The San Francisco call., 1901-12-02
ANSWERS TO QUERIES.

ANSWERS TO QUERIES. /
PALMIsTRY-G. E. r., City. The Call 4
has discontinued articles on palmistry.
CAPTAIN BARR-M s.. City. Captain
Charlie Barr, who sailed the Columbia,
is a native of Scotland.
A DOLLAR OF '96-M E., Lodi, Cal.
Eastern dealers offer a premium of from
50 cents to 81 for a United States dollar
of 1896.
PULLMAN CAR-Subscriber, City. The
cost of Pullman car is from $1,000 to
$15, 600, but some extra elegant ones have
cost as much as $4,000.
CAPITAL PUNISHMENT-W c.. City.
Capital punishment is forbidden by law
in Maine. also in Colorado, Rhode Island
Michigan and Wisconsin.
PRESIDENTS sALARY-Civis, City.
The salary of the President was in
creased to $4,000 a year by an act OF
Congress of March 8, 1878.
FRENCH REPUBLIC-W. F., City.
The present form of republican govern
ment in France dates from February 20,
1875, the date of the constitution.
VOLUNTEERS PAY-Vet., Rohner-
Vile. Cal Volunteers who came into ex-
istence under the act of March 2, 1899, are
not allowed two months extra pay.
EDIsoN-J. ]. s., City. Thomas A. Ed
ison was born in Milan, Erie County, o.,
February IL, 1S47. He has two sons by
his first wife. The Oldest is about ~
MARK HOPKINS INSTITUTE-G. A.
T. City. The free admission day at the
| Mark Hopkins Institute of Art is the flrst
Friday of each month, from a. m. 10
p. m.
| CARNEGIE-S. ]. X, Watsonville, Cal.
The New York address of Andrew Car
| neeie is 5 West Fifty-frst street. This
department has not the name of his pri-
| vate secretary.
DIMES OF '3-H., Acampo, Cal. Dimes
of 1881 are not premium coins. Dealers
| offer to sell such for rs cents for spec1-
mems in fine condition and 50 cents for
such as have not been circulated.
o,DoNNELL AS CoRoNER-G. NJ. L..
Citv. DIR. C. c. O'Donnell ran for Coroner
| of San Francisco in 1884, when he was
elected and he ran again in 1899 for the
same office, when he was defeated by r.
Beverly Cole.
! CAPE BARROW-G. E. r., City. Cape
| Barrow is in II % north and 156 81 west.
There are a number of picture dealers in
this city that can furnish you photo
graphs of the northern country, but this
department does not advertise SUCH
THE .GHosT-A Reader. Georgetown,
Cal. During the production of the play
of Macbeth some individual represent
ing the ghost Of the dead King stalks
into the banquet room and takes a seat
at the table. The ghost is seen only oy
the audience and Macbeth.
KIMBALI--A o. s., City. Herbert c.
Kimball was chosen one of the twelve
Mormon apostles in 1895. He aided in es-
tablishing the Mormon colony at Great
Salt Lake and in 1S47 became the coun-
selor of Brigham Young. He died in 1868.
sTATIsTICAL-O. R., Parlier, Cal. Sta
tistical information relative to new rail-
roads, cotton mills, mining, ETC., can be
found in the Commercial and Financial
Chronicle of New York. Bradstreets s,
Poor's Manual Of Railroads and the pub
lications of the American Statistical AZ
sociation of Boston, Mass
TAMALPAIS-Curio City. Tamal-
| pals is Spanish for tamale country, and
was in early times word used to desig-
nate the country of the Tamale Indians
The mountain in Marin County called
Mount Tamalpais derives it's name from
the country where those Indians lived
SPECIAL ORDERs-E. S. c., City. This
department has looked at paragraph s
speciaI orders 14S, Department of Cali
fornia. 1S99 and as it is not of general In
terest, cannot give space to it. 1t is no
of general interest to state that at a GER
tain time a certain captain was ordered
to report at a certain point.
Rr1ILDINGs IN CHINATOWN
of the buildings in the Chinese quarte
of San Francisco are owned by whites
There are few Chinese who own rea
, estate in the quarter, which they acquires
nrior to the adoption of the constitutions
clause relative to aliens and real prop
erty.
LEASED LAND-J. w. NJ, Alameda
| Cal. If a party leases a piece of land t
SOW crops thereon, but finds that certain
| trees are a hindrance to a successfu
raising of the crops and he cuts the tree
7 down with the permission of the owner O
the land, the cord wood that might b
secured from the trees vests in the owne
of the land and not the tenant.
; A MINORS EARNINGS-w K. L
:. Vallejo Cal. The law of California
I that the father of legitimate unmarrie
l minor is entitled to the custody, service
: and earnings of such minor during tn
period of minority. So in the case cite
in letter Of inquiry "a boy who earns