The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 6, 1903, Page 6

THE SA OBER 6, 1003 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. Address A1 Commenications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager. TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. Market and Third, S. F. 17 to 221 Stevenson St. PUBLICATION OFFICE. EDITORIAL ROOMS. ... Delivered by Carriers, 20 Cts. Per Week, 75 Cts. Per Month. Single Copies 5 Cents. Terme by Mail. Including Postage (Cash With Order): DAILY CALL (including Sunday) one vear... 88,00 DAILY CALL dncluding Sunday), 6 months. . 4.00 DAILY CALL—By Single Month g TS €UNDAY CALL, One Year....... . 250 WEEKLY CALL, One Year.... . 1.00 Per Year Extra [ Datly FOREIGN POSTAGE....... { Bunday.. 4.156 Per Year Extra { Weekly.. 1.00 Per Year Extra BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open umtil 9:80 o'clock. 300 Haves, open until 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open untii 2261 €30 o'clock n, cpen until 10 o'clock. Merket, corn . cpen until § o'clock. 1098 Va- lencia, open until ® o'clock. 108 Eleventh, open until 8 o' clock corner Church end Duncan streets, open entil § o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until § o'clock. 2200 Filimore, open until 9 o'clock. article 1) that rter provides (section | be no recourse against the city and T" county for damage to person or property suf- ident on any street. tes the Geary-street ined by reason ¢ more irce from accidents than are other street railn In fact, if its supervision over the street railway is as lax as is generally the super- 1 more accidents, more injuries inflicted of offict: over their subordinates, ision d carelessness of the employes { than of other railroads. The city, of the charter, is exempt reasc ility for such injuries. ed on the Geary-street road will be un- juries suffered thereby, e to recover damages f may be these in- permanent ents happen through the carelessness r negligence of street way employes. The cars while a passenger is getting on sildren, in playing upon the streets, are n down by the cars. Vehicles are collided with and their occupants thrown out. In all these injuries, flicted upon any railroad operated by private when 1 ties, the courts are open to the injured for redress, blishes the negligence of the railroad employes juries are very quick to award sle damages. 1f these injuries happen on the rail- road operated by the city, the injured party would be demurred out of court and his wrongs go unre- dressed. It therefore would behoove people to ride on the cars of the United Railroads which parallel the Geary-street road rather than on the Geary-street it is operated by the city. road t is true the charter may be changed, but we can only act under the law that is in existence, and this law exempts the from liability for any such ci THE COST OF LIVING. iries. CIENCE has done much to instruct people in S the necessities of diet, and to point out the things we eat that do not enter into the nourishment oi the body, but are taken to satisiy These surplus articles that are not the most expensive part of the the palate only. food are, as a rule diet, and they do not aid digestion nor assimilation, but clog and hinder both. Americans are the greatest caters in the world, and also the greatest wasters. It is estimated that population of 80,000,000 every day wastes enough to feed an equal number and keep them in printe condition for all the duties of life. It is an unpleasant reflection that any among us should lack food, where it is so abundant and needs only a proper distribution to fill every mouth that craves it. The waste we make, if put where needed, would fatten every rib on every man, woman and child that is now in need of daily bread. A gentleman in the Argentines is reported to have been experimenting with his diet, with aston- ishing results. He was formerly an officer in the navy, but does not say whether his attention was drawn to dietetic reform by eating hard tack and canned soup. He announces the discovery that he can live well on five cents a day, eating only oranges and bread. This diet amply sustains his strength and he finds no impairment of any of his physical or mental force resulting from its use. His experiment proves that the cost of the neces- saries of life has increased in the last fifty years. When Horace Greeley edited the Tribune and made it one of the greatest newspapers ever published, he ceaselessly taught the ways of economy in diet. Solon Robinson was his agricultural writer, and the files of the paper during the fifties will disclose many of Solon’s sage observations on, domestic economy in diet. He wrote and published in pamphlet form: "*One dime a day; how "twas earned; how ’twas spent, and how five mouths it fed” As we remem- ber it, he proved that at the then current market prices in New York City ten cents sufficiently dieted five in a family. That was two cents apiece, and beat the