The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 25, 1902, Page 6

[T———") THURSDAY................DECEMBER 25, 1902 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Rddress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE. Manager ; TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, 8. F. " EDITORIAL ROOMS.. 217 to 221 Stevemson Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Weelk. Singlé Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: Y CALL (including Sunday), ode year. All Pestmasters are nuthorized to receive subse: ons. | Sample copies will be forwarded when requested. { Mafl subscribers In ordering change of address should ba particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order t insure & prompt and correct compliance®with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE..............1118 Broadway ©. GEORGE KROGNESS, ¥azager Forsiga hdvertising, Marquette Building, Ohicage. 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NE of the most notable utterances on O subject of trusts that has yet been delivered is that .contained in a recent address before the University of Nebraska by Judge Grosscup of } the United States Circuit Court. It presents the | the | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY. DECEMBER 25, 1902 the globe. by Christendom. down by its founder. scene changes for the better. necess its best. much-discussed subject in a new light, and will be found interesting even to those who do not agree | with either the postulates or the conclusions of the | speaker. I accurate statistics show that within | w years more than one-third of the The Judge say: ively untier of the knot it sought to cut. ! The far-reaching consequences of this influential action may not now be estimated. | { turn to us for food, their clothing, their machinery and even their luxuries. supplied the only modern instance of a nation voluntarily delivering an.alien people from oppression and poverty, ‘and have furnished the last of the three incidents of that kind in the history of man. Athens broke the yoke of Persian tyranny that galled the necks of the Plataeans and restored to them their sovereignty. Rome delivered the Grecian states | from the usurpation and misrule of their domestic tyrants and sent her hegalds to pro- | claim the return to the Greeks of their freedom, and we gave liberty to the Cubans. We are not free of national lapses from the high standard of Christianity, but we may say, without boasting, that we can better offset them by national virtues than any other people, nominally under the influence of the cross. ' Right in these days, that are | hallowed by the Christmas spirit, our statesmanship and diplomacy have been able to | compel peace and good will toward men. Our Monroe doctrine has compelled the sword to pe sheathed in this hemisphere and .peaceful arbitration to be substituted as an THIS CHRISTMAS. HE great Christian holiday comes to Christendom this year with the varying emotions which arise in widely varying conditions. conditions are not conducive to a merry Christmas for all, nor a considerable number of the people of any of the nations composing that political division of The British isles are feeling severely the results of the Boer war. Poverty is more general and distressing than at any time since the repeal of the corn laws. annexing the two South African republics, has augmented her empire, but has dimin= ished her resources and lowered the living standard of her people. Taxation bears heav- | ily upon them and their industries are abridged. Charity, the greatest of the Christian virtues, is taxed to_its limit to supply the poor with the commonest necessaries . of leaving out of the-question the things that make of this a merry season. Continental )El.xrope is not much better off. Germany is still in the nimbus of her industrial depression. Russia is trembling under the results of her state policy of repres- sion. France, Italy and Austria are unhappy under militarism and political problems of a vexatious nature, and even stout-hearted little Holland has a shadow upon the day, in the widespread native revolt against her in her rich possessions in the Indian“Ocean. It is'with no intent to be cynical that it may be said that the Christian holiday everywhere would be enjoyed more generally and in a more Christian spirit if the simple precepts of Christianity had been more straitly kept by the nations. tendency to treat Christianity as a dogma to be contended about, rather than as a life to be lived, by men and by nations, is at the bottom of much of