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WEDNESDAY JULY 10.1895
"" THE CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL.
Home industries suffer when lottery
games are encouraged.
Monopoly requires its henchmen to wear
livery without blushing.
The Valley road is getting in its work
and the new era has arrived.
People who have to work hard grow
weary, but tney never feel ennui.
The great Southern Pacific grab game
has revived along with other things.
The bimetallists propose to take part in
the British elections as something more
than a side issue.
Give the railroad a square foot of the
park and it will take the whole pleasure
ground for a yard.
The National Teachers' Convention at
Penver has created an extraordinary de
mand for blue hosiery.
The country is willing for Coroett and
Fitzsimmous to fight it out in Texas if they
Will only keep quiet about it.
In attempting to evade the law the Rang
in the Board of Supervisors is liable to run
up against the law's penalties.
It must be that the Solid Eight expect to
pet pay for their services from the South
ern Pacitic and not from the people.
The part of the Easterner not evaporated
in midsummer perspiration is always
liable to be blown away by a cyclone.
The Southern Pacific cares nothing for
the opinion of the public so long as it en
joys the possession of the public officers.
The advent of the war balloon will neces
sitate the devising of a new form of ord
nance with which to bring down the soar
ing enemy.
The Valley road is making a new de
parture in California railroad affairs al
ready by m3kinc friends of all with whom
it has dealings.
Salisbury gave Rosebery a clean upper
cut when he congratulated the Lords on
"clearing the political field of sterile and
angry officials."
Although the American is dubious of the
Defender and the Englishman is dubious
of the Valkyrie, each is as willing as ever
to bet on his own.
And now we shall see if the people are
willing for the Market-street Company to
retain possession of a franchise which it
secured in violation of the law.
The Japanese are trying to turn out the
present Government because it would not
give them a big bowwow with Russia, and
the result is another oriental crisis.
It seems, after all, that it does not re
quire the mediation of a Buckley in busi
ness arrangements between the Southern
Pacific and the Board of Supervisors.
To maintain an equilibrium of develop
ment in the City, street improvement south
of Market should be balanced by street im
provement north of Market and east of
Montgomery.
In confining bidders for the grading of
the Valley road to the Stockton district
the directors give a handsome evidence of
their appreciation of Stockton's generosity
and enterprise.
It might be interesting to know how Su
pervisor Wagner became aware that the
Market-street Company could not lay
down its rails for the Ocean House electric
road in ninety days.
The eagerness with which contractors
are bidding for the work of constructing
the Valley railroad is one of the best evi
dences of the confidence which the road
enjoys and the hope which it inspires.
TVe infer that the upper Sacramento
Valley is in great need of another railroad
when we read that it is proposed to put on
a line of steam wagons from Redding to
Tehania, there to connect with the river.
Nearly every paper that congratulated
Cleveland on the birth of his daughter
made some sort of reference to the possi
bility that she might be a candidate for
the Presidency herself fifty years from
now.
The meekness with which Blackbarn
obeyed the order of the Democratic State
Committee to quit preaching free silver
chows either that he is fonder of his party
than of his principles or that he is anxious
for office, no matter what the platform be.
It requires a very high order of human
ity on the part of a doctor to prescribe a
visit to some of the wonderful medicinal
springs of California when he thus loses
a patient and works a cure by a prescrip
tion for which nobody would think of
paying him.
Nothing more disgraceful in American
civil prosecutions has appeared than the
disclosure of the real meaning of Editor
Dana's recent prosecution, for it seems to
have been inereiy a desire to resent the
efficiency of The United Press by the old
institution from vrhicli the Sun had broken
loose.
A MUNICIPAL CEISIS.
A crisis has been reached in the affairs
of the City of San Francisco. A bold and
brazen attempt has been made by eight of
its Supervisors to set the Jaws of the State
at defiance; to hold as naught but idle
words their solemn oaths of ollice; to dis
regard the interests and welfare of the
City with whose public affairs they have
been intrusted ; to bow and bend at the
nod and beck of a great and rich corpora
tion, and at its instance and for its selfish
ends to violate the law and to bring them
selves within grasping distance of the
penal statutes of the State. The "Solid
Eight" of the Board of Supervisors have
done all this within the past week in the
matter of the grant of the Ocean avenue
street railway franchise. The time has
arrived for the citizens of San Francisco to
consider and to act.
