The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 17, 1907, Page 26

A UARY 17, 1907 The San Francisco Call JOHN D. SPRECKELS. .... CHARLES W. HORNKCK......... . .General Manager ERNEST S. SIMPSON ...Managing Editor Address All Commusieations to THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL ..Proprietor Telephone, “Temporary $6"—Ask for The Call. The Operator Will Conmect OFFICE Open Unti TORIAL ROOMS in the Year. Market and Third Streets .1651 Fillmore Street, Near Post Telephone Oakland 1083 Telephone Alamedi 559 MAIN CITY BRANCH OAKLAND “E~—1016 Broadwa! ALAMEDA OFFICE—1435 Park Street BERKELEY OFFICE—2169 Shattuck Avenue Telephone Berkeley 77 HICAGO OFFICE—Marquette Bldg...C. George Krogness, Representative NEW YORK OFFICE—30 Tribune Bidg. ..Stepl CORRESPONDENT SUBSCRIPTLON RATES n B. Smith, Representative Ira E. Bennett WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT........ccovinrorasennenn livered by Carrier, 20 Cents Per Week. 75 Cents Per Month. Single | Coples 5 Cents. | . Including Postage (Cash day), 1 year...... ..$8.00 . 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Scnate by unanimous vote has passed the Held-Wright| sroviso rider, which is not objectionable to the | 10 seck direct primary legislation as a reform, but is uhjch legislat who are willing to encompass the reform to advantage a seeker after a seat in 1hei 1zte, as well as to those who have personal political | a er s ir nprehensive direct primary legislation means more the ple of California than do the political aspirations of! George (. Pardee or any other individual. Direct primary laws i seen promised the people of California. The Republican party in power and the original promiser is bound to redeem the submission of a constitutional amendment which, the people, will authorize a subsequent Legislature to Quite regardless of the fact that the gislative politics. the Assembly is wholly respon- situation. I{ the Held-Wright amendment is Jost \ssembly’s refusal to accept rules that are apparently to only one or two of its members. the men who by votes gave the Senate this dangerous legislative leverage must accept and accept personally the consequences. An atmosphere dark with danger to the people can be promptly «<leared by the adoption of joint rules. It is up to the Assembly. I'he lower House walked into a legislative pit of its own digging. | people must not suffer either through the ignorance of the] \ssemblymen or to advance the political fortunes of any man.| laws. the ir 1 he A v the price of the people’s freedom is joint rules. The people demand that it be paid. | A POLITICAL ONSLAUGHT HE attack made by Senators j/irom Northwestern States on Secretary Hitchcock will be easily understood and discounted | by all who have watched the prosecution of land and timber | thieves by the Interior Department. Carter of Montana led e attack on the floor of the Senate, and he was backed up by | evburn of Idaho and Fuilton of Oregon. The basis of attack was!| curiously immaterial and incompetent and was made all the more | grotesque by the violence of language in which it was exploited. | Carter declared that Roosevelt was a usurper. quite as dangerous| as the Stuart kings in England, because he had asSumed the righl,: to suspend a statute. lhat is a grave charge if it could be substantiated, but it is| fla refuted out of Carter’s own mouth. Carter complained that| the President had issued an order to Secretary Hitchcock that no patent to public land should be issued “under any law until by | the examination of the ground by a special agent * * actual | compliance with that law shall be found to e> This was Car- ter’s idea of an order suspending a statute. Obviously and on its it is an order directing the enforcement of a statute. { On this queer basis of topsy-turvy logic Carter accused Hitch-| cock of according settlers “odious, exasperating and oppressive | t ent He likened the Secretary to “a morbid, moral de-| who should accnse whole cities of “crime and moral | I'his for the reason that Hitchcock and “his cohorts™ had| pursued land thieves by wholesale for the last six years in Mon-| tana, Oregon, California and other Western Stares. The purely political and malignant animus of the attack is, of se. obvious to all who have watcheéd the land fraud prosecutions | conducted by Secretary Hitchcock and “his cohorts,” among whor are