The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 7, 1895, Page 2

[ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7. 1895. held ex-Governor Foraker will receive the unanimous vote of the Republicans omn joint ballot.” When asked what the next Congress would do in the matter of providing reve- nue for the necessities of the Government Mr. Sherman said t 1t would do that thing which seemed proper under the eir- cumstance: “Of course,”” he continued, *‘the Presi- dent cannot expect the Republicans to do just what he would 1 or to cordially accept. whatever he may suggest. u}xt we will provide the remedy for legis- lative evil. It will be along Republican Tines, and if the President does not accept bility will rest with him, not ng can be counted on as a rea- certainty—we will restore the duty on wool and probably revise other sched- ules so as to meet the conditions facing us.’ : Senator Quay reached Washington this nd left to-night for Florida, 1l remain until Thanksgiving s of getting rid of a violent | aken possession of him. He niable frame of mind, but did not care to discuss the election in detail. - 'S OPINION. ‘FORAKE idministration Caused the Landslide. , Omio, Nov. 6. Distrust of th CINCINY ernor Foraker w f ] in the Republican victory in Ohio. ed is the lack of confi- v of the Demacratic party ure has been lament- | t another cause that has helped has the character of 1es ex-Governor Campbell has been F first to last he has con- 1 on a low plane k of the news from been campaig t do you thin present advices as med. Brs apaign, lid South now the Republican party and | ¢ will be under lasting | New Yorl ““It has been a day all along the New York, Maryland, Ohio and tucky, mean that Brice, Gorman, Hill and Carlisle are all condemned and over- thrown, and these four men represent all S & " 3 & g = of the rest of the coun- » vour question I will say that this Ty settles the contest of next year no matter who the Democrats nominate and no matter what the platform. The conn- try will not have anything further to do ith Democ v. We will not have an- other Democratic administration at Wash- ington in thirty years.” o a word about the Republi- | can ne 02" I do not know who will be ate, but Ohio will be for Gover- | His State has done so that we have posi- el ADVICE FROM ENGLAND. ‘ The Post Warns the Defeated Party to Rejform. | LONDOY, Exc., Nov. 6.—In comment- | ing on the results of the election in the TUnited States, the Morning Post to-morrow | will say: “The conduct of the last Con- | gres regard to the tariff thoroughly di independent voters who in couraged secured the Democratic majority three years ago. If the Democratic party wishes to make y show next November they | must find means of redeemi acter for consistenc, ng their char- | ¢ and public spirit.” | ud I 4 BLOW AT C ELANDISM. Altgeld Attributes His Party's Defeat to | Its Hostility to Silver. SPRINGFIELD, ILL., Nov. 6.—Governor Altgeld, when seen to-day and asked his opinion as to the cause of the Republican landslide and 1ts effect on the silver move- ment, said: “Oh, I don’t know. While the silver platform has been roughly treated in the Eighteenth District in this State, it has fared a at deal better than the gold ‘platfor: n other States. For example, | Iowa went Democratic several times, but | two years ago it went Republican by 33,000 | majority. This year, when the Democrats | held their State convention, it was packed i | | by postmasters and agents of the Federal | administration, and they adopted a plat- form indorsing Cleve. money question, and as a result the great Republican majority of two years ago will be duplicated. “In Kentucky, the great stronghold of Democracy, the Federal administration, | by prostitation of patronage, secured an indorsement of Cleveland and Carlisle on the money question, and as a result the Democrats are in the woods, looking for the remains of their once mighty party. In Ohio Senator Brice and Campbeli de- feated the silver plank in the convention and adopted a gold platform, and as a re- sult even the phenomenal Republican ma- jority which McKinley got in the landslide of two years ago has been increased. In Pennsylvania the Democrats adopted a gold platform, and the result is a Repub- lican majority of 150,000. In New Jersey, | which is really a Democratic State, the Democrats adopted a gold platform, and the Republicans have carried everything in sight. “In Maryland, which had been strongly Democratic for a quarter of a century, there is not enough left to bury the dead. In New York the Republican majorities, outside of the city, have been nearly doubled. In Massachusetts the Republi- can flood is neck deep all over the State.”” “To what, then, do you attribute the general result, Governor?” “I have found that everywhere all the n.en who toil with their hands for a living feel a most intense bitterness against the Federal administration, and as the Demo- cratic party is held responsible for it, there was a general disposition to kick it. Among the Democrats everywhere, the feeling prevails that that Federal adminis- tration has trampled upon every principle of Democracy and has simply done dirty work for the Republican party.” ‘‘Governor, do you think it was the ques- tion of Sunday closing, pure and simple, ihat caused Tammany to win in New York?”