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2 THE SAN ]:'i?Al\'CISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1902 ADVERTISEMENTS. A s Duffy’s Pure Malt Whiskey ALL MANKIND, MEDICINE FOR LOOK FOR THIS TRADK Cures Consumption! Dear Sirs: After reading your adver- tisement I bought & bottle of your whis- key, which helped me right away. I am now on my third bottle, using it for con- lum{lion. and 1 feel like a new man, think that if I had known of your whis- key when I was at home in Chicago I would have never come out here for my bealth. ED SCHUBARTH. L'l‘lm Market st., Denver, Colo., Aug. I8, Stepped Hemorrhages. ashua City, N. H., Sept. 11,.3902. Gentiemen: It is with great -pleasure thet I write to inform you that 1 have used eight botties of your Pure Malt Whiskey. would not have been here Yo-Gay only for your wonderful medicine, I have used all kinds of medicine and been under the care of doctore. I have Lad three severe attacks of grip and neumonia, which have left me with a ad cough and weak heart. T am 67 years old. 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Craven, re- | fully and freely discu: | not_ubiquitous; EXPLAINS WHAT SURTAX MEANS Professor Fryer Writes of the Chinese Likin. Says It Is an Imposition Uron the People and Should Be Repealed. St John Fryer, professor of Oriental lan- guages and literature at the L‘nlvcrsiiyi of California, has in response to a request from the Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco prepared an elaborate explana- | tion of the much discussed likin, or war tax, of China, which is furnishing food | for much argument among the tarift com- | missioners of the world’s powers. Pro-| CITIZENS WANT GREEKS OUSTED Indignant Benicia People Assemble in Mass Meeting. Protest Made Againet Em- ployment of Dapgerous Aliens. Special Dispatch to The Call. BENICIA, Dec. 16—The feeling which has. existed in this city since last Sun- day, when a mob of frenzied Greeks ran amuck in the streets and murdered a peaceful citizen, found vent this evening in a mass meeting of citizens. [t was called to order by James M. Burke, edi- tor of the Benicia New Era and he was electdd permanent chairman. J. T. Ban- fcssor Fryer has spent many years in China. He was at Shanghai last summer | when the tariff question was under con- | sideration by the representatives of the | United States and the‘more important na- tions of Europe, and is consequently thor- oughly familiar with the situation. His communication to the Chamber of Com- merce is as follow In reply to your letter of the 5th ins which you do me the views on the abolition China, allow me to say in Shanghal last summer, sion on commercial treaty Iic interest was strongly honor to ask for mj n | of the likin tax that during my st while the commis- was in session, pub- directed toward the | likin tax, which was the crucial question of { the hour. In fact, the pivot or keystone, on which the whole weight of the British com- | mercial treaty seemed to depend, was the aboii- | tion or the continuance of this objectionable tax. 1 heard the two sides of the question ed both by Chinese and foreign merchants and officials. On the whole, I was far more favorably impressed with the views of the many who sought its entire abo tion than with thorz of the few who formed the opposite party. IS UNJUSTIFIABLE NOW. The likin, or war tax, was established, as you know, during the progress of the Taiping 1 rebellion to provide necessary funds for the | Imperial Goverpment to carry on the opera- tions of war, As such it was justifiable. But | when once the rebellion was over and p was restored, it should have been then there repealed and not have become a permanent institution, an incubus, kept up chiefly to swell the resources of pro- | vinclal officials, at the expense of the Chinese | people and to the great detriment of foreign | been allowed to | trade. It has formed the chief bone of com- mereial contention for nearly half a_century. On account of the many irregularities that were carried on under its name and of its us leseness to the central Government, the ad- ministration taken out of the hands of the Chinese officials a few years ago and placed in the management of the imperial maritime customs, under Sir Robert Hart, 'so as to form a certain source of revenue, from which exist- ing indemnjties could then be guaranteed. Though thé maritime customs service is one of the most perfect in the world, its staff is neither can it prévent certain | Incurable irregularities which still exist, both ' inside and outside of the authorized likin, ! through the insatiable greed of Chinese officials and the tricks of Chinese merchants. 