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The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02
PERSON AL.

E. NJ. Brown of Denver is at the Palace.
A. D. Perkins of Santa Barbara is in the City.
Ex-Superior Judge G. NJ. Buck of Eureka is at
the Lick.
Thomas Clark, mining man of PlacerviIe,
is in the City.
E. II. Vance, the railroad owner at Eureka,
is at the Grand.
z. Herschfeld, q business man of Los An
geles, is in town.
]. T. Gates and Mrs. Gates OF Guatemala are
at the Occidental.
C. F. Smith of san Diego is among The visi-
tors from the South.
G. n. Farnum and A. NJ. Gildo of Rockford
Ill, are at the Russ.
Major Darling of the United States army is
down from Rutherford.
William B. Humb bert, q business man of Ash
land, Or, is in the City.
D. Alexander, a business man of Watson
vile, is at the Occidental.
Lieutenant C. W. Burnett of the United
States navy is at the Grand.
II. S. Hayes, business man of Aberdeen,
Wash, is q iate arrival here.
Tom C. Gorrie, a mining man OF Sonora
Tuolumne County, is in the City.
Wallace KillDatrick, formerly of this City,
now of Boston, is at the Occidental.
L. E. Mahan, prominent business man of
Eureka, is guest at the Cosmopolitan.
w. R. Clark OF Stockton, the State Railroad
Commissioner, is one of the arrivals here.
Edward ,McGettigan, the well-known con-
tractor OF Vallejo, is registered at the Russ.
Mrs. DR.. Cleveland and daughter, Miss
Mamie Cleveland, of Dundee, ILL.,, are at the
Palace.
D. vanderwilt arrived here to-day from
;g
politan.
General P. W. Murphy of Santa Margarita.
who owns an enormous ranch of some 90, 600
acres near that place, is at the Baldwin.
W. Burns, who has been in charge OF one of
the wrecking steamers for a good while past,
will leave for his former home in Liverpool
to-day
G. II. Logan. Mrs. Logan and Miss Logan, all
Of Kingfsher, the prominent young city of
Indian Territory, are among the arrivals at
the Grand.
Phil Turner ana wife, Nat Wills and wife,
George 0. Nichols and Miss Melville of the
Prodigai Father Company are registered ct
the Cosmopolitan.
Mrs. Annie Besant, the noted lecturer on
theosophy, is expected to speak here in July
or August next She expects to make g tour
of the United States.
DdFAu Lfdns, the Iniilionalre iuin perHan Oh
Humboldt Bay, who owns large areas OF red
wood aud extensive mills at and near Eureka,
is among the arrivals here.
L. Carteri the owner of big Spanish grant
near Santa Barbara and who is largely inter
ested in the rais ing of cattle and sheep, is at
the Grand. accompanied by his family.
Captain Carey of the steamer Monowai, now
about due to sail for Aus tralia, has been quite
i'll foc some days at the Occidental with
serious cold, which threatens to develop into
pneumonia.
]. F. Sanders, the principal owner of the
Bachelor mine, at Ouray, who is at the Bald
win Hotel. is the owner of the Farmers and
Merchants Bank at Delta, Colo and quotes
his individual liabilities at half million
dollars.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02
GENERAL ALGER.

