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Bennett SUBSCRIPTION RATES Delivered by Carrier, 20 Cents Per Week. 75 Cents Per Month. Single Copies 5 Cents. Terms by Mail. Including Postage (Cash "With Order): OATLY CALL (including Sunday), 1 year $8.00 DAILY CALL (Including Sunday), 6 months ..$4.00;. DAILY CALL — By single month . -. 750 SUNDAY CALL, 1 year ....1 2.50 WEEKLY CALL. 1 year ..." 1.00, FOREIGN / Sunday 4. 18 Per T ear Extra POSTAGE. ) Weekly LOO P^r Year Extra Entered at the United States Postofflce as Second Class Matter. ALL POSTMASTERS ARE AUTHORIZED TO RECEIVE SUBSCRIPTIONS. Sample Copies Will Be Forwarded When Requested. , Mail subscribers in ordering change of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order to Insure a prompt ' .. and correct compliance with their request TWO PROGRAMMES CONTRASTED MR. BRYAN'S opinions on the railroad question are like the biograph — a moving picture long drawn out; always news and often new. Last week his plan for Government owner ship of the roads was consigned to dim futurity,' with " the help of an adjective. It was, in a word, "ultimate" ownership that he desired. It is a prophecy and not a demand that he formulates; not an ultimatum, but a relegation to the ultimate born of a long experience N in writing political platforms intended to be c6nstrued to meet geographical requirements. A platform that does not mean one thing in Wall street and another in Kansas is of small value to Mr. Bryan. The most recent slide in Mr. Bryan's kinetoscope is produced in the Wall-street Journal, and it develops sketchily the plan by which the nation is to operate and own the trunk lines, while the States shall take care of the branch roads.. Mr. Bryan does not attempt to define a trunk road nor show where the lines of juris diction would be drawn. He takes no cognizance of the fact that branch roads are usually losing ventures and are maintained only as necessary feeders for the main lines. He would put the whole burden of this losing business on the States and give all the profits to the Federal Government, whose treasury is already unduly swollen. Indeed, the chief objection to the plan is that it would wipe out State lines almost completely and make for a dangerous centralization of power. President Roosevelt's doctrine is far more democratic. Ths» railroad magnates have been begging him to make a speech defining his policy, but he declares that it is unnecessary. . They can find the fullest information as to his views about the railroads in his former speeches. In illustration we quote from the Presi dent's remarks on overcapitalization and regulation addressed to a delegation of railroad employes at the White House on Novem ber 14, 1905: For instance, I would greatly like to have it exercised in the matter of overcapitalizaton. I am convinced that the "wages fund" would be larger if there was no fictitious capital upon which dividends had to be paid. I need hardly say that this does not mean hostility to wealth. If you gen tlemen here, in whom I believe so strongly, were all a unit in demanding that some improper action should be taken against certain men of wealth, then, no matter whether I did or did not like these same men of wealth, I would .defend them against you, no matter how much I cared for you; and in so doing I would really be acting in your own interest. I would be false to your interest if I failed to do justice to the capitalist as much as to the wageworker. But I shall act against the abuses of wealth just as against all other abuses. Most certainly I will.joinwith you in resist ing to the uttermost any movement to hurt or damage any railroads which act decently, for I will hold that such damage was not merely to the capitalist, rot merely to the wageworker engaged on the railroads, but to all the country. My aim is to secure the ju/t and equal treatment of the public by those (I trust