the distress caused and suffered The quarrels over form and ceremony, rite and ritual too much ob- scure the plain and simple, the creedless and easily kept rule of the Christian life laid England, by life, The too prevalent Turning from the Old World to the New, from Europe to the United States, the Here prosperity is the rule and poverty so much the ex- ception ‘that its distress is readily relieved, and the relief far.outgoes the supply of bare ies and may bring to every American home those resources typical of the day at We have augmented our territorial possessions without pressing the resources of | our people. The emergency taxation in the process was not felt and has been repealed. Our national treasury so overflows with gold ¢hat statesmen are discussing the abatement of the taxes of peace, having no war tax to afflict the people. The productive power of the country is so great and is so economized that its surplus proves a blessing to the mil- | lions of less fortunate nations, whose ordinary wants we can supply so cheaply that they We : have Sheltered under their vain interpretation of the Monroe doctrine, many of the Latin-Amer- of the United States have passed from the | ican nations were careless of the rights of others. They were degenerating to the posi- ownership of individuals and of local corporations | tion of the pirates of Tripoli and fancied themselves free to abridge the liberty and con- into the great bodies of property known as trusts. | fiscate the property of aliens, whose enterprise promoted the prosperity of their own This process, he believes, will go on until the trusts | have absorbed at a time not far distant upward, of | one-sixth of all the wealth of all kinds in the country. | He adds: othing in history outside of the rise | people. Europe, in a concert that included every nation west of the Danube, rose, the! vanguard of a mighty host, to test this interpretation of the Monroe.doctrine in a war that once begun meant a death grapple between two hemispheres. Mars has not glit- of the feudal system has it so striking a change | tered as threatenitigly upon the world since the Napoleonic wars., If the trial came it vy be called the personnel of ownership. ! As a mere right to held and control, ownership re- mains, of course, unchanged; but if the process of the last few years goes on the universality of owner- | ship that characterized our past—an ownership of cur industries widely spread among our people—will | be all but lost.” ! As an evidence of the extent to which local and‘ igdividual enterprise in busin®ss and| industry has 1!i>cd away, the Judge cites the enormous increase in bank deposits. He says: “A table prepared by the United States Burcan of Statistics shows the de- posits in the banks of the country by the people to | be, in excess of $8,500,000,000. That is the sum of | money the people of the United States, including; those who were the former individual owners of our industries, deem it better to loan than to invest. . The men of this day are not less keen than those of yesterday to make good bargains. Th(-v; know as well as their fathers did that it is not from | idle capital but from invested capital that any in-| crease is to be looked for. They stand aloof not from a lack of wish, but from a lack of opportunity.” The tendency of the fime is to convert the mass of men from seli-owning and self-directing proprie- tors of small industries into investors and~ share- koldets in large trusts. Such a change will be a| virtual revolution in our social conditions. The Judge argues it will diminish if not destroy popular inter- | est in national prosperity; it will kill off*‘competition, for the competitor of a trust must itself be a trust; it will discourage in the wage-earner the hope to| become a part owner; it will weaken individual initia- tive by putting control of industry more and more in the hands of a few strong and able men, upon whom investors will rely for the management of their property, and, finally, it will deprive a great majority of the people of any proprietary interest in the in- dustries they follow, and thus sap the foundations of national prosperity.” In considering the best means of guarding against such menacing evils, the Judge warns the public against the folly of trying to outlaw the- trusts or exterminate them. They have come about in the natural order of development, and while laws must be provided against their abuse, it would be folly to fight that which is beneficial. Legislation, he says, * “should include the repeal of the Sherman law. Log- ically and