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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

LoTTA CRABTREE-F. w. G., Hueneme, Ven.
tura County, Cal. Charlotte Crabtree, known
to all old Californians as "Our Lotta," was
born at $50 Broadway, New York City, Novem-
ber z, 1S47. When mere child she was brought
TO California, and when6 years of age made
her appearance, "for one night only" during
a concert given in Laporte, Sierra County.
That was early in 1854. When IL years of age
she appeared on the stage in Petaluma, So
noma County, in the character Of Gertrude in
"The Loan of Lover" For two years after
that she starred through the country as ''La
Petite Lotta, an infant prodigy" In 1860,
when about 13 years OF age, she ap..
peared in San Francisco in song and
dance and minstreisy at the Willows,
which was then on Mission street, between
Eighteenth and Nineteenth, and at Berts
MeIodeon on the northeast corner of Clay and
Kearny, contemporaneously with Joe Murphy,
Ben Cotton, Sam Wells and others of minstrel
fame in those days. She then appeared in
small plays, her favorite being "Nan the Good
for Nothing" She first appeared in New York
at N bios Salon June /, 1864. She did not
prove success and it was not until the sum-
mer of 1867 when C. W. Tayleure presented
her at w allacks in "Little Nell, the Marchion-
ess," the first time that was produced, that
she won the hearts of the Gothamites. She
never was married. Her inseparable CON-
paniOn was her mother, who died recently.
She was with her wherever she performed and
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PERSONAL.

J. II. Hough of Eureka is at the Grand.
Dr. ]. W. Jones of sausalito is at the Lick.
DR.. A. B. Carter of Easton. Pa, is in the City
General A. W. Barrett of Sacramento Is in the
City.
DR.. Lynch Pringle of New York is in the
City. -
politan.
California.
William Campbell, merchant Of Grass Val
ley, is in town.
Henri Loeehner of Guatemala isregistered is q,
the Cosmopolitan.
W.T.. Boothe. piano manufacturer of New
York, arrived here yesterday.
Dan Barnard, the well-known cattleman o.
Bakersfield, is at the Cosmopolitan.
Frank R. Wehe of Downieville, District At
torney of Sierra County, is at the Lick.
f. A. Stent, the owner of mining property
in Tuolumne County, is at the California.
Railroad Commissioner W. r. Clark of Stock.
ton, formerly Mayor of that city, is at the
Baldwin.
About fifteen persons from different parts ol
New England. of the Nason-Durgin excursion
party, are at the Baldwin.
IL. i. farraI, the Weil-knoWn capltanSt or
Worcester, N. Y. is guest at the Cosmopoli.
tan, accompanied by his wife.
Senator E. &. voorhees, of Sutter Creek, who
owns the reduction works there and is exten.
sively interested in mining. lis at the Palace.
Chris Buckley, the astute politician and
grape-grower, who has been rusticating for
some time at his ranch, is at the Baldwin,
accom- mpanied by his wife,
Henry NJ. Kingman ST., member of the firm
of Henry NJ Kingman & Co., one Of the largest
shoe manufacturing establishments of New
England, is stopping at the Baldwin.
G. Stafford Northcote, an immediate relative
of Earl Stafford Northcote, the famous British
peer, arrived here yesterday, and is at the
Palace. He is on his way to Hong Kong, China.
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any body, anyway. They never shoot or give
trouble otherwise.
'T think the new country will prove to have
some of the greatest of mines. Such infOrma-
ton as have been able to get leads me to this
conclusion.
"And, by the way. it's a good time to say
with eArnestness that if the manufacturers
and dealers of California will interest them
selves energetically in the matter they can
sell many goods to New Zealand and Australia.
II wanted to look at some mining machin-
cry myself, but got delayed by the mistake of
the man who sold me my ticket, and will not
be able to give it the time desired will
have to wait till next autumn, when l come
back sesss
~ have been to Europe and have been q long
time away, SO / must hurry home. But the
trade of New Zealand and Australia, OF good
deal of it. properly belongs to California in
stead of to England and for one hope Cali
fornia will get it"
'.I noticed by the papers that Billy Eckoff
died in Cripple Greek the other day." said
Colonel X. B. Brown last night in the lobby OF
the Baldwin Hotel. $50 -
Colonel Brown drew q long breath in re-
fective manner as he resumed. "Bfllywa an
odd character in more ways than one. but he
was as smart as they make 'em in business
matters and I'm dead sure that Cripple Greek
is a good camp or he wouldn't have staked 1t
out for his share OF the trade. He never made
q mistake on mining camp and could look
further ahead and tell better what was going
to happen q year hence than anybody else l
ever met. But of course he couldn't use his
judgment on pneumonia. Nobody could fore
tell the result of game like that.
Chilly Eckoff took q flare at most OF. the
prom isfng diggings of the Pacific Coast and
always kept good saloon and made money
wherever he opened. He struck Virginia City
where used to be chief engineer of the Fire
Department just as the last big boom was be-
ginning to show itself, and besides cleaning
up handsome pile in the regular course of
trade, took fall or two out OF the stock mar
ket that netted him big fortune. Just be-
fore the boom burst Billy sold his mining
shares and his saloon. Then he went back to
Germany and bought castle on the Rhine. in
which the Won Eckoffs had held their ances-
tral revels in the many years gone by. He
put in steam heating system, an electric
light plant, besides other modern improve
ments, and in less than year sold the castle
to German Count for double whatft cost him.
Returning TO America Mr.. Eckoh started
another place, and, after clearing the expense
of fitting up, in very short time sold out, and
repeated the operation over and over.
'Then he went to Cripple Creek.
'I saw letter from Billy less than week
before he died-for he was sick only three days
lin which he declared Cripple Creek TO be the
makings OF q regular old d-fashioned boom camp
and advised all his. friends to get in there as
soon as possible. That is why pin my faith
to the future of Cripple Creek, no matter what
the newspapers say about the chances of
slump in the mines of that district"
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OBJECTIONABLE DULLNESS.

