The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 31, 1903, Page 6

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RAILROAD FARM SCHOOL. OME time ago attention was directed to a re- port from Berlin to the effect that the Kaiser devised a traveling school of medicine for tion of country practitioners who are un- ha g the latest discoveries and improve- medicine and surgery. It is now to be the University of Missouri has under- lar system for the purpose of carrying 1 in agriculture to every part of the State. ned in the reports from Berlin the plan in providing a series of la- ratoties and museums which can be conveniently rried along the railways and used as centers of in- on at any point desired. Eminent professors ym the great schools of the empire deliver lectures and hold clinics, which are free to those who have been duly licensed to practice either medicine or sur- y, the object being to provide not a series of popu- lar lectures jor the general mass of people, but a uine course of instruction for those who by pre- s education and experience are fitted to receive it and to profit by it. The traveling farm schools in are of yurse to be of a much more popular nature. For purposes of the undertaking a passenger coach been fitted up with charts, books and other needed ‘ for giving instruction. A corps of teach- ers and lecturers travel with the car, and the instruc- n is given almost literally in the homes of the farm- r The movement was started because it had been i farmers living in remote parts of the State Missouri the did not attend the farmers’ institute meetings, which | ave been held for several years under the direction of the university and the State Board of Agriculture. | it was felt that something should be done to reach that class of farmers, and accordingly the traveling is established by way of taking the institute hose who cannot go to the institute. An-experimental trip has begn taken with the car, is said the results obtained were sufficiently | impel the university to provide for main-’i g the traveling schcol permanently. In fact, the | prise is to be carried out on a larger scale than at first intended. In the Pourse of the experi- ntal tripgthe car stopped only at small way sta- tions, and the originators of the plan did not intend P jurther than that, but the amount of interest displayed in the instruction was so great that it has been decided to hold the ‘schools hereafter not only at small stations but at larger ones as well. A description of the school says that the seats are removed from one end of an ordinary passenger-car, 1 ngFoom for the lecturer's platiorm. A antern is used for the purpose of presenting such pictures as are needed to illustrate the lectures. o the sides are displayed important grasses and s, iruit trees and vines adapted to the different of the State, specimens of commercial fertil- hat have been tested at the university farm, and an elaborate exhibit of insect pests, together with <praying apparatus and other approved appliances for fighting the pests and fruit diseases. Such a school will of course be a great boon to those farmers and fruit-growers who are eager to learn all that science can teach concerning the problems of farm industry but who by reason of their remoteness from the larger centers are unable attend ordinary institute lectures, \ The enterprise is but another step in that great movement whigh is ever widening the influence .of the university and bringing it into closer and more numerous relations to the work of the world. In several of the States there have been established and successfully operated traveling libraries, which give the remokest communities some of the advantages of the great libraries of the cities. Now comes the uni- versity, with its lectures and its exhibits, to teach the farmer how to use the library and profit by its teach- ing. Such movements meet a genuine need of the t:me, and wherever wisely undertaken will undoubt- edly prove successful and beneficial. te ything St. Louis continues to complain of the contamina- tion of the water of-the MississipBi River by the drainage of the Chicago canal, a#tl it is quite pos- " sible she may make at the exposition a horrible dis- play of bacilli as an exhibit of Chicago life. IMMIGRATION. HE number of foreign immigrants to this coun- Ttry last year exceeded the record. This year promises to go still farther in éxcess of any pre- vious receipt of foreigners. Spring is the usual be- ginning of a large immigration, and the month of March has ushered in the season with a probable ex- cess of 20,000 above all previous records. For two reasons the subject is becoming one of most anxious interest. The immigrants are princi- pally’ Southern Europeans, who assimilate more slowly than any others, and, as they soon become citizens, their lack of knowledge of and perhaps:re- spect for our political institutions makes them an un- sympathetic increment to our population. Wages are the lure of this immigration. It is well to look the matter in the