The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1909-07-20
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RENT-A o. s.. City Please state whether
tenants who paid rent in advance during the
month of April. 1906. are entitled 10 return OF
the IL days rent of the premises they could not
occupy because OF the disaster.
The question asks for a legal opin-
ion, which the Query department does
not give.
ing real property, should the original deed so
with it?
The purchaser may insist on the
original paper if il IS in existence II
certainly is of no use to the seller
FORESTRY BULIETINS-W. c.. Guadalupe.
Cal. Where can 1 obtain bulletins relative to
forest trees in California?
From either the department of for
estry, Washington, D. c.. the state for
ester, sacramento. Cal. or the expert
mental station, University of Caiifor-
mia, Berkeley, Cal.
NIGHT SCHoOLs-F. W. L.. City. Is there
a night school in the vicinity Of the Preside?
When Will the night schools in San Francisco
open for the next term:
There is such a school in the build
ing of the Richmond school in First
avenue near Point Lobos.
MISUNDERSTANDING Crockett, Cal What
was the vote for Pardee and for Lane in the
election for governor Of California IN l9Vzf
Pardee 1882; Lane 1879
DATf.-Subseriber City. On what day Of
the week did July IA, 1877, fall!
On Sunday.
LOST PAPERs-c. B.. city. obtained my
naturalization papers in county outside OF san
Francisco. but lost them during the IRE OF 1905.
To whom should 1 apply FOR new set2
To the county clerk of the county in
which you obtained them.
MANHATTAN ISLAND-G. D.. Santa Rosa.
Cal. What is the Of Manhattan island. \.
y. and does New York city cover the whole OF
the island?
The city of New York is identical
with the county OF that name. 1t COM
prises the whole of Manhattan island.
The area is 461z square miles t2s.e00
acres).
Who used the expression ..Our country is the
world. our eountrymen all mankiud2"
That was the motto OF an abolition
newspaper. called the Liberator. pub
lished in Boston. Mass, in 1881.
PACIFIC ocEAN-stranser. city. In what
year and by whom was the Pacific ocean discov
ered5
September %. 1913. vaseo Nunez de
Balboa, after having heard OF great
western ocean, reached the top of a
mountain in the isthmus of Panama.
and from there obtained the first sight
OF the Pacific ocean, and his report OF
that discovery aroused the attention
of all the educated people of the world
at that time.
SAN FRANCISCO BAY-Stranger. City. In
what year and by whom was San Francisco bay
discovered?
There has been considerable re-
search as to the original diseoverer Of
the bay, some claiming that it was dis
covered by Sir FrancIs Drake in 1879,
but this has been disputed, because of
the fact that there is no mention of it
in his report at the time he landed at
what is now known as brakes bay or
Jacks harbor north of San Francisco.
The annals of San Francisco printed in
1854 says:
Father Junipero leaving Lower California
had received instructions from the. visitador aud
inspector general of the Spanish government re-
speeding the names OF the proposed missions and
the saints carefully selected from the calendar
70 whose special patronage they should he in
trusted. but among them the name OF ST. Francis
did not appear. ''What.r exclaimed the good
missionary. surprised and shocked At such an
insulting neglect. lis not st. Francis. our own
dear father. 70 have mission assigned to him -