The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 5, 1904, Page 8

+\ Sidelights in Congress. | N . The OCull BY & WALL. WASHINGTON, April 4.—The labor of Congress « the passage of one of | the general appropriation bills is not well represen n the brief rvp-vrll! of proceedings r the country | every day du ts course. This la- | bor & some nense Each of p ngth from commit- Lee he House, from the un House 10 ttee, from Sen- ate comm Senate, from Senate 10 the ymmittee and fro back Senate 1o the the conference House, and 1o 1k fina take cut viding @ Do frox the bills to bring up fina the pro most beat apon which a party amen: this ¢ d shot t for ¥ the div ome on mar Overstreet literally a House that 1} tinue for three weeks The weeks ag ver the B has continued dow the bil of the March Saturday pa: e « William had been itself. 1 most season and has hours through the posed amendments the bill has one sifle of the and must sta postal sery = a thing hamiet is interested and about which dragged wear By 1ssion pro- provision or from beer other man The the give n whi 1o each « 1 ready to ba ce h every every intelligent per thing, and this tion of the lively drew sometning House who are fered opportu those who like son kne offe discussion fact an expla which members of the heard and of- without limit to talk. Demoerats were | from ely ¥ found pleading for expansion and in- | crease in salaries quite as often as in the line of opposition. Since it came on for comsideration the bill has been taken up immediately after the morn- | ing hour every day and its considera- | tion continued until mearly 6 o'clock. | Despite the long contest, the bill was | not materially change: The cutting out of the appropriation for carrying | the mail from San Francisco to the | Society Islands was among the most | radical of the amendments. This was done at the instance of the Democrats, | a sufficient following on the other side being « ed to carry it through. | Livernash and Wynn of San Fran- cisco were the only Democrats voting h made a strong ndment, de- | Steamship Com- | the mail to be| against it Livern speech agains claring the Oceanic pany now carrying the friend of the sailor on ihe | Pacific, the Chinaman finding no place on the ships of the company the aw white Representative J. N. Giliette of Cali- fornia is likely to become famous as the leader of the opposition to the pro- | posed tmpeachment proceedings against Judge Charles Swayne of Flar- | ida. Gillette was one of a subcommit- tee of the Judiciary Committee of the | House that went to Florida and in- vestigated on the ground the charges | preferred. The committee numbered three: Palmer, Republican, Pennsyl- vania: Clayton, Democrat, Alabama, and Gillette, Republican, California Judge Swayne was not heard in his own defense in Florida, but came on to | Washington gave his testimony before the whole committee. The sub- committee reported the full Com- mittee on Judiciary almer and Clay- ton & majority and lette a minority report. To the House these two re- ports ave carried, representing the | views of the full committee almost | | 10 P, equally divided—eight against sev with two Republicans absent, and who, if present, would probably turn the | minority into a majority, nine to eight. The majority at present is com- posed of Palmer, Powers, De Armond, | Clayton, Little, Henry, Brantiey and Smith, all Democrats but the two first named. The minority are Gillette, Jeh- kine, Littlefield, Parker, Alexander, Warner and Nevin, all Republicans. | Thomas, absent at his home in Jowa, and Pearre, sick at his home In Mary- land, are counted upon to vote with | the majority. Gillette’s minority report is a com- plete answer to the report of the majority and covers every point quite as convincingly as does the other apnd g0es into important evidence that the | other jgnored. The case will occupy | the House for a week or more with “ebate no doubt and possibly interfere with some preconceived notions about sdjournment. It is not at all lkely that it will be decided this session. ‘The report of the committee will serve +# 2 complaint before the House. The House will discuss and vote upon it— whether to impeach or not. If the verdict is for impeachment then the matter will be carried before the Sen- ate for trial. The Senate, however, will give the defendant time to answer and in the meantime that body will ad- | been ! of having abandoned his office. | people of California, who, he says, de- | liar influence at work to have switched ilbe language of the bill, while the loca- tions in the three other la |last of the list, the general deficiency. | | to more journ. In the event of impeachment by the House the Senate may be con- vened in November for the purpose of trying the case before the regular ses- ®ion. R, W There have been seven cases of im- peachment before the Senate in the Ristory of the country. The first was the case of a Senator, Blount, 