The San Francisco call., 1897-06-11

1908 Polk street; open until $3.50 o'clock.
NV. corner rwenty-second and Kentucky
streets; open til O'Clock.
OAKLAND OFFICE;
e1s Broadway.
EASTERN OFFICE:
Rooms 81 and SO, 81 Park Row New YorN City
DAVID Nj. FOLTZ, Eastern Manager.
The CALL SPEAKS FOR ALL
THE SUMMEK MUNTnS.
Are you going 10 the country vacation , II
70. It is trouble for us 10 forward THE CALL TO
your address. Do not let IL miss you for you will
miss it, Orders given 10 the carrier left at
Business O1ice will receive prompt attention.
NO EXTRA CHARGE Fifty cents per month
for summer months
Mr.. Maher and Mr.. sharkey should i'm
mediately have business at Carson.
A warm welcome in California would be
a pleasant surprise party to Bryan for he
has been meeting with nothing but frosts
in the East.
The next time the House meets the
Speaker should by all means appoint q
committee to find out what has become oi
boy Bailey"
As the so called Silver Republicans cut
their convention unexpectedly short it is
evident they saw trouble ahead and did
not dare to so on.
1t required but a small push from Ger
many 10 get the Sultan to invade Greece,
but il now seems that all Europe has not
pull enough 10 get him out again.
The sugar trust is getting more free ad-
verusing just now than any other business
organization in the country, but as it does
not need il TO advance trade it is not bit
thankful.
The reports that the proposed tea tax and
the increased tax on beer are to be with
drawn are evidences that public opinion is
getting in its work and the Senate is learn
ing wisdom.
Eastern people are complaining that
this has been the coldest spring on record,
and on June they had heavy frosts and
slight snowstorms in several localities tc
usher in the summer.
A Georgia man has been fined S. fol
kissing girl and q man in Pennsylvania
has had to pay SIS for hugginC a widow.
J. viii be seen that under this administra.
tion Iuxuries are being taxed everywhere.
1t is announced that Armour and Pull
man have organized an oil syndicate and
will give the Standard Company a tussle
for supremacy, so We have a chance of see
ing q irst-class light contest between
heavy weights.
Grasshoppers threaten the destruction
Of crops in the agricultural regions of East
ern Washington. The farmers there are
playing in hard luck, for this seasons
yield of fruit and grain promised to be the
largest in the history OF the State.
The State Department is said to be con-
sidering the appointment of another COM
mission to continue the survey OF the Mica
rsgua canal and that is better than doing
nothing; but the people would prefer 10
see commission appointed to begin the
work.
Tne objections of the SultanUto DR..
Angel as Minister 10 his court have not
yet been removed and the disting guished
gentleman whose appointment has been
hovering for week between heaven and
earth like an airship may yet have to take
II home like collapsed balloon.
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The proposal OF Eureka 10 celebrate the
glorious Fourth by three days carnival
is one of the bright ideas which deserve
success. Patriotism and rejoicing go vel
together IN this prosperous country and
Eureka has struck the right lead in com.
blning them into something like jubilee
AS the Millers' National Association ha!
found II necessary TO pass resolutions pro-
testing against the adulteration of floul
with corn and other inferior meals il !.
evident that even the staff of life has beer
monkeyed with by tricksters and there i:
no safe reliance even on that.
The reports of the famine in China are
almost as appalling as those from India
ana would be quite so perhaps if the coun
Try were equally covered by telegraphs
Among both OF these overorowded people,
q large portion of the population lives con
tinualIy on the verge of starvation, and
crop failure in any wide territory means
misery TO mulIitudes and death to thou
ands.
tStA 81 Al Nas lOGAu u lew QAFi
age IN quartz mine near Kirbyville, Or.
among the broken fragments OF rocl
thrown up by blast. 1t is supposed tha
the limb belonged TO some antediluviar
0Tegonisu, who in his eager search fov
gold. neglected to put in timbers and wa.
reaching out for shining nugget wher
the mine csved in and buried him in /
sepulcher OF quartz.
Tariff bill proceedings in the Senate this
week have thus tar run more to oratory
than 10 work, ard the chances of ret.ins
through without 4 wrangle and a tangle
have somewhat diminished. Still the ead
ers are ssnguine the bill will be enacted il
time 10 go into effect by the first of the
coming nscal year, and with that pro mise
we can stand the orstory for a time, as M
one is under compulsion to read it.
One Of the signs of the times is the vigol
and energy with which Philadelphia ha.
begun to resent the imputation of being
sleepy city. For years such statement:
have been going the rounds without caus
ing any display Of irritation on the part o
the Philadelphia press. Ii is different
now, and New YORK and Chicago hav,
suddenly discovered, to their sorrow, that
the Quaker City Is as wide awake as .
nestful of disturbed hornets.