The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 3, 1903, Page 6

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Ghong Distance Telephone “Central 2619."") NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH. 30 Tri e Bullding NEW YORX CORRESPONDENT: €. C. CARLTON. ... vse.Herald s NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldort-Astoris Hotel; A. rentano, 31 Unlon Bquare; Murrey 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. BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery. corner of Clav. opsn unt] 9:80 o'clock. 300 Hayes open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until 9:80 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until $:30 c'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1098 Vi jencia, open until ® o'clock. 108 Eleventh, opem until c'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open uotl] & o'clock. 2200 Fillmore. open until 9 p. m. THE DELHI FAGEANT. HE postponement of the coronation of the T King of England detracted from the splen- dors of that cevemony. Peopie from all Eu- | rope and America had gathered in London in e pectancy of the great event, ealy to. be disap- pointed. When the King’s: recovery permitted the | ceremony with what London cereme: s incidents were tame by comparisen | ad been originally planned = But what | y finally lacked in eclat has| been more than made up by the ceremcnial splen- the proclgmation ©f the ‘Emperor at| ia has had many masters. ‘Her Aryan people | ir descendants were philosophic and intro- | tive. They rejected the offensive and "defen- sive arts, in the belief that a non-resistaut attitude and refraining from aggression would sufficiently protect them against aggression by others. 1In this | they were mistaken. - Fallirg at last.under the mas-| of Mahometan conguerors, they were hard rid- den by the Moguis. Those masteriul . rulers, in tlieir ancient seat at Agra and finally at ‘Deihi, sapped the resou:ices of the peninsula to create ~plendors that were the wonder and the envy of | the world. In their turn they had to yield to fresh | y The commercia! foothold of the Brit-| ish East India Company, by the genius of Hastings | and Clive, was turned into'a political sonquest, and t Plassy tfle Mogul power was broken forever. After all is said about it the fact remains that the British are the best masters India has had, and if | their hold were broken it would not be to restcre control to the museum of races that people India. For ages they have lived under invaders, and ‘that fate would not be changed. The unrést that erupt- ed in the bloody incidents of the Sepoy rebellion | seems to be a thing of the'past, and the three hun- dred millions of people that toil and moil Letween the Himalayas and the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal seem content. The European rivals of Great Britain expected that the Indians would im- prove the opportunity offered by her preoccupation in the Boer war to revolt. Bfit India was as quiet as Lancashire, and Delhi, Calcutta, Bombay, Re- naies and Hyderabad were as loyal London. | Therefore it does not, become the rest of the world | to sneer at Britisk rule in India, nor to belittle the 1 splendid pageantry ihat has attended the imperial | proclamation in the aucienc capital of the descend- ants of Shah Jehan. It is probable that no equal spectacle was ever| seen, not excepting the triamphs of pageant-loving | Rome. The hundreds of clephants ridden by Rajahs, Maharajeis and the Princes and nobles of India, headed by the great tuvsker, ridden by the| Viceroy and Lady Curzon, was a feature in the first | day’'s ceremony ‘never se'n before. The wvast crowds of natives of ali races, religions and condi- | tions that came to hear the trumpets proclaim their new ruler must be taken as evidence that India is content, and outsiders must take ‘he verdict and respect it. by To Americans the great ceremony is of int:rcstl because Lady Curzon, the Vicereine of that vast empire, is an American woman. Strange are the | courses of fate and foriune that have brought this | Chicago girl to such conspicuous part in a ce: - mony the most brilliant in all his‘ory. That her régal part was so royally Horne is-evidence of the | adaptability of the American woman to the dut.es of any exaltation to which her beauty and her vir- tues may bring her. Our fierce democracy, in its plain political clothes, will gallantly salute our American daughter, Lady Mary Curzon of Ked- dleston, Vice-Empress of the Mogul empire, more worthy of the Taj Mahal than was Nourmahal, the favorite of Jehan. 