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The San Francisco call., 1898-10-10
AROUND THE
 CORRIDORS.

Well. a merchant of Sanger, is at the Grand.
 Frank g. Boggs Jr. of Stockton is at the Palace
 Rev. D. Maher of Forest Hill is guest at the Baldwin.
 State Senator Thomas Flint Jr. Is regis tered at the Palace.
 c. A. H. Warfiefd, Sherin or Merceo County, Is at the Lick.
 S. Morris, a mining engineer or Chlnese Camp, is at the Lick.
 c. H. Schively, mining man or Oro- vile, is at the Baldwin
 J. c. Ericksen, a cattleman or HulnpoioN County, is at the Russ
 Frank s. Christie, a mining man or Sanders, B. C., is at the Grand
 O. A. Tillson, the well known lawyer or Modesto, is a guest at the Lick'
 Captain Frank Barret, the oil man or Los Angeles, Is a guest at the LAck'
 F. Louis, a member of the San Diego Board of Education, Is at the Palace.
 Charles Ericksen. the railroad contrac- tor. and his wife, are guests at the Granu'
 W T. Solomon, w. G. French and D. Stark of New York are guests at the Fal- ace. o4 F. 8. Harrison, merchant or St. Helena. accompanied by his wife, IS guest at the Russ.
 T. A. sauder of Sacramento, past grand protector of the Knights ana Ladies of Honor, Is guest at the 0rdllu' ". N. Marshall and o. s. Osborn, min ers who have struck fortunes on Mlnook Croel, have just returned from the Alon- 5il<e and are guests at the Baldwin
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AN ISSUE
 IS WANTED.

Editor of The Call: "Wanted by the Democratic party-An issue for this cam paign."
 The above, signed by the Democratic State Central Committee, should be in serted in all the public prints of Califor- na from now until election day
 It is very evident that the Democracy of California is without an issue, and perhaps by the means above suggested some Democratic Cromwell or Joan of Are may bring forth that which James G. Mcguire and the Examiner have been endeavoring to manufacture.
 Mcguire and a host of other Democratic thing spell-binders, as well as the Ex- aminer. have been circulating about the State telling the people that the single tax dueston, n,dB+ is not H sn sn issue in this cam
 Now as to the railroad question. MT Mcguire says that is an issue: For the
 As if to prove the fact, the Examiner places before its readers, In black type (as if to make up for the common sense which 1t lacks) a long article on the ques- tiOn.
 Notwithstanding the fact that Senator John T. Morgan and other eminent Dem ocrats have declared that the refunding bill has been satisfactorily disposed of, the Examiner finds 1t necessary to devote half page of its space to the same old anti-railroad, anti-Huntington cry. and, as if to clnch the argument, the article says: Suppose Mcguire were defeated and a Legislature elected to send a Hun tfngton man to the Senate, how about San Pedro harbor?" Too bad The writer of that article should be informed that the San Pedro harbor matter was settled in a manner satisfactory to the people of California at the last session of Con- greSs.
 Toward the end of this article the writer says something about anarchy in the event of Maguire's defeat I would advise the gentleman that the less said in a Mcguire paper about anarchy the better it will be for Mcguire.
 Truly, the fusion job-chasers are sadly in need of an issue Be charitable MT Editor Have the first sentence of this communication printed among your want ads WILL L. OVERSTREET
 RerkeIeV October 6 1898
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THE SCHOOL LUMBER STEAL.

TT HE Grand Jury is said to have satisfactorily es-
 tablished the fact that certain contractors, act
 ing by authority of the Board of Education, have succeeded in stealing 5oo,ooo feet of lumber from the School Department Or, to state the case in more technical language that the board has paid for that number of feet which was never delivered a method of stealing adopted by the contractors as rcre convenient than actually hauling the lumber the schoolhouses and then carting 1t away.
 But the jury is unable to indict anybody. It knows the names of the guilty parties; it can in fact put it's hand on the School Directors who responsible for the theft, and 1t could moments notice hale the rascally lumber dealers into court The District Attorney however, advises that while the evidence upon which the jury might act shows malfeasance in office or conspiracy to defraud, indictment can be found because both these offenses are misdemean- ors and not punishable by indictment or information So the Grand Jury is going to content itself with a report to Presiding Judge Belcher in which it will 'froast' the culprits
 At this juncture 1t cannot fail to occur to an out slider that important question remains to be an- swcred II the lumber thieves of the School Depart ment cannot be indicted prosecuted by informa- tion what is the matter with somebody arresting them for misdemeanor? Malfeasance in office is cognizable by the Superior Court, and a conspiracy to defraud may be tried before jury. Why pause
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BOSSES AND MONGRELS.

