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The morning call., 1895-01-18
SUIT TO FORECLOsE.
Ho,c the linton Pacific Hopes to 44roid
Paying Its Debts.

.H0tC the Union PGctHc hopes TO Ar0td
Paying Its Debts.
OMAHA, Jan. 7-General Solicitor Thurs
ton of the Union Pacific stated to-day that
Mr.. Anderson's proposition as to assessing
the stock of the company and extending
the Government lien for fifty years at
per cent was the fairest scheme which
could be devised for the protection of the
Government debt. He thought it would
prove very acceptable to the stockholders,
as it would wipe out the first mortgage in
debtedness and make the Government in
terest a first mortgage on the property.
81 would like to see the Pacific roads
taken care of at this session of Congress,
but the chances are greatly against any
remedial legislation now"
Mr.. J. II. Willard, who is large stock
holder in the property, said that if the
other stockholders agreed to the assess
ment he presumed he would be in line.
He thought, however, that the Government
debt ought to be wiped off the slate and
the road made independent of Government
interests. The sentiment of other promi-
nent Omaha Union Pacific stockholders is
in accord with Mr.. Millard's ideas.
A petition will be filed in st. Louis on
Saturday before Judge Sanborn looking to
the foreclosure of the first mortgage on the
main line of the Union Pacific Railroad. The
mortgage is for $50, 100000 The petition is
supposed to have been prepared at the in
stance OF the trustees of the first mortgage
bonds in the Office of Winslow A. Pierce OF
New York. Senator-elect J. NJ Thurston,
attorney for the Union Pacific receivers,
will go to st. Louis tomorrow. He will
represent the Government. The present re-
ceiyers are expected to be retained by the
trustees until the business is concluded.
The road is not expected to sell for the
amount of the first mortgage. This will
wipe out all other Indebtedness, and if
carried out, the Government and all other
creditors will lose everything involved.
Those interested in protecting the Govern
ment's interests, however, insist that this
is a coerciye measure; that the papers were
prepared at the Omaha Headquarters of
the company, and that it is merely bold
plan to force Congress to agree to an ex-
tension of its indebtedness on terms quite as
favorable to first mortgage hondholders as
involved in the Reilly bid now before
Congress.
As an evidence that the proposed litiga-
ton is not really intended as foreclosure,
Omaha people who are insisting that the
Government shall have something to show
The morning call., 1895-01-18
OWE BATTLE-SHIP.
1t Hill Certainly Be Built by Pacific
Coast Contractors,

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE Californians
are well pleased with the decision of the
Naval Committee recommending that one
battle-ship be built on the Coast, 'if in the
opinion of the Secretary of the Navy the
bids are reasonable" This practically
settles the matter, as Herbert will give the
contract to the Union Iron Works. They
will be allowed the 3 per cent differential
on account of the cost of materials and
fuel in California. One of the torpedo
boats will probably be constructed at Mare
Island. The Naval Committee has also
incorporated an additional $4,000 for the
Mare Island tugboat, making the total cost
$4,000. This was recommended by Secre-
tary Herbert, and Representative English
is entitled to credit for his efforts in getting
the favorable recommendation.
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sPEAKER CRIsP,s STATE.
His Friends AdUiSe Him to Take a Res
From York.

HIS ErieNds AdUtse HIM to Take O Rest
From Fork.
WASHINGTON, Jan. T.-Speaker Crisp, by
advice of his physicians, will be compelled
to leave Washington within day or two
for about a two weeks stay at Asheville,
NC. He is suffering from some trouble
of the muscles in the vicinity of the heart,
and the doctors have urged him to absent
himself for the remainder of the session.
This he will not do, unless the trouble be-
comes worse, though his friends are adyis-
ing him to do so, since there is little of
Importance likely to be done this session.
The Speaker was well enough to-day to
preside over the House and attend Rules
Committee meeting.
The morning call., 1895-01-18
DELINQUENT SALE NOTICES

DELINQUENT SALE NOTICE-ALTA SILVER
~ Mining Company. Location of principal
place OF business, san Francisco California; loea-
ton of WORKS. Gold Hill. Gold Hill Mining Dis
trct Storey County Nevada.
Notice-There are deliEq uent upon the follow
ing described stock, on account OF assessment
NO 4s) levied on the 2sth day of November,
1894, the several amounts set opposite the names
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GARD Of directors, made the 4th day of No
vember, 1894, many shares of each parcel of
stock as may be necessary will bs sod at the Of
ice of said company, room 3, second floor, Mills
building san Francisco Cal +, on the 25th day Of
January, 1895. at - ". of such day, to pay de-
finquenI assessment thereon. together with costs
OF advertising and expenses OF the sale
j II. HENRY, Secretary
Room 5, second floor, Mills building. san Fran
cisco, Cal. Ia9 lot exSu
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DELINQUENT SALE NOTICES.

