The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 21, 1903, Page 8

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NEWS STANDS: Brentano, 31 Union Square: venue Hotel and Hoffman House. CHICAGO REPRESENTATIVE: GEORGE KROGNESS....Marquette B (Long Distence Telephone, “Central 2619.”") o BRANCH OFFICES—S27 Montgomery, corner cf Clay, opea wati] 9:30 c'clock. 500 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 638 MecAllister, open until 0:80 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open unti] #30 ociock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corper Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1088 Va- lemcia, open urtil 9 c'clock. 106 Eleventh, open untll 9 e'clock. NE. corer Church and Duncan streets, opem wotii ® c'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentuoky, open unti] ¥ o'clock. %200 Flllmore, open until 9 o’clock. THE ALASKA BOUNDAnY. HERE was a chance for much friction be- I tween the United States and the Dominion of Canada over the Alaskan boundary. The n was undoubtedly somewhat clouded by the tact that the original boundary cenvention between Russia and Great Britain was made at a time when but yielded by more or less made but i some uncertainty of metes and bounds. This was helped on by the lack of knowledge of the geography the latitude and e vaiue was known in Alaska beyond the furs wild ani miles square and there was eren of the country, and ignorance of longitude When the unce of the boundaries of Loui- siana territcry was suggested to Bonaparte he said: “If there were no uncertainties it would be necessary to create some.” Out of the uncertainty of the in- clusion of Texas in the treaty of *San Ildefonso finally came our war with Mexico, in which we settled far more than the Lowisiana boundary. In that epi- sode we had before us, as had Great Britain, the malign possibilities of a boundary dispute. We went ar to war with her over the Oregon boundary, and avoided it only by the wisdom of Polk, who foresaw the struggle with Mexico and clearly comprehended | the impolicy of making England her ally by a threat- ening policy on the northern border. There be those who assail the statesmanship of Rolk by pointing out that if he had stood on “s4 degrees 40 minutes or fight” we would have now the ole west coast. But that is like all after thoughts. It is undeniable that by dropping the Oregon line to 49 degrees he removed all uncertainty from the result of the Mexican war and gave us an accession of ter- ritory hardly less effective in its influence upon our f:ational life than the acquisition of Louisiana. The contention of the Dominion of Canada ip re- gard to the Alaskan boundary was pushed to an un- warrantable extreme by Sir Wilfrid Laurier, the Canadian Premier. His position and his backing by the French party enabled him to raise the expectation of his people up to the level of his extraordinary claims. When the High Commission first attempted to settle the boundary his position made an_accom- modation impossible. Inspired by him, attacks upon the United States were made in the Dominion Par- liament. and 2 condition of great heat was developed in Canada, and continued in spite of the efforts of conservatives like John Chariton to induce a more The discovery of gold, coal and Alaska, far in excess of its origi- country, and the consequent im- portance given to its commerce and to its eligible harbors, lifted the matter far above the views that were held when the Russian delimitation was made. The High Commission having failed to adjust the differences, and Sir Wilfrid Laurier remaining obdu- rate. international conference was resorted to, with Lord Alverstone, Chief Justice of Great Britain, as virtual umpire. It was a solemn conference, because mn all boundary disputes there is the germ of armed conflict. Canada sent her ablest men to sustain her contention, and the United States met them with equal ability. But a great Englishman sat as umpire. Upon him was the great pressure of imperial inter- ests. Canada, an important part of the empire, was determined, and perhaps the question of her future loyalty was invoived. The hazy uncertainty of the whole issue gave a margin within which, without in- curring criticiem, Lord Alverstone could lean to the side of imperial prestige. This element in the ar- liitration gave it the great uncertainty which adds zest to the consideration of large matters. Lord Alverstone’s conduct of the hearing was ir- reproachable. He showed a keen knowledge of the legal and physical features that were in debate, and at every point was the essence of fairness and impar- vality. At the close he concurred with the Ameri- can arbitrators and gave us a judgment which wins for the United