The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 5, 1902, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1902., THURSDAY ~.......JUNE 5, 1902 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Address All Communications to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. TELEPHONE. &sk for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. CUBLICATION OFFICE EDITORIAL ROOMS. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (inciuding Sunday), one yea DAILY CALL (inciuding Sundey), 6 month: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 month: DAILY CALL—By Single Month. SUNDAY CALL, One Year. WEEKLY CALL, One Year. All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Eample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mail subscribers In ordering charze of address should be particuler to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. DAXKLAND OFFICE........00000.1118 Broadway C. 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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until § o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until 9 p. m. 70 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER, Call subscribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their mew addresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on sale at all summer resorts and is represented by a local agent in all towns on the coast. SHORTER TIME. HE time by rail on passenger trains from here » New York is now about four days and four This is to be reduced by four hours rtening the time on the New York Pennsylvania Central trains east ago. This good as far as it -goes. trains that accomplish the long run in that short do not need to do it by running at a dangerously i, but by omitting stops. occurs in Chicago. tofore dominated the policy of the roads that ere, and has succeeded in so arranging ds that every through passenger must change ¥ is At present an un- delay cars there, break the continuity of his journey and m two and a half to eight hours before pro- wait it cee 4 The control concerned has now While this ng of time between Chicago and the Atlantic desirable, it is only a step -to what There should be no long stop nor f cars in Chicago for transcontinental pas- The transit of mail of the roads changed, and New York dominates them. rd is to be. Is is now made continuous ferring at Englewood. should have equal facility. There is no more need of chang- in Chicago than at Omaha or Cedar Rapids. is an unnecessary inconvenience. Passengers who board 2 car at Ozkland mole or Point Richmond should be saved the delay and trouble, as well as the extra charge of 50 cents for the inter-depot transfer, which goes to the Parmelee Company’ A through car will further reduce expected shortening to four d Chicago heretofore been wvery successful in her policy of breaking all overland trips. She was formerly able to do the same with 2ll travel from the Northwest to New England. But this was broken up when the Soo line was built from St. Paul and Minneapolis directly the northern peninsula of Michigan. The Union and Central Pacific and the Santa Fe are straightening their lines, reducing grades and sub- stituting tangents for curves, to the great betterment of their speed and service. These changes are de- manded and warranted by the increasing volume and importance of transcontinental business. It may vccur to large railroads that all this travel has to make a great curve to reach Chicago at all. A tan- gent from Omaha to New York would save a degree and a half of northing twice run, or three degrees in unnecessary distance, 0~ over two hundred miles. At an average rate of fiity miles per hour that is a run of four hours wasted in a great northerly curve that is unnecessary. At forty miles, which may be assumed as the rate of limited trains, the time lost is five hours. No doubt the improvement made by taking out these petty curves in the overland roads will suggest a tan- y tr: Passengers ing c the has across gent that will reduce the time to New York to nearly | three days from San Francisco. As railroad policy for this city, sich reduction is of vast importance. When the isthmian canal is built our ability to hold much commerce, which will other- wise never pass here, will depend upon the element of time in transcontinental transmission. No doubt that consideration is already affecting the policy of the overland roads and causes the extensive physical bet- terments they are making. If this be so, we are receiving the benefit of the canal in advance of its construction. Within the space of twenty-eight hours recently the House passed 1169 private pensfon bills, making an average rate of one and a third pensions for each min- ute, and yet the House was not in continuous ses- sion. Evidently Tom Reed’s desire that the House should cease to be a deliberative body has been ful- | . filled. ’ An Oregon mining man has been accused of rob- bing the mails