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XHE explanation offered on high scientific authority that the
visiting comet somehow got his tail twisted has a familiar,
old fashioned smack. Like the far famed British lion, Halley's
comet is for most of us nothing more important
than a state of mind, or, at best, an article of
faith. Many a time and oft have we listened
to the patriotic orator while he tied up the
alien beast's tail in hard knots amid tumultuous
applause, but we never quite succeeded in persuading ourselves that
this perfidious beast was anything more than a fabled monster.
A similar frame of mind attends on the multifarious mention of
Halley's comet and its terrible tail. The Lick observatory tells us
that the comet's caudal equipment is "lagging behind/ which, to
the unscientific person, might seem to be 'the way of all well behaved
tails. Somewhere in space there is a lost cometary coiffure in hiding
from all the astronomers. Some of them had gone up to a high place
lo gather heavenly dust in a scoop net and have sensible contact with
other worlds than ours.
The astronomers are disappointed, but perhaps the unscientific
world feels on the whole relieved. The newspapers for the last
Dionth had been filled with so much learned clamor that people were
looking for portends in the sky "with fear of change perplexing
nations.*' Some results of this heavenly pother gave birth to a
strange combination of religious exaltation tempered by medical
precaution. One learns that the people of the black belt in the
southern states have quit work and are attending revival meetings
en masse, while at the same time large numbers of the revivalists
are stuffed with pills against the comet. When Dean Swift invented
his famous pill to cure earthquakes he could not foresee this logical
extension of his system of therapeutics.
We have been reading much about the flaming torch that would
sweep the cobwebs from the sky, but the promise has been more
terrible than the performance. There has been a disposition to
lay the blame for recent misfortunes and calamities on the uncon
scious comet, and people have been plentifully quoting Casca :
Are you not moved, when all the sway of earth
Shakes like a thing unfirm? O Cicero,
I have seen tempests when the scolding winds '
Have rived the knotty oaks; and I have seen
The ambitious ocean swell and rage and foam,
To be, exalted with the threatening clouds;
But never till tonight, never till now,
Did I go through a tempest dropping fire.
Either there is a civil strife in heaven;
Or else the world, too saucy with the gods,
Incenses them to send destruction. . . .
The Tale
01 an
Evasive Comet
-
The astronomers have for the nonce assumed the role of the
irresponsible poet who is permitted to give airy nothings a local
habitation and a name; .but, after all, it seems that this evasive
wanderer of the charted heavens is not as terrible as he has been
painted, and as for his lagging and erring tail it may be said that
A li R. TAFT is said .to be favorably inclined toward the
/yl compromise water power sites bill introduced by Senator
Smoot of Utah. The Smoot bill appears from the published
summary of its provisions to contain some
good features, but this is no guarantee that
the text of the measure does not contain
dangerous' "jokers'." The following summary
is given :
The bill provides that the power sites be ce^cd to the states, which,
as a matter of fact ? have absolute control of the streams. This, as Mr.
Taft points out, unites the two in one sovereign, which is perhaps to be
desired. Two conditions are imposed upon the state in this transaction. '
The first is that the power site shall be leased, subject to a revision of
terms, every ten years. It is next stipulated that it shall not be leased
to a person or corporation which has a practical monopoly of power sites
in the neighborhood. Finally, in case the conditions are not complied
with, the site is to be forfeited to the nation and the lessee to lose his
lease. - ••'*'
This reads like a fair measure, but the suggestive fact appears
that the bill has the support of the water power interests which
are radically opposed to the principles of conservation of national
resources. This does not constitute ground for opposing the" bill,
but it supplies good reason for a close scrutiny of its provisions.
