The San Francisco call., 1898-06-02
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

1 WILKES BooTH-C.., City. J. Wilkes
 Booth never appeared in San Francisco I nor on any stage in California.
 BROOKLYN DIRECTORY - An Old l Brooklyn, N. Y, directory in the office of the Sah Francisco directory.
 .WINDERMERE-M V. B., Westminster, | Cal. Windermere or Winandermere, not I Wfndemere, the name of the largest lake I in England, it Is believed derives its name [ from the Celtic tCivIyn hen dvxr,'' which means the clear ancient lake,
 PAPER-T. W, City. The first attempt
 to manufacture paper in. the United States
 was made in 1890 by William Rittinghuy-
 sen and William Bradford. who estab- lished a paper mill at Roxbury, near Phil. afedeEphia: fe The paper was made wholly or | linen rags. @ @.: =: =. F LADIES IN THE SOUTHERN. PA CIFIC Subscriber. City. There are quite. a number of ladies in the employ of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, Some are. employed as ticket sellers at interior stations, others are stenographers and tyRewriters and others are clerks in de- r partments. l.:.. %..:. # .... :: >TWINs-F. H. &, City This depart ment has no knowledge of any public an-
 nouncement having been made by Gov
 ernor Budd that he would give a prize to lSs 1 In 1897 and living three months. Your letter of inquiry should be directed to the private secretary of the Governor at his office, Sacramento City,
 THAT WOODEN FENCES. A M, City. The wooden picket fence that has
 been placed around the United States
 Mint property at Fifth and Mission
 streets was erected to prevent people from approaching too near the building, as a part of the roof Is not considered safe and for fear some portion of it might
 fall it has been thought best to keep people out of the line of possible danger
 STUDIES AT WEST POINT-R. R.,
 Ukiah, Cal. ApDointees to the United
 States Military Academy at West Point must be between r and 22 years of age, free from any infirmitv which may rem der them unfit for military service, and able to pass a careful examination in
 reading, writing, orthography, arithme
 tic, grammar, geography and history of the United States.
 LOSS OF THE GREAT REPUBLIC Memory, City. The steamship Great Re- public bound from Portland to San Fran
 cisco ran on Sand Island, five miles in
 side of the Columbia River bar, and be-
 sengers and crew off the last boat cap
 seized, and the first and second officers,
 the boatswain, carpenter and ten men
 were drowned. This occurred on the 18th of April, 1879.
 | THE CAROLINES- N, City. The Caroline Islands form an archipelago in the Pacific, east of the Philippines and north of New Guinea. They are divided into the western, central and eastern | groups. The central, or the Carolines | proper, consists of nearly five hundred isl- ands in forty-eight groups; the western
 Is a group of twenty islands, known as l the Pelew, and the eastern is a group i of three islands, known as the Metelotas.
 The principal islands of the Carolines
 are Tap, Ullea, Lauchdrek, Ruck, Bonel- l ly and Ualan.
 BANK ROBBERY-S., Rocklin, Placer
 County, and Subscriber, Selma, Fresno | County. There was no robbery of bank l in San Francisco in 1852 or whereabouts by | a man known as 'Three-Fingered Jack" l The correspondents probably refer to the robbery in the store of Jansen, Bond & ! Co. on Montgomery street, when the senior partner was attacked almost beat en to death and robbed. A man was ar rested, positively identified by the wound- ed man, was taken by the Vigilance Com mittee and sentenced to be hanged, but. just before the time set for the execution. the man, who gave the name of Thomas Burdue; was saved, as another man, a
 convict from Australia named James Stuart, was apprehended, and he was the
 exact counterpart of Burdue. He con- fesSed that he had committed. the crime and admitted the juStneSS of the punish
 ment he was to receive. This case was one of the most remarkable on record. Both men were of the same stature, each
 wore long brown hair waving over the shoulders, long; black pointed beard, each had lost joint of the same finger on the
 same hand. each had a little slit in the left ear each had the same shaped scar over the left eyebrow, each stopped and
 each had the same peculiarity of gait.
 The only difference in the two men was the peculiar. expression of eyes and mouth in Stuart which was missing in Burdue.