17 charged with having conspired with the Cherokee Indians to defraud the Government. The Senate found it had no jurisdiction, a Senator not being a | civil officer. The other two who were not Judges were Secretary of War Belk- nap and President Andrew Johnson. The first Judge to be impeached was Pickering of New Hampshire, about 1812, He was adjudged to be crazy— whisky the cause. In 1800 Judge Chase of Maryland was tried for hav- ing refused to hear an argument in a pefore him. The case was a po- litical one and the impeachment did | not stand. In 1830 Judge James Peck of Missouri was tried for having dis b «d an attormey for having crit cized a judgmenf after the case had appealed to the Supreme Court. Here, too, the proceeding failed. In 1862 Judge Humphreys of Tennessee was adjudged guilty of disloyalty and & WMo | i ! Thus in the history of the country | but four judges have been tried and two found guilty under impeachment proceedings. The case of Judge Swayne, therefore, will take its place i very select company. Gillett, in his minority report, makes out as complete | a defense as the majority is conclusive | for impeachment. The charge of non- residence and being absent, for in- stance, is answered by flat denial and presentation of proof as to non-resi- dence and a showing that his absence from Florida was upon the order of the ircuit Court and that during the ab- complained of he was holding in other Gulf States. This evi- obtained and so con- not sought by the ma- | says Gillett. All the other counts mwet as fully and radically. Bt P s dence, so easily clusive, was = Colorado River and its diversion irrigation 2 has been before the House Committee on Irrigation and | Arid Lands for several days. Willlam | C. Smiythe of San Diego, Democrat and | late opponent of Captain Daniels for Representative in Congress, has ap- peared in opposition to the bill. He claims to come in the interest of the | that the Government shall have harge of the irrigation work of the te. The closest and most persistent questioning on the part of the chair- man of the committee has falled to dis- cover who is directly responsible for his coming. He has waged a warm fight on the bill, however, in whatever interest it may be. sire The Californians in Congress are in doubt as to what to do in the matter | of the military camp site awarded to the Henry ranch by the Committee on Military Affairs. They are disposed to| 1K that there has been some pecu- the sentiment so suddenly from the Nacimiento ranch and hurried the bill through committee with a favorable report containing the name of the Henry ranch. They don’t profess to have any objection to the Henry ranch particularly, except that it costs a hun- dred and fifty thousand dollars more than the other, which the first military board examining reported in favor of. They do not belleve that the matte has been treated fairly. = Before the| committee they urged that in view of the conflicting reports the matter of selection be left to the Secretary of War. But this suggestion was not only not followed but the California site was | definitely fixed at the Henry ranch by States were all given at least the latitude that lies in the words “‘at or near.” Earlier in the session it was not ‘deemed at all likely that this bill would get on the calendar of both houses this session. Now it is | believed there is a possibility of its pessage. They would like to offer an amendment cutting out the name of the rarch and inserting the names of the three counties in which are located the several sites inspected and reported upon and leaving the definite selection to the Secretary of War. But they fear that by doing this they will be placing hindrance in the way of the bill's passage. They want the camp site in California and they want it this year. The disposition to offer an amendment therefore may be smothered. So far as the House is concerned its labors over the appropriation bilis are about over. Following the sundry civii bill now under consideration comes the The House can then give itself over| interesting subjects, one of which to many of its members is ad- journment. The 1 America is the young man’s country, we are told, because so many of the conspicuous figures among us are | young men. The thing is said conven- | tionally, "as if there were some moral | virtue in being young; as if, too, the | greatest tragedy in American history | was not the death some forty years ago of half a million men in the prime of | life, which deprived our gemerations of | its wisest counselors. Experience is| eleran. | the enly school which gives a degree | honored of all men, and a man of three- score, with the vigor of life still in him, | should be the most useful citizen of a | community. The awful catastrophe at Baltimore furnished a splendid instance. The con- l flagration had been raging .or twelve hours. Chief Horton of the Fire De- | partment had been disabled by a live wire. The fighters were without a head. | Then William C. McAfee, veteran fire | chief, retired for age and accounted an | old man, offered his services to the| Mayor. They were accepted. Donning | his oileking and grabbing his trumpet | the old chief went into action. At once the men knew they had a leader. They | needed one. The fire was roaring down to the river bank where were some great rosin works filled with tur- pentine.