Francis J. Heney and William J. Burns. Mr. Hitchcock retires | from office shortly, leaving behind him a most enviable record of | good and efficient service. He resigns at his own request, because of increasing vears, and will be succeeded by James A. Garfield, who has undertaken to carry on the work with even increased vigor. face uent.” e OPERATING bN A NARROW MARGIN 1 F other railroad magnates were as honest with the people as President Stickney of the Chicago Great Western their words| and protestations would receive more attention. Mr. Stickney | is not at all popular in railroad circles, because of the fearless way in which he exposed the rehating practices of traffic managers, including his own, and this at a tiine when the others were unani- mously swearing themselves plack in the face to prove that they( bad never heard of such a thing. erefore. when Mr. Stickney announces his conclusion that the railroads cannot stand a reduction of rates, and that any such! measure would be disastrous to the whole industrial system, we are bound to give careful consideration to his reasons. Mr. Stick- ney figures the average rate of dividends on all railroad stocks in the United States for 1905—a most prosperous year—at 3.65 per cent, and he goes on to say: 1 There is no other business in the copntry which is done on so_small a margin of profit as 302 per cent dividends. .K'o other invested capital gets so small returns as the capital invested in railroads, and the tonnage carried by the railroads is so large that a reduction of the insignificant amount of halfi a cent per cwt. on a 100-mile haul would deprive the stock- holders of railways of all dividends. Stating this fact conversely, if the legislatures should reduce the rates jusual, to the “widows and.orphan A The President’s A%ttitudé on the > X3 ST sl 55 2 77 V94 27 x> Z7 L7 ! H ) \/,/ < ) (A iy WELL ? %+ & { School Question Progress of P AG E : FEBR by the Interior Press » State N otea T 1S announced in Fresno thet Jumes Porter, an lowa miilionaire, has bought 2000 acres mear Delano and is visiting that region with a party | of twenty other men of wealth from | the same State, all of whom intend to ]in\-esz in 1and in fhe vicinity. Mr. Por- | ter is also reported to have options on scveral thousand acres more In the San | Joaquin valley, he deems ‘the | most promising part of the State. The ! example of these Iowa investors will | prove contagious. -y are all men | of experience in th of develop- { ment, and their opin valley lands, backed by their Investments, is ¢ | to bear good fruit.—Stockton pendent. ey e——" which Inde- . The Butte Coun Company of Biggs orgamization. * * | has secured a tract 300 acres, known as the Boulware | tract, located south and east of Biggs. | which will be subdivided into five an | ten acre tracts and supplied with water from the, Butte County canal. When this land is sold otier large holdings will be purchased and put upon the market in swmail tracts. It has been | estimated that fully 00 acres can | be irrigated by the ditches that this | company will 1d. work upon wh | will be commenced as soon as the sur- | veys are completed.—Chico Enterprise. | igated Lands perfected its The copany of land contaluing has County, the banner United States, is lemon orchard in trees.—Marysville In San Diego lemon county of the located the largest the world—60,000 Democrat. The year 1906 has been a prosperous one as far as Marin County is con- cerned. Her growth has been a healthy one and the county is forging ahead upon true merit. For years her ad- | vanecement was slow, but now when the | outside world is becoming acqupinted | with her many natural advantages the | tide of homesekers is commencing to | flow to our shores. They are begin- | ning to realize that our terraced lands and graceful slope afford every luxury obtainable at the hands of nature. ¢ * * They are becoming acquainted with the fact that our climate is ideal and that our beautiful valleys are trgvecsed with roads and boulevards th&t afford beautiful drives. Our pure mountain water has no equal in California and our streams and forests are the delight of every lover of mna- | ture. In fact, within a few moments’ | ride of a large metropolis, no place has more beautiful natural attractions than Marin County, and therefore it is not Yto be wondered at that her assessment roll is gyowing at the rate of over one million dollars a year.