* * •
• *
The facts are few and simple. Behrend
Joost applied some time ago for a fran
chise for a street railway over Ocean
avenue and other streets out to the Ingle
side. The Solid Eight of the board per
sistently refused and neglected to act upon
his application for this franchise. He ap
plied and petitioned and orated and urged
over and over again, but in vain. Finally
and during the past week the Market-street
Railway Company appeared on the scene
with a similar application. At once the
Solid Eight act upon this last petition
and rush through a resolution which has
for its purpose the awarding of this fran
chise to the Market-street Railway Com
pany at a ligure far below what it is worth
and without giving either to Behrend
Joost or any one el?e but the corporation
the right to compete for it, as the laws of
the State require.
* • •
The law of the case is as clear and posi
tive as its facts are plain. The statutes of
1593 provided for the sale of street rail
way franchises after due advertisement
and to the highest bidder. It was there
prescribed that whenever an application
was presented to the governing board of
a city for a franchise or privilege to con
struct and operate a railroad along or
upon any public street or highway, the
board must advertise the fact of the appli
cation and of its intention to dispose of
the franchise for a stated period. At the
time fixed the board must sell the fran
chise to the highest bidder. The first
section of the act^ of 1593 makes this
| procedure on the part of the board
I mandatory. The second section of the act
prescribes the penalties for attempted vio
lation by any member of the board of
the terms of the first section. His attempt
i is declared to be a misdemeanor for which^.
he may be punished by fine and imprison
ment, and also to be malfeasance in office
for which he may be removed therefrom.
The Penal Code provides the exact method
to accomplish the removal from his office
of the guilty official. Any citizen may lay
an accusation before the Superior Court
and thereupon the offender is cited to ap
pear and answer the charge. If the accu
sation be sustained the decree of the court
removes the Supervisor from the seat he
has defiled and disgraced. «
* * *
This is the law of the case. Is the
Solid Eight of the Board of Supervisors
guilty or not guilty of a misdemeanor and
of malfeasance in office for their acts in re
lation to this franchise? They are guilty
of two distinct violations of the letter and
spirit of the statute of 1593. In the first
place, they are guilty of malfeasance in
office for their neglect and refusal to ad
vertise the franchise for sale upon the ap
plication of Behrend Joost. They have
neither the right nor the discretion under
the law to discriminate between applicants
or to refuse to advertise a franchise for
sale when once an application has been
filed. That is the first offense of the
Solid Eight, but it is by no means
their most serious one. Their greater
crime consists in the manner in
which they propose to evade and nullify
the statute of 1893 in the grant of this fran
chise to the Market-street Railway Com
pany. By a cunningly worded resolution
the Solid Eight conspirators propose to
offer for sale this franchise in such a man
ner that in the very nature of things there
can be but one bidder, and that one the
j Market-street Railway Company. The
J franchise they have "resolved" to sell is
! a franchise to operate street railroads upon
j and over the streets indicated "as exten
sions of and adjuncts to and in connection
with the line of railway of the Market
street Railway Company." "Who could
use such a franchise but the corporation
whose already laid lines the new road must
be connected with and be extension and
adjunct of? What a thinly veneered eva
sion and violation of the law is this !
• • •
The danger which underlies this latest
outrage upon the rights of the City and
the laws of the State should be apparent to
; every citizen. The lines of the Market
i street Railway Company are already so ex
tensive that there is hardly a street in the
City which is not crossed or connected
with them at some point. It follows that
no person outside of that corporation can
secure or even be a bidder for a street
railway franchise so long as the Solid
Eight are allowed to be in place and power.
Neither can the City hope to receive
for its valuable franchises a tenth of
their value under such a regime. All
that the Market-street Railway has to do
is to file its counter-application and ask
for the franchise "as an extension and ad
junct to its lines already laid," and the
first applicant is straightway side-tracked,
the advertisement and sale of such a fran
chise become a solemn farce, and the
valuable privilege is sold to the monopoly
for a song.
* • •
Citizens of San Francisco, do you not
see the danger in this? Do you not per
ceive in the shameless action of the Solid
Eight a bold attempt to destroy a salutary
statute and to rob the City of San Fran
cisco of its right to sell its street railway
franchises to the highest bidder for what
they are worth? Is it not manifest that
every member of the Solid Eight
is guilty of a -misdemeanor and
of malfeasance in office in the passage of
the outrageous resolution of last Mon
day night? The danger line has been
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 1895.
reached and crossed by these false
servants of yourselves and of your City.
What citizen will be brave enough to in
voke the law and apply to the courts for
the removal of the members of this corrupt
combination from the offices they have
disgraced? There is a crisis in the affairs
of our City and the time has come for
action and for volunteers.