= And as they went so muul go East Baltimore. i ““There will he h- 1 to pay if the fire gets into that rgsin,” yelled Mc- Afee through his trumpet. “If enough of you men will follow me, we'll go in there and dump the whole outfit into the bay.” They followed the leader and they saved East Baltimore.—Leslie's Monthly. | of which Oakland has long felt the need | pression of every ignoble feature. | of the people. A | posed purpose of reconciling Tammany to an instructed THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL TUESDAY. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL Jommsmcm.s.hm:..........aumm_gmmbm»mmwm,lam Publication Office ..... @mm-mmflmsmeu.s.r e <l .APRIL 35, 1904 — OAKLAND’S 'PROGRESS. UR publication of the growth and work of the Oakland Board of Trade discloses matter of in- terest not only to our neighboring city, but to I'rancisco and the whole State. Oakland has the finest natural advantages, but has stood too long upon them alone. Such advantages are valuable only as the best use is made of them. It is a fatal mistake to trust to them and expect them to work the prosperity of a city, without any effort on the part of its people. Time w that Oakland was as much talked about in the East as any city in California. This*was when it be- came the terminus of the Central Pacific Railway. But there ensued a period of lapse, in which it seemed that the energies of the people were entirely invested in fight- ing the very agency that had brought the place into no- The habit -of battle extended to other things, and ! it seemed that an Oaklander counted that day lost"in which he had failed to make a kick at something. The late Senator Fair tried for a long time to get a rival railroad into QOakland, but the people wanted some- thing to fight,-and fought him with all the vigor that had been acquired and trained in fighting the original “Octo- | pus.” But now the coming of the Santa Fe, the wide- | spread operations of the Realty Syndicate, and the im- provement of the harbor, seem to have wrought a change in the spirit of the city, and the local Board of Trade, in represents the spirit and pur- There is less spirit of conflict O San tice. its strength and polic pose of a new Oakland and a higher civic purpose that promise to make Oak- for some time to come a center of interest and land growth in population and in business. It seems to a friendly observer that the first step to be taken by the people is the ratification of the very moderate bond proposition that is soon to be submitted. The bonds are for the purposes of public improvement A modern city and up to date reguires all the business facilities it can If happily placed between land and improve or create water transportation, it needs the development of both, in the commerce and manufactures. It should be liberal in the encouragement of its streets and | In this respect Oakland is | service of its interurban railway system. at present fortunate. It has a street railway system that | is equal to the demands of five times the present popula- tion. This, of that investment in that line has been made on faith in the future of the city. When the people and the street railways work together | that faith is juftified. But with the rise of business facil- ities there must go on also the development of those course, means other needs of a modern city, parks, scenic features, | good streets and ample and sightly schoolhouses and ! public buildings. In these respects a beginning is made in the proposed bond issue. In arranging for expendi- ture of its results, it may not have been possible to give to every part of the city as much as the people may Teel But this should not influence a vote against is their due. the bonds. It is admitted that in Lake Merritt and its surround- ings Oakland has features of peculiar value. We recall | no city in the United States or Europe that has in its midst such a valuable scenic and sanitary feature as that | placid and beantiful body of salt water. San Francisco has the most attractive park in the world, but it lacked a body of water and had to create one, artificially, in Stow Iake. Oakland has that feature ready made, and should improve its shores and surroundings, by the sup- This will fadl if the bonds fail. As for other parts of the city, the people may be sure that when this issue is spent upon the purposes it is in- tended to serve, the result will be such an access of popu- lation and such an increase in values that it will be easy to