The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 19, 1902, Page 6

The= mlmn Call, WEDNESDAY MARCH 19, 1902 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Adéress All Communications to W. 8, LEAKE, Nanager. MANAGER'S OFFICE.......Telephone Press 204 o eeais sl TR et N SR S FUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, 8. F. Telephone Press 201. EDITORIAL ROOMS.....217 to 221 Stevenm Telephone Press 202, Delivered by Carriers, 16 Cents Per Weelt Single Coples, 5 Cents. by Mail. Including Postages DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), & months DAILY CALL (nclvding Sunday), $ months. Mal! eubscribers n ordering change of address should te perticular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order % insure & prompt end correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE. +..1118 Broadway €. GEORGE KROGNESS. Manager Yoreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chicag. (ong Distance Telephone “Central 2619.”) NEW YORE CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLTON...... sesscess.Herald Sguare NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEX B. SMITH 30 Tribune Bullding CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northérn Hotel: Fremont House; Auditorium Hotel > NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldort-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 81 Union Square; Murray Bl Hotel NWASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1408 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, caorrer of Clay, open wotil 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes. open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAlister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until #:80 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2361 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1008 Va- lencia, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corper Twenty-secord and Kentucky, open untll 9 o'clock. 2200 Filimore, open until § p. m. AMUSEMENTS. Orpheum—Vaudeville, Grand Opera-house—*‘Cleopatra.” ter—*“Little Christopher.” k Buiit." Central—""The Bowery After Dark.” Alcazar—“"On and Off*’ Columbia—*La Madeleine.” Mechanics’ Pavilion—Norris & Rowe's Big Shows. Oakland Racetrack—Reces to-day. AUCTION SALES. By Wm, Layng—Thursday, March 20, at 11 o'clock, 150 bead of Horses, at 721 Howard street. By McGlynn & Menton—Friday, March 21, at 12:15 o'clock, #tock of the Ficres Hale & Company, at room 22, Chronicie building. ain A USELESS COMMISSION. UDGE HEBBARD'S decision sustaining the J temporary injunction against the enforcement of the oil rajes fixed by the State: Railroad Commission goes far to confirm the belief that the commission is not only useless but worse than use- less. It not only wastes the money of the taxpayers in paying salaries and expenses to a commission that renders no service, but it leads litigants to waste their money as well by holding out to them a promise that they can obtain redress from extortionate railway rates through the action of the commission. The temporary injuncfion has beea already running quite a long while, and from present prospects it might be just as well termed sn indefinite injunction. It is time for the people of California to grapple in earnest with the problem of railway regulation. Under the present system the railways may impose almost any kind of extortion that the traffic will bear upon certain kinds of goods and grant very low rates to others. They may discriminate in favor of com- munities or of private parties. They have it in their power to help or to hinder almost every industry in the State. They can cause some to flourish. They can virtually destroy cthers. In this very case of oil rates the railroads have it in their power to determine whether or no the industries of California are to have the bgnefit of cheap fuel; they can determine whether the oil industry in the hands of its present owners is to be profitable or unprofitable. The evils of unrestricted railway ‘domination in matters of freight rates are well known. They are manifest in every part of the Union from New Eng- land to the Pacific Ccast. Complaints against them are heard in great cities like Chicago and from the smallest shipping stations. They appear not only in State commerce, but ir. interstate commerce. In fact, they are everywhere apparent throughout the whole field of trade and industry, and there is no question but some remedy must be devised to prevent them. In Caliicrnia, as in other States, we have sought to provide the public with protection against railway extortion by the creation of a Railway Commission clothed with power to investigate all complaints and to do justice. This clothing of power which the Legislature bestowed upon the commission has been torn to tatters ang rags by the courts. At