AN EXTENDED SCOPE.
The Manufacturers' and Producers' As
sociation is to be congratulated for taking
steps so early and promptly to give a
State-wide efficiency to the purposes of its
organization. It was organized by San
Francisco men with the ultimate view of
carrying out the purpose which it has now
| undertaken, and the success and encour
agement which its efforts have received
have convinced it of the wisdom and use
fulness of the idea. The tirst step toward
bringing into its fold all the manufac
turers and producers of the State has been
announced in the form of a call for a mass
meeting of all the manufacturers and
producers of Santa Clara County, to be
held under the auspices of the Santa Clara
County Board of Trade at San Jose, on the
evening of the 20th inst. Then a branch
of the organization is to be formed.
It is the intention to proceed thus with
all sections of the State, but it is evident
that the people of the various counties
need not wait for the central body to take
the initiative. Doubtless any of the di
rectors of the central body would gladly
respond to an invitation to visit any sec
tion and explain the purposes of the
movement and assist in forwarding an in
terest in its success. Improvement and
kindred clubs and societies have already
been formed in many sections and they
would be the proper bodies to move in the
matter of organizing the producers and
manufacturers. "Where such bodies have
not been formed it would be eminently
proper for the Boards of Supervisors to
take the necessary step.
The proposition to incorporate the asso
ciation is excellent, but the main con
sideration is for every manufacturer and
producer in the State to ally his forces
with those of the association. As the cir
cular issued by the association points out,
people will buy for the lowest price which
they can llnd, and the best way to lower
the price of California articles is to increase
their output by increasing their consump
tion. Every member of the as
sociation constitutes himself a moral
and physical force for carrying out its ob
jects, and the larger the association the
greater its power. It is a particularly wise
plan to include dealers and their employes
in the roll of members, for without their
co-operation the plan of pushing the sale
and urging the consumption of home
made goods would be without one of its
most efficient agencies.
We hope that the next step in the matter
will be the formation of consumers' clut>3
pledged to assist in the work of the asso
ciation. This would be the special field of
women, and the nucleus of the organiza
tions could well be the families of the men
composing tne Manufacturers' and Pro
ducers' Association.
A GOOD EXAMPLE.
The enthusiasm and the energy displayed
by the Southside Improvement Club in pro
moting the work of street improvement in
that section should be a stimulus and en
couragement to the property-owners of the
section of the City north of Market and
east of Montgomery. In no part of the
City is improvement more needed than in
this downtown region and in no other sec
tion will such work yield greater benefits
to the general public or be more profitable
to the owners.
The leaders of the Southside club have
successfully accomplished the first hard
task of getting the people interested in the
subject and forming a public sentiment
favorable to improvement. The club at
the present time is not only active in its
leadership but strong in members. At a
meeting held on Monday evening it is re
ported nearly one hundred members were
present. In such a gathering there is nearly
always engendered the enthusiasm that
gives confidence and excites energy. Good
results are therefore sure to follow from
the organization of the club and it is an
easy prediction that within a compara
tively short time the whole Southside dis
trict will feel the impulse of improvement
and ( business and property there will ad
vance in importance and value.
The district north of Market street,
and between Montgomery and the bay, oc
cupies an advantageous position in the
topography of the City. It is losing rela
tive importance now largely because the
spirit of improvement so manifest in other
parts of the City seems to have passed- it
by. If, however, the streets were cleaned
up and repaired it would easily hold the
business now located there and no longer
would there beany complaint among prop
erty-owners of losing tenants. To bring
about the needed improvements will not be
difficult. Let the property-owners of this
district imitate the example and the en-
ergy of the Southside club and it will not
be long before good results will show them
selves.
PEDEEAL DESEKT LANDS.
The remarks made by United States
Surveyor-General Green, published in yes
terday's Call, concerning the feasibility
of California accepting the proposition
made by the General Government with re
gard to arid lands, deserve the most seri
ous attention. It is remembered that the
Government offers to any State haying
arid lands 1,000,000 acres on condition that
the State reclaim them, and that when the
matter came up before the last Legislature
it was decided not to accept the proposi
tion, for the reason that it would cost more
to the settler to secure the land in this
way than directly from the Government.
It seems astonishing that such an objec
tion should have been made in view of the
fact that no settler could have any use for
the lands until they are reclaimed, that
they have no value whatever in the ab
sence of irrigation, and that it is only by
such an arrangement as that which the
Government proposes that they ever can
be irrigated.
