The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 17, 1902, Page 6

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OAKLAXD OFFICE. ++..111S Broadway €. GEORGE EROGNESS. Yansger Foreign £évertising, Marguette Euilding, Chicago. (Long Distance Telephone “Central 2619."") NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. . -30 Tribune Baildin; WEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. €. CARLTON.. Herald Square NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Tnfon Square; Murray Hill Hotel;"Fifth-avenue Hotel and Hoffman House. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel; Tremont House; Auditorium Hotel; Palmer House. WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE...14068 G St.,, N. W. | MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. BRANCH OFFICES—S527 Montgomery, corner of Clay. open until 9:30 o’'clock. 300 Heyes, open untfi 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until 8:30 c’'clock. 615 Larkin, open until 9:30 o'clock. 1241 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until ® o'clock. 1098 Va- lencis, open until § o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until 9 o'clock. NW. cormer Twenty-second and Kentucky, open unt!l § o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open untfl 9 p. m. = CHILD INSURANCE., JDDENLY a grewsome crime and most alarm- S ing meotive for it have appeared in the Eastern| cities. In the prosecution of two cases of child | murder ia Philadelphia it has been proved that the | siain children were first insured and then murdered | to get the amount of the insurance. In one of these cases the mother was found to have insured and mur- dered three of her children in succession. This cvil appeared many years ago in England. Life insurance companies there in their search for| risks devised the scheme of issuing policies on the lives of children. It was at first much praised as a | plan for ziding the worthy poor, in whose large fami- lies death makes inroads, sorrow being increased by | the expense of sickness and burial. This philan- thropic scheme immediately had great vogue, and the | risks taken on the lives of children came to exceed | those on adults. - But it was fi;ally noticed that | juvenile mortality followed wigh increase along the | line of juvenile life insurance. The criminal law finally became alert, and a very large number of mur- ders of insured children by their parents were proved to have occurred. Sometimes the crime was accomplished by strang- ling, sometimes by poison, and often by willful neg- lect, permitting the child to starve to death. The! revelations were harrowing in the extreme. Thev spectacle of unnatural parents taking the lives of their | cwn young, with not one spark of the parental feeling | that is shown even by brutes, was dispiriting to all believers in the dignity and nobility of humanity. It| was finally found necessary for the British Parliament to interfere and stay the joint progress of child in- surance and child murder by limiting the extension of such insurance. What appalled England and disquieted the civilized world has now appeared in the United States. It was hardly known that child insurance was practiced in this country. The incidents of the practice in Eng- land had been forgotten, when suddenly, in Philadel- phia, New York 2nd New England, investigation of the mysterious deaths of children find the hands of parents crimson with their murder, and behind each crime, as a background and motive, a child life in- surance policy! The information that has followed upon the revelation incident to these detected cases is of a character to astound the American people. It is evident that child insurance has gone to lengths in this country that were never reached in Great Britain. Its rapid progress here has been concurrent with the risc of prosperity and good times, so that for a cause one must look to the criminal cu- pidity of parents, and not to any gnawing and griev- ous necessity. There is no evidence in any of the cases of child murder already detected and punished, cither by the law or by the suicide of the unnatural mother, that the crime was caused by the pressure of and shelter to add te the awful crime an awful cause of which society might accuse itself. Vanity and vice seem to have been the cause that sowed the seeds of the crime-in the hearts of its perpetrators. Since public attention has been aroused by the crimes that have been exposed investigation is being made in the larger cities by officers of the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Children to develop the extent of child iife insurance. An officer of that society in New York reports that 70 per cent of the children in Greater New York are insured. He pats it in plain terms that in that fact may be found the cause of the excess in juvenile mortality for which the city is noted. The remedy must be applied at once. The pre- mium on a crime the most awful that can be con- ceived must be withdrawn. Every State must by statute forbid child life insurance. The British Par- liament did it as 2 last resort to banish a crime that Sodom ¢id not know. It must be done here, and every State must do it. The crime is not known to exist in this State, nor does the practice of child in- surance. Befcre the evil appears let it be dealt with by our Legislature Let there be no place in the United States in which it is possible to put a pre- mium on the murder of the innocents. ——— An effort is now being made to induce California women to purchase and use home-made products. Our women shonid accept the propdfal for a double reason—they will be better served and will serve themselves. 