2 uerors as General von Boguslawski .has unloosed his vocal batteries and announces to Europe that the Monroe doctrine is a delusion and a snare and should be re- sented as a piece of impudence. The jackass con- #ributes very materially to the benefit -of humanity until he brays. s England is sending warships to be near the scene of the trouble in Morocco. She will have at least one consolation in this venture which she did not enjoy in connection with her iaterference: in- Ven- ezuela. Whatever she does she probably wap't be SorTY. o W A litigant in one of the local courts declared the other day that he could not remember a single in- cident of his honeymcon. Perhaps his spouse has been Jeading him such a strenuous life ever since that memories of happiness come like nightmares. | | under the necessity of resorting to. the long and | zation and ‘commerce are promoted and joined by | than S000 miles of the ocean’s bed, ends here. | is not shared by any other American city. | THE PACIFIC CABLE. | HE successful laying of the first section of a | = I “Pacific cable is. 2 matter. of world-wide inter- | est and congratulation. It will u‘[inla,lel)'" give direct telegraphic connection between the United States and Asia, :1ud we will be no longer roundabout’ route through Europe, which on ac- «count of jts land: links is subject to accident and delay, and because it is under many different or- ganizations and crosses the territory of many dif- ferent nations may, at.the time' of our greatest need for its use, be closed to With-our ew cable to Honolulu and Manild we .divide jurisdic-‘ tion of the route with Neptune only, and can have, | if we choose, or necessity require, exclusive use of | the line. While California is in fellowship with the rest| of .the Union in satisfaction that this great Amer- ican work is ‘being successfully accomplished, and while we share the world's pleasure that its civili- | another link in that great system which makes near neighbors in time of those most apart, San Fran- cisco has an especial reason for great joy over the result. In past discussions of this scheme other points on the coast.have taken it for granted that the topography of the ocean’s bottom would com- pel their selection for the land end of the cable. We owe it to the genius of the late John W. Mac- kay and to the loyal projection of his plans by his son that this city gets the terminus. The cable, that will eventually traverse mor: 7 will thrill with the news-giving electricity in its subway under the streets of this city, and its mes- | sages of business, politics, personal affairs; its news of tempest and wreck, of argosies that have sailed safely into port, of changes in markets, and" of natural or civic convulsions that concern all the world, must land here. We get nothing second- hand. We will not wait at the end of a land sec- tion to have our share of the words brought by the wire dribbled out to us. Every message goes to the rest of the world imprinted with the name of San Francisco. = It is of joyful significance to our people that in this respect San Francisco enjoys a situation that The Atlantic cables make their landings far up the other coast, and their currents are broken at the landing and transmitted by long land lines to com- | mercial centers. We get no broken currents. The{ thought-bringing foree is .continuous in its passage to our doors. - It passes, from its inception, over the great spaces, far under the ocean, to emerge | directly here. Hence it will seek the distributing!‘ facilities of the-many land lines. | To a pioneer of ’49 this seems like conjuring. | To the men who watchfully and laboriously madeir the half-year’s overland journey here in the old' days, with no possibility of speedy communication | en route, and who waited moaths after arrival to| get messages from their Eastern homes, it seems | the work of magic that they .can stand in San| Francisco and in the winking of an eye. speak to | far Honolulu. and soon. to farther Manila and| all Asia. Siberia will be brought nearer here than Sacramiento and San ‘Francisco were in those| primitive days, the most distant of the world's | capitals nearer than Washington was to this coast when Sloat’s flag was raised at Monterey. The effect upon the commercial primacy of this city will he permanent. When the first ocean cable was laid in the At- lantic'San Francisco made a holiday and gave em- | phasis to an event that held the -center of the | world’s st.ge. The eloquent Baker, the Demos- thenes of our pioneer history, with his tongue touched by that inspiration which made him-. a leader of men, delivered on that occasion an ora- tion that 5 in the libraries of mary countries. It easily excelled in its:=lequence 2rid philosophy all other uttefances by which the whole world sought | expression of its appreciation tf the ‘work of Cyrus | W. Field. . When our Pacific cable accomplishes its last link; | and its far end is landed,.and thought pulsates| through its theusands of miles, San Francisco will | hold a greater celebration. The voice of Baker is | silent, but a kindred inspiration will thrill some other to adequate ‘expression of Ca]i(omia’s appre- ciation, of the wonders wrought by science and the feats accomplished by American enterprise in making this city tiie immediate terminus of the greatest of the cables, of that link in the total sys- | tem which finally belted the planet with the elec- tric wire. At that time let there be made the| greatest and best holiday in our history, excelling | even that which celebrated our admission into the Union. for the event to come will be our direct ad- mission into “the Parliament of nations—the fed- eration of the world.” 