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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1893-09-09
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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1893-09-09

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The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1893-09-09

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Simmons Liver Regulator.
The morning call., 1893-07-12
A BAD DAY IN COURT.

The daily San Francisco Police Gazette,
otherwise the daily Examiner, had bad
day in court on Monday. The case on
hand is variously known as that of the
Examiner vs.. Heath. the McWhirter
case or the Stilwell and Bigelow case
The admitted fact is that McWhirter as
killed some months ago in Fresno County.
The Examiner appears to have thought
that the time had come for it to make an
impression on the public mind, and ac-
cidentaIly it let loose its gang Of amateur
detectives. These men have had the Sc
of the columns of the Examiner to make
out their case and appear to have been
we'll supplied with money to secure evil
dence with. They had succeeded in GEL
ting a couple of rather hard characters in
prison under suspicion Of murder and one
of them was on the stand Monday. The
witness made no attack upon the gang OF
Examiner detectives who had pursued
him, but somehow let the light shine
through them. They may have had a
better purpose in working up case
against Heath than his testimony in
dictated, but the general impression of
spectators was that the interests of justice
would be promoted by change of places
between the accused and his accusers.
The morning call., 1893-07-12
TAKE PRECAUTIONS.

It would be presumptuous to offer ad-
vice to Chicago on precautions against fire.
but people cannot help marveIng that a
city which has had such dreadful expert
ences should now have a fierce cOnfagra-
ton In which forty lives of brave men
have been sacrificed. Mayor Harrison is
reported to have said that now that this
danger has shown itself in the fair, the city
must assume control of the brigade ar
rangements and all regulations in dealing
with fire. This is wise step. inasmuch as
it will place authority in efficient hands
with ample resources. The effect of such
a disaster is distinctly bad. The foreign
ers who sent works of art to the exh bition
had not only difficulty in procuring what
they wanted, on account of the dread of
fire, but had to pay exceptionally high
rates Of insurance. A catastrophe sad as
this must confirm some of them 10 TIL cir
fears. Had the wind favored the spread
of flames over the grounds the loss of prop
erty must have been grievous, because the
fair buildings, handsome as they are, can
not be ranked as solid, permanent struc-
lures. Let US hope that the effect will not
react on the exhibition which now prom
ises to be success in Golden Gate Park.
Care must be taken to have the buildings
for that exhibition we'll protected and sepa.
rated by con siderable distances. The park
is passably sheltered at the site chosen and
high winds are not frequent in winter. but
fire which had got Roadway would not be
easy to subdue in the park If it should
occur during spell of dry weather.
The morning call., 1893-07-12
THAT TOWER.
fusion.

The sketch of the tower which it is pro-
suggestive of beauty and grace as an old
fashioned churn dlspTOpor tiOnately tail.
If over Is necessary it is surely possible
to design one of elegant form, and not so
absurdly high as to dwarf huge cluster OF
buildings already rendered unimpres sive
by neigh boring structures too closely en-
circlng the site. A tower $50 feet high
will not mend these defects. II Will rather
call them into prominence by being con-
spicuous at distance. and the stranger
will ask what kind of shot they make up
there. The insertion Of a clock would
hardly diminish the deformity. II there
must be a tower, half of the height sug-
gested would be ample exhibition of San
Francisco's municipal taste in buildings.
And it would be quite costly enough also.
The estimate Of cost now formed is no
criterion to go by. The real estimate is
what experience has proved to be the rule
in civic structures. The history of the
City Hail is rich in the exempli fication of
extravaganza. II seems to have been
providentially devised as a fabric where
the contractor has perennial employment,
first in building up and then in pulling
down. A tower 450 feet high may extend
this characteristic indefinitely. If such a
monstrous excrescence is likely to he an
eyesore It's utility has yet to be discovered
Merely to mount clock or peal of bells
is scarcely sufficient warrant. The pigeons
might like it. and so might the rock
species perpetualiy lowering around the
Civ Hail.
The morning call., 1893-07-12
BEFORE TIE PEOPLE.

The people Of San Francisco are now in
vited TO subscribe to the stock OF the San
Joaquin Valley Railroad. We do not sup
pose there is any doubt about the stock
being ultimately taken. but there is some
thing in the manner in which 4 thing is
done. The people of San Francisco should
take stock as if they wanted the stock. not
as if it was forced upon them. Without a
local system by which San Francisco mer-
chants can reach their interior customers
at reasonable cost for freight the North
American Navigation Company will be
shorn of much Of its usefulness. If the
Southern Pacific can kill the isthmus line
by charges on freight from San Francisco
it will surely do so.
The morning call., 1893-07-12
MUST MAKE A BID.
No Free Franchises for
Street Railroads.
Opinion of City and County Attorney
Cresswell in the Metropolitan
Railway Case.

