The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 16, 1902, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1902, DECEMBER 16, 1902 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address All Communications to W. S. LEAKE. Manage TELEPHONE. .Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. “ PUBLICATION OFFICE.:.Market and Third, S. F. EDITORIALROOMS. 217 to 221 Stevenson St. * Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Copies, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: $ZDAILY CALL (including Sunday), ‘ome year. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 6 months. DAILY CALL (inciuding Sunday), 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Siagle Month EUNDAY CALL, One Year. WEEKLY CALL, Ope Year. o0} All Postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be Torwarded when requested. Mail subtcribers In ordering chamge of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to insure 3 prompt and correct compliance with their request. PAKLAND OFFICE... +...1118 Broadway C. 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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until § o'clock. - 2200 Fillmgre, open untfl 9 p. m. &> THE COMING OF WINTER. (. C. CAR - HILE the people of California are welcom- W,ing the coming of winter with abundant | rains that shower down promises of golden | haryests for the coming year the people of other; lands are shivering and in”some cases dying under the fierce blasts that December has brought upoui “them. Our Eastern exchanges are full of stories of winter suffering. Thus, for example, the Boston Herald of Fecent date s goorer sections of the city have beén keépt busy since ‘the intense cold set in relieving the pressing wants of - * = the poor. Charitable societies in the south end say they have never known the poorer residents | liable to make an error that invalidates his ballot, al- most any defeated candidate may be tempted to ask |2 recount, for there is no telling on which side the greater number of defective ballots will be found. It of their districts in such distress as in the past four | days. Hundreds of applications are coming in daily to different churches and fo independent charitable | associations. There have been very few applications . for food, mearly every application having .been_for | Sévere as has been the first burst of wintér in-Bos. ton, it was worse elsewhere. A Chicago news report | noting the effects of the first “cold wa\'e"'qi Decem- ber says: “Five fatalities from causes direetly attrib- | cmted to the weather have been reported to the au- | thorities, dnd ‘numerous cases of ‘destitution incident | to the sudden drop in temperature were afforded dur-‘\ ing the night and in the early morning. FEarly traffics| on the railroads, street railways and elevated roads was disturbed, many of the suburban tfaifis” being from twenty minutes to “hall ‘an hour late, while through trains from the East and West are reported from ‘tyo to six hours late. The shortage of ~the coal supply was severely felt for the first time in many quarters, the suffering being not entirely, confined to the poorer classes, but many people in nlpfc fortu- ": mate circumstances suffered from inability to secure | " fuel, it being almost impossible to procure coal at any price at some of the cutlying coalyards.” : Worse still are reports that come (ro;n‘Norlhem; Europe and from Great Britain. In those lands there | ! 1 Has been no extraordinary year of prosperity to give |, work and wages for all classes of people, and ac- “cordingly many households find the winter upon them destitute -of means to obtain either food or fuel. The distress in Germany is” saiad'towbe exceptionally great and widespread. Winter ds'indeed a terror to many a household in the fatherlarid, and doubtless the cause of socialism will be much.advanced by reason of the discontent sure to be ‘engendered in the minds of those who seck for work ‘and cannot find it. Fortunately civilization ‘has now so far developed the spirit of humanity that any notai)lc suffering among the poor will surely bring help and assistance to those who need it. Charitable hands and hearts will be active in every locality.from Chicago to Ber- lin. In the meantime we may rejoice that our'lines: are cast in pleasanter places and that we live under more genial skies. Winter brings no dread fore- , boding to-us. There is going to be ample work for : “the workers in every sectidn of the'State: Very soon we shall be gathering our midwinter strawberries. There is no land like ours, and Eastern people should take note that there is room in it for millions of them to come and make comfortable-homes. B — ‘Xt will be remembered that Colonel Mosby, was, re- _-ported to have said recently that President Roose- velt