—San Rafael In- dependent. } . . . Emil Schweigler of Orangevale. who | recently purchased the old MeComber | property on Sutter street, has com- | menced work of razing one side of the collected by competitive railways to such an extent as to Qcpri\'c the average| stockholder of all dividends the people would be benefiied to the extent| of only half a cent per cwt. on a 100-mile haul. And as the average ‘haul in the United States is about 140 miles, the aggregate saving to the people | would be an average of seven-tenths of a cent per cwt. Such a reduction would be the exact equivalent of one mill per ton per mile. It might be urged, perhaps, with justice, that the great buik| of railroad stocks on which dividends are paid is purely fictitious, | representing no paid-up capital. It is true that most of the mileage was created from the money raised by mortgage—that is te-say, by the issue of bonds—and that the stock was distributed as a bonus | to the promoters. All that is true in a general way, and yet if it| should be attempted to do strict justice and wipe out dividends on all fictitious issues of stock, the result would be a tremendou | financial convulsion. The trouble about exact justice in such cnscsi is that the fraudulent issues of stock have, in large measure, passed | into innocent hands for valuable consideration. We get back. as]| 7 behind whose useful skirts| thieves have shielded themselves from time immemorial. ILeaving all that on one side, it may be said that Mr. Stickney argumert is misleading, because it is altogether too general and based on averages. No one proposes a general sweeping reduction of rates. Individual cases must be dealt with on their several merits, and that has always been the practice of the Interstate. Commerce Comng'ssion. THE “BATTLE FOR A BILLION” FFORTS at reform of the big life insurance companies do not appear to be especially prosperous. It was natural that efforts directed to that end should take the shape of a campaign to unseat the men who had controlled the companies and handled their vast accumulations in the interest of stock-jobbing syndicates. It was hoped that an election would put the policy-holders in pos-| session of their own. That election has been held under the pro- visions of New York's law, amended in accordance with the recom-| mendations of the Armstrong investigating committee. | The election has been held and the count is proceeding. At the | present rate of progress it is hoped that the result of the election may be definitely declared before it comes time for another election in December, 1908. The inspectors get $35 a day and, presumably, are in no great hurry. The policy-holders employed watchers to| inspect the inspectors and the count. Of course, the inspectors re-| garded the watchers as their natural enemies and. being in control, perched the intruding outsiders on high stools, where they coufd not see the tickets without telescopes. The policy-holders demanded seats for their watchers alongside the inspectors, who debated the question for some time behind closed doors, but finally gave in under threat that the policy-holdgrs would withdraw their men altogether. The “battle for a billion” will notype won in a day. g 4 . Answers to Queries .. POPULATION—IJ., Oakland. Cal. The|the woman the answer “I8 of over" population of theearth according tojand from the man “21 or over. The | the Royal Geographical Soclety is 1,-|applicant must answer questions as to ! 487,900,000, Pprevious marriage and diverce,/ and | the clerk may insist upon diverce MINING ~ LAWS—Subscriber, Oak- | pg lana Cal. 55 writibs Yo (hA Reprasan_ | "9l SXRIBIESE [0 Bim, tative from your Congressional dis-| THE BOSTON FIRE—A. O. S. City. trict you will be abie to obtain a /The Boston fire occurred on November copy of the United States mining lawe. |9, 1372 and burned over €5 acres in = 1° very heart of the business sectiod e | eity. 2 4 o A child borntoJapenese parents in the porty nla:'o th.h.:wny:\ox::r a;n‘th;n:i(‘:“:‘:' United States is a native of the United hurneq zt 446. and the 1088 at $76.000.- States, and is on @ par. #0 far as rights | 000. Some of the most substantia are concerned. with any white child|structures in the city, as in the great born in the country. ;;1" of Chicago, wg‘r: swept aw ke b e iy A B : WAy TIMBER LAND—A Reader. Sacra-| il ‘L“l‘.