impartially enforced, that act forbids two grocers on opposite corners of the street from form- ing a partnership to save expenses; partially enforced, it puts the industries of the country at the mercy not of the law, but of officers of the law.” With the Sherman act repealed, the Judge would have legislation ‘providing against artificial prices; ahsolqe publicity of all trust business; the prohibition of any issue of primary stock in excess of cash -paid in, and a general supervision by the Govern- ment. = Furthermore. legislation should give each stockholder in a trust the largest possible power to share in the managément, so that the people niay remain proprietors in fact as well as in name of the wealth of the country. S This is the season of the sweet girl graduate, who ‘is starting on her way to carry sweetness and ‘light to the world. And the rest of us are willing and eager to try to learn all she can teach. in what California will soon be called upon to choose a ‘commission to represent the State at the St. Louis Horn and the great lakes. < of its gravity. sues from the mightiest action at arms. ity. The crisis is over, but the steady men at the he They averted it. The President of the United States and the Secretary of State secured peace with more than honor, for they gilded it with glory greater than is- : The Monroe doctrine stands. Arbitration takes the place of war. The Latin-American States are delivered from themselvés; the rights of other nationals domiciled within them are protected; the prestige of the United States is made greater than that of all the rest of the world, and we become the disciplinarian of the defaulting nations of this hemisphere in the ways of probity and peace and of virtue and stability and honor in government. relation to a group of other nations. We hold it in right line with the spirit of Christian- Let us hold it, also,. Lord of hosts, remembering that— #Still stands thine ancient sacrifice An humble and a contrite heart.” meant Europe in array against a hundred and sixty millions of people between Cape i ad of this nation feel yet the thrill No one nation ever before held such a . FARM TELEPHONES. ANSAS is not the State to which we look for K the comfortable, up-to-date farmer who lives at his ease and puts on the airs of a “country gentleman.” As a rule, the Kansan of the rural districts is pictured as a hayseed Populist, engaged mainly in fighting grasshoppers, raising Cain and try- ing his best to protect his land from blizzards by cov- ering if with blanket mortgages. It appears that such pictures are caricatures. The Kansas farmer is having a good time and enjoying some of the conveniences of the city along with all the luxuries of the country. A Topeka correspondent of the Chicago. Inter Ocean quotes a farmer in Allen County, who settled there thirty years ago, as saying: “At that time one | cduld get on a horse and gallop for miles in any direction and never see a house or sign of man; now every spot of land about here is occupied and under fence. Eight long-distance telephone wires pass my house, and right by my own desk is my own tele- phone. When I have produce to sell I can telephone to town and get the price before I leave home. Once recently I decided I needed a new suit of clothes to attend a swell wedding in our neighborhood the next day. I telephoned into town at 8 o'clock in the evening, and the clothes were delivered at my door at 9 o'clock the next morning.” \ Telephones and “swell suits” ready made and de- livered over night are not the only luxuries’gf that particular farmer, or of others who like himself live in the oil and gas belt of the State. He and they have gas and fuel on tap with a profusion that almost makes a San Franciscan envious. On that phase of his farm life he is quoted as saying: “Every farmer now burns natural gas in his house. I have five stoves and thirteen lights in my house, and have three torches to light up the yards when necessary. I have also four places on the farm to thrash, so I can burn gas in the engine on any part of the farm, and last harvest we thrashed my wheat after dark by the light of a large gas torch. We elevate our water with gas, light the hog sheds and keep the little pigs warm.” Oil and gas, however, are merely local advantages, and cannot be taken into account in the general farm life of the State. It is the telephone that works the wide and well nigh universal change in rural condi- | tions. The farmer’s wife likes it about as well as does her husband, and finds it full of benefits. Alto- gether, the telephone, accompanied by rural mail de- livery, has made Kansas happy. Hereafter she will Exposition. Let the experience we suffered at Paris serve 25 an example. 