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Call subseribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mail to their new addresses by notifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be on at all summer resorts and is represented by a local agent in all towns on the coast. = IMPERIAL FEDERATION. HILE society and the masses in London VV looked to the coronation mainly for a grand spectacular show accompanied by all sorts of social functions and extravagances, the statesmen f the empire were mainly concerned with the con- ce to be held between representatives of the Government and the colonial Premiers who were to attend the ceremony. The disaster that be- fe!l the coronation will hardly prevent the holding of the conference, but it cannot fail to have a depress- ng effect upon it. At best the outlook for agree- ment upon a plan of imperial federation was not bright, and now the prospects are distinctly gloomy. The issue has occupied 2 much larger part of the ghts of British statesmen than has been gener- ally supposed. To Americans the idea of federation ie widely scattered parts of the British- empire hardly more than a matter for acadgmic dis- The difficulties in the way are apparently i mountable. There are many British statesmen, ever, who are so enthusiastic for federation that their ar leads them to believe the project to be quite practicable. The influence of the -enthusiasts aflects the whole nation, and the discussion of federa- tion goes on with all seriousness as a part of the ctical politics of the day. e learn from our London exchanges that the de- bates in Parliament upon the proposed tax on grain turn almost wholly upon the relations which such a sax would bear to the question of arranging an im- perial zollverein. On the whole the debates have adverse to the supporters of the scheme. Mr. mberliin, who has worked for the accomplish- ent of a closer union between the mother country 2d the colonies with almost as much zeal as Cecil Hhodes worked for British supremacy in South Af- rica, is said to have lost much of his former confi- dence and no longer meets Parliament with the Jawsty air for which he was once famous. T ae Westminster Gazette in giving an account of l}“ proceedings of the House during one of these debates said: “Mr. Chamberlain, no longer able to wave this tomahawk, is rarely seen in the House. But his presence is felt al] the same, and as far as the chair would allow it the debate on the commit- tee stage of the corn tax last night turned on the zollverein. As Sir H. C.-B. said, both the thing and the name were made in Germany, and it would be better to follow things in their own way and give them their own names. The-reason for the zollverein in Germany was to get rid of the harassing system of internal tariffs. But the colonies lived on their customs duties and could not adopt such a sys- tem. The Chancellor grew more and more restive. He appealed to the chairman to say whether it was in order to discuss the zollverein, but Mr. Lowther would not rule it out, and Sir William Harcourt again returned to the charge.” Thus the discussion has been going on for some time. Chamberlain and his supporters have in vain endeavored to keep the question of federation out of Parliament until the Ministry could confer with the colonial Premiers and have a definite programme to offer. Parliament and the country have insisted upon debating the issue at once, and so thoroughly has the ground been covered it is doubtful if at the conference itself anything new can be brought for- ward. The difficulties in the way of federation are many, but the chief among them are to be found in the differences between the points of view from which ll?t project is seen in the kingdom and in the colo- nies. The British wish to do the manufacturing for the colonies, while the colonies desire to build up manufactures of their own. The British desiré the colonies to contribute toward the support of the army and the navy, while the colonies are averse to doing anything of the kind unless they have equal power v_ith the mother country in shaping the for. cign policy of the empire. To carry the federation scheme in the face of such obstacles would require 2 sanguine people, and the British are no longer sanguine. The illness of the King has donc more than postpone a coronation. ltllnt:lm:ke(”.,,.