The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 8, 1903, Page 6

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MORE MONROE DOCTRINE. rs of the American squadron y entertained in London mem- British Ministry talked freely bers k about the Monroe doctrine. They desired that its extension be considered, so as to assert the Inited States in this hemi- rol over the financial obli- tional responsibility of Latin- America i compel proper international conduct cessity of intervention by Europe. no respect undertake to guarantee the n states beyond protecting the integ- rity and sovereignty. But inasmuch as that makes war upon them futile as a remedial meas- must be found to teach them the ers of civilization. International ¢ a peaceful blockade. A blockade commercial rights of neutrals. No 1 or cargo can be prevented entering a seaport unless there has been a declaration of war. This was recognized by the concerted powers in the A their soi! ure some inte! concerns the neu Vene blockade, and w that adventure forced the adjustment by arbitration of the issues which caused i really settled nothing. One recourse is left, which the United States should Suppose that after arbitration Venezuela refuse, as she may, the award and de- cline payment, a repetition of the blockade will be How can the award be enforced? There is and that is by occupation of her seaports nd 2dmi; her custom-houses until the amount is collected in duties. She will have one side- step left, which will be the repeal of her tariff, assum- ing to leave no duties to be collected. But as this will be part of the offense of evasion the powers con- cerned will be warranted in ignoring it and enforcing the imposts as they existed when the ports were oc- cupied. A large number of those Latin-American govern- ments are vicious and predatory to a degree that for- feits any consideration that might be felt for honest members of the family of nations. Their dishonesty forbids that we in any respect become their guaran- tors. At the same time we bear before the world a most painful responsibility 1f the Monroe doctrine work to absolve them from all honorable observance of international obligations. They must be made to understand that this will not be permitted. To per- mit it makes us the protector of piracy. Those countries need and continually invite the investment of foreign capital. If the issues which arise out of such investment are between individuals governments are not concerned. But if a citizen of a Latin-American state injure a foreign investor or damage the person of a foreign national, and the ex- ecutive protect him in it, the act becomes the act of the nation and it must respond. In default of a civ- ilized system of jurisprudence in many of those states it is the fact that the courts are the creatures of the President’s will, and their denials of justice to for- cigners are almost invariably dictated by the execu- tive. Such acts cannot be overlooked by the civilized nations. Upon the whole we are inclined to think that one or two exampls of the seizure of custom-houses and collection of revenues to meet arbitral judgments will bring those bandit governments to their senses and make them understand that the Monroe doctrine is mot a skull and crossbones flag. o e hasten to recognize. futile. but one w ration of The diplomatic Governors of Russia appear to be distinctly of the sardonic school. While all the world is growling at what it terms crafty and ugscrupu- lous robbery perpetrated by Russia in Manchuria the cunning bear leases from Korea a patch of land for a purpose not very clear even in its announcement. This looks like Japan’s cue for another protest. Shafts of ice ten inches long fell recently in thun- derous storm in Colorado. This ought to suggest a -splendid opportunity for a missionary field for the Progmotion Committee of California. While one s gain is not necessarily another’s loss in economics there is nothing to indicate that one man’s loss may not be another’s gain in climate. Former Lieutenant Governor Lee of Missouri wept on the witness stand the other day as he told of the dishonesty which ruled the State while he was in offige and in which he was besmirched. It is strange to what expedients some men will resort to make others laugh. g GORMAN’S VIEWS. ENATOR GORMAN returned from Europe in S time to reach New York just as his Presidential boom was being exploited in the press. As a consequence he was met by a host of reporters and called upon to define his position. It is scarcely nec- essary to say the Senator was evasive, for that is the settled policy of all Democratic leaders at this time, but nevertheless his methods of evasion were quite different from those of his rivals and may be studied with interest. % Cleveland, Parker and the others when asked to state whether or no they will be candidates decline to be interviewed. Parker indeed said he has no opinions on any political issue at this time and that he cannot consent to be interviewed upon any point whatever. Gorman is more adroit. He does not de- casily and readily; he replies to every question put to him; he makes no request that his words shall not be printed; he offers no explanations. Talking