The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 21, 1895, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, MAY 21, 1895. —mm——m—— FEE BILL 5 NULL Judge Buckles of So- lano Decides Against the Act. IT IS' NOT GOOD LAW. Under It Constables and Jus- ftices Could Draw All the Office Earnings. OUR GALLANT DEFENDER. The Crack Cruiser of the United States May Be Ordered to Mare Island. VALLEJO, Car., May 20.—The fee bill recently passed by the Legislature has been declared unconstitutional by Superior Judge Buckles. After the fee bill became 2 law Auditor Wooderson notified all con- stables and Justices of the Peace that he would not pay salaries either under the old or new law until the court had ren- Immediately there was a consultation of all interested parties, Constable Dan Fitzpatrick of Suisun brought an action against Wooderson for the purpose of test- ing the constitutionality of the new law. Judge Buckles, after listening to the argu- ments by counsel for plaintiff, rendered the following decision: The act of March 28, 1895, statutes 1895, page 268, provides that constables and jussices shall receive as fees compensation for services rendered, with provisos in the case of con- stables that in criminal cases he shall not receive more than $100 in any one month and not more than $1000 in any one year, and in case of justices not more than $75 in any one month shall be allowed out of the county treasury in misdemeanor cases to any onme justice. “Does this act repeal so much of the county government act of 1893 as relates to justices aud constables of Solano County?” To do so it must have been the intention of the Legislature that it should, and then the act | must follow the plain mandate of the consti- tution. Under the county government act of 1893 these officers were paid salaries accord- ing to duties to be performed, which were fur- ther measured by the population of their Tespective townships, and such salaries were: Vallejo, constable $100 &nd justice $100; Benicia, $100 and §75; Suisun, $100 and $65; yville, $60 and reen Valley, $15 Eimira, $20; Denver- | ton, $10 and $10; Montezuma, $10 and $10; Main Prairie, $10 and $10: Tremont, | $10 and $10. If the act of March 25,1890, takes the place of the provisions of the act of | 1893 relating to justices and constables in the | thirteenth class, the compensation of these | ofticers would be so regulated that each might, | by due diligence and a superabundance of tramps in their respective bailiwicks, be as fol- lows: Constables$100 or $1000 a year and justices $75 or more. These salaries would ap- ply to the above-named officials in Vallejo, Benicie, Suisun, Vacaville, Silveyville, Rio | Vista, Green Valley, Elmira, Denverton, Monte- | zuma, Main Prairie and Tremont. 1t will be observed also that the Justices may receive for misdemeanor cases alone $900 per annum besides what he shall be entitled to for | examinations in felony cases, at $3 each, to be paid by the county. It will Tequire buta glance at these tables and the law to convince any one that while the compensation of the constables of Vallejo, Benicia, Suisun and Vacaville would be reduced from $1200 to $1000 per annum, the constables in all other townships would be able to earn an increased compensation from $120 in the lowest case and $780 in the highest per annum to $1000 per annum. Section 9, article 9, of the constitution pro- vides that the compensation of any county, city, town or municipal officer shall not be in- creased after his election or during his term of office. Every act of the Legislature which at- tempts to increase the officer’s compensation during his term of office is void, because of the constitutional prohibition. Bnt it is contended that the Board of Supervisors, in allowing the claims of constables and Justices, might pre- vent the application of increase under act of March 28, by silowing only the sum paid by the county government act. This, however would be delegating to the Supervisors the power to fix com- pensation, a power which is lodged with the Legislature and cannot be delegated. Besides, | such & system would lack that uniformity required by the constitution; and further, as the act of March 28 is inconsistent with the | county government act of 1893, so far as it re- lates to compensation of these officers, if it be constitutional and at all operative as to these officers, then it repeals that part of the county government act, but it does not. For reasons here stated all that part of the act of March 28,1895, relating to Justices’ and Constables’ monthly compensation is void so far as the county is concerned, and the Auditor will draw warrants for the salaries of these officers according to the provisions of the county gov- ernment ace of 1893. TO VISIT MARE ISLAND. The Crwiser New York Will Probably | Come Here From Europe. VALLEJO, Can., May 20.—Word was received at the navy-yard to-day that the cruiser New York was to have left the Brooklyn Navy-yard Saturday last for Kiel, Germany, and expected to be there on the 10th of June, but after the 20th of that month it was not known whether she would be made flagship of the European squadron, or that she would return to New York, or be sent over to China and Japan, and eventuelly bring up at the navy-yard at Mare Island. There are strong probabilities that the big cruiser will come to the Pacific Coast be- fore another year elapses, and our people will have an opportunity of seeing what a big ship looks like. Fell Forty Feet and Was Killed. VALLEJO, Cav., May 20.