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The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06
GRAND JURY RECOMMENDATIONS

The present Grand Jury is displa ying an
uncommon amount of hard common-sense.
The recommendation which its committee
has made to the Board OF Supervisors are
in the main eminently wise and practical
Among them are the following: An or
dinance curing the defects of the present
ordinance prohibiting pool-selling in the
City; better accommodations for the police
in the outlying stations; clearing the side
walks of goods placed on display; amend
ments OF the regulations governing the
Street Department so as to provide that
the Street Superintendent, instead of be-
ing empowered to accept work that has
been done to his satisfaction" shall be
made to require that it be done according
to specifications, and so as to permit the
appointment of street-work inspectors Sc
lected by property-own instead of by
the Superintendent.
1t seems strange that the Supervisors
have not passed an adequate pool-selling
ordinance before this, as it has been several
weeks since the decision declaring the
present ordinance inadequate was rem
dered. In the meantime poolrooms have
sprung up in the City and are daily
crowded, and openly carry on their
operations. Their presence in the heart of
the City should and could be suppressed.
The proposed amendment requiring the
Street Superintendent to accept no work
which does not conform to the specifca-
tions is another of those confessions that
we are unable to elect public officers who
will do their duty in the absence of exceed
ingiy strict specific regulations to govern
them. In other words. we depend more
upon the efficacy of such regulations than
on the integrity of the officer. Such regu-
lations as that here proposed seem to be a
confession that in the absence of power to
elect honest officers we must invest them
with all possible restrictions. 1t is fatal
overlooking of the fact that a dishonest
officer can always find way to evade the
strictest regulations that may be devised
to check his rascally instinct.
The other recommendation, that in
spectors OF public improvements made at
the expense of private property-owners be
appointed by the owners themselves, in
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06
THE CALL" THANKED.

To the Editor Of the San Francisco Calt-SIR
l thank you for the very kind notice of the
services atIona last Friday. The unveiling OF
the monument was a success and was ably re-
ported in your paper to the entire satisfaction
OF very large proportion of the people of this
city and State, as the late Bishop Kip and his
wife were much beloved by many people out
side OF the Episcopal Church. Probably two
thirds, If not more, of the Episcopalians in this
paper published in the interest of ST. PauIs
Parish (Episcopar) THE CALL was very highly
praised, and the people of the parish were ad-
ylsed TO subscribe to it because of its extreme
cleanliness and fitness for the home circle.
Again thanking you for the notices you have
given US, and hoping THE CALL will be ever
"For All' am yours, with good will,
AN EPIsCOPALIAN
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06
THE REASON WHY.


What makes you buy that brand of soap?"
L asked woman Shrewd;
Some others have far larger scope.'
Their names l here reviewed.
"What makes me buy that certain brand?"
The woman looked surprised,
And thus she answered my demand
Because it's advertised"
"Why did you choose that ribbon fair?"
j asked little miss:
"The storekeeper had others there
Why did you ask for this?''
She gazed at me with plying eye,
My face she criticized,
Then answered very simply, "Why?
Because it's advertisedv'
"What makes You always buy.th wine"
l asked business friend;
"lt's quite faVorte of mine,
But-why select this brandt"
He looked astonshed, and my aim
He had not recognized,
But still he answered Just the same
because it's advertised"
And so you'll find where'er you go.
Wherever people buy,
The goods that have the greatest show
And on which folks rely
Are those made known thro' printers ink,
And it may be surmised
One merit is, the people think,
because they're advertised!
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

stead of the Street Superintendent, is the
result of recent discoveries of shameless
rascality and incompetency on the part of
inspectors whom the Superintendent has
had in the field. The suggested change
has much the same character as the one
above discussed, and goes to the same
point of official honesty. Still it has much
to recommend it. 1t would greatly reduce
the patronage controlled by the Superin-
tendent and the corrupt political ring
which may elect and use him, and that
would serve to make the Office less at
tractive to rogues and more attractive to
honest men.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06
ROUND VALLEY VENDETTA.
Ukiah Press.

