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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1835 3 e e e e e e e e e il el e S e e et S L e A S e RECALL OF THURSTON. Gresham’s Request May Cause Unpleasant Complications. LIEE CATACASZY’S CASE. Similarity of the Charges Against Ministers From Ha- waii and Russia. CIRCULATING WILD STORIES. Instigation of Certain Newspaper Articles Attacking the Ad- ministration. WASHINGTON, March 20.—An intimate friend of Minister Thurston, now in Wash- ington, says that Thurston has no official information as to the request for his re- call, while at the same time he has no doubt that such a suggestion will be made to the Hawaiian Government. It is likely, however, that Thurston will continue to look after Hawaiian interests in an un- official manner. Thurston'’s friends say, as a matter of fact, that he never has been treated at the State Department as other Ministers have been treated. It is inti- mated that Frank Hatch may be selected to succeed Thurston. It was learned late this afternoon that the Hawaiian Minister is accused, in addi- tion to the giving out of facts, of having instigated ne' er articles in New York papers attacking the administration. This brings Thurston’s case on all fours with the celek ed Catacaszy case, which caused so much comment during the ad- | ministration of President Grant. Catacaszy was the Russian Minister here, and it had been clearly shown by the testimony of the newspaper men concerned that he fur- nished the substance for articles puhlished in the New York World attacking the foreign policy of the administration, and criticicizing bitterly the attitude of the United States toward Russia, then in- volved in a serious dispute with Great Britain. The Minister specifically denied responsibility for the publication, although it was undoubtedly brought homie to h and shown that he had revised the manu- | script before it was printed. There w other g nces against the Minister grow- ing out of allegations of immorality and improper conduct toward the Perkins claim, then pending, although those mat- | ters were not made the g official | complaint. On June 16 S ish, by the directi of Preside nt, directed our Mi to Russia to inform the Rus- sian Government that the conduct of Mr. Catacaszy both oflicially and personally had been for some time past such as to im- r his usefulness to his Government and render intercourse ei social purposes d circumstances the tries would be pro ced on her for business or eeabie. Under these sts of both coun- ted and relations | a surer footing if the Russian iegation here was to be changed. The latest mail from Honolulu: has ar- ived. Minister Thurston declined to ate whether it contained anything bear- ing on the request of Secretary Gresham for Mr. Thurston’s recall. The Minister maintains the absolute silence on the sub- ject that he has since the report first appeared. The legation office is open to , however, and the usual business | er Thurs- of the s men- tant lapse e moment the recall tioned M ton and his assi; into sile: believed from the fact that the com- ion relating to Minister Thurston was sent out Feb: t there has been ample time nse from the ian n the mail jus received Gresham’s note reached S: <co in time to catch a ve at Honolulu about § then several the nce. Gov the last of Febru. ships have left Ho last ones an Franc couver re- about a week I rought the official mail which has now ved at the legation. It is own that it contains a long communication from Mr. Hatch, the Hawaiian Minister of Foreign Affairs, as Mr. Hastings received a brief message saying that such a communicatic its w If the Hawaiian Government replied Mr. Thurston would be the natural and only channel of communica- tion to the State Department, as he re- mains the offi representative of Hawaii until his recall is actually accomplished. That Gresham asked for Mr. Thurston’s recall there is no longer any doubt, though the manner in which it was put is not yet | known. It is supposed the Ha n Gov- | ernment will communicate with its Min- | ister and seek his version of the c stances before acceding to S Gresham’s request. The commu from Hawaii, if it refers to the re thought extremely likely, may be a short reply to Mr. Gresham’s request. Further developments, therefore, will be watched with great interest, especially the answer of Hawaii, as a declination to accede to Secretary Gresham’s request doubtless would be followed by Minister Thurston being given his passports, an act equal to the severance of diplomatic relations. In. connection with th later Ha- waiian developments, criticism is made by members of Congress still in the