until § . m. AMUSEMENTS. .1408 G St., N. W. spondent. Columbia—'‘A Royal Rogue.”” Orpheum—Vaudeville. Grand Opera-house—*'Diplomacy.” California—"Rip Van Winkle.” Tivolt- sttle Red Riding Hood.” Central—*"Muldoon’s Pienic.” Alcazar—*The Gay Mr. Lightfoot.” Chutes, Zoo end Theater—Vaudeville every afterncon and evening. Fischer's—Vaudeville. Recreation Park—Baseball. Central Park—Vasco B.1l Game. Sherman-Clay Hall—Piano Recital. Oskland Racetrack—Races to-day. AUCTICN SALES. By Wm. G. Layng—=8aturday, December 21, at 11 o'clock, Trotung Stock, at 721 Howard street. e THE CUBAN ELECTIONS. ECRETARY ROOT has emphatically S somewhat sharply informed the representatives of the Maso party in Cuba that this Govern- ment will not accede to their request to postpone the Cub®n elections. He declines to interfere in any way, and the Cubans must go forward at once with the work of organizing their government and putting it into practical operation. The plea for interierence was based upon the charge that the central board of scrutiny, which will have the task of determining the results of the elec- tions, is composed of men all of whom are friends and supporters of General Palma, leaving the Maso party without a single representative on the board. On the face of it the plea appears a valid one. It has ever been the custom in this country that both the two great parties into which the people are divided should be represented on election boards from the lowest to the highest, and the principle that under- lies the practice here is equally applicable to Cuba. It happens, however, that in this particular instance the rule of equal representation could not be enforced without entailing consequences more evil than that of leaving ‘the board of scrutiny as it is, and accord- ingly the ruling of the Secretary is as justifiable in principle as in expediency. The central board of scrutiny was appointed be- fore the Cubans had divided themselves into their present political alignments- and before any candi- dates were nominated. It was therefore impossible to apportion its membership on party lines. It stands as a strictly non-partisan board, so far as its organi- zation goes, and if the chances of politics are such as to have brought it about that all of them are zligned in the party of Palma that is something the United States officials could not have foreseen and cannot be expected to interfere with. The Cuban elections are arranged to extend over considerable period. In the latter part of this month there will be eléctions to choose the Govern- ors of provinces, later on there will be elections of members to the Provincial Assemblies, still later Deputies to the National House will be chosen: next in order the election of Senators will take place, and it will not be until February that the Presiden- tial election occurs. Cuba, therefore, is going to have an election winter and something like a con- tinuous campaign. Should our Government begin at this time to interfere, it might have to continue in- terfering at each one of the succeeding elections. That, of course, is something we wish to avoid. Cuba is to be seli-governing, and the time for her to begin such government is right now. The request for interference is the more strange because it comes from the party which has made “Cuba for the Cuban” a campaign cry, and which op- poses General Palma because he is regarded as too friendly to the United States. Secretary Rogt made a good point upon that fact by closing his reply to the representative of General Maso with the state- ment: - “I cannot avoid the conviction that your re- quest calls upon the United States for the very in- terference with the Cuban elections which your asso- ciates have deprecated and which it is our duty and our purpose to avoid.” ——— a The Kaiser's latest enterprise is fhat of spelling reform. He insists that the spelling of “Koln” shall be changed to “Coln,” and “Krefeld” to “Crefeld.” As the new spelling would be a change from the old German method the advocacy of it is something of a novelty in the Kaiser, who has in other things been decidedly medieval in his tendencies, and for once Wilhelm has managed to stirprise folks. . All the bird lovers in Great Britain are raging be- cause a thousand larks were baked in pies to serve an immense banquet given to the King, and as a conse- quence the thing is not likely to occur again. His Majesty may have in his pies as many blackbirds as he chooses, but his day for larks is ove‘ ' and | THE AN FRANCISCO emerges from the con- S troversy over the use of Point Lobos Creek as a source of water supply only to confront a more important problem. It is fairly certain the Spring Valley Water Company resorted to that creek mainly because it could not obtain