~ HARLES J. BONAPARTE of Baltimore in a
 recent review of the many serious objections W to the annexation of the Philippine Islands d- rected attention not only to the incapacity of the mongre races of the islands to administer their own affairs but to the evil effects which would result from the attempt apply system of boss politics to the government of such races.
 In the course of his review he said: Imagine own old ring or the worthies of the 'Anti-Cvil Ser vice League set to rule millions o poor, gnor- ant, half-savage Malays thousands of miles from home and with no one to either discover or punish their enormtes except the politicians who had given them their places in return for dirty work Such an administration would constitute vertable political Sodom, fit to call down fire from heaven And yet no one can reasonably doubt that such men and other would be chosen to govern any such dependency. little island like Guam, wilderness such Alaska was, might be allowed by Congress to have for time purely military and therefore fairly honest and efficient government but 1t would be an idle dream to think that statesmen could keep their eager fingers out of such dish the patronage attendant on the government of eight ten millions of people! To expect this would be as absurd as to hope for Congress of honest men,"
 The soundness of that statement is beyond dispute Once the Philippine Islands under the control of the United States it will not be possible to keep them long under the supervision of the army military colonies The sposmen of politics will demand that the offices in the islands be included among the spells that go to the victor
 The Philippines would become place where the bosses would put up the pant of their push and pull. The government would be a mixture of ring sters and mongres, and the result would be cess pool of corruption in comparison with which any thing produced by boss rule among own commit mites would be like the sweet fields of Already.
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IRRIGATION
 OF ARID LANDS
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. g, 1898.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. g, 1898.
 Editor San Francisco Call: l recelVeo with my mail at my home last 0uhoay a copy of The Call of the 27th or sep tenber marked 'fX," which l was glao to get. as it contained the editorial .sBetter than Imperialism, comment ing on the enormous benefits that would result from the irrigation or the arid lands of the West. l almost al- ways get The Call, but sometimes when I am away in the interior l miss It, and would esteem the favor very highly if you would have a copy sent to me containing any editorial matter relat- ing to irrigation.
 It occurred to me in reading this edi- tortal that it might perhaps have es- capped your notice when you said "the proposition of course does not come within the domain of practical politics, that it really does in this campaign in California, and I have been rather sur prised that so little attention has been given to this great subject in the cam paign. The Republican party is the only one which has pledged its repre- sentatives In Congress to a national policy which would result in the con- struction of Federal storage reservoirs and the utilization of the wasted water supplies of California and the reclama- tion of the arid public domain.
 A few days ago 1 received letter from Dr. Clarke Gapen, now of Madi- son, Wis, who was formerly for num- Der of years the superintendent of the Illinois Hospital for the Insane at Kan kakee H., and while there made some very successful experiments on quite a large scale to show the increased production of lands in the humid re- giOns by what he calls the supplement tary irrigation. In his letter to me he says:
 Less than a year ago I was asked by the principal of one of the schools of Chicago to look over 8 group of children afflicted with various forms of nervous disease. A more pitiable spec tacle l never looked upon, and what made it especially so was the fact that in the whole group there was not a sin gle case which was not due to lack of air and food. Not single one of the cases could be helped In the least with out fresh air and good food, and these were both impOssibilities to these poor creatures, innocent of all misdOings for which they could be said to be respOnsi- ble. We can never justly claim to be civilized while these things be. The Government ought to make habitable the present waste places and put thou sands of those poor sufferers on them. Can we not do this as well as to spend the thousands we are spending on alien races? I believe in uplifting charity to all mankind but home is a good begin ming place"
 GEORGE H. MAXWELL.
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A NON-PARTISAN
 MAKES REPLY