city of the failure of the Secretary of State to trans- mit information of his act to Congress prior to its adjournment on March 4. The request for Mr. Thurston’s recall was dispatched prior to February 21. Con- gress had been informed officially that the Government would keep it posted on Ha- waiian affairs and would supply it with the correspondence relating thereto. Not- withstanding this the Congressmen say no intimation has transpired that the representative of the Hawaiian Gov- ernment to the United States had been de- declared persona non grata and a step taken which may embarrass seriously the relations of the two Governments. The Honolulu Advertiser, which has just arrived here, clears up a mystery which has long puzzled officials here as to an entry in‘ ex-Queen Liliuokalani’s diary, stating on the day specified President Cleveland’s present had been received by her. It wasat once denjed here that the President had ever sent a present to the ex-Queen. The Advertiser now exvplains that Mrs. Dominis received a report of the Board of Public Works at Chicago for the year 1893. Some one had taken the trouble to cover it handsomely in cloth and had also secured the personal cards of Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Gresham. The cards, the papers say, ‘were placed inside the volume with a suit- cum- able statement of regard in forwarding it. The ex-Queen did not doubt the genuine- ness of the present, it seems, nor suspect that some practical joker had been at work, and accordingly made the entry in her diary. The Honolulu paper states that the report contained ‘‘plenty of useful informa- that could be used to advantage by a pro- gressive monarchy.” NO REVOLUTION THERE. Reports of Uprisings in Salvador Flavor Strongly of * Fake.” WASHINGTON, March 20.—Senor Lazo, the Guatemalan Minister, and Senor Calvo, the Costa Rico Charge d’Affaires, declare that the news of a revolution in Salvador in the interest of General Ezeta is entirely false. They thought it very singular that the steamer Saturn, which was the bearer of such important facts, did not communicate them to the Guatemalan or Mexican ports where she touched, and from where they could have been wired to this country, as are many other news items, but waited un- til her arrival at San Fran Senors Lazo and Calvo tion of such a dispatch is verified, because they are in communication with the State of Salvador, although neither of them isa representative of that country. They are sure that they would have re- ceived infoamation tnrough their corre- spondents or otherwise in regard to such grave events, which are said to have hap- penen in the early part of February. DONAIN OF THE RED MEN. WORK OF CARRYING OUT PRO- VISIONS FOR THE SALE OF THEIR LA IN SoME Cases THE INDIANS ARE ADVISED ReNT TRACTS TO FARMERS. ‘W ASHINGTON, March office, under the directio: of Secretary Smith, will find considerable work provided for in thelast Indian appro- priation bill which will keep it quite busy during the coming season. Among other things authorized in the bill is the appoint- | ment of a commission to negotiate with the Belknap Indians for the sale to the United States of a portion of the reserva- tion in the mnorth central portion of the State of Montana; also to negotiate with the Blackfoot Indians for the sale of a por- tion of their reservation in the northwest- ern part of the same State.” An appropri- pose, and as the sum is so small it is quite possible that the commission will consist of employes of the Interior Department. Secretary Smith has said to all the visit- ing delegations of Indians, no matter from what portion of the country they came, that if they have no desire to sell their lands the department has no purpose to e them to doso. He prefers they should keep their lands where they can make use of them. To one delegation he recently said he thought it would be a good thing if they would divide their reservation tracts among themselves in some equitable manner an farm such portions as they could :nd lease the remainder to farmers who would p: them a reasonable sum for the privilege. In the case of the Belknap and Blackfoot Indians it may be found advantageous to the Indians to dispose of a portion of their lands, as the area is considered much larger than they can handle judiciously. Probably some difficuity will arise when the Secretary comes to carry out the por- tion of the law providing Yor decrease of 20 per cent in the number of contract schools. He is not allowed to make contracts with more than 30 per cent of the contract schools with which contracts were made for the present fiscal year. To decide just what schools shall be given up