The San Francisco call., 1910-08-07

be assured that the steel engraving edition de luxe
is the correct one The horny visaged poster
which adorns the fences and barn sides for the
delectaton of the bucolic eye has been fixed up by
the engraver, we suppose, on principles of artistic
democracy. The slightly more ornate one, posted
in the saloons is quite appropriately "a good fellow
better than we are But the graceful book
sized card, for the more select places is the only
one that does the subject Justice. Alden is really
very nice fellow and a handsome one. The mug
which defaces thousand miles of bilboards from
Siskyou to San Diego is libel"
DIARY OF PATRICK BREEN
There is more fascinating study than that of
original historical documents, and in that view the
Academy oi Pacific Coast History is doing public
service This institution is an ofshoot of the Uni
versty of California and is for the present engaged
in publishing the texts of documents comprised in
the Bancroft collection The latest of these issues
is the diary of Patrick Breen of the Donner party,
most of whom pershed of starvation in the high
Serras their way to California in the winter of
1916. 1t is tragedy in the raw, without hint of
melodrama, as for instance:
Thursd 18th Froze hard last night fine &
sunshiny to day wind w Mrs Murphy says
the wolves about dig up the dead bodies
her shanty the nights too cold to watch them
hear them howl.
Frid 10th Froze hard last night today clear
and warm Wind S. E: blowing briskly Mar
thas jaw sweed with the toothache; hungry
times in camp, plenty hides but the folks will not
them eat them with toerable good
apette Thanks be Almighty God Amen
Mrs Murphy said here yesterday that thought
she would Mt.'& eat him, don't
that she has done so yet is distressing The
Donnos told the California folks that they COM
mence to the dead people days if they
did succeed that day next in finding their
cattle then under ten twelve feet OF snow
did know the spot 1t, suppose they
have done so ere this time CD
The diary is edited by Frederick ]. Teggart and
is now printed in full for the first time. Mr. Teg-
CART of course, confines his editorial function to
writing brief but useful introduction.
A TOUGH JOB
They are having the sort of trouble in Los
Angeles as in San Francisco about selling municipal
bonds and have been able to continue work on the
Owens river aqueduct only because the citizens
subscribed S25OOOO, taking bonds for the amount
but that sum will not do much than finance
the work for month, and if the professional bond
buyers remain obdurate the local people must
harden their hearts and keep putting up The
Pacific Outlook of Los Angeles puts it this way:
1t is a respectable looking S250,O00,
month, but there is that looks better and
that is s45o,ooo which is the amount we were
the big bluff on us, in order to make us let go
on on the power bonds Now that we are all done
considerate of the finer feelings of people who
trying to do up, perhaps may be ready
to tackle the work of making good on the missing
100000 month Six months would be million
for round numbers; the thing is not impossible.
Anyway it will pay to keep the hunt
Also there is the question of what IS to be done
February and after in the event that the syn
dcate decides to pitch entirely. If we
going up against that kind of treatment, the
sooner find it the better. On the other
hand il these people pie are re willing to, to continue I o it
fair warning if they should decide to quit
any time in the future.
This is an awkward situation for big enterprise
about half completed. / find this printed in the
Owens Valley Herald
There be curious folk who ask what is wrong
with the aqueduct? Nothing, sirs, absolutely
nothing The aqueduct is all right, what there
of it, but it woeful1y short of the so per
which Los Angeles claims has been finished. The
only obtrusive fact is that half and of the
money has been spent. Hence the need of private
subscriptions which in time will need exceed
by considerable 100000
UNFORTUNATE IN HIS FRIENDS
As example of gratuitous malignity finding
vent in falsehood may quote these lines from a
Los Angeles Times editorial
There we'll laid plan hatched in San Fran
cisco by little bunch of millonaires to grab the
Hetch Hetchy valley for their game Gar
field, Mr. Pinchots idol, fell into the plot and
Balinger took the prey from between their
In the whole blind puzzle there is only one thing
that stands out clearly. That is the Hetch-Hetchy
valley, which Garfield gave TO the nonpartisan
n1llionaires OF San Francisco and which Ballnger
took away from them.
These extracts taken from rambling article
boosting Phil Stanton for governor. Stanton might
very well pray to be delivered from his friends
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