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..INSURGENCY'S great victory, in the Kansas primaries is
I . instructive as well as gratifying. All the forces of the stand
.* patters were concentrated on the state in a furious campaign
for control. Speaker Cannon spent the better
part of a month making profane and frenzied
harangues an.d imploring the voters to turn
down the insurgents, with the result that six
2J out of .eight standpat candidates for congress'
/were rejected at the primaries, while 1 Murdock and Madison, stal
; wart champions of the insurgent cause, were wholly unopposed.
.; The vote insures a Kansas delegation in the lower house of congress
comprising eight progressives as against two standpatters.
With Nebraska and South Dakota strongly pledged, to the
insurgent cause and Kansas in line the political trend of the middle
west is clearly denned and shows how popular sentiment is moving.
In Ohio the standpatters won a sort of compromise victory, which
places on that faction the chief obligation to defeat Governor
Harmon for re-election. It was a victory of dubious advantage.
. The whole campaign, of course, is. nothing more than- a pre
liminary struggle for control of the republican'; party, in 1912, -and,
things seem to be coming the way of the insurgents. The conflict
will be fought out within the ranks of the republican party, not
withstanding the futile rage of the j^ead-outers," Wickersham and
Cannon and the rest of .the. tribe.
The political situation as it stands is outlined by the new
•York Globe, an independent republican newspaper:
j:.,. That the decay of. ihe old partisanship, under which the "outs"
/vigilantly watched the "ins," is a great loss in many respects no person
of serious mind will deny. . But regret over this fact does not remove or
, obscure the fact that the decay has occurred. As Speaker Cannon and his
;. associates on many occasions have dickered with the minority and as
x \u25a0: \u25a0.\u25a0\u25a0 Cannon has been a partner to coalitions himself, he can not with good "
.;,; grace complain if others play the game according to the. same rule. What
. . is to be the outcome no one, of course, can predict. There is no evidence \u25a0
of the rise of small gronp partres such as flourish on the European co\i
.:\u25a0 tinent with government carried on by a bloc. Efforts along these lines
by the populists and during the last few years by Hearst have failed. Nor
;.". is the new national party idea, though widely exploited, ta be taken .
;•. '.seriously. So far as the republican progressives, or insurgents,' are con
: . cerned. it is possible that they will either, capture the republican party or
. be suppressed. It is certainly significant that not a single conspicuous
. . :- .republican "insurgent"' has announced, his intention of leaving, the old
. party to start a new. Mr. Wickersham and Mr. Cannon tell them to go,
• but they won't. -V . % \u25a0
\u25a0 Standpatters
] Suffer Dis
astrous Defeat
1
The insurgent cause is irresistible, and the standpatters are
riding for a fall. They neither learn "anything nor*do they forget.
They would keep the government in the old rut of subservience to
the special interests that have for years financed their campaigns.
The country is tired of them and their servile politics and*they t see
the brains and honesty of the nation are. arrayed against them. . -;
SECRETARY BALLINGER won't resign; he won't, he won't,
he won't. The Ballinger person protests too much 1 . . Senator
Crane of Massachusetts, in hfis well " known capacity of" the
political Mr. "Fixit, was"^\u25a0diplomatically "dele
gated with all due reserve' from exalted quar
ters to inform Mr.. Ballinger that -he -was too
much of a load. to carry in view of the existing
embarrassing circumstances, but} the /secre
tary is nojt the sort that takes a hint unless it should assume the
shape of being kicked downstairs. -/c'^', • ), \
• . . Senator Crane, smoothest of diplomats, caught Ballinger on
-the fly in the middle west and conveyed to him in a modest, way
• the prevailing sense of. the secretary's political superfluity, but the
'•man from Seattle^ is not given to paying much attention to the
;.: obscure intimations of diplomacy. He will stick it out and Mr.
.-Crane, may go home. Ballinger belongs to the tribe of which few
;:.die and none resigns. }//- ' .
\u25a0V>\."Thc secretary of the interior is not deeply concerned*6ver the
'\u25a0-' difficulties of the republican party created by his persistence %in
\u25a0 office. He. is looking out for his own skin, and yet he should know,
"\u25a0•; if "he has any political sense, that his . elimination is merely a
question of time. If he is not impervious to light he might read
• the returns from Kansas with profit -to his own comfort at a
;• .not distant period. It is more agreeable to walk out than to be
thrown out. ' \u25a0\u25a0
Ballinger
Protests
Too Much
SAN. FRANCISCO'S supervisors are considering, a proposition*
tojaise the charter limit of municipal taxation from $1 to $1.25.'