For one thing, it is obvious that should the bill become law its
first effect would be to gather a hungry lobby in pursuit of special
privileges in the gift of the legislature. It might be wiser to wait
until the state constitutes a responsible public utilities commission
empowered to deal with all such matters. It is a very difficult
question and the truth is that in providing machinery for the disposi
tion of valuable public franchises the people are between the devil
and the deep sea. \ . r
To Deal With
The Water
Power Sites
r I A HE CALL' announced Thursday morning that overland rates
j-v on wool had been reduced to meet competition by- water;? and
it was -explained that shipment^ 'of the raw material frohnuthis
coast had been; going by sea. This is a fact
that has important bearing on the . pending
controversy in congress over : the iong and
short, haul and the effort of representatives of
the mountain states ' and those -of the middle
west to put freight rates on a mileage basis. In brief, this endeavor
ma}' be described, as a proposition to put Denver, : Cheyenne and
Spokane on the seacoast. It can not be done by law, and if attempted
would make the railroad business impossible.
Spokane, which has be^en leading the fightin this regard, begins.to
realize that the thing can not be done; and admits that? the provision
Recognize the
Geographical
Conditions
EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE CALL
COULDN'T SEE HIM FOR DUST .j
as amended for inclusion, in the railroad bill destroys in effect the
promise of a mileage basis which the section pretends to make. We
quote from the Spokane Spokesman-Review:
The long and short haul clause which passed the senate expressly
provides "that _if the interstate commerce^comrnissibn may, from its
knowledge, or from inference, or from application, ascertain that the
circumstances and conditions of the longer haul are dissimilar, to'the cir
cumstances and conditions of the shorter haul, whether they result from
competition by water or rail, then it may authorize a common carrier to
charge less for the longer than for the shorter distance for the transpor
tation of passengers or property." v
As the Spokesman-Review has pointed 6ut, the interstate commerce
commission has repeatedly and unaniniously held that water competition,
exists at the terminals and is a controlling factor in rate making.
The interstate commerce commissioners are practical men, fully
conversant with the controlling' facts of the railroad business. They
know that" water competition is' an" essential factor governing the
making of rates where it* applies, and., accordingly L the. Spokesman-
Review. comes to the well founded conclusion that "the people of the
interior can place little dependence on the .compromise that was
adopted by the senate." But the fact is that no other arrangement
was possible. . Geographical conditions can not be reversed by law.
WHEN ,William v S. Gilbert put in the ..mouth of the great
mikado of Japan the declaration that a wise ruler should
- "make the punishment fit the crime," it was with no
prophetic sense that he had supplied the
precedent for a decision of the United States
supreme court. \u25a0 Yet such was the basis of a
recent decision of the court in the case of
Paul Weems, an official of the lighthouse
service in the Philippines.; The court set the prisoner at liberty
because he had been made the subject of a sentence disproportionate
to his offense. The ruling was made^by way of interpretation of the
eighth amendment to the constitution, which is, in substance, included
in the island bill of rights and 'prohibits the infliction of "a cruel and
Punishment
to Fit
the Crime
unusual punishment." , ' v *\u0084'•.
The decision opens a curious line of speculation, not unlike that
which some time ago created so much discussion in California con
cerning the inequality of sentences and a certain lack of the sense of
proportion in judges invested with the duty of sendingnien to prison
for longer or shorter terms in their discretion.
How shall a man measure a burglary, for example, in terms of
years in prison? In making, 'this dread apportionment something
may even depend oh the condition of the judge's liver or the circum
stances of his environment the night before. Much, assuredly, ''-'must
turn on his habits of thought, his fixed opinions or prejudices., if you
like. It/is impossible to eliminate the human equation from which
so often springs error. .
Nevertheless; we can not welcome the decision of the court. So
far as it affects the administration of justice it"may be said to intro
duce one more element of uncertainty and distraction to the field of
criminal practice and jurisprudence. If the sentence pronounced by
one man in his discretion is subject to reversal because another man's
discretion is different there will be no such thing as finality at any.
stage of the administration , of criminal justice: Things are bad
enough now in this relation without the -introduction of a new
element of doubt and distraction. ?£ v . -/ -^
THE support of*the;Tuolumne county board of supervisors for
the HetchHetchy project for the water. supply of San Francisco
is welcome and timely. The entire watershed in question is
included within_theconmies of that county and
its residents should have an. important voice in
the \u25a0settlement of the question that; comes up
for hearing shortly before Secretory.: Ballinger.