will cause some trouble, as all will probably desire to be retained. The Secret: is also author- ized to negotiate with the San Carlos Indi- ans for the sale of the coal lands on their reservation in Montana. He will also ap- point a commission, for which $10,000 is provided, to secure the consent of the Southern Ute Indians and pay the ex- penses of their removal, according to the terms of the law passed at the last session. e DODGES AN INCORPORATING TAX. But the Long Island Traction Company Is in a Receiver's Hands. NEW YORK, March — Horace J. Myers of the firm of A. M. Kidder & Co. has been appointed by the United States Circuit Court of West Virginia as receiver of the Long Island Traction Company. The appointment is in the nature of a friendly proceeding. In a circular to the directors it is as- serted that a large majority of holders of the collateral trust notes have agreed to co-operate in the plan of reorganization, the condition being that $500,000 be raised before March 28. It is the intention to pay the obligations to the receiver instead of the company. : The Traction Company was incorporated in 1893 under the laws of West Virginia and capitalized at $30,000,000. The Long Island Traction Company was organized later in West Virginia for the alleged pur- pose of evading the paying of the incor- porating tax in this State on the $30,000,000 capital, which was mainly on paper. The plan of reorganization was precipi- tated by two suits brought by P. H. Fiynn, a heavy stockholder in the Brooklyn City Railroad, which is leased by the Long Island Traction Company. One suit is to annui the lease of the city road, and the other is to prevent the Traction Company from saddling more debts on the leased property. Mr. Jenkins, vice-president, then said ment of $5 a share would be to keep the Traction Company It is said that the appointment of er will give the stockholders at least sixty days more in which to pay this assessment. — Utal’s Constitutional Convention. SALT LAKE, March 20.—The constitu- tional convention spent most of the after- noon in committee of the whole, consider- ing the preamble and declaration of rights. Amendments to section 4 were offered providing for the taxation of church prop- erty. After a lengthy debate the conven- fion adjourned without reaching any con- clusion. —_—— Railroad Directors Re-clected. SALT LAKE, Utah, March 20.—The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Utah and Northern and Oregon Short Line Railroad was held here to-day. James Sharp. resident director, represented 170,000 shares of stock by proxy. The old board of directors was re-elected. Lo Perished During a Fire, NEW YORK, March 20.—At a fire this morning in a four-story house at 168 West Twenty-fifth street, John Muriz was burned to death. Tony Ketchum jumped from the third-story window, receiving in- juries from which he died soon after. 0 has been made for this pur- | EXPLOSION N A MINE Fifteen Men Killed at the Red Canyon in Wyoming. OTHERS ARE IMPRISONED | Eight of the Unfortunates Burned Beyond Recog- nition. ALWAYS CONSIDERED SAFE, But Escaping Gas Become Ignited From Some Unknown Cause. EVANSTON, Wyo., March 20.—At 5:45 o’clock this evening an explosion of gas occurred in the Rocky Mountain Coal and Iron Company’s mine No.6at Red Can- yon, seven miles from Evanston, with terrible results. James B. Bruce, mine foreman and ex- County Commissioner of Uintah County, Wyo., and four others were instantly killed by flying timbers. Asfar as found the others are: William Sellers Jr., rope- runner; James Clark and Edward Cox, head car-putters. The other man has not been identified. All were killed by flying timbers. From twenty-five to fifty, who were in the mine at the time of the explosion, have not yet been rescued and are certainly dead. 0. B. Maltby, Andrew Mason and Jerry Crawford are badly hurt, but may recover. | and most had gone out, Among those in the mine thought to be | dead are: Willard Brown, John Fearn, Samuel Thomas and son, old Mr. Burton, muel Hutchinson and William Sellers | 8r. and son. The covering of the slope and buildings at the south were blown to splinters. The mine considered one of the safest and | best conducted in the State, Later—O. B. Maltby, superintendent of motive power, has since died, also a boy named Jerry Crawford. FEight men hav | been brought out of the mine so burned as to be past indentification, with the ex- ception of one, James Lamb. All hoge of rescuing anybody alive is given up. The deathroll now numbers fifteen. RASKA LYNCHINGS. THOSE N Prosecution of the Slayers of Scott and Mrs. Holton., OMAHA, March 20.