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Supervisor Helms has progressed far enough in his advocacy of the racetracks and all they entail in dis tress and dishonor to the city to suggest that he is well qualified to organize a society for the suppression of virtue. American citizenship appears at last to have won an international value. Many resident foreigners who intend visiting the Paris Exposition are making their preliminary declaration as American citizens before they go. The local shoemaker who bet and lost on his belief that he could write English is probably convinced now that there was much of truth in that old adage that the shoemaker should stick to his last. In his lifetime very few people heard much of the millions of the late Georpe Smith, the American mil lionaire who recently did in London, but since liis death his estate has made him famous by reason of the enormous inheritance taxes taken out of it. The British treasury took $5,000,000 to begin with, then the New York inheritance tax took $1.9.34.753. an.i it i.« 'lid the United States Government viill take about ?-,000.000 more. The error of Mr. Smith was in leav ing a large estate, with no children to inherit it, for the taxes on collateral inheritances are high; and he made a further mistake in investing his estate in one country and making his will in another, thus giving two nations a whack at it. It is to be remembered, however, that the old man being dead will not miss the money, and those to whom the fortune falls need not take it if they think the tax too high. Recent developments indicate that as female im personators members of the Police Department are not glittering successes. Chief Sullivan might ad var.tageously use the excess "talent" in the depart ment by (riving us a farce comedy with his office as the central scene. Germany has decided that our agricultural products shall not be admitted within the lines of the Father land. This seems particularly unkind after we have been buying German guns with which to enforce American demands. CAPE NOME MACHINERY and SUPPLIES. OCR GOLD DBEDQINQ PUMPS KKUbn Tear. All cti*r. faHwi. la c^- raUsa i*.".7. » S'^ttssos rt.3.7. SA>D CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS Tr Or»i-«tio« Daily. €» »!-r?1» «rr-^. BYRON JACKSON. D»E£>aiNa pimps. nn. Osani^M. Steam Hatiti. Caatrtraxat Frressa. rnt>DwtßoU«r» U«ad;Mul W111..M rrtnast' MARSH STEAM PUMPS •«n!» tmb »r aait w«t»r for «;a:e* boxvb: r* tt Mm I'rt* «t!33ced« Xi Uir«it Ct. COL « SEPAPATOS. Ocl«>» OeU Separator as 4 \:salrasarr<p r« t*r.y ev«ratlca Wa. S. Sirca * Cr :b b> OOLD SEPAPXTO?. MARSHALL «.-iJ «*«=« V « .- » -^ T» r«*- •^m «tro»t. Ort»«ta: Ov» C5.«-"s» O«bs»x» CO CEXT^VTO *. PATTERSON S "Aast* v>qv o? T .•%;.•» «•-•«*» ; black s*=J dai l^. STT K?J!>!*.t» »«.. Klcn*lt# c^r;».-a *""*v?» nn* c«&?- Jv«rT»«- Uca t3T-.;«-l rat VSTt »*-. >vi-r««f *3wtT«-A I placer *--A tc: l^ X'aetmm i L**-f *r Vk»^» 4,' nit, «*> i^v.*. tt, *.x ! resit* »•.¦*>> l-MYVvS- s^H*>«s. ' *•• ftji**,J» aa|E=s==p: : Ql- Its HI--- $<:;*£s¦££, s^^tm. a». «>» >i>i> »i% '.-aA-fcrA tif-HuWUrt, %^ *. r. «>«£.« vftoe* !*,*¦ Susm. ' IC-Wi Vi;«. t i . A. T. Mission Bay Tract Will Be Needed When Its Coast Gap Is Com pleted. The fifteen acres of marsh and laguna, which were formerly a part of Mission Bay. bounded by Fourth, Kentucky and Channel streets and the base of Potrero Heights, is to be filled in. A contract was secured yesterday by Henry A. Whitney, secretary of the Potrero Land and De velopment Company, from the Southern Pacific Company to do this work. The piece of property mentioned was given to the railroad company by the State Legislature some years ago to be used as a yard for the company 7*7 * rolllae etock. A part of this property w u filled In several years ago. To complete its present work will necessitate the removal of about 2M.000 cubic yards of earth, which will be taken from the Develoo ment Company's bluerock hill opposite the Union Iron Works. The chief reason for filling In this prop erty at the present time ia that the rail road company will need It when trains are running regularly over the new line between this city and Los Angeles. Pas sengers from the south will then com* here direct instead of by way of Oakland A CURIOUS LAW QUESTION. O BERLIN M. CARTER, late captain of the United States army, convicted of gross frauds in swindling the Government in the construc tion of improvements at the harbor of Savannah, has at last entered a Federal prison and begun his term of servitude. So far as he is concerned, therefore, the sensational case ends in a triumph for law over influences sufficiently strong to baffle it for years. In the meantime, however, the case has taken on a new