The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 2, 1895, Page 2

FOR THE BIG CANAL No Time to.Be Lost in Surveying the Route. MILLER GAINS HIS POINT, The Board of Engineers to Be Sent to Greytown on a Warship. MEN WHO WILL BE SELECTED. This Government Desires to Em- phasize Its Concern in the Nicaragua Project. WASHING stated to the N, D. C;, April 1.-Tt is ALL correspondent. that at last Friday's Cabinet meeting it was prac- tically decided to send a surveying party at once to make a survey of the Nicaragua canal route. The board -will be sent to Greytown on an American war vessel as soon as possib »f Warner Miller and others from New York:last week had much to do with this- determination of President Cleveland and his Cabinet. The survey is, of course, of t consideration, -but it is said that this G & desire to emphasize the concern it feels in the canal project and serve notice early that it is to be distinctly an -American enterprise by thus pre-empting its claim. At the Cabinet meeting Secretaries Her- bert-and Lamont were directed .to desig- nate an engineer officer from the navy and army respectively and, as heretofore tele- graphed, there is every reasonto believe that Secretary Lamont will assign Colonel William P. Craighill, now in charge of Virginia and Maryland engineering work. Colonel Craighill is well known on the Pacific Coast, having been a member of two engineering boards under special acts of Congress. He a member of the board appointed to inspect and report on the San go breakwater, and also the Cascades work. Secretary Herbert ‘'will choose Engineer M. T. Endicott, lieutenant-commander, U. 8. N. Colonel Montgomery of Birming- ham may be the civilian member of the board to be selected by the President. The United States steamer Montgomery will carry them to Greytown, and if the board is appointed this week, as expected, they arrive there about the middle of this ineer Menocal of the na g ar with the canal route, hay- ing made one survey, will accompany the board in an advisory capacity. ‘Warner Miller and others of the Mari- time Canal Company have agreed to put men at work immediately in clearing away underbrush, etec., so as to make the work of survey easier for the board. INVITTION T0 CLEVELID Chicagoans Anxious to Have the President Visit the Lake City. Highly Gratified, but He Gives No Assurances of Making the Trip. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 1.—The President this morning received a delega- tion of Chicagoansin behalf of the leading citizens of Chicago, irrespective of party affiliations, to invite him to a public re- ception to himself and Mrs. Cleveland as an expression of appreciation of his stead- fast insistence on the preservation of a sound national currency. The members of the delegation are: William T. Baker, president of the Chicago Board of Trade; George. W. Smith, ex-president . of the Union League Club; - John A. Roche; ex- Mayor Harvey, ex-president of the Com- mercial Club, and David Willey and Henry 0. Robins. The President expressed grati- fication, but gave no assurance of his ac- ceptance, saying his duties might require his presence in Washington some time. The invitation is beautifully engrossed on fine cards, the several pages of which, containing the invitation and signatures, are bound in book form, the lining of which is in white satin, the exterior being in blue levant beautifully ornamented with tooling in gold. As spokesman for the delegation, Mr. Roberts descrived their reception as follow “We were received very pleasantly and explained to the President the non-parti- san character of the invitation. We also told him that the business men of Chicago heartily indorsed the movement. While it was intended as a personal compliment to him, it had a still further motive in view—the development of an aggressive sound money sentiment throughout the West. The President said that he person- ally appreciated fully the indorsement ex- hibited by the invitation and realized the importance of the movement in favor of sound money, which he approved, and that he would take the matter under’¢on- sideratior, and would communicate with us-by letter—that if he’ could not consider the:invitation favorably, it would be be- cause of personal and official reasons which he could not see his way to overcome.” SRt THAT POSTOFFICE SITE., Army Engineers Will Newt Examiné the Celebrated Lot. - . WASHINGTON, D.-C., April L.