: While the citizens may see with regret the .passing -of tile
traditional dollar limit, under which the, city
has prospered in the past, the fact is; that/
owing to; Circumstances ; over which neither
the. tax payers nor the municipal^ officers have
.. any control, that limit as a practical' measure
has teen defunct ever since the fire. •\u0084... ;^- j
Successive boards of supervisors have evaded the dollar; limitj
r year aft ex year in the name of "emergency/' j arid : it is quite; time that
• we should come to recdgiiizeina-lfigal way; the* accomplished facts j
As things. stand, the municipal government has on one excuse
or another evaded the law for three yearfe' past and has of necessity
imposed taxes of doubtful legality. .The good sense and forbearance
of the tax payers has prevented any attack on these : leyie§Ym the
courts, .but we can* not always rely; onVcontinuarice' of this" policy.'
If the courts should, hold that these taxes were illegally impose** a
. very embarrassing situation would be created for the city: It seems
" time to put the law straight In accord with our necessities. v
.San Francisco must-come; to : recognize that the big fire created
an extraordinary situation that demands special measures "for
" adequate and competent handling. The, dollar limit^ has;; become
impossible in practice and we must make up bur mindsjto a higher
scale of taxation, riot .forgetting that even with the new limit "tHe
burden of municipal taxation will: still be lower in Sari [Francisco
than in most cities of America and less than in any. other : important
the
Dollar Limit
Impracticable
EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE CALL
It l^oks Like the; FinisK
IT has been discovered by the Chicago Tribune that the railroads
have an ingenious plan to persuade the administration that
shippers as a body are in favor of "a reasonable advance of
- rates.". For some time the mails have been
loaded with letters . from shippers addressed
to Mr.' Taft and making half hearted indorse
m.eht of the proposition to. raise freight rates.
_ It might.be considered a suspicious Qircum^
stance that nearly, all these letters come from railroad supply "men
directly dependent on the transportation-companies for business. ?
It is not forgotten that some time ago these /supplymen at the
instigation of the railroads set afoot a nation wide propaganda to
demonstrate that the -roads were 1 justly entitled fb, higher > rates.
\u25a0The newspaper offices were industriously bombarded with "litera
ture," but the special pleading based on. half, truths was so manifest
that the propaganda fell flat and mostly •the- stuff went into* the
waste paper basket... Now the railroads are'tryirig the same game
on Mr. Taft with the same materials. and machinery in. the hope that
he may prove more credulous than the newspapers.
The game .was proceeding ;rnerrily,",if not prosperously, when a
letter turned up in the president's mail written- by"; some' inconsid
erate and- too candid supplyman, who. with' one fell' kick 'upset the
apple cart. The" writer demonstrated in- the first' place that the
railroads were paying greatly, reduced prices' for their. supplies, and
secondly that they were in fact making large profits an.cl paying
.diyidends.pn their ..business. . We quote' t frbm the .letter some com
parisons as to iron manufactures in use by the railroads : . s'e -.
"•V "Malleable* castings" in 1880. when the. writer! started at Rochelle.
A Well
Worn Railroad
Stratagem
."brought 6J4"to 7 cents~a' pound' >\u25a0 \u25a0\u25a0"-.•\u25a0•• .".,:-•..;>•
The first pig iron we used there I think we- paid- $45 a ton for.. .Today
' malleable castings are selling for 3}4 cents per pound and less in many
c^s'es, and pig iron is worth .$lB a ton, and wages' 'are materially higher
\u25a0: •: than they were in 1880. . ' •\u25a0 . »- V- \u25a0 \ : ; .: ' '
. We have cheapened the cost through improved methods, and a larger -'
output, notwithstanding the advance Un common labor,"; and '._ we Believe,
the railroads \ today are handling* their freight at a I great deal less per ton |
| per mile'than they did thirty, years ago, .when wages ( were~ lower; ; I,
' - ~Certainly, ?/ the roads have nearly all -been able' to make a- good show
ing the la9t year, and we do not' think it right to wring out, of us any
heavier profits. \u25a0 \u25a0 : ' \u25a0
:V: V Further/ increasing freight rates is not always a gain to the railroads,
because each time you push up the rate "you; cut away some of your
businessand youcause factories to seek other localities. -
The writer instances the case of the Crane company of Chicago,
the largest fitting manufacturer in the world. Advances in rates
have compelled this company to manufacture its goods for the
eastern and the California trade in New York because it is. unprofit
able to pay railroad transportation from the middle west-tp 1 either
coast and they can be sent' from New York to California by sea.