Argentine gentleman by three cents a day per head. Respecting an exclusive diet of oranges and bread we are inclined to think that the ex-naval officer is a case of individual physiology, and that such a diet would not prove universally suitable. Then the amount and kind of food necessary to sus- tain life at working pitch is affected by conditions of climate and occupation. The Chinese laborers are perhaps the best example of a people who can live and toil unceasingly on the same diet from the equator to the polar circles. With their rice, varied but little by occasional fish, fiesh or fow], they resist all weather and work well under a vertical sun in the tropics, or at Nome or Dawson City. Such experiences as that of the Argentinian, while not to be accepted as of universal application, are use- ful in calling attention to the needless expenditure made by nearly all our people upon'a diet that is not necessary to satisfy or to strengthen them. our from | The result will be that the | CANDIDATES AND TACTICS. HE city campaign is just warming up and will T scon be in the lurid stage. It is a triangular fight. At two of the corners stand Mayor Schmitz and Mr. Lane, respectively. Their places on the diamond may be known without putting an ear |to the ground. They are identified by vociferation. Each of those gentlemen has circumnavigated him- seli and each submits a chart for public approval. Mr. Lane has notified the public of his entire satis- faction with himself. He has looked himself over and fearlessly declares that he is satisfied with him- self. He finds no flaw anywhere, and sees no reason why his office-holding career shall not be indefi- nitely extended, inasmuch as he is convinced that he is unique, the only article of the kind now in stock, |and that ’:c is a public necessity. If the pcopl€ will {only agree with him, accept him as a phenomenon |and as one of the necessaries of life, he will confer lupnn them the favor of continuing in office. | Mayor Schmitz is not backward on his corner. ch has announced his approval of hinseli and all of | his works. He has gone somewhat fufrther than Mr. | Lane, on a line that Lane has perhaps reserved for | future exploitation. The Mayor has approved of his | own oratory and tells his constituents that he is en- tranced by the echo of his: own eloquence. He has uttered the opinion that his oratorical efforts in rep- | resenting the city before the facegof distinguished vis- |itors have been fine, and have received the approval | of all hearers, including himédelf. He insists, in fact, ! that he, and not Mr. Lane, is “It"” when it comes to | the parts of speech. While these two gentlemen are telling all they know about themselves, and each is tugging away at the boot straps of his own good opinion of him- self in the effort to lift himseli into office, Mr. Crocker is silent on his corner and gloes not venture to ratify himseli at all. He has lived his life here, ‘and his daily walk has been among the people of | San Francisco. Some approve of him and some do Inot, as is the fashion with men. He may have quali- ties in their line as remarkable as those that the other candidates have discovered in themselves. If so, it is enough for the people to discover them in | | his acts and not in his words. He is a business man, and such are men of deeds and not of words. So, while the Labor party and Democratic corners of the triangle resemble the stocks of gay flowers { for sale on the Chronicle corner, and Mayor Schmitz and Mr. Lane are throwing orchids at themselves, the Republican corner is not in bloom with that class | of flowers. i But for all that Mr. Crocker is not left without | witnesses, though he does not testify in his own be- {hali. From all over the State rises testimony to his | useful service in behalf of the rural industries and production of California. A few years ago the vin- tage of this State languished. The vineyards were | without profit and their owners without credit. Vines ! were being uprooted and grape-growers were in the | agony of sacrifice of their costly plantations to change their industry in the desperate hope of saving their |lands from the prevalent mortgage that rested upon | the vines of hill and valley throughout the State. To revive that industry, make it profitable, save | the homes of the growers and save to the State mil- | lions of investment, was a task as great and in some 1rz-spects more difficult than the righteous govern t | of San Francisco. To that task Mr. Crocker set hiff)- “fiel\' with energy and intelligence. Almost before the | transformation was effected. The vineyard industry | was regenerated, and profit and contentment took the | place of loss and disappointment. This was done by { Mr. Crocker’s skill in business organization. The ‘;noub]e was not lack of fruitfulness in the vineyards, | of skill and industry in the planters, but it was in the |lack of proper commercial organization of the in- ldustry, The grape-growers