thus with freedom and seeming candor, it is not difficult for any reporter to get a two column interview with him, but when his utterances are read over the reader perceives that after all the aStute Marylander has really said nothing of importance nor even intimated anything. In fact in his free and easy talking he has been more non-committal than Judge Parker, who so emphatically insists that he will not talk at all. Summing up the statements as given in half a dozen Eastern papers on the-day after his arrival at, New York, Gorman said that during his stay in Europe he had heard little of American politics and had given np thought to the subject. He professed to be ignorant even of the political situation in Maryland and declared he could not say what course he would take in regard to it. When told that the Democratic politicians were awaiting his return to “fix up a slate” he replied: “Well, I will soon be with them, but I do not know anything about the matter now.” Concerning national politics he said: “I haven't been considering any individual for the Democratic nomination, and that includes myself. - One can't tell anything about it. The convention is almost a year off. It is the party that must be considered, not men. ‘\\’e seem to be getting away from a number of false ideas that the party has been chasing around after in the past few years. The issues of the campaign are likely to be reformation of the tariff, economy of Federal administration and economy in public places. It is by no means certain that the Postoffice scandal will hurt the Republican party. The people may forget all about it before the election. Moreover the Republicans may make capital of it by pointing | out how they detected it and suppressed it. Neither can we be certain about the issue of economy. The people may not care about that either. There used to be a howl when Congress appropriated large sums, but that is past now. People don't think of it any more. We can have a billion-dollar Congress these days without hearing a word about it.” Of other issues he said: “The negro question is not political. It has got beyond that. It will have no | bearing on the next campaign in a strictly political | sense. It will not make the South more solid, for the South is too solid now. As to trusts, every one knows that they are unnatural and unhealthy. As to regulating them, they seem to be regulating them- selves. They all have incorporated in them the seeds of death. I understand that since I have been | away Wall street has been turned upside down by trying to handle them.” Returning to the subject of Democratic prospects the Senator said: “Democracy must get back to old ideas and abandon the false ones it has been follow- ing. In the coming campaign I will take my place us soldier in the Democtatic ranks and fight as hard as I can. T will not be the head of the Democratic National Committee. If Cleveland be nominated T | will support him as I would any other candidate. I ;ha\'e never quarreled with Cleveland; we have only | differed. I never have political quarrels, but some- times T have political disagreements.” ! That is the sum and substance of the various inter- | views, and the public can draw its own conclusions as to whether Gorman is a candidate for the Demo- cratic nomination. One other point is worth noting. At the close of one of the interviews, when the re- porter had exhausted all the political cross-examina- tion, the Senator volunteered the statement: “While T was abroad I was much interested in European farming. They are good farmers over there, but | when you come to compare their labor and prod- ucts—" There the words faiied, but the reporter | adds: “The Senator shock his head, intimating that | nothing can compare with the American farmer.” | We may therefore safely conclude that if Gorman | gets into the fight he will try to catch the farmer vote as an offset to the cowboy. e s s ena e | The people of the State are thoroughly aroused to the necessity of leaving nothing undone in prepara- "lion for our appearance at the St. Louis Exposition. This is as it should be if for no other reason than to show the world that man hunts and train wrecking | are not our only specialties. EWthe coming contest for the America’s cup, and while the opinion prevails that the two competitors will be well matched and represent the | highest achievement in the art of constructing marine ' racing michines, there is nevertheless evident a | growing discontent with the present method of com- }pfling for the cup. The argument is that the com- | peting boats are not “yachts” in any rightful sense {and that their construction is of no benefit whatever | to genuine yachting. The dissatisfaction is finding expression press of the larger cities of the East, and notably in that of New York. The Tribune after noting that discontent with the “racing machines” is spreading and is more notable this summer than ever before, says: “The feeling is becoming pretty general among yachtsmen, we think, not to speak of the larger pub- lic that possesses some nautical understanding and experience, that a reversion to an earlier type ought to be brought about.” The New York Times says: “The