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THE MAYOR ANALYZED.
; \ S some statements and some opinions of Mr.
/ \ Joseph Britton are constantly quoted by the
Mayor and his followers, and are suppo>ed to
be important because' lie has deserted his party ro
support Mr. Phelan, it is fair to turn to Democrats
who refuse to support Mr. Phelan and to consider
their analysis of him. These Democrats, led by their
ite for Mayor, Dr. Cleveland, are not support
ing Mr. Davis, so that their opinions are rather
stronger and trustier than the opinions of Mr.
Britton.
At the meeting held by these steadfasters and
standfasters in the Democratic party Dr. Cleveland
referred to his lifelong membership in the party, his
belief in its principles and determination that they
shall not be lost sight of at the convenience of Mr.
Phelan or anybody else. He said: "There is no issue
whatever about the charter. It was the work of the
people, not the work of Phelan. Being the work of
the people, they alone can change it." Mr. George
D. Giliespie, a Democrat of ability and good stand
ing, said: "The convention which nominated
Phelan and Dodge absolutely refused to indorse the
Chicago platform, which, though good enough for
Bryan and Maguire. was not good enough for
Phelan." Thi.s repudiation of principles, being solely
for the benefit of Mr. Phelan's ambition, in the be
lief that it will bring him Republican votes to make
him Mayor and increase his prestige, may be ex
ted to result in his saying to the Democracy later
on, "In the name of my prestige as a three-ply
Mayor I demand your nomination to a State or Fed
eral office." Having gained power to make this de
mand by repudiating the party platform and prin
ciples, he will ask in their name further promotion.
This is a sort of political shell game.
< Hllespie, completing his analysis, said: "That
tion of platform and principles is the reason
for Phelan's desire to cry out against raising na
in this campaign. They do not want
attention directed to their apostasy from the political
Jennings Bryan and the great mass
of Democratic voters."
The gentlemen who make these public statements
are well known men of high standing. Dr. Cleveland
served the public in office, faithfully and respect
. and is just as grand a grand old man as Grand
Man Britton. He sees, with rare keenness, the
•y of Mr. Phelan's charter issue. He sees that
Mr. Phelan's attitude at once raises the issue that the
<harter and the national Democratic platform are
tic, and that a candidate cannot stand on
both. He sees behind all this Mr. Phelan's purpose
to use the charter as a fetish to secure his present
ambition, and ultimately to use Democratic prin
ciples again when it suits his convenience and will
further promote his craving for office and power.
Therefore Dr. Cleveland bluntly declares that there
is no separate and distinct charter issue at all; that
the charter was made by the people, is the funda
mental law of the city and can only be changed by
the people. This being the case, the party conven
tions were held to nominate party candidates to the
es necessary to the administration of the char
ter. Mr. Phelan, therefore, by repudiating the prin
ciples of the party in whose name he was nominated,
has abandoned the solid ground of party principle
lias created an airy, fairy pathway to office which
lie calls "the charter issue." Here is a complete ex
pesure, from the most respectable Democratic
sources, of the straw issue set up by Mr. Phelan.
He pretends to go forth to fight "treason to the
charter." These Democrats say this is to conceal his
own treason to his party principles. They declare
treason to the charter to be non-existent, imaginary,
while Phelan's treason to his party is real and actual.
There seems to be no answer to the logic of their
1 coition and no offset to the clearness of their state
• of it. As an apostate to his party, it i s their
function to administer the needed discipline to him.
As the creator of a false issue and attempting to reach
office on it, he seems to stand thoroughly exposed
by the men who have heretofore supported him, have
foregathered with him in party conventicles and
ought to know. him best. In his speech in the Thir
tieth Assembly District, the 24th inst., Mr. Phelan
snid: "I don't know what has become of your plat
form since I was here last. You then elevated your
candidates on a pedestal; now they have to stand on
the floor." It doubtless occurred to the real Demo
irats present that Mr. Phelan has also lost his plat
form since he was there last, and had no right to
rebuke them for making him stand on the floor.
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 28, lS9f>.