—A young lad named Sherman fell from a tree at the Good Templars’ Orphan Home last Sunday a distance of forty-two feet. He fractured his skull and broke one of his legs. The little fellow lingered until this morning, when death relieved his sufferings. He has a parentresiding at Selma. The funeral will be held to-morrow. Every attention was rendered the unfortunate lad, but of no avail. SAN JOSE HAPPENINGS. The Wine-Growers Have Sold Out to the i Wine-Makers’ Association. SAN JOSE, May 20.—Fifteen bills of sale were filed in the County Recorder’s office to-day whereby 828,975 gallons of wine were transferred from wine - growers of this valley to the California Wine-makers’ Corporation. No price was mentioned in the contracts, as the terms had been agreed upon at a private meeting. The transfers were as follows: John Bergin, Mountain View, 40,000 gal- lons dry red wines vintage '94; E. H. Guppy & Sons, San Jose, 24,600 gallons dry red wines' vintage '93 and 94, 5000 gal- lons '93 and '94 in reserve; P. Estrada and J. Bordes, San Jose, 75,000 gallons dry red ‘wind vintage ’94, 100,000 vintage '93, 25, in reserve; H. C. Morrell, Wrights, 3000 gallons dry red wines vintage 94 and 1000 gallons vintage '93; Morton Bros., Mountain View, 47,000 gal- lons dry red wines, vintage '94; S. H. Kifer, Mountain View, 45,000 gallons dry red wines, vintage '94; Alex Montgomery, Westside, 10,000 gallons dry red wines, vintage '94; Mrs. M. A. Reynolds, Sara- toga, 3895 galions dry red wines, vintage ’94; Mrs. C. O. Wilcox, Banta Clara, 60,000 gallons dry red wines, vintage ’94, 3000 gal- lons vintage '93; J. P. Bubb, Santa Clara, 12,000 gallons dry red wines, vintage '94; Los Gatos Co-operative Winery, 225,000 gallons dry red wines, vintage ’94; S. P. Stockton, SBan Joge, 65,000 gallons dry red wines, vintage 93 and '94; John Snyder, Mountain View, 97,000 gallons dry red wines, vintage '94; J. C. Merithew, West Side, 4000 gallons dry white wines, vintage of 1893 and 1894, and 1000 gallons dry red wines, vintage 1893 and 1894, and keeps in reserve 43,000 gallons of dry red wines of 1893 and 1894; A. H. Woods, West Side, 12,000 gallons dry red wines, vintage 1893, and keeps 300 gal- Ions of older wines in reserve and agrees to sell 1300 gallons of dry white wines, vint- age of 1894, and 800 gallons of vintage of 1893. The total transfers amount to 823,375 gallons dry red wines and 5600 gallons dry white wines; about 74,300 gallons dry red wines are being held in reserve. Ex-Governor Burnett Laid to Rest. SAN JOSE, CaL., May 20.—The funeral train bearing the remains of the late Peter H. Burnett, the first Governor of California, arrived at Santa Clara at 2 o'clock this afternoon. It consisted of two coaches, one containing the casket. The other was the mourning coach, and in it were mem- bers of the family. Delegations from the gentlemen’s sodality of 8t. Ignatius Church and the Society of California Pioneers attended the arrival of the train. The interment took place in the family vlat in the Catholic cemetery. TACOMANS ARE ALARMED. They Are Afraid of the Great Northérn-Northern Pacific Combination. Presldent Hill of the Great Northern Says the Country Will Be Benefited. TACOMA, Wass.,, May 20.—The James J. Hill Great Northern-Northern Pacific Railroad deal affects Tacoma more than any other city on Puget Sound. The Northern Pacific officers’ headquarters for the entire western end of the line and the road’s terminal facilities, on which $2,000,- 000 has been expended, are here, The combination is regarded here as having been made in the interest of the economical management of each. That is understood to mean that many heads of departments, from Second Vice-President Prescott of Portland down through the assistant general manager and assistant principal engineers offices here, are likely to fall in the basket. In short,a wholesale decapitation is feared, and there is great uneasiness in official circles from St. Paul west on both roads. The Northern Pacific has lately secured a platting of tide flats in front of Tacoma favorable to it. No portion of Puget Sound really has one-half the natural favorable ground for'terminal facilities that Tacoma has. Carshops of the Northern Pacific which cost $1,000,000 and were completed two years ago are located here. The Oriental steamship line which runs in connection with the Northern Pa- cific has long made its terminal here owing to superior wharfage facilities, and has added three new steamships to its line, owing to the increase in trade, and has made arrangements to begin next month the construction of the largest coal- conveyer in the world, to cost $200,000. These things are taken asindications that Tacoma will be made the principal terminal of the two great railroad systems and of the Oriental steamship lines. Instead of buildingindependent trackage to this city and Portland the Great North- ern trains will be run over the Northern Pacific tracks to the two cities. The com- bination will then be in a position to dic- tate Puget Sound rates to the Union Pa- cific, Southern Pacific and the Burlington. WILL, NOT CONSOLIDATE. Hill Says the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Will Be Separate. ST. PAUL, Mo., May 20.