had been in the grasp :m’ a monopoly that controlled commerce in the vin- | tage. | share of the profits, back to every vine that purpled in the sunshine of California, and when it was done | {he did not mount an eminence and cry out to all | passers: *“Come, all ye gallant gentlemen, and take a !look at me! 1 did it,” but he was content to have | done something, to have acted well in an emergency, ;and left approval and praise to others, if they were | minded to approve and praise. | Now these planters, from far apart sections of the | State, noting his nomination for Mayor of this city, | unable to vote for him, yet unwilling to be silent, are formally expressing their unforgotten obligatioft |to him, and from every vineyard in California rises a note of approval of Henry J. Crocker. What the planters say he did for their industry was a material benefit. It was not thrilling audiences with oratory, nor was it seeking the emoluments of office and posing in the public eye as an object of interest. But it was a real service, that turned loss into profit, lifted mortgages, paid debts, built better homes, sent sons and daughters to school, effaced the hard tmes of life and made a brighter light in many a window. 1t also had its favorable reaction upon many lines of | business in this city. It put cash in place of credit | at myriad country stores, and cash in place of credit linto the dealings of the country merchant with the | city jobber. Yet Mr. Crocker did not brag about it, and if it cause bouquets to be thrown to his corner they are cast voluntarily by others, by men of all parties, and are not thrown by himself to himself. We by no means minimize the merits of Mayor [ Schmitz and Mr. Lane. If we wanted to, they Ewould not permit it. Their trombones are in |too good order for that. No one can get |even a small word in edgewise in regard to them, for they monopolize all the language of eulogy in describing themselves. There is not a single adjective, verb or adverb employed in laudation left idle. They are working the ascriptive part of the language into that tired feeling upon themselves, their qualities, their merits and their virtues. But | | selves at their own estimate of their value comes the clear, far note from hill and valley, raised by volun- teers, that Henry J. Crocker did something of im- portance to his fellow citizens and the State and | didn’t brag about it { A MASSACHUSETTS QUESTION. ASSACHUSETTS is discussing with great M ardor whether or no the Democrats of the State should declare to the country that they | believe Richard Olney ought to be the next Presi- dent of the United States. Persons unfamiliar with | New England will probably find it difficult to under- stand whyy there should be any great stress placed upon such an issue, for in any other State a similar one would be looked upon merely as a controversy over the political prospects of a favorite son and no | one outside of the partisans engaged in the thick 1of the strife would care very much about it. In tate knew what had happened the change came, the: He carried commercial principles, and a just | ! above all this auction at which they bid upon them- | FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1903. ! New England it is different. The issue there rygns beyond Mr. Olney and Democracy and takes m"‘“ big question of the availability of New England men as candidates for the Presidency. The issue arises in this way: Among the domi- nant set of politicians in the New England States there has grown up a belief since Blaine's time that as those States are sure for the Republican candi- date, no matter who he may be, it would be poor politics for the Republicans to nominate a New Eng- lander. They argue that the same set of facts make it equally inexpedient for Democrats to nominate a New Englander. Hence they say to present the name of Olney as the choice of Massachusetts’ Democ- racy would be self-stultification, since it would de- prive the delegates from that State of a chance to make advantageous trades with candidates from other States. Under such circumstances it will be seen the Olney question becomes a New England question, or rather a question between the practical politicians and the theorists of New England. To nominate Olney as the candidate of the State for the Presi- dency would be to put Massachusetts in the field of President-makers, and, according to the politicians, that honor belongs exclusively to doubtful States like Ohio, Iilinois and New York. The Olney men assert with vehemence that the nation is really yearning for a return of their fa- vorite to politics. Henry Nelson Loomis says: “I have crossed the continent twice within the last two months, and I say what I know to be the truth when {T state that Mr. Olney is the ideal candidate in the | thought of the men of the West, and of the North- west, and of the Pacific Coast, who prefer a man of character at the head of the republic to a boy of noise and