The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 1, 1903, Page 30

. of ‘every man in the whole settlement, . kee or. tw . I-ma THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1903. [ | | 'THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor . . . . . . . Address All Communications to JOHN McNAUGHT, Manager PubMoAon O (7. v vaesis s bt s @ etiiieseeeee +en...Third and Market Streets, S. F. | J | | SUNDAY .NOVEMBER 1, 1903 =3 i1 | o o + A Sioux Chief’s -BY COLONEL F. T. CUMMINS. Ariny Officer, Director General an Congréss and Honorary 1 Indian my lifelong him that the present , to my mind, no ex- world . people is &0 . exciting, so strenous that | flar and perfectly true tale nr, Tale. | life dlr(cll) | imple directness is the | really dramatic. | ef of the Sioux nation, | far as I ther white man. es. I have, ea were not foug one ‘who sheds innocent wherewith one thing. he stereotyped di five minutes P. iped out the whole tribe, Little Big Horn, vommand were | g Biill, the medicine leven Tribes. the Little Big Horn was a ix. The country fairly alive resented | who came | is food, and | s s trying to f wn hereditary coun- | resentment tock the form of | g of settlements | ® the sentiment: “I am | these casual raids had gone for years the white man, with | axon doggedness, had re- ed cabin and repopulated | aged country. b s ® We were camped cn the rise of ground nd that where Custer later made stand. There were perhaps in the party, all scouts and ith the exception of a Chero- the TV sust & Yis 1§ Af sunset_a man came galloping into camp. He was dusty and tired out. “His n adian -pony, fell dead at the E: ad news of 2 little party of braves vhn had broken away from the reserva- tiok, eluded a squadron of cavalry sent to head them aff, and who were now on thejr way through the Little Big Horn bound for -the settlements. he referred to com- sted of & scattered line of some half score cabins, ranches, etc., strung along et intervals of séveral miles. Jt was apparently the war party’'s in- tention to swoop suddenly down on one €nd of this line of dwellings and put the whole settlement to death before warning could be given, escape planned or defense - prepareg. There were, said the man, but fifty of the Indians, and he had been on his way to warn the settiers ‘when he had fallen h us. less than half an hour we had bro- camp and, by a reundabout, trail t £ through the gathering yward the threatened settiement. as we planned it, would not 2 r party. Had it done their trained eyes would at once have 1 them owr numbers, the direction in “which .we were going and the object of our journey. They would have turned hat particular.rald and t asier prey. We arrived at .the settiement on time, sad- the warning and prepared to de- the point.at which we: knew, by the direction from which they were traveling, the Indians would be sure to attack. Had we been Easterners our prepara- tions would -have involved’'a thousand Iit- tie signs wherel the asallants would have kmown at onee of our.presence. But we were all skifled plainsmen and cap- “ble of matching even the Sioux them- ‘selves. in mutters of woedcraft and cun- -ning So it.was we rade our plans. Part of our party were to be concealed in the £Youp -0f cabins, which wpuld probably be-the object of the first attack. -The rest rre to. form a flanking party and fall on ux from ‘the rear, thus catching them bétween ‘two fires. . Our original numbers were swelled by thé presence 16 4n hand, fury in- heart, yearming for @ -chance 10 wipe out -0ld scores against the marauders. Not one but had some relative, friend or neighbor of other days 10 I\eflgl‘ I have sketched briefly our movements #ip to this point, for this story does not deal 5o much with the fight itself as with « single incident in it. For that reason here say the ruse we had planned proved perfectly successful. We beat off s war. p: and drove them’back over . thé ills with heavy loss and badly scared. " Drove them, in fact, straight into the arms of the pursuing detachment of United States cavalry they had before cluded.