THE IMPERILED REPUBLICS.
THE American people do not need the presenta
tion to the President of a request to offer
mediation between England and the free Boers
to whet their interest in the passing African spec
tacle. The amiable inattention to the request is not
the reflection of a similar mood of the people. A vast
empire which has belted the world with its power,
which has put the hard heel of its oppression upon
the necks of protesting people from Ireland to
Africa; which has slaughtered peasants for defend
ing their huts and blown in pieces from the mouths
of cannon men who in its service had learned to hate
it with unreasoning frenzy— this power, equipped
with every engine of slaughter, every device for ex
termination, is moving upon two free states, two in
dependent and self-governing republics, with the
same terrifying manifestations of strength and the
same inhuman motives that actuated Persia to land
her innumerable hosts upon the plain of Marathon
to smother the Grecian commonwealth in its own
blood.
To meet this host, face it, if possible turn it, if not
to die in front of it and be trampled into the free soil
they defend, stand the embattled farmers of the two
republics, just as our forefathers stood at Lexington
and Concord and "fired the shot that was heard
around the world."
All freemen of the two states are in array. Paul
Kruger. President of the Transvaal, with his three
quarters of a century of age upon him, forgetting the
scars that embellish his giant body won in long ago
battles for the liberty which he now defends, turned
soldier again, is at the head of a division of his army.
On the other side, Mr. Joseph Chamberlain and Mr.
Cecil Rhodes, whose intrigues and ambitions have
turned the veldt into a slaughter pen and reddened
the vlcys with the blood of men, are not in front de
fending the flag they have sent on a graceless er
rand. One is in safe and distant London, calling his
countrymen traitors for protesting that murder is
not a civilizing vocation. The other is pent up in
Kimberley, trembling with a miser's fright, while he
guards a treasure of one hundred millions in dia
monds and shouts for soldiers to come and save the
glittering store from the fate the Indian treasury
suffered at the hands of Robert, Lord Give.
Official authority may speak coldly and vaguely of
our national interests, but the American people are
not indifferent to the mighty suggestions of the
spectacle.
Already the usual signs appear that tell of the need
of a manufactured appeal to American and British
sentiment to hold it together as one in support of
this destruction of republics. In London it is re
ported that the Boers misuse and disregard a flag
of truce: that they hold up their hands to surrender
and whei the British ground arms shoot them; that
the British surgeons report that the Boers are using
dumdum bullets. These are familiar devices. They
have been in use by us in the Philippines for eight
months. Our people have read all such reports and
their effect has been estimated in advance of their
publication. It is charged through censored sources
that Aguinaldo has used the same tactics, and some
among us have not been slow to seize the advantage
of making him say what they please, so as to appeal
to sentiment at home.
But let no one forget that the Boers have needed
to use no such device. They know that at the Peace
Conference at The Hague, on the soil of their an
cestors, when the Continental powers wanted to
abolish the dumdum bullet. England defeated the
proposition and the United States supported her. If
England use the dumdum the Boer makes no com
plaint. Being aware that England has them and de
feated their abolition, he has some also. Above all
things the Boer is no hypocrite and does not fight
by proclamation nor telegram. The prize for which
he fights is the same old prize of self-government for
which his ancestors fought Spain and Alva. The
jewels he guards are not diamonds. They are the
rights of man. Looking around the circle of the
nations he sees no friendly face among the strong,
and so with heart stoutened by his friendliness he
meets the invader and fights like a man, dies like a
man, and baptizes the Dark Continent with blood
that will cry accusing confusion through all time to
those who. pretending to love republican institutions,
saw him die for them with every lash dry and no
sign of sympathy.
The twelve-year-old boy of Oakland who stands
facing a four-year sentence in one of the State prisons
for an infamous offense presents a perplexing
problem to the authorities. He is too young to zo
to prison and too old in some things to be permitted
at large.
THE DEBRIS PROBLEM AGAIN.
rROM the description given of the debris dams
of the State, in a report prepared by G. F.
