The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-09-08
ANSWERS no CORRESPONDENTS.

Nor At PAR-w. H. T., Fruitvale. Cal. Silver
is not at par with gold in silver-standard coun-
tries
FLAX straw S. Rio Vista, Cal There IN
no firm in the State of California at this time
that handles fax straw.
NOT Observation-Disclosures City. The Pres
ident OF the United States is not pensioned
after his term of office has expired
Ten. DAYS A QUEENS, City. 1t was Lady
Jane Grey who, for ten days, was Queen of
England. She was beheaded by order of Queen
| Mary in 1904.
WEIGHT OF s1LvER-A. S., City. One cubic
inch of pure silver weighs 1873, one cubic foot
of pure metal wei CHS 654.6, and one million
standard silver dollars weigh 56,931 pounds
aVolrdupois, or nearly 2914 TONS
THE SIxTY-NINTH-J. T., East Oakland, Cal.
When the original Sixty-ninth Regiment,
| New York Militia, colonel Corcoran command
ing; lett the Empire City upon Lln coins hrst
IN the regiment.
CAPACITY OF THE M1NTs-C. P, Ankon, FL
Dorado County. California. The capacity of
all the minis of the United States, running
sixteen hours per DAY, according to state
ment recently made by the director of the
amount in god.
WOMAN SUfFRAGE-G. w N. Creston, Napa
County, Cal. AS there has never been any
test it is impossible to say how many women
In san Francisco would decline to vote were
they given an opportunity TO do sc. AS to the
class OF women to which your other inquiry is
directed, there are no statistics.
No POINTS FOR DEBATERs-Citizen, Ukiah,
Cal. This department will furnish answers to
any question to which an answer is obtain
able, but it will not furnish points for debates
OF any kind. The debaters must hunt up thei
own points If this department furnishedr
them, then they would not be the points OF the
debater.
LINDEN-C. w. E., Alameda, Cal. Linden
in San Joaquin County dates back to 1949
when it YVES a settlement. 1t is located twelve
miles northeast from Stockton and four miles
north OF Holden on the line OF the Southern
Pacific Railroad. From Holden to Linden
there is a line of stages daily. The fare from
the depot to Linden is % cents.
WHAT TO sAY-P. NJ, suisun, Cal. If upon
the introduction, unsolicited, of one lady to
another, one OF the parties introduced should
say, 81 am pleased to meet you," the other
party, if she is pleased to meet the other
should say so, if she is not she need not express
her displeasure, but should be agreeable out
of courtesy to the party who took the liberty
| OF presenting the ladies to one another
"YANKEE sULLIvAN''-M. NJ. c., Los Angeles.
Cal. Francis Murray, alias James Sullivan,
alias 'Yankee" Sulliyan, a priZe-fghter, who
was arrested by the Vigilance Committee of
San Francisco, 1856, committed suicide in the
rooms of the association in Fort Gunny-Bass
| on Sacramento street by opening the veins Of
| his left arm on the night of the 31st Of MAY of
| that year. He was one of a number OF indi-
| viduals who were taken in by the committee
/ for the good of the community, and he heard
| that he was to be hanged on the LIST of June
| Despite the assurance of the committee that
] he would not be hanged, what he had heard
| so preyed upon his mind that he put an end
| to his life.
UPON DECLARATION = Several Subscribers,
| City. There are number of States in the
| Union in which aliens who have declared
| their intention to become citizens of the
! United States have the right to vote. In each
| State residence previous to election is a
factor in an aliens right to cast ballot,
the time varying in the States An
alien who has declared his intention
may vote under the conditions named, in
Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado Florida Indi-
| ana, Kansas, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota,
! Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Dakota,
| Oregon, South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin.
! In all these States excepting Colorado Indiana,
| Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, North
| Dakota, Oregon and south Dakota the alien
| who has declared his intention must have re-
| sided in the State one year and in the county
| in which he wishes to vote from three to six
months. In Colorado the time limit is six
| months in the State and ninety days in the
| county, in Indiana the individual must have
resided one year in the United States and
/ SIX months IN the state; in Kansas the
limit is six months in the State and thirty
! days in the county; in Michigan the individ-
ual must have declared his intention under
| United States laws six months before election
| and must have lived in the State two years
and six months; in Missouri must have de-
clared intention not less than one year and
not more than five years before offering to
| vote; in Nebraska time limit six months in
! the State and forty days in the county; in
! North Dakota alien must have declared inten-
! ton one year before election; in Oregon
| declaration one year before election and resi-
| dence in State six months; in South Dakota,
| time limit six months in State and thirty days
| in the county.