The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 23, 1902, Page 6

L THE SAN -FRANCISCO. CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1902. The— sidniac Call. TUESDAY....cc.0eese.....SEPTEMBER 23, 1902 JOHN D, SPRECKELS, Proprietor, A Aééress All Oommunieations to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. PSS-S TELEPHONE. Ack for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE. . .Market and Third, S. F. EDITORIAL ROOMS. ....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, G Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year, DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 8 months DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Month SUNDAY CALL, One Year WEEKLY CALL, One Year. All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Eemple coples will be forwarded when requested. 41 eubscribers in ordering change of address should be pl::cul:: to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order rompt and correct compliance with their request. to insure & pr ARLAND GFFICE. ...1118 Broadway C. 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E publish a letter from an experienced mountaineer, which treats of the means necessary tc preserve our forests from fire. n called “Indian forestry,” because it is the method used the Indians from whom we received the splendid forests of this continent, with their abun- dance of birds and wild game. In some guarters this method has been sneered at as “the Digger Indian plan.” But, despite sneers, it is the plan followed by the scientific foresters of Con- tinental Evrope, who keep the forest floor clean and clear of accumulations of dead limbs and duff. The Indians began as the moisture and snow re- ceded, carefully burning the dry spots as they ap- peared in the spring, 2fter the grass and fallen leaves 1 d served their purpose of conserving the moisture nd aiding it to penetrate the soil. The burned places were speedily covered with green herbage, furnishing cover for the ground nesting birds, so that these were not exterminated nor hindered in nesting and rearing their broods. This system was described and advo- cated by Joaguin Miller in a paper solicited by and read to the annual meeting of the American Forestry Congress some years zgo and it commends itself to all observers of nature who understand the necessity for following her laws and preserving her equilibrium, The subject is one that must compel the attention the Government in finally maturing a plan for the The conservative use of fire has been objected to on the ground that it disturbs the ground nesting birds. All observers know that these are exterminated, not by h proper use of fire, but by the close trampling of when grazing in the forest. er use of fire is entirely consistent with the growth of young tress, which under the Indian sys- tem protection from fire of the forest reservations. were preserved in such quantities as to continu- 2lly renew the forest and protect its permanency. It should flicient compliment to this natural that the Indiens lived in, preserved, made t and transmitted to us on this continent most extensive, valuable and useful forests in the be method permar world. Under our management these fine forests have rapidly decreased and disappeared and the effect is already seen in the decreased moisture of the earth’s crust and increasing zridity of the climate, The American Forestry Congress should urge upon Congress the need of putting the forest reserves in the hands and keeping of expert foresters, who, in icing methods of European forestry, will be restoring those of the Indians, who studied and followed mature zs closely as any of the modern ists, according to their lights. C————— A certain George W. E. Russel, who is said to be highest authority on British aristocratic life dur- ing the latter part of Victoria’s reign, says the cus- tom of after-dinner smoking was introduced by the Prince of Wales when a young man, and that he did it to put a stop to the excessive wine drinking that men used to indulge in after the ladies left the table. The King seems, therefore, to merit honor as a tem- perance man. There have not been many young Princes who could make the bad habits of their com- panions vanish in smoke. —_— The Board of Health intends to clean Chinatown again. Perhaps it would be cheaper for the city and the State to destroy our plague spot and build 2 new . which would be just as dangerous as the exist- g one but more picturesque. A German editor has had the courtesy to declare that Americans have no need of uniforms to look like soldiers. Perhaps the man of the quill was think- ing of the fellow who was a colonel by the grace of God and a soldier by luck. The remarkable facility with which California hunters have been killing their friends of late under mistake that they are deer suggests the advisa- bility of sportsmen to go hunting in deerskins as a measure