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In the proposed reorganization of the Police Department some provision certainly ought to be made for a "thieves' dictionary." It may be needed by visitors seeking information in the "upper office." The racecourse at Pretoria has at last lost its international interest. Prisoners crowded in so fast that an addition had to be made to the town for their accommodation. There was a touch of sardonic humor in naming the streets after the towns the British want to capture. The kindliness and charity of some people are almost beyond comprehension. The Chattanooga actress who sent a gentleman to his eternal rest with a bullet says she would restore him to life if she could.

Local firemen have taken many a tumble in.their rough experience, but it was not until the Mayor touched the match of his political ambition that they knew what an explosion was. BROCADED CREPE DRESS, The dress represented Is of white ground crepe, brocaded with orange roses. The upper part of the corsage is of soft velvet, with a flounce encircling the decollete and forming epaulets. The brocaded crepe bolero Is edged with fur and attached with an enamel brooch. The lower part of the corsage is of crystal beads.

The skirt is plain, with pleats behind. If the newly created commissions of this city continue to subdivide within themselves into bureau after bureau the Civil Service Commission will be justified in offering a reward to the lucky man who can guess the source oftnunicipal authority. THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. AAYOR PHELAN in the course of his message submitted to the Board of Supervisors on January 8 said: "The Police Department will be reorganized and will be more accountable to the people than in the past." He then went on to refer to the demoralizing effect of the corruption in Chinatown upon the department and said: "It exercises as malign an influence over the police as did the quasi-public corporations over the Supervisors in the past, but as the city found men to withstand the blandishments of the corporations, so must we find men who will do their duty in Chinatown. Public gambling is a great evil, leading to poverty, disgrac-, defalcation and death, which the records of this city abundantly prove, and its practice should be discountenanced and suppressed.

With those words the Mayor gave encouragement to the hope of those who believed that under the new charter we were to have reform in police methods. The disclosures that have followed the appointment of the new commission have gone far to dissipate that hope. The Call has proof that the Mayor had no option in the appointment of the Police Commission. The Commissioners whom he named were appointed at the dictation of a gang whose interests are with the white gamblers, if not with those in Chinatown. The commission was pledged to choose for the Chief of Police a man who in turn is pledged to appoint as chief of the detective force a corrupt rascal known as a thief and a defaulter and once a fugitive from the justice of the employer he had robbed.

The appointment of such men to positions which give them complete control of the police affairs means a "wide open" town for gamblers, blackmailers and all other vicious persons who prey upon the weakness or the corruption of the community. It may be possible they will draw the line at Chinatown and purify that quarter of the city while leaving the rest "wide open," but it is not likely. Between the corruption of white gamblers and the corruption of the yellow gamblers there is an affinity of purpose which will lead them to act together in evading ths law and corrupting the police. The Mayor's statement that the police will be more accountable to the people under the new administration than under the old appears in the light of these revelations to be the grossest hypocrisy. The Mayor is aware that he named the Commissioners the dictation of a gang of gamblers; that he knew they would appoint as Chief of Police a man who would connive at all forms of vice that could be made profitable to the gang.

With what consciousness of honesty, then, could he assert that the police force would be more accountable to the people than it had been? The Commissioners who have been chosen to carry out this conspiracy are men of whom the people have a right to expect better things. They have been known as men of high standing in the business world and c.l good repute in social life. They are not ignorant of the corrupt influences of public gambling and of the menace which exists to the community in that form of vice. As the Mayor stated in his message, the records of the Police Department itself show that poverty, disgrace, defalcation and death result from it. Many of the worst and blackest cases in our criminal calendar can be traced directly to the effects of gambling.

Such being the case, it is not too much to hope that men having a stake in the community, interested in the welfare of society and desirous of retaining their respect and the esteem of their fellow-citizens, will refuse to go further in this conspiracy. It is no fault of theirs that they have been duped thus far, but if they now carry out the plot knowing what the end will be, their fault will be grievous indeed, amounting to absolute dishonor. AMUSEMENTS. Columbia Benef.t to Mrne. Fabbrl-Mueller.