13 e LA B ¥ VTR The Southern Pacific Company intends to keep ambulance cars in comstant readiness on its system. | In view of very recent events it would be a measure | of eminent wisdom on the part of the company to | attach one of these cars to every train. FAMINE IN RUSSIA. ARDLY can we ‘hope to find for many a H year to come peace and plenty in all parts of the world at the same time. Vast as are the mcans of transportation provided by our rail- ways and our -steamships, they are not yet suffi- cient 1o move at once the surplus food in one part of the globe to the hungry people whose crops have been blighted in another. In our own country and in Western Europe really acute and wide- spreac asstress no longer occurs, but in Eastern Europe and in Asia famines are not infrequent. In fact, almost every year brings us a dread story of starvation in some portion of that part of the world. | It is but a short time since India emerged from the condition of famine and pestilence that swept thousands to a premature doom, and now reports almost as bad come from Russia. It is stated that the officials at St. Petersburg are trying to solve the problem of furnishing food for something like 15,000,000 peasants scattered over wide areas of country, many of them living in regibns where transportation is difficult even at the best seasons of the year. The stricken districts extend over the centrai and eastern provinces of the empife and also to some extent over those of the southeast and along the Volga. : 5 + The lack of food caused by repeated-failures of'| the crops has now reached the point where a large percentage of the total population has reached the starvation point. The people have consumed all their substance, including Khejr farm animals. As inevitably happens, the weakening of the physical system caused by people exposed to disease, and pestilence is worl hand in hand with famine. The distress is'so great to harbor the.man-who would kill the hen with the Mhmdimicuthemmnmrepmdmbelxoldenm_ 23 : i | the famine, it is indirectly due to a lack of transporta- | Record interviewed. President Diaz and Senor Li- | discriminaté¢ ‘against foreign capital in Mexico.” | Mexican republic. _All the gold our people have is the Tack of food has left the poori offering their daughters for sale or in exchange for oxen to do the spring $lowing. The reports add:| “Another shocking thing is the infant mortality. Typhoid fever, hunger, scrofula and measles are cut- ting them down by the thousands. Not every village has a doctor, and if the wretched parents take any in- terest at all in saving their children they have re- course to the dangerous simples or incantations of the ‘wise woman.”” While the failure of the crops is the direct cause of tion facilities throughout the empire. Russia as a whole has food enough for all her people and much to pare. She exports a large surplus of grain to Gcr—! many ana Great Britain every year. Thus while some of her people are dying of famine, others are searching all-over the world to-find purchasers for their grain. For the purpose of putting an end to this evil con- dition of affairs the mcre progressive Russian officials have been trying for years to induce the Government to enter tipon an extensive system of fii]w'zy construc- tion. The conservatives, however, -have held back from the enterprise on account of the enormous cost of the Siberian road. We have thus a striking prooi of the inability of governments to meet the trans- portation needs of their people. In this country by private ente}'prise we have opened up every section of our continent to commerce, and a famine in any one district is impossible. Russia, however, relies on the Government to act, and the result is that while a road is being constructed in Siberia, the test of the country has to wait; notwithstanding the fact that the waiting means widespread famine and death to thou- sands. Uncle Sam has taken measures to protect his jack tars from evil influences which are said to abound at Bremerton. This is another indication that the Na- tional Government shirks at nothing, not even the impossible. At Bremerton or anywhere else the sailor boys will have their fling. MEXICAN CURRENCY. EXICO has suffered much in times past by the M fluctuations in the value of silver, on which her currenc) is based, but never more than at present. Consequently her statesmen and financiers are now devising means of providing a stable cur- rency. All persons having afy financial relations with the country will of course be more or less affected by such changes as may be made, and the issue is therefore interesting: not only to Mexico herself but; to the world at large. Recently a correspondent of the Philadelphia