of protection. In China it is reported that the system of tax col- lection is such that only 10 per cent of the amount gollected ever reaches the Government. Perhaps some of our Tax Collectors would like to study this phase of Chinese life. China has reached the conclusion that she wants mone of her young men educated in the schools of Jepan to return in the guise of reformers to upset #hings. China seems to be perfectly able to upset things herself. : THE SUB-TREASURY. INANCIAL policy in this country is pressed F for reform in a direction that was felt and con- sidered by the Indianapolis Monetary Confer- ence of 1897 and by its executive committee. The of the currency in money centers and to secure an elasticity, a flexibility, of currency that will provide an emergency addition to its volume and a facility of contraction when the need for increase has ceased. The Fowler bill. introduced during the last session, and favorably reported by the House Committee on Banking and Currency, is intended to meet this issue and supply the facility and flexibility required. In outline it may be described as a measure authorizing national banks to emit an emergency currency upon other assets and securities besides the bonds of the United States. Conservative men believe that such emission is well safeguarded in the bill, and that the assets and securities on which it is based are subjected to such official scrutiny as to secure the largest meas- ure of safety to the holder of the emergencygurrency. All banks are combined in the mutual guaranty of the issue and charged with its redemption, and its possible volume is so safeguarded as to avoid any possible loss through failure of value in the assets and shrinkage in the securities upon which this form of currency is based. The bill was but little discussed and seemed, as un- derstood or misunderstood by them, to meet the op- position of the banks. Among other bankers’ asso- ciations in the States, that of California indicated op- position to the measure and it was not pushed in Congress. But the condition that made its proposal and its propositions necessary has not been exor- cised. As usual in the crop marketing period, there is a dearth of currency. New York banks have fallen more than a million below their legal reserve in stand- ing the drain of currency required in marketing the crops, and the United States Treasury is called upon to relieve the pressure by releasing its funds through such devices as anticipating interest payments and in- creasing the Government money in the various banks that have the lawful privilege of depositories. As was to have been expected, the permanent provision of means to avoid this annual strain is again under discussion and the Sccretary of the Treasury pro- poses that the Sub-Treasuries be abolished and the Treasury funds be placed with national banks selected by the Secretary of the Treasury upon such securities, other than United States bonds, as he shall approve. The independent Treasury of the United States was | established finally in 1846 and the system of Assist- ant Treasurers of the United States, and Sub-Treas- uries at New York, Beston, Charleston and St. Louis were established by the same act. Since then Sub- { Treasuries have been established at Baltimore, Chi- cago, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Philadelphia and San Francisco. Each of these Sub-Treasuries is the dis- | bursing office of public money for public purposes within_n defined district. They hold all the time a ;large percentage of the various reserves and the sur- plus funds of the Treasury. Upon their abolition it | is proposed that all their holdings shall be placed with v;national banks, which deposit in the Treasury at | Washington exactly the same kind of securities as | those contemplated in the Fowler bill. The new plan is advocated as a means to enable the I‘Govcrnmem to come to the relief of the banks, in | emergencies. The Fowler plan is to enable the banks | to relieve themselves, independently of the Govern- | ment and by the use of exactly the same security. There has been growing since the campaign of 1896 a desire to divorce the Treasury from banking and all its risks and responsibilities, leaving to it the sole, necessary and proper governmental function of safe- guarding bill holders by compelling banks to observe proper caution by stringent regulation. | If the new plan is adopted, will it not be found in the power of banks to create a stringency for the pur- pose of compelling a deposit of public funds? Will it not also be possible to accuse the Secretary of the Treasury of playing favorites not only in the selection of banks to receive public money, but in passing upon | the securities they offer in return? As it is not pro- posed to confine the securities to State and municipal | bonds, but to extend it to such commercial paper as the bonds of corporations, will it not be