present the commission shows an appearance not superior to that of a scarecrow, and the railroads have lost re- spect for it. Either they control the commission or they defy it. Rarely indeed does the commission make any at- tempt to protect the public, and as 2 rule the Com- missioners Mraw their salaries in peace undisturbed by suits of plaintiffs asking for redress. The present commission tried to earn its salary.. It undertook in good fzith to put a stop to the extortion in oil rates. So far as the results show. however, it might just as well have done nothing. It has given a decision, but it cannot enforce it. From the start the new rates were stopped by an injunction called “temporary.” That injunction stands till further orders. What has the commission accomplished of any value to the oil men or to the public? Between now and the meeting of the Legislature next winter there is ample time for business men znd lawyers of the State to confer on this subject and devise a plan for clothing the commission with power to act. If that canfiot be done the commission should be abolished. There is no use nuaintaining a scarecrow at so high a price. B The protests against the new rules at the New York Custom-house continue to be loud and frequent, but 2s the rules have already added something like $700,- 000 to the national income, it would seem the Goy- ernment had better stay with them. Kitchener may have been correct in saying the Boers have only 11,000 men in the field, but just the same they manage to have enough to break the blockhouse cordon every time they choose and Jjust where they choose. ANTI-TRUST LAW VOID. T has been the custom in State Legislatures and I in Congress to exempt certain classes from the operation of anti-trust laws. The most ordinary exemption is the labor unions. The similarity of some of the operations of these unions and the, trust is shown in the strike in Boston, in which hours and wages were not an issue at all. The question there was a denial to transportation companies of ‘the right to handle and carry ncn-union freight. The analogy between this and denial of the right of merchants to handle, non-trust products will be seen at once. In>other cases anti-trust laws exempt certain classes of producers and of products. - We omit com- ment upon the fact that in case of every exemption the class favored controls many votes, and the effect of the excmption is to give to a number privileges which are denied to a few, and it will finally work | out in the denial of rights to a minority which the majority is permitted to freely enjoy. It was appar- ent from the beginning to lawyers, and to laymen who have a proper comprehension of oug system of : !,expenditm:e\for] the coming year is $800,000. Our Eighest possible expenditure under the postal clause, cver and above receipts, is $2,000,000, and that only when the postal routes ‘all over the world have been cpened and are in successful operation. Under the subsidy it would be impossible for us to build over 000 tons every year, at an expenditure of $30,- 000,000, and the employment of a vast number of American workingmen. So that the highest expen- diture possible with cur mail routes built and our merchant service full—and that will take from five to ten years—would be $7,500,000 a“ year.” % . For such comparatively small expenditures we are to gain the carrying trade of our exports and im- ports. Our flag is to be seen once more on every sea. - We are no longer to be ‘dependent on the for- eign ship-owner and compelled to pay him tribute. We are to be independent on sea as on land. Surely every progressive American must be gratified by the outlook. s The isthmian canal route problem hds been sim- plified somewhat by the action of the committee in government, that these exemptions are contrary to our fundamental law, but such considerations could not restrain the legislative politicians who will cater for votes, no matter what may be the law or the ef-" fect of statutory inequalities. Illinois passed a much admired anti-trust law, but put into it a clause exempting from its provisions and penalties the products of agriculture and live- stock. » % This law provided that if a man secured the' manu- factured product of a trust on cdedit he need not pay for it. The benefit of the collection laws was- therefore denied to a trust. This was adopted from some of the earlier prohibition laws, which outlawed all debts incurred in the purchase of liquor, and were upheld by the courts on the legal theory that they were necessary to'a proper exercise of the police powers of the State. The Illinois statute has recently come to judgment in the United States Su- preme Court and has been held void and unconstitu- tional on account of its exemption clause. The case arose in an action by the Union Sewer Pipe Com- pany brought