No appointment to the Mckinley Cabi-
net is likely to give more general satisfac-
ton To the people of the United States
than that of General Alger to the Office of
Secretary of War. No man in the country
is better fitted for the position by his
talents or past services, and we can ex.
pect from the next administration a
management of the War Department
which will be in every respect gratifying
to the country.
General Alger is one of the most emil
nent citizens of the Republic. He has
been for some time conspicuous as a can
dldate for the Presidency and in several
Republican National conventions has
been the candidate from his State for
that high Office. 1t was everywhere recog-
nized that he would make strong Presi-
dent, and more than once he was sun
ported in National conventions by a fol-
lowing so strong as to make his nomina-
ton probable. 1t has been rare in later
years that man of his eminence acce pts
Cabinet position, and his entry into the
Mckinley administration will add 10 it's
strength in every respect.
10 the old soldiers of the Republic the
appointment will be especially pleasing.
General Alger was one of those volunteers
who went to the front with the Union
army, and rendered such distinguished
services on the field as to merit and re-
ceive rapid and high promotion. Few
volunteers in the army became more
eminent than he, ana he is therefore fit
representative of the soldier element of
the community and will be in his rightful
place at the head OF the War Department
OF the Government.
Since the close ofthe war General AIger
has devoted himse TO business with
marked success. He has shown himself
to DE as eminent in the conduct of civil
anairs as in those OF war. He is a thorough
business man, honest. energetic and eff
.clent. The success with which he has
conducted his private enterprises attests
his skill as an administrator of large
affairs and gives assurance to the public
that the War Department of the next
administration will be conducted with a
zeal and ability which will raise it TO a
higher degree of efficiency than has ever
been known before.
From the selections already made it il.
evident that the Mckinley Cabinet will be
one OF the strongest we have ever known.
The men thus far selected have each a
marked and distinguished personality
which has made him well known to the
| people. Each, moreover, has been chosen
ior an office for which he is peculiarly
htted by his training and experience in
life. There Is every reason for believing
that the other members of the Cabinet
will be equally eminent In such galaxy
OF distinguished men General Alger VIII
occupy prominent position. He will
not be overlooked in the aggregation
His personal force will keep him to the
front, and in the next administration the
average citizen will not have to turn to an
almanac, as he does now when he wishes
to ind out the name of the man who fills
the office OF Secretary of War.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02
SHAM CIVIL SERVICE.

A speech recently delivered in Congress
by Hon. Henry M. Baker makes clearly
evident the hypocrisy of the Cleveland
administration in attempting to pose as
the advocates of civil service reform. The
speech is pertinent to the occasion as
some effort will undoubtedly be made to
induce President Mckinley to right the
wrongs committed by Cleveland's Cabinet
and restore our civil service to something
like coed condition before the reform"
is fixed and established.
According 10 statements made by Mr..
BAKER, the report of the Secretary of the
Interior for the first fourteen months ana
hfteen days after Hoke Smith took the
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02
TARIFF LEGISLATION.

The Cham ber of Commerce has pub
lished in a well-printed pamphlet the pro-
ceedlngs of the recent tariff conference
held in Ibis City with the object of sup
plying information to Congress on the
needs of California in the coming tariff
legislation. The work is well condensed,
can be easily read and will be of great
value TO the representatives of California
in Congress in showing what the indus
tries of the State require in the way of
protective duties.
The report adopted by the conference
calls attention to the fact that no State in
the Union Is more vitally concerned in a
protective tariff than is California. In
all the fourteen schedules Of the act of
1890 are to be found articles of California
production more or less affected by any
duty placed upon like articles of foreign
origin. These, as the report points out.
are our mines, our coal fields, our petro-
Ieum and bitumen deposits, our forests
our agriculture, our hocks and herds of
domestic animals. our dairies, our fisher
les and our factories.
The conference urges as an essential TO
an intelligent and honest administration
OF tariff legislation that the principle of
SPECIFIC as against ad valorem duties be
adopted and applied in all cases wherever
practicable. The reasons for preferring
specific duties are many. In the first
place, such duties enable the citizen to
learn at all times the exact com petition he
has 10 meet, which he cannot do in the
case of ad valorem duties. 1t puts an end
to the evil of false valuations on imported
goods. Moreover, an apparently nigh ad
valorem duty is often found to be wholly
inadequate for projection, inasmuch as
the percentage Of duty is computed upon
the low valuation of foreign goods.
The need Of protection to our ind ustries
is manifest from the fact that California
is exposed to competition coming from
British Columbia. China, Japan and
Mexico. As Chinese labor is largely used
in British Columbia, all of these countries
have very low. rates of wages, and the
com petition is destructive to the welfare
OF American workingmen.
The attention of Congress is called by
the conference to the necessity for some
legislation to promote the interests of
American shipping. AS a means of doing
this, the conference adopted a resolution
urging Congress that in arranging a new
tariff provision should be made for the
free entry of all materials actually used
for the construction, repairs, equipment
or subsistence of American bulil ships
employed in the foreign trade.
The greater portion of the pamphlet is
occupied by review of schedules giving
statements of the amount of protection
requested by represen tatives of the various
industries IN the State. These statements
will enable our delegation in Congress to
work with d finite purpose. before the
Ways and Means Committee. They make
clear exactly what California expects OF
Congress in order that her industries NAV
be protected and the welfare OF her work.
ingmen and her men of business. be
preserved.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

