The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 10, 1902, Page 6

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Call subseribers contemplating a ch residence during the summer months e of have their paper forwarded by mail to their new | resses by notifying The Call Business Office. This paper will aiso be on sale at all summer resorts and is represented by a local agent in all towns on the comst. = FREE UTILITIES. HE persistent demand for reform in public ac- T counting has caused the proponents of public ownership and operation of public utilities to take 2 very important advance step. As every investigation has shown that such utilities are operated 2t a greater cost than in private hands, and that public waste more than equals corporate profit, it is now proposed that the fixing and collec- tion of rates be entirely abandoned. Water, light and street railroad systems are to be supported directly by taxatior and be free to the use of all without any further charge. It is claimed that under such a sys- tem it will be positively shown that such utilities will be furnished cheaper than is possible by private cap- ital. A California writer on the subject mistakenly calls a water system supported entirely by taxaticn and not at all by rates “a free water system,” and says of it: “In the first place it is more economical. The cost of accounting and collecting is done away with. I bave looked over the reports of cities having so- called municipal systems, and I find that the cost of keeping the accounts with consumers and the collection of water rates amounts in many cases to over 10 per cent of the entire op- erating expenses. If this could be dispensed with the saving would be very material. If this item of ex- pense could be abolished there would be no question but that public operation would be cheaper than pri- vate operation.” This concedes The Call’s premise that public waste is greater than corporate profit. The plan for can- celing out this element will no doubt now come into focus in the discussion. Let us get rid of one error that has already appeared in it. That which is paid for in any form is not free. We owe this error to the use of the term “free schools.” That term originated when it was expected that the landed endowment of our public school system would suffice to support it, without resort to taxation. That expectation proved futile, because the lands have been disposed of un- timely and at their minimum value and the fund they produced has to be supplemented by taxation that is often complained cf as burdensome. The schools are paid for, but not by rates exacted of their patrons, and are free to none. Every renter is a taxpayer and contributes by rent to support the schools in which his children are educated, as does every owner of tax- able realty or personalty. The new plan of supporting public utilities by tax- ation, and without further charge to the user, admits everything that is charged against their administra- tion by charge and collection of rates. Granting that it will economize their administration by 10 percent, it still remains to be proved that their enjoyment by the user will be any cheaper than under private admin- istration. The writer above quoted believes that it will be cheaper, but there are others who believe that even the essential activities of government, the police, fire and sanitary departments of city government, could be run so much cheaper as a private business proposition that the saving would constitute a satis- factory business profit. It is to be hoped that this advance step by the ad- vocates of public ownership will not at all chéck the movement for entire reform in public accounting, for 2 plain and simple system of audit and account will be more necessary under the proposed plan than it is now. Senator Vest announces that he intends to write a valume of memoirs, “in order to do justice to the dead and remove many false impressions now ac- cepted as authentic history.” When published the book will probably be reviewed as another contribu- tion to the list of historical romances. Some Mississippi people have announced that they do not wish to see President Roosevelt, but had they been really as indifferent to him as they pretend, they would not have taken the trouble to make the an- nouncement. Lord Kitchener will keep the pot boiling with that grant of £50,000. The people will also boil a little paying a bread tax to furnish the money. THE MYSTIC SHRINERS. OR the Mystic Shriners San Francisco has a F welcome ardent as the Orient and lavish as the West. To reach us many of them have liter- ally “crossed the hot sands.” - They will find this city a true midsummesr oasis, the like of which exists nowhere else on the globe. California has long been the “excursion State” of the Union and San Francisco is rapidly becoming the chief summer convention city. Last season we h:}d a host of visitors within our gates, and this year will sec our streets thronged by a host more numerous still. By reason of the prestige we have acquired in { that way a new glory has come to us and a new re- sponsibility rests upon us. From this time on we shall doubtless have every summer a great throng of | visitors from all parts of the Union, and it will be our duty to maintain undiminished the repute of hos- pitality that has come down to us from the days of the