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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-05
ELECTION Commission,
Supreme Court Is Expected to
Pass Upon Its Rights
Tomorrow.
Validity of the Recently Enacted Pri.
mary Law Must Stand or Fail
w it'll the Old One.

The Board of Election Commissioners
has not as yet arrived at decision as to
what action it will take in regard to the
primary elections.
The time is becoming shorter in which
they shall select from the various pre-
cincts of the City thirty names on the last
assessment-roll as nearly as possible from
the several political parties. This selection
must, according to the new law, be made
during the month of January.
1t will take q staff of about fifty men for
twenty-five days to accompiish this work,
and as their authority to act is not estab-
ished, and as Auditor Broderick refuses to
either pay them any salary or that of any
of their help until their right to act is es-
tabllshed by the Supreme Court, they are
waiting anXlously for a decision.
If the latter be opposed to the validity
of the law then the Mayor and other Off
GERS who are eX-officio members of the
Election Commission as provided by the
old law will have to do the clerical work
themselves or volunteer to pay out of their
own pockets the wages Of the people they
employ for that purpose.
The mere clerical services for drawing
these names will cost the City about $4,000.
The impression has got abroad that the
general primary law is to stand or fall
with the Election Commission law, but
this is regarded by legal lights as mis-
take. The two laws are claimed to be dis
tinct. The idea has arisen because of the
fact that the same principle is involved in
both cases. One being considered uncon-
stitutional the other is likewise, because
they both provide for special legislation
with reference to the carrying on and con-
Quoting of elections.
Considerable interest is being felt as to
whether or not, in case the Election Com
mission bill be declared unconstitutional.
some public-spirlted official will find q
means of having the constitutionality of
the primary law, Its sister BILL tested and
save the City the needless expense of pre-
pairing for primaries which will never be
held should the law ultimately be declared
unconstitutional.
The test case is now Before the Supreme
Court and the impression is that a deci-
sion viii be reached early this coming week.
1t is the case OF Denman against Auditor
Broderick.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-05
UNCLE GEORGES BOOK,
"a Retrospect From the Mizzen
top to Be the
Title.
George T. Bromley Will Enter the
Field of Literature, Backed as
Winner.