mantour, the Minister ‘of Finance, on the subject of the purposed changes, but did not succeed in obtain- ing from them any definite statement concerning the nature of the means that would be adopted. Diaz contented himself with saying: “While I do not knowi‘ what the exact outcome of the proposed change will be, I will say that nathing shall be done that will Senor Limantour declined to discuss the adminis- tration plan of cdrrency reform, but after pointing out the evils the Mexicans suffer from their fluctuating currency, he went on to say that the country has no | precedent to guide it in seeking a remedy. On thisl point he said: “Japan’s experience is not a parallel | case, as many people erroneously suppose. The king- | dom ot thé Mikado is not a silver-producing country like Mexico. Fully 40 per cent of our exports is silver.” We produce .one-third of the world's supply. | Japan got enough gold as indemnity from China to start her off in good shape, while there is not a single | gold coin in circulation bearing the stamp of the| in the form of souvenirs. We have no way to get it: except to buy it, and if we secured a supply it would not long remain in the country, because the balance of trade is always against us.” In sesponse to further questioning the Finance Min- ! | ister is reported to have said that if the value of the Mexican dollar could be permanently established at half that of the American dollar he would be satisfied. He did not undertake to say how that value could be established. Interviews with leading merchants and | | bankers of the City of Mexico brought the universal answer that it could be done only by international agreement. It was admitted, however, that international agree- | ment is not at all likely. For a good many years the | United States and France were secking an inter-| national agreement on the same issue, but failed.. Asi a matter of fact international agreement, even if ob- | tained, could not permanently fix the relative values | of silver and gold. Those values fluctuate every day | according to the supply and demand of each metal | in the world’s markets. The United States has found | relief from the ‘evils of a fluctugting currency by es- tablishing her monetary system on the gold basis, and | in the end Mexico will have to follow the example. | Tkere is no other way. & It is worth noting that in the course of the inter- view with President Diaz the fact was brought out | incidentally that upward of $500,000,000 of United States capital is invested in Mexico and new capital | is going in rapidly. The President said: “I have this day signed forty-one mining permits for Ameri- cans. I sign permits cvery day for all kinds of enter- prises backed by American money.” It will be seen | then that we have large interests in Mexican financial | problems and will be greatly benefited when she finds | stability on the gold standard. ———e Secretary Chamberlain has gone among the Boers | and offered them, in expressions of the heartiest good | will, the olive branch. It is to be hoped that both | Boer and Briton will strive with one another to make the branch live forever to their common blessing. A Chicago genius szys he has discovered a way to harness the electricity of the heavens and make it | contributory to man’s happiness. Some of these days | | the harness will break and then Chicago’s histeric cow will pass into the limbo of insignificance. If the various election recounts recently held!in this city demonstrate anything they have served to ] { rining luw in California. The work Is | 8iven time'y interest by treatment of the | CHAIRMAN DAVIS REVIEWS THE APEX LAW John F. Davis, who has been chairman of the legislative committee of the Cal- ifcrnia Miners' Association, has published | in remphiet form a historical sketch of much discussed law of the apex, ‘which engaged the attention of the mining con- efess that wad held last year and which may yet figure largely in Congress. -In | the first place the author gives the gen- eral facts concerning the law of the apex as follows: To obtain any rights under the law of 1872, a prospector must not simply find or attempt to locate ‘a lode. The apex of that lode must be' within his surface boundaries, or he gets no -rights whatever, and whenever, through Lis mistake, no matter how natural, the crosses any of the surface boundaries, he loses rights that he would otherwise own.' The po- sition of the apex with reference to'the bound- ing lines becomes the touchstone of almost all his rights. - In view of these facts it will not be without profit to note sdgme of the Immediate difficul- ties that were inevitable from the working of the law, when it is remembered that in the early workings of a lode it is, in many 1 stances, impossible at once todetermine t] top or apex, course or strike, or angle or di- rection to dip, of the lode. The’apex, as in- tended to be understood in the Revised Stat- utes, is, roughly speaking, the end or edge of the vein on or nenrcst the surface. In