—Attorney-General Churchill and the attorneys for the de- fense reached an agreement this evening Sheriff Standiford of Cody County in the | morning. They will be placed under §5000 bonds each to appear before the District Court at Butte, Nebr., to stand trial for the murder of Scott. It was agreed in the conference that the prisoners would waive examination and the amount of the bond was agreed npon. Attorney-General Churchill left this even- | ing for Atkinson, and from there he will go to Keya Paha County to look after the Iynching of Mrs, Holton near Brocksburg. BUTTE, Nebr., March 20.—County At- torney C. W. Lear has arrested two men named Hunt and Miller, charged with lynching Mrs. Holton near Brocksburg. They are desperate criminals. B e THE RAILROAD RESPONSIBLE. Hattie Frost Receives Damages for Her Husband’s Death. BUTTE, Mont., March 20.—Hattie Frost to-day secured a verdict for $15,000 dam- ages in the United States Court against the Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern Railroad for the death of her husband, an engineer, who was killed in a collision sev- eral years ago. The accident was caused by the opera- tor failing to deliver an order to the en- gineer. Judge Knowles made the im- portant ruling that the operator was the agent of the company and not a servant, and therefore the railroad company was responsible for his negligence. e RACING AT W ORLEANS. Winners in the Six Interesting Running FEvents. NEW ORLEANS, March 20.—Cool and clear. Track good. Six furlongs, Johnny McHale won, Flash second, Dr. Work third. Time, 1:1634. Four furlongs, Learman won, Sister Rosalind second, Uncle Lew third. Time, Six furlongs—Henry Jenkins won; King Craft second, Panini third. Time, Seven furlongs, Mollie B won, Miss Galop second, Florence B third. Time, 1:30. Six furlongs, Gold Dust won, St. Croix second, Foxhall third. Time, 1:16. gimpe g0 S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS (N BRIEF. The Duchess of Leinster, the widow of the fifth Duke of Leinster,is dead. She was the daughter of the first Earl of Feverhal and re- puted the most beautiful woman in the United Kingdom. Negotiations were completed at Chicago which effect a combination of all the whisky interests of the country and practically assure to the Spirits Distilling Association, of which Receiver McNulta of the trust is chairman, ab- solute control of the spirit output of the United States. There was much excitement when the first ballot was taken and it was found that Higgins' followers, with the exception of Representative Wilson, had voted for Edward G. Bradford of Newcastle. So far, eighty-six ballots have been teken since the Delaware Senatorial deadlock began. Richard B. Hartshorn, chairman of the reor- ranization committee of the Distilling and Cal- tle Feeding Company, says that the reports of cutting whisky prices are false. Thisapplies to the whisky trust and the afliliated compa- nies. If the remaining outside distillers are cutting prices they are doing it to their injury, he said. The Yachtsman of London of March 7 con- tains an account of the capsizing of a yacht in Swan River, Perth, West Australia, March 4. Among those reported drowned was Edward Fox, who earned the soubriquet of ‘“Modoc” when acting as correspondent of the New York Herald in the Modoc war. Afterward he be- came & promoter of various enterprises, and went to England. Fox became prominent as a second for Borrowe in the Drayton-Borrowe duel negotiations. i Not Guided Solely by Finances. BERLIN, March 20.—Before the Budget Committee of the Riechstag to-day Hon. Wegner-Posadowski, replying to a question regarding the reported con- version of the fours of the imperial loan, said that so long as the government was not convinced that the | About 150 men are employed at this mine | and all the prisoners will be turned over to ! present abundance of money was an indi- cation of a permanent economic condition of the Government, it would not resort to conversion. In no case wonld the Govern- ment be guided exclusively by financial reasons. e GARZA YET LIVING. The Mexican Revolutionist Is in the State of Chiapas. ELPASO, Tex., March 20._The report that Cartarina Garza, the Mexican revo- lutionist, was killed at Bocas del Terro, tepublic of Colombia, March 7, is positively denied by Victor Ochoa, another border revolutionist and a companion of Garza, who is now in jail here on the charge of violating the neutrality laws. Ochoa says be has heard from Garza regularly, and that he is now in.the State of Chiapas. —_——— A Moscow Bank Closes. BOISE, Idaho, March 20.—Word is re- ceived here that the Commercial Bank of Moscow closed its doors to-day. The president of the bank is I. C. Hattabaugh, who was County Treasurer up to January 14. He ow the State §$17,590 and the ials have been pushing him for a settle- — In the National Treasury. WASHINGTON, March 20.