- .3t i€ of our wait in the thick underbrush (for T was one of the flanking party). that 1 am to tell. I found myself crouched ciose to the ground, rifie in hand, revolver and knife conveniently loosened in my belt. Beside me (We were scattered through the wood in parties of two) sat an old man, one of the settlers. He was of gigantic frame, nearly 6 feet 6 inches in height, with mas- sive neck and shoulders and bare, mus- culer arms. A long, white beard fell near- ly to his waist. Acress his knees lay a ye | ment, |of | club. When he came to his es which form the na- |‘Once traveling nearly a hundred miles on . muzzle-loading rifle. Venerable as; rce, the moving muscles | the almost demoniac in his blue eves betokened | him a fearfully dangerous opponent. ! Our Cherokees were posted far out be- »nd us and we knew they would signal | of the approach of the enen Strict | silence therefc was not necessary. Yet | the old man replied for a time in mono- | bies only to my efforts at conversa- I knew him by reputation and had met | him once or twice before in the settle- | where the neighbors looked on him as unbalanced and treated him with a | | mixture of pity and fear. He lived a | hermlzs life in a far isolated hut. His | rflme was Scott—Caleb Scott. He had | been among the first to move to that part [ the country, coming there nearly | twenty vears before with his wife and ! thelr little son, a boy of perhaps 5. The | child had been the idol of his heart. A few months after their arrival a Sioux | |attack had been made. Scott had at-| tempted to defend his cabin, but had been stretched senseless by a blow from a senses he found the dead and mutilated body of his wife stretched at his side. The child was | nowhere to be found. The Indians had | evidently carried it to their villages to torture to death. The horror of the trag- edy, combined with the blow he had re- ceived on the head, had partially unset- | tled his reason. For the past twenty £ & | ] Colonel ¥. T. Cummins. \ o | - years he had lived on there, more than the chance of joining a fight against the | Sioux. His one desire in life was to slay | as many Sioux as possible, and the score | had mounted high during the long stretch | of years. CHEN S As we crouched side by side in the un- dergrowth in the growing dawn he spoke at last, more to himself than to me: “If only they're Brules I'll be satisfied.” “Why?" I asked inadvertently. Then, at once I remembered. It was a party o{' Brule Stoux who had caused his life trag- | edy. “It was the Brules that took him,” he said in reply. “Took him—just a baby he was—and Yortured him to death. And him | never havin' had even a cross word sald | to him in his life!” | 1 made no reply and he rambled on: “He was the grandest child that ever was, that little Hal of mine. The liveliest | and the prettiest. His skin was like milk. | It was so white that his ma got real mad \ once when I tattooed a big blue ‘H. 8.’ on his iittle white chest. I just did ft to| please him, 'cause he'd seen the tattoo | marks on my arm (I follered the sea as a young man), and begged me to make some on him. He was as proud of them marks as I'd be of a di-mond. Poor little Hal! My little, little boy!" He muttered the last words in his beard, apparently forgetting my presence. The fiery blue eves dimmed a moment, then blazed with fresh fury. “That's why I hopes they’re Brules,” he explained apologetically, and lapsed into silence. b It was perhaps three minutes later that a faint rustling that none but a Western ear could have detected made me raise my eyes. Beyond our thicket was a little glade, perhaps twenty feet wide. The un- derbrush on the far side rustled again ever so faintly, and the head and should- ers of an Indian appeared. He was a| tremendous fellow, in full war paint and feathers. At a glance I read him for a Brule Sioux. He was a scout sent ahead of the main war party to spy out the ground before the braves closed in on the settle- ment. How he had slipped past our Cher- okee outpost without either of the heridi- tary foes having seen the other I do not know to this day. But there he was. He could not see us, hidden as we were. After one cautlous look he stepped into the glade. The same moment Scott saw him I could tell by his almost noiseless gasp of joy that he recognized’ the newcomer as a Brule. I dared not fire on the Indian lest the rest be warned by the shot and the ambush fail. I dared not let him go on lest he discover some of our men in the woods and give the alarm. What was to be done? In the fraction of a gecond, while I was debating, the problem was solved. Un- able to restrain himself longer, Scott dropped his rifie and with one incredibly long bound was in the glade and at the Indian’s throat. The impact knocked the rifle from the Brule's hand and it fell with a soft thud to the ground. “Grappling furfously with his insane as- saflant, the