pioneers. | Fortunately we shall have to put no constraint upon ourselves to make the welcome manifest and notable. | The more that come, the merrier will the welcome be. | We can never be weary of entertaining our kinsmen of the East and showing them how far California sur- passes anything they ever saw at home. In short, we have a double satisfaction in greeting all who come; first, that of receiving visitors whom we are pleased to meet, and second, that of exhibiting the beauties and the splendors of our matchless State. The week of the Mystic Shriners is going to be something like a grand holiday. The gorgeous uni- forms, the bright colors of banners and flags, the sparkle of medals and insignia, the blare of trumpets and the rell of drums, will enliven the city and give {'to our accustomed occidental ways something of the mystery and the pomp of the marvelous lands where the crescent and the cross struggled for mastery in the old days when knighthood was in flower and Arabian culture was the admiration of the world. Over and above the gratification derived from the brilliancy of the parades and the general joyousness of | the entertainments that will mark the meeting will be the satisfaction at having a visit from so many men of wealth and worth from distant States. The Amer- ican custom of holding conventions and assembling in large masses has an important effect in developing a true sense of unity of the people of the whole coun- try and cultivating friendly relations among those ers who have crossed the hot sands from the East | will carry back to their homes a memory of some- thing more than the demonstration of the worth of their order. They will have a fuller realization of the gredtness of the republic and the essential oneness of the vast population of their fellow countrymen. They will return to add new commendations to the many pronounced by former travelers upon our State and -| our city, and thu§ help us to advance until California holds in the Union the place to which her natural gifts entitle her. To our brilliant guests, therefore, our welcome goes most heartily. The passwords and the signs of the Mys- tic Shrine can be given them by their fellow Shriners only, but from all classes of citizens they will receive the cordial grip of welcome and of hospitality and know that San Francisco is theirs to command. A Pennsylvania professor has been amusing himself by telling the New York people that a mountain in the neighborhood of that city was 6nce an active vol- cano and is likely to resume activn[y‘at any time. The Neéw Yorkers are so frightened at the prospect of a local Pelee that a good many of them are thinking of going to Philadelphia, where they can be sure of a quiet life. ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC RALLY. NE more vigorous effort is to be made by the O Democratic leaders in New York to formulate a policy for the party before the Congres- sional campaigns begin. The new movement has taken the form of a political association, to be known as “The Tilden Club.” It is to be inaugurated on the 19th of this month at a banquet, to which prom- inent Democrats of all sections of the country and all shades of opinion have been invited. A sufficient number of acceptances have been received to render it certain that the occasion will be a notable one, and once more-the hopes of the reorganizers soar high. An estimate of the comprehensive nature of the banquet may be formed from the announcement that upward of 1500 prominent Democrats have been in- vited to attend the feast. Among those who are ex- pected are: David B. Hill, William J. Bryan, Sen- ator Bacon of Georgia, Mayor Collins of Boston, John D. Milburn of Buffalo, Richard Olney, the Rey. Felix Adler, Bourke Cockran, William C. Whitney, ex-Mayors Grace, Grant, Gilroy, Van Wyck, Hewitt, Cooper, Edson and Ely, and Lewis Nixon. A meeting of such an assemblage of silver men and gold men, Eastern men and Western men, Tammany men and anti-Tammany men, would 4n itself be a marked incident in the politics of the day, but the occasion is to have a brighter luster yet. It is an- nounced that Grover ‘Cleveland has been invited as the chief guest of the banquet and that he has ac- cepted and will make a speech. The reappearance of the ex-President in the field will be an interesting fact. He has been repudiated by his party, hooted, hissed and denounced as a political traitor. Now he is invited to come back and take the highest scat at the table. ' Naturally there will be a good deal of curiosity to hear what he is going to say, and how the other banqueters will receive it. It is to be hoped Bryan will not shirk the situation. The country would like to have the pleasure of seeing the “old man” and the “boy orator” confronted at the banquet board, talking harmony and mutual good will. As to the platiorm on which the banqueters will build the altar of harmony, it is hardly worth while to speculate. Cleveland will doubtless assert one doctrine and Bryan another. It will be left to David Bennett Hill to adjust the planks and Henry Watter- son will spread over the structure a sufficient’ num- ber of flowers of rhetoric to hide the cracks and cover the points where the misfits meet. Mr. Watterson has already declared there is no particular need for a plat- form. He has said, “Nothing should go into the plat- form which would