and believe a limited number) who do not want to give it, just as much as by the larger number who do want to give it All I want in any rate legislation is to give the Government . an efficient supervisory' power which will be exercised as scrupulously to prevent injustice to the railroads as to prevent their doing injustice to the public. There is nothing in all that to cause alarm to anybody who intends to. obey the laws. On the other hand, Mr. Bryan's pro gramme, if it were possible at all, would amount to revolution and would probably end in the complete shipwreck of popular gov ernment. CONTEMPT OF COURT fjl3t«rHiiWtjU^l[l) waft jit " . . •' IT is sufficiently easy to understand the tactics of Ruef 's lawyers, who seek to irritate the court into some judicial lapse, but the line taken is distinctly discreditable to them as members of the bar. The profession of advocate should be honorable and hon ored, but the line taken by Ach and some of his colleagues "is characterized by trickery, calculated to bring the administration of justice into contempt. There appears to be no immediate remedy for this unfor tunate condition. It is useless to appeal to the professional sense of decency. The Bar Association sits supinely by, taking no notice. The court is powerless to punish, because the appellate tribunal neglects its plain duty to make speedy^ decision of the Shortridge matter. It is weeks since Judge Dunne ordered S' M. Shortridge into custody for contempt of court, but the District Court of Appeal appears to be in no hurry to say whether Judge Dunne has power to protect his court from insult. If he. has such power it would be well to know it, because in its apparent absence scarcely a day passes that Ach does j not direct outrageous and insulting remarks at Judge Dunne. The matter has become a graved scandal, and reproach to the administration of justice in San Francisco. With v the fullest respect for the august and . orderly . deliberations *of the Court of Appeal, we venture the hope that ) a decision on this matter will not be lone: delayed. RESULTS OF AN OFFICIAL IMPERTINENCE' rjTl HE announcement that the Union Pacific wiil not contest. the I Government's claim to coal lands fraudulently entered in -Utah J[ and Wyoming calls attention to the unusual official accident by which these frauds were uncovered. For years the Genera l Land Office has been corrupt, root and branch.' It is: rotten to the core today.. Binger Hermann is on trial for frauds committed while r he was Commissioner, but his successors have followed in his footsteps. v It was the accidental knowledge of these coariand frauds, gained by the Interstate^GbmmerceTCommission in the course of /another * iquiry, that.brought them to th*e notice of ; the ; 3Presi dent. When [the matter first came, under the observation of the Interstate Corhmission only passing notice was made of it in the subsequent report; as EDITORIAL PAGE the Commissioners were restrained by a sense of official etiquette from reflecting on a co-ordinate branch of . the Government. But even this was too much for the *land office rascals, and Assistant Commissioner Pollock gave out an interview, in which he char acterized the Interstate Commerce Commission's hint at corruption as "a piece of impertinence/ and made'other statements not accord ing to the facts. ' '* , \ Spurred on by this attack, the Interstate Commerce Commis sion, at subsequent hearings ;in Utah, and Wyoming, went into the frauds in a. very thorough fashion. The condition of the Land Office, as exposed by these hearings, is thus described by William R. Lighton, writing in the Boston Transcript: For the present this broad assertion will suffice. The General Land Office is today as thoroughly riddled with corruption as "ever it was under Binger Hermann. The corruption is not on the fringes merely; it goes to the center of the fabric. There ; have . been no voluntary reform^ .in procedure since Binger Hermann's: time. It is true*, that' on* occasion the office has given countenance to certain" investigations in limited fields— as in Nebraska during the last two years; but this action has never been initiative; • invariably; it has been forced from above.