from its other sources of supply a quantity of water adequate to the demand at all seasons of the year. The real ques- tion before the city, therefore, is not one of prevent- ing the use of water drawn from contaminated water- sheds, but of providing a source of water supply which shall be not only pure but abundant. The Spring Valley Water Company has evidently reached the limit of its present resources. The water taken from Point Lobos Creek has been condemned, and it will be but a comparatively short time when the supply drawn from Lake Merced must be con- demned also, for the settlement of the population is extending in that direction. In fact, it is only a question of time when no part of the peninsula will be free enough from human habitation and the re- sulting refuse for its springs and streams to furnish water fit for household purposes. Even, however, were there no question of the pur= ity of the waters of Lobos Creek or of Lake Merced, there would still remain the important fact that the whole supply of the Spring Valley Company is in- adequate to the needs of the increasing population of the city. We do not feel with any acuteness the need of more water just now, but we would be foolish should we postpone any steps toward obtaining a larger supply until the need is felt acutely. A water system for a city of the size of San Francisco is not to be provided in a.day nor in a year. If we make no move to obtain abundant water until we actually require the water for daily needs we shall have a long period of suffering in many ways, accompanied by municipal stagnation. One of the noted features of the development of modern civilization has been the increased use of water by individuals, by families and by communities as a whole. Cities that have not an abundant, pure and cheap water supply soon become noted and are shunned. Nothing is more attractive to the home- secker and to the settler than the assurance that the water supply of the community in which he thinks of settling is at once healthful and ample. There are cities which owe much of their success to the fact that they have such ample water supplies, and there are others whose ill-success is due to the lack of them. We are therefore confronting an issue which even at this time is of prime importance, notwith- standing the fact that it is not felt as a matter of urgency by the general mass of the people, It is right and fitting the proper authorities should see to it that no impure water is served to any por- tion of the city, and that water rates be not exces- sive, but none the less those things must now be re- garded as minor maiters in the problem. We should at once dismiss as far as possible all the old conten- tions between the city and the Spring Valley Com- pany and go forward to the new work that awaits us—that of providing the community with a source of water supply far larger, better and more certain at all seasons than the Spring Valley Company can | furnish. With the extension of electric roads the whole southern sweep of San Francisco Bay will be girdled |by a continuous suburban settlement, having San Francisco and Oakland for its extremities and San | Jose as its central point. There will then be a de- | mand for a water supply throughout the whole of | that region. The population will be large and the de- mand for water will be enormous when measured REAL WATER PROBLEM. !gin to preparc now. If it be undertaken in time it | can be carried out ecocnomically after a well devised ip]an. If we wait until the actual urgency come we | shall have an unavoidable waste of money. That, {then, is the chief and prime point in all water ques- tions that arise dn San Francisco. for the future. We must prepare If Congress agree to the estimates of needed ex- penditures for the different departments pof the Gov- ernment Uncle Sam will have to put up about $100,- 000,000 for the navy, $70,000,000 for the army, $150,- 000,000 for pensions, $70,000,000 for rivers and ' har- bors, and a few more millions to ‘give a start to the Nicaragua canal and the irrigation of arid lands, be- sides the ordinary expenses of civil government; so |it is fortunate for the old man that he has a prosper- ous lot of people to contribute to his revénues. WALL STREET'S COPPER FIGHT. WHETHER the public will ever learn all the inside history of the struggle over copper stocks in Wall strect may be doubted. The astute men who manipulate the deals that bring about such struggles 2re never sufficiently angry with one another to tell all they know. The saying “When thieves fall out honest men get their dues” was originated at a time when. thieves 'were men of limited intellect and uncontrollable passions. The highly scientific exploiter of other men’s pockets through