The Springdale news., 1906-04-27

with good spring water and named the Happy Valley.
 Stockton street, stretching from Sac ramento 10 Green streets. presented the neatest cluster Of dwellings, and Powell street was the abode of churches. for of the six churches in existence in the middle of 1850 three graeed ifs sides and two stood upon cross streets. within half block. Mason street above it, was really the western limit of the city, as Green street was the northern Beyond Mason street ran the trail to the Presidio, past scattered cottages. cabins and sheds, amid dai- ries and gardens, with branch path to the Marine hospital, on Hilbert street, and another to the North Beach anchorage. where. speculators were planning wharf to attract settlement.
 After the vigilance committee dis banded the criminal element became bolder. and i'll 1856 the crime and cor ruption in the city had become intol- erabe to those who wiSl-,d to Ike q decent and orderly life. When Editor King of the Bulletin, who had de nounced the thugs. was murdered by James r. Casey. Il new vigilance or ganiZation was created. and in q few days Casey and another murderer named Cora were executed in front of the committees headquarters. Many lawbreakers were later put to death. and the regime of the California bad man came to an end,
 IL has been asserted that San Fran cisco Is the most cosmopolitan city in the world, and by cosmopolitan is meant population from all parts of the world. Not long ago the records indicated that 43 per cent of tie peo- pie of the city were born In foreign lands, not in two or three different countries but in practically every land under the sun According to the na- tional census reports for 1S90. San Francisco had total population of 2oS, ,997 Of these 172. 1S6 were native born and 126,S11 were born outside of the United States. Fully half the grown persons in the community re moved to California from alien lands. while large percentage of the other half and of the general body of ehil- dren were of foreign percentage. h 1900 San Francisco had a population of 3427s of which 34. per cent was foreign born
 San Francisco has long been famed as one Of the wide open cities Of the United States As in the days of 1S49, the gambler devotes himself to his vocation with little interference from the authorities. Prior to the earthquake two of the most prominent corners in the city were occupied by gambling dens One of them. known as the Cafe Royal, has been a veritable gold mine for it's proprietors.
 The California supreme court has rendered q decision to the effect that the game of draw poker is not game of chance. but involves judgment and other elements as well as chance ot luck, and because of this decision these places are permitted to be maintained.
 They are frequented by hard look ing crowd of men, and many scandals are told associated with these places visitors life Is probably safe in these resorts. but his money Is not. It Is said that the son of the premier of British Columbia was fieeced of $S500 in the Cafe Royal few years ago. He lost S1.500 In cash, but stopped payment on S7,00o in checks.
 San Francisco has forty y-seven square miles of territory. or about 30,000 acres. within the municipal limits. The finest residences are on Mob hill and Pacific heights, both of which districts command magnificent views of the bay and the Golden Gate. The city has six large parks and twenty-two small ones, and Golden Gate park oc- cupies over 1000 acres