—President J. J. Hill of the Great Northern Railroad ar- rived home to-day from Europe. In the course of an interview he said he was not in a position at this time to speak of the so-called Northern Pacific deal, but said: “You may put this down as ag_assured fact—the Great Northern and Northern Pacific will never be consolidated under one management. You may add that the Northern Pacific will not be bought at all. Such reports are canards and are not to be considered for a moment. There will be a strong effort made to develop the country along the Northern Pacific, to sell the lands that await settlement and sell them at greatly reduced prices if necessary. “I want to add that it is my hope that a time has been reached when the roads will have to give up what they have been doing. The game of cut-throat in the rail- road business in this country has got to be discontinued and if it is not the credit of the country will be still more seriously impaired.” “‘How much is true of the matter that has been printed relative to your absolute control of the Northern Pacific ?” “Well, so far as the knowledge of any persons who have printed such matter is concerned, there is not a word of truth in it. Ihave given no interviews or allowed any one else to do so of a nature that would admit the truth of the story.” Mr. Hill would not admit that the con- trol of the road had passed into his hands, but the truth of the matter comes out from headquarters, says the Dispatch. It establishes that the trip to Europe taken by Mr. Hill recently was not of his seeking; that up to the time of his being summoned to proceed to Berlin and Lon- don he had made no overtures regarding the Northern Pacific. The step was taken in concert by the Berlin and London share- holders. The Dispaich insists that it has knowledge that “the control of the North- ern Pacific was rather forced on him than sought.” The Dispatch continues: ‘‘There is no doubt in the world that James J. Hill has the Northern Pacific in his bag. He has corraled it, and although, as he says, it may take some little time for the entire plan to become public, the Dispatch is in a position to give the Northwest assurance that the two great systems of railway will shortly be under the single control of Mr. Hill. His plan of making the road pay by settling the country along its lines at any costis one that has commended itself to the shareholders abroad, and the consent of which has put him in the responsible position he now holds was practically unanimous so far as the European holders are concerned.” CARLISLE ON MONEY, The Secretary Defends the Administration’s Policy. SPEECH AT COVINGTON. His Views on Sound Currency Aired Before a Large Audience. NEED OF THE GOLD CURE. The Salvation of the Country, He Says, Rests on the Limited Coinage of Silver. COVINGTON, Ky., May 20.—The Secre- tary of the United States Treasury, Hon. J. G. Carlisle, opened the discussion of the question of sound money here to-night in a quaint lecture hall called Central Garden. The hall is in the middle of a beer gar- den. It is a theater-like structure, with a small stage at one end, where the songand dance artists are wont to enliven dull hours. The rush to hear the speaker was tremendous. An attempt was made to re- serve seats for ladies, but it was given up when the pressure for admission by voters was felt. The beginning of the address was de- layed by a street demonstration of\ con- siderable magnitude. It was 8:25 o’¢lock when the crowd at the doors parted and Mr. Carlisle, escorted by Congressman Berry and accompanied by M. E. Ingalls and General Michael Ryan, entered the hall. Shortly afterward the working clubs en- tered to the tune of *“Old Kentucky Home" and “Dixie,” followed by the plaintive “Auld Lang Syne.” Twenty minates later Hon. A. 8. Berry introduced the speaker in a brief speech, in the course of which he paid a high compliment to the man who, under most difficult circumstances, admin- istered his high office. After tumultuous applause, again and again repeated, the Secretary began his address. Mr. Carlisle prefaced his remarks with a brief introduction, in which he assured his audience, ‘“That I am not and do not ex- pect to become a candidate’ for any office in the gift of the people, or their repre- sentatives, and that I do not appear in the State in the interest of any candidate.” “There has never been a time,” con- tinued the Secretary, “since the close of the Civil War and the settlement of the questions growing out of it when passion and prejudice exerted such a powerful in- fluence in controlling the action of the peo- ple upon political and economic questions as they have during the last two years. A great wave of depression has swept over the whole industrial, commercial and financial world, more injurious in its ef- fects in some places than in others, but en- tailing great loss and distress nearly every- where. It did not begin twenty years ago, as some of our friends are in the habit of asserting, but less than five years ago. Its first serious effects were felt in Argentina, where the people and the Government, notwithstanding the warnings of experi- ence in all ages, determined to try again the experiment of a cheap and inflated currency. ’ The Secretary reviewed the acts of the last Republican administration and de- clared the present administration found the financial affairs of the Government in a most unsatisfactory and precarious con- dition and rapidly growing worse. Un- wise legislation has already produced its inevitable results, and whatever criticism the impatient spirit of a