stock deals knows very well that his oppo- {nent in the street to-day may be his friend—or at least his ally—to-morrow, and consequently he does not expose all the iniquity of his opponent’s action. By reasou of that wise reticence the public gets but faint glimpses of the inner working of such schemes as that which has recently led to losses, ruin and de- falcations in all parts of the country. In the absence of [ull light on the subject we must be content with such light as we can get and make the best use of it. It is therefore worth noting that T. W. Lawson, whose position during the whole i fight has been so conspicuous, has issued a personal statement to the holders of Amalgamated stock ex- plaining the situation from his point of view and jus- |tifying himself from the attacks made upon him. His statement is interesting, no matter to what ex- tent it may be colored by his personal prejudices and interests, and while it would not be wise, perhaps, for any one to act upon it to the extent of speculating in copper stocks, yet in the absence of any authori- tative refutation from a source equally reliable it furnishes about the best information we have con- cerning the deal. Briefly stated, Mr. Lawson’s explanation is that the slaughterirg of copper stock in the street was done for no other purpose than that of frightening small stockholders into selling their stock and enabling the schemers to buy it at a low price. Along with the stocks of the small holders the schemers also hoped to get possession of those of the Daly estate and of Mr. Lawson. OFf the result of the scheme up to the date when his statement was published (De- cember 12) Mr. Lawson says: “The campaign has been largely successful. Many investors have been slaughtered, certain heavy speculators also, and the Daly holdings have been secured. Mine have not.” Perhaps the most important feature of the state- ment is the assertion that the depression in the stocks | by the present demand. For that supply we must be- | ling. s b was caused largely by what Mr. Lawson calls “journals whose editors’ names are generally found upon the formation of new corporations in the list of ‘stock allotted, not to be paid for, profit guaran- teed’” These journals, it is said, have been busy informing the public that “the Amalgamated and copper trouble is all and entirely the outcome of the natural conditions of the metal trade. The condi- tions of the metal market are responsible for every- thing, and they only are responsible.” Mr. Lawson declares such statements to be false and misleading. He asserts: “The cause of the recent drop in the price of Amalgamated was it was held by thousands of investors throughout America and ‘Europe, and a campaign was planned to slaughter those investors.”, The Call cannot undertake to decide between the contending parties, but the moral should not be overlooked by any one. He who speculates in Wall street goes it blind. A man might just as well buy gold bricks of the first bunko man who comes his way. The effects of the copper deal have been felt disastrously all over the United States. Even Cali- fornia’s distance from the scene of the excitement has not saved some of our people from its influence. There is now hiding from justice a once highly re- spected bank cashier of Los Angeles whose downfall is attributed by his friends to speculations in copper. Wall street is a healthy locality if you keep out of it. After all it may be that we must look to Italy for the elevation of the stage. It is said that at the re- cent first night performance of d’Annunzio’s drama, “Francesca da Rimini,” at Rome, the audience di- vided itself into two factions; there were storms of hisses and thunders of applause. Every scene was taken seriously, and the close of the play was fol- lowed by about an equal number of duels and ban- quets. The town of Rimini conferred its freedom upon the author and sent a magnificent wreath to Signora Duse, who played the part of the heroine. In short, there was everywhere a manifestation that the Italian people look upon the drama as something more than a mere amusement, and sanguine critics prophesy a new renaissance for dramatic art. Wof the Committee on Manufactures con- cerning the pure food laws of the different States of the Union and of various foreign countries, Senator Mason made a brief statement of the bene- ficial effects of such laws, and as an illustration cited the results obtained by the law designed to put a stop to the adulteration of flour. The success at- tained by that act, he argued, is sufficient to justify further legislation in the same direction and to en- courage Congress to undertake a comprehensive scheme of pure food législation. At the beginning of its investigations into the