States every one of our substantial and important contentions. While it is human na- ture, perhaps, that the Canadian members of the court not only refused their signatures to the findings but even left the court in dudgeon before the decree was signed, yet it would have been better to have pre- pared their minority judgment and filed it as a digni- ' fied expression of their dissent. The action of Lord Alverstone rises to a moral _ height that will greatly impress this country and pro- . foundly and favorably affect the sentiment of our people. It gives an encouragement to all courts in the civilized world, and renews the confidence of mankind in the survival to our day of the highest principles of justice. reasonable view cther resources in nal value as a fur THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, ! CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS LANE. | R. LANE is an amiable and able candidate, ;M but we fear that his zeal sometimes goes down the backstretch ahead of his discretion. The spicing of his meetings with red pepper, which {he charges to Mayor Schmitz, may be responsible for some of the lurid visions he sees and so faith- fully describes to his audiences. We desire to do him ;the justice of saying that we think the city would survive his administration as Mayor if he could be elected, and so it would that of either of his oppo- nents, even if they are bad as his forebodings paint them. Neither of the candidates is a buccaneer, but this is a Republican city, and Repnblicani naturally desire to be responsible for its government, and they will resent being told that they, the majority, are un- | fit for that responsibility. g Mr. Lane has recently introduced his entire and ex- | cellent family into the campaign, finding that neces- |sary to prove that he does not belong to the Bohe- |mian Club. We nged not look far among our ac- quaintances 4o find some who belong to the Bohe- mian Club w‘ho are not suspected of sinister de- signs upon the public treasury and who also have families that they love and care for. Mr. Lane sets up men of straw who denounce him for belonging to clubs in which he has no membership in order that he may exalt his domestic virtues. Now we know he has those virtues, but he has no monopoly of them in this city, as we beg to assure him. He and his partisans have made it lively for Mayor Schmitz by pointing to the money that is being i spent in his campaign. Schmitz is a trifle sumptuous {in the banner line. But as he also claims that he is | the only man who can save the imperiled city, surely ;r’rom his standpoint no expense is too great if. in- curred in saving the city from Lane, When two men run for the same offige, with the | same conception of their importance and the same |views about municipal salvation, both money and \fur are apt to fly. But Mr. Lane has Christopher :Columbussed a discovery. In a speech in which he | pointed to the vast sums which his fancy sees being {spcm like water in the campaign to beat him, he "suggestcd their derivation by declaring that the | Mayor can easily make $500.000 a year out of this | city by judicious assessment of the red light district and the saloons. | Like Robert, Lord Clive, in his robbery of the | Begums, Mr. Lane should wonder at his modera- tion. Does he not know that the Mayor could make one hundred millions by robbing the Mint, the sub- treasury and the banks? Why arrest the flight of his | | dirigible balloon of oratory at a paltry half-million | when there is so much more in sight and in just as {much danger from the Mayor? Why imagine peanuts {under such circumstances? Doesn't hie know that the Mayor could dynamite The Call building and take a torch in his red right and official hand and | burn the whole town? The kind of Mayor he fears | may be elected could- easily leave only Russian.§ Rincon and Telegraph hills standing above the charred remains of the city. - When Mr. Lane does his political thinking and pfopels his ambition on | the push cart of his imagination, why doesn’t he make a clean job of it? | He should remember that the Bankers' Associa- :‘(ion is in town, and not impress our visitors too | | strongly with our impending doom. He knows the classics and is aware that there were kings before | Agamemnon, and there are people here who insist | upon believing tifat there were honest men before Lane and that there will be some left after he quits seeking office. One noticeable element in his canvass is his re- | peated declaration that we should not have a business | |man for Mayor! His own party as it used to be | eleeted Washington Bartlett Mayor, a business man, land succeeded him with another, Mr. E. B. Bond. 5They were nothing but business men, and though ftheir