The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 21, 1902, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, BRIDAY. ..o cononsonnsios. NOVEMBER 21, JOEN D. SPRECKELS, Propriclor. Acdress A!'l Communications to W. S LEAKE, Manager TELEPHONE Ask for THE CALL. Che Operator 1.ill Connect You Witl. t_e Department You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE. . .uarket EDITORIAL ROOMS. . 217 to 221 Steve Delivered by Carriers, 156 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, & Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL cncluding Sund DAILY CALL cincluing Sund: DAILY CALL ncludiig Sunday), 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Month. SUNDAY CALL, One Year.. WEEKLY CALL, One'Year. All Postmasters are uuthorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mail subscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order %o imeure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE. ...1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Maneger Foreign Advertising, Marguette Building, Chicaga. (Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2618.”) NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. . .30 Tribune Bullding NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON. ....... vee...Herald Sq NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: ‘Waldorf-Astoria Hotel: A. Brentano, 31 Unlon Square; Murray Hill Hotel; Fifth-avenue Hotel, and Hoffman House. STATEMENT OF C/RCULATION OF THE SAN FRANCISCO tdLlL, Month of October, 1902. 2%.. 10,000 21. S Tothl...covvvvsnsnssnssssssnsssss 1,031,365 STATE OF CALIFORNIA, CITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO—ss. On this 18th day of November, 1902, personally eppeared be- fore me, Willism T. Hess, a Notary Public in and for the City and County aforesaid, J. MARTIN, who being sworn ac- corfling to law declares that he is the ‘Business Manager of the San Francisco Call, & Gally newspaper published in the City and County of San Francisco, State of Californla, and thet there were printed and distributed during the month of October, 1802, one million nine bundred and thirty-cne thou- sand three hundred and sixty-five (1,831,365) copies of the #aid newspeper, which number divided by thirty-one (the num- ber of days of issue) gives an aversge daily circulation of 62,302 coples W. J. MARTIN. Subscribed «nd sworn to before me this 18th day of Novem- ber, 1902. W. T. HESS. Notary Public in and for the City and County of San Fran- clsco, State of California. = THE AMENDMENTS' VOTE, IGURES published in The Call yesterday gave F the official returns of the vote on the proposed constitutional amendments from every county in the State except Alpine, Humboldt, Los Angeles, Mariposa and San Francisco. Unofficial returns from those counties make it fairly certain that no change will be made in the result as to either amendment, and it is therefore possible now to sum up conclusively the results of the vote of the people on t}le various constitutional questions submitted to them. Senate amendment No. 4 provides for the inclu- sion of high, normal, evening and technical schools in the public school system, devotes the school funds exclusively to the support of primary and grammar schools, but authorizes separate taxation for the other schools named. The Call pointed out during the canvass that the amendment is unobjectionable. The vote for it on the official returns is in round numbers 58,000, while the opposition vote was 39,000. Senate amendment. No. 18, dividing the State into fish and game districts and permitting a different open season in each, was cordially supported by The Call. The vote for it was 53,000, while the vote against it was 36,000, Senate zmendment No. 3, to exempt State and mu- nicipal bonds from taxation, is one of the measures for which The Call made 2 veritable campaign of edu- cation, and it is gratifying to note that it was car- ried in the counties from which official returns are received by 63,000 against 44,000. Senate amendment No. 6, which conferred on all cities exceeding 3500 inhabitants a right to make a charter and have 2 municipal government was unch- jectionable and should have been adopted, but was defeated by a vote of 37,000 in its favor to 38,000 against it. Senate amendment No. 14, providing for the use of balloting machines, by local option, opens a way for a great improvement in our methods of “voting at pop- ular elections, and was carried by a vote of 48,000 to 39,000. Senate amendment No. 13, providing that offenses against the law may be prosecuted by information alone, 2 notoriously vicious measure, was defeated, the official returns thus far received showing a vote of only 32,000 in its favor, while the adverse vote was 47,000. Senate amendment No. 20 provides for State high- ways, and the approximately