secure another issue to put into West Oakland the line of improvements so long desired. to encourage awakened Oak- We can’'t go over there and vote, but we can San Francisco wishes land. stimulate the spirit of progress that is taking possession Each of these cities is helped by the growth of the other. San Francisco business needs the use of Oakland harbor for its surplus activities, which when they are crowded off our own water front must go somewhere, and the nearer to us the better. The Merchants’ Association of this city has a sufficient in- terest in Oakland to justify it in going over there to hold up the hands of the Oakland Board of Trade, help the Boosters boost and aid the whole booming people boom. looked at in the right light, these two neighboring citi. allied in so many interests, when wrought upon by a common spirit of progress and enterprise, with their combined strength in business and public affairs, can be- come a potent agency in directing the spirit of the whole State. They, in combination, can secure public improve- ments, direct better and more useful legislation, and con- tribute to the profit of every acre and the welfare of every home in California. Therefore, having set her | face to the future, let Oakland refuse all temptations to ! look backward. General Booth-Tucker has beén in San Francisco on a tour of inspection of Aalvation Army posts. He came in a good cause and found worthy representatives of the great system of which he is so distinguished a leader. The missionary labors of the Salvation Army achieve a result in every community that society would regret deeply 10 lose. TROUBLE FOR BELMONT. UGUST BELMONT was for years the agent of Rothschild and chairman of the Democratic Na- tional Committee. His son, August, is a Demo- cratic politician in New York, with a genius for party management. Last week be visited Washington to con- fer with members of the party in Congress, for the sup- delegation. Hon. William Randolph Hearst has since been busy trying to make Belmont feel that in visiting Washington he entered the enemy’s country. Mr. Hearst informs the readers of his newspapers, by the use of several of the longest leased wires in the world, that Mr. Belmont is “a cold aristocrat” Pro- ¢ ceeding upon this reference to lJmperaturc as a political issue, Mr, Hearst further impeaches him for stopping at the New Willard Hotel in Washington, and there being cousulted by Senators Carmack, Blackburn and Dubois, who exposed themselves %o frost bite by association with this refrigerated aristocrat. Hearst charges that Belmont is an icicle used by Judge Parker to put the Hearst boom in cold storage, and asks the Democracy it that sort of thing is to their taste? - His indictment has many counts. He charges that this frozen aristocrat has put in his time battling for in- | doesn’t throw it in their way. e} equalities before the law; that he has caused “an outcry from the multitude”; that he has raised a “peril calling for stern action”; that he stands for “plundering manip- ulation of specie”; and that he go'es around like a lion doing cold’ roaring against the people, and ‘conspiring with Senators Bacon, Bailey, Simmons and the others named to procure the nomination of Judge Parker. Mr. Hearst strikes an attitude, per leased wire, and cries out that it is “amazing that Belmont should dare intrude in the councils of a party that is arrayed against nearly everything he favors.” : J Mr. Hearst also says that this intrusion was followed by an incendiary dinner in New York on Saturday night, at which Judge Parker sat down with Henry McDona and Judge Truax, representing the Whitney interests. We don’t know who McDona and Truax are, but doubt- less Judge Parker ought to be ashamed of himself for sitting down with them. To an onlooker it appears that gentle harmony has taken wings and gone to roost else- where than in the Democratic party. With Tom Wat- son charging that Cleveland “et with a nigger,” and Hearst trying to thaw out a cold aristocrat by a longest leased wire, and Judge Parker recklessly feeding with improper persons, the¢ country will conciude that a party made up of such improprieties and incongruities is not to be trusted with administration of the affairs of the nation. # It all brings up the main question that The Call has so often presented, that the Democratic nominee may be Bourbon or barbarian, the real issue is the quality, tem- per, disposition and tendency of the party itself. If these remain as now, and as they have been since 1896, undeserving of confidence, it makes no difference wheth- er the nominee is a cold aristocrat or a warm member like Hearst, the people will shy to the other side of the road. Chile and the Argentine Republic are selling their old fighting ships that they may raise the needed money with which to buy new ones more formidable and neces- sarily more dangerous to their Our South American friends have such a persistent