The San Francisco call., 1897-01-30

DAY OALL anu pAOf4Oo SO0A AS4SuAS WILL
good reading.
All that Nevada asks of the country il
to furnish the prize-fghters. She will fur
nish the sand.
Eastern storms are destructive, but oul
so-called storms are rains that bring {
blessing with them.
1t seems that Lyman Gage voted fol-
Cleveland in 1884, but he repented early
and never did it again.
Professor Langley gives good reports o,
his airship and the next thing he gives u!
ought to be public trial.
When Senator Dubois left the RepubIi-
can party he stepped on the toboggan
slide and now he is in the snowdrift.
The Legislature is making as much ot
the payroll scandal as if it expected never
to have another, and let US hope it won't t.
Among the features of The SUNDAY
CALL there are some of special interest to
you. Don't fail to get the paper and read
them.
Idaho sends to the United States Senate
a Populist who has never been known to
make a speech. This is a real surprise
party.
The Senatorial fight in Washington
seems 20 be so hot at both ends it is i'm.
possible to handle it either way with
safety.
According to the Examiner Ii Yung
Yuen Is in Havana and San Francisco at
the same time, and as for Creelman he is
everywhere.
The Illinois Legislature has tackled the
job of regulating department stores, just
as ii it were not something of variety
junkshop itself.
If Congress undertakes to prevent the
scalping of railroad tickets it ought at the
same time prevent the price of those tick.
cts from scalping the public.
A great spIutter has arisen in Chicago
over a proposition to give the Mayor
$4,000 year, and it is safe to say tina.
many Mayor has helped himself to more
"
The Examiner has at last found out the
name of the Chinese Consul-General in
this City, and if it had not stopped to
fake that Chinese dispatch it might have
found it out on the day Little Pete was
killed.
San Francisco can well afford to be gen.
- l. ~ ! soI-o II
India, for California has profted by the
loss of the Indian wheat crop and it is
only right for US to help those from whose
injury we have derived gain.
The rains will be of benefit to miners
who wish to work their claims as well as
to the farmers and orchardists. In fact,
almost every industry in the State has
been benefited and the outlook for pros
perity has been frightened by the clouds.
The Chronicle recalls the Especial cable
Of the Examiner asserting that the Colima
had "split on q rock" when she really
sank in sixty fathoms of water, land it is
hardly necessary for the Examiner to re-
iterate the statement and add that it was
absolutely true"
ANY and every bill before the Legis-
lature that tends il any way to prevent OF
check the construction of railways ought
10 be promptly rejected. California needs
more facilities for transportation and il
would be folly to enact laws that would
diminish the chance OF getting them.
1t is only a short time ago that the
Bradley Martins were caught in what
looked very much like smuggling articles
of wearing apparel through the Custom
house, ard now they are going to give g
$500, 600 bail and masquerade, but of course
none Of the family will appear as snug
glers.
The rapidity with which Randsburg has
developed from the wild and wooliy stage
to the customs of high society is astonish.
ing. 1t is already enjoying report that
the prettiest married woman in the dis.
trict has eloped with a handsome young
man, and all that it lacks now is a di
vorce case, an opera-house and bicycle
rink.
Let US give the little devil his due
When THE CALL began to supply tht
people of California with the news service
of the United Press Willie Hearst had
sense enough to see that it was the best in
the world and at once followed the lead o.
THE CALL and obtained the same service
fer the Examiner This showed a degree
of perspicacity on the part of the faker
but it does not justify him in Dragging
that his paper has now better news ser.
vice than The CALL