—=Inquiry was made at the War and Treasury depart- ments to-day concerning the examination of the San’ Francisco postoffice lot by a board .ef -engineers.. Chiet of Engineers Casey said that the Secretary of War had requested him to designate two army en- gineers for that work, and that having named Colonel Mendell and Colonel Ben- yaurd the matter had now passed out of his hands,and that the names having been sent to Secretary Carlisle by Secretary La- mont it now rested with the supervising architect to .consult with these engineers and advise them when to' proceed. The supervising architect was unable to say when the work- of examination will com- mence, as there is certain data that must be furnished the engineers preliminary to their borings. They -must ,be given the estimated weight of the building per foot, and this will necessarily take some time, — GENERAL AVERAGE DISALLOWED. An Important Decision Relating to Mari- 2 2 time Laws. . : WASHINGTON, D. C., April 1.—Justice Gray rendered the decision of the Supreme Court to-day in the case of survivors of the firm of Ralli Bros. vs. Howard D. ernment was actuated by | | | | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, APRIL » { ¢ 2, 189¢ Troops, a case in admiralty from the Cir- cuit Court of the Southern District of New York, involving the question whether the destruction of property on a vessel by munjcipal authorities in case of fire inter- fere$” with the collection of the damages under the law of general average. Inthe present case the bark J. V. Parker was anchored in the port of Calcutta when fire broke out in the vessel in the absence of the master. The municipal authorities took charge of the fire, and scuttled the yessel in the face of the protest of the mas- ter, who recommended the application of more water after he arrived on the scene. Justice Gray said in effect the master of the vessel was, under maritime law, the judge of what was to be done in such emer- gencies, and that when the municipal authorities interfere, they, by this action, make a sacrifice of property compulsory and not voluntary, and- thereby the case is removed from the domain of maritime law and from the action of the law of general average. The decree of the court below was reversed and . the. claim for general average disallowed. Justices Brown'and Harlan dissented. e Pensions @ Heavy Item. WASHINGTON; D. C.; April 1.—The monthly statement of the receipts and ex- penditures of the Treasury during the month of March show receipts from all sources amounting to. $25,470,565 and expenditures -amounting to $25,716,975, leaving a déficit for the month of $246,376, and for the nine months of the first calen- dar year $36,542,153. During March the receipts from customs amounted to $14,- 929,789, and from internal revenue $9,854,- 977. The expenditures on account of pen- sions amounted to $11,617,5 EOODING DECLARED INSANE Peculiar Fancies of the Man Who Threatened the President. On One Occasion He Flourished a Revolver in the Missouri Legislature. VASHINGTON, D. C., April L.—The in- vestigation into the sanity of Oliver Good- ing, the dangerous crank of Guiteau type, who had threatened President Cleveland, was held at the City Hall to-day by Mar- shal Wilson and a jury. Correspondents of St. Louis papers testified that they had known Gooding in Missouri, and that he had been a Police Commissioner in St. Louis. He was an educated man and prominent in polit; Upon one occasion he went into the Missouri Legislature €ar- rying two pistols loaded with ground glass. Correspondent Stephens testified that he 1aid the pistols on his desk and an- nounced that he intended to make a speech or know the reason why, and that the legislators gave him unanimous con- sent. Detective Mattingly of Washington says he has shadowed the.man for the pasttwo | vears, as he believed he might. on fancied provocation or impnlse, commit violence. | He was possessed of the delusion that he had rendered valuableservices to President Cleveland in the campaign of 1884, and that the President was ‘ungrateful in not having given him a suifable reward.. He declares that the President had failed to fulfill his promise to make him a’Briga- dier-General. It was developed by the testimony to- day that Gobding has written two: books, vhich are tirades against President Cleve- | land, whom lie believed to be an arch-con- spirator, associated with. others for: th purpose of destroying him. - Gooding be- lieved that the President was trying to have him murdered. Dr. Godding said he regarded Gooding as'a second Guiteau. He was declared in- sane and when Marshal Wilson and depu- ties tried to put him under arrest to-night, he fought desperately, and it required -the efforts of three or four men to overpower him and take him' to St. Elizabeth Insane Hospital. Value of Foreign Coina. WASHINGTON, D. C.—The Director of the Mint to-day declared .the value of foreign coins. The average price of stiver during the quarter ended January 1, 1895, was .62937 cents per ounce, and during the quarter ended March 31 it was 61 cents per ounce. ‘The declared price as announced to-day is therefore .11937 cents per fine ounce less than the price at the beginning of the year. MUST BACK UP VENEZUELA Attitude of This Country Reference to the Boun- dary Dispute. in If England Pushes Her Demands Uncle Sam Will Have to Act Forcibly. WASHINGTON, D. C., April 1.