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MONDAY. JANUARY 17, '898
JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor.
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AMUSEMENTS.
Baldwin—" Thr> Man From Mexico."
California — "Courted Into Court."
Alcazar- ''A Man's Love" and "Forbidden Fruit."
Moroaco'a- The Blue and the (-lay. "
Tivoli— "Brian Burn."
Orphenm— Vaudi'vlllf.
The. Chutes— ChlQulta and Vaudeville.
Lybeck Cycle Skating Rink -Optical Illusions.
California Jockey dab, Oakland Racetrack— Race.s to-day.
AUCTION SALES.
By Killip A- Co.— Tuesday, January 18. Horses, at corner Van
Keas avenue ana Market Bts., at 10 o'clock.
By Wm. G. Layusr A: Co.— Thursday evening:. January 20
Horses, at Occidental Horse Exohani'''. --■> TVhama m.
MARKED IMPROVEMENT IN TRADE.
THE spring demand for merchandise has al
ready set in, n we are to judge by the
bank clearings of the country, which gained
37.6 per cent last week, the largest gain for a long
time. This is all the more encouraging in that it
is not often that this demand sets in so early. It us
ually makes its appearance about the first of Feb
ruary, and for several years has not appeared at all.
There is evidently a general disposition to go into
business much more heavily than usual, which in
dicates confidence in the future. Indeed, Brad
street's Financial Review says that "Both specula
tion and investments have been active during the
past week. The best feature of thr market has
been the very heavy dealings in bonds at generally
higher prices, both for the high grade and new and
more speculative classes. Transactions, rising as
they have to $34,000,000 or $35,000,000 of bonds on
the Stock Exchange, with the trading distributed
among an unusually large number of different is
sues, would indicate a large demand for invest
ments and the growth of confidence in regard to
the position and future of the market."
One of the leading reasons for this augmented
business on the New York Stock Exchange is the
marked increase in railroad earnings, which were
over $43,300,000, in December, a gain of 10.5 per
cent over 1897, and which, in fact, were the largest
earnings in the history of American railroads. The
iron furnaces also report an increased output, and
orders in this branch of trade are unusually large
for this time of the year. The woolen manufac
turers are also buying wool heavily and have a rush
of orders to fill from now on. The cotton manu
facturers, on the contrary, have been overloaded
by excessive production, and find no increase in the
demand or gain in prices. The commercial fail
ures continue to decrease, those last week being 323,
against 479 for the same week in 1897 and 412 in
1896. Wheat exports have fallen off, owing purely
to the usual holiday dullness in Europe, and not to
any decrease in the demand itself; but corn ex
ports have increased 1,000.000 bushels during the
past week. The distributive trade throughout the
country is good, and whatever tendency is exhib
ited in prices is upward rather than downward.
The local situation shows no particular change,
if we except the demand for merchandise for Alaska
which has now fairly opened and is steadily increas
ing. We are getting our share of this business up
to date, and will probably continue to get it with
the exercise of ordinary commercial enterprise. It
is too rich a plum to be allowed to slip through our
fingers. It is not a transient, but a permanent
trade, and if properly fostered by j>tir local mer
chants will increase the wholesale business of this
port by millions of dollars annually.
The erratic character of the rains keeps local trade
very unsettled. Showers are succeeding each other
with sufficient rapidity, but except along the imme
diate coast they do not amount to much. The pro
tracted cold snap has kept back the growing grain
and the outlook for a large crop is not as bright as
it might be. Still, with a fair precipitation from
now on an average harvest will probably Be secured.
The cereal market reflects the uncertainty, and the
different grains are becoming very sensitive. Wheat
remains about the same, but barley is steadily ad
vancing and feed has now got up to $1 per cental,
which is. over the average price of late years. Oats,
too, are rising, and hay moves up a notch every
few days. If the present lack of moisture continue?
there is no knowing where hay and the local grains
will go. But good rains would keep them down
to reasonable values, and here is where the uncer
tainty comes in. The same conditions are affect
ing merchandise, as country dealers are cautious
about laying in heavy stocks until they have a fair
idea of how the crops are going to turn. out. The
matter will probably be settled one way or the other
shortly, when values will become better defined.