CITY and County Attorney Creswell sent
a communication to the Board OF Super
vsors yesterday in response to an inquiry
made by the Street Committee as to
whether the board had the power to grant
a franchise to the Metropolitan Railway
Company to extend its system without ad-
yertising for bids and awarding the fran
elise to the highest bidder.
The opinion Of the City and County At
torney will be of great interest to the
various railroad companies Of the city, as
according to it no railroad company Will
he able TO secure q franchise for even the
smallest extension to its lines without pay
ing the city for it.
The opinion is as follows:
The first sentence OF section Of the act of
The Legislature referred to reads as follows:
Every franchise or privilege to erect or lay teie
graph or tel phone wires, 10 construct or operate
railroads along upon any public street or Ugh
way or TO exercise any other privilege whatever
her CATER Proposed to be granted by the Board OF
Supervisors. Common Council or other goyerntn G
or legislative body OF any county, city and county
CITY town or district within this state Shall be
granted upon the conditions i'll this act provided
and not otherwise
There is nothing In the act that qualities the
meaning Of these words other than a l,rovisO
''that nothing in this section shall affect d
special privilege granted for shorter term
Than two years"
The petition of the Metropolitan Railway
Company does not come within the proviso OF
lie ac, because Il special privilege is not asked
for sloiter term than TWO years.
There Is neither Obscurlty nor ambiguity IN
The sentence quoted. II Is PLAIN as words eau
make it. If The sentence Is read after The
limitation OF everything IN 1t not referring 10
railways it Will be seen that II is of no doubtful
meaning. will quote as suggest:
Every franchise privilege to construct OF
operate railroads along or upon any public streets
or bishway shall be granted upon the conditions
IN this act provided, and not otherwise.
The remainder of section l clearly shows
the condition that shall be observed. Section
2 OF the act makes II a crime for any member
of the Board OF Supervisors who shall by his
vote violate or attempt to violate The provisions
of the act. and pre>cfibes a penalty therefor.
The Metropolitan Railway Company. by the
petition referred 10, asks for all additional fran
chiSe upon Tie public streets of the city and
county Of san Francisco, which. in my opinion.
can only be granted upon compliance with the
act OF 1898. The act plainly says that such a
franchise or priyiiege cannot be granted in any
other way than that prescribed by this act.
In my opinion If you should grant or attempt
10 grant the franchise OF privilege asked for by
the Metropolitan Railway Company. without
compyin with The act of 1898, you would De
guilty of a crime and you would MOI confer any
franchise or privilege upon the company.
The morning call., 1893-07-12
THE SILVER RUPEE.

A London dispatch says that Mr.. Rus
sell, Parliamentary Secretary for India.
stated in the House that the object of the
recent silver legislation in India was not
to fix the value of the rupee at sixteen
pence or at any other amount, but to pre-
vent future fall in price. II Mr.. Russell
will come over to New York he will be
informed that the price of the silver rupee
is fixed by the immutable law OF demand
and supply. And yet it is proposed to
prevent this future fall of silver coin by
legislation. 1t appears that when it suits
The purposes of gold advocates to consider
the law of demand and supply immutable,
it is so considered; but when the interests
Of the gold men are best served by legis-
lation, legislation it is.
The morning call., 1893-07-12
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

Governor Russell of Massachusetts, has
appointed Robert Grant the novelist.
Judge of Probate for Suffolk County.
Attorney General Townsend Of South
Carolina says that the State "dispensary"
system of that comm wealth is going 10
be success.
Senator Peffet of Kansas was born in
Pennsylvania. near the town OF Carlisle,
and he has recently been back at the Old
homestead on visit.
Ex-Governor Duran r. Sherman, so we'll
known in Iowa. it is SAID has lost his prop
erty through the failure Of an insurance
company, aud is now a "fO0rWalker" in a
big dry-goods house.
Emma Corbett is a Colorado young
woman who intends TO ride from Chadron,
Nebr., to Chicago, with a view to beatin
the record recently made by John Barry
and his bronco Poison.
The Hon. James Harlan will be tenn
porary chairman Of the next Iowa Re-
Harlan has been for some years living in
retirement at Mount Pleasant, Iowa.
Sir John CARING, knight commander of
ST. Michael and ST. George, is one Of the
recent creations of the Gladstone govern
ment. Sir John lives at London. Ontario,
where he is much respected and brews
excellent beer.
NJ. lola. having been suggested as p
candidate for election 10 the French
Chamber of Deputies, writes to the
Partisan newspapers that he has no
thought Of entering parliamentary career
at present.
Nine. Tel Seno Is the only woman
lawyer in Japan. She was educated in
the United States. Aside from her pro-
fession, she is active in endeavoiing to
ameliorate the cond ton of her country
men, aud has founded training school
for women in her native town
The morning call., 1893-07-12
GOSSIP OF THE HOTELS.