possible to give to some of the latter a fictitious charac- ter and value by stamping them with the ap- {proval of “the Secretary, while others of equal merit may be depressed in value by exclusion from official favor? Would it not be possi- ble, also, for favored banks to secure a monopoly of control of such commercial paper to the exclusion and injury of banks less favored? We are merely suggesting what will undoubtedly be the popular ob- jection and criticism. Another criticism will be that the plan invades the independence of the Treasury and puts into its administration risks and responsi- | ilities that were not intended when it was established. The Fowler plan has been attacked and criticised, ibut no one has charged that it is open to any of the | objections that will be urged to this substitute for it. Under it each bank in each locality would be the judge of the emergency to be relieved by a temporary expansion of its currency. It would have to present its securities and get permission of the Treasury to use them as the basis of a temporary emission only. | Every bank would in this way relieve a local pressure and withdraw the currency used for that purpose when | the pressure ceases. This accommodation®of all local needs and conditions will not be possible under the | plan that involves abolition of the Sub-Treasuries. We are glad, however, that the new plan is pro- posed, as it serves to emphasize the common neces- sity for the easier flow and greater flexibility of the | currency and a better distribution of the loan fund of the country. This will mean that some means to these desired ends will be found by Congress at its next session. B THE AGE OF SUGAR. TATISTICS compiled by the Treasury Bureau S of Statistics show a remarkable increase in the per capita consumption of sugar throughout the world, and notably in the United States and Great Britain. The complete figures of the rate of increase of consumption are to be published in the forthcom- ing Statistical Abstract of the bureau, but in the meantime a summary has been given out which pre- sents the net results of the investigations into the subject. From the summary it appears that the pcdp]c of the United States now copsume eight times as much sugar per capita as they did in the first quarter of the last century, four times as much as the average per capita during the decade ending with 1850 and twice as much as they did in any year prior to 1870. In the years immediately prior to 1825 the average con- sumption of sugarswas about eight pounds per cap- ita, in the decade 1840-50 about sixteen pounds per jcapita, in the years immediately prior to 1870 the issue is the provision of means to prevent congestion ! average wasiabout thirty-two pounds per capita (omitting the war years, in which the consumption was light), from 1870 to 1880 it averaged about forty pounds per capita, from 1880 to 1890 fifty pounds per capita; in 1891 the figure was sixty-six pounds per { capita and has ranged from_sixty-two to sixty-eight pounds per capita since that time, the figure for 1901 being 68.4 pounds. The demand for sugar and the increase in its con- sumption has been going on in Europe as well as in this country. The statistics show that the sugar pro- duction cf the entire world was in 1900 eight times greater than in 1840, the production of 1840 being 1,150,000 tons, while that of 1900 was 8,800,000 tons. The report says: “This increase in production and consequently in consumption has come largely through the development of the beet sugar industry, which increased from a production of 30,000 tons in 1840 to 200,000 tons in 1850, 831,000 tons in 1870, 1,402,000 tons in 1880, 3,633,000 tons in 1890 and 5,050,000 tons in 19oo. During the same time cane sugar production increased from 1,100,000 tons in 1840 to 2,850,000 tons in 1900. Beets in 1840 supplied 4.35 per cent of the total sugar product of the world, in 1850 they supplied 14.29 per cent, in 1860 20.43 per cent, in 1870 34.40 per cent, t 1800 63.70 per cent and in 1900 67.71 per cent.” The rapid development of sugar production in this country is one of the principal benefits the protective policy has conferred upon agricultural industries. At the rate at which the production of domestic sugar is progressing we shall soon produce in the United States not only. enough to supply the increasing home demand but to have some for export as well. It is a curious fact, therefore, that just at this time there should be an attack upon the sugar industry, not only by Democratic free traders, but by some Republicans who demand reciprocity with Cuba, Jamaica and other sugar-producing countries. these opponents of a great industry can succeed in their efforts. The results of the industry as set forth by the Bureau of Statistics are a sufficient rebuttal of free trade reasoning. We have only to maintain Gthe protective policy to assure in the future an increase of production