face. Given, anywhere in the world, a wage schedule from two to ten times in excess of wages everywhere else, with freedom of ingress, and nothing can stop the flow of humanity toward the point of highest wages. We are in that fix. Wages here have always ex- ceeded those elsewhere paid, and the excess has in- creased rather than diminished. The universal-law of equalization finally dominates such a situation. Given freedom of ingress and labor will soon so increase that it outruns the demand, and the hundreds of thousands of laborers who have fled from low wages to high will be found to have brought low wages with them, and our schedule, unless artificially main- tained, will surely decline in the process of equaliza- tion. The political consequences may be as easily fore- seen, A vast majority of these immigrants come from countries where the sole domestic remedies for the conditions from which they are fugitives are so- cialistic, or worse. It requires no prophet to fore- tell that when their great excess of numbers results in renewing those conditions here their possession of the ballot will work changes that will be déstructive to our institutions, or at least will modify them out of the form in which their maintenance is desirable for Americans. : The various immigration laws considered by Con- gress offer no efficient remedy at all. They propose to shut out anarchists. But who can tell an anarch- ist by any visible, physical mark? Men may freely enter the country with the latent spirit of anarchy in them, tohave it actively fermented by the many centers of anarchist agitation which already exist in the midst of us. The law compels each immigrant to bring in a small amount of money, but that limi- tation offers no obstacle at all. The enormous number of foreign immigrants already located here and getting American wages can send, and do send, to their fellows in the old countries the needed amount of cash to secure their admission, and the same money, by collecting it from them on landing, { may be sent over to bring in others and serve as the key to our country and its privileges over and over again. It is noted that our immigration officers are in many instances themselves foreigners, and develop- ments that are not forgotten prove that their sympa- thies are usually with their own kind rather than with the country they serve and the laws they are administering. But even with the most faithful vigi- lance the execution of the preventive sections of the law is beset with difficulties. The time is here when those who desire to pre- serve the American wage scale from declension, and American institutions from an extraordinary and un- necessary trial, must consult together as to the ways and means. ‘It is a matter purely of self-preserva- tion and is in no sense an opposition to foreigners. The issue is exactly the same as that presented by Chinese exclusion, with the political part canceled out, since the Chinese cannot become citizens and have no vote by which to affect our civil institutions. Despite the report that all the white people of Charleston are opposed to the appointment of a colored man as Collector of the Port, it is stated that positions when he gets into office. UNSATISFIED RUSSIA. H the Czar's recent manifesto was pub- thhcd it was received in this country and in Western Europe with hearty approval. There was a general burst of congratulation over the liber- alty of the reforms granted to the people, and it was expected that we should at once hear from Russia that the discontents have subsided and that the peo- ple are rejoicing in the new era of liberty. It was quite natural that such approval should be given and such bright expectations entertained. So far as observers from the outside could see, the proclamation is the most notable concession to civ- ilization that has been made in Russia since the emancipation of the serfs. It granted religious free- dom to all non-orthodox creeds, a considerable measure of local self-government to the provinces and announced that steps are to be taken to relieve the peasantry of forced labor and measures adopted to improve the conditions of the territorial nobles and the people generally by _the establishment of banks that would assist them in developing and work- ing their lands. Such a programme is undoubtedly a promising one, and as there was no apparent cause for doubting the imperial word, it was received every- where as an evidence of the dawn of a new era in Russian life. It appears, however, that the Russians are by no means satisfied with the outlook. It is asserted that while the decree itself reads well, it is after all some- thing in the nature of a “glittering generality,” and that its real purport as a matter of practical politics is to be sought in the details of the measures de- signed to carry it ont. Those measurés have disap- pointed the hopes of Russian liberals, and it is now | said that of all the reforms promised in the decree none are of value except those abolishing the peasants’ liability to