5 The recent war in the northern part of China which formed the culmination of the ‘‘Boxer movement, necessitated—Fire the protocs of & general treaty with all the powers w should serve as a odus vivendi This w satiefactorily accomplished in September, 1901 Secondly, a mmerclal treaty growing out of ; the protocol, and a v all the powers, | by which the interests of Chinese as well as | foreign trade should be preserved and expande: Thirdly, a means wherchy the heavy indemnity | invelved could be securely collected and paid. FAVORS SURTAX. | Now, it was easy to see that if by one separ. ate scheme both second and third of these | objects could be satistactorily attained, such | a scheme would naturally be preferred. The | imperigl maritime customs must, of course, | remainNntact, for without it China would have collapsed long ago. But how about the likin? It could not be continued in its present for and if modified there must still be two di tinct organizations of more or less opposing | interests, with two sets of administrators and accounts, even though under one managemer To avoid the many difficulties involved, the | simplest way was obvious ish tho likin | with all its many evil advantages to | commerce, and in its place to increase the cus- | toms tariff that had been agreed upon in the protocol. There thus would be a tax and a furtax to be paid equally by the merchants of all nations in_ ail the Chinese em- pire. The surtax e honestly and pub- licly received by the maritime customs and handed over to the incial i public disbursements. The o o suffer would be dishonest Chin , or | dishonest foreign traders, while the henefit [u| all foreign commerce would be immense, and a | fair proportion of the surtax would be applied | directly to the purposes on the indemnity loan. | b governors for signed: J. G. Wickersham, Rainbow, San Diego Cou vice Ida A. Ludy, resigned. | Oregon—John G. Wasson, Alille, Gilliam County, vice A. McConnell, resigned. | These pensions were granted to-day: | California—Increase, reissuer ete.—Wil- | liam P. Post, Soldiers’ Home, Los'An-| geles, $10; Jacob Troop, San Diego, $12; | Charles H. Lee, Pasadena, $10; Riley J. | Horr, Ukiah. $8; Freeman Marshall, Grid- | ley, $8. Widows, minors and dependent | relatives. nor Hamm, Watsonville, 3; Mary Thompson, Oakland, $8. Oregon—Widows, minors and dependent | | clatives—Mary J. Parker, Grants Pass, | §. { Washington—Increase, reissue, etd.—| | Peter Hartman, North Yakima, $10; James A. Noble, Spokane, $12; Frank H. Pingree, Eagle Gorge, $8. h v oraer—Licutenant James E. Palm- er is detached from the Mare Island Navy i { | | | Patents issued: California—Robert I.| Willmar, assignor to A. Berman, Sacra- | mento, antiseptic protector for telephone mouthpiece; Willlam G. Wood, San Francisco, photographic printing frame; John E. Armstrong, Santa Cruz, life pre- serve: Charles H. Bueler, Oakland, transporting and distributing apparatus Willis G. Dodd. San Francisco, ore con- | centrating table; Willard B. Farwell, San | Francisco, magazine firearm: . Gilettl, | San Francisco, building construction; | John H. Goetsche, San Francisco, nail making machine; Loselle . Graham, San Jose, fruit peeling machine; Winfield Harbough, Santa Barbara, apparatus for dusting and cleaning garments; Milton 8. Hufschmidt, San Francisco, lamp; Al- bert Klatt (assignor to F. Raymond), Col- linsville, excavating apparatus; Adolph Leltz, San Francisco, transit; SBamuel W. Luitwiler, Los Angeles, centrifygal pump; Milton McWhorter (assignor séven-tenths to J. U. Hastings, E. McGary and U. L. Davis), San Francisco, tire repalring compound; Thomas Morris, San Francis- co, adjustable handle socket; Dr. F. Ol ver, Fruitvale, pencil sharpener (two); Maurice J. Ross and N. B. Wachorst, San Francisco, can body forming ma- chine; Charles W. Sieure, Los An- geles, oil burner; David Smyth, Pasa- | dena (D. G. Smyth and H. Hasting, as- signors by mesne assignments to Smyth Machine Company, Hartford, Conn.), sig- nature gatherer; Fred Steinkamp, Beth- any, bicycle gearing; Mathew E. Trafton, Los Angeles, step iadder. Oregon—Joseph H. Albert and F. A. Wiggins, Salem, coin delivery apparatus. John F. Ames, Portland, font