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People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1896-04-02

think that when the probate Judge
marries a couple he also insures them
a happy and successful married life,
and if the marriage prOvesa failure,
he has to grant divorce or he is
liable on his insurance contract. The
Major is sorry that he cannot comply
with the lady'S request.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-20
A WEEK OF FESTIVITIES.

The plan to give San Francisco week
of festivities in the autumn will meet with
the hearty approval of every man, woman
and child dwell, We might say, of the
whole State. for such an event would be
participated in by people far and near. 1t
is to be called the Carnival of the Golden
Gate" and it will be wide-open gate to a
season of Joy, recreation and merry.
making.
The movement is in the hands of some
of our most energetic and philosophical
men, and they are the kind, too, who
never do anything in an uncertain and
halfway fashion. Not even an outline
could now be given of what the pro-
gramme will be, but it is quite safe to say
that it will be on scale of magnifcence
and variety the like of which the Pacific
Coast has never seen.
Aside from the pleasure the event will
afford the people. tens of thousands will
be drawn to the City from this and adjoin-
ing States, and they will leave a great
deal of money with our merchants; be-
sides, whatever is calculated to bring the
people of the State together upon this
plane ofindividual enjoyment strengthens
the body polite, and when it is all over
each one will go to his own home enter
tanning a kindlier feeling toward his
neighbor than before, and every Califor-
MAN is every other Californian's neighbor.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-20
CARLISLE'S LETTER.

The personal integrity of John G. Car
Isle has never until now been questioned.
Hitherto his political opponents have adj
mired him for his consistent adherence to
the principles of the Democratic party.
Mr.. Carlisle was one of those Democrats
who would not admit that the funda-
mental principles of Democracy could ever
change, but he now admits that his views
have undergone complete change-thar
a bimetallic currency, which he so elo-
quently and vehemently advocated while
ago in Congress, is glazing fallacy and
that the gold standard of redemption
money is the only sound, sensible and
capable monetary system.
1t is always consistent for one to put his
convictions in harmony with new facts
which circumstances have made manifest,
but Mr.. Carlisle fails utterly to point out
a single circumstance which would Justify
him in changing his love for bimetallism
to hatred of the silver dollar. He labors
hard in his open letter to Hon. John
H. Jones of Kentucky to make it
appear that time and conditions have
changed since he advocated the free
and unlimited coinage of silver, which
makes it quite consistent for him to be
goldite now, but the evidence that he
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-20

TO the east of the Sierra Nevadas and east OF
Valley.
"The principal camps" he said, ''are Cero
Gordo, Panamint, Darwin, Modock and
Beverage. The output last year of the county
was about 100000 This may seem like a
small sum, but for the number OF miners at
work ii is not small. 1t is really very large.
'We have got placer diggings, too, as well as
the ledge mines, and they are very good ones,
though largely undeveloped.
"The soda industry at Owens Lake promises
big. d. o. Mills, H. NJ. Yerington, Frank New
lands and others are producing in the neigh
borhood of 5000 tons OF soda year. They
are now going to increase the plant, and they
viii probably produce after while 30. 900 or
Sc, 600 tons year. There are other soda an d
borax enterprises in Inyo County, and the
industry, may say, important as it is COM
paratively now, will be lar greater ere long.
"The agricultural part OF Inyo is largely in
the Owens Valley, which is watered by the
Owens River, large and important stream,
as most people know. When we get other
bitches the agriculture resources will be ma
terially increased, for the valley has very rich
soil.
81 think it is admitted that the finest beef
in the Los Angeles market, and good as
comes here from any direction, is from the
mountain grass-lands of Inyo. We are up at
an altitude of about 5000 feet, and the grass
is the best to be found"
Mr.. Mack viii leave for home in day or
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-20