But a short grain crop this year will not prove a*
serious a calamity as in some former years. Time**
are now so improved that a deficiency in the crop
is certain to be made up in greatly enhanced values.
However, from present indications, there will be no
serious shortage.
Naturally the courts are puzzled as to what to do
with three youthful footpads who proclaim their
cuilt and seem to glory in it. They nre too tender
of years to be sent to prison, and would have a bad
influence at a boy's reformatory. There seems to
be nothing to do but regret that the man whom
they robbed failed to suddenly reform them with a
pistol.
It is not to be assumed now that the United
States will be forced to take action ns to the affairs
of Cuba. The probability that Spain will sail into
Key West and proceed to annex Florida, or even
that it will storm the City Hall of New York, is
happily remote. Nothing less radical would be apt
to arouse Uncle Sam to a sense of outraged dig
nity.
KEEPING FAITH-
IN our New Era issue we announced certain prin
ciples which it seemed to us should govern those
who control newspapers and command the pub
licity which goes with such control.
The policy announced was one of fairness and
justice and truthfulness toward all Interests and all
individuals.
Many who read and approved this declaration
were skeptical as to the realization of such a policy.
They believed, in the first place, that the public taste
had been so trained up to the rank and the raw in
journalism, by the yellow and sensational press,
that a paper which gave the minimum of news space
to the ignoble doings of ignoble people, and the
maximum of legitimate literature and news and edi
torial opinion and encouragement of what is clean
and manly and womanly in life, would not get ade
quate support. It was also insisted that the busi
ness community was subject to so many blackmail
schemes laid by the sensational press that it had lost
courage by having no paper ready to defend it
against misrepresentation and robbery. In proof of
this was cited the repeated exposures of one morn
ing paper in forgeries, in sophisticarion of news, in
the printing of letters which were never written to
it upon subjects of current interest, raising the pre
sumption that in all things it was equally false and
unreliable.
Events have turned these doubts. The Call has
kept on the course set for itself. We said that in
this State the interests of the producer must be con
sidered. Our exposure of his unfair treatment in
the manipulation of prison jute bags is in line with
that declaration. We impute no criminal intent to
the prison directors. The jute law was drawn by
a farmer, in the interest of prison discipline, of free
labor and of the fanners. Prison discipline is a
hopeless problem if convicts are not furnished occu
pation. Any form of manufacture that outputs a
prison product in competition with the product o<
free labor is objectionable. The Ostrom law wal
in right line with penological science and econo
mics, and while these were served the farmer was
made the beneficiary. Farmers take so little bene
fit from statutes and other classes take so much,
that this law may be characterized as a stroke of
genius, for what benefit it gave the farmer was nol
at the expense of any one else. The directors seem
to have misapprehended this high purpose of the
statute, and as a result the producer has been treated
unfairly and benefits intended to reach him have
been arrested, midway, and absorbed by a class no?
comprehended in the law at all. In tolerance o?
spirit and temperance of language The Call has
simply kept faith with the producers of the State, a?
it proposes to do with all classes, interests and in
dividuals. It is pleasant to know by the accumu
lating experience of each day, that this fidelity i?
appreciated and rewarded by the business com
munity.
THE GOLDEN JUBILEE EDITION.
NEXT Sunday the Golden Jubilee edition of
The Call will be given to the public. It is
to consist of forty-four pages, will be pro
fusely illustrated in the highest excellence of news
paper art and supplied with brilliantly illuminated
covers. It will contain a record of the mining in
dustry of the Pacific Coast from Mexico to Alaska
and will be the most comprehensive and accurate
compilation ever made on that subject.
A notable feature of the edition will be the
number of mining experts and established author
ities on mining matters who will contribute to its
columns. It is not to be a paper made up of the
careless productions of hack writers, but a sympo^
sium on mines and mining by accomplished special
ists, each of whom will write on departments of
work in which he has had practical experience as
well as scientific knowledge.
The edition is designed to serve as a journalistic
accessory to the Golden Jubilee and the mining ex
position. It will cover both the history of mining
in California which the Jubilee celebrates, and the
conditions of the industry throughout the Coast,
which the exposition will exhibit. It will there
fore serve the general public as a species of elabor
ate textbook on each of these subjects and will be
valuable to all who desire to obtain an intelligent
understanding of what mining was in 1849 and what
it is to-day.