Brule to draw his knife and plunge it at least half a dozen times into Scott’s body. The old man, though wounded unto death, relaxed not one atom of his terrible grip on the sav- age. Back and forth, silent but deadly, they struggled up and down the tiny glade. Both were giants. Both were powerful beyond belief. But the strength of mad- ness nerved Scott. Little by little the Brule's head was forced back. At last there was a dull “‘click” and the Sioux collapsed in a heap on the earth. His neck was broken. ‘Unmindful of his own fatal wounds, Scott stood staring wildly down at his .dead foe. In falling, the blanket that had become looséned during the struggle had now come apart, revealing the savage's bare chest. And there, through streaks of paint and coat of tan, shone faintly the tattooed letters “H. 8.”! “Hal! My little, little boy!” murmurea Scott dazedly. Then his knees loosened and he fell across the body. | of sickness. | government of San Francisco. Sutro and the Phelan administrations and that of Mayor Schmitz have | | ister the government according to the most enlightened rules and ethics of business. The Republican| | popular form of government. When the law restricts that freedom and the elaborate legal machinery | | has no choice outside the two. If self-nomination, as in old Virginia, were the rule, the voter would | government, be it city, county, State or nation. To maintain that public officers are servants and not VOTE FOR THE CITY’S INTERESTS. T is history that the city of San Francisco has had its worst government under the party repre- sented by Mr. Lane. This history is not written by Republicans, but by their opponents. The highest development of boss politics was under Mr. Lane’s party. It was so ingenious that it secured a partnership with men who figured as Republican bosses, and between the two crowds San Francisco got government that is remembered as a man remembers bad luck or a serious fit Sad Story of Harold. Harold Haroldsen had just landed after a long sea voyage from Bangor, Me. Af- ter securing his six months’' pay he struck | shore with a quick jump and as is usual | with seafdring men, he proceeded to tack against a stiff breeze. In Harold's wandering about the streets of the city during the night he found him- self in front of a millinery store staring vacantly into a window in which he des- cried the figure of a most charming wom- an dressed in negligee and wearing a sweet, lingering smile. The longer he looked the more charming became the lady to his eyes. He stood transfixed for some time until his swelling heart could no longer stand the strain and to step in and speak to her was the thought which prompted him. That he was wel- come there could be no mistake, as she never for a moment took her bewitching eyes off him. No longer able to control himself he dashed at the doorway, but alas, the entrance was closed. A glass doorway stood between him and his adored one. Glass doors to a love smitten sailor have no terror. With one lunge of his brawny shoulder the glass was smashed Into frag- Since Mayor Ellert’s excellent administration the Republican party has had but little voice in the been upon us since, and have all been denounced and derided by the Democratic organs which were directly or indirectly responsible for them. The opportunity is now given for the people to choose an administration that is not bossed by anybody, and will have no strings on it. If ever a perfectly independent man ran for office in this town | that man is Henry J. Crocker. Under the new charter the power of the Mayor over the government of the city is vast and various. Put a professional politician, who is aspiring and ambitious, and whose scruples are blunted by aspiration and ambition, as is the case with all professional politicians, and he but feebly resists the temptation to use this power for political instead of for public purposes. Both| Schmitz and Lane are professional politicians. Lane got the start of Schmitz, but the Mayor has made a good second, considering the short time he has been in training. But the intention of the charter is to make it possible for a business man to be Mayor, to admin-| on the floor within, a night watchmaa standing over him with a huge club. They called for the patrol wagon and three hard-hearted cops rushed Harold down to the tanks. “Bud I tank dat voomans vants to lofe l'ne," sighed Harold from the drear gloom of the cage down at the hall. party, keenly sensitive to