New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-04-30
TOPICS IN CALIFORNIA.
GOVERNOR MAY NAME A SENAIoh-M'
II. DE YOUNG DECLINES TO BE
COMMISSIONER TO THE PARIS
FAIR-PRESIDENT HUNT.
INGTON ENTERTAINED.
my TELEGRAPH TO THE rRrBUNE.l

my TELEGRAPH TO THE TRIBUNEl
San Francisco, April 29.-Much comment mas
been excited here this week by the report tha'
Governor Gage will appoint Colonel Danie NJ
Burns United States Senator to succeed STEPHEN
M White in case Senator Quay is seated by the
Senate. The Governor automatically refuses 10
say whether he will appoint Burns or not but
leading politicians OF the opinion that ne VIII
do SO should Quay be recognized. They appar-
emily argue that Burns would be on the same
footing as Quay. whereas number OF senators
have expressed the opinion that Quays case Is
exceptional. and even II he be admitted. mainly
on the ground that he already Senator
this should not be taken as a precedent for
the appointment OF other Senators by Governors
of States in which there have been deadlocKs-
In the case of Burns he secured only a trihe
more than one-third Of the total Repuolican
vote, and he was led from start to finish py
u s. Grant Burns also was more severely
scored by influential Republican newspapers IN
the state than any man who has been candi-
date for public Office here In many years
covernor Gage this week admitted that he
had offered the Commissionership to the Paris
Fair TO NJ H. De Young and that Mr.. DE
Young had refused It, 1t also came out thaI
William H. Mills. head Of the land department.
OF the Southern Pacific Company. had received
an offer of the position and had also declined
IT, Mr. Mills who is probably as well informed
on the resources OF California as any one In the
State declared, in explanation Of his refusal,
that he did not think California would have
fair representation at Paris. No special wine
exhibit would he permitted and the space al
Iotted for general display entirely made
quate
At the convention Of Native Sons OF the Golden
West this week at Salinas 1t was decided that
this body Of young men give medal to every
California soldier who has been in the Army in
the course of the war, whether he saw active SER
vice or not A fund will be raised and the design
of the medal will be prepared by some distn-
guished sculptor. While the order was discuss
ing this plan news came that Colonel James F.
Smith, Of the LIST California Volunteers, who is
Native Son. had been made brgadier-gen-
era for good service at Manila. The Native
Sons also decided to endow the chair Of Cali
fornia history at the State University.
President c. P. Huntington has been
lavishly entertained on his present visit to San
Francisco than on any previous trip. Last
week. at the Pacific Union Club. Prince Ponia-
towski gave him a luncheon. and d. o. Mills
followed this with an elaborate luncheon at the
same club to Mr. Huntington and the leading
officials OF the general office or the Southern
Pacific. On Thursday night, at the Palace Ho-
TEL fourteen of the principal officers Of the rail-
road company gave a dinner in Mr.. Hunting
toms honor, to which were invited many OF the
officials OF the company and many OF the lead
ing men in business and professional life. w.
II. Mills presided as POSTMASTER and speeches
were made by several prominent guests. Presi-
forward talk on the necessity Of getting small
| farmers who would develop the great valleys Of
| the State. He thought 1t would be a good
scheme for California If she could secure Rus
sian Firms, who are now being driven out by
| the Gar as they are sober. thrifty industrious
people. who would make excellent citizens. On
May 10 Mr.. Huntington will give his annual
| dinner to the Southern Pacific officers at his
| house Mob Hill.
The State University faculty this week dis
missed Stuart G. Masters, Of the Junior class
| chief editor OF the class annual. THE Blue and
Gold" because of scurrilous matter In the book
| Masters had an editorial staff containing several
| young women, yet they permitted to be printed
some coarse and vulgar comment themselves
and other women students which the fac
could not tolerate The most objectionable . 49,
| ure of the book is the absolute lack OF regard
for women students. which will give the oppo
nents Of co-education good argument against
! the system.
Bad blood has been stirred up between the
! State University and Stanford by exploits in
| larceny, committed by students OF each institu-
! ton After the baseball game week ago some
| Berkeley students stole a red axe. which STAN
| ford had carried to the backgrounds as a mas
cot Stanford students two nights later made
! raid on a fraternity house in Berkeley where
| the axe was supposed to be hidden, but failed
! to find it, Then a few nights later a body Of
| thirty-two Stanford students carried off the
| Berkeley senior fence from the campus ana
transported IT to Stanford where a great jubilee
was held over the captured trophy. the renee
was then divided up and secreted. what Will
| be the outcome is uncertain, but these incidents
| have not increased the good feeling between the
| students OF the rival colleges.
| At the theatres the most noteworthy feature
| of the week was the production Of "El Capt.
tan" at the Grand Opera House by large
company, which sang the opera we'll 1t was
| handsomely set and the performance was given
for half dollar. This surpasses the well-known
Tivou. the pioneer in cheap opera in this city.
for the theatre has been newly fitted up and is
handsome and attractive The T1voli Theatre
will soon be closed, and new house Dulit win
| all modern Improvements. Koland heed re-
| ceiyed a warm welcome at the Columbia this
week in THE Wrong Mr., Wright
Mrs. James A. Garfield widow of the Pres-
| dent passed through this city this week on
her way home from Santa Barbara, where she
spent several weeks. She spent the winter IN
Southern California.
Lieutenant Robert Howe Fletcher. well known
as a Bohemian Club man and author or The
. Johnstown Stage" and Marjorie and Her
Papa" has been appointed curator OF the San
Francisco Art Association. Fletcher is an artist
as well as an author. and as the Art Associa-
ton Is affiliated with the State University, he
will have place on the faculty.
A new California author has just had his
first book published. He is DR.. {. W. Doyle. an
Anglo Indian who has lived for several years
at Santa Cruz. His book is a collection OF Ind
ian tales entitled The Tanning OF the Jungle,