To the Editor of the San Francisco Call-Dear Sir: Under date of October S there appeared in the columns of The Call a communication headed "A Non Partisan Piece Club and signed "A For
 mer Non-Partisan." A few words in re- ply The convention just closed was the fourth since the Non-Partisan party was called into existence. at which time both national parties were dominated by cor rupt political bosses. It is a well-known fact that the gentlemen composing the Non-Partisan convention are men with established regulations, many of them men of wealth and heavy taxpayers. to whom it is most ridiculous to apply the epithet of Piece Club" Your correspond
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THE UNITED
 LABOR PARTY

To the Editor of The Call-Dear Sir: Tn the issue of The Call of even date there appears an article headed, Ticket Refused Filing" It refers to an at tempt made by one James Smiley, to impose upon Registrar Biggy. The simple truth is that this alleged United Labor party as represented by Smiley has no existence in fact, but was en- deavoring to usurp the rights of an other party which has labored hard and long in the interests of labor. and has been recognized throughout the State for more than decade.
 As you have given so much space to the Smiley episode we beg leave to make reply so that our nominees and the main body of the voters may fully understand our true status.
 The United Labor party of Califor- mia has filed it's State ticket and con- templates the filing of it's municipal ticket at an early date. Permit me through the columns of your paper to say that MT Smiley has nothing to do with this organization nor had he any authorization to act from our State or County Committee. It will be danger ous for another faker to undertake a similar trick Furthermore, in this mornings issue of your paper appears an official draft of the State ticket to be voted at the coming election in No vember. By what I take to be typo graphical error the name of P. B. Gal iagher appears as the nominee of the Socialist Labor party for Superinten- dent of Public Instruction.
 P. B. Gallagher is the nominee of the United Labor party for the office named, and has received no other nom- ination or indorsement.
 WILLIAM P. GRACE.
 sA-I Labor party.
 San Francisco. October g. 1898.
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NJ voclxrov Minister of Marine, is ereatIv DIeased with the results of the tar s,a+ nractice of the battle-shtpS Brennus, Jeaureguiberry, Charles Martel and Ma genta and sthe cruisers Chauzy and Cali lee. which took place last month off Tou- Ion. The old floating battery Arrogante, built of iron in 1864, protected with 45s inches of iron, served as target a dis tance of about two miles from the firing ships and was sunk in less than fifteen minutes The French squadron fired five hundred projectiles, ninety of which were of 131b-inch caliber. The total number of hits were 30 per cent, very high percent age and M. Lockroy claims that the skill of French naval gunnery is superior to that of the Americans, as in the battle off Santiago only per cent were hits The comparison under such dissimilar condi- tions is hardly fair, for in the Santiago affair it was 8 running fight with varying distances and a return fire from the flee ing enemy. At Toulon the distance was known to exactness, and the firing was at an inanimate object and the skillful gun ners on the six ships had no occasion to get nervous, as there were no return shots.
 It is nearly two years since the British cruisers Terrible and Powerful passed through their steam trials. The latter ship
  record, and it is only quite recently that the alleged troubles with her engines have been remedied and she Is claimed to be as fast as intended. The Terrible has not as yet had a foreign commission, but has been undergoing overhaulings and passed through trials since January, 1897, and is now at last claimed to come up to the an- ticipations of the admiralty. The trials have been quite severe, including sixty hours at sea under 15000 horsepower, sixty hours under 1S,000 eight hours under 22,000 and lastly four hours under 25,000 horse power. The eight-hour trial on mean draught of 2S feet inches, or eighteen inches over the normal draught, resulted in g, ,053 horsepower and a speed, by log, of POT knots. The boilers carried 235 pounds of steam and the revolutions worked up to a mean of 1043 Two days after-Septem- Der 15-the ship passed through her four hours trial in the channel under full DOW CT. Unfortunately a heavy fog interrupted the trial, and on the second attempt she was equally unfortunate. It was, how ever, thought expedient to take the means of the results of the two interrupted trials. which gave 25,112 horsepower and speed of 21.9 knots by log. The steam was at 235 pounds and the revolutions 10S.57. The ship was down to a mean draught of 2S feet IF inches, making her displacement nearly 300 tons over the normal draught capacity. As compared with the results in January, 1897, the ship was then down to 27 feet, the engines developed 25 572 horsepower and the speed was logged at 22. Al knots. The recent performance shows a falling off of 460 horsepower and a re-
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stationerr and Printing.