office shows that he made S17 appoint
ments, Ill reinstatements. S93 promo
| tlons, 422 reductions, S76 dismissals, and
50 designations by request" The dis
m issals. destinations by request, and re-
! ductions were almost invariably OF vet
erans and Republicans.
The report of the Secretary OF the
Treasury covering the first fourteen months
and twelve days after Secretary Carlisle
took office showed there were S37 appoint
ments, 538 promotions, 637 dismissals, and
l6O reductions. OF the AGO men dismissed,
129 were veterans, and two of the women
we're old hospital nurses. OF the 140 men
reduced, 54 were veterans, ana 13 of the
women We're hospital nurses.
Mr.. Baker went on to point out that at
the beginning of Cleveland's administra-
ton the Secret Service Division was made
up about equally of Republicans and Dem
ocrais. Now there is but one Republican
left in the division. In the Pension
Bureau 60 per cent of the employees are
Democrats; in the Fish Commission over
80 per cent; in the Government Printing
Office 66 per cent.
A similar condition prevails in every
department. of the civil service. 1t is as
bad In San Francisco as elsewhere. The
most casual study of it shows how great
has been the sham of Mr.. Cleveland's So
called civil service reform, and how COM
pietely he has subordina ated the service to
the interests of his friends.
The people of this country are in favor
OF what they understand as civil service
reform. but they are not in favor of the
sham reform OF Cleveland. They may
consent 10 leave the service in the condi-
ton to which he has brought it, but il
they do so it will simply be an act of self
denial on their part. They will not intend
thereby either to lndorse his pretense as
civil service reformer or to condone the
methods by which he has sought to give
life positions to the cuckoos and mug
wumps who supported his administra-
tion
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02
SN AXES

The man who wins in life's hard race
Is he that viii no, brook defeat:
Who looks mist rtune in the face
Without despairlng, when they meet
Who, thou h the way in front is clear
And the sky above is fair,
Keeps up good cheer,
Proceeds with care,
And when he comes TO the hidden snare
Alghts upon his ieet.
Don't let the morrow come as it NAV
Whate'er IL brings prepare to meet;
Gird up your loins and square away,
And move head up if you N est retreat;
For though to-day the way looks clear
And the SKY above is fair,
You may be near.
Some hidden snare,
90 look about you and prepare
To land upon your feet.
5. \. RISER, in Cleveland Leader.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

come forward and test the question within
certain time If no objection is made
within the time specified the vii. cannot be
attacked on that ground when offered for pEo-
bate. Nobody is to see the will or know its
contents; the inc uiry is TO be confined to the
single question OF the makers competence,
perhaps including the question OF undue in
ence; but if these two points can be, settled
during his life there is little danger of q sue
cessfuI attempt to break the will after his
death. II seems as If great deal OF scandal
and much unseemly litigation might be pre-
vented by this simple device.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02
A LlTILE LOST BIRD.

STORY OF SIOUX PAPoosE FOUND on BATTLE
FIELD.
The adopted daughter OF Mrs. Clark Bewick
Colby, the eminent suffragist who yesterday
addressed the New Citizens Club in this city
in the Asse bly-room of the Young Women's
Christian Association, is full-blooded Sioux
Indian, says the Pittsburg Dispatch.
The babe was rescued from its dead moth
er's arms four days after the noted battle at
Wounded Knee Greek, in South Dakota, six
years ago this month. Colonel Colby was in
the charge made by the United States troops
against the Indians at that time.
Alter the battle was over nothing that wore
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02
CALIFORNlANS IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK, n. Y, Feb 1.-At the ST. Cloud
w. T. Lewis, ]. C. Fenton, D. Hand, R. G. Ev-
erett, NJ. A. and Miss G. Crocker; Manhattan:
J. w. Raphael, E. NJ. Ledden, J. A. Ledden, j.
S. Webber; Astor: ]. f. snyder; Vendome: A.
L. Storie; Hoffman: w. S. Edward and wife /;
Gilsey: E, A. Rix; Holland: f. w. and w. p.
Fuller; Imperial: c. S. Giblin, F. NJ. Lebaud
Continental: A. McBeen
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02
COMPETENLY OF W.LL-MAKER S
Philadelphia Ledger.

