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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-01

BUTTER-Dealers quote previous prices
p h.
DAIRY-Fancy, 22@23c: good to choice. 200
&c; over grades, l5@llSc q h.
PIcKLED-l60 l8c p ID.
FIRKIN-15@l17c p H.
CREAMERY 1UB-lS@ 19c p D.
CHEESE-Choice mild new quotable at 11@12c
common to good old, s@1Oc; Cream Cheddar, 11@
l2c; Young America, ll1a@121zc; Western, III
@I2lac; Eastern, 121a@131ac ID.
EG1S-Are weakening and stocks are gradually
increasing. Eastern, 25@27 1ac for fancy and 21@
&c Tor cold-storage; ranch Eggs, 2712@30c for
pnliets, 321a@35c for small to medium and $500
SIC Tor fancy Duck Eggs, 25c.
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PROVISIONS.

CURED MEATS-Bacon, &c p 10 for heavy, 7c
o b for light medium. 91ac for light l0c 2 h for
extra light and ll15c p ID for sugar-cured. East
sugar-cured hams. 13@l31ac: California
Hams, II@115ac: Mess Beef. $797 so; extra
mess do $S1S so; family do, 5000 so; extra
prime PORK. 81 50@8: extra clear $16 p Dbl;
mess, $14 Is Dbl: Smoked Beef loo q b.
LARD-Eas ern, tierces, is quoted at 51ac for
compound and 6@61sc for pure; pals, &c: Call
fornia tierces, 5951ac p ID for compound and 614c
for pure: half bbs, sac; ION tins TAG: do 6b,
71ac p ID.
-614@61sc in tierces and 7s4@
S1lac In lO-fb tins
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HAY AND rEEDsTUFFs.
All descriptions remain unchanged.

All descriptions remain unchanged.
BRAN-$14@l4 SO for the best and $l3@13 SO
q ton for outside brands.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. for lower grades and
$40 5U@20 so q for the best
FEEDSTUFFS = Rolled Barley, SO 50@20;
Oilcake Meal az the mill, $23 D ton; iobbing $24
clipped Oats, 81 30@1 35 q ctl.
HAY-Wheat, $S@10 so; Wheat ana Dat. $40
To- Dat. 5000; Barley. sos SO; River Barley,
$500 SO; AL. afa SIS 5O@6 80: compressed, $6@
8 so; Stock $506: Glover, $6QS q TOM
AW-35M5Oc "a bale
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BEANS AND SEEDS.

BEANS No further change In prices
Bayos are quotable at 81 40@1 co. Small Whites.
81 20@l So; Large Whites, 81 1o@1 % q cu;
Pinks, 81 15@I 20: Reds, 81 2O@1 rs; Blackeye,
S1@1 2O Red Kidney, 81 1907 SO: Limas, 81 rs
SEEDS Brown Mustard, 81 1905; yellow Mus
tard, So 1902 % p cti Flax, 81 35@l1 40. Canary
Seed z1a@zs4c q ID; Alfalfa. 51z@612c; Rape,
212c: Hemp, sligo.
DRIED IEAs--Siles, $l@l Is 3 ctl: Green,
81 40@l 60 "a ctl.
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FOREIGN MARKETS.

WHEAT IN LIVERPOOL.
LIVERPOOL, Eng, Nov. 3O-The spot market
is firm at rs 3d. Cargoes firm SOS, arrived.
FUTURES.
The Produce Exchange cable gives the following
Liverpool quotations for No. Red Winter:
December, rs lad; January, rs 1ad; February, Is
1ad; March, Is sld.
SECURITIES
LONDON, ENG, Nov. 80 = Consols 1924;
silver, 29 Zsd; French Rentes, 1927 65c
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NOTICE TO MARINERS.
San FrancIsco Bar-Californi

San Francisco Bar-Californfa
Notice Is hereby given that the whistlinr buov
outside San Francisco Bar, California Is again in
good working order, the whistle having been re-
placed.
BY order of the Lighthouse Board
FRANK COURTS, Commander u s. N
Inspector Twelfth Lighthouse District.
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PRODUCE EXCHANGE SALES.

Sales on call at the Produce Exchange In No
vemper were ST. 200 tons Wheat and $4,000 tons
Barley For the first five months of the current
crop year they were 9H2. 800 tons Wheat and co.
RnrlaY.
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San FRANCISCO MEAT MARKET.

