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PRESUMABLY, though the press dispatches are obscure, the
house committee on interstate commerce regarded Representa
tive Knowland's amendment to the bill for regulation of canal
—■ 1 tolls as incapable of enforcement. Mr. Know
land desires that any steamship line in which
j an overland railroad company owns an interest
shall be excluded from use of the canal. There
To Maintain
Competition by
the Canal
may. perhaps, be some doubt as to whether a
provision of this sort would be constitutional. Another amendment,
offered by Representative Covington of Maryland, makes a pretense
of seeking to accomplish the same purpose. The Covington amend
ment would exclude from use of the canal all ships of a steamship
company owned by a railroad. This amendment is, of course, mean
ingless, because it would only apply to a case where a railroad owned
all the stock of the steamship line. The Southern Pacific does not
< \vn the Pacific Mail Steamship company, but does control its man
agement and policy by reason of holding 50 per cent of the stock.
However congress may deside to settle this question, it is most
desirable that either free use or a substantial differential shall be
given to American shipping of independent ownership and not sub
ect to railroad control. It may not be possible to exclude altogether
from the canal ships controlled by the overland railroads, but they
should not be admitted on equal terms with independent shipping.
If the railroads are permitted to use the canal on equal terms, they
will employ their privileges to kill off effective competition by sea.
as the Pacific Mail company was able to do with so much success
for many years.
It should be the object of congress so to regulate the canal
tolls that an independent mercantile marine shall be created. We
need ships of that character as auxiliaries for the fleet in time of
war, and we need them for purposes of legitimate competition by
si-a. which we shall not get if they are controlled by the railroads.
"^ USINESS pursuits and the gay night life of the "lobster
"\ palaces" and cafes do not hitch. They make bad neighbors,
J ~-* and the town is big enough for a separation of these phases
* 1 of urban life. As things are in San Francisco
the tenderloin encroaches on the business
quarter to the serious injury of the latter.
The associations of the night life resorts
i j and their adjuncts keep decent people away.
night and day, from their neighborhood. Women who go
shopping down town do not care to come in contact or in sight of the
dubious crowd that hangs about such places at all hours of the day
and night.
This question is not new in San Francisco. Under a former
municipal administration certain business men and merchants signed
a petition which, being granted, proved their own undoing. They
imagined that legitimate business would be helped by the proximity
of doubtful resorts, but a brief experiment on the lines which they
desired was sufficient to demonstrate how greatly they had been
mistaken.
The same question is now up once more for consideration by
the mayor and the police commission. Improper and licentious
dancing is encouraged at resorts on the edge of the business quarter
in the neighborhood of the hotels. These practices give the city a
bad name among visiting strangers and their environment makes
the neighborhood of the hotels undesirable for decent* people. Vice
must not be flaunted openly in the very heart of the city, and the
resorts must observe the decencies of life.
Tenderloin and
Decent Business
Bad Neighbors
,T T 7TTII 15 new vessels under construction in this city for
VV the coastwise trade, the shipbuilding and the shipping busi
* * ness of this port is looking up. An important factor in
—I promoting this commerce is cheapness and
availability of fuel oil in California. A large
steel steamship is one of the vessels for which
the keel is about to be laid, and its engines will
_! be operated with crude petroleum. It will be
• a lumber carrier and will be used as soon as launched to lay down
cargoes at Panama for canal construction.
Doubtless in time all steamships operated on the Pacific ocean
.ill use our fuel oii for making steam. The agent of an Australian
hipping line is here now inquiring about supplies of crude petroleum
■ this purpose. His company is building oil burners and will
i'•inert its ships already in commission to the same installation.
The other day a representative of the great English Cunard company
'was litre to ask about oil supplies for operation of its proposed line
of ateatpships to be established between San Francisco and European
ports after the canal is opened.
( If course, all this means the establishment of extensive oil
sop dons on the islands of the Pacific and at Panama.