and the Spree, eight miles northwest of Der lin
on The line OF the Berlin and Hamburg and the
Berlin and Lehrte railroads. It is strongly
tortihed, and is the key of the defenses of Ber-
lin. The garrison numbers 1000 men, 1t is a
great depot for war materials, and has numer-
GUS factories and laboratories for manufacture
ing cannon, small arms. gunpowder, fixed
ANN unltlon. and SO forth, for the Government,
these places giving employment to 1000 per-
sons, who are constantly employed. All these
works are surrounded by water and nearly all
the lands around the city can be flooded. Span
dau is one OF the oldesttowns in Prussia, having
received town rights in 1882. No one is al
lowed around the tower except those who
twice year have to inspect the treasure AT
all other times only those soldiers who are on
guard are at the tower. Every six months a
member OF the Reichstag selected Tor the pur-
pose, accompanied by officials of the Imperial
treasury, visit the tower TO make an investi-
CATION, to ascertain If all the treasure is there
A great deal OF tormality has to be gone
through before the officials can gain admission
into the tower and into the room, thirty feet
above ground, where the gold, all in coined
pieces, Is kept in bags, each containing 1,OOO,-
QUO marks. The officials open one case, in
which there are ten bags, count the money
and then weigh the box, bags and coin. They
weigh the other cases without opening them.
This fund is kept on hand TO be used only in
case OF war.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-20

does not himself believe what he is say
ing is found in weak attempt to make it
appear that the spirit of his argument for
the valuation of silver a few years ago
was misunderstood, although not until
now has he ever intimated that the outer
and inner meaning of his words were
widely different.
The truth of the matter is, when Mr.
Carlisle was made Secretary of the Treas
ury he permitted himself to join Cleve-
land and Wall street in a conspiracy to
foist the gold dollar upon the country as
the standard of va lue so that the volume
OF the peoples circulating money might be
kept so narrow that it could be controlled
by the money-lenders of this country and
Europe. To be charitable toward Mr.
Carlisle we would have to attribute his
change of view to ignorance, but if he will
not accept defense upon that line, he
wi Ii have to submit to the condemnation
of the better element of his party, which
he is receiving without measure.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-20
A RIDE FOR ASHWORTH,
He Will Be Invited to Inspect
Some of the Potrero
Streets.
A Complaint Against the Southern
Pacific Because of Dangerous
RoadwayS.

The residents of the Potrero and South
San Francisco who are fortunate to own
teams. and those who are less fortunate
and have none, are unanimously of the
opinion that small subscription can be
easily raised for the purpose of hiring a
close carriage for Thomas Ashworth, the
Street Superintendent, if he will promise
to visit that part of the City. and 'feel' if
he should fail to see the deplorable condi-
ton in which Kentucky street is for the
accommodation OF those who drive over it.
The cause of this is that owing to the
moor manner in which the pavements were
laid, the cobbles have tumbled out of the
sand holes in which they were placed, and
have left big, gaping holes, into which
horses stumble and wagons jolt, all to the
annoyance and modification of the driver.
In addition to this the space between the
car tracks is worn out.
This grievance is of the teamsters, but
the unfortunate pedestrians residing on
the Potrero Heights have another cause of
complaint against Mr.. Ashworth and the
monopoly known as the Southern Pacific
Company, who own the property on the
east side of Kentucky street from Napa to
Colusa streets, a distance of eight blocks,
over the sidewalk of which this company
have permitted huge powders of blue
rock and other debris which have been
washed down from the face of the cut
to remain to the danger and incon-
venience of pedestrians, who have to
travel on the middle of the streets, dodg-
ing as best they can passing teams and
electric cars at the risk of their lives.
The western side of this street through
this cut which belongs to the Refs Broth
ers, is kept as clear of distractions as is
possible considering that there is always
more or less matter falling from the face
OF the cut which rolls on to the sidewalk.
1t is for this purpose that subscription
is about to be taken to bring Mr.. Ash
worth out there and show him what his
duties are with the additional reminder
that he was not elected by the people to
protect the treasury of the Southern Pa
cihc Company against an expenditure not
guaranteed to the common people of pay
ing their just proportion for the improve
ment of the streets and sidewalks fronting
their property.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-20
PERSONAL.