> In other fields the frauds have continued by and with the connivance of the. General Land Office. In several particulars and in the face of impending convulsions efforts have been made to better the machinery gfprg the furtherance \of fraud— bolts have ' been tightened, creaking bearings. oiled and the engine tinkered into more fit form for use, until within the last few months, in favored localities—^notably in \u25a0Wyoming— r fraud and conspiracy have been unabated. The" proofs of the charge are clear enough, as will presently be shown. "" ;> f -..The. plan of operations in getting hold of the coal lands did not differ materially from; that pursued by the timber thieves. Chiefly the devices were dummy locations or the; placing of lieu land scrip. The same processes are going on constantly, with the assistance of the Office, in every part: of the public domain where'there is Government land not yet disposed of, and would be still in progression the Utah and Wyoming, coal fields were- it not for the accident that ; the, Interstate i Commerce c Commission ' com mitted an official impertinence. AN interesting experiment in self-government is about to be tried in the Philippines. A kind of new-fangled Duma is about to he set afoot under the American flag, and the ;develop- ments. should be at least instructive, if not edifying. On July 30 the islanders will vote for the election of members- of the \ first Philippine Assembly, which will convene in September, under the benign patronage of Secretary Tafty -, who regards this ; legislative infant as the ob j ect of hi s special care. It is not proposed to open the 'door to manhood suffrage, but the qualifications of voters may be easily fulfilled. -These -are the limitations: * Voters must be males, twenty-three years of age and have a legal residence in the municipality in y which they desire to exercise the right of suffrage, and must not be citizens or subjects : of any. foreign power, "and furthermore; must be comprisedjwithin one of the three following classes: .(a) /Those: who .prior to August 13, -"1898. held certain offices under the Spanish Government; (b) ( Those who own real l : property to the value of 500 pesos or who actually pay 30 pesos ormore' of < the established taxes; (c) Those who speak, read and write: English or Spahishi It need not be imagined that the Assembly, will be' turned loose like "a legislative vagrant -to indulge in wild or irresponsible excursions in the field; of statute law. Tliat . is to say, the body can pass ;any ; kind of bill that tickles its fancy, l>ut the measure does^ not become law without^the> approval of the-PhilippineGom mission. The Assembly; will be a legislative playground, or, better^ a practice ground, where island statesmen can try their; paces and blow off steam. Being a body Jwith slender Tesponsibilities 7 but unlimited ireedom of * speech^ it is easy to imagine that its^ debates may take on a lurid glare, in^at least two: languages. / Gossip in Railway Circles THE operating . department of .the Southern Pacific announces -that I the Coast line to IxTs Angeles will -. -be ready for, traffic, tomorrow. \The Coast line was < closed) on March; 2o ;bjr an accident'to the Santa Margarita tun nel and since that date enormous gangs' have been at work both by nlghV and. by day: cleaning ; the'? tunneL ? ; "WJiat i added to the difficulties was that some oil cars ,were; burled in; the Vdebris-W These fears were extricated yesterday ; and \u25a0 the i line partly cleared."*. v^V"^''^' '"o-.