The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 28, 1903, Page 6

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(eong Distence Telephone “Central 2619.) WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: MORTON E. CRANE........14068 G Street, N. W. NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE STEPHEN B. SMITH........30 Tribune Buildin NEW YORK €. C.CARLTON. . .. - NEW YORK NEWS STA.\"DG' EeliR Waldort-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentato, 31 Union Square; Murray Hill Hotel; Fifth-avenue Hotel and Hoffman House. ESPONDENT: CORR! . Herald Square - CHICAGO Shermen House; P. O. News Co.; Tremont House; Auditorium Hotel; Palmer House. EWE STANDS BRANCH OFFICES—S27 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open | unti! 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until 930 o'clock. Market, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1096 Vi jencia, cpen until § o'clock. 108 Eleventh, open until oclock. NW. cormer Twenty-second and Kentucky, open umn 9 e'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until 9 p. m. " UNIONS AND THE LAW. N the investigation of the Postoffice Department l now in progress among the offenses charged and ior which officials have been dismissed are vio- e civil service law. These violations con- legal removal and the illegal appointment persons in the civil service. The law absolutely protects the entry into the civil service and guards the rights oif ali therein whose expulsion is attempted They can_be expelled only on are furnished 2 copy, and aiter ample time in which to defend at a formal i The civil service law is as much a part of as the constitution itseif, and its viola- serious a matter as the defiance of any atic sit in the by their superiors. charges, oi which they he; our L Lon other law of the land A case has recently arisen in Washington which involves the claim of labor unions to a superiority over the Mr. Miller, assistant foreman of the Printing office, for personal reasons from the Bookbinders’ Union, oi which a member. His office was held under ice law, but upon the demand of Bookbind Union, backed by Mr. Gompers and the American Federation Labor, Mr. Paimer, Government Printer, dismissed him from his office. Upon an appeal to the President through the Civil .Service Commission Mr. Miller was reinstated, his nissal having been in defiance of his rights and in violation of the law. Immediately upon his legal president the Bookbinders that his and all the affiliated uniont in the Govern- ment employment would strike and walk out unless law Government was expelled he had been the civil ser of di reinstatement the oi he were again dismissed. This raises the same issue | that was made in the railway service on the gov- ernment roads of Australia. It is raised, however, in a much more serious aspect. the bookbinders and affiliated unions is that alone are superior to the law. The President every member of his Cabinet, and” every Presidential appointee and every private citizen, must obey that b | hands of incompetent men. Great Northern Hotel, | 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 | the Union announced | The mistake made by | they | and THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1903. THE FOLSOM OUTBREAK. | O F the outbreak of convicts at Folsom it may | be said the expected has happened. The people of California have long been aware lthat the management of our State prisons is in the The fact has been ex- posed again and again by The Call and by the | press generally. Legisiative investigations have shown the truth oi the statements of the prgss, and | documentary evidence has been forthcoming to con- | firm jt. Nevertheless the Board of Prison Direct- ors have retained in office and maintained in power | the men known to be unfit for the place. | That an outbreak planned upon so large a scale and undertaken with such boldness could be carried “ through with such success may be surprisingyn some particulars, but concerning the revolt itself there will | be no surprise. ‘It has long been known that insub- | ordination exists at Folsom; | has not been sufficiently strong to retain either the confidence .of the employes or command the re- spect and obedience of the convicts. The Warden | has shown a singular fondness for trusting dangerous | convicts with important duties and reposing in them |a foolish degree of trust. He has said, and even boasted, that he had more confidence in some of the convicts than in some of the men employed to guard {and control them. Such statements have not been ‘;unknown to the convicts themselves, and they have |been encouraged to take advantage of the easy | credulity of the Warden. The inevitable result has now occurred, and the Warden