If the editorial utteranees of the New
York Tribune are to be taken as properly
indicative of the Eastern knowledge and
treatment of the railroad funding matter
we are confronted with evidence of Mr.
Huntington's splendid success as per-
verter of truth and wisdom. The Tribune
has made scurrilous attack upon Senator
Morgan for his method of examining Mr..
Huntington-taking care, however, to ex-
plain its animus against the Alabaman by
ridiculing him for an alleged speech which
he required an hour and half to deliver
at some banquet. Hence it charges that
Senator Morgan consumed valuable time
of the Senate Committee on Pacific Roads
in his attempt to make Mr.. Huntington
divulge some of the hidden rascalities Of
the Contract and Finance Company, that
able machine through which the Central
Pacific managers put the funds Of the peo-
pie in endeavors to place them beyond the
possibility of recovery.
In speaking OF the funding question the
Tribune thus displays its hopeless ignor-
ance: att is simple business proposition.
1t cannot be affected by any present in
auiry into the conditions under which the
rOaQS were puut anu tuc OUilSdtlOuS III
Cured. These conditions have been inves-
tigated and reinvestigated time after time
by Congress and by special commissions.
the last, appointed in 1887. having gone
Iexhaustively into the whole matter at an
expenditure of 100000 and printed re-
port of thousands of pages which left no
point in the transactions untouched
1t would be impossible to crowd greater
number of errors into SO small space.
There never has been any thorough inves-
tigation. The nearest approach made to
one was by the commission OF 1887, but
when the inquiry became too warm the
Federal courts were appealed to and they
stopped the work. More than that, the ac-
counts of the Contract and Finance Com
pany, which, if discovered, would have
shown the crookedness of the whole ugly
business, were discovered by that inquiry
to have been destroyed.
Furthermore. the Tribune misses The
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AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