^vl $'\u25a0'*?. :l-'':P~r-:: l -'':P~r-: : The Southern I Paciflo ; expects 1 also have the* line" between Davis "arid Sacra mento-open % today or^tomorrow. v 4 The delay in i opening the : road |, was fdiifi- to the fact; that? there; had i to 1 :be" consid erable" trestling over the" flooded dis trict. ":\u25a0-\u25a0 v'-vV ; :".>- : " "" ' ' ' V '"'\u25a0"" /:"/•.." " - - -'-•-:*. ' : •.-.-.-•,'. : ., ;The Utah Construction Company does not .intend itoi lose"; any, 'time [ln com mencing;: the-rbuilding* of RthelTVesterri Pacific from, the .Calif ornla-Nevada'bor der ; line :''. to) Deeth > in V Nevada: rf Meri^ teams ; arid ; machinery^ are \u25a0 b*ei ng assem bled *< along J the < line •• and work -.will '% be begun' ; in several % places Cat £ the ; same time. -Chief | Engineer-Virgil iGS Bogue is < at; present " r on*¥ th"e|Hrie,< which;; has already _, been built; out of , Salt Lake,' and the 'reports % that *.. have: beeriW received f rom'i the f fronts are - ; satisfactory .;" as Vto the! rapidity: with _whlch\construction ", is being - pushed ahead. ! ,;V .. • ?'\u25a0\u25a0 ' J-JJ -J '; E. Bucklngham.jgen'eral , superintend entbfi the'' Oregon? Short! Llne,"» hasTbeen called Hoi Salt >; Lake^ City; \ aba lelttyei AN EXPERIMENT IN SELF-GOVERNMENT Dividing the Spoils terday. He , has - bVen attending. -the conference between the officials '> of the Southern Paciflo and.the'grievance'com tteß of tn ® locomotive engineers. J;-- :\ J. ; . J. Byrne, . passenger traffic ager of i the Santa \u25a0 Fe, with headquar ters ,In Los Angeles,' is expected In this clty;.today. ; .-. 7.;. .;;\u25a0-'\u25a0,:,'./\u25a0\u25a0:;\u25a0 -"\u25a0•'.\u25a0 : v )i \ B.\V. Booth ot the' Union Paciflo re turned "a \u25a0 f ew> days 7 ago 7 from , Los "An geles ; and -:' Fresno i and *; observed -^ that there have i been:; fewer "people/ in' Los Angeles \ than ; was : expected ; by the ho ;tel:keepers:thls : year.r;Heisald:M. '."The large hotels," . tibwever, ; did well, but s till the travel | in' s t^teTßouthenv part of . the ' State { did \ not : come fup ! to ' expec tations. ;;\u25a0; The ,San f Joaquin^-^Valley is looking; splendid^ arid* though the i rain retarded i the [ sowing ; of •• grain, Vend the fruit ;.to some i extent } has \ been r injuredj ured by; the : storms, ; the , people"; are ; not ;wor rying.- s There j willnbe r, bl% heavy i grape crop and prices for^ raisins will be high." In * the 4,upper^ part Vof 4the\valley, 5 near Turlock;^ a* great] many^ people ? are fipom ing :\u25a0 Ins and 7 ; the | country Us "apparently in 'aT flourishing condition.'*;! T . ; Thomas ; de Witt Cuyler; of Philadel phia, .; besides } being M ; prominent % finan cially and. socially.^ lsj a*directoriof ithe' Pennsylvania:;: system ( and ; withal *; so modest \ in demeanor; that no one • meet ing \u25a0him .would ; euspect that , he is U"a big man »" JdCuyler} has \ beenl on *a Z vißit ato .t.. t .^ c l c oast and r on j his way . from" Los 'An geles [stoppedf over] h>e ** c if or Ja' day. « He wandered t-intoUhef office iOfltheJPenn^ sylv&nia, line in the Flood building and Personal Mention A. J. Froehlich of Reno Is at the St. Francis/. \u25a0 . / Edward Berwick of Pacific Grove is at the Jefferson. . James F.McKee. a Boston million aire, is at the Jefferson. 'Mr. ana ..Mrs.. A.. F. Maher of Stock 1 ton are aV the Baltimore. \u25a0;/J.": Lincoln Steffens, the well-known writer, is at the Imperial. C. Hanford: Henderson,' a merchant Of Boston, is atthe Savoy. "William Eassie, a mine owner of Gold field, is at the Hamlln. United States Senator George Nixon of Nevada is at the Palace. • Charles Jerome Reed, a capitalist of Portland, Ore., is at the Palace. Btockton arrivals at the Savoy, are Francis I. Hodgkins and John EL Budd. S. Burt Cohen, prominent in mining circles in Tonopah, is at the Balti more. ' . W. H. Dee, a banker of Mulberry Grove, lIL, and wife are at the Balti more. . C I*. Jackson, prominent in business clrclesin Portland, Ore., is at the Im perial. / Thomas