-u,e time at least one of the greatest tical 2 ever undertaken by statesmen - } G . a sicn. & “ 2 NOW THE CANAL. HERE seems to be complete accord between T Senator Hanna and the President on the canal question. The determination to have the work under way within a year will no doubt be carried out and the great enterprise that has been discussed for more than a tentury will be accomplished within this decade. There is no doubt that fhe course of Senator Hanna in the choice of routes is the carrying out of the poligy of President McKinley. That far-seeing and adrfnt statesman appreciated the difficulty of dealing wtth one route, leaving this Government with no ch'mce and compelling it to submit to such terms as Nxcax:- agua and Costa Rica might choose to impose. His influence was felt in dropping the reference to the Nicaragua canal in the last national platform and sub- stituting “‘isthmian canal” therefor. That was the first step. It enabled a better treatment of the complica- tions which were in the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, that had afforded a means for the demagogic appeal to pseudo patriotism, used by the real enemies in al- liance with the fool friends of a canal. It was a mas- ter stroke of policy to sweep away all opportunity for that ambushed style of opposition and bring the straight and clear proposition to a focus in Congress. The conflict between the two houses of Congress was more apparent than real, since the purpose of each was to secure an isthmian canal. Mr. Hepburn’s bill, so ably drawn and urged by that gentleman, was a powerful element in the final solution.” Had the House not taken a positive stand on that bill the situation would not have developed at this session at all. It afforded a means of conference and compro- mise, out of which issues the existing certainty that we are to have a canal, and that it is to be built on the best of the five routes which have been discussed by engineers and capitalists for a hundred years. The effect on the trade of the world will be greater than that wrought by the Swz canal. Soon after the discoveries of Columbus traders and navigators saw a condition in which the continent would be an ob- struction to the passage of commerce. The geog- raphy of this hemisphere was unknown, and Magellan | conceived the idea that there might be a passage through the continent from the Atlantic to the Pa- cific. That conception caused the first circumnaviga- tion of the globe, proved its rotundity and vindicated the dreams of the Alexandrian scholars. Failing in its main object, for he found no passage until he reached the strait that bears his name, still his voyage was the greatest contribution to knowledge and science that the world had received. His work and that of Sir John Franklin and all of the explorers for a north- west passage only directed the attention of the world to an artificial shipway through the isthmus, When William Paterson organized the South Da- rien Company, a dream that failed, he put it upon a background of solid sense. He foresaw that the na- tion which controlled the isthmus would control the majority of the world’s trade, and so there came to him a vision of a nation to grow from his colony that would be powerful through its geographical position. He did not take climatic and physical conditions into his calculations, and his colonists succumbed to the torture of the tropics. g It is the destiny of the United States to make the shipway that Magellan sought in vain, and to make unnecessary the northwest passage which Franklin hunted until he died in Arctic rigors, and to be the na- tion that will control the trade of the world, as fore- seen by William Paterson. All this will be done inde- pendently of the tropical climate and without further inconvenience from it than may occur during the work of construction, and this will not be greater than beset the building of the Panama railway. The effect upon California will be to stimulate inter- nal development. We will in the beginning part with some commerce which we now have in transit, but it will be more than made up by the new trade that will originate in the provision of a new facility. This beneficial effect will shade off toward the north, and the Ruget Sound ports will in the end be less favor- ably affected, but they, too, will feel benefits in their internal development, and as the whole coast must share in the trade expansion of the world, there will be compensation, finally, for whatever is lost at first. e e A Russian specialist announces that careful tests prove that the eyelids close for the protection or re- lief of the eye 6.8 times a minute in candle light, 2.8 times with gas light, 2.2 times with sunlight, and but 1.8 times with electric light. He draws the conclusion that