Marcus Wards and Hurlburts s fine writ ing papers. Irish Linen and Venetian Bond in ream goods. Writing tablets, pa- peteries, Koh-1-Noor pencils, Waterman fountain pens, etc Visiting Cards and Invitations a speciality. Sanborn, Vail &s Co.,. TAI Market street.
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ADJUSTMENTS

Pa1dwtn-"The Dancing Girl" Columbia-"Elzabeth Queen of Eng land" Alcazar-" The Wife
 Moroecos-"The Lights London Ttvon-" The Circus Queen" Crpheum Vaudeville New Comedy Theater-" The Signal of Liberty" AIhambra, Eddy and Jones streets-Vaudev1ue The Chutes-P1etro Marine, Vaudeville and the Zoo Clympia-Corner Mason and Eddy streets-spee1a4neS Sutro's Understanding. Central Park-Circus. Saturday, October lb T. M C. 4. Concert next Saturday afternoon Rosenthal-Coming ill February
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duction in speed of .31 knots, the latter being probably due to the increased dis placement of the ship or, perhaps, to the vagaries of the log. While the two mon- ster cruisers cannot be termed as failures, yet it is entirely unlikely that they will l,.,
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'sMrs. winslow's Soothing svrur,,

Has been used over fifty years by millions os mothers for their children while Teething with perfect success. It soott t~s the child so4tana the gums. allays Pain cures Wind CoIic reg ulates the Bowels and is the best remedy for Diarrhoeas, whether arising from taatbt1g o- other causes. For sale by Druggists in every part of the world. Be sure and ask for Mrs Winslows Soothing Syrup. 25c a bottle
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The Belfast Irish News has declared a dividend of 1912 per cent, and that in a. city where in previous years no National ist organ was ever able to make ends meet.
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NEWSPAPER WAITS.

"Yes. sir" said the man ,I1o5 Tn cen 4o tba tfls very best houses 3 And Andb Tine Iae coming
 Here is my picture-'The Garden 14,,,2E or Eden "Why. man, you're crazy! ms rms is winter scene. :" "Of course 1t is1tha,t s a picture of the Garden after the Iall' Truth.
 '"what precocious child that Doy tsIai0I or Trivvins's isp' exclaimed the croSs-s sa1t dttI 9t ed oitizfn saznc WoH ToEd t SiS know aN5 That's more than its mother can do."-Washlh8- ton Star.
 she-You never did care for me t4eW 4ou Now Wnu are not only cruel but absurd I should like to know how l could r5l4o,9 nays got your money any other way '0-A Transcript
 Why He Refused Him.-Young Poet33 H-3 Why do you refuse me 1Hrtf5 as Paterfamias s3Tfii Oh, no; 1t is simply on account ,. Ul roo11 IeGn of space We are really crowded TOT rooA" here now.-Judge.
 Grandpa" said Kathleen, very .t@g1 seT5- ously, 'I want to ask your adV1cG:, o,,,,+TeI' darling: what is it?" asked the old gentIT- man. II want to know what you thlnK llII. it will be best for you to give me OH lily birthday. y."-Tit-Bits.
 MT. F1oody-Now, Franklin, my son, l have at last made the great tact oL LhT evolution of species clear to you, nave not? Franklin Floody-Oh, yes, papa; I understand! Before I was born you ana mamma were monkeys. Truth.
 Guest Gin restaurant)-Did you wait on Waiter1Yes, sir. You ordered a medium sirlotn steak Will you have the same Guest6Yes' guess you may as well bring it to me again if it isn't in use.
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Hopeful Barry vii ping the honest expectoration from his countenance, remarks that the newborn labor papers to be summed like many rattle snakes The allusion to rattesnakes IS unfortunate Not very long ago the gentleman said the militia of Pennsylvania ought to be killed like rattle snakes. A little later, when these Americans passed through this city on the way to Manila, mo- body manifested any desire to slay them, and even the Barry hand was stayed When they made gal lant stand under Spanish fire the idea that they ought to be killed failed to flash through the American mind In fact, when Barry has snakes he should not put his tremens on exhibition. The spectacle tends to show that he is well equipped for service in Con gress as a COW for skating
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GUNS.