"The Maoris of New Zealand" said u. X.
Painter, the mine-owner, Of the Coromapdel
Peninsula at the Russ yesterday, "sre, take
them al around, about the best people ever
saw. have been all over New Zealand, on
the frontier and elsewhere, and wherever !
have gone have found them kind, hospitable
and honest.
''They will do anything for you II you treat
them hall way right. Ihave come to have high
opinion OF them. A good many white men II,
certain parts of the country have native wives,
and wherever you 60 you see haif-castes.
s'The Urawera country, about 100 miles from
Auckland, which has been held by the blacks
from time immemorial, is full of gold, and will
soon be thrown open. I am going to be the
first in it and try to establish another Cool
gardie.
"The blacks are willing now that the country
should be opened, but they wouldn't hurt
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whole point by assuming that the obliga-
tions incurred should not be considered.
That is so exactly theory of Mr.. Huntington
himself in his efforts to conceal the history
OF the past as to constitute remarkable
coincidence. The manner in which the
roads were built and the obligations In
cured are the soul of the case, because
those matters concern the history Of the
plunder and pillage which the funding
measure is proposed to condoneAand re-
ward. The Government is now on still
hunt for stolen property. It is small credit
to great newspaper not to know that the
history of the past is the essence of the
present in this railroad matter.
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sign shown here is designed for girls Of six
months to FIVE years of age.
A novelty goods of red and dsrk blue, In silk
and wool, had q collarette of red silk edged
with rows Of blue silk braid. Red ribbons
formed bow with long ends depending from
the yoke.
Dainty little dresses of wash fabrics are made
after this model. A pink and white chambfay
had the collarette In white lawn, edged with
vAlencienne lace.
For dressy wear soft silks or liberty satins
are made up with collarette OF bstiste or lawn
that may be made separate.
Flowered chaliies are much used for little
tots, with ribbons to match the flowers.
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CURRENT HUMOR.

Slopay, with most impressive manner, twas
more than half slste."
perhaps you may remem ber," retorted the
coal man, with much spirit, 'that you said,
after you had ordered it, just slate this, will
you p "-Indianapolis Journal.
Hicks-By jove, Pm in hard luck!
Wicks-How so?
Hicks-Why, here's money order I've just
got for $40, ond the only man in town that can
identity me to the money-order clerk is one
that owe $50 to.-Somerville Journal.
Professional Courtesy.-Crowded out to make
room for more interesting matter, observed
the gallant editor as he gave his seat in the
car to the young woman with soulful eyes,
Detroit News.
II wonder how warm the room is," said
Bloobumper. "Benny, go look ct the Their
mometer."
The little boys consultation must have been
very unsatisfactory, for he said presently:
"The thermometer isn't going."-Truth.
''Maud Ethel. / am getting awfully tired OF
waiting up till after midnight for that young
man 10 leave" fs
.'Yes. papa; and think he is getting tired Of
waiting till you are asleep before he bids me
gcod-by in the hall. ll."-Indianapclis Journal.
Auntie-Ethel. you must not be 50 impatient.
Remember that Rome was not made in day.
Ethel-Why, auntie. how can you say such 4
thing? 1t is wicked, really wickedi You
know that God made all the world In six days.
and he certainly did not spend more than ave
minutes on RomeLEditor's Drawer OF Har-
pey's Magazine for March.
Mamma-Tommy, I'm ashamed OF you.
What makes you act so rude to your Uncle
Robert?
Tommy-Well, mamma, every time he comes
here he says, "Hallo. Tommy, how big ron arei
You've grown . foot since saw you last. I"
And it makes me feel like centipede.-Har.
per's Bazaar.
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CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, N. Y. March .4.-Wager Brad
ford and Mrs Bradford were among the passen-
gers who sailed on the.stesmship New York for
Southampton. Z. Holiday is at the WINDSOR,
p Dillon at the Plaza, F. w. Vail at the Gilsey,
R. I. Thomas at the Imperial and C. H. Wood
at the Grand
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LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
THE STRANDED K1LBRANNAN.

Mr.. BELL TELLS OF THE MEANS ADOPTED TO
GET THE SHIP AFLoAT.s
To the Editor of the San Francisco Cd,l-S1R:
In your issue of the 9th inst. you give an
account Of. the floating of the British ship
Kilbrannan, in which it is stated that "with
an ease surprising even to those who accom-
plished it' she was hauled into deep water; also
that two previous attempts with full force OF
local tugboat companys tugs had failed to
bulge her, but that the last and successful
attempt required but two tugs.
There is an explanation of this which feel
is my due. ~
Invent to Port Townsend to investigate the
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-05

To the small boys the snowstorm was as
good as a carnival, and to many dignified
citizen they made circus OF it.
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About all of Abyssinia the Italians have
gained so far is the abyss.
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Court in the Stanford case does not inyalidate
the California law regarding the liability OF
stockholders. It merely holds that the law
the Central Pacific to the Government
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Now that it is all over we can see that
the snow storm saved the fruit good deal
and did not spoi! the climate much.
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Laws with Loopholes.