confusion. Day by day the issue is settling down in the minds of the people, here and every- where, between character and furious exaltation; be- tween a real and understanding love for the demo- cratic institutions of the republic on the one side, and, on the other, the shouts of a multitude led by or for individual liberty if the rights of man inter- '!erc with his impulse to establish an arbitrary pa- ternalism.” That is a brave statement bravely made, but a man who has been across the continent and has found along the route a boom for Olney is evidently a man who is liable to see visions in the night. No slight- est sign of a boom for Olney has been seen or heard of outside of New England. In the South and in the | West his name is never mentioned, and even in New York and Pennsylvania it is seldom noted by the Democratic press. The issue is, in short, a strictly New England question, and even there the interest |in it is doubtless mainly of an academic nature. B The French racing world, it is said, suspects that our trainers drug horses upon occasions. What a flood of light has been shed upon the French intelli- gence! We don't suspect that race horses are drug- ged, jockeys and officials are bribed and the public bunkoed. We have passed beyond the stage of sus- picion to the open field of knowledge. | l The men wobble while standing at “attention,” are deficient in the manners and morals of guard duty and are suspected of chewing gum and other un- martial practices. We have no doubt that, from the strict and martinet stagdpoint, our citizen soldiers | @re not up to the mark. A man whose walk and con- | versation are_civil for most of the time cannot be ex- ;pecic,d to drop the free and easy even on dress | parade. But they may all have in them the stuff out of which American soldiers are made for all that. The irresistible de#re of a militiaman to carry into uniform the familiarifies of every-day life and to hail | his colonel as “old hoss” may be entirely consistent | with good fighting qualities when their presence is reeded. In the fine and minute points of discipline the militia can never be brought to the precision of regulars. The regular does not constantly oscillate between civil and military experience. Once enlisted THE NATIONAL GUARD. NSPECTOR KOSTER has gone through the pay day. Otherwise he is constantly absorbing from his officers and drillmaster the rigid discipline neces- sary to the professional soldier. With the militiaman it is different. The pomp and circumstance of military life are exceptional and his civil life the rule. He cannot be expected to carry over into his civil life his military discipline, to walk as part of a formation and hold his chin at the mar- tial elevation. On the other hand his civil freedom is inevitably carried into his occasional military ex- perience. Yet he makes a good soldier. In our civil war the million volunteers had learned some- thing of formation and the manual of arms in the militia, and when the hard work came they put their { heroic shoulders to it and never winced. The Na- tional Guard of California need not be ashamed of the record of the First Regiment in our Spanish war, nor of the patriotic patience of the Eighth, which at attention waiting to be called into actual war. The inspector need not be criticized for wanting a little more starch in our militia manners, but no one must conclude from his strictures that our National | Guard is lacking in the stout-hearted American ma- terial upon which the country relies for defense in time of trial. e o e The trial of ex-Lieutenant Governor James H. Till- man for the murder of Gonzales has progressed far enough to win unique fame among the court cases of the Southern States. The jury has been secured and much valuable evidence has been submitted both by the prosecution and the defense, vet there has not been even a whisper or a suggestion of an outrage or another murder in connection with the affair. The fire of the South is dying. —_— The arbitration tribunal which has assembled to determine the equities in the Venezuelan row has decided that all the claims must ®e presented in En- glish. If experience be any guide the claims may be presented in_every modern language of the world and then their satisfaction by Venezuela will be a matter of the gravest uncertainty. The announcement is made that when the Federal Grand Jury adjourns this week at the national capital the investigation of postal scandals may be consid- ered ended. What a welcome relief this will be to the unknown and consequently not dishonest postal officials who have dodged into dark corners to avoid | the light of inquiry and exposure. An Alameda man has been arraigned on a charge of insanity because he labors under the hallucination that he is rich. And there is absolutely nothing in his case to indicate that he possesses a single share of oil stock. a man who has no regard for constitutional principles i National Guard of California and