forced labor afld permitting them to sever themselves from the communes in which they were born. Of the decree of religious toleration it is said that even moderate reformers are doubtful of its benefits because of certain restrictions with which the con- cession is hedged. It is also stated that the decree does not apply to the Jews, who have long since en- joyed liberty with respect to religious rites, but are subject to many “legal disabilities.”” It is believed the religious liberty granted to other non-orthodox sects, such as the Doukhobors and the Stundists, will prove to be like that granted to the Jews and will not carry with it a relief of legal disability. The . New York has determined that her millionaires | Promises with respect to education, local ‘govern- <hall no longer dodge her tax laws, and the milliop- | ment and rural finance are looked upon with an sires in their turn afe trying to show that they do | cqual suspicion, and in short the discontent of the not have to dodge the laws—they can defy them. people appears to have been very slightly diminished by the publication of the decree. Peace, the newspaper correspondents tell us, reigns | Summing w‘p_‘hfi opinion at St. Petersburg on again in the Philippines. The reign is generally so | the subject, a correspondent of the London Times " “remembrance as a curiosity. s S iat upward of 100 white men have applied to Crum for | | 1 C much better, and fear the scheme will prevent the at. tainment of genuine reform for many years. On the other hafd, the conservatives are well pleased and cite the decree as an eviderice that the Czar sides with them and mot with the liberals: The only persons who appear to be thoroughly pleased are said to be the revolutionary reformers, whose agitations would have been checked by the granting of genuine re- forms, but who now see an opportunity for carrying on their revolutionary campaign with-more success than ever, since they can point to the decree as an evidence that the Government does not intend to grant redress for the real evils of which the people complain. It was reported a few days ago that the Crown Princess of Saxony had made an almost successful at- tempt to commit suicide. This is the first encourag- ing news we have received of the lady since she made herself infamous in the eyes of the world. e e a2 AN AMUSING PARTY. T is to be regretted that a once great, powerful, patriotic and respected party should join the vaudeville and become a show. But this seems to be the case with the Democracy. The few sober- minded men left in that organization are trying to get it in shape to make a respectable campaign next year, but the more they try to emerge it into the legiti- mate the more it sinks back into the vaudeville of politics. Harmony feeds have been tried, but Mr. Bryan refuses to attend them if an invitation has also been extended to Mr. Cleveland, even if he have sent his regrets. When the Chicago bread of peace was broken, and Mr. Shepard extolled the pleasures and merits of the legitimate in preference to the vaudeville in politics, Mr. de Armorfd promptly declared that peacg could be had only by doing vaudeville even on the legitimate stage, and that no man could lead the party in the future who did not believe in 16 to 1. So, between the soup and the toothpicks, the cost of the Chicago peace picnic was wasted, and the guests adjourned still in war paint and feathers. Then rose a terrible outery from Louisville, traceable to Colonel Watterson, who had dreams and uttered himself to the effect that all would be well if Mr. Cleveland were out of the way. - With that delightful inattention to logic which makes the colonel as charming as a woman, he expressed the opinion that Mr. Cleveland was so strong that if nominated again he would be elected, and therefore he must be mobbed in order to prevent the destruction of his party by leadimg it to success. While the colonel was still reeking in the cold sweat of this nightmare Mr. Bryan took his pen in hand to say that he would give bonds to accept the next available invitation to a peace banquet on the sole condition that Mr. Cleveland shall be present that he may tell him face to face what he thinks of him! Now, could anything be funnier? Is there any stunt on the vaudeville stage, seen for two or four bits ad- mission, that quite equals it? Y To continue the analogy, # is now given out that THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, - Mr. Bryan says he wiil support “Bill” Hearst as the | Labor lUni(:vacmocmtic candidate, and thereupon it is announced that the ticket may be Hearst for Presi- dent and Bryan for Vice President! That is like going to the Moulin Rouge and the #ardin Mabille for stars on this new political circuit. It is the union of the Platte and the Hudson. And each candidate re- sembling a river, because his mouth is so far from his head. z So it is entirely possible that next year the cam- paign, as far as the Democracy is concerned, may be ranked among amusements, with Hearst and Bryan for