device for preventing unseemly will con-
tests has appeared in Connecticut and is being
very favorably commented on. 1t provides
that the testator. on making his will; may de-
posit 1t with legal officer end give public no.
tiee OF the fact in order that any person who
may doubt his competence to make will may
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

A curiosity IN the way of postal routine
is reported by the Philadelphia Record.
The towns of -Langhorne and Eden, in
Pennsylvania, are so near together that
their pos toffices are only about 500 yards
apart. A letter from one of them to the
other, however, has to go by way of Phila--
deiphia,: making circuit of nearly forty
miles, and takes av to do it.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02
CALIFoRNIANS IN wASHINGToN.

WASHINGTON, D. c., Feb. ii. W. Stanford
OF San Francisco is at the Raleigh, G. Vro-
hefers of San Francisco is at the Norman, ]. C.
Garrison OF Los Angeles is at the Shoreham.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

Honest efforts 10 procure a reduction OF
water and gas rates should not be dimin-
lshed because notorious gang of boodlcrs
are trying to take advantage of them for
their own nefarious profit. The Super
visors should go forward and do what is
hight Tor the public benefit. The people
VIII deal with the blackm alters until the
criminal courts get hold of them.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

CHILDREN BoRN-H. F. B., City. There are
no statistics Showing the number of boys ana
girls born in the United States in the years
1866, 1876. 1886 and 1896"
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

Why did the delegates to the Democratic
State Convention at San Jose boot and
hiss a speaker who said the Examiner was
an honest Democratic paper?
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

postmaster Carr of Philadelphia has given
gold medals to three managers of postal sta
lions IN that city for special efficiency and dis
patch in conducting postal business.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

We cannot hope to stop all the black
mailing schemes of the Examiner, but we
can expose some of them and put the
public on guard
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

AGE BEFORE BEAUTY-This department is
anxious to discover the origin OF the phrase
age before beauty" Can any of the readers
OF Answers 10 Correspondents" tell us?
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

TIE waster of inherited millions would
gladly see every fortune depleted. He
lives for nothing now but to crafty
malice, envy and proflgacy.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

CASINOS, City. The general rule for count.
ing in casino is cards, spades, big casino, little
casino, aces and sweep. Apply the rule and.
that will tell you who went out first in the
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

1t was Hearst who took the $22, 900 from
the Southern Pacific Company. but il may
have been Long Green who put it where it
would do the most good.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

MExIco's PRESIDENT NJ, Fair field. Solano
County, Cal. General Porfrio Diaz is Presi-
dent OF the republic of Mexico. He was first
elected TO that Office in 1875, again in 1892
and again in 1896.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

Before the exposures of the Examiner are
complete Boss Buckley will have to speak
from Livermore and Little Pete" from
his grave.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

"BRowN's BRONCHIAL TRocHEs" sim pie
yes most effectnal remedy for Coughs, Il oarseness
and Bronchial / roubles Avoid limitations
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

HUSBANDS Calcined Magnesia-Four first
premium medals awarded. More agreeable to
the taste and smaller dose than other mag
trademark label
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

When Long Green Lawrence talks OF
honesty the breath exhaled with his words
fills the whole town with a smell of cor
ruption. go.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

So far as We can gather from our ex-
changes the only thing any part of the
country asks of Congress is to pass its
particular appropriation bill and then
0Illt
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

CUsToM-HoUsE ExAMINATIoN-A. B., City If
you will apply at the ustom-house the clerk
there who attends to the eIyil-seryice exanli-
nations will give you all the information
desired
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

Every dollar which the blackm alters of
the Examiner can extort from corporations
serves as a fund to strengthen the gang in
levying backmail upon others a common
interest requires that honest men should
combine to fight the villainy and crush il
ont
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

SPECIAL Information daily TO manufacturers
business houses and public men by the Pres
Chipping Bureau (Allen's) $40 Montgomery.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

The Examiner should explain whether
Willie Hearst got any of the money ex-
torted from Huntington or whether it
was divided by the subordinate gang.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

We shall never have a good municipal
government until we have crushed ont
the horseleeches in Office and journalism.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