I Oil Promotes
the Local
; Shipping Trade
A SI )< \X<iK confusion of issues appears to have governed the
/ \ Seattle municipal election. The vote for mayor between Gill
and Cotterill was almost microscopically close, Gill having
failed to improve to any material extent on
his poll at the primary election. All the other
miscellaneous elements, single taxers, social
ists and good government people united on
Cotterill.
Mixed Results
in Seattle
Election
In the primary election Cotterill ran as a representative of the
EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE CALL
Wait Till This One Gets in the
Ring—Not Yet, but By and By
single tax faith, but this election does not mean that Seattle is
committed to that policy, because, in fact, a single tax amendment
to the charter was overwhelmingly beaten. Gill, on the other hand,
was believed to be in favor of a '"wide open town," but his defeat
does not necessarily mean that the ltd will be shut tight. The
original candidate who favored a "closed town" was decisively
defeated at the primary and thereby eliminated from the final poll.
Indeed, the primary election showed some instructive results in that
three parties, single taxers, socialists and good government, polled
from 10,000 to 15,000 votes apiece. In the final result these three
parties united forces in a general way to beat Gill, but the election
does not prove anything in particular, unless it is that a small
majority of the Seattle people do not favor a "wide open town." »
ATTENTION is drawn to some inside history of great moment
to the Pacific coast by certain disclosures made by Senator
Lodge of Massachusetts in his recent speech on the arbitration
——— treaties. His scarcely veiled statement is taken
to supply a partial explanation of the mobiliza
tion of the United States army last summer
on the southern border.
As a member of the foreign relations com
mittee. Mr. Lodge is in a position to have exact knowledge of the
facts, which hitherto have only been guessed at in the newspapers.
We quote:
Suppose, for example, some great eastern power should, directly or
indirectly, take possession of a harbor on the west coast ol Mexico for
the purpose of making it a naval station and a place of arms. I am using
no imagination in suggesting such a case. It is not very long since an
indirect movement was begun, and it is apparently still on foot, to obtain
possession for a foreign power of Magdalena bay, so I may fairly suppose
that such a case might arise. Tf it did. we should immediately intervene.
We should declare that this wai a violation of our constant policy known
as the Monroe doctrine. The nation seeking the station on the coast of
Mexico would then say: "Very well, let us take this to arbitration."' We
could not help ourselves, for under the terms of the treaty either party
to a dispute can bring the other before the high commission of inquiry,
and the Monroe doctrine would then be submitted to them by us as a
Kir n thf arhitrahilitv of the nuestion.
Some Inside
Pacific Coast
History
Of course, the senator nominally states a supposititious case, and
does not name the nation that sought a foothold at a strategic point
in Lower California, but he has said enough to indicate Japan. No
man holding his high position of responsibility and means of inside
knowledge of the complications of diplomacy would have gone so
far had he not been certain of his facts.
People heard a great deal of this matter last summer, but in
a vague way, and the reports were given no official confirmation.
Xow, as the Boston Transcript remarks, Senator Lodge is not the
man to "pick up a vagrant report" and use it in an official way.
Indeed, he. expressly said that it was not an imaginary case that he
was putting, and he added that the attempt to take over Magdalena
bay was "apparently still on font." As a member of the foreign
relations committee, Mr. Lodge must know the facts.
Magdalena bay, on the Lower California peninsula, is about
as good a harbor as San Francisco bay.
ALL the candidates in either camp of the great^national parties
have declared for a peaceful campaign, with no resort to disa
greeable or annoying personalities. It is proclaimed on all
• ■ { sides to be a campaign of gentlemanly tone,
concerned only with the discussion of exalted
principles, more or less abstract in character.
\ These are the orders for headquarters, and
, J there are eight of these political institutions
in full blast and boom at the national capital.