—The Secretary of State is very much concerped these days by the Venezuelan problem. The British ultimatum delivered to Nic- aragua is not a source of political appre- hension, for it is not now believed that the British will take action in the way of ac- quiring territory in that direction or to jeopardize the property of Americans in Nicaragna by a bombardment in their ef~ forts to collect the indemnity demanded from Nicaragua, These are the two. moves that might cayse the United States to in- terfere. But in the case of the Venezuelan border dispute there is much grave cause for apprehension. It appears that our Embassador,- Mr. Bayard, has not suc- ceeded in inducing the British Govern- ment to give heed to the request submitted by him at the direction of Congress that | 494 20, the boundary dispute be submitted to arbi- tration. The British are profuse in their declara- tion of a willingness to arbitrate the title | of the land west of the Schoomberg line; but in the view of the State Department this is a pure evasion of the real issue, for there never has been any reasonable asser- tion of a British right to this territory, and it is territory lying east of this line that forms the substance of the contention. The situation is believed to be alarming, as armed bodies of British and Venezuelans are pressing each other closely in the dis- puted territory and there may be a hostile clash at any moment. 3 2 The administration has been considering the course to be pursued in-such case, and it is entirely probable -that if the British persist in bringing about such & collisién and fail to hear the repeated warnings and requests of the United States to sub- mit the matter to. arbitration, then the United States will feel obliged to follow the moral aid it has given to Venezuela in this matter by more substantial assistance. e Langley’s Directory has more pages and 2594 more names than the opposition and is less cumbersome. 5 WORK O THE WIAD Some W-onderé May Now Be Expected of Tom Edison. NOVELTIES ARE IN ORDER ¢ * ; Soon He Will Secure Control of ‘His -Phonographic -Paténts, AND GREATLY IMPROVE THEM, Operas to Be Produced for the Home and Novels With Lurid Hlustrations. NEW YORK, N. Y., April 1.— The World this morning says: Thomas A. Edi- son ana his'phonograph are going to join hands once more, and :the Wizard of Menlo Park promises improvements and novelties which will astonish the public. Thé phonograph -has -been controlled by the North American Phonograph Com- pany, which went into_ the hands of Re- ceiver John U. Hardin last August. T}}e company was -capitalized at $6,000,000 in 1888, and James H. Lippincott, the pro- moter, went insane when he found it was a fizzle: The receiver. has advertised for offer of $120,100 has been accepted. The acceptance of the bid must be sanctioned by the Chancellor of New Jersey. A cirou- lar has been sent by Receiver Hardin to the creditors and stockholders of the bankrupt company, stating that on Monday, April 8, he will request direction from the court to convey the property to Mr. Edison. Mr. Edison said last night: “The company has one asset which I am willing to pay a high price for—that is & claim on all my future inventions and improvements of the phonograph. I do not care to have any one else have alien proved higher than all others. I shall manufacture the phonographs myself now and expect to keep all the promises I made when I first introduced them. “I am going in for households instead of the nickel-in-the-slot machines, and in a short time expect to produce an entire opera or a complete' novel on a-cylinder. 1t will cost a good deal, but it will pay me. I suppose it will cost me $2000 to have the opera of ‘Norma’ sung to the machine, but I can reproduce that on almost as many cylinders as I please. I think I can Harpers and newspapers have, so that any gentleman can have ‘Trilby’ rgad to him in his- parlor in the course of an evening. I shall ‘manufacture the perfected phono- graph individually.” Then the reporter asked the. question that the Wizard always expects to: hear from newspaper men," What is the latest?” ‘Nothing at all,” returned Mr. Edison smiling, “except the kinetophone, the combination of the kinetoscope and prono- graph. I am. going . to reproducethe mo- tions and words of life-size “speaking fig- ures. I've already .got the speaking and moving figure ‘up to half life-size. I've paid more attention lately to' my mine than anything else. Very soon now I'll get to work in the laboratory. again.” it Sy STATE FUNDS AT LOW 65 Department Officials Will Have to Practice Rigid Economy. The State Controller Submits a Re~ port Which Shows How Matters Are. BACRAMENTO, - CaL:, April 1.