of type: John Ayres, assignor to Oregop Rafting Company, Portland, log raft wis C. Preston, Weston, drill coupling; Odavilla Yates, Portland, showcase. e e—— Rheumatism What is the use of telling the rheumatic that he feels as if his joints were being dislocated? He knows that his sufferings are very much like the tortures of the rack. What he wants to know is what will permanently cure his disease. That, according to thousands of grate- ful testimonials, is Hood’s Sarsaparilla It promptly neutralizes the acid in the blood on which the Cisease depends, com- | choice between s | commercial | enforeing its fulfillment This propesition was so reasonable, com hensive and just that the Chinese did not h tate for a moment to agree to it. It was a | rtax and likin and resulted in favor of the former, as far as the British treaty was concerned. If I am rightly informed, the only dissentient commii siorer on the board that drew up and nego- tiated that treaty was the commissioner sent | by the United States. | 1 will admit that while the whole of the | treaty scheme looks very well on paper, there | may be many unforeseen difficulties in car ing out some parts of it. but not In the propo- sition referring to the likin® abolition MUST BE AGREEMENT, In the first vlace, it Is many parties concerned th cult to secure unanimi If one party fails to observe the new obligations involved the whole treaty comes to nothing. To render it effective there should be some way of mutualiy | s0 that all who are (o | rged, there are so t it may be difn- | share in lis benefits shall also share in ite obligations. The protocol being more or less foced upon China at the close of hostilities and its terms being dictated almost at-the point of the bayonet, it is reasonable to sup- pose that China will be glad of a loophole to escape from her obligations, or any pa them, and espec ol of this commercial treaty, The_combined skill of all the dinlomatists of all the eleven treaty nowers cannot so struct the wording of e in the tre that a leak may not somewber other either sooner or hina_her | i does not teke advantgge of such weak points | some of the {reaty ppwers may do o, es cially those who have already shown a dispo- eition to seize territory, exact heavy indemni- ties and to dominate China. Then will hegin another general scramble in which the law- abiding parties to the treaty will suffer while | the others will reap the advantages. We should Lave the old troubles to go through over again. The reply to this difficulty is that the abolish- ment of the likin and substituting the surtax will 0 greatly simplify matters that such in- ternational complications would be far less ilkely to occur. Another difficulty that some persons seem to be afraid of is that the abolition of the likin would greatly benefit one or more coun- tries at the expense of the others. The point has been raised that if the likin tax has been most severely and generally enforced in one section of China while it has been compara- tiveiy unknown in ancther section, the removal of the likin and substitution of the surtax wil} bring advantage to the foreign country whose trade is principally in the former section, while it will handicap " the forefgn country whose trade is principally -in the latter. “LET THE BEST MAN WIN.” It is given as an illustration that the trade in cotton goods in the Yangtse Valley, which has been greatly hamvered by the liKin, has been mostly in the hands of the British, whiie the trade in eimilar goods in Northern China, where the likin is comparatively unknown. has Dbeen mostly in the hands of American firms. Hence the surtax added to the price of the goods will render American salable in Northern China, or, at least, will considcrably contract the demand. Such ob- Jectors seem to forget that every nation would Sl have an equal chance in every branch of trade all over the empire. “Let the best man win,” whoever he may be. To ask that an unjust tax be continued only as a protection against a better man 18 to acknowledge one's own inferiority or inabllity to hold one's ground by fair means. This is an admission that no citizen of the United States would ever care to make public, especially in another part of the world and in another mation’s territory. Other difficulties that might arise by the abolition of the likin have been suggested, but they are so shallow as not to be worth notics. To make the surtax, levied in