is left to gasp and stare and wonder how it happened. At San Quentin an equally bad if not a worse con- | dition has prevailed for a long time. It has been shown that in that prison the management was guilty not enly of incompetence, but of downright frauds. in court proving forgery, falsification of records and | other serious offenses on the part of the Warden or those who were in collusion with him. Such man- agement of course cannot retain the loyalty of the employes, ‘nor can it hold in rightful subordination the convicts confined in the prison walls. Thus there is constant danger of an outbreak in that prison, and one may occur almost any day. } The officials primarily responsible for this condi- tion of affairs are the members of the State Board | of Prison Directors. Upon them rests the duty of supervising the prisons and of seeing to it that the management is in proper hands. incompetent men in office, knowing them to be in- competent. They yhave retained at San Quentin a Warden who has been proven in court to be guilty of the grossest violations of law. They have re- tained him in office even though his term has expired, { and have thus tacitly condoned his offenses and made %lhemsel\'es approvers of his conduct. Even when at |last they have decided to choose a new Warden, ‘lhey have left the discredited official in office for a month in which to work such revenge as his spite | may dictate upon those of his subordinates whom ! he may believe to have been opposed to his past mis- | management and frauds. | The exposures made in the press have Jong since opened the eves of the people to the bad condition of affairs at both prisons, and perhaps the outbreak at Folsom will now open the eyes of the Prisom| | Directors. They can no longer be blind to the ;l('ndtntiee of bad management. They must now ad- | mit that incompetence on the part of the higher of- ficers of the prisons leads to discontent among the | employes and among the convicts; that discontent leads to disrespect, and that disrespect is followed by insubordination, out of which come attempts at vio- lence and outbreak whenever the slightest opportun- ity of success offers. The issue in the case therefore runs directly to the Board of Prison Directors. They have delayed and | dilly-dallied a long time instead of taking action at | once to remove worthless officials as soon as their | worthlessness was proven, but it is now hardly pos- | sible for them to further defy public sentiment. It | is probable, therefore, that the Folsom outbreak may | prove of value to the State by compelling a thor- | ough revision of our prison management. What has "heen done is bad enough, but it might have been | worse. At any rate the object lesson has been given | on a scale of sufficient magnitude to startle the State, land the demand upon the Prison Directors for }prompt and efficient action can no longer be safely | evaded or ignored. | { { Wrhen Virginia proposed to contribute a statue of Robert E. Lee as one of her representatives in the | National Hall of Statuary at the Capitol great objec- | tion was made, but now that Georgia proposes to | contribute to the same hall a statue of Alexander H. Stephens not the slightest criticism of the suggestion !“' NN, slove i aud mome Sre b.elou % _h is heard. Evidently the opponents of the Lee statue is 2s binding as any statute of the republic. Its vio- . Py ~ hipi s have either not heard of the Stephens proposition or lators are subject to civil and penal punishment. They stand no better before the law than the vio- lators of the statutes which forbid and punish coun- terfeiting and piracy, misuse of the mails or. em- bezzlement of public property. Yet the unions de- mand that the law be defied and nullified when it stands between them and their desire for personal vengeance and reprisal. . This issue is sharply made right to demand Miller's expulsion from the ser- vice because he has ceased to be a2 member of his union than the Masons, Catholics or Methodists have to mzke like demand for the punishment apostacy from either organmization. Yet the feder- ed trades deliberately propose to force the estab- lishment of the rule that the labor unions enjoy im- munity denied to 21l others. a same way. This is the serious aspect above that presented by the Aunstralian strike. There the unions in' the be- ginning did not violate a law of the colony, but de- fied an administrative regulation. The colony ended the strike by passing a law, which the various unions wiscly respected. It may be said with perfect sin- cerity that the people in this country who in the long run will suffer most from violation of the law are the wage-workers themselves. Under the inspira- tion of such leaders as Mr. Gompers they fail to see this now. But