3 hold her honored place among the solid Republican 1 States and howl calamity no more A DUTY OF THE STATE. Y the report of Fire Chief Kennedy of Berke- B ley it is made evident that one of the duties imposed upon the Legislature at its coming session is that of providing a proper system of pro- tection against a possible fire at the State University. The town of Berkeley can hardly be expected to furnish the whole amount of protection required, for the town is not rich and the university pays no taxes | to assist in the support of the fire department or | any other department of the town government. In his report on the subject the Chief says: “Three fires in the university buildings within the past three months make this question come before us, and we must have some action taken. Qur local fire depart- ment is entirely unfit to try to fight any big fire at the uffiversity, and the only help we could get would be from Oakland, six miles away, and it would take their department an hour to reach us if called. All of the buildings are built without any protection against fire. The three brick buildings would burn as easily as the wooden ones, for with the exception of one they have been standing for more than twenty years.” After describing the dangers menacing the more ‘exposed buildings, the Chief discusses the. condition of the apparatus for fighting fires on the university grounds, and says: “The water supply would not furnish more than two fair streams to hose in case of a fire. There are fifteen four-inch hydrants ar- ranged near most of the buildings, but they are all off one main, and without a steam fire engine-not a single stream could be carried to the top of the high- est of the buildings. = All of the bdildings except the observatory are provided with from two to six hose reels, each provided with not more than seventy-five feet of hose. Upon a recent inspection made by Superintendent of the Grounds A. Bolton and myself it was found that in almost every instance the hose had been rotted from leaky valves and would be use- less in case of fire.” Upon that statement of the situation, coming from an official source after careful investigation, little comment is needed. Berkeley has a very large area in proportion to its population, and the equipments for fighting fire ate hardly adequate to the needs of the town itself. The protection of the university buildings is, therefore, imposed upon the State as a matter of fact; even if it were not a matter of law and justice. The issue will be before the Legislature | when it meets, and it is to be hoped the requisite appropriation to supply proper protection for the buxld.mgs)on the campus ?m be promptly _mzde. In the Old World these | CABLE-SHIP SILVERTOWN BREAKS - "HER RECORD FOR ONE DAY'’S RUN ON BOARD THE CABLE-SHIP SILVERTOWN, Dec. 24 (Noon)—Miles of cable paid out in the last twenty-four hours, 217; breeze. Expect to sight land Friday morning. HE cable-ship Silvertown broke her record for speed on the present trip during the twenty-four hours preceding total, 1804. Weather cloudy; strong westerly BENEST. ONOLULU, T. H., Dec. 17.—The Honolulu Chamber of Commerce, Merchants’ Association, Bullders’ and Trad- ers’ Exchange and -other bodles are preparing to cele- T yesterday noon. Her best previous 215 miles. The journey has thus far great enterprise. A piece of the cable wil the end of the voyage there is likely to be CAREFULLY PLAN PROSECUTION OF HUMBERTS PARIS, Dec. 24.—As a result of confer- ences between Premier Combes and Min- ister of Justice Valle, complete arrange- ments haVe been made for the reception of the members of the Humbert family now under arrest, but the precaution has | been taken not to disclose what prison the fugitives will occupy, or where they will ibe taken from the train, as a popular | demonstration is feared. The Govern- ment autherities are showing great activ- ity in preparing for the prosecution of the vrisoners. M. Hennion, chief of detectives, who has gone to Madrid, is accompanied by four civil guards, four police inspectors and two of the best detectives in the ser- vice. It is expected they will occupy a special car with the prisoners, whose ar- rival is awaited in Paris with intense in- terest. The affair continues to be the uni- versal topic for discussion and even af- fects the Christmas rejoicing, many of the lLoliday novelties depicting phases in {the famous case. One of these is a mini- |ature Humbert safe, as