The fact that the edition is to be devoted to min
ing only, instead of trying to cover all the indus
tries of the State, will add to its value as an issue
pertinent to the time and the opportunity. At this
juncture the whole country is excited on gold mines
and gold mining. The Call's special edition will
give full information on every branch of that great
industry. Placer, quartz and hydraulic mining will
be treated comprehensively by men who under
stand them, and all who wish information up to
date concerning gold mining on any part of the
coast from Alaska to Mexico will find it in the Jub
ilee edition of The Call next Sunday.
According to an evening paper only one out of
four celebrated murderers of this city has succeeded
in escaping in the last twenty years. The qualifying
adjective utterly spoils the beauty of this record.
Just what characteristics a murder must possess to
make it '•celebrated" is not a matter of common
knowledge. But the fact remains unshaken that
during the period named scores of murderers have
escaped either through avoiding arrest or through
turning the courts for the nonce into farcical tribu
nals apparently designed to shield crime. Two
sample instances may be cited, both recent. One was
the murder of Ware and the other that of Policeman
Grant. The first assassin never came to li^ht and
the second might as well never have been caught, as
the trial amounted to an expensive and elaborate
process of letting him go again.
It was a mean trick for a contortionist back East
to cultivate the faculty of throwing his hip out of
joint and then keep involving himself in railway ac
cidents so that he could do this to the despoliation
of some innocent company. Yet there is some com
fort in the thought that the railroads have knocked
many a hip out of joint and not put up a cent.
It was a neat idea for an actress in Chicago to have
a Spanish sympathizer shoot at her. She is appearing
as a Cuban heroine, and nothing could be more
fitting than that hot Castilian blood should do a
little spectacular boiling. Besides, the cost of blank
cartridges is a trifle. One could better afford to buy
them than to lose even paste diamonds.
It is an interesting fact that a confidence man who
was sent from Kansas City by the police turned up
in Greater New York, where he at once became a
politician. It was while acting in the latter capacity
that he got into jail. This simple incident shows
that when a confidence man starts on a downward
course he may expect trouble.
THE SAX FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JAKUABY 17, 1898.
THE WEEK OF PREPARATION.
A WEEK remains in which to prepare for the
Golden Jubilee. It will be a time of cease
less activity on the part of all who are charged
witli the responsibility of any feature of the great
festival, and so far as the public can give assist
ance in the way of work or money, it should be cor
dially and liberally done.
San Francisco cannot afford to fail in any part
of this undertaking. The festival has been adver
tised far and wide, and hosts of visitors with great
expectations will be in the city to share in the
pleasures of the occasion and enjoy the glories of
the pageant. It therefore behooves all who have
my feeling of civic patriotism and pride in San
Francisco to co-operate in the task of decorating
the streets and adding to the splendid beauty of
the entertainment which is to be provided in cele
1 ration of the golden day.
The programme of the festival has been well ar
ranged. It contains many features of interest to all
classes of persons. It will be the most notable pa
rade ever given in the State and the most magnifi
cent. It will be accompanied moreover by sports
and games, by floral fetes and by balls and enter
tainments. San Francisco will be !n gala attire
and joyous, mood, and virtually the whole week fol
lowing Jubilee day will be given up to pleasure and
the business that pleasure entails.
One of the most promising features of the pro
gramme of entertainment is that of the floral carni
val at Union Square. It was a happy thought on
the part of the ladies who designed it. Among all
the attractions of San Francisco none are fairer
than those of her midwinter flowers. In the mul
titude of bright blossoms that adorn the gardens of
the city we have the most beautiful and most con
vincing witnesses of the mildness of our January
air and the geniality of our climate. It is right
and fitting that these flowers should have a promi
nent place in the festival and it is to be hoped that
profuse contributions will be made to the display
that is to beautify Union Square and make it ra
diant 'for all the world to see.
While so much is being done in the way of public
work for the celebration, much remains for private
enterprise and individual taste to do. Every build
ing along the line of march should be made brilliant
with banners and gay festoons. The occasion is
one on which each citizen may vie with his neigh
bor in generous emulation to see which can design
and achieve the most striking and gorgeous effect.