doesn't like it. | his civil experience is confined to getting drunk on | took arms and with other of our militia bodies stood | GEARY-STREET PROJECT MEANS A DIRECT TAX On Thursday, October 8, the voters of this city will Wwhether they will be taxed to obtain what private enterprise has already secured | them, or whether they will be content | lto enjoy the privileges they now have. without the additional luxury of being | taxed for it. The acquisition of the road by the city will not inure to the advan- tages of any other than the few politi- cians who are figuring for political power and personal aggrandizement. One thing is certain, and that is that under no con- | sideration or in any manner will the col- ored contingent be benefited by the own- ership of the Geary street railroad. On| the contrary they will find it to their ben- efit to vote “No” to the proposition sub- mitted to them, Street railways are proper objects for the investment of surplus capital, and many of our citizens hold the bonds of this road, by means of wnich they draw dividends and thereby add to their small | revenues. The laboring man, the me- chanic, the man of small means, the man | who saves and wishes to advance him-| self in this world’s prosperity, by the pur- chase of a few bonds has his fncome in- creased. If he is taxed in order that the city may become the purchaser, he has to | put his money into the road whether or no, but it would puzzle even a Philadel- phia lawyer to find out when he is going to receive a corresponding benefit, The city bas ne surplus fund by means of which it could become the owner, and the | only way it can get the money is by | means of a compulsory loan, or in other | words a direct tax. Whenever there is a sufficient surplus in the treasury to warrant the city in be- coming an investor in private enterprises, I'it will then be time to consider what will | | he most profitable, and at the same time | be that which will benefit every citizen, to whom the money properly belongs. There is another view to be taken of the matter. It would be an unjust dis- crimination. If the charter of the Geary | street road is renewed until the charter of the United Railroads expires, and then, if it should be deemed wise and safe, let the city assume the ownership and con- trol of the entire system, there would be at least a semblance of consistency and | fairness in the proposition. But until | ! then ordinary justice would suggest that| the Geary street road be placed on the | same plane with all others and that no | unwise or unjust experiments be made at | this time. | | The colored vote of this city is suffi-| clently large to have an influence in the | Tesult of election. Let him put on his | thinking cap for a moment and ask him- | self this question: ‘“‘Wherein am T to be | benefited by passing the control of this | road to the city, and what injustice to| | the rights of others may I not assist in | doing if T should vote in the afirmative?” | | The right minaed thinking man will vote | | “No.” Go to the polls on Thursday, Oc-| tober 8. and put your Cross opposite the | { word “No.’—The Pacific Coast Appeal. PERSONAL MENTION. Rev. L. H. Wingfleld Digby of England | is at the Occidental. }l Dr. and Mrs. A. B. Cutter of Albuquer- que are at the California. John T. Arundel, a mining man of Lon- don, is a guest at the Occidental. John Finnell, the well-known wealthy rancher of Tehama, is at the Palace. W. H. Nichols and Dwight Hollister, merchants of Courtland, are at the Grand* | W. E. Gerber, a merchant of Sacra- | mento and a State Fish Commissioner, is | at the Palace. Luther Burbank of Santa Resa, known | as the wizard of horticulture, is !pendlng: a few days in the city and is at the Grand. Commander Richardsgn Clover of the navy and family are down from their country home in Napa and are residing at | | the Palace. | { A. H. Kohn, son of one of New York's | wealthy business men, and wife arrived ;y(sterdny from the East and registered at the Palace, | George F. Moore, a lumber man of Seat- | tle, arrived yesterday from Eureka, where | he has been inspecting some timber lands. He is at the Palace. | A party of wealthy excursionists from | Halifax, N. B., composed of H. C. Mec-| Leod, Charles Archibald, G. S. Campbell | ana T. Walter Allison, arrived from Vie- | toria yesterday and registered at the Pal- ace. They are making a tour of the United States and Canada. Joseph 8. McCoy and W. P. Armstrong, | attaches of the War Department, accom- | panied by Joseph McCoy Jr., arrived at the Palace yesterday from Washington. They are here as custodians of certain Government documents, which are to be | used in the prosecution of Gustave Malin- quist, charged with attempting to secure a pension fraudulently. ————————— Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Oct. 5. — The following Callfornians are in New York: From Sap Francisco—W. J. Rogers at the St George; A. Saxe, Miss H. Saxe | and Dr. E. H. Smith and wife at the| Jefferson; F. E. Ware at the Grand; M. L. Willlams at the St. Denis; W. Young at the Gilsey and C. P. Colladay at the Criterion. From San Diego—L J. Gill at the Hol- | land. From Los Angeles—O. Horner at the Broadway Central; 1. Neides at the Her- | ald Square. From Oakland — J. { Grand Union and A. Megahan at Astor. F. Collom at the the —_— e Californians in Washington. WASHINGTON, Oct. 5.