Allardt and issued by the Anti-Debris Associa
tion of the four counties of Sacramento Valley, it
appears the whole controversy between : the land
owners of the valley and the hydraulic miners is
likely to be reopened. Mr. Allardt says: "The sys
tem of impounding works as now carried on can
afford no protection to the valley interests; it is a
menace, a delusion and a snare. In my judgment
permanent relief and safety can be secured only by
the absolute and unconditional prohibition of hy
draulic mining."
How far the Anti-Debris Association indorses that
sweeping statement is not clear. In issuing the re
port the association, through its secretary, Robert
Cosncr, contents itself with inviting an examination
of the report, which it declares shows the insuffi
ciency of the dams constructed under the supervision
of the California Debris Commission.
According to the report the impounding works
authorized and accepted by the commission are, with
few and unimportant exceptions, dams or barriers
constructed across gorges or canyons which have
heretofore served as dumping places for hydraulic
mines. A list classified according to the material
used in the construction gives a total of 251 struc
tures, of which only 27 are constructed of durable
material — that is, stone or carth — the remainder being
constructed either in whole or in part of perishable
material, such as logs or brush, and subject to more
or less rapid decay.
It does not appear from the report that any of the
dams show signs of decay or are insufficient at pres
ent. It would seem, therefore, that the expert has
digued from his fears rather than from facts. If the
dams be oi the flimsy construction he reports they
will of course in time give way, but as they have been
approved and accepted by a commission appointed to
supervise them, the presumption is they are ade
quate to the needs now and can be repaired and
strengthened as future emergencies may require.
The controversy is one in which the whole State is
interested, and the property at stake on each side is
enormous. The solution of the problem requires the
diligent and earnest study of competent experts, but
it is not impossible of attainment. It is safe to say
the people of California will never accept the con
clusion of Mr. Allardt that hydraulic mining must be
absolutely and unconditionally prohibited. Neither
will they consent to permit the lands of the valleys
and the rivers to be ruined by the debris washed
down from hydraulic mines. It is quite possible to
construct impounding works which will protect the
lowlands and the rivers. If such works have not been
provided in the past, then better work must be done
in the future. That is all there is to the problem.
In the meantime the Debris Commission should take
note of the criticism pronounced by the engineer of
the Anti-Debris Association and see to it that such
improvements as are needed in the dams be made at
once.
From her utterances concerning Congressman
Roberts of Utah it is plain that Miss Helen Gould
does not approve of polygamy. The fact, also, that
she has no particular love for matrimony appears to
be dawning on the many ypung men who have an
eye single to her large fortune.
THE FIGHT FOR THE COMMISSION
ERSHIP.
WHILE the merchants and manufacturers of
California, Oregon and Washington were en
gaged in conference for the purpose of uniting
upon a plan for defending the trade interests of the
coast, and were seeking a candidate whom all could
agree to recommend to the President for appoint
ment to the vacancy in the Interstate Commerce
Commission, the Southern Pacific Company, indif
ferent to the desires of the business men of the
coast and careless of the welfare of their industries,
set about with swift and secret energy to forestall
them.
A petition was drawn up by Judge Carpenter, at
the instigation of W. F. Herrin, requesting the ap
pointment of N. P. Chipman to the office, and
efforts were made in various parts of the State to
obtain signatures to it. The trick was exposed by
The Call on October 15, and the railroad company at
once procured the transmission of the petition to the
President by Senator Perkins. That petition is now
at Washington, while as yet the request of the con
ference representing the business men of the three
States of the coast has not reached him.
This trick on the part of the company is but
another evidence of the contempt with which Hun
tington regards the people of the Pacific Coast and
the sneak methods which he has taught his agents
here to employ in circumventing every movement
designed for the public welfare. The Traffic Asso
ciation of this city, and the organizations of other
cities in alliance with it, designed no attack upon any
of the rightful interests of the railroad. It was
clearly pointed out that what they ask would be of
advantage to the roads, inasmuch as by protecting the
trade of the coast cities it would increase the amount
of traffic they supply to the roads. In fact, every
step taken by the merchants of the three States was
in the direction of harmony of all Pacific Coast in
terests, and it was expected that in this movement
at any rate the Huntington push would not antago
nize the wishes of the people.
