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
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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.
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yesterday heM fir murder ty J-i?^ rr.:i
wf>o»st bends. D~.-.:? a q-j_irrr. "»".Ui
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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.
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SUPERVISORS INSPECT
SPRINIG VALLEY WORKS
Hc=da *zA li^r^d Visited.
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city. &« trip t*'~x =^« az i£e *x5-^»*
ct the ecryi.-^T^n. 1= T J?ZL'
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sar.4er*ssL. Tc*T »*r* a-^x=ip*^«3 trr
City Zr-^rvwr G7-zz**T o£ i^e B«*s
P^tn^ works. DtrtcUst Etssa CxxS
Eogface* QeftßWTrr at the -*-\rrr <vr=y*z.7.
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
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for ail the "far north"
medicines. Always in stock
a large variety of Medi-
cine Chests from $2.50 to
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plete without medlclr.es
from The Owl.
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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