Uncle George T. Bromley has decided to
settle down to quiet life and write a
book.
This determination to engage in literary
pursuits was not formed on the impulse of
the moment, but is the result of long and
profound reflection. 1t does not signify,
by any means, that Mr. Bromley's pur-
pose is to withdraw from the activities of
life, but he contemplates checking the
pace somewhat and giving attention to
literature as zest.
His book will be called ga Retrospect
Fsom the Mizzentop," and from that out
look he will view the wake of his life.
Scenes of his early life at sea have left a
lasting impression on his mind, hence it
follows that his book is to bear marine
title
In 1881 he made his first voyage from
New London to the coast of Africa, and
was away from home twenty-five months.
He was subsequently cabin boy on a
Liverpool packet, and still later on the
blockading feet off Vera Cruz, in the war
with Mexico.
The volume will deal largely in reminis-
cences of early times in California. Uncle
George was once mate of a Sacramento
River boat and was nine years conductor
on the first railroad in California-the line
from Sacramento to Folsom. He began
his service on the rail in 1855. AS he SAYS:
81 was railroad man before the days of
the bellpunch, and during my term as
conductor three of the directors of the
company died poor"
Uncle George knows how to keep hotel.
AS a landlord he gained renown in Santa
Cruz, Santa Barbara and San Jose. He
kept a tavern like the inn of which Will
liam Shenstone wrote on the window:
Whoe'er has travelled lifes dull round
Where'er his stages may have been
May sigh to think he still has found
The warmeSt welcome at an inn
Mr.. Bromley has stumped the State in
the Republican cause, along with Timothy
Guy Phelps, e. S. Lippett, George a.
knight and Judge Joseph McKenna.
On his own account he has made good
many independent speeches. In the con-
sular service he passed four years at Tien-
tsin, China, and gained the highest re-
gard in diplomatic circles. During his
career in the Orient he never missed a
function or lost the point of story.
The book ought to be bright, breezy and
instructive from the first chapter to the
finish. The writer has had ample oppor-
tunity to study the social or human phase
OF many of the illustrious men of Cali
forna. His intellect is alert, his memory
bright, and his resolution to engage a
stenogra pher and write a book is fixed,
His literary work will take much of his
time, but will not compel him to neglect
his duties as an honorary life member of
the Press Club and the Bohemian Club.
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built in 1866, in Kennebunk, Me-, and in
1882 became the property of w. J. Adams,
the well-known lumber-dealer. She was
one ofthe best-known traders on the coast
and IN spite of her age was considered per-
fectly safe and seaworthy. About two
years ago she was laid up in Oakland
Creek, and when again put in commission
her seams were found to be all open, SO a
thorough overhaulins was given her.
While lying on the mud flats a sailor
who had made trip around the Horn on
her in 1868 was frequent visitor to the
vessel. He searched the hull again and
again for $1,000, which he said had been
stolen from him and secreted in the frame
work of the ship by his messmates. Ac-
cording TO his story, the money was gained
in gambling speculation, but though
every man on the Arcturas at the time was
searched the money was never found.
After the Arcturas was refitted she went
from here to Puget Sound and entered into
the lumber trade. The last time she was
here new crew was placed on board and
she sailed for Vancouver Island on Septem-
Der 20. Captain James Sloane was in COM
mand, and everybody expected success
ful voyage.
At Vancouver Island the Arcturas loaded
before she could get away II. Cooper, the
carpenter, left her and new man had to
be sent from San Francisco. Agent Adams
applied to the Ship-owners' Association,
which sent man by the steamer UNA
tllla. No one seems to know this carpen-
ter s name, and strange TO say he was the
only member of the crew drowned in the
wreck.
On the arrival of the carpenter the
Arcturas got under way. On October 16
last she passed Cape Flattery, and after a
successful run reached Santa Rosalia on
November ID. The cargo of poles was dis
charged, and, just as Captain Sloane was
preparing to get his ballast aboard, the
storm came up that did ali the damage.
1t blew harder and harder until on Decem-
Der 30 the cables parted one after another
and the bark went ashore. All OF the crew
with the exception of the carpenter were
rescued. The body of the missing man
was never seen again.
AS soon as Captain Sloane learned that
his vessel was total loss he started for
Guaymas, and from there he telegraphed
to his owners as follows:
Arcturas parted her cables and went ashore
during gale. Total loss Carpenter drowned.
Cargo was discharged. What Shall do? Adj
dress care of the American Consul at Guav-
mas.
The Arcturas was insured for $4,000. SO
her owners will not lose q great amount
by the wreck. She was 1907 tons net
burthen, 16S feet long, SO feet 7 inches
broad and % feet inches deep. CAPTAIN
Sloane, her commander, is we'll known in
San francisco as brave and experienced
master. He and his crew will come up on
the next Mexican steamer.
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of the matter, but was taken seriously by
several bystanders who looked for active
hostilities, but were disappointed.
After Soloman had delivered his load he
was rearrested, and yesterday pleaded
guilty in the Police Court
Inc publicity given the affair was very
displeasing to Health Officer Lovelace,
who called the inspectors before him yes
terday morning and read them lecture
IN a mild way at the same time giving
them instructions to work in harmony to-
gether whenever possible.
Yesterday the inspectors were hobnob-
ping together IN company with Veterinary
Surgeon Greedy and calling each other
ben" and Jim" IL a manner that looked
more like friendship than enmity.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-05
DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR.
The Rcstaurateurs of This City Must
Henceforth Pay Their Bills
in Full,