to get money to spend on females, and it would seem to be in order for some woman’s club tp rise up and defend him. " Texas claims to have shipped 70,000 mules and horses to the British armies in South Africa, but she might very easily have been in better business. That great city | PRISON INVESTIGATION. INCE the San Quentin methods were revealed S and discussed the Governor has referred to the affair in two statements. The first appeared in his Los Angeles organ, the Record, on May 26. In said: “You will notice that nowhere in these articles “|is it said that I had any knowledge of wrongdoing or participated knowingly in anything wrong.” It'is easy to see that a man may be the innocent and un- conscious beneficiary of a crime. He may eat stolen food, reccive a stolen horse as a gift, and in countless ways be the direct beneficiary of crime, and be per- fectly innccent. That was the Governor's view of his situation on the 26th ult. His second statement is in one of his San Fran- cisco organs, the Examiner, in the form of a signed statement, published June 3. In this he says: “So far as Warden Aguirre is concerned I have known him a great many years. I believe him to be a thor- oughly honest man. * * * I have confidence in the man and believe in his integrity, but if he has done anything criminally wrong he must stand the consequences. But, as to myself, I know that prior to and ever since my induction into the Governor's office I have been an honest man, and I know that these publications are a libel upon me. I propose to punish the publishers thereof, beth civilly and crim- inally. It is my intention to arrest John D. Spreckels and Sam Leake for their publications, and to sue the Los Angeles Times and Colonel Otis for their con- nection with the affair; and as to De Young, I will, when he comes within the jurisdiction of the State courts, deal with him appropriately. I propose to subfit my case to the courts of the State, where I believe justice will prevail.” We are gtatified to agree with the Governor in in- dorsement of the courts and a desire to seek a judi- cial finding in the matter. It is for him to explain why publications which on May 26 nowhere accused him of wrongdoing, according to his Los Angeles interview, became libels upon him on June 3. It is no doubt a pleasure to him to seek vindication in the courts, but it will be observed that, though on pleas- ure bent, he has a frugal mind, for by beginning criminal proceedings ke puts the cost of his proposed yindication upon the taxpayers, whereas in a civil suit he has to give bond for those costs and luxuriate at his own expense. But as we cannot control his methods we highly approve of his resort to the judi- cial tribunals. The Prison Directors have no judicial powers and cannot issue a subpena and compel at- teridance of witnesses; they seem powerless even to secure inspection of the books of the prison, which are public records and by law open to all. But a court can issue subpenas to witnesses and compel their attendance, and a subpena duces tecum to the clerk and secretary and Warden of the prison and compel them to bring books, bills and records into court. Evidently the Governor studies to please, and he pleases us by making the inquiry judicial. We will endeavor to please him by making it com- plete, unless it shall turn out that in seeking a crim- inal remedy he may be able to abridge the investiga- tion behind some limitation in the presentation of évidence. As such abridgment would not serve his purpose for vindication, we assume that he secks not to be whitewashed on one side but on all, and will not take advantage of any restriction. But this resort to the courts does not excuse the | Prison Directors. They may get intaaction as soon | as they please. There may arise delays in the courts, | and the lime in the Directors’ whitewash may over- | slack, or the bristles loosen in their brush. The peo- ple have read the evidence as far as it has been dis- closed, and they want to know what sort of Prison Directors the State has. The Governor has announced his programme as to | Colonel Otis, who is to be sued in civil damages, | while Mr. Spreckels and Mr. Leake are to be treated | criminally. But there is a portentous uncertainty | about what is to happen to Mr. de Young, which may | result in that gentleman’s permanent exile. As for | him, the Governor threatens to deal with him “ap- | propriately.” This may mean by court-martial, of the drum-head variety, or some other novel method. Perhaps it may suit the proposed victim of appro- priate punishment to negotiate before he surrenders by re-entering this jurisdiction. As for us, we are | here and can only sit and wait for the executive light- ning to strike. When it flashes we are completely | ready. = It is announced that the British authorities have | introduced ping-pong into imbecile wards of poor- | houses for the purpose of affording the inmates an easy and innocent