faculty of seek- ing trouble that it seems almost a pity that some one owners. \ UNIVERSE‘Y SUMMER SCHOOL. old it was said: “Nothing is invented and per- fected at the same time.” 1f there be an excep- tion to the general rule embodied in that state- (“ment, it is to be found in the system of summer schools, which has but recently been adopted by our universities, and yet which has been well nigh periected,by the in- ventors of it. In the comparatively short time in which the summer sessions of the leading universities have been in operation, enough has been accomplished to give them a high prestige among our educational institu- | tions and to assure their permanency as a part of the work of the university for the advancement of knowl- edge and the diffusion of culture. It is gratilying to Californians that in no university of the country has a greater measure of success been attained by these sessions than in our own State Univer- | sity, whose summer school now ranks as one of the ! [Three foremost in the Union, holding place along with the summer schools of Harvard and of Chicago. In- deed, it is quite probable that during the coming sum- mer the work of the sessions at the University of Cali- fornia may take precedence over all, for the array of lecturers and instructors that have been engaged for the various a body of teachers and scientists hardly to be egualed anywhere. courses constitutes The recently published announcement of the coming | summer school which is to begin June 27 and continue for six weeks presents a programme of twenty-six courses. The statement goes on to say: 3 “Instruction will be given not only by members of the regular faculty of the university but by a number of well-known men of letters and of science from Eastern universities and from FEurope. Among tnese will be Sir William Ramsay, professor of chemistry in University College, London; Hugo de Vries, professor of botany in the University of Amsterdam; Svante August Arrhenius, professor of physics in the University of Stockholm: James Ward, fellow of Trinity College and professor of mental philosophy in the University of Cambridge; Regi- nald Aldworth Daly, geologist to Canada for the Inter- nationa] Boundary Commission; Frederick Jackson Tur- ner, director of the School of History and professor of American history in the University of Wisconsin; Fran- cis Barton Gummere, professor of English in Haverford College; Morris Hicky Morgan, professor of classical philology in Harvard University; Albert Augustus Stan- ley, professor of music in the University of Michigan; Frank Morton McMurry, professor of the theory and practice of teaching, Teachers’ College, Columbia Uni- versity; Hammond ILamont, managing editor of the New York Evening Post, formerly professor of rhetoric in Brown University; Charles Hall Grandgent, professor of Romance languages in Harvard Univeréity; Fonger de Haan, professor of Spanish in Bryn Mawr College; Archibald Cary Coolidge, assistant professor of history in Harvard University.” The opportunity of studying under such a group of leaders in every department of learning is sufficient to excite the emulation of all students, whether they aspire to the attainment of expert knowledge in some special department of learning or to general culture. It is reasonable, therefore, to expect that the students, whether judged by numbers or by earnestness, will be worthy of the advantages offered them. The issue is, in fact, one in which the whole State may well take an in- terest, for the success of this great undertaking of the | university will reflect credit upon the commonwealth and add to the reputation of California for infellectual as well as for material eminence among the States of the Union. Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman has taken the pains publicly to ask Premier Balfour to resign and the latter ‘has promptly and emphatically refused. One hardly knows whom most to admire in this incident—Banner- man for his unmitigated nerve or Baliour for his pal- pably superb contempt for the fitness of things. e ———— . ‘United States Seuator Gorman is authority for the assertion that honest men in this country are not rare. It is very evident that the distinguished Senator does not permit his political prejudices ‘to dictate his personal friendships. = C Nicaragua has been at much pains of late to purchase large quantities of ammunition. It is a tragedy to see * nations, much more perhaps than individuals, pay to se- cure the means that shall accomplish their own undoing. * The Peril of a Soul. _A little over a year ago the customs officers seized in the baggage of an American army officer returning from China one of the famous mortuary tablets of jade from the innermost temple in the forbidden city of Peking. The Chinese Government had mourned the loss of these tablets more than any of the rest of the loot which had been carried off from Peking, and Uncle | Sam