eyen division of public opinion on the subject is shown. by the vote of 45,000 in its favor to 42,000 zgainst it. Assembly amendment No. 25, fixing 2 uniform working day of eight hours on®all public works, ex- cept in the case of emergencies, is a decidedly good step in the right direction, and 4here will be general gratification in the vote of 71,000 in its favor to only 24,000 against it. Assembly amendment No. 28, providing for a com- mission of five persons to exercise exclusive super- vision over corporations operating all sorts of pub- lic utilities, was about the most vicious political scheme ever engendered in California politics, and was overwhelmingly defeated by a vote of 73,000 to It will be scen that the majorities given in the offi- cial returns published yesterday are, with one excep- tion, so Jarge it is not at all probable the result will be changed when th: entire official vote is reported. The one excepticn is the vote on the highways z2mendment (Senate No. 20), which stands 45.770 for and 42,325 against. On all other propositions the vote was overwhelmingly one way or the other. As a whole the vote shows that the people took a keen interest in the constitutional questions and voted with an intelligent understanding of their merits, Senate. His candidacy was an issue that was iought | cut by the Mormon and Gentile factions in that State, and was decided at the polls in favor of Smoot. The | question of polygamy being raised against }lim, we believe that he denied ever having been in polygamy. But be that as it may, if he were involved in that prac- | tice when it was sanctioned by the Mormon hierarchy and have abandoned it since the Tucker-Edmunds law made it a felony his past indulgence cannot be | made a bar to his admission to the Senate. Prior to the Tucker- Edmunds law George Q. Can- non and other avowed polygamists represented Utah Territory as delegates in the House, and their social status was no legal bar whatever. A man’s past con- duct, if a closed chapter in his life; and especially if at the time it was not obnoxious to any existing law, cannot be pleaded against him in any of his present legal relations to the Government. On the face of the affair there exists no legal reason why Apostle Smoot should be denied a seat in the Senate if his State choose to elect him. That he is the preference of a majority of the legal voters of Utah is proved by the resuit at the polls, reached in the full knowl- edge of his ambition and purpose. This being the | situation, it is with some surprise that the country learns that a crusade is started with the purpose of denying tc him the seat to which he will be chosen. It is supposed that this crusade is a paft of the | anti-Mormon movement of the evangelical churches. If so it may not be taken as proof of the wisdom of those churches. No religious movement was ever killed by persecution. It is probable that if Joseph Sinith had not been murdered by a mob in Carthage jail Mormonism would have died in its first great es- tablishment at Nauvoo. The murder of its leader furnished it with a martyr, and, thoughithe Mormons scattered and settled fitfully at places wide apart, the cohesive force of persecution brought them together |in the wilderness on the Jordan, and they prospered 60 | mightily, though the world was against them. The heads of the church were leaders of men, and proved it by inducing a return to plural marriage, a system that had been abandoned and left far behind in the march of civilization. Polygamy in the far past was a vast improvement on the promiscuous association which had characterized the remote ages of the human race. But as civilization gatned and advanced monogamy succeeded it as a further im- proyement. Its reappearance among the Mormons was an example of atavism, which the moral sense of this country refused to tolerate, and the law smote it destructively. To conduct now a general move- ment against the political right of the Mormons to have a member of their church in.the Senate is to make the same kind of mistake that was made when Joseph Smith was murdered, It is announced that the case of Representative Brigham Roberts in the present Congress is a prece- dent. This cannot be, for the testimony showed that Roberts was living in polygamy at the time of his election and at the time he presented himself at the bar of the House to take the oath of his office. It is the opinion of every one conversant with the facts in his case, and with a knowledge 6f the constitution, being denied his seat, He should have been sworn {in and then expelled. But he was put on trial by a committee of the House which had refused to credit his credentials and admit him as a member. There is no doubt that he could have received his constitutional rights, have been seated and then ex- | pelled, even in the absence