amusement at a small cost. So it seems the game has its value after all. WINE, OIL AND OLIVES. URSUING the subject of commercial honor as [ P a prime necessity for the welfare of California | production, we are of the opinion that steps should be taken to protect our producers and their customers by statute. This State is more excellent than any other part of the world as a producer and purveyor of Iluxuries. Among these our pure wines, grape brandies, olive oil and ripe pickled olives take high rank. Im- , ported wines and brandies and olive oil are shown by official analysis to be under suspicion. The American people and the foreign, consumer have learned to look to California for a pure supply. Our brandies were injured once by a single shipment that was sophisticated. But the prompt, public and offi- cial action of one of the Federal revenue officers here out of England and Southern Europe. This action was evidence of good faith in a desire to protect our brandy, and since then English consumers and the German Government have been large takers of that product. Our Riesling wines have a fine Lon- don market, and there is no doubt that our olive oil and ripe pickled olives will finally capture a large consumption in the British Isles. The only form in which the ripe olive is known as a food in Europe js the dry salted article furnished by Greece. The duty of every Californian is to promptly expose any- body, by name, who injures us by adulteration of our fine product of luxuries. There is in the world a profitable market for every gallon of our pure wines; brandies and oil, and for all sound ripe olives we can produce and pickle in such condition as to keep and bear transportation. We contend th{t the actual producer or manufacturer should have the benefit of his trademark. One may well look with suspicion upon a wine, brandy or oil that is labeled simply “California.” The label should bear the name of the producer or of a responsible house or dealer. Then responsibility for adulteratiopstan be traced and men can be punished under Federal law for the violation of a copyright in a trademark. This is a matter of vast importance to California. There is profit in that, referring to the publication in The Call, he | so exposed the fraud that the shipment was chased | dishonor should be promi)tly punished. In a few months nominees for State officers and the Legisla- ture will be before the people asking votes. What better or more worthy issue can be injected into a campaign than this? The voters are the taxpayers. Their capacity to support the State government is inherent in their profits gained in industrial produc- tion. The wool-growers of the country are asking Federal legislation to protect them - against shoddy fabrics and the consnmer from fraud in his clothing. The butter-makers are protected by recent legislation against the substitution of oleomargarine. Why do not our ‘producers of wine, brandy, oil and olives deserve as much protection as these, and why should not the State and Federal governments give it? On the one hand it means the defense of the pub- lic health against that which endangers it, and on the other it protects the producer against loss arising in fraudulent competition. It is time for efficient statu- tory action, Let us have it. e e One of the curious freaks of the intense heat that swept down upon Martinique is stated in the report that in one of the ruined buildings there were found a number of glasses that had been fused, twisted and flattened, but the wooden shelf on which they rested was not charred. In another place there were found a doll and a small table set of metal plates; the metal was fused, but the body of the doll was not burned. Just how such things occurred is one of the problems that science will have to work at for a long time be- fore it finds the solution. O and the eminence of its representatives in Congress the platform adopted by the Ohio Republicans has naturally attracted widespread at- tention. It is the first clear enunciation from an authoritative source of the issues upon which the party will make the Congressiondl campaign and the grounds upon which it will ask the votes of the peo- ple. The platform is the more interesting because it was drawn fip by the friends of Senator Hanna, who has so frequently been spoken of as a candidate for the Presidency, and who in many respects is’the foremost Republican in Congress. Upon the three issues that now chiefly engage the attention of the country, the trust problem, the Phil- ippines and the relations of labor and capital, the platiorm speaks with ample force and fullness. Upon the first issue Democratic agitators who are so noisy in their shouts. against so-called monopo- lists are met by the statement: “The Republican party is the only one that has dealt <ourageously and honestly with the trust question. It enacted as carly as 180 a law framed by that distinguished statesman, John Sherman, to