party was then in the grip of a most offensive | | boss system, they gave to the city a high order of | administration because they were business men and | | not politicians. The Republican party has no boss here and no boss | | system, and has nominated a business man for | | Mayor and intends to use its majority to elect him, ijust to show its mettle and to prove its devotion to | the interests of San Francisco. Mr. Lane should not :out-Jeremiah Jeremiah, for already the opinion is abroad that he doth protest too much. [tiate on the values of local investments unless we do | something ourselves to develop the opportunitics.” Ito the coast the observer finds the people of Santa ! Cruz to be of the same mind. The Board of Trade | If the wily ways of Oregon’s legislators find favor the women of the Webfoot State will wear plumage lin their bonnets only in defiance of the law and | statutes. And the birds of many colors will sing in iglee for a great victory over the new woman and her | dominion. Tt is high time, perhaps, that the barbari- ties of the milliner were suppressed. OUR TRADE WITH CHINA. OMETHING of the extent of our interests in S the maintenance of open markets in China is | disclosed by a recent publication of the Bureau | of Statistics of the Department of Commerce” and Industry. The publication reviews our trade with China from 1875 down to the close of the last fiscal year and shows that while the trade is by no means | so extensive as it should be, yet the rate of progress | has been so rapid as to assure an extensive commerce with China in the immediate future should the “open door” be maintained. In a summary of the growth of our trade the bulle- tin of the bureau says: “Taking our figures of com- merce with China the growth in exports to that country has been from $1,101,383 in 1880 to $2,046,209 in 1890, $15,259,167 in 1900 and $18,603,369 in 1903. The figures prior to 1880 cannot be given in satisfac- tory form because prior to that time gold and silver were included in the statement of exports to China, and as the shipments of silver to China were fre- quently large the figures if quoted would be mis- leading so far as relates to commerce in merchandise. In 1902 the United States occupied fourth place in the list of countries from which China drew its im- ports. The total from the United States in that year was 30,138,713 Haikwan taels; from Great Britain, 57,624,610 Haikwan taels; India, 33,037,439 Haikwan taels, and from Japan, 35,342,283 Haikwan taels.” A clearer presentation of the development of our Chinese' trade and its relation to the whole volume of imports into that country is given in the following table: Exports from Total Imports United States Year. into China. to China. 1850 $108,076,000 $1,101,383 1885 111,838,000 6,398,500 1890 161,789,000 2,946,209 1895 134,610,000 3,603,840 1900 155,770,000 15,259,167 1801 190,762,000 10,405,834 1902 198,679,260 24,722,906 1903 2 18,603,369 It will be seen th'at_in rgo.a. Chma imported nearly 1$200,000,000 worth of foreign goods, of which amount | we furnished less than $25,000,000. Thus while our progress in recent years ha§ been good we are still far short of our fair share of China's trade. We have therefore a very important interest in the Chinese question and cannot watch the advance of Russia to- ward. the attainment of a complete supremacy in Eastern Asia with the indifference of an uninterested spectator. e ————— No one may say now with justice that American methods are not proof against the world, even if the Ingenuity of the nations be made in conspiracy against us. Even in Russia, the last fortress to hold out against the assault of and invention, they have had a taste of railway train robbery that com- pares very favorably with the best we can do. e —— AWAKENING OF QALIFORNIA. HE intention of California cities and towns to T better their material conditions has never been ® more marked than it is now. This fact fur- nishes a text for the Sacramento Union. Thomas Rickard's plans for the development of Berkeley, the university city, on a liberal scale, are cited. San Fran- cisco is declared to have led the way with its deter- mination to authorize the issue of bonds for va: rious improvements to cost $17,000,000 in round fig- nres. Pasadena, having created a system of finely im- proved and beautiful streets, is devoting its resources to providing a sewer system. Los Angeles is to ex- pend a sum relatively as large as that voted by the people of San Francisco. San Jose,.Santa Rosa and Fresno are noted by the Union as being included in the march of progress. “There ought to be a suggestion in these several movements for Sacramento,” says the Union. “No city in California stands in greater need of municipal