acquiescence of the New York Yacht Club in what we may, with undue deference to the current slang, to which no deference whatever is really due, call the ‘big single+ sticker proposition,’ is at the source, is the source, of all our aquatic woes. The object of yacht races is, theoretically, to improve the breed. of that noble animal, the yacht. The result of these races of twenty years, according to the testimony of all the experts, is simply to degrade the breed of the animal in question. It is, we understand, entirely admitted, on both sides, that a vessel which has a fair chance, under these new conditions, of winning or of losing the America’s cup cannot possibly fulfill the diction- ary definition of a ‘yacht,’ which is that of ‘a vessel built and sailed for pleasure.’” p Such expressions of dissatisfaction are so common \ THE CUP YACHTS. HILE there is a good deal of interest felt in cline to be interviewed. On the contrary, he talks | in the | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1903. {and come from such high sourges that it is not likely they will be overlooked by those who have the au- thority to fix the terms under which the cup is to be competed for in future. Consequently we may see this year the last of the racing machine matches. As the Times puts it: “The real conclusion appearssto be that if the New York Yacht Club should see its way to revert to the original scheme of racing schooners only for the America’s cup it would confer an im- mense benefit and advantage upon the ‘Anglo- Saxon’ ‘yachting’ world.” ' The killing of negroes in the Southern States has | become practically a pastime. The two unfortunate men who were wantonly murdered in Tennessee a | few days ago were chased and run down to a horrible death as if they were wild beasts. They had done no -harm; offended no law of civilization. And still we boast of our heritage of twenty centuries of Christian ideals, A of railway traffic with an inidequate supply of rolling stock and an insufficient roadbed has endangered our railway transportation is afforded in the recently published bulletin of the Interstate Com- merce Commission, giving the list of accidents and fatalities for the months of January, February and March of this year. It makes a showing something | like the record of a war and demonstrates the neces- sity of the adoption of a much better system of safe- guards than is now in use on most of our roads. By what is known as the “accident law” of March, i 1091, railroads are required to make reports to the commissién of all accidents on their lines, together ! with a statement of the losses, fatalities and injuries | | that result. The reports show that during the three months under review there were 1650 collisions and 1181 derailments, making a total of 2831 accidents. | Of the collisions 201 .and of the derailments 125 iafl‘ectcd passenger trains. As a result of the acci- | | dents 300 persons were killed and 2843 injured. Acci ‘dems of other kinds, ihcluding those sustained by employes while at work and by passengers in getting | on or off the cars, bring the total number of casual- | ties up to 837 killed and 11,481 injured. Some of the accidents could hardly have been | | guarded against by the company. Such was notably | the case of a collision of which the bulletin says: | “The visual signals (automatic semaphore block sig- nals) with which the road is equipped for the preven- | tion of collisions were in this case concededly ade- | quate and in good working order, but the engineman appears to have been oblivious to all signals for a period of two or three or more minutes, and as the train was running very fast this length of time suf- ficed for him to pass three or four warning red lights and therefore to collide with a passenger train in advance, causing a terrible wreck. * * * The | engineman was killed in the collision and no ex- planation of his conduct was forthcoming, but it ap- pears he was in good mental and physical health so far as is known.” In another set of accidents there was gross care- lessness: The bulletin says of one case of that kind: “The use of flags, torpedoes and fusees was depended on to protect a train from reat collision at a time when, in consequence of a deep snow on the ground, i the use of the block system was demanded by con- | siderations of more than ordinary gravity. Deep snow iillerferes with the walking of the flagman and often interferes with the effectiveness of torpedoes; | | and if the snow is blown about by the wind or dis- | | turbed by the moving train the engineman may have { | his view of the flagman’s flag or lantern obstructed.” | Of course in a country with such an enormous | railway mileage as ours there will always be acci- | dents, but it would seem that railway manage: ;might improve on the conditions that now prevail A total of nearly 3000 collisions and derailments | | within three months is a little too high an accident ilis( even for a people who are so reckless in their | desirg for speed. RAILROAD ACCIDENTS. N illustration of the extent to which the rush The precocity of her children has given to Oak- land, time without memory, the distinguished title | of the Athens of the Pacific, but who