It seems to be vain to expect any fair dealing or
honesty of purpose on the part of the Southern Pa
cific Company. It is now clear that as soon as it
was known a movement would be undertaken to ob
tain a Pacific Coast representative on the Interstate
Commerce Commission Huntington determined to
defeat it if he could. He adopted his old plan of
putting forward a candidate of his own. His agents
hurried the scheme through with as much secrecy a3
possible, and would have achieved a complete sur
prise had it not been for the watchfulness of The
Call.
We have in this case something of a repetition of '
the tactics of the Southern Pacific in trying to force j
upon the Legislature the acceptance of Dan Burns to '
the United States Senate. Either the railroad woulJ !
have its own candidate or it would have none. So '■
now the railroad agents in the State are out fighting
against the appointment of William R. Wheeler, who j
has been recommended by the business men of Cali- |
fornia, Oregon and Washington at their conference
in this city. They have set forth to beat him simply
because he is a Pacific Coast candidate. They are
acting in accordance with the settled policy of the
Southern Pacific to oppose the advancement of any
and every man on the coast who is not subservient to
the railroad itself.
Such is the situation that confronts the people.
The choice is now between supporting Mr. Wheeler !
or the railroad candidate. The issue cannot be
evaded. Every member of Congress from Californh,
from Oregon and from Washington should unite
with the Traffic Association and its allied organiza- [
tions in urging the appointment of Wheeler. The '•
efforts of the railroad to defeat him should be
promptly met. The fight is on. Once more Call- I
fornia has to meet her old foe, and it behooves her j
people to act with vigor.
THE AMERICAN MERCHANT MARINE.
ONE of the clearest statements yet made of the ■
low estate to which the American merchant j
marine has fallen is that embodied in a recent I
communication to the Industrial Commission at !
Washington by Frank L. Neall of Philadelphia. It j
furnishes a convincing argument for the adoption of j
legislation to remedy the evil by the simple fact of !
making known the full extent the evil has reached.
Statistics quoted by Mr. Neall show the value of
merchandise imported and exported by the United
States for the calendar year 1898 to aggregate
$1,800,000,000. The weight of this merchandise, sent
out of the country and brought in, was over 37,000,000
tons. The transportation across the seas of this
contribution, vast in value and bulk, to the com
merce of the world is one of the chiefest prizes of in
ternational maritime competition. To do this busi
ness Mr. Neall shows that out of a total shipping
tonnage suitable for transoceanic traffic aggregating
27,600,000 tons the United Stotes have a beggarly 125
vessels, steam and sail, with a carrying capacity of
296,185 tons.
That contrast between the amount of our exports
and imports across the seas and the carrying ca
pacity of our merchant marine is sufficient to con
vince any intelligent man of the inadequacy of our
shipping. We are virtually subject to Europe in
matters of commerce. The war in the Transvaal,
which led the British to withdraw a large number of
steamers from the merchant service, has so increased
the cost of transportation on grain and other freight
that we will lose a considerable percentage of what
our profits would have been had we possessed mer
chant vessels sufficient to make us independent.
Our country fronts upon both the great oceans of
the earth and has an expanding commerce in each
direction. It is therefore folly for us to leave the
carrying trade of the seas to other nations. The re
lation which our ocean tonnage bears to that of the
world at large is so small as to be shameful. A very
different condition of affairs will prevail when once
there has been granted to our shipping industries
something of the protection which has been so advan
tageously bestowed upon our industries on land.
LATEST PORTRAIT OF THE
GREAT FRENCH ARCHITECT
E. Benard.
THE MAN WHO DREW THE PLANS FOR THE UNIVERSITY OF
CALIFORNIA. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN LAST SEPTEMBER.