%.';w & fireproof edifices mento, Cal. For information about timber lands in the State of Oregon ad- i AT e dress a communication to any or all February 22, Wi the United States Jand offices, yvhlchl. legal holiday are located at Lagrande, Lakeview,|ypion gznq Te JAPANESE—H. M. P, Ingleside. Cal. ufimmm ‘birthaay, tories, including the Portland, Burns, Roseburg and Th.lm'm“ of Columhhkexcpfl Misstssippi, Dalles. where it is obi by exerci: in the public schools only. Being a legal MARRIAGE LICENSE—a. J. D.|holiday, none of the hat are per- Poso, Cal. An applicant for a mar-|formed as on a dies non are legal, but there is nothi in the law that re’- avires that either large or small busi ness houses must be cloged on that da S riage license is asked the ages of the parties and must answer under oath. Some clerks are willing to accept from { Sacramento. which will cost $250,000. 'in the Yosemite Valley, returned re- | Southern Pacific, is back from his in- LEGAL HOLIDAY—F. J. D. City.|Lake. “the States of the| i ‘Great |bullding and will immediately com- 2 i ——% |mence a neat structure of iron and < —— | concrete. Later the other half of the property will be similarly improved, but the two parts will form one build- Gossip of Doings | ing. Mr, Schweiger's plan is to estab- s llish an olive pickling and a vinegar Of Ralll‘oad Men j | plant immediately and later to instah | o 3 | machinery for making oiive oil, and he —* | will probably also conduct a canner: H. J. Small, superintendent of motive Y iitinn - to Doasdere: thd power of the Southern Pacific, left 1ast | ioq will be an import night for Portland to attend the an-| nual meeting of the superintendents of motive power of the Harriman lines.| The convention will be called to order tomorrow. The steel car which was built by Small at Sacramento has been | sent on to Portland and will be on ex-| hibition in that city for the benefit of | and 3lso for the instruction of super-|njtely decided upon and constryction intendents of the other lines on the|work will be begun shortiy.. The road RaErnin asstn) will miles in length and used A | principally for freight transportation. J. H. Wallace, assistant chief engi-|The people behind this important proj- neer of the Southern Pacific, has com- | ect are principally stockholders in the pleted the plans of the new depot which | cement company, who take tt means is to be bullt at First and Broadway,|of bettering the shipping facilites of Oakland, as soon as the material can|the yast amount of cement manufac- be assembled. The depot s to be a|tured by the Pacific Company's mills. handsome structure and will cost in[In addition te the railroad line and the neighborhood of §20,000. The com- | equipment of cars the new company pany intends to build a large passen- | will own its own beats, plans for wh ger depot at Berkeley, which will cost|are now in the hands of the draughts- $50,000. Work on the new depot in|men. The railroad will probabi Los Angeles. which will cost $300.000, | Suisun on the east line of the lan is to be commenced shortly. The next|the Suisun Realty Company, wl most expensive depot is to be built at|also arrange to provide a place fo warehouses and wharves. In order to ¢ out the intentions in this respect several hundred feet of the Realty Com- | land WAll be dredged for a deep project. * * * The building of the new road will result in great bene- fit to Suisun and will be hailed with | delight The people should ren- der it every assistance possible.—Suisun | Republican. | S If the Government considers it a profitable investment to spend $650,000 to develop water for the irrigation of 12,000 acres of land in Glenn County, why would it not consider the expendi- ture of much less than half that| amount for the irrigation of 10.000 acres in San Luis Obispo County? Andé be a factor in the devclopment of tiie surrounding country, as'it will consume products of orchard and vineyard.