equal to that which has been so remark- able in the past. R —— A “Mothers’ Congress” in Connecticut has issued a circular in favor of the re-clection of Grover Cleve- land to the Presidency, and the Connécticut boys can hardly look upon their mothers without feeling a temptation to tell them how much they don’t know about rocking political cradles. now CHARLES FORREST CURRY. WHEN in 1808 Charles F. Curry made his campaign a: Republican candidate for the office of Secretary of State he met with for- midable cpposition. This year his canvass will be easier, for he has been tried in office and found to be faithful and efficient. A renomination was given him by his party as a matter of course, in recognition of his merit, and the people can be counted on to re-elect him for the same good reason. Born in Illinois in 1858, Mr. Curry came with his family to San Francisco in 1873 and this city remained his home until his election to the office of Secretary of State required him to take up his residence at Sac- ramento. . He has always been a man of marked pub- lic spirit and has taken a keen interest in politics. In 1887 he was elected to the Assembly and chosen chair- man of the Republican delegation from San Francisco in that body. As a member of the Assembly he was noted for close attention to the duties of the office and took a leading part in all legislation relating to public education and State institutions. Later on he was elected County Clerk of San Francisco and served with equal credit to himself and benefit to the com- munity. As Secretary of State Mr. Curry has made an en- viable record, as the figures on file demonstrate. For instance, the receipts of the office from fees alone for the four years preceding his administration were $76,- 493 40. For the four years past the receipts were $266,550 75, showing an increase of $190,056 40. These gains are the result of Mr. Curry’s efforts in framing and assisting in the passage of two bills at the last session of the Legislature—one, compelling for- eign corporations to file their articles of incorpora- tion in his office and pay therefor the same fees as are paid by corporations formed under the laws of this State; the other, to raise the fees for filing articles in his office, to the end that a larger amount of revenue be turned into the State Treasury, thereby assisting in the reduction of the tax upon the people throughout the State for the running of the State government. In addition to his official work Seeretary Curry has prepared and published a number of very valuable books, including works on the corporation laws, elec- tion laws and trademarks of California. He is a prom- inent member of the Knights of Honor, having rep- resented the California jurisdiction in the Supreme Lodge of that order for the past five years and being now a member of the Supreme Lodge committee on laws. He is also prominently identified with the An- cient Order of United Workmen, having been a mem- ber of the California Grand Lodge for the past four- teen years and for the past ten years a member of one of the Grand Lodge committees. Mr. Curry is also a member of King Solomon’s Lodge No. 260, F. and A. M., of San Francisco, a past president of the Fra- | ternal Order of Eagles and a member of the Wood- men of the World. In Europe and in America the locomotive has gone tooting along in the pride of a strength sufficient to knock aver anything that got in its way, but in Africa the haughty machine has met tougher foes. Recently a rhinoceros charged a freight engine that disturbed his peace, and after the shock was over the locomo- tive had to be taken back to the nearest station to repair damages. Lord Hope considers that he has paid his debts by giving his creditors very much less than he owed them. If he would only treat in the same manner other affairs intimately associated with his personality the public would be glad. The less we get of him the better. . SR A young Prince of India with all kinds of money and several kinds of thirst for knowledge is coming to Berkeley. It is to be hoped that he will not in- troduce the horrors of football into his native land and retard its progress toward Christian civilization, San Francisco is asking for the national encamp- ment of the Grand Army. We certainly ought to have eloquent pleaders in the thousands of visitors who have already enjoyed our hospitality. ‘When Admiral Killick sunk his gunboat some time ago under menace from the guns of a German war- ship he had at least one consolation. He took the whole Haytian navy with him It is hardly possible that ! CZAR AND KING’S SON CAN - PASS FOR TWINS el ARMY REVIEW. THE CZAR OF RUSSIA AND THE PRINCE OF WALES ARE SO MUCH LIKE EACH OTHER THEY MIGHT BE TWINS. TRATED WHEN A SNAPSHOT CAUGHT THE EMPEROR AND THE FUTURE KING STANDING CLOSE TOGETHER THIS WAS ILLUS- WHILE AT AN || THIS SNAPSHOT HAS BEEN USED AS THE BA- | SIS FOR A MEDALLION PORTRAIT OF THE TWO WHICH SHOWS i THE LIKENESS IN AN EFFECTIVE MANNER. ;—lOW TO SAVE THE FORESTS BY USE OF FIRE The following communication to The Call suggests a method of saving the great mountain forests of the State by the careful and judicious use of fire: MERCED, Sept. 19, 1902. Editor Call, San Francisco, Cal.