tend to drive any one from the party who stupported it in 1896”; and we may infer that he would also object to anything that would drive away the Democrats who didn’t support the candidate of that year. In a recent issue of the Courier-Journal Mr. Wat- terson says: “Why should we agitate ourselves over the platforms of 1896 and 1900, on which we lost two successive Presidential battles? If it be insisted that we turn back for a platform, why not that of 1892, on which we won our last Presidential battle? The truth is, we should retrace no footsteps, saddle our- selves with no handicaps, but, turning our backs upon the past, cur faces to the future and the foe, we should ig;ther in the ample shelter of the old Democratic | who live in the farthest separated States. The Shrin-_ campground and rekindle the fires that once bla'zed 'there, saying to ourselves and to one another—saying in reverence and not in profanity, Bygores shall be bygones; by the Eternal and through the grace of God, bygones shall be bygones!” o That, then, may be taken as the slogan. The Dem- ocratic campaign is to be made upon the platform: “By the Eternal, bygones shall be bygones.” In that case, however, the country would like to know why Cleveland is to be brought from retirement and Bryan from his barn. Are they not bygones? It is said to be evident that the Cuban reciprocity bill cannot possibly pass the Semate without the aid of Democratic votes, and yet some of its advocates are trying to force it as a Republican measure and insist that Republicans should vote for it out of party loy- alty. W no sense paternal and does not undertake to prevent a fool from acting according to his folly-and soon parting himself from his money, yet it does undertake to prevent fraudulent schemers from using the agencies of the Government in enticing the unwary to part with their coin. The Postoffice De- partment has- most to do with frauds of this kind, since it is by means of the mails that the swindiérs most frequently get into- communication with their dupes. Recently the department has been especially active in suppressing fraudulent enterprises carried oni through the mails, and according to reporfs irom Washington a grea+ deal of good has “begn accom- plished. 3 ; " Of late the attention of the fraud order division of the office has: been directed to' what are known as “home corporation” and “bond investment” schemes. Such ‘schemes, it is-said, are being worked more ex- tensively and ‘more successfully in the West than in any other part of the country. 'An official report sub- mitted to the Postmaster General estimates these questionable companies have already contracted lia- bilities amounting to upward of $50,000,000, while their total available assets do not equal one-tenth of that amount. 3 Most of the dupes of the swindlers are working men and women, who have been induced to make invest- ments in the various schemes in the fond hope of de- riving a profit. Many of the so-called companies are new. The profits must be large, for it is said-they are springing up rapidly all over the Mississippi Val- ley. Short as has been their career, however, the complaints concerning them are already numerous, and the Postoffice Department has ample evidence against them to justify their exclusion from the mails. A recent report on the subject says: “The informa- tion already secured was reported by one officer, whose inspection tour included less than four weeks’ work in a small part of the country. The inspector reports that there are some thirty firms in Kansas City, be- tween thirty and forty in Chicago, nearly twenty in Louisville, eight in Des Moines, and from seven to twenty in various places throughout the West, from Lexington, Ky., to Denver, Colo. He said that they had exhausted the vocabulary of corporation litera- ture.” It seems almost useless to warn the public against frauds of this kind. Again and again the newspapers of the country have had occasion.to expose ‘some bare-faced swindle carried on under the form of some kind of investment company, and yet the warning contained in the exposure does little good. No sooner is one rascal captured and imprisoned than another appears and does a thriving trade. Nor is it always the poor and the ignorant who are deceived. Some of the “get rich quick” concerns have found dupes among all classes of business men. By excluding their circulars and letters from the mails the Gov- ernment can do something to check the evil, and it is gratifying to know it is to be done. The Govern- ment cannot consent to permit its energies and agen- cies to be made use of for purposes of fraud. R aster to the hopes of those who have expected the passage of an isthmian canal bill at ‘this session. The more the subject is discussed the more deeply marked appears the division between the ad- vocates of the Nicaragua route and those of the Pan- ama route. The volcanic eruption in the West Indies that seemed at one time to lead to a general accep- tance of the Panama line by reason of the menace of volcanoes along the Nicaragua route has had no other effect than that of stirring up counter reports of earthquakes at Panama. Each side stands by its guns and it looks as if there would be a long fight before the finish. In this situation, Boards of Trade, Chambers of Commerce and: other representative bodies should urge upon Congress