Tenant Harrington, banker and business
man Of Colusa, is a guest at the Palace HOTEL
Mr.. Harrington, who Is one OF the most prom
nent young men of the State. comes to San
Francisco on his honeymoon. He has just been
united in marriage to one OF the bellies OF
Colusa. and after a brief sojourn here the
young banker and his bride will make trip to
Southern California.
o. Albert Bernard of Washington, D. c., regis
tered at the Palace yesterday Mr. Bernard is
a special agent OF the Government and IS en-
gagged In the compilation OF statistics on labor,
vice and crime. He has already been on the
coast for nearly month, and will remain as
long before returning to Washington.
Colonel j. S. Young. proprietor OF the Russ
House, has returned from an extended vacation
in SOnoma and Mendocino counties. Colonel
Young formerly resided in the localities nance
and has had an enjoyable visit among his old
friends. Two welkuown hotel men from the
interior are in the city. H. w. Chase. proprietor
of the Hotel Nadeau at Los Angeles. is al the
Grand, and w. S. Crank of the Anac0pa Hotel
at Ventura is guest at the Russ House.
Arthur H. Barendt. Il wel-known San Fran
cisco journalist, and his bride, arrived at the
Occidental yesterday from Lake Tahoe. where
they have been sojourning for their honeymoon.
weeks ago.
Among the arrivals on the Panama steamer
yesterday was Gustave I. GuZman OF Guata-
mala, who is registered at the Occidental Hotel
Mr.. GuZman brings with him from Central
America four native Indians who are trained
musicians. They play the most remarkable
music upon four OF the most unique instru-
m ents ever seen in this city. Mr.. Guzman and
his quartet of Indian musicians are headed
for Chicago, where they will amuse the visitors
to the Worlds Fair, and corral the American
dollar.
Charles Aull, the warden Of the State prison
at Folsom, is at the Palace Hotel accompanied
by his wife. The warden Is here TO meet and
consult with Governor Markham. and TO make
personal report to him in relation to the re-
cent outbreak of prisoners at Folsom.
A familiar figure at the Palace Hotel We ester
day was b. L. Stenman of Sacramento. Mr..
Stenman was elected Mayor OF Sacramento at
the election last fail, and Is one of the most
popular business men in the Capital City. He
will consult with the directors OF the Winter
Fair to-day, with view toward having Sacra-
mento aid materially toward the enterprise.
Count Stenb0ck, an eminent Russian noble
man, who is said to be one of the Cars favor
ties. is registered at the Palace Hotel from st.
Petersburg He is accompanied by NJ. Gruner,
also of st. Petersburg. who is his most part Gu
lar friend and trav ling companion.
The morning call., 1893-07-12
THE BALANCE OF TRADE.

Much surprise has been expressed at the
adverse balance of trade which reports
show for the first half of the present year
While there has been some falling off
in the quantity of exports and some in
crease in the quantity Of imports, the
cause of the change noted is more in
values than in material. Cotton and
wheat, two American staples, have been
unusually low this year, while coffee and
some other minor articles of import have
been high. When there is falling off
both in quantity and value of exports and
an appreciation both in quantity and
value of imports, period of depression
may be expected. Without doubt the ap-
prehension of European countries that our
bonds may be paid in part in silver has
had considerable to do with the drain of
gold.
The morning call., 1893-07-12

field. Oil was sold last year at less tnan
half cent per gallon at Baku. Our Con-
sui at Bat0um concludes that there must
be limit TO production. No doubt but 1t
is not yet in sight. Only very small
area in very large total has been tapped.
and the flow continues like flood. VI
late the Baku capitalists have made special
arrangements iu India and China to ex-
tend their business.
1t is cheaper by SIS Is to go to Chicago
from Portland. Seattle or Vancouver than
from San Francisco by the Central Pacific,
Southern Pacific or Santa Fe. That
amount may also be saved on first-class
tickets from San Francisco by taking the
Canadian Pacific or Great Northern route,
free passage being given by steamer to the
north. Tourists who are not seasick have
considerable inducement to prefer the
northern routes. The Union Pacific
charges $50 from Portland and $53 70 from
San Francisco. Consistency is nothing in
railroad management.
Seals are reported to be numerous in the
Columbia River. This may account for
the scarcity of salmon, although the
greater probability is that che salmon have
been thinned more by fishermen than their
natural devourers. The seal is a destruc-
tive prowler. He is apt to take bite here
and there off the shoulder and leave
the rest of the fish to the crabs and
radates. But in the war Of races there IS
a natural balance. Fluctuations in fishing
are inevitable. Next year there may be
run of Columbia salmon and then the
fishermen will complain of low prices and
the cannerles Of eut.
Two tons of dynamite blown UP near
Denver must have made the Rockies rattle
for many miles around. No explanation
is given of the cause, but as two tramps
are reported to have disappeared the in
with eXtravagant defiance of cost and con-
sequences. Lightning occasionally sets off
magazine unless lightning rod in
terfares
The morning call., 1893-07-12
HAS FIVE PLANS.
DR.. MCDOnaId's Views on
the Pacific Bank.
He Sends Several Proposals for Re-
Stunning Business or Winding Up
the Concerns Affairs.