the ideal lode the locator would have no_trouble, pro- vided he get hi: apex inside his boundary lines and his side lines ?ollow the general course of the lode. Thic -eneral course, however, he cannot always deicrmine exactly, and, under the short time allowed for locating, especially it he must hurry to head off other possible lo- cators, he must often take for granted. The apices of a narrow lode, especially in certain conformations of country, often deviate con- siderably from a straight line, and it is often easy at first to mistake their course, which is such as to pass beyond the side lines of a claim. We would then not have to look far for complications. Long extracts are given from an opin- ion rendered by Chief Justice Beatty of the Supreme Court of California touching upon the law of the apex.. Then Mr. Da- vis comes to a general review of the mat- ter as a practical miner. What he says is given in part in the following: COSTS REACH MILLIONS. Probably any system that allows the miner the right to follow his lode on the dip outside vertical planes drawn through the surface iines of his location must bring in its train more or less litigation. Where the miner who has sunk upon his lode has become the de- fendant at the instance bf some one who has | located upon his dip. he ought generally with- | out difficulty by means of his ‘underground | workings be able to prove his title to his lod though the expense is often great om accou of the' necessity of reopening old worl Where, however, he has opened his mine through a vertical shaft and cross-cut to his lode, he might, in such a case, he compelled to expend thousands and thousands of dollars | in work that is utterly useless to him for all other purposes, simply o prove the identity of the lode he is working beneath his neighbor's surface with the one he located. He cannot es- cape the burden of this positive proof, for the judiclal copstruction that has brought us the law of the surface has brought with it the | English common law accompaniment that each | locator has the prima-facie right to all-verti- cally beneath his surface. ‘Where another s mining upon the dip of his lode, and he s seeking affirmative reliel against the consclous or unconscious tres- passer, he may not be able in-the environment of his own overations to make the satisfact>ry Droof, but will have to push on, against his Other plans and interests, and do an immense | amount of ‘“dead” work until he Breaks in | upon the trespass. On account of peculiar sur- | face boundarics he might be compelled, on the | analogy- of a bill of-discovery, to apply to the | court for permission to enter the works of the | trespasser and, at his own cost, make ruin- | ously expensive upraises to the surface, a per- mission in many jurisdictions impossible to ob- tain, in order t@prove the identity of the lode. 1 haie madé@no mention of the vexatious delays, delays fhich are sometimes used by the scoundrelly gorporation trespassing to man-. ifest its consciousness of guilt by efforts of reorganization #nd theé like, nor to the enor- mous damage, often caused by the.cessation Of opezations ih osher portions of the mine rendered necessary by the expense of the ab- enormal amount of dead work useful alone for | the purposes of the litigation. The expenses | rendered necessary by these cases and by tho arising from mistakes in the location of the | apex and of the strike of the lode are mount- | ing into millions. Only the wealthy, whether corporations or individuals, can indulge in tuis luxury. . Mr. Davis refrains from doing more than stating the facts as he sees them to be. ON MOTHER LODE. The Sonora Independemt says that a rich strike is reported to have been made at the App mine in virgin ground. At the Dutch mine the twenty-stamp mill is runnitig steadily, day and night. The mill at the Mazeppa mine is néarly. com- pleted. The Stokes quartz clalm, near | Pedro Bar, that was owned by Thomas | Donahue and P. J. Roquet, has Leen deed- e@ to W. H. McClintock. William King | has deeded to M. J. Curtin of Sonora the King placer mine on the Stanislaus Riv- | er at Willowy Bar. The shaft of the To- ledo mine has been sunk 300 feet. The | main shaft of the Rawhide mine has been retimbered and unwatered to the 1500-foot ; mark. | The Densmore mine, near Columbia, will soon be running with a full force of men. Scarcity of water for power pur- poses caused a temporary cuspension. The Calaveras Citizen that the Western Mines Company, wtich recently acquired the Foote & Thompson mine at Rich Gulch, is preparing to operate on an extensive scale. The ten-stamp ‘mill at the Oriole mine will soon be ready to run, Electric power is about to be extended to the old town of Shasta by the Northern California Electrical Power Company, and the old Shasta mine, which is five miles from Keswick, will be operated by elec- tricity. The management of the mine has contracted for 100 horsepower, as report- ed by the Redding Free Press. All the machinery at the mine