We reproduce below an article from the
Humboldt Times, which contains the exclu-
slve Information that the Dispatch has been
retained 10 defend George E. White from the
internal aspersons of malignant and perjured
press. While we were aware that our local
contemporary was exceedingly indignant that
the moral character of the cattle king had
| been assalled, it is somewhat astonishing to
learn that the Dispatch has gone abroad in an
endeaYor to manufacture a reputation which
Mr.. White has evidently found it impossible to
establish at home. 1t is of course impossible
to conceive that there was not motive in the
editorial published in our contemporary on
the 18th ult. AS no facts published concern
ing the Round Valley tragedy were denied, the
OBJECT OF the article in question must have
been to withdraw public attention from the
motives which actuated the perpetration of
the crime and to confuse the citizens of the
county regarding the responsibility for the
oHense. That outsiders so regard it is evi-
denced by the following editorial from the
Times:
The Mendocino Dispatch Democrat is sending
out marked copies Of the issue of October 1S. The
OBJECT OF the issue seems to be to convey the inn
preston that all of the newspaper stories OF George
E. White, Wylaki John and others manufac-
tured OF whole cloth and that a matter of fact
Round Valley Is small sized heaven instead of
Inc Verltaple hell some persons paint it. 1t would
oe instructive and at the same time amusing for
the Democrat 10 explain wherein they had been
mlsrepresented as'to the facts of the cases. That
journal would hardly deny that numerous murders
ana other crimes have been committed in thai
Iocallty and that it is generally White and anti
Whlte factions that held the hostile meetings The
resolutions adopted by the people of Round Valley
are very good but residents of adjoining counties,
whlle they may not believe the minor details of
every Round Valley tragedy, will Continue to think
that there Is need of the strict application of the
laws OF the State. The Times does not believe that
that community Is maligned and at any rate will
oeler any favorable mention until some OF the
various Iynchings and murders are accounted for
legally.
mat the publication of articles concerning
the state OF affairs in Trinity and northern
Mendoclno viii injure those sections in the
eyes OF the world is true. But is it not better
that public attention be drawn to the condi-
uon OF affairs at the present, to the end that a
remedy may be promptly applied and the
iuture prosperity of that section be thereby
assured than to continue the reign Of feud and
laWlessness indefinitely? 1t must end sooner
or later, and the sooner the better for the
entire county, which has already been put to
great expense in the trial of petty cases, which
are merely the outcome of stock rivalry or pri-
vate revenge Temporizing with crime and
corruption will produce its inevitable result.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

County, Cal. The following named have
trotted in 2:o6 and better: Four-year-oId
Directum, Nashville, Tenn, October g, 1898.
SS:o54; four-year Fantasy, Terre Haute, Ind
september 13, 1894, 2:O6; five-year Alix, Gales
burg, Ill, September 10, 1894, 2:O3sl; five
year Alix, Terre Haute Ino, August II, 1894,
T:O54, 2:O6A and :06; six-year Nancy Hanks,
1erre Haute, Ind, September %, 1892 2 :O4
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06
NOW FOR HARD WORK.