3 Donflhfgfih&meprndm‘ls~in’.ml.dng your for California people. O THE VENEZUELAN IMBROGILIO. ! HE Examiner prints a telegram professing to come from President Castro thank- ing the American people, through Hearst, for their support. This is the old tactics| employed by Hearst in the Spanish war. He faked the interview with the Queen| Regent of Spain and one with the Pope and one with Mrs. McKinley, all of which were promptly exposedand denounced, but that made no difference with the Prince of Fakers, nor avill it make any difference with him to expose this renewal of the same plan. The American people have no sympathy with the conduct of Castro which in-| volved him.in the present difficulty. Follow: ing the tactics’ of Guzinan Blanco, he has made loot of the property of Americans, not discriminating between them and other for-] eigners. His country has had three or four revolutions in thirty-two years and its domes- | tic policy has made the property of its own citizens so insecure that they try not to have | must be the case where the rights of property | any property. In this way a country very rich in natural resources is’ poverty-smitten, as have no lawful protection. Venezuela lives upon the enterprise of foreigners who invest under the protection of their own governments. Castro has imperfectly studied the Monroe doctrine and con- ceives it to be a scheme to protect him in robbing the nationals of other governments, whose business enterprises are the dependence of their country. As the Monroe doctrine | makes the sovereignty and the territory of Venezuela inviolable, he thinks that though| European countries make war in behalf of their citizens he can defeat any collection of the indemnities he owes to those he has despoiled. As most of the valuable property in rail- roads, steamer lines, warehouses, banks and manufactories in Puerto Cabello, La Guaira and Caracas belongs to foreigners its destruction by war does not hurt him. His sover- eignty and his soil are safe, and that is all he has. The people of the United States have no sympathy with his purpose to use the Mon- { roe doctrine to canonize robbery of foreigne of Monroeism. After he has been punished rs, nor will the United States permit such use for his insolent dishonesty, this Government will insist upon arbitration of the claims against him and will see that he performs his obli- gations under the award. The United States would arouse the hostility of the world if it | permitted the Monroe doctrine to shelter spoliation of foreigners by Latin America. Un- der the Monroe doctrine no European power can abate the sovereignty or subtract from the territory of any Latin American state, but the United States can do both. Under the theory of our interference in Cuba we are responsible for the order of this hemisphere. As its hegemon we are responsible for the protection of the life and property of for- eigners here, since their own government cannot efficiently protect them while denied en- croachment upon soil or sovereignty. The American people would be ashamed of their country if it permitted the Monroe doctrine to become a pirate flag for Latin America. We will permit no European croachment upon that doctrine nor will we en- permit its perversion by the nations of this hemisphere whose sovereignty and independence it protects. This is the virile and patri- otic American view of it. sponsibility which we will not shirk, for shir doctrine will ‘be as perpetual as the constitut as the gospel of a free hemisphere. The Monroe doctrine gives us power, and power brings re- king is not the American habit. The Monroe ion, not as a shameful shelter of robbery, but THE STATEHOOD EILL. VER the statehood biil there has arisen in the Senate a fight that is by no means creditabie to the Senators. Rumors of undue influences exerted on one side or she other are becoming com- mon. It is asserted that certain Senators oppose the admission of Arizona and New Mexico because they would probably become Democratic States. Other Senators are reported to favor the admission of the Territories because certain railroad and mining cor- porations desire grants which they believe the newly organized State governments would give them. The public will not willingly give credence to these charges sc long as they are based upon rumor merely, but none the less the controversy in ‘the Senate aver the bill is rapidly becoming ‘an ugly one. It is well known that both the Republican and the Democratic national platforms of 1900 declared for the admission of the Territories. It is also known that each of the Territories has now