—Fol- som Telegraph. . . A new railroad to run from the town of Cement and having its terminus in Suisun on Suisun slough has been defi- s . J. B. Cook, who is interested in hotels . . cently from a trip along the line of the| new road which is being built to tlie valley from Merced Falls/ Cook says that there are about 1100 men at work and the road probably will be com- pleted and in operation by May. He sald that the hotels in the valley would be open by April 1. . Track laying on the eastern end of the Western Pacific has been delayed, owing to the heavy rains that have been falling on the desert. making the land too soft for work to be done. Lit- tle was accomplished during January ‘aistrict is prosperous and grow | grown any lis bevona the experimental ! this is not by apy means all: we haia along the Sallnas River. and very ea of access, more' than 100.000 a land that could be Irrigated from wa stoved ne the head of the River at a proportionately less that estimated for the Nacimiento p ect. * * * 1 on for v is a project a3 worthy as any eve dertaken In the S and whe the valley is w Luis Obispe und no finer ge Teleg Brick C the con the The Redidng once commence spur traelk from line to company below tow or $1500, and after tite brick machines Sot will actively hegin the brick at the rate of 30,000 to day. Another improvement that zatign ¢ roduction of ng. Heretofo motive power made i t and ti plant fo Searéhlight. ia s made rapid the past year. Every county benefited by the steady State. Contra € the rule In she still stands second in the The outloek for Eastern Contra was never hetter. Every town Calt fore ‘the end of the year an road may cross the island cour be extended from Byron to No portion of California Is dev at a more rapid rate than the quin, and this portion of Contr will reap some of the benefit irrigation scheme which will tap entire valley from Tracy to An in process of formation. It in an immense canal, 500 feet wid four feet deep. More than $1 Is behind the propesition. Some t may elapse before its completion it is coming. It means the turnir this entire valley Into an in dairy country. AN in all, our ' looks most encouraging.—Byron Times Perhaps it would be a good idea f each of bte university presidents to ad to every public utterance the announc ment that he denies ever having what he has just stated. This wou saye him from the continual specif denials that are needed.—Oakland I quirer. . . has the land and climag for many things that cannet be -:l’( in other States in the Union And ¥ many instances she is the only State that can market her produce in quan - California t ent to capture the trade that has so long been to foreign coun tries. There are thousands of acres of land in this valley t! olives, and yet m olives and olive oil ported. The weatern is a country sparsely it will preduce al that county table that said stomach trouble known it is nutritive and t could be put i sns of pounds o e annually N part of Colusa settled and nost any t or sere. Th that heal to man alatable. It ean be where that cotton will grow and it cans mest casily. The growing of okra has been tried in the Northern and Middle Western States. but without success. The Southern States do not care much about the smaller industries. as thiey have the cotton as their staple. Hence the canned okra is high and rare It is one of the industries here which stage. It ns of aspara- easily late i can be grown is a place t any okra will and ve will bring twice the retu gus and is much more besides lasting until very fall.—Colusa Sun. . th United States Surveyor General W. 2 and two of New ¥ ts wha interested in t of the elect 1 amento to Neweastle, Placerville. have just line observations. Tt is good authority that w line will bo commenced in spring and pushed forward "y The surveys have and a satisfactory upon. No difficult; found in securir way it is believed that all the people aleng the route will giadly give right of way are Lake Aub beer made route of for the road Its construction wi enhance the value of all the preper along the line tenfold. Work on the California Midland. the eclectric rail- road from Marysville to Auburn and Grass_Valley, is already under way at the Marysville end and a report is cur- rent here that work is to begin in a few days at the Auburn end. The line runs from here to Wolf, thence west to Marysville and east to Grass Valley and Nevada City.—Auburn Republican. B . fs Insured against a as least as long as the is in session.