stars, and {im” Budd, “Tom” Johnson and a few more like them doing the small stunts. There is a growing belief that it would be possible to establish harmony in the Democratic party if Henry Watterson and W, J. Bryan would go in search of the north pole during the coming year. e ALASKAN PROBLEMS. OMPARATIVELY little attention has been givern by Congress to the needs of Alaska, that the Territory is one of great richness and is rapidly being exploited not only by miners but by railroad builders. From every class of Alaskan pio- neers come reports of urgent needs of a better gov- ernmental system. The Governor. of the Territory has repeatedly recommended various measures of legislation, and as a rule his recommendations have been indorsed by the administration at Washington. Still Congress ‘has remained indifferent to the sub- ject, and instead of giving the legislation required has contented itself with appointing a committee of inves- tigation. 1t is of course possible that the committe& that is to inspect the Territory may perform some useful ser- vice, but the chances are it will make nothing more than a junketing trip and will return to Washington about as ignorant of Alaska as it was before starting forth to have a holiday cruise at, the expense of the Government. Had Congress really desired informa- tion about Alaska and about the needs of the miners and of the Indians it could have attained it far bet- ter by inviting some of the more competent officials ir the Territory to go to Washington than by sending rather incompetent set of Senators to spend a month or so in Alaska. The country is a vast oné, and were the committee ever so desirous of acquiring informa- tion it could hardly get even a superficial view of things during the short time it will have at its dis- posal. The Canadian method of dealing with their Yukon Territory has been much better than ours, if indeed ours can be called a method, and yet Canada is but a poor country in comparison with the United States and has had nothing like so much experience as our- selves in managing new territories and providing proper laws for their settlement by a progressive pop- ulation. Alaska is a part of the Greater West, and California should take an \interest in its develop- _ment and in everything that tends to it. Consequently it would be worth while for our commercial associa- tions to make a little campaign of education on the subject this summer, and thus prepare the way for in- ducing Cong@n to take such action as Alaskans need at the next session. Milwaukee and San Francisco have been chosen to share the honors of listening to the President’s ora- tory on his ‘Western journey. In depriving other cities of this privilege the chief executive probably had in mind the character of the audiences to whom he cares to speak. High German officials are very much concerned to know why Uncle Sam doesn't send some of his war- ships and cruisers into German waters. Our Teu- i j tonic friends should possess themselves in patience. | <hort and unexpected that a record of it is worthy of | says the moderate reformers are bitterly disappointed | Uncle Sam may send a few fighting some boats over notwithstanding the fact that it is now evident | MARCH 31, ENTERTAINS HIS GUESTS AT THE BOHEMIAN CLUB One of the most enjoyable dinners of the season was given by Jeremiah Lyrch in the Owl room of the Bohemian Club last evening. The guesys of honor were the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon, wi are sojourning in this city at present. Fi teen friends of the host were invited. The guests of honor were the center of much interest and admiration. Everything was perfectly appointed and the decoratiors were lavish and in excellent taste. Apgle and orange blossoms were arranged in a 1903. large bowl in the center of the tabie, | about which foliage was placed at inter- | vals. Candelabra with yellow silk shades added a soft glow to the scene. Clusters of foliage also decora the walls and were hung over plctures with eharming effect. The genial cordiality of the host gave added zest to the affair, and the guests were delightfully entertained Those present were: Miss Charlotte Russell, Miss Alice Hager, Miss Ethel Hager, Miss Linda Cadwalader, Miss King, Miss Helen Wi 3 g I Grau; agner, James D. Phelan, | Clement Tobin, Donald de V. Johnston and Richard McCreary. oI e The musicale given by Mrs. Oscar Mans- feldt at the Sorosis Club on Saturday aft- ernoon to introduce Maurice Robb, the child pianist, prdved a very enjoyable af- fair to music lovers. Those present were: Mrs, Frank W. Sumner, Mrs. Charles I. Dean, Mrs. J. E. Birmingham, Mrs. H. G. Brooke, Mrs. ~ Winslow Anderson, Mme. de Seminario, Mrs. James Monroe Goewey, Mrs. W. Fiapuckingham. Mrs. Marion Leventritt, Mrs. Richard Fenner, Mrs. R. P. in 1ss Keating, Mrs. Liewellyn Jones, Miss Grace Llewellyn Jones, Mrs. Sydney Leibes, Miss Hadenfeldt, Mrs. Carl Sawrell, Miss Polk, Mrs. Harry Gray, Mrs. M. C. Has: Mrs. D. Fraser. Mrs. J. Edlin, Mrs. Drynan, Mrs. J. H. Mules, Mrs. W. Himmelsbach. Miss