this spirit and purpose of the city’s organic law, nominated a business man for Mayor, and it is the duty of the people to elect him. Of course he has been attacked and defamed, per- sonally, and has been vilely abused by the two newspaper organs of Mr. Lane. But this only proves our| premise that professional politicians desire to teach merely business men like Mr. Crocker to retire from public affairs and let the politicians run them. The abuse of him from such a source is a reason why he should be supported by all men who resent the insolent policy of making business men fear to run the gauntlet of a candidacy. The people of this city want no more class politics such as Mayor Schmitz represents, and no| more boss politics as represented by Mr. Lane. They have positively no interest in making Mr. Lane’ s! election an opening popgun in Mr. Hearst’s campaign for the Presidential nomination. They want a man for Mayor for the purposes of the whole city, of all the people and not of a class, and to consider the great future of San Francisco, instead of the future of a self-seeking, self-advertising, self-praising poli- tician. To accomplish all this, the election of Mr. Crocker is a necessity. The fight is straight between him and Schmitz, and every vote for Lane increases Schmitz’s chance of winning. We say these things without personal prejudice or bias. The Republican, independent and high-minded Democratic voters of the city have in their hands the power of decision. We are persuaded that they will decide for Crocker, as representing more of what they desire to accomplish than Schmitz and Lane rolled into one. Precocious Ambition. A Sutter street youth who has not yet attained the dignity of wearing trousers is the hero of a unique adventure. An older boy living next door informed him one afternoon that if he should follow the car tracks far enough he would find the lump of gold from which the trolley wires ‘were made, and that then he might pur- chase every candy cigar in the confec- tlonery store on the corner. The toddler knew no easfer road to unalloyed happi- ness, and eluding his mother’s eye he set out alone for the first time in his life to face the world in search of wealth. The mother soon observed that her off- spring was among the missing, and set out in pursuit. She descried him sitting on the curb two blocks away. Fearful that he might take a sudden notion to get in front of a car, she ran toward him, shouting promises of those rewards vis- ited upon the transgressing young. She found the child gazing delightedly into a chamois skin bag. Grasping him firmly by the ear she marched him home, and had applied the familiar slipper before investigating his discovery. ‘What was her astonishment to find that the bag contained $625 in gold. Sweet Cider. The dapper walter lingers— What shall I drink to-night? I turn, with listless fingers, The ‘Wwine list to the light; And while I scan it, thinking That wine has lost its charm, I dream once more of drinkink Sweet cider at the farm. A NEW ASSOCIATION. E have in California the compulsory primary election law. It has not been in operation long enough to demonstrate the wisdom of the State taking control of political parties. In this| city it ias seldom brought to the primary polls even a large minority of any party. If the| statements of candidates are to be taken as true, it has not resulted in the purification of party politics. For instance, Lane and Schmitz were both nominated by the operation of that law, and each stigmatizes the other as an enemy of reform, the foe of purity and the intended destroyer of the| best interests of the city. The truthfulness of a man goes to his character and is largely decisive oi his fitness for a public trust. If they both tell the truth about each other, the primary election law has not improved politics. If neither tell the truth, the conclusion is the same. Under the system a man cannot get his name on a ticket except through the primary. The crin- vention system, which started in the open caucus, did somewhat limit the selection of candidates. But it is not to be forgotten that the period of selfishness and corruption in American politics began with the iimitations on a man’s right to make himself a candidate for office and to solicit the support of his fel- low-citizens. William H. Seward said that Virginia’s long supremacy in national affairs was the result of ‘her system of self-nomination. Her best men were attracted to public life by