later on that inspiration will fail to protect them against the consequences of their as- sumed superiority to the law of the land. They wilt learn that the law cannot be violated for the sup- posed benefit of one class without lifting its obliga- tion from all, and that means anarchy. Whatever else may be said of President Castro, he leaves nothing to be desired in his capacity as a fighting man. He will fight whether he is right or wrong, whether he kas a chance or is hopelessly out- classed. or when disaster stares him absolutely in the face. And to support it all he controls the agencies which give to the world conflicts colored as he pleases to have them They have no more of | If this right be estab- | lished there is no law which may not be defied in the else they have become so tired of the subject they have decided to quit and take a rest. F ment of Commerce there has just been issued a bulletin showing the trade of the last fiscal year with our colonial possessions. It is to be noted, however, that the department does not speak of them as “possessions,” nor as “colonies,” but as “the non- | contiguous territory of the United States.” The fig- ures show that down to the close of May the trade for Elhe eleven months amounted to $86,581,026, and it is | estimated that when the June trade is added the |total for the year will not fall far short $100,000,000. Of the trade of the eleven months for which com- plete figures are given the imports wére something more than $53,000,000, and the exports of merchan- | dise $33.080,779. Of the exports it is said a little over | $11,000,000 went to Porto Rico, $10,000,000 to the . Hawaiian Islands, $8,000,000 to Alaska, a little over gs;,sm,ooo to the Philippines, and nearly $100,000 worth to Guam and Tutuila. Of the $55,000,000 of | merchandise received from the non-contiguous terri- {tory during the eleven months nearly $22,000,000 | worth came from the Hawaiian Islands, $11,000,000 | from the Philippines, $10,500,000 from Porto Rico and $10,000,000 from Alaska. This $10,000,000 re- | ceived from Alaska is merchandise and does not in- "clude the gold received from that Territory, which | amounted in the eleven months to $4,540,677. The articles of import cover a wide variety of products, but are mainly raw material. The principal items with their respective values are thus stated: “From the Hawaiian Islands—Sugar amounted to | $21,000,000 in value; coffee, $225,020; hides and skins, | $60,171; and fruits and nuts, $67,510. From Porto Rico—Sugar, $6,097,644; tobacco and manufactures thereof. $1.813,642 (of which $1,681,608 is cigars); Icofiu, $712,000; and fruits and nuts, $281,842. From the Philippine Islands—Manila hemp, $10,668.657; 1 sugar, $270,720; tobacco and cigars, $56732. From COLONIAL TRADE. ROM the Bureau of Statistics of the Depart- of that the management | Documentary evidence has been submitted | They have retained | ) Alaska the principal shipments were canned salmon, $8.401,124; other fish, $753,412; furs and fur skins, $395.703: whalebone, $115,004; and copper, $100,553." The exports of course include nearly jevery kind of manufactured product and a large amount of breadstuffs. The trade on the whole is regarded as encouraging, and gives promise of eventually be- coming large enough to make our expansion profit- able from a commercial as well as a political point of view, e ———— THE VICE PRESIDENCY. OLITICAL speculators of the Republican P party are about as much at a loss to pick a Vice Presidential candidate as the Democrats arc in their efforts to select a candidate for the Presidency. { There is no lack of men eligible for the office, but it appears there is a sad Jacky of eligibles who are willing to accept it. | Senator Platt of New York recently suggested Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island as the right man for the place, but the suggestion has been received as something of a joke, and the “Easy Boss” has | been virtually requested to give the country some- | thing easier. Aldrich, it is admitted, would make an excellent Vice President, but as the President is to i be chosen from New York it is not at all likely that | the Vice President will be taken from what is practi- cally a New York suburb. Furthermore, Aldrich has @ seat in the Senate and is one of the most influential .of its members. He likes the work, and he would [ not like the purely ornamental position of Vice Presi- | dent. Therefore Platt is supposed to have been jest- | ing when he proposed the name of a man who could | not get the nomination if sne wished it and would not accept it if it were offered. Senator Fairbanks, Senator Beveridge and others of a like caliber and position are as averse to taking | the nomination as is Aldrich himself. It will of | course go to some one in the West, but it will hardly | | g0 to any one in the Senate who has a fair assurance | of retaining his seat. Of course the candidate must be big enough to satisfy the public that he would make a fit President should any chance bring him to that office. There is then a good opportunity here | for the West tc present a nmew man to the nation. California has several men who would fill the office with honor and credit. and it is by no means im- probable that one of them may obtain it. Roosevelt | of course would gladly have a man from the extreme West on the ticket with him, and there is no other State west of the Mississippi that better deserves the honor than California. In short, the drift of speculation on the subject in the East tends to the conclusion that there will be no very earnest fight there for the place. It will be conceded to the West, and it looks as if the Western man whose friends are first to organize for the fight will win the prize.. ~ ° THE FORESTRY QUESTION. ORE or less opposition to the establishment M and maintenance of forestry reserves has been manifest ever since the policy of re- serving forest land here and there where needed for the public good was adopted by the Government. As | a rule, however, the opposition has come only from persons without official station, and in most cases from individuals having no more than a local in- fluence. It is therefore a matter of some moment when the Governor of Wyoming makes a public pro- test against the forest reserves in that State. It is a sign that the opponents of the policy are becoming formidable and feel themselves strong enough to make an open fight. It is of course not surprising ¢hat there should be some opposition. The old saying, “It is an ill wind that blows good to nobody,” is of universal appli- cation. There has never been an evil among men that did not benefit some one and around which there did not grow up considerable class interests. So long as the Government made no attempt to pre- serve its forests it any part of the country, and men were free to waste them as their interests or their carelessness prompted, it became a custom for a good many men to make free use of them and to reap a profit from them. The adoption of the policy of re- serving and protecting some of the vast forest domain of the Goveriment interferes with that custom and engenders antagenism. Naturally enough as the pol- icy of reservation has been extended the opposition has been increased, and now it shows itself in high official circles. The Governcr of Wyoming is reported to have based his objection to the system mainly upon the fact that it excludes the grazing of sheep on the reservations in that State. He is quoted as saying that the right of grazing on the foothills and in the parks on the slopes of the mountains is absolutely necessary to the sheep industry, and he insists that the Government should restore that privilege to the herders. It happens, however, that experience has shown that sheep are more injurious to a forest than anything clse short of fire. To open the forest re- serves to sheep in unlimited numbers and at the will of any one who chooses to drive them there would be to nullify the whole forest policy. Moreover, the assertion that the free use of the forests is necessary to the sheep-grazing industry is not strictly accurate. If a proper system of con- serving the grazing lands were adopted by the Goy- crnm/ent, and the sheep and the cattle men were given inducements to preserve the grass rather than to destroy it, there would be grazing room enough without sacrificing the reserved forests. The issue is }year]y becoming more and more important, and ac- cordingly the demonstration of an increasing oppo- sition to forest preservation should not be overlooked by those who understand the far-rea{ching problems that are involved in the question. el CANDIDATE HARRISON. T Mr. Bryan's Chicago meeting Mayor Har- A rison was formally nominated for the Presi- dency. The Chronicle, the only Democratic paper in that city, calls him “the mushy Mayor” and proceeds to prove that the procession in honor of Mr. Bryan was made up of City employes who serve under the mushy Mayor. The Chronicle also calls attention to the present condition of Chicago, in the hands of mobs, which havé already done one murder and threaten more, while the mushy Mayor looks on, because to run with the mob may make votes when they are needed. 3 From this iey reception of the new candidate by his party organ one may conclude that his prospects are not brilliant. But this conclusion is probably incorrect, since the people upon whom the mushy Mayor relies do not read the paper, and if they did would not comprehend the motives to which it ap- peals. Therefore we are justified in saying that the mushy Mayor stands a chance, and Mr. William Randolph Hearst should proceed to repair his fences. g 8 - - | Alaskan towns, is at the Palace. ARREST GIRLS FOR TRYING TO 'WRECK TRAINS —_—— Special Dispatch to The Call. MERCED, July 27.