The morning call., 1894-08-22
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

AROUND THE CORRIDORS.
j. o. Won Sehmid, an intelligent young trav-
eler irons Uri. Switzerland, is at the California.
He was in this Stale during the strike. and as
he is much interested in military affairs he paid
good deal of attenl ion TO that particular part
the militia played in the recent trouble. Incl
dentaly, while speaking Of his observations
last night, he gave some interesting particulars
OF the basis upon which rests the military
strength OF his naive country. From the age
OF 10 TO that of ~, he says, all men who are
physically ana mentally sound are subject to
obligatory military duty. The youth Of / 9 is adj
mitted 10 one Of the arms OF the service, the
branch being optional with him, where he serves
seven weeks spent under rigid military discl-
pline. After completing this period he resumes
his ordinary business vocation, but repeats MS
military experience every one or two years
Switzerland has no standing army, but there
are always force OF troops in training and IL Is
estimated that an effective force OF 45O,oOO
men could be placed III the field. Each citizen
has a book, in which Is written his military
record and the personal registration system IN
force in that country enables the identineaton
of every man wherever he may be. Military
authorities believe that Ia the next war between
Germany and France either Belgium or
Switzerland will be the scene OF the most hight
ing and that the greatest battles Will be fought
on The highlands between Lake Geneva and
Lake Constance. This opinion is based upon
the fact that both OF the nations mentioned
have fortified the Alsace- Lorraine frontier in
SUCH an impregnablr manner that each will
seek to make detour 10 avoid these obstacles,
which will cause them 10 meet in The territory
mentioned.
Count des Paretes, who, with a party Of
French and English gentlemen, is at the Palace
is an enthusiastic sportsman and spends much
of his time in hunting He related some ex-
citing experiences yesterday, encountered
while following his favorite pastime. Wolf
hunting 10 Siberia. he says, is the most danger
Gus sport followed. The usual plan is to stake
out the carcass OF a hog as bait. and when a
body Of wolves have cOngTegated about il 10
drive through them in a Sleigh shooting right
and left. The danger lies In the fact that II one
OF the horses should by mscbanee stumble and
fall the occupants of The sleigh would be torn
TO pieces by the wolves. The count goes from
here TO the mountains in Idano and Montana,
where he will hunt elk and bear. Another
member of The party Is a. Morley Fletcher, an
EDgllshman, who is the principal owner In the
big mining claim comprising an entire river
basin in Idaho which is twenty by forty miles
in extent. He is also largely interested In the
Bonanza mine in Sierra County, and the party
has been up there for several days.
Roy S. Pearce of Monmouth. Ill, is at the
Lick. He was for many years In newspaper
work, and has had about as many peculiar ex-
periences as the average reporter. Some years
ago be took the city editorship OF daily paper
called the World, which was started In Louis
vlle KY, by a man named Gaines, who had
been In the newspaper business in Padu cab.
The World fought the COdrier-J Journal for time,
but finally suspended after its editor bad had
one or TWO shooting ARRAYS on the!slreets with
some Of his contemporaries. After the papers
suspension, Mr.. Pearce says, Gaines started
another, which he called The Other World;
but it was shOrt-lived, and the foreman OF the
cOmpostng-room. he proprietor and Mir. Pearee
spirited away he office outfit one night to save
It from creditors. Subsequently Gaines started
In business IN Bowling Green aud made a for
tune. Mr.. Pearce is now an "hOnest tiller OF
the soil'
Fl. Z. Widemann, j. q. Cummius, Samuel
Parker and W. T. Seward. the representatives
OF Ibe depOsed Queen OF Hawaii who recently
passed through this city en- route 10 Washing
ton on a secret mission, have returned and are
at the California. 1t is understood that their
mission was for the purpose OF protesting
against this Government extending recognition
TO the new republic and recent developments
SHOW tldA luciI CuUIlo htlG HUI dltcuutu htiu
any marked degree of success.
group OF Democratic editors, comprising
in their number those connected with several
OF The most influential journals Of the interior,
held an informal caucus last night in the Occi-
dental and resolved to inaugurate boom for
Mcguire to-day as the gubernatorlal candidate
OF the party. One OF their number asserted
that tnree.fouIths Of the party newspaper men
OF the State were strongly in favor OF the gen.
lleman named.
Barclay Henley said yesterday that the over.
land Pacific road survey has been completed
The road will run from Fort Bragg to WIllitts,
about sixteen miles north of Ukiah, and a
branch has been surveyed 10 Ukiah. From
Willis the road follows the Eel River Valley
to point about thirty miles above Winitts
where it turns 10 the east 10 the coal beds. It
will be trihe over 100 miles long when com
pleted.
NJ. j. Richards, principal owner of the In
dianapolis News, is al the Occidental. speaking
about Debs, the leader of the A. X. T., Mr.,
Richards says lie has no following in Indiana.
and the success he met with has been a source
of great surprise 10 the people of the State,
The working people have become greatly en-
Uttered toward him, Mr.. Richards says, and
bis career as leader locally is thing of the
past.
L. Paravicini Of Switzerland is at the Cali.
fornia. His family is one of the Oldest In thar
country, and they possess several magnificent
| palaces on the Italian slope Of the Alps In the
State Of Tessin. 1t is very wealthy and arts.
tOcratic house. and It's members have in past
centuries figured conspicuously in the most i'm.
| portant events with which the little republic
| has been identified.
| Travellers from the Yosemite Valley report
that few people are visiting that section of the
| State at present, and, in fact, have not been
| this year. Most Of those who do visit Califor.
| MAS most picturesque spot are said 10 be
| foreigners.
E. G. Morrison Of Nevada is at the CONNER.
/ ca. He has for many years been secu rims
mineral specimens from all portions of the
| pInhe and L. said 10 nnssAss a remarkahly Ii na