eyesight will be conserved longer by using elec- tric light than any other, and as that seems to be what civilization is coming to, the information is gratifying. A pect which any set of facts present when looked at from different points of view is af- forded in the comments now being made upon the war in Africa. The statistics of mortality on the British side are known with a fair approach to ac- curacy, and there is no dispute concerning them; yet while one set of commentators behold in them proof that Kruger was right when he said the war would stagger humanity, another set cite them as evidence that wars are ceasing to be bloody and are becoming injurious to civilization more on account of the treas- ure they waste than of the lives they cost. The British war office reports a loss from the be- ginning to the end of the war of 1080 officers and 27,354 men. Of that number 7792 were killed in ac- tion or died of wounds, 13,250 died of disease and the remainder were sent home as invalids broken down and unfit for further service, Standing as given those figures make dread showing of loss of life, and when elaborated in detail with emphasis given to what the death of 50 many young men means to the homes of Great Britain and to the nation, there is produced a very strong im- pression of the cruelty of the strife and the sacrifice it has imposed upon the victor. By such elabora- tions, accompanied with a running comment on the wounds of battle, the diseases of the hospitals and the ruined health of the permanent invalids, those who present the aspect of war from that point of view easily make it appear as something that truly staggers humanity. The other point of view presents the war in com- parison with former- wars of recent years. Counting the total loss of those killed in battle, those who died of disease ‘and those who were permanently invalid- ed, the percentage of loss on the British side was 10 per cent. If only-the dead be counted the loss was but 7 per cent. That was but a slight loss when it is remembered the war lasted for thirty-two months and was carried on by an army that had to be ac- climated to the country in which it was maintained. It is far below the mortality in the Franco-Prussian war or in our Civil War. THE POINT OF VIEW. N entertaining illustration of the changed as- So far, then, from staggering humanity the results 7 A il 3 of the conflict are said to encourage humanity. They tend to the conclusion that wars are becoming less bloody and cruel than they have been. If an army pitted against such marksmen as the Boers; and fighting in a climate so pernicious to newcomers as that of South Africa, can maintain a war for thir- ty-two months with a loss of not more than 10 per cent all told, then humanity has reason to rgjoice. During the Ctvil War in this country there were in- stances where upward of 10 per cent of the actual combatants were killed or wounded in a single fight. As a matter of fact it appears there has never been a war that was so costly in money or so little costly in life as that which has just closed between Briton and Boer. —— Ever since Kaiser Wilhelm promised us a statue of Frederick the Great historians havé been looking up the record of the great man, and they are finding it anything but pleasing from an American point of view. The story of his sending a sword to Washing- ton has been exploded, and it is said he actually en- couraged the sending of Hessian troops to fight against us; not that he liked the British at all, but because he desired the revenues derived from the head tax levied on them as they passed through his dominions. He seems, in fact, to have had no sympa- thy with either party. Still there is no reason for ob- jecting to the statue on that score, The Kaiser means well and there is no use looking a gift King in the mouth. ‘ the wine industry of the country, states that the decade closing with 1860 witnessed the birth of commercial wine manufacture in the United States. The experiments of Nicholas Longworth in Ohio are credited with the honor of beginning the in- dustry. Wine-growers in other States followed' the example of the Ohio man, and the industry soon be- came extensive. In 1870 the wine product of Mis- souri exceeded that of any other State, but the su- premacy was not long retained. At the present time California, New York and Ohio are so far in the lead that other States are hardly to be counted rivals. A review of the history of the industry shows that e ——— THE WINE INDUSTRY. ENSUS BULLETIN No. 180, dealing with it made rapid progress from 1860 to 