—Three children were taken into custody for placing obstrue- tions on the Southern Pacific tracks near the Merced River last Friday; a boy un- der seven and two girls aged nine and eleven, according to the statement of thelr father, William/ Rhodes, a rancher on the river near where the obstructions were placed. Being dressed In boys’ clothes and herding horses 'when seen hear the track, they were taken for boys. The lad was released after being brought to the county seat Saturday. The girls were detained until to-day when & charge of attempt at train wrecking was made against them. The girls were released on $1000 bail and taken home by their father. Prior to the proceedings in the justice court habeas corpus proceedings ‘were brought in behalf of the prisoners, but | the Superior Judge held that that was not the proper proceeding at the pending | stage of the case and declined to dis- | charge the prisoners. The evidence against the children fs claimed to be con- | clusive though circumstantial. They | deny that they placed the obstructions on the rails. i The obstacles, consisting of fish plates | and stones, were put on the track three | times Friday and also on Saturday. Train | wrecks were averted by the fact that trains were running slowly and the ob- structions were discovered in time to stop. PERSONAL MENTION. W. K. Brown, a surveyor of Hollister, is at the Lick. R. D. Hatch, a wealthy rancher of No- vato, and wife are registered at the Lick. E. R. Abadfe, a mining man of Nevada City, is at the Palace. Chester V. Dolph, son of Senator Dolph | of Oregon, is at the Palace. F. H. Kennedy, a merchant of Stockton, s stopping at the California. H G. E. Peoples, one of the prominent business men of Fresno, I8 in the city. Philip Kaffenberg, who owns several merchandise stores in Nome and other Captain Henry Minett, U. 8* N., who has been stationed in Samoa, arrived from the South Secas yvesterday and is at Occldental. 7 Mrs. J. A. Hopper, widow of one of | Honolulu's former wealthy sugar plant- | ers, and her family arrived ‘from the isl- | ands yesterday and registerd at the Occi- | dental. | Frank Hastings Rindge, a well-known | philanthropist of Santa Barbara, who is | prominently identified with® the Young | Men's Christian Association, is a guest at the Palace. * ‘Word was received in this city yester- day that Harry E. Hall, a member of the | Pacific-Union. Club and well known in lo- | cal business circles, 1s very ill in South- | ern California. The report stated that he | prancisco during a visit to this city sev- | ie not expected to live. Gardner T® Williams, familiarly known in South Africa as the “Cecil Rhodes” of Kimberley, he being the head of the com- | pany whicl® is operating the diamond m'nes of that country, arrived from tne south yesterday with his family and is registered at the Palace. He was here | several months ago and nas Iately been | staying at Monterey. —_———— Californians in New York. NEW YORK, July 27.—Californians in | New York: From San Francisco—Mrs. E. Dole, Miss A. Gallagher, J. Nunan, J. F.fNu- | nan, at the New Amsterdam; N. R. Arter, | J. H. Cadogan, J. E. Field, at the Herald Square; J. W. Cuthbert, at the Earling- | ton; Mrs. H. W. Fortesque, at the Na- | varre; J. C. Goodwin, H. Lochman, J. Mec- | Donald, J. C. Pelton, at the Imperial; B. | R. Hecht, C. Quinn and wife, at the Ma hattan; A. C. Kohler, at the Broadway Central; Miss W. Mackey, at the Victoria; | W. Robinson, at the Gregorian; S. Rosen- | blum, at the Astor: Mrs. E. Ross, at the | St. Denis; M. Taylor, at the Criterion; H. G. Walker, at the Bartholdi. From Los Angeles—J. J. Haggarty, E. E. Crandall, H. Goldberg, at the Herald Square; G.-H. Clark, T. H. McConnell, W. H. McConnell, at the St. Denis; C. A. Du- common, at the Manhattan; H. Eveland and wife, at the Grenoble; H. Gold-| schmidt, at the Marlborough: P. Kehl, at the Criterion; J. T. McCarey, at the Na- varre, —_———— Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON., July2l.—Arrivals at the hotels: At the Raleigh—M. K. Youns, Los | Angeles; Dr. W. H. Stiles, San Berna-- | dino; Fred F. Thomas, San Jose. At the Metropolitan—David 8. Barrymore and Susanne MacAuley, Los Angeles. —————— Red Men Elect Officers. SACRAMENTO, July 27.