The restaurateurs who feel strong in
their ability to meet their bills have re-
Gently been holding meetings for the pur-
pose of protecting the wholesale dealers
with whom they do business, and Incl
dentally to arrange matters so til at they OF
the restaurant calling may henceforth do
business on an equal basis with all COM
petitors.
Some twenty of the craft came together
Friday in Washington Hall, on Eddy
street, August E. Drucker presiding. He
explained that there was no desire on the
part of those assembled to press q hard
ship on unsuccessful rivals but that it was
desirable that action should be taken to
urge wholesalers to demand full payment
for all goods purchased by restaurant
keepers.
This unique stand is the outcome of a
number of failures which have recently
occurred. First. Manning's oyster-house
on Powell street, conducted by Pike,
failed then Gray's place on Market street
went under; following this came the fail
ures of Meyers place on Ellis street and of
The Palm on Market street.
In speaking of these unfortunate occur
RANGES last night Mr.. Drucker stated to a
CALL reporter:
We, the men who pay dollar for dollar for
the goods we buy, cannot possibly compete
against men who buy goods and only pay 10
cents on the dollar. We want to have the
wholesalers stand firm and make these people
pay up or go out OF business.
At the meeting heretofore mentioned q
committee OF five, consisting of Messrs
Zinkand, Page, Rustemeyer, Gall and VIII
son, was appointed to interview the
downtown merchants to secure their CO.
operation. Already yesterday compliment
tary letters were received by Mr.. Drucker,
commencing the action which the meeting
had taken. They were signed by such
firms as W. Cuff & Co., Wheaton, Brown
Co, the Wertheimer Company and the
Del Monte Milling COMPANY.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-05
DRIVER HOOK BLAMED.
A Coroner's Jury Lays George w
Cooks Death 10 Him.

A Coroner's Jury Lays George W.
Cooks Death TO Him.
Two inquests were held by Coroner
Hawkins yesterday. One was on the body
of George W. Cook, whose death on the
31st ult. was the result of being run over
by wagon driven by Charles Hook on
Market street. near Steuart, and the other
an investigation into. the circumstances OF
the fate of Charles Dougherty, the sailor,
run over by train of the belt line.
In the Cook case Hook was blamed for
careless driving. Hook has been already
arrested and his case comes up for hear
ing on Tuesday. With regard to Dough
erty, it was shown that he was under the
influence OF liquor shortly before he was
discovered run over by the train. From
the evidence the jury saw it could not at
tach any blame to either the railroad COM
pany or Mr.. Dougherty.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-05
NORTH BEACH SCANDAL.

Noman's State Federation Conmi little es
Will Report on This Tomorrow.
The committees appointed at the last
regular meeting of the Woman's State
Federation will report next Monday to
that organization.
Inc matter they have in hand promises
to be interesting. It is in the way of dis
coverles they have made during their two
weeks investigation.
The North Beach scandal will be brought
up and several revelations are likely to be
made. Yesterday a special meeting was
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-05

Lodge No. 1, and Newport Chapter No. @
according to his statements, and was still
in good standing. For eighteen months
he had been sick and he bad been advised
by his doctors in the East and Denver TO
20 to California. The following extract is
taken from one of his letters:
as 90 years old November IT, ard am
broken down in health and spirits. When a
man of my age is old, poor and sick, and not
able to work, he is better out of the world than
in it, as he has outlived his usefulness and de-
pendent. Poverty and old age are two bad
companions. ROBERT Il. MOORE.
He left request that the fraternity take
care of his son. His son formerly lived
in Oakland.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-05
MORE ENGINES WANTED.

The Fire Commissioners Ask for -Four
Additional Steamers and Engineers.
The increasing needs of the Fire Depart
ment have led the Commissioners to ask
the Board of Supervisors for more
appliances. A communication was sent
to the board yesterday requesting that
an ordinance be passed providing for four
improved type. and for four engineers to
take charge of them at $140 per month
each; also to provide for the recruiting of
crews for the steamers
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-05
Champagne Imports Into San Francisco

The Paris Figaro complimented Califor-
mans on their refinement and discrimina-
ton of taste, owing to their preference for
fine wines, and refers to the large importa-
tons of Pommery Sec into California. If the
consumption of high-grade wines should
prove a criterion to the standard of cult
vation of people, the Californians have
again merited this compliment for the
year just closed, as may be seen from the
following statistics, compiled by Mr.. A.
Vignier, from custom-house records for
the year 1895:
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-05
ADJUSTMENTS.