The people of Tuolumnecounty^obviously do
otibelieve;thatlthe conversion of the valley from a meadow into a
ake will impair its scenic attractions in any degree.
v Scenic beauty has a definite; com^
on> the; ground^ believed that -local objects of 'interest were to be
destroyed or injured they would be the first to protest. '.-•
'-, The resolutions of the; Tuolumne board in tlifs relation- should
have weight with the secretary of the interior in- the: settlement of
this controversy . which lias been forced on- ) San Francisco^ without
much apparent 'reason or : necessity at this time. When we speak
of a^ "settlement"^ it is with full recognition; of the 1 fact that the
time'hasiiot: arrived for; a final adjudicatibhtof tlie .matter. ; ~Zn
The; que'stion'.isrnotjpressing" at, all, i astherc -is : no "purpose :or
intention to use the :Hetcli ; Hetchy reservoir \u25a0 sit^for a- great -many
years to come. "^Mr. Ballinger might > very, well ileayc" tHe vwliole
matter to his successors i unlessheis^unduly v^age^to?cross the bridge
before' he gets ;there; ap&m* the fey ent that he-slipuld find^againstthe
city.his; decision .can; not, be ; : regardecl^as; final^'-His^wisest^course
\yould be 'to?:lcave : the(matter -for his; successors..^^w*^--.--.^--.';:.;;
Tuolumne
County Backs
San Francisco
DUST FROM THE COMET
Did we? We did. We did. not! We
did, too!! Betcheramillyun we didn't,
either!!! Was it? Yes? No?— Well,
the astronomers' have nothing on us.
Comiskey might sign up the comet's
tail for the White Sox. No one on
earth seems to be able to hit or get on
to its curves.
SAD BUT TRUE
There was a young fellow named Tait,
Who watched for the comet till late,
Meanwhile he did dicker
With overmuch liquor
And sank in a comatose state.
That tail must find it pretty expen
sive traveling with the nucleus. It
doesn't seem able to keep up.
EUREKA
"Say, pa, what makes; the comet's tall?"
Asks Freddie, as with wond'ring eyes
He gazes "up "at Halley'a pet '
That sweeps across the starry skies. . y
And pa, with ready lore, expounds:
"My son, that comet first set sail
Four hundred million years ago.
And that's of course what makes it stale."
Studying the caudal appendage of a
comet seems to be the" hardest Job on
earth. You never know whether you
are through or not.
That comet must be first cousin to
the San Francisco flea. Just when you
think you have it, it isn't there.
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HAIjLEY HAS OUR ALLEY
Of all the freaks that roam the sky
There's none I lore like Halley's;
It puzzles people on our roofs
» % And also In our alleys. >-
The scientific gazers, too,
Who prophesy for one. day,
. Soon learn its neatest stunts occur
'Twi^t half- past 8 and Monday.
Letters From Hie People
EASTERN MAIL ORDER HOUSES
AND PARCELS POST
Editor.Call: "Almost the sole sem
blance of the shadow of^an argument
against the institution by -the United
States' government of an up to date
parcels post has been the contention
that ' it would rob the country mer
chant to enrich the eastern mail order
houses.- .-."- \ ! " r \u25a0 - :~ '• ' "•"\u25a0 \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0/\u25a0'•\u25a0
The Postal Progress League -of Cali
fornia has fora long time affirmed the
very opposite; that for lack of an* up .to
date parcels post much additional busi
ness- was thrown to these- eastern
houses. V \ .*•...
-"JjThe> minimum freight charge of the
railroads being for 100-pounds, a mail
order, buyer, wanting an, article of 11
pounds weight,'' waJ3 tempted to ex
pand that; order." with additional goods,
until It i reached somewhere near the
100 pound r.-; limit on which freight
charges \u25a0\u25a0 had^to be ; paid. s Or, in case
this buyerj could think : of nothing I more
that? he 'wanted,- neighbors-would be
invited ;\to' ; *joln \u25a0\u25a0 In making up* the 100
pounds "minimum..* -
;f; f Thus * the.local merchant, instead of
losing *ir ! pounds of , trade, lost nearly
100, pounds. V ; . •\u25a0"„*,-.'. y '.;"' . .
