The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1890-11-26
MEN ABOUT TOWN.
Short Stories Picked Up From
Among the Gossips.
Psculiaritiss o. ths Voters Who Scratch-The
Seven Seepers 0utdone-A Cattle.
man's Complaint.

Judge John j. de Haven, one OF the newly
elected Associate Justices, sat in the rotunda
of the Grand Hotel last night and discussed
the outcome of the recent election.
In going over the returns" he said, I" /
WAS particularly struck with the peculiari-
ties of voters in scratching their tickets. In
Humboldt County my majority, for in
stance, was 1170, but if all the votes that
were cast for me had been counted it would
have been a little more than 1860. La many
instances Judge Beatty's name had been
erased and mine substituted, and number
of votes were cast for me for Superior
Judge. On two or three ballots my name
had been inserted Tor Governor. In all
there were nearly 140 voters who thus con-
jured with my name. Now, again, Judge
Barham and Mr.. Geary were opposing cam
didates for Congress, both to fill my unex-
pired term and for the one succeeding. 1t
would seem that the votes in both instances
should be about equal. and yet for tine short
term Judge Barham's vote was considerably
larger than for the regular term. There
was evidently no reason for 1t but mere
eccentricity on the part of the voters"
WOMEN WHO GET SHAVED.
"a barber who devotes himself exclu-
sively to the shaving of women" said O..
A. Dearing to CALL reporter, "may seem
like an oddity. and yet there is such man,
with an Off ce on Montgomery street. He
has his regular customers scattered about
the city, principally, of course. among the
wealthy class of people, and he makes his
rounds every day, just as a physician would,
and charging each one dollar visit. The
business, as you may imagine, is very lu-
crative one, and he has grown rich. But he
still sticks to it day after day. | am told,
however, that his business is beginning to
fall away with the invention OF new cos
metics that remove the hair without tho aid
OF the razor, and finally destroy it entirely"
THE M'KINLEY BILL.
John T. Bonestell has just returned home
from trip to Europe, having spent several
months on the Continent. mainly at Paris
and Berlin. He states that the feeling ex-
cited among the business men of France and
Germany by the operation of the Mckinley
bill Is very strong. and the best evidence of
its advantage to the United States is to be
found in the fact that the exports to this
country have fallen off in an enormous de-
gree. Manufacturers of goods used in large
quantities by Americans are alarmed, and
in many instances are actually cOntemplat
ing the possibility of being forced out Of
business, or else compelled to remove their
factories to our shores.
A CATTLEMAN's COMPLAINT.
in the last few years Of the profits of stock
raising" said William I. Hunter, cattle
man of Wyoming, who is spending a few
days at the Palace Hotel. lit is almost en-
tircly due to the operations of the Big
Four as it is commonly known, or in other
words the Armour combine. They have
gradually reached out until they now con-
troll the entire cattle business east of the
Rocky Noun tains and are now able to dictate
their own terms to both buy ers and sellers.
Steers that we got S25 and $50 each for two
or three years ago now bring S12 and SIS,
and there is no escape from it. They send
buyers through the West and we are COM
pcled to take what they choose to offer.
Some of the Stock-raisers tried the expert
ment of shipping to Chicago, but found
when their stock reached that city that all
the commission-house were under the con-
troll Of the combine and they were COM
PEELED to accept smaller price than was Of
fered on the ranches. 1t was either take
what was offered or let the cattle cat their
own heads off,"
RIP VAN wINKLE oUTDoNE.
Paris Kilburn, the Surveyor of the Port,
is something of n story-teller in his peculiar
wav, with just touch of Baron Munchausen
in his mental composition. While conversng
with number of friends last night over n
new brand Of cigars which have been forced
upon him by the passage of the Mckinley
bill, he grew reminiscent.
AN Item III one OF the daily papers lew
mornings ago." lie said, recalled to my
mind an incident that occurred down in
Monterey County few years ago. A we'll
to-do farmer and his wife were living few
miles from Monterey. and one night, long
after they had retired the wife suddenly
awoke to discover that two burglars had
entered the house. Her first impulse was
to scream, but thinking better of it she at
tempted to awake her husband without
alarming the trespassers. She shook him
gently and whispered something 10 him, but
it had no effect. Becoming alarmed, she sat
up in bed and shook him violently.
Still no response. She became so absorbed
in the attempt 10 arouse her husband that
she forgot all about the burglars and
shouted loudly in his ear. This attracted
the attention of the ouse-breakers, and
one of them becoming interested ent to
her assistance Both labored with the
sleeper. but it was no 90. He snored on rs
peacefully as ever. until, in despair, The
second burglar was called in to assist. The
three resorted 10 every means possible and
failed utterly. After full half hour of
Intellectual labor the two burglars became
disgusted and left The farmer slept on
till morning, and when he at last awoke had
no remembrance OF what had happened"