empty as that | Which induced bankers and others to lend millions to the Humberts. The nature of the legal proceedings has rot yet been definitely settled. The state- | ment in the extradition papers that the jaccused are charged with swindling and | irregular bankruptey proceedings gives £ general idea of the lines of prosecutiof. [The creditors are chiefly interested in res- |cuing the remnant of their assets and plans are on foot for,a meeting of the creditors with a view to arranging an equitable division. The arrest of -Madame Dalazza, the friend of Romain d'Aurignac, at Buenos Ayres was part of the Government's ener— getic plans to apprehend the fugitives. She was not connected with the affair, | but it was supposed here that her depart- fure for Buenos Ayres indicated that Ro- main d'Aurignac and other members of the Humbert family were in that part of the world. MADAME BALLANZA RELEASED. BUENOS AYRES, Dec. 24—Madame Ballanza, who was arrested on her ar- rival here yesterday from France, was re- leased from custody to-day. Madame Ballanza was sald to be an intimate friend of Romain d'Auragnac, who with other members of the Humbert family ‘was ar- rested at Madrid on December 20. PERSONAL MENTION. Mayor M. P. Snyder of Los Angeles i3 at the Palace. James Berry, a mining man of Fresno, 1s at the Grand. J. J. Kennedy, a mining man of Touo- pah, is a guest at the Lick. Edgar T. Wallace, a well-known resi- dent of Yreka, is at the Palace. Captain Jesse M. Barker of the trans- port Thomassis at the California. Thomas R. Lowe, an old resident of ‘Woodland, is among the arrivals at the Occidental. "B. Legrange, who has been a resident of Shanghai for the last three years, is | registered at the Grand. | Colonel E. H. Plummer, in charge of the camp at Monterey, is registered at the California. H. E. Huntington is expected to arrive in this city to-day from New Ydrk. He has been in the East for several months. He is out here to inspect his many valu- able investments. 3 —_— COURT DECISION GIVES o bl’l‘l?i A TOWNSITE E. P. Shirk Is Declared the Owner of Harrison Gulch, a Thriving Mining Camp. REDDING, Dec. 24.—E. P. Shirk is de- clared the owner of the entire townsite of Harrison Gulch, a thriving mining camp thirty miles west of Redding, by a .decis- ion rendered by Judge Sweeney to-day in | the case of J. H. Hunter and D. W. Lilly ¥ | | vs. E. P. Shirk, Frank Large and An- drew Fletcher. The case was decided in Shirk's favor. This is the last of séveral cases brought against Shirk and others. Shirk claimed the ground .on which is located the town of Harrison Gulch, while Hunter and others claimed the same ground as mining property. By the decision of the court Shirk is given the la’and which comprises the entire town- site. These cases have been before the court for more than two years. -Several ar- rests have resulted from the affair, both Shirk and Green, who is also interested in the townsite, having been convicted of battery. e Rt Sues for an Accounting. - SAN JOSE, Dec. 24—K. H. Plate to-day filed a suit against W. FIX Wright, Myra ‘Wright and the San Jose Packing Com- pany for the sum of $23,567 alleged to be due on two promissory notes given by Myra Wright to the packing company. A number of similar suits have previous- ly been filed by Plate, who seeks an ac- counting with W. H. Wright, who was president bf the San Jose Packing Com- pany. Plate alleges that Wright and the other directors of the company have neg- lected to bring suit for the amounts named and that the money will be lost to the stockholders unless recovered by him, An attachment was levied on property of the Wrights. 9 gl Popular Young Couple Wed. SAN JOSE, Dec. 24.—The first of the notable holiday weddings occutred to-day, when Maude Lilliani Welch and City Jus- tice C. W. Davison, two of the most pop- ular young people in the city, were made husband and wife. The ceremony occur- red at the home of the bride’'s parents at noon. Only the intinfate friends and rel- atives were present. Judge A. L. Rhodes performed the marriage, asisted by Rev. Eli McClish. Miss Nina Davison, a sister of the groom, acted as bridesmaid and Walter J. Lean served as best man. A ‘wedding breakfast followed the ceremony. Scarcity of Freight Cars. SAN BERNARDINO, ‘Dec. 24.