The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-02-24

sideration OF $4,000 month. the company
ran its steamers to suit the notions of the
Transcontinental Association as to the
freights suitable and the rates which would
develop traffic Everybody on this coast Is
familiar with the facts. and. thanks to The
CALL, many influential men in Congress
are posted. Now that the United States is
making an effort to develop foreign ship
ping trade across the Atlantic some down.
right earnest attention might be bestowed
on the maintenance OF an honest home
trade between the Atlantic aud Pacific.
London now has its Panama scandal"
but it only duplicates one member OF Par
lament who prudently swallowed the
Chil;ern Hundreds and bolted to parts
where extradiiiou is a ceremony quite use
less. Three or four of his companions are,
however, in the clutches of the law for
frauds on the Lberator Building Society.
The methods followed In getting hold OF
other peoples money are as old as com pany
organization. 1t was simply the dodge OF
passing false bills for supplies OF material
and drawing up fictitious lists OF wages.
By these and other devices the sum oil
Sl0.000.000 has disappeared. There must
be something incomprehensibly loose III the
system of auditing when as much money
falls through ill as remains in it, Bad
and confused bookkeeping is also respon-
sible. The heeeed shareholders Will only
have the satisfaction of seeing few rogues
go to jail. where they will doubtless lead
moral lives for the sake OF extra marks ana
corresponding comfort. Nothing like this
has occurred in Britain since the collapse OF
Gurney's and the City OF Glasgow Bank.
Texas is setting an example in the execu-
ton of murderers. 1t has hanged one
arch homicide who had slain in cold blood
three travellers whom he was escorting as
guide. Ii may be said that such misereant
could not escape capital punishment, how
ever iInpressionable jury might be to APP
peals for mercy. But enOrmities sometimes
elevate braves in popular estimation. How
otherwise can the fame OF the James
brothers be accounted for? In North Caro-
lima the other day man died in his boots
who had killed seventeen men. lie would
doub less have made his eighteenth victim
bite the dust had he not been beaded hinl-
self.
In mountainous part of Kentucky three
gentlemen of high temper named Caskey
have had honors easy in q feud fight in
which all three were worsted. Two were
brothers, and the third was their uncle
The brothers we're shot dead, aud the uncle
fingers with wounds which Will end fatally.
The amount OF satisfaction got from such
quarrels Is short-liyed, but m0raliZing does
not stop the fighting.
Tie pioneer who discovered the Gala
veras grove Of big trees, Mr.. August T.
Dowd, has just passed away at the age Of
II. He came to the State in 1918. but the
trees were not sighted until 1852. There up
In the Sierra they had been growing from
before the time of Solomon, and the world
has whirled round in many commission
without disturbing the serenity and ma iesty
of the grove. Rome in republic and EN-
pire, rose, f0uriShed and crumbled TO pieces
while these trees were waxing great. The
only cataclysm which they have been heir
to has been the barking and sectiOnZing
since 1S4S. Wonders must bs illustrated at
a distance.
The New Workers who have toothsome
appettes would scramble for California
celery If only they could get II ahead OF
supplies from the south, which now begin to
arrive. 1t is quite possible to accommodate
the taste with lusty bundles delivered in
the middle Of January, and from that time
onward. There Is also glorious 0ppOr-
tunity for business in other cities East.