—The following Californians registered at the hotels to- | day: At the St. James, P. R. Magley of | San Francisco; at the National” W. C. Colson and wife of Fresno; at the New ‘Willard, H. G. Stevenscn, Mr. and Mrs. F. 8. Moody, Willlam Kohl and wife, Miss M. E. Kohl, George E. Moore and wife of San Francisco, and Arthur Glea- son of Pasadena. ————————— Brave Engineer Exonorated. United States Local Inspectors Bolles and Bulger yesterday exonerated from ! blame Second Assistant Engineer H. R.| Beckett for a fire that occurred on August 23 on the steamer WLittier. The faulty construction of the oil feeding apparatus | was the cause of the fire. Mr. Beckett, instead of deserting the steamer, stuck to his post and extinguished the fire, thus saving the vessel from destruction. Five ! thousand barrels of petroleum were on board. h P — Stanford’s Programme. Stanford No. 76, the elite parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West, has ar- ranged for a theater party at Fischer's on the night of October 30. On the night of Monday, November 23, the parlor will have a ladies’ night, when a very inter- esting programme will be presented for the entertainment of the guests. This will be for the benefit of the members and their friends.. —_———————— ‘Will Hold Annual Bazaar. The Scandinavian Lutheran Ladies’ Aid | Socfety will hold its annual bazaar and entertainment on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday evenings of this week at 1663 Howard street. e e Townsend’'s California glace fruits S S B e —_——— Special information dally g O | Buchtel College to-day resulted STATE GRANGE WILL CONVENE IN SAN JOSE SAN JOSE, Oct. 5.—The State Grange be called upon to say will open its annual session in Odd Fel-| lows' Hall to-morrow forenoon. Many delegates are expected and the sessions will be the most interesting ever held in California. Charles W. Emery, master of the State Grange, arrived this morning from Oakland. J. H. Hyden, master of the Sacramento Grange, and W. V. Grif- fith of Geyserville, a member of the ex-| ecutive committee, are also in the city and more of the State officers arrived this evening. The programme of the ses- slons will be as follows: 3 Tuesday forenoon, preliminary business; afternoon, reports of masters and officers evening, 8 o'clock, reception at the Uni- tarlan Church, where the following pro- gramme will be rendered: Music, laing’s Orchestra; opening remarks, E. A Hayes; address of welcome, Judge Hy- land; response, C. W. Emery, master of State Grange; vocal solo, Mrs. McFar- lgne; address, H. C. Raap, overseer State Grange; recitation, Mrs. Freeman; ad- dress, J. C. Cornell, lecturer State Grange; vocal solo, Miss Katherine Hus- ted. Reception memorial exercises, to which the public is invited. Wednesday—Business session in the forenoon; woman's work session in the afternoon; 8 o’clock in the evenirg exer- cises, to which the public is invited. Thursday—Business sessions both fore- noon and afternoon: in the evening the conferring of the fifth and sixth degrees, to be foliowed by a Pomona feast in Turn Verin Hall. Friday—The election and installation of officers and general business. COLLEGE MEN MUST LIMIT FOOTBALL WORK Excessive Devotion to the Sport Op- posed by the Professors in Oregon. PORTLAND, Oct. 5—The heads of all colleges In Oregon have taken action to check the excessive devotion of students to football. unanimously as the close of the season and it was decided to organize a senlor and a junior league of all the colleges and secondary educational institutions, with the object of preventing games with out- side clubs, which are considered as in- jurfous to the students. A committee has been appointed to in- vestigate all cases of professionalism and with power to reinstate members as ama- teurs for the purpose of the proposed leagues. Some of the students from in- terior towns have infringed the rules of amateurism by competing for money | prizes at Fourth of July meets and in other unimportant events. An effort was made to discourage games on Thanksgiv- ing day, but no motion on the subject was carrfed. Other subjects discussed were the relationship of athleties to study and their control by the faculty. No action was taken on these matters, but the sense of the conference of teachers was that absolute control of athletics should rest as a final resort in the faculty. ————————— COLOR RUSH AT BUCHTEL COLLEGE CAUSES TROUBLE Students Are Roughly Handled and Faculty Suspends the Members of Warring Classes. O.. Oct. 5.