The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 12, 1902, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 1902. THURSDAY 2 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. e Lédress All Communications to W. 5. LEAKE, Msnager. e Ask for THE CALL. The Operator WQ! Connect You With the Department You % '~h. Market and Third, S. F. ..217 to 221 Stevemson St. PUBLICATION OFFICE EDITORIAL ROOMS. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL dncluding Sunday), one year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 mont DAILY CALL (incjuding Sunday), 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Month. SUNDAY CALL, One Year. WEEELY CALL, One Year.. 1 828233 1. 1. All postmasters are zuthorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Masl subscribers in ordering cha: e of address should be perticular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order %o insure a prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE. +++.1115 Broadway C. 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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, co:m untt! § o'ciock. 2200 Fillmore, open until ® p. m. 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING TOWN FOB THE SUMMER. Call wubsecribers coatemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their mnew mddresses by mnotifying The Call Business Office. This paper will alse be or sale at all summer resorts and is represented by a local agent in all towns on. the coast. A TUNNEL ROAD. NCIDENT to the spirit of progress that is now i in Northern California is the alliance of neling the Coast Range for a wagon road, Il permit the whole Mount Diablo region access to Oakland by easy grade, so that produce come to market by wagon. Heretofore it has to carry on this traffic under the diffi- steep grades and dangerous on which many accidents have happened and where the hauling of a full load has been impossible. We think it is the first instance on this continent in which a wagon ha The project has been under discussion for many years and much time was spent bringjng the two counties into co-ordination in the matter. Then difficultics were presented in getting the right of Of these the last has just been compromised, 1 nel, which will cost many thousand dol- soon be uader construction and will be pushed. Oaklard is to be congratulated upon means of access to%an extensive and rich region, 1 are to be for this means of getting to a good marke! When railroads began easing their grades and changing curves for tangents it was not dreamed that the users of wagon roads would so quickly imitate them. Nor is it probable that they would have done so but for the spirit of enterprise that has so grandly taken hold upon Northern California. The example of those two counties may well be followed elsewhere in this mountainous State, where producers and their market are separated by ranges that may easily be penetrated by tunnels. While this tunnel is being constructed it might be well for Oak- land to consider it as a future facility for introducing 2 needed water supply, and build it of dimensions with that view, that it may carry water pipes as well as wagons. been tunnel is made for the convenience of a will this as the producers ther We wish the two counties realization of all their ex- pectations and hope they may find gold or coal in making their bore. Where was General Methuen when the war went out? Last heard of him he was footing it toward h lines with a sack of mealies given him by NO LIGHTNING. HE news from the East brings frequently ac- counts- of destruction of life and property by lightning. Among the gifts and graces of Cali- 1 fornia is immunity from sunstroke, hydrophobia and lightning. Our visitors, in going up and down, will observe that there are no lightning rods on our build- ings. Infrequently we hear thunderstorms off the coast, out at sea, and sometimes we have them in the mountains, but that is all. Here the lightning rod man does not flourish, and has no chance to convert a rod note into a farm mortgage by 2 simple turn of the pen and paper and hypothecate it at the country bank. When asked for a reason for the absence of thunderstorms we cannot give it any more than we can give a reason for sun- strokes and hydrophobia being unknown, so we fall back on that reason given for all the great peculiari- ties of California—it is the climate. Eastern people who dodge lightning and keep their household gods in a cyclone cellar, who Jose their wits by sunstroke and have every year 2 season of mad dogs, may miss all these by coming here, and by coming may enter an atmosphere of the most perfect physical comfort, with nothing to affect their flesh larger than a flea. Some politicians szy the trust issue is dead and some say it is not yet born, but all of them are dodg- ing around as if there were a live lion in sight. Ii the casualties continue, owners of automobiles will soon be held liable under the law that forbids carrying concealed weapons. An evering contemporary insists that “the author of the Psalms” wrote them