— To-day’s statement of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash balance, $164,487,- 778; gold reserve, $90,443,716. MAKINGS OF A MILLIONAIRE. Neat Little Commercial Transaction of a Fruit Peddle It is the generally held opinion among the clerks in some of the upstairs offices of the postoffice building that the “nate little bit ov a man” who has recently received permission to peddle fruit here during the lunch hour has in him all the makings of a millionaire. On the first day of his appearance he brought with him a large basket of rosy- checked apples. “Northern Spoles,” he called them and placed one on each clerk’s desk. If the occupant of the desk offered to pay for the apple he was told that it was only a sample of the apples that the man proposed to keep in stock, and if the offer of the apple was repulsed by some suspi- | cious clerk he was told that the obligation would be on the peddler’s side if the clerk were to accept it. Next day there was a free distribution of a_banana apiece, not a serimpy banana, | either, but a good fat banana, almost as large as a rolling pin. and the presentation was accompanied by the richest of smiles and the most delicate of blarneyings im- | aginable. On the third day the man broughta basket of oranges, and with them an apol- ogy. He had “‘trapsed” all over New York, he said, trying to get oranges of decent size for a reasonable price, but the supply was imited, owing to the “Floriday frosts,” and all he had been able to get was ““thim little runts,” and for these he had to pay 5 cents apiece. But he hoped to do better when the California crop was fairly under way. Then, with the samerich smile, he began the distribution of oranges, but there seemed to be a prevailing impression among the clerks that the balance of obli- gation was a little too much on one side now. A sample gift of apples or bananas even, fruit that might be bought of any peddler, was all right, but when it came to running all over town for oranges which cost five cents apiece, it was a little too much like an imposition on good nature. So the clerks paid for their oranges; some of them at the rate of five cents apiece, and some at three for ten cents, while the chief clerk gave ten cents for a single orange. Next day the man appeared with a basket of mixed fruit, and. 1aid an orange, u,n apple, and a banana on the first clerk’s desk. “How much?” asked the clerk. “Well,” said the man with a smile that would have broken Boucicault's heart with envy, so rich and_winning, yet self- deprecatory was it. “I'd loike to kape on iving you gintlemin a noice little bit of Tuit ev'ry marnen, but I'm a poor man. It "ud be about ten cents, sor.” It was 10 cents all round and the clerks now feel that they are ascompletely bound as regular customers of the man as though there. was a cast-iron contract between them. One chap, who has a very knobby ad and who is considered the rising sta- tistician of the country, has cnmputel\gthnt the man got back thirieen and twenty-six one-hundredths per cent over his original investment on the third day and that his profits now range at seventeen and two- tenths per cent above the legitimate.—New York Sun. GRIP IS AFRICAN FEVER. A Traveler Who Has Gone Through the Dark Continent Says So. TUp two flights of staizs under the roof of a double tenement house on Catherine street lies S. John Kuno, African pioneer and missionary, sick with African fever. After a four years' experience of mission- ary work under the tropics he has returned with the usual missionary reward—a con- sciousness of duties well performed, a troublesome and ineradicable disease and a large wad of photographs. The African fever is really a cross be- tween malaria and influenza. Your head splits, you shiver and roast by turns, and when it is through with you you are so weak that you generally die as’a matter of reference. The doctors claim you can’t aveitin a temperature less than 52 degrees, but Mr, Kuno says he knows better. He has had it this week. Moreover he goes further and advances a new theory for sci- entific consideration. The grip, he says, as far as he can learn, is nothing more than the African fever in a mild form. What is more, the disease started a few years ago, just after a lot of African_missionaries had returned home and he is personally convinced that Afri- can fever was among their baggage. The African disease, he says, the doctors know nothing about, and he thinks we treat the grip too mildly, being too much afraid of quinine. The dose for African fever in the medical books is two grains at a time, but in -Africa the old hands take as muoh as 120 grains at a erisis, putting it down liter- ally in handfuls. He himself has taken so much that it has permanently affected his hearing, a continuous buzzing going on in his head like a spluttering telephone.