excess of the cottons less treaty tarift allowed by the protocol of Sep- tember, 1901, to be one and a half times the import’ duty 'in case of imports and one-half of the export duty In case of exports; to cause the surtax to be collected only by the Imperlal Maritime Customs and handed over to the Viceroys of the provinces in place of the lkin taxes, which would then be absolutely abol- ished all over the empire; to cause the surtax to be pledged only to be used for the service of the 189S loan and never to be hypothecated for any future imperial loan, and to take steps to insure the full and honest carrying out of these conditions all over the empire, which the Chi- nese Government, as a free and independent power, has fully and freely agreed to do, with- out being threatened or driven in any way— this -seems to mé to be the most fair and reasonable orocedure, both on the side of the pletely eliminates it, and strengthens the against its return. Try Hood's, Chinese and of the treaty powers, that could e devised or hoped for under existing circuni. | dangerous fleld was elected: secretary. 2 The first speaker was Mayor W. L. Crook: He explained the action which has been taken by himself and the Board of Trustees to put an end to the intolera- ble situation now existing here and stated the necessity for conservative law abid- ing action on the part of the citizens, yet action which cannot be misconstrued and which means that the Greeks must go. Mayor Crooks was followed by City Trus- | tee Herman Hertzbrun, Alfred Dalton Jr., M. Billings, E. Sexton and many other tizens. A committee was appointed to wait upon the offielals of Kullman, Salz & Co., and present these resolution: Wheréas, Owing to the fact that a large number of aliens, natives of Southern Europe, t undesirabie class of people, are at pres- mployed in the tannery of Kullman, Salz of this city; Vhercas, These people by their offensive, nsulting conduct toward our women for weeks st and the riot and murder perpetrated on Sunday last, have caused the citizens, women and ehildren of this city to not only fear insult and injury but assassination; and Whereas, The state of affairs existing in our midet has’ beeome intolerable, and our peace, happiness and the welfare of our community are seriously endangered, therefore be it Resolved, That we, the citizens of Benicla, n masse assembled,” do hereby emphaticaliy protest against the continuance of this state of affairs and demand immedlate relief. Resolved, That it is hereby, demanded of the firm of Kullman, Salz & Co, that they dis- charge the undesirable class now employed in the Benicta tannery within the period of seven days, dating from Wednesday, December 17, and boreafter cease to employ any such foreigh non-citizens in their manufactory the city of Benicia. Resolved, That if this request is not granted and the relief prayed for afforded within the time svecified above, the cltizens will by their commlittee take the necessary legal steps ta purge our community of these undesirable and alien characters. ON JR., (chairmgn), B. G. WOOD, HARTNETT, H. K. WHITE, J. M. A. DA BURK Another committes was appointed to solicit subscriptions for the benefit of the Jensen family. Two _arrests were made to-day. Citi- zens identified two more of the Greeks in the tannery as having participated in the riot Sunday and th are now in jail, having falled to secure the $2000 bail re- quired of each. Druggists Must Not Sell Liquors. WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—Commissioner Yerkes of the Internal Revenue Bureau, has rendered a decision in which he ruies that druggists and others who sell soda water drinks, claret soda or some bever- ages to which distilled spirits, wine or | any compounds thereof are added in any quantity, however small, are required to pay the special tax for retail liquor deal- ers under the internal revenue law. el Confesses That He Murdered Woman. BATTLE CREEK, Mich., Dec. 16.—John Bartleinger, or M. H. Ultseler, as his name proves to be, confessed to-day that he murdered Mrs. Robert Garrison, who was found dead in her home in Bedforé Township yesterday. B Treaty With Spain. ON, Dec. 16.