The plan OF campaign decided upon at
the masS-meeting held in this City Mon
day to work for the holding of the Repub-
lican National Convention here includes a
general committee of fifteen, which shall
have the general management of the fight; j;
committee of twenty, which may be in
creased TO eighty, to solicit and collect
funds, and committee on promotion,
which will work on the Republican
National Committee. These committees
are to be composed of able and public
spirited citizens who enjoy the confidence
of the public, and their selection will not
be based on any political idea their men,
bers will come from all political parties.
The plan is thus made entirely nom
political. 1t is peoples movement, Or
ganiZed and carried out as a measure for
the public good. The members of the
committees are drawn from all parts of
the State, so that it is not San Francisco's
fight alone. Every community will be
charged with its share of work and re-
spoasibility, and every citizen will be ex-
pected to do his duty. The committees
handling the funds are to give a public
accounting at the close OF their work.
There need be no uneasiness that money
will be wasted or otherwise misappro-
priated.
The campaign now begun will prove a
perfect test of the temper of the individuals
and OF the people at large. The extent to
which rulnous silurians exists in California
VIII be ascertalned to a nicely. The re-
ports OF the subcommittee to the general
committees will constitute valuable rec
ord of the individual worth of every Cali
fornian who is able to contribute his mite
to the undertaking.
The matter is wholly different from any
that has ever been presented to the people
before. In comparison with it the Mid
winter Fair, to which contributions were
made on so generous a scale, and which
was very important undertaking, was
insignificant, and yet that has been the
one affair of Importance next to this. That
was merely to call the attention of the
world TO the resources and attractions of
California; this is to instruct great polit-
ical party which constitutes a vital ele-
ment IN the direction of the country's
affairs, and which may be in position to
throw the whole weight of the Government
into the task OF developing the matchless
| resources of this region.
The committee having the work actually
in hand will rest under the most serious
obligation that has ever fallen upon public
committees charged with efforts for the
public good. They must represent in it's
highest form the spirit of progress which
abides in the more progressive elements of
the State. There need be no fear that
they will underestimate their responsibility
or prove lacking in its discharge.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06
WELL WORN TRAILS.
wildman in the overland.

huunseVelIe WiIdman in the Overland.
Lying within the fog belt on the west side of
the Coast Range, never further than twenty
mics from the coast, the gigantic redwoods
breast the gales of the Pacific as though in de-
rislon OF their even more gigantic brethren,
.he Sequola Gigantea, who choose the warm
oreezes and genial sunshine of the western
sierra foothills in the interior. Three hundred
feet in height and eight to seventeen feet in
diameter, they present an imposing mark not
oniy LOT the tourist but for the lumberman
Ike tne grizzly, the buffalo and the North
american Indian, the "big trees" are rapidly
ana surely dying out before the march of civil
nsation, and it will not be many years before
sucn grove as the one at Guerneyille will be
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06
HUNTINGTON's GRIDIRoN.
Hneneme Herald.

Coils p. Huntington, president OF the South.
ern Pacific Railroad, has stirred up hornets
nest of contradictions and assertions over his
recent answers to the editor of the San Fran.
cisco CALL in regard to the Governments COM
ing action toward the Central Pacific Railroad
Mr.. Huntington says the road owes a little over
$50 000 900. This assertion is emphatically
denied and the statement made that $7S, ,0OO.
600 would be nearer the mark. Congressman
Mcguire has some pointed remarks to make in
regard to the Southern Pacific absorbing all the
earnings of the Central, the records of which
have been destroyed. Verify, Coils P. Hunt
ington has fallen on red-hot gridiron.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06
THE DURRANT JURY.
Napa Register.

San Francisco has at last had jury that
commanded the confidence of the people when
twas impaneled, that tretains the respect of the
people now that it is discharged. The twelve
men who passed upon the case OF Durrant are
indeed patriots They could have lodged the
draft, they could have shifted the great respon
sibiIity. But instead they have given thei1
honorable and intelligent and discriminating
services that demanded courage and self
sacrifice. All honor to these men, as well as
to Judge Murphy, who presided with such firm
ness and fairness, and to District Attorney
Barnes, who was critical but courteous, gener.
erous and at the same time lust
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06
NEWS AT FIRST HAND.
Redlands Citopraph.

The San Francisco CALL is working up big
circulation all over Southern California, and
it is no wonder. That enterprising paper has
its own reporter in Los Angeles who "does'
this section and does not rehash the papers
for alleged news. THE CALL has gone to the
very head of the procession under its present
management, and we are very glad that there
is one morning paper III San Francisco that is
honestly and earnestly striving to rise above
provincialism and give the people q clean
newspaper
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06
SUPPOSED TO BE HUMOROUS.