ever would have suspected that an atmosphere of culture of whatever sort would have led a girl of 11 years to try her 'prentice hand at the fine art of burglary? The fact, however, was recorded recently in a day's | doings on the eastern bay shore. | THE MiNING STATE. l APITAL in California has been diverted from | ‘ mining to the development of our other val- {, uable resources to the abridgment oi mining | development. The policy of the Government in pre- | venting the use of our best water powers, which are | on those parts of streams that lie within forest or | park reservations, has also obsoleted many mines | which have ne fuel accessible, but could be profitably | worked by electric power. | These causes combined, and their absence in other mining States, have resulted in our being excelled, { from time to time, in our annual output of gold. But when they are removed, and especially when the use of the excluded water powers is permitted, California | may easily lead the gold States once more. But it is | interesting to note that in the East this is still treated as the leader of the mining States. It is known there that mining development in Montana, Utah and Colorado is largely by the experience acquired in California, and when men think of gold they think of California with it. Our commissioners to the St. Louis Exposition have caused it to be announced that California will prepare for that occasion a complete mining exhibit | that will be kept together as a permanent illustration of our mineral resources and the methods of their conversion. The Eastern press generally comments upon this as intensely satisfactory to the whole coun- try, correctly assuming that this State can be relied on to pre-eminently illustrate all that need be known in regard to precious metal mining and the produc- | tion of the useful minerals. These expectations will | be justified, but whdt a vision is raised respecting the opportunity of California at St. Louis! Millions will go there expecting to see our mining exhibit and regarding it as the foremost feature we have to offer. They will find that it excels the world, but they will also find with it our agricultural, horticultural, forest, stream and institutional exhibits equally pre-eminent, and will declare with the Queen of Sheba that th half had not been told. 2 —— A Berkeley professor of an investigating turn of mind recently discovered in a deep shaft hidder within a Shasta County cave the skeleton of a woman who had probably been thrown down the shaft over one hundred years ago. Even with this evidence of the antiquity of our people and the extremely ad- vanced state of our customs our Eastern rivals may still insist that we are of mushroom growth and yet in m.callnw youth. ! 75,000,060. The mintage of these new pleces | colns are in simultaneous use. | the facllities for transportation are not | | during the present year will far surpass | | American and Canadian gold amounting MINTS WILL REQUIRE MUCH MORE SILVER — The poor favor with which the pesos recently coined in this city and in Phila- delphia as the basjs for the currency of the Philippine ...ands have been received by the Filipinos will not, so say the officlals of the United States Mint in this city, in-| terfere with carrying out the full coinage authorized by act of Congress. That act calls for making pesos to the amount of in San Francisco to date amounts to $5,- 900,000. In Philadelphia a very much less quantity has been turned out from the mint. An important consideration to mine owners in the United 'States is whether the Government will continue to buy silver bullion for the Filipino coins. The purchase of such bullion, as contem- plated under the act of Congress, to pro- vide all the pesos that are needed involves the expenditure of something like $30,000,- 000. California 1s not largely concerned in this marketing of silver, but Colorade and Utah have a large stake in it. If the surmises of the officials of the Mint in San Francisco'are accurate and the mintage shall go on without inter- ruption, the sale of more than $20,000,000 of silver to be turned Into pesos for the use of the Filipinos is assured. The colns are new to the Fiiipinos and therefore are probably regarded with more or less distrust. But they are intended to make ' a uniform basis for the transaction of | island business and so insure a greater | measure of stability than could be expect- ed where Spanish, Mexican and American | It is sup-| posed that the Filipinos will soon get | used to the new pesos and be pleased eventually to have a uniform currency. On one side of the coins are the American | flag and the eagie; on the other side is Filipino emblem. The effect of the Fik pino side of the coin is somewhat marredi by the mixture of Spaaish and English | n the designation of value. Instead of “uno | eso” the coin is imprinted with ‘“one | peso.” As business in the islands increase: there will undoubtedly be a demand for | | more coins and the silver purchases will be increased. STATISTICS FOR STATE. Statistician Charles G. Yale of the State Mining Bureau will have the annual re- turns concerning the mineral output of | California completed in the next fort-| night. Many