Mr. Green suggests that there are three
ways by which the State could profitably
handle the proposition. One is that
private corporations might be authorized
to construct irrigation systems under the
supervision of the State, title to land to
pass from the State to settlers, and
the corporations to receive their rev
enues from the settlers under private
agreements for a water service. An
other is for the State to issue 4
per cent bonds secured by the lands of the
distriot and construct the irrieation system
itself. The third is for the State to raise
the money for irrigation works by direct
taxation of the lands in the district. It is
clear, as Mr. Green asserts, that this would
meet with violent objection; in addition,
it would not be practicable in regions
where there are no improved lands to be
taxed, as in the deserts, where some of the
most fertile but at present wholly worth
less land is to be found.
Bonds issued by the State would sell not
below par, aoa thus the difficulty encoun
tered in the sale of bonds issued by irriga
tion districts would be avoided. The
Wright irrigation law has been found to
work unexpected hardships, and is prob
ably not the best scheme that might be
devised for the purpose. But this is an
other matter. The question now is the
Government's proposition to make us a
present of 1,000,000 acres of arid land if
we will reclaim it. There has long been
a complaint, generally unfounded, that
fruit lands ire held too high in California.
The opening of new areas to settlement
would solve that problem, and would be
especially valuable in determining the
prices which buyers are willing to pay if
the State, after reclaiming the lands,
would sell them at auction, thus giving all
buyers an equal opportunity.
THE BANDIT THEIVES.
It strikes one as somewhat amusing that
Brady, who is being hunted for his life in
the mountains north of Redding, should
be invited to continue his occupation of
highwayman by finding an abundance of
unguarded stages traversing the public
roads. He could hardly be expected to
seek means for earning an honest liveli
hood under the circumstances, and hence
he must pursue his vocation in order to
subsist. As his capture would in all likeli
hood mean his condemnation to the gal
lows he cannot possibly make his situation
worse by resorting to any desperate crime
that imagination, necessity or opportunity
might suggest.
It happens that he understands the art
of a highwayman best, but that does not
make it unreasonable to imagine him capa
ble of killing men and women wherever he
may find them, if thereby he could better
his condition in any way. What he need 3
now particularly is money, whi:h is the
most efficient of all conceivable weapons of
defense. It is not supposable that he
would hesitate to secure it by any means,
possibly including slow torture by apply
ing fire to the soles of the feet. And yet in
view of all the evident facts stages are still
sent out without a guard, and the drivers
never hesitate to obey the command to
throw down the mail-pouches and express
box. It may be a physical impossibility
to overhaul Brady, but it is not to take
reasonable precautions against his depre
dations. It seems incredible that the
United States Government observes the
rifling of its mails with such bland com
posure, and that it should encourage the
bandit to proceed on his course by cheer
fully offering him mail-pouches to rob.
PERSONAL.
E. J. Jordan of Reno is at a downtown hotel.
H . E. Potter, the Plymouth merchant, is in
town.
Lieutenant N. S. Hughes, United States navy,
is at the Palace.
John T. Sullivan, a hotel man of Santa Crur,
is at the Palace.
Chalmers Scott, the prominent San Diegan,
is at the Occidental.
W. J. Hotchkiss, the Healdsburg cannery
man, is at the Russ House.
Captain 11. C. Cochrane of the Philadelphia,
at Mare Island, is in town.
B. H. Worcester, the Angels Camp hotel man,
is stopping at the Boss Houae.
ColonolJ. J. Xunan,the Stociton lanrt-owner
and real estate man, is at the Occidental.
Railroad Commissioners H. M. La Rue and
W. R. Clark are in town, the former stopping at
the Occidental and the latter at the Baldwin.
Last Sunday San Francisco arrivals at Coro
nado Hotel included Miss E. M. Sewell, Miss A.
Barbagelata, A. Rosenberg, Mr. and Mrs. E. J.
Jolly, w. l. Valentine, F.Withrow.W.L. Hath
! away, Frank N*. Rust, Caspar W. Hodgson, Mr.
| and Mrs. William B. Wilshire, children and
maid; Mrs. O. C. Pratt, O. C. Pratt Jr.
UP-TO-DATE JOKES.
The cowbells tinkled drowsily.
In the shadow of the shelving shore, with
the waves breaking at their feet, they lingered.
"Would you, marry for moneyf" she de
manded.
He started and turned pale.
"This is so sudden," he faltered.