prohibit and punish combinations in restraint of trade, the control of wages, or the advancement of prices. This act, framed by a Republican statesman, passed by a Re- publican Congress and signed by a Republican President, has proved helpful in preventing abuses by such combinations where such abuses were found to exist, and is now being vigorously applied by a Republican administration in the prosecution of un- lawful combinations.” Equally explicit is the declaration concerning the Philippines. The platform says: “The war with Spain was forced on us against aur will, and the Philippines came to us as one of the results of that conflict. We are responsible for peace and order in the islands, and our sovereignty must be as absolute as our responsibility. Our title to the islands is as perfect as was that of Spain after nearly 400 years of undisputed possession. We will give their people better government, better schools, more civil and political rights and a higher civilization and broader freedom than are possible for them in any other way. Our flag is in the Philippines, and there it will re- main.” One of the salient features of the platform is the fullness with which the relations of labor and capi- tal, so far as they are subject of legislation, are treated. After citing and indorsing a statement of Lincoln, “Capital is the fruit of labor and could never have existed if labor had not first existed,” the convention went on to declare: “To secure for labor the consideration it deserves; to uphold the dignity of toil; to create a healthy public opinion on the subject of labor, and the justice of its receiving a full share of the values it creates; to bring labor and capital together on common ground in the adjust- ment of such questions as may concern these two great_factors in production, it is necessary that labor should be intelligently organized. We believe that fewer hours and larger rewards for labor harmonize the interests of labor and capital and tend to lighten the burden of toil.” Upon those three issues of the time the position of the Republicans of Ohio is impregnable. It is known that when the Democrats had control of the Federal Government they made no effort to enforce the Sherman anti-trust law, nor did they enact a single statute designed to control or regulate trusts. On that issue the Republican record stands in oppo- sition to the Democratic record, and if the Demo- crats attempt to make the campaign this fall on that issue they will be on the defensive from start to finish, Democracy has no policy nor programme with re- spect to the Philippines, neither has it any with re- | spect to American labor and trade, which thrgatms the welfare of both, should be deemed the Demogratic programme on that sub- ject. About all that the opposition can say against the positions taken in the Ohio platform is to assail the administration or the army. It will not be diffi- cult to dispose of such attacks. The people know that the country is prosperous, that public affairs are being well managed, and will vote to keep them so. THE OHIO PLATFORM. WING to the importance of Ohio as a State The inscription for the Rochambeau statue at Washington has been chosen from a letter written by Washington to the Count in which he says: “We have been contemporaries and fellow laborers in the cause of liberty and we have lived together as brothers should do in harmonious friendship.” That commendation from Washington is a good enough epitaph for any man. When the Democrats of Congress made a move- ment toward investigating the expense account of General Wood in-Cuba, the general told them to come on; thereupon they seem to have come off. Veracious correspondents announce the startling danger that an army of tramps is on its way to us. ! We will be glad to have them come, for there is still work for them on the roads and in the jails. 1 taking sovereignty as a joke, but what more could be expected of a boy of 16 who knows he has a nation in | commercial honor, and those guilty of commercial 1 a sling and feels like swinging it? capital, . unless free | There is a rumor that King Alfonso shows signs of | | the members are appreciated. The mount- FISCHER’S WILL BE CROWDED AT BENEFIT TO-DAY The Theatrical Employes’ Association Will be given a benefit performance this afternoon at Fischer's Theater. The mem- | bers of the “Fiddle Dee Dee” company have volunteered their services, as has also every person connected with the popu- larplayhouse. The sale of seats augurs well for a big attendance. The burlesque has acore;l heavily and at every performance the “standing room only’”’ sign is exhib- | ited. Messrs. Bernard, Kolb, Dill apd Blake have introduced new specialties. Miss Amber sings a new song and Miss Gallick is rapidly becoming a favorite. iy Kathryn Kidder presenting her splendid production of “Francillon” will close her £ngagement at the Columbia Theater on Saturday night. The performance is one well