The averages appear very fair but in inc absence of conditions and distances under which the hits were made are some- what unsatisfactory.
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The military fighting top on sh1ps-or- war appears to be going out of fashlon. In the French navy the tops have been removed from twenty-five ships and low cred in seven. In the British navy there have been thirteen removals ana nine low artnqs Ttalv has discarded the tops in four shjps. Russia has done likewise in two vessels, and in the Japanese and Spanish navies the tops have been lowered from their elevated heights down to on line lust above the coming towers on two and three ships, respectively.
 According to Lord Brassey's statement the number of trained seamen in the Brit ieh navy exclusive of reserves, is 106, 900. France has 5O,OO0, Russia 32,OOO and Ger many 25,000.
 The Naval and Military Record gives the following results of recent gunnery pratcfce in the British navy:
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The Almirante Brown, armored snip or 42oo tons belonging to Argentina, and built in 1880 by Samuda at Poplar near London, was the first armored ship punt of steel and also the first vessel in which steel-faced armor was placed.
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Italy will use Belleville boilers in the ehfns under construction and will also ln- stall them in some of the older vessels Ill which the old boilers have given out.
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SICK HEADACHE ABSOLUTELY AND permanently cured by using Moki Tea. A peasant herb drink. Cures constipation and ihndigestion. makes you eat, sleep. work and happy Satisraction guaranteed or money back At No Percentage Pharmacy.
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NEWS OF FOREIGN NAMES.

yickers Sons & Maxim at Barrows have pot q contract from the Japanese Government Cove to build battle-ship Of lo'0Oo tons for $4 ,65O,O00
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This week: best eyeglasses; specs; 15o, 40c; 65 Fourth street; look out for No. 65. .
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It is thoughess of the Star say the city is being bunkoed in the matter of the lease of cyclery for police purposes The entire deal has been engineered by sundry gentlemen whom Mayor Phean insisted must be placed the Board of Supervisors and the School Board,
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HOTEL DEL CoRoNADo-Take advantass Of the round-trfp tickets. Now only s6O by steanshlp including fifteen days board at hotel: longer stay S2 50 per day. Applv et New ontgomery street. San Francisco
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Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 Mont gomery street. Telephone Main 1042
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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

REPUBLICAN CLUB-O. T. R., City. There is a Republican club in the Thlrty- fourth Assembly District.
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The gentlemen arranging the peace banquet at Chicago have generously excluded California wines, but unless watched closely they will manage to work in a of local bacon and decorate the tables with cubes of pressed beef bearing the brands of lead ing citizens
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Here is my picture-"The Garden 71,,,?F or Eden Why man you're ooI,ps cFa4y! Tt 1SyLthat rhs ts a Tictnre of inc Garden after the fall.
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Cal. glace fruit 5Oc per ID at Townsend's. ;.
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'Yes, sir" said the man in cell 4n, time was when I was admitted bro,,95 10 the vou here?" ''They caught me coming out ''-Tit-RitS.
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Barry says Phe1an has made ideal Mayor and Phe1an thinks Barry would make ideal Congress man. The beautiful manner in which these opinions dovetai is of the most pleasing coincidences of the campaign
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Spain might well conclude now as later that the United States Government has no intention of pay ing for territory which it has gone the trouble win by force of arms
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TEMPERANCE-Q.. City. The first temperance society in the United States was organized in Saratoga County, New York in 1898.
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POPULATION-C G., City. The latest figures as to the population of the Ger man empire are those of 1895, which are B 246 5S9, and those of France are those of 1S96 and are 38, ,517 ,475.
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CONSOIIDAIlON ACI - ouDSCIIDeA, Citv. The consolidation act was approved April IS. 1856, and is entitled An act to repeal the several charters of the city and county of San Francisco, to establish the boundaries of the city and county or ernment thereof" That act and acts sup plementary thereto can be found in the reference room of the San Francisco Free pY1b TjhraTV.