their ability to present themselves for office and submit their claims to the judgment of their fellow-citizens, without asking the consent of any caucus or convention. It is a far cry from that plan to our present network of re- strictions and prohibitions, that seem to be a check only on the best and fittest, but leave opportunity open to the venal and corrupt. There is no question that the greatest freedom of choice is the best for a| From sranddad’s anclent settle, Before the crackling blaze, I watch the singing kettle— A merry tune it plays. There, when the corn was snapping, And apples sizzed and steamed, ‘With granddad slyly napping, My sweetest creams were dreamed. The winter wind, snow laden, Coaxed up the roaring flames, And there a rosy maiden Sat by and played me games: There Love, who heard the clinking Of glasses, came and saw Two happy lovers drinking Sweet cider through a straw. Snug sheitered from the weather, At Boreas we laughed, And quenched our thirst together In that cool amber draught. That drink of granddad’s making, Pressed in the mill hard by, Set no light head to aching, Turned no bright speech awry. Stilled are the clinking glasses, Long vanished is your smil Oh, roslest of lass: But still I dream, ‘and while My gray mustache I'm dipping In wine without a flaw T see your red lips sipping Sweet cider through a straw. —Frank Roe Bachelder, November. ‘A Remarkable Contrast. In 1848, when the first locomotive drew two coaches containing about twenty pas- sengers at a speed of about five miles an hour over ten miles of tracx, it was truly regarded as a marvelous event. Now, however, the Illinois Central alone runs 123 suburban trains dally in Chicago, carrying nearly fifty thousand passengers. Through the same depot there runs from other roads entering there 316 trains daily, with a traffic of nearly 100,000 passengers. The total mileage of railroads centering in Chicago is above 80,000 miles, at a cap- {talization of nearly five biilion dollars. The remarkable rise in railroads that made it possible for Chicago to become such a great city is fully told by Joseph Kirkland in his “Story of Chicago,” now being published by the Dominion Com- pany. Nothing in history can equal the | enterprise of the American people, as is shown in this single industry. of the primary presents, as it often does, two candidates for the same office and hoth unfit, the voter have no excuse for snubbing the polls because no candidate deserved his trust. As a protest against these restrictions there has arisen in Clevland, Ohio, the “Split Ticket Asso- ciation,” which may be constituted of the members of all parties. Its platform is this: “To encourage independent voting, so the best men will be elected, regardless of party politics. “To discourage the practice of electing men for more than two terms, and to oppose the idea of allowing any person more than four years in the public service (local) except the civil service. “To insist that public positions shall be given to others besides those who live by politics alone.” “To stand for the American principle that supervision and not ownership is the true function of in Liopincott's for masters of the people. To end the labor question by adoption of the eight-hour day. “To stand by the men who stand for plain justice for rich and poor alike, and to drive out of power all who would trample on our lawful institutions, for their own individual aggrandizement.” That is not a bad platform as a rule of action for the members of all parties. Our political insti- tutions began in the town-meeting of New England. It was copied from the old Saxon Wittengamote, which was the germ of that parliamentary system of government which has perpetuated the British | empire, and is one of the three co-ordinate branches of our Federal Government. If it were generally adopted again it would make a proper and splendid school in which to train our foreign-born citizens in line with our institutions, and would compel them into an association which would make it necessary jor them to use the English language if they desire any part in our politics. Ocecan Traffic. on Mississippi. “The steameship Colonian, J4rawing twenty-nine feet, passed out of the Mis- sissippi on Sunday last carrying to Eu- rope an immense cargo of cotton and to- bacco,” says a Southern paper. “No other vessel .of equal draught has ever before entered or left the port of New Orleans. That city has proved that her docks are available for the