Wholesale rates for dressed stock from slaugh-
terers follows:
BEEF-First quality b1ac: second do 405c:
third do, 31ac p h.
VEAL-Large, 41st@5c: small, 6@7c q n.
AUTHORIZATIONS, &c; Ewes b1ac o b.
LAMB-7c p h.
PokK-LIve Hogs, s14c for large and medium
and SAC for small: Creased do 4(0514c Is ID.
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BANK CLEARINGs.

Local bank clearings in November were $685.
37l ,642 against see OO6, Sol for November. 1895.
For the year TO date they are 1921 ,6eS.SU
against $62s 6s6, ST. for the period In 1895.
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NEW york sroCKs.

Bonds. Exchange. Money and Railroad
Shares.
Money on call easy at 2a21av: last loan n. 2s,
and closing offered al 2y. Prime mercantile paper,
4g41av Bar silver. &c. Mexican dollars
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SUMMARY OF THE MARKETS.

silver a fraction weaker.
wheat and Barley quiet and steady
OTTER Cereals dull
Hay and Feedstufs unchanged.
Beans in active.
Potatoes and onions firm
Putter and Cheese unchanged.
Eggs weakening.
Poultry quiet
sharp decline in Game.
Heavy arrivals of Eastern Apples
Grapes dull.
Citrus Fruits quiet and unchanged.
Dried Fruits still dull.
Provisions as before.
No change in Hides and Leather.
Bank Clearlngs show a decrease.
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50ssc sterling Exchange steady, with actual
bust noes IL npnkers' bills So S31aG04 1894
for 60 Gays and 81 S634@4 81 for demand. Posted
rates, IA s4@p4 o712 commercial bills, "a $40
SO. Government bonds steady; SIate bonds
dull: railroao Donds weaker. silver at the board
rrna au,a cd
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BUTTER, CHEESE AND EGGS.

okra. S@9c q ID; Cabbage. 4O@bOc D ctl; Carrots
5OG4oc % sack; Garlic. 11a@2c q ID.
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GOLD MINING EXCHANGE.
)CK AND BOND EXCHANGE.

| MONDAY. Now 3O-2P.M
UNrTED STATES BONDS
! BID. zs6cd Bid taxed
| U S Is coup.11O lU s As reg lO9 llO1h
| Do new lssuell9A -
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.S393,984
A. summary of the dividends for November com
BOARD SALES.

EOAbD SrALESs
Following were the sales In the San Francisco
Stock Board yesterday:
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-12-01

OCEAN STEAMERS.
Dates of Departure From San Francisco.
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Royal Eagle Distlers Company with LIE June
Stucco, work for 4-s.orv brick building, NE COR
ner Powell and ELI streets; $500; +. Kollofrath,
architect.
Same with :. Levi. finish of cabinet work in
same: $3.50: same architect
Same with George Brandlem, wainscoting. etc.,
same: $3.50: same architect.
Same with W. G. Watson, plastering etc, same;
$2bOU; same architect
same with Ruffino & Beanch hi marble work ETC.
same; $3.50; same architect
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-07
A FLANK MOVEMENT.

If dispatch from London may be cred
tied, England is preparing coup that will
prove far more serious to the United States
than the Venezuelan boundary muddle
The news is that Great Britain is in
triguing with the government of Nicara-
qua to rescind the agreement existing be-
tween it and the American company
having charge of the Nicaragua canal and
to turn the privileges over to British cap
italists.
The announcement is hardly credible,
but that does not affect the gravity of the
situation. If such an arrangement should
be consummated it would be no worse than
acceptance by the American company of
English capital with which to construct
the canal, in the absence of assistance
from the United States. With English
capital would go English protection and
control, and with these more serious
thrust at the Monroe doctrine than is rep
resented in the Venezuelan boundary dis
pute.
The American company is in an ex-
ceedingly embarrassing position. 1t
cannot induce American capitalists to
come to its assistance. and yet Eng
hsh money is ready for the asking,
SO the company is now waiting in
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of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Com
pany, and Mr.. Hinckley, the iron works pro-
prietor.
~ came to California in $780, he said. "and
shortly afterward engaged in the manufacture
OF iron shutters. doors and iron work.
"I had previously lived in New Orleans ten
years, where owned an iron factory. 1 had
worked awhile and then started place of my
own.
"Well after I got here continued in the
iron business for four years.
"And want to tell you that I made the first
$50 gold slug that was turned out; that is, I
made the dies which turned it out, which was
the same thing, or better. I was telling this
story recently to a stranger, who thought he
knew all about who made the first slug, and he
was inclined to dispute me- All right, we
won't argue this said, but will LET it drop.
I know l made the first one, and that is enough
for me-
''When quit the iron business here I went
to Sonoma County, and there 1 remained many
years. 1 was pretty successful, but am now
satisfied TO make my home in San Francisco, a
City which 1 think is altogether the most
charming of any have ever known"
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OANADA'S POSITION.