U^Petch, president of the Eureka Light and Gas Company, Is at the Imperial. ; . . F. M. . Reift, heavily interested, in mining : and ; stock brokerage circles in Reno, ls-at the Baltimore. "W. H. Bullen, the Pacific Coast agent of the Grand Trunk Railway, from Los Angeles, . is at the Hamlln. ; W. B. •': Hlnchman, \ the '\u25a0 Pacific Coast agent of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, and wife are at the Hamlln. F. : R. Short of Reno, who has come to attend the wedding, of his sister, Miss Evelyn Short, to C. M. Smith." is at the Baltimore with his mother. \ Suggests Shooting of Reckless Autoists EDITOR (JALL-^-Slrj It is certainly ; an outrage ths way tha lives of men, women 'and children are /Jeopardized by automobiles i ; on Sutter street,' as well as in all other parts, of; the city. ' -, Yesterday fa lady got off the Sutter street car at Octavj^a street and walked around i the car - toward the Atherton Hotel, '.when an automobile came upon her .^ from 1 the , direction of Van Ness avenue};at;great speed, knocked her down, and she/ fortunately, escaped with •„ the exception •of a ruined dress. The cowards lnUhe auto,* without stop ping, increased their / speed* and went down Sutter; street at^ the ; rate ' of forty miles in hour. \u25a0 I was unable to see the number of : the license, as It was swing ing; and it was Impossible to make It out. . ... : : .. \u25a0 -.- .. \u25a0\u25a0 ;js>> . .- \u25a0 v - \u25a0 Again, this morning at 10:S0o'olock, I was, on .the rearof .car No. 1600 com ing down Sutter street and a Japanese was . crossing ~ Sutter - street - when V an automobile came down on • the lef thand side of the street while a Sutter-street car was passing and knocked hlm'down and: probably fatally injured "<\u25a0 him, as they/ had to \u25a0 j push ; j the ; machine off him In order to help him to the side walk, i The : machine _was ; on .the .wrong side: of ; the street and, was' clearly at fault." •'- v " '; - •-•;- '\u25a0:. --.;--; ;' Some ordinance t should certainly be passed prohibiting automobiles exceed ing I five miles an i hour on streets ' like Sutter, iwhere ; therela^ a ) double track and -onlyi twelve : feet c between i rail* and curb," and whet'e* the large oars obstruct theLviewof any, one crossing.^ lf some suoh \u25a0 ordinance \ is . not ; passe d. a 1 license should be given so men could carry, six shooters ;. and ;^protect 1 themselves i from about: 2o^ per, cent of.the chauffeurs that go > up and down Sutter etreetV I •, - ".r ARTHUR iG/NASON.J . . 1931 Sutter; Street ', introduced himself ( to * Harry Buck" as belonging .•to^the'; company. Buckf{ex i tended him' a* warm \ welcome and asked him If, he would not like to take a look at \u25a0,' the : . rooms r of i the -:Transportation Club and meet some railroad men."; Cuy-' ler l assented 3 and i they > wen t " upstai rs. Cuyler iwas I introduced ) to several ' rep resentatives; and one being more curi ous / Jhan »the,restaskedlhlm, I:a«they1 :a«they were i taking; aVdrink:r,j' ; ;;; ' \u25a0• ' T*"By;.the * way.^Mr:CC\iyler, what vis your- i position ' on ; the?: Pennsylvania road?V-';v;-"- .•;••\u25a0 ;.- "; \u25a0\u25a0 - • • \u25a0 am merely a.; director," was tha ) reply. ;_; \u25a0 ,\u25a0 \u25a0#•.; ; :;Cuyler before^ leaving. expressed him self as! greatly , astonished at the way Saa , Francisco; is : being ; rebuilt! and de clared;, this clty ; toe wonder of the age.' .3 A. IP. •: StewarV;gerieral agent : of- the Chicago - and r Alton,- left Tuesday " for atibusinessjtripVthrough the (southern part of the State and expects to be ab sent about a week. ' :'-":\u25a0: '-":\u25a0: -\u25a0\u25a0;•.-. \u25a0\u25a0•'"?