- This entertaining Jittle ; episode is quite in line with the accus
tomed tactics of the; railroads. They neveW seem ;to tire: of "literary
bureaus" financed at no inconsiderable/cost:.; The .device v has been
exposed : a hundred times and it has* never effected anything, but
they /still keep- at it. -Indeed, we i learn /that another rbureau^of the
sort is in^contemplation to preach the'same old gospel with renewed
vigor and plenty of money behind it- This bergoodfriews
to a lot of lameducks in the.newspaper trade. J\pply to E. P. Ripley:
SACRAMENTO shows.; up -well in the 'federal census returns
with an increase of population in the 1 a st^ ten years/ amounting
; to; 52.^ per current yearns- official "enumeration
-"figures up" 44,696, \u25a0> as- coiripared with 29^282
. in"1900.; \u25a0 ) ""\u25a0-. : : ::y : -7^'~':^ r 'y\' ---
\u25a0 ..« 'These jare. satisfactory figures, Jbut they
:>do-not in fact tell the'whole^truth; .because the
-city of :Sacrarnento; is surrounded by : "populous
a^umportaht; suburbs vthat are really part; of the saroetcommunity
and contributeTto^ its s trade: \u25a0; It'isf reasonable :t6: t6 -say/ that -the/popu-i
lation of the urban 'area centering; in Sacramento is mpre^j than
55,000. Among ;these^ suburbs abutting on^the charter-limits /are
Oak Park,^Highland; Park,; Curtis ;Oaks.and other^. In -time
communities will see fit to become legally// as they are
actually, a -part of Sacramento: • • • \u25a0 - "" '
; ;in;a ; ;trade and rmanufacturingr sense Sacramentoholds a strong
strategic .position (at head of /water transport ation|and ; \s the
junction/ point of ,so many • importanti/railways: The -townspeople
are. actuated by an enlightened and' harmonious spirit iqV; process
an^they are getting; results; as the figureiof rpbpulation (mavyserve
to demonstrate* ,\u25a0 -^ ;—>\u25a0- "\u25a0 — -i___;.. I^. ; r;/_ r - : _ :.- ;^-^^-—^- : "--^'---j
Sacramento's
Big Gain
in! Population
Answers to Queries
•ENGLISH VOTERS— H. H.. City. What are
the 'property-- qualifications for roters in Eng
land? What are the other qualifications for Tot
ers ?. ' , : ,\u25a0 . \u25a0
Property qualifications are restricted
to counties and to: such .boroughs as
have county rights. They are the hold
ings .of arr estae (1) in freehold of the
annual .value ;of 40 shillings; (2) of
lands in-life tenure of the annual value
of £s^Bterlirig; J(3) hold on lease of at
least 60 years of the annual Value of
15 sterling, or of at least .20 years of
the .annual value of £20 sterling:.
Throughout the United Kingdom, in
counties, ocupation which. Is- rated r for
the support of the poor, and for which
the rates have been paid for the pre
scribed time, constitutes a qualification,
but in English boroughs the occupation
franchise Is associated with six months'
residence.- -Every inhabitant occupier
who has for 12 months inhabited a
-rated dwelling house for which the
rates : have been paid is entitled to
registration, and lodgers occupying for
12 months the same lodging which
have a rental value of £10 sterling »•
year may have a vote.
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KITAO GLYCERINE— T. H. O. T C. City,
What is the exploslye force of nltro glycerine?
; Eissler In "Modern High Explosives"
says: "The liquid nitro gycerlne is '.very
little: used in blasting operations,' but
It serves asa base In the manufacture
of the high explosives which come into
the market under the generic name of
dynamite. In Tysklorg, Sweden, in
hard granite in. a bore hole 11 feet^T
inches deep a charge of 4 U pounds of
dynamite brought down 560,000. pounds
Of rock, or one pound of dynamite pro
duced 130,000 pounds of rock. In' a
bore hole 12 feet deep and 2 inches In
diameter,'. 4»4 pounds brought down
800,000. pounds of rock, or 1 pound of
dynamite . produced 180,000 pounds of
rock." .