of a judicial conviction of the crime of polygamy. The constitution says that each House of Congress “shall be the judge of the election” of its own members. The House could have done no less than judge and admit the election of Roberts. But the constitution continues, in the same sentence, “and qualification of its own members.” After he became a member by admission the House, judging his qualification, could and doubtless would have found him unqualified. But it passed upon the qualifications of a man whose" election it had not passed upon at all. It is to be hoped that a like exhibition will not be made by the Senate in the case of Smoot. If eclected he is entitled to a seat on his credentials; then if the Senate wish to #nvestigate his qualifications it may proceed to do so, in strict compliance with the con- stitution. There has been much discussion of the expulsion from the Senate of Jesse D. Bright of Indiana during the Civil War. He had been ad- mitted to his seat, but was judged unqualified to oc- cupy it because he had written a letter to Jefferson Davis, the leader of a rebellion against the Govern- ment. The leaders of the Mormon church have never been icharged with a lack of sagacity, and they would not be so unwise as to send a man at present in the prac- tice, of polygamy to the Senate. If he be clear of that <(fi'ense to expel him because he is a Mormon | is an abhorrent proposition. He has just as much right there as the able gentleman who will be his col- league, and who is a Catholic. This Government is not a theocracy. It is not a Christian government. Professors of Judaism have the same rights, and all the rights, as the professors of Christianity. A Budd- hist, Shintoist or Mohammedan has a right to sit in either branch of Congress, provided his life and con- duct conform to our laws. To insist that this is a Christian. governments raises at once the issue, Which sect is Christian? As a Christian institution the Gov- ernment cannot proceed until that issue is decided, and when it is the sect that is held to embody Chris- tianity will have the right to exclude all others from participation in the government. There is much confusion of mind caused by con- founding religion and theology, and those who organ- ize to prevent a Mormon becoming a member of Congress only because he is a Mormon are playing with fire and are fighting Mormonism with weapons which simply increase its strength. * FULFILLING THE WORD. IPLOMACY is not an opera bouffe perform- D ance. On the contrary, it is a very high, dignified and serious pursuit, employing in its various departments all kinds of talents and nearly all kinds of men. Still there are times when it is funny, and in future ages the writers of comic plays will turn back to the diplomacy of our time and find no end of humorous complications, whereat our en- lightened successors will laugh and call us “jays.”. A case in point is now disturbing Eur®pe. Some time ago when the powers were settling up affairs in China and devising ways and means of imposing upon that country an indemnity fully as heavy as the traf- fic could be made to bear they agreed that thepe should be honmor among them and that cach one that he was deprived of his constitutional rights by | | time before. 6 THE CASE OF SMOOT. the programme’ agreed, it will be remembered, to g* = a“. , evacuate Manchuria. _Since that time there have been RECEDING the recent State election in Utah | many complaints that her troops are still in the prov- P Apostle Smoot of the Mormon church be- | ince and show no sign of getting out. 'Thus there has 1902 | came an open candidate for the United States ‘grown up u widespread opinion that Russia would break her word. Diplomacy was getting ready to make such an accusation in polite words, and laymen the world over were waiting to see what would hap- pen. Lo and behold Russia has forestalled her oppo- nents by announcing that she has “‘evacuated” her posts in Manchuria and she asks now to be let alone. * It appears that Russia is right. She has really evacuated the specified posts. It happens, however, perhaps by chance, that she has taken up others in the immediate vicinity. A correspondent of the Lon- don Times writing from Manchuria says: “The evacuation of Newchwang means the removal of the troops one hour’s march up stream to permanent quarters in the Russizan concession, or one hour by train eastward to the Russian settlement of Tashih- chiao, where ample permanent barracks, solidly con- structed of stone and brick, will be ready for the win- ter. The evacuation of the great city of Moukden means removing the troops from within the walls one hour’s march to the Russian concession outside the wall, where permanent quarters are being con- structed for the garrison, which is expected to num- ber 6ooo.” Russia has kept her