Housekeeper-Here you! just you leave, or
L set the dog
Tramp-Please, mum
"Get out, say
"Yes, mum, Pll go if you want me to. I
only dropped in to:tell you OF a new sure cure
for freckles and red hair, mum. Good day,
mum."-New York Weekly.
In the art gallery-Lad of 10-I say.
Hoax-You worked your way right through
college, didn't you?
JoaX-Right.
Hoax-What did you work at?
Joax-The other students principally-
Philadelphia Record.
Bass-Did you hear what old Sinnikus said
about you?
Cass-No. and L don't know as I care to
hear it.
Bass-Possibly not, but then think what a
pleasure it would be to me to tell it!-Boston
Transcript.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06
NEGOTIATIONS PENDING

The Marysville Appeal says that the story
from THE CALL to the effect that the Glenn
ranch has been sold to the railroad is denied
by F. G. Lusk, the attorney who has charge OF
the estates affairs. He says there is positively
no truth in it. Negotiations have been pend
ding, but no agreement has been reached
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06
HARRISON VS.. BIERcE.
GOlIlSa Herald

Ambrose Bierce of the Examiner, the most
cruel and merciless writer on the coast, is
catching what he deserves on all sides. In q
recent issue of THE CALL William Greer Harri-
son devotes a column or more to scientific
"lamb-basting" of Bierce. The work is done to
the queens taste.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06
TWO MEN FOR GOVERNOR.
Fresno Expositor.

It's going TO be close race between Billy
Barnes and Milk Inspector Dockery for the
governorship in 1898. Barnes management
of the Durrant prosecution is matched in
public appreciation by Dockerv's inspection of
the milk that the babies of San Francisco have
to drink.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06
ONE CONVICTION ENOUGH.
Sacramento Bee.

What is the use of trying Durrant for the
murder of Minnie Williams? He can only
hang once, no matter how many murders he
has committed. Let the Blanche Lamont case
have the floor on the gallows and pass the
Minnie Williams case.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

SPECIAL information daily to manufacturers,
business houses and public men by the Press
Clipping Bureau (Allen's) $40 Montgomery.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06
A.Flower on Dempsey's Grave.

Poor Jack Dempsey didn't pretend to any
thing he was not. Pugilism was his trade he
honestly strove to excel in II, and never
struck foul blow in his life. The man was
better than his trade.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06
"Mrs. Wins1ow,s soothinr suru.,.

Has been used over fifty years by millions OF moth.
for their children while Teethtug with perfect
success. 1t soothes the child, softens the gums al
lays Pain cures Wind Collie, regulates the Bowel,
and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas whether
arising from teething other causes. For sale by
Druggists in every part of the world. BE sure ami
ask for Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syr1p. 25o
bottle.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

Even if there is enough of Democracy left
for seed there is no ground for planting it.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

Perhaps it was the Junta that made uI
its mind to retire from practical politics.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

The strike on the Great Northern is on
but it is getting to be mighty cold weather
up there for the boys to walk out in.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

Put your money IN the convention fund.
and the whole Nation will hear it talk.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

Mr.. Manley may live in Maine, but he is
a good enough Western man for this issue.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

The new French Cabinet is evidentl
full of chestnuts; it promises pre-
gramme of economy and reform.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

BATTLE for blood is what Hoods SarsaparilIa
vigorously fights. 1t expels scrofula taint in the
blood and frees the vital fluid OF the acid which
causes rheumatism. Take only Hoods
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

Another trial of Durrant could hardly
make matters worse for him, but it woulc
be a hard trial for the people.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

Van Allen is one member of the -Four
Hundred who can be absent from the
crush at the grand matrimonial alliance
without anybody asking the reason why.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

1t appears the decent elements of the
City will have all the work of downing
Buckley to do over again, but they .can
do il
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

There may be some truth in the story
that the Spaniards fear we will recognize
Cuba, for they do not know Cleveland as
well as we do.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

Cleveland has a splendid chance tc
illumine his message by asserting the
Monroe doctrine in few lucid words.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

There are good many Democrats who
would like Cleveland to publish his mes
sage as a serial, and start out with the in.
stallment on the third term at once.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

TYPOGRAPHICAL elocution.. Making the types
speak! The Roberts Printing Co., 22O Sutter. .
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

A trip across the continent will be a
kind of higher education to the Fasteners,
but we must first educate them up to the
point of taking it.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

1t will be surprise party for Pittsburg,
but she can come in and enjoy the frolic.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