* NAVY DISCHARGE.-A Subscriber, City.
Having had my \u25a0 discharge \u25a0 from the United
States jiavy destroyed by the fire of 1J)O6, to
which department of the navy shall I apply for
a duplicate? :,' ..''..'\u25a0\u25a0
-Address your -request to the navy
department, Washington, : D. C, and it
will be transmitted* to the proper
officer. "
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\u25a0RANK OF NAVIES— S., City. Give the names
of the leading naval powers of the world in the
order of rank.-
Great Britain ranks first; United
States second; Germany third;. Japan
fourtfi; France, fifth, and Russia, which
for. a time' was the third, Is now the
eighth. , v • \u25a0 -,'/;<
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ARMY AND NAVY— Subscriber. Snn Jo«e.
Where can I obtain, in alphabetical order, the
: names of - all who were enlisted from Ireland
Into "the British navy from 1545 to l«60? Also
the number of British vessels .in the navy during
those years?,/ >; - -. "^
with the lord commis
sioners "of the admiralty, London. "
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' : CHANTECLER— Subscriber.. City.- What made
the :name -.-"chantecler" so popular "of late and
what does ;it mean ';'.-" \u25a0':
' -It became popular because of V the
Interest tin \u25a0 Rostand's^ play, "Chantecler."
Itiis from the French ."chanter," to. sing
and "clair," clear. . . r^^^®
',:{ WRITTEN OBUGATlOX— Subscriber. , Ala
merla. Has the -law of jCallfornia. been, changed
aßi- toi'the limitation ";in -which an •\u25a0 action on a
.written -instrument Imay-.be,' commenced^" or is it
the Bame;as;it,was-five'yearsago? .
;K .There -has- been no change in 'that
law. ;:•: \u25a0 ! . ; --'- \u25a0; r \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0 --\u25a0 \u0084 i' T':^--'-
;,-*-*\u25a0 . •\u25a0 -< ' \u25a0 ' ' >' - -\u25a0\u25a0'-\u25a0 \u25a0 \u25a0 1 .'- •
E. S.; Clty.TjMy, discharge from
: thearinyiof the. United ;States was destroyed in
a recentflre.";.. To whom; shall: I apply for a copy
;Of the same? _ '.'-*\u25a0 : :. ,' : v'\: :C" :'\u25a0'
fr^Write' to the*' war department, Wash
ingtpn,' D.C. ; ." •\u25a0.-:: v j 1 - „-• . % -•
;-\u25a0',• ..-. - \u25a0•: \u25a0'• :--. •-'.-.•", ..:-. v 1;v 1 ; .-..-. .;.
; r TREATIES— Subscriber. City..:. Where can I
l!lnd -the- treaties between -the United States and
other 'nations?'; -.. ,-' % ' ', ,'/ \. ' .". r . •
•• ; ilh' ! the -reference; rpom of the.: free
library -in: Hayes street,, near Frank
iin: ;^v' ; ; ;-v^-; ; ;,; .^^f'% -\u25a0 \u25a0• ."\u25a0 \u25a0 : \u25a0. -
-;\u25a0-\u25a0'-.'"\u25a0"" \u25a0.-..\u2666> ; -' :\u25a0•\u25a0'. -.*-\u25a0.\u25a0
;"i ALOHA— New ! Arrlral, < Oakland. -What is the
meaning of the Hawaiian v word '.'aloha" ?
'i It :'is>a" salutation and 'means love,
affection, \u25a0*. 'gratitude, .kindness- and
pretty./,.. '.
i\PASS— C.iE. 8.. Pre?ldio^. - Is -"pass" .'pro
nounced with!. the sound of a as in at or that of
a in far? -''*^^BS&i' : - S'' : *•'"
;., The best k pronunciation v is midway
between.the two. :. . *
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T LEGISLATURE— F. ; R? S.; ', City. How many
•tate : senators , and i how.. many assemblymen . art
; tfcere ln:thejlegi«ilatm* ;of : CUitornlmf -»-. l: •\u0084 j -
1 ,-A ! rbrty/ \u25a0\u25a0ehators'fandp 80 . aßsemblymenr
INSURGENTS WON
ON THE TARIFF
Taft Made "Goat" of . Fight
'In Kansas by the
Standpatters
EMPORIA, Kas., Aug. 3.— William
Allen White says in the Emporla
Gazette today f ? ii "X -h /
"The fight to free the\republican
party of Kansasvfrom the domination
of the gr^at business -interests of the
east Is won. The fight was won on a
moral side .of "the- tariff issue!