Traveling ; the- last:; few days in Yb
semite i valley; it r.was my . good -. fortune
to; fall': in Sears,: whose name
heads -the firm £ Sears,'^ Roebuck ; & ' Co.,
doirigXthe; biggest ; mail ; order ; business
in '^America, v His lengthy and' extensive
experience .confirms ;the ' view taken "i by
the : league 1 in : ; every* particular. ; : So ; far
from ian ;up : to" date'; parcels [ post J being
urgedJby^the/mair orderi houses, he as-,
sur es \u25a0; me -.that 5 neither ,•;; their,, firm nor
their) rivals/ Montgomery ! Ward &' Co.;
are raVallTanxiouSv for: such, a^ parcels
post. prefer.' theiipresent: systenv
which' induces J purchasers 'i to make
their ordersUo the! full;loo;pbunds. He
says that Itheir house 'finds 1 small 'orders
a source! of loss ; rather ithan profit,- and
they \u25a0 dot nbt'want them."* \ ; . : " . ">
» ,-Xbt to ; be jtooiprolix,: I commend to
all country^merchantacthisVdirect-ex
pVessibn -of <the :; feeling Jot } the .leading
house:; in" the* mail t^brder.J line '-.: asVop
posedUo jthe Iwidely^ circulated, ; garbled
nbnsense^lseto: forth "i by i those I i express
companies xinteficstedV\in*''fooHng< the
people?. -'sol 'as;, to; maintain their, extor
tionate "Jchafgfes.ivi-Buts.vyou, can't r fool
all\the "ipeople all (the a.tl me.l2^ . .
: : ;- \u25a0.;\u25a0\u25a0•.•; \u25a0'.-;• ":;EDWARDI BERWICK; ' ~.
\u25a0Presidents /of \u25a0"<•} the .-Postal 'Progress
""\u25a0.'MT^ League ":\u25a0 ot; California^ .v. v
' "MayJ IS;': 1310.;- :-f^:f :-; •_--' : '. • • \u25a0,
Insider
Tells how a prominent Calif ornian informed Swiss cus
toms officials that his wife was attempting to smuggle
lace in her skirts and had to pay for his* trouble.
THE troubles, of Mrs. Catherine Rollins,
wife of the former governor of New
Hampshire, with the customs s officials at
York, who nipped an apparent smuggling conspiracy in thV~bud, were
being discussed Sunday at a little dinner party in this city, and one of "the
diners told the story of a certain prominent Californfan and his wife who
mixed up with the customs officials at the Swiss-French frontier several
seasons ago. The husband sought to play a joke upon his wife and to teach
her a lesson in honesty. His joke worked far better than he expected,
and in the end it cost him about $400. This was the manner of it:
Joke Costs Husband
$400 for Smuggling
Mr. and Mrs. C— had spent\some weeks in Switzerland. They had
seen all the sights of the lake country and they had found' many interesting
things in the quaint shops. Mrs. C— on the last day of their stay found
a bolt of lace which captivated her fancy. It was offered at a reasonable
sum. The only drawback was: the heavy duty, that would have to be paid at
the French border.
"My dear," whispered Mrs. C— in her husband's ear, "I could hide that
lace in -my skirts so that it would never be discovered by the customs
officials at all." Whereupon the strictly honest husband waxed indignant with
his wife. Smuggle it across? Never! He was no thief, and neither could
she make one of him. The idea must be given up at once. They would leave
the shop and not buy the lace. They returned to their hotel and the next
morning found them at the border.
Mr. C— was somewhat surprised to notice that the examination of their
baggage and their -persons was only perfunctory. He noted a look that his
wife gave him, as. much as to say, "See how easily I could have got that
lace through if you had only let me buy it." He must: take her down a peg.