? ““No; it was the large allopathic doses of Roosevelt that destroyed the Republican party there. . As a prominent Republican said to me: ‘New York can swallow Sun- day closing, but will choke to death over Teddy posing.” The fact is, the Republi- can party in the city of New York is enti- tled to some sympathy in the manner of its death. The Philistines were destroyed by the jawbone of an ass, and no people bave envied them the manner of their taking off, but the jawbone ofan asfisa respectable instrument of execution com- has neither tooth nor finger, but simply a buzz at both ends and in the middle.” —————— VIEW OF 4 DEMOCEAT. Vorers Rave Tired of the Brice-Gorman Methods. SPRINGFIELD, Irn., Nov. 6.—W. H. H. Hinrichsen, Secretary of State and a leader of the free-silver element of the Dem ocratic party, said to-day in regard to the Republican victories and especially in the Eighteenth Illinois Congressional Dis- trict, where the Democratic candidate stood for free silver: “T attribute the Democratic defeat to the indifference manifested by them during the entire campaign. They have also been dissatisfied with the National administra- don, and instead of working with the in- terests of the party in view they have pulled in opposite directions. The leading men of the party have gone ahead with- out regard to platiorm or anything else and have sacrificed the leading principles of the party for their ends. “‘One reason for the defeat is that poli- tics in many of the States was in the hands of such men as Brice and Gorman, who fought a tariff reform so strongly in the last Congress.” ——e A CRUSHING DEFEAT. Democrats Have Mhiown No Recovery From Last Year's Landslide. NEW YORK, N. Y., Nov. 6.—The morn- ing papers comment editorially upon the result of yesterday's election as follows: The Times (D.) says: It would be foolish to base on these elections any definite predictions as to the direction or force of the current’of popular sentiment next year, but it is plain that there is no evidence of the recovery from the tidal wave of 1894 for which the more sanguine Democrats bad heped. More power:ul, so far as National ques- tions were considered, than all other infln- ences was the melancholy and disgraceful break-down of the party in the United States Senate through the treason of Gor- man and Brice and their immediate fol- lowers. Notwithstanding this misfortune, the principles of the party remain. The Tribune (R.) says: It is a great victory, although another like that of 1894 was not to be expected. The Republicans hold the battlefield and if pushed for some points have gained others of larger impor- tance. The general resultsof the elections are so strongly favorable that the Repub- | licans have reason to look forward with the utmnost hope. The Recorder says: Modern Democracy as represented by Grover Cleveland re- ceived a knockout blow in the tremendous Republican victories of Tuesday. First—The Democracy in every State where elections were held indorsed the economic policy of the administration. It commended the deficit-producing tariff and the sale of bonds to plug up the hole in the treasury, thereby increasing the National debt in time of peace. That was voted down. Second—It indorsed the “policy of in- famy” in Hawaii, the surrender at Samoa; the cowardice at Corinto; the poltroonery in Venezuela, and the iruckling in Spain in the case of Cuba. *No Jingoism’ was the | tail-end of a plank in a Syracuse platform. All that was voted down. Third—Not a single Democratic State convention had the courage to mark its disapproval of the intrigue and conspiracy | for a third term for the Presidency for the sage of Buzzards Bay and the squirrel- hooter in the Woodley woods. That ab- | ject submission of the Democratic leaders to the inordinate ambition of the “stuffed prophet” was voted down. Fourth—No Democratic State Conven- tion had the courage to reaffirm the Mon- roe doctrine of ‘‘America for Americans.” That bace was the abandontent of what may be calied of unwritten articles of the constitution was voted down. Fifth—In a word, all that Cleveland stands for was stamped out at the polls on Tuesday. Stalwart Americanism is on top. The Sun says: “The outcome of the State elections is to point and emphasizc the memorable lesson administered to Clavelandism in 1884, Then the American people rebuked the President’s disobedi- ence of their wishes in the Hawaiian busi- ness, and the matter of the