phase, involving other parties, which promises to be as remarkable as that attending the trial of Carter In the frauds which Carter was convicted of com 1 mitting he did not act alone. Certain wealthy con ! tractors residing in New York are accused of being j associated with him. Last December a Federal Grand i Jury in the district in which Savannah is situated in | dieted five of these contractors as parties to the con spiracy to defraud, and an effort was made to arrest them in New York and take them to Savannah for trial. By dilatory proceedings before a United States Commissioner in New York the accused men man aged to delay the law so long that early in this month the Savannah Grand Jury made a formal presentment : of the case to Congress calling attention to the evi dent attempt to save the accused men from trial. I Shortly after this presentment was made Judge ! Brown of New York refused to issue a warrant for the removal of the indicted men to the jurisdiction of the Federal court at Savannah. The case has naturally attracted a good deal of at tention. It is sufficiently notable in itself to cause remark, but coming as it does as a sequel to tht notorious Carter case, its interest is augmented. It appears that the ring which was so powerful as to nearly clear Carter is once more at work on behalf of the contractors and is still sufficiently potent to delay justice, even if it do not defeat it altogether. The action of the New York Judge in refusing to surrender the indicted men to the court at Savannah is said to have excited a good deal of indignation at Washington. It is stated that the Attorney General and the Solicitor General have openly denounced the decision and will take steps to have it reversed. « It appears, however, there is now no power of law by j which the officers of the Government can compel the New York courts to surrender the men to the. Sa vannah court, and accordingly a bill has been intro duced into Congress to confer the power. The meas- SUPERVISOR HELMS is one of those men who can learn nothing from what is going on around them. With a stubbornness which argues something like a mental incompeter.cy to profit by the teaching of experience, he ignores all that the Police Courts and the Morgue records re veal of the effects of track gambling, confronts the indignation of all good citizens, defies public opinion, and pushes himself forward as the champion and ad vocate of the gamblers. At the meeting of the Police Committee of the Board of Supervisors on Thursday Helms expressed a determination to submit an order permitting horse racing for a period of sixty days and allowing pool selling within the inclosure. He endeavored to in duce the committee to recommend the order, but failed in the effort, and thereupon announced his in tention to take the case before the full board. If Helms and men like him have not learned the evil results of track gambling by what has taken place in this city within a time comparatively short it is hardly likely that anything would teach them, and argument would probably be thrown away if ad dressed to them. We have had defalcations, em bezzlements, frauds, robberies, suicides and murders resulting from, track gambling, and some of these crimes are of such recent occurrence that the com munity has not yet recovered from the shock. There is little danger that Helms' order will 'be sustained by a majority of the board. There are not many men of his type in the city, and it is hardly likely there can be more than one or two of them on the board. The people and the officials of San Francisco have had enough of track gambling for the rest of the lifetime of this generation. We have contributed enough to the nefarious profits of the Eastern sports and have yielded them an ample number of victims as fugitives from justice, convicts and suicides. As an advocate of the gamblers Super visor Helms may discredit himself, but he can do nothing more. In San Francisco the track gambling issue has been made up and closed along with the tracks. FASHION HIST FROM PARIS. The toque represented by the engraving is of sky blue straw. charraingSy triranjed with wild pansies. draped In »ky blue tulle. On the crown at one side la a large rosette of sky blue and mauve taffetas blended. you will see. a kind of whipcord, and. though It 13 net exactly the s*=:e eclor as the stuff wem by cur trocys. tt ts. to my rair.d. even better in that respect, fc-e ir.g mere nearly the cclor of African sot:. This stuff I gave to a little Italian tailor to make into a uniform for tne. and I was very socn converted In appearance into the yeoman that you »cc dat'y !s the streets. Including the leggings, though mine had buttons, and the lace boots." THE WARDNER TROUBLE. NOTHING more shameless has ever occurred ia American p'-!.t::s than the attempt of Con greiirr.ezi Lentz and Sulzer to make po:iticai capital ag*:r.