against Thomas Connelly and others. Connelly secured a large amount of sewer pipe, and, after getting possession, refused to pay for it under the outlawing clause of the Illinois law. The decision, writter by Justice Harlan, was ad- verse to Connelly and voided the law. The Justice admitted that if the statute were valid Connelly's plea of non-liability was good, but, quoting the ninth sec- tion of the law, that “the provisions of this act shall not apply to agricultural products or livestock,” he | said: “This section is repugnant to the fourteenth amendment of the constitution of the United States, and, further, it is so connected and interwoven with other sections of the act as to invalidate the entire act. If combinations of capital, skill, or acts, in re- | spect of the sale and purchase of goods, merchandise, or commodities, whereby the persons, firms, corpora- tions, or associations forming such combiqa(iuns may control-or establish, in their _discretion, the | prices of such goods, merchandise or commodities, | are hurtial to the public interests, and should be sup- pressed, it is impossible to perceive why like combi- nations in respect of agricultural products and live- stock are not equally hurtful. Two or more engaged in selling dry goods or groceries, or meats, or fuel, {or clothing, or medicines, are, under the statute, | criminals, and subject to a fine, if they combine their capital, skill, or acts for the purpose of establishing, controlling, increasing or reducing prices, or of pre- venting free and unrestrained competition among | themselves, or others, in the sale of their goods or | merchandise; but their nci‘)bors. who happen to be agriculturists and livestock raisers, may make com- | binations of that character, in referetice to their grain or livestock, without incurring *the prescribed pen- alty. Under what rule of permissible classification can such legislation be sustained as consistent with the equal protection of the laws? “To declare that some of the general class engaged in domestic trade or commerce shall be deemed { criminals if they violate certain regulations pre- scribed by the State for the purpose of protecting the public against illegal combinations, which have for their object the destruction of competition and the control of prices, and that others of the general class, also engaged in such trade or commerce, shall not be deciding that the Darien route is not worth consid- ering. The issue is_thus left to a choice between Panama or Nicaragua, and let us hope that. one or the other will soon get a knockout blow. It is time to quit discussing routes and to begin talking busi- ness. P halt done.” If we may rely upon that doc- trinc we may conclude that the task of advan- cing the interests of California by attracting attention to the rich resources of the hitherto comparatively neglected portions of the State is already half accom- plished. ~ Certainly it has been well begun. Repre- sentatives of all sections of Northern California have been brought to confer together, they have agreed upon a plan of action in co-operation with represen- tatives of the commercial organizations of the city, a strong central board has been chosen to carry out the movement, and a sufficient amount of cordialjty and enthusiasm has been engendered to assure hearty ‘support to they(erprisc. Public opinion will approve the action of the con- ferees in deciding to intrust the direction of the movement to the State Board of Trade, assisted by representatives from the various commercial organi- zations of the city and from the various counties es- pecially interested in it. The Board of Trade has been engaged for years in the performance of just sugh work as is now required of it. - The news mave- ment is, in fact, hardly anything more than a strong reinforcement of the board aléng lines in which it has been moving steadfastly from the start. The enthu- siasm of the present enterprise therefore obtains at the beginning the direction of trained experts who have learned from experience how best the work can be accomplished. Having thus begun the work by placing the con- trol in good hands and providing for ample assist- ance through a committee of promotion, the next thing to be done is to provide the needed revenues. In the attainment of that no great difficulty should be experienced. Where many are interested, if each does his share no one need give much. This move- ment appeals to many. There is hardly an industry or a class of property in all Northern California that will not be benefited by the movement. ~ There is therefore a large constituency to which the commit- tee has a right to look foricontributions, and, judg- ing from the interest displdyed in the various pre- liminary meetings which led up to the organization of the work, there is every reason to believe