will be run by electricity and the camp will be supplied with_ electric lights. The San Bernardino Sun has the follow- ing: The largest recent mining deal pn the coast lacked a few days and $50,000 of being con- | summated during the past two Weeks. The | property which figured in the de: ‘was none less than the ‘“‘Quartet’’ group of mines at Searchlight, Nevada, in which Messrs Dunn | & Black of this city are interested. Some | time ago the agent of an Eastern syndicate | puid a big price for an option on the mines and | mills. The purchase price was to be $3,000,000. Toward the latter part of the perfod covered | by the option the reports f{rom the mine | showed, that two or three more rich strikes | had bebn made and the owners were “scared to death” for fear that the respresentative of the Eastern syndicate would close down the option. | About the time the éption expired the syndicats also heard of the new strikes which had been | madé in the Quartet, and the members were frantic_to secure an’ extension of the option. however, had concluded that the | mine was worth more money than the origial amount asked and therefore turnel down an offer of $50,000 for an extension ‘of the option, The old Polar Star mine in Nevada County will be reopened by a new com- pany that will be known as the Polar Star Mining Company. The Rising Sun mine in Placer County raay be operated by electricity. Bids for supplying electric power have been ad- vertised for. Frank Ballard has bought the Ironsides show us that our Judges do our voting for us after all, andyev;n they don’t know for whom the ballots were meant when they were cast. J. Pierpont Morgan has “merged” four more American railroads. If he keeps this sort of thing up much longer it may become necessary for us to es- tablish communication with Mars and invent some way of migrating there. g (i . The spectacle of a father signing articles of a prize fight as representative of his son is one of the features. of modern civilization, in which perhaps San Fran- ci:_i;o s distinguished and alone. An Oakland man insists that he found a gold‘egg in a dead chicken. - It ‘had to be just Oakland’s luck mine at Cherry Hill, in Siskiyou Cauaty, from E. D. Baker and J. D. Gray. NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. CONSPICUOUS IN A BALLROOM. Flakes of Dandruff on the Collar and ' Shoulders of a Gentleman in g Full Dress. - This is the thing you quite frequently see in liroom—a m“'tll'ldbllbk dress- b 1t must bey-'nnoyinc to the wearer, and certainly not a pleasant thing to observe. ' ma.}amn M be eradicated...It ’:'9‘ mn some day will cause ldness.. Newbro’s Herpicide kills the stroying germ, and stimulates the SR perh ko o i el extl o s hair-de- hair to | is t R a most ple | to The Herpicide Co.. Def &5 leas- odor and 1 STATE DAIRY ; BUREAU WARS ON PROCESS BUTTER The State Dairy Bureau, owing to com- plaints from dairymen throughout .the State that process or renovated butter was being sold as Eastern creamery but- ter in competition with the local product, issued a circular to the trade about two weeks ago calling attention to the fact that the law provides that each package of process or renovated butter sold must be stamped as such, and intimatihg that any violation of the law In that regard would result in the prosecution of the of- fender. |RABBI TALKS - OF THE JEWS . ° " ‘OF RUSSIA St ¢ An. unusually . Instructive lectuze. on “The Jews ot Russia’ was delivered bY Rabbi Jacob, Voorsanger before:the Coun- cil of Jewish Women yesterday: aftefnocn in the Temple Emanu-ElL He.deglared that the peéple of Amietica, do mot know. the Russian: JeW, in ‘as. miuch. as the emi- grants: which are seen in. this as different from - the- average.Russiax Jew as a;suspender peddier is different [from £ successful Jewish® merchant.’ §e give an interesting aceount of tie Jew in Russia aid of the manner in whieh he Inspector C. A. Walker was detailed to | nas been persecwted by ‘the Gavernment. look out for viclators of the law, and yes- terday on his complaint Charles F. Suss, grocer, 149 Howard street, was arrested for sellirig process butter without it being stamped as such. He was released on 320 cash bail. Suss contends that as the but- ter was sold to him in firkins by Martin, Dangers & Camm, 101 California street, which were stamped. as required by law, it was not necessary for him to stamp each package sold by him, but the bureau holds that each separate package sold must be stamped. W. H. Tawor, chemist of the bureau, sald yesterday that process or renovated butter is worked over from old butter from stores in the East. When boiled the rancid matter falls to the bottom: and may be removed. Sometimes chemicals are employed, and although the:butter is not injurious to health the law requires that it be sold for what it is, and not as something else. e SLATED FOR STOREKEEPER OF SCHOOL DEPARTMENT Thomas F. Egan Selected by Board of Education to Succeed Charles A. McAuliffe. Thomas F. Egan has been slated by the Beard