—The Senate in ion to-day ratified the trea- hip and general relations be- tween the Uni ted States and Spain. L oY - Senate Ratifles WASHING executive ty of frienc Ii covers the whole ground of helping the indemnity and of benefiting tances. China to vay | all_foreign trade with China at the same time. Before peonle begin to object to the aboli- tion of the likin they will do well to be thor- oughly prevared with a better scheme to take its place—one that will commend itself more favorably to the gensral judgment of all par- ties concerned. Without a better scheme in sight, it would be more prudent and becoming to remain silent and allow the one which has been embodied in the British commerctal treaty only after great deliberation with the other treaty powers to take full effect. I be- lieve it will soon be adopted by all the powers in spite of any opposition that may be brought against it by disaffected parties. Such, dear sir, are my views on this sub- ject, exoressed in a very hurried and rambling manner. If I can be of apy further assistance to your Chamber, You have only to command services — GOMPERS BLAMES GOAL COMPANIES SaysThey Bring Illiterate Foreigners to This Country. President of Federation cof Labor Creates a Stir at Strike Hearing. AR SCRANTON, Pa., Dec. 16.—Notwith- standing the fact that the mine workers. announced yesterday that they had closed with the exception of calling one more witness, the two sessions of the strike commission to-day were consumed in hearing three witnesses for the miners. | They were John C. Haddock, an indi- vidual operator; Rev. Dr. Peter Roberts, who is assisting the miners, and Pres dent Samuel Gompers of the American Federation of Labor. The principal point in Haddock’s testimony was that he fa- vored giving the mine workers conces- sions under certain conditions. President Gompers testified as an expert om the trade-union movement. He created a stir when he strongly implied during his ex- amination that the coal companles are responsible for bringing immigrants to the coal regions. ‘When the commission man Gray opened the proceedings by say- ing that the Commissioners were im- pressed with the spectacle of the little girls who were before the commission yes- terday ard testifled that they worked all night.. He said the people of the com- munity and citizens of the commonwealth should not let the incident pass without taking some steps to have the Legislature of Pennsylvania serlously consider the en- actment of a law that will forbid the em- ployment of children at night. GOMPERS ON THE STAND. Henry D. Lloyd, for the miners, re- newed his attempt to get on the records the inatter of the alleged extortionate and discriminating freight rates of coal-carry- ing railroads and the fact thata monopoly existed. “If we do go into that matter,” said Chairman Gray, ‘‘the question of the justifiableness of the miners’ demands | still remains. If hereafter it is made ne- cessary to go into those wider fields the commission will not deny the right of the miners to be heard."” Just before the noon recess the miners presented a chart showing the fluctuation in the production of coal for ten years. The production last year, the miners claim, wa: abnormal, being 10 per cent above the average for the previous ten vears. Gompers occupied the witness stand throughout the afternoon session. He be- gan his testimony by giving the histor of the Federation of Labor and followed this with a brief sketch of the progress and influence of organized labor, which, he said, has been very great. Chairman Gray, who is taking an es- pecial interest in boyvcotts, asked Gom- pers what he thought of such methods. The witness said he would boycott any person that is unfair to his workmen, but would not boycott a man who chooses to do business with the person that is boy- cotted. ATTACKS COAL COMPANIES. The question of the recognition of unions was then taken up, and Gompers said that employers made a mistake when they refused to recognize organized labor. The employver, he said, has no moral right to refuse to confer with a commit- tee of his employes Gompers was then cross-examined by James Torrey, counsel for the Delaware and Hudson Company. Torrey asked the witness if he did not believe that mem- bers of the United Mine Workers of America should be 21 years of age and able to read and write before they were admitted to membership in the union. To this the witness replied: “Yes, ten years from now, and when the companies stop bringing illiterate foreigners to this country. They are brought here by the companies, and the labor union must pro- tect them and see that they get their rights.” Torrey asked him if he could prove that the coal