in English. a Costa and Alameda counties in a project 1 THE FOWLER BILL, ' E have already given the reasons for the \;\, Fowler bill, which is favored by the House Committee on Banking and Currency and is quite generally opposed by the bankers of the country. The bill is intended to'supply an emergency currency by an issue based on assets other than United States bonds, and by establishing branch banks to more nearly equalize interest and discount throughout the country, thus relieving points remote from financial centers of the consequences of a cur- rency famine. The reasons against the bill are put forward by Congressman Pugsley of New York. He is a sound money Democrat and an experienced banker, and his opinions 2re deserving of respect. He compliments Mr. Fowler for his knowledge of the subject and the industry with which he has worked out the bill, but declares that it is a too radical departure in our bank- ing and cvrrency system. Mr. Pugsley admits the need of protecting the country against a currency famine. He describes the Fowler plan in these terms and we reprdduce it, as it probably represents thc views of the opposing. bank- ers: “The plan of the majority members of the Banking and Currency Committee is to formulate an asset currency in preference to the thoroughly tested | system cf circulation now based on Government | bonds, a circulation that is received without question in any part of the United States. They also pro\'id‘e for a branch bank system, thus forming a great | money trust, which will reach throughout the whole country and undoubtedly put out of existence, if the | measure become a law, a large proportion of the smaller banks, both State and national, in the United | States. The large banks of the great cities will be authorized and will be able, through their large capi- tal, to establish branchkes in any part of the United States and foreign countries, and it will be in their pewer to plant a branch in any city or town, which will mean that an office will be hired, some fixtures arranged and a manager put in charge. No ‘capi- tal is provided to follow the branch institution, and it will be virtually free from all taxation, except at the parent bank. This will of necéssity enable the | branch barnk system tc drive out of existence State and national banks in the small towns and cities, which are now heavily taxed in the communities where they are located, and in the course of a few years there will probably be only a very small num- | ber of banks, and they will be able to control the banking capital and deposits of the whole country. This control may ther: be used as a great political power for the furtherarce of the ends of these insti- tutions in securing such legislation as may be neces- sary for fastening this octopus on the American peo- ple. As to equalizing the rate of interest, which it is claimed the branch bank system will accomplish, any one with a modicum of common sense knpws that the rate of interest will depend upon location, quality of collateral and, above all, on the oft-repeated but cer- tain principle of supply and demand.” | It is hardly possible to bring these reasons into comparison with those given for the bill, since Mr. Pugsley argues from the viewpoint of the banker or lender, while the friends of the bill argue from that of the borrower. Mr. Pugsley expresses the wish of all sensible men when he says: “I believe the inter- ests and the honor of the country clearly demand that there never again shall be a political contest in | which the currency, or standard of value, shall be the issue. It concerns too vitally the great interests of the people to be made the football of politics, for no ! question will so quickly unsettle and paralyze the vast business industries of the country as one that con- cerns the stability of our currency.” But can he insure the future against such an issue in politics when interest is 4.41 in New York and from 7.08 to 10 in the South and West? He may say that it depends on supply and demand, but the figures show that there was a surplus of money and defi- ciency of demand in New York, with low interest, and a surplus of demand and deficiency of money in the West and South, with high interest. With interest at the same moment 125 per cent higher in, Denver than in New York, how can the currency question be kept out of politics? Some Eastern reformers are clamoring for the the- ater managers to sell icecreafn between the acts. They wish the cream put up in paper boxes and sold at ten cents a box with a spoon thrown in. It is to such a pass the drama is coming at last. WEST POINT'S CENTENNIAL. ASTERN news reports are giving but little at- E tention to the West Point centennial, which is being observed this week, and yet the institu- tion has filled so large a place in American history that the occasion merits something more than a pass- ing notice. In the graduating class of 1802 there were but two men, and for a time the classes were small, as | by the original act creating it the entire corps was limited to twenty officers and men. The