of Education for the position of storekeeper of the ‘School Department, now held by Charles A. McAuliffe. Egan presented himself at the office yesterday {and informed McAuliffe that he was to be the latter's successor, and began to learn the duties of the place, which pays $135 per month. The manner in which Egan assumed the office caused considerable comment in the City Hall. It is necessary for the board to. pass a resolution to displace an em- ploye. The board did not have its regu- lar meeting last Wednesday and will not meet until to-day, when it is supposed that formal action will be taken. It is understood that Directors Woodward, Roncovierl and Mark - will vote to oust McAuliffe and appoint Egan, but Denman, whose term expires next Wednesday, de- ciines to be a party to the programme. —————— Says His Wife Left Him. A suit for divorce was filed yesterday by Aiphonse Derque against Fernandé Derque. Derque alleges that his wife: de- serted him. They were married in Jan- uary, 1804, R o o e o o ] The Alleghany mine in Sierra County will run @ tunnel 1000 feet to the channel. About 300 feet have begn run already, ac- cording to the local reports. E. P. Sherk has been declared to be the owner of the entire township of Harrison Gulch in Shasta County. Sherk claimed the land and Hunter and several others claimed the same as mineral land. The | cases in which the final issue.was in- volved have been in the courts of Shasta County about two years. OVER THE BORDER. The Western Mining World figures out that the mineral output of British Co- lumbia for the year 1%2 amounts to 327~ 000,000, taking as the basis of its esti- mates the figures réceived from the Boundary; Slocan, Rossland, Atlin, Cari- boo and Vancouver Istand districts. Silver-lead mine owners of British' Co- lumbia have adopted the following rea- olutions: That we, the silver-lead miners of the East and West Kootenay districts of British Colum- | bia, in convention assembied, do hereby recom- mend and respectfully urge the enactment of a tariff act whicn will affard ample protection fo the producers, manufacturers and trane- porters of lead; thereby creating and fostering a new and expansive home industry calculated to benefit all classes by the stimulation of na- tional trede and commerce. Having in view the interests of the producers, manufacturecs and consumers of lead, we would recommend a duty equal to that imposed by the United States, viz.: On lead in ores, 1% cenfs per pound: on lead in bullion, pigs, bars and old lead, $% cents per pound: on all other products of lead, as provided in the Dingley tar'ff act of July 24, 1897. Provided always, that If at any time it shall be proved that a combination has been formed for the purpose of unduly in- creasing_the charges made for smelting, lead Gores produced In Canada or for refining o mar- keting lead bullion, or if the charge for smeit- ing and refining in Canada is proved exorbitant, then the Governor General in council may, at his discretion, permit the admission into Can- ada of lead bullion sm>lted in forelgn coun- fries from Canadian lead ores, upon payment of an ad valorem duty of 15 per cent upon the cost of such smelting and refining. He asserted. that the only ‘way: for Rus- sis. to. splve the .Jewish question Is to grant emancipation to the Jews and to place them on an equal focting with the other subjects of the Czar. He spoke in subsiance as follows: The Russian Jews 'are much: older residents of ‘Russia than the Slavs: The greatest influs of ‘the Jews-into- the domain ot the Czar curred n the eleventh century. It was prin pally &de to persecution: of the'Jews in neig! Borirg countries. = Since tne cadvent of the Slavs the Jews -have never enjoyed good times in Russia. . With their arcival and the intro- duction - of ‘the freek Catholie- Church, the Jew's troubles commenced. .\ The faws of Rus- sia‘are not his laws. They are subjsct to the laws governing allens. They are treated much as were the slaves in this country before their emancipation. or as we treat the Chinese. Nicholas I was a tyrant =~ He had a scheme for imgrovire tha cundition of the Jews, but his' plaus included their -conversion. to the Greek Catholic Church, so it was impractica- ble. So far as citizenship -i8 concerned, the Jews In Russia are zo worse off than the rest of the people, There are o citizens, al’ are subjects. 'r‘hee most cruel laws ever enacted agalnst the Jews in Russia were the infamous May laws of 1881. These laws have reduced the Jews (o their preser.t deplorable and pitiable condition. The laws declare that the Jew is an alien and has no right in the country.