the re- sponses will be prompt and liberal. The plan of work outlined is sufficiently compre- hensive to enlist popular sympathy. By the resolu- tions providing for the appointment of a promotion committee to co-operate with the State Board of Trade the -dutigs of the committee were defined to be: To devise ways and means for enlarging and extending the work of the board. To increase the number of affiliating countieg, and to induce them to make an exhibit of their products and furnish the ooard with literature descriptive of their respective localities. To provide facilities to interior agsocia- tions representing combinations of counties for the establishment of special bureaus of information and exhibits of their resources at the exhibition rooms of \the board. To provide for special exhibits at such points other than in San Francisco as may be deemed advisable, and for the preparation and distribution of descriptive and statistical literature. co-operate with te various organizations of North- ern and Central California now engaged or that may hereafter engage in the work of State development .and of promoting immigration, and generally to carry out the objects of the organization as they may from time to time be directed by the members. In work of that kind it is certainly reasonable to e —— - WORK . WELL BEGUN. ROVERBIAL wisdom tells us “Well begun’is | expect progressive men of the interior counties to co-operate even if the movement had not originated with themselves. As it is the promoters of the enter- prise have a right to be sanguine in their expecta- tions. San Francisco shovld take the leadership and set the example in the way of advancing the movement and sustaining it. Upon every metropolis there rests ,an obligation which can be shirked only at the risk of losing not only prestige but material advantages. The city has giyen her pledge to this work and should see to it that the pledge is kept with splendid liber- althe: -y ' One of the leading papers in Berlin in discussing _Prince Henry's visit says: “In our relations with the United States let us keep a sharp separation be- tween politics and business. Let us tell Brother Jonathan with the same frankness that adorns his character: ‘Politically you are my friend, and if pos- sible let us stand together; but in business you are my' competitor, unfortunately the most dangerous one of all, and fellowship ceases in money matters.’ ” While there may be come question as to the appro- priateness of the remark, there can be none as to its correctness, and Brother Jonathan appreciates it. " The latest convulsion in Karsas has been. caused by a “boy orator” said to be only five weeks old. The infant phenomenon is reported to have begun ‘to talk three weeks after his first appearance on the staép of life, and now can perorate to beat the band. His oratory consists in shouting at the top of his voice the doleful cry, “Six years of famine ih Kan- sas.” This puts the boy orator of the Platte out of | bound to regard those regulations, but may combine | their capital, skill or acts to destroy competition and | manijfestly a denial of the e_qual protection of the ilaws that extended argument to establish that posi- It is held by lawyers and judicial officers that this | decision applies also to all anti-trust liws which ex- dom of the market to anti-trust products. Justice Harlan's opinion voids fhe anti-trust laws of Illinois, | Montana, Nebraska, North Caroling, South Dakota, | Tennessee, Texas and Wisconsin. In each of those works its invalidation. THE SHIPPING BILL. B Senate the country comes within measurable distance of attaining at last the legislation store the republic to its rightful prestige on the ocean. The rejection of the numerous amendments | has been carefully tfiought out and is satisfactory as it stands. It is not likely it will undergo much if any approve of the policy embodied in the bill, so that all prospects promise that it will soon be the law of The peole have long been in favor of the policy. They have repeatedly elected Republican administra- that Congress did not enact such a measure during the fifst term of McKinley. As it is the bill may be | the people and looked upon as a part of the settled policy of the nation. It will soon pass out of the or similar legislation will provide American shipping with the protection and encouragement needed to and imports across the seas. 3 3 The amount of benefit to be expected from the mous. In his recent speech in favor of the bill Sena- tor Depew said: “We will spend during the next for the army, $100,000,000 for the navy, and $133,000,- 000 on the postoffice; and yet for this measure, which, to control prices for their benefit exclusively, is so tion would seem unnetessary. empt labor unions that deny transportation or