* | HE CALL has received a letter under date of October *
£ I 8 from Paris, France, written by E. Benard, the architect jj
who was awarded the first prize for the plans for the (
* University of California. In this letter he writes: "Permit *
k me to express my gratitude for your appreciation of plans jj
) for the University of California. I did my best, and my joy is (
£ complete in this that I succeeded in giving satisfaction to all. J
(< lam making arrangements to visit your beautiful country, £
) and shall probably be there during the early part of De- (
f cember." . J
|t The portrait presented is one of Mons. Benard taken in j
) Paris in the early part of last September and is the latest (
* one that has been taken of the great architect. J
IDIOMS OF THE BOERS.
Terms That Will Abound in the Reports of
the Transvaal War.
News readers always suffer Inconveni
ence when the reports from abroad con
tain unfamiliar words and expressions
idiomatic to the locality from which they
may have been written. The occurrence
of such "ultlandische" terms will be fre
quent in the dispatches which will record
the strife between England and her stub
born neighbors in South Africa, for that
country has a patois all its own.
Here is a brief glossary illustrating 1 the
terms which are most likely to find their
way into the war correspondents' ink
horns from the dust of the dry African
"veldt." And this (the comprehensive
term for all open country there, and not
merely "the plains") will do to start
with. Dealing with "de Afrikaansehe
taal," and not with what the "Boers"
(meaning farmers and nothing more) call
"prout holluus" — correct European Duti/h
— we properly spell this word with a iinal
"t," because phonetically the word is in
Africa "felt, even though the books
spell it "veld."
Some people mistakenly connect with
the above word the term "velschoens,"
and spell this, which stands for the farm
er-made skin shoes— which are only one
degree removed from our moccasins— with
an added "dt," under the Impression that
the word means shoes for the veldt.
"UK" is one of the most puzzling syl
lables for the Anglo-Saxon re.adtr to mas
ter; favorite pronunciation is "weet." Its
sound in a Transvaaler's mouth is ex
actly as we say "8" in English, c. g., uit
lanrters "eight-landers." Even In South
Africa itself the Saxon tongue boggles at
this "uit," and for "spruit," a brook or
streamlet, most of them say "sproot";
nevertheless, the Boers always pronounce
it "spr-8."
Some physical features of landscape
likely to De presented to their readers by
the newswriters in "taal" words are
shown In the following commentary:
"Rand," any long, rolling hill range is
a rand; more specifically the grassy ridge
itself of such a formation. Gats rand
and Witwaters rand are illustrations.
"Kopje"— pronounced koppe — designates
Isolated hills, especially such as are round
and have pointed tops. A "kop" is large;
it must be an isolated mountain peak to
attain the dignity of kop. To be a
"spitzkop" the peak must be high, sharp
and craggy. "Berg" or "bergen' signifies
extensive mountain ranges, as the Ma
haliesbergen, the Drakensberg and the
Werzamelbergen. ]
BOUND TO BE APPRECIATED BY ALL
County Superint endant of Schools Chipman Gives His Opinion of The
Call's Home Study Circle, Now Running in the Paper.
San Jose, Oct. 2, 1899.
Editor of The Call, San Fran-
Cisco, Cal.—Dear Sir*. Your prop
osition for giving to the readers
of The Call such a splendid oppor-
tunity for home study meets my
hearty approval.
I feel assured that the project
will be fully appreciated by all
who are interested in the cause
of popular education.
Yours respectfully,
County Superintendent of Schools.
COOPER MEDICAL. COLLEGE— W.
R., City. The sick poor are treated
every morning at the Cooper Medical Col
lege.
CENTS FOR SILVER— S., City. Stores
that use pennies will exchange silver for
such. The quantity that storekeepers will
(St. Louis Star.)
To descend to the lower features of the
landscape— say in an the top of Majuba
"kop"— we come down the grassy, rock
strewn "hoojfte," or braeside, and find
OUtselvea in Lraings Nek. "Nek" means
the rounded liolluw of the dip between
any two peaks of a mountain chain. But
do not make the error of confounding the
"nek" with the "pass." Laings Nek is a
pas.s, because the road goes over it; but
there are "neks" which are not passes.
If, however, we were upon a mountain
which offered us no easy "hoogte" to de
scend by we should have to scramble
down some narrow and rugged "kioof."