—The following monthly statement of the State Controller shows that many of the State funds are ata very low ebb and it will re- quire the most rigid economy upon the part of the State officials to avert bank- ruptey in several departments until the revenues of the fiscal year are collected: General fund, $230,211 47; school fund, $107,568 05; State school land fund, $105,- 290 ; State school land deposit fund, $38,480; San Francisco harbor improvement fund, $235,563 23; State University fund, $924 50; Mining Bureau fund, $554 89; State Library fund, $2598 46; war bond fund, $2993 30; Yosemite Valley fund, $782 94; aault blind fund, $9511 49; revolving * jute fund, $44,629 60; estates’ of deceased persons’ fund, $31,889 65; railway tax fund, $49,430 95; railway tax contingent fund, $7118 36; fish commission fund, $1035 64; San Quentin State prison fund, $133,458 51; Folsom State prison fund, $73 06; Insur- ance Commissioners’ special fund, §2144 45; Bank Commissioners’ fund, $4006 05; State schoolbook fund, $35,794 28; dissolved savings banks fund, $3362 20; Fish Com- mission fund, purchase of boats, $1100; spe- cial Mendocino Insane - Asylum fund, $15,728 73; San Diego Harbor Improvement fund, $495; San Francisco Depot Sinking fund, $29,668 50; Whittier Reform School fund, $43,819 05; Building and Loan Asso- ciation inspection fund, $323; San Fran.. cisco Depot fund, $607,125; Sanitary Relief fund, $497 90. Totalamountin State treas- ury, exclusive of coupon accounts, §1,969 - 3 iR NO FEAR OF A SHAKING UP. What 0. R. and N. Officials Have to Say About Certain Rumors. PORTLAND, Om., April 1.—The state- ment from San Francisco that there would soon be a shaking up in the 0. R. and N. office in that city and that General Agent W. H. Mann would be among those let out, is not considered seriously by 0. R: and N, officials in this city. % Assistant-General Manager J. G. Wood- worth said: *‘Goodall, Perkins & Co. have complete charge of all employes at the Spear-street wharf in San Francisco and this includes Mr. Mann. They ¢an re- gwu him and ail other subordinates at pear-street wharf. We have he - ing about the matter, and so f:‘;d :R:O'v‘vhn know everything is running smoothly,” g —————— 70 TOUR THE STATE. A Series of Moufl}m Will Be Arranged ‘or. NEWCASTLE, CaL., April 1,—The peo- ple of Newcastle are beginning a move- ment toward co-operation with :the com- bined San Francisco clubs in running ex- cursions throughout the State for the pur- pose of extending to the tourist and home- -bids for the entire assets, and Mr. Edison’s |. on my brains, so I made a bid which | afford to pay Du Maurier more than the | $215,351 60; interest and sinking fund,- fund, $8454 09; Supreme Court library | seeker information concerning the climate, soil and possibilities of Northern Califor- nia. Ten years of this kind of work by the people of Newcastle has increased values in Placer County to the extent of millions of dollars. —_——— ' DIED FAR FROM HOME. The Body of E. Rood of Omaha Discovered ¢ in Beaver Creek. ASTORIA, April 1.—Charles Thomas and Charles Hannigan of Cathlamet, in | going up Beaver Creek about eight miles from Cathlamet, Wash., yesterday, discov- ered the body of 'a man standing in the ¢reek, leaning againsta tree on the bank. Near by, on the limbs of a tree, were hang- ing a man’s underclothes. He had on trousers and a long black ulster. The body "was identified as that of E. Rood, wholeft Cathlamet in the early part of December for Waterford. He had' evidently been dead over three months. Rood came to Oregon a yearand a half ago from Omaha, where he has relatives and a wife and child. He was an exvert . stenographer and accountant, and for sev- eral years was employed by the Armour- Cudahy Packing Company of that place. When he came to Oregon he worked for the Hapgood cannerymen, and last August came to Astoria in the employ of one of the | canneries. | In‘the latter part of November he disappeared suadenly, short several hundred dollars in accounts.. Where the body was found-is one of the wildest parts. of the country, and the only way he could travel was by wading in the middle of the stream. It is supposed he died irom ex- haustion. ROBBERS AT SAVTA RO, They Tried to Hold Up a Bi- cyclist on the Open Road. A Flive Years’ Sentence Meted Qut For Selling Liquor to Indians. SANTA ROSA, Carn, April 1.—An at- tempt was made to rob John Woodward, a | prominent cigar-dealer here, last night by masked men. Woodward was returning home on a bicycle when two men sprang out from behind a clump of bushes and ordered him to hold up his handsand halt, at:the same time drawing revolvers. ‘Woodward assumed a “scorcher” attitude, dug his feet into the pedals and rode for dear life. . The robbers ran after him awhile, but gave up the chase. The men are known to be Santa Rosans, and are be- lieved to be the same who robbed Beck- ner’s saloon a few nights ago. He Got a Heavy Sentence. SANTA ROSA, Cavn., April 1.