the adoption of the plan of pass- ing an isthmian canal bill, leaving it to the President to determine which route is best. Senator Spooner introduced a bill of that kind soon after the canal bill was sent up from the House to the Senate. The issue therefore would not be a new one; nor would it re- quire any elaborate consideration. It has been fully discussed in Congress and by the press and might readily enough be adopted .t this session. The question ought to be settled at once. Both the great political parties of the country have repeatedly declared in favor of a canal, and about every import- ant “commercial or industrial organization in the Union has urged prompt action. Examination after examination has been made of the various routes and all the facts that are obtainable are now in the poOsses- sion of Congress and the nation. It is clear there will never be a unanimous agreement as to the route, The danger is that between the advocates of the rival enterprises Congress may be deadlocked for years to come. In this Congress the House of Representa- tives has passed a bill providing for the construction of a canal by the Nicaragua route by an overwhelm- ing majority. That bill is now threatened with defeat in the Senate. Should the Senators pass a Panama bill, it would probably be defeated in the House. Thus the work would be blocked. It would be a victory for those who wish no canal at all, There ought to be some way for statesmen to set- tle a debate of this kind that has been prolonged for years. The Spooner bill offers a way. It may not be the best bill that is conceivable, but it is a great deal better than endless wrangling. It provides a means of getting something done. It means business, CHECKING FRAUDS. HILE the Government at Washington is in THE CANAL BILL, EPORTS from Washington are ominous of dis- Senator Hanna’s advice to the Ohio people, “Keep on letting well enough alone,” is a good campaign cry in these days of prosperity. Why should anybody wish to try another policy or another party when all is going well? Congressman Tongue of Oregon, who has just been re-elected by a largely increased plurality, is said to be one of the most silent men in Congress. There | are others who might profit by the example. THREE RAILROAD MEN RECEIVE PROMOTION o - & HE CHIEF topic in railroad circles yesterday was the promotion by President E. H. Harriman of the Southern Pacific Company of three old time officials of the road. To-day a circular will be sent through- out the “Yellow Building” notifying the Southern Pacific Company employes that in the future J. Wilder, who for so many | years has been freight auditor for the company, with headquarters at Fourth and Townsend streets, has been promoted to the position of assistant auditor of the Southern Pacific and will remove his of- fices to the Wells-Fargo building. D. W. Horsburgh, who has been for many years assistant freight auditor of the Southern Pacific will from to-day on be freight auditor and Henry S. Lincoln will be his assistant. The news of the promotion of the three officials comes as a pleasant surorise to their friends. Wilder entered the service of the Central Pacific way back in 1868 and was made freight auditor of the road in 1872, which office he has held up to date. He is a very popular railroad man and is deemed strict yet just. D. W. Horsburgh, who succeeds Mr. ‘Wilder as freight auditor, has been in the employ of the Southern Pacific for thirty years and during that time has been twenty years assistant freight auditor. He is deemed one of the most honorable and painstaking officials in the employ of the company and his promotion is held to be well earned. Henry 8. Lincoln won his spurs as con- fidential clerk to J. G. Stubbs, the great railroad traffic man. Mr. Lincoln was the right hand man of Mr. Stubbs from 1891 to 1901. The circular which will be issued to-day ANARCHY BILL IS PASSED BY BIG MAJORITY WASHINGTON, June 9—The House passed the bill to protect the President, Vice President, members of the Cabinet and foreign Ministers and Embassadors and to suppress the teaching of anarchy by a vote of 175 to 35. A motion to re- | ccmmit the measure with -instructions to strike out certain sections was defeated by a vote of 71 to 123. ‘The remainder of the day was devoted to the bill to transfer certain forest-re- serves from the Interfor Department to the Agicultural Department, and to au- | thorize the creation in such reserves of game and fish preserves. President Roose- velt in his annual message recommended such a measure. The minority of the | Public Lands Committee offered a Senate | substitute for the bill, a measure which eliminated that portion of the bill which transfers the reserves to the Agricultural Department. Lacey of Iowa, Kleberg of Texas, Perkins of New York and Wil- llams of Missouri spoke in favor of the bill. Mondell of Wyoming and Shafroth of Cclorado supported the minority substi- tute. Bell of Colorado opposed the bill in toto. No vote was reached. An interesting discussion of the isth- mian canal project was made in the Sen- ate to-day by Harris of Kansas, a member of the Committee on Interoceanic Canals, who is also an engineer of recognized ability. His discussion of the technical detalls of canal construction was listened to with profound attention. He strongly advocated the selection of the Nicaraguan