diplomatic word. There can be no questicning the fact, and now will not some ver- satile fabricator of plays see in the situation a plot for a first-class farce, whether set to music or not? Chinese newspapers have entered the dangerous domain of political prophecy and predict a war be- tween England and Germany. The Chinese may be right, and it is safe to say’ that the bone over which the Germans and the English will growl will be China. G hcnored place among those Southern men who are doing their utmost to rouse public sentiment against lyach law and to enforce the hen- est laws of civilization and justice. He has recently urged the passage of an act providing punishment not only for persons guilty of lynching, or of abetting it, but also for all State, county or city officials who neg- lect to exercise their power and authority to protect a prisoner from a mob. ; With the accession of Governor Sayers to the list of resolutc men eager to redeem the South from the curse of lynching there is a prospect that from this time on the evil will be checked. and begin to dimin- ish. In every State in the South from Virginia to Texas there has now been some notable utterance on the subject from a man of large .personal influence and high official station. The efforts of Governor Longino of Mississippi to protect prisoners from mobs have been frequently noted and are well known. He has repeatedly directed the attention of the Legis- lature to the subject and has many. times gone in per- son to districts where lynching was expected and has done his best to prevent it. Not long ago a Judge in Virginia emphatically instructed a Grand Jury to indict men who had been guilty of lynching a short In Tennessee several of the most elo- quent of the clergy kave denounced the crime and tried to rouse Christian sentiment to suppress it. Thus the story runs from one ‘Southern State to another. The lynching still goes on, but the_opposi- tion to it is incr;asing and becoming: more resolute and outspoken. ‘A member of the Georgia Legisla- ture has sought to prevent it by a bill providing for a rural constabulary of sufficient strength to arrest criminals and to withstand mobs. Perhaps that would be the most effective way of dealing with the evil, but there is still good reason for believing the existing legal machinery of the South would be sufficient to punish lynchers if only public opinion could be made strong enough to compel an enforcement of law. There can be no question that the prevalence of Iynching in the Southern States is due almost wholly to the weakness of local governments. It is another illustration that when lawlessness once breaks forth it-runs on in an increasingly wilder madness until at last it either sweeps away all law and overthrows so- ciety or else engenders an opposition strong enough to crush it. The Southern leaders perceive clearly to what excesses of barbarism lynch law is carrying the violent elements of the people and have evidently made up their minds to put a stop to it. Their ef- forts merit the support of the whole country, and every step they take toward the enforcement of law should have honorable recognition from all good citizens. ROOSEVELT AT MEMPHIS, HE President’s pilgrimage to Memphis to re- T ceive Vice Governor Wright has been full of incident. The enthusiasm of the Southern peo- ple in behalf of the President was spontaneous and hearty. His uncle was an officer in the Confederate navy and served under Admiral Semmes, who was the father of Mrs. Wright. So the people who were brought together in the public eye represented his- TO SUPPRESS LYNCHING. OVERNOR SAYERS of Texas has taken an tory, end their meeting was an illustration of #he | close division of families in the Civil War. The great incident of the day was the reception tendered to General Wright by the negroes of Mem- phis. That event brought out the fact that in the great yellow fever epidemic in Memphis twenty-five years ago General Wright did not join in the flight of nearly all the leading white citizens, but stood at’ his post and organized care and medical attendants for the horde of helpless negroes who were left in the plague-smitten city to feed the epidemic. When he and the President appeared before the black audience of thousands the scene was most impressive. negroes remembered their friend in need, and recog- nized in the President another man of the same kind, | who, in trial, trouble and emergency, can be counted on to stand by his duty, regardless of peril to him- self. Altogether that day at Memphis was a great day for the whole country. The President committed himself against changes in the Philippine government for par- tisan reasons, and in doing such conspicuous honor to the Democratic member of the commission clinched his non-partisan declaration by action which none can mistake. The