—A color rush at in faculty suspending every man in college AKRO! except three, and they remain because | they did not reach the college until after the rush was over. per classmen initiated the freshmen, put- ting them through a severe course, and ! when the latter appeared at the chapel this morning wearing their colors, Presi- dent Church made a speech prohibiting a color rush. He stated that the freshmen | initiated in a more severe man- | had been ner than stitution, any class ever were in the in- and he upheld them in wear- ing their colors. ‘As soon as chapel was over the upper classmen went after the freshmen and tore their colors off, and bloody noses and torn clothes were in evidence. The faculty then suspended both classes. —e—————— LINEMEN ARE LOYAL TO THE “HELLO” GIRLS Spokane Strikers Will Not Return Unless Telephone Operators Are Also Employed. SPOKANE, Wash., Oct. 5.—The striking linemen of the Pacific States Telephone Company in this city refused to return to work this morning, in spite of advices from San Francisco that the strike had been settled. The men have received no assurance that the settlement takes care of the telephone girls, who are also on strike. Unless the girls are included the linemen will not work here. PORTLAND, Or., Oct. 5—The officials of the Pacific States Telephone Company to-day received instructions from San Francisco to re-employ all striking line- men who apply for work, except those who may have been instrumental in dam- aging the company’s property or business. Twenty-four men applied for work to-day |and it is thought probable that all of them will be put to work within a few days. About fifty men went out when the strike was declared, but many of them have left the city. ————————— STOCKHOLDERS WILL ASK FOR RESTRAINING ORDER Seek to Prevent Sale of Securities Pledged by the Consolidated Lake Superior Company. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 5.—€ounsel for the shareowners of the Consolidated Lake Superior Company will appear in court in New York to-morrow and ask that an in- junction be granted restraining Speyer & Co., the bankers, from offering for sale the securities pledged with them to insure the payment of the 35,030,000 loan made to the Consolidated Company. If the injunc- tion is granted shareowners will have more time in which to perfect their reor- ganization plans. — e Dencunces Christian Science. SALT LAKE, Oct. 5.—The feature of to-day’s session of the forty-seventh semi-annual conference of the Mormon church, which is being held in the Taber- nacle, was the stirring exhortation of Apostle John W. Taylor, in which he de- nounced Christian sclence, hypnotism, evolution, spiritualism and other isms’ as the work of the devil, and urged Mor- mons to shun the teachers of those doe- trines. —_——— Rescued Sailors Reach Boston. BOSTON, Oct. 5.—Ten men of the crew of the Norwegian steamer Arendal, res- cued from their disabled vessel on Sep- tember 26, were brought in to-day by the Leyland line steamer Bostonian. The Arendal was bound from Newport News for Pernambuco with coal, and became dismasted and lost all her boats when the Bostonian fell in with her. As there was no hope of saving the vessel she was set on fire when the crew left. ———————— Pass an Anti-Slavery Law. MANTILA, Oct. 5.—The Legislative Coun- ¢il of the Moro Provinces has passed an anti-slavery law which prohibits siave hunting in all the territory under its jur- isdiction, It also provides for the con- fiscation of all vessels engaged in the i D'Ab- | December 1 has been adopted | the | Friday night the up- | [ TRINITY HILLS ARE SEARCHED FOR PAULSEN REDDING, Oct. 5—Every reszrv:lr around Weaverville, Trinity County, has the town been drained, every dwelling in of Little Mountain has been ra e been sen | nsacked., 1 | telephone messages hav ko & o the | possible places, riders have goné t a’r«l | more remote camps of the county am he canyons search parties are beating up t | over the mountains in the | Weaverville, yet absolutely no tra vicinity of ce can | be found of Harry Paulsen, manager ;); | the Union Hotel and acknowledged the | most popular young man in Weavervilic, | Who disappeared a week ago to-night. | Paulsen was In good spirits and wa3 about to retire for the night when last He seemed to drop from the face Al Trinity and part of up over the | | seen. | of the earth. { Shasta County Is werked mysterious case. Paulsen’s accounts are No known motive There 1s a semblance. ance of a suspicion of | absolutely correct. | exists for suicide. | but just a sembl: | foul play. SRR S S T ANSWERS TO QUERIES. CAPTAIN BARR—A. 8, City. Captain Barr, the America Cup defending captain, | was born In Gourock, Scotland. NIAGARA BRIDGE—J. G. M. City. | The length of the span of the Niagara | suspension bridge from tower to tower is | 2220 feet. | HYDE PARK-S. D. S, City. The area of Hyde Park, London, is 472 acres. With the addition of the Kensington Gardens it is 598 acres. SONNAMBULA—A. C. D., City. The opera written by