= TANDAnD 0ULU AMI SLY En MiAING
- Company of san francisco, CaL-Notice-
There is de nquent on the following described
stock, account of assessment levied on the
fourteenth day of NoFember, 1894, The several
amounts set opposite the respective shareholders
as
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Fnrorable to Afnskn.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1.-THE House Terri
tories Committee to-day reported bill to
regulate the liquor traffic in Alaska. The
effect of the measure will be to restrict that
traffic, and it will contine the issue of IL
censes to white people, thus preventing
its indiscriminate sale. Favorable action
was also taken on the bill giving Alaska
the right to be represented in Congress by
a delegate
The morning call., 1895-01-18

With teeth all stained and loose / thought
That nothing could be begged or bought
To cure them, and cried. in pain.
40, would that they were good aganp'
At last. let songs or praise go round,
A cure in SOZ0DONT found!
The morning call., 1895-01-18

THE WEEKLY CALL contains more
reading matter Tor the price
than any publication in Amer.
lea: ST. per year postpaid.
The morning call., 1895-01-18

BIZ. OIney asked to Decide q Rather. PuS-
sling Question.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.-Attorney General
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-22
CLIMATE IN DIVERSITY,

According to the Ontario Record the en-
terprising people of that delightful spot in
the heart of the orange region of Southern
California are going to make an exhibit of
their semi-tropical fruits in the ice palace
at Truckee. Thus the two extremes of
climate in California will be brought into
striking contrast side by side. The pecu-
liarity of the idea is that both oranges and
ice are winter crops in this State. While
in some sections orange orchards are laden
with ripe fruit and the air is burdened with
the perfume of orange blossoms, in other
sections the cold is so great that ice palaces
may be built.
Ontario is some 700 or more miles from
Truckee, but even that considerable dis
tance does not lessen the marvel of the fact
that these two Numerically opposed con-
ditions exist within one State. The won-
der is immeasurably increased by knowl-
edge of the fact that Auburn, which is in
the same range of mountains with Truckee
and only few miles distant from it, is
also an orange region and can make dis
play in the ice palace at Truckee similar to
that proposed by Ontario.
The end of the marvel is by no means
reached IN this inspired idea of making ex-
hibitions of diverse climatic products a
feature OF the ice carnival at Truckee. As
a matter of fact the orange does not repre-
ditions abounding in California. Com
pared with other things which the State
produces it is hardy affair, though not
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-22
A SWEET-WINE POOL.

1t will be gratifying news to the whole
State to learn that the sweet-wine makers
have formed pool for the marketing of
their product, and that it embraces 80 per
cent of the California output. This con-
solidation has been long desired and was
no doubt FASTENED by the great success at
tending the efforts of the California Wine
Association. Up to the time of getting
the work of this association under way
there was no profit in the industry, but
cooperation has insured not only heavy
advance in prices but has greatly extended
the market
The sweet-wlne pool will bring similar
results. The surplus of 1894 and the vim
tage of 1895 represent 100000 gallons Of
port, 300,0 OF angelica, $780, 900 of mus
catel, 250,000 of sherry and 100000 Of
sherry material. AS the price of port is to
be advanced at once from 16 cents to %
cents to dealers the addition to the wealth
of the State from this one article will be
s270, 900. AS the other sweet wines are to
be raised proportionately the total addi-
tion will be in the neighborhood of a half
million dollars. This is additional to the
increase represented by the saving of ex-
pense in handling and marketing.
At these prices there will be handsom e
profit in the business. There need be no
fear that raising the price will put stop
to sales. On the contrary the superior
marketing facilities Of the pool will more
than offset such an effect. Better than
that, an assurance of profitable returns
will stimulate this important industry and
undoubtedly lead in time not only to a
monopoly of the American market, but
its extension to foreign countries. The
grand central idea is that these great
results are made possible only by intelli-
gent cooperation. Wherever this idea
has been put in operation in this State it
has been successful.
The sweet wines of California are the
best in the world. Their highest recon-
mendation is that they are the pure
product of the vine. They are made from
grapes which will not grow in any other
part of the United States. 1t is not re-
quired of sweet wines that they receive
the infinite care necessary to produce the
finest qualities of light Wines and hence
purity and wholesomeness are their most
valuable qualities. Not being liable to
fermentation, and being unaffected by
any climate. they may be sent in safety to
all paris OF the world and forwarded in
packages comparatively inexpensive and
admitting of low charges for transpor-
tation.
The forming of this pool is very i'm
portant event and points to the high de-
Yelopment of valuable natural resource.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-22
INSUBORDINATE STUDENTS.