disappointed and restless people may have prompted them to make upon the present administration, 1 am sure impartial history will place the responsibility for what has occurred where it properly belongs, and I am' willing to wait until it is written. ‘Whether we shall continue to preserve our existing monetary system, under which all the dollars in use, whether they be gold, silver or paper, possess equal purchasing power in the market, or provide by law for the free and unlimitea coinage of silver dollars containing 4124 grains of standard silver, and make them the units and measures of value in the ex- change of commodities and in the payment of debts, is by far the most important ques- tion that has been presented for the considera- tion of the American people during this gen- eration, and that question now confronts us. It is incumbent upon those who insist upon the adoption of this revolutionary policy to show plainly and conclusively in advance not only that 1t would result in no injury, but that it would be positively beneficial, for if not positively beneficial the change would, at least, be wholly useless. This cannot be done by appealsto the excited passions and prejudices of the people by at- tempts to array one class of our citizens or one section of our country against another; nor by the use of extravagant statements unsupported /by facts and reasons. The allegation, even if it were true, that a great erime was surrepti- tiously committed in 1873 or at any other time does not prove, or even conduce to prove, that the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 16 to 1 would be beneficial to the country under the conditions now existing. But, gentlemen, it is not true that the act of February 12, 1873, which made the gold dollar the unit of value and dropped the standard silver dollar from the coinage, was passed by stealth or that its purpose or effect was to deprive the people of the use of any coin then in use or then in existence in this country. The plain truth is that thisact of 1873, ‘which has been the subject of so much appre- hension and denunciation, was simply a legal recogntion of a monetary condition which had existed in fact in this country for about thirty- five years, or eversince a short time after the passage of the coinage act of 1834. The value of the United States noteor greenback was always measured by gold, and not by silver, and commodities had a gold price and a paper price, but never a silver price, because silver, except the half-dollars, quarters and dimes colned under the act of 1853, had been out of use here for more than twenty years before the commencement of the war, and eyen these sub- sidiary coins had not been in use for eleven years prior to 1873. Our own monetary history has already fur- nished two most striking illustrations of the operation of the law under which the coins ‘which are overvalued by statute always drive out of circulation the coins which are under- valued. Our own experience had again de- monstrated what the history of the world al- ready showed—that whenever the coinage laws of any country permit the free coinage of both metals, with full legsl tender qualities ata ratio of value which does not conform sub- stantially to their intrinsic or commercial ratio in the markets of the world, both kinds of coin cannot be kept in circulation at the same time. There was never in our whole history one- third as much legal-tender silver in use in the United States at one time as there is now, and it is used without depriving us of all our gold, which was never done before. Silver is not demonetized in this country, but its cothage has been so limited and regulated by law, and the financial affairs of the Government have been so conducted, that up to the present time its purchasing power has been preserved and its cireulation to a large amount has been maintained concurrently with other forms of money, notwithstanding it has been coined at a ratio which does not conform to the real value of the metal contained in it. In the United States sixteen pounds of silver coined into dollars will now purchase as much as one pound of gold coins, but this would not be the case under a system of free and unlimited coinage on individual account. I have never been, and am not now, un- friendly to silver in the sense of desiring to see it excluded from the monetary system of the United States or of any other country, but Iknow thatitcannot be kept in circulation along with gold by means of any ratio the law of any one country may attempt to establish between the two metals, and that the only Way to secure the use of both at the same time is to make one of them the standard of value, and so limit the coinage of the other that the Government which issues them and receives them for public dues may be able at all times to maintain their exchangeability, either directly or indirectly, through the oper- ation of its financial system. I am, therefore, in favor of the preservation of the existing standard of value, with such use of all legal tender silver coins and paper convertible into coin on demand, as can be maintained without impairing or endangering the credit of the Government or diminishing the purchasing or debt paying power of the money in the hands of the people. This is what I mean by the term ‘“sound money,” and in my opinion it is what is meant Dby an overwhelming majority of the opponents of free coinage at the rate qf 16 to 