a population fully equal to the réquirements of statehood. They have, moreover, an abundance of natural resources that will attract an enterprising population, so,that under the stimulus of statehood they will rapidly advance in industry and weaith and soon outstrip a good many of the exist- ing States. When the bill was before the Hoiise it was sent to the Committee on Territories, which, like other com- mittees, is strongly Republican in its make-up. No question of partisan politics had weight with that committee. The bill was reported in its present form and was passed by an overwhelming majority, nearly all the Republicans in the House voting for it. In fact, the House treated the measure as one of national statesmanship. Not a single rumor of scan- dal was connected with the bill when it was before that body, and if such rumors be now rife it is only because the partisan intensity of the strife in the Senate cannot be explained on any grounds of plain and straight politics. The argument that the population of Arizona and New Mexico is not. fitted for American citizenship is not any more valid now than it was when the bill was before the House. If it had no effect then why has it become so very potent now? Certainly the popu- lation has not changed for the worse during the last eight months. There was no talk of railroad deals then. Why should there be now? Among the rumors that have developed from the fight in the Senate’is one to the effect that the Presi- dent has declated his opposition to the bill and inti- mated that he will veto it if it pass. Of course it is not at all likely that the President has given any such intimations or sought in any way to dictate to the Senate on the subject. It is very well known that among the faults of the Senators subservience to the President or to the House is not included. Any slightest intimation of an attempt to infringe the high prerogative of the Senate would rouse the Senators until they would buzz as angrily as a nest of disturbed hornets. The only notable thing about the rumor, therefore, is that its appearance is another proof that the fight against the bill is being made by illegitimate means. Clearly there is something back of all these stories that are being told about party politics and railroads and mining corporations, and it would seem that there is liable to be an explosion of the truth at any time. i g A lawsuit between the partners of a corset firm in Paris has brought to light the fact that they make a large number of corsets for men, having a consider- able sale in Great Britain and the United States as well as in France. Furthermore, they had at one time a good market in Gerrhany, but of late a German fac- tory has been supplying the home demand. The local yellow sheet seems to have overlooked one of its customary freaks of indecency in connection with the police bribery scandal. When the yellow j 1 discovers its oversight it will probably start a public subscription for the unspeakable woman of the hali-world whom it represénts as being perse- cuted. We have had frequent and lamentable indications of late that the traffic in Chinese slave girls in this city is not dead. Since the conduct of municipal officers is a confession of utter failure to kill a hor- rid trade perhaps the derelict officials might license the debasing slave mart and clean their skirts. MORE BALLOT LAW. UDGE PREWETT of Placer is reported to have ig_] made a ruling in an election contest in that | | county which adds a new complication to our| absurd ballot act and threatens to make our elections more confusing than ever. While in other contests all ballots that bear a stamp mark after the words “no nomination” are declared invalid, Judge Prewett holds that under certain conditions such ballots are valid and should be counted. We have thus a situa- tion in which a mistake that invalidates a ballot in one county does not invalidate it in another, and it will take the Supreme Court to straighten the mat- fer out. Judge Prewett does not undertake to set aside the decision of the Supreme Court that a cross stamped after “no nomination” is a distinguishing mark in it- self, but he asserts that if many ballots be thus stamped one of them cannot be distinguished from another, and accordingly the mark is no longer dis- tinctive. His reasoning on the subject is tht re- ported: “The Supreme Court is right. Such a mark is in an unlawful place and it certainly does serve to distinguish the ballot. It is indisputably true that if there be but one such ballot in a precinct it may read- ily be distinguished, and if so the law is plainly vio- lated. It will be noted, however, that a ballot is in- valid, not because the voter fully intended to distin- guish it, but because he has actually accomplished that purpose. In other words, it is the act and not the intention which invalidates the ballot. Now, while a single ballot in a precinct thus marked bears a distinguishing mark, it ceases to do so the moment it is accompanied by a number of its fellows similarly marked, and this distinction grows less and less with each additional ballot thus marked. The inflexible