route. He maintained that it was entirely feasible and practicable from an engineer- ing standpoint, and said that some of the difficulties presented by the Panama route were insuperable, notably the construc- tion*of the Bohlo dam. & During the early part of the session the naval appropriation bill was considered. Ali of the committee amendments were disposed of except that relating to the construction of two additional battleships, two cruisers and two gunboats. PERSONAL MENTION. Judge A. Hewel of Modesto is registered at the Lick. Speaker Pendleton of Los Angeles is at the Grand. George F. Ditzner, a mining man of Biggs, is at the Grand, J. 8. Goodwin, a mining man of You Bet, is a guest at the Lick. Railroad Commissioner -N. Blackstock of Ventura is at the Grand. } United States Marshal M. H. McCord of Arizona is a guest at the Lick. L. A. Spitzer, County Assessor of Santa Clara County, is at the Grand. Dr. J. M. Blodgett of Lodl is at the Grand. He was formerly connected with St. Luke's Hospital in this city. ; J. W. Boyle, a street car magnate of Utica, N. Y., is here with the Shriners and has made his headquarters at the Grand. L. P. Vance, an official in the contract mechanical department of the United States Navy Yard at Mare Island, is at the Occldental. ‘W. J. Rause, business manager of the | then delivered an address. Chairman Wil- Los Angeles Herald and one of the most popular newspaper men on the coast, is at the Grand, accompanied by his wife. Gus Holmes, proprietor of the Hotel An- gelus at Los Angeles and the Knuttsford of Salt Lake, is at the Palace, accompa- nied by his daughter, Miss Lalah Holmes. ——— Every time a man is is too K to go | downtown his wife befiln- to wonder how ning. she will look in mour; — o THREE RAILROAD MEN WHO HAVE WON WELL DE- SERVED PROMOTION. | is indorsed by Auditor George T. Klink, Erastus Young, General Auditor of the Union and Southern Pacific, and last and | largest by President E. H. Harriman. LIBERTY BELL ON EXHIBITION AT WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, June 9.—The Liberty Bell arrived here to-day, en route to Phil- adelphia, from the Charleston Exposition, Wwhere it was on exhibition. The arrival of the bell was marked with brief patriot- ic exercises and thousands of people passed before the car during the day and viewed the bell. The ceremonies began by the playing of the “Star Spangled Banner” by the Uni- ted States Marine Band. President McFar- land of the Board of Commissioners son H. Brown of the Joint Committee of the Councils of Philadelphia responded. Following this the Marire Band played Sousa's “Liberty Bell.” The crowd was then permitted to pass by the car. A number of children were lifted into the car, while little bunches of flowers from other children were placed on the car. During the exercises the minute-men of the District, dressed in colonial uni- forms, took position in front of the car, where they remained throughout the day. The Marine and other bands remained thrcughout the day and played selections. The cdtr will proceed to Philadelphia go- morrow. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. SPOONER—H. F., Brownsville, Cal. The given name of Senator Spooner of ‘Wisconsin is John C. CALVES' HORNS-Subscriber, Byron, Cal. Possibly the best process to prevens calves’ horns from growing is to have the animals dehorned. STEWARDESS—Stranger, City. For a position as a stewardess on a foreign steamer, apply to the master or the agent for the vessel on which you would like to be employed. The applicant is ques- tloned as to qualifications to fill ‘he posi- tion and references are also required. SWINE—A. D., City. There is no law to prevent a person from keeping hogs in 8an Francisco outside of certain limits laid down in Subdivision I of Section 63, Order 1587, Board of Supervisors. If a hog pen is maintained alongside of a fence line and the same becomes a nuis- ance, such may be abated by law. NICE FOR LADY—G. G. E., East Oak- land, Cal. “What kind of a club would be nice for young ladies, other than lit- erary, sewing, ete.,”” Is a pretty difficult one to answer, in view of the fact that ‘‘ete.” includes any kind of club or so- clety in which young ladies can hold membership. The only answer to the question is: Join anything you fancy that is included in ‘“etc.” if you do not care for a literary club or a sewing soclety. BUDGET-PASSED MR —_— The Supervisors at thelr meeting ves- terday finally passed the Hydget by a | unanimous vote. When the- majter was brought up for passage Supervisor Braun- hart asked that the communicatiof went | to the board by the Federation of Misston Improvement Clubs, which critictzed ihe | action of the board, be read. When the | document was read Braunhart arose to a question of privilege and said: I belleved petitions of all citizens, especially in reference to the budget, should be cour- teously considered. There are several re ences to the Democratic members of the bo: that seem to deserve more than passing atten tion. I deny that there was any pledge made by the Democratic members of the board that they would dw anything other than they have done In preparing the budget. I think the budget will compare favorably with any here- tofore n:ade. Owing to the absence of Supervisor Sa derson the matter of the Ti4-cent levy asked by the Board of Education was not taken up, as