of the counties have their | statistics in. The showing may be af- fected by the labor troubles, that serloul-] Iy interfered with the output of copper at | the mines of the Mountain Copper Com- | pany at Keswick, where for months there | were difficulties, The greatest interest| may attach to the output of the ofl mines. | It is asserted by the secretary of the Cal-| ifornia Petroleum Miners' Association that the consumption of petroleum in Cal- | ifornia will reach 20,000,000 barrels during the year 1903. At this time the consump- tion of oil is running close to the produc- tion in certain sections; in others, where i £00d, the tankage continues heavy. The | statistics to be sent out by the State Min. | ing Bureau apply to the year 1802. There is no question that the production of ofl | that of 1902. The figures about to be ye- | ceived will show more accurately than any other returns just what the output | was last year, and will dispel some theo- ries on that subject. According to the Seattle Times the out-| put of gold in Nome for the present year promises to amount to $15,000,000. The as- say-office in Seattle, which has been es- tabMshed only five years, has handled | to $73,000,000 according to the same author- | ity. Says the Times: This is at the rate of fourteen million dollars per annum and does not include more than twenty millions of gold which has been taken out of Alaska and the Northwest Territory during that five years and sent to other parts | of the nation. READY TO CLOSE. The Lincoln mine, so says the Amador | Ledger, is about to be closed: A meeting of the directors of this company was held early in the week, at which it was | definitely decided to close down. The work of | taking up the track is now in progress. This | | may take a couple of weeks to finish, at the end of which time the property will revert to idleness. The company have expended in_the nelghborhood of $200,000 in prospecting. They have searched it thoroughly and used good judgment and economy in all the operations. They do not feel justified in continuing the work. T. J. Clavering, representing the own- of the Lincoln, was present, also Mr. Stent, arge stockholder, after whom the town of in Tuolumne, was named. A preposi- | a Stent, tion iyas made to consolidate the Lingpln and Mahoney properties and continue work. This was favorably considered at first but finally it was deemed inadvisable to press it under | existing conditions. The Union Democrat tells about Tich re. | turns from mining in the heart of the| town of Sonora, Tuolumne County, as fol- lows: = As a result of a run of five days John Neale's placer claim, in the heart of this city, netted & gold bar worth §100. The first sink has been bottomed and work will be resumed on adja- cent ground when a frame building has been removed and water is available for use ia ground sluicing. It is_the general opinion among old-timers that Mr. Neale, who has ex- | tracted much gold from the prémises in the past few vears, has not vet encountered the | richest streak of/ gravel This opinion 1s thared by Mr. Neale, who expects a 49 clean- | up when he uncovers the old creek channel. The Tuolumne Independent reports the following deals for mining properties in Tuolumne County: ‘Willlam Sharwood and Carroll McTarnahan have entered into an agreement with William Floyd to sell their two-thirds interest in & quartz mine south of and adjacent to the Grizzly mine. George Coliins of Carters has sold to Mrs. Annie Beile Smith all his half interest in the Annie Belle gold-mining cialm on Mount Eaton. Willlam Hartman of Carters has sold to Blas Kolich of Columbia a one-third interest in the Old Home placer mine, near Yankee Hill. John W. Barrett has deeded to Charles F. Lukens a sixth interest in the Bel::l:‘r. mit Carters. A. Jacoba has to ‘A, C. - son of Carters a one-sixth interest in the El Oro_quartz mine, two miles south of Carters, on Long Guich Mountain. Lambert Van Laak and Henry Otersen of San Francisco have deeded to the Gladys Gold Mining and Milling Company the Clare D., Jean G. and the Bride quartz mines. F. J. h and G. R. Langer of Ban Francisco have deeded to the e com- pn’ny the Fanny 8., Isabelle and Lulu B. quartz mines. FIND TOO MUCH WATER. The parties who are prospecting in the vicinity of Indian Springs, Shasta County, preliminary to dredging for gold have met with difficuities which they did not fore- see: They are prospecting with a drill and a tew days ago they struck a large quantity of ater. much to their surprise. This has re- ed their work In a measure and will neces- sitate the Installation of new ma- chinery, which will be done immed!: An order has been given for a powerful engine which will be capable of handling all the water they may have to contend with. The presumption is that there is a false beneath the surface and that it is the bedrock in charge have not becom: cot They will continue prospecting and they have the belief that they will strike vel shortly below se bedrock. According to the Los Angeles Journal there are fully 500 mining companies rep- resented in Los Angeles: The new city direct: of Los Angeles counts 324 mining emfiho. Probably only those were enumerated which maintain