free- Georgia, Indiana, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, | States the law contains some form of exemption t}lat Y the passage of the shipping bill through the | necessary to upbuild our merchant marine and re- offered by the opposition shows that the measure change in the House. The President is known to the Jand. . tions pledged to adopt it, and the wonder has been regarded as reflecting the overwhelming sentiment of domain of party politics, and for years to come this enable it to carry the great bulk of Amef‘iean exports: bill in proportion to the expenditure will be énor- year probably $145,000,000 for pensions, $130,000,000 if successful, will enormously = help, enormously business. As a calamity howler and youthful prodigy the Kansan didcounts him. & Lukban, the insurgent leader of Samar, who was recently captured, has every reason to give thanks for the preservation of his peace of mind and of his life. Tt appears that he intended in the event of suc- cess to establish an absolute monarchy with himself strengthen, the American navy, our highest possible |as the whole show. WL 5 NI To unify ‘and - THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1902. CAPTIVES GALORE YIELD TO CUPID . IN WEST VIRGINIA'S STATE CAPITOL - ROBABLY there is no more suc- cessful matrimonial bureau in the United States than the State Capi- tol of West Virginia, says {he New York World. Not officially, of course. It simply happens so. But the list of happenings is reaching so surpris- ing~a total that Charleston cannot very well expect to avoid a most enviable and unusual reputation on account of it. During the four years of Governor At- kinson’s administration there were fifteen weddings at the State House, or the ex- ecutive mansion. During the first year of Governor White's regime the total of marriages is seven. There are very few maids or bachelors left now, and those HAVE TAKEN PLACE. , . STATE CAPITOL OF WEST VIRGINIA AND SOME OF THE LADIES WHO WERE MARRIED IN IT. GOVERNOR ATKINSON SET THE EXAMPLE MORE THAN A SCORE OF WEDDINGS OF STATE OFFICIALS that are left are rather self-conscious. Under the last administration Governor Atkinson himself started the ball rolling by marrying Mrs. Myra Hornor Camden of Clarksburg. He was the first West Virginia Governor to wed in office, and the reception at the executive mansion which followed his return from the honey- moon was on as elaborate and lavish a scale as any ever given in the State. One -wedding after another followed during his term of office, until it was suggested that another State official should be provided for by law—State chaplain, whe, it was argued, could be paid by the fee system, and would in that way have a very lucra- tive office. After Governor Atkinson set the exam- ple there followed first in his footsteps his two daughters, then Auditor L. N. Lafol- lette, Secretary of State William M. C. Dawson, State Superintendent of Schools J. Russell Trotter, Chief Mine Inspector J. W. Paul, Assistant Adjutant General ANSWERS TO QUERIES. EDER JAI-Inquirer, City, Eder Jai is Bagque for sunnyside. WAND'S DECISION—T. W. G., Seat- tle, Wash. In the fight between Jack Root and Edward (“Kid"”) Carter in San Francisco, June 28, 1901, Wand gave a de- cision in favor of Root on a foul, FOREIGN COIN—J. W., Woodland, Cal. The coin you have is a copper plece of the reign of Victor Emanuel of Italy, and such may be obtained from dealers at 5 and 10 cents each. MOLES—J. B. H., Goodville, Or. This department cannot furnish you any more information in relation to the eradication of moles than what appeared in the arti- cle alluded to in the letter of inquiry. HER ADDRESS—Reader, Gibian, Cal. The address of Mrs. Chesborough, who was in- charge of one of the booths dur- ing a charity affair in the Palace Hotel on the 3ist of last October, is 3308 Clay street, San Francis THE NAVY YARD-—Subscriber, Grass Valley, Cal. The occupations and trades in schedule A and B at the navy yards of the United States are divided into four classes designated as first, second, third and fourth, with pay graded as deter- | mined in the latest quarterly schedule for each yard. TWENTY-DOLLAR PIECE-O. E. W., Takersfield, Cal. - If any one paid the Sheriff of Shasta County $5000 for a twen- ty-dollar piece of 1859 the purchaser must ; have had some particular rens%‘rfll for pay- ing that much money for a ¢oin which dealers offer for $25. A twenty of 1362 does not command 2 premium from deal- ers, neither does a ten-dollar piece of 1847 nor a half-dollar of 1854. The first named | coin can be purchased for $25 from deal- crs, the second for $13 30 and the last for 76 cents. TENANCY~—P. E. K., Sacramento, Cal. A month to menth tenancy may be ter- minated at any time. A tenant may rent {a house or other premises for a month and at the end of the month move away. The landlord, if he desires the