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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27
THE AsHWORTH VERDICT.

The verdict of acquittal in the case OF
Street Superintendent Ashworth, an action
brought TO Dust HIM from office on charges
OF incom potency and neglect of duty (the
charge of corruption having been dis
missed), presents about as entertaining a
farce as it is possible to imagine. Mr.. Ash
worth could not be convicted because, hay
ing no official responsibility in the matters
in which he was charged with dereliction, he
could not violate the legal obligations of
his trust. These matters were private con-
tracts entered into between property own
ers and contractors for the making OF
street improvements, such as pavements
and sewers. It has been judicially deter
mined that the oversight with which the
municipal laws charged the Street Super
intendent was in no sense a legal response
bility, but merely species OF polite media
ton between property-owners who want to
improve the City and rascally contractors
who want 20 do worthless work ana take
good money for it.
This is extraordinary. Unquestionab bly,
the intent of the laws was to protect the
property-owners and compel contractors
to do honest work. There is no legal obli-
CATION in the absence of q penalty 10 en-
force it. The whole machinery of the
laws-the assumption OF the direction
of the work by the City, the order
ing of the work done under certain
regulations imposed by the City, the
approval by the City of the contract,
the approval by the City of the work done
By the contractors, the requirement that
the money for the work shall be paid into
the City treasury and disbursed by the
City-if all this does not create a legal OBJ
legation the common-sense OF humanity
was created for use elsewhere than on this
earth. San Francisco stands in disgrace
before the State.
The suit has accomplished much good,
however. 1t has shown that Street Sup
erintendent may appoint irresponsible, in
capable and perhaps corrupt deputies, and
maintain them in office under corrupt DO
litical influence to the injury OF property
and the City at large, and in spite of pub
lie sentiment; that under this system
property-owners are being shamelessIy de-
frauded and forced into position in which
they must oppose improvements with all
their might, and that the City is suffering
incredibly from the existence OF such q
system.
An evil must first be discovered before
it can be remedfed. Fortunately the Grand
Jury is not at all discouraged. II is going
still deeper into these matters az which the
courts have laughed, and the plumber
ers OF the people are not yet out of the
woods. In that work the Grand Jury will
have the hearty Endorsement OF every in
telligent and patriotic resident OF the City.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27

measure out the all-too-brief joys of the aver
age man. AS he thinks good deal of this
country, Notwithstanding its faults, however,
he managed at last to sail from the islands, but
the heirlooms he brought fill him with steady
pleasure.
The GROWING relic in q sackful of the curios
is wooden hat, which he got from native in
the Tongas Islands. He also brought with
him q recent photograph of the Princess Kiato,
the daughter of the old King Malietoa OF Sa-
moa. The girl is apparently about 16 years OF
age and very aueenly OF poise. She has high
ambitions, and believes some day she Will
reign over the dusky inhabitants of Samoa.
Probably no Princess in the world is more
beautiful than she. The picture is said to be
the first that has ever reached the United
States. In the future some time it may come
to possess rare value. Mr.. Pears would not
part with it for great deal He will add to it
an exceedingly large collection OF notable per-
sons which he has collected from various parts
of the world.
Captain Jack Crawford OF New Mexico,
known as the "poet scout" is at the Califor-
MIA. The Captain has published three books
and about $50 serials and stories OF other
kinds.
"The last of my work l published in Eng
land, when 1 was over there not long ago" he
said. 81 found there great interest in every
thing pertaining to the West"
The Captain has been a cowboy, Indian
fighter and a scont in many frontier CAM
paigns. He has lived in many different parts
of the mountains and plains, and is well up in
the ways of the early pioneers of the West.
He still wears a broad-rimmed hat. While
his hair is as long as formerly, its dark hue
has changed to the slightest touch OF iron
gray. He will leave to-day for Santa Rosa and
other points, but will return in day or two.
C. II. Phillips, who is largely interested in
the beet-sugar industry, was in town yesterday
and is staying at the Palace. He has just come
up from Chino, where he has been closing up
the years work of the sugar campaign. He
said TO a CALL reporter:
"During the past year the beet-sugar factory
consumed over 81 1897 tons of beets, yielding
in refined sugar 20 .6OO,0 900 pounds for the
twelve months working The real estate mar
ket in Southern California is picking up very
much indeed. Those who have been farming
find the land profitable and productive. AS
result have sold 1000 acres to beet farmers
for $3.50, 900 since October l. In addition to
this have already rented for next year over
1000 acres to parties interested in the beet
sugar industry"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27