But on occasion a zealous subordinate grows aweary of plain
living and high thinking and gets back to his first love, the mud
bucket. Some of these apparently have broken loose in disregard
of orders or pledges and have been sending out anonymous circulars
attacking Woodrow Wilson in a highly personal way. This is
regarded as a breach of faith by the others and a disgraceful de
parture, from the new political etiquette. Senator Bankhead, in
announcing the opening of headquarters for Representative Under
wood, took notice of this breach of faith and good manners when
he said:
I wish the people of the country to know that we expect to go in on
the strength of our candidate, his high character, his well tried leadership,
his perfect sanity and poise, and his fidelity both to his friendships and
also to the- great and time honored principles of the democratic party.
If we are unable to win save through anonymous and unsigned attacks
on other candidates then we do not expect, or even care, to win.
The anonymous stuff attacking Woodrow Wilson prints his
celebrated letter, in which he expressed a wish that Bryan might be
"knocked into a cocked hat." This might not be so bad by itself,
were it not accompanied by ugly insinuations that the correspondence
implies affiliations with the Money Devil and his familiars in Wall
street.
How the
Peace of Politics
Was Broken
The Wilson people reply that they are amazed at the audacity
"of those behind this well greased and systematized movement to
boost one of the presidential candidates and assail another." They
do not say who is boosted, but we may have our suspicions.
So the brief peace of politics is broken and the gentlemanly
tone" is marred by hideous discord.
THIS EDITOR'S PAY
WAS SADLY BEHIND
Santa Fe Bookkeeper Finds
No Trace of Myste
rious Vouchers
THE Topeka State Journal brings
the following account of the trou
bles of both editors and railroads
in the state of Kansas:
"William Allen White, editor of the
Emporia, Kan.. Gazette, lately wrote
an article on the subject "How to Han
dle the Trusts." He took the position
that the trust is an economic tendency
of the times. "It is part of the human
development," he said. "This tendency
is bigger than the "supreme court. It
is the heart of humanity growing kind
lier and more trustworthy every year.
The benefits of the trust in saving
money to producers and consumers are
too obvious to be lightly thrown aside.
Putting men in jail, breaking up com
binations, and indicting trust magnates
will only muddy the water. It is the
evils of trusts, not the trusts them
selves, that must be broken."
The Ingalls, Kan., Beacon reproduced
Whiten article and commented thereon
as fnllows: "It should be remembered
that Bill Allen White draws a revenue
from the Santa Fe for writing «uch
brilliant articles. The editor of the
Beacon believes he could dope out Just
as hot stuff if he had his bread basket
well filled."
Yesterday the following letter from
White was received by J. R. Koontz,
general freight agent of the Santa Fe:
'The inclosed from the Ingalla Beacon
indicates that I am on the Santa Fe
payroll. This is gratifying. I should
like to have the man who is signing
my vouchers return the money he has
been spending all these years. Kindly
take this up with your auditor and
reply at your earliest convenience."
Koontz replied: "Dear Mr. White:
Nothing doing in the payroll line. I
fail to fln.l any official record of you
since the anti-pass law went into effect.
The Beacon man doubtless jumped to
the conclusion that any editor who is
not ready to throw the Interests' into
the creek must necessarily be in their
employ."
The case Involving the interchange
of traffic and .loint rates between the
Western Pacific and the Northern Elec
tric came before the state railroad com
mission yesterday and was put over for
20 riays upon the request of the carriers
Involved.
J. G. Lowe, district passenger agent
of the Western 5 Pacific, leaves for Elko.
Nev.. this morning, where he will assist
in ; the organization ; of a ; chamber; of
commerce. •<■-.:..' . :■,>■";
F. <"t. Athearn. manager of the bureau
of economics of t^he Southern Pacific,
spoke yesterday before the Chamber of
Commerce of Stockton.
Might Hire a Bouncer
"Have vqu a fireless cooker?"
"Yes; we're afraid to discharge her."
—Boston Transcript.
Abe Martin
Miss Fawn Lippincut has resigned
from th' Shakespeare club 'cause she
looks so ugly in nose glasses. Uncle
Nile's Turner's son arrived by freight
f day an talks ihterestln'ly o' spendin'
last night at th' JonesviUe sand bouse.