Raleigh Barear of Vacaville is at the BLick
House.
Thomas Fox, Postmaster at Sacramento, is at
the Lick House.
DR.. C. B. Proom, Woodland, is in the City at
the Occidental.
J. E. OBrien, hotel man of San Diego, is q
guest at the Palace.
Lieutenant W. H. Aplderdice, q. s. N, Mare
Island, is at the Palace.
R. H. de Witt, merchant of Yreka, registered
at the Grand yesterday.
R. G. Hart lumberman of Shasta is in town,
stopping at the Grand Hotel.
VS.. McClatchy of the Sacramento Bee is a
guest at the California Hotel.
c. T. Jones, lawyer of Sacramento, registered
at the Grand Hotel last evening.
Captain Frank Taylor, U. S. A, Vancouver
is guest at the Occidental Hotel.
James B. Devine, an attorney OF Sacramento,
registered at the Lick last evening.
Charles Erickson, well-known contractor Of
San Luis Obispo, is at the Grand Hotel.
c. NJ. Richardson, capitalist, of Salem, Or,
registered the Lick House yesterday.
DR.. s. A. Knopf, New York, was among the
guests arriving st the Palace yesterday.
George d. Mclean, MarysvIlie, is in the city
He made an inspection recently of the Mary
land mine.
D. Ross, capitalist of Santa Rosa, and dele
gate to the Grand Lodge, K. of P, is guest a.
the Cosmopolitan.
Dr. C. S. Hibbett, United States cruiser Ben
nington, came down from Mare Island yester
day, and autographed at the Palace.
John A. May and 8. H. McPherran of Chi
cago.have been looking over mining proper
ties in Tuolumne and Calaveras districts.
C. G. Belts, mining man of Spokane, put uI
at the Lick yesterday. He has just returned
from a visit to mines in Tuolumne County.
Edward Conway Cullinan, tourist of Boston,
returned last evening from 9 journey through
Southern California and put up at the Palace
E. W. Davis of Santa Rosa, County School
superintendent and delegate to the Grand
Lodge, K. of p, Is registered at the Cosmopoli
tan.
Ben Maddox, one of the most popular editor:
of the State. is in the City. he says thai
Visalie is prosperous and that the people are
happy.
/. Hersch of Fresno, D. Gamble of Hanford
NJ. Vincent and H. Townsend of Selma, dele
gates to the Grand Lodge, K. of p, are guests
at the Cosmopolitan.
Hermann Warszawiak, superintendent o.
the American mission to Jews, with headauar
tiers 70 Bible House, New York, registered a.
the Occidental yesterday.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-20
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

Ex-Assemblyman P. H. Mack of Inyo, Mono
and Alpine counties, who lives at Independ-
ence, IN the first-named county, where he is
pracucing law and engaged in mining, is at
the Russ.
Mr.. Mack has just returned from Mexico,
wnere ne has been for some weeks, and is now
en- route home. He has lived in Inyo since
1850, having gone there from his native city
OF Boston. 1t was because of poor health that
ne went to that mountainous section, and he
mas SO improved that he is in all respects
sausned. Mr.. Mack was first elected Clerk of
inyo county, and he was the first Democrat
sent TO the Legislature from that district. He
says that Inyo County, though remote and
somewhat difficult to be reached, has many
advantages and that it is getting on a more
solid basis than for long time.
Inc mines are nearly all in the Inyo Range,
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-20
THE TRANSFER ORDINANCE.