-_: the President cut of the declaration of marua: .i- a: Aarlner, in Ica.no, ana tr.e £er.c:r:g o: regular troops there by the Secretary- of War on de mand or tnt government ct the itate. Ler.tz procured the appointment ci an investigating committee by the House to look into the affair and throw out a dragnet for party cap:tal to use ia the campaign. Governor Steunenberg of Idaho was califi as a witness and underwent a direct and cross exasrinatxoa laiting twelve days. He declared him self tolejj responsible for the declaration of martial la-*- and for the presence of the troops. He (bowed that under the law the President had to send them when he as Governor officially demanded their pres ence to suppress an insurrection, which he said ex isted at Wardner. On cross-examination he dis tinctly assumed responsibility for every detail and in cio^nt cf the military occupancy and conduct. If any act transcended the law, he assumed responsibility aho for that. He proved that the President desired to withdraw the troops after a certain time, but that he protested against this and demanded their reten tion. Whatever fault there may have been in his judgment and policy, Governor Steuner.berg en trenched himself in the respect of all fair-minded men by shirking nothing and taking responsibility for all that was dene. Lent* ar.d S f sher were spiteful, indecent and in sulting in their demeanor throughout the Governor's testimony, ar.d since it was finished and had cut every particle cf ground from under them they have con tinued to mouth furiously about a conspiracy of the President and Secretary of War to suppress the civil la*' in Idaho. Such puppy politics will deceive no one. Governor Steonenberg is a firm Silver Democrat ar.d has been twice elected by a Populist fusion? He is a prominent candidate for the United States Senate, and if h's party win in the next election he will succeed Shoup ir. that office. If wrong were done at Wardner he has said under oath thst he and not the President did it. If Lentz and Sulzer h2ve any issue it is against the Demo cratic-Populist Governor of Idaho and not against the Republican Present of the United States. In other words, it i? not the Republican party that is responsible, but the Populist- Democratic party, %nd the two demagogue leaders of that party in the House have made a laughing stock of themselves. ADVrZETISX^LZZrrS. for ¦ the protection of the rights of the people cf Washington City, and in Oakland the merchants have had to undertake a movement for a better service there. It is the same everywhere, from the Atlantic to the Pacific seaboard. The regulation of telephone corporations for the purpose of putting a stop to their extortions and compelling a better service has be come a necessity of the time. On Monday, then, the people expect the Super visor? to put an end in this city to the frauds com mitted by the company in demanding payment for service which frequently 13 never rendered. The amount of money exacted in that way from the patrons of the nickel-in-the-slot telephone machines nay not be large frcm any particular individual, but in the aggregate it runs up to a considerable sum t\-try week. It is. moreover, one of the most irritat ing forms in which petty swindling can be practiced, and has now become well nigh intolerable. The officials of the corporation have intimated ho^v they propose to treat the effort to obtain justice. One has suggested that any tax levied upon the cor poration will be "put in the bill" of the patrons of the corporation, and another has intimated that if the company be required to furnish a switch before ex acting the r.ickel ! it will give such an inadequate ser vice as will induce the public to return to the old way. Such threats should not deter the Supervisors in doing their duty. If the corporation officials carry out the threats they *il! furnish new incentives to the people to amend the charter so as to give the municipal authorities power to regulate telephone cor porations in the same way as other corporations con trolling ar.d operating public utilities are regulated. There should then be no further postponement of the issue. On Monday the Supervisors should act. IN kis jp-tech at Wichita Colonel Bryan treated things in his csnal light and airy fashion, and as csual assumed that everybody is waiting to hear j Sitting outside of himself a$ a part of the audience enraptured with him, he said: "The public wanders why I have dropped the silver question. New meas cres are resting cjon us, uzi I sr^-.l neTer c«p t- silver question until