—Peter Hgqrago was to-day sentenced to five years in the Folsom Prison by Judge Dougherty for selling liquor to Indians. Horago has already served one term in the peniten- | tiary on the same charge, and is regarded as one of the most desperate halfbreeds in Northern California. In order to arrest him the officers had to knock him down with a club and handcuff him. His Farewell Sermon. SANTA ROSA, Carn, April 1.—Rev. John Reid, who has severed his connection with the Presbyterian Church here on ac- count of recent unpleasantness, preached his farewell sermon Sunday evening. The church was crowded and many were turned away, showing that no matter how some of his congregation regarded him, the people of this city, irrespective of denominational connection, have faith in him. He preached a powerful sermon at the close of which everybody in the church passed up the aisles and shook the pastor warmly by the hand. Reid does not know what he will do in the future, but’ may en- gage in evangelistic work for which he is | peculiarly well fitted —— Refuses to Pdss on Deputies’ Salaries. LOS ANGELES, Carn., April 1.—As an outcome of Governor Budd’s pocket veto of the county government bill passed by the recent Legislature, both the County Treasurer and the County Auditor refused to pass on bills for deputies’ salaries this morning. District Attorney Dornell promises to submit a- written ‘opinion on the subject to the Supervisors to-morrow. Some action will then be taken., .— The Bonds Were Beyond His Limit. PORTLAND, Ox., April 1.—J. L. Hayne, editor of the local organ of the A.P. A., who was recently elected clerk of the Schoo! Board of this city, resigned to-night, { having been unable to furnish the bond of $150,000 required. The school clerk is the custodian of a large amount of scheol money and on this account is required to furnish a heavy bond. o G R They Struck It Rich. JACKSON, CaL., April 1.—The greatest strike made in this vicinity for a long time was made by C, H. Adams and Tim Han- ley on the old Hanley claim near Volcano while making an open cut on the claim. About seven feet ‘below the surface they encountered a vein of ribbon rock about | eighteen inches thick, which will go $150 per ton in free gold. T = Killed by a Boy. L GOLDENDALE, Og., April 1.—Word has reached hcre that Stephen Mughes, a boy aged 17, shot and killed Wilhelm Feld- berg at the Huff ranch on White Salmon River in this county. One bullet passed through his heart. The altercation was over land rights. Hughes claims he fired in self-defense. He says the deceased at- tacked him with an ax, oo LA Fire at Eureka. EUREKA, Can., April L.—At 3:45 Sun- day morning a fire broke out in the res- taurant and bakery of A. Hansel, damag- ing the property to the extent of about $1000. The insurance on the building was $2000 in the Firemen's Fund Insurance Company. e Sailed for the Ovient. s VANCOUVER, B. C., April 1.—The Em- press of India sailed for the Orient this afternoon. She had a cargo of 1800 tons, principally flour and cotton, and thirty saloon passengers, among them. being Count Pourtales, French Consul at Tokio. —— . An Oroville Residence Burned, OROVILLE, CaL, April 1.—The resi- dence of J. J. Corbeley of Wyandotte was burned last night at 12 o’clock. Nothing was saved and there was no insurance. The cause of the fire is unknown. loss is $2000. A Fresno Creamery Company. FRESNO, Cavn.,, April 1.—A creamery company with & capital stock of $50,000 has been originated here. The movement is the most beneficial to the farmers of the county that has been begun for years. —_———— A Humboldt Pioneer Dead. EUREKA, CAL., April 1.—Captain A. W. West, one of the oldest pioneers of Hum- boldt County, was found dead at his home on Elk River to-day. He was 80 years of age and came to Humboldt in 1850, Y FATAL AND TERRIFIC Explosion of a Boiler in a Massachusetts Tannery. FIVE MEN ARE KILLED, Piteous Appeals Madé by Those Imprisoned by the Debris. SIX ARE TERRIBLY INJURED. The Pulling of the Whistle Rope the Signal- for the Fearful Disaster. WOBURN, Masé., April 1.-Just before 7-0’clock this morning oné of the boilers in the Conn Tannery exploded with terrific fore, killing five men and injuring six others. : The dead are: Alstin Clements, foreman; Patrick Lally, fireman; Thomas Patterson, night foreman; Patrick McGonagle; oiler. The . injured are: Jphn Kenny, John Tracey, Patrick Riley, James Lyon, Octa- vius Saunders. g There had beer trouble with. the boiler for some time, and early in the morning John Parker, the foréman,; was called to the oilroom to see if it could not be fixed. It was found the water supply could not be satisfactorily adjusted, but this was remedied. Five minutes vefore 7 o’clock - Parker entered. the boiler-room and ordered the whistle to be blown to start the works. The . rope ' attached to the whistle was pulled and instantly there was a fearful explosion. The big iron smokestack of the boiler- house was blown high into the air and feil across -the roof of the shop, ana the tall brick chimney fell into a thousand pieces, crushing the engine-room beneath it. Men hurried from all parts of the town, and the work of removing those buried under the ruins was commenced imme- diately. Piteouscries of the injured under the debris urged the rescuers on to rapid work, and in a short time the bodies of four men had.been removed and sixin- jured had been taken out. INTEREST TO THE COAST. The Olympia Soon to Relicve the Phila- delphia at Honolulu, WASHINGTON, D.C., March 30.