To make a bad matter worse he subsequently
asked her how much she was offering. — Detroit
Tribune.
First Clerk— That's all the thanks a fellow
gets. Here I've had my pay reduced alter
making a horse of myself!
Second Clerk— Well, there's one satisfaction
to you. Docked horses are considered ex
tremely stylish.— Boston Transcript.
"I see," said Mrs. Jones, "that a Delaware
man hna been catching an albino trout wiih
white eyes and red flesh. That's mighty queer."
"Oh," said Mr. Jones, composedly, "you can
catch 'most anything if you've the right kind
of bait and enough of it." — New York Re
corder.
Portrait of a Gentleman. All Answers
Should Be Addressed to the Por
trait Editor.
[From the Chap-Book.]
Rev. Longnecker-Dear, I do wish I could
think of some way to make the congregation
keep their eyes on me during the sermon.
Little Tommy— Pa. you want to put the clock
right behind the pulpit.— Texas Sittings.
Tommy-Pa, what is tne Board of Education?
Mr. Figg— ln the days when I went to school
it was a pine shingle.— Indianapolis Journal.
Taggs— Do you understand French?
Waggs— l do when I speak it.— Somerville
Journal.
An exchange inquires whether it is not pos
sible to take the new woman too seriously to
heart. Not when she is lovely and willing.—
Troy Budget.
Oregon Packer— What is the horse good for?
Dealer— Well, t' be honest with ye, he's a
little too bony fur mountain trout and not
quite tough enough fur corned beef, but he'd
can up like a daisy fur spring chicken.—Cleve
land Plaindealer.
Amiable visitor— And this is the baby, is it?
Why, its the very image of its father.
Cynical uncle-Well, it needn't mind that, if
only it has good health.— Tit Bits.
Even the Moon Hid Her Face.— First Girl— A
dark cloud lust then covered the moon— by
that time my heart wu in my throat.
Second Girl— Gracious! how he must have
squeezed you!— Boston Budget.
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.
Dr. C. Weld of Mount Barker, Australia, is in
San Francisco at the Palace Hotel on his sec
ond trip around the world.
"I notice," said he yesterday, "thatyou have
a great deal of horseracing here in America.
In most all the cities of any size the people
seem to be indulging in racehorse chat. What
a wonderful fascination it must have for its
devotees! However—" (the doctor mused a
little and after adjusting his glasses continued)
"we have a little of that sort of business in
Australia, too. I never saw anything like it.
Why, do you know that in Adelaide, where
they are using the totalizator, £45,000
went into it in three days. It is constantly
increasing, and at one time they had to shut
down on the game to keep the people from
gambling all their money away. Somebody
has to lose, you know, and it is generally the
men who en.nnot afford it. Have you ever
noticed that?"
"What is the principle of the totalizator?'
inquired a listener.
"Well, it is very much on the principle of the
Paris mutual system, such as you have in your
country, only the machine is more perfected
!. WELD OF AUSTRALIA THINKS WE ARE TC
INCLINED TO SPORT.
[Sketched from life for the "tttU" by XankivtU.}
and registers the actual condition of every
account opposite the name of each horse.
There is no chance to wolf the people, and the
business methods are conducted according to
rules laid down by the associations controlling
the racetracks. As a matter of fact we have
sports of all kinds there— too many of them, I
guess."
"Isn't there anything else to engage the
attention of the people?"
'Well, yes, now that you speak of it. Just
before I left this last time a new mining sec
tion wa3 discovered. It is called the Broken
Hill country and covers a mineral deposit 500
miles square, taking in Coolgardie, Dundess
and Cue. besides several other small settle
ments. It is said to be very rich la gold and
is already very thickly populated. I would
not be surprised to hear of it becoming one of
the booming camps of Southern Australia. Of
course as a rule mining booms are short lived,
but the existence of so much country contain
ing gold deposits would seem to bar the possi
bility of this section petering out very soon.
"It is a timely find, as Australia in common
with other countries is suffering more or less
from a deprcsiou just now, and anything in
the shape of a new feature has its good effect.
On the grand total, however, I think we are
about as well off as our neighbors and can
stand as much hard weather as anybody. I ex
pect that when I get back the collectors of the
income tax will be busy with tho new bonanza
kings who are springing up all over Broken
Hill."
