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months after it started, and for the entire time
he was there did the whole of the local work.
He sold out to go elsewhere.
The Mail has had such a lusty growth that
now two Mergenthaler type-setting machines
are necessary, and have been ordered. They
are expected to be delivered April II. The
paper is also TO have complete new dress, and
will be enlarged. and otherwise improved. 1t
will come out in its new form about May L.
Colonel Nunan talked about Stockton yester-
day, of which city he Is an earnest and en-
thusiastic advocate. He says it is in very
steady and financially solid condition in every
way, and as for the region about it, that is in
the best ossible shape.
''The census of $780," said the colonel
showed that Stockton had 14.500 people, but
this did not include the additions We esti-
mate now that with the additions we have
from $4,000 to 10000 as population. Bust
ness there is very fair, and the feeling is hope
full. Nothing retards Stockton but the finan-
eial conditio n which is general. But the city
is in the center OF great grain and fruit coun-
try. The wheat crop, as nearly everybody is
aware. is enormous. The large mills there are
going all the time, and large amount of
-four is sent steadily to China and elsewhere.
"Crop prospects in San Joaquin COUNT were
never so gooc. The rains have fallen Just when
we needed them. There have been twelve in
all this winter
GAS for the Corral Hollow Railroad, it is now
about completed. The cars are there, and l
expect to see the track in shape and trains run
ming in about six weeks. The coal will come
in then, and look for it to be of great value to
Stockton. 1t can be delivered so cheaply that
it will be an inducement to other manufac tur-
ers to locate there. 1t is question whether
electricity can compete with it. It will be a
good, cheap coal, and can be had there for
81 80 q ton. 1t will be an important epoch in
Stockton's history when this twenty-six miles
of the Corral Hollow road is finished. We will
then have two roads and be in a condition to
advance more rapidly than BEFORE
Colonel Nunan left for his home in San Joa-
quin last night.
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A SINGULAR ACCIDENT.

The reputation for security against
storms which the harbor of San Francisco
has always borne might suffer from the
extraordinary catastrophe which occurred
on Thursday unless a thorough under
standing of the circumstances is acquired.
A stanch sailing vessel of the latest type
and made of steel capsized in the safest
part of the bay, with a number of tugs
close at hand and while lying at anchor.
So strange coincidence of SO many cir
cumstances bringing on the disaster will
likely never occur again, as they have
never occurred in this busy port before.
The whole story is this: The ship was
lying in very light earth ballast undergo
ing a cleaning. A sharp squall sprang up
from the southwest at an hour when a
heavy flood tide was running, and as the
wind and tide were counter they caught
the ship between them. Besides being in
very light ballast the vessel carried an I'M
usually heavy load of spars aloft. While
the wind was bearing down upon these on
one side the tide was urged against the
hull on the other. The anchors did the
rest. The ship capsized and six men at
work in the hold were drowned.
Apparently the danger was evident to
all who saw the vessel except those on
board. A tugboat ran up and proffered
assistance. but that was declined. The
captain was an experienced sailor and
knew the harbor to be safe. The only err
ror-one that many sailor might have
committed-was in falling to take into ac-
count all the circumstances at work. These
were the light ballast, the heavy load aloft
and the combined action of the wind and
tide. The extraordinary feature of the
disaster is that all these factors should
have been present al once. Even as it was
the accident was not necessary. The bay
was full of ships and not another suffered
the slightest damage or ran the least dan
ger. Not even an anchor was dragged.
The squall was by no means storm. The
accident in no sense indicates any insecur-
ity OF the harbor.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-04-11
A HARBoR OF REFUGE.

Captain G. F. Swan, master of the bark
Theobald, has published in THE CALL
some eminently sensible suggestions
affecting the proposition of improving a
harbor in the southern part of the State.
After pointing out the dangerous nature
OF the coast of California, the scarcity of
harbors, the inshore storms of winter and
the great difficulty of sending assistance
through the breakers in the event of dis
tress or disaster, he says that there is need
of harbor OF refuge into which passing
vessels may put when disabled or threat
ened by storms. Such harbor should be
in place where the danger of approach
ing it is no greater than that of the place
in which the vessel may be- For this
reason he thinks that San Pedro is prefer
able to Santa Monica, by reason of the
nature OF its bottom, an outside protecting
reef and the effect of the coast islands in
breaking the force of heavy seas.
he makes another suggestion that is
new and very valuable. 1t is that in an
open roadstead like that at Santa Monica,
with beach and bottom of a quicksand
character and with no channel for confin-
ing the flow of the tides, there will be an
absence of the securing effect of the tides
In maintaining the original depth, and
the ground swell will inevitably bank the
sand against both sides of the proposed
breakwater, Transforming it into a PENN
sula and constantly tending to fill up the
protected area. All these matters seem
perfectly reasonable, though whether this
practical navigator knows of instances
where this has already occurred he does
not say. The suggestion certainly invites
attention.
However, the whole question probably
resolves itself into that of Mr.. Hunting
tons influence in Congress as weighed
against that of all the other considerations
in the matter. An exactly similar state of
affairs exists with regard to the funding
bill, and we have seen that thus far Mr..
Huntington's private interests have had a
powerful influence. Neither that ques-
ton nor the one of an appropriation for
San Pedro has been finally settled, and
the railroads power in Congress may
not in the end prove as strong as it
looks. There is ground for hope so long
as the people of California make an earnest
stand IN defense of the right and of the
conditions under which their prosperity
and progress are possible.
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