The ordinance designed to put an end to
the transfer check system of the Market
street Railway Company is undoubtedly
the best means of abating that public
nuisance. The right of the Supervisors to
enact and enforce such an ordinance is be-
yond question. The City authorities would
in fact fail in their duty if they allowed
the public convenience to be so overridden
and the streets to be so bIockaded at i'm
portant points as they are now by the rail-
way company.
There is neither law nor common-sense
in permitting the convenience, comfort and
welfare of citizens to be so disturbed and
harassed as has been done by the establish
ment and maintenance of this system of
transfers. The scheme in its simplest
terms is plan for extortipg double street.
car fares from the public. Everything
that can be done by delay, by inconven-
fence, by rough usage and by insolence to
force people to go without transfers and
pay second time is done. The number
OF persons assigned to make the exchange
of checks for transfers is inadequate to the
service.
They are not selected for courtesy OF
good behavior. They are in no hurry to
oblige. They are not there to facilitate
traffic, but to stop it. Men and women
are forced to wait until waiting longer be-
comes impossible, and they take car
without transfer and yield up to the
railway company the nickel which has
been thus illegally and almost forcibly ex-
torted from them.
Clearly the suppression of this nuisance
is one of the first duties of the Supervisors
So long as it continues the streets will be
blockaded, the facilities of travel will be
impeded, men and women will miss trains
and business engagements, sense OF irri-
tation will be always in the minds of the
people, and there may yet be quarrels
arising from the pushing and crowdine
necessary to get transfers which will re-
suit in serious if not fatal consequences
The thing in fact is known to be a danger
Gus nuisance, and should be suppressed at
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-20

The Sacramento Valley Press League is
composed of publishers of newspapers who
know what California in general and the
Sacramento Valley in particular is in need
of and how to get it. The league was in
convention at Chico last Monday, and de-
vlsed most clear and comprehensive ways
TO acquaint bome-seekers with the advan-
tages which the valley offers to industrious
and enterprising men and women.
The pamphlet and similar old-time
methods of advertising new country were
ignored, and plan agreed upon that, no
doubt, will bring the desired results. The
several papers, members of the league,
will print in their columns from time to
time very complete descriptive and stats.
teal Information. and give in sufficient de-
tail the social, school and church advan-
tages possessed by the several commune
ties in the valley.
Copies of papers containing "write ups"
will be furnis he'd at a nominal cost to anv
one who Will mail them. 1t is expected
that every one who has friends living out
side of California will mail them copies
for distribution. Undoubtedly the plan is
as good as could be devised, for by it the
home-seeker not only gets the informa-
ton he wants as to soil, climate, transpor-
tation facilities, and the price of urban
and suburban property, but by the news
departments OF the papers he can estimate
pretty well the kind and character of the
people.
This is great and laudabie undertaking,
and they certainly will accomplish much
in the direction aimed at, but the business
interests of the valley are rather more in
terested than the newspapers in having a
large influx of home-builders, for the in
crease in the demand for goods, farm
machinery. building material and all other
commodities would be larger in proper.
ton to new subscriptions to the news
papers. But no doubt the people will Sec
ond the efforts of the league and make
the undertaking q success.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-20
THE WEEKLY GALL"

1t is fact now generally admitted and
frequently commented upon that THE
WEEKLY CALL is the best mining and agri-
cultural paper on the Pacific Coast. No
other journal attempts to be as complete
in these departments. Other features of
Importance, however, such as local and
Geographic news, are given equal promi-
nence. Information of interest is fur
nished, also, for members OF the fraternal
orders, while the housewife and the chill
drer each have departments devoted to
their interests. THE WEEKLY CALL is but
81 80 per annum, and its subscription list
isincreasing without the aid of tin watches,
toy pistols or corkscrews.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-20
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE.

