The San Francisco call., 1898-05-14
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 ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. STANFORD UNIVERSITY-G. R., City. For information about entrance to the Stanford University address the recorder at that institution.
 DARKNESS UNDER THE EYE-J. A. L., City. The dark ring sometimes seen under the human eye is caused by con- gestfon of the blood.
 FORT HANCOCK-N J. T., Yreka, Cal. Fort Hancock is located in El Paso County, Texas, on the line of the A. T. and s. F. R. R., short distance rom Galveston.
 FOR THE WAR-Subscriber. City. About seven hundred men left the Pre- sidio reservation for the front Aoout | seventeen thousand men of the regular army have been mobilized around Chick amauga Park
 RANK-J. A. B., Point Reyes Station, Cal If two officers of the United States Major General on the same day and With l in the same hour, the one whose com mission Is signed first ranks the other.
 THE vAAIPIRE-Y. N, Saratoga, Cal, and T. D., City. 'The Vampire" by Kip ling, can be found in Vol. N of the Critic, May s. 1897; in the June number of the l Eclectic Magazine, 1897, and in Public Opinion of June 17. 1897 Cannot furnish you the date of the publication of this | poem in the paper named in your com mun1cation.
 A WIPES PROPERTY-C. w. City. | The separate property of wife, accord l ing to the law of this State, is not liable 1 for the debts of her husband, but is lia- l ble for her own debts contracted before 1 or after marriage. AS the husband Is the of fife or ara tne for be ay aae R i law procured by him, and he is responsi- ble for the payment thereof.
 BARBERRY-G. G. S., Pescadero. Cal. l The barberry common on this coast IS known by the botanical name Barberideae Aquofolium, and is also known as Oregon used for .dyeing yellow. It produces u bitter tonic, astringent; in large doses is l junctiyus and internally in, malaria1 and typhoid fever. This department is unable to state what effect its constant use would have on the human system. 1 MINING LICENSELH. C., City. Can adian mining license authorizes mining | within the territorial limits of the Donin- 1 east by the Atlantic Ocean. Labrador, Davis Strait and Baffins Bay. on the | the north by the Arctic Ocean and Alas | ka, the south, southeast and south west by the United States.
 THE MEDICAL CORPs-H. H.. City. The enlisted men in the medical or sani- l tary corps of the National Guard, when called out for duty by the commander in Guard, are paid $ per day: if they are | called to serve as volunteers in the Unit l ed States army they will be paid SIS 8 month for the first and second years of sig, the third year, s20 the fourth year l listment for five years the pay is $23 a month.
 
 FINDINu MONEY-A Subscriber. Iger- na, Siskiyou County. Cal. Under the laws l of the State of California person who f1nus lost money or other property must make affidavit of the fact before a Justice 1 of the Peace, whose duty it becomes to 1 post the fact at the courthouse and other public places, and, if the property or money is less than $20, then 1t reverts to l the finder if not claimed within thirty | days. If of greater value than $20 the property must be advertised in news 1 paper, and if not claimed within a year it reverts to the finder.
 TWO TS-Subscriber. City. The lot upon which the Claus Spreckels building at the corner of Market and Third streets 1 stands is 75 feet square The lot upon which the Chronicle building stands is an | irregularly shaped one. It has a frontage | of 46 feet on Kearny street, a frontage of 5S:11 on Geary and a frontage of 9S feet 1 on Market From the eastern end of the 1 Market-street front it runs back 80 feet | from east to northeast, thence 36 feet from northeast to southeast, thence II feet from southeast to northwest, thence 22 feet south, thence to the northern end of the Kearny-street front.
 PoLLTAx COLLECTIONS-M City. There is no law that entities corpora 1 tions or firms to a percentage for collect ing polltax from, their employees. The law of this State authorizes an employer to pay the polltax of an employe who | has refused to pay the same on demand l by a deputy of the Assessor, and IL says 1 further that "every person who pays the | polltax of another may deduct the same l from any indebtedness to such other | person.; but the law does not say that l any employer shall forcibly collect poll l tax from his employe. The Assessor Is allowed 15 per cent for collecting polltax.
 EX-OFFICIO-R. O. T. C., City. Unless there is something in the bylaws of an organization which expressly declares | that an ex-officio member of a commit tee shall not have vote he is entitled to all the privileges of the other members of the committee, but he should not, if he is chairman of the organization, and is ex-officio member of committees, be made chairman of any such committee, as it would be rather @ peculiar proceed ing for him chairman Of the commit tee to report to himself as chairman of | the organization, for it is proper for a committee to report to ''the chairman and members
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