W. J. McGee, ex-District Attorney of Amador
and law partner of ex-Congressman Caminetti,.
reports a great revival among the Mother Lode"
mines. The Zeila and Kennedy mines, near
Jackson, are turning out the usual larpe
amount of bullion, while the Alma, Anita anu
Amador Queen are meeting with encouraging
prospects. The mortgage against the latter, for
$-'2,000, held by the Pacific Bank was com
promised for $15,000 last week. The suit of
the Argonaut Company against the Kennedy
Company for $350,000 damages for •working
under their ground, has been transferred to the
United States Circuit Court in this City. The
outcome seems so promising for the former
company that the stock is now quoted at
$40,000, with nothing in sight in their own
shaft.
C. H. Phillips, the prominent real estate
man and banker of San Luis Obispo, who is at
the Palace, reports affairs looking exceedingly
promising in his section. Inquiry for large
tracts of land is being made, two sales in
particular, one for COOO and another for 10,000
acres, being under way. with every prospect of
being closed at 525 and $10 per acre. The
construction of that portion of the Coast
railroad from Guadalupe to Santa Ynez, iome
thirty mlies, is being rapidly pushed, fully
800 men being employed.
James A. Morrisey of Stockton, who is In
town attending the meeting of the State Board
of Trade, has much to say about the prosperity
of his town. The impulse given by the Valley
read is widespread. Property has increased
fully 35 per cent in value within six months.
All factories are working, and a vacant house
is difficult to get. The prospect of factories be
ing able to get good steam coal for $3 50 per
ton, by reason of the newly organized Corral
Hollow Railroad, is very cheering. "The pros
perity of Stockton and vicinity was never more
apparent than to-day," said Mr. Morrisey.
OPINIONS OF EDITORS.
The factories which are reopening are the
ones which the Democratic tariff act closed.
The workingman has charged up to that act
the million?; of dollars of wages it made him
lose, and the party that passed that act is go
ing to hear from him next fall. He isn't fooled
by the impudent claim that the present tariff
ict is responsible for the revival of business
and the raising of wages. Nobody is.— Arizona
Republican.
Good or better times are coming. Wages are
increasing, railroad earnings are growing. The
Democratic defeats all over the country and
the positive assurance that the Republicans
will sweep the country and give us a conserva
tive policy has had and is having its effect.
Eight years of Republican rule will see this
country on the high road to the greatest
prosperity it has ever known.— Pasadena News.
If 25 per cent of the population of the State
were suddenly made prosperous it would cer
tainly to some extent ease up the other 75 per
cent. Twenty-five per cent ol California's pop
ulation depend upon her manufacturing in
dustries. It is 3to 1 that the reader is one of
the 75 per cent Have you commenced to nelp
yourself by asking for California goods when
purchasing your necessaries ?— Petalumian.
Seems to us there is a hugh fuss being made
over the canning of horse meat up on the Sound
country. If nice, fat, healthy horse meat is
canned, and people who buy it know it for
hor6e meat when they buy it, there is nothing
more to be said. It's nobody's business. If
horse meat canned is sold for spring chicken
there is ground for kicking. Otherwise, other
wise.—Redlands Cltrograph.
If the fellows who now and then go out of
their way to criticize the public schools would
stop and think that if it were not for these
same public schools about 95 per cent of our
population would be groping in ignorance,
perhaps they would have less to say against
our public institutions of learning.— Escondido
Times.
The best way for Judges to win and retain
the respect of the people is to maintain their
dignity and confine their judicial acts to the
limits prescribed by law. When they go out
side of the law the people very naturally take
a like liberty with them, much to the disadvan
tage of the judiciary.— Stockton Independent.
The experience of the people under the pres
ent administration has put an everlasting gui-
etus on the statement of Democratic orators,
made quite frequently in a political campaign
not many years ago, that a surplus in the Na
tional treasury was a detriment to any coun
try.—Ventura Free Press.
News of an occasional strike for higher wages
enlivens the telegraph report. This is another
sign of improving conditions. There have
been no strikes for higher wages in the last two
years. The few strikes there have been all hare
been against a reduction of wages.— Portland
Oregonian.
California wants more judgment used in the
channels of trade and manufacture and less
buncombe about bringing in consumers to eat
up the surplus. What we really need is more
producers and a. chance ror them to get a fair
share of what they produce. — Petaluma
Courier.
Montana has stopped gambling— that is, has
made it illegal — and now there is only one
State in the Union which legalizes it. In this
State the Call is making year on the lotteries
and has to a great extent stopped the sale of
tickets.— Lake County Bee.
The price of iron is said to be the "barome
ter of trade" of the world. Iron is steadily ad
vancing at the present time.— Pendleton East
Oregonian.