development than our own and none is better able to meet the cost. Interest rates are low. Every dol- lar for a reasonable bonding scheme could be easily provided at home. The time is ripe in every way for action that would put this city on its feet in a new and good fashion and establish conditions which have been the dream of every Sacramentan of pro- gressive spirit since time out of mind.” The awakening of California municipalities is not confined to the communities mentioned by the Union. Indeed, it is not feasible to make a list of them all with allusion to their various moves. Space does not permit. It is noticeable that the idea of concerted action is dominant in interior and coast cities alike. Tulare has just celebrated the success achieved by a “pull all together” to free itself from the incubus of bonds that has so long weighed it down. Placerville, in El Dorado County, the land where California gold was originally discovered, is stirring to organize a board of trade. “Providence and the outside world,” so remarks the El Dorado Republi- can, “generally assist those who first succeed in help- ing themselves. It will not do much good to expa- The Republican believes a board of trade is needed to have the advantages of El Dorado County become better known. Descending from the mountains and going down of Santa Cruz, declares the Sentinel, “has been re- juvenated, and this brings joy to the members.” No election had been held for pfficers since 1891 until recently. At the first meeting a committee was ap- pointed to prepare literature with reference to the city and also the county of Santa Cruz. The Santa Cruz Board of Trade resumes activity with a mem- bership of 135 leading citizens. The ranks will be recruited and the effect will be good. The Ontario Record tells of the efforts to give On- tario a chamber of commerce. Five men secured | thirty new applicants within forty-eight hours. The | Ontario Record favors giving the chamber of com- merce a plan of organization similar to that of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, which has been a potent factor in acquainting the world with South- ern California. ———r——e Another woman, illegally thrown out of the School Department and submitted to the unwarranted hu- miliation of public dismissal by the Board of Educa- tion, has been reinstated and must be paid $5000 in salary for the time spent by her in fighting for hen rights. The affair is of public interest simply from the fact that it is of such common occurrence that it will teach the School Board no lesson of fairness to teachers or justice to taxpayers. While traveling eastward a few days igo Stuyvesant Fish, president of the Illinois Central Railroad, re- ceived just a suggestion of what happens to thou- sands upon thousands of American citizens who go down to death and disaster in railroad trains. His train was wrecked but no life was lost. Perhaps his experience may prove more eloquent in effecting an improvement of train service than the petition of all his patrons. The Recorder of London, apropos of the gigantic swindles of Whitaker Wright, has gravely warned Englishmen of noble blood and high station to be- -| tians shouldering the responsibility placed 1903, EPISCOPALIAN CONVOCATION AT TRINITY The fall conveeation of the San Fran- cisco district of the Episcopal church was held in the lbrary of Trinity Church Yesterday and last night and was at- tended by e 'largé number of laymen, clergymen and members of the church. The convogation sermon was preached by the Rev. Charles Gardner of Staii- ford University, who chose for the sub- ject of his text “Civilization and Relig- fon.” The address was both eloquent and stir- ring and dealt on the necessity of Chris- upon them by civilization. Among other things the speaker said: ““Taking into consideration ail that civ- {lization stands for at its best—order, lib- erty, justice, humanity and all that it has to offer—there can be no hesitation about saying that at its very best eivil- ization leaves an aching heart without religion.” Following the morning session luncheon was served by the ladies of the church in the Sundawy school room, which was decorated for the occasion. The afternoon session of the convoca- tlon was opened by'an address by the Rev. N. B. W. Gallwey. The general subject of the Rev. Mr. Gallwev's ad- dress was, “Are We Ready for Church Expansion in the City?" and In the course of his remarks told of the great amount of money that has been spent in this city | during the last twelve vears on thej building and repairing of churches. Dr. Gallwey strongly maintained that bene-| fits and subscriptions for missions should be thought of after completion of work to be done on home churches. Other addresses of the afternoon were made by the Right Rev. W. F. Nichols, | D. D.;: George E.