Holling, Miss Jennie Long, Mrs. A. Hoiling, Mrs. R. ens, Miss Owens. Mrs. Blumenberg, Mrs. Baggeit, Mrs. G. Gassner, Miss Ensign, Mrs. Ensign, Mrs. I. Magnin, Mrs, Maviel, Mrs. R. E. O'Connell, John Harraden Pratt, Mrs. John Harraden Pratt, Miss F. Thompson. Mrs. R. Feige, Miss Feige, Mrs. C. Stanyan, Miss Stan- yan, Miss Stevens. Mrs. Maurice Brandt, Mrs. E. Roiker, Mrs. rges. ~ Miss Grace Ewinz, Miss Helen Stocking, Mrs. F. Van Ness Cox, Mrs. George A. Schultz, Miss Stone, Miss Loulse Stone, Miss Dora Plage- mann, Mrs. R. Behlow, Miss Plagemann, Mrs. L. Flynn, Miss Rosenberg, Mrs. Ran, Miss Higgins, Miss Farjeon, Miss Plumstead, Mrs. Murray,’ Miss Murray. Mrs. C. Thompson, Miss Driscoll, Miss Ruth Jjohnson, Mrs. F. L. Robb and Mrs, C. Sawrell. PR The ladies of the California Club are he- ginning their week most auspiciously. To-day they will entertain Mrs. Ella Wheeler Wilcox, -and have been called upon for a large number of guest cards for those desiring to meet the poete: The following programme, under the di- rection of Mrs. W. P. Buckingham, will be rendered before the reception: Piano solo, (a) “‘Album Leaf” (Grutzmacher), Graham, (b) ‘‘Romance’’ (F sharp major) (Schumann), | (A flat) | (¢) Tmpromptu (A flat), (d) Etude (Chopin), Mrs. Isidor Jacobs; soprano solo, ‘Speak” (Ardit]), Mrs. Lillle Roeder-Apple, Mra. Helen Earl Sutherland, accompanist; reading, ‘A Set of Turquoise’’ (Aldrich), Mrs. A. 8. Langstroth: contralto solo, (&) “Thine™” {(Carl Bohm), (b) ‘A Song of Love” (Ethelbert Nevin), Mrs. Mary Mann Healy, Miss Har- | riet R. Thompson accompanist; violin solo, Hullamvo Balaton” (Hubay), Miss Ethel Kathryn D. Holladay, Mrs. P, Barnum ac- companist; boy soprano, (a) ‘‘Ave Maria” (W. Legrand-Howland), (b) “‘Suffer Little Children to Come Unto Me" ' (Horatio D. Hewitt), Master Thomas Dobson Jr., Mrs. Helen Earl Suther- land accompanist; plano solo, (a) ™ out Words” (Tschaikowski), (b) (Schutt), Mrs, Isador Jacobs, Sriet o Miss Catherine and Miss Alice Herrin returned on Sunday from Byron Hot Springs, where they have been spending a few days with their father, William F. Herrin. ‘With “Waltz" ’ Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Curley, accompa- nied by Miss K. J. Erb, are sojourning at Byron Hot Springs e Miss Pearl Landers is the guest of her cousin, Mrs. Jack Johnston, in Los An-| geles. &, Mrs. Eleanor Martin is in Southern Cal- ifornia on a business trip with Walter | Martin and J. Downey Harvey. e A Mrs. A. W. Scott will be at home Fri- days in April and May. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. OVERFLOWED LAND-E., Halvern, Cal. No one has a right to do anything that will damage the property of another. If a man willfully diverts a stream so | that the water thereform will flow con- tinuously upon the land of another and render it useless for cultivation the own- er of the land has his remedy at law in an action for damages. SANTA FE—Subscriber, City. It was recently decided that all the passenger cars of the Banta Fe system shall be painted a dark olive green. The cars now in use are being painted that color as soon as turned in at the repair shops. The color is similar to that of the Pull- man coaches. DISINFECTANTS—J. G. J., Sacramen- to, Cal. Your questions®as 10 the use of disinfectants for a schoolroom, and the time that should elapse before children who have been in an iInfected house should be permitted to return to school, ought to be submitted to the Health Board of your city. That body can act advisedly after hearing all the facts. SANTIAGO MEDALS-—Constant Read- er, City. The medals that were voted to those who took part in the navy at the battles of Santiago and other places will | be distributed in time. The Navy De- partment at times moves slowly, but it moves surely. If you do not recefve your medal within a rea and you are not permitted to write to the Navy Department because you are an enlisted man in the navy there is noth- ing to prevent you from writing to the President to ascertain why you are be- ing neglected; that is, if you believe you are. OF CHINESE PARENTS-R. O. D., Fresno, Cal. A boy born of Chinese par- ents in the United States is a native born the same as any other boy born to for- eign p. cents in this country, and when he attains the age of 21 he is entitled to vote, provided he has complied with all requirements as to residence in State, county and voting precinet, the same as || other citizens. The law of the United States Congress prohibits persons of CHinese birth from becoming citizens, but it does not proseribe children of parents of any nationality, when such children born in the United States, from the right of citizenship. A boy born in the United States of parents who have never been naturalized may elect on attaining ma- Jority whether he will adopt the citizen- ship of his parents or remain an American citizen, Which he Is by birth. T ——— NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. IN ALL WALKS OF LIFE Herricids Ts Used to Cure Dandruff. E. H. Lyons, New Yori, N. Y., says: “I am very fond of H , and en- hflrnah‘ it. It is r T . J. H. Toledo, lo, writes: “Newbro's has flvan better have ever satisfaction than anything Mrs. ng of Chadron, Nebr., says of : . "%M ead of dandruff and mr out. It is i ever used, i s SAYsS: 10c_in Co., nable length of time | MANY CONVICTS WILL BENEFIT BY THE ORDER ——— I WASHINGTON, March .