worth witnessing. The great dram- atic treat promised for next Monday night by Charles Frohman will undoubtedly eclipse anything yet attempted in the staging of plays in this city. Henry Mil- ler and Margaret Anglin at the head of a special company comprising over twenty of the leading players in this country will undoubtedly find a grand welcome await- ing their appearance next Monday night at the Columbia in A. W. Pinero's com- edietta in four acts, “Trelawny of the Wells.” The company is considered by those who are”good judges as the most perfect organization ever brought together in this country. They will appear in a serles of the latest successes and some re- vivals. The advance sale of seats will commence this morning. No order of any description has been taken in advance in justice to those who will be in line before the box-office window. i e The demand for seats for the Florence Robert season, which begins at the Al- cazar on Monday next, has been very heavy. On Tuesday last the sale opened for the first two weeks of ‘Zaza,” Bel- asco’s great play, in which Leslie Carter scored heavily. An unbroken line ex- tending from the box-office down to Stock- ton street remained until long after the noon hour, and within three hours of the opening of the sale the/entire house for the first night was sold out. % e e This is the last week of the popular members of Alcazar Stock Company. Mr. Alsop and Miss Converse complete their Season next Sunday night. Their work during the past three months has been of high order. They have won popularity and they will be missed by the patrons of the house. “His Wife's Father” finishes the week. i g Maud Fealy, the youngest leading lady who has ever played in this city, is mak- ing a great success at the Grand Opera- house. During the present week she is scoring heavily in “My Lady Dainty.” The play is from the pen of that prolific and clever writer, Madeline Lucette Ry- | ley. The play is a pretty one and is | splendidly mounted. The company gives excellent support to Miss Fealy. e The “Toy Maker” is drawing well at the Tivoli. This popular opera was a great success last season and those who have seen it before are coming back a second and even a third time to listen to | the catchy music and laugh at the antics | of Hartman, Webb, Cashman and the | dolls. The work of Miss Myers has been | exceptionally good, despite the fact she | has been indisposed. The toy shop scene | is extremely funny. New songs have been | introduced and the opera is better | mounted than before. - % e “The Sidewalks of New York” has proved an immensely popular attraction at the Central Theater this week. The scenic effects are of a rare order and the specialties are excellent. Little Reyna Belasco, in her dances, charms the au- diences, and comes in for several encores nightly. The Paloma Quartet of female voices also receive hearty plaudits. Next week the Central will produec the popular | Eastern drama, “A Guilty .other,” with the strongest cast in the history of the house, including Fanny McIntyre, An- nette Marshall, Margaret Wycherly, Geor- gle Cooper, Agnes Ranken, Mabel Bow- man and Anita Fallon; Earle Brown, James Corrigan, Stanlev Ross, Elmer Booth, Edwin T. Emery, Wil H. Bray Julius McVicker, George Nicholls and George P. Webster. B e Peter Dailey and his clever company are in their last week at the Orpheum. Their | performance of “A Dress Rehersal” is one of the best things produced at the pop- | ular house in months. Daily is simply | inimitable. Irene Franklin has a number of new songs which she renders in clever manner. Lottie Gladstone has proven herself one of the cleverest women in | her line who has ever visited the Or-| pheum. Le Roy and Clayton are fun| makers; Murphy and Slater do some very clever dancing, and the balance of the | bill s excepticnally good. | . The Neill Company is doing well with | The Red Knight,” Broadhurst's latest | play. It is a romantic comedy and abounds in humor. A number of changes have been made by the author and the | production runs smoothly. The Neill! Company is at its“best and the efforts of | ings for the play are very handsome. | Well filled houses have been noted at every performance. Next week “The Jilt"* | will be presented. e The Chutes presents an Orpheum pro- gramme this week. The entertainment furnished the visitors is very good. Dooley | and Fowley, Bacon and Vage, the Two | Lamonts and other clever performers are on its bill. | PERSONAL MENTION. 