practice of food adulterations the committee found that fully 60 per cent of the flour used in this coun- try was adulterated. Wheat flour was mixed with finely ground white corn, with a by-product of glu- cose factories known as ‘‘corn flour,” which consists of the remnant of corn after all the sugar and gluten have been taken out, leaving nothing but the husks, and with a species of white earth known as terra alba, or mineraline. The first two adulterants are not deleterious in their nature and the wrong done to the consumer is simply that of foisting upon ‘Him an inferior ar- ticle in place of the genuine flour he desires and pays for. one. Senator Mason states that as much as 235 or 30 per cent of worthless by-product of the glucose fac- tories was mixed with flour, and that at the time the investigation was made “more than half of all the mills in the United States had what is commonly known as a mixer.” The mineraline adulterant is absolutely pernicious, but it seems it was never used to form any considerable percentage of the whole mixture sold as pure flour. The flour trade was in that condition when Con- gress amended the Dingley tariff by piacing a tax upon mixed flour. The tax was not designed to raise a revenue so much as to give the Federal Gov- ernment authority to inspect flours and collect the tax. The Supreme Court upheld the validity of the law, and Senator Mascn says: “During the first twelve months after the passage of the law about 12,000 barrels of mixed flour containing terra alba were confiscated. The mills that were used in grind- ing it have been closed—they are absolutely out of business.” The results of the law as revealed in the export trade of the country strikingly attest the value of pure food regulations. After governmental super- vision of flour was put into force the export trade increased from 10,000,000 barrels of flour to 15,000,000 barrels in twelve months. “ Commenting upon the increase the Senator went on to say: “I have here a printed letter from the PURE FOOD LAWS. HEN submitting to the Senate the report i leading merchants in flour in fiffeen of the largest cities of the world, including London, Bremen, Glasgow, Liverpool, ‘Amsterdam, = Antwerp, [ Ham- burg, and so on, stating that immediately after the passage of what is known as the American pure food bill the demand for American flour increased. While I do not claim that the large increase of 50 per cent is due wholly to the fact that we guaranteed the pur- ity of the flour, yet I do believe, and it is generally believed by the manufacturers of the country, that a very large share of the increase is due to that cause.” In taking flour as an illustration of the advantages to be gained from a governmental supervision, Sen- ator Mason did not overlook the importance of ap- plying a similar protection to other classes of food. “We found adulterations,” he said, “in the spices that go on the table, the syrups, the jellies, the jams, the pickles and ten thousand kinds of foods.” Gov- ernmental supervision in such matters has the triple benefit of protecting the consumer against adultera- tions more Or less harmful, the honest manufacturer against the dishonest competitor, and increasing the demand for our products abroad. It would seem, then, that the precedent established in the flour law might be profitably fcllowed in dealing with other staple articles of food or drink. e — Boss Croker is reported to have said he is willing to retire from politics, but he will not resign the chairmanship of the finance committee of Tammany Hall; so it is fair to infer that he handles the finances as a matter of private business and not‘as an affair of politics. That is the reason he can maintain a racing stable in England and furnish his son with bull pups at a cost of $1000 each. ’ . At a recent meeting of livestock men in Chicago one of the orators declared that the man who eats beef rules the world; that no one can exert his full energies unless he has beefsteak for breakfast. We are told the speech was greeted with applause. Evi- dently the pork packers were nof invited to the meet- | these ports until January 1, 1905. | the bill was right. LEGISLATORS OF THE NATION DECID ON A PHILIPPINE LAW. House Passes For Islands ASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—The bill s ;‘ ; to provide revenue temporarily for the Philippine Islands pass- ed the House to-day by a vote of 163 to 128. Five Republicans —McCall of Massachusetts, Littlefield of Maine, Heatwole, Eddy and Stevens of Minnesota—voted with the Democrats against the bill, and three Democrats— Robertson, Davey and Broussard of Louisiana—voted with the Republicans for it. Meyer (D.) of Louisiana was paired in favor of the bii with Foster, an Illionis