••" has been* appointed: as sistant { secretary; to |the Club and A will % attend % to¥all * bueiriess connected : with the organization.:: - THE INSIDER. ;Says law: will be invoked to meet hatpin :\ menace^ arid writes entertainingly of lively scenes outside the Grand Jury room. Citizen Would End A NEW reformer has. appeared in the . - , . . L\ city, one who objects to having a the Hatpin Menace JTX « whale » of a time when riding on street cars— a gentleman, in other words, who does not relish the idea of being harpooned^.by ladies' hatpins. The leader in the new war against vanities . is Robert R. Russ, a real estate broker. He suggests that th« Supervisors, in their present chastened mood, pass a law limiting the length of hatpins to something less than eighteen inches, which length seems to be the mode. As an alternative, it is suggested that buttons might be placed on long pins, after the fashion of protected rapiers. Spears may have been useful weapons in. the middle ages, but, according to Russ, it does not do for Amazons to be so equipped in these days. Blown out fuses and runaway, cars are terrors enough for passengers, thinks Russ, without hatpins jeopardizing eyes and faces, and he is strong for a law of. protection. Gaming' Flourishes . X™™« me « r ; ceh ? their emolument /^ • j m m the early part of each week, and it w Outside Jury Room o{ttn - TOm money likely to burn the ets of the possessors unless they free themselves from It quickly. Early last week a group of newspaper men congregated* in the hallway of Native Sons' Hall, outside of the Grand Jury room, and there was danger of a general conflagration. One of the men, with great presence of mind, suggested that a gama of crusoe, or pitching twenty-dollar pieces at a crack In the floor, might be engaged in and thus save the pockets. All afternoon the game progressed. The next day a policeman was stationed in the hallway; there was no game of crusoe that day. Juror Morris Block, it is said, had protested that he could not give his attention to the details of the graft investigation whila the coin was clinking outside the portals, >* Policemen to Curb Assistant District Attorney Heney cama the Camera Artist* to r " cue of the jur y Tnra » "J* 1 * !t waj znc camera Artists not sensitiveness, but. gallantry that had brought the "cop" to the door of the room, The officer was there for tha simple purpose of protecting the women witnesses from the desperate lenses of newspaper photographers. Some of the fair witnesses had discovered that the effects secured by th« snapshooters of the daily papers were not just what Genthe would reproduce after posing a subject under highlights and sideKghts and other apparatus of his beautification studio. It was not questioned that every newspaper photographer is a sort of coming Genthe, but most of them are coming over a long road. So, when a stenographer for some indicted corporation official would leave the witness room and find a battery of cameras fronting her, she would cry, "Genthe's was never like this!" and try to take refugee in flight A gallant juryman looked from his bower on high, saw a witness in distress befora the building and suggested that a cordon of police be gathered to protect the ladies. Heney compromised by agreeing to ask Dinan for one good, substantial cop. He was \} forthcoming, for in these virtuous times" Dinan will do anything that Heney asks. Abe Ruef Cannot When the policeman first appeared be 7?i/ So Heney is looking for' Ponce de Leon, and when he is found ha wffl ba set to work to locate his fountain of Perpetual Youth. When that is dis covered the waters will be bottled at the springs and shipped, in Bisnnr'a care, to Ruef who will be forced to drink of them and "thu." live enough to satisfy justice. .- * « lons The Smart Set A PRETTY event was the wedding of Mlsa Wanda Hadenfeldt and Harry Melone, which was cele brated in the First" Presbyterian Church yesterday at high noon. Rev. William Kirl? Guthrle being the offici ating, clergyman.