—Dear Sir: In a late issue of The Call appeared an intevesting editorial relative to the preservation of the forests of the Sierras from fire, and calling attention to the great injury resulting in the Old World : by the destruction of forests. There can be no question in the minds of those possessing a practical knowledze of the conditions now existing that, as you suggest, some plan must be adopt- ed to prevent the ruin of our forests by | fire. Scientists and those in authority told the natives of St. Pierre that there was no danger from the volcano of Pelee, and they were persuaded to remain to their death against their better judgment. the forests when the Government as- sumed control. Scientists say that in or- der to preserve the forests from fire pine ‘needles shall be allowed to acenmu- late, that dead brush shall not be burned out, that fallen trees shall not be dis- turbed. The practical mountaineer says, “Burn, and burn often, in order that this accumulation of dead matter shall not become so great as to cause the destruc- tion of the trees when a fire sweeps through the mountains.” In former years, before the Government assumed control and a force of soldiers was stationed In the mountains to pre- vent the disturbance of these accumula- tions, fires were frequent, simply consum- ing the pine needles and dead matter, and did no damage whatever to the trees. ! Under the present conditions, which will become worse from year to year, when a fire starts it consumes everything in its path, the flames reach to such a heigat as to communicate with the boughs of the trees, and when this is the case the fire is beyond human control, and nothing will stop it other than a barren moun- tain. | There is but one practical way of pfe- serving the forests of the Sierras from being destroyed by fire. The remedy may appear upon its face to be severe, but nevertheless it is the only one, and it is by the use of fire. If the soldiers, under proper instruction, would set fire to the dead matter each year there would be | absolutely no danger of the destruction of the forests by fire, for the reason that I have already stated. This was the prac- tice of the Indians in former days, and until the soldiers came fires were of suf- ficlent frequency to keep the dead matter destroyed, and there were no signs In the mountains of such fires save the occa- slonal scorching of the outer bark of the large trees. Now it is an easy matter to find where recent fires have completely destroyed the forests over large tracts of ground. The remedy which I would sug- gest, then, is that these accumulations of dead matter be burned by the soldiers or others working under the supervision of persons familiar with such work. The ex- pense attendant upon this would be a trifle compared with the vast loss which will certainly accrue if the present condi- tion, of things continues. H. J. OSTRANDER. CHARGES MADE AGAINST ARMY TO BE SIFTED Secretary Root Causes an Investiga- tion of Allegations Made by Anti-Imperialists. WASHINGTON, Sept. 22. — Secretary Root has received a copy of the second letter prepared by Charles Francis Ad- ams and others, addressed to the Presi- dent, dealing with affairs in the Philip- pines. The first communzcation addressed to the President and known as the Lake George letter, has also been received by the Secretary. Before leaving for the West to-day the Secretary turned the letters over to Gen- eral George B. Davis, Judge Advocate of the Army, with instructions to make a thorough investigation of the allegations and, if any of the offenses can be placed upon officers or men of the army, to have such persons brought to trial. As some of thd allegations are against volunteer officers who, under recent court decisions, cannot be reached by military tribunals of the regular army, it is the intention of the Secretary to have these investigated through the Department of Justice, if the -| inquiry of General Davis develops facts which will warrant a trial. General Davis already has addressed a letter to Adams asking for evidence and specifications which will enable him to institute proceedings by court martial against any officers or men who may be implicated. It is said at the War Department that the absence of Secretary Root in Europe delfyed any action heretofore, the Presi- dent desiring Secretary Root, who was familiar with the subject and had juris- diction over it, to take such action as might be necessary. As soon as Generaj Davis obtains the evidence he has asked for he will have the inquiry extended in the Philippines. The mountaineers predicted destruction to | SOCIAL