The San Francisco call., 1905-06-21
PERSONAL.

]. F. Condor of Verdi. New, is at the
Grand.
Dr. L. E. Benson of Stockton is at the
St. Francis.
Attorney w r. Bacon of Los Angeles
is at the Palace.
DR.. and Mrs. Q. w. Carlson of Mil
waukee are at the Palace.
T. Z. Montgomery, capitalist of
Auckland, is registered at the California.
C. E. Gill, editor and proprietor of the
Eureka Herald, is in this city on his
way to the Portland Exposition.
Dr. T. E. Bailey. F. B. Clarke and
George Gallagher left last night for a
two weeks stay at Shasta Springs.
K. Soughimoura, japanese Minister to
Mexico and Peru, arrived from the
Southern republic yesterday on his way
TO Peru. He is accompanied by his wife,
and they are staying at the Palace.
General Manager w. H. Bancroft of the
Oregon Short Line is due here to-day
from Los Angeles, where he has been
on business connected with the Clark
road, of winch he is vice president.
Assistant Manager Mullan of the Pal
ace is confined to his room in that hos
telry suffering from a dislocation of a
shoulder, resulting from falling upon
the marble floor of one of the corridors
of the hotel.
Among yesterdays arrivals at the Cali
fornia from New Zealand were Mrs. and
Miss Withers, widow and daughter of the
late Major Withers of the British army,
who distinguished himself in that coun-
try during the Maori war.
Volney A. Spl loule, general passenger
agent Of the Oceanic Steamship Company
in New Zealand, arrived here yesterday
from Auckland on the steamship Ven
tura and is staying at the California He
will make a trip to New York before re-
turning to the Antipodes.
George H. Crosby, secretary and
treasurer of the Rock Island road, with
headquarters in Chicago. and his wife
and son and party of friends arrived
here yesterday in a private car, and are
registered at the Palace. They came to
San Francisco to meet the Misses Cros-
by, who arrived here on the transport
Thomas several days ago from the Phil
ippines.
R. h. Taylor of the United States Sc
cret Service at Washington, who acted
as guard to President Roosevelt on his
Western trip and later was assigned to
similar duty during the visit of Prince
Fushimi of Japan to this country ar
rived here yesterday from the north and
is staying at the st. Francis. He is ac-
companied by his wife.
Robert D. McElroy. who has been
cCA4OuSAy Win LOT Tue
last month at his residence. Haight
and Buchanan streets, is now rapidly
recovering. His physicians have rec
commended a trip to mild climate,
and on July 1, with his wife. he will
sail on the Oceanic Steamship Com
pany's steamer Mariposa for Tahiti He
will be away about thirty days.
Mrs. G.. j. Johnson and daughter Of
Chicago have earned the distinction Of
having paid one of the shortest visits
to San Francisco. They arrived at the
Palace from Chicago at 4 o'clock yes
terday afternoon. The cloudy day sug-
gested to Mrs. johnson the possibility
of her not being pleased with Califor-
MIA climate. so she and her daughter re-
turned on the o'clock p. m. train for
their home.
Colonel d. H. Moon, well known cap
italist OF the Northwest and who is in
terested In timber lands in this State, ar
rived here yesterday on the Doric from
the Orient He left New York with De-
tective Robert Pinkerton several months
ago on a tour Of the world. They parted
at Cairo and Colonel Moon hurried on to
Japan in the hopes of seeing some of the
Russian-Japanese war. Before leaving
Japan he witnessed the arrival Of the
Russian prisoners from the front and
speaks IN high praise of the treatment
accorded them by their captors. Just af-
ter leaving Yokohama he saw the three
disabled Russian war vessels that had es-
capped from the last sea battle in the
straits and were scurrying for Manila
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