the little coterie ct English financiers cease to meet in secret and cake laws for j Say there is 2 statement of fact. It is either true j or false. What evidence has 2ryan cr any supporter j of h:s that a little coterie, of Englishmen meet in . secret and make laws for this country? Who com pose this coterie? Whit taws do they make? Why do they wish to make any laws for this country? The statement h a falsehood atsd is used merely ss ; an appeal to prejudice. In such appeals Bryan is a past master. He never csade a icgrcal argurr.tr.: ro hi? life. He doesn't j know a syllogism from a p:ed mule. Englar.i t.zz never had any interest in our adop tion of the gotd standard. Ker interests financially have been with silver and Mr. Bryan, because that j left her the leading gc!d stir.iard natron 01 the wor^d in-i made London the clearing-house of the planet. Our adoption of the gold standard threatens her i ftrrenrfal primacy. It threatens to transfer the settle meat of balances from London to New York. If we bad ce£nite:y adopted the go'-i stancird on our re- ; sttmptkm of specie payments in 1879, and Bryan bad | takes to the pulpit cr the «tage, by this time we | would have tttr. the leading creditor nation and Ne« | Vcrk vocld hive been the world's dearing-hoase. In the same speech Bryan threw a kiss to the Popu- Iht;, saying: "Tr.e East no longer regards Populists as ar.irchiits. but has come to respect them." Of corrse this refers to the Popu*.:s:j who are willing to support Bryan fcr the Presidency conditioned npoo '-.- forcing the Democracy to adopt Populist prin c:: •-. ¦ Each he hi? so far succeeded in doing. But the gem of his Wichita oratory was t£:s: "In the great contests that are fought between kingdom; and republics we know where to pl2ce the heart? « Arrrri-rir.s. It is '-o to-d^y with the Boers, and I do ret s^y that becanse I ara against England, for I am ps.rt Er:g:i;h myself, also part Irish and part Scotch, but above a!! I am an American-" No other public man. aspiring to the Presidency, has ever said anything as delkiously and demagogi cally funny 2s that. He wishes to stand well with zll' rationalities and so pedigrees himself back to the British Isles. He is English. Irish ar.d Scotch, an^ wants the vote of each nationality. Hi; sympa thies are with the Boer? because their country is a re public, not because England is treating them unju-stly. If Er.g!and were treating a weak monarchy as bad?y as she i; treating those weak republics. Bryan leaves ; it to be inferred that he would be indifferent to the i?;ue. or would perhaps let his one-fourth British I blood lead him into the support of England. His ! treatment of the Boer issue i* characteristic of his ¦ illogical habit of thought. He has no sense of ab- I stract justice at all. The rights of the Boers are set ; tied, in his view, by their form of government. Re [ publics are right always, is his rips conclusion, and \ then he turns on the republic of the United States [ ard condemns everything it has done since he was - born ard denounces everything it is doing now. In i this damnatory pan of his speech he condemns this I republic for "its notorious secret alliance with Great . Britain." What evidence has he of any alliance with Great ,' Britain? How can the same matter be secret and . notorious? If it is secret he can know nothing about j it. If it is notorious, that means that evidence of it !is common knowledge. Where is such evidence? This, like his "small coterie" in London, is a false i hood ar.d a demagogue's appeal to prejudice. The only notorious alliance between Americans ar.d Englishmen that has ever existed is that between Eriti-h and Bryan free traders. The only English interference in American politics has been to induce this country to adopt free trade and turn its market over to Great Britain.- Bryan's party is the only po litical party in this republic that ever had a British alliance. Great Britain never as badly needed that alliance a; now. Under our protection policy we are rot only crowding England out of her foreign mar kets, but we are pressing hard upon her at home. Commercially we have her down, and her sole hope of getting on her feet again is in the election of Mr. Eryart and the decadence of our commerce under free trade. Held to Answer for Murder. ¦Wayne Harris, the =es*e=ger z<~. tu yesterday heM fir murder ty J-i?^ rr.:i wf>o»st bends. D~.-.:? a q-j_irrr. "»".Ui Andrew L«7is=- ii-o-j:*r =ea3<n?rr toy. *t the Sutter-stre-t oC« c* faJ^_- 7 r:atbe*J hi=i. The Grand Canyon of Arizona. Tte se»*ca la SOW Cs#2- S:i«* tr? h«.s t*«a redu««4 ts r* t~--rs. Cr-=f :-ai:« *^==u*i» tl:=» at hcte^ Tt» mr^i trtp n:e frc= =va rrmscUco i» osly Ci. ParUcuUr* xz Sasi* F» AKUSEKZHTS. Ors b -. st— VassCrrEe. " - - :-" <xmZkjtT%.