SCIENCE - | BY THE LADIES! At a special meeting of the California Ciub ycsterday afternoon the _so: | science department was duly organized and work outlined for the year. Dr. Mary Roberts Smith of Stanford University, chairman of that section, presided, and | gave many useful suggestions_that will be followed out in the near future. Re- | perts were read showing what has been done recently in hospital and other prac- tical work. Officers were elected and the | proper committees appointed to carry out | the plans of the department. R It is the dcsire of the ladies of the | United Daughters of the Confederacy in this city—the Albert Sidney Johnston | Chapter—to make the ball they are ar- ranging to give the largest affair of its kind during the season. October 31 is the date decided upon, and there will be plenty of time to prepare elaborate cos- temes, as the ball is to be a mask affair. Native Sons’ Hall will be thronged with wearers of unique costumes and merri- | ment will reign supreme. Members of the chapter are working earnestly toward the success of ‘the undertaking, and their worthy purpose is to provide a free bed ! in a private room of some hospital where | those i1l and in need may be cared for. The patronesses are: Mrs. A. R Voor- hies, Mrs. Phebe Hearst, Mrs. A. W. Fos- ter\Mrs. Willlam Herrin, Mrs. John Gar- | ber, Mrs. Willlam Gwin, Mrs. Willlam Berry Craig, Mrs. Enid Short White, Mrs. Eleanor Martin and Mrs. Pritchard, who is the dauvghter of Albert Sidney John- ston. | WORK OUTLINED | | . The popular young ladies who assisted in receiving at Gertrude Jones' coming- out tea were: Misses Anna and Mary Mrs. Wyatt Aller, Miss Bessie iss Mabel Watkins, Miss Marga- | ret Mee, Miss Clara Rice, Mrs. F. B. Latham, Mrs. A. S. Mann, Mrs. Laura B. Roe, Mrs. Ella M. O'Bryan, Mrs. Paul Lohse, Mrs. Harry Maxwell ang Mrs. Ed. ward M. Jones. 1 s T J. C. Wilson is arranging another of his joily Yosemite parties. The trip will be taken about holiday time, and the guests' will be prepared for B . . the ice and snow. | . e 1 Mrs. George E. Morse entertained at dimmner on Friday evening. The guests were: Mr. and Mrs. Edward Ackerman, Mr. and Mrs. Clement Bennett, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Parsons, Harry F. Cooper and Mrs. Bryan. It is the present intention of | Mrs. Morse to receive on the first Fri- days during the coming season. Mr. and Mrs. August Pioda and Master | | Alfred Pioda, who have been summering | | at Bartlett Springs, will return to their home in this city about the 1st of Octo- ber. 1 T Miss Bessie Bonsail. who came up from Los Angeles to attend the Johnston-Lan- | ders wedding, Is visiting friends in the | city. .t e The Misses Borel were hostesses at a pretty garden party to Sunday-school | children at their summer home in San Mateo on Saturday. PO Mrs. Walter Hobart is entertaining her brother, Wilberforce Williams, at San Mateo. . Mrs. George Gibbs is entertaining Miss Mary Kip. £ 8 . Mrs. Gertrude Atherton is at present in Copenhagen. A CHANCE TO SMILE. Instantly the referee decided the fight in favor of the pugilist with the green trunks. “How’s that!” demanded the other | pugilist. “He hasn't landed on me once!” | “I can't help that,” replied the rereree.’ ““You lowered your guard at a critical mo— ment and he could have caught you on the jaw. You are constructively knocked out.”—Chicago Tribune. “Captious” writes: “Dear Sir—In your poem on ‘Miles’ last week you secure a rhyme for ‘Miles’ by hyphenating .and otherwise distorting the word ‘auto- mobiles.’” Is this allowable:” - Unfortunately, the writer of this de- partment is one of the great majority who find it difficult to control -automobiles.— ‘Washington Star. Full of Goodness— “What makes your billy so meek and mild these days?” in- quired the first nanny goat. ‘‘He's got religion, I guess,” said the othar. ‘“You don't say?”’ “Yesq he ate a Bible the other day."” Cflthol?c Standard and Times. “You can't guy that fellow,” said the Larber, as the bald-headed customer left the shop. “Did you try it?” asked ‘next.” “Yes. When he got into my chair I asked him if he wanted a hair-cut and he said he didn’t care if I cut both of them.” —Indianapolis News. . arrivals PEOPLE PAY TO PROSECUTE THE BOODLERS —_— ST. LOUIS, Sept. 2.