war of 1812, however, roused the American people to a recogni- tion of the needs of military education -and defense, and since that time West Point has been amply sup-, ported. Judged by its history and the record made by its graduates West. Point is the foremost military school in the world. The long Civil War in this country gave an opportunity for its graduates to show the worth of tifeir training, and the test was a severe one. Among no people in the world are volunteer armies more efficient than among Americans, and nowhere else are there among the ranks of volunteers so many men capable of exercising high commands. Therefore when the war broke out and the graduates of West Point undertook the command of armies on both sides of the struggle, they were brought into sharp rivalry with a host of volupteer officers, able, active, patriotio, daring and resburceful. Yet in both armies the West Pointers proved themselves su- perior to the most efficiént of the untrained generals who shared with them the responsibilities of the war. Hardly ever before has the value of professional training been more strikingly proven than in that long contest. At the outbreak of the struggle it is probable the sympathies of the mass of the people both North and South were with the volunteers rather than with the West Pointers. Nor were the sympathies wholly misplaced. From the ranks of the volunteers came forth a brilliant galaxy of com- manders, men whom the cofintry honored and re- members still. Nevertheless it soon became evident that the conduct of the war must be left to the trained men, and to-day West Point can attest her worth to the nation by citing the names of Grant, Sherman, Sheridan, Thomas, McClellan and Burn- side on the side of the North, and Lee, Jackson, Johnston and Stuart on the side of the South. There have been times when West Point has been subject to criticism, but jn the main the critics have been ill-informed and have based their conclusions upon half truths. It has been stated again and again that the institution is aristocratic, that it educates men away from democratic ideals, but the statement is without basis of fact to warrant it. A short time ago the revelations concerning hazing at the institu- tion raised a storm of denunciation, but.in that case also the condemnation was altogether too sweeping. The evils were bad indeed, but they did not affect the institution as a whole nor typify the real spirit of the corps. The report of the board of visitors who examined the institution last year says: “No fair-minded, patriotic American can visit West Point, investigate the methods of education, the daily life of the cadet and all the drill and training incident to a four years’ course, and not feel an admiration for and pride in the institution. * * * The pure democracy whigh characterizes the institution is, above all things, to be commended. * * * The atmosphere is one of equality] the environment a continuous reminder that worth and ‘merit, virtue, integrity, courage and kin- dred attributes of noble manhood were the essentials to success, promotion and distinction.” Reviewing this year the history of the institution for its century of life, the American people can cor- dially indorse that statement of the spirit and the work of West Point. It has been the training school of heroes, and the nation has good reason to be proud of it. One of the curious things about the close of the | South African war is that of the two men who started it, Kruger and Rhodes, one is dead and the other is so completely effaced that the British Government has agreed to let him go home and live there without taking the oath of allegiance. Peace brings to South Africa a new era with new men to the front and a new deal all round, ‘ missioner of Labor, contributes to the cur- rent/ number of the North American Review a short history of strikes in the United States during the last twenty years. Prior to that period no effort was made to collect authentic data concerning strikes, so that the twenty years virtually covers the entire statistical history of the subject, and, more- over, it has been only within that time that strikes have attained great industrial and social importance. As early as 1740 an effort was made by a strike of the journeymen bakers in New York to obtain an increase of wages. The instigators of the movement were tried and convicted of conspiracy on account of their agreement not to bake bread until their wages were raised. In.1796 and 1798 the journeymen shoe- makers of Philadelphia struck for better wages, and the strikes were successful. Those were the only strikes in the country prior to the nineteenth cen- tury, for, as Mr. Wright says: “Industrial condi- tions were not particularly conducive to such con- troversies. Relations between masters and men were individual, so that concerted action among the men was seldom practicable.” As the nineteenth century advanced strikes became more and more' frequent, but according to Mr. Wright “there were no notable strikes until 1877, RECORD OF STRIKES. ARROLL D. WRIGHT, United