-Butler and the Rev. B. M. Weeden of St. Luke's Church. Several small business matters were dis- cussed, when the session adjourned. The evening session of the convocation | was held in the church proper and the evening prayer was sung by the united choirs of San Francisco, followed by an address by the wishop of the diocese. —_———— ORDER SUSPENDING EXECUTRIX REVOKED Court Holds That Affidavit on Which It Was Made Was In- sufficient. The order suspending Marie Knauer as executrix of the estate of her husband, Ferdinand Knauer, was revoked b Judge Troutt yesterday on motion of At-| torney E. S. Pillsbury, who has been re- tained by Mrs. Knauer. Pillsbury made the motion on the ground that the affi- davit on which the order was issued, which was filed by the contestants of Knauer's will, was based on hearsay. Mrs. Knauver, who is accused by the| relatives of her late husband of being an adventuress, was present in court. She said she resided in Elmhurst, and had no intention of going beyond the juris- dietion of the court, as has been alleged. Although Knauer's will provided that his widow should serve as executrix without bonds, she will be required by the court to furnish sureties, however. The amount will be fixed next Friday. —_————————— St. Louis Exposition Handbook. WORKS BOARD PLANS OPENING OF LYON STREET Commisigoner Casey of the Board of | Public Works and Deputy J. B. Gartland | made a visit of inspection yesterday to | the northern end of Lyon street, prelim- inary to the beginning of proceedings to open the thoroughfare and to cause the removal of obstructions thereon. The principal obstructions, the removal of which will be ordered by the Board of Works, are on Lewis and Tonquin streets at points where Lyon street would inter- sect. These are principally an abandoned car shed owned by the Union-street road and part of inclosed property known as Harbor View baths and in possession of R. Hermann. The location of the obstructions has been determined by survey by City Engin- eer Grunsky. In making the survey the monuments placed by the War Depart- ment along the easterly line of the Pre- sidio reservation as fenced have been taken as defining the westerly line" of Lyon street. This line deflects easterly from the course of the section of Lyon street south of Pacific avenue. The de- flected line was held to be correct by the Supreme Court. There is some question as to whether the two small storage sheds to the northward of Lewis street are not on land that has never been dedicated to public use as a street. The City Engineer says in a re- cent report that they may stand on land sold as “salt marsh and tide land” by the State of California. The Board of Supervisors has already purchased the Miranda grant for 36500, so Lyon street may be extended and it is now the duty of the Board of Works to proceed with the work. ® The board has prepared a resolution ) which will be adopted at its next meet- {ing ordering the obstructions on Lyon | street to be removed and also serving no- | tices on the Presidio and Ferries Rall- i road Company and R. Hermann to re- | move their objectionable structures with- | in ten days. e Judge S. Solon Holl of Sacramento is at the Palace. , Dr. Paul Seligman of Germany is at the Palace. Bank Commissioner Silver of Los An- | geles is registered at the Palace. | W. H. Holabird, a prominent business { man of Los Angeles, is at the Palace. | W. 8. McCornick, the well known bank- ;er and mining man of Salt Lake, is at | the Palace. | Banker O. McHenry of Modesto is at- | tending the local convention and is regis- ! tered at the Occidental. | Attorney J. C. Campbell, who has been absent in tne East on legal business dur- | ing the last few weeks, returned to San | Francisco yesterday evening. Captain John Cross of Los Angeles, | who is promoting a project for the con- struction of a number of electric lines in | Northern California, is at the Palace. | Thomas D. McKay, agent for the| American steamship lines In the Orient, | returned yesterday from a flying trip to | New York and is staying at the Palace, | ! awaiting the departure of the next steam- | i er for Yokohama. ! | Gustav Kunst. a retired millionaire | | merchant, who owns large interests in | | Siberfa, Germany, Hawaii and the Sa-| ! moan Islands, arrived in this city from | ware of wicked and designing persons who may seek to use noble and aristocratic names to further base ambitions.