AS far as heard from, and many have been
attacked, there Is not single law passed by
the last Legislature which has stood the test OF
the Supreme Court. Verify there is food for
thought in this in efficiency.
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The Abyssinian may not be up to all
sorts of modern war, but he is no soft snap
when 1t comes to downright hard fighting.
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According to the postal authorities it is
wrong to say Huntington will not steal a
red-hot stove and perhaps the authorities
are right.
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Dividing Africa without counting the
Africans is where Europe rolled off log.
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San Fran cis 40 TO Lose
Eureka watchman.

The proposition to give Eureka terminal
another loss OF trade to San Francisco, and will
serve - one moro reminder that San Francisco
must free herself OF the blighting influence Of
the Southern Pacific Railroad.
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Italy has found that carrying the wa
into Africa is not the kind Of Roman holi
day it used 10 be.
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PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE.

Alfred Austin rec elves a salary of $500 q
year as English laureate, and draws dack sal
airy from the time of Tennyson's death in 1892.
Cardinal Perrand, q member of the French
Academy, one OF the cleverest writer's among
the French clergy, is about to publish q book
on music, or more properly speaking, the rela.
tions between music and morality.
The world doesn't hear much of John Ruskin
nowadays, but he still lives, and he has Just
celebrated his seventy-seventh birthday in his
rural home in England. He is able to take
long walks, play chess, read novels and scold
occasionally.
Robert Mark Wenley, who has just been ap-
pointed to the senior professorship of phil
osophy in the University of Michigan, is son
of the treasurer of the Bank of Scotland, and is
prolific writer on many subjects, his best
known works being .Soerates and Christ" ana
ASPECTS OF Pessimism."
The prevailing tint in the trousseau OF ex.
President Harrison's bride. is pale blue,
Those who may think that this is delicate
tribute to the state of the bridegroom's mind
over the Presidential prospects that went
glimmering will be pleased to learn that in
the language OF the heart pale blue means true
love.
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stirred Up the Animals.

Ventura Free Press.
The British have at last decided to accept the
Monroe doctrine as good enough law for them,
and are extremely sorry that they stirred up
the animals.
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Since the island is to be dignifed by a
naval training school. we had better drop
the goat name and call it Yerba Buena.
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The Southern Pacific of Kentucky suf-
fered signal defeat last night, and the
victory of Mr.. Spreckels was victory for
decency and purity in politics.
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What has become o. the Railroad Com
missioners' case?
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FOR THE YOUNGEST GIRLS.

The fa3hions for little folks are reflection
OF those of their elders. No matter how young
the girl may be, the features Of epaulettes, COL
larette, full sleeves and extreme width of skirt
are faithfully reproduced. The attractive de-
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-05

Judging from his Home Mission speech
Cleveland is of the opinion that the West
is woolly not only On the back but all the
way through.
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In the drawing-rooms of European dip
lomats it is now considered breach of
etiquette for any one to sit on the otto
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-05

This Congress has not done much in the
way of politics, but it has broken the
record in passing appropriation bills and
that's business.
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For. the Home Mission in New York
there is work in New York if Grover had
only thought of it.
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The Carson mint case has been opened
in court. and we may look for strange
things to come out of it if somebody
doesn't put the lid on.
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If the postal authorities wish to give Mr..
Huntington real pleasure they will stop
the circulation through the mails of any
reports OF the evidence he has given under
the examination of Senator Morgan.
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Affairs in Cuba are critical, but Uncle
Sam should do something more than crit!'
cize.
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Mrs. Trotabout-I shall he swav from, bo,,.
sne greater part Of the day. as have Joined the
society for the Suppression of Needless and
Nerye-Rscking Noises.
MI. T.-Good idea, my dear. Take the baby
along with you.-London Spare Moments.
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Up to date we have said just enough
about Cuban independence to aggrayate
Spain without helping Cuba.
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The nations that have undertaken to
open up Africa have opened up more trou-
BILE for themselves than anything else.
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"I HAD several pimples on INV face "a nd !, ,aro.
boil on one hand. began taking HOODS sarsapa-
riiia ana after using three bottles was cured" ].
w. johnson, South Broderck-st.. San Francisco
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win Not Be Colonized. .
Santa Cruz Sentinel