—Ad- miral Ramsey said to-day thatthe Olym- pia would be at Coronado Beach on April 17 to take in the celebration there, and would then return to Mare Island where she would remain for at least a month. He was unable to say where she would be sent next; but it is understood she will relicve the Philadeiphia at Honolulu, and the Philadelphia will l¢come the flagship of the Asiatic station, relieving the Balti- more. Postmaster-General Bissell said -to the CArLr correspondent that the Postmaster of Salt Lake was removed as a result of a re- port filed by agPostoffice Inspector, who has been inspecting Postmaster Nash's conduct of the office, and it was deemed necessary to make this change for the good of the public service, Miss C. C. A. Gillies. was: to-day. ap- pointed -Postmistress at Clements, = San Joaquin County, vice W. E. Whipple, re- moved, and Elizabeth McCannpa at Doug- lass, Alaska, vice Willilam Stubbins, re- signed. Henry F. Crabtrée has been com- missioned Postmaster at Wallace, Cal. A postoffice was to-day -established at Leetville, Churchill County, Nev., with Esther M, Leet as postmistress. George Butin was commissioned as pestmaster at Belfield, Or. The corporate existence of the First Na- tional Bank of Oakland has been extended to 1915 by the Comptroller of the Treasury. Pensions have been granted as follows: California: Original—George Markham, Walkenburg. - Renewal and increase—Wil- liam B. Goodwin, Buena Vista. Increase— Eli Johnson Jr., Colorado. Charles F. Holly, Artman. :Reissued — William C. Hendricks, Golden. Oregon: Original — Chgrles R. Rick- sicker, deceased, Cottage Grove. Original widows, ete.— Sabina Bowen, Cottage Grove. SESeR McKINLEY IN WASHINGTON. He Called on. the President and Other Distinguished Men. WASHINGTON, D.. C., April 1.—Gov- ernor McKinley and party left their private ear at the Pennsylvania depot after break- fast this morning and moved to apart- ments at the Ebbitt House. The Governor called on Senator Sherman, President Cleveland and Colonel John Hay. - Early in the evening he and Mrs: Mec- Kinley went for'a long drive and the party left to-night on the 7:10 train for Canton, Ohio. During the day the house was be- sieged with callers upon :the distinguished Ohioan, He appears to be in vigorous health and expressed. himself as much pleased with his southern trip. BT S Coinage During March. WASHINGTON, D." C., April 1.=Re- ports to the Director of the Mint show the coinage during th® month of March, 1895, as follows_;- Gold, $2,866,102; silver, $573,575; minor coins, $70,195; total coin- age, §3,900,833. Of the silver coined $100,200 was in stand- ard dollars. In addition to the foregoing there was coined $442,000 in 20-cent silver pieces. for Ecuador. This was done by virtue .of an-actof Congress authorizing coinage for foreign governments on pay- ment of the costs of same when it does not interfere with our own. b HUNTINGTON’S TRIP WEST. The Road Officials Say That He Is Still Jin New. York ‘and May Delay Coming: OF The present whereabouts and intentions of C. P. Huntington are at present causing a good deal of conjecture in this city, as many people are interested in knowing when the railroad magnate will arrive here and what action he will take in the matter of the Grand Jury indictment. There is every reason to believe that Mr. Hnntingtor; has not yet left New York. If he slips into the city unawares there is probably no class of citizens who will be more surpristd than th s A.r%fif an the officials of the 'owne, general mai r, said esterday that if Mr. Hunfingtoufia {?ew York no information n fot to that effect had yet been received by the officials of the road, at least not to his knowledge. and H. L. Huntington likewise expressed himself as ignorant of the report, or even an approximately correct date when the Qresident of the road would leave New or] Tt is stated that no surprise would be created here—among the officials of the road, at least—if Mr. Huntington should fail to arrive until after the annual meet- ing is held. RESIGNATION OF LEEDS. The ‘Traffic Manager Leaves the Asso- clation Quite Suddenly—His Work Very Well Done. At