few prejudiced partisans who hoped that the Booker Washington dinner would cause coldness toward the President by the people of the South were properly disappointed. The people ‘of Tennessee and the surrounding "States recognized the fact that President Roosevelt is President of the whole people, and their greeting was exceptionally heartfelt and warm., Mark Hanna is quoted as saying-that reports of his ill health make him laugh, so it 4 probable he will have a very merry Christmas and a New Year full of | should be square with the rest. Russia as a part of | the gay ha ha., The | 1902, MANY COLORS USED IN TABLE DECORATIONS Miss Catherine Herrin’s luncheon yes- terday was a brilliant affair, and for gen- uine pleasure surpassed any similar en- tertainment given in this city for many a day. The beautiful home of the Her- rins, on Scott street and Broadway, was elaborately decorated for the occasion, and the handsomely gowned debutantes ! added to the picturesqueness of the scene. Covers were lald for fifty-six and the guests were seated at six tables scattered throughout the spacious rooms. Three of the tables were effectively decorated with red berries, roses and carnations. An- other table was entirely in pink and the two others in yellow, including chrysan- themums and boughs of lemons. Sweet music from a string orchestra afforded a delightful accompaniment to the laugh-| ter and animated conversation. Miss Her- | rin was beautiful in a white crepe gown | with garniture of rare lace, and received the guests with her usual charming cor-| diality of manner. Among those present were: e Langdon, Mrs. Martin Crimmins, essie Ames, Miss Bertic Bruce, Miss | Ruth Allen, Miss Elizabeth Allen, Miss Dav- gonport, Miss Ardella Mills, Miss Desste Mills, | Mrs. Iithel Cooper, Miss Bernie Drown, Mis. | Edith Huntinzton, Miss Louise Harrington. | | Miss Mary Harrington, Miss Genevieve King, Miss Hazel King, Miss Elizabeth Huntington, Miss Marion Huntington, Miss Gladys Mc- Clung, Miss Alma McClung, Miss Charlotte Ellinwood, Mrs. Horace Pillsbury, Mrs. Fd- ward Fond, Mis: iida_ Van Sicklen, Mrs. it Wakefleld Baker, Miss Maybelle ‘Tov, Miss Edith Simpson, Miss bessie Center, Miss Elena Robingon, Mrs, Worthington Ames, Miss Bmiy | Wilson, Miss Helen Dean, Miss Maud Bourn, Miss Gertrude Josselyn, Miss Eilsie Sperry, | Miss Kathryn Robinson, Mrs. Alexander D. Keyes, Miss Leontine Blakeman, Miss Maye | Colburn, Miss Gladys Merrill, Miss Mollie Dut- | ton, Miss Pearl Landers, Miss Louise Roding- ton, Miss Marie Voorhies, Mrs. Willard Drown, Miss Virginia_Joliffe, Miss Gertrude Joliffe, Miss Azalea Keyes, Miss Lucle King, Mise ¥lorence Cole, Miss Besste Col:, Miss Saran Drum, Miss Isabelle Hooper, Miss Jacqueline Wolf ‘of Oakland, Miss Florence Bailey, Miss Olive Holbrook, Miss Grimwood. VIOEIN VIRTUOSOS DRAW MUSICAL FOLK Wilczek and Schluter Again Show Skill on King of Instru- ments. The combination of Franz Wilczek and Max Schluter, Bach, Weiniawski and Dvorak drew a lot of musical folk to the Alhambra Theater yesterday after- noon. Both violinists gain by second hear- ing. Mr. Wilczek's tone proves itseif even more lovely than the remembrance of its round and limpid quality and Mr. Schlut- er shows a breadth of style that his per- formance of the Gade sonata at the first concert hardly exhibited. Chief in inter- est on the programme was the rarely ! heard Bach concerto for two violins, given | with the able assistance of Gyula Ormay. A sympathy of rare order marked the _rendering. Wholly devoid of the incon- gruous romanticism with which a too frequent scheol belards its Bach—indeed, | simple, severe, pure as the noble composi- | tion itself—was its handling by the three | musicians. It was suggested that this number be repeated at the Saturday con- | cert in place of the Godard duets. Mr. Wilezek's solo was the “Faust” fantasie of Weiniawski, and though it must be owned that Monsieur Weiniawski came ! off rather badly after Father Bach, the ! tricky and brilliant work showed the | violinist to much technical advantage. He ‘was encored lustily. Schluter’s solo num- ber was the Bach ‘‘Chaconne,” violin alone, and the young musician gave it with fine dignity and breadth. The Ter- zette of Dvorak was repeated with suc- cess and Carlo Gentile made a fairly agreeable impression in three piano solos. | The third and last concert will take place to-morrow afternoon at the Alham- | bra Theater at 3 o’clock with the follow- ing programme: Suite for piano’ and -violin. .Goldmark Franz Wilczek and Gyula Ormay. Violin— Max Schluter. with violin obligato— Songs (a) “In Spring Love Came,” (b) “Roses”.. BTty . Oscar Weil Mrs, Martin Schultz. (Violin, Franz Wilczek.) Violin, “Fantasie Caprice” . Vieuxtemps Franz Wilcze! Drets for violins— (a) “‘Midnight,”” (b) “‘Serenade .Godard Max Schiuter and Franz Wilezek. —————————— JORDAN REQUESTS THAT INQUIRY BE INSTITUTED Writes Letter to @ H. Umbsen Which May Lead to Investigation of Templars’ Banquet. There will perhaps be an investigation into the trouble at the Knights Templar banquet last Saturday night, when sev- eral of the guests left the festal board feeling that they had been insulted. Frank C. Jordan has written a letter to | G. H. Umbsen, commander of California Commandery, asking that an inquiry into the case be made. Following is the let- ter Jordan wrote to Umbsen: SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 19, 1902. G. H. Umbsen Esq., Eminent Commander California Commandery 'No. 1, K. T.