1. This is neither gold monometallism nor silver mono- metallism, but it means thatone standard or measure of value shall be maintained, and that all forms of standard coins in use shall be kept equal to that standard in the purchase of com- modities and in the payment of debts. # How long do you suppose the $625,000,000 of gold in this country would remain here and be used as money under a free-coinage policy? The banking and other great financial institu- tions, which own and hold in their resources much the greater partof this gold, would at once sell it at a large premium for sliver—about $2 for $1—or they would exchange it for silver bullion in the market at the ratio of about thirty-two pounds of silver for each one pound of gold, have the thirty-two pounds of silver coined into dollars at the expense of the people, and with this cheap money pay the de- mands of their depositorsand other creditors. The masses of the people cannot do this, for they haveno gold, nor have they any silver builion to be coined at the expense of the Government. I the immediate effect of the adoption of a free-coinage policy at the ratioof sixteen to one would be to contract the currency to the extent of about $625,000,000 by the withdrawal of that amount of gold from circulation and from use as the basis of notes and other forms of credit, prices would not even nominally ad- vance. On the contrary, for the time being at least, this contraction would greatly reduce prices, because it would alarm the country, destroy credit, and undouhtedly produce the most serious financial disturbances this country has ever witnessed. 0f course a great country like this, rich in natural resources, would ultimately recover in some measure from even such a disaster, but! how long & time would be required to do §0, 10 man can predict. All the mints of the United States, if devoted entirely to the coinage of silver dollars, could produce only $40,000,000 per annum, and, therefore, with free coinage it would require more than fifteen years to put silver dollars in the place of the gold we now have, and give back to the country the same amount of metallic money now existing. But, in the meantime, we would have a de- preciated standard of value with nominally higher prices—after the first collapse was over —on account of the reduced purchasing power of the dollar, and at the same time we would have for a long time fewer dollars to pay with. Common prudence would dictate that, when any considerable change is to be made in our monetary system, some provision should be made in advance of the sctusl chenge for a gradual transition from the old to the new order of things; a transition period should be provided for so as to avoid, as far as possible, & sudden disturbance of business and contraction of the currency; but the advocates of free coinage have no such purpose. 1t is well known personally to every gentle- men in this audience who is old enough to know what was transpiring in 1873 that there ‘was not a dollar of silver in cireulation at that date, The only metallic or redemption money in use here at that time was gold, which amounted to only $135,000,000, including what the Government was using; wnereas we now have about $625,000,000 in gold and £397,652,873 in full legal tender silver, be- sides about $87,000,000 in subsidiary silver coin. If, therefere, prices have fallen since 1873 the decline has taken place in spite of the fact that our full legal tender metallic money has been increased until it now amounts to more than seven times as much as it did at that date, and consequently the alleged decline in prices must be attributed to some other cause than the demonetization of silver. These facts prove not only that the demonetization of silver did not reduce the amount of redemption money in this country, but they prove also that the fundamental proposition of the advocates of free coinage is erroneous and that prices are not fixed or regulated by the amount of redemption money alone, for, if so, prices should have increased since 1873. Aslong as there appeared to be|reasonable ground for the hope that silver could be raised to a parity of value with gold at the ratio of 16 to 1 by the separate action of the United Btates, I was willing to make the experiment, but] was never willing to make it by legisla- tion providing for the free and unlimited coin- age of silver at that or any other ratio, The only speech I ever made in Congress on this subject was delivered in the House of Repre- sentatives more than seventeen years ago, ata time when the value of the bullion contained in & silver dollar was only about 7 centsless than the value of the bullion contained in a gold dollar, and I, together with many other opponents of free coinage, believing that a restoration of silver to our mints would bring it to a parity with gold, supported a measure providing for the limited coinage of silver dol- 1ars on Government account, not on account of private individuals and corporations, as is now proposed. Fifteen years’ experience, however, demon- strated that those of us who believed in 1878 that a larger use of silver by the United States would enhance its price of value, were mis- taken. Instead of increasing the price of sil- ver it continued to fall with greater rapidity than before, notwithstanding all the efforts made by our Government to uphold it, until now the bullion contained in & silver dollar is worth only about half as