~ - Th* VT-.z.^ • : ' " - SRJe " -» . ¦ iiiT— -K^-Jf) V*i_« " ' ¦¦*_.:• rr.i*.- a •;.;*: TttAT. iaebtt'j Caocttt H-jcx— "L*. Tr»Tt*ta-" Or-V». Zoo *i.3 Ti**Jer— Va.il •-.-.:.« «t*t7 aJzxrz^r^z. »ii . ¦ --*_. - F <:<-Bt»>ttl •^ ParSt— B4ll»c A»yi«fec. - - .-• * nr»- -.^rt:zr zi>~ixj iZectmlc* JTm iflton" TVIT Hicw. May : E Ctn^j— ZjiX.:.^x. i*:w;.r*. JLtiurjr. «.;.. rrery cir-ii7. '.««-*. ¦ ~ i - i a ¦>¦» ¦ -rL.rr -m AUCTION SAI.ZS. Ey = TTii£. -.— i/-rl»7, Air.i Z.. a.: H -ydx't, Kori** «.^S <^j^> Half a century ayo the iabcr ccr: is. ti« production cf 1W S^li h"=t!r? -ar*t-h c-^'-ea turned wa-> J**?. 1= Z^C it -"raa cz.ly CO. CaL gl*c* fnilt i>- c»r atTow^seil"*.* Chinese Held for Murder. Tur.it Tee ar.-i Harr: Kee tt*t- -<i :¦> answer by Judge Ccr.lan en a charge of murdering Chun Ah S--o at Jaci*-= sTr*-t ard Sullivan al>y Febroar;- i* !>:••-:» Poy. charged with the «a=e offessa, »v discharged. demanding pay for it. Several times curing tnose months it has appeared as ii success were to be at tained at the next meeting of the bo3.rd- la every case, however, the appearance has been deceptive. The corporation, upon one pretext or another, has obtained delay after delay, and continues to practice its profitable extortions. On Monday the issue is to come once more berore the board. It is expected that there will then be submitted to the board a report concerning the feasi bility of the proposed regulation ar.d its estrmaici cost to the company. The report vril! doubtless be forthcoming, for acr.p'e time has been allowed tor a fall investigation of the prob'em. It wi3 then be the duty of the board to refuse any further delay to the evasive corporation and to enact the desired or dinance at once. The cotirse parsttfrd by telephone ccrporations ha? been one that has aroused popular indignation in every part cf the Union. The Gerr,3.r. i for redress is heard in Massachusetts even more strongly than in California. Cor.zresi has been ccrr-pe'l-d to interfere corporation to famish the switch aiked :or by patrons of the slot machines of the company berore ft T»OT an the JoorssJtstlc talent of the IP^I cct^itry is vn the safe side of the f! prison bars. At Sing Sing. N. V.. U publisfced a bi-weekly paper which suggests the thought that a goodly bomber of br;ght newspaper caen are witain -he prison wails. It ia called the S:ar of Hep«?. and represents the three Stare pttsocs of Auburn. Sing Sing and Clintcn. Ail the work of editing, type setting and r^=*i--S 1* done by the ln rcates. It has one advar.tAgc over other Jctirrsis in the fact that its circulation cf «T» is assured. There are always now r*>ader« coming to supply the places of these who have changed their places of residence for cne presx-stir.g tnone oppor tunities of freedom. From the Boston Transcript we quote the tollowtag account of this journal: "Th^ na::*r contair.sd is the r*P*r has a wile rar.^e of subjects. inc!ud:isg reli gkms discussion, fcuc.orous article* and Jokes and hits. The editorial rase shows a go*id deal of thousht ar.d research. Sub jects cf national interest and others hav ing a direct bearing upon the lives of the pr-.scr.ers themselves are treated, all be ing edited, be it r-.cxesibsred. by ir.mates of the institutions. The educational ar.d moral value of the sublicaucc can not be esiisiated. The interest felt is it. how ever, is Illustrated by a letter appearing in a recent number, reading: 'T-:s is ray first attempt at writing for the paper. Be patient wiih me. for when I came here I could cot write nor read." Another con vict writes: "What a blessing the paoer is to us men. I ser.d you a feeble attempt ar:d if you use it vri.ll be glad to try again.' One cnmnn fs given to a brief review of the important happenings throughout the wcrld. ar.-i each r.uinter contains a col umn or two cf criminal pcetry. niuch of it not cf the highest order. b'Jt some fully as goo'i as appears In some publications cot printed behind r-rison walls, with only convicts for contributors ••The übiquitous reporter of the worsar.** prison at Auburn. Mrs. So. !>:. in a. recent number has ar. ar.lmated account of the dol.-;irs fa the ladles' retreat.' She writes: 'Every wir.cow on the frost of cur ladies' boarding-house was handsomely decorat ed with ffags en the two Dewey days; the balcony over the fr?