Sugar Situation Vs.
Abolition of Duty
JOHN L. HOWARD
president Alamedn Suear Company
" The ways and : means committee of -
the house of representatives in Wash
ington; intends : proposing to congress
the abolition ', of the duty on imported
sugar, and , to substitute an income tax .
as an item of national revenue. .
.;■■: The following * facts are familiar to
those engaged in; the sugar business,
but they are not well known to the
general public. ••' :;;..,-,
; : The existing rates ;of duty are, _ viz:
On: refined sugar, $1.90 per 100 pounds;
on raw sugar pt 96 degrees,' $1.68 per
100 pounds; on raw sugar from Cuba
(20 per cent'less).. $1.35 per 100 pounds. -
;;: Refined sugar is not imported.
: •; Cuban • raw; cane : sugar finds its - chief v
market in the United States because ; of.
the low rate of duty enjoyed and be
cause, under , ordinary - conditions, the
net results « are ; better than would be
realized on shipments -to Europe in
competition with the world's 'prices,
which are fixed in London and Ham
burg. ;"•',: x:^ 1 -::^:-<--\~:';-/
The world's sugar production '; and
consumption are so nearly; in balance
at ; about 16,000,000 tons that " any - f ail -
ure or credited report of •'shrinkage; in
the supply at any Important source of
production fs almost immediately re
flected in the price.
y The .i present 2 annual consumption in
the United States is set down at 3,500.
--i 000 .tons,* derived, from the following
sources: .
. ;■; '"";; "■'.■. ';'■■ -;V:'. -y--, ._ Ton*
Raw cane, duty paying, chiefly i from
-'.Cuba ..........i....................'• 1,800,000
Raw H cane, domestic from Porto Rico;: 300.000
Raw cane. domettic, from Louisiana;'.'. 300,000
Raw ■ cane, domestic, from Hawaiian
Islands ..;.......................... 500,000
Total raneVngar.1.'.vr............. 2.000.000
Beet sugar produced In United States.. 600,000
Total ..................... ... .3,500.000
Half of consumption is produced
in the United States and her depen
dencies, bur Porto Rico, Louisiana and
the; Hawaiian islands have practically
reached "the limit of their productive
capacity. . . ' ■
Therefore the hope of making the
nation entirely self-supplying lies ,in
the further expansion of the beet sugar
Industry, taking the 'capabilities
of th" wide expanse of territory, it ; is'
not difficult to conceive the .ability, of
the "i country to S produce the 'additional
1,800,000 tons of sugar' which are now
, purchased in foreign countries. .
The outturn of beet sugar in 1897
was 45,0<>0 tons, and In 1911 rit had
grown to 600,000 tons,, or about a sixth
of the nation's consumption. '".
In 1911 the output of refined sugar ■
was, viz.:
• : :■■■' ;, .■ :.-. -* -• -*-■■-,'*'- Tons'
Cane sugar imported" chiefly from • the ;
Hawaiian islands. 230,000
Beet sugar, local pr0ducti0n............. 162.000
v Total ...........;.........:.......; 412,000
It will be;noticed that in 1911 Cali
fornia produced about 27 per cent of
the total ;beet sugar. . '
, Upon the; basis of a yield of 10 tons
of,beets per acre and a sugar recovery
of' 15 J per cent" of the weight of I the
beets, the season of 1911 showed the
consumption ?of > 1,080.000 tons of beets
and the use |ofj 108. ; acres of state
land in sugar ; beet culture.. ; , r
:; - The constant 4 development of sugar
beet culture throughout the, United ;
States naturally led to the invasion of :
the markets that had been supplied by
the refiners of imported cane sugar,
and this recognized / and increasing
menace led the owners of eastern re
fineries-, to- an ; openc; and concentrated
attack on the beet sugar Industry by a
movement to induce congress to remove
the duty i on imported raw sugars. '
The , argument was made in favor of
the ultimate consumer, but when un
masked ;the real | reasons • for the attack
were found to be: r vr: ,
First—That; the. removal of the duty
would require the use of less capital in
the conduct of the large business; of
the cllne refiners. :.-■■-. >. - -
Second—lt was expected that the '
cheapening of the cost • would naturally
lead to a larger consumption and an '
Increase; in the volume of their busi
ness. . '> ■',•'•• - *' ,*■
Third -And, chiefly, that the further
progress of the beet sugar industry
would he checked, and that at least
some ,•■ of i, the 'less favored r beet\estab
lishments ? would he crippled and there
would be a gradual; restoration fto ? the
cane interests of their lost ; markets.