had informed him that if cavalry were needed 1_to remove the illegal fences on the Government lands | Jin Nebraska he. would send them.” The Colonel, it ¢ appears, was talking too: fast and has just received one” of the Roosevelt rébukes. "It is now his turn to follow Miles and -Fuaston into the society" of fellows who would like to talk but don’t. ® v G ~ & The Boston Globe notés an advertisement of “prunes, extra large, thirty-five to the pound, -only su 7% cents a pound; no more than two pounds to'a “#clistomer.” Thus we see that Bosten is at last learn- ¢ ing to treat the prune as a true joy and a holiday delight—almost given away to attract cistom. ay Q’BMID" flourish; . her people may be happy yet. # By way of saving .time in Congress during the" ushort session it has been suggested that a day be set apart for memorial services of all the deceased mem- bers, instead of having® a separate day for each one. -=<The suggestion is-too g606d for Congress tc adopt, +'but it is worth while commending it. There is a rumor in New York that J. Pierpont. .- Morgan will go to London to live, but at the latest advices he had not yet bought the town. | | | “The various relief agencies in ‘the lis 2 game of chance, to be sure, but the chances are % 1is what we want, quick and in large quantities. THE BALLOT LAW, NLY a few cays agg The Call directed at- tention to the absurdities of the ballot law as disclosed by the recount in Alameda County. O | Under the rulings of the court fully one-fourth of all | toilers and catch the bouquets thrown by politicians | the ballots' cast in the various precincts are being /iy the next campaign. No more midnight camp and | thrown out because of one defect or another, but prakebeam excursions for William. He will eat his | mainly on account of the presence on the ballot of “distinguishing marks.” It is probable that further recounts will show about the same percentage of in- | valid votes, and we are tlfus brought to a realizatjon of the fact that the ballot law is altogether too deli- cate a piece of legislation to work well as a part of our pelitical machinery. 5 California is not the only sufferer from the adop- tion of the new fashioned methods of voting. New York is z fellow victim. A review of the report of 2 | the official canvassers of the vote in that State shows !yt the vista lengthens and the possibilities project | |a very large number of persons disfranchised by the | too. far and ‘'we must- desist. intricacy of the law. One review says: “Take, for1 | example, the table showing the vote for Supreme| Tt is arqufinced'that the automobile people are to Court Justices in the First District. At least ordinary | intelligence can safely be credited to the citizen who | tries to ‘split’ his vote among the candidates for this | | office, and- yet we find that of 939,000 ballots ‘which | should have been distributed among these candidates 9300 were thrown out as ‘blank’ with respect to them all, more than 700 as defective, and 2000 as ‘void.”” In that case we see upward of 12,000 votes thrown Nearly all of the mistakes, it appears, were made b; { voters in attempting to “split” the ticket, for it seems | the law in New York and the courts have made that sort of voting very uncertain for the voter.. The man who tries it runs great risks of invalidating his- bal- lot altogether by making some sort, of mistake which’| either the official canyassers or-the courts will deem a distinguishing mark that renders his ballot worth- less. Commenting upon the evidence of the report of the official .canvass the New York Times says: “It will not do to say that by-the exercise of sufficient carg any fairly enlightened voter can>gomply with the election regulations and give efichxal expression to his individual preferences. That is true in one way, but it is untrue in another, for the compliance must be with the varying official interpretations -of. the regulations, not with the regulations themselves, and for the Legislature is to meet this winter and can pro- vide a remedy if it will. That some sort of remedy should be provided hardly requires’disciission. The operation of the lawyin California is even more per- nicious than that i:\'ew York, for while the official canvass there threw out only 12,000 votes in a total | of 939,000 the Alameda recount shows that upward of 25 per cent of the total vote is deemed invalid un- der the law. New York may bear with her burden, but California cannot afford to do so. It is to be borne in mind that the large number of | votes rejected one a recount is a distinct encourage- | ment for election contests. Where votinig is so un- | certain that even the most intelligent of voters is against the candidate who received the largest num: ber of the total vote, for the Alameda recount shows | that in every precinct the man who had the larger | ‘number of votes had also the larger number of ‘de- | fective- votes. out_because of mistakes on the part of’ the votets.:|; voters far from densely ignorant or inexcusably care- | less make no small part of the mistakes in marking.” | The issue in this State is one of practical politics, | ;are cases waiting for treatment right now. What a ‘.surprise can be furnished the weary Willie when at | your back door he gets a handout smeared with the | microbe of industry! When it begins to work in him | | he will fight for a chance to get in the ranks of the | | bread in the sweat of his face and look upon the| | eight-hour day as too short for the wreaking of his 1 surplus energy. | "We have no doubt that if Dr. Stiles will follow up | | his lead the ‘whole ‘socialist programme can be | J knocked ‘out :by microbes. No man will consent to | be“fed and nurtured” by the Government, but will | \vint*t'fi"go‘h_ivaorth snorting with energy to conquer his | [ own bread and butter against all comers. Then there | | is-probably’ the Ananiasarius, the microbe of lying; | { e — e e— ask? Congffss' to. appropriate '$20,000,000 to be ex- pended i cofoperating -with State governments in constructing '&-grand highway across the continent, and of course there is'mo.harm in hoping they may get it, 3§ 4 $SIAN - AWARD, diplomacy he met but run up/against ‘one that is still THE RU . He conc him, that ‘Béring Sea was a mare clausuth, a closed sea, and that it had all been the property of Russia when she owned Alaska and the Aleutian arehipelago, but that her treaty of cession conveyed to the United States this ownership of all Bering Sea lying east of | a line drawn from the farther point of the Aleutian | Islands to the Alaskan mainland. Acting upon this, | our Government proceeded to seize all sealers caught in Bering Sea, and Russia did the same. When we had seized and condemned a large num- ber of English, Canadian and American sealers, and Russia had taken a lot of Americans, the tenure and | title to Bering Sea was refersed to arbitration. - The ; court met af Paris, and decided that Bering was not ;‘a mare clausum, but an open sea, like the Pacific, and that our jurisdiction. extended only the statutory three leagues from shore. This made a bill of costs for us to foot with Great Britain for the British; and Canadian boats we had seized as poachers. That was arbitrated and we paid it. | Then the Americans who had been deprived .of | their boats and some of them imprisoned by Russi resogted to their own Government to enforce redress. | The United States demanded compensation for them. Russia resorted to arbitration, and the arbitrator has just ‘decided for the United States, and the American | sealers will get their compensation. So now the| British and Canadians who were despoiled by the | United States have been paid, and the United States has compelled Russia to-pay the Americans she de- spoiled. But by far ‘the largest number of sealers whose property was taken from them, to their ruin, are the | Americans who were despoiled by their own Gov- ernment. They are naturally inquiring where they get off in this process of enforcing international jus-| tice. Their Government was forced to do justice to British sealers, arid‘in turn forced Russia to do justice to American sealers, -but.who will force their Govern- ment to do justice to them? 3 —— The chief absurdity in our law is that relating to-the | distinguishing mark.” Any kind of a mark that distinguishes a balbt renders it defective, and yet at | the same time every ballot has~a blank space oppo- | site the title of each office to be voted for in which | | the voter may write his own name if he chooses. It | is not too much to expect that the Legislature will -at least remove from the law that palpable absurdity. “The issue should be kept in the public mind, so that when the Legislature meets there may be a resolute public opinion to urge some kind of remedial action. = e e From Berlin comes a story that at a grand banquet the Kaiser took the baton from the hand of the band- master and led the band with great success. The re- port says he handled the baton “with quite a profes- _sional air.” "Is it possible that Sousa is to have a rival? A LAZY MICROBE. ] HE recent meeting of the Sanitary Conference T of /American Republics discussed and disposed '“of*many’ things. The members took up arms against a sea of microbes to by opposing end them as the source of malaria, yellow fever and other ails and ills of which the human' flesh is residuary lega- tee. Then the conference sailed away into new waters propelled by new winds. Dr. Stiles, zoologist of the Agricultural Department, reported the discovery that laziness is caused by a microbe. He said that all lazy ‘and indolent people’ are victims of this minute, . fatigue-producing venemy. The Southern negro and his' lazy ‘neighbor, the “cracker,” are both infested, and wherever the sons of rest repose Dr. Stiles ven- tures to declare they will be found loaded to the muz- zle with this microbe, and its name is uncinariasis, To this he attributes a long list of social consequences, including . child }abor in the South, because the in- | sidioug uncinaridsis has made the parents too lazy' to get on in the world. Now this opens out a vast field. It is knowsn that" nature’s rule of equilibrium requires that a balance be maintained. It is known.also that ajl:the malign members so far discovered camped ahd counter- marching in us have against them always benevolent microbes fighting for our lives. Hence, if there be a microbe of laziness there must be one of industry and energy. Science has already discovered the microbe that gives its excellence to June butter, and the same is propagated and bottled for the use of dairymen who, by using it in December milk, can produce the butter of June. We eat a long and sometimes lively list of cheese. The cheese flavors are exceedingly numer- ous, and science has discovered that each owes its individuality to a special microbe, and when the same can be bred and distributed every man who has milk and rennet can produce at will his own Brie, Roque- fort, Camembert, Swiss, Neufchatel, -Edam, Stilton, .and above all, outranking the lot, in fact, his own Limburger. This being so, why is\ there not a microbe that will make a man a preacher, lawyer or doctor at will? Why is not the rogue merely a victim of the minute Stealinarius, which makes him lay hands on the prop- erty of others? y But most useful must be the microbe that fights opposite the indolence producing uncinariasis. That There | | One lady who bears the high and wise name of Solo- | France is supposed to be the champion debtor na- tion of the world, as her public debt far surpasses i any other, but it appearg her people are by no means | debtors to their fieighbors. “ On the contrary,’ they have, according to official reports, as much .as | $6,000,000,000 invested in foreign countries, and draw | very good interest and profits from the investments. MARRIAGE AND GOVERNMENT. HEN General Corbin officially recommend- W edthe adoption by the military authorities | of regulations restricting marriage by young officers The Call. predicted that there would be trouble. Possibly had the matter stopped there-the danger might have passed away, but the recent ruling of the Postmaster General concerning the employ- ment of married women in the Postoffice Department has precipitated the storm. The voice of protest has burst forth with no uncertain sound, and were it not that the duties of the Christmas season keep the ladies at home there might be even now an army of stately dames and marriageable girls descending upon Wash- ington armed with brooms and intent upon making a clean sweep. 3 Retained at home as they are, the indignant moth- ers and maidens senid forth their protests to the press. mon-has written an appeal to all the women’s clubs in | the country to take up the- issue and make a fight for the ‘right of marriage. She de- clares it to be one of the gravest moral ques- tions of the time. Another woman says: -“As for introducing European ideas of official super- vision in domestic affairs, recommerded in the army report alluded to, it is un-American and impertinent. Marriage is a sacred individual right and not a bu- reau privilege, and if Americans, whether they are in civil, ol_’ficial or army life, have so little spirit as to give up this right ' they might as well give up all others and allow their official or military- superiors, as the case may be, to dictate their other private af- fairs, politics -and religion, for instance.” - The excitement has not been diminished by the fact that the woman who was ruled out of the Postoffice Department because of her marriage has. solved. the problem by getting a divorce. -On the“contrary, ‘that incident has swelled the storm-and.lashed the waves of wrath to louder surges. It behooves officialdom to beware. The right of the young man and young wo- mian of America tp get married is. one that has been profitably enjoyed in the past and is dearly cherished yet. Truly the Government should confine itself to the work of government and'leave ‘love and matri- mony-alone. 