—The Grand Jury met this afternoon. for a brief inquiry into city lighting legislation, only two cr three witnesses having been summon. Deputy Sheriffs ‘to-day rearrested for. mer Delegate Jerry J. Hannigan, T. D. Al- bright and Charles J. Denny on informa- tions filed by Mr. Folk, to take the place of the bench warrants. ‘The three men gave renewed bohds in the sum of $30.000 each, two charges being mcluded in the informations. It developed to-day that a body guard has been appointed for John K. Murrell, ex-member of the House of Délegates, who returned from Mexico and turned State’s evidence. Word was recetved from Jefferson City to-night that Judge Gantt of the State Supreme Court rendered his decision at 3 o’clock this afternoon on the petition for a writ of habeas corpus filed last week to secure the release of former Delegates Schumacher, Helms, Tamblin and Schnet- ler, now in jall here on the charges of bribery and perjury. In his decision Judge Gantt remanded the prisoners to the custody of the Sheriff and refused to, fix the amount of bail. Recently a fund to defray the expen‘ of prosecution of the boodle cases by pu lic subscription was started and Circuit Attorney Folk to-day issued a statemens that 38131 had so far been contributed. HAY’S APPEAL STILL WORRIES THE POWERS Nations of Europe That Remain Si- lent Concerning the Afflicted Roumanian Jews. WASHINGTON, Sept. 22—No answer has yet been received from either Russia or Austria at the State Department in r sponse to Secretary Hay's presenta touching the Roumanian Jews. Mo over, it may be said that no answer i3 expected from any of the powers upc this subject beyond the usual forma statements from the United States em bassadors and ministers abroad that the have complied h the department’s in- struetions to read the notes to the vari- ous foreign ministers, who have return | acknowledgments of the same and pron.- ises of its consideration. The reason for this expeectation lies the faet that the department’s. functio touching the Jewish question terminatc or at least was indirectly suspended the presentation of its note. Ha called the attention of the sigmatc powers to the infractions by Roumar of the treaty of Berlin, it mow remains for the powers to decide what sh: done, if indeed anything is dome. Cons quently whatever correspondence follow on this subject on the treatment of the Roumanian Jews will be exchanged dire between the p and in it the Unite States wili have no part. —_— e ——— PERSONAL MENTION. de Jarnatt cf Colusa is at the Oc Plank of Son Josze is regt and Jr., the eomiractor of E an attorncy of Vaca ayor of Salin: Jr. of Juar at the San Palace. t the Lick. H. W ell-known mer chant of s at the Palace. Dr. 1l of London, Eng and, ental, accompaniec by his wife. Hammet Jr.. a prominert rea an and son of the Mayor of E Paso, is at the Faiace W. E. Woolsey, an extensive frui grower of Santa Rosa, is ameng the ar rivals at the Oceidental. Northey, a ‘mining man of is here om a short (riy has made his headauarters at the Gecrge V. Sulphur Creek, and esscr A. Van der Naillen, president of the school of cngineermg in this city has returned from a five months’ towr abroad. R Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Sept. 22—The following registered at the hotels fromw Califorzia: J. L. Clark, at the Marlbor- ough; T. W. Price and wife and Miss I Short, at the Cosmopolitan; A. C. Thom- son and Misses Thomson, at the Broad way Ceatral; J. Smith, at the A\!e(rupuflv} tan. From San Francisco—J. M. Gamble, at the Hoffman; Mrs. T. Garrett, D. Evens C. H. Gardiner, W. B. Isaacs and F. H Strohm_ at the Imperial; H. S. King and wife, F. C. Hotaling and D. V. MacLean at the Manhattan; G. H. Bailey, Mrs Bohne and Miss Sandelin, at the Broad way Central; C. Fenton, at the Granc Union;* Mrs.' L. Hall, at the Bartholdi; D. A. Hedges, at the Grand; Mrs. C. H King, Misses King, S. Lieber and wif and L Scott, at the Holland; S. Peiser at the Raleigh; P. Potter, ‘at the Uniox Square, and Mrs. Roberts, at the Murray Hill From Loés Angeles—J. J. Clifford, at Sinclair. From San Jose—H. W. Edwards, at the Grand Umion. S n el Califorians in Washington. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 22—The following Californians arrived here to- day and registered at the hotels: At the Ebbitt—H. Wertseb and wife of San Fran- cisco; at the Willard—Edward L. Doheny and wife, and A. P. Maginnis and wife of Los Angeles; at the Raleigh—H. P. Tade- all of San Francisco; at the National- J. V. Young of San Francisco. —_———— ANSWERS 10 QUERIES. BROTHERS—B., Sacramento, c-r‘ Brothers of the half-blood inherit the same as brothers of the whole biood. TEN YEARS—M. O., City. The tramp who found money that had been hidden by stage robbers in Yolo County and was afterward arrested for taking that money was sent to prison for ten years. STRAWBERRIES—S., Gardenier, Or. 4 good fertilizer for strawberries is a mulch- ing of strawy manure put between the rows of plants in the spring to keep the ground moist, the fruit clean and afford nourishment to the plants. The plants may be occasionally watered unmtil the fruit commences to color, then the water- ing must stop. A good top dressing of leaf mold is said to be Bemeficial to the plants if placed on the ground before the plants begin to gTOW in spring. Prunes-stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* —_— Townsend’s California Glace fruit ana candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market st., Palace Hotel bullding. * ———— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Mai . in 1042