1870, but in the | following decade there was a decrease in the number of establishments to the extent of 70.6 per cent, the average number of wage-earners decreased 349 per cent, and the value of the products decreased 2.5 per cent. While the decrease was going on in the wine industry of the country at large it was increasing in New York and Ohio, and those States made substan- tial gains during the decade. The decline for the country at large is attributed to conditions in California and Missouri. Of this State the bulletin says: “Between 1870 and 1875 an enthu- siastic interest in vinmiculture spread over California, resulting in a great increase in the acreage of vine- yards. This caused an overproduction of wine, which was followed by ruinous depreciation in prices, en- tailing heavy losses to all classes of producers. Many vineyards were uprooted and the land given over to other lines of horticulture. In 1870 California reported 139 establishments, and in 1880 only 45. The large producers, how- ever, as a rule, had faith in the future, and con- tinued to improve their properties, so that capital for the decade ending with 188 showed a decline of only }18.820, or 28 per cent for the State, while there was an increase for the United States of $247,516, or 10.6 per cent.” P ‘While the decline of the industry in California was due to overproduction, that in Missouri was caused by a blight that injured the vines and partially destroyed the crops. Since 1880 the progress and increase of the industry has been continuous, During the forty years ending with 1900 the industry increased in number of establishments from 32 to 359; in capital, from $306,- 300 to $9,838,015; in number of wage-earners, from 106 to 1163; in wages, from $48,208 to $446,055; and in value of products from $400,701 to $6,547,310. To prevent a misconception of the statistics re- lating to the increase in value the bulletin directs at- tention to the fact that as wine requires maturing or aging before it is marketable, and increases in value with each succeeding year, the quantity carried over by manufacturers from season to season is influenced by prices and general market conditions, and may be out of proportion to the quantity annually produced. For that reason the increase or decrease of live capi- tal may through “finished products\on hand” be dis- praportionate to.the advance or decline in the gen- eral condition of the industry. ; At the present time California holds an easy and seemingly an assured supremacy over other States in the wine industry. In 1900 there were in this State 187 wine manufacturing establishments, having a capital of $4,658,625, paying wages to the amount of $224,849, and producing an output valued at $3,037,- 871; while New York, that stood second in the list of wine producing States, had but 38 establishments, with a capital of $2,157,322, paid only $83,464 in wages, and had a product valued at but $942,584. As to the question of the consumption of wine, the bulletin says: “The quantity of wine exported from the United States for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1900, one month later than the census year, was 1,438,421 gallons. The quantity imported for the same period was 4,412,035 gallons, of which 40,436 were exported, leaving 4,371,509 imported for de- mestic consumption. This was an excess of imports over exports of 2,033,178 gallons, which, added to the total production of the country, gives 34,758,233 gal- lons as the annual consumption of the United States, of less than one-half gallon per capita,” MODERN GUNS ARE SUPERIOR TO THE BEST OF ARMOR, AS RECENTLY DEMONS ECENT tests of guns and armor plate in England and Germany demonstrate that shells from guns of moderate caliber may, under certain conditions, penetrate the heaviest armor placed on ships.. In the tests made six-inch and seven and a half Vickers naval guns were used with ~armored plercing shéll and shot provided with Johnson cap, and the plates were six-inch and twelve-inch Krupp armor. Four shots were fired from the six-inch gun against a twelve-inch plate and two of the capped projectiles penetrated the armor completely, while two uncapped shots failed to go through. A seven ~and a half-inch explosive shell was buried deep in the plate, which latter shell in actual warfare would have destroyed the armor by explosion. of three shells fired against the six-inch plate, the six-inch capped projectile ‘went completely through, and of a similary fitted " seven and a half inch shell, its point, weigh- ing ninety-two pounds, was found twenty