OF GREATER OR LESS NOTE.
The Prince ot Wales has said that his sister,
the Empress Frederic*, is the cleverest woman
he has ever met.
Sir Wilfred Lawson is probably the only man
in the world who has addressed a public meet
ing in his nightshirt.
Count de Gontant Biron has just been di
vorced from his wife, the eldest daughter of
Ferdinand de Lesseps by his second wife.
A famous tiger huntress is the Baroness Marie
Ede yon Ameline, who killed with her own
haud the four beasts whose claws she invaria
bly wears around her neck.
Colonel Ivers Phillips of Boulder, Colo., says
that he is the oldest Mason in the United
States. Mr. Phillips will be 90 years old next
month. He was made a Mason ten days after
he was 21 years old, making him a member of
the order for almost sixty-nine years.
Hall Caine's favorite work hour is dusk. He
sits perfectly still in one oi his big chairs, that
were Rosbetti's, until he has composed all he
means to use. Then he orders a light and
swiftly writes out his work, word for word, as
he has memorized it.
August Danner was sent to prison at lonia,
Mich., two years ago for whipping a man who
refused to pay him his wages. He finished his
term last week. As he walked out of prison he
was informed that he had inherited $225,000
by the death of an uncle, who was a rich '49er.
Selling silver polish to support herself and
father, Miss Foote, daughter of C. B. Boote,
president of the late failed Commercial Bank
of Cincinnati, goes from house to house daily.
The young woman is well educated, but could
find nothing to do She manufactures and
sells the polish, and what she makes supports
herself and father, and is their only income.
If the late Ward McAllister had performed
no other service for Newport his annual picnic
would enable him to rank as an historical figure
in her social annals, says the New York Vanity.
It was a picnic of picnics, to which each guest
contributed triumphs of his or her chef's art,
to be eaten al fresco, with the flash of fashion
able toilettes and "the glitter of tine porcelain,
plate and gems to mock the rural surroundings.
YOUNG MEDICOS EEJOICE.
The Graduating Class of the Medical
Department of the State University
Feast Their Friends.
It was not until yesterday morning that
the "Class of '95' of the medical depart
ment of the University of California ceased
celebrating having passed their final ex
amination. There were twenty-nine of
them, and all but the four young ladies as
sembled at Good Fellows' grotto on Mon
day night to rejoice together. The under
graduates, the alumni and a few outside
friends of the graduates, to the number of
150, were invited to attend, and few invita
tions were refused.
A numberof the best vaudeville perform
ers of the City were engaged to amuse the
banqueters. A band was also present
to discourse sweet music between whiles.
After the banquet, which occupied the
earlier part of the evening, the graduates
and their guests retained their places to
learn the decisions of the faculty of the
college, who were holding a meeting to de
cide who were to receive degrees. A spe
cial messenger brought the news about
midnight. Then the graduates remained
longer to celebrate their success.
Of the thirty-nine members of the class
only twenty-nine were granted their de
grees, the faculty being particularly severe
in regard to the necessary standard. The
fortunate ones were: Miss A. Feder, Miss
G. Feder, Miss Eppinger. Mrs. San key, L.
D. Bacigalupi, A. Boyes, J. 0. Badella, W.
Barbat, D. E. Easton, W. Dudley, J. Flood,
C. Gray, W. G. Hay, C. L. "Heller, D.
Helms, G. Hyde, J. HulL A. Lartigan, F.
Lota, H. J. McCaUum, T. A. McCulloch,
Z, Nast, K. Riune, C. Schmeltz, G. Emer
son, A. J. Villain, W. Trafton and J.
Brown.
The commencement exercises are to be
held at the Baldwin Theater on Saturday
afternoon, July 13, at 2 o'clock.
Ho ! for Santa Cruz.
On Saturday next there will be an opportu
nity for all to make a little trip to Santa Cruz.
An excursion will take place under the per
sonal charge of Colonel Menton, passenger
agent, which contemplates a stay of five hours
in Santa Cruz. The Boys' Brigade will be in
camp at that time and will add another attrac
tion to the many offered by the carnival water
ing place. Only two dollars will be charged
fof the return trip, and tickets are on sale at
the Grand Hotel office and at the ferry ticket
office on the morning of the excursion ; also at
Fourteenth and Franklin street station Oak
land, and Park-street station (narrow gauge)
Alameda. The train leaves San Francisco (fVot
of Market street), Fourteenth and
Pineapplk and cherries, 50c lb, Townsend'B.*
Bacon Printing Company, 508 Clay straas. '
Finest sauternas, haut-sauternes and dessert
wines. Mohns <&. Kalteubach, 29 Market street.*
Rhode Island, in proportion to size and
aopulation, is among the richest of com
monwealths, being assessed at $252 536 673.