4 ———— A curious objection has been made-to"the propo- sition to have silver dollars redeemable in gold. At a discussion of the subject in the New. York Chamber of Commerce one of the objectors- sdid * that fully $40,000,000 of the-silver now in circulation is coun- terfeit, and the counterfeit cannot be detected because it contains as much silver as the good coin. The statenfent is doubtless exaggerated, but it is worth taking into consideratiod as a factor in the problem. gl Gt Just at present the forestry experts of the country are doubtless chiefly occupied in wondering how they WIT — HE elected and appointed officers of King Solomon Lodge, Free and Ac- cepted Masons, were installed in ublic in Franklin Hall, on Fillmore street, last night. The hall was decorated in white and pale blue, while the stage was set as a garden scene with natural flowers and the orchestra and quartet of male voices of the lodge. The center of the hall was set as a _lodgeroom,\and the seats on three sides as well as the galleries “were filled with an audience composed largely of ladies. The installing officer was Most Worship- ful Grand Master Orin S. Henderson, who ‘was assisted by the retiring master of the lodge, Dr. Roland English Hartley, as marshal of ceremonies. The ceremony was most impressive. The quartet ren- dered ~choice selections after each officer was Instrueted by the imstalling officers. The following are the officers who as- sumed the several stations for the cur- rent Masonic year: William Parker Filmer, master; George Wil- liam Lake, senior warden; Clarence Taylor Cleve, junior warden; Benjamin Franklin Jelli- son, treasurer; Harry Baehr, secretary; Samuel B RUINED MILLS REVEAL FACTS TO SCIENTISTS PURE RIS Special Dfepatch to The Call, TACOMA, Dec. 15—R. B. Taylor of Washington has just Yreturned - from | Alaska, after spending the summer there gathering interesting miatter - for the | Smithsonian, Institution. On Wood Island, off the coast of South- | eastern Alaska, Taylor visited the re- | mains of an old Russian flour gill, which | was built at least a century-ago. It was | evidently a well-equippéd plant for those days and of good capacity. Of its crude machinery nothing is left except the cor- | nerstones and pieces of large grinding | stones. The wheat which supplied this mill is supposed to have been grown in | Alaska, probably from the territory near Sitka and Juneau, and goes to show _ that | Alaska is a grain-producing country. | From the size of the mill it was.evident | that there was a considerable amount of | wheat sown in Alaska and that the crops | were large. A similar mill is reported to be located about 100 miles south of Circle City, but | appears to.be of later date than the Wood Island mill. Why Russia discon- | tinued wheat raising and milling in | Alaska is only a matter of conjecture, but it is supposed that the great exodus of Russians back to their own country just before the sale of Alaska to the United States caused the abandonment of the. mills. ! —— Found With a Sandbag. | Frank Bacigalupi was convicted by Po- lice Judge Mogan yesterday on a charge- be sentenced this morning. -Early Sunday morning Policeman Howe saw Bacigalupl and another young man, Harry Campi, acting in a suspicious manner at Tywelfth and Mission streets, and when Howe ap- proached them Bacigalupi put his hand in his hip-pocket, but Howe covered him with his revolver and made him deliver e ————— NEW ADVERTISEMENTA COMPETENT JUDGES. Beauty Doctors Endorse Herpicide. ‘Women who make a business of beau- tifying other women come pretty near knowing what will bring about the best results. Here are letters from two, con- cerning Herpicide: 7 “I can recommend Newbro's ‘Herpicide,” as it stopped my hair trom falling out: and &a’| a dressing it has no superior, - ; A, Trullinger, Vo) "c.?:.“fl‘n o Spectall: on 2913 Morrison st., Portland. Orer “After using one bottle of ‘Herpiclde’ my hair has stopped falling out, and my seal, is entirely s‘l‘r:o; from danarut, D’“ " . & 3 race are going to make the supply of Christmas trees hold out for future generations, MASONIC INDUCTION NESSED BY MANY WATER WHIRLS TO THE CLOUDS AROUND A SHIP Special Dispatch to The Call. SEATTLE, Dec. 15.—The giant freight steamship Shawmut ran afoul of four tremendous waterspouts off Vancouver Island December 7. Captain Smith, com- manding the Shawmut, has filed an of- ficial report with the Government author- itles, which contains particulars of a new menace existing in the Pacifie. According tc the opinions of mariners who have ex- | perienced the gales which prevail off the ‘Washington coast in the winter time, no section of the world offers more terrific weather, but Captain Smith tells of an innovation in the way of waterspouts recently experienced by his vessel off Cape Fiattery while bound here from Yckohama. On December 7, after having experienced & succession of westerly gales which sore- ly tried the seagoing qualities of the big ship, the Shawmut ran into a heavy east- { southeast gale off the coast of Vancou- ver Island, attended by terriic squalls and heavy rain. At noon those aboard the steamer were treated to an unusual