sepa- fate offices, Tt there re Wmny: With offices real estaf agents, iwyers and which were undoubtedly missed; |Mum a list of such could be which are not named in the directory. The full list ably near 500. During the last has been considerable of a 3 The Empire mine, at Gold Valley, Sierra County, is to be reopened. The Willough- by mine, near Gold Valley, will also be Trinity County is making good its claim ' | post and came near killing a child named | a white metal, which on being tested by local PERSONAL MENTION. F. M. Clough, a lawyer of Chico, is at the Palace. Dr. W. L. Bennett of Baltimore is at the Palace. Victor Woods, Surveyor General of the State, is a guest at the Lick. M. H. Sherman, rallroad magnate of Los Angeles, Is at the Palace. Frank Buck, the well-known fruit man of Vacaville, and family are at the Palace. Alfred F. White, manager of the Bank- ing Law Journal of New York, is at the Palace. Dr. R. B. Miller and wife and Dr. W. B. Shallenberger of Chicago are guests at the Ocidental. Mrs, Lizzie C. Dean of 74 Fifth avenue, has returned from a visit to Mrs. Willlam Rowland of Healdsburg. Philip 8. Teller of the firm of Norton, Teller & Roden will leave to-day for a four months’ vacation in Europe. 1. W. Hellman, president of the Nevada National Bank, returned yesterday from a month’s stay at his summer home at Lake Tahoe. J. M. Israel of the Union Trust Com- pany, who has been spending his vacation in Mendocino and Lake counties, re- turned home yesterday. ‘W. E. Bemis, manager of the Standard Ofl Company in New York, and wife are at the Palace, having returned on the last steamer from India, where they attended the Durbar. 2 W. H. Bancroft, general manager of the Oregon Short Line, arrived from Southern Callfornia yesterday and is registered at the Palace. He is on his way to his“home in Salt Lake City. Lloyd F. Weaver, manager of the local and Orfental agencies of Studebaker & Byos., left yesterday on the Siberia for a'three months’ trip in the Orient. He was accompanied by his wife. Among the recent arrivals at the Palace 18 G. 1. Shekury, managing director of the company which controls the Central Ho- tel of Shanghai. He has come to this country for the purpose of Inspecting the modern hotels, with a view of remodeling he establishment which he represents. James L. Fraser, formerly superinten- dent of the coast division of the Southern Pacific Company and at present general superintendent of the Toledo, St. Louis and Western Railroad, with headquarters at Frankfort, Indiana, accompanied by his wife, is paying a visit to this city and is registered at the Palace. ———— MRS. J. H GOODMAN DIES AT THE PALACE ‘Well-Known Woman Succumbs to a Stroke of Paralysis That Be- fell Her a Month Ago. Mys. J. H. Goodman, widow of a former banker of Napa, died yesterday afternoon at the Palace Hotel. Death was due to paralysis, she having suffered a stroke a months ago, since which her life had been despaired of. Mrs. Goodman was widely | known in Northern California. She had | resided at the Palace with her son, James G. Mudgett, for a number of fears. Ar- rangements for the funeral have not yet been made. —e———— Runaway Causes Excitement. A palr of horses hitched to a wafon belonging to the Golden Gate Mineral Water, Works, which was in charge of Frank Paillet, got away from his co?trol on Clara street yesterday and ran a'dis- tance of a block, when the rear axle| broke. The breaking of the axle stopped the animals for the time being, but onc of them broke away from the hitching 9 Roy Jacobson, aged 2 years, who was playing on the street. Driver and child were found to be free from bodily in- jurles after their experience. B i e B e . to be a mining county on the returns of the County Assessor. These show that there are 1261 gold mining claims, thirty quicksilver deposits and forty-one copper claims in the county. The agriculture of the county is summed up in the statement that there are but 500 acres of wheat in the county, fifty aeres of barley, fifty acres of corn, ten acres of oats ana 13,00 acres of hay. DISCOVERING TIN. Tin is reported to have been discovered by the Enterprise Mining C®mpany at Lone Mountain, about four miles from Barrel Springs, in the southern part of this State. The Los Angeles Journal says of the reported Qiscovery: The shatt is down thirty feet, at which point there is a large ledge, with no walls in sight. Within the last few feet the ore has shown assavers proved to be tin. Samples of the ore have been sent to San Francisco for quantita- tive assay. to determine whether the metal is present in sufficient quantity to pay. The formation is similar to that in which lh." great tin mines of Cornwall are situated. be- ing ltme and granite, associated with copper, the granite preponderating. According to the Bakersfleld Californian there is a great lack of material with which to forward the operations of the petroleum miners of Kern County: Much work at the Kern River®leld is being delayed. The Southwestern refinery has been retard The stills have been many months Jate in arriving and are just being put in. The company has completed the frame work for its asphaltum house and the corrugated iron for covering it Is expected