much as the bullion contained in a gold dollar. The conditions have entirely changed since 1878, and Ido not understand that even our free coinage friends in Kentucky or elsewhere now contend that any legislation by this coun- try alone could place silver on & parity with gold at the ratio of 16 to 1. On the contrary, they insist that the free and unlimited coinage of silyer at that ratio would give the people cheap money, and I agree with them that it would have that effect, but it would not be cheap money if it were equal in value to gold. The speech made by me on the occasion re- ferred to has been garbled and twisted and perverted in and out of Congress during the past two years with s malicious ingenuity which has scarcely ever been equaled in the discussion of a public question, and yet no one has ever ventured to make the direct assertion that it contained a single word in fayor of the free coinage of silver. It was, in fact, made in opposition to free coinage, aud in support of the Senate substitute for a free coinage bill, as can be seen by any one who will take the trouble to read it. Certain sentences, in which I denounced in strong language the attempt to ‘destroy’’ silver as a money metal, have been separated from their context and quoted again and again in Congress, on the stump and in news- papers by men who never read the speech and ‘who appear wholly incapable of understand- ing the difference between the total disuse of that metal as money and its free and unlim- ited coinage at the public expense for the ben- efit of private individuals and corporations. I have a copy of the speech here, but will not detain you by reading extracts from it to show ‘what my position was, because any gentleman who desires to do so can find itin full in the appendix to the Congressional Record for the second session of the Forty-fifth Congress. Some of the opinions expressed have been modified and some of them have been changed saltogether by subsequent events and by a more thorough investigation of the subjects to which they related; but on the question of free coinage my convictions have never been shaken for a moment. DRIVEN OUT BY UMNION MEN. Riotous Workmen Prevent the Loadihg of @ Luwber Fessel. CLEVELAND, Oxn1o, May 20.—One hun- dred and twenty-five lumber-shovers went to the Cleveland Sawmill and Lumber Company’s dock this morning armed with clubs and stones to prevent the lumber steamer Gettysburg being unloaded by non-union men. Their leaders had failed to make terms with the captain of the ves- sel, who told them he had arranged to have the boat unloaded by another gang at less than the scale prices. The union men congregated at the dock early this morning prepared to drive off the non-unionists. Frank Wéntz, an em- ploye of the mill, was mistaken for a non- union man and viciously attacked and un- mercifully clubbed. He was removed to the hospital in an unconscious condition. When the police arrived the mob had dis- appeared. Later the union men unloaded the boat at the regular scale prices. Soin ol WILL CONTROL SEMINARIES. The Presbyterian Assembly Settles the Disputed Question. PITTSBURG, Pa., May 20.—By a vote of 432 to 98 the Presbyterian General As- sembly to-day decided to continue the movement which is intended to give the assembly absolute control over its theo- logical seminaries. An attempt to get a aye and nay vote failed for lack of a one- third of the commissioners in favor, only 105 responding to the demand. The result of the vote was a surprise to even the best observers. START A NEW BRANCH Theosophists at Chicago De- cide to Desert the Old Organization. A Repudiation of the Boston Con- vention’s Action Regarding Willlam Judge. CHICAGO, ILn., May 20.—A meeting of Theosophists was held here last night and a new branch of the Theosophical Society in America was formed. [t is to be called the Loyalty branch, and it is claimed by those interested that it will take the place of that section which has been known as the Chicago branch. The new section grew out of a meeting held by the Chicago branch on Wednesday last, when it was decided not to ratify the action of the convention of the Theosophical Society in America, which was held in Boston April 28 and 29. The twenty-nine members who favored ratification at that meeting called the meeting for last night, at which about fifty Theosophists were present. R. D. A. Wade was elected president of the Loyalty branch. General Griffiths, the Pacitic Coast lecturer, was present and assisted in the organization of the Loyalty branch. “By their action in repudiating the Boston convention,” said Mr, Griffiths, “‘the Chicago branch hasindorsed as un- just and unwarrantable the charges made by the members of the European section against William Judge, who was elected president of the American section. The reports from all over the country show that out of 103 branches in America only six or seven will refuse to ratify the action of the Boston convention.”” LT EXCITEMEMT 1IN WALL STREET Prices of Corn, Wheat and Oats Take an Upward Shoot. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 20.