Following the recent threatened out
break of serious insubordination on the
part OF the students attending the State
University has come similar trouble in the
dental college appurtenant to that institu-
ton. What might have been disgraceful
consequences have been averted by the
tact of the dean; but although he has re-
stored harmony and pledged the students
hereafter to respect the laws of the college
he failed to punish the students of class
for insubordination. His action was vir-
tually surrender of authority and an
abrogation of discipline. In the end this
may bring the college greater harm than
an expulsion of the entire class.
The rebellion was produced by two
causes-one personal dislike on the part
of students for one OF the professors and
the other his changing the hour for deliv-
ering his lecture. The act of insubordina-
ton consisted in remaining absent from
his lectures, and contempt for him was
shown by boisterous conduct. 1t would
be impossible to imagine such conduct
tolerated either at West Point or Annapolis,
or at any other great institution main
tanned by stern Government and intend
Gu W dCCOLupllou thC hlSnSot lcSultS.
If the conduct of these California
students be excused on account of their
immature judgment and their lack of
ability. by reason of their youth, to ap-
preciate all tnat such an institution
means. similar lenity cannot be felt for
their parents ana guardians. These are
charged in the premises with a respon-
sibility equal to that of the students. If
they fail to the slightest extent in assisting
the State to uphold its authority they are
conniving with the students to impair the
value of the institution and create a
popular disgust which may lead to its
destruction.
On the other hand, the wishes and am
bitions of students are entitled to con-
sideration, not because it is matter of
right, but because dissatisfaction will pro-
hibit their acquiring the proficiency
desired. If they do not like professor or
deem him incompetent, there are gentle
manly and orderly ways, wholly within
the bounds of discipline, to make their
wishes known and secure reasonable
changes. But open rebellion, particularly
if it be accompanied with ruffianiy con-
duct, cannot be tolerated by the authorities
If they propose to maintain high order of
efficiency for the institutions whose con-
duct has been entrusted to their care.
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honored by the world Such is the irony of
history. .-Rounseyelle Wildman in December
Overland
AN ADM1RAL,s PROJECTION.

A week ago Rear-Admiral Richard W. Meade
In conversation with the Washington corre-
spondent of the Boston Journal over the report
that we might have trouble with Japan said:
"Japan will never go to war with the United
States. The only war in which we are at all
likely to engage is with Great Britain, and
believe that the first shot fired in anger between
England and this country will prove the death
knell of the British empire. The reason why
we haven't had fair play from England hither-
to is that We do not play the National game OF
poker as we'll as she does. She has bluffed US
right along. The late General Schenck, when
Minister to the Court of st. James, taught the
British aristocracy and the governing class
how to play poker, and they have been playing
II better than ourselves ever since. we nave
lacked the nerve 10 call England's bluffs.
"The American people have not degenerated.
That was demonstrated by the Civil War. We
have the South with us now, and the pluck and
courage OF the fighting men OF the South mas
never been doubted by anybody. They would
fight side by side with us in the event OF war.
General Longstreet, speaking the other day on
the Venezuelan question, remarked that II we
had trouble with Great Britain, the fighting
would be in the British Channel. What did he
mean by that? He meant that to-day the South
is with the North heart and soul. l imagine
that General Longstreet is as good an expo
nent OF the feeling of the South as can be
found.
"We have now built and finished nearly fifty
modern fighting ships, large and small II
probable that we could put afoat 300 torpedo
boats within six months, getting ready mean
while to launch more formidable vessels. 1t Is
true that it takes three years to float battle
ship, but the Government OF the United States
could buy few battle-ships ready made in
case they were sorely needed. And even ii
as American battle-sh ips, such as the Indiana,
Massachusetts, and Oregon, the men who
manned them could hold their own with
the natives of any other country under the
heavens
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-22
PooLRooMs DOOMED.