borders but exactly where no one Know
that Smith was murdered by the INDIANS a ~ y
his secret as to the locality OF the miLe uioS
with him. Several search-partles nave looASu
for the lost mine, but were unable 10 locate ~.
There are many people who are OF inc opinioii
that no such mine ever existed.
MoRTGAGING HoMEsTEAD-A. y. 3. holiie-
stead can be mortgaged, but when money 10
borrowed on sucn property, the instrument oy
which it is incumbered must be executed anu
acknowledged by husband and Wl1e Inc
friend who told your wife that she hau no
claim on the homestead because there nappeaIIe
to be mortgage on it." does not know as ~ ucn
about law as he thinks he does. Inc nome
stead is, of course, bject to execution III caso
of foreclosure.
THE VALLEY CARs-S. N. W., Tres Plnos, san
Benito County, CAL The contract Tor oullolng
the cars for the San Francisco and San Joaquin
Valley Railroad was let several months ago 70
John Hammond, and that contract mas not
been revoked. Under that contract ne mas
already delivered to the company more IMAM
fifty cars.
THE NEUTERs-Y., Oakland, Cal. The Neu-
tiers, or more properly the Attioundlrouks'
were tribe of indians who once lived on both
sides of the Niagara River, between the huron
tribe on the west and the Iroquo1s on the east.
HALF EAGLE OF 1851 H. P. City. Ihere
is no premium on So gold piece o. !S43. Inc
dealers are fully supplied, and they nave tnem
on sale at So so to So so.
THE LoTTA FoUNTAIN-A. f. j., CITY. Inc
Lolita Fountain was painted red in 1887.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

W. a. Pears, young business man of Zanes-
vile, Ohio, who has been cruising among the
remote islands OF the Pacific for several
months past, was one of the arrivals here on
the Monowai. He visited Tasmania, Samoa,
the Tongas and Solomon Islands, and some OF
the others between.
He has made rare collection OF Gu rios in
the shape of weapons, articles of apparel and
pictures. He has had most interesting visit
down among the palms and cocoanuts of the
queer islands, where life is one long lazy sum-
mer time, and he was so fascinated with it that
he almost dreaded to again return to his home,
where the dollar is so often the yardstick to
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27
FOR THANKSGIVING.

To the Editor of the San Francisco Call-sIR:
Have the people of San Francisco been suffi-
GENTLY blessed this year 10 make a Thanks
giving offering?
In reading of the threatened famine in New
foundland, 1 contrasted their condition with
ours and wondered if California could not
send them something-a few "baskets of frag-
mentg'' of our summers feast, little over
turning of the horn of plenty on that pitifully
bleak shore.
Is the idea good one? If so, please appro-
pirate il if you wish to do SO and present it to
the people in your own way.
Do not, under any circumstances print my
name. Respectfully, ~
Oakland, Cal, Nov. 25.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27
THE CRIME CONFESSED.

Lloyd Montgomery, the 1s-year-old lad
charged at Albany. Or, with the murder
of his father, mother and McKercher, has
at last broken down under the strain of
his imprisonment and confessed the deed.
The story, although it contains no unique
elements, is valuable as being cumuls-
tive-it illustrates condition of things
which intelligence might have averted.
The story has been but meagerly told, for
only the surface has been EXPOSED. 1t is
this:
The boy had always had violent,
moody temperament. AT what time that
came on would be a thing important to
know, but it is not deemed the junction of
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27
A GOOD SUGGESTION.