Canada is one OF the reasons why Eng
land will be very slow to provoke a war
with the United States. While our mill
tary people are talking of the cheerful ease
with which we might seize Canada and
thus destroy the only frontier that exists
between Great Britain and the United
States they fail to take into account the
fact that Canada might anticipate US by
falling willingly and adding her strength
to that of the United States against Eng
land. 1t is true that Canada could not
oppose an armed invasion from the United
States, and that if we should seize the We'll
land canal and the Canadian Pacific Rail-
way the Dominion would be at our mercy.
England then would need another Wolfe
to scale the Heights of Abraham.
Although the sentiment of Canada is
against annexation to the United States,
and although her system of government ls
totally different from ours and would have
to suffer violent wrenching in the ANAL
gamation, the internal affairs of Canada
are now in bad way and very serious
and portentous division has arisen among
the people. 1t is all over the use of public
school funds in Manitoba. The fight has
been waging for more than a year: it at
last has eliminated in the resignation of
seven members of the Cabinet, and this
Will likely cause the overthrow of the
present government in elections called to
fill their places. This would mean merely
that the policy and influence of the crown
are unpopular with the majority. The
home party has grown strong within re-
cent years.
1t is a curious fact that Canadais not at all
perturbed over rumors of war between the
United States and England. Within the
last few days there has been little talk OF
increasing the defenses, but there is in
Canada nothing like the interest that
throbs throughout England. This indif-
ference is extraordinary Can il be that
the crown it would not seriously object to
being taken by the United States? Does
England see nothing strange or ominous
IN the apathy of it's ward? If it does can
this be taken as one of the reasons why
England is so anxious not to precipitate a
fight with this country Canada never
had any great value from our point of
view until the Canadian Pacific was built
and a large share of the traffic of the
Orient was thereby diverted from US; but
England cannot be blind to the fact that
under present conditions it would be
greatly to the advantage of the United
States to secure possession OF this great
empire of the north, and that in the event
of war it would be necessary.
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A RARE OPPORTUNITY.

The general belief that the Railroad
Committees of the Senate and the House
of Representatives will both report favora-
bly, on the railroad funding proposition is
doubtless well-founded, and if so there
will be waged on the floors of the two
houses one of the most memorable battles
in the history OF the country. Whatever
preliminary work may be done by San
Franclsco's Committee OF Fifty or by some
other citizens working zealously for the
interests of the State, official records that
time cannot efface will be made only by
those Senators and Representatives who
make themselves heard on the floor of
Congress.
1t will be an extraordinary opportunity.
Eastern members of Congress who may
champion the rights of the people will be
inspired only by broad and general sense
of right, but in addition TO this the repre-
sentatives OF California will have the in
terest of the self-preservation of the people
who sent them to Washington. For the
fate of California now hangs in the bal
ance, and those charged with guarding it
rest under the heaviest responsibility that
was ever taken from State to the Ma
tional Capitol.
The situation is very simple. II fund
ing bill is passed it must provide for the
gradual extinction of the debt which the
aided roads owe the Government. This
willrequire heavy addition to the fixed
charges of the companies, and conse-
quently will make raising of transporta-
ton charges an imperative necessity. The
tax must be levied on the industries of our
State. The companies claim that they
have been making no money for long
time. They have paid never a cent of the
principal or interest of the debt, and their
failure to pay at least the interest has in
creased the obligation to the Government
to many times the value of the property.
Not only must provision be made in tariff
charges to pay off the debt under any
funding scheme, and thus impose harder
conditions on California than have ex-
listed hitherto, but such a measure would
place it in the power OF the companies to
levy any additional charges they may
please for fifty years to come.
The situation is so serious that it is every
Californian's duty, in simple self-defense,
to employ every reasonable means to avert
the impending calamity. More particu-
larly does this obligation rest upon the
California delegation in Congress. We
have come to struggle for existence, and
the East should be made acquainted with
the fact. 1t would be misunderstanding
our own interests aside--if the country at
large should be denied the benefits of the
Injuries which California would be able to
pour into its lap if its production were
not held in check by private greed and
power.
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Personal.