a meeting of the executive committee of the Traffic Association yesterday the secretary read a letter addressed to the president, Isaac Upham, in which J. 8. Leeds, for ‘the past two years and unti yesterday traffic. manager of that body,| formally tendered his resignation. The letter is given herewith in full: Tsaac Upham Esq., President Traffic Associa- tion of California, San Francisco—DEAR Sie: I hereby tender my resignation as traffic man- ager of the Traffic Association of California, to become effective as early as your committee can make it convenient.. I have decided upon z}m course after mature and careful considera- tion. You will call to memory that the unfavor- able trade conditions of this city and State, which existed and were the inspiration that prompted the organization of the association, ‘| 'were believed almost universally by the eiti- zens of this community to-exist wholly in the organization known as the Transcontinental ‘Association, and to break that monopoly was the object sought. Doubtless it was this motive which prompted your committee to secure my services. It is a matter well known thatthe Transcontinental Association was broken up and disposed of, and “the Pacific- Mail subsidy discontinued at the end of 1892. ‘You will also remember 1 early advised the executive commitiee that the foundation and basisof the great burden of transportation ex- pense which California has carried was con- tained in the high local rates within the State, and: the.remedy was the introduction and maintenancé of competition, and 1 have never r,ensfd to direct attention to that feature of our work. I have up to this time taken an active part, and to a large extent- directed the missionary work which has culminated in the present movement to constrict the railroad in the San Joaquin Valley. - The preliminary work in this matter haying been successfully done; my mis- sion here has virtnally been accomplished. Detail work may be carried forwerd by othefs. That which we Iabored for is now assured. It, therefore, appears to me that my services can’ be dispensed with and I may at this stage of the proceedings retire. I bave served the Traflic Association fora riod of a little more ‘than three years, faith- ully and according to my best judgment, for the best interests of California, especially the city of San Francisco. My treatment of the questions we have been called upon to consider has been without fear or favor. I am plainly on record touching all of the matters with which we have had to deal, and I am willing to stand upon that record for the future with- out further explanation or apology. My heart hiasbeen in this work from the be- ginning, and I will not lose interest in your success when I have taken my departure. If at -nf’ time T can render assistance or advice, I will be glad of an opportunity to serve you in any way consistent with the service in which I may be engaged. In parting {rom the Traffic Association I de- sire to tender my thanks to the executive com- mittee for the kindly treatment I have received at their hands, and at the same time to the press of this city for a generous support, with- out which it would bave been impossible to achieve the success which has rewarded our three years of persistent labor, Iwant to express my belief that the seed sown during this period of our effort to intro- duce competition in transportation for this State will bear good fruit and ultimately re- sult in the commercial and industrial emanei- pation of Celifornia. Respectiully submitted, J. 8. LeEps, Traffic Manager. This action of Mr. Leeds did not. create the surprise it would have caused bad it been taken three months or more ago. It is a well-understood fact that matters have not progressed of late entirely to the satis- faction of the gentleman named, and that he became impressed with the idea that he ‘was being deliberately ignored. This was all due to the sudden enthy- siasm awakened in the valley road propo- sition after Claus Spreckels and his present associates teok hold of it. Mr. Leeds thought thiat he should have received some consideration from the head promoters in view of his past services in educating the f:ople to the necessities of the road. and, conversation, plainly indicated that he had been deeply hurt by his failure to re- ceive this recognition. The resignation was accepted by the as- sociation, and that of the secretary, Hosmer ‘W./Leeds, will be presented at the meeting to be held on Wednesday. At that meeting the important guestion as to the continuation of the Tratffic Asso- ciation will be considered. In answer to a direct question yesterday Isaac Upham, resident of that body, said that what uture action would be taken in this mat- ter hie was unable to say; the meeting of Wednesday would determine that. 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