The San Francisco call., 1898-02-22

way from his island home to Washington to endeavor by his sophistry to mentally trip the level-headed anti-annexationists who compose the majority of the states men at the nations capital, and failing in his attempt, returned to San Francisco, where he yesterday tried to square him. self by taking a fall. out of an inoffensive Englishman.
 Yesterday morning President Dole went out for a drive, accompanied by his sec retary. They were in an open hack, and enjoyed immensely the mild breezes and warm sunshine, all the more for the pleasant contrast they afforded to the terrible frosts the two distinguished vis- itors have lately been experiencing in the East. So much were they impressed with the beauty of San Francisco's environs that when at last they were forced to return to the hotel they did so with much regret.
 Finally they arrived in front of the Oc- cidental, where MT. Dole started to alight just as Valentine Seasons, a loyal subject of her Majesty Victoria I, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of h. dia, was passing. Valentine has not been in this country long enough to forget his native traditions and customs, and had his trousers rolled up to a point midway between his ankle and knee. The trousers were large and baggy, and MT. Dole, mis- taking one of their checks for flag in the pavement, placed his foot on it, with the result that the scion of a hundred earls measured his length on the pave ment. The secretary at once picked him up, and expressing in the language of dip- lomacy his profound sorrow for the oc- currence, extended every courtesy in his power to the unfortunate victim of the disaster. Owing to the friendly relations at present existing between England and Honolulu, it is not thought that any serious complications will result from the incident, unless further investigation proves that the accident was the result of malice and was authorized by the Ha- waiian Government.
 MT. Seasons threatens to bring the matter to the attention, of the English Government and insist that an indemnity be exacted from the Hawaiians, to com pensate him for his loss of dignity and the damage done to his unmentionables, which have been rendered utterly worth less through large hole in their port quarter. MT. Dole claims that the hole is not the result of the collision, but re- suited from spontaneous combustion. en- gendered by the heat of the garments, which were of the most vivid colors known to the cloth market.
 H. D. sautte and o. S. Richardson are
 
 rived at the Palace last evening.
 C. F. Fitz w. Hall and Guy Cleve, two wealthy young Englishmen travelling for pleasure, arrived in the city last evening and went to the Occidental.
 B. Campbell, traffic manager of the O. R. and N, is registered at the Palace from Portland. He comes to attend to the business of that road in this city, as MT. Connor, the local agent here, has made arrangements. to leave the company and accept the agency of the Panama Railway Company for the Pacific Coast
 Stephen W. Roach, the youngest son of the famous shipbuilder, John Roach, is staying at the California MT. Roach who is president of the Morgan Iron Works of New York, is d great lover and patron of clean sport. He is a member and the owner of the Parthenia, one of the handsomest steam yachts in this country.
 About seventy ladies and gentlemen comprising the excursionists who have been making a tour of the country in the special train of six cars sent out by the Minneapolis Journal, arrived at the Palace yesterday from the southern part of the State, which they visited on their party, which is under the management of A. w.. Warnock, one of the editorial writers on the Journal, will only remain in this city until this evening, when they will leave for their homes in Minnesota