Ben Hazeltine of Suffer is here.
Daniel Frawley is at the Palace
The Rev. Samuel Hirst of Vallejo is in the
City.
J. Q. Williams OF Lincoln, Nebr., is at the
Russ.
Ex-Judge ]. M. walling of Nevada City is in
town.
General A. B. Barrett left for Sacramento last
night.
Judge E. N. Bond of New York is at the occi-
dental.
DR.. Wilson shiel of Los Angeles arrived here
yesterday.
silas Cole, the contractor, of Sacramento, is
at the Lick.
7. W. Enos of Tacoma is one of the recent
arrivals here.
W. H. Wood, 3 business man of Los Banos is
at the Occidental
Marie Wainwright arrived and registered at
the Baldwin Hotel yesterday.
D. ]. Spence, the wealthy landowner, OF San
Jose and Salinas, is at the Palace.
Among the arrivals here yesterday was John
Sparks OF Reno, one of the cattle kings OF
Nevada
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the hope that the United States Govern
ment will advance the needed funds and
assume control of the canal. This would
not only keep England's hands off the
canal but would enable our Government to
control in a measure the commerce be-
tween the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards
OF the United States and secure the pro-
lection of the weak and constantly threat
ened republics of Central and South
America.
The only opposition to Government aid
and control of the canal comes from
sources friendly to the interests of the
powerful transportation companies which
control the transcontinental railroads and
the Isthmus of Panama. That the power
thus exercised in the shaping of Congress
slonal legislation is enormous, and greater
! now than ever before, is a fact which re-
cent happenings have established beyond
question. The great pool which has re-
Gently been formed to include all the
Eastern trunk lines indicates the extent to
which the railroad power of the country is
| consolidating, and is merely the beginning
of an arrangement to include the overland
roads.
Even as it is, all the trunk lines of the
| country are friendly and are able to throw
the weight OF their combined power in the
scale OF popular legislation. AS English
capital is very largely interested in these
roads it can in a measure dictate policy
for them which will be to the advantage of
England and the injury of this country
It's curious state of affairs which thus
makes it possible for England, through
American railroads, to demand of our
| Congress that it shall not come to the as
sistance of the Nicaragua canal.
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AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

One of the most notable men around the
hotels, and who is o:tenest seen at the Occi-
dental, is Alexander Duncan, the extensive
mill-owner and merchant of puncans Mills.
Mr.. Duncan was one of the early pioneers OF
California, and after his arrival here engaged
IN the iron business. AT length he went to
Sonoma, where he remained nearly three
decades, amassing large wealth.
Rumor has it that he got 5000, 900 for his
mill alone. Anyway, whatever he got by this
transaction ana through other business ways,
he has enough and to spare
His home has been here for several years
now, and he is very well contented to remain
in San Francisco, where he is known to throngs
Of people and has hosts OF friends.
He was seated at the Occidental yesterday
talking to his friends, r. R. Thomson, formerly
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-07
HUMoR OF THE HOUR.
"I have lived a terrible life" she rnoaned.
TELL me ALL" urged the comforter.

81 have lived terrible Hfe," she moaned
"Tell me all" urged the comforter.
"Forty-one years." faltered the miserable
woman.
There was nothing to say except thatit might
have been much worse.-Detroit Tribune.
Some people get great reputation for phil
anthropy by inducing other people to let them
give away their money.-somervtlle Journal
''Are your writings much read?"
THAT is what 1 should like to find out. AS it
is, do not know whether they read my manu-
scripts or send them back without reading."-
Boston Transcript.
Gle is good-natured. is hep
"Good-natured? Why, I have known that
man 10 wear a smiling face when he was speak
ing of taking off porous plaster" Boston
Courier.
Flights mighty good thing to have re-
tentive memory.
Fogg-That depends. II the memory is yours,
it is mighty good thing, as you say; but if it
happens 10 be the property of your wife, that's
another matter-Boston Transcript.
CAV, why don't you brace up?p sneered Man
eating Mike at the trembling Sheriff.
81 never hanged man before said the
official
'Wot if you didn't? 1 never was hung be-
fore neither, but amt maxim no exhibition
of myself "-Cincinnati Enquirer.
Miss Parvie-New-And wouldn't it be splen-
did if 1 should catch lord?
Miss May-Fair-Yes; then you would be a
lady.-London Pick-Me-Up.
Mrs. Watts-I'm afraid you don't love work.
Dismal Dawson-'Deed do, mum, but I am
so Observation-Disclosures Journal.
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A DISPUTED GOLD MINE.