** The church was a bower of green, the artistic interior of the' little temporary building being es pecially effective^wlth the potted, palms, tall ferns and other greenery used. The 'bride,, who was given away by her mother, Mrs. M. Hadenfeldt. was charming in an imported gown of lace, worn, over white chiffon and silk. Her bouquet was of lilies of the valley and she> wore a long tulle . yelL An es pecially'effective and unusual ornament was ; the ohower of sUver which she wore beneath her tulle veil. . This was sent to her; from Constantinople by an Armenian Prince, It; being worn veil like by ., the ladies of ..Turkey. Miss Ethel [ Melone, the groom's sister, who .was the" maid of honor, was very at tractive in a - gown of pink net worn over pink chiffon and sllkj trimmed with .tiny bands of pink silk\and tiny chiffon ' roßebud3.[ Her hat was a large pink trimmed with 'pink roses and 1 pink' lilacs.* Her bouquet was of pink roses. Arthur Goodfellowwas the best 2 man and Douglas Deane, James Deane, Philip Paschel and Carl Haden feldt were the ushers.' The church was filled t with the friends of the bride and groom,* but at the wedding ; break fast which followed in the Palace Hotel only } the ; relatives of i the two families were 1 present j besides the bridal party. About : thirty ' guests were seated at the three tables — one large: one at were I the bridal "; party,-; the \ mothers of the bride] and \ groom . and a . few \ other close" relatiyes-^-and two. smaller tables, all of .which i were , decorated . in ' pink carnations.", : Mr. ; and Mrs. Melone have left i. on: their journey -and on their, return -will : go ; to Oak Knoll.* the home.of-.the groom's mother,' where they f. will spend the summer. After that ?] they may come ;to : San ; Francisco to I live, i but their, plans are very in definite. -=\u25a0; ; The .wedding of Miss Hazel • Marston and \ Frederick iWlnalow - Read will be celebrated \at 8 ;" o'clock ' this evening in Christ V .Church. Alameda, , . Rev, > Mr.N Guthrle, * rector ' of , the : church,^ officiat ing. •- Miss ' Jean . Read, the < groom's ' sis ter, 1 -will i be ; the ; maid «' of . honor, and *• the ' bridesmaids will be I . Miss. Florence Cor- nell | and i Mlas i Belle O'Connor. Bert Young Ivwlll Z be ; the , beat t man ; and : . the ' ushers iWill\ be \ George :McDougal, Ray Cornell r. and \u25a0 \u25a0 Fred >M. % Gilmore. -\ The colojr^ scheme •of i the aff air lis\ to S be '; in white] and \ yellow, and \ the \u25a0 cqstumes 'of MRIL 11, 1907 the bridal party will be in thoa* shad-M. The church will be in white 2d£j£ Ttr^r * na Mrs - Walter Hobart and M!« JL?, l^ expect to l«w Bo «t**ra Hoffman hava^old th.lr attractive home lnfiS lUfael and are looking for a houaeiS r«f t^JT 7 Shennaa •"»<*. Mra. B«nja- -Mra. J.tj.Bric* and Mrii. O«orm EL Bowman left yesterday for New York RHM«^? c , Ct i* 9 "* t»»'«nnmer In the British Isles, at the end of which tima Mrs., Bowman will so to Germany for a. : stay and Mrs. Brie« expecSt o r" turn to California. *•*-» io re- now. are Mrs. Frank Hicks of Los An £B£L£? : -¥*- Uttla ** u **ter. M!« week m\ wTv 0 *? 9 «P early, la the SS^S. 7- Blcka ha * many Wends in win ££2 T* "^ ltbt hopftd she return to the southland. Miss .Elizabeth Murison. who has been abroad since last fall and h«« spent the winter In Italy^ts Sow e3d » en# but «P«cts to go to Parts soon to tpend a month. .-Mrs. Hayward Q. Thomas has santi out cards^for a tea at her home In Oak- Wes^Ttt. 18> l ° mett Mri G *^ 9 . Miss Ella Morgan is Tiaitiia' h.i friend. Miss . Flora^wf arDel^onte \u25a0Ki^'^V S , ha «P«ct3'to return to town shortly for a stay of a weak nr two and wiU then return to DrtMonS to spend the enUre summer. S, 1 ?* V- wmi »» < a Hooper at the.latter-s country place at Mountain •/";\u25a0\u25a0• ' • Mrs. -8... H. I>avenport has been a recent visitor to Byron Hot Springs. .-•v To the .delight of her many friends Miss Morrison, of ; San Jose, who has been so seriously Ul with^grip. is able to drive ;out.'and -her^ coavalesGeace, it ls> hoped, wIU b«>aj?l