10 the Editor of the San Francisco Cdl-SIR:
To my understanding the streets OF San Fran
cisco, through which cable or electric cars are
running, could be swept and water-sprinkled
many times oftener, cheaper, nicer and quicker
by operating specially and simply built sweep
ing apparatuses on the cars, and by utilizing
the cable or electric power OF the streetcars
for that purpose.
In case you do take up and consider my
project in the affirmative, please publish this
through letter. Yours truly, PHI. BUTTON.
1901 Polk street, City.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27
THE NATIONAL CONVENTION.
Washington Times.

Washington Times.
All these highly discreditable conditions
surrounding the nomination of Presidential
candidates would disappear ii Washington
were to be agreed upon by all parties as the
place for holding their conventions. In that
event the people of this city would see to 1t
that suitable accommodations should be pro-
vided, and the deliberations of the nominating
bodies would not be Influenced by any feeling
in favor of or against this, that or the other
candidate, because, taken as a whole, our
people are Indifferent in this respect Besides,
as has been demonstrated upon several recent
occasions, and will be signally shown next
year when the great Christian Endeayorers'
meeting will be held here, Washington is IN
every respect the ideal convention city.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27
TYPE SET BY HANL
Guadalupe Standard.

GuHuaIUpt
The San Francisco CALL is the friend of
organized labor. At a meeting of the Typo
graphical Union recently THE CALL manage
ment signed articles to not put in type
setting machines for year and a half. Had
the Chronicle and Examiner done likewise
there would not be near so many idle printers
in San Francisco to-day as there is. Probably
500 men heye been thrown out of work by the
introduction OF ypesetting-Inachines on the
daily papers of San Francisco
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27
CHICAGO LIMITED.
VIA SANTA FE ROUTE.

new train throughout begins October 20.
PulIman's finest sleeping-cars, vestIbue reclining
chair cars and dining-cars. Los Angeles to Chi
cago via Kansas City, without change. Annex
cars on sharp connection for Denver and st.
Louis Twenty-seven hours quicker than tbs
nuickest competing train. The Santa Fe has been
put in fine physical condition and is now the best
transcont mental railway.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27
KAISER AND GROVER
Petaluu1a Argus.

THE CALL thinks Kaiser William has broken
Growers record by being away from his
apital 1875 days during the past year. But
this is not parallel case. Our man was at
work for the people for wages, but the other
fellow was away "by divine right"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27
QUESTION BY FATHER YoRKE.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 26, 1895.
To the Editor OF the Son Francisco Cali-SIR:
DR.. Westwood W. Case is reported in your paper
of even date as saying: "Sixty per cent of the
teachers lin the public schoolsl are Romanists"
Might l be permitted TO inquire of DR.. West
wood w. Case, through your columns, what is
his authority for these figures? Yours truly,
PETER c. YoRKE.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27
A QUESTION OF TIME.

kissed her at ten,
For she said that l might.
We were children when
/ kissed her at ten.
1t is years since then.
But twas only last night
That / kissed her at ten
For she id that might.
HENRY i. CULVER in Life.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27
CALIFoRHIANs IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK. y. Y, Nov. 26.-Mrs. K Faire,
Mrs. /. l. Poal. Netherland; 8. If. Johnson,
Plaza: J. D. Cuthbert, Albermarle; Mrs East
man, Warwick; u. Parker, 81. Nicholas; Mrs
w. /. Younger Hoffman.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27
EDITORIAL GEMS OF THE WEST.
Home Influence.

Ukah Herald.
The young mind is very quick to learn, and
very naturally gathers much from the sur
roundings while it is yet in embryo. The child
initiates the example of its elders as its only
means of development in certain directions,
and as that example is good or bad, the die is
cast in which the life character OF the child is
nodded. If the child is brought up under con-
ditions and surroundings which are such as to
influence the mind in favor of truth, harmony
and uprightness, there is very little danger
that il will develop those traits of character
which lead to evil doing or vicious or un-
principled thoughts.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27
Chicago Inter Ocean.