PERSONS IN THE NEWS
H. ;A. v-BUCK, general>agent of the passenger
•department, of the Pennsylvania, lines.: left -last
evening ', for the southern part of ithe. state to
meet Samuel Moody." paspenger"traffic manager,
with headquarters in Pittsburg. and C. 1,. Kirn
ball, assistant', general "passenger", agent,-"with
headquarters at Chicago.' He will accompany
. these 5 two .; officials ;to San Francisco.cis They
will arrive here Monday. * -"""-'
'■ - - .'**."*« :■.■ ■-..,.. ■■"...,;» ,
T. -C.-PECK,'; general passenger .agent *of the
San Pedro. Los-Angeles and Salt Lake railroad;
['■;• T. M. Sloan.; general freight ' agent, and '■ ; A. T.
- Lewis. ■ freight clerk are guests ;at the St.'
s 'Francis. V' - :•■' -: ;.' }■* • ; ;-j, _, t ... ' '
V ■''..-?■;•■ ,-;■ : * •-'•• -:'* ■"■'}'•'* ~:--\' r'-' •"■-■': '-::" ■ ;
DR. ;3TJLIA»» WALLER, house physician at the
. Palace, received ia £, wire yesterday r that , his
mother;was: dying ;in New j York. -l..Waller_ex
;•' pects to leave immediately for the east.
* * *
GORDON , CAMPBELL, a mining man of Na
tional, is at the i St." Francis. He brought
• report*;of: the 'uncoreVlng of • a large feln- of
bearing ore in 3 the new camp. f. . , ;'
' . ■ * v #.'.-#•'.* ''. , ' 1
H. E. ANDRESS and W. B. Miller, who are ■ en} (
,": gaged :; in r the ; manufacture _ of' auto} tire*, are
:'" at the . St.: Francis, registered : from f Akron, ;O.
* * - # ■-.-/.,,.,- =
ADAM X. LUKE," a \ banker of New ; York, is at>
• ; the" Fairmont > with s Mrs. , Lnke;VAdtm K. Luke;
!; Jr. o'a nd William Luke f of Baltimore. 7'i^^ ~>7:.'\
* ".'.*.'■-* * ' '
D. -W. McINTOSH, 1 ' a ; furniture; manufacturer of;
S:.;i Grand Rapids, j Mich., :;1»">; registered at '- r, the
Union Square.' ' ' " "/ x . '
. \ * "'; *' " * #'*._;'•
MARTIN H. ■': HANSON, a concert director - of }.
O New York, is among the recent * arrivals tat j the;
;;:St.': Francis. j." ./^ r?:*^ J-^" "-"'-"'v ft '- '".:•'■
* * *
J. W. MORRIS, fa" commission merchant of Vic
'.; toria, is at the Palace with Mre. Morris.r' 1
,\ 1".. -*.*...#; "V/. """*,*
THOMAS DONLEY, a hotelman of Winnipeg, is
spending a few days at IJie Palace. S .0
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J. D. CHURCH, a; civil ■ engineer of Klamath
Falls." is registered at the. Turpin. ".
.' -: ■ -.* ■ * \ * .-.■■ ; * ' ' .
D. L. CROSBIE of Sacramento is among the
.; recent arrivals at th* Arlington.
' - -;" '• * # * ... -
MR. AND MRS. B. W. WOLMER of Oakland
;-are registered at the Belmont. „. -
■ •> # #
L.:; J. ROSEMOW: of Louisville is - among . the re- -
cent arrivals at the Turpin.