certainty of this conclusion is at once shown by sup- posing that every elector in a precinct should thus mark his _ballot.” There can be no questioning the sound common sense of that argument. One black ball in a group of a hundred white ones is plainly distinguished by its color, but if fifty of the balls be black there is no longer any individual distinction. It remains to be seen how the Supreme Court will treat that view of the case. The one thing certain in the affair is that we have a very confusing law on a subject which ought to be clear to every voter. It is absurd to have a balloting act so complex in its nature that even the courts cannot agree as to its meaning. Out of the late election there has come no contest that will seriously disturb the public mind. Conse- quently there may be some easy-going people who are willing to treat the whole matter as one of no great importance and so dismiss it without further ado. That, however, would be but a very shallow way of reasoning on the subject. In the election of 1904 there may be an issue of exciting interest at stake, the voters may be intensely eager on one side or the.other, and then if it be shown that the offi- cial canbVassers in one county have construed the law differently from those in another county there is al- most sure to be a violent partisan contest, or agita- tion at least, over the issue, and common prudence requires that we guard against such a contingency. From one end of the State to the other there should come a demand upon the Legislature to pro- vide at the coming session some form of remedy for the existing evil. There is needed an election law that can be understood by any man of ordinary intel- ligence. The chief defect in the present one appears to be the clause concerning the “distinguishing mark.” That clause should be repealed or materially amended so that there may be no longer any con- fusion as to its meaning. In a popular government a sound, plain and consistent balloting act is an abso- lute necessity. e San Francisco is again forcibly advised of the com- ing of winter. Our footpad-thug gentry are once more among us, heralding with their arrival warning of dangerous nights and murderous attacks. We should invent some means to inform our visitors that in our hospitality we do draw the line somewhere. It may or may not have an important bearing on the case, but we note that every account of the pro- ceedings in the Hartopp divorce suit in London de- scribes Lady Hartopp as wearing a new gown each £ 1902 sea. C foWn had met was a light one HIEF WEATHER BUREAU OFFICTAL McADIE said last night tha! subsided by dusk. While it was strong enough to make the sea ro so’severe as to cause any appreciable delay in the ship’s progress. the mainland last evening and extended from Point Conception northward. |CABLE-SHIP SILVERTOWN NEWS OF AN OCEAN N ABOARD THE SILVERTOWN: b3 west.—Total cable paid out, 259 knots." Weather bad; strong northwest wind; t in and of inconsiderable extent. The win d referred to in the cablegram shou a rough for a few hours, The storm of which Mr. Benest speke reached SENDS | OR'WESTER Noon, latitude 35 50 north, longitude 126 44 h, confused | BENEST. | his opinion the stowa which the Siiver- have it undoubtedly w not - SOME ANSWERS TO QUERIES BY CALL READERS CONSERVATORY FIRE-D. O. F. Oakland, Cai. The conservatory in Golden Gate Park was desti®ed by fire on the morning of the 5th of January, 1S83. KNIGHTS TEMPLAR—D. O. F., Oak- land, Cal. The Knights Templar held their twenty-second triennial conclave in San Francisco, commencing August 20, 1883. THE LAST SPIKE—City Subscriber, City. The last spike that connected the Union and Central Pacific railroads at Promontory Point, Utah, was driven May 10, 1869, CENTS—A Subscriber, City. If eorre- spondents want information about the value of coins they must inclose in let- ters of inquiry a selt-addressed_ and stamped envelope for reply by mail CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — W. R, City. Children’s hospitals that are sup- ported by contribution in this city and vicinity are: Children’s Hospital, Cali- fornia and Maple streets, and Children’s Home, Beulah. TELEGRAPH IN CHINA—W. L. R., City. The first telegraph line in China was built in 1866 during a war in For- mosa. It was bullt from Pagoda Island to Foo Chow Foo, against the strong dis- approval of the then Chinese govern- ment. DECEMBER RAIN—Subscriber, City. The only year in which ‘no rain fell in San Francisco during the month of De- cember was in 1876. This appears ‘from the records kept since 1849, There was no rain between November 16, 1576, and Jem- uary 16, 1870 EVENING DRESS—Interested Party, City. If an invitation to o ball has upon it “Evening dress” a Tuxedo coat for a gentleman is permissible: if the invita- tion has upon it “Strictly evening dress” it means that a gentleman should wear a full dress coat. LARGE HOTELS—C. R.. Portland, Or. At this time there are two large hotels in course of construction in San Francisco. The Fairmont, on Califcrnfa and Pow- ell streets, that will cost about $2,000,000, and the St. Francis, at the corner of Geary and Powell