—At to-day's session of the Grand Stamm, Independent Order of Red Men (German order) the following officers were elected: Grand chief, John Wunder of Sacramento Stamm | 124; grand chief, H. Schulz of Pacific | Stamm 66: grand by-chief, H. Grieb of California Stamm 70; grand chaplain, P. H. Schreiber of Schiller Stamm 275; grand, secretary, M. Feutscher of Golden Gat Stamm 74; grand treasureg, F. Schneider of Sacramento Stamm 124; grand trustees, R. Landmann of Hermann Stamm 224, D. Cohn of Pacific Stamm 66 and H. Adami of Pacific Stamm 66, ————— To Absorb Utah Fuel Compgny. SALT LAKE, July 27.—The Deseret News to-night says: It is stated on strong authority that in the very near future the | Utah Fuel Company, recently organized | and embracing the Pleasant Valley Coal and other companies recognized as apper- | taining to the Denver and Rio Grande, | will be merged into and become a part of | the Golorado Fuel and Iron Company. It is reported also that the consolidation will be made largely on the recommenda- tion to George Gould of Mr. McClement, who was elected president of the (olorado Fuel and Iron company to succeed J. C. Osgood. ———— Notice to Passengers. The Crescent City Express leaving the ferry station 10 a. well as the Pacific Coast Express No. arriving Third and Townsend 1:30 p. m., will not hereafter run east of El Paso. glist 2 ibd el e e No. 8, m.. as Townsend's California glace fruits and candles, Hc pound, in artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern triends. 715 Market st., above Call bldg. * ——— Specal information stpplled daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Al Telephon, len's), 230 fornia street. e Main 1042 Onall- FRAMING BRYSON PICTURES THE “LADY IN GREEN,” Next Sunday’s Call. Bryson studies may be framed with narrow frame, burnish gold edging and raw silk mats; colors. selected to suit tones and pictures. These studies admit of a variety of styles and also make | deadly work, and in a few minutes life | Mercy Hospital. i ;:m!wn throughout the Middle Western : 5 | ANSWERS TO QUERIES. YOUNG -MAN - " TAKES A FATAL DOSE OF ACID Special Dispatch to The Call. NAPA, July %.—Wiliam Bishop, a} young man born and reared in Calistoga and well known there, took his life about | 2 o'clock this morning In a tragic manner | in front of Spiers’ livery stable. in the | presence of the night watchman and | Charles Brown he suddenly gulped down ' a large quantity of carbolic acid and died | in great agony some twenty minutes fater. | 1t is stated that young Bishop had been | despondent for some time because unsuc- ;:e;e(ul in his suit for the hand of a young ady. At the hour above stated he was in Spiers’ stable talking to the men. He sud- ' denly held a small bottle td his lips, and saying “Here goes,” had swallowed al- most its dntire contents before the others divined his purpose. With a groan Bishop fell to the ground, and although physi- cians were summoned and everything possible was done to relieve his sufferings the carbolic acid had accomplished its became extinct. Deceased was about, 30 | years of age. He leaves parents and sev- eral brothers and sisters. ——————— NOTED IOWA ATTORNEY DIES AFTER OPERATION Finley Burke of Council Bluffs Suc- cumbs to Treatment for Appendicitis. COUNCIL BLUFFS, lowa, July 27.— Finley Burke, senior member of the law firm of Burke, Harl & Tinley, who under- went an operation for appendicitis on Thursday, died a few minutes after 2! o'clock this afternoon in the Sisters of His wife and children and a few intimate friends for whom he bad asked during his last hours were at his bedside when he passed away. A few days ago Mr. Burke was appar- ently in the best of health and his death came as a great shock to his many friends and aequaintances in the city, and espe- cially to the members of the legal frater- | nity, as he has been considered one of | Towa's leading attorneys for many years. He was taken ill suddenly last Wednes- day morning and on Thursday his condi- tion became so alarming that it was | deemed advisable to remove him from his restdence on Oakland avenue to Mercy Hospital, where, during the afternoon, he | was operated on for appendicitis. The | operation was complicated by a small rup- | ture contracted last year, and from the time he went under the surgeon's knife | little hope was heid out for his recovery. He held his own, however, until Sunday morning, when he gradually grew weaker until his death. | Mr. Burke was about 50 years old and a | ploneer of Iowa. Finley Burke was a brother of Hugh M. | Burke, the veteran newspaper man of this city, and W. 8. Burke of Albuquerque, M. He made many friends in San eral years ago. Mr. Burke was well | THE NAVY-J. W., City. The term of enlistment to the United Staes navy was increased in July, 1902 MINERAL—H. S. K., City. Before this department can answer youffquery you | will have to be more explielt as to the mineral you wish to know about. GEOLOGICAL REPORTS—Mrs. 8. Westfall, Qr. For geological reports and maps address a communication