* * *
W. W. WILLIAMS of Sallbmr;Wash.,s is a guest
at the Bellevue. '
h'-"" rA'^r.s:-':--v*i.;.^' * v;;i*'v;y-V../;".;
--8. W. DUMARESQ of this city. is registered at
v.■- the'; Belinont. ■'."• '■
' * ' * *-
JOSEPH CHETTLER of i Vail jo is stay at:
the "Stanford.'.". '." \ • -.
Ssisß. . * ' •* #
K. RYAN of Syracuse, N.Y.. is a guest at the
Cadillac.
MARCH 8, IQI2
These were the animating: reasons
that prompted the. combined attack to
which the congressional committee has
apparently/given such .consideration as
to threaten -a:.promising andbeneficial
enterprise with a paralyzing stroke, for
it is safe' to say that,, in the present
state of the agricultural problem, few,
if any.beet suprar' factories can be
operated under the condition? that
would be created by the proposed de
structive legislation.;: "" '•■
: The vital factor in the beet sugar
business is not the extraction of
sugar, 'which ha? been reduced- largely
to a mechanical ( operation, but rather
the knowledge, experience and the in
telligent; and intensive cultivation of
land to secure not merely the largest
tonnage of beets, but the greatest
possible yield of sugar per acre of
. land. > ■' *:'"'. "/' .' V ;
This involves the choice of suitable
land, the selection of seed, the treat
ment of the soil and of the growing
crops and the necessity (in California,
at least) of providing ample facilities
for irrigation to offset deficiencies of
natural rainfall. \
: Progress in these respects is slow,
, because the ■ lessons- learned in, one
year may not be applied until the
succeeding 'season, • but the hope is" en
tertained that in our state we may
reach an ; output approaching 15 tons
per acre, with a sugar content of 25
per cent. When that point Is reached
the principle, of ; free trade in. sugar
may be applied, whether for political,
party or economic reasons, without in
volving the destruction of the millions
now invested in the beet sugar busi
ness, to say nothing of the farming in
terests that now have ;an assured and
profitable market for the product of
their land. :,' ' V*.
For the 1,080,000 tons '■ of-sugar beets
consumed in 1911 the farmers of Cali
fornia received more, than $6,000,000. \
For the 000,000, tons of ; beets raised
in the United States the beet sugar fac
tories paid over $20,000,000 to the farm
ers.. ;, > \ ■ "'" •
If , the 1.800.000 tons of duty paying
cane-sugar were displaced by an equal
amount' of -domestic beet sugar, ,in ad
dition to ,that already - produced, ,It
would.require the use of 1,200,000 acres
of land, a production of 12,000.000 tons
of beets, and an annual money distri
bution among the farming communities
of over ? $60,000,000.
. :• For' the 1,800,000 tons of raw -cane
sugar now produced on foreign 1 soil we
are . sending ? out of the country more
than $100,000,000. , : .-' V
Another factor of inestimable value
is the well attested and beneficial in
fluence that the cultivation of sugar
beets has on the crop that succeeds.
Every farmer of experience knows
that the tillage necessary in the suc
cessful culture of beets gives a surpris
ing increase in the yield, that follows
in rotation, and this Important fact is
not generally ' known nor sufficiently
recognized. , •-.: „r-..', --"
These are the proper economic views
to take' of this important question:
The rise in the price of sugar in 1911
was due to the drought in continental
Eucope, which fact was-taken advant
age of by the European speculators
in the world's visible supply. It was
not due to any - action on tiie part of
the American refiners of imported cane
sugar, who had to pay the prices de
manded in order to obtain" from time to
time their; supplies, but;; the upward
tendency in the cost of raw sugar in
this country was checked by the in
coming of, the domestic beet sugar* .lur
ing the autumn months. " ;" %£ }
If, the re legislation be so mod
erated as not -to discourage the further
development of the beet sugar industry,
.the establishment of v new factories
throughout the country 'will free the
United States from the effects of future
world speculations and the competition
among the widely; scattered domestic
producers will havethe effect of regu
lating the cost to the consumers, which
not for economic, but evidently for
other reasons, is now. aimed: at by "the
contemplated law. > ; ; V ~ --•".■ -.. ' '":"'■■
] It will be broa.l statesmanship to
adopt such a policy as will tend t->
make this i.industry capable*<? of i supply
ing the country's needs, but any policy
that is at all tinged by political -con
siderations should meet with public dis
approval.