^t d>cr was espec'a! lv remarkable, beir.g completely covered with O!d Glory. The girls celebrated on their own hock ard our caged Pattis sar.g in concord and discord, out of the S:ar. cr: h one of urgency, for it will cow b« be: a cora paxathrciy short drre wfecs the sutcts of lir^hatioas will operate to relieve the acctised cor-tracccr* asd they wili then be able to laugh a: cot^ts. Congress and grand jt^ies. This case, taken zs a whole, is one of the mosc pe crliar that has erer arisen in the United Slates. The fraeds commhted were enormotis and the persons in volved are all of them connected with strong business and political combinations. Carter was convicted by a military conrt upward of txo years ago. bu: it was only on Friday last that he was taken to prison. Now the men who are charged with having conspired with him seem abotrt to escape even a trial- What in fluences are back of the accused men and by whit means they have b«en enabled to defy the law for so long a time has never been made pt:blic A case of such a character merits the fullest investigation, 2nd row that the matter is before Congress it is to be hoped the investigation will" be made. UNIQUE NEWSPAPER PUBLISHED IN A PRISON A DEPARTMENT HEADING FOP. 'THE^STAR OF HOPE." g:sr.x \*-wjer IMOM JRa-f* *-7 tasT^j:* ft ofttain. A t,*rv'rr *A?s.l?Z** s*rz:.'*r -.'. ti* bar niarf* * *.ZX**&3* t*tx*f*** Vr. Cirtia *;-•¦,-.•: t.v:» 'A'.r.* xaA ?a* iM *•« c.*4 h* J*t» r.'orsw'i \s**+ tl+ '. a i tats oKCXJtiiyn. feet Zzau.y. «trs«* ¦»t:a »»— or**. )ve ••vrrj«i i> »ttJt; ~t a-ss » f.-rA. 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Tee party tfrcTe » tie v^r.-Jtzx *"-* BUcit Petal, Tr-,rs Hb*v>: i=* **?***** w«: to tfce pri=:>J=r <sttU2&s *t s * rr *~Z teenth «tre*t. Like H.-.=«Sis«ar ti* =.^ point vlyn*»i a»i Use *-r*xrzizJ! £*ese CBT th« water frs.=s PlZ&n?.z.oa t»a*TT*Zlz w*J a. '—>-¦'* ir*T-<~-i -.- —i~* .¦-*.— ¦_¦>*. ".----. "» upper laice I* act tz?,i* s*e-i. *-* tie wa~j? is tepuT*. The \-.-kht iai~, »iJci 1» ffi» larges:. i* -'-»• h*'.r-z dri»= o- irr * greater cuartlty tiA3 its eap<*cir7 war rants asc will s/soa b* eraptle^. The parry lmrp*<rt«4 rnlTrer^it?- laati'OU near the Old LadX H^rr.e izi 3-iTt- 'ir: Fmr.clsco ar.4 C-r.ege Hlli reserr-.lr ="ir . S^ Mary' 3 College. Judge the Bigger Fool. Ex-Judge Curtis ».f N«w York refuses to b« outdon*. no mntt*r what the di rection of (ill effort*. !W*n who have worn tho Judicial orralno generally have Origin of the Khaki Uniform. Colonel Duller, who says he Is the In ventor of the khaki uniform, is a native of Belgium, and has lived in England for the last twenty years. He served in the English army in Egypt. "In 18*2."- he says, "I was attached to the British cav alry staff In Egypt. It was while holding this position that I invented khaki. Ne cessity was the mother of this, as It ha* been of all Inventions. I was robbed of all my uniforms, and I .cast about In despair for a substitute. Good luck would have It that I came across the very material of which this coat hero la made. It is, aa Good Night for Footpads. Footpads are especially In evidence In San Francisco Just now and they act with remarkable boldness. But what else could be expected of a city which shrouds Itself In Impenetrable darkness half the night to keep up the pretense of a low tax rate? —Sacramento Record-Union. ... . THE EXCUSE FAILED Charles Miller, a Standard Oil magnate whose home Is in Franklin, Pa., has & precocious son less than 10 years old In whom hard business cense and worldly caution are highly developed, says th» Philadelphia Evening Post. One day Mr. Miller said to his son: "My boy. It's time for you to go to bed. I want you to get up bright and early to morrow and go to church with me." "I don't think 1 care about going to ch .H^ to-morrow," replied Master Miller. "Why not?" "Last Sunday the preacher «ald h© waa going to preach about the devil." "Well?* "I know he will nay low of hard things about the devil— awful hard things about him. "Well?" "Don't you think, papa, that If we Us tened to that sermon It would be rather unpleasant If we ever m«t the devil wa; day?" But the boy went to church In «plte of his clever excuse. Berolzhime Not Dead. A dispatch published from New York, dated April 1. stated that Mrs. Catherine Jordan, famous for years as one of the handsomest women on the Pacific Coast, wa3 found dead in her apartments on West Forty-second street. The gas was turned on. The statement was added that Mrs. Jordan had been married twice and that both her husbands were dead. The following letter shows that one of them is still alive: Editor The Call— Dear Sir: My attention was called to a dispatch from New York, April 1. published in your journal on the 2d headed: "Mrs. Catherine Jordan takes her own life." It states that both hus bands are dead. Quite an error, as I. at least, am very much alive. As I am a subscriber to your Sunday issue, I would thank you to make a proper correction in your next Sunday's Issue as far as that part of the article la con cerned, and greatly oblige. Yours respect fully J. BEROLZHIME. 3430 Vernon avenue. Chicago. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. TO OBTAIN FINAL PAPERS—Sub scriber. City. If you took out your first papers more than five years ago. have re sided In the United States ever since and desire to obtain final papers, but cannot find two witnesses in San Francisco who can certify to the fact that you have re eided in the Union for five years, present such proof as to residence as you have to the court where you intend to apply, and you will be advised what course to follow. RAILROAD WILL FILL POTRERO MARSH LAND CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK NEW YORK, April 2S.— Mr. Sutherland of San Francisco is at the Manhattan; L. Dowling of Los Angeles Is at the Empire. A CHAMPION OF TRACK GAMBLING PERSONAL MENTION T. "W. Sheehan of Sacramento is at the Occidental. Colonel D. B. Fairbanks of Petaluma. Is at the California. F. H. Kennedy, a merchant cf Stockton, is at the California. Edward Berwick, a rancher of Mcn terey. Is at the Grand. R B. Stej-her.s. s. minir.g man cf Lo-3 Ar.g^lea. is at the Grar.d. Dr. G. W. D wine 11. a mining man cf Mrvrtairue. is at the Grand F. A. Fatkenbursr of Denver, who Is at 'the head of the "Woodmen of the World, is at the California. J. Wilzinsk!. a merchant of Visal'.a. and M. Gr2enwald. a merchant of Arcata, arc guests at the Grand. Dr. M. S. Simpson, an army surgeon who has eeen much service in the Phil ippines, is at the Occidental. Lieutenant Colonel G. F. O'Jott of the United States marin-3 Is at the Occiden tal; having just return »d from the Philip pines. Heir Goldschmlth of Berlin, a member of the German Reichstag. 13 a guest at J.he Palace. He is here on a pleasure trip, but is also making a study of trade conditions. Captain E. Dubofs of the Forty-second Infantry is at the Occidental. He went to the Philippines in December and was shot through the shoulder in an engagement on February 5. He returned hense on the transport Sherman. Francis B. Clarke of St. Pad. treneral traffic manager of the Great Northern Railroad, arrived at the Palace yesterday. He has come to attend the adjourned meeting cf the railroad presidents to be held here this week, when a division of the Oriental trade will be discussed. Special infcnsatlon rsppMed iiily t* busl=e«s houses a=d c^t'tc cea by ti* Press CttpgtßS Bur-aa <a::«ji H3 Jiart- Cosicrv street. Te'.ephor.* Mi!n 1342. rTankee Cewey. how <3ye do? Dewey. you re a dardy." * , .. "Anything cut cf the ordinary in the culir.arv aiie t> received evidently ir.tii srett fr;o»cir.s by the ccsvicia. for the tanie *ce<ie reporter exciainss: v> c ».a >itw«d tomatoes on Monday. Can jreu teat that, you bon vivasts cf the ner. s retreat for retired tankers?' Aion* the siuae line is a paragraph under tht head or •Whisperlrg*.' which readt: They do say that the Friday dinner of boiled blue f.sh. brown bread an,: coffee, witrs n^^ ar.d near In it, was treat. In der the same caption :: is reniarkea that •a Bowery girl with a Sniith & Wesson gun in her cictius can be safely termed an armed cruiser." •'In one humorous article Auburn Fri&on is compared to a. university. requiremecLS for admUston being as follows: •* *L Candidates must have graduated from some recognised jail. " 1 Must plve satisfactory evidence or an immoral character. " "3. And must pass a successful exam ination in the following branches: Intox ication, dissipation, profanation, depreda tion, speculation, hyper-recreation aca peripatetic rustication. "That department of the paper devoted to Clinton Prison is usually found to 1*» sctDtinatins with wit. There are flr.rer marks which point to the editor beizg Iri"»h. He inquires how far a ir.an drops when he falls asleep, ard records that 'One cf our ex-grentlercen remarked tne other i^ay that association wita hicaaeiJ is spollir.e his n:cra!s.' "The Star, however, is by so raean3 civen up to wit ar.3 humor. Some of th» wrler« dettrht to deal with subjects rnet aph>?'.ca!. 'Sirs Slr.g. m. !s the signa ture attached to the foliowin? quotation from soire current publication: "MoraJ truth needs no aid from moral untruth: falsehcvi can give truth nothing that It i» not retter without.* "In tb<* 'Opes Parliament' such rubiects are discussed as Tfce B:b!«." 'Our Indl viduai R*spor^!b:Mty' aci Tt» RSz*.t« cf the K»^ro." An *-i"catior:a: <f»partm'?r.t ts rr.E<!«» ecod U5« o* by the cor.vlcts. partic clar Interest belr.?: appar*T.t:y ma=:f»st"4 !n history. Or:e pare is srlven cp to mat ters of r»:!?lcn. anl many o* the art:ci»s ¦srh'ch appear or. that par* rr.'yht Sad a p?ac» wttfi equal arsproprateress In a re • z\cns ; Jovrra*. A!tcF-e?"rer The srar cf Hope t.« a revelation of the Hres. thcuyhts ard a«piratic!.s of the rcen ani the wcrj^rj ¦srhT go to nutke up our vast priaos ?