All attempts to colonize American negroes
in other countries have turned out to be disap-
pointing, and that method of setting the race
question might as well be abandoned.
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If it were not for Armenia, Abyssinia,
Transvaal, Formosa, Korea, Venezuela,
and few other disturbing places, the age
OF peace would have little peace in its
old 600
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TEXAS RANGER = Subscriber, Stockton. Cal.
,, OF answers TO the fourteen questions you ask
10 tne aoJutant- nt-general of the State of Texas
az austin. The Information asked for is not
obtainable in this CITY ~ % Nv.
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SAswINDT MoToR-T. U. B., City. By ad.
oresslng letter to Otto vogel, Berlin, Prussia
tIsa GtIeImmany you can obtain full description of
pu ublished in THE CALL recently. vas
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"BRowN's BRoNcHIALTRo Es are unriyalea
Tor relieving Coughs, Hoarseness and all Throat
Troubles. Sold only In boxes
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what the rrafno will Bsar.

q person from Salinas to San Francisco {less
than 120 miles, and only $5 from San Fran.
cisco to Portland, Or, more than ten times as
and pet Portland has no advantage Over Sail
naa in this respect.
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AS Spain has ordered re-enforcements to
be sent to Cuba from the Balearic, Canary
and Philippine islands, it is evident she is
playing her last cards and the game is
drawing to an end.
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Before Cleveland talks any more about
new communities in the West developing
into undesirable States," he should take a
little thought of what an undesirable state
he has developed into himself,
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writer for the New York Tribune has
made the direful discovery of the existence
of a Presidential trust,' and if his story
is true the thing is worse than a goldbug
syndicate or hog combine.
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The official statement in the Reichstag
that, while Germany does not expect to
maintain navy equal to that of England
or of France, she does intend to have one
that will enable her to control the Baltic,
will be interesting news in Russia.
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DIR. SIEGERr's Angostura Bitters, indorsed bv
physicians and chemists for purity and whole.
someness.
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FROM WESTERN sANcTUMs.
Another valley Wants Competition.
ry. Nail

Work on the Valley road seems to be pro-
crossing very satisfactorily, and the day is not
far distant when the people OF this valley Will
also have to have Q competing road.
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Many places in the State had combina-
ton of ram, hail and snow during the
storm, but Santa Barbara is the only one
that in addition had thunder and light
ming display as an annex.
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Republicansl The Southern Pacific Com
pany of Kentucky by trickery and chi
canery and by fraud is seeking to get con-
troll of our party. Resist the attempt
stand by the people.
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The announcement of Manderson of Ne
braska as candidate for the Presidency
has the advantage of bringing some of the
Presidential lightning west of the Missouri
River and getting things started our way
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The three links in the endless chain that
depletes the gold reserve are the deficit
revenue, the excessive imports and the
business depression, and as all of these re-
suit from the Wilson tariff, the moment
we repeal that we break the chain.
The San Francisco call., 1896-03-05

The CoRBETT DIvoRCE-Subscriber, City. I,
there has not been an order of modification ~
the J.J. Corbett divorce case the divorced ,y,fr
Is still drawing alimony, for the order was thst
the aiimony was for life, but Answers to Core.
spondents mas no advice on the suhiect
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"If they know in heaven what is done
on earth," said DR.. Talmadge in his ad-
dress at the Home Mission meeting at
New YORK, and while there was Doubt ess
as much virtue in that if as in any other
it was certainly not orthodox.
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The Republican party of California SAYS
to the Southern Pacific Company of Ken
lucky. Hands off. !" 1t says to the people
OF California, Beware" 1t saws to the
members of its own. ranks, "Be on the
alert"
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CALIFORNIA giace fruits, SOC lb. Townsend's.s .
Try our molasses taffy. Townsend's. 627 MLt.
SPECIAL Information daily to man,,oo,,,
I,5i business houses and public men by the Prs,.
chipping Bureau tAllen's) $40 Montsomery
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Does Not Invaiid.ts tho Law.

Promoters of stock companies will please
take notice that the decisi0n OF the Supreme
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Professional Courtesy.-Crowded out to make
room for more interesting matter, observed
the gallant editor as he gave his seat in the
car to the young woman with soulful eyes,
Detroit Nawc ssttf