—Dear Sir: On Saturday evening, November 15, T attended the banquet glven by your commandery. was the guest of Sir Knight Robert Wieneke | of your commandery. 1 appreciated the compliment of an invitation and was, glad of | the opportunity to attend, for the first, time, a gathering of Knights Templar, I there con- | cucted myself as a gentleman, impressed with | the importance of the occasion. With others, | | also guests, I felt it necessary to retire from | the banquet Toom because of an insult offered | by a member of your commandery. The ladies who retired with their escorts are | also suffering from an unwarrantable attack. The conduct of those retiring with me could not be excepted to or criticised. The press | | of the State has given the details of the affair { to_the world, 1 am a Mason, and I appeal to your com- | mandery to make speedy investigation and make such official declarations as are neces- e good mame of those Who have suftered is involved, and the justice of Masonry is in- voked. Fraternally ycurs, FRANK C. JORDAN. Mr. Jordan says that he was not or- dered away from the banquet, but that he was so grievously insulted that he and others left. ——— Jewish Women Hold Meeting. The San Francisco local council of Jew- ish Women held its regular monthly meeting yesterday afternoon in Temple ! Emanu-El. The meeting was well at- tended, and C. T. Work, superintendent | of the manual training department of the i ! public schools of San Francisco, delivered an interesting lecture on the "practical value of manual training. Miss Mamie | Voorsanger has been selected to repre- sent the San Francisco Council of Jewish Women at the annual meeting of the council, to be held in Baltimore from De- cember 2 to December 11. Miss Voorsang- er will leave in a few days on her mis- sion. —— Teachers Lose Back Salaries. Superintendent of Schools Webster not- ified the Board of Education yesterda that he had decided not to sign the back salary demands'of R. H. Mitchell and Mrs. I. D. Reeves as prepared by the beard for the fiscal years 1898-1899, 1899- 1900 apd 1900-1%01, aggregating $5500, be- cause there is no money in the school fund of those years to pay them. Web- ster, however, signed the warrants be- ginning with July 1, 1901, amounting to about $2000. The question of paying the 1einstated teachers interest amounting to $7280 will be a subject for future con- sideration. . ; ————— _Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by Press Clipping B len's), 230° - Torola street. “Telepnone Main 1 st AMERICAN CABLE LINE TO CHINA | FROM MANILA WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—Clarence W Mackay, president of the Commercial Pa- cific Cable Company; George G- v‘fard, vice president, and Willlam W. Cook, general counsel for the company, had an interview to-day with the Attorney Gen- eral with respect to the conditions pre- | scribed by President Roosevelt for con- structing a trans-Pacific cable. These conditions were approved by the Presi- dent in July last; since which time the Pacific Cable Company has not officially notified the Government as to its inten- tion or willingness to accept them. To- @ay, however, Mackay explained to the Attorrey General that the delay was caused by protracted negotiations, which have only been brought to'a conclusion withii the last few days, to secure a landing place in China to comply with the President’s condition that an inde- pendent American line should be con- structed from Manila to Hongkong, thus giving an all-American through line t0 the Asiatic continent. It was this condition that was supposed to be the one that the cable company would be unwilling or unable to comply with. It now announces its abil- ity and intention to construet a line from Manila to Shanghai, a distance of about 1200 wiles, and to have the same complet- ed - within a year. b Owing to the claim by the Pacific Cable people that, as they read one of the other ccnditions, it will practically prevent the necessary relations with existing lines in China to secure the transmission of American messages to interior pointe, the provision is being recast to obviate misunderstandings and will be submitted