Democrat, who voted against the Porto Rican bill in the last Congress, and voted for tne Philippine measure to- day. Crumpacker of Indiana, who also voted against the Porto Rican bill, was absent. In the course of the debate to-day the Democrats were several times taunted with their failure to present an alterna- tive proposition for' the pending meas- ure, but just before the vote Was taken on the passage of the bill the attitude. of the minority was defined in a motion to recommit, offered by Richardson, the mi- nority leader. It instructed the Ways and Means Committee to report the bill-back amended so as to reduce the customs and internal revenue laws of the Unitad States to a revenue basis and to extend them to the Philippines until the latier, with the aild of the United States, should be able to set up a stable, independent government. Participants in the Debate. This proposition did not command a Republican vote, and the three Louisiana Democrats above mentioned voted against it. Meyer of Louisiana was paired against it. The speakers to-day were Hepburn of Towa and Dalzell of Pennsylvania for the bill and Henry of Texas, Willlams of Mississippi, McCall (R.) of Massachusetts, Green of Pennsylvania and McCléllan of New York against it. The bill passed to-day Iimposes the Dingley tariff on goods entering the United States from the Philippines and the rates established by the Philippine Commission on goods entering the Philip- pines from the United States. It also provides for the collection' of tonnage taxes on vessels plying between the United States and the Philippines, and that foreign vessels may ply between The du- ties and taxes collected under the pro- visions of the bill shall go into the Phil- ippine treasury, to be expended for the use and beneiit of the islands. The attendance in the galleries did not indicate much public interest in the de- bate. Henry of Texas was the first speaker. He characterized the bill as op- pressive and oJutrageous. Hepburn of Iowa charged that the reason the opposi- tion gave unanimous consent for a vote of the bill without opportunity to offer amendments was because they did not wish to present their propositions in con- crete form, and “be content to talk and afraid to act.” ° Hepburn sald he believed the policy of He did not believe | the Filipinos were capable of self-govern- Even in that light, however, the ‘evil is a serious | ment. “Do you not belleve they are as capable of self-government as the Cubans?” in- Guired Shafroth, of Colorado. “I do.” . *“Then, do u not believe in the in- dependence of Cuba?” “The Democratic party, forced the ad- ministration into a position where it was compelied against its will to declare for the independence of Cuba,” replied Hep- burn, amidst Democratic applause. “Oh, you may applaud,” he continued, | “but I predict that before many years you | Pennsyivania in a speech of an hour. ! drew a parallel between the government see the unwi independence. by will yoursejv ing the Cub: The debate was closed dom of giv- Dalzell of He of the Louislana Territory immediately after its acquisition and the government of the Philippines, to show that the latter was less arbitrary and despotic than the former. “This measure purports to be a revenue bill,”" interrupted McDermott of New Jer- sey. “Can he cite any act which imposed a duty on goods from one Territory or State to another?” Dalzell Starts a Laugh. “Certainiy,” replied Dalzell. *“If the gentleman will examine history he will find that duties were levied for a long time on goods from the Territory of Lou- isiana and also of Florida.” (Republican applause, followed by laughter as Mann of Iilinols called out to McDermott “Go ‘way back and sit down.”) “I mean ah act of Congress,” persisted McDermott. “He cannot cite me an act of Congress, because there is none.” Dal- zell declined to be interrupted further. Richardson, the minority leader, moved to recommit the bill with the following instructions: To report a bill reducing the tariff laws and internal revenue laws mow in force in other portions of the United States to a revenue basls and to apply the same to all portions of the United States, incleding the Philippine Islands, to be in effect until order has been restored there and the Filipinos permitted, with the aid of the United States, to establish a stable and independent government. The motion to recommit was lost, 122 to 172. Tt was a strict party vote, so far as the Republicans were concerned,but there were three votes against the motion from the Democratic side, cast by Broussard, Davey and Rcbertson, all of Louisfana. Meyer of Louisiana was paired agalnst the motion with Foster (Democrat of Il- linols.) The bill was then passed, 163 to 128. The three Democrats from Loulsiana