A week remains- for tl/e work, but the time will pass
rapidly. Begin the preparations to-day.
AN IMMEDIATE REMEDY WANTED.
PUBLIC indignation aroused by the many acci
dents caused by the almost criminal carelessness
with which the street cars of the city are run,
demands an immediate remedy for the evil. Such
demands when made in the past have been ignored,
because the people did not persistently urge them.
1 his time the demand is serious, earnest and per
sistent. It cannot be overlooked nor neglected.
As a matter of course a reasonable time must be
permitted for the selection of proper fenders and
proper brakes. No one expects the Supervisors to
compel the companies to take the first things of the
sort that are offered. This does not mean, how
ever, that the companies may dally along making
trials and experiments forever, and leaving their cars
still dangerous to the safety i f every person who
crosses the streets.
A reasonable time under the circumstances cannot
be justly construed to mean a long time. The issue
is not a new one. It has been under consideration
in every city in the Union where trolley cars are
operated, and even in this city itself the subject has
been discussed for years. Many tests with fenders
and brakes have been made and a large amount of
information as to the merits of various appliances is
immediately available. It ought to T>e easy there
fore to decide upon the adoption of some remedy
within a comparatively short time.
There can be no doubt that if the proposed safety
devices were of a nature that would make the opera
tion of the roads more economical and more profita
ble to their owners, the managers would not take
months of experiment and other months of dis
cussion before adopting them. It does not take
business men a lifetime to make a change in
methods of work when there is money in the
change, nor should it take the street car companies
a lifetime to adopt safety appliances on their cars
when lives are at stake.
Both the street car companies and the Supervisors
might as well understand at once that the p^crt
demand for a remedy will not pass away and be for
gotten in a few days because of popular interest in
other things. They may as well understand also
that the people cannot be put off much longer by
promises of compliance at some future time, not by
making a show of testing new devices in fenders.
If neither the companies nor the Supervisors can
devise a means of protecting citizens from the reck
less methods of operation now in use, perhaps the
Grand Jury might find some way to quicken their
wits a little.
It is not a regrettable fart that a scorching bicy
clist is in jail. lie did not intend to kill anybody
no scorcher does so intend— but he was entirely
willing that the world afoot should take its chances.
He conceived it to be the duty of the pedestrian to
dodge, but failed to make allowance for the aped
and infirm. Therefore he is locked up to await a
demonstration of his power as a missile. If his vic
tim die the scorcher will learn that his sort do not
make up the whole world, a bit of information
which may cause him to lead a better life and
promote longevity among the wheeilcss.
Somebody in the East has gone to the trouble of
suggesting Van Wyck for President in 1900. The
gentleman might be an excellent one. but as he has
yet to prove that he is equal to being a good Mayor
for Croker there seems no occasion for haste. How
ever, the people of this country will hardly be ready
to accept Croker as their chief executive, no matter
how the complacent New Yorker may feel about it.
Japan has done this country the honor to fine
the sailors who amused themselves by killing some
tars of the American navy. Complaint is made that
the punishment is not severe enough. Yet the fact
must be remembered that an assassin in this coun
try is seldom even fined. He is simply tried, and
the people foot the bills, or, in other words, pay the
fine.
The Seminoles did not go on the warpath, but they
could be excused if they were to do so just long
enough to secure the scalp of the liar who sent out
a report that they had.
Spain, says an exchange, is ripe for revolt. This
is probably true. In fact, Spain shows some symp
toms of being over-ripe.
INDIVIDUAL THOUGHTS,
BY A MODEST CRITIC.
A distinguished jurist asks me to
show that the Hawaiian Islands, "in
stead of being strategically of value to
us, will be a Constant source of weak
ness." I regret that the request came
so late. The space at my command is
limited, and it is a matter that cannot
be treated in a few lines. Neverthe
less, with gladness the courtesy s-hail
be extended next week.
The chairman of the Senate Com
mittee on Foreign Relations has said—
If we may rely oh the telegraphic re
port — that the possession of the Sand
wich group. In case v,ar, "would be
equal to eight or ten battle-ships." This
seems almost incredible; but assuming
It to be true, in what way, may I ask
this distinguished gentleman, does he
see this wondrous value? Does he
imagine that territory fights— that the
possession of land Is war material?