from San Francisco within thirty days. It should have been here two weeks ago. This building is 200x50 and stands by the railroad siding. be- ing separated from the rest of the refinery buildings by a fireproof wai SOME ANSWERS TO QUERIES BY CALL READERS THEATERS—L. F. S.. City. The seat- ing capacity of San Francisco theaters was published in this department July 9, 1903. NEWSPAPERS—J. C., Vallejo, Cal The newspaper publishers raised the price for the same reason that merchants raise the price of commodities, because the oc- casion demands the raise. BANK-—G. H:, City. The report to the Bank Commissioners shows that the bank asked about and doing business in this city owns its premises. For further in- formation address the board of directors of that bank. PINE NEEDLES—J. L. M, City. rive needles for sofa pillows are simply sun- dried to the extent of taking the moisture out of them and then placed in the pil- low. If dried too much tthe needles lose their fragrance. CORBETT AND FITZ—W. K., Sacra- mento, Cal. The record of Corbett up to January of this year does not show that he and Fitzsimmons “met In a boxing match in some Eastern city after their battle in Carson City.” CINDER PATH—Athlete, City. The new cinder path in Golden Gate Park will be built in that part where the speed track is. It is not known when work on the track will be commenced, as that matter is still being discussed by the Commis- sioners. MEETING ON THE STREET—J. L. M, City. If a gentleman is walking with a lady and they are passed by a lady who is acquainted with the lady he is escorting, and that lady bows to his escort, he is bound, in etiquette of the street, to raise his hat, no matter whether he knows her or not. COLUMBUS—J. C., Vallejo, Cal. The remains of Christopher Columbus were taken from Italy in 153 to San Domingo and In 17% were transferred to the cathe- dral in Havana, where they reposed until July 2, 1897, when they were taken from that resting place, put aboard of an Ital- jan man of war and conveyed to Genoa, the city of his birth, where they were buried with ceremonial pomp. SECURING A PATENT — Engineer, City. There is nothing to prevent you from taking the steps to secure a patent without the ald of an attorney, but if your invention is a valuable one you may from lack of experience in such matters, make a mistake that would cost you your patent, for there are sharpers who are constantly on the alert for mistakes of that kind. They steal a man's invention and have it patented. It is safest to en- gage the services of one posted in such matters. AUTOMOBILE—J. C., Vallejo, Cal. The fastest mile made with an automobile or a straight away track was made Novem- ber 16, 191, by Hy. Fournier with a forty horsepower gasoline machine over the Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, N. Y.; time 514-5 seconds. The same man, with same machine, made a mile on a circular track October 10, 191, on the Empire City track, Yonkers, N. Y.; time 1:06 4-5. The world's record for a mile on an elliptic track was made June 20, 1%8, at Indianapolis in 59 3-5 seconds. FLORENCE CRITTENTON MSSION— M., City. The Florence Crittenton Home is an organization chartered by special act of the United States Government for the purpose of reaching'and leading into better lives unfortunate girls and women. It comsists of a chain of more than fifty homes, located in different cities, as well as one each in Japan and France, besides numerous circles, the members of which visit the haunts of sin and encourage the giris to forsake the evil life. About 30 per cent of those reached are permanently re- formed. The first home was opened at 31 Bleecker Ptreet, New York City, eighteen years ago by Mr. Crittenton, the founder and president, and named for his little daughter Florence. The headquarters of the mission are at 218 Third streét, N. W_, Washington, D. C. President, Charles N. Crittenton, 21 Bleecker street, New York City; general superintendent, Kate Waller Barrett, M. D.; secretary, Mrs. Emma L. Robertson, Washington, D. C.; treasurer, F. B. Waterman, New York. —_———— Wants Her Son Located. Chief Wittman has received a letter from Mrs. Rina Johnson, Seattle, Wash., asking assistance in locating her som, George Satter, 19 years of age. She sald her son came to this city from Fargo, N. D., in November last, and he had written to her regularly till April. Since that time she has not heard from him. — e — Look out for 81 Fourth (front of barber, grocer); best eyeglas: specs, 13c to 50c. * ——e——————— Townsend's California glace fruits and candies, 50c a pound, In artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends, T15 Market st.. above Call bldg. * — Spectal information supplied dally to business nouses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's). 330 Call- fornia street. Telephone %e ° Watch for By The Oracle of Mul- berry Center By S. E. Kiser. The Efiquette of the ..The Spenders... )yllrryhn'nm ‘Wherein Uncle Peter Bines sacrifices $12,000,000 to teach his nephew not to be a fashionable sosh. — the full page of clever half-hour Under Ihmnper Moon By Charles Sloan Reid. ..How the Race Was Won... By Crittenden Marriott. A Village Pincushion By Sarah Lindsay Coleman.