—President | Roosevelt hag issued a general order in the nature of an amnesty toward a cer- tain class of prisonsrs which will affect more than a hundred prisoners confined | in the new United States penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga. In the early part of 1902, upon the completion of the Atlanta pen tentiary, a number of United States pris- oners incarcerated in the penitentiaries | of Ohio and New York were transferred | to the penitentiary at Atlanta. oners their terms-of imprisonment were practically increased in some cases to the extgnt of three or four vears for the reason that the Ohio and New York laws relating to the diminution of sentences for good conduct which by the Federal statutes was made applicable to United | States prisoners were very much more | liberal than the Federal statutes under : which diminution of sentences is permit- | ted in Federal ingtitutions. | The last Congress repealed the Federal iulztulel making State laws applicable to United States prisoners and enacted a very liberal commutation law applicable Ito all United States prisoners wherever confined. by On account of the great injustice done | to the prisoners transferred to Atlanta jin extending their sentences over the } terms which were intended by the courts !in imposing the sentences, and in order to j remedy this injustice the President has | issued a general order under which each | transferred prisoner will be discharged | upon the day when he would have been { discharged had he continued to be con- | fined in the State prison or penitemigry | from which he was transferred. | The President has denied fifteen appli- | cations for executive clemency and has iexe!clsefl clemency in nine tases. | He has commuted to imprisonment for ! twenty years the sentence of Thomas | Thurber, convicted in Kansas for murder | and senfenced in 1888 to be hanged. The | prisoner has served néarly fifteen years. i |CZAR TAKES AN INTEREST i IN ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION | Magnitude of Exhibition Plans and | the Marvelous Development of i | | America Impress Him. | ST. PETERSBURG, March 30.—The | Czar to-day received Thomas W. Crid- | ler, the representative of the St. Louis | Exposition, at the imperial residence at | Tsarkoe Selo and expressed his personal | Interest in the objects of the St. Louis Exposition, the scope of which he dis- cussed with Cridler for a considerable {length of time. The Czar referred to the friendship existing between Russia and the United States and said he hoped tq see that friendship more firmly cemented. He seemed much impressed by the mag- nitude of the exhibition plans and said he | | wished to congratulate America on its | marvelous development, saying to Crid- ler: “You have the greatest country.” The Czar promised to carefully examine a memorandum submitted to him by Cridler, showing the economic reasons for the participation of Russia in the exhibi- tion. | | %PBBABE “QUR COUNTRY" | IS LEGALLY DEFINED Circuit Court of Appeals Decides That It Refers -to the United States. .ST. LOUIS, March 30.—The United States Court of Appeals handed down a decislon to-day defining the expression “our country” and “‘old country.” The point came up inf a coypright sult on soap labels, in whi¢h it was claimed by an Eastern company that “eld coun- try.” fringement of “‘our country. ‘The United States Circuit Court for the | Iowa District held that there was no in- | fringement in the new name and the | Court of Appeals, in an opinion written | by Judge Caldwell, affirms that decision. | 7 | The opinion states that by long usage the phrase “old country” has come to mean | Europe, while “our country,” when used |in this country, means this country. SABRTTER Schoolboy Commits Suicide. MARINE CITY, Mich., March 30.—Ar- thur Wellhousen, a 15-year-old lad, went ! 'to his room yesterday morning after a | heated argument with his parents as to | whether he should go to church. A shot was heard soon after he went upstairs | and the boy was found dead on his bed | with a bullet through his brain. T e 2 | King Edward Will Visit Ireland. | LONDON, March 30.—It is offfeially an- nounced that King Edward and Queen Alexandra will visit Ireland in July or August of this year. —_——————— Ex. strong hoarhound candy. Townsend's.