to United | States Geological Survey, Washington, | e MANUSCRIPT~L. L. C., Alameda, Cal. | Manuscript to be sent to a publisher should be written on one side of paper eight by seven inches, preferably type- written, and should be sent to the pub- lisher flat, not rolled. A NEW YORK ADDRESS—I. B. W., Copperopolis, Cal. To obtain the address of an oculist in New York City, if there | is not a New York directory in your vicinity address a letter of inquiry to the New York City Directory, New York, WORK AT HOME—D. D., Truckee, Cal. There are some firms that employ women to do writing at home, but, as a rule, the work is usually given to some one known to the house wishing the work done. The way to secure such work Is to advertise in The Call. PRECINCT LOCATION—C. L. N., Fresno, Cal. The south side of Turk street_between Jones and Leavenworth, San Francisco, is in the First Precinct of the Forty-fifth Assembly Twenty-fourth _Senatorfal and Congressional District. District, Fourth MINING—A. M., Oakland, Cal.: Any first class dealer in books can supply you with books on mining and from such you can obtain considerable knowledge on the subject. Practical knowledge may be ob- tained by taking lessons from some com- petent assayer. MARINE BANDS-—N., Hanford, Cal. An individnal desiring to join a United States marine band must make applica- tion at a naval rendezvous. Applications for good musicians are always received. There is a naval rendezvous in San Fran- ciseo. DOUBLE PEDRO-S.. Redwood City, Cal. “In a game of double pedro.” writes this correspondent, “A and partner have 3 to go. B and partner have 6 to go: B gives 7. A gives S: A and partmer get high. low, jack «nd left pedro; B and partner get game and right pedro. Which wins the game?” The answer is: B and partner win. Rfght pedro counts before left pedro. 5 SHOT WHILE FLEEING—C., City. The person asked about was Patrick Cof- fey. or Coffee, who was. arrested Sep- tember 16, 1576, on an accusation of hav- ing stolen property from the Miners Foundry, on First street. He was taken to the foundry for identification, when he suddenly slipped out of the premises and was followed by an officer named ‘Waite, who called on him to stop and, failing to do so, a shot was fired and it struck Coffey, causing his death. / ADVERTISING—J. A. B, Mill Valley, Cal. The matter of license for carrying on the business of advertising and putting up advertising signs along places on county roads, etc., is regulated by each county, and not by the State. To obtain the information desired you will have to address a communication to the County Clerk of each county in the State except San Francisco. In the ldst place the information is to be obtained from the Jicense department, City Hall. RAILROAD CURVES-M., City. In surveying for railways endeavor to render their lines as level as possible, but circumstances often necessitate the use of sharp curves and gradients. As a general rule there are few curves of less than three-elghths of a mile or 3 chains radius; when they are employed the exterior rall is super elevated to counter- act the centrifugal force, a quickly moving train might leave the rails. In going round a curve wheels slip and also run against the flange. By putting aside their weekly pence the school children of Atlanta, Ga., have | saved enough to purchase an elephant for the local zo0. OIL INDUSTRY IS ENDED IN SHASTA COUNTY Special Dispatch to The Cail REDDING, July ~The visit of Sher- iff Richardson o the ofl well of the Kes wick Crude Oil Compagy at Sand F yesterday marked the beginning of th end of the oil business in Shasta County The Sheriff's visit was for the purpose of posting ndtices of foreclosure and sale on the property in the matter of George Whitaker vs. the Keswick Crude Oil Company and others. Whitaker obtained a judgment and decree of foreclosure and sale against the Keswick Company on June 3 for the sum of 8103, besides costs, interest and attorney's fees, amounting to $15 10, making a total of 395 63. In accordance with that decree the Sheriff wiil sell the property. tool tmplements and all machinery August to satisfy Whitaker's judg t The Keswick Crude Oil Company had numerous troubles during its short exist- ence, and has been in litigation aimost from the beginning. It was this property and plant that John White and others “jumped,” but the jumping process did not hold. The outfit will now be sold to the highest bidder, and it is hardly prob able that any further attempt will be made to strike oil in the county, all other wells having been abandoned. —_———————— BREAK GROUND FOR NEW MASONIC HALL Members of King Solemon’s Lodge, F. and A. M., Take Part in an Interesting Ceremony. Ground was broken yesterday morning for the erection of King Solomon’s Hall on