¦:?" lation." \/\ ONTHS have passed; since the Saperriso-s / \ en:ered upon the task of preceding the i^.ter * * ests of the peblic by compeiling the telephone THE DUTY OF THE SUPERVISORS. «U\-D\V.. APRIL 29. 1900 JOHN 13 SrRECKELS »'IBLICATIO% OFPICE..JI«rVM »¦* Tktr*. S. F. Trl»,h««. Mala thO%. i DITORiAt ROOMS 71' t» 221 «•**»••» «? Telf»h«ar Mala l"»T*. • Irr."«- fopUt. % f#Bt». Trmt hr Ma.II. Iq<-I o<J In sr Pott«c«i r -L 7 <:jl~~ --'.-'.. ?-i - :'-xi '.=* T*J *«*¦ r/.-T Cal-I. ¦•.•-r-.-.'.-.T e^zta-r: * ss«i£« I."" i*aroL!. '^e."^tui« et=4*T>. * =x»i£« i ¦** LiAO-r caix-B> e.-s*> H«a> «*' *T_~*fl>AT Cal-1. Ot* T»»r t-S* * ttXIT CAUL Or* T«"»r >J» AJJ poitamttrr* ar» aatboriicd t« re«*lT« • ¦¦•Tiptloa*. >. »KHMj OFFICE! 1111 Broadway rltoec Duiasc. 7»:«sii=* "C«=tra. »J ' ¦ C C CAELTCW ~*t - -"--'" S7£P-E % « E St'!T-._ .-" "----« BaSdwg CHI' A<V> SE7-: £T>-Vr.« f --¦=.-.« Boo**; As£acrtaa H'-t*L VSTf TC?-i: NZTW.S STA.V-* K=rr*» H:~ Bcsat njSHJMSTOS -. CJ OFFICE - Mrtogtai Hot. IfORTCM £ C = -'«; C-.--«-c~:r-* tßiim ornrt« — r v - r-r-*-» -r-^ - cjt. «^ «~2 #*•< « r.sec* W. H»r»« ep«E c-'2 »¦¦» a>!>»-*. «O KcASVr cpes «stS ».*> c cUct «IS L*rk:ru «c«-2 a«l S*> c'eiack. tx: »f—lnw. cs«s BSttl M ceaci. 2^5 Kcrkct. ecrc-T fc^i«=--t. cse=. JSlfl * « ciork. »•» ».»:«=». ij »r WCXJ » --"->•«- :« E:er«=tX cpea BStS - 15. ei»*- N'T. t^z^kt X-mez.zj-**^z* «£--; fc.»c^i:*. THE SA2s FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 1900. BRYAN, HIS PEDIGREE. FOR CAPE NOME ! The Owl is headquarters for ail the "far north" medicines. Always in stock a large variety of Medi- cine Chests from $2.50 to $20 each. No outfit com- plete without medlclr.es from The Owl. 100-pos* Drug C:: = .:~.t - ;: >t free. Free <*e!!very to rzWrzai pa:-ta *:t.~:-> 100 miles on orders ef S5.00 or over. *~t~ rr.s-ey s:::-.::: « : - e order. « PACIFIC COAST ACEJ1TS OR. EQISQJTS 03ESITY BEUEDiES. Write for B3o"n!et. "Haw to Cure O&esity." THE OWLDRDB CO. Cst-R*t» DrmiUt*. 1/23 MARKET ST.. s--~~_ • SXN FRJLXC13CO. 18 Index. Horse. Weight. |St. 7TI3S) noUick 110 4 (1110) tJrafter 110 1 1143 Thil Archibald 103 8 1104 St. Rica 110 2 1130 Oaylon Brown 110 7 1104 Rl Oriente 113 3 (114S) Illilouon 10S 5 1143 Jim Hale 110 9 1128 Kellerophon 113 6 ... ¦ H 12 3 1 6 V 4 7 3 5 1 4 •* • 9 8 H % 1 4 2 1 3 '-* 4 1 8 2 6 H 5 hi 1 1 9 Str. Fin. 1 2 2 5 ' 3 2 4 Vi 5 2 6 V 4 7 2 8 6 9 _l Jockey. | 11. Shleldn I I. Powell Baf>slnger Ruiz J. Woods Buchanan .... Bozeman O'Brien Macklln lOp^ I 2-5 8 8 10 10 60 15 30 100 Cl. 2-5 12 H> 10 25 25 50 100 Index. Horse Age. Weight. |St. 1156) De Blaise. 4 109 S moo Merry Boy, 6 109 8 1163 Alas, 3 96 5 115S Mountebank, 3 SO 2 1152 Torslna. a 107 6 1162 Roselbra. 6 107 9 1146 Pat Morrissey, 6. ...104 10 BS6 Novla, 5 107 1 1111 Ksplrando. 5 109 4 IH4 ITterp. 4 99 7 SSJ Racery, 4 104 11 X V, 3 H 6 1 7 M 5 h 2 H 9 2 10 5 1 4 4 1 8 % 11 3 Vt 5 1 6 1 4 1 2 I 1H 7 2 10 1 U Btr. Fin. 1 n 2 5 3 4 4 2 6 1 §« 'i 7* 8 1 9 1 10 6 11 _ Ji-ckey. |i ~H. Stuart I. P0we11...... Mounce Fauntleroy ... Holmes J. Woods Ranch Buchanan .... Bozeman Basslnger .... I.otrup IQp. 5 5 7-2 15 8 15 3 2 30 30 CI. 3 10 7 10 12 39 5 5-2 23 6i) 10.) Index. Hqrpe. Ak*. Weight. 'St. hi 1150 My Gypsy, 3 87~1 1 1 1157 Rosormonde, 5 104 4 3 2 115S) Captive, a 112 6 * hi IUO The Fretter, 4 103 3 6& 1157 Constellator, 3 96 2 2 1 1154 Rapldo, a 8S ' 6 6 H 1 2 3 1 6 5 h 2 1 4 1 % 1 3 2 ltt 6 5 2 3 5 ' 4 1 • Str. 1 3 2 3 5 2 ? 3 3 6 Fin. I Jockey. |Qp. Cl. 1 2 Ranch 1 4-3 2 8 Buchanan .... 2 18-3 3na Ruiz 5 5 4 3 Mounce 6 13 a 6 BaFsinger .... 6 ? 6 Mcßride .:.... 50 60 Index. Horse. Age. Weight. (St. Vj UISS) Headwater, 4 1101 7 6 4 1107 Tlzona, 2 .92 5 2 2 1121 Sly. 6 113 3 In 1157 Dr. Sheppard. 6.... 121 2 3 Vt 920 Torlblo, 5 ;...108 4 * hi 1156 Hugden, 4 .... 103 1 8 1146 I,ob Medanos. 4 ....106) 8 7 1 1158 Jingle Jingle. 4 10l| 6 5 1 ¦4 4 h 12 5 1 2% 3 h 7 2 S »2 S iM 2 2 * H 3 1 6 1' , « 1 g 7 2 Str. 1 H 2 3 4 ft 3 1 55 6 2 7 1 8 ~- F»n. 1 % 2 5 3 2 4 4 5 1 6 1 7 1 8^ Jockey. |Op. Cl. Ranch 1 7-10 H. Stuart 40 40 Ruiz 5 5 IH. Shields I 4 5 IMounce | 5 9 I. Powell I 20 3D Alexander f 15 30 _ Buchanan | 10 7 Index. Horn*. Ae>. UVlght. .St. 1145 Snips. 6 102|4. 1150 Twinkler. 5 107 3 1164 Silver Tone, 4 103 7 1154 Storm Klnr, - 6 ..107 6 1145 Montanus, 4 . 103 1 1128 Cromwell, a 110 2 1145 Gauntlet, 4 ..: ..103 3 1152 Opponent. 5 .:.... ...104 5 1111 Jennie Reid, 4 101 8 W>ieht. St. 6 1 4 1 5H 1 3 2 H 7 h 8 8 ¦ 9 3 - V, 5 V 4 2 1 4H 1 2 3 h 8 8 6 tf 9 " 7 % ¦ -%.~ Str. Fin. [ Jockey. |Op. ci. 3 1 *2 1 In Mounce 15 fi 2 1 in 2 1 Shaw 3 4 4h 3 2 3 IV4 Buchanan .... 6-2 5-2 12 4>4 4 h Bozeman 4 5 6^4 5 1 5 6 Norton 20 30 5 h 6 1 6Vt Basslnger 20 12 8 2 7 6 710 Ranch 4 5 9 8 8 2 H. Ktuart 3 4 7 6- 9 9 J. Woods 8 12