a full board was required. The matter therefore was postponed until Monday next, when it will be taken up as a special order of business at 3:15 o’clock. Upon motion of Supervisor Alpers the members of the Board of Education were invited to be present and explain how It will use the money obtained by the levy. Mayor Schmitz introduced Mayor Knight of Buffalo, who was accorded a welcome. The visitor sald he was here on a pleasure trip and was trying to forget the cares of business. He sald he was pleased to watch the proceedings of the board, which, he sald, was transacted differently in his own city. 3 Captain Payson, a representative of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Rallroad, appeared before theboard and announced that the corporation he represented would build the Third street drawbridge, at a ccst not to exceed $70,000, In return for franchises granted it. He asked that three years be allowed the railroad com- pany to finish the work. This request be- Ing granted, Captain Payson announced that he would file a bond to carry out the agreement. Attorney Schilling, who represents Jo- seph W. Goldstein and others, argued to the board that it ought to audit his clents’ claims for $25,000 for property con- demned by the city to build St. Mary's Park. Supervisor Wynn presented the follow- ing ordinance: Ordinance No. ——, determining an addition- al condition to those imposed by law in the matter of granting franchises to operate and maintain street raflroads for the transportation of passengers in the city and county of San Francisco. Be it ordained by the people of the city and county of San Francisco, as follows: Section 1—No franchise to operate and main- tain a street rallroad for the transportatfon of passengers in the city and county of San Fran- eisco shall be hereafter granted excepting that a condition is specifically imposed in said fran- chise that all conductors, motormien, and grip- men employed on cars carrying or transporting passengers Within the city and county of San Francisco shall be citizens of the United States and members in good standing of Division No, 205 of San Francisco, or some other dlvision, of the Amalgamated Assoclation of Street Rail- way Fmployes of America. Sectlon 2—This ordinance shall take effect and be in: foree from and after its passage. Supervisor Brandenstein sald it was a serious piece of legislation, and he there- fore suggested that the matter be turned over to the City and County Attorney for his opinfon. After some discussion the matter was referred to the joint Com- mittee on Judiciary and Streets for ac- tion. An adjournment was taken until Mon- day next. A CHANCE TO SMILE. The amusing mistakes that people make in the matter of foreign phrases are well exemplified by the proprietor of a Sansom- street restaurant. Gaudy pink cards, ad- vertising his place of business, are geing distributed, containing this astonishing sentence: “The — cafe 18 not only con- sidered the bete noire place to stop for re- freshments, but the excellence of its ser- vice and viands commands the respect of all fair-minded people.”” It is suspected that the proprietor has been the vietim of some joke-loving customer, who duped him into belleving that bete noire meant something decidedly ultra, quite recher- che, In fact.—Philadelphia Record. “That place you mention is regarded as a sinecure,” said the politician. “Then I don't. want It,"” answered the applicant. ‘“My observation has been that in order to hold a sinecure you've got to do enough hard hustling in active politics to earn the salary half a dozen times over.”—Washington Star. A man wrote to,a Western lawyer for information in regard to a person who had owed him a considerable sum of money for a long time. “What property has he which I could attach?’ he asked. The lawyer’'s reply was brief and to the point. “The man died six months ago. He has left nothing subject to attachment save a widow.”"—Evening Wisconsin. } Cal. glacr fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend'a* l Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.” } Reduction, genuine eyeglasses, specs, 10 to 40c. Note §1 4th, front barber, grocer.* f “Townsend's California glace fruit, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nfce Present_for Eastern friends. 9 Market street, Palace Hotel buflding. . Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 280 Cail. fornla street. Telephone Main 1042 ¢ i f Dr. Sanford’s Liver Invigorator, b Best Liver Medicine, Vegetal Cure for Liver Iils, Billousness, Indigestion, Constipation, Malaria * ——— Last year there were 192,706 milles of teley hic lines and 933,153 miles of wire in the United States. B — P? Going to Thunder Mountain #? The Northern- Pacific Railway is the Best, cheapest and quickest route. From and Stites, Idaho, there are good wagon roads to efther Warrens or Dixle, from which points the trails into this district are most accessible, For rates, etc., address T. K. STATELER, G. A., 847 Market st., S. F. . —_—— Agents for American agricultural ma- chines sold in Constantinople last year 370 reapers and mowers, 2 bindérs, 4 rakes and one thrasher. No effort is made to sell binders, because they are consid- ered too complicated for satisfactory use by the Turkish peasants. Establish JAKE JOSEPH, Representative, 300 WILSON ed 1823. ¥ or o aiie 1 -manjr.-‘ 3 q %