THOC3ANTS 8«y that when all other medicines
ailed Hood s SarsapariUa cured. This must be
iccepted as establishing the fact that Hood's Kar
laparilla possesses peculiar medicinal merit.
•• Mrs. Winslow'g Soothing Syrup"
Has been used over fifty years by millions of moth
era for their children while Teething with perfect
success. It soothes the child, softew the gums, al
lays Pain, cures Wind Colic, regulates the Bowels
and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether
arising from teething or other causes. For sale by
Druggists in every pan of th« world. Be sum and
ask for Mrs. Wlnslow's Soothing Syrup. -5o *
botUc.
. ', NEW TO-DAY.
ifflfffllS
; SEMI-ANNUAL
I Clearance Sale!
: BEFORE STOCK TAKHG.
i HOUSEKEEPING
i GOODS!
I
BLEACHED HUCK
1 TOWELS, regular price C)^ n Popli
- 31^c,now -EitltH
i 66-INCH HE A
! BLEACHED DAMASK, 7 K/» « xt(\
regular price $1 10, now • Okj dj U.
■ 26x26 BLEACHED DA-
MASK NAPKINS, extra
t heavy, regular price QO n /I A «
?2 75, now tp£ dilWltt
TURKEY RED DA-
M ASK, fine quality, reg- K fk n „ v /l
mar price 75c, now O\J%j Oijvl*
SAMPLE PAIRS OF
FINE WHITE BLMKETS
GREATLY REDUCED IN PRICE.
Special Sale Gloves !
1 LADIES' SUEDE MOUSQUETAIEE
GLOVES, black and all colors, with
| black embroidery.
; i GOC a pair, worth $123
BROKEN LOT CHILDREN'S REAL
KID GLOVES. To close at
25C a air » worth • $1 OC
GVFRDIFR & CO.,
SE. Cor. Geary and Grant Ave.
VILLE DE PARIS.
BRANCH HOUSE,
LOS ANGELES.
\1 tt W 1 1 1 1
t Awful
Slaughter
//Mi M' Qqld
v n I a
m^lm OCllUf
Commencing July 1 ire have made
such cuts in all departments that cost
has entirely been lost sight of. Xote a
few of our quotations:
Ladles' Thoroughly Tailored Salts fr0m...?7 75 np
Ladies' Cloth Capes, from 1 15 up
Lasies' Blouse Waists, from 35 up
.Ladies' Silk Waists, from 2 75 up
Children'* Reefers, an endless variety,
from 1 25 up
And a whole lot of other bargains that
you must see to appreciate.
LOEWENTHAL'S
Cloak and Suit House,
NO. 844 MARKET ST.
XEAB STOCKTON.
BT?'f. j~\*. -'-?.'• -'^-? '••t^r.: J *--T>.^:"n'-. JJ -'tfi-.r"-. '--'■». H'.i ,'~.-¥\m
FOR
4 ROOfiS
$90.
Parlor— Silk Brocatelle, 6-pieca suit, plush
trimmed.
Bedroom— 7-piere Solid Oak Stilt, French Bevel-
plate Glass, bed, bureau, •■voshstand. two chairs,
rocker and table: pillows, oven-wire and top
mattress.
Dining;- Room— 6-foot Extension Table, four
Solid Oak Chairs.
Kitchen— No. 7 Range, Patent Kitchen Tabla
and two chairs.
EASY PAYMENTS.
Houses furnished complete, city or country, any-
where on the coast. Open evenings.
M. FRIEDMAN & CO.,
224 to 230 and 306 Stockton
and 237 Post Street.
Free pacKtn; and aellTery across the bay.
TSTHKVERY BESTOXETOEXAMINEYOTJR
X eyes and tit them to Spectacles or EyegUwsas
with isitrurnenu of his own invention, who**
cnp«rionty but cot been equaled, Mjr tucceu uu
teen dne to the merits of my work.
Oliice Hours— la to 1 r. u.
NOTARY PUBLIC.
pHABXES H. PHILLIPS. ATTORXEY-AT
V>* and Notary Public, 63S Market St., oppo.
site P Mace Hotel, Residence 16J0 Kell st. Tel*.
i phone & < 0.