feet back of the plate. The tests indi- cate that guns are still as superior to ar- mor as they were thirty odd years ago and the results are of sufficient import- ance to cause anxiety for every battle- ship of the latest construction. One of the many exhibits in the Krupp pavilion at Dusseldorff is a twelve-inch gun weighing forty-nine and a half tons, of forty calibers and forty feet in length. With a projectile of 981 pounds and a powder charge of 291 pounds its energy is 50.782 foot tons and at 3279 yards the shell will penetrate 43.54 inches of wrought iron, equal to 80.47 inches of ordinary steel or 17.51 inches of Krupp armor. At 1093 yards the penetration is 50.90 inches of wrought irem, or 3548 inches of steel or 19.48 inches of Krupp armor. With an elevation of 22 degrees the range of the gun is 12,55 miles. From the above data as to penetration it would appear that a projectile fired from a distance of 5000 yards or about three miles could pene- trate the armor protection of the heavi- est battleship nfioat.‘ . . - A combination of shipbuilding and al- lied manufacturerers has been effected in Italy. The combine consists of the Terni armor plate mills, Odero shipyards at Genoa, Orlando shipyards at Leghorn and the Armstrong ordnance works at Naples. S B The floating dock built for Bermuda has been completed and towed to the Chat- ham dockyards, where it was tested June 5. The contract required the lifting of a ship weighing 15,200 tons and it was priginally intended to take the battleship Russell out of the water, but the Sans Pareil was substituted. The battleship, although only about 11,000 tons displace- ment, is sixty-five feet shorter than the Russell, which is of 14,000 tons weight, and the lifting capacity of the cock with a vessel of only 340 feet in length and 11,000 tons weight was considered satisfactory, in view of the fact that the length of the dock is 500 feet. The tide was running very strong in the Mersey when the ship was entered over trLe dock, which ‘was sunk to a depth of twenty-eight feet, but in less than three hours the Sans Pareil was high and'dry. The dock having come up to its requirements, will be towed to Bermuda by two large tugs. a third tug acting as tender. Onme peculiar cireum- stance in this connection is that the tugs had to besobtained in Holland, as there were none in Great Britain powerful enough to undertake the tow of 2500 miles. Foca b The boiler question in the British navy is still undecided, for while it is conceded that water-tube boilers are required, the experts have been unable to agree upon any one particular type. The Belleville boiler appears, however, to be barred out, notwithstanding that the battleship Ven- geance and the newly tried armored eruis- ers Good Hope and Leviathan are fitted witn Bellevilles and gave exceptionally good results. In the six armored cruisers of 10,200 and 22,000 horsepower, four-fifths of the latter will be generated by water-tube boilers and one-fiftth by the old style Scotch boilers. Two will be fitted with Yarrow boilers, two will receive the Niclause type and one each are to have the Babcock & Wilcox and the Durr- Thornyeroft style of boilers. In this se- lection the Yarrows represent the Brit= ish, the Niclause the French, Babcock & ‘Wilcox is American and the Durr-Thorny- croft is a combination of German and English.type of water-tube boilers. saw e There are now 200 electricians in the British navy, rated as petty.officers, re- ceiving a pay of $41 to $48 a month. The pay in the United States navy is $80 to chief electriclans and $50, $40 and $30 to first, second and third class electricians. » oee The German torpedo boat No, 42, sunk at the mouth of the Elbe by a British steamer last Tuesday, was one of five boats built by Schichau in 1889, of 153 tons displacement, 1800-horsepower and 22 knots speed. Germany has ninety boats of this TRATED IN TESTS MADE IN EUROPE type, built between 1884 and 1308, ranging in ‘'speed from 19 to 26 knots. Sl T The General Board of the United States navy is comoosed of Admiral Dewey, four rear admirals, three captains, one com- mander, one lieutenant commander and a colonel of the marines. Two of the rear admirals are chiefs of bureaus, and these eleven naval officers constituting the board act as censors and mediators on matters pertaining to the naval policy, the designs of ships and similar impeortant questions. They are in fact advisors to the Secretary of the Navy, who has little or no profes- sional knowledge of naval affairs, At the present time this board is wrestling with a subject of