had given the Chinese assurances that all of the tablets caught in this country would be returned. When Customs Officer Chauncy St. John had notified the newspaper men doing duty about the Federal building of his seizure they immediately tele- phoned in to their respective offices for photographers, for the beautiful tablet of green stone was a relic of more than passing importance and it was a “good story.” The photographers were soon on the scene, and the preclous tablet was taken out on a back roof, where the light would permit of its being pho- tographed. In the meantime the secre- jtary to the Chinese legation had been notified of the seizure and he had start- | ed down to the Federal building to re- | claim the tablet for his Government. | No one noticed when a photographer balanced the tablet up on the edge of | the railing about the roof in order that | he might have thé sun full upon it. A {heavy gust of wind or a touch of the coat sleeve would have sent it crash- |ing down to the pavement, fifty feet below. Just as he was pressing the | button of his camera there was a pierc- {ing ery from the doorway behind, and | from it rushed the Chinese secretary of | legation. He stumbled over to the pre- cious green stone, seized it from its precarious resting place and wrapped it tenderly in the folds of his jacket. “That man would have lost his head in China,” gasped he, indicating the photographer. “The safety of this stone is worth the lives of a dozen such as he. It contains the soul of an Emperor dead these 3000 years.” i | | | | | Suspected. | A clergyman in the city who is well | known for his charitable work among | the poor, irrespective of their creed, | had a peculiar experience a few nights |ago. He had been visiting a family | on the-North Beach wherein the head !of the house was cn a sick bed and | needing pecuniary help to keep the | wolf from the door. He had remained | till late ministering to the physical and | spiritual needs of the family and on| | his way home observed an old woman | ! sitting on top of a large bundle on the | | sidewalk. “What's the matter with you. my | good woman?" asked the ciergyman in | his kindly way. “I was scrubbing all day at a house,” she replied, “and was Kkept late, as | there was a party and I was askad { to help in the kitchen. 1 got this bun- ! dle of old blankets and dresses to take {home with me and 1 reed them very | ‘mu(*h. But 1 feel so tired, sir.”” | The clergyman asked her where she | lived, ‘and, making her rise, he grabbed hold of the bundle and swung it on ta his back. ‘““Come along with me,” he said, as he started in the direction of her home. They had not gone far when | a policeman stopped them and, address- ling the clergyman in a gruff voice, said: “Say, what are you doing at { this time of night going through the | streets with a bundle on your back? | Let me see what you lave in it?"” The clergyman dropped the bundie and the officer at once recognized him. | I beg your parden, sir,” he humbiy said, as he touched his helmet. “I did not at first know you.” The clergy- man briefly explained, and the officer swung the bundle on his back with the simple remark, “I am younger and stronger than you.” “n Ancient Locomative. An interesting railroad relic, remin- iscent of the first days of Lhe steam locomotive, has been discovered in the north of England. The Livervool and Manchester Railroad Company, the first public road constructed, it will be remembered, inaugurated a com- petition in the latter part of the twen- ties of the past century for a loco- motive, in which Stephenson and other inventors participated. Three engines ~—the ““Rocket,” by Stephenson: the “Sans Pareil,” by Hackworth, and the “Novelty,” by Braithwaite and Erics- son respectively—participated in the trials that were carried out in 1830. As is well known, Stephenson’s “Rock- et” secured the award of $2500, which was offered, as being the most suitable engine attaining a speed of twenty- nine miles per hour. The “Sans Pa- reil” was second with a speed of twen- ty-three miles per hour, while the “Novelty” withdrew from the trials owing to the joints of the boiler giving way when the locomotive had trav- leled only three miles. Both the | “Rocket” and the “Sans Pareil” are now preserved in the Sbuth Kensing- ton Museum, but the “Novelty” myste- riously disappeared and was never found again until quite recently. It appears that Erlcl.aon was S0 morti- fied by the failure of his conception that he left it with his friend, Mr. Melling, who possessed englneering works located upon a space adjoining the Rainhill Station. These works were subsequently dismantled and the premises. were occupied by the Rain- hill Gas and Water Company. The “Novelty” was thus lost sight of, but it has now been recognized working as a stationary engine, the wheels having been removed for this purpose and its identity thus somewhat dis- guised. Attempis are to be made to secure this third premier locomotive and to place it alongside of its two contemporaries in the South Kensing- ton Museum.