7. B. db Jarnatt of Colusa is at the| Occidental. | A, C. Eisen, a Fresno vinyardist, is at | the Grand. | Josse D. Carr is up from Salinas and is at the Lick. f is at the Lick. Dr. H. T. Greenlaw of West Superior, Wis., is at the Grand. i W. J. Nelson, a mining man of Los An- geles, is at the Grand. Frank H. Buck, the well-known fruit grower of Vacaville, is at'the Palace. M. P. Stein, a merchant of Stockton, is at the California, accompanied by his wife. James McDonnell, manager of the Don- ahue stock farm at Menlo Park, is at the Grand. V. S. McClatchy, editor of the Sacra- mento Bee, is at the California, accom- panied by his wife. J. Fitz Brind of Denver, known in Colorado mlniné circles, is at the Palace. Edward A. Godding, president of the * National Security and Trust Company of New York, is at the Palace. The Rev. C. F. Gates, a missionary of Harpoot, Turkey, is at the Occidental. He is accompanied by his wife, Jerry J. Driscoll, the well-known sport- ing man and politician, leaves for New York and Europe on Tuesday, accom- | panied by his wife. Mrs. Driscoll's phy- sicians have ordered her to visit Germany for her health. % prominently and powder L ———————— “!See here, my child, that latest beau of yours looks like a Chinaman.” “A Chinaman, pap?"” “Yes, he looks so much like a Chinaman _that I have decided to rigidly enforce the exclusion act against him—and don’t you forget it.”—Cleveland Plain-Dealer. t ‘William Rennie, a Fresno fmltmwer,l ¥ OIL MEN MEET AND LISTEN TO ANNUAL REPORTS An annual meeting of the California Petroleum Miners’ Assoclation was held yesterday. Reports were received and di- rectors were elected. The board of direc- tors includes M. H. de Young, Arthur R. Briggs, E. P. Heald, G. X. Wendling, E A. Denicke, Henry J. Crocker, W. A. Ja- cobs, Ed Aigeltinger, C. T. Deane, Georse H. Ismon and Joseph Chanslor.” In the absence of the president, Arthur R. Briggs, the vice president, presided. The reports that were submitted DbY Vice President Briggs and Secretary C. T. Deane reviewed the happenings of the vear. Mr. Briggs spoke of the loss by death of J. M. Gleaves, who was the first vice president of the association. Mr. Briggs said the associatiorl had received enough encouragement from the public to warrant the continuation of its work. He advocated keeping the association upon a high plane, having for its only purpose the advancement and promotion of the oil industry in this State. It should be to the mining of petroleum what the California Miners' Association has been to the min- ing for precious metals, he said. Its in- terest would eventually be feit in all the commercial and manufacturing centers of the world. Secretary Deane told of the work of the association in the direction of weeding out of fake oil companies. In part, he said: When the present directors took office they found that there were in the assoclation, as Taembers, many fake ofl companies. Our first work was to weed them out, which we did without sparing the knife. Any ofl company that was not really improving its land, or whose management we had any reason to be- lleve was simply a stock selling proposition, we erased from our books. We also refused to accept as members any oll company which aid not have something to show as a legiti- mate ofl proposition to its stockholders. We commenced a crusade against fake companies, both here and throughout the East, mere catch- penny advertising schemes, by answering hun- dreds of letters, writing to the principal papers, and publishing In every way that we were ready to tell exactly the truth without cost to_the inquirers. Many letters come to us asking for informa- tion and advice as to which oil company the writer should buy stock in. We have Invariably answered that we gave no such advice, but referred to responsible brokers. The result of our action is that to-day there are really very few companies in California working on the credulity of the public, for they know they will be exposed by this association just as soon as it comes to their knowledge. Wa hope to continue this good work, regardless of whose head we may hit. There is no reason why the great ofl industry should be smirched by a lot of schemers leas- ing a few acres of land and promising to pay impossible dividends, and even sometimes paying a few out of the very money they re- ceive from the sales of stock. Secretary Deane called attention to the fact that coal cost the people of Califor- nia $10,000,000 in 1901. All that money went out of the State. He predicted that the present year would show a reduction in the amount paid for coal of one-half, or $5,000,000. Oil was taking the place of coal as fuel. The association had perfected an envelope index of 1200 California oil companies, together with maps of every oil district in the State, with the produc- ing territory marked on them. The work of the association in the last twelve months was described. sAn exhibition of California petroleum and of the industry connected with the production was rec- ommended for placement in every com- mercial museum in the United States. Money would be needed for this and leg- islation would have to be looked after in Sacramento the coming winter, the secre- tary said. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. A HALF DOLLAR-D. M. A., Stockton, Cal. A half dollar of 1810 Is not classed as a premium coin. TWO COINS—C. A. R., San Rafael, Cal. Half dimes of 1871 and three-pence pleces of 1881 (English), do'not command a prem- fum. MISS STONE—E. R. C., Oakdale, Cal. In the latter part of April Miss Stone, the missionary, was a free woman. She was at that time arranging to deliver a series of lectures in this country. DRAW PEDRO-P., Sacramento, Cal. If, in a game of draw pedro, “A gives six, B gives seven, calls spades trumps and asks for six cards,” he can make it spades or anything he wants to. DIME AND HALF-DIME-H. B. L, Sierra County, Cal. A dime of 1884, coined in San Francisco, is worth just 10 cents, and a half-dime coined in 1862 in worth 5 cents, that and nothing more. PLATINUM—B. F. 8., Spenceville, Cal. For such information as you desire in re- lation about platinum, address a com- munication to the State Mining Bureau in tise Ferry building, San Francisco. |BLANCHARD 1S EXONERATED OF GRAVE CHARGE The Board of Education yesterday exA‘ onerated Dr. M. E. Blanchard, principal éf the Hancock grammar school, of the charges of unprofessional conduet in hav- ing, it was alleged, dictated a’ false r poért regarding the punishment admini tered by him to a pupil named John Rag- gic. The resolutions of exoneration re- cite that the only evidence in support of the charges was given by Miss Emma Perry, whose reputation for truth and ve- racity the board holds to have been suc- cessfully impeached. The resolution con- tinues: ‘Whereas, Certain charges of violation of the rules of the Board of Education and of un- professional conduct have heretofore been for- mally presented by the Superintendent of Com- mon Schools against Dr. M. E. Blanchard, prin- cipal of the Hancock Grammar School; and Whereas, A hearing of said cha was had before this board on May 26, May and May 28, 1902, and sald matter was- submitted for the consideration and determination of ~this board: and Whereas, As to specifications T and TI of sald charges, the same were disregarded at sald hearing as having heretofore been acted upon by this board, and as to the remaining specifications, no sufficient evidence having been adduced In support thereof except the testimony of one witness whose reputation for truth and veracity was successfully impeached; now, therefore, be it Resolved, That this board finds sald charges not sustained, and that Dr. M. E. Blanchard be and 1s hereby fully exonerated therefrom. Director Roncovieri opposed the adep- tion of the resolution on the ground that there never was a trial of Principal Blan- chard on the charge of “cruelly beating Pupil Ragglo, although the trial could have been held under the provisions of the Political Code. The resolution exoner- ating Blanchard was then adopted, with Denman, Mark and Woodward in favor and Roncovieri against. Superintendent of Schools Webster flled a communication in which he stated that on the advice of his attorney he had de- cided to do nothing with the charges 2gainst G. H. Foulks preferred by Mrs. G. M. Finks. The board adopted the re- port of the Superintendent and agreed to take no action. It developed that Foulks accuser had failed to appear to back up her charges. A resolution was adopted providing that all pupils who have not been regularly promoted to any high school in this city or State and who desire to enter any San Francisco high school may take an ex- amination’ for admission to the high schools on Tuesday, July 22, 1902, at Low- ell high school. The petition of the West of Castro Street Club that the board fit up the basement of the new school to be erected at Twenty-fourth and Douglass streets for use as a gymnasium and training school for a boys’” club formed after the plan of the Columbia Park Boys" Club was taken under advisement. A CHANCE TQ SMILE. Mrs. Brown—Does my husband ever de- ceive me? Of course he does. But them, I get square with him. Mrs. Greene—You don't mean that you deceive him? Mrs. Brown—That's just what I do. I deczive him by pretending to believe the fairy stories he tells me.—Boston Trans- cript. “And now, my children,” said the teach- er, who had been talking about military fortifications, “‘can you tell me what is a buttress?” “Please, ma'am,” cried little Willie srapping his fingers, “its a nanny goat.”"— Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin. He—"T had Miss Tuck out rowing last night, but she was very awkward in the boat. ‘I was surprised.” She—'“Why so?” ‘“‘Because being a dressmaker 1 supposed of course, she’d know how to trim a boat.”—Yonkers Statesman. LS SR e Cal. glacr fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* e Prures stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.® —_———— Townsend's California glace fruit, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present_for Eastern friends. 639 Market street, Palace Hotel building. . e Special informaticn supplied dailly to business houses and public men by ths Fress Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Call. fornia street. 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