® S —— | Townsend's California glace fruit and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 639 Market st., Palace Hotel bullding. * ——————————— Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230" Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 142 ~ * By reason of the transfer of these pris- | used by an lowa firm, was an In- | | the Palace. | ness. [PRESENTATION OF SOUVENIRS AT EXPOSITION —— CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo.,, March One of the most pleasing features con nected with the dedicatory exerclies of the St. Louls Louisiana Purchase Expo- sition will be the presentation by the Colorado Stage Board of Commissioncre of three solid gold souvenir medals—one to Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States; a second to Emile Louber, President of the French republic, and the third" to President David R. Franeis of the St. Louis Exposition. The presenta- tion will be made on April 30. The zold for the three souvenirs, comprising about four ounces, was contributed by the man- agement of a Cripple Creek mine. From these three medals, which will be the first of the official souvenirs to bLe struck off, 30,000 will be made of baier metals and will be sold to visiters whils the exposition is in progress. On one side the gold souvenirs will bear bas-reliefs of Jefferson and Napeleon, made from famous paintings by contem- porary artists of the great statesman and warrior. The design on the obverse side censists of a horseshoe, which with its interwoven scroll forms the monogram “U. 8." This monogram, encircled with fourteen stars, representing the States and Territories of the Louisiana purchase, symbolizes the acquirement of this valu- able territory. PERSONAL MENTION. H. Brace, a machinery burg, is at the Palace. Dr. and Mrs. J. D. Davidson of Fresno are registered at the Palace. J. F. Dunn, a capitalist of Park City, Utah, is a guest at the Russ. D. Gillespie of Pittsburg, one of the biggest contractors of the East, is at the Palace. C. L. Weber, who is largely interested in grain elevators in Buffalo, N. Y., is at the Russ. Jeffrey Roche of Boston, successor John Boyle O'Reilly as editor of Pllot, is at the Palace. Banker B. U. Steinman and family o Sacramento are at the Palace. They are preparing for a trip abroad. W. H. Singer of Pittsburg, one of A drew Carnegie’s former partners, family are stopping at the Palace. Robert S. Mason, cashier of the State Savings Bank of Detroit, is registered at the - Palace. It is his first trip to the coast. E..S. Conway, one of lllinois’ big Re- publican politicians and chairman of the Cook County Central Committee, is at the Palace. George P. Gubble, president of the In- ternational Bricklayers' and Stone- masons’ Association, is registered at the R from Chicago. A. B. Bement of Terre Haute, Ind., is registered at the Palace with his wife. They will make a tour of the coast and visit Mexico before returmng home. ©O. F. Paxton, president of the Port- land Streef Rallway Company, in which D. O. Mills of New York and 1. W. Hell- man, the locgl banker, are Interested, - man of Pitts- ot the nd | is at the Palace. A. R. Andrews of Bath, Me., 8 at He is president of the Hyde Windlass Company, which is one of t subsidiary companies of the United Statcs | shipbuilding trust. W. H. Parry of Seattle, president of | the City Council of that place and also president of the newly organized Call- fornia Fruit Syndicate, which is capital- ized at $3,000,000 and controls large or- chards In_the southerw part of the State, 14 at the Palace. He is on his way south td meet several Eastern capitalists who are interested in the syndicate. Paryy is identified with a number of other import- ant enterprises in the north and it ‘was through his efforts mainly that the con- tract for the building of the battleship Nebraska was secured for the coast. Former Congressman Dennis Flinn, of Oklahama Territory, is at the Grand, hav- ing arrived from Eureka, Humboldt County, on Sunday. The gentleman is one of the most famous and, for that matter, most popular characters of the Territory, which he rerresented in the Fifty-seventh Congress. During his term he earned the record of securing the passage of more bills than any other member of the House. He was the father of the free home bill, which cathed the Government to remit many millions of dollars to the settlers in the Territory. Expecting that Oklahama would be made a State, his friends adyised him not to accept a renomination/for ‘Congress and he turned his attention to private busi He went to Eureka recently to ex- amine several timber tracts with a view toward purchasing. i Californians in New York. NEW YORK, March 30.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—R. M. Critchell, at the Cri- terion; C. E. Hale, at the Mariborough; Mrs. J. 8. Morgan and Miss E. F. Mor- gan, at the Gilsey; W. G. Robinson, at the Cadillac, and Weil, at the Grenoble. From Sacramento—Dr. F. L. Atkinson, at the New Amsterdam. —_— e An ordinary oak tree raises 120 to 13 tons of moisture from the earth during a single season. L. i Most Absorbing of All THE THIRD INSTALLMENT OF - The Thirleenth District Wherein the Hero Makes Some Awful Sacrifices in His Struggle for Something That Means More Than Life. ~ Next Sunday Call Three Special Features Which Every Wo- man Will Read. s e s e R I I D A And One of Jack London’s Best Stories ..JAN, THE UNREDENTANT..