He slipped off to another. customs official who had had no part in examining
them and did not know that he was the lady's husband, and said to, him in
the best French that he could command that he had reason to believe the
lady whom he pointed out had a valuable piece of lace concealed in her
skirts. The official said she would be carefully searched at once.-
The husband chuckled at his little joke. Mrs. C — , was searched, and
there in her skirts was the identical strip of lace! The husband was flabber
gasted. The wife had skipped back to the store and bought the stuff without
his knowledge. It was. up to him to. save his wife from serious trouble. He
saved her, but it cost him $400 to do it. And, worse still, the customs official
who found the lace pointed- out to the lady the man who had accused her of
being a smuggler!
\ few days ago there was a crowd in front of
sne of the fashionable dwellings iri Pacific
Heights, on the door knob of which hung an
elaborate wreath of flowers of the choicest variety tied with a knot of violet
ribbon. : •
Choice Flowers Hung'
Upon the Door Knob
"That is," said one of the party, "a pretty innovation on the somber
piece of crape that is so often seen on the door knob as notice that there is
one within who has been summoned to final rest. The flowers are so
suggestive of resurgam." Turning to the undertaker in charge, he said,
"How long has this been the custom in this country?"
"The custom of placing flowers on the door knob comes from France,"
replied the one addressed. "There, a wreath of immortelles tells the tale.
Some Americans visiting Paris were struck with the idea of a substitution of
flowers for crepe and advocated it on their return, and the custom of dis
playing flowers to indicate death within originated in Brooklyn, N. V., at the
time of the death of Henry Ward Beecher in the latter part of the eighties.
"Beecher was strongly opposed to the custom of wearing, mourning for
dead relatives, and he frequently requested the members of his family not
to wear black for him when he died. In deference to his_\vcll known views,
no crape was hung on the door knob, but a beautiful wreath was substituted.
It created surprise at the time and it was many a day before the idea was
adopted by others. If my recollection serves me right; it was fully 10
years after his death before flowers took the place of the black insignia of
death. Then it was taken up in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago
and other large cities, and San Francisco- followed in the custom."
There is a forlorn and flea bitten dog scratch
ing away the weary hours at Ingleside county
jail 2, and he can not be permitted to go
beyond the prison walls. If he strolls past the confines of the whitewashed
portcullis, if he but chases one of the many prison cats out into the air of
freedom, if he 'wags his way out, or goes mad and rushes past terrified
jailers, some guardsman might lose his job.
Some months ago Judge George Cabaniss paced from his chambers with
his usual dignity, mounted the steps to the bench and sat down in the official
kitchen chair that masquerades as the throne of the judiciary in the Mc-
Allister street annex to the far scattered city hall. And the judge found that
his desk was in disorder, his papers thrown about, and, further, that divers
grave and bulky rolls of portentous appearance were brushed off on the floor.
Whereat his honor roared and banged the bench until the court bailiff de
veloped, oh the instant, an acute attack of St. Vitus' dance.
"Who did this?" Cabaniss thundered. "Six months to whoever did this."
Three or four attorneys and a policeman huddled over in a corner
straightened up simultaneously with expressions of triumph and led a forlorn
dog down the aisle .to the bench. .
"The dog got into the papers, judge," the bailiff stuttered, "and before
we could drive him away he scattered them all around."
"Six months to the dog," Cabaniss cried. -
Which explains why and how Ingleside 2 has the canine prisoner. They
call him "Judge."
Dog Serves Sentence
in the County Jail
| ANSWERS TO QUERIES }
O. H. F.
SCHOOLS-^. H., City. Where were the North
cosmopolitan and primary and the South cosmo
politan and primary schools located la San Fran
cisco In 1890"; * -
There was no North Cosmopolitan in
1890. The South Cosmopolitan in that
year was in Bush street near Stockton.
There was neither South^Cosmopolitan
grammar nor primary In 1590. ,
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ASSAYING— B. F. F.. Sunol. From whom can
I obtain a list of the latest and best books on as
saying and geology?