companies were guilty of such a thing, and the witness replied that he felt certain that it was true. Torrey then asked him if the steamship companies were not responsible for these immigrants, to which Gompers replied that he had seen ten, twenty and thirty men huddled together in huts in the an- thracife coal fields and he noted that it was not long after they arrived here that they were given employment in the mines. et to-day Chair- WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—In the Senate to- day a joint resolution offered by Wetmore of Rhode Island was adopted, appropriating $3000 for the purchase of a bronze hust of the late President McKinley. could not have been obtained a seco .seventh about STEEL COMBINE ABSORE AVALS Completes the Purchase of Big Plants Near Pittsburg. Transaction Invelves Bond Issue of Forty-Five Mil- lion DoNars. CHICAGO, Dec. 16.—Judge Hibert Gary, chairman of the United States Steel Cor- poration, announced to-day the purchase | of ihe Union and Sharon plants of the Union Steel Compuny, near Pittsburg, the transaction involving a bend issue of $45,- 000,000, Judge Gary gave out a statement em- ng the details of the transaction, ir which he states that the properties pur- chased have wire, nail and other works in operation, and that when fully com- pieted they will have five more blast fur- naces and tweniy-five open hearth fur- naces, with capacity to manufacture 7300 kegs of nails daily, and new and modern tube mills, bar mills, tin mills, sheet mills, pate mills, atc. They have also about 5000 acres of coking coal in the Connellsville region, besides terminal roads in the coke region, 6200 acres of fuel coal on the Monongahela River, lime- stone propertics and valuable developed ore mines in the Mesaba region and Mar- quette region containing about 40,000,000 tous of ore, two lake steamers and steel railroad cars. ATTACKS CONVERSION PLAN. Attorney Claims False Valuation Is Placed on Carnegie Property. NEW YORK, Dec. 16.—The argument of Edward B. Whitney, attorney for J.| Aspinwall Hodge, before the New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals to restrain the execution of the United States Steel | Corporation’s $230,000.000 stock conversior plan was made public to-day. Whitney contends that the directors of the cor- poration had plenty of time after the | granting of an injunction by Vice Chan- | cellor Emery to call a new meeting of | stockholders early in December to ratify | the conversion plan, but he submits that | tiie reason this course was not pursued | was that the proxies of the stockholders d time. His reasons for this belief, he says, | are that the stockholders now know what | they did not know last April, namely that instead of voting for a prompt issue of $§250,000,000 of bonds for underwriting, on which they were to pay J. P. Morgan & Co. a 4 per cent commission, they were procuring only a $100,000,000 issue, while | | | J. P. Morgan & Co. were obtaining ar.| option on the remaining $150,000,000 to the | detriment of the comvany, but to a possi- ble advanlage to themselves so great as to make the $10,000,000 commission insig- nificant. The argument contains an attack on the | valuation of $492,566,100 put on the Carne- gie company's property by the United | States Steel Corporation, which sum, ac- | cording to Whitney, is $344,000,000 in cess of the real value of the property. | | CAPTAIN OF INFANTRY ! TRIED BY COUBT-MABTIAL§ Accused Officer Admits Having Used | Objectionable Language Under Extenuating Circumstances. MANILA, Dec. 16.—The trial by court- martial of Captain Rogers of the Twenty- Infantry, charging him with | using disrespectful language to General | Davis, was concluded to-day. The verdict | is mot known, but it is not doubted that | the court took a serious view of the cas The accused sofficer thoughtlessly used objectionable language before General Davis' alde-de-camp, de- nied any attempt to be disrespectful and pleaded iliness and discouragement at h: inability to secure leave of absence in ex tenuation. —— Dynamite Kills Two Men. PORTLAND, Dec. 16.—A special to the Oregonian from Wilbur, Wash., sa Thomas Grogan and Jesse Rusk were killed to-day by an explosion of dynamite | on Cole’s ranch, sixteen miles from here. The men had laid the explosive in the oven to thaw it out. —_— Found Guilty of Murder. NEW YORK, Dec. 16.