States Com- ‘those which occurred prior thereto not being very important as to the persons engaged or losses or otherwise, although some of them were severe in the conditions accompanying them®-y & It was after that year that the great labor war-be- gan in earnest and the struggles between employer and employe became notable. Since that time there have been strikes having a wide and far reaching in- fluence, affecting the general trade conditions of whole communities. It is noted that the first of what may be called historic strikes took place in 1877 on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. The Pennsyl- vania road was subject ‘to an extraordinary strike in the same year. Mr. Wright says: “Without doubt the most expensive and far reaching of historic strikes was the strike of June and July, 1804, at Chi- cago, but the most thrilling and dramatic incident or event in the labor movement of the country must be considered the Homestead affair of July 4, 1892.” The year 1894 is given as the period of “high water mark of labor controversies,” though of course there have been notable strikes since then. Passing to the statistics of the subject Mr. Wright presents tables showing that during the twenty years the losses to employers and employes through strikes amount to about $468,068,581, more than 6,000,000 persons hav- ing been thrown out of employment for an average of 23.8 days. The estimate is made that 50.77 per cent of the strikes for the twenty years succeeded; 13.04 per cent were partially successful, and 36.19 per cent failed. Of the strikes directed by labor organizations 52.86 per cent were successful, 13.60 per cent were partly successful, and 33.54 failed. Of the employes thrown out of employment by strikes 71.60 per cent were engaged in six industries, building, coal and coke, metals and metallic goods, clothing, tobacco and transportation, and 50 per cent of the strikes took place in these occupations. New York had the lar- gest number of strikes,.with Pennsylvania next. Mr. Wright's conclusion is that strikes on the whole have been beneficial, but that workingmen in future will have less recourse to them. He says: “With increased intelligence they will look back upon the strike period as one of development, and when they shall have accommodated themselves to the new conditions and when employers shall have recognized the intelligence of their employes, these matters will be handled in such a way as to prevent in the future a repetition of incidents like those which are chronicled in the statistical history of the strikes of the last twenty years.” It is stated that Bryan has decided to let Tom Johnson of Cleveland run for the Presidency on the Democratic ticket in 1904; and probably Tom in re- turn has promised to subscribe for the Commoner and read it. Sir Thomas Lipton is eager to have another trial for the yachting cup, but the shareholders in his company wish him to stay at home and attend to business. The dividends are said to be getting small. —_— President' Kruger is said to have expended his en- tire fortune in the,war for independence, but he can make another by coming to the United States and taking to the lecture business. Oakland is trying to use a bond poultice to bring a sort of pustular system of parks to a head. Better try and make it confluent by having one park large enough to swing a cat in, The latest thing_in the thieving line is reported from New York, where aclever rascal stole the auto- mobile of a millionaire and merrily rode away with it to parts unknown, SOLANO LAWYER WEDS A CLEVER EDUCATO R POPULAR YOUNG COUPLE WHOQ WERE MARRIED LAST EVENING AT ST. IGNATIUS‘ CHURCH. e T a pretty church wedding last evening Miss Agnes G, C. Erb, the accomplished daughter of Mrs. J. B. Erb of this city, became the bride of Frank R. Devlin of Val- lejo, District Attorney of Solano County. The ceremony was performed at St. Ig- natius Church in the presence of many friends of both families. Father Calzla officiated. The bride was attended by her sister, Miss Annetta V. Erb, who acted as ruaid of honor, and was given into the keeping of the groom by her brother-in- law, P. H. Curley. Dr. Charles Devlin, a brother of the groom, was best man. The bride was handsomely gowned in champagne-colored etamine over silk, with garniture of turquoise panne velvet and French lace. She also wore a large Lat of white tulle, with a large ostrich feather. The maid of honor was becom- ingly attired in pale gray etamine, frimmed with white lace medallions and a touch of blue. Her large blue picture hat was trimmed with white paradise feathers. Mrs. Erb was elegantly gowned in black lace over silk. After the ceremony there was a recep- ticn at the home of the bride's mother at 1114 McAllister street. The floral dec- orations were lavish and in excellent taste. The hall was done in American Beauty roses and palms. In the drawing- roem St. Joseph lilles were effectively ar- ranged with palms, while pink sweet peas and carnations decorated the dining-room, where the dainty supper was served. Many handsome