streets. NATURAL W —A. O. S, Alameda, Cal. Natural wax is paraffine, a substance known to the world for centuries as ozokerite, & yellow, fesinous substance found in bitumino sandstone of the coal measures. It is of a brownish yel- low color, has a pleasant aromatic odor, and freed from impurities resembles beeswax. CANARIES—B. F., City. The question ““Which are the best canaries?” was once referred to G. H. Holden, a bird fancier and writer of several books on birds, and his reply was: “The best singers are bred in Germany; they are the Campanini can- arles. They are the finest song canaries known, having long silvery trills, high and 10w bells, every tone mellow, and the, soft, ‘long notes interspersed with flyte- like wiustlings. These birds usually sing the whole year through.” AMERICAN INDIANS—Subscriber, Por- terville, Cal. Ethnologists differ concern- ing the origin of American Indians. In the division of mankind made by Dr. Latham they are classed as a branch of the Mon- golians which at a remote period of the world's history found its way from Asia to the american continent and there re- mained for thousands of years separate from the rest of mankind, passing mean- while through various alterations of bar- barism and civillzation. Blumenbech classes them as a different variety of the human race, and Morton, the noted Amer- ican ethinologist, holds the same theory. NATURALIZATION—A and B, City. If an alien takes up his residence in the United States and in due time becomes a | citizen thereof, his children, if they were minors at the time of his naturalization, become citizens as well as himself, by reason of that act, and do not, when be- coming of age, have to take out naturali- zation papers. The naturalization . law says: “The children of persons who have béen duly naturelized, being under the age of 21 years at the time of the natural- ization of their parents, shall, if dwell- ing in the United States, be considered as citizens thereof.” THE HAT ORDINANCE—N. N., City. The following is the ordinance of the San Francisco Supervisors relative to the re- moval of hats in the theaters: *No per- son shall wear any hat or other head covering within any licensed theater in this city and county during the rendition of any programme on the stage or plat- form of said theater, but every such hat, bonnet or other head covering shall be re- moved from the head by the person wear- ing the same during the time of perform- ance in such theater or during the rendi- tion of the programme én the stage or platform of such theater; provided, how- ever, that the above inhibition shall not be held to include skull caps, lace cover- ings or close-fitting headdress, or cover- ing which does not interfere with or ob- struct the view of the stage or platform of such theater of persons in the rear of such wearers while in such theater.” THE FAMILY PACT-W. T. E., City. The family pact, known in French his- tory as Pacte de Famllle, was an agree- ment drawn up and signed August 17, 1761, by all the crowned headts of the Bourbon race pledging themselves to ald and defend one another and to stand to- gether in an effort to overthrow the pow- er of Great Britain on the ocean. At that time the Bourbon rulers were Louls XV of France, Carlos III of Spain, Ferdinand IV of Naples and Philfp of Parma. Spain | bound fitself in the articles of that com- pact to overthrow Great Britain’s power in America and to deprive her of com- mercial privileges there and transfer these privile; to France, and the latter bound {tself to'ald Spaln in the recovery of Gibraltar. The compact was of no power, for it was entirely overthrown by the ‘revolution of 1789, Hungarian Society Officers. The First Hungarian Mutual Ald So- ciety of the Pacific Coast has elected the following officers for the term of 1903: President, M. Roth; vyice president, A. Erdely; treasurer, S. Bzegedy; recording secretary, Willlam Rosenberg; financial secretary, 8. Grossman; Hoffman; trustees—J. Novitzky, I. Fried and M. Propper; physician, Dr. Julius Soboslay. ———— Capital Is Inczeased. The Board of Bank Commissioners is- sued a license yesterday to the Los An- geles Trust Company to increase its cap- ital from $500,000 to $1,000000. A. K. Ma- comber is president of the institution and S. Torrance, H. T. Kendall, W. R. ~ 4 Staats and J. C. Drake are the directors. librarian, H. | PERSONAL MENTION. F. W. Fratt, a capitalist of Sacramento, is at the Russ. President David S. Jordan of Stanford is at the Occidental. J. H. Farley, an attorney of Hanford, is registered at the Russ. W. F. Bray, a mining man of Placer- ville, is a guest at the Grand. L. A. Mackintosh, a mining man of Crub Gulceh, is at tne Grand. Thomas Clark, a mining man of Placer- ville, is registered at the Grand Edgar McSheehan, a well-known attor- ney of Sacramento, is at the Occidental. W. H. Nicholas, a fruit groewer of Courtland, is among the arrivals at the | Grand. E. V. Spencer, ex-Superior Judge of Lassen County and who resides at Susan- ville, is at the Russ. . S. Mitchell, cashier of the Producers’ Eank of Visalia, Is at the California, ac- cemmpanied by his wife. H. E. V. Rekstone of Cape Town, South Africa, is at the Palace. His brotner, W F. Rekstone of San Jose, awaited his ar rival in this city. als A e Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Dee. Californians are in New York: From £an Francisco—J. E. McKay, at the New Amsterdam; Miss R. Adams, W. A. Mer- rill and wife and F. W. Warren, at the Manhattan; W. J. Gorham and E. Jesoun, at the Astor; W. P. Thomas and S. P. Thomas, at the Everett; C. Cox and wife, at the Park Avenue; H. Sloan, at the Morton; J. Wand and Miss F. Walker, at the -Cadillac.. From Los Angeles—Miss Pcniston, at the St. Denis. From San Jese—W. A. Bowden, at the Manhattan. Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—The following | Californians registered at the hotels here | to-day: At the Ebbitt—L. Goetz of San Francisco. At the New Willard—Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Drake of Los Angeles and C. H. Hall of San Francisco. A CHANCE TO SMILE. But the Giddy Young Thing who was talking to the capiain was a sailor and didn’t mind a bit of rough weather. “Doesn’t it seem unnecessarily eru captain,” she sald,.“to box a compass?" “Not any more so, miss,” he replied, grimly, “than to paddle a canoe.” And the ship groaned some more.—Chi- cago Tribune. 3 Anxious. Wife—Mr. Dunner has called again for that money sou owe. I wish vou'd see about it, or something dreadful will happen. He says he won't wait—any —longer—as—time—is—money! Calm Husband—So it is, my love. TI'd forgotten. Tell him I'll pay him—in time. —Punch. . A.—~Why didn't you congratulate Lori- mer on his marriage? B.—I couldn’t conseientiously do that; T don’t know his wife. A.—Well, then, you might have wished her joy. B.—I couldn’t reasonably do that, for I do know Lorimer.—Ladies’ Field. Mrs. Greene — Miss Black and that Brown girl made themserves ridiculously prominent at the musicale last night. It was positively scandalous! Mrs. White—For mercy’s sake, what did they do? Mrs. Greene—Do? They just sat there all the evening, listening to the music, and never passed a word between them.— Boston Transcript. “Yes, indeed,” said he, “Miss Love has a complexion like a peach.” “That’s so,” replied her rival, “it's bound to fail.”—Philadelphia Press. Dolly — I promised mother that I wouldn’t become an actress. Hamlet—Well, you kept your word all right.—Detroit Free Press. 16.—The foliowing | ‘CHILD QUEEN SWAYS SCEPTER OVER OXNARD —_—— Special Dispatch to The Call. —With a town aglow ri-colored incandescent v of banners and flags OXNARD, De with hundred: lights, row after ro and all the business houses richiy | adorned with thousands of yards of bunt- |ing, the Oxnard earnival and street fair under the auspices of Aerie No. 252, Fra- ternal Order of Eagles, opened last night at 7 o'clock by the crowning of the child Queen Gailie I The pretty ceremonies took place at the big stadium In the presence of a large erowd of people. Those comprising the royal party were: Miss Gailie Dwire, rer six maids of honor, Irma Rowe, Gladys Roberts, Hazel Lippman; prime . Roy Meyers; pages, Irene Wil- fa T was presented to the gqueen } en, after which Supervisor hert presented her Majesty Gailie the golden key of the city. The que=n's proclamation was read by i W. Stewart. | Immediately following the coronation ceremonies the performance at the | stadium began, being followed by =1l the | other shows belonging to the Southern | Carnival Company. The first evening's | w v festivities were concluded with a grand ball at the Masonic Avditorium. The town is fast filling up with strangers and a most successfut week is anticipated. ———— |LEAVE THEIR PROPERTY TO WIVES AND CHILDREN | Wills of Christopher Dunker and An- | drew B. Forbes Are Filed for Probate. The wills of Christopher Dunker and | Andrew B. Forbes, pioneers of this State | who died here recently, were filed for pro- | bate yesterday. Forbes, who was a prom- | inent member of the famous vigilance committee, left an estate worth $200,000, | and Dunker, who several years ago was a | member of the Board of Supervisors, was worth half a million. Dunker leaves one-half of his estate to his widow, Anna Dunker, and the other half to his two children, John and Emma | Dunker. Forbes leaves his entire estate to his widow, Katherine K. Forbes. PR S ———— Will Receive Noted Guest. The members of the Collegiate Alum- nae, comprising former women students of colleges all over the the country, will give a big reception to Booker T. Wash- ington, the noted negro educator, en his arrival here on January 8. The reception wili take place at the Mechanics’ Pavilion and many of the foremost educators of the State will be present. All of the leading clubs of the city will be repre- | sented at the meeting. ————— Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* —_————— Townsend's California glace fruit and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Magket st., Palace Hotel building. * —_————— Special information supplied daily #to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042 ¢ ——e———— Smyrna is the smartest town in ke~ so far as trade is concerned. 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