—Thomas Tobin to-day was convicted of the murder of | Captain James B. Craft of Glen®ove, L. 1., whose decapitated body was found two months agp in the Empire Music Hall. admitted that he | ADVERTISEMENTS. Eagleson & Co —LARGE STOCK— ‘ 'Holiday Goods Full Dress Mufflers Neckwear Gloves Underwear Night Shirts Hosiery | Fancy Shirts Pajama Suits Reefers Umbrellas Handkerchiefs Suspenders, etc. 748 and 750 Market Street 242 Mo‘t‘ltgomery Street 1 St. Louis ABG BEERS The Highest Priced but the l,:t Quality, SOLD EVERYWHERE, ViM, VIGOR, VITALITY for MEN MORMON BISHOP'S PILLS have been in use over ffty years by the leaders of the Mormon Church and their followers. 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For_ Victoria, _Vancouver, Port Townsend, Seattle, T coma, Everett. Whatcota— & m., Dec. 2, 7, 12, 17, 22, 27, Jan. 1. £ Seattle to this { Alagka and G. N. Ry.: | 0 N. P. Ry.; st Vancouver | For Eureka (Humboldt Ba: @ to C. P. Ry. y)—Pomona, 1:30 p. m., Dec. 8, 11, 17, 23, 29, Jan. 4; Corona, 3 . Dec. 3, 8, 14, 20, 26, Jan. 1. P Lo Anecies (via Port Los les and Redondo), ml sD!:l:ly'in'd‘-fl;lnl‘ bara— fa, Sundays, 3 s's“!‘:te“:(“c-u!urnll. Thursdays, 9 &. m. For Los Angeles (via San_Pedro and East San Pedw), Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz, Mon- terey, San Simeon. Cayucos, Port Harford, Saa Luis 'Obispo, Ventura, Hueneme and *Newport *Ramona only). e A m Per s 18 e s | Coos Bay, 9 a. m.. Dec. 4 13 20, 28, Jas. 5. For Ensenada, Magdalena Bay, San Jose del Cabo, Mazatlan. Altata, La Paz, Santa Rosa- lia, Guaymas (Mex.)—10 a m.. Tth of each | month. For further information obtain folder. | _ Right reserved to change steamers or salllag dat TICKET OFFICE—4 New Montgomery | street *(Palace Hotel). | 7 Freight Office, 10 Market street. €' D. DUNANN, Gen. Passenger Ast.. 10 Market st., San Francisco. | { § | | Presto. doe: made Lemon Filling before. KITCHEN REQUISITES. The Surprise Their starting suddenly asunder Gives “ Waffles” pain and causes wonder. Surprise is natural when you see the good lemon filling made from the magical Presto (Better than flour) LEMON Filling soft as cream on velvet—not a lumpy ma: it every time even though the cook has never . The H-O {#2?} Company O. R. & N. CO. “Geo, W. Elder” sails Dec. 9, 19, 29, Jan. §, 18, 28, Feb. 7. : “Columbia’* salls Dee. 14, 24, Jan, 3, 13, 23, . 2. FOily Steamship Line to PORTLAND, OR.. and short rail line from Portland to all pofa‘s East. Through tickets to all points. all rail or steamship and rall, at LOWEST RATES. Steamer ticket includes berth and meals. Steamer salls foot of Spear st. at 11 a. m. D. W. HITCHCOCK, Gen. Agt., 1 Montgomery st. TOYO KISEN KAISHA. (ORIENTAL STEAMSHIP COD.) Steamers will leave wharf, corner First and Brannan streets, at 1 p. m., for YOKOHAMA and HO‘NGKO e. ul’lln‘ ;t Kobe (H‘ll).p‘)i Nagasaki and Shanghal, and connectin; Hongkon with steamers for India. ste. No cargo received on board on day of salling. §. S. NIPPON MARU....Friday, 19, 1908 8. 8. AMERICA MARU.Saturday, Jan. 10, 1903 §.5.HONGKONG MARU.Thursday,Feb. 5, 1908 _ Via Honolulu.. Round-trip tickefs at reduced Tates, For freizht and passage apply at Com- pany’s office, 421 Market street, corner First. W. H. AVERY, General Agent. Oceanic$.5.€0. €. S. SIERRA, for Honolulu, Samos, Auck- land and Sydney, Thursday, Dee. 18, 7 p. m. §. S. ZEALANDIA, for Honolulu, Saturday, 27, 3 p. m. & R MARIPOSA, tor Tabttt, Jan. 11, 10 SPRECKELS & BAGS.00., Agts.. TiekotOffce 43 Harkatst, o mnn'-.m Market ., PierNa. 7, Paciie St AMERICAN LINE. NEW YORK, SOUTHAMPTON, LONDON. St.Louis.Dec. 24, 10 am St Paul.Jan. 7,10 am Phila....Dec. 31, 10 am Phlla....Jen. 21, 10 &m RED STAR LINE. NEW YORK, ANTWERP, PARIS. Vaderl’d.Dec.20, 10 am| Zealand.Jan. 3, 10.am Kroonl'd. Dec.27, 10 am/Friesland.Jan. 10, 10 am INTERNATIONAL NAVIGATION CO., CHAS. D. TAYLOR,G.A.P.C.,30 Montgomt'y st. COMPAGNIE GENERALE TRANSATLANTIQUE DIRECT LINE TO HAVRE-PARIS. Salling every Thursday. instead of Saturday, at i0 a, m., from Pler 43, North River, foot of Morton street. 3 First-class to Havre, $70 and upward. ord-class to B-vm “-__;d - ‘i..‘“'“"m- 32 Broadway (Hudson bullding), New J, FFUGAZI & CO., Pacific Coast S Montgomery avenus, San Francisco. Rallroad Ticl m--m: FOR U. S FAVY YARD AND VALLEND. Steamers GEN. FRISBIE or MONTICELLO 9:45 a. m., 3:15 and p. m., except Sua- s m. 9:30 p, m. Leaves s DY %3250 ioon, 6 B, m.. except : Fare, 30 Sunday. _Sunday. 7 & m.. 403 P 2L and ts. Telephone Main 1808, office, pler 2, Mission- EBROS i i 3