A kloof is precisely what in America we
call a canyon, and, as with the word can
yon, so also the word kloof may with
equal propriety be applied to a deep, nar
row cut in a plain or a level, narrow pass.
The appointments of the great South
African ox wagon are sure to be referred
to. Of those the great freighters (the
"bokwagen") run to as much as twenty
feet long by seventeen between the wheel's
and are drawn by fourteen, sixteen or
eighteen bullocks, "spanned" in pairs.
"Inspanning" and "outspanning" are
the ai-ts of hitching up and loosing these
animals from the yoke. Each ox is har
nessed thus: After the span have been
"reined" and ranged along the "touw"
the end of a yoke is laid upon the ani
mal's neck, and as there are two stout
pieces of wood thrust through holes in
the end of the yoke these clip his neck in
a fork. They are the "yokeskeys " A
short twisted coupler of rawhide (called
the '"shrop") connects up the under ends
of the "keys." and then it is a clever
beast who can wriggle out of that simple
device. The "reims* 1 with which the oxen
have been caught are around their horns
and as each pair are "yoked" the opera
tor solzrs thefr two reims and allowing a
play of about three feet to the right-hand
ox lays up the slack criss-cross around
the horns of the other; and there you
have the entire harness of the "tre'ek
oss." These "reims" are inch-wide string
of rawhide slightly softened by twisting
find run from seven to ten feet' in leneth
Th^y are very strong. w » lUI
The "yokes" are fastened along a care
ful y laid-un cable of rawhide strands
which is called the "treck-touw"— we W
to repeat that the souriVJ of this word
warrants the "ck" instead of the con
ventional "k"— but sometimes a Furo
pean-madp chain is used instead of the
native tmiw. and then the Boer will speak
of it as his treck "keteng "
Kruger is pronounced "Kroor" mostly
In the Transvnal. but "Kreer" generally
elsewhere in South Africa. *
take depends upon the amount they re
quire.
COINS— A. A. P.. Spreckels, Monterey
County, Cal. The market value of a quar
ter of a dollar of 1853 is from 50 to 85
cents; one of 1554 is the same price, and
a half-dollar of that year is from 75 cents
to SI 25- that is the price that fl (
charge for such, but dealers do not off. f
any premium for these coins. A quart •
of "a dollar of 1853 withoutarrows or
commands a premium ot from J;
$3 25.
FRENCH GUNS-A. D. R. T. C, CII
The largest bore of guns owned i
French Government is 13.38.
THE POPE— H. L, Yuma, Ariz. TV ;
department has not been able to tin
record that the present Pope was i
member of the association asked about.
WIRELESS TELEGRAPH— J., Liver
more, Cal. Those who are interested In
the wireless telegraph apparatus do •
desire to give to the general publi<
dividuals the secrets of the apparatui
used.
HALF-TONE PICTURES — Would-!..
Artist, Oakland, Cal. Half-tone pictur.
are not drawn, but are printed dire
from the photograph on metal. How :h
--are prepared is known to those who make
the pictures and they will not disclose th<
process.
A NEW WORD— E. D. 8., Fish Rock,
Cal. New words are, as the expression
goes, "coined," whenever some one
an expression to convey a meaning, if
there does not happen to be a word in
the language to express that meaning.
There is no rule for "coining" new v,
For instance, there was no word to ex
press the ray discovered by Roentgen,
and it was decided to call it the X ray.
because at the time the nature thereof
was still problematical, and since then the
ray has been known as the X.
AROUND THE
CORRIDORS
Dr. 8. 8. Young, U. S. N., is a guest at
the Palace.
Judge J. F. Poston, an oil speculator of
Selma, is at the Lick.
Police Commissioner Richard J. Tobin
returned from New York yesterday morn
ing.
S. Tyack, a wealthy mining man of Bo
die, is registered for a short stay at the
Lick.
H. H. Hunter, a well-known mining
man of Redding, is registered at the
Grand.
L. L. Green, a banker and capitalist of
Oroville, is among the recent arrivals at
the Grand.