Communicate with thfc state mining
bureau,' ferry building, San Francisco,
or any . first class' book
HOnSEHAin— E. 8., Turlock. Is It true that
a horsehair that ha* lain in water for a long time
turns Into a snake? »
* This assertion has arisen from the
fact that such a hair that has been in
PERSONS IN THE NEWS
.yr; H. GROAT, -chief rate clerk of the Pacific
Coast steamship company, left for Chicago
"last evening to represent that company in the
meeting . of " general passenger ; asents at th«
Transcontinental passenger association to . be
held May 23/ 1010. :
• • . *
DR. G.^H. PHILLIPS of ' Hanf ord. Dr. L. R.
' Packwoqd of Fresno and W.S . Heaton of Los
'Angeles make up a party of recent arrlrals
at the, Manx.'
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KARK CLEMENS, a well known '\u25a0\u25a0 pharmacist of
: Grants. Pass. Ore.; and H. C.'lteck of Port
land are at the* Palace. .
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THOMAS CARSTENS returned to the Palace
; after "\ a brief Illness yesterday. He Is from
Tacomft.
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ROBERT CORDS JR., an oil operator with in
terests in' Midway, Is staying at the ;St.
Francis. . ' ; '" .- .
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A. CHAPELLE and Xewton Erans, engineers of
Los ' Angeles, are. staying 'at ~, the St. Francis.
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Z. S. SPAULDI2JG," a capltali&t of Portland; is
;' among the" recent arrlTals at the Pjlace."
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iW/vX."- OSBOURN, -an : electrician "of -Woodland,
and' Mrs. Osbourn are at the Colonial.
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W..J. MURPHY, a merchant of Cr?scent City,
V 'and >Irs^ ; Murphy are a t the Turpin.
H.- E. \u25a0 McDORMAN, a merchant of Minneapolis,
\u25a0 is registered at the Argonaut.
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WILLIAM' K."- HOOPS, an electrical engineer of
' 'Chicago,-: Is' at' the Fairmont. ;
MAY 20, IQIO
stagnant water for a lons time becomes
covered with animalculae and these. In
moving, give the hair an appearance of
life, but it Is not a snake.
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DIVINING RODS— X. K. T., Menlo Park. What
kinds of dHintag rods are there, and where may
such be purchased?
Divining- rods are made from the
forked branch of a rowan tree or witth
hazel, also "of metal, but where the lat
ter may be purchased this department
does not know.
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HOCHELE«A— OakIand reader. TVnat is
"Hochelega"?
The ancient, but little known naaas
of Canada.
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OLD NOTE— J. V.. City. Who can tell me If
an old note — $100 bill — of 1884 is worth anything ?
Any money broker or banker.
W. E. SLATES of Seattle and A. M. Crocker eC
Portland, who are associated with the B. C.
Dan company of this city, are jaeats at tile
Fairmont.
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HAEVEY ADAMS and SjlTester AnjeU, busi
nessmen of Eureka, are guests at tie Arso
nant.
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CAPTATK PLATT and Mrs. Platt of Benlcia
are guests at the Stewart.
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C. H. KETCH AM, a businessman of Sacramento, '
is staying at the Stewart.'
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A. L. NICHOLS, a hardware merchant of Chlco,
- is a guest at the Palace.
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R. . J. . XATTHEWSO2T, county clerk of Santa
Cruz, Is at the Dale.
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HAEEY WHITE et Los Angeles Is staying at
the St. Francis. - *"\u25a0;/
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JUDGE PETES J. SHIELDS of Sacramento is
at the Palace.
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C. E. HOXSEB, a mmm? man of Nerada, Is at
the Stanford. • '.*'~^
C. C. CATE of Portland and Mrs. Cats ir« at
the Colonial. '
W. K. BROWN of Hollliter is rezlsterel at the!
St. Francis. . ""
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M..L. JOSEY, an oil operator". ' is registered at
the Palace.
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W. F. PBICE of Portland is a guest at the SC
. . Francis.