PoLLTAx- s., City. The law passed
at the last ses sion of the Legislature says that
the polltax must be collected between the first
Monday in March and the first Monday in De.
cember. The Assessor claims the right to gar
n1shee mans wages if he does not pay on de-
mand at the time he makes the demand.
HOMESTEAD DEcLARATION-J. D., City. If g.
husband makes gift OF piece of property to
his wife, it becomes her separate property.
The law OF this State on the subject Of home
steads says:
The homestead cannot be selected from the
separate properly of the wife without her consent
shown by her making the declaration Of home
stead.
In order to select q homestead the husband or
other head Of a family. or in case the husband has
not made such selection, the wife must execute
and acknowledge, in the same manner as a grant
homestead and file the same for record.
homestead caI be abandoned only by declar.
alton abaL donmento or grant thereof. executed
and ack movie dyed by the husband and wife II the
claimant is married.
What the effect of the application of the law
70 certain facts would be is a matter that YOU
Will have to consult an attorney about as your
question asks for legal opinion, which this
department does not give.
THOMAS PAINE's REMAINs-A. S., jamestown,
Tuolumne County, Cal. Thomas Paine, the
author famous for his connection with the
American and French revolutions, died in New
Rochelle, N. Y, June 8. 1909, and was to have
been buried in Quaker cemetery accor ding
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SENATOR MANTLE's SPEECH.

While the speech of Senator Lee Mantle
Will hardly have the effect of causing any
further attempt at the enactment of tariff
legislation at this session of Congress. it
mas at any rate served the good purpose
OF making clear to Eastern men the atti-
tude OF Western Republicans on the allied
SUBJECTS OF protection and bimetallism.
IL shows, moreover, that the Western
senators who voted against the Dingley
tarih bill did so not because of any lack of
devotion to the principle of protection,
out, on the contrary, because they were
too loyal to that principle to accept the
compromise offered them.
The Republicans of the West advocate
system of governmental protection to
American interests that will be sufficiently
comprehensive to include them all. They
demand the fostering aid of the Nation for
mining and for shipping as we'll as for
factories. They desire to see the silver in
dustry promoted and our merchant marine
built up as well as any other department
OF American labor. In carrying out this
desire they do not intend to favor the in
terests of one section of the Union to the
exclusion of those of another, but to ade-
quately and impartia1fy foster them ALL
The support given by Western Re-
publicans to the silver industry is in no
sense antagonistic to the protection of
Eastern factories. 1t is, in fact, distinctly
friendly to such protection. AS Senator
Mantle we'll said in the course of his argu-
ment, without bimetallism no protective
tariff short of an absolute prohibition of
foreign i'm ports can sufficiently guard the
industries and the welfare of the working
men OF this country against the COMPETE
ton that is coming from China and Japan.
In addition, therefore, to the fact that the
silyer-mining industry has as just claim
for favorable legislation from the Govern
ment as any other industry, there is the
further argument to be urged for it that
only through the reconciliation of silver
can We hope for the protection of any of
our greater industries at all.
The Republicans OF the West are not
fanatics on the subject of silver They
ask for that great industry, however,
rIghtful treatment at the hands of the
Government. They do not set up BIZ
metallism against protection, as was
charged by some of the goldbug papers,
but for protection. Their platform of poll
cies is for an American system comprehen-
sive enough to include the interests of all
Americans, one that will serve to promote
the welfare of the Nation by advancing
the industries OF every class of workers
whether on farms or factories or mines, or
in ships upon the sea-
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reduced tariff has not only compelled US
meantime to reduce wages, but to sell our
goods at such ruinously low prices that we
nave run at loss and been unable to
maintain our business. We have tried
nara to keep it for the benefit of our en-
pioyes and their families in the hope that
we should pull through until Republican
tarlif should be restored, but we have been
unable to do this, even at great personal
sacrlnce, and nothing remains but neces-
slty LOT suspension"
Ihls is only one of numerous instances.
Inc Philadelphia concern was one OF the
Oldest and soundest in the country, and
hence Its suspension is exceptionally sig
nlhcant. The wonder is that any WOODEN
mills are still running or that any wool is
produced in the United States. The ex-
PLANTATION of the fact that all of them have
NOT suspended is the vast amount OF CAPT.
TAI invested in the industry and The hope
that the Republicans will impose pro-
techve duty. It is cheaper to run at a
loss Tor time than to sacrifice all this
capital by abandoning the industry.
VI course England has profited in exact
proportion to our loss. Thus the profits
OF Lister d. Co., proprierors of the Naming
ham Mills, Bradford, England, were $751;
1l5 in 1894, when there was tariff on
wool, and 1866, $40 in 1895, after the tariff
had been removed. Another Bradford
company, that of A. S. Henry g. Co., linn
tied, had profit OF $319,550 in 1894 and
OF $478,540 in 1896 All other English
manufacturers taking American orders
prospered similarly. Bradford sent US &c.
577,675 more of wooden coatings alone in
1895 than in 1894, and of all goods $50 0OO,-
600 more, showing that we have suffered
and England has gained in proportion to
the reductions which we made in our tariff
charges. AS the tariff was entirely re-
moved from wool our loss and England's
gain in that item is nearly one-third of
the whole.
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AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