premises, usually gives fifteen days’ notice that he wants the premises returned to him at the end of the term for which such were | rented. He does not have to give any rea- son for desiring to have the premises re- stered to him. 2 DOUBLE CHANCE—E. D., City. At the election, 1800-1801, Jefferson’s party defeat- ed Adams and the Federalits, but the defective provisions of the constitution gave to Jefferson and Burr seventy-three electoral votes each, and .there.was no election; the House of Representatives ac- cordingly took up the matter and a bitter struggle ended in the choice of Jefferson for first place, and it fs because of this that it has been said that Jefferson had “a double chance” for the Presidency. SPECTAL OFFICER—C., City. A spe- cial police officer having a regular beat is a police officer all the ‘time, and under his cath he is bound to perform the cuties of-a police officer, except the serv- ing of warrants or subpenas. He can make an arrest for violation of the law in bis presence or if he has reason to be- lieve that a felony has been committed without his presence. If a crime is com- mitted in his presence when he is off his beat he is bound to make the arrest of the cffender if he can or assist in so do- ing. \ TOWAGE—Subscriber, City. While a 500 horsepower engine placed In a 5000-ton vessel might not be sufficient to move it fn the water, a tug baving such an en- gine would have no difficulty in towing the vessel to anchorage. The Teason for that s that the towboat, having an en- gine sufficiently powerful to move it through the water, is able to give the sreater vessel a start, and then such start having once been obtained there is ne difficulty in towing. It is on the same principle as of tgro men weighing 175 pounds, each being able to start a seven- ton electric car on a level track, and hav- ing once started they are able to keep it moving with but little effort. NATIONAL DEBT-J. McN., City. The foilowing is the official statement of the debt of the United Stages on the 1st of November, 1801: Interest bearing debt, $961,023,100; debt on which interest has .ceased since maturity, $1,341.310 debt ! bearing no interest, 335,324,244 aggre- = SINCE i Treasurer's Clerk O. E. Darnell; Miss Lulu Downtain, librarian in the State Historical Society’s museum and li- brary, who married a former Seeretary of State, W. A. Ohley; Miss Elizabeth Tay- lor, private secretary to the State Super- intendent of Free Schools, and two of the assistant janitors of the State House. Since the present administration went into office, on March 4 last, the following persons connected with the State govern- ment have been married: Auditor Ar- nold C. Scheer, who married Miss Minnie Grose, for four years private secretary to Sacrefary of State Dawson; Colonel C. B. Kefauver, former Insurance Commission- er and now brigade adjutant of the Na- tional Guard; M. P. Shawkey, chief clerk in the office of the State Superintendent of Schools; J. B. Garvin of the State Board of Agriculture; Miss Pearl Martin, librarian ‘of the State Historical Soclety, end Miss Coral Long, stenographer to the adjutant general. PERSONAL MENTION. Paul R. Jarboe s at the Occidental. Ben U. Steinman of Sacramento is at the Palace. George W, at the Lick. George E. Goodfhan, a banker of Napa, is at the Palace. Dr. William Seward Webb of New York | is at the Palace. | J. M. Day, a banker of Woodland, is a gueut at the Lick. i D.. 8. Rosenbaum, a banker of Stock- ton, is at the Palace. F. H. Hayden. a hotel man of Placer- ville, is at the Grand. A. B. Corey, 'a railroad contractor of Ogden, is at the Lick. P. L. Flannigan, a mining man of Reno, Nev., is at the Grand. A. P. Halfleld, a merchant of Los An- | geles, is at the Grand. J. R. de Lamar, a well-known mining man, is at the Palace. J. B. Gow, the ewner of several mines north of Redding, Is at the Palace. ———— Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, March 18.—The fol- | lowing named Californtans have arrived | at the hotels: St. James, J. Johnson and | wife, L. A. Brunson; Willards, R. E. Hammond, R. H. Pease and wife, Miss Pease, Miss Middleton, J. H. Miller, J. H. Harold and wife, G. E. Lawrence, R. For- sythe, all from San Francisco; Raleigh, M. A. French, from San Jose. —_—ee———— Californians in New York. NEW YORK, March 18.—The following pamed Californians have arrived: | From San Franciscc—G. Martin, at the Bartho!di; Mrs. J. H. Mitchell, at the St. | Denis; C. Clarke, F. A. Swan, H. H. Young, at the Imperial. From San Jose—D. Palmer, at the Gil- sey. | i L o e e e el gate of interest and non-interest bearing | debt, $1,347,68,654 89; certificates and | treasury notes offset by an equal amount of cash in the treasury, $803,897,089; aggre- gate of debt, including certificates and treasury notes, 32.151,585,743°89, \ RING EVENTS—J. G. O.] City. There ‘were (wo events or feature§ in Wood~ ward's Pavilion in San Frandisco on the night that Lawler and Reiley, Gans and Leonard and Jeffries and Baker fought.