Prosecuting Attorney John T. Dare seems
to have discovered legal way of suppress
ing the poolroom evil. despite the Wallace
decision and the majority of the Board of
Supervisors. His conviction of one gam
bier, who was presumed to be operating
safely under that combined sanction, pre-
sents grounds for hope that the whole in
fanny will be crushed.
The prosecution was secured under the
Ellert ordinance, which prohibits pool
selling outside the inciosure of a racetrack.
The so-called commission booksellers
downtown have sought to eyade that ordi-
nance by receiving bets on the odds posted
at the racetrack Immediately before the
race. In other words. they pretend to be
hookmakers instead of booksellers. The
clear intent of the ordinance was to pro-
hibit outside of Enclosures all forms of bet
ting on horseraces that are employed with
in the inclosure. To receive bets down.
town without issuing ticket is evidently
as bad as to receive them and issue
ticket, as ticket is merely record OF the
wager. If ticket is not issued the record
has to be made in book or otherwise.
Hence, the two cases are exactly alike in
principle, so far as the intent of the ordi-
nance is concerned. It is not sufficient
defense to say that in bookmaking, where
the bookmaker bets against the bettor, the
principle is different from that of pool,
IN which the winning bettor takes the
money which other bettors have placed in
the pool, less the commission retained by
the pool-seller, as this difference IN nowise
affects the intent of the ordinance and is
employed merely as an evasion.
The use of the odds posted at the race
tracks cuts no figure in the operation of
the law. This point is made because some
of the downtown gamblers pursue this
course while others make odds to suit the
values, and because it has been assumed
that placing bets on genuinely established
odds makes downtown bookmaking legiti-
mate and brings it within the category of
a commission business. This is small
and immaterial point in the matter. but it
is the very foundation of the distinction
which has been made to declare one set OF
the gambling houses lawful and another
unlawful.
These matters are now having an intel
igent overhauling in the Police Court,
where common-sense iuries are promptly
bringing IN verdicts of guilty against the
gamblers. The conviction of every one of
them can be thus secured.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-22
PERSONAL.

S. A. Cloman of the army is at the California.
E. o. Smith, an attorney OF Auburn, is at the
Lick.
Grand.
B. II. Upham, wine man OF Martinez, and
vile are at the Lick.
E. A. Crouch, real-estate man of Sacra-
mento, is at the Occidental
James J. Thornton, cattleman of San SIM
con, is staying at the Occidental.
Thomas Couch, mining man of Butte,
Montana, is guest at the Palace.
d. D. Oliphant a railroad man of Portland,
and Mrs. Oliphant, are at the Palace.
Lieutenant George W. Kirkman OF the army
and Mrs. Kirkman are at the California.
J. ]. Schwartz, wealthy merchant of Chi
cago, and his wife registered at the Baldwin
yesterday.
Ex-Congressman James A. Louttit of Stock.
ton and Mrs. Louttit registered at the Lick
yesterday.
George III. Warfield, cashier of the Farmers.
and Mechanics Bank OF Healdsburg, is at the
California.
P. Kerwin, a mining superintendent came
down from the Comstock yesterday and regis
tered at the Palace.
VI. W. SCHNicA, supcIlHtchucHI VI tho lIo
Mountain Mine in Shasta County, registered at
the Palace yesterday.
r. II. Hunt, ex-Mayor of Kansas City and a
capitalist of that place, is guest at the Bald
win. Mr.. Hunt owns big orange grove in
Southern California.
William Lynch of Butte County, who is
serving his second term as Assessor of that
county, is in the City.
Admiral Beardslee came ashore from the
Philadelphia yesterday on her arrival from the
north and registered at the Occidental.
W. ]. Cartan, general manager of the Santa
Rosa mine of Riverside County, is in the City
buying machinery and looking after bullion
shipments.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-22