spectacle, certainly never officially report- ed before, consisting of four monster wa- terspouts whirling about with terrific rcise and each apparently traveling in a different track. The towers of whirling water hovered near the Shawmut for | some time and finally disappeared to the southward. The waterspouts had been lcst to view as Cape Beale wds sighted, bearing north by east- - The receipt of this information has oe- casioned some uneasiness for the fleet of outward bound vessels known to be in the vicinity about the time mentioned. These include the schoomers Inca, lumber laden, from Port Gamble for Melbourne; the Honolulu, lumber laden, from Ludlow for Iquique, and the British ship Largo Law. The, Largo Law was wheat laden from Tacoma for Port Elizabeth, South Afri- ca, and Is the vessel which experienced such difficulty in securing a crew at Se- attle and was finally foreced to go out with a crowd of greenhorns in the fore- cagtle. Should this vessel have experienc- ed the waterspouts and accompanying bad weather, it is doubtful what her fate would be. PERSONAL MENTION Judge C. V. Goddschalk of San dreas is at the Lick. W. ‘H. McClintock, ‘a - Sonora mining man, is at the Lick. B. V. Sargent, an attorney of Salinas, is at the Occidental. Louis Kahn, an Oakdale merchént, registered at the Palace. J. F. Crank, a mining man of Los An- geles, is a guest at the Grand. Leonard A. Crane, a fruit-grower of Santa Cruz, is registered at the Palace. | Jesse Poundestone, a merchant of An- is TWO OF THE OFFICERS WHO WILL RULE LODGE OF FREE AND ACCEPTED MASONS DURING THE CUR- RENT TERM OF TWELVE MO NTHS. ferns, within which were the members ofshJetiring master @ case of silver tableware | | prano solo, and the quartet gave vocal se- of carrying a concealed weapon and will.!, N e D D G D I D N D D S S D o D o D D o S S S G000 D S0 50600505 195 Sixth st., Portland, Ore.’” Send 10 Sold at leading drug stores. cents in stamps for sample to The Herpi- cide Co., Detroit, Mich, | |‘Grimes, is among the arrivals at the | | Grana. | | Kenneth M. Jackson, IN KING SOLOMON an attorney of Tonopah, is among the arrivals at the | | Paiace. b ——-——-sfs | Peter L. Schuman, a mining attorney s | Boyd Stevenson, senfor deacon: Gegrge Mabery | of Cl':lca:?, is at the Palace, accompanied Davis, junior deacon; Ira Sediay Hobbs, mar- | DY his wife. shal; Fred Antipas Earle, Edward Anton Jans- | sen, ‘stewards: George Charles Dawson, tyler; Alfred Augustus Batkin, organist; After the proclamation the master called upon the ind mastér for an address, which was full of good cheer far the lodge Dr. George R. Tabor, State Health Of- ficer of Texas, is at the Occidental, ac- | companied. by his. wife. J. Cain, a merchant of Newman, is here |-on a short business trip and has made his kand its new officers. Judge Hebbard, on | headquarters at the Lick. SRR W Lot Californians in New York. expressing the high appreciation of the |- NEW YORK, Dec. 15—The following lodge members for the extraordinary abil- Californians are in New York: From ity displayed by.the retiring master, who,. San Franeisco—S. Hollub and wife; at the in four years as a Mason, had not only.| Holland; P. Rehfisch and H. P. Thall, at risen to the highest office in the Jodge, | the Hoffman; C. Toohey, at the AlbertyA. but had been selected a8 an officer of the | Ravley, at the Grand Union; H. Draper Grand Lodge. “He was followed by Grand ! Jr. and Mrs. W. Draper, at the Park Lecturer William Edwards, who delivered | Avenue; L. Bscher, at the Cadillac; Mrs. an entertaining address on progressive | Gillingham, at the Criterion; F. Kloke, at Masonry. Willlam J. Hynes entertained | the Ashland: L. A. Shadburne and A. L the audience with songs and jokes, D. M. | Street, at the Manhattan, and T. Whiting, Lawrence sang ‘““The Queen of the|at the Normandie. From Sacramento— Earth,” Mrs. L. Wand rendered a so-|W. W. Douglas, at the Imperial. —_—e————— SocSonine Agrarian crimes of “Vislence, are fewer Dancing and a collation followed. Ma- | i Irefand now thap at any time since jor George Filmer was In charge of the | 1579 floor and was assisted by the following | named committee: M. M. Ogden, Aflolphl Meyer, A. M. Blade, R.' V. Whiting, W. | T. Wise, M. S. Levy, A. J. Duman, H. | Levison, C. L. P. Marais behalf of the lodge, then présented to the —_——e———— Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* —— e Townsend’'s California glace fruit ' and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market st., Palace Hotel building: * overa sandbag which was in his pocket. Campi was charged with obstructing the | sidewalk and his case will be decided to- | day. —————— Special Information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cali- | fornia street. 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