* The primary one whs that between Jeft- rles and Baker and the secondary one that between Gans and Leonard. Jackson of Sacramento Is HOUSE BLOWN DOWN-G. D. G., | City. It is impossible to state upon the question, “If' A’s house is blown down by a gale of wind and in its fall it damages B's house, is A responsible to B for the damage done to his house?” if A would be responsible for damages. In an actlon at law it would have to be shown that A had not been careful in the construction ¢f his house and had not taken the proper ordinary steps to secure it against wind and storm. It would require evidence to establish the facts. —_——— Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's.* —————— (Cai. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.* — e Look out for $1 4th st., front barber and grocer; best eyeglasses, specs, 10c to 40c.* ——————— Townsend's California glace fruit, 50¢ 5 ound, in_ fire-etched boxes or Jap., bas- keu. A nice present for Eastern &lln(h. 29 Market st., Palace Hotel butlding. s —————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Fress Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 nt- gomery street. Telephone Maln 1042, ———— About 10,000 letters of local origin for local delivery are sent to the Dead Letter Office from the Chicago postoffice every month. e The saving of & few cents on a bottle of Va- nilla Extract will not atome for annoyance of having dessert “just a little off” in flavor. Always buy Burnett's. the standard quality. ——— Of the convicts In the Kansas peniten- tiary seven are women serving !Y:u for murder. One has a forty years' sentence, another thirty years. > —_———— HOTEL DEL CORONADO, éholcest Wi Resort in the world, offers best living, climer boating, bathing flshing and most amuse: ments. E. S. Babcock, manager, Coronado, Cal. nation may be found in the fact that State pays liberal salaries and the work in the offices is light. Men who have struggled along through poverty, he the day might some time come when tt could afford te marry and keep a wife comfortably, when suddenly given a com- fortable salary very naturally think of the realization of their hopes, while those who have never had the opportunity to give the married State a thought find am- ple time when in the State’s employ to think of matrimony. If the present record is maintained the demand for State offices will no doubt in- crease until the list of applicants will be appalling. Already there are several ap- plicants for office at the election to be held three years from next fall, and ths State has tecn advised to go into the busi. ness of condueting a matrimonial burea: by fixing the term of office of the clerks in the various departments at _three months to one vear. A. S. Hutson, Auditor's Chief Clerk This is a record which few if any State If they| cannot succeed in marrying Willlam Burdette Matthews, Treas- Capitols can equal, and the cause has not within that length of time it will be con- urer's Chief Clerk A. D. Gates, yet been determined. Perhaps an expla- sidered that they are Nopeless. PECULIAR INDUSTRY. “T'll take two pounds of snake, please.” That is what one may hear at certain stcres in Klamath Falls, Or., where there is auite an extensive industry In snakes. Chlidren gather their aprons full of snakes as they would of wild flowers and little boys gather them! in their pockets for pets. The ‘snake industry of Klamath Falls came about in this fashion: Postmaster Castli some time ago re- ved a letter from a concern in Minne- sota asking- the price of reptiles and in- Guiring if they eould be shipped to Minne- sota. Thinking it a joke the Postmaster replied that he would furnish all the snakes desired at 28 cents a pound. Im- agine his surprise when, by return mail, an order was received for 409 pounds of snake. The Minnesota firm then informed Lim that next season they would place an order for 89 pounds. That set the people of Klamath Falls to thinking, and the present snake indus- try of the town is the result of their | cogitations. The species of water snake so plentiful at Klamath Falls is of a dark color and when full grown about three feet long. So great is the supply that tons of the reptiler could be shipped annually if there were orders for them. The snakes are used for medicinal purposes, as a superior quality of oil can be manufac- tured from the variety found at Klamath Falls.—Denver Times. et oot The French have coined the word alu- minothermy for the process of getting very great heat quickly and inexpensive- ly by the oxidation of aluminurp. B.KATSCHINSKI PHILADELPHIA SHOE €0, 10 THIRD STREET, SAM FRANGISCO. 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