baldwin acknowledgements, The Great.
CA1rroRNIA THEArER-" The Widow Jones'
COLUMBIA THEATER-"At the French Bail.
Nfonosro,s OpERA-HoUsE - q" The Runaway
Wife"
TIvo11 oPERA-HoUsE.-"IxiOn; or, The Man Of
the y heel"
ORPHEUAI.-H igh-ClRss NauoeVlhe.
CROWNS A1CAzAR.-"Our Boarding House"
NAcpoNoreH THEATER OAKLAND - Rices
Big - 1892.
eEcoT rHr C1YrTrs.-DaiIy at Haight street
Gre Lock east Of the Park.
GOLDEN GATE PARK-Golden Gate Park Band
BAY DISTRICT IRA Cfk.-Races tomorrow.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-05
A Line Of Gasoline Schooners
Will Garry 1t to San
Francisco.
PAYS BETTER THAN BUTTER
The Nettie Low Will Inaugurate the
Line and Other Vessels Will
Be Built.

The increase in the wholesale price of
milk has brought a new competitor into
the field. When the Marin County dairy
men came to the conclusion that they were
not getting enough for their labors meet
ing was held and prices were raised. Up
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-05
Another American Vessel That
Went Down in the Recent
Storm,
THE CARPENTER WAS DROWNED
After the Cables Parted the Bark
Drifted Ashore and Soon Went
to Pieces.

Another wreck has to be added to the al
ready long list of disasters in the recent
storm. One by one the old-timers are
strewing their bones along the shore line
of the Pacific Ocean.
The latest addition to the list of wrecks
is the American bark Arcturas. She was
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-05

held at the headquarters of the woman's
Christian Temperance Union on McAllis-
ter street for the purpose of making ar
rangements to bring to this City John G..
WoolIey, the noted temperance lecturer.
and Helen NJ. Cougar of Indiana, who will
give series OF lectures.
Mrs. E. G. Greene State evangelist and
superintendent of mothers meetings for
the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, will address and instruct all
mothers along these lines.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-05

dock at Jackson-street wharf, and the car
rlers who buy from the country producers
will now have to take in those vessels as
well as the Oakland and Tiburon ferry
boats I
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-05
super-PhysicaI Universe.

A lecture will be delivered by J. J. Morse
under the auspices of the California Psychieal
Society at National Hall, Ellis street, betw cen
POLK street and Van Ness avenue. this evening
at Z 40, the subject being. "The Super-Physical
Universe, Its Origin in Nature"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-05
AIIcTInN SALES

BY f 8 SPEAR & Co.-Monday January g.
Furniture at corner Mission and Seventh sts., at
10 o'clock.
BY WILL Z. FISHER & Co.-Monday, January 6,
Turkish Rugs, at IS Pos ST., al 200 P. NJ
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-05
Custom-House statistics.

Deputy Collector Farley has submitted re-
port to Collector Wise showing that the num-
Der OF entries of imports m ade during the year
was 90 S55. This is considerable increase
over 1894. during which year 1850 was the
total number.
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the year 1S9

Pommery Sec Is also most in demand in
London and at the select resorts on the
Continent of Europe.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-05
LOS

At MORosco's THEATER A PAIR OF
50 to finder. Return to Ala Steiner st.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-01-05
Music in the Park.

The programme for to-day's concert in
Golden Gate Park is as follows:
PART L.
March. jacobson
Overture, "Plque Dame Suppe
Selection, LILA Flglia del Regimento'' Donizetfi
Parade Militare. Massenet
Ballet music in Faust .Gounod
PART
fOloHaSe ut Paui N1dal
Grand ar Nare Raman
Baryiope solo performed by w. H. Colverd
Seecl ion, "Pagia eli" Il eoucavallo
Waltz. Jolly Girls" .Vollstedt
Cyclists galop. ....-......J. N Spring
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-07-18
TRAINING OF BIRD DOGS.
Are Taught Many Good Qualities by
Watching the Older CANNES.