larger shipping. “In the fiscal year ended in June last New Orleans led the country in wheat shipments. The city sent to twenty Euro- pean ports 17,836,356 bushels of wheat, sur- passing New York's shipments by 400,000 bushels.” Notes-on Railroads. The results of the change from steam to electrical power on New York's elevated railways are a reduction of cost per pas- senger of 2.4 cents under steam to L9 cents; an Increase in gross earnings of $i00,000, accompanied by a decrease in ex- penses of $99,000. In 1880 the South had only 20,500 miles of railway; in 1900 there were over 54,000 A New York merchant, who has just returned from a long residence in the Orient, says with some warmth and emphasis that we are neglecting our manifest opportunities in Manchuria. Our critic unquestionably is informed of Russia’s persistent balking at the door opened to us,'and perhaps we may ot be wanting in wisdom if we hesitate to see whose fingers are jammed when an attempt is made to close that door. AL L Dr. Parkhurst of New York, famous or notorious according to your point of view, has waited long and patiently for a vindication of his crusades and of his purposes. It has come at last. He has been roundly denounced, roasted to a turn and, worse than both, has been placed in the same unholy category as newspaper reporters by John Alexander Dowie. Thus it happens that out of infamy sprouts fame. R SR The bucolic stranger within our gates who cashed a worthless check for an unknown man the other day must have heafd some hayseed speak of the advantages of money to burn and wanted some of it. He should be hustled out of town as soon as possible, as he sets a bad example to the weak and provides an unnecessary temptation to citizens who otherwise would respect other people’s money. miles, representing a new influx of capital ——— to the amount of $1,500,000,000.—Baltimore Tt was very nice of Sir Thomas Lipton to withdraw his offer of a cup for international trans- | American. Atlantic yachting races when he discovered that Emperor William wants to give one. While of course Virgin Forest of of Walnuts. it makes no difference to us who gives us the cup it really would have been unfair for us to keep iN| Clay County, Missourl, claims the larg- America any more than we have of the property of Sir Thomas. ¥ | est virgin forest of walnut trees in Amer- ter and sixty feet to the first limb. Rip- ungrateful at this time. It will furnish food for unseemly gossip and unkind comment for the Turks; cireumference. Theee v Torsezy \ & fca. It covers sixty acres. In Lutesville, S e Mo., is a cypress tree eight feet in diame- The fact that negroes are being kept in pmctxml bondage in Northern Louisiana is particularly| ey County has a grape vine four feer 1 1 circumference. These were found while and Russians and other barbarously civilized peoples over, whose domestic afiars we assume to exer- cou-:uon for the World's i 4 cise a directing, motherly interest. ; - —_—— Pithy Sayings. The recent railroad wreck_of the Monterey flyer near Gllroy was perhaps the most extraordinary BT e T in the history of the West. Somebody, by solemn | authonty of the railroad officials themselves, was to n;:ut all blame and nobody washurt. In railway affairs this is a eomhmzbon of results that is aholutely unique. al a cat may presume to do. queen, but that is of ments and Haroldsen was next sprawling | TALK OF THE TOWN sible i3 to make the ambition reasahable. Success without thrift is not’ well pos- sible.—Owen Kildare. Answers to Queries.” NONE SUCH—Subscriber, Odkland, Cal. There is no such school ship as'the Young America belonging to the United States- navy. % . 3 A GALLON—A. S, City. - A gallon, United States measure, contains 231 cubie inches and the weight of such a-gallon of. water is eight pou’xds RUSSIAN. DAYS—Subscriber, City. At St. Petersburg, Russia, the lengest day is nineteen hours and the shortest five hours. written A-bo-ben-a-dem, .a soundzd as that letter is in far and the letter o as in move. e LEAP YEAR-O. M. A, City. Every year the number of which 1s divisible, by 3§ without a remainder is 'a leap year, except the last of the century, which is a leap year only when divisible by 40 without a rémainder WEDDING ANNIV LRS\RYfSubsc-‘b- er, City. The fortieth wedding anniver- sary !s called the 'ruby wedding. .All presents should, if In the line of jewelry, contain rubles, and: if others :huuld have the color of the ruby. PROPERTY—A.,. Orland, ,Cal. Tour question about property is-one that calls for a judicial ruling and is-not of the class that this department answers. You ought to submit the matter to a reputable attorney, who will give you' hiy best judg- ment in the matter. b SAILING VESSELS—G. B: E: ‘Hongo- lulu, H. 1. The record for quickest passage from San Francisco to Sydney is given as follows: 1871, Britisir-ship Allah&qu. n 39 days; 1875, American ship’Glory of - the Seas, 38 days. The number of mllel travs ersed by each was 600, AN OPERA—Subscflber, City.