to the President in a modified form with- in a few days. PERSONAL MENTION, H. W. Johnson of Sacramento is at the California. Dr. B. W. Doyle of Fresno is a guest at the Grand. . J. J. Hebbron, a cattle man of Salinas, is at the Grand. S. Ewell, a merchant of Marysville, is at the California. C. L. Mead, a merchant of Portland, Or., is at the Palace. Edward Berwick, a rancher of Pacific Grove, is at the Grand. Percy Q. Robison, a resident of Mid- dletown, is at the Russ. Luis de Castro Palomine of Spain is registered at the Palace. W. F. Hawke, 4 vineyardist of Marys- ville, is a guest at the Russ. Frank H. Short, the well known attor- ney of Fresno, is at the Palace. L. H. Taylor of the United States Geo- logical Survey is at the Oceidental. E. A. Albright, secretary of the Le- high Valley road, is at the Occidental. C. S. Piner, a merchant of Middletown, {is here on a short business trip and has mwade his headquarters at the Russ. W. M. Rank, who was several months ago appointed assistant manager of the North Shore road, was yesterday pro- moted to the office of general mandger. Robert Byron Rascovich, a well known artist, is here from Venice. He will study Chinatown and thinks he will get good material there to paint several pic- tures. ——————e Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Nov. 20.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—H. R. Hurlbut, at the Nor- mandie; Miss Adams and G. Abbott, at the Manhattan; Mrs. A. W. Jackson and Mrs. D. L. Hayman, at the Navarre; W. Begen and F. H. Hilbert, at the Belve- dere; T. Schusker and wife, at the Hoff- man, and J. J. Johnson, at the Park Ave- nue. From Los Angeles—C. A. Manuel and C. B. Ming, at the Broadway Central; G. Hcoper, at the Earlington. From | Santa Clara—W. J. Fosgate, at the Grand. —_— Californians in Washington. ‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 20.—The following Californians registered at the hotels to- day: At the New Willard—Charles F. Stone of San Francisco, Charles R. Drake and wife and William L. Drake of Lo« Angeles. At the St. James—J. B. Morris of San Francisco. —_—— Lecture on the Indian. A free lecture will be given this even- ing at the Young Men’s Christian Asso- ciation, Mason and Ellis streets, by Cap- tain Newton H. Chittendon on “The North American Indian in War and in Peace, and His Future.” A fine display of Indian relics is now on exhibition at the association building, which will be used to illustrate the lecture to-night. A fuil-fledged wigwam will be erected on tie platform of the hall. ANAL PROJECT —— WASNINGTON, Nov. 2.—The check in the negbtiations with Colombia relative to the Panama candl has given great en- couragenknt to the friends of the Nica- ragua préject and the first evidence of renewed agtivity on their part was the ‘appearancel at the State Department of Senor Cordg, Nicaraguan Minister to Washington| Secretary Hay bhas several times called §he attention of the Colom- overnment to the fact that under bian G e o section 4 of unable to obt: n control of the necessar territory in Cdjombia by treaty then he is required to dbtain such territory from Costa Rica and Ficaragua. It is now said to be probable that to emphasize hls' re- peated declaratiop that the action :‘ll Col gress in the passage of the Spooner amendment did %ot finally commit the United States to \the acceptance of the Panama route, Seeretary Hay may pro- ceed to draw up a treaty with Nicaragua and Costa Rica and submit it to the Sen- ate along with such a treaty with Colom- bia as he may be able to conclude. In this way the Senate, itself might decide whether or not the Colombian treaty is satistactory and if ft should decide in the negative them it Will have at hanmd the Nicaraguan-Costa Rica treaties so that thee will be no excuse for delay in the eanal project. As for the Colombian negotiations it can be stated that the United States has now gone to the practical end of the coneessions it is willing to make. The Colombian Minister here has been notified of the decision reached and is expected to make further reply, either accepting or rejecting our last propositiop. One ‘0( the principal objections by Colombia is tne difference over the tenure of the United States in the canal strip. Prominent Senators who hate been con- sulted by the State Department have in- dicated their strong opposition to the acceptance of a hundred years’ lease with provision for renewal as sufficiert to meet the provisions of the Spooner act. Noth- ing less than ‘“perpetual control” as set down in the act, will satisfy them. The Colombians say that would be in violation of thelr constitution. But a careful read- ing of the Colombian constitution by ths officlals here does not satisfy them that there is dny such prohibition against allenation of territory as is represented. SPEAR STREET WILL