Bellini is “La Sonnam- bula,” not “Somnambula.”” The word is Italian and means the sleep walker or somnambulist. THE CALL—H. T., San Jose, Cal. The Call was first issued December 1, 1356, by an assoelation of five printers—P. B. Fos- ter, Lew Zublin, J. J. Ayers, Charles F. Jobson and W. L. Carpenter. | DIVORCE—W., City. There is nothing ! in the law of California that permits an | tndividual to be married in the State | within twenty-four hours after divorce has been granted such individual. POPULATIO! . N., City. The popu- | 1ation of San Francisco in 1390, according | to the United States census. was 298.997. | In 1900 it was 342,782. At this time it is | estimated that the population is 370,000. | COIN QUESTIONS—Half a dozen cor- | respondents. This department will. an- swer questions relative to the value of American coins if the correspondents will inclose a self-addressed and stamped en- | velope. | —— | NOTE—L., City. The life of a promis- sory note is not affected because the maker is out of the State. In California the life of a note is two years if made out of the State and four years if made in the State. | e s SO | COPYRIGHT—Subscriber, City. To copyright a drama send a copy of the title page and 3 cents to the Librarian of Congress, with a request for ccpy- | right, at the same time siving full nume | and address. SAVINGS BANK—P. K., Ventura, Cal If you desire to deposit money in one of the San Francisco savings banks address a communication to the cashier of the bank, who will give information as to the method of procedure. | i | ‘WHEAT—Subscriber, Santa Rosa, Cal For information about the particular kind of wheat alluded to in letter of in- | quiry, address a communication to the | experimental station, University of Cali- fornia, Berkeley, Cal. INDIAN LANDS—A. W., Port Costa, Cal. No time has yet been fixed for the }npemng of the Indian lands in Utah. You may possibly obtain the desired informa- | tion by communicating with the General | Land Office, Washington, D. C. TULA METAL—Subscriber, City. Tula metal is a peculiar alloy of silver, with small proportions of copper and lead, manufactured at the imperial metal works at Tula, Russia, and used formak- ing the famous Russian snuff boxes. THE SULTANA—Subscriber, Oakland, Cal. The steamer Sultana, with 2106 per- sons on board, mostly Union prisoners re- turning home from Southern prisons, ex- ploded on the Mississippi River April 23, 186. The number of lives lost was 1320. ST. ANTHONY—A Subscriber, Berke- | ley, Cal. The population of the St. An- | thony district, Fremont County, Idaho, | 18 about 860. This includes the population | of the town of St. Anthony, which is about 400. The chief resource of that district is mining. DEWEY BOULEVARD-H., City. The reason given for the closing of the Dewey boulevard by the Sutro estate is that the | city authorities failed to keep their agree- ment to maintain the boulevard in condi- tion in accordance with the stipulations of the late Adolph Sutro. BOLT FACTORIES-J. B., Seattls, ‘Wash. This department does not adver- tise any kind of business. If you desire the address of a bolt factory send a self- addressed and stamped envelope: an an- swer will be sent by mail. Correspondents desiring the business address of any one or firm should inclose stamped and self- addressed envelope for reply. THE AMERICA CUP—F. City. The | conditions under which the America Cup | s held are: Any organized yacht elub of a esun~ try, incorporated, patented or licensed by the legislature, admirality or other executive de- partment, having for its annual regatta an | ocean water course on the sea or an arm of | the sea (or one which combines both), prac- ticable for of 300 tons, shall always be entitled, through one or more of its mem- bers, to the right of sailing a match for this | eup with & yacht or other vessel propelled by salls only and constructed in the country to | which the challenging club belongs, against any | one yacht or vessel as aforesald constructed im the country of the club holding the cup. SEVEN YEARS—A. 8, Chiy. It is a presumption of lawyers that if a husband has been absent seven consecutive years from his home, and that the wife has not heard from him directly or indirectly, al- though she has made every inquiry to | locate him, that he is “legally” dead and | that she is at liberty to margy again without securing a divoree, but sometimes | the “legally dead” turns up unexpectedly and there is an awkward situation. It is safer to obtain a divorce in the State of California on the ground of desertion. The same applies to a husband whose wife has disappeared for seven years. S ———— NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. HERPICIDE NOT A FAKE. Unsolicited Testimonials Tell of Its Superiority. AM. R. Kelley, residing at 219 Devisa- dero St.. San Francisco, Cal, writes the 1 s thought, arations, it would prove a fake. ollowing: “When I first purchased Herpicide, [ like the majority of hair prep- I