— Springfield Republican. BLONDE HEROES GONE. Novelists Complain That Modern Young Men Are Dark Haired. ‘Where has the fair-haired laddie gone? A lady novelist, writing to a contempor- ary, complains that the golden-haired youth is fast becoming extinct, and that heroes of fiction, to be true to nature-up- to-date, must be endowed with dark locks. It was but a week or two ago thatI commented on the discovery, made by an observant schoolmaster, that red-haired boys were now comparatively rare, so we are presumably reaching an era when the Soxon type of man will no longer exist. This is regrettable from a picturesque point of view, but there seems little reason why the novelist should be exercised by the disappearance of the blonde male from our midst. It is my firm opinion that if the matter could be put to the vote it would be found that the majority of girls— who are, of course, the largest consumers of fiction—prefer the hero with soft, ‘“‘doggy” brown eyes and blue-black hair {o the insipid flaxen-polled and blue-eyed over. Butin any case there is no reason why the novelist should not give nis or her readers what they like, and if fair-haired men really are so scarce, and really are ad- mired, it will be all the’ more agrecable to meet with them in fiction, instead of com- mo.nrlnee dark men such as one encoun- ters in real life ady’s Pictorial, —_——— Tea is raised in South Carolina, | “heretofore taken.” GENERAL COOK DEAD. A Gallant Soldier Passes Away at His Home in Detroit. HIS ILLUSTRIOUS RECORD Subduer of Western Indians and One of the Conquerors of California. WAS LOYAL TO THE UNION. As Commander of the Cavalry inthe Department of the Potomac He Earned His Laurels. DETROIT, Mich., March 20.—General Phillip St. George Cook died at his home in this city at 2 o’clock this afternoon. General Cook was a native of Virginia and was 85 years of age. His career had been identified with the army since his admission to West Point when only 14 years of age. He was also a member of the bar of Vir- ginia, and has written several interesting works, among which are a volume on ‘‘Cav- alry Tactics,” “Scenes and Adventures in the Army” and “New Mexico and Califor- ma.” General Cook has seen service in every field where American valor has been played for fifty years. In the Black Hawk war he was a leading officer. He was in high command in the c onquest of Cali- fornia and New Mexico. He dispersed the Lipans in 1853, and later led a raid against the Apaches. He was commander of the Department of Utah when the rebellion broke out in that land. Upon the breaking out of the rebellion, unlike most Southern officers, including his own son and his famous son General J. E. B. Stuart, he cast his sword for the Union. He became commander of the cayalry of the Army of the Potomae and partici- pated in all the important events of the peninsular campaign at Gaines Mill, directly opposing his son-in-law. He afterward superintended the recruiting service, and in 1866 took the Department of the Platte. He was breveted major-gen- eral for his splendid service in the war. In 1874 he was retired, after forty-six years of continuous service, with the rank of brigadier-general. He has lived in Detroit ever since. A BUG IS IN THE MEASURE SPECIAL LEGISLATION THAT AF- FECTS THE CELEBRATED BLYTHE CASE. THE Bir Is BEFORE THE GoOv- ERNOR, WHO Has FuLL INFORMATION. An attempt has been made to secure the passage of special legislation affecting the Blythe case. The measure drawn up for that purpose is Senate bill 762, relating to dismissal of appeals by the Supreme Court. It passed both houses of the Legislature and is now in the hands of the Governor. He has been informed as to its character, and inasmuch as he refused to sanction similar legislation affecting the Fair will case, in which, as an attorney, he is inter- ested, it is thought hardly likely that he will approve this measure. “I have just been informed by. a gentle- man, whom I shall not name,” said Attor- ney Highton last night, “that a bill has passed both houses of the Legislature, and is now in the hands of the Governor; which was drawn up (so stated by its authors) for for the purpose of enabling the attorneys for Mrs. Hinckley to close up the Blythe case within thirty days. It is Senate bill 762, and it is a most flagrant case of special legislation.” %]mn the surface the bill mentioned