As pointed out by Mr. Josenh Cham
berlain, one of England's ablest states
men, the other day. the acquisition of
territory Implies its protection. We can
protect these Islands after annexinr
them In two ways only: We can for
tify them and make the largest of the
group impregnable at an exp -rise of
two or three hundred of millions of dol
lars; we can build ten battle-ships at
an expense of fifteen or twenty million
dollars, and they can be detailed to
watch our precious territory, our own
coasts being unprotected. Both plans
are so evidently foolish that it futlgues
to even think of them. But one of them
must be adopted if we insist on this an
nexation scheme.
Mr. Reed has explained lucidly
enough that "empire can wait." He
should have gone further. Until we
can protect our coasts efficiently em
pire MUST wait.
Freely translated, ther« is a French
proverb which reads, "Those in need
of succor hide in curious holes." The
Examiner is an example. Driven to
despair on the ever present question of
Hawaiian annexation, it now vows that
the scheme is advisable on humani
tarian grounds. What next? This Is
exactly what it says:
"The Hawaiian Islands have a ca
pacity for becoming one of the most
productive spots on the earth. That
they have not achieved this results
Bolely from their lack of development
in the methods of Western civilisation.
They have made some advance of late
-. but it lias been slow and labored
I ired with what it will lie under
the free institutions of this country.
The annexation of the Islands is a duty
that is the highest of all duties — a duty
owed In the name of humanity."
The execrable English may be over
looked, but where, it is asked, did this
nation get its mission to provide for
humanity generally? The annexation
of the whole of the South Sea Islands
logically follows if we make the Sand
wich group an Integral part of this
Union on humanitarian principles. It
is casting pearls before swine to point
this out to the "yellow fellow." though.
He is a poser — not a logician.
A couple of interior papers have ob
jected to the broad statement that "to
admit Mr. Charles E. Naylor'a right to
talk on pilotage is absurd." Both -
ly think it ne^ds con** rotation, and as
Mr. Naylor has been v- od enough to
supply the necessary Indorsement, there
Beema to be no good reason for -with
holding the publicity which the Over
land could not give. In that magazine
(the current number), Mr. Naylor ar
gues for "A Fed ral Riot Service.** 1
think I know what he means by that;
but those who read English critically
might doubt. Mr. Xa lor evidently
wishes Congress to enact a lnw which
will place the Bervices of pilots — the
ts over — under Federal supervision.
It has ever been the avowed object of
our Government to get as far away
from paternalism as p ssible when
prudent. And it is not only prudent,
but undeniably sensible that States
should keep as direct control of 'heir
pilots as they do <>f their wharfingers.
Mr. Naylor sees in the words, "Until
further provision is made by Con
i that the national legis
lative bodies seriously Intended to in
terfere with what is. of course, merely
a local matter. The phraseology occurs
more than a score of times in the Re
vised Statutes. At the time when sec
tion 42SS was enacted the Union was
scarcely on a firm basis, ami none of
us knew exactly what was going to
occur next. The Wisdom of the provi
sion is admitted, and the fact that
Congress has declined again and again
to interfere in the matter of local
pilotage is fair proof that the present
system is best.
If the same conditions obtained off
Sandy Hook as off Lime Point; off
Fortress Monroe as a few miles below
Astoria, there might be some shadow
of sense in the proposal. Mr. Naylor
cheerfully substitutes a tug for a pilot.
having forgotten, presumably, that
there are such things as steamships.
He would apparently have a vessel
with a fair wind near the Farallones
take in her sail and employ a tupc to do
what she could easily do herself! Real
ly. Mr. Naylor does amuse. Not u> dis
miss him too hurriedly, I note that in
order to demonstrate his ignorant
this subject very thoroughly he sees in
floating ice in Boston harbor something
which requires the skill of a pilot to
avoid. There is no reason why this pa
per should pay for the instruction of
Mr. Naylor. but little Is lost by being
generous. The value of a pilot's knowl
edge, I explain to him, has no reference
to seen danger: it is on account of in
visible danger that he is employed.
A club of medical men has deemed It
THOSE HAWAIIAN SERFS.
