The San Francisco call., 1897-07-24

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for summer months
San Francisco to the front.
This is the depot for Alaskan supplies.
We have ships enough to handle the
rush.
Adventures to the gold fields should go
through the Golden Gate.
There are no signs of improvement in
the evidence given before the Board of
Equallzers.
Even the calamity howlers have caught
the Klondyke fever and are dreaming
golden dreams.
The "ghost-car" of Bush street vanishes
from he earth, and now The spirits OF the
people rise and rejoice
The climax of the trouble in the Levant
is not yet in sight but diplomatists be-
lieve they can see IT coming.
1t is worth noting that Alaskan gold is
not as good as that OF California, even
when you have it in your hand.
There would be great imitation in the
balloon business if Andree should bring
back golden nugget from the pole.
Weyler has not succeeded in pacifying
the Cubans, but it looks as if Gomez
might do it in a few days by taking
Havana.
Don't let the Klondyke excitement lead
DAY CALL to-day. You will wish it to-
morrow.
The rise in wheat has come early
enough this season to enable the farmers
TO reap some of the profit as well as all of
the crop.
After getting rid of the nuisance of the
Bush-street car tracks the people should
not rest content with their labors. There
are others.
Eastern people should be notified that
if they wish to 60 to Alaska they must
start from San Francisco in order to be
started right.
After all the talk there has been on the
money question it is strange that Con-
gress should need commission to make
a report on it.
The decline in the price of silver bull
lion shows that while Bryan may think
he is doing lot he is not having any
effect on the stock market
We shall never be free from Chinese
outrages SO long as Chinatown exists, but
there is such a thing as putting the fell
lows who commit them in safe place.
The Democrats of the Senate may per-
sist in carrying the tariff debate over into
next week. 1t seems as if they must get
in their usual blunder whatever happens.
The gold excitement has stirred up Con-
gress to a consideration OF the needs of
Alaska, and steps will be taken immed-
ately to extend the work of the Territorial
government.
A Wall-street firm that failed FIVE years
ago for $l2, 100000, but settled up in sixty
days and resumed business, has now failed
dRdlH, dHI IL ~ ~ De uOpoQ W III It peat the
former operation an6 improve on it by
resuming in thirty days.
Care should be taken to see that the
vessels pressed into service for the rush
TO Alaska are thoroughly seaworthy and
are not overloaded. 1t is not every old
hulk about the bay that can stand the
voyage.
If the German War Office makes any
further experiments with homing pigeons
from the British coast there will be a
chance for the English to revive the old
sport OF hawking. and thus society will
have another out-of-door recreation to
amuse itself.
Now that Brown University has rid it.
self OF President Andrews it will have a
good cause Of action for breach of promise
against the godbug millionaires if they
do not plank up those big subscriptions
to the endowment fund they have been
talking about.
The assertion that there is always
plenty of room at the top is not strictly
true of the bar, for no sooner is it an
nounced that one Judge is to resign than
there appear four men crowding in to get
the place, and every one of the applicants
seems to be tip-top man.
The promptness with which the House
OF Representatives under the control OF
Speaker Reed attends to business was
shown by the passage OF the bill provid-
ing for the organization OF new land dis
tricls in Alaska. The work was needed
and the work was done without mo-
ment's delay.
The children's day parade was an inter-
esting feature of the Utah celebration and
was as appropriate as beautiful. The
native sons and daughters of Utah have
rich heritage created for them by the
labors of their fathers, and it was right
that they should be allowed part in cele-
brating the work and the successes of the
pioneers.