Columbia TVir.ter'i TaJe." to-morrow nlrht. "The Countess Guck.l." "Little 80-Peep." Grand "Elnbad." Grand Optra- Symphony Concert afternoon, January IS. Alhair.bra.— "A Hot Old Time." "Mjsterioui Mr. Chutes. Zoo H.Z.& Vaudeville every afternoon and OlyrcpSa, corner Mason ar.4 Ellis streets SpeclaJtlea.

a Battle of Manila Bay. Market street, near Coursing Park Say. Sherman-Clay Recital, Monflay ereninc, Jaan- e--y Western Turf to-morrow. Special information supplied dally to business houses and public men by Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's). 510 Mont- gomery street.

Telephone Main 1J42. CALIFORNIANS IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK, Jan. L. yon Rosenberg of Los Angeles, M.

H. Heynemann of San Francisco and E. M. Marks of San Francisco are at the Grenoble. JURY TRIAL FOR CONTEMPT.

THE Chicago platform, which offered everything from a splinter to a whole plank as a standingplace for all the financial discontent and economic diseases of the country, declared in favor of taking the punishment of contempt of court out of the hands of Judges and making it the subject of a jury trial. No one, not even the motley clad supporters of Mr. Bryan, was supposed to intend such a preposterous proposition seriously. In California some effort was made to get up a political furor on the cry, "No government by injunction," but it ceased after the election of 1898. The issue was devised originally to flatter mobs that had been judicially enjoined from entering upon or destroying the property of others or by violence preventing its legitimate and lawful use by its owner.

Here seemed a chance to get votes by breaking down the main safeguard of the rights of property. The injunction is to property exactly what the habeas corpus is to the person. It is one of the most necessary writs in any condition of society that implies respect for the rights of property. But these considerations do not seem to impress the demagogues who are out for office at no matter what sacrifice of the rights of property and the interests of the people. The issue is made fresh by the introduction into the House by Mr.

Jett of Illinois of a bill which provides that all acts which are contempt of court not committed in the presence of the court shall be triable by a jury of the vicinity in which the act is committed. The author of this pernicious measure says that it will pass, and that Republican members of the Judiciary Committee have assured him of their support, declaring that the bill is beyond criticism. It is difficult to believe that this is to be taken seriously. Of necessity every violation of a permanent injunction is contempt of court, though such violation can never be in the presence of the court. Therefore the injunction as a means of protecting property rights is practically abolished by Mr.

Jett's Take an illustration that is near at hand. After long and costly litigation the Federal court in this city issued a permanent injunction against all hydraulic mining which imperiled navigation or which by overflow of debris or water from an obstructed channel destroyed agricultural land. We need not remind the farmers of Sutter and Yuba counties of the agony and bloody sweat they underwent in procuring that injunction, nor of the cost they endured in enforcing it. Many times its violators were caught in the act by their patrols and were punished by the Federal court for contempt of its writ. There is no other writ, no other process known to jurisprudence, by which those valley farmers can be protected against the entire destruction of their property.

Without that injunction they will be compelled to retire before the floods that will sweep away or bury all they have. Now let us suppose that the Jett bill become? the law and the long toms are turned on again in the mountains, as they would be, and the slickens again slimed its way to destroy the valley lands. The imperi'ed farmers would of course invoke the injunction. Its violators would be airested, but the court's hands would be tied. The guilty men would have to be tried before "a jury of the vicinity where the contempt was committed." Does any one doubt the result? Does any one believe that under such a system that injunction would be worth the paper it is written on? Does any one believe that the acts it enjoins and forbids would ever cease under the Jett bill until the mountains were washed into the valleys? Mr.

Jett is pursuing the Bryan method with his bill. He calls judicial punishment of contempt "the use of arbitrary power," and says that his bill is opposed only by the corporation press. But we cannot believe it possible that the people are to be fooled by such chatter. The bill is an infamous attack upon a safeguard of property of which the poor, not the rich, stand in need. The principle it proposes to establish opens the way for robbery of those who cannot defend themselves.