- These laws com- mand that they thust return to certain prov< inces, which they originally inhabited. and re- main there. They are forbidden to lsave these provinces without permission of the. Govern- ment. Jews who have fought for Russia's honor on the fleld of battle are not exempt from these laws. In conclusion Dr. Voorsanger - stated that ‘three ways had been suggested for the -solution of the Jewish problem in Russia: First, the extermination of the Jews; second, emigration of the Jews fiem Russia; third, emancipation. —_— NOTES 0¥ INTEREST FROM CUSTOM HOUSE | Two Stenographers Added to Chinese Bureau and Nine Laborers Dis- charged From Appraiser’s. ‘Agnes J. Burbank and Surrey’ R. Jones have Leen appointed from the-Civil Ser: vice eligible list as stenographeérs in the Chinese bureau at salaries of '§1400 per annum. 2 W. L. Vzn Johaunsen, Consul for Cos- ta Rica; has notified Colléctor ' Stratton that the lottery advertised as the Bene- ficencia Publica of Carrillo and pbrporting to have its headquarters in’ Costa Rica is.a myth and a.fraud, so far, as that courtry is concerned. Owing to the fact that about all the tea stored ‘in the ' Government wareliouses durirg the pendency of the duty of 10 cents per pound has gome into consump- tion the force of laborers in the apprais; er's building ‘has been reduced by dis- charging nine on Jjanuary L The prohibitive import duty of $ per 100 kilograms of 220.46 pounds on wheat Ik Mexico has been reduced by the Mexican | Government to 50 cents per 100 kilograms until March 31, owing to the present scai- city of that grain in Mexico. —_———————— HEALTH BOARD APPROVES NEW SANITARY CODE Recommends the Adoption of Health Regulations by the Board of Supervisors. The Boardgof Health yesterday approved +he new sanhtary code and recommended its adoption by the Board of Supervisors. The code has been in course of prepara tion for some time, and consists’ of or- dinances and regulations to insure the good health of the community Dr. Frank P. Wilson was appointed as- sistant city physician, at a salary of $lw per month. 5 The Civil Service Commission notified the board that the charges against J. F. ‘Lahaney, food inspector, would be heard on January 5. Catharine Nickson was appointed assist- ant nurse at the Almshouse. el e Pruries stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* ——————— Townsend's California glace fruit and candies, 50c a pound. in ardstic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends, 639 Market st., Palace Hotel building. * PSRRI Special information supplied ‘dally to business houses and public men by tha Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s). 230 Cait~ fopnia street. Telephons Main 1042. . Everything Under the Sun in Next Sunday’s- Call. 0 YOU KNOW ANYTHING AFOUT EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR ? Do you want to know everything about anything that took place in the year just gome? Do you kngw in what month the most things happen all over the world every year and why? Do you know on what particular day of the year all these strange things take place as they dv? Do you know. for instance, that every nation on the globe must now make war according to fixed rules, and that those rules were only made last year? Do you know what those rules aref De you know how many airships really worked last year, or the remark- able things that ers? When were accomplished by North Pole explor- some one asks you what was the most stupen- dous accident last year of course you think of the 5,000 lives lost at Mont Pelee, but was that the biggest accident? Do you know when and where and how the biggest disaster occurred? Do you know what was the strangest crime on record? Do you want to know the latest records for everything in love anl war, polities, finance, science, art, crime, in short, EVERYTHING ABOUT EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN FOR THE PAST YEAR? Well, then, just get the SUNDAY CALL of January 4. 1903. It will be the most astonishing fount of knowledge you ever saw. There is absolutely no event of any importance whatever that is not. recorde¢ in THE SUNDAY CALL'S TABULATED IEVIEW oF 1902. If you are in business of any sort this is something to file away—a bureau of ready information always at hand. If you want to read simply for amusement you'll be surprised over the number ' of things you have forgotten or have never even hear aboat. However, as this original and unique review is a plement in itself, the SUNDAY CALL MAGAZINE special sup- contains ever 50 many features besides. Just read about some of them, Have you fathomed the strange personality THE “COLONEL KATE” PAPERS yet? The next cal article will be, “THE WOMAN WHO W0OS OVER A CHAFING » | D of the author of brilliantly satiri- - In the line of fiction you will get one of the best short stories ever written, “A CHILD OF CHRISTMAS,” Jjournalistic DAY CALL’S NOVELTY ART CALENDAR for 1903. It - HARRIS. Another splendid achievement is THE SUN- gives you three calendars in one—a big one for a mural decoration, a smaller one for your desk, and a compact and complete calendar for your watch case. Think of it. Then there are entertaining nul-hwhingnbwni.tu-.a— lore. Children’s unique travestry of Cleopa the pathetic adventures of a Yaqui n«..h:éx, looks, how the Czarina’s loneliness was cheered by ete., etc. “:“Nlh ki Ssecret of good American gowns,