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Show 4 Till; course, when the report is made it in itself he conclusive proof of the rectness of the engineers accounts, because of its very completeness, will cor- but the will attempt to prove s thereby that Mr. Kelsey has heretofore withheld certain items of information from the council therefore, they will say, he has been guilty of deception. Mr. Kelsey eas rendered every report the council has asked for, and in accordance with the council's instructions. His persecutors cannot take advantage spite-worker- of so flimsy a technicality. Hut it is only Kelseys accounts they want. By a vote of 7 to 6 they tabled a resolution calling for an itemized statement of the manner of the expenditures in other departments. Perhaps the other departments could not furnish such a statement; perhaps their books are not kept in a way to permit the rendering of such a report. If this is so the public has a right to know it. 0 01 1 i- M9 01 101 01 04 01 04 01 01 01 '9 Deweys Departure From Manila Bay. f f f sensational entrance of Admiral 1 he Maillkl was scarctly more interesting than his of the departure. The leave-takingreat hero was most vividly described by the correspondent of the New York Sun. The Olympia, still in blue-gra- y fighting suit, lay but a short distance oil the breakwater. Near her lay the Oregon, beautiful to see in the spotless white and buff of the piping times of peace. The Baltimore and little Concord lay ahead of them, in color to match the flagship, and a little further out were the big army transports Warren and Hancock, not yet rid of the dust and smoke of their recent traveling from the States. Off Paranaque lay the monitor Monadnock. The Monterey was at Cavite, but the little Manila, one of Deweys first prizes, liad come up from the lower bay to say good-b- y to the commander-in-chief- . Soon after seven bells the anchor was hove short and the bons gang began taking in the gangways. The hose was let out to wash down the anchor and cable and everything was ready for the word to heave up. As it struck eight bells the water was turned on the cable, and the Olympias anchor was broken out of the mud of Manila bay, probably for the last time. Almost immediately her engines began to move, From her main-trucfloated a huge d blue flag, the insignia of Deweys rank. Flag officers do not fly pennants, so there was no long streamer to tell the world that the Olympia was homeward bound, but DeWCW lllt() g -- k four-starre- in its place I IKK. there flew from the main-staf- f an immense new flag. The Olympia turned to port and passed ahead of the Oregon and astern of the Baltimore and Concord. As she came ald most into line with the Oregon a gun on the starboard side of the forward superstructure of the battleship banged out the first gun of the salute to the departing admiral, The? port gun had hardly answered when the Concord was at it, too, and then the Baltimore took her turn. Before they were through firing the Olympia had passed beyond the anchorage of our ships and was nearing the gigantic British cruiser Powerful. The band of the Olympia led off with FI Capital)," the march the British played the day our ships sailed from Mirs bay, and which the band of the Invmortalite played again as the Olympia went into action in Manila bay for the second time on August 13. From the quarterdeck of the Baltimore came the strains ot Home, Sweet Home." Now, as she passed the Powerful, the Olympia saluted her big British friend with Cod Save the Queen. John Bulls sailormen were lined up along the rail of the cruiser two deep, and and they responded to their national anthem with a rousingcheer, which sent the Olympias men hustling up her sides to answer. The blue and red and yellow signal llags had been waving all sorts of good-bmessages that the code knows from the moment the Olympia got unGood-bder way. said the Olympia Good-by- " to the other ships. answered the Baltimore and the Concord six-poun- y y and the Oregon, and then the Oregon added, Wish you a pleasant voyage." And there goes the Olympia, making straight for the Boca Chica and home. Down in old Fort Santiago the army is firing its salute to the admiral as the Olympia fades away. I J When that noble and philanthropic soul whom all California endearingly calls Uncle Collis," announced his contribution of $2,555.40 toward the volunteer fund, we thought it was about time fot the people of this state to . change the combinations on their safes and tighten the grip on their pocketbooks. We knew Collis P. Huntington never had a philanthropic impulse in his life, and believe a kind thought toward his fellow men, even though they had braved bullets in defense of the flag under which he has been permitted to prostitute legislature bodies and rob people, would kill Our suspicions were well founded. Scarcely had our own governor heralded t hi generous act when another announcement follows that the freight rate from the coast to Utah has been raised. The very same day Unhim. wrote his personal check for the volunteet reception fund, the force in the traffic deprrtment of his road was engaged in getting out new tarilf sheets changing the rate on canned goods from 75 cents to $1 from the coast to Utah common points. By this act Huntington is enabled to rob the people of Utah of many thousands of dollars annually. And robbery it is, pun? and simple, because the rate to Colorado and Missouri river points is only 75 cents on this same class of goods. 'Think af it! It costs 25 cents more per hundred to ship this class of goods from San Francisco to Utah than de r... Collis Cm J.V 4 .. ( .. 1 MM . FV 0 (I Missouri river points. It is to be deplored that Governor Wells so far forgot himself as to probatteries give three post; that the cheers for such a man. Huntington never gave a dollar from philanthropic motives. I Ie never let a penny out of his possession for any public purpose without having planned to benefit He boasts that thereby twenty-fold- . his wealth was made through saving the nickles and dimes, and that anyone would have a difficult task to track him through life by the quarters he has missed. A man seldom saves nickles to give away thousands. A large gift might be a matter of policy, but never the manifestation of generosity. He donated the paltry sum of twenty-fiv- e hundred; he planned that same day to rob the people o f It is amusing to see some of our brother pencil pushers squirm in an effort to keep olf other people, s toes. The editor who can please everybody is too good for this day and generation and is entitled to a pair of wings. The human family is endowed with natures so constituted that some like scandal, others dont; some like to see others ripped up the back and roasted to a dark brown, others dont; some people like fakes exposed, others dont; some like the truth told about them, others dont: some like to take their paper several years, read every issue, never pay a cent for it and get mad and stop the paper when 3011 send them a statement of their account, others dont. Why, bless you, good people, dont you know the Lord himself failed to please everybody on this earth? A citizen of Kansas b' the name |