© The Recorder is significantly and elo- quently silent in reference to plebeian American heiresses. An Oroville miner who recently died left a for- tune with which to purchase headstones for the rest- ing places of the old seekers of gold that are fast dying and leaving of themselves only a memory in California. The old miner's bequest tells eloquently the story of feeling and fellowship which bound the argonauts to one another in the olden days of the West. Our British Columbian friends are sorely aggrieved because the Alaskan Boundary Commission saw the justice of the claims of the United States and acted in accordance to the promptings of justice and fairness. Let the disgruntled ones take heed, put on sackcloth and ashes and in trué contrition of soul make promise that in covetousness they will sin no more. William Jennings Bryan intends shortly to take a trip to Europe. What a blessing it is to our Euro- pean friends that Mr. Bryan has a speaking knowledge of only one language! It is to be hoped that he will find profitable and enjoyable occupation long enough in Furope to permit of perhaps a permanent change in cyclonic conditions in Nebraska. —_— In his burlesque assault upon the “citadel of sin” in New York John Alexander Dowie seems to forget that the vulgarity of a clown is not necessarily an element of success in winning souls to religion. The language of this self-contained exhorter rivals that of a Billingsgate fishwoman. 3 The universal exposition commemorat- ing the acquisition of the Loulsiana Ter- ritory by the United States by purchas: from France one hundred years ago I‘lll‘ = ¥ 3 | New York, accompanied by his wite and be ready for exhibitors on December 1, party of nine ladies, arrived at the Pal- | next and will throw open it8 doors to the | yoe |ast evening, en route around the | world _Anrll 30, 19'{4- il Bt ¢hi vorld. One of the lady members of the As was announced at the beginning, this | jariy Mrs. M. A. Crossley, has made exposition will be the largest In area, jwenty.two trips around the world broadest in scope and most magnificent in | BoAs e 3 eneral plan and working detail of any | (ghat has ever been held. Unlike any of All Are Welcome. its predecessors, it will be finished, full | OWing to numerous requests received and ready to give the public a show on | by Carlton C. Crane, Pacific Coast agent the date set for their coming. | of the New York Central lines, for the As the time therefor approaches the de- | privilege of inspecting the New York Cen- sire for information in regard to it and | ;fl:‘anl;ggkgx;l »\;):flxi ‘c‘:fl"fio:tchh"um'f its various features and attractions be-r 37 e S i > comes more general and to meet this de- | Lastern passenger agent. New York Cen- y % | tral and Hudson River Railroad, in chary mand the Gottschalk Printing Company | of this train de luxe, to place same gre: of St. Louis has issued a handbook of 136 | exhibition at Oakland pler on Thursday, pages, with fine half-tone illustrations, { October 22, from 12 noon to 2 p. m. The prepared by Dr. Charies M. Kurtz, assist-| public is cordially Invited. | Hamburg yesterday with a party of | riends and Is registered at the Palace. | W. D. Faris, a retired merchant of ant chief of the department of art, T 5 TR Louisiana Purchase Exposition, which is | Dies of His Injuries. a master work of its kind. The first edi- | A. Wolcott, the aged musician who was tion of the handbook was published in|run over by a truck a week ago last| April. The demand for it was so great| Thursday at the intersection of Third and that it was soon exhausted, and second, Market streets, died yesterday of his in- third and fourth editions followed. A fifth | juries at his residence, 1175 Bush street. edition had to come and it leaves noth- | ing to be desired in the way of a book of} accurate and practical information. { It has been largely rewritten, brought up to latest date and many valuable and | interesting illustrations have been added. | The details and dates of forthcoming ex- position oceasions of importance, inter- national congresses, conventions, Govern- ment days, State days, Olympian games | and other events of greater or less inter- | est, are given, as are the details regard- ing home and foreign participation, and —_————— Gives Clark Commission. W. A. Clark is entitled to commission on the sale of property for Robert Dal- ziel. He sued Dalziel for $1875, and a jury in Judge Sloss’ court yesterday gave him a verdict for $1500. e We become particularly interested in the ideas of others when we begin calling them our own. GRIEF MAKES A RECLUSE OF PILLSBURY The - offictals of the Santa Fe abandoned their search for Frank bury, Yosemite Valiey agent for the c pany, who disappeared rather mysterious- Iy about two weeks ago. It was at first thought thdt the young man had wan- aered off while his mind was temporarily unbalanced, or that he had met with some mishap. Facts have since developed that plainly suggest that Pillsbury