"Little, else ' was discussed. Little
else interested the people. When
Bristow, Murdock, Stubbs ' and Cum
mins talked to the people of Kansas
they turned out by the acre. When
Senator Curtis and the stand pat con
gressmen tried to make Taft the issue,
the people .turned away. Taft was
dragged into this fight. as a shield for
his friends. He was battered down
unnecessarily in order -to rebuk«
those who sought to hiJe behind him.
His share in the defeat is none the
less humiliating because his friends,
thosa whom he consulted.and favored
in.Kansas matters, selfishly brought
his name into the contest. ..",-.,•
"The men who are making the fight
fpr a free state ignored Taft. His
name was not mentioned In any way
by those who were making the insur
gent fight. But stand patters from. the
governor down to the congressmen
said.' 'a vote against, us Is a vote
against Taft.' so the people voted
against the stand patters and let the
inference go where it would. This is
unfortunate, but Taft ha»i his cowordly
friends, who hoped to conjure with his
name, to thank for t^e' -result 'of the
issue. x
"In state matters the result in the
same. Senator Curtis and his machine
were looking for trouble. They faked
up a tax issue that afty child- could see
in a moment was a pure Jugglery of
words and foolery. Curtis lined him
self up behind Taft's coat tail, brought
out a candidate for govertfbr. poured
thousands from big interests into Kan
sas, made the Issue squarely between
himself and Stubbs, and Stubbs won
by an overwhelming majority. It was
Curtis who dragged Taft into. it. It
was Curtis who said that a vote - for
Stubbs was a vote against Taft* and the
people accepted -that issue and nearly
doubled Stubbs' majority of two years
ago. But Taft was not'the issue in
this fight. The rebuke for him was
merely political, not fundamental. The
issue was tariff— the moral side of tar
•iff. . vn: : '-:^:.^- : 1 -'
- "The newspapers more than any
other one agency won this fight for a
free state. And now Kansas joins the
ranks of. the free states that have re
pudiated Cannonism and the domina
tion of Aldrich. In the whole west not
a republican state convention has in
dorsed the Payne-Aldrich bill. Kansas
will not. Kansas' is free. The repub
lican party is- free. We are now free
men in Kansas, ready with the old
Kansas spirit to serve a free, progres
sive country." .
Gossip of Railwaymen
ffi remember old Mac Donald," started
1 in Uncle Hughie yesterday. "Mac
was a .freight conductor. He was
placed in charge of a passenger
train at one time and it was terribly
hard for him to get usej to the plush
seats and other Pullman furniture. On
his first trip out he had, orders that
had to be delivered to the engineer at
a certain station.
"A few miles before the station was
reached Mac started for the end of the
car. He hit the aisle and becarme con
fused 1 at the mirrors and couldn't find
his wa"y to the platform. Finally he
pulled the bell rope, stopped the train.
Jumped through one of the windows
and delivered the orders to the engi
neer. •
"Mac wasn't so foolish, though, as
many people thought him. He was a
married man, but one day his wife,
who had become tired of- a railroading
husband,, secured a divorce ' with $40
a month alimony. The divorce dldn*'t
bother Mac very much but he hated to
pay that alimony. One day when the
$40 was due he phoned, to his. ex-wife
to. meet him at a certain corner.
.. '.'He took her to lunch, poured sweet,
words into her ear and finally led! her
to the office of the Justice of the peace
and had the marriage knot tied again.
They lived together for about three
months apparently happy. Mac came
home one afternoon and informed her
that he had secured a divorce against
her and that he did not have to pay
any alimony. . .
''No, Mao wasn't as simple as people
thought."
•• - •
Phil K. Gordon, Pacific coast agent
of the Washington-Sunset rout*, re
turned yesterday fr6m a trip to
Oregon.