presents were received by the young couple. The bride was born in Nevada County. She is a graduate of the Normal School of San Jose and has been vice principal of the Napa public school and member of the County Board of Education. In ad- dition to her other attainments she is a clever musician. The groom s well known as a lawyer, and is also past exalted ruler of the Elks, president of the Chamber of Commerce of Vallejo, director of the Vallejo Bank and a member of the executive committee of the District Attorneys’ Association of California. As the groom's business in- terésts are chiefly in Vallejo, a home has been newly built and furnished there for the bride, and Mr. and Mrs. Devlin will reside there upon their return from a two months’ sojourn in Coronado and other points in the southern part of the State. Mrs. Anna Key Mace and Lieutenant James Edward Palmer, U. S. N.,, were married yesterday at St. Luke's Church in the presence of a few friends. Rev. B. M. Weeden began the ceremony at 12:30 o'clock. There were no attendants. The bride was glven away by her brother, E. T. Messersmith. The wedding was a very quiet affair, only forty guests be- ing asked to the church and the break- fast which followed. The bride looked charming in a dainty gown of thin pink pina cloth, with garniture of chiffon and ribkon and a sash of pink satin ribbon. She wore a becoming hat of pink tulle, with roses and black velvet ribbon. A reception and elaborate breakfast _followed at the Hotel Bella Vista, where the bride has been residing for some time with her mother, Mrs. J. S. Messersmith. The tables were made artistic and pret- ty with blue bachelor buttons and white candelabra. Mrs. Palmer is a Californian, being a daughter of the late John S. Messersmith, who founded Mare Island navy-yard, and granddaughter of Francis Scott Key. She is charmingly bred and well traveled. She has been living abroad for several years, and only returned to this city six months .‘I?leutamnt‘ Palmer is a North Caro- linian, but is at present stationed at Mare Island. He Is in the Marine Corps, and was graduated from Annapolis in 1883 After a month at Lake Tahoe Lieutenant and Mrs. Palmer will reside at Mare Isl- and. The wedd! ests were: s, Fesnor £ai Xentia and Mrs. | Henry Miller and . e Merrill Miller, the Misses Miller, Captain and Mrs. A. F. Dixon, Liutenant Commander and Mrs, Stafford, Mrs. Cults, Major and Mrs. John T. Myers, Mrs. Richard M. Cults, Cap- tain T. H. Stevens, Lleutenant J. McClay Salladay, Past Assistant Paymaster David Potter, Mrs. Henry Dougherty, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Peyton, Mrs. Janet M. Baldwin, Mrs. Thomas C. Pinckney, Mrs. John Mills Browne, David Turner, General John Baldwin, Samuel N. Levy, Miss Lena Maynard, Mrs. Caduc, Mrs. Weller, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Cluff, the Misses Dickins, Harry Jenkins, Willlam Me- Pherson, Miss Antoinette Delmas, Mrs. Her- bert Ponting, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Dean, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Farquharson, Mr. and Mrs. Hardisty, Miss Castle, Mrs. Duff Green, Naval Constructor and Mrs. Lawrence Adams and Dr. Newton Hawley. i e One of the prettiest weddings of the Season was solemnized at St. Paul's Church yesterday afternoon, when Miss Helen Chandler French became the bride of George J. Gilbert, Rev. Father Con- nolly officiating. The bride was hand- somely gowned in mode crepe de chine over pale blue taffeta. The bridal party was led by Florence M. French; then | came the bride and her father, who gave ber into the keeping of the groom at the altar. The groom was attended by his brother, Louie. Jack Marisch and Albert Peterson acted as ushers. The bride is the daughter of Chief Deputy County Clerk Frank French. The groom is a prominent young merchant of uus city. The young couple received many costly gifts. After an extended southern trip they will reside in this city. e Mrs. Lyman Tiffany of Washington gave a pretty informal tea at the Ocel- dental Hotel on Monday afternoon. Mrs. Tiffany has come to this city to await the arrival of her Meade, he being a lieutenant in the Twen- ty-first Infantry. She has won many iriends during her short stay here. e e Mr. and Mrs. M. Marks of Portland, Or., announce the engagement of their daughter, Ruby, to Samuel E. Wertheim- er of Balt Lake City. At home Sunday, July 15, at 703 Geary street from 2 to 5 p. m. B3 8L e Miss Kathryn Kidder was tendered a farewell breakfast at the St. Dunstan grill on Saturday by Mrs. Josephine de Greayer. Covers were lald for twenty, and the floral decorations were pretty and artistic. . . Mrs. Joe Tobin is entertaining a num- ber of friends at her summer home near Calistoga. Mr. and Mrs. Robinson Riley and Mr. and Mrs. Tom Magee Jr. are among the guests. LI s Mr. Louis Masten left yesterday for an extended trip East. Mr. Masten resides at Phoenix, Ariz., but came to this city tor his sister's wedding last week. e g * Mrs. Fred Jacobs, her sister, Miss Mary Lee Henry of Kansas City, and Mrs, Bates Spaulding of San Mateo