—Scientific American. A Fyoneer Band. A certain pioneer of the early days, C. N. Phillips by name, has asked The Call to assist him in learning the whereabouts of the members of his party which came over the plains in the spring of 1852. We phblish his de- scription of the trip: 3 “If this sketch should happen to meet the eye of any of that band that left Misscuri at a place called Iva Point, thirty miles up the Missouri Liver 1 +* above St. Joseph, I would be much pleased to hear from them. “We crossed the Missouri River and passed into Nebraska Territory the first day of May, 1852. We got along tairly well till we reached Fort Lara- mie, 700 miles from the river. There Mr. Russell Smith and Mr. Ezra Eaton both died, and were buried there. “We then drove on thirty miles to Horseshoe Creek and stopped nearly a week ‘on account of the sickmess of Mr. David Palmer ana Mr. Henry Parkhurst. Mr. Palmer died and was buried near the creek in a wild coun- try. Mr. Parkhurst was taken back and left at the fort in care of his sister, Mrs. Russell Smith. “Food being short, we were compelled to travel again and did not have any serious trouble till we reached Ragz- town, on the C—— River, just across the desert. There Mr. Albert Barnhart was buried. “We then started on our journey over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, and be- ing sick myself I did not enjoy the balance of the trip. We got through the 6th of September and sold our oxen to Mr. Slocum on a ranch not far from Stockton, Cal. Mr. Slocum was for-. merly from Ashland County, Ohio. “Any survivers of this party on see- ing this please correspond with C. N. Phillips, R. F. D. No. 3. Bronson, Branch County, Mich. “The names of the persons compris- ing the above mentioned party and where they started from, so far as is known, are given below: “Elijah Roberts, H. Palmer, David Palmer, Albert Barnhart, Ezra Eaton, Willard Sly, Washington Filkins; Jo- seph Nickerson, Clarksfield; Philo Stev- enson, Clarksfield; Andrew Stevenson and his sister Amanda, Clarksfield: Al- bert Stevenson, Clarksfleld; Charles Hoof and wife, Clarksfield: Russell Smith and wife, Henry Parkhurst, Al- bert Osborn. Hartland; William Brain- ard, Abner Brown, Abijah Pratt, John Cheeny, Nelson Minor, Hartland; C. ! N. Phillips, Hartland.” IWhat's in The Washington Star has culled from the Postal Guide a list of some of the curiously named postoffices. Here are a few: Tub, Pa.: Robbers Roost. T. T. Bird in Hand, Pa.; Lamedeer, Mont.: Popcorn. Ind.: Why Not, Ky.: Hat Off, Ga.; Sopchoppy. Fla.: Jugtown, N. C.: Sevenstars, Pa.; Fearnot, Pa.; Judy- town, W. Pig. Ky., and Good- night, Ky. May not You Bet, Red Dog. Jimtown, Camp and Shingletown? v California modestly add Angels Answers to Queries. FOR WOM —L., Oakland. Cal. Women who are sick are treated free in San Francisco at the Free Poiy- clinie and at the City and County Hos- pital. from Market and Kearny streets in San Francisco to Scott and Fell via Mar- ket and Fell streets is 11,000 feet, or two miles and 440 feet. CARNEGIE'S GIFT—B. W. City. The gift of Andrew Carnegie to San Francisco for the purpose of construct- ing a free public library was duly a cepted on the terms proposed, but as yet the authorities have not selected a site upon which to erect the same. NEVADA TOLL ROADS—For in- formation about the toll roads that were built in the State of Nevada dur- ing the early sixties and those who were granted authority to build them, address a communication to the Secre- tary of State, Carson City. SMOKELESS POWDER—O. K. W, City. Smokeless powder is manufac- tured in different parts of the world and is used under one name or another, each being some form of that kind of powder, in Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Japan, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United States. PROPERTY—Subscriber, Sacramento, Cal. If a woman marry a man pos- sessed of real estate in his own name, and the husband should die, the dis- position of that propéerty would depend upon whether he made a will. Being separate property, he would have had the right to dispose of it as he wished, but if he died without having left a will and there being no children, the wife would be entitled to one-hailf and the other half would go to the other heirs of the deceased. STOCKS—W. M., Santa Rosa, Cal The capital stock of a corporation, in- cluding all unpaid subscriptions there- to, constitute a trust fund for the benefit of the creditors of the corpora- tion. Common stock is that issued by the corporation for sale t0 whoscever wishes to buy. Preferred stock is a certain proportion of the capital stock which takes dividends before the com- mon stock. Watered stock is a term used to designate an unusual increase of the capital stock. Before a carpora- b e e one W stock stands must