who vot- ed against the motion to recommit voted for the bill, and five Republicans—Me- Call, Massachusetts; Littlefield, Maine; Heatwole, Eddy and Stevens, all of Min- nesota, voted with the Democrats against it. At 4:40 the House adjourned. @ iviirivirvisi el oiejeolek @ ANSWERS TO QUERIES. DIME OF 1838—A. E.. Nevada Clty, Cal. A dime of 183 is not a premium coin. INDIA COINS—H. C. M., City. India coins of 1867, 5 and 10 bani, are not cata- logued as premium coins. SEARCHLIGHTS—A. E. W., Hay* wards, Cal. The idea of using strong electric or searchlights by vessels in foggy weather has been under considera- tion for some time, but as yet no conciu- slon has been reached as to whether such would serve to locate the position of ves- sels in the mist. FITZSIMMONS—Curious, Vallejo, Cal. The record shows that after Bob Fitz simmons was knocked out by Jim Jeffries at Coney Island June 9, 1889, Fitzsimmons knocked out Gus Ruhlin, New York, Au- gust 10, 1900, and also knocked out Tom Sharkey at Coney Island, August 24, 1900. SHOT—Reader of The Call, Sacramento, Cal. 8hot such as is used in shotguns 1s made in shot towers, lofty sgructures from the summit of which melted lead is allowed to drop through perforated plates irto water or other liquid, the drops as- suming a globular shape and cooling in ihe descent. Favors Otero for Governor of New Mexico ASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—The President to-day sent the fol- lowing nominations to the Sen- ate: Miguel A. Otero, Governor of New Mexico; Benjamin S. Baker, Nebras- ka, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Mexico; Levi Davis, Re- ceiver of Public Moneys at Sun Dance, Wyo.; Fraderick Muller, Receiver of Pub- lic Moneys at Santa Fe, N. M. It was announced at the White House to-day that the President has decided to send to the Senate to-morrow the nom- inations of John Gallenkamp of Union, Mo., to be Surveyor of the Port of St. Louis, in place of Charles H. Smith, and Charles F. Wenneker of St. Louis to be Collector of Internal Revenue. It also wgs stated that the recommendations of the Republican members of Congress will largely govern the President in the selec- tion of officers in their respective dis- tricts in Missouri, and that in the State at large the recommendations of Richard Kerens, the Missouri member of the Re- publican National Committee, and Aikens, chairman of the State Republican Com- mittee, will be given favorable considera- tion. The settlement which the President has made of the contest over the Missouri appointments is viewed by Secretary Hitchcock as satisfactory. He has ex- pressed himself as well pleased with the disposition of the question for three rea- sons: First, the appointment.of Gallen- kamp, to whom he is personally very friendly and who was recommended by Representative Bartholdt and approved by Hitcheock as an alternative after the fight developed on Smith, recommended by the Kerens element, and Willlam G. Boyd, recommended by the Republican Representatives and Chalrman Alkens of the State Republican Committee; second, practically leaving the selection of of- fices in the various districts to the Re- publican Representatives therefrom, and third, the participation of Aikens in the selection of State at large officers. PERSONAL MENTION. John W. Hare, a mining man of Red- ding, Is at the Grand. Fred Searls, an attorney of Nevada City, is staying at the Palace. D. C. Demarest, a mining man of Angels Camp, is registered at the Lick. H. C. Schroeder, a mining man of Ne- vada City, is among the arrivals at the Lick. J. D. Farrell, president of the Pacific Coast Company, left last evening for ‘Iil home at Seattle. D. W. McKenzle, Samuel Tyack and Joseph Nunes, all mining men of Mazat- lan, Mexico, are staying at the Lick. Joseph Weissbein, a merchant of Grass Valley, is down here on a short business trip and has made his headquarters at the Palace. Charles F. Oldham, who is an extensive dealer in California wines in London, is out here on a short trip. He is staying at the Palace. J. E. Gorman, general freight agent of the Santa Fe Railrogd, with headquarters in Chicago, is expected to arrive in the city to-day. A. G. Weeks, general manager of the Santa Fe, with headquarters at Los An- geles, and Edward Chambers, manager of the freight department of the Santa Fe in Los Angeles, are both up for a few days and are staying at the Palace. Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Deec. 18.