- e opera, “Les Pecheurs des Pgries,” was first produced in the United States by Gustav Hinrichs' company {n Philadei- phia, August .23, 1893 It was first per- formed at the Theater L.yrlquo in Paris, France, In 1862 or 1363. DAYS—SUbIcflbeIK Alameda, Cal. An astronomical day commences at noon and is° counted from the first to the twenty- fourth hour. A ciyil day .commences at midnight and is counted from the first to the twelfth hour, and a nautical day is counted as a civil day, but commences like the astronomical day, at noon. TESTS-E. L. A, City. The following tests are used to.determine .if a person is dead: Holding a mirror to the mouth; if living, moisture will gatlier. Pushing pin into the flesh; if -dedd the hole. re- mains, if alive the hole will" ciose up. Hold fingers in front of a strong light; if alive they will appear red, if dead, black or dark. BUILDING -AND LOAN—Reader, Cfty. ‘What are known as building and loan as- sociations were originally building socie- ties. Such had their rise in England, the first organization of the kind being form- ed In Birmingham ‘in 17%, and was called a building club. Thé object was mutual assistance among the meinbers toward procuring homes. The first association of the kind in the United States was found- ed in Philadelphia in 1831," admittedly on the English model. It was calied the Ox- ford Provident Building Association. WORLD'S FAIR—JI. B, City. In the summer of 1892 a biil was Introduced in Congress appropriating $5000,000 for the purpose of the World's Fair of 1393 at Chi- cago, but this bill as it passed both houses and was signed by the President, August 5, 1892, finally appropriated $2,500.-. 000, while the sundry civil bill inciuded clauses allowing $408,250 for the Govern- ment exhibits and $230,000 for the.national commission, of which $110,000 .was placed to the credit of the board of lady man- agers and $5000 to that of the director gen- eral's contingent fund. iR Ly HEIGHT OF M NTAINS—Subseriber, Larkspur, Cal. The f\)llowinx heights of notable peaks in the Coast Range are from observations by Professor Davidson: Tamalpais, 2640 feet; Sierra Marena, 2530; Mount Bates, 3528;.St. Lucia, §100; Mount Hamilton, 4409 (4209 at observatory sta- tion); Mount Mocho, 3800; Mount Whit- ney, 4.5 Dana, 13,212; Lyall, 13211; Hoffman, 10.860; Conness, 12, Round Top, 10,645; Lola, 9,285; Marysville Buttes, 2117; Snow Mountain, 7001; Helena, 4337; Sonoma, 2212; Ross, 2243; Diablo, 3348.3; Shasta, 14,440, 3 MAGUIRE'S OPERA- HOCSE—CDH‘IQ HcEll’oy who styles himself an “old- timer,” writes to this department from Nevada City to the effect that the pub- lshed answer relative to Adah Isaacs Menken appearing at house was correct, but that the announce- ment that the opera-house was located on the north side of Washington street, between Montgomery and Kearny streets, is not correct. If Maguire's Opera-housa Wwas not there will the correspondent state where it was? The building that was known as Maguire's Opera-house still stands where it stood in the early '60's. VOTE FOR GOVERNOR—M. D., Wheat. land, Cal. The total vote for Governor in Massachusetts in 192 was: Republican, 196,276; Democratic. 159,156; scattering, 43, 257. Total vote, 398,88. There was no elec- tion for Governor in either Iowa or Ohio in 1902. The clection was held in the year previous. In that vear the total vote was 290411 in the State of Iowa; in 1902 the wote for Secretary of State was 305,412, of ‘which 220,225 was Republican, 150,011 Dem- ocratic and 16,176 scattering. In Ohio the fotal vote for Governor in 191 was $27,36. The vote for Secrétary of State 1902 was S$11,466—Republican, 436,171; Demo- cratic, 345,708 scattering, 20,58. —————— Townsend's- California glace fruits and candies, 50¢ a pound, In artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Easter friends. 715 Market st., above Call blds. —_—— information supplied daily to wmhommn\m:n-lym Torin SHPEC™ Telephons Main o % Maguire's Opera— - Bizet's a4\