protective tariff and the income tax, not only by returning an overwhelming majority of Republicans to the House of Representatives, but by sending for the first time from the former slave States to the popular branch of the Federal legislature more than twice as many Republicans as there were Demo- crats elected from the former States. In the ordinary course of things one such lesson would have sufficed and the people, taking it for granted that their fiat would be heeded and receiv- ing also in the inteival some proofs of deference, would have instinctively in- | clined to place the two great pohtical par- ties more nearly in equilibrium. That is what observers of our history mean when | they say that in the United States the po- litical pendulum is apt to swing forward and backward from year to year. ‘“Under normal circumstances we might have witnessed an oscillation of that'kind. But Mr. Cleveland is incorrigible. He has learned nothing and unlearned nothing. He has remained as un-American | as ever, though events have taken such a turn in Venezuela and Cuba as to render the firm maintenance of our Na- tional principles and interests the para- mount and urgent duty of the chief magis- trate. Mr. Cleveland has shown no per- ception of those principles and no deter- mination to uphold those interests.” ——-——— DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF. Internal Strife Disintegrating the Party S of Cleveland. OMAHA, Nepr., Nov. 6.—The World- Herald will say to-morrow editorially : The Democratic party occupies the same perilous’ position to-day that the Union did in 1858—it is a house divided against itself. There is an irrepressible conflict raging within the party between mono- metallists and bimetallists, and the con- flict must continue until one side triumphs completely. Not only is a surrender of convictions improbable, but it is also im- politic. If the Democrats adopt. a | straddling platform and nommate a straddling candidate 1n 1896 he will receive less votes than a straight goldbug or a straight-out advocate of free silver. He will lose votes from all sources without drawing votes from any source. “The World-Herald suggests that the Democratic National Committee be pe- titioned to submit the silver question to a primary election. Let it be understood that the National convention shall adopt a platform and nominate a candi- date in accordance with the views ex- Pressed at the primaries. “It is not probable that the gold- standard Democrats will consent to a primary election, because they dare not submit the gold standard to the rank and file of the Democratic party.. But whether the gold-standard members of the National convention will consent to a primary elec- tion or not, the Democrats who believe in the_ gold and silver coinage of thepconsti- tution and desire the use of silver 6n equal terms with gold should at once organize pared with the jawbone of Teddy, which | #nd demand of the National organization the right te vote on the silver question at a primary election. ‘ ““The Democratic party must cease to be divided or it must fall.” gl g BT GOVERNOR BRADLEY’S BOOM. The Kentuckian Launched as a Vice- Presidential Candidate. INDIANAPOLIS, Ixp., Nov. 6.—John C. New baving made a chance remark Tuesday to the effect that if Colonel Brad- ley was elected it would make him the Re- vublican candidate for Vice-President w: to-night pressed for an elucidation of his remark and said, speaking for none but himself: “The election of Colonel Bradley as Gov- ernor of Kentucky — the first practical break of the Solid Ssuth—argues the fact that sectional lines no longer, as between North and South, divide the people upon issues that are of National importance. The Republican party, following the ex- ample of General Grant at Appomattox, is desirous of having a united country for the benefit of the whole country. “It is anxious to oblterate sectional lines. 1t will now recoguize, I believe, in the election of Colonel Bradley as Governor of the State of Henry Clay, the great ex- ponent of protection, that Republican vrinciples are pervading the whole coun- try. *“It would be an exceedingly fitting time for the next Republican Convention to nominate for Vice-President the first man who has succeeded in successfully contest- ing a race in a Southern State on Repub- lican principles. The logic of geography, as well as recent events, points to the elec- tion of Harrison as President and Bradley as Vice-President.” DECIDES FOR MAGUIRE { Secretary Smith Rules Against the Claims Made by Moore. Not Entitled to Land as a Licensee of the Southern Pacific Com- pany. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 6.