The Chronicle of yesterday contained an
attack upon the Republican State Execu-
tive Committee, which was unfair and IN
Just in every particular. Every word was
calculated to infuse into the ranks of the
party feeling of distrust instead of that
confident harmony which is necessary for
success, and the whole tone of the article
was suggestive far more of personal spite
than of regard for the party welfare.
The animus of the attack was displayed
in the very first paragraph by sneering
alusion TO Mr.. Arthur, chairman of the
Republican State Convention. as a lawyer
of "a village practice and further allu-
sion to him as ga Justices Court lawyer OF
Pasadena" These sneers are certainly no
more than exhibitions of temper. To
mock at q man because he lives in viii
lage is about as silly folly as an Ameri-
can can be guilty of. Since when were
all the brains, experience and political
sagacity of this country confined to great
cities? The Chronicle knows very we'll
that most of the great statesmen of this
country live in comparatively small towns
or on farms, and when it returns to its
usual degree of sense it would be the first
to laugh at man who should call Mckin-
ley "a Justices Court lawyer because he
lives in the village of Canton.
The more serious charges of the Chronicle
are that the men selected by Chairman
Arthur for the Executive Committee are
without experience in party management,
a majority of them live outside OF San
Francisco, and they were not ap-
pointed with "a view to harmoniZing
| party differences" but, on the contrary,
"stand for Clique ana constitute a dis
turbing element" OF these charges the
only one founded on truth is that a major
ity of the members do not live in San
Francisco. The other statements are dis
| tinctly erroneous. The new committee
has among its members some of the best
organizers of the State, and is thoroughly
capable of managing the campaign.
The composition of the committee
was the outcome of an earnest
desire to harmonic the party by giving o
representation to all loyal elements. II
does not stand for clique nor for dis.
turbing faction. 1t stands for party 10y
atty and the party welfare. and if the
Chronicle favors these things it should
stand with the committee for harmony
and not try to create dissension in the
ranks at the opening of the campaign.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-20
WoOLLEY ON LIQUOR.
A Lecture by Temperance Orator on
"Life, Liberty and a Chance to
Be HapDy.''

John G. Woolley. one of the cleverest of
the National Christian Endeavor Society
orators, entertained a large audience at
Metropolitan Temple last evening with
lecture on Life, Liberty and Chance to
Be Happy" Mr.. Woolley's speech was an
admirable combination of wit, satire and
severe comments on all who countenance
saloons or the liquor traffic, and his dis
course was received with frequent bursts
of applause and laughter. His strongest
effort was in the comparisons drawn be-
tween the laws passed by the Legislatures
of various States for the preservation and
protection OF clans, fish, ETC., and the
lack of protection accorded to the wives
and children of men addicted to the liquor
habit. He closed his address with a
warm arraignment OF hquor-dealers and
the Government for permitting them TO
exist, claiming that the authorities are
responsible for the larger portion of the
misery that is endured by the families
of the million drunkards that he said ex-
list in the United States.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-05-20
A MORAL LESSON.

Our esteemed contemporary the Etam-
iIler has once more found that i'ways that
are dark and tricks that are vain" lead to
trouble. few days ago THE CALL made
known the fact that the pedestal of the
Grant monument had been constructed by
convict labor and pointed out the wrong
which had thus been done to both the free
labor of the City and the honor due to the
illustrious man whose fame the monu-
ment was to commemorate.
Seeing that what had been done by THE
CALL was a valuable service TO working
men and had found ready response from
public sentiment the Examiner set itself to
work to reap profit from it. Without
giving The CALL any credit for having
discovered the use of the convict labor or
for having spoken in behalf of the work
lngmen, our contemporary began vehe-
mently to assert its own interest in behalf
of union labor and to declare a fervent
opposition to convict labor in com petition
with that of free men. The result of this
noise was the awakening of the Chro nicle
to the fact that the Examiner was trying
to steal a march and the prompt publica-
ton of the record of that journal on the
subject of convict labor.
1t has probably dawned upon the Eram-
liner by this time that it made mistake
in trying to steal credit from THE CALL.
We give it full praise, of course, for what
it Gid TO assist in procuring filter pedes-
tai for the monument, after THE CALL had
led the way, but all the same it should not
have put on false pretenses. Had the Ell
anainer dealt fairly by THE CALL as THE
CALL has ever been fair in giving due
credit to ali it would not now be forced by
the Chronicle to face its old record-nor to
sigh:
All! what tangled web we weave