George Lippman, traveling passenger
agent of the Mt. Tamalpias road,
piloted three hundred osteopaths, to
the top of the .mountain yesterday. It
was reported that an attempt would be
, made to straighten out the crooked
ness' of the roaJ, but C. ' F. Runyon,
president of the. road, denied the story.
' *-:\"^-' - * * - ' •
It was reported yesterday that the
mother of T. A. Graham, assistant
general freight and passenger agent
of the Southern Pacific at Los Angeles,
was very ill in this city.
J. H. Brown, .traffic manager of the
Las Vegas and Tonopah, with bead
quarters a^ Tonopah, is ! in"the city at
tending a meeting 'of "traffic'men of
the Pacific coast. '\u25a0\u25a0
\'-* • •
H. C. Piculell, Pacific coast' agent of
the Baltimore and Ohio, Is distributing a
handsome folder advertising the forty
fourth national encampment of the G.
A. R. to be held at Atlantic City. Sep
tember 19-24. Photographs of At
lantic City,, a, full, list of the hotels'
and -a general description of the work
( S IN THE -NEWS
FHANK PEDLAH, assistant superintendent Of"
the San, Francisco mint, arrWed in Washing
ton, D/c.? yesterday on government business.
••'.'. • • ' • ..
0. A. ROBERTSON ot\ St. v Paul, who is Inter
ested in, an irrigation project in the Sacra
,mento ralley, Is staying at the St. Francis.
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J. J. BIRMINGHAM, chief Inspector of the Fa*
cine 'car demurrage'/ bureau, is at the St.
\u25a0 Francis," registered from Los Angeles.
DAVID GOOD ALE, « mining _man of Trinity
county. . Is in town on business ' and is making
. bis headquarters at the Stewart.'
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C. B. JOY-of Sna Jose, H. H. Dexter. Of R«ao
• -and Rollin I!. -Harris of Fresno' make \u25a003 a
' 'group of guests at the. Manx. .
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ROBERT &. SCHRATJBSTADTER of St. Lonis,
\ who - has . mining 'Interests 'In Idaho, la regis
tered at the St. -Francis.
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EUGENE S.VWACHHoßS3\ district attorney for
'- Sacramento county, is at the St. Francis with
his .family.'- : '
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W.G. BABNWELL, general freight a;ent of
• the Santa Fe . at ' Los "Angeles, " ia registered at
A. jHEITBY. ATOKG, .a. capitalist, of . Honolulu.
»if jotaed [the , Ulan* colony - ftt tti» Stewart jw
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AUQUST 4, 1910
TALES OF CITY
IN MAGAZINES
Current Fiction Pictures San
Francisco in j the
V Magazines •
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Two stories appearing In current
magazines have attracted a great deal
of attention in San Francisco. In.
"Strange' Ports." in the \u25a0 -' American *~
magazine. John Fleming Wilson tells '
of an old captain of the Pacific Mall
line who resigned his ship on the
Panama run,, fitted out a schooner with,
a cutthroat crew and went off into •
oriental seas purely in quest of the
sort of excitement and hand to hand
cutlass adventure he had missed when
hjs was young at sea and which all tha
other sea doss seemed to have had. O.
course he found what he was after, ,
and the yarn is a ripping one.
On the water- front they have- been
"trying to spot the captain who serves
as the chief character^ of th« story.
When asked, about the matter one o2 -^
the Pacific ; Mail liner captains re- '
marked:
"No, I never did anything of tha
'sort. I was just about to do this very
thing", but somebody grave me awayj
and now my family set a watch on mi
the moment I get into' port. No clear
ing for 'strange ports' for me now."
The other story. "Maggie Mulreß* .
nin — Mudhen." 'by Peter Kyne. ap
peared In the Saturday Evening Post.
It is "a* story of the early days s»4
later days In the stock exchange,
Maggie Mulrennin.
wanted to- make a modest pile and gt>
back to look after the old folks In
Ireland. A rich broker, whose shirts
she polished, gave her the tip that
made* her a big pile, but she didn't go
back to Ireland. For 40: years ah*
stayed and played the market, some
times In big luck, but eftener wltlt
little or no money at all. How sh« .
saved the son of her benefactor from
financial ruin on her deatbjbed makes
a mighty good climax. !
Some of the gray haired men down .
on 'change don't seem to remember tha
circumstances of that climax, but they
all recognize the heroine, of the tale.