Filimore street between Post and Sut- ter by the Western Addition Masonic Hall Association, composed of members of King Solomon's Lodge, No. 260, F. & A. M. The site was recently purchased for the purpose at a cost of $10,000. A number of members of the lodge gathered in the vacant lot and started the first wagonload of ‘sand preparatory to laying the foundation. Willlam T. Filmer, Fred B. Wood, €. L. P. Maral Harry Baehr, C. T. Cleve, George W. Lake, George P. Rupp and Frank H. Gay wielded shovels and had the wagon loaded in record-breaking time. Then they drank to the success of the venture. The contract for the foundation has been let for $5000. The building will be five stories in height and will present a handsome front. Its cost will be §70,000, nearly all of which has been subscribed. In the basement there will be a banquet hall, seating 400 people. On the second floor there will be a public hall, seating 600. There will also be two lodge rooms and a Masonic Hall on the top floor. —_———— COLONTALS TREAT YANKEE TARS WITH CORDIALITY Wheeling’s Officers and Men Find Royal Hospitality at Hands of Auckland People. Lieutenant Commander Minnett, of the navy returned yesterday from Samoa on the liner Ventura. Commander Minnett was for some time in charze of the naval station at Pago Pagp, and returns after three years’ service on the Pacifie for assignment to mew duty. He says | that the officers and men of the gunboat Wheeling were treated most cordiall Auckliand, where the Wheeling underwent an extensive overhauiing. Samoa, according to Commander Min- nett, is a very trying station, and few of the American officers shere enjoy robust health. “The climate made me too fat.” he said yesterday, “but most of the other fellows are gradually thinning down to skin and bone.” A season of storms destroyed much of the island’s bread fruit and a famine was only averted through the importation by the navy authorities of a large quantity of rice. ——e-— CASHIER COLE DENIES RESPONSIBILITY FOR LOSS Alleges Superintendent Leach Had No Lawful Authority to En- trust Him With Coin. W. K. Cole, cashier of the United States Mint in this city, filed yesterday in the United States Circuit Court a demurrer to the complaint of the United States of America against him and his bondsman, the Fidelity and Deposit Company, to re- cover $30000 alleged to have been stolen from the Mint by Wailter M. Dimmick while in the charge of Cole. Cole contends that the only per.u- mentioned in the United States Revised Statutes as being officers of the Mint in this city are the Superintendent, the As- sayer, the Melter and Reflner and the Colner, and that there is no provision in law for the Superintendent placing money in the hands of any but the officers named. First Assistant United States Attorney Banning was allowed two days in which to file an answering brief. —_—e————— STOCKHOLDERS RATIFY ISSUANCE OF BONDS Western Pacific Needs Fifty Million Dollars for Construction of Road to Salt Lake. The stockholders of the Western Pacific Railroad Company met yesterday and formally authorized the directors of the corporation to issue $50,000,000 worth of § per cent bonds, redeemable in thirty years. Attorney Bartnett, representing the com- pany, In whose offices the meeting was held, stated that no further information regarding the company’s movements was to be givem out further than that it has fourteen surveying parties at work in California, Nevada and Utah mapping out a route from San Francisco to Salt Lake. —————— Insolvent Merchant. A petition in insolvency was iiled in the United States Distriet Court yesterday by Thomas M. Sullivan, merchant, of San Francisco: Habilities, 350.42; no assets. The prineipal creditors are Julia Fra- tinger, $67%9: Elizabeth R. Sullivan, now Mrs. R. Lillis, $57.422, and the First Na- tional Bank of San Francisco, $213. ———————— ‘Women are employed on the gardening staff at Kew Gardens, England, on con- dition that they work in mal€ attire Young woman is in charge of the her- baceous and Alpine plant deparfment at the present time. The women gardeners go through a two years' course of study ut Kew. —— NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. et SOFT, GLOSSY HAIR. It Can Only Be Had Where There Is No Dandruff. Any man or woman who wants soft. glossy hair must be free of dandruff, which causes falling hair. Since it has become known that dandruff is a germ disease old hair preparations, that were most. 1@ ealp Irritants, have been Abandoned. and the public, barbers and doctors in- Saosic ng. only hn.lnr rwp-' r:lo OM: ' ration kilis . d-nldmfl germ. PE. m'mn.- cleanses the ":3:""' dandruif and pre- vents the h{.‘t out, but promotes a new growt e keeps my hair Send We in stamps for sample to Herpicide Co.. Dewoit, Mich.