planned his departure from the city. A careful Inves- tigation of his trunk, left in his room at the Russ House, shows that he removed trom it underwear, a khakl suit, a shav- ing outfit and other necessities. These he packed in a telescope basket, purchased before his departure. He was seen at the ferry, buying a ticket for Oak- land, two days after he disappeared from the company's office. He had been talk- ing a great deal about locating timber land and leading a secluded life and the opinion now prevails at the Santa Fe of- fice that he has bone into the interior for the purpose of carrying out this plan. The suspiclon of the former associates of Pillsbury in the Santa Fe office is shared by the friends of the young man along the street. To the latter he had often remarked, since the death of his wife and child about a year ago, that he would prefer to enter upon the life of a recluse than to continue on in what he was pleased to term the “‘ever monoton- ous drudge of wage-earning.” It was ap- parent that the loss of his wife and child had made him discontented with life as it is experienced in the large cities and he longed to escape it and live closer to na- ture in the forests. From all that can be learned Pilisbury had no troubles other than those men- tioned. He had but recently entered upon the duties of Yosemite Valley agent of the Santa Fe Company and was fllling the billet in a most satisfactory manner to the rallroad officials. He was well liked by his associates in the office, one of whom was his roommate at the Russ. To the latter he gave not the slightest intimation of his intended departure from the city. Without even collecting the two months’ salary that was coming to him, Plllsbury quietly left the company’s of- fice one Friday afternoon. The last seem of him was the Sunday following, when a friend greeted him at the ferry. He then had his telescope bag with him and presumably was embarking on the new life he had so often referred to. — - —— NO LAW TO PUNISH ATTEMPTS TO COUNTERFEIT Bartholdi of Arizona Escapes Because Congress Has Failed to Enact Necessary Legislation. United States Court Commissioner Heacock yesterday discharged from cus- tody D. N. Bartholdl of Jerome, Arizona, who was arrested by United States Se- cret Service Agent Hazen on a charge of conspiring to have counterfeit currency manufactured. Barthold! made overtures to several en- gravers in this city to engrave the fac simile of an Austrian 5-crown bank note in the center of a certificated n}xnmz stock. As no confederate could be found Judge Heacock sald that the prisomer could mot be held on the conspiracy charge, and that while the court was con- vinced that Bartholdi had attempted to have the counterfeit notes made he could not be held, because Congress had falled to enact a law prohibiting and punishing attempts to counterfeit money. Bert Schlesinger argued the beralf of the prisoner. have case on ——— Chamber of Commerce Prospers. At the regular quarterly meeting of the Chamber of Commerce held yesterday the reports of the secretary and the treasurer showed that the organization was enjoy- ing unprecedented prosperity. The mem- bership and cash balance have increased greatly within the last two months. A letter was received from A. L. Parker & Co. of Boston Inquiring as to the feas- 1bility of building a 100-ton tube works in San Francisco. The factory would em- ploy about 1000 hands. — e To Awoid Collisions. Captains Boles and Bulger, United States inspectors of steam vessels, have recommended that ferry steamers be pro- vided with two whisties instead of ome, as at present. One of the whistles will be placed in front of the smokestack and the other behind it on the double ender boats as an additional precaution against collisions in fogs. The steamboat peo- ple have agreed to comply with the sug- gestion. e Townsend's California glace fruits and candies, 0c a pound, In artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 715 Market st., above e Special information supplied Done Clipping Barcau (Allsns), 20 Calte Press ping on’s) fornia ttgeet. Telephone Main 1042 the lists of commissiones, both home and foreign. All the details are given in re- lation to the exhibits of the various States, for which appropriations aggre- gating $7,142,000 have been made, as well as those of forty-two foreign Govern- ments, covering appropriations already made of 36,389,000, besides the $1,250,000 spe- cial appropriation by the United States Government for its own exhibits. A well arranged index of contents and an index of {llustrations adds to the value of the handbook and the whole reflects great credit on the author and the pub- lishers and places the public under an obligation to them, such as the payment