The San Francisco call., 1898-08-18
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as 1OlIOWS:
 One afternoon the aforesaid major came
 up from the lower country, accompanied by his wife It happened that there was
 going to be a prize fight by two well known flstic celebrities on that night, and although he would dearly have loved to witness it he had yielded to the earnest solicitations of his better half who did not believe Gin those degrading exhibi- tions,' and had promised her not to go but to take her to thestheater instead. Just as they were entering the Palace they
 met a friend, who stopped and said, An major, come up to attend the prize fight eh?" He did not notice the darkenine brow of the lady nor the appealing wink of her husband but went on. You bet you wouldn't miss one of those contests. The dense friend only quit his badinage when the madame said curly, Sir, the major never attends those brutal af- fairs.
 The next morning the major was look ing over the newspaper, mainly to see the
 result of the previous nights contest when. his eye was attracted by 8 picture which filled a quarter of a page, with the caption. Prominent people at the fight, and heading the procession in unmistaka. ble caricature was the major himself an6 under it his name in large, bold type. He experienced quite a shock on seeing 1t and going to his wife said, My dear did we uOL BO lO lIlt lHtdlSI ldSI IllSiILt oHe re piled, We certainly did, and enjoyed 1t. .
 Then" said the major. Took at this and see how these villainous newspapers car prevaricate about things" And the lady
 saw the picture of her husband and the
 notice of his attendance at the fight Now" said the major, you see these newspapers are mot to be depended on''
 and his wife said, T will never believe one of them again."
 T. N. Callen, liquor merchant of St. Louis, is on an extended visit to this
 coast. and is making the Baldwin his | headquarters.
 c. M. Cotterman, chief clerk of the rail-
 way mail service, with headquarters in Portland Or, Is visiting Superintendent Thran in this city.
 F. G. Ostrander, prosecuting attorney of
 Merced and Frank Plant, large rubber
 manufacturer of Boston, are among the
 guests at the Lick.
 Fftzhugh Loughborough and wife of Los
 Angeles, E. Jacob, a Visalia capitalist
 and Dr. H. N. Winton and wife of Hay
 wards are registered at the Occidental Third Vice-President Stubbs and VII. | liam Sproule of the Southern Pacific Com
 pany will leave for Denver tomorrow | to attend a meeting of the traffic officials
 of the transcontinental lines for the pur- | pOSo OI illlO lllS cutting or rates l on the various roads.
 Lieutenant Colonel Thomas M K. Smith
 will start this evening for New York to l join his regiment, the Tenth United States | Infantry, at New York. The colonel re.
 grets not having an opportunity of going | to the front. He has been on this coast | for several years, and has many stanch | friends, who will regret his departure
 The colonels family will remain in this
 city
 1 Frank Dinsmore, one of the old-time
 pioneers of Alaska, who has been lyine 1 critically i'll for several months at the l Commercial Hotel in this city, was able l to leave yesterday for Alma, Cal There are favorable developments in his case
 and it is now considered possible that hs
 will live for some years. The nature ot
 his malady has not been understood by l the doctors. Dinsmore is one of the mos
 widely known of the Yukon traders, hay | ing entered Central Alaska over twenty years ago. When brought down here b3 | friends early in the summer 1t was not l thought possible that he could surviv, l many days.