—San Sacramento gas famine, State Legislature Bernardino Index. the Majestic. J. Witt Dougherty of Pleasanton is at the St. Francis. M. Hirsch and Mrs. Hirsch of Chicago | are at the Dorchester. | L. S. Shoenteld and bride are regis- | tered at the Hamlin. | J. F. Quant and wife of Byron are| guests at the Hamlin. | L. M. Sullivan of Goldfield is regis- | tered at the Hamlin. George B. Shaw and Mrs. Shaw are| registeved at the Jefferson. i John K. Morris and Mrs. Morris of | Louisville are at the Jefferson. F. J. Robihson and Mrs. Robinson of | New York are at the Jefferson. H E. 8. martin and Mrs. Mertin of Ana-| cortes, Wash., are &t the Palace. R. Livingstone and Mrs. Livingstone of Portland are at the St. Frances. William Piggott and Wil M. Dunne | are at the St. Francis from Seattle. { W. W. Baker and Mrs. Baker of Walla Walla. Wash., are at the St. Francis. . G. Nourse and Mrs. Nourse of Philadelphia are at the Majestic Annex. James O'Gara of the Southern Pa- ¢ific are escorting a party of seveniy- five Knights of Columbus to Mexico City. They left last night and will be absent about sixteen days.’ . - . Trank E. Fitzpatrick has been ap- pointed general manager of all the properties of the Bay Counties, Power Company and it is reported that un- der his direction the electric road at Santa Cruz will be entirely recon- structed and built on standard gauge Unes. i * . William Hood, chief engincer of the . spection of \the work that has been done to restrain the waters of the Colorado River. ¥ . E. E. Calvin, general manager of the Southern Pacific, left last night for an Inspection of the lines in the southern part of the State. . . The North Shore Rallroad has just placed an order for twenly electric cars, for use o th: l_\':tem, Abper 5. Mann of the passenger | A : department of the Southern Pacific Is J. 8 "Morrin and Mrs. Merrin of at his ranch in Mendocino Squnty. ,{{nnlas « are registered at the St o e ® - { Francis. W. E. Travis of the Kiamath Talls| J. J. “Tdylor and wife of Rhyelite, Stage Company and Captaii Woodbury | Neveda, are among the recent arrivals and Colon;la _“'!lk‘i‘ns of the Klamath|at the Hamlin. Lake Navigation Compan® and of the| pohert Barrie. a prominent business Like “Shiore. Stage. Line are in the | an’ of Philadelphia. is & recent ar city arrangtng. for service Into Kia-|rival et the Hotel Hamiin. math iy v egama and Grass J. H. Harris, a well-Whown Nevada all n They expect an enormous busf - | business man, with stores in Goldfield, ness futo that section duting the com- | L8 oy Tl Manhattan, is in this elty | ng season, as the inquiries for land in the reclaimed district have been.ex-|for & few days. He is staying at the| amlin. | R. A. McWillians, H. McWilliams | and C. E. McKay, three prominent business men of British Columbla, are | gram yesterday annbuncing that the(at the Hamlin for a few days. They Northern, which had been|are arranging for the establishment of | blocked for several weeks, was again|a large cement manufacturing plant at open to traflic, Salinas. i ceedingly large. . George W. Colby, general agent of | the Great Northern, received a tele- r s and little has been attempted sf far, 'I—-— o+ +* |but with the advent of falr waather b l i 7 ] traciaving i e recommencea wivn | | Personal Mention| |In the Joke World arge gangs. 8 ge gang: foa ¢ Salusy — * James B. Duffy of the Santa Fe and Simpson Fennell of Tehama is at Professor (at chemistry examina tion)—Under what combinatien is gold released most quickly? Student—Marriage.—Fligende ter. Blat- “He's going to expose a party of grafters.” “YWhy does he take such an interest?” “They wouldn’t pay him for ref ing from exposing them."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. We jump from tweive to eighty, And I am here to state In accents strong and weighty v I like my winter straight. 3 —Louisville Courier-Journal, Confidential Adviser—Senator. na‘) much did your campaign cost you? Senator Lotsmun—It was pretty ex- pensive this time, Ringgold. It cost me one’ day's income and two or three nights’ sleep.—Chicago Tribun&. “Pop!” “Yes. “Isa’t thing on earth be b an automeblle, the most expensive 1 believe It is, "—Yonkers Statesman. Chorus Girl (reading)—What does n-e-c stand for? Other Giri—"Nee" stands for “bhorn.” “‘Bora'—how do you mean 'Well, one might say vou are a blonde, nee a Brunette."—Boston Tran- seript. “Have yeu heard that Frau Pechlein, the dramatist, has had to go into an lmlum on account of her brain having given way ™ “Hooray! Now, perhaps, we shall have something really good from her pen."—Meggendorfer Blatter. ve had some - ence. have you? Youth—Yes. sir. Farmer—Well, what side of a cow do you sit on te milk? Youth—The outside.—Tit-Bita Farmer—So vou'