We do not go too far in saying that when it is the law the or peacable property-owner can be entirely deprived of his property by the powerful and unscrupulous. It is a good bill to kill, and any party that supports it should die with it. THE STATUS OF HAWAII. A BILL is before Congress to erect a territory in Hawaii. Under our system of government, and by unbroken precedent, when the territorial status is reached the further advance to statehood is made possible.

Only California and Texas of the States admitted into the Union were exempted from a territorial novitiate. The modern school of expansionists holds, backed by some judicial decisions, that the constitution does not apply to Territories, and that they may be ruled by Congress as it chooses, suspending the bill of rights and all the constitutional guarantees within them, if it so elect. The first issue presented is, Do the American people want Hawaii as a Territory and therefore a prospective State? The revolution occurred seven years ago. Since then there has surely been uninterrupted access to the islands for all Americans who chose to go and preferred to stay. The latest official statement of the present population gives returns of the nationalities in Hawaii: Japanese coolies 40,000 Chinese coollea 21,600 Hawallans 8,400 Hawaiian part castes Portuguese 15,100 Americans 3,000 British 2,200 German 1,400 French and Norwegian 479 All others 1,055 Total 124,234 It is safe to assume that if the islands were suited to Americans they would be there.

The foundation of the population of the United States is our American laboring people. No American State can be built and perpetuated without them. As The Call warned the annexationists, American labor cannot live and work in Hawaii. If there is to be commercial prosperity there Us foundation is fixed by the climate and its Asiatic coolie labor. It will be seen that already 61,000 coolies are domesticated there.

More than ever before in the history of the country. Of the three thousand Americans none are laborers. The exceeding prosperity existing there during the last year has its sole cause in the productive power of 61,000 servile Asiatic coolie laborers. The next largest class is the Portuguese, themselves resistant to the climate to a less degree than the coolies, and most of them there on contract like the coolies. The British and Germans are there on business, picking such crumbs as fall from the tables of the 3000 Americans.

We submit that there is not the material for an American State, nor for an American Territory. New Mexico. has been held out of the Union because a majority of her people are of Mexican blood and do not speak English, rendering the use of Spanish necessary in judicial proceedings. Thomas H. Benton, the great Missouri Senator, could write as good English as a professor, but his extempore speeches were full of grammatical lapses.

One day he and Pierre Soule of Louisiana and a group of Senators were discussing the French republic of '48. Bcnton declared that it would live but briefly, for only people speaking the English language could exist under republican government. Soule replied: "It is fortunate for you that your theory is false." The joke was on Bcnton, but his theory has been applied to New Mexico. In Hawaii it is a question of race and adaptation to the climate. American workingmen want to know whether Congress proposes to erect there an indefinitely continuing Territory, governed by its will, and excluded from the operation of the labor laws of this country.

They want to know whether the erection of a Territory is to cloak a continuation there of labor under a penal contract. They want to know whether the products of coolie servile labor are to have free access to this market in competition with the products of American labor paid on the white scale of wages. They are not to be deceived, for they know that just in proportion as such products displace theirs their labor is displaced and left without wages. As we have said, we repeat, that if Hawaii is brought under the economic as well as the political jurisdiction of the United States its coolie labor must go, and all of its contract labor, coolie or Portuguese or native, must cease. Like the former prosperity of Hayti and Jamaica, that of Hawaii is based on servile labor.

It is that form of involuntary servitude which forbidden by the constitution of the United States. When it ceases the prosperity of Hawaii ceases, like that of Jamaica and Hayti. Its economic history and fate will be that of all tropical possessions held by temperate zone nations, for never anywhere have they produced a significant commercial surplus except by forced and servile labor. We advise the representatives of California to consider these things well when they act upon the status of Hawaii. The organic act creating there a Territory should be American.

It can be so only by immediately banishing all coolie labor and permanently excluding it, and by making a labor contract a felony. It will be less trouble to recognize this now than to suffer for refusal later on. The Call has warned the people from the beginning. Our warning to the annexationists in Hawaii was not lacking. Coolie labor was the contract goose that laid their golden eggs.