The convention proposition is some
thing that everybody can subscribe to.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

New York might as well make a public
holiday of the Marlborough wedding and
be done with it.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

WAGEs-M. X. A, City. The question of
wages, as mentioned in your communication,
is one of contract between the employer and
the employe, and is one that cannot be an
swered without a full knowledge OF the facts.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

Now in the School Department we have
two heads-are they really better than
one?
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06
A SUPERFLUOUS MURDER,
Santa Barbara News

II 1t were merely his purpose TO be hanged
Durrant must see by this time that two muir
ders were superfuous.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

Tammany managed to get in a heav.
swat on the beautiful cause of purity an
reform.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

Somehow the discussion over the ap.
pointment to the vacancy on the Supreme
Bench has got lost in the air, but the
bench is still there with lots of eyes on it.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

Cleveland was wise in issuing hi:
Thanksgiving proclamation before ht
heard from the elections.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

Democracy once more shows Buckley
face upon its wrInkled front and acts as i
it wants to kick.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

1t is useless to ask it, of course, but
would it not be just as well in the interest
of American girls to have the Vanderbilt
and Marlborough affair hushed up2
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06
FROM WESTERN sANCTUMs.
The American Boy.
Los Angeles Times.

There is something in the atmosphere OF this
free Western world that makes men aspire;
there are possibilities that never enter into the
lives OF the average Englishman, that kindle
here courage and determination, and that lead
men to fix their eyes upon the higher places of
trust among the people, from which no lowli-
ness of birth or poverty can debar them II they
have that within them which makes men.
The American boy is always more or less in
iuenced by this, and if his father was wood
chopper or the very humblest day laborer, 1T is
no reason why his ambition should not be hred
and his determination TO fill some lar higher
place be fixed and changeless.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

Now that the campaign in Cuba has
become aggressive we shall hear of
battles nearly every day, and if you wish
to keep posted on victories you must get a
tally-card and watch the score.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06
Not Good for the Body Po1itic.
Tucson (Ariz.l Citizen.

Hoke Smiths goldbug theories have about
as much sustenance in them for ArizonaDs as
sawdust pudding would have for hungry
man.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

In all the racket about Venezuela it is
worth noting that we have never heard
whether British Guiana took Chamber
lain's advice and bought those Maxim
guns.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

A HUSBANDS RIGHT-Oak Bluff. The law of
California says that the husband has the
management and control of the community
property, with the absolute power of disposal" !"
except that he cannot make gift of such
property without the wife's consent in writing.
The same power is not vested in the wife in
regard to community property.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06
CONFIDENCE MISPLACED,

CONFIDENCE MISPLACED.
"Now, doctor, tell me without fear what you
think is the matter with my husband?"
''Well, Pm rather puzzed-does your hus-
band drink?"
"Drink! Why, no, doctor. I'm sure he
doesn't drink, because he's always so thirsty
in the morning.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

Supervisor King may be right in saying
he once went to school to the late Super
intendent Moulder, but it is evident he
would have profted more if he had gone
twice
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06
Our Convention VIII Cure All That.
Phnnix (Ariz.) Herald.

Western people, particularly those on the
Pacific Slope, think nothing of going East even
to the Atlantic, but ninety nine out of hun
dred of Eastern people approached on the mat
ter of paying this coast a visit think they will
hardly ever go that far They love and are
proud of their own hills and dells, and our Pa
cifc beauties of climate and soil are to them
long, long way off. Too far to go.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

BACON Printing Company sos Clay street.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

CALIFORNIA Glace fruits, soc lb, Townsends.+
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

There was time when every com.
munlty with water-power was satisfied
but now every such community is trying
10 convert the power into electricity in
order to keep up with the world.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

The revival is everywhere.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

Grover was wise-he went to bed early.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06

1t is our Maryland this morning.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-06
Newspapers Should Stand on Their
Merits.
San Jose Mercury.

San Jose Mercury.
When newspaper is compelled to resort to
the device of offering baby carriages, fishing
tackle, jackknives and bull pups to induce
people to subscribe for it, there is something
radically wrong with its contents.