Illinois will go Republican all the same,
whether the convention is held right here in
our midst or anywhere else. The committee
may call it to meet at Fort Wrangel or Sitka if
it wants to. Illinois is bound to cast ner cleo
toral vote for the nominees OF that convention.
But will Chicago sit idly by and see conven-
ton which would bring million dollars in
spot cash to the city. go somewhere else and
not lift finger to get it? That is the point,
and the only point
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27
The Genuine Thanksgiving.

Wheatland Four Corners.
The test of true zeal in all devotional matters
is that OF endeavoring to cheer the oppressed
and help needy humanity. While the bounties
of the day are being enjoyed, and thanks
therefor are pouring into heaven, let it never
be said OF any one thus happy that neglected
charity on his or her part was among the sins
of omission. Then, as we observe the day in
sincerity and full appreciation of its purport
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27
The Reward of the Humorist.
seattle times

Unfortunately Chauncey Depew has been in
business so long making people laugh that
when his friends mention him for President
the public laughs harder than ever.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27
CALIFoRNIANs IN WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, DC, Nov. 26.-Representa-
tive Loud arrives tomorrow. David Iubin OF
Sacramento is st the Ebbit House Samuel
Hamilton. and w. W. Jenkins of Los Angeles
are at the Ehbit House.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27

MAIaRIA literally means bad air. Those who
are exposed to malarial or other poisons should
keep the blood pure by taking Hoods SarsaparIha.
Pure blood is a foe to disease.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27

Senator Vest has pulled himself down
TO the point of denouncing a third term
for Cleveland
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

FRuIT-vEGETABLE-A. w. NJ, Greenwood Ell
Dorado County, CAL Fruit includes every
vegetable produced and used as food, such as
grapes, figs and corn, and the word also en-
braces all that is OF vegetable growth and use
full to man, such as cotton fax and all cult
waited plants In a more limited sense the
word is applied TO the reproductive product of
a tree or other plant, or the part that contains
the seed, as wheat, rye, oats. apples, pears,
nuts, etc. In still more limited sense it is
applied to an edible sncculent product OF
plant covering and including the seeds, as an
apple, orange, lemon, peach, pear, plum, berry,
melon, etc. Vegetable is in the limited sense
applied to herbaceous plants that are used
wholly or in part for culinary purposes for
feeding cattle, such as cabbage, cauiiflower,
turnips, potatoes, spinach, peas, beans, etc. In
botany fruit Is the matrred ovary OF plant
consisting OF the seed and their pericap md in
GLIDING whatever may be incorporated with it.
THE MOUNTAINS EANE-P. Nice, Oakland.
Cal. Mount Tamalpais derives II name from q
tribe OF Indians that inhabited tho vicinity
long before the discovery Of gold. The legend
OF the maiden OF that mountain fl that there
was an Indian Cir. one Of n tribe OF Anazons
who lived In what In now gouomn County md
contrary 10 the rules Of the tribe, fell in love
with u pnlsfacs, both we're tried by n council
OF the tribe and the palefnce was taken to tho
top OF Mount binbl0 and hurled into deep
opening at the top, there to die, and the girl
was sst ndtifi, She wandered about until she
fssehsd the top III 1arnapais, cast q look nj
Diablo. where her lover had been taken. and
tbe2 hurled herself from the top OF the noun
tain on wiieh she stood to the bottom and
death
cf6wtFa or THE KoosrEn- q. H., Coultervile.
Natiposa Goitnty. The tiine-marking propen-
sities ~ the common rooster during the night
season hevs long beer the subject of remark
The bird iiftdhf ordinary circumstances begins
~ eftw otter midnight. He also crows about
dAybteHk with one intermediate effort. 1t
seems impossible to overlook the connection
bhtweeh the times of growing and the mini.
ffitifu temperature OF the night; nor can tho
lettst be viewed apart from the state of tho
dew point or maximum degree of dampness,
other circumstances, however, exercise an ins
fluenee, for it cannot be disputed that the
times OF growing of different individual raass
tsfs are by no means similar, and that 1T GET
tain states OF the weather, especially tetaFa
ruin, the growing is continued nearly all dan
pFe-LFs MINr-E, Il, w, city ~ RFsat he
story OF the feg.leg msae Wauia aeeeEs aeye
l. In. q 10 kula4 IN
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27

II the Alaska boundary dispute goes
much further Canada may be our turkey
by next Thanksgiving.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27
Boston Herald.