Their hope was to influence this Government to erect in the islands an un- American American To prove this let some one offer a coolie excluding amendment to the territorial bill, and the Hawaiian opposition will disclose the direction of the trade wind in the islands. I DRY GOODS COMPANY. LINEN DEPARTMENT Great Success of Our Clearing-Out Sale of ODD TABLE CLOTHS, TRAY and CARVER CLOTHS, ALSO REMNANTS OF TABLE LINENS. We are also offering a job.in BLEACHED DAMASK CLOTHS, from 2 to 4 yards long, at little more than naif their value. "No Napkins to Match." Also a job in odd lots of NAPKINS AND TOWELS.

Bath Towels from each. ITALIAN SILK BLANKETS at $1.50, $2, $3 and $5. 50 each- A special MADE-TO-ORDER for the BERKELEY BOYS, Blue and Gold, $3 each. Protect Your Table Tops by Using Our Non-Heatable Mats. COUNTRY ORDERS RECEIVE IMMEDIATE ATTENTION.

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corner Tiventy-second and Kentucky, open uutll 9 o'clock. THE SAIST FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JANUARY 14, 1900 ALL DIFFERENCES BEING ADJUSTED Friendship of America and Germany. ONLY ONE STUMBLING BLOCK MEAT INSPECTION QUESTION IS YET UNSOLVED. Emtassador White Hopeful That Me Kinley's Proposition for a Joint Commission Will Be Accepted. Copyrlghted, 1900, by the Associated Press BERLIN, Jan.

The correspondent of the Associated Press interviewed United States Embassador White to-day about the present status of the relations between Germany and the United States. White said: The Samoan question between the United States and Germany, the Insurance question and sundry minor matters have been happily settled. The main questions which remain are the commercial treaty and the proper Inspection of American meats. The former will bo mainly considered at Washington. The latter must depend upon the action of the Relchs- U(f.

Though the Agrarian party shows bitter hostility to the alleviation of the present arrangements, so oppressive to American Interests, it Is hoped that the proposal made In President McKlnley's message for the appolnt- merit of a special commission may be accepted. There Is no doubt that the Government, apart from the Agrarians, would heartily glad to see some such fair settlement. This was foreshadowed when the Emperor expressed at considerable length to mo on New Year's day not only hla own personal satisfaction but that of the German people at the part of the message referring to Ormany. It Is also an open secret that Prince Hohenlohe and Count yon Hulow were especially anxious to see some such Just solution of this most troublesome of all the questions now pending between the two Governments. Politically the week was interesting In several respects.

The Reichstag was dull, but In the coming week foreign affairs will be thoroughly discussed. Count yon Bulow. Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Associated Press correspondent is informed, will review recent events and furnish some inside information. In the Diet the Government's complete moral defeat during the debate on the dismissal of political officials for voting against the canal bill is considered to be of great importance in Internal politics, as it shows that the Conservatives still intend to bitterly oppose the Emperor, especially on the new canal bill, which does not please the Agrarians, in spite of the fact that It contains enormous improvement projects for the eastern provinces of Prussia. The seizures of German steamers by British ships have had the effect of intensifying and generalizing anti-British sentiment in Germany.

It would be difficult to-day to find a German, here or anywhere, who dares to profess Anglophlllsm. All the anti-German utterances in the British press are circulated here. One which causes great embitterment 13 a Punch poem starting. "Little Germany talks," which is reprinted everywhere. In reference to this the semi-official Post says to-day: "It must be said that this is an unusually impudent piece of impudence, the same English who did not know how flatter our Emperor enough when the question was to prevent his abandoning the idea of his visit to England." AROUND THE CORRIDORS B.

F. Shepard a wealthy land owner of Fresno, is at the Grand. J. P. Cox, a prominent merchant of Fol- Bom, 13 registered at the Grand.

L. H. Bookson, a wealthy fruit grower of San Jose, is a guest at the Grand. C. L.

Morrill, a wealthy oil speculator of Bakersneld, is staying at the Lick. Thomas J. Kirk, Superintendent of Public Instruction, is a guest at the Lick. Timothy Lee, one of the best known politicians of Sacramento, is at the Lick. W.

L. Gazzam, one of the leading business men of Seattle, is a guest at the Occidental. R. Van Brunt, a wealthy merchant of Leland, is among the arrivals of yesterday at the Palace. J.