The New York Sun gives view of one of the
gold placer mines near the Cuyuni River in
the region which is claimed by both England
and Venezuela. So far as it has yet been
worked this is poor mans gold country, for
almost no machinery has been introduced and
only the rude methods of extracting alluVial
gold are yet employed.
The region first became the center of interest
to miners in 1885, and there was at once q
considerable importing OF the British residents
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-07
A TAILOR COSTUME.

The jacket here des cribed has the newest and
pest features OF this seasons coats. The skirt is
fuil In the back, the front is in the stylish cut
away style, and the sleeves are made in the
new way, with seam from the shoulder to the
wrist. The jacket may be worn with fitted
vests, as shown here, with the pretty blouse
fronts, or over thin silk or cotton waists.
MADE OF mixed cheviot or tweed, with plain
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OF Guiana. No sooner had those new gold dis
coveTles been made than England found out
limits to her territory had been SO stupid as
not to claim all the country she was entitled
TO. But the blunder was easily remedied, and
nardly year elapsed before British Guina
had waxed greatly. This was in 1856, and
1T became the duty OF the British flag, before
1886 was ended, to float over about 80 900
more square miles OF South American soil.
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

SAN FRANCISCO WAR-VEssELs-E. o., Colma,
San Mateo County, Cal. There have been
built at the Union Iron Works, in this City, the
following named vessels: Monterey, cost
1,017 900; San Francisco, 81 ,428, 600, and
Olympia, 81 zee, 900.
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CAR ACcoUNTANT-N., City. The duties of
car accountant is to keep an account of the
mileage of each car owned by the company and
also to keep track of all cars that are switched
off TO foreign roads The pay varies according
to the road on which such accountant is en-
ployed. On some roads there is q special de-
partment for the purpose, while on others
duty.
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CHICAGO LIMITED.
VIA SANTA ZEE ROUTE.

A new train throughout begins October %
Pullman's finest sleepingcars, vest1bule 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-seyen hours quicker than the
quickest competing train. The Santa Fe has been
put in fine physical condition and is now the best
transcontinental railway.
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AMERICA.

Upon thy broad oundation rest secure
Thou art not built upon the shifting sand,
But on a rock, with finn, unfaultring hand,
Was fashioned that which ever shall endure;
For he who laid thy firm foundation-stone,
When storm-clouds gathered, and wars gloomy
night
Put out the young days tender, Joyous light,
Clasped close stronger hand guiding his own
And on that rock was written, chiseled deep,
Freedom and truth, and Gods free air for all r
Builded on such rock, thou canst not fall,
Tho storms in all their fury round thee sweep.
FLORENCE A. JONES in Monthly Illustrator.
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OF Robert Tyler, private secretary to his father,
the President. She had been a Miss Cooper,
playing Virginia in her fathers "Virginius''
When, IN his last year as President, Tyler re-
married, she retired as hostess.
H. n. Pillsbury, the Brooklyn chess cham
pion. who is winning new 1aurels at st. Peters
burg, maintains his wonderful control of his
nervous system by great care in his habits He
eats meat but once a day, never drinks any
thing stronger than milk, is 'abstemious III the
use OF tobacco, and always sleeps at least seven
hours out OF the twenty-four. He is an adVo-
cate OF bicycle riding in limited amount as
conducive to perfect health.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-07

OUT OF WEDLocK-F. A., City. If a man is the
father of a child born out of wedlock and for
period of five years has acknowledged the pa
ternity of the child, 1t is very likely that
court, on the proper presentation of the facts
would compel him to support that child not
withstanding ne might wish to abandon it.