seemingly more importance than a naval policy, types of ships or armament; the question involved being whether Rear Admiral Taylor, recently assigned as chief of the Bureau of Navi- gation, is entitled to sit at the right of Admiral Dewey at board meetings. Cap- tain Reyal Bird Bradford, chief of the Bureau of Equipment, claims that he is | entitled to sit a= the right of Admiral Dewey because of his (Bradford's) sento: ity as bureau chief, and he has declined to participate in the board meetings until the £ecretary of the Navy decides the questicn. This bickering about precedence must appear trifiing and childish to per- sons not of the navy, and even Admiral Dewey seems to be averse to exercise his prerogative as chairman of the board. Captain Bradford as chief of a bureau holds the rank of rear admiral for ob- vious reasons, but unless he is promcted ‘while serving as chief to the grade of rear admiral his actual rank s that of captain when his term as bureau chief expircs. Rear Admiral Taylor, on the other hand, is Captain Bradford's senior by about thirty numbers and entered the navy fourteen months earlier than the claimaut for the seat on the right of Admiral Dewey. . Naval construction is still making v slow progress at the several private ylrfi On june 1 the Maine stood at % cent an-advance of 1 per cent durin ay; the Missouri progressed from 63 tog per A and the Ohio from §% to 59 per cent. Tha five battleships and nine armored cruisers also show little progress, no work having been done on the California apd only 1 per cent added to the South. Dakota. The monitors Nevada and Florida are at a standstill at 93 and sxtper ‘cent, and the six protected cruisers of the Denver. class, Which were due on delivery during atfe present month; range from 32 per cent g?mtt?hfl l; csnx( con‘ggletkion. the Taco- e ‘Unfon Iron Works the latter figure, - T IIRe PERSONAL MENTION. J. W. Caseburg of Roseville is at the Grand. William G. Gosslin, a railway official of Portland, is at the Palace. E. C. Loftus, a mining man of Grub Gulch, is registered at the Grand. G. de Latour, a business man of Ruth- erford, is registered at a downtown hotel. 8. Erwin, a well known attorney of Marysville, is in the city on legal busi- ness. Fred W. Boniface, the popular boniface, of Santa Cruz, is at the Grand for a brief visit. F, S. Lusk, a prominent railroad con- tractor of Cheyenne, Wyo., Is registered at the Palace. J. M. Gardiner, an electrical engineer of Los Angeles, is among yesterday’s ar- rivals at the Grand. S. W. Wilcox, a wealthy sugar planter of Honolulu, is registered at a leading hotel with Mrs. Wilcox. Californians in Washington, ‘WASHINGTON, June 30.—The following Californians registered at the iotels to- aay: At the Raleigh, Isabel Fraser and H. P, Thrall; at the National, John L. E. Frinin; at the St. James, C. W, Bentley and wife, all of San Francisco. A CHANCE TQ SMILE. A convineing alibi was recently furnisn- ed by a man in France. He was charged with the murder of a girl at Nice, and he brought conclusive evidence to show that he was at the time committing a burglary at a hotel.—N. ¥. Tribune. i “How long,” asked the youth, “ought a young man to be acquainted with a girl, Miss Flyppe, before he may venture to call her by her first name?"” “How long have you known me?” she asked in turn. “About six months.” “Well, if he's the right young man that is a long enough time.” “Then, Susie—" ) “But you're not the right young man, Mr. Spoonamore.”’—Chicago Tribune. Among those present at the fashiona- ble wedding was the old bachelor brother of the bride, painfully stiff and uncom- fortable in his dress suit and wishing the affair was over. ~Pardon me,” sald the reporter that had been sent to compile the usual sta- tistics, “but will you oblige me with your name?” “That isn't necessary,” he answered, “I'm the innocent bystander.”—Baltimore American. “Human nature never was and never will be perfect,” said the philosopher. “Of course, answered the reformer. “That slight circumstance is what as- sures me that I have a steady job in life.”—Washington Star. In Missouri—Grandma—Willie, wot you a-chewin'?”" ‘Willle—Tobacker. Grandina—Well, it's a good thing I found out ’fore I basted ye! I was afeerd it was gum!—Chicago Daily News. The Outlook—"What will you graduate in?" they asked the valedictorian of her class. “If this weather continues,” replied she, “I shall be likely to graduate in a seal- skin sacque.”—Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele~ graph. Miss Newlyrich was being taught how to play hearts. A diamond was led and It will be seen that there is large room for a bet- ter home market for our wine. We are still far short of the possibilities of the industry, and there is no reason why its growth should not be marked by steady prosperity for many a year to come. By way of providing a proper road for automobiles it is now proposed to construct a grand highway from New York to Chicaga, and of coyrse it is to be called a “boulevard.” In these days nearly all great enterprises of that kind begin as boulevards and end by turning into a squirrel track and Tunning up a tree. —_— The gentlemen who are striving to prepare a Fourth of July celebration for San Francisco must be laboring under an impression that we want to mark the day with something like a Donnybrook fair, They should remember that a riot is not necessarily an element in the expression of patriotic feeling. - e baiong An enterprising violator of the laws at Joplin has demonstrited in a unique way the truth of the old | adage that a man born to be drowned will not be | hanged. In trying to save himseli 9001:! band of would-be lynchers he fell into a‘river and was | drowned. 3 y she played a club. “Have you no diamonds?’ they asked her, *Oh, she has any quantity upstairs, exclaimed her mother, proudly.—New York Evening Sun, } Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.® Townsend's California glace fruit, lvo a und, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice resent for Eastern friends. 639 Mark : street, Palace Hotel building. . al information supplied to su.i":z‘.c.u houses lM“ %‘& '3011(‘;:1’&;’.. fornis -u%‘:‘:‘r‘upmm Main 1042, o } len from hundredweight in 813,500 in 1 Cheap Rates to Minneapolis, Minn, N. Convention, $84¢ 90, San Franeisco Minneapolis and return, going direct lines, Northern Pacific Railway. On sale sixty days. Only ‘England’s hop crop approximates 660, ‘hunnd‘radw%ht whnpe &rmm'u has (':102 “SACRAMENTO ‘IS MY OFFICIAL RESIDENCE”’ -—GAGE. Under the headlines “The Governor Broke Loose—Jumped on Inoffensive Young Attorney—Some Light as to His Legal Residence,” the Los Angeles Times of the 26th inst. printed the following: ‘Where is the legal residence of Gov- ernor Gage? In his libel suit against Messrs. Spreck- els and Leake of the San Francisco Call it is represented to be S8an Pedro, but yes- terday the Governor himself sald it was up north, A summons was served on the Governor yesterday in a suit brought against the £tate by Attorney Robert Y. Hayne of San Francisco for a balance of a fee said to be due him for services as associate counsel for the State Raiiroad Commis- sioners, An attempt was made to serve the sum- mons on the Governor at Sacramento, his official residence;, but he cculd not be found there; an endeavor was made to scrve it at San Francisco, where are his political headqharters, but he was not in that city; then recourse was had to San Quentin, where he sometimes has tarried, but he was not to be seen there; a visit was made to his ranch home at Downey, but he was not there; the summons could net be served on him at San Pedro, pre- viously represented to be his legal resi- dence; but at last the Governor was cor- raled in this city. A young lawyer served the paper upon him, and he did not meet with a cordial reception, Henry T. was not in that de- lighttfully amiable state of mind described in last evening’s Express. He jumped all over the young fellow for presuming to intrude on his deliberations. The Gov- ernor seemed to be worried and easily upset. ' “Why,” said he, “you have no business to serve this on me here. It should have been served at my official residence, Sac- ramento.” And the Governor glared and glowered at the attorney as if he would like to sentence him to San Pedro for life. It is noted that the nup&lervlcnhlc Evening Express is already gloating over the ‘victory” which the Governor has won over the objects of his wrathful at- tack—forgetting that there must at least be a battle before there is a victory. The Express also has had much to say about showing “favors” to Messrs. Spreckels and Leake, and has protested against giving them any consideration because they are persons of influence, seeking to create the impression that the various persons sued by the Governor seek some such special consideration. The fact is that not one of them has asked for any- thing but “a fair field and no favor" in this fight. The Governor, in his latest remarks ex- patiating on what “I" shall do, assuming to be the whole prosecuting department and judiciary of the State, with power to imprison all his political