H. Gardiner, a progressive business man of Rio Vista, is registered for a short stay at the Grand. Mr. and Mrs. F.

A. Peabody, two prominent society people of Chicago, are among the recent arrivals at the Palace. A. Anderson, a popular and prominent attorney of Sacramento, was among the arrivals of last night at the Lick. Frank C.

Bakir. formerly State of Oregon, is at the Palace, where he registered yesterday from his home In Leland. Joe Kerfoot. a popular hotel man of Fernando, Humboldt County, is in this city on his wedding trip. He leaves today for his home.

Sheriff T. M. Brown of Humboldt County is registered for a short stay at the Russ. He is down here on a visit of pleasure and will shortly return to his home. A.

F. Hess of the Plant Railroad system Is In the city on business connected with the Southern Pacific Company. Mr. Hess is the statistical expert of the Plant Company and is the originator of the Insurance systems now in operation. The Southern Pacific has decided to establish an insurance system of its own.

for the hpnftflf of Its emnloyes, and to Mr. Hess THE FRUIT-GROWERS' CONVENTION. rROM the convention of fruit-growers which is to assemble in San Jose this week much is to be expected. The delegates are to meet for a specific and well-defined purpose, that of providing a system of co-operation in marketing deciduous and dried fruits, and the results arc therefore likely to be more important than those which follow conventions whose discussions cover the whole field of horticulture and its products, The circumstances of the time are propitious to the efforts of those who are seeking to bring about the formation of some system of union among the growers. The controversy now going on in the south between the growers of citrus fruits and the railroads has a significance which the producers of deciduous fruits can hardly overlook.

In the situation which confronts the orange-growers there is a warning for all California orchardists too plain to be mistaken, and that warning, added to the lessons the fresh fruit and dried fruit producers have learned from their own experience in the past, will do much to induce the most conservative among them to undertake the establishment of some system of mutual protection and advantage. Fortunately there are circumstances of encouragement as well as of warning in the environment. The success which has been attained by the Raisin- Growers' Union is sufficient to give something of hope to even the least sanguine. It is well known that shortly before the organization of the raisingrowers for co-operative purposes the industry was rendered almost unprofitable by reason of the competition among the growers and the ill-regulated method of marketing the crops. Since the beginning of co-operation the situation has been changed for the better in every respect, and the prospects justify the expectation of greater good to come.

All the economic forces of our time and country tend to the development ofi the spirit and the practice of co-operation. There may be some industries that can be maintained profitably along the old lines in spite of those forces; but it has now become evident that fruit-growing in California is not one of them. Owing to the distance of our growers from the great markets of the East and of Europe, the producer is exposed to the rapacity of the transportation companies, and afterward to the mismanagement or worse of the commission The double evil cannotSbe successfully combated by individual It will require the united efforts of all to accomplish the full measure CLOAKS AND SUITS, BLACK AND COLO2ID DRESS GOODS, 2 1 Market Street. 4 San Francisco, Monday, January 15, 1900, we will place before the public bargains never heard of in order to make room for our large shipments of Spring and Sum- mer Goods. TAILOR-MADE SUITS, in the latest shades of Qjft nfl I grays, former price $20.00, marked down LADIES' BLACK CHEVIOT SUITS, tailor-made, jQ Cfl 5 former price $22.50, marked down to iZ-vll MINK COLLARETTES, former price $8.50, 7C marked down to vi IJ 5 MINK COLLARETTES, former price $13.50.

Cfl marked down to UiJU MINK CAPES, former price $17.50, marked Cft down to iZiUU A 5 MINK CAPES, former price $25.00, marked Cft down ID'UU MINK CAPES, former price $30.00, marked Qrt A() down to ZUiUU BLACK SATIN DUCHESS SKIRTS, former yCft price $12.00, marked down to IgJ PLAID CLOTH SKIRTS, former price $5.00, Crt marked down to IiJU LADIES' WRAPPERS, former price $1.50, "TTp marked down to IJ LADIES' WRAPPERS, former price $2.00, marked down to Sub 500 BOOKS, former price 20c, 25c and 35c. Kft The entire lot will be closed out at your choice. JJu I 1146 Market Street, Bet. Taylor and Mason. 2 I NEW STORE STRICTLY ONE PRICE.