N'\v York World.
To-day Senator Davis will ask the Senate to consider with a view to ratifi
cation the treaty of "leprosy and loot."
There can be and there Is no doubt In the mind of any patriotic and disin
terested citizen whose mental operations are governed by the laws of reason
that this Hawaiian scheme is a tissue of iniquities, past, present and future.
Wherever you look fit it you find tho same warp and woof. For instance,
the San Francisco Call directs attention to this extract from the report of La
bor Commissioner FLtzffcrakl:
-My investigations through the Hawaiian Islands have brought to my at
tention many new conditions and phases of labor, the most important of which
Is the Asiatic hordes which now infest the Islands and predominate in num
bers upon the plantations. I have seen 20,000 barefooted laborers, half of whom
work under v penal contract; I have seen rewards offered for their arrest
when they violated their contract and deserted the plantation, with their num
ber printed across their photograph in convict style."
Such are the normal and practically universal conditions of labor in this
remote group of islands which Is being "jammed" Into our Union.
wise not to expel Dr. Hirschfelder, who
sensibly believes that diseases of the
lungs can be guarded against. The
conclusion was wise, but the exclusion
of Dr. d'Evelyn from the same club is
not explicable. Dr. d'Evelyn has dis
covered—or thinks he has— a method of
inoculation which will destroy the
love of alcoholic tranquillity. If he has
not, his efforts have been very dis
tinctly praiseworthy. Moreover, it will
not be very surprising if his theory of
alcocytes turns out to be quite accu
rate. What may I ask is the ethical
difference between finding a remedy for
phthisis and alcoholism?
Grover Cleveland of unhallowed
memory has exhibited his lack of "bal
ance" again. He is now in evidence
pleading to the Governor of California
for mercy for Salter D. Worden. He
urges it with no more reason than
could have been uttered on behalf of
Durrant, who, it is cheering to know,
has been "heard to cease." If Worden
is guilty of the crime charged, hanging
is his just due. This is not an instance
in which the belravior of the Southern
Pacific Company can be considered in
any way. That has no bearing what
ever on the justice of the sentence if
the man be guilty. In cases of this
sort it is irrational to talk of the "high
ly Inflamed state of the public mind,"
of the suggestion that "he was the tool
of others" and last, but not least, that
he was "drunk" when he committed
the crime. These and a half dozen
other halting excuses have been made
in this man's behalf. Whoever removed
the fish-plate which caused the derail
ing of the train which sent brave men
to death chose a spot where he knew
full well fatal results would ensue.
Had the attempt to wreck that particu
lar train been made where there was
at any rate a possibility of no lives be
ing lost, the action (vile though that
would have been) might perhaps tem
per justice with mercy; but the spot
chosen for the wreck clearly shows the
mind of a fiend. Threats were freely
made by the strikers that any train
leaving Sacramento could never reach
Oakland in safety. It is said that care
was taken to have this information cir
culated among the United States troops
4s well as due diligence being exer
cised to let each engineer and train
hand know what was intended.
Whether the poor fellows who met
death in the wreck expected it or not
it is impossible to say, but it is prac
tically certain that they knew their
peril to be as great as was that of the
Gordon Highlanders about whose hero
ism, when in the fire zone, we have
heard so much recently.
The United States soldiers who sac
rificed their lives on that occasion lie
buried beneath a shaft which says
"Murdered by strikers." I respect the
moral courage of the man who ordered
the inscription, and still more do I ad
mire the determination that kept the
truth on that shaft when personal vio
lence was openly threatened if the ob
noxious words were not erased.
On "VTorden's behalf it has been
promised again and again that he
would reveal the men who were actu
ally the instigators of this crime. The
promises have never been kept. He
stands to-day in the identical position
that he did when tried. If Worden is
guilty he should hang; if he be innocent
he should be freed.
COLLECTED IN
THE CORRIDORS
C. F. Bliss, a lumber man of Carson, is
in the city on his way to Alaska. He is
staying at the Palace.
W, F. Simmons, a well-known resident
of Santa Barbara, is at the California for
a few days.
John C. Moblan, a prominent business
man of New York, is registered at the
Grand.
Mr. and Mrs. M. J. Kaufman are at the
Palace on their honeymoon.