—The car famine from which the railrcads of the covntry are suffering has struck the Santa Fe in California and as a result the immense borax works lccated in Borate, near Daggett, have been obliged to close Gown. There has not been a car at the unusunal difficulties, and the Postal Telegraph Company's offi- cials are beginning to have a feeling of safety in respect to the Honolulu when the SilVertown shall have arrived, and then there will be a’splicing of ends on the beach.. Chief Weather Bureau Official McAdie says that the vessel is not likely to encounter any severe storms before her arrival. She probably will me2t some choppy sea near the islands. All on board have been reported well and enjoying the frip. two before Honolulu and Safi Francisco are really connected | pointed by Secretary Shaw to visit the | Philippines and Hawaii, arrived here yes- ! day’s progugess was l I been unattended by 1 be taken ashore at ished. At. a delay of a day or NEED OF MORE LABORERS IN THE HAWAIIS HONOLULU,. Dec. 18.—T. Thomas For- tune, special Labor Commissioner ap- terday on the steamship Doric from San Francisco. In an interview'in the Star he sai I believe that the importation of the true negro here forms a natural solution of the dif- ficuity which unavoidably follows the absorp- tion of tropical or semi-troplcal countries by the United States. To any one who can read the signs of the times alien immigration is foredoomed as long as there is any possibility of employing native resources. And the native resources are forthcoming. In the Southern States and M the Carolines the negro made the industries what they_ are, The Commissioner said that there might be difficulty in getting the negroes here, but that he thought the planters “could get all they wanted if they sent the right sort of agents after them. “You could get 10,600 here in six months,” he said. In vjew of the news from Washington that the Senate gave a hostile reception o the plan for allowing Chinese to enter Hawaii as laborers the views of Commis- sioner Fortune have attracted much at- tention here. Hawaii is in need of more labor, and the proposition of getting negroes is likely to be investigated again. The Star says: It is thought in both official and lay circles that the recent conversations of the President with Bogker T. Washington and the appoint- ment of As praminent an Afro-American as Mr. Fortune to the present commissionership is indicative of a belief on the part of the Presi- dent. that thé colonization of Hawatian Terri- tory by negro plantation laborers is the ecor- rect solution of the local labor problem. About two years ago Hawallan planters began to import negro laborers, but an experiment In a small way did not prove | very successful. This is thought by some | to have’been due to the character of the immigrants brought here. The demand for negro labor from the Southern States, it is aiso thought here, | will arouse the Southern planters to op- pose the efforts of Hawall to secure large numbers of them. The Merchants’ Association, backed by the Builders' and Traders’ Exchange and other Similar organizations, is preparing to make a fight in support of the efforts of the plantation men to secure legisla- tion from Congress allowing the importa- tion of Chinese laborers for plantation work only, under certain restrictions. Local labor unions have decided against the proposition and will oppose the plan. It is understood that the matter will be the subject of a recommendation one way or.the other in the forthcoming report of the Senate commission which recently visited Hawaii. New Bank Building for Stockton. STOCKTON, Dec. 24.—One of the big- gest real estate deals ‘ransacted in Stock- ton in a long time was consummated this morning when the Stockton Savings and Loan Society purchased from Messrs. Rosenbaum, Fraser and Guernsey of the Farmers’ and Merchants' Bank what is known as the Arcade proverty, situated 2t the northeast corner of Main and San Joaquin streets. The price paid was $75,- 6. A modern seven-story brick bank and cffice building will be erected on the prop- erty. P Cramp Invests in Mining Property. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 24.—Benjamin H. Cramp, whose father is the Philadelphia shipbuilder, and who himself is inter- ested in the business, is here with his family. Cramp has been on the Pacific Ccast since December 1 closing a deal fcr the Liberty mine, located in San An- torio Valley. He says the intention is to mine and put in a reduction plant. The rroperty is supposed to abound in-.both silver and gold. s ——— Governor Makes More Appointments. | SACRAMENTO, Dee. 24 — Governor Gage to-day appointed H. B. Wilson of Redlands and J. W. A. Off of Los Ange- les as members of the Board of Mana- | {gin and one church are standing. { first shock drove the inhabitants gen- gers of the Southern State Hospital. brate the arrival of the cable-ship