The San Francisco call., 1896-11-27
PERSON AL.

James Hesford OF Bolton. England, is in
town.
Herbert Folger OF Portland, Or, is at the
Palace.
F. B. Chandler, a lumber-dealer of Elmira, is
in town.
George H. Crafts of Bakersfield is at the Oc-
ciJental.
6. W. and ]. H. Cunard OF Fort Steele, B. c.,
are at the Russ.
w. w. Douglas Assistant State Controller, of
sacramento, is in the CITY,
MRS. M Parker and family of Portland, Or,
are at the Cosmopoli tan hotel.
=. W. Linscott, Superintendent of Schools
VI santa Cruz County, is at the Grand.
.. l. higgins and wife of Modesto came
oown yesterday for Thanksgiving day and are
registered at the Cosmopolitan hotel.
W. Bendy of Virginia City, superintendent
OF one OF the Comstocg mines, is in the City.
John T. Hennessy, owner of a valuable gold
,nine near Weayerville, is at the Russ. He
nrought down considerable gold with him.
Z. W. Waldron, one OF the editors ard pro-
pr,etors Oh the Santa Cruz Daily Surf, is at the
occidental. accompanied by Mrs waldron.
n. 3. Milburn OF Edinburgh. Scotland, who
ior several months past has been visiting In
ola, Australia, New Zealand and other coun.
tries, is at the Russ
4. hunter, a wealthy mining man of Colo
rado' who has been examining California gold
properties with q view to purchasing, is
among the arrivals in the City.
Sheriff II. L Borgwardt of Kern County is at
the Russ. He owns a large interest in an i'm
portant gold mine about fifty miles from Ba-
kersfeid in the desert. The Sheriff is here on
official business
:. u. Little, the Dixon banker, who lost sew
eral thousand dollars recently at the hands of
SLEEPY Dave" the gold-brick swindler, is in
town. The case, as will be remembered, was
tried in Oakland
d. G. Shirk. the Nevada and Oregon cattle
King. whose livestock operations are very ex-
teDsive over the Pacific Coast, is at the Russ
He owns tens of thousands of head of cattle
and thousands of horses. He is veteran in
the livestock business, and besides his cattle
owns vast areas of grazing land.
number of County Assessors who have
been attending the meeting of the State Board
OF Equalization are at the Grand Hotel.
Among them are the following: A. S. Ken
dali, San Bernardino; Winfield Scott, Kern;
J. T. Jarvis Orange; ]. A. Donlan. Ventura;
L. A. Splitter, Santa Clara; Frank Madison,
Santa Cruz; C. D. Hayward, San Mateo; and
c. s. Dalby, Woodside.
Frank Smith, chief clerk of the Occidental
hotei, mas returned mere after weeks Vaca-
tion at Los Angeles, San Diego and other
places. In the days of the San Diego boom
Mr.. Smith was manager of the Horton House,
San Diego He says 1t is pretty quiet there
now, the winter travel having not yet set in.
Los Angeles has spry look owing to the real
estate end building activity which began
year or two ago.
Among the arrivals at the Palace Hotel is r.
A. Eddy, the railroad. lumber, mill and land
owner of Montana and Oregon, who is Of the
firm OF EDDY, Hammond & Co. Mr. Eddy is
several times millionaire. Some time since
his firm purchased the Oregon Pacific Rail.
road which cost nearly S3, 1000, 900, for about
100000. Itwas bought at forced sale. Mr..
Eddy is accompanied bv his wife and by DR..
and Mrs. w. P. Mills of Montana.
w. d. st. Clair, who many years ago was
connected with the press of this City and
who long since went to Chicago, where he
made great deal of money by taking the en-
tire advertising space of the Times and other
papers at reduced rates and selling it to the
advertisers, is in the City. Mr.. st. Clair owns
valuable real estate in San Francisco and
ranch at San Ramon. He came out to look
after his interests and will return by way of
New Orleans.