The influence which the dominant Demo
cratic organization of New York City has ex-
erted or undertaken to exert in the recent
National Conventions of the party has not
been of a character to commend it 10 the
favorable consideration of the Democracy at
large. The chief and insuperable obstacle to
the selection of New York as the National
Democratic Convention City is that 1t is
altogether too near Tammany Hall.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27
snaoe-FiIling Undertakers of Song.

Stanford Palo Alto
Our songs fill nearly three times as much
space in the pamphlet this year as IN that OF
last season, which goes TO show that II the
students 20 at it in the proper spirit they can
generally accomplish about what they
undertake.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27

PFG-Lra MIHE--E, II, w, city ~ nFsat tAe
story OF the feg.es mtae would aeeAES WseFe
space than Is allowed in ,hts departments, IN
brief II IL that n man named slaitA, z Qae-
legged prospeeteh discovered pins ~
fabnloua riahaass ~ ss,,oa pQetson OF the
Colorado Desert ~ ~ ths taeHA1At1s neAS US
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27

Be sure you get all your work off your
mind to-day SO that you will have none of
ii on your mind tomorrow.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27

We can give thanks for most everything
except our street work, but perhaps for
the present we can pass over that.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27

We have got 100000 and the next thing
IS TO get the convention.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27

The Grand Turk swears he cannot re-
form and Cleveland says he won't, so
there Is trouble in two hemispheres.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27

As Thanksgiving day is strictly an
American holiday It is right TO spread the
eagle as well as to spread the turkey.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27

The Grand Jury is not wasting time in
idle fault-fnding. 1t is busy trying to find
the fellow responsible for the fault.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27

4 Philadelphia reformer wishes TO make
election officers use bell punch that will
tally every time he punches ballot
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27

our OF your abundance be sure to spare
something to the poor.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27

SPECIAL information daily TO manufacturers
business houses and public men by tne fress
Ciipping Bureau ALIENS, $40 Montgomery.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27
Cleveland News-Herald.

The National Republican Committee keeps
people guessing. A Chicago newspaper an
nounces that Mr.. Manley of Maine has engaged
rooms in that city for the National Convention
next summer, while Pittsburg paper says
that positive order for rooms in that city has
been received from James S. Clarkson OF Iowa.
Perhaps the Republican party has got to be so
big that it will have to hold two conventions.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27

II Democracy was as wise as it is old it
would fire the Junta and the BuckIeyites,
TOO, and then enjoy Thanksgiving.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27

With the opening of Ingleside Park to-
morrow there will open a new era in Cali
fornia racing big enough to induce the
hest horses III the East to come into it.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27
st. louis Glohe-Democrat.

The Republican conquests OF the future will
have to be in the South and Southwest. Those
regions will be the great battle-ground of the
country eight or ten years hence. By holding
its nominating convention in ST. Louis the
Republican party will show these States that II
is intelligently alive to its advantages and op-
portunities and will put itself in position to
bid effectively for their favor.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27

In asserting his desire to be pictured as
he is, Mr.. White OF Round Valley can
hardly overlook the fact that it is Just that
thing we have been trying to do with pen
and pencil for some time past.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27

II 1t be true as reported that the Colo
NAL Legislature Of British Guiana has voted
money for the Government to take mill
tary possession of the territory in dispute
with Venezuela, it is high time for Cleve-
land to let the eagles scream be heard
across the ocean.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-27

The acquittal OF Ashworth imposes upon
Us the necessity OF another trial. For
every wrong there must be remedy some
Mhere