of the price of the book, which will be on sale at the leading book dealers’, will not cancel. —_———— Claims Right to Ship Game. The Western Storage and Transfer Com- pany sued for an injunction yesterday re- straining the Fish and Game Commis- sioner from interfering with it in the transportation of game. In the ¢omplaint it is alleged that the Commissioners threaten to prevent the company from having in its possession for transporta- tion more game than the law provides shall be in the possession of any one per- son. It is claimed that having game for transportation is'not a violation of the law. 2 e —— NEW ADVERTISEMENTS _GROWING IN POPULARITY. The More Peap—l_rxnov Newbro'’s | Herpicide the Better They Like It. 113 HUNDRED yards distant rub his ey “Near the foot o man or ape. Its its hands were folded over its breast: ward, and wild, snaky hair, also of vi in mortal shape. breath left his lungs in a gasp their case and pushed forward. wonderful explorations of the great “Fitch's Mine of Mystery.” The more it becomes known the better feet of civilization in California, only a few months ago, of a mine of it 1 liked. One bottle sells two, and fire that has utterly baffled the best scientists in the world. Chunks of those two sell four. Newbro's Herpicide this wonderful mineral that has a flame which cannot be destroved have is what we are talking abdut. It cleans been taken from Fitch's mine, ground into powder, assayed by every the scalp ot all dandruff, and destroying the cause, a littie germ or parasite, pre- vents the raturn of dandruff. As a hair dressing 1t is delightful; it ought to be found on every tollet table. It stops fall- ing halr and prevents baldness. It should | be used occasionally as a preventive to protect the scalp from a new.invasion of the dandruff microbe. Sold by leading druggists. Send 10c in stamps for sample to The Herpicide Co., Detroit, Mich. CASTORIA day's I There lA{uron," . rman, S!orie')t::s’f; “The Unsolved Mystery i 1 ith a whole sea of For Infants and Children. 8‘:;"5:1\?%1'0:' by Biahou B M. T o X . The Kind You Have Always Bought |3 oo "rSeni waieh for thove iceures Bears the Siguature of @it el bttt The Weird Elephant Spiril. an undulation in the flat country, and toward the base of one tall block Lord Winstone descried an object which made him with frank amazement. he rock, his back against it, and shadowed entirely from the sun’s light by a natural grotto in the stone, sat an enormous stature was colossal, though smaller by far than the natives of Mapora had described while pressed upon its crown was a wreath of flowers. “In the midst of this strange kingdom, silent, motionless and alone. with uncouth face and distorted limbs, reigned this huge green monster “Lord Winstone got out his field glasses, without which he never hunted, and trained them on the grotto. 3‘ surprise, as he returned the glasses to Without doubt the reader will gasp with equal amazement and no less curiosity that such strange things can exist even in the Africa of to-dav. but Eden Philpotts knows absolutely whereof he speaks when he made the great Elephant Spirit of the Dark Continent one of the big features of his new novel, “The Golden Fetich,” now running in the Sunday Call. the second installment of which will be published next Sunday. It gives you Africa as it really is now and as it has not been shown since the But unbelievable as the foregoing extract may seem. stranger things are being found right here at home. It tells of the discovery under the very known process, tested by every possible standard. and still it remains a mystery—and still it glows on with undiminished brightness. It cannot be destroyed and it cannot be extinguished. Wonderful as is the newly discovered radium. of which there is less than one pound in the whole world and which costs a iabdn!mu sl:’mb"ol" a single ounce. Fitch's new mineral is even more astounding an far think that the earth in California is just full of it, but—read next Sun- ou will find other absorbing things. y Jack London: the big two-page railroad story by Frank “The Dispatcher’s Story”; tain H, F. Tower. which is something that Uncle Sam has recently ac- something so new that no woman who cares a pin how she looks (and what woman doesn’t?) will even dream of missing the next Sunday Call. rusty masses of ironstone preceded its naked body was bright green; s misshaped head was bent for- vid green, fell luxuriantly around it, He < ired awhile, and then his Stanley. Look in the next Sunday Call for more puzzling. And to “A Daughter of the a full page of “Hali-Hour of the Tinian Monoliths,” by Cap- r islands: “Emigration the Negro's rner; a full page of “Gems from the next week at the Mechanics’ Pavil- Picture Coat.” which is