—Secre- tary Smith has rendered a decision in the case of Moore vs. Maguire, which came up from San Francisco. He had formerly de- cided that Moore was entitled to land as a licensee of the S8outhern Pacific Company, notwithstanding the fact that he had made | no application to purchase from the com- pany prior to January 1, 1883. Maguire's lawyers filed a motion to review this de- cision, and on the arguments presented by tnem the Secretary was obliged to re- call his first decision and holds that Moore cannotclaim as a licensee, for the reason that he made no application to purchase from the company until in 1889, and as he was not an actual settler, with intention to purchase from the company, the land is awarded to Maguire, who is a honiesteader. The land invotved is within the tract forfeited by the act of September 29, 1890, and the decision is consequently of consid- erable interest to others who claim land under the forfeiture act and whose cases are similar. e Mile Record Lowered. LOUISVILE, Kv., Nov. 5.—At the Foun- tain Ferry track this afternoon Arthur Gardner of Chicago broke the world’s rec- ord for one mile, paced, flying start, by riding the distance in 1:42 4-5. This breaks Windle’s record of 1:46 1-5. e s a FRAKER'S LOO REFUNDED. Insurance Companies to Lose but a Few Thousand Dollars. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 6.—By agree- ment of all parties concerned a decree was entered by Judge Phillips in the Federal court to-day whereby the insurance com- panies which paid nearly $10,000 to the heirs of Dr. George W. Fraker will recover all the money except about $4000, which has been spent by the executor of the will in administering on the estate of Dr. Fraker and in prosecuting suits against the insurance companies. SO gl Zost at the Races. TOPEKA, Kaxs., Nov. 6.—Postoffice In. pectors W. E.*Cochran and George M. Sutton have found a shortage of $3313 in the accounts of Frank Mileham, money clerk in the Topeka Postoffice, who had been employed in the office for nine years. The morey has been withdrawn within the last month. Mileham says it was lost on racehorses. —_— Bank Failure at Leadville. LEADVILLE, Coro., Nov. 6.—The Lead- ville Savings and Deposit Bank closed its doors to-day, assigning for the benefit of its depositors and credits. About $75,000 of the fands of Lake County are tied up in_this | bank. P. W. Breene is President of the bank. He turned over all his personal | property to the assignee. TO EXTEND COMMERCE. Prominent Speakers Will Discuss How the Burdens of Shipping May Be Removed. A meeting will be held at the Chamber of Commerce to-morrow afternoon at 2 o’clock, to take under consideration the question of removing from the shipping of this port the charges now borne by it. Addresses will be delivered as follows: ‘‘State Taxation of Shipping,” George W. Dickey and Hon. James G. Ma- guire; “Wharfage, Dockage and Tolls,” W. L. Merry; ‘“Compulsory Pilotage,” Hugh Craig; “‘Obstructions in the Har- bor,” Hon. Eugene F. Loud. After which the various topics will be open for general discussion. The conference has been called at the instance of the Ship-owners’ Association of the Pacific Coast. There will be present Tepresentatives of the following named organizations: Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco, Board of Trade of San Francisco, Traffic Asso- ciation of California, Menufacturers’ and Pro, ducers’ Association of California, Board of Manufacturers,and Employers of California, Morchants’ Association of San Francisco, Half: million Club of Sen Francisco, Mechanics' Institute of San Francisco, State Development Committee of California. A letter from the Ship-owners’ Associa- tion, making announcement of the pro- posed meeting, contains the following: This movement, originally started by tbe Ship-owners’ Association, has grown to such proportions that it has become & movement of the entire commercial element of the City. The idea of liberating the commerce of the City from the unnecessary burdens now borne by it needed only to be ‘advanced to-be eagerly taken up by all persons affected by commerce, although not owning veasals. It appears to have been universally per- ceived that the practical way in which the &x;ogmu and_prosperity of San Francisco ean assured is through an extension of her maritime commerce, and that her commerce cannot be extended while weighted down with its present burdens. Hence, all those people who have been seeking by various means to advance the prosperity of the City have eager! taken up this movement. The meeting on Fri- dl{ ‘will be presided over by Mayor Sutro, and will in all respects be a convention of the citi- zens of San Francisco rather than a meeting of ship-owners. e —————— The eyelids close involuntarily when the eye is threatened in order that’ this or- gan may be protected. If a man had to think to shut his eyes when something Wwas thrown at them he would be too slow | to save the eye from injury, DEATH TO ARMENIANS Fresh Massacres Reported From All Portions of Turkey. DOOMED BY THE SULTAN. Growing Belief That He Has Ordered the Extermination