W. W. Turney, an attorney of Camp
bell, was among the arrivals of yesterday
at the Grand.
General Sanford, who is returning from
India to his home in England, is again a
guest at the Occidental.
8. C. Joerger, a traveler from Berlin,
who is sightseeing on the coast, has re
turned to the Palace.
Colonel Montgomery, a prominent busi
ness man and politician of New York, is
a guest at the Occidental.
Charles H. McFarland, one of the lead
ing business man of Los Angeles, Is at
the Palace on a short trip to this city.
H. Stahler. a prominent merchant of
Honda, republic of Colombia. Is a guest
at the Palace, where he arrived yesterday
morning.
Dr. J. H. Freece, one. of the leading
medical men of Michigan, is a guest at
the Palace. He is visiting the coast on
i pleasure bent.
Commander Adams, who has been sta
tioned on the Independence for some
j time, has received orders to take com
mand of the Solace and proceed to Ma
nila.
H. G. Murry, formerly superintendent
of the Lightning mine of Angels Camp,
will sail for Korea Wednesday next in the
Interest of a big Oriental mining corpora
tion that is developing the mineral re
sources of that far away country.
Q. A. Chase of the firm of Kohler &
Chase and his family have reached New
York on their return home from their
European trip. The family will be de
tained in that city for some time, on ac
count of the sudden illness of a son.
George, who is down with typhoid fever.
Hon. W. E. Cochran of Washington, D.
C. Chief Postofflce Inspector, and In
spector George M. Sutton of New York
are here on business connected with their
i departments, which will probably kefp
. them in the city for several days. While
i here they will be the guests of Inspector
In Charge R. R. Munro and Postofflce In
i spector J. W. Erwln.
CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, Oct. 27.— P. W. Ackler of
San Francisco is at the Bartholdi; F. H.
Freeman of San Francisco is at the Neth
erland; B. Mayer, Mr. and Mrs. Weis and
A. Chappell of San Francisco are at the
Martin.
CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON, Oct. 27.— F. H. Mason
of Pasadena is at the Arlington. G. A.
Meyers and wife of San Francisco are at
the Metropolitan. H. A. Hemming of San
Francisco is at the Wellington.
Cream mixed candies, 25c Tb. Townsend's.*
Look out for ?1 Fourth st. Nr. 5c barber
or grocer. Best eyeglasses 10c and 40c. *
Travelers, see Townsend's display of
California glace fruits, 50c It), in flre
etched boxes. 627 Market, Palace Hotel.*
Special information supplied daily to
business houses and public men by t..e
Press Clipping Burtau (Allen's*, 510 Mon -
gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. •
Taken to Oroville.
Mrs. S. ML Houseworth of Chico. who
was arrested here on an indictment by the
Grand Jury of Butte County charging her
with forgery in connection with the Fuller
will, was yesterday taken from the City
Prison by Sheriff Wilson of Butte Coun
ty and they left by the afternoon train
for Oroville.
Angostura Bitters is known as the great reg
ulator of the digestive organs. Get the genu
ine. Made by Dr. J. G. B. Siegert & Sons.
Thomas Malley's Death.
Drs. W. M. Forster and D. Maclean,
charged with manslaughter in causing
the death of Thomas Malley by an inlu
diclous application of chloroform, ap
peared before Judpre Treadwell yesterday
As no complaint had been filed the case
was continued for a week.
800 Shares
At Sg.OO
Per Share.
The developments that are being
made at our oil wells in Contra
Costa justify us in making the pre-
diction that the stock we are Bell-
ing at present for $5.00 per share,
will be worth ten times this
amount before December.
Let us send you the report of the
Fuel Committee of the Manufac-
turers' and Producers' Association,
and other printed matter from dis-
interested parties, and see if we
can't interest you in our enterprise.
Agents in nearly all principal cities
in California.
American Oil & Refinery Co.
ROOMS 322 & 323 PARROTT BLD.,
SAN FRANCISCO.
Oakland Agents: O'ROURKB Jfc
JACKSON, 1002 Broadway.