G. L. Kirby. U. S. X., is at the Occi
dental from Mare Island.
A. M. Buchanan, one of the leading men
of Cleveland, Ohio, is at the California.
Hon. D. N. Withington, a prominent
politician of San Diego, is a guest at the
Grand.
It looks very
much as if the
proposed surveys
of the Yukon riv
er this spring will
have to be de
ferred until the
NO SURVEYS
FOR THE
YUKON.
snows of another
winter have added their -waters to swell
the current of that famous stream. The
Government at Washington, at the be
pinning of the rush to the Klondike gold
fields, decided to appropriate enough to
have the river thoroughly surveyed, and
the gratitude of those having: business in
that part of the country was accordingly
proat, hut with the usual rapidity with
which the mills of the governmental gods
grind, the necessary formalities were not
accomplished until the opportunity to
carry the proposed scheme into effect was'
passed. Lieutenant Helm of the MeAr
thur was placed in charge of the matter,
but when his orders arrived he found that
all the shipyards of the coast had so
many orders for river craft of various
kinds that it was impossible for them to
fill any government orders, consequently
there will not only be no survey of the
river, but the revenue cutter that was in
tended to patrol the river next season will
have to wait another year before making
her initial trip. However, the McArthur
is expected to go north in the early spring
and survey the coast around Cape Van
couver in order to see if there is not an
other easier and more southern entrance
to the Yukon.
J. O. Allen of the Chicago and North
western Railway is registered at the Oc
cidental.
E. Erickson, a railroad contractor of
Jamestown, is at the Grand.
B. V. Sargent, a lawyer of Salinas, is
at the Occidental.
Mrs. E. Miller has come over to the
city from Oakland and is staying at the
California.
J. H. Jenkiens, a well-known merchant
of Valley Ford, is registered at the
Grand.
A. L. Levinsky, one of the foremost at
torneys of Stockton, is at the Palace.
Ex-State Senator William Johnston of
Courtland is at the Grand.
W. N. Noyes. the big grain man of
Livermore, is a guest at the Occidental.
Judge J. 11. Craddock of Marysville is
staying at the Grand.
F. B. McGovern of New York is at the
California for a few days.
I AN ?
II UNCOMFORT- t
!l ABLE HITCH- J
{ ING POST. j
"I was reading
in The Call a few
days ago of a
boy's telephone up
up at Altamont,"
said Mr. Seemer,
a prominent rail
road man who ar-
rived in the city a short time ago, "and
the article brought to my mind an occur
rence that took place in- the vicinity of
Devers. a small town in the lowlands of
Texas, while I was there. Some miles out
in the country a storm had blown down a
dozen telegraph poles and the manage
ment of the line, not knowing the extent
of the damage. Bent only one man out to
repair what they thought was one of the
customary small breaks in the wire. Ihe
fellow got out to the place of the acci
dent and sizing up the extent of the dam
age realized that it would take about a
week to repair it, during which time the
line would have to remain tied up. He
accordingly ran leaders from the two
poles at the extremities of the break to
an adjacent wire fence, and after prop
eriy connecting everything, went on hia
way rejoicing. The line remained in this
manner for about two weeks, and as the
land thereabouts was of a wet and
swampy nature the cattle men in the
neighborhood ha<l all kinds of curious ad
ventures. A fellow knowing nothing of
the current that was running along the
fence, would ride up and tie his horse to
it, and when he and the animal came out
of their fit they would be undecided as to
whether they had been struck by a pass
ing train or had run afoul of a traveling
cyclone."
CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, Jan. 16.— H. Alexander of
San Francisco is at the Hoffman House.
J. Wollner of San Francisco is at the
Hotel Savoy. Lieutenant S. E. Adair of
San Diego is at the Gerlach Hotel.
CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON.
WASHINGTON. Jan. If,.— Frank A.
Jones, R. E. Gormlir., San Francisco, Wil
lard's Hotel; L. D. Semple, Los Angeles
Riggs House.
NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES.
The French Admiralty contemplates
large expenditures upon its naval sta
tions abroad. At Bizerta, in Tunis, a
breakwater and two drydocks, costing
from $3,000,000 to $3,500,000, are to be built.