is a harmless though unnecessary measure. It adds nothing to the powers of the Supreme Court, but makes 1t obligatory on that tribunal to do just what it has always done—dismiss an apEeal in which there’is no merit. It gives, however, to the re- spondent the power of curtailing almost at plleasure the period that the court shall take for the consideration of an appeal. The proposed statute is a short one, its full text being as follows: The People of the State of California repre- l{ented in Senate and Assembly do enact as fol- ows: Section 1. A new section is hereby added to the Code of Civil Procedure of the State of California, No. 960, as follows. Section 960. All appeals heretofore taken, or that hereafter may be taken, to the Supreme Court without merit, or by one who has no in- terest in ‘the subject-matier of said action or proceeding, must be dismissed on the motion of any party interested upon ten days' notice being given to the party whose appeal is sought o be dismissed. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. The “bug in the bill,”’ which renders it retroactive and special legislation and which makes it apply particularly to the Blythe case, is contained in the phrase The legal status of the Blythe case at present is peculiar. ‘While an_appeal from the main question was pending Mrs. Hinckley applied for a partial distribution of the estate. The de cree was granted, and from the unusual proceedings Alice Edith appealed. That appeal is still pending, and the estate can- not be finally settled till it be decided. .“The contention of the attorneys for Mrs. Hinckley if this bill becomes « law,” said Mr. Highton, “‘will be that since Mrs. Blythe has been shown not to have been the wife of Thomas H. Blythe she isnot a party in interest. Then under the provi- sions of the bill they will demand the dis- missal of the appeal within ten days. The Governor has been notified of the matter, both by wire and by mail.” Yesterday the bill was shown to several rominent attorneys of this city. Of them . H. Tam of 120 Sutter street, who for two terms occupied the bench in San Joaquin County, said: 5 “The measure is most peculiar and must have a joker in it somewhere. Its provi- sions are ridiculous, for no one not a party in interest can take an appeal, and if an appeal is without merit the Supreme Court dismisses it anyway.” Other attorneys expressed views in ac- cordance with those of Judge Tam, but when they were told that the Blythe case was affected the request was invariably made that they be not quoted by name, as they bad friends closely interested in the final result of the case. —_——— Uncle Sam as a Publisher. TUncle Sam_owns the biggest book fac- tory in the United States. One million books a year'is the product. As the aver- age circulation of the books published by private concerns is less than five thousand and very few publishing houses issue more than twenty or thirty booksin a year the rate for publication at the Government Printing Office is high. TIn addition to the book business, too, the public printing office turns out a daily newspaper for about nine or ten months of one year and three or more of the next regularly. For- | tunately it is a paper which requires no | editing” beyond the supervision of the makeup, and even that is regulated by a set of rules furnished to the Public Printer by the joint Printing Committee of | the two Houses of Congress.—Boston Transcript. ———————————— TO SEE PLANTS GROW. Experiments by Which Their Growth May Be Both Seen and Heard. There are several ways of rendering the growth of plants both audible and visible, | but the modus operandi in the latest im- proved experiments is as follows: In order to make the growth of a very vigorous plant visible a fine platinum wire should be carefully attached to the growing part. The other end of the wire should be at- tached to the end of a pencil pressed gently against a drum which 1s being driven by clockwork. If the growing be uniform a straight line is marked on the paper, but the very slightest increase is shown by an inclined tracing. A slight modification of this arrange- ment renders the growth audible. In this experiment the drum must be covered with platinum-foils of a certain width and sep- arated from each other by spaces about one-eighth of an inch. These strips of platinum should be made to complete the circuit of a galvanic bat- tery, to which an electric-bell is attached. In this case the bell is continually ringing while the plant is growing the height of the width of the strips used, and is silent | while the pointer is passing over spaces be- tween the strips of metal. The growing of corn may be heard direct by means of the | microphone, and there arethose who de- clare they have heard it without ahy arti- ficial assistance whatever.