have gone 1o Yosemite for a pleasure trip. it S Mr. and Mrs. Downey Harvey wers| the guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Chase last week at the Chases’ country home, “Stag's Leap.” = Miss Lily Spreckels sails to-day for Honolulu, where she will join her mother. Both expect to return in July. o % | Mrs. R. H. Warfleld and son, Emerson ‘Warfleld, sail to-day for Japan. They | will return late in the summer. Cpi Dr. Arnold Genthe gave a theater party te a few friends on the opening night of | Margaret Anglin. Pl Miss Grace Llewellyn Jones entarulned! Mrs. Gertrude Atherton at breakfast on | Monday of fllll'wan.k_ | Mr. and Mrs. George H. Perkins have taken apartments at the St. Dunstan. i i e Alexander St. John Bowle has salled for Japan. PEEITI Miss Olive Holbrook is in New York. —_—— son on the transport | tomer, especially when you The Texas steer is a pretty tom tt::l- cheap restaurant. ) GAME LAW IS DECLARED TO BE CONSTITUTIONAL The new game laws were declared con- stitutional by the Supreme Court yester- day. The fight between the Fish Com- missioners and the commission merchants is at an end, and it is now firmly estab- lished that any one who ventures to sell game in violation of the existing regula- tions is guilty of a misdemeanor. The law which wds made the subject of dispute reads as follows: “Every per- son who buys, sells, offers or exposes for sale, barter or trade any quail * * * is guilty of a misdemeanor.” The provision, with certain qualifications as to seasons, is made to apply to several other species of game. The observance of the law meant that the commission merchants must be subjected to considerable loss, ard, in fact, that every one who could not hunt or who did not have some friend who was a sportsman and of a generous turn of mind, must go without those kinds of game named in the section. It was thought by many lawyers that the provision was unconstitutional, and the ccmmission merchants decided to settle the question. S. Kenneke, a clerk in one of the large markets, was accordingly prevailed upon to sell a quail. The Fish Commissioners were at once notified, and the offender was arrested. He entered a plea of guilty in the Police Court, and was fined $2. The case was appealed and petition made to the Supreme Court for a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that the law was unconstitutional in that it was not uniform in operation and discriminat- ed in favor of a certain classs It was also claimed that when a man had killed a quall it became his property, and that he could dispose of it through sale or oth- erwise as might suit his taste. The court holds that all game is really the property of the State, that sports- men kill animals only by sufferance and that the Legislature in granting favors can make what qualifications may seem proper. It is stated that the prohibition in reference to the sale of game ‘“does not destroy a property right, because no such right exists.” The opinion is written by Justice Me- Farland, with whom Justices Henshaw, Garoutte-and Harrison and Chief Justice Beatty concur. Justice Van Dyke, witn whom Justice Temple concurs, dissents on the ground that the law discriminates in favor of sportsmen, and hence it is class legislation. “Is your hair cut?” “It is,”” answered the Indian. “Have you washed all the paint off your face, and instead anointed yourself with bay rum?” “I hav “Have you cultivated habits of thrift and saved up some money?"’ “I have.” “Sure you've saved up money?” “Yes.” “Well, come on. You are ready for the next step in civilization. I will now teach you how to play poker.”—Washington Star. —_————— Cal. glacs fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's* —_——— Prures stuffed with apricots. Townsend's* g e Townsend’s California glace fruit, sc a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice Present_for Eastern friends. 639 Market street, Palace Hotel building. . ———————— Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by the Fress Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Call fornia street. Telephone Main 1042 ¢ —_———— The island of Sakhalin, the great penal colony of Russia, has splendid forests of fir and pine, for which a market can readily be found in China. ————— f? Going to Thunder Mountain ?? The Northern Pacific Rallway is the best, cheapest and quickest routs. From Lewiston and Stites, Idaho, there are good wagon roads to either Warrens or Dixle, from which points the trails into this district are most accessible, For rates, etc., address T. K. STATELER, G. A., 647 Market st.. S. F. - —_————— The size of each thread, as spun by the silk worm, is one two-hundredth part of an inch in diameter. B. KATSCHINSKI PHILADELPHIA SHOE CO. 10 THIRD STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. PATENT LEATHER STYLES. Everybody 1s wearing tent leather. It is the proper style and gives one the appearnce of being smartly dressed. Patent leather is always dressy and has that gen- teel, refined look that makes a good impression. 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