In Corsica the naval authorities propose
to build a boom in the port of Ajaccio
and the army department to put up two
batteries as 'a defense for what is in
tended as a shelter for torpedo-boa_ts.
At Dakar, Madagascar, the sum of $50,
000 is to be expended on works in contem
plation.
The Don Alvaro de Bazan, a gunboat
recently launched at Ferrol for the
Spanish navy, is a somewhat ambitious
naval design. The vessel is 236 feet 3
inches in length, 27 feet 1 inch beam and
displaces only 828 tons. Her two triple
expansion engines are calculated to give
4600 horse-power under forced draught
and a speed of 20 knots. The armament
is composed of two 4.7-inch quick-firing
guns, four iv.-inch, two machine guns
and three torpedo tubes. The usefulness
of the vessel will be extremely limited,
owing to the small quantity of coal she
is able to carry.
The Kostroma of the Russian volunteer
fleet, which ran on the Elba reef in the
Red Sea last November, had up to De
cember 17 not yet got afloat. Great ef
forts had been made by the steamer
Petersburg of the same fleet, aided by a
steamer from Port Said and a British
torpedo-boat destroyer, to pull the Kos
troma off, but without success, and as a
last resort the torpedo-boat was arrang
ing to blow up portions of the reef. The
stranded steamer is a single-screw of 7975
tons displacement and 14 knots speed,
and was built in England in ISSS.
The gathering of naval vessels in Asi
atic waters will be of such a magnitude
as will long be remembered. On Decem
ber 14 there were thirty-eight Britisn
war ships of all classes, and since then
the Powerful has arrived from Singa
pore and the Edgar and Arrogant are due
within a month. Seventeen Russian ships
were hovering about the coast of China,
and the armored cruiser Rossia of 12.130
tons, just completed, left St. Petersburg
for the long voyage to the Orient. The
seven French war vessels will be fur
ther Increased by the Isly and Alger, due
in one month, and Germany's fleet of six
vessels will have added to it the cruiser
Ka.lserin Augusta, which was at Singa
pore December 13, and the battle-ship
Deutschland and cruiser Gefion, both of
which loft Kiel December 16. The United
States squadron of five ships will also
be ro-enforced by one or more vessels,
and within two months there will thus
be no less than eighty-three ships-of-war
under five national flags. These, with
the representative ships of Japan's navy
around the disputed territory in Kiao
chau Bay, will make a magnificent naval
show, equaled only by that at Spithead
last June.
Cal. place fruit 50c perlb at Townsend*s.«
Asthma (bronchitis), cure guaranty. Dr. Gor
din's Sanitarium, 514 Pino, nr. Kearny, S.F., Cal
Special information supplied daily to
business houses and public men by tha
Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont
gomery st. Tel. Main 1042. •
Mexican carved belts, pocketbooks,
chatelaine baps, etc., at Sanborn & Vafl'a,
741 Market street. •
The beautiful Countess of Warwick,
formerly Lady Brooke, has written a life
of Joseph Arch, president of the British
Agricultural Laborers' Union. Methodist
preacher and advocate of labor reforms.
"Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup "
Has been used over fifty years by millions of
mothers for their children while Teething with
perfect success. It soothes the child, softens
the sums, allays Pain, cures Wind CoMc. reg
ulates the BoweU and is the best remedy for
Diarrhoeas, whether arising from teething or
other causes. For sale by Druggists in every
part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs.
Winslow's Soothing Syrup. 2£c a bottle.
CORONADO.— Atmosphere Is perfectly dry,
soft and mild, being entirely free from th«
mists common further north. Round trip
tickets, by steamship, including fifteen days'
board at the Hotel del Coronado, $65: longer
stay, $2 50 per day. Apply 4 New Montgomery
street. San Francisco, or A. \V. Bailey, mana
ger. Hotel del Coronado. late of Hotel Colo
rado, Glen wood Springs, Colorado.
Mrs. Jessie Palmer Weber, daughter of
General John M. Palmer, late the Sound
Money Democratic candidate for Presi
dent, has been appointed librarian of
the Illinois State library.
NEW TO-DAY.
The U. S. Government
Report shows ROYAL
Baking Powder to be
stronger and purer
than any other.