—Chicago Times. ———————— | Only Gentlemen Play the Amateur Game. ; All amateur poker players are gentle- | men. Thereisno exception to the rule, and the amateur poker players themselves are authority for the statement. Two be- lated pedestrians were on their way home | the other night, and as they were ng | a house just inside the limits of the s 1 business section of tte city a party of five men emerged noiselessly from the door- way. ‘‘Hello!” remarked one of the men on | their way uptown; “poker party.” “‘What makes you think so?” asked the other. *‘Sure thing; one of them is addressing | the others collectively as ‘gentlemen.’ It's one of the peculiarities 6f the game. When a number of fellows meet to play poker, if they are not intimately acquainted, they | invariably address their remarks to the | whole gathering as _‘gentlemen.’ Idon't| know why it is unless it is to keep them constantly reminded of the fact that ‘holdouts,’ dealing from the bottom of the pack and other methods of the professional gamblers are not expected to be introduced into the game. All I know is that the members of these gatherings are invariably | ‘gentlemen.’ Just notice 1t and you will | see I am right.”—Chicago Herald. IR s | Two Saved by Car-Fenders. ‘ Edward Sites Jr., 10 years of age, son of | Edward Sites, Saturday morning had a narrow escape from serious injury in con- sequence of the good services of a fender of | car 113 of the Baltimore Traction line. The boy was crossing Fayette street at the corner of Poppleton. The car was in charge | of Gripman William Geislein, who said | that he tried hard to stop it, but the fender | struck the little fellow and tossed him into the net. He was carried a short distance | on the fender, when the car was stopped, | and to the surprise of those who wit- nessed the cident the boy crawled from | the fender and ran away. He was only | scratched about the right arm and leg. Samuel J. Kelso, 60 years of age, was knocked down by cable-car 18 of the Balti- more City Passenger Railway's line, at Baltimore and Gay streets, Saturday morn- | ing, and was caught in the fender. He was extricated and escaped with a slight cut | on the head.—The Baltimore American, | March 4. | | ish gunboat, sailed for Colon to-day. | trip of its vessels. CROSSMAN HAS ARMS, During This Trip the Al= lianca Takes No Chances. HE KNOWS HIS BUSINESS, And Therefore Could Easily Prepare a Chart for the President. THAT BRITISH FLAG YARN, The Captaln of the Offending Span=~ Ish Crulser Makes a Pecullar Report. NEW YORK, March 20.—The steamship Allianca, which was fired upon by a Span- A report that she is to carry rifles and muni- tions of war when she puts to sea was con- firmed by the agents of the line. The fact of her doing so, it was explained, was not remarkable or in any way sensational. The company acts as carrier of arms to the Colombian Government on nearly every Itis a perfectly legiti- mate trade and violates no law. Captain Crossman was seen by an Asso- ciated Press reporter to-day, just before his amer, the Allianca, sailed for Colon, and was asked what he had to say regarding the statement that President Cleveland ssed great dissatisfaction with claimed to be glaring incon- sistencies in the statement submitted by Captain Crossman. “Well,” said he, “T don’t care to criticise the President of the United States, but I do think I know my busines: I have spent thirty-six years learning it and I think I am competent to prepare an ac- curate chart and description of my ship’s course at sea. If the President had re- quested my appearance in Washington to explain the matter, I think I could have satisfied him in five minutes. is nothing more to be said about the March 20.—La Union, the constitutional semi-official newspaper at Havana, reviews the allegations in the Allianca case and gives the opinion that if the vessel was reallv fired upon the Spanish commander was fully justified. It says the Spanish navy is unconquera- ble, and adds: It would be well for the United States to bear this in mind in con- tentions that muy arise through the ad- venturers and traitors who make war on Spain and her noble sons; and let that nation remember that laws of neutrality were made by nations that know how to respect them. HAVANA, March 20.—The report of the captain of the cruiser Conde de Venadito, which fired on the Allianca on March 8, has been made public. In his report he says the cruiser was steaming leisurely along within a mile and a half of land. 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