Silverton. There will be a general holiday cn the day when the cable is brought I touch with the mainland, and a* large public meeting will held.. The conduit which brings the wires into the local offices of the cable company from the landing at Waikiki is nearly fin- S. S. Diékinson, the special agent of the Commercial Pa- cific Cable Company, returned this morning from Manila. FHo has chosen cable landing sites at Midway Island, Guam and Manila. He also surveyed for a route around Nero Deep, o Yery deep hole in the ocean hed between Guam and Midway, which was discovered by the United States survey ship Nero, by cable. and reported to be the deepest bit of ocean In the world. SARTS REFUSE TO LEAVE RUINS OF THEIR CITY p Ty T L ST. PETERSBURG, Dee. 24.—While fult details of the recent earthquake disaster at Andijan, Russian Central Asia, are not obtainable owing to lack of communica- tion, the brief_dispatches received here describe the situation as horrible. The temperature has fallen to.the freezing point and thousands of persons are home- less. One section of the city has been completely destroyed. Only one cotton The erally out of doors, otherwise the loss of life would have been muen greater. Notwithstanding the offers of free transpertation they are remaining in the vicinity of the city, which will be rebuilt. A substantial start has been made in the collection of a relief fund. Andijan is a cotton center and exports forty million pounds of cotton annually The population, numbering 356,000 souls, was growing rapidly. The people, who are matnly Sarts, were engaged in cotton ralsing and ginning. Of twenty gins, nineteen have been destroyed. The Sarts are not like Russians. They are privats owners of land, but live in cities and towns. The houses in Andijan are prin- cipally one-story and are built of un- burned bricks. The War Department here informs the correspondent of the As- sociated Press that everything possibie is being doné to relieve the suffering. Barracks in which the population will be housed are being built. A letter,is expected within a week. The mail from Andijan ordinarily takes ten days to reach St. Petersburg. e OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC COAST Pensions Are Granted to Veterans and Several New Postmasters Are Appointed. WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—Postoffice dis- continued: California—Hayes, Fresno County, mail to- Mendota. ostmasters commissioned: Calitdrnia —Calista Romrill, San Pablo. Washington—Josephine Grigsby, palis. Fourth-class postmasters appointed: California—William C. McCulley, Deeclez, San Bernardino County; vice Anthony McNally, resigned. Oregon—John Wall, Maxwell, Coos County, vice Fred James Wagd, resigned: Thomas McClelland, Le » Marion County, vice Julius J. Krenz, resigned. Pensions granted: California—Or; —Claude Ramsey, Chico, 3§ (war with Spain). Oregon—Increase, reissue, etc.—Edwin E. Covey, Portland, $; William D. Bow- ers, Oregon City, 324. ‘Washington—Original—Michael Kenny, Walla Wailla, $8 (Indlan wars); Guy R. ‘Wilber, Baring, $8 (war with Spain). In- crease, reissue, etc.—Smith D. Steer, Ta- coma, $12: Jacob Volkwels, Sidney, $14. May Refuse Permanent Injunction. VALLEJO, Dec. 24—The case of the Benicta tanners, who asked for a perma- nent injunction against their striking em- ployes, was argued before Superior Judge Buckles Tuesday and taken under advise- ment. His Honor intimated from the bench that Re was disinclined to grant a permanent injunetion. Co- Two thoysand é%wn;;hl have been ship. ped from Lincoln Par! ons, to Urbana and Quiney, I‘Ifo R Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* rmn:'- Cl.\fl;rnh glace fruit and candies, §0c a pound, in artistic fire-atched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. Palace Hotel building. * —_———— Special information supplied daily ta business houses and public men 3 by 'the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 23 Cails fornia mct.‘ Telephone lal:)lfl o J splendors, the vices, in either -biblical or profane hist Christ with the fatal kiss. LISHED COMPLETE IN THREE a newspaper office. Major; “The Leopard’s Spots,” man From Indiana,” bg C. N. Williamson; “The Turnpike works for a week. Between eighty and a hundred men have beep '<i4 off in con- sequence OHN BRISBEN WALKER has laration that the day is close at paid over ONE MILLION DOLLARS but as he points out they will have they actually know, for TO-DAY IS THE DAY OF THE NOVEL mors than at any other time in all the checkered history of the world. 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