enemies, speaks of attacking somebody in San Franciseo: on the charge of “‘collusion.” Certain lawyers in this part of the State declare that there are evidences of ‘“‘col- lusion” here. They say that the famous order calling on Messrs. Spreckels and Leake to come down to San Pedro like sheep to the slaughter could not have been issued under the law by the Wil- mington Township Justice except at the formal request of the District Attorney. “District Attorney Rives must have stood in with the Governor,” said a Los Angeles attorney yesterday. “That order was Issued at Reeve's request. In no other way could the Governor have car- ried out his stratagem. “There is a hig hole In that order, by the way. It demands the presence of the respondents for a reason other than that specified in the code. The coda plainly states the ground which must he explict- 1y set forth in such an order, But Justice Downing's order sets forth something en- tirely different. He has ‘mixed those ba- bies up’ This 18 a mis.emeanor case, and he has issued an order for a felony .case. The whole trick is a boteh.” The truth will all come out, and it will appear whether or how far the District Attorney has stretched out a helping hand to the push in this political fight. in which he has publicly professed to be preserving an impartial attitude. ~ANSWERS TO QUERIES. JUTE CLOTH, W. Cak The jute cloth that is used for grain gacks in California comes pri et principally from GILBERT PARKER-A. 8., Oakland, Cal. Gilbert Parker is a member of the House of Commons, but not a minister of the Episcopal church, FRUIT PICKING—A. S., City. A per- son desiring employment as a fruit picker, but does not know any one engaged In the business, should apply to a rellable em- ployment agency. FIGURES NOT GIVEN-H. H., Oak- land, Cal. Those in charge of the street- car system n San Franeisco and the ferry-boats decline to give the average number of persons carried daily. THAT FIGURE—P., City. Whether that figure that was exhibited in this city some time ago was an automaton or a live individual is a secret with those who exhibited it, and they do not want to tell. PAINTS-E. B, W., Creston, Cal. This department does not advertise dealers in paints nor in any other line of business. Persons desiring information of that kind should inclose in letter of inquiry a self- addressed and stamped envelope. STANLEY—N. A, M, City. Henry M. Stanley was born in Wales in 1341. He ex- plored the darkest continent in 1387 at the request of the New York Herald. He is at present a resident of England. His explorations were limited to Africa. LANDLORD AND TENANT-G. A., City. A month to month tenaney may be terminated at any time at the pleasurs of the landlord or temant. The general rule is that if a landlord wants his prem- ises and the tenant does not evince a de- sire to retire to ralse the rent and to give at least thirty days’ notice. SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST-G. 8. D., Drytown, Cal. In the Darwinian phil- osophy the. survival of the fittest is the permanence arising from. natural selection of certain types of animal and vegetablo life, while others die out to whose con- tinued existence. surrounding circum- stances are unfavorable. DIVORCE 'AND MARRIAGE—A Sub- scriber, City. Partles who are divorced in this State cannot remarry in the State within a year after the granting of the divorce. Buch, however, may go outsids of the State and marry, but whether such would be legal in this' State has not yet been determined by the Supreme Court. SETTING QUT POISON—J. W., Ciiy. The law of this State says: “Every per- son who maliciously exposes any poisan- ous substance with the intent that the same shall be taken or swallowed by ani- mals is punishable by imprisonment in the State prison not execeeding three years or In the County Jail not exceeding one year and a'fine not exceeding $500.” WAR SHIPS—H. L. S., City. In your letter of Inquiry you ask for the names of “the eighteen battleships, eight arm- ored cruisers and twenty-one protected cruisers, also the names of those that are being constructed,” but do not give the name of the nation these vessels belong to, therefore the question cannot be an- swered. Suggest that you go to the Fres Publie Library, ask for “Brassey,” which contains the names of all the vessels of the world and there you will find the fn- formation you seek. Ladies” ‘Writing Desk, ‘with drawer, mirror. and con:::lont pigeon hole: mahogany finish, $5.95, Enlirehouyus,flats nd ho- tels furnished. 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