Colonel J. J. Nunan, the journalist, OF Stock
ton, one of the preprietors of the Stockton
Mail, was among the conspicuous figures in
me corridors of the Occidental yesterday. 1t
is almost sixteen years since Colonel Nunan
ana Z. L. Colnon, now president of the State
Harpor Commission, founded the Mail. Mr..
Colnon had been newspaper man in Nevada.
colonel Nunan had been in California for pine
years, but had not engaged in journalism here.
The paper went right along, and almost from
Inc start was success. 1t killed off the Her
AID, the rival paper which had run for twen-
ty-five years. One of Its features was he'spicy
Undertaken" letters from San Francisco
which appeared for a long time exclusively in
the Mail. John Paul Cosgrove. the widely
known writer, now of THE CALL, was for nearly
three years owner of third interest in it with
Messrs. Nunan and Colnon. He came in three
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THE WOOL INDUSTRY.

''T. NJ" correspondent writing from
this City, asks THE CALL what effect the
removal OF the tariff on wool has had on
the industry of this country and whether
England has benefited. The question an
swers itself. In order to realize that the
wool industry must have suffered one has
only to observe the extremely low prices
at which WOODEN goods are selling, and to
reflect that the difference between present
prices and those formerly ruling is much
greater than the profit which American
wool producers and manufacturers were
enjoying before the tariff on wool was
abolished. If that argument should not
appear self-evident it may be reflected
that under free tariff the low wages of
England are the factor determining the
present prices in this country, and that
these wages are insufficient for American
operatives. They can fare better as COM
mon laborers, for laborers receive better
wages in this country than skilled opera
tives in England.
In addition to these manifest principles
there are concrete facts showing them to
be true. These are so numerous that it is
impossible to present them all. Let us
take the case of the Angora wooden and
cotton manufacturing concern of Phila-
delphla, which recently suspended opera
tions. 1t was giving employment to 400
operatives. and has been feature of Phil
adelphia for forty years. The repeal of
the Mckinley law threw the proprietors
into straits, as they could not offer, nor
could their operatives accept, the low
wages paid in England. The owners
struggled manfully. hoping for the repea.
of the free-trade law and the imposition of
reasonable tariff. At last they were COM
PEELED to succumb. and this deprived some
1000 persons of livelihood.
One OF the managers OF the mills gave
this explanation: Ever since the repeal
OF the Mckinley tariff we have been strug-
Cling against fate. The enormous importa-
lions Of foreign WOODEN goods under the
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TRITE BUT TIMELY WORDS.