NOT BE PAVED FOR SOME TIMB Supervisors’ Committee Will Consider Subject of Blasting Operations in the City. The Supervisors’ Street Committee yes- terday recommended that action on the ordinance providing for the paving of Spear street, between Market and Mis- sicn, be postponed for sixty days in ord to give property owners an opportunity to make necessary improvements. The committee reported in favor of changing the name of City Hall squars to Marshall square. Mrs. Edward F. Glaser of the California Outdoor League spoke In favor of the change. ‘The committee heard a number of prot- estations against the blasting of Tele- graph Hill by Gray Brothers. It was as- certained that other contractors are en- gaged in similar work, namely Cushing- Wetmore Company, John Biggio, City Street Improvement Company and Quim- by & Harrelson. The committee decided to take up the whole question of quarry- ing in San Francisco this morning at 16:30 o'clock. The committee rescinded the action tak- en by the board in ordering the perform ance of certain street work in Richland avenue, the Board of Works having rec- ommended the action: too soon in. the pro- ceedings. ‘The committee recommended the con- structicn of a sewer in Vallejo street, be- tween Baker and Broderick, and the ing of certain street work on Dorland street and other streets in front of city property at a cost of $2000. ——————— Graduates Receive Diplomas. Graduation exercises of the Hahnemann Medical College of the Pacific took place at Golden Gate Hall last evening. The invocation was delivered by the Rev. Bradford Leavitt, introductory words by Dr. James W. Ward, and an address was made by J. C. Campoell. Diplomas were awarded by Dr. G. H. Palmer to Charles l§:= Spooner aet if he Herbert Atwood, Eugene O Nelson Bradford Bailey, Pomona Cal.; Charles Frederick Crittenden, San Jose; John Ed- win Morton, Midway, Utah; Theophilus Caliway Robinson, Banta, Cal.; Lilla Mary Tenney, San Jose; Mary Jeannette ‘Watson, Sacramento, and George Max ‘Webster, Long Beach, Cal. —_—— Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* —_—— Townsend’'s California glace fruit and candles, 5)c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. ‘A nice present for Eastern friends. Madrket st., Palace Hotel building. * That Weird, Tragic, Unexpected Last Chapler in “The Octopus” I N the art of writing novels the late Frank Norris won his titls of THE GREAT AMERICAN NOVELIST because of his remark- able faculty for giving a whirlwind finish and an altogether dra- matic and unexpected climax to all his stories. In “The Octopus,” the first of his wonderful Wheat,” “Trilogy of the which unfortunately will never be completed now, he ex- celled himself. The last chapter is the most weird and haunting ‘word picture ever conceived. With the shadow of the all devouring railroad juggernaut over it all, after the vivid contrasts between the social elect and the defeated and desperate wheat growers passing each other on the stairs at the fashionable reception at the San Francisco Bohemian Club—the stormy meeting \of the conspirators and the denunciation of Lyman Derrick at Los Muertos Rancho— the race for life and the fight for liberty of the blacklisted San Joaquin Valley engineer, Van Dyke, against the hirelings of the rail- road from the cabs of two huge pounding moguls on parallel tracks, and the last fatal gunfight of the Mussel Slough wheat kings against Behrman, the smooth and crafty railroad tool, and his gang of deputies—that last chapter is tremendous in its strength and strange import. There is no straining after effect—no forced sen- sationalism—it is absolutely inevitable, and yet withal so simple that the reader wonders that he never thought of it before, “The Octopus” to that last chapter will ever forget the vivid description of Behrman—fat, bloated and arro- gant at the very height of his triumph over the California wheat growers—suddenly plunged headlong into the vortex of the huge stream of wheat he had sch gling, choking, maddened _ tramp steamer. “THE OCTOPUS” One half of the But nobody who reads tions, November 9 and 16. so long to corner and left strug- frenzied terror in the hold of his own story has already been published in two edi- If you haven’t read the first install- ments you will have to hurry to get The Sunday Call, for “The Octopus” is having a tremendous sale. And now just read what is to follow: Judas Iscariot,” by Aaron Dwight Baldwin, First—“The Gospel of which is the now re- ligious and literary sensation of two continemts—and will creats a deep furor here in the West; “The teenth Distriet,” “When Leopard’s Spots,” “The Thir- XKnighthood Was in Flower” (both the piay and the novel); “The Gentleman From Bubble,” “Tainted Gol.i,” “The Turnpike ¥ that list anywhere? You can gat them " “The Mississlppi louse,” etc. Can you beat