—The following Californians have arrived at the hotels: San Francisco—C. C. Collins, at the Grand Union; W, McCabe, C. D. Rogers, at the Broadway Central; C. Fricke, at the Belvedere; E. L. Heller, at the Normandie; J. Landsberger, at the Her- ald Square; W. J. Willlams, at the Man- hattan. Oakland—Mrs. Reichman, Watson, at the Earlington. Los Angeles—A. N. Jung, at the Man- hattan. Santa Barbara—E. R. Spaulding, at the Plaza. Mrs. W. M. P el e Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—The following Californians have arrived at the hotels: Colonial—George M. Holcomb, San Fran- cisco. National—J. V. Young, R. E. Re- valk, W. L. Heise, G. A. Starkweather Jr.. San Francisto; Clarence Crowell, Oakland. St. James—Douglas White, Mrs. L. H. Trussler, San Francisco. E to Promotions W Senate to-day confirmed several hundred army promotions and several promotions In the navy; also the following: 8. A., to be major general. To be brigadier generals—Colonel J. H. Smith, Seventeenth Infantry; Frederick Funston, Kansas (brigadier general U. 8. and Colonel William H. Bisbee, Thir- teenth Infantry. ‘William P. Willlams, Assistant Treas- urer of the United States at Chicag! cago; Henry Meldrum, Surveyor General of Oregon; Frank L. Osborne, Assistaat JuStice of the Court of Private Land Claims; Angus Campbell, Consul at War- fice—P. M. Mullen, Rampart City, Alaska; A. E. Hoyt, Sun Dance, Wyo. Receivers of Public Moneys—A. H. Swain, Visalia, Cal.; M. C. Barrow, Douglas, Wyo. Col- Chicago; 8. A. Campbell, Humboldt, Cal.; Patrick F. Garrett, Paso del Norte, Tex. Joseph H. Spear, Surveyor of Customs, San Francisco. mission—First Lieutenant R. P. Johnston and Lieutenant Colonel D. P. Heap, corps of engineers. —————— WASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—After the transaction of routine business in the Senate Platt of Connecticut offered a res- olution suspending the rule providing for ous Senate committees by ballot. The resolution was adopted. Platt then submitted another resolution appointing formally the committees for of the members of the committees already have been published. It was adopted. A bill authorizing the construction of railroad bridge across the Arkansas Rlvi ASHINGTON, Dec. 18.—The Brigadier General Lloyd Wheaton, U. V.); Colonel J. M. Bell, Eighth Cavalry, Jonathan Merriam, Pension Agent at Chi- saw, Russia. Registers of the Land Of- lectors of Customs—William Penn Nixon, Members of the California Debris Com- Senate Committees Approved. the appointment of members of the vari- the Fifty-seventh Congress. The names near Fort Gibson, I. T., was passed. L e T e e ] A CHANCE TO SMILE. Judge—You say the defendant turned and whistled to the dog. What followed? Intelligent Witness—The dog, sor.—Tit- Bits. “Did Helena marry a high-minded man, the way she always said she should?” “Yes! she managed to catch an astron- omer."”—Philadelphia Bulletin. “Who was Omar Khayam?' asked one young man. “I don’t know,” answered the other, “but I have a strong suspicion that he was a wine agent.”—Washington Star. The Barber—Does this razor hurt your face? The Victim—Yes;’doesn't it hurt your business?—Yonkers Statesman. Jack (at the club window)—There goes Jenkins with his auto, and I'll be blowed It he hasg’t a tiger up behind. George—Tiger, nothing! That's the re- pair man.—Brooklyn Life. ‘ ) Choice candies. Townsend's. Palace Hotel.* ottt v s Cal. Glace Fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's. * -t st > e s Townsend’s California glace fruits, 50c a in fire-etched boxes or Jap. bas- A mice present for Eastern iriends, 639 Market street, Palace Hotel building.* v bbbt Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont-~ gomery street. Telephone Main' 1042. ¢ Two-pound hanklscme fire-etched box of California Glace Fruits, express charges repald to Chicago, New York and East- e points, $1. 5. Time to send new. Thow: sands of packages ready. 639 Market st. * ———— About 30,000 geese are annually taken from Russia to Saxony. A carload con- sists of 1700, and they have no foed or drink during the journey. “The Overland Limited,” via Union Pacifie R. R., Is the only train making connection 'n Chicago with the fast Express Trains leaving Chicago in the moreing for New York. By this Route you can remain in San Franclsco untit 10 a. m., reaching Chicago six hours quicker than on any other Limited Train. This train runs Every Day in the Year. D. W. Hitcheock, Gen. Agt.. No. 1 Montgomery st.. . —_———— Guillet's Christmas extra mince ples, Ice eream and cake. %05 Larkin st.: phone East 198, * = = I EMMA CALVE TELLS THE STORY OF HER || EXPERIMENTS IN THE OCCULT. SAN FRANCISCO’S FIRST FIRE LASSIE. | CHRISTMAS AT DICKEY'S. THE SIGNS IN THE STARS. (Pick out the date of your birth and read your for- tune in next Sunday's Call). THE LITTLE JAP GIRL AND HER DOLL. ——— SOCIETY LADIES POSE AS MADONNAS. THE BEAUTY QUEST. Article II—How to Cultivate Beautiful Curves. THE STORY OF THE SPEDLIN GHOST. el 20—-PAGES HUMAN INTfRfiST STORIES--20 \

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