A. C. BAKER, a retired captain or the navy
wbo was <. h |ef of the department of transpo'r
Ration exhibits -at the Chicago and St. Louis
- expositions.; Is at , th» St. Francis. He is here
to ST r with" Commissioner i Skiff iof foreign
; and domestic, participation relative to „ similar
• position with the Panama Pacific exposition '
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SOL NATHAN, a merchant "of Watsonville- Mrs
Nathan: C. r>. Curran. an. oil operate of
Bakersfleld: J. H . -Wooden, a dealer in leather
goods at Fresno, and Thomas McGirl. pro
prietor of ;a department store at Billings.- are
, guests at the "Argonaut. : '■'' ■:. V - ■
JOSEPH ; : F. NOLAN. rfho w «* former i n the
j - shoe business j n this city, is here from Sar
gent, registered at [ the St** Francis. Nolan 'is
engaged lv the ranchingbusiness. . :, '">:•■
;i CAPTAIN K. "W. PERRY of The miN State,
■ revenue- cutter Mannine: R. C. Russell of
.Chicago and G. A. Steirly of . Washington, D.
C, are guests at the' Manx. „
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A. M. FARRINGTON and :R. W. Hickman. who
♦ are associated with the department of agricul
. t'ir". , are j guests at tho Stewart, -registered
, from, Washington, P.*c.'# *V. .>>-,
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DAVID 8. 'tJ»ACHHAN; a j local capitalist, re
turned to bis apartments at the Fairmont yes
terday after; a ; long \ period of sickness in a
'. hospital. ,1,- , . :.V / . -'.■;_ ..'
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K. =,: HORIGTTCHI , and jK. ; Askai. mercnants,: of
Najroj-a, are at;the,Stewart. .. They.hare been
'- • east "on a business trip awl are on their way
■'.; borne. ' „ "' ;"' , - ._....; .
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CHESTER G. : . MURPHY, an attorney.- of Port
. land; is here on a business trip and.is at the
> St." Francis. ' .:.;-, ;" :•'_'-. ■■-.{;: ••, , -" . , :
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C. ?R. ,DE BEZOISE ) JR.. a, man.ifHrturer - ; from
. Newark. N. j., Via vaV^recVntt arrival I. at the
•:■ Bellevue. •• ■ : - I : - -%- :-• ■■• --■. ;•.-..-"■■■
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P. C. PEARSON, a manufacturer "of, German
- :. town, Pa., is a recent arrival at the Sutter.
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MR. h AND MRS. C. H. BLAKE' of Chicago are
; among the recent arrivals 'at 1 the Harcourt ■
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Ft^ V- GORDON ami W. D. Wilson, oil operators
of Los Angeles;, arc pupsts at' the'il'alace -^ :
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3. D. CORNELL of Sacramento is a rcce _ t ..•
.—: rival !at the -"Arlington. ' " - - '■.-■'
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BENJAMIN ,' ROBLES, a Guatemala planter,: is
i a guest at the Suiter. ■ ' __ ;
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F. ;M. HARRIS, (a ) I.os ? Angeles broker, is regis
tered at the Cadillac . h^ V\ '■ :'. '
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VICTOR : BARNDT, j. mine owner; of Tonopah, is,
.iiat the Union' Squared ;" -" •. ■'•■"--->» l > .*•
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i ROY D. i MATES; ■ a Dixon capitalist, is a gxtmt
jit! the Stanford. ■ -
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