—The great- est excitement seen in grain circlesin a number of years was witnessed on the Pro- duce Exchange to-day. Wheat naturally came in for the lion’s share of the activity, the transactions amounting to 33,000,000 bushels, but corn and oats also had a fair trade. Fluctuations were very violent at times, the rangeof prices being unusually large. The activity was a continuation of the excitement on the curb Saturday, when July rose from 7234 to 7534 in half an hour. To-day it beat the latter price by nearly 2 cents, touching 773§ during the afternoon, and making a total rise 6f almost 4 cents per bushel in two days. Freezing weather West and talk of wide- spread damaee has been of great assistance to the bulls and was especially so to-day. Another very important factor to-day was the heavy decrease of 4,000,000 in the visi- ble supply. A few minutes before the close a batch of selling orders came suddenly upon the market and knocked 114c off the price be- fore the bulls knew what had happened, and the market left off in a whirl of excite- ment. Corn and oatsalso advanced, the former 1% to 2c per bushel, and oats lc. —_— COMING TO THE COAST. Commander-in-Chief Lawlor and Staff to Make an Inspecting Tour. ROCKFORD, Iun, May 20.—Com- mander-in-Chief Lawlor and staff will leave Rockford June 4 for a trip to the Pa- cific Coast departments. Their itinerary is as follows: June 6, Pierre, 8. D.; June 8and 9, St. Paul; June 11 and 12, Hauser Junction, Mont.; June 13, Coeur d’Alene; June 14, Spokane; June 19, Oregon City; June 20 and 21, San Francisco; June 25, Balt Lake City. i Huntington to Sail for Europe. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 20.—C. P. Hun- tington, president of the Southern Pacific Railway and the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, sails for Europe on the steam- ship Majestic on Wednesday. He expects to be absent about two months. It is probable that while in London he will con- fer with the Central Pacific bondholders and stockholders. pi e A Grain-Brokers Assign. CHICAGO, Inn., May 20.—Crawford & Valentine, one of the largest stock and grain brokerage firms of this city, made an assignment this afternoon. They were caught short in the wheat market. Mr, Boyd of the Chicago Title and Trust Com- pany has been putin charge. Pl i L Poisoned Her Three Children. OSKALOOSA, Towa, May 20.—Mrs. ‘Warrick, a farmer's wife of this county, gave “rough on rats” to her three children to-day and then committed suicide. Two children will die. S Dealers in Cotton Fail. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 20.—Stevens & Co.. a leading firm in the cotton trade, have failed. — THE United States Government Chemist, after an examination for the Indian De- {ntment, made the emphatic statement hat “The Royal Baking Powder is the purest in quality and highest in strength of any baking powder of whigh I have knowiedge.” READY FOR THE RUSH. Thousands of People Line the Kickapoo Borders. HOMES FOR BUT A FEW. There Are Less Than Six Hun- dred Claims for the Horde to Fight for. MUCH TROUBLE IS EXPECTED. “Sooners” Have Already Invaded the Land and Planted Fraudu-~ lent Stakes. OKLAHOMA CITY, O. T., May 20.— Hundreds of people arrive hourly to help swell the already well filled lines now camped along the borders of the Kick- apoo Reservation, awaiting its being thrown open to settlement on Thurs- day. The weather so far has fav- ored the would-be settlers, who are exceptionally cheerful and apparently comfortable in the crude schooners and shanties. But 550 of the thousands who desire to take up claims can possibly be satisfied, and some predict a most sensa- tional run and lots of trouble, while others say discouragement will prevent a great proportion of the waiters from going at all except as sightseers. Already there is a line of weary waiters before the Land Office, who took up their positions when the issuing of the Presi- dent’s proclamation‘was first made public. A new scheme has been invented to de- ceive settlers. *‘Sooners” have gone upon the land and planted fraudulent stakes purporting to fell that the particular sec- tionis an allotment or school section, to cause honest home-seekers to go past it for open land further on. Then the planter of the stakes will fol- low leisurely, pull them up and use them to cook his coffee with Thursday night on the site of a carefully chosen and unlaw- fully gotten claim. Chandler, situated three miles from the northeastern corner, and Tecumseh, the same distance from the southern portion of the reservation, both good county-seat towns, will be the greatest starting points. RACE FOR YANKTON LANDS. Settlers Gather in Numbers for the Rush to Secure Homes. ARMOUR, 8. D., May 20.—All arrange- ments have been completed for opening the Yankton reservation to settlement at noon to-morrow. To-day’s trains added greatly to the throng now awaiting the opening. The fact that only five days’ notice was given by the President in his proclamation opening the land will prevent intending settlers residing in Eastern States from arriving until all the best land is taken. All sorts of vehicles are being placed in readiness for the race to-morrow. The report reaches here to-night that a large number of settlers are gathered on the Nebraska side of the Missouri River, who will cross in boats promptly at the time of opening and secure the choice land in the southern portion of the reser- vation. Probably not less than seventy- five settlers are already on the reservation, and only troops can remove them and pre- vent others from entering the land from remote points to-night and to-morrow forenoon. OF INTEREST TO THE COAST. New Postoffices Established—Pensions for Western Veterans. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 20.