The Bank Commissioners were still fig
uring yesterday Oh the resources and
liabilities Of the suspended Peoples Home
Savings Bank. A report will probably be
completed to-day or Tomorrow.
DR.. X. FL. Mcdonald mas sent from New
York to his son, T.. Ii. Mcdonald Jr.. vice.
president Of the Pacific Bank, number OF
plans for reopening or reorganizlng that
concern. The senior Mcdonald holds BOIL
Of the 10000 shares of the capital stock Of
the Pacific Bank and he is willing to sub
nit to any rational plan Tor the resum D.
ton of business. He agrees to Day an
assessment OF 500 per share on his stock
on condition that the heavy stockholders
will pay similar assessment on the stock
they hold. This, the doctor says, would
Immediately restore the capital stock, and
the business of the bank could be resumed
at once. More than this, he agrees to loan
the coin requisite for the holders OF small
blocks of stock to pay the assessment. Ii
this plan be accepted X. ii. Mcdonald Jr.
is willing to retire from the vice-presi-
dency, but he will insist upon retaining a
seat in the directory.
Ii the proposal Is not acceptable DR..
Me Donald agrees 10 retire from the bank,
exchanging his shares tor tho assets listeu
as bad and doubtful by the Bank Commits
sioDers, provided that the John Brown
Colony and Mohawk canal securities are
listed under that mead.
The third proposal is that DR.. Mcdonald
agrees to sell all his stock, other stock
holders joining in the sale. at whatever
sum shall be named by two or more diSin-
terested arbltrators, the price to be based
on fair appraisement of the assets of the
bank.
DR.. Mcdonald Is also willing to meet
the other stockh olders half way and to
provide for an immediate payment OF all
debts due depositors and bankers. putting
up his pro rata Of the sum required II the
others will do the same.
The directors Of the bank have discussed
these proposals. but have not yet arrived
at definite conclusion. A meeting OF the
stockh olders will be called some time next
week, when DR.. McDonald's plans will be
further considered.
Director j. j. Bowen suggests that the
easiest way to settle the difiiculcy would
be for all the stockholders to put their
stock in trust, giving the trustees power
to liqudate. After depositors and bank
ers had been paid in full the remaining
assets could be distributed among the
original stockholders.
The proposition has been submitted to
DR.. Mcdonald and the directors are await
ing his views in reference tuit.
The morning call., 1893-07-12
NOT A GOOD TIME TO STRIKE.

Eastern gold papers are trying to impress
upon the minds Of labor organizations the
impolicy OF ordering strikes at the present
time. The falling prices consequent upon
the demonstration Of silver and the de.
crease in manufactured products in con-
sequence OF the expected revision of the
tariff OH a revenue basis combine to reduce
the demand for labor. These are men aces
against prosperity which we will have to
contend against for some mouths longer.
If the present Congress should expire
without material change of the tariff,
and il the sober second thought Of the
The morning call., 1893-07-12
RESTORING CONFIDENCE.

Mr.. Cleveland has retired for rest and
recuperation after his great act of restor-
ing confidence. His part in the work con-
sists In calling Congress to find some way
out of the chaos in which the election Of
Mr.. Cleveland involved the country. II
Mr.. Cleveland has at last become imbued
with the idea that he is only one branch of
the Government con fidenee may be induced
to abide with us again. But no more ven-
lures into the aristocratic lines Of govern
ment will be tolerated. Public confidence
is in a large sense the public judgment.
When confidence gives way it is because
The morning call., 1893-07-12
A PECULIAR LETTER
Received by Postmaster Backus
From New York.

A strange letter was received few days
ago by Postmaster Backus from lady in
Lie Roy. Genesee County. N. Y. of which
TO some lost relatives who are supposed to
be in California:
To the Postmaster or His First Assistant,
San Francisco, Cal.-DEAR SIR: 1 send you
the enclosed letter, begging you to do all In
your power to forward 1t to the right person.
This address is all l have. l only know Mr..
aud Mrs. Coll,2gwOod are somewhere In Call
fornia; that they buried their only child.
young man. few mouths ago. and that they
must be people OF some wealth.
Their receipt Of the enclosure may mean life
or death 20 a cousin Of hers. ask you to take
this trouble In the name of humanity and 10 r
the sake Of the Christ who died for US. Yours
respectfully, HATTIE B. GLASS.