Long Green has flown to the support of
cinch-bill legislators with a promptness
which shows a fellow feeling for share
OF the prospective Doodle.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

. The battle of decent people against vile
Journalism will never cease until the cor
rupt thing has been carried out and buried.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

1t is the duty of the Supervisors to fix
water and gas rates fairly and honestly,
and they should not be deferred from per-
forming it, even though the blackmailer
raves and threatens to throw buckets of
mud all over town.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

THE GAEL never more truly spoke for all
than it does now in denouncing cinch-bill
legislation and bIackmail journalism.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

1t is noted that the blackguard has
begun TO squall and in a few days he will
be ready to confess.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

What will Kansas do next? Her Legis-
lature is actually talking of law to sup
press the corset.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

The Chicago Record says Princess
Chimay has afforded an object lesson to
American girls who are tempted to marry
a nohleman, but to the ordinary morailst
i: seems more like warning against fall
ing IN love with a gypsy.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

When honest men are united rascality
will get its dae, and Wasteful Willie and
his Long Green toady had better beware.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

The day of the blsckmailer has turned
to night and the time is stormy.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

There is room in California for black.
mailers-at San Quentin.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

3 1t is hard to tell whether the odor of
Long Green Lawrence exhales from
whitewashed soul or un washed feet.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

The coyote of journalism howls and
howls and howls, but the trap las sprung
and the scalp-taker is coming. =
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

The delegation TO a State Democratic
convention at San Jose repudiated with
misses and boots the claim of the Examiner
TO represent that party. and now the
people are ready to repudiate its pretense
TO represent San Francisco.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

The corporations. have found out the
yard of pups, and before long the people
Will them out.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

The Ii Yung Yuen journal is about as
reliable in its home news. as in its dis
patches from China.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

Take stick to the blackmailing snake
and you Will see it crawl into its hole
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

Vile cartoons are no answer TO facts. A
criminal is. never acquitted by making
caricatures of the Judge.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

The exposure made by THE CALL of the
villainy of the E1dminer has forced the
managers of that paper TO drop their i'm
pudence and resort once more TO hypoc-
risy, but even that won't save them; we
propose to strip the masks off.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

Never were the journalistic highbinders
so ravenous for Doodle and never were
they so near starvation.
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

What does Willie Hearst care Tor the
interests of the people OF San Francisco?
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02
PARAGRAPHS ABOUT PEOPLE

Ruskin has squandered in good deeds for
tune of more than $4,000 and his present
income depends almost wholly on the royal
ties of recen popular edition of his works
Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte's great philo-
logical library has been sold to London book
seller, as the efforts to raise money enough to
buy it for the GuildhaIl Library were unsuc-
cessful.
Helsingfors University in Sweden has this
year 2161 students, of which 261 are women ;
70 of these are under the mathematical, III
under the philosophical and 81 under the
medical faculties.
Acting under the authority granted by the
South Carolina Legislature, General Hugh L.
Farley is collecting and will publish in per-
mauent form the rolls of all the companies
raised in that State for service in the Confed-
crate army.
Countess Constance Wachtmeister, one of the
most prominent of living theosophists, is in
Chicago. The Countess is a dignifed woman
OF middle age, and is by birth an Italian. Her
English, however, is faultless and her vocabu-
larry varied. Her title is Swedish.
Ladies of New Orleans having succeeded in.
raising enough money to place in good condi-
ton the grounds about the Jackson menu-
ment on the battlefield of Chalmette-his-
toric ground of the war of 1812-have now
made public appeal for a sufficient amount
to complete the shaft of brick and marble and
restore the broken base.
Wearied with the turmoil of political life,
General j. B. Gordon of Georgia intimates
that he very gladly turns over his Senatorial
toga to Mr.. Clay in March next. The general,
who has vast fund of incident and personal
experience to draw upon, may, it is limited,
nf n hic . t.,
leeturing to writing at some length his per-
sonal "reminiscences of the Civil War;
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

MILD, but always effective, Ayers Pills are In
dspens able as family medicine both for children
and adults
The San Francisco call., 1897-02-02

CHINESE QUARTER-M. F. T., City. There has
been no census of the inhabitants of the
Chinese quarter of San Francisco for several
years, but IL is estimated that the population
there at this time is between 5000 and
2OOUO