A DAILY HINT FROM PARIS. The Fastest Train Across ths Conti- nent. The California Limited, Santa Fe Route. Connecting train leaves 5 p. Monday, Wednesday.

Friday and Saturday. Finest equipped train and best track of any line to the East. Ticket office, 623 Market street. Customs Inspector Appointed. Port Collector Jackson yesterday ap- pointed L.

Lorenatn from the civil service eligible list as Customs Inspector. Mr. L-orenzen is a veteran of the Spanish- Axnerican war. AUCTION SALES. By Chase Tuesilay, January It.

at 11 o'clock. RoadFters and Trcttere. at 1722 Market street. Ey Turkish Hug Thursday. January IS, at 11 a.

and 2 p. Turkish Hues, at Hi Htockton street. Personally Conducted Excursions. In Improved wlde-vestlbuled Pullman tourist sleeping care via Santa Fe Route. Experienced excursion conductors accompany these excur- sions to look after the welfare of passengers.

To Chicago and Kansas City every Sunday. Wednesday an-1 Friday. To Boston. Montreal and Toronto every Wednesday. To St.

Louts every Sunday. To St. Paul every Sunday and Friday. Ticket office, 6IS Market street. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

RATES OF Subscriber. City. There is no euch thing as second-class matter through the post to any foreign countries. If by second-class matter to Ireland you mean newspapers, periodicals and the like, the answer to your query is that the postage on such to all foreign countries, except Canada and Mexico, is one cent per two ounces. First-clajss domestic postage in the United States is 2 cents per ounce, or fraction thereof.

NAVAL C. C. Ingomar, Cal. By a recent order of the Secretary of the Navy the age of admission for apprentices on United States naval training ships has been changed from 14 to 15 years minimum and 16 maximum. Apprentices who are enlisted on the Pacific Coast will be given a course of training at the United States naval training station, San Francisco, before being sent to sea.

DEEPEST J. H. Bagbys. The deepest perpendicular mining shaft in the world fs at Prizilram. Bohemia.

It is in a lead mine and its depth ia about 3500 feet. The deepest coal mine in the world is near Tourney. Belgium. Its depth is 3452 feet, but the shaft is not perpendicular. The deepest rock salt bore is near Berlin, Prussia; 4185 feet deep.

The rU-cpest coal mines in England aro the Dunkirk collieries, which are 2524 feet in depth. The deepest hole ever bored into Sentence of Preston A. Blake. Preston A. Blake, the railway rftail who was detectled abstracting raor.ey from special delivery letters, was fined $100 yesterday by United States District Judge do Haven.

Blake was charged with having opened a letter addressed to an- other person, and he pleaded guilty. Gulllet's Ice Cream and Cakes. 9C3 Lark: a tel. East 133. CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Jan.

0. J. Humphrey of San Francisco Is at the Ebbitt House; J. C. Calhoune of Los Ar.geles is at Willards.

Townsend's Cal. glace fruits, 60c Ib, at 735 Market will move back in Febru- ary to Palace Hotel, 6C9 Marke: st. the earth is the artesian -well at Potsclan; 55W feet deep. The deepest mines In the United States are said to be lower levels of the Comstock; 2790 feet below the hoistlr.R works. has been given the task of getting the Idea formulated and putting it in practical working order.

Suit has been instituted by a local grocers' association against a newspaper which had the temerity to publish a grocers' blacklist. It is not unlikely that the grocers have the well wishes of a large contingent. There are some things that only the grocers should know. ADVERTISEMENTS. of desired relief and justice.

For that reason the convention at San Jose meets to deal with a matter of imperative urgency. The task of organizing a union among so many persons is difficult, but it is not impossible. Fortunately fruit-growing in California is in the hands of men of wide experience and a high degree of intelligence. Many of them have been successful managers of other lines of business before they became fruit-growers. They are therefore fully equal to the work before them, and it will be their, own fault if something be not done at this convention which will materially benefit not only their own industry but the welfare of the State as a whole.

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