She was Katie O'Hara. who died a year
or so ago, and a lot of the things told
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j Flavor of Tobacco I
Tobacco owes Its flavor largely to
the process of curing which the leaves
"undergo after being stripped from the -
plant. Thi3 process has generally been,
attributed to the action of bacteria,
which have been found in considerable
numbers on the dry leaves, or to that
of ferments developed by the leaves
themselves. Recently, however, says
the University Correspondent, it has
beenahown that the so called fer
mentation of tobacco Is simply «. pro
cess of oxidation., In which Iron salts
play an essential part as catalytic
agents, without the Intervention of
either bacteria or ferments. 1 ' \u25a0
to be taken up at the encampment ar©
included in the pamphlet.
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B. F. Coons, comme?clal agent of the
Rock Island lines, with headquarters
at Los Angeles, is In the city, on bust-*
ness. * " "" -:-- \u25a0 --:
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Through equipment will go only a$
far as Denver on the first passenger
trains of the Western Pacific, accord
ing to ah announcement - made at the
offices of that road yesterday. Later*
on, j^s the passenger traffic begins to>
show an increase, the trains will go on
through to St. Louis and Chicago. The
schedule of the passenger trains so far*
announced is as follows:
No. 3 — Leave Salt Lake City 14:301
p. m. Arrive Western Pacific mole 11:30
a. m. .}' '
Xo. 4 — Leave San Francisco 6 p. m.
Arrive Salt Lake 8 a. m.
The local trains between this city
and Oroville will be known as Xos.
7 and 8. No. S leaving this city at
8:30 in the morning, arriving at Oro-«
ville at 4:45 p. m. No. 7 will leave Oro- .
ville at 7:30 a. m. and arrive In this
T. F. Brosriahan, commercial a^ent
of the Western Pacific at Fresno, .was
in the city yesterday on business. ;
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William F. Schmidt, general western
agent of the Missouri Pacific, returned
yesterday morning from Chicago, where
he was In. attendance at a general
meeting of the traffic officials of ths
Gould lines.
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R. W. Hobart. general agent of tha
Santa Fe at Fresna, was in the city
J. QZ. Patton. traveling freight an«J
passenger agent of the Western Paci-.
flc, headquarters at San Jose. Is in
the city for a couple of days.
"Sights and Scenes from the Caf
Windows," is a. 130 page booklet giv
ing brief descriptions of the principal
towns along the line of the Union Paci
fic from Council Bluffs to San Fran
cisco, intended for the use of passen
gers on that Hn*. Interesting points;
each community are brought out,
and photographs are used to illustrate
the descriptions. Another booklet
describes the automatic electric bloclc
signals In use on the entire line.
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G. W. Hamilton, chief dispatcher of
the third and fourth districts of t!\»
Western Pacific at Portola. has b*e(|:
appointed train master of the first arv^~
second districts, with office at Wlnne
mucca, Nev.; succeeding O. Meadows,
resigned.
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C. K. Junkins has been appointed a .
traveling freight agent of the 1 Western
Pacific, with, offices in this city. -
H. H. TaOW3aiDGE and Hrory J. Strrw*.
attorneys of Los Angeles, are guests at tb«
Palace.
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J. C. BHOWN. a hotelmnn . ©f »w Orleans, fc*
at the St. Francis wita Mrs. Brown.
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K.-J. FRnanOERBERO, a manufacturers' ag«n<
from Xew York, Is at the Tnrpia.
DB. BOISE BEALE of Kew*York'f a amon* tha
recent arrlrals *c tie I'alrmont.
MS. AND MBS. L. CBOGER of Lo» AngelM
•re zuests at the Fairmont.
H. : B. BASCXOFT, aa an^nobll* m*a flora
>lo<lf sto, _fr at the Date.
L. J. ABB A MS. a real estate man from Stoc*.
[ ton. Is v at the Stanford.
y. C.WH.SO2Ca commercial maa from Fm«s
is; at the Bflmont. \u25a0-
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C. HTX3TON. a jeweler from Ann Arbor?*' Sllch.,
' Is "at the Turpin. '. 5 \u25a0
J. H. TICCIADO, a merchant from Jackson, U"" !
C. H. MAA3, . a merchant- from, Tnohnnne^ \m \\
0.-JACOBSO3T from Sws«ea is art2ft-Beli»0Bi