A novel theory of bird dog training
is advanced by an experienced hunter
and trainer, George Kennedy. He says
1--WE all know how few and far between
the good dogs are, whether good, bad
or indifferent trainers have had them in
hand. Not one out of hundred is Sc
well trained that he has sense of his
own. 1t may be possible that we may
be training our hunting dogs wrong.
Those dogs that | trained perfectly had
no sense of their own, and those that |
half-trained had more sense. were better
bird finders, but each of them had some
canine idiosyncrasy that brought him
down below the level of the desirable
dog"
The truth of the matter, he thinks. IL
that training deadens the dogs mind.
1t becomes automatic, and when a novel
dilemma arises it has no reasoning fac
ulties with which to meet the emer.
gency.
81 am half Inclined" Mr.. Kennedy
says, "to believe that the way to train
dog is to let him learn from his SUI.
periors-that is, from the best dogs pos
sible. That is a slower process, but ii
excludes any sort of human interfer.
ence. So far as my experience and OBJ
servation have gone. it takes at least
two years for an old dog to train or
teach young one. He learns in this
manner to point, back, retrieve and
The Van Buren press. [volume] (Van Buren, Ark.) 1859-1914, 1896-07-18
NINE kAFIR WARS.
Nesrly All the Hard Fighting Has Been
with the Zulu Tribe.


For us the curtain rises upon the
Kafir people when the Dutch settlers,
spreading slowly eastward from the
neighborhood of the cape, came into
contact, and presently into conflict,
with them. Hostilities first broke out
in 1919, and in the century that fol-
lower there are reekoned no fewer than
nine Kafir wars. The natives fought
with a ferceness comparable to that
of the North American Indian, and
though less skilled in the arts of ambush
and surprise, they were not less swift
in their movements, or less fearless IN
meeting death. Had the policy Of the
government been firmer and more con-
sistent, much fighting and much sui
fering might have been saved; yet some
of its errors were due TO desire to deal
gently with the natives, and TO stop
an advance of conquest, which We now
perceive was inevitable. The worst
blunder was committed in 1879, when
Sir Barle Frere attacked a native power
more formidable than any which had
yet been encountered by British troops
that of the Zulus.
The Zulus are branch of the Bantll
race, eminent for their courage, their
physical strength, and their absolute
submission to their king. Ishaka, the
able and relentless chief who reigned
for about 90 years, and was murdered
by his brothers in 1928, had by his force
of will, his military talents and the sys-
TEN of strict drill and discipline which
he introduced subdued all his neigh
bors and devastated vast tracts of coun-
try, Strengthening or chasing away their
inhabitants. His nephew, Cetewayo,
when the war broke out in 1879, WIGS at
the head of an army of 10000 men, and
inflicted a serious defeat upon the Brit
ish forces before he was finally over
thrown and his country brought under
British sway. After his fall there re-
manned only two strong native king
doms south of the Zambesi.
One of these kingdoms, that of Lo
Bengula, king of the Matabeles, was con
quered in 1893 by the British South
African company; and the other, that
of Gungunana, whose territories lay
northeast of the Transvaal state, has
within the last six months December,
1895, and January, 1866 persisted at
the hands of the Portuguese. With
many tribes there has been no fighting
at all. Awed by the boldness of the
white man, these less warlilee tribes
accepted the rule of the intruding set
tiers with scarcely murmur, and, in
many cases, looked on them as pro
tectors. Nearly all the hard fighting
in South Africa has been with the
Zulus, to whom the Matabeles belong
ethnologically, and with the Xosa clans
on the south coast, while the Beehu-
anas and Ba-Rolongs and the Tongas,
and the tribes of Mashonaland as fai
as the Zambesi, have, as rule, sub
mitted promptly and quietly.-James
Rrvce NJ p in Century
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EvERYBopYs GARDEN.


All along the wayside is everybody's gar
denl
There the wild rose blossoms through the
summer days:
Bounded by field fences. and ever stretch
ing onward,
1t is Gods own garden. For 1t, give Him
praise.
TITS gay with goldenrod,
There blooming grasses nod.
And sunnowers small and yellow turn ever
TO the sun;
Quaint darky-heads are there,
And daisies wild and fair.
In everybody's garden, each flowers the
loyeliest one.
All along the wayside is everybody's gar
den!
Come out and gather posies; the very air
is sweet.
Come out. with hearts of gladness. we big
and little children.
Into our Fathers garden, made for our
strolling feet.
The fitting butterfly,
The fragrant winds that sigh.
The tiny clouds that hover above us in the
blue,
The birds song high and clear,
Make heaven draw more near.
In everybodys garden the world once more
is new.
William q. Gladwin. in Chicago Advo-
cate.