—Justice and Mrs, Field will spend the summer in California. Among the coast arrivals to-day are A, C. Billicke and M. A. Dudley, of Los Angeles, and P. C. Hart of San Francisco. E. P. Sparks was to-day appointed post- master at Fairmount, Los Angeles County, Cal., vice C. M: Janes, resigned. Postoffices have been established at Altruria, Sonoma County, and Pences, Lake County, Cal., with Emma J. Woodruff and Irene Pence as postmistresses, respectively. California pensions: Original—William ‘Wilkinson, Grangeville, Tulare County; John Cleary, South San - Francisco. Twenty years’ service—Michael McGresvey of Vallejo. Additional—Theophil Bre- dowski of San Francisco. Reissue—Ben- jamin F. Knox of Saticoy, Ventura County; Charles H. Jarrell of Pasa- dena., Mexican War survivors—Wil- liam Heddrington of the National Soldierss Home of Los Angeles. Mexican War survivor, increase—Henry P. Harrison of Milo, Tulare County; Wil- liam E. McColgan of Towles, Placer County; Shepherd Swen of Napa; Am- brose P. S. Hughes, National Soldiers’ Home, Los Argeles; Charles Mahlor of Alameda; Andrew Orr of Ban Francisco. Oregon: Original—Sherman Burnside of Sellwood, Multnomah County. In- crease—Cyrus P. Dickeman of Clackmas, Clackmas County. Reissue—Milton Lee of Beverton, Washington County. Washington: Original—David F. Lin- coln of Olympia, Thurston County; An- drew Baker of Seattle. Reissue—Milo L. G. Wheeler of Chehalis, Lewis Count: A David H. f[Malone of Kelso, Cowlitz County, —_— WANT A WESTERN MAN. Reed Cannot Get the New England Dele- gation as a Unit. BOSTON, Mass., May 20.—A local paper to-day publishes the results of interviews with leading New England Republicans on the probable nominee to be supported by New England delegates in 1896, The arti- cle says: Many were disinclined to talk, assigning as areason that it was rather early yet to make a Presidential nomination, Some said they thought McKinley the logical candidate, but would rather not offend Mr. Reed by saying so. Boston politicians did not seem to be very enthusiastic over anybody, although they admitted as a matter of local pride | Mr. Reed would probably receive the sup- port of the New England delegation if he desired their votesin the convention. Maine is, as a matter of course, strongly for Reed, and her leading Republicans predict that he will have the solid New England delegation. Connecticut and Rhode Island men are sure Reed cannot control this delegation, and say they ex- pect it to go to a Western man. New Hampshire and Vermont are not as enthusiastic as Maine, or as doubtful as the two Southern States of New England, but they would, without doubt, swing into line for Reed were the other States, includ- ing Massachusetts, to favor him, which seems likely. . IAran The situation seems to show that, while | bz 3. ¥+ GIBRON, Hox 1967, San Reed has a strong hold _on_the hearts of the New Englanders, he cannot get the delegation to a unit, owing to the attitude of Rhode Island and Connecticut. The article does not indicate which is the Kinley. g DR. MORRIS HENRY DIES. He Had Won Many Royal Homors Be- cause of His Discoveries. NEW YORK, N.Y., May 20.—Dr. Morris Henry, a well-known surgeon, who organ- \zfed the present system of ambulance ser- vice in this city, is dead. While in Turkey, Henry so pleased the Sultan by his work that that dignitary conferred upon him the imperial order of the second class of the Majidie, with the rank of grand officer. I_-_Ie had made a study of diseases of the veins, particularly those which incapaci- tated military men from service and dis. covered a method of treating them suc. cessfully. The Sultan liked this as many of his subjects had escaped service because of vein diseases, This decoration is the same as the Sultan conferred upon General Lew Wallace and Representatiye S. S. Cox, who were the United States Ministers at his court. For his contribution to medical and sur- gical science, the King of Greece made Dr. Henry an officer of the royal Order of the Saviour, with the gold cross, —_— Fate of Murderer Hayward, ST. PAUL, Mixx., May 20.—Governor Clough to-day signed the death warrant for Harry Hayward, convicted of inciting and planning the murder of Catherine Ging of Minneapolis. The Governor set the execution for June 21. FLAYED AND THEN BURNED. Story of the Triple Lynching in Florida Swamps Con- firmed. Three Negroes Cremated After the Skin Had Been Stripped From ‘Thelr Bodles. MADISON, Fra., May 20.—There is no longer any doubt that Sam Echols, Sim Crawley and John Brooks, the negroes who outraged and murdered N Mamie Armstrong in Lafayette County, were flayed and burned. A man who has just reached this place from Lafayette County says the belief is general that the negroes were tortured to death. One man who ventured into the swamp into which the negroes were carried asserts that he found the place where the negroes were put to death. He says that it was evident that the negroes were tied to trees and the skin stripped from them with knives. Then wood was heaped about the bleed- ing forms, the match applied, and the wretches were soon dead. This man says that he found some strips of skin about the place, which bears out the assertion that the negroes were flayed. Everything is quiet in Lafayette County, and there is no fear of trouble between the races. The better classof negroes denounce the outrage and murderof Miss Armstrong as bitterly as the whites. 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