Timely and well worth heed are the
words uttered by G. N. Holden of Chicago
large handler of California fruit. The
point he makes is not new one, but it
carries weight by reason of its source. Mr..
Holden is in California to ascertain the
condition Of the fruit crop. Speaking of
the fruit industry he said:
at is fact that to-day really fine
canned fruit is unobtainable at first hands,
while poorer goods are drug. Great care
means smaller product, greatly increased
consumption, and consequently higher
prices. Those Gamers who have devoted
their attention to the production of fine
goods are prosperous as rule, while the
failures in every instance of which I am
aware have been those who made quantity
the object and not quality. This is equally
true of dried fruit
It requires some courage for the grower
to deliberately thin out the promising
fruit on his trees in order to make that re-
naming of more value, but it is only
more general adoption of the policy of
improving the fruit that will enable the
grower to retain and extend his market.
Ii IS not alto gether a matter of obtaining
good price to-day. BY careful attention
to the cultivation, preparation and pack
ing OF orchard products not only are bet
ter returns assured to all concerned but
prestige is acquired that grows more and
more valuable with each succeeding sea.
son.
Where competition has to be met
this is no inconsiderable factor. There is
no valid reason why preserved fruits,
jams, jellies, etc., from Europe should
command higher prices and be in greater
demand among the class of people who
can afford to indulge in luxuries than
similar goods produced within our State.
The quality of the imported article can
certainly be matched if not excelled by the
native product. The fault then must lie
simply in the lack OF proper care-frst in
cuitivating, then in preparing and finally
in packing. All these are matters easy of
remedy, only requiring the application of
intelligence.
Mr.. Holden's criticism has been made
at gatherings of organized fir uit men; but,
as prophet is said to have no honor in
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A REIGN OF TERROR.

There is horror too prolific In the jargon scjen-
tific which disturbs the mood pacific
OF the ordinary man,
In these awful tales that thrill us Of bugaboo
bacillus that is hiding near to kill US,
If by any chance 1t can.
Not single chance 1t misses it is lurking IN our
blisses: it is even in the kisses
That delight a leap year dream.
In the air microbes floating; in the wa. er thew
are gloating, fendish vigilance devoting
To their weird, malicious scheme.
Oh, We philosophic sages. were happy all these
ages while these animals outrageous
Unsupported fourished here;
And alth ough Just for the present we Withstand
their siege incessant run other risks
unpleasant,
For we're almost dead with fear.
washington Star.
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THE SUNDAY GALL"

While Boosting is not a part of The
CALLS policy or an element of it's success,
the paper has SO deep an interest in the
welfare of California that it feels justified
in calling especial attention to it's Sunday
editions, believing that their usefulness in
assisting its desire to make the State bet
ter known, both to its residents and to
strangers, will be duly appreciated. The
Sunday edition of great daily newspaper
must contain many things of universal
interest, as distinguished from affairs of
local Importance, in order that it's readers
may find everything essential to a COM
plete understanding of the great busy
world of which we are part. This idea
is regarded in those departments of THE
SUNDAY CALL which deal with literature,
science, art, fashions and the broad in
terests which concern all the centers Of
world-building activity.
But California is always kept in mind.
1t is the most various and interesting SUBJ
iect that human intelligence can treat
What more eloquent topic could be mag
lned than one that involves the prosperity
and happiness OF thousands, even though
it may look commonplace in print? And
yet in to-morrow's issue Of The CALL there
will appear an article on the cultivation
of the sugar beet in California and the
possibilities residing in the industry. A
proper understanding of it would promote
human happiness infinitely more than
the popular fancy.
There is to be another story about the
boring of wells in California-duIl to
mention, but eloquent in its promises,
seeing that the ground upon which we
walk has yielded so rich trea sures in the
past.
There are other things of that kind, but
for those of divergent tastes feasts in
variety are spread. For instance, a Won
derful man who has descended upon us,
Naphtaly Herr Imber. Hebrew poet and
mystic, sounder Of the secrets OF the
Cabbala, is to be discussed with thorough
ness not common hereabout.
Adeline Knapp will present an inter-
esting phase of what is known as
animal instinct. Euphemia Burton will
have something to say about the init
mate life of interior Japan. w. c.
Morrow, inspired by the picturesque
attitude OF a distinguished millionaire
recently visitor here, will have something
that may prove interesting to people who
do not like to be interviewed. An I'M
commonly strong CHAPTER of history in
which we are all interested will be told in
an article entitled "a Sea Fighter
This ought to be sufficient as an indica-
ton of what may be expected in to-mor.
rows CALL. OF course great many
Eastern people might like to read the
paper, but it IS difficult to see how they
can be accommodated unless their friends
in California send it to them.
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NEW TO-DAY.
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REAL ESTATE AGENTS
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Best wholesale district: very close to Market ST.:
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buildings on front and rear street: $4,000
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canie cars pass; easy terms.
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PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE

Poet Laureate Austin is said to be So mroh
annoyed at the criticisms passed upon his offi.
clal verse that he contemplates resigning.
The young King OF Spain recently described
an island to his geography teacher as ga bodv
OF land almost entirely occupied by tnsur.
gents"
The nearest living relative of Professor
Roentgen, the discoyerer of the X raw. ia said
to be his first cousin, the Rev. Dr. !. ~ q
Roentgen, pastor of the First Reformed church
of Cleveland. "a
John Bright's sons have asked for the reno.
val OF the statue of their father recently set