sufficiently hardy to bear the winters of
Florida. We are confin1ng ourselves now
to winter products; in the summer nearly
everything is possible. In some parts OF
the State the banana, the tenderest OF
fruits, does fairly well.
1t is under the magic spell OF the god
dess Flora that the most splendid winter
products of California leap into riotous
vigor. Those who may be inclined to
growl at the climate. even of San Fran
cisco, are compelled to hold their peace
when they see such sensitive exotics as
heliotropes and callas blooming with i'm
pudent openness and unsparing prodi-
gality. AS one follows the coast south
ward the wealth of winter bloom increases,
until one finds at Santa Barbara, Los An
geles and San Diego more gorgeous show
of winter-blowing flowers than is possible
in the whole stretch of the Riviera.
In the earliest days of the year our
roses, mistaking the bland conditions for
the opening of an Eastern spring, begin to
send out vigorous shoots that will become
twenty or thirty feet long before the grow
ing season is over and at the same time
they exert their awakened energies in the
production of flowers. Roses here never
quit blooming because of cold weather,
but merely because they need rest and
follow their inherited habit of taking it in
the late autumn. Besides roses to crown
the new year we have strawberries In
wearying abundance, and as in many
localities there are no frosts to kill those
tender geraniums which yield delicious
perfumes there is nothing to want. And
this is only the beginning of the story.
Thus the ice carnival at Truckee may be
made a wonderful exhibition if the people
of the State have the intelligence to ap-
preciate the remarkable opportunity
which it offers. Within a beautiful ice
palace made possible by great cold one
may revel in oranges and Strawberries
grown but a few miles away at the very
moment when the ice of the palace was
forming, and sit meanwhile at table
decorated with the tenderest, most gor-
geous and most fragrant blossoms plucked
from gardens near at hand.
The San Francisco call., 1895-12-22
CHRISTMAS CELEBRATIONS.

An elaborate history of the celebration
of the Christmas season could be made one
OF the greatest books in our language. The
theme would certainly lack nothing of
dignity, magnitude or variety. The fes-
tival has come down to US from times so
remote they antedate not only all his
tory, but all tradition and all mythology.
Before the birth of Christ was the Sat
urnalia, and before the Saturnalia was an
old Etruscan holiday. Nor did the festival
have its origin in the rites of that long van
ished people, for traces of the observance OF
a yuletide celebration are found in lands
where the Etruscans never were. 1t was,
in fact, the Joy of the childhood of the
race, as it is now the joyous season of the
children.
The forms of conducting the celebration
of the great festival have naturally under
gone many changes in being transmitted
from generation to generation and from
race to race. How it was celebrated by
the early men who lived before the gods of
Greece and Rome received their names we
know not. How it was celebrated under
the title of the Saturnalia in old Rome we
know fairly well, and since that time his
tory affords US an accurate record of the
changes that have been brought about in
the forms of celebration by the develop
ment of new ideas and new manners
among men.
Within the comparatively brief period
covered by English literature we can note
marked changes of public sentiment and
popular thought concerning the season.
In the writings of Dickens, the supreme
Christmas story teller of our time, we
have the celebration of the day closely as
sociated with charity and pathos. 1t is to
Dickens a day when the rich should re-
member the poor and joy should go forth
to relieve sorrow. In the essays of Addi-
son we have different Christmas picture
altogether His yuletide is all drinking
and feasting, iollity and revelry. The
squire sends nothing to the poor, but his
hospita BILE hall is open to all comers
There is no suggestion of pathos. Every
thing is full of frolic and good d-feeling
When we get back to Shakespeare we find
the Christmas season associated with a
thousand solemn mysteries. The cattle
are reputed to kneel at midnight with
their faces 10 the east and both rich and
poor bow in worship that is half super
stition before they begin their mummeries
and antics.
In all of these changes whatever has
been best in the celebration of one genera
ton has been transmitted to the next.
Even from old pagan days has come down
to US the fair custom of mingling the myr-
tie, the holly and the mistletoe with the
gift-giving that survives from the Satur-
MALTA and the religious ceremonies that
celebrate the birth of Christ. We cherish
still in Santa Claus one of the mysteries of
Shakespeare's time and keep the home
merry like Addison's men while we help
the poor after the fashion of our own age
Truly it is great and solemn celebration
that has come down to us from so remote
an antiquity, and he will enjoy it most
whose heart and brain are most capable
of seeing the good in its paganisms and
superstitions, as we'll as in what our civili-
zaJion and knowledge have added to it.