of the Race. ON THE EVE OF A CRISIS. Decisive European Action Likely to Be Taken Without Further Delay. LONDON, Exg., Nov. 6—The Standard to-morrow will. p the following dis- patch from Co; tinople under date of November 5: > The Embassadors met again yesterday. Tt is rumored that we are on the eve of de- cisive European action. A great Moslem demonstration had been arranged for November 1, but the Sultan, fearing the consequences, sent a notice io .the Turkish newspapers of his intention to proclaim a constitution. This becoming known the affair was countermanded. An- other order was then issued which can- celed the previous order. The arrests then began. The police last evening raided the Turkish quarter of Sedik Pasha and were resisted. Many lives were lost in the conflict. N A fresh batch of revolutionary placards were posted to-day, some of them at the Porte. It is said that a letter was found on the Sultan's table urging him to abdicate within ten days, and declaring that unless he heeded the warning he would be mur- dered. Reports of wholesale massacres reach the embassies from all directions. The victims include Maronites and Greeks. The opinion grows, even in diplomatic circles, that the Sultan has o#dered the extermination of the Armenians. The ex- citement is spreading to Syria, Bagdad and Mossoul. A Constantinople ‘dispatch which the Chronicle will print to-morrow says-it is reported that a battalion of regular troops has surrendered to the Armenians at Chikour Hissai, near Zeitoun. The same dispatch says that an English resident of Constantinople has learned from his business agent that a number of vietims of the’ massacre in Anatolia must be estimated at 1000. The Standard to-morrow will print the following dispatch from Vienna: The Porte in replying to the demand of the foreign Embassadors for restoration of order throughout the Turkish empire, an- nounces that the reserves in the Trebizond district had already joined the colors and that others were joining elsewhere. More- over the members of the Reaif (or Land- webr) of ‘the first ‘class ‘had ‘been sum- moned and” were marching to join their regiments, MEN AVERSE TO STRIKING. A Significant “Review of the Situation on the Great Northern. Debs Will Use All His Efforts to ‘Pre. vent Treuble at the Present Time. Deep interest is being taken in this City in the strained relations between the Great Northern Railroad and the Ameri- can Railway Union, owing to the proba- bility generally believed that should there bea general strike on the road named similar conditions will spread to all the great railroads of the country, Few in this City are probably more familiar with the details of the present railroad labor situation than George W. Monteith, the attorney, who defended the strikers in the United States District Court in this Oity when they were on trial for conspiracy for the alleged obstruction of the United States mail. He has been in continual personal or written communica-/ tion with Mr. Debs and other railroad labor leaders. 3 “As to whether or not a general strike will occur,” he said yesterday, “‘is rather a difficult question to answer.” He then continued: I feel that the situation is decidedly grave, but I don’t believe that tie general union will order a strike or will turn its hand toward bringing one about. 5 From what I know to be the opinions of Mr. Debs and Mr. Hogan I am satisfied that they would look upon & strike as a most unfortunate matter for their own people. I believe that the local unions on the Great Northern will stand a great dcal before they will order a general strike. It does not seem to_be generally known, but itisa fact that Mr. Debs and his fellow-direc- tors have absolutely no control that would enable them to order a strike even if they wanted to. The American Railway Union isa purely democratic institution and can only act with the actual consent of the majority of its members who are directly interested. They had an agreement with the Great Northern that they lived up to fairly and in good faith, and_now the railroad company takes the initiative in & wiliful violation of its solemn compact. Whatis thg character of this agreement? As nearly as [ understand it, it was an agree- ment to maintain wages at the present stand- ard and to submit all questions of differences to arbitration. They have discharged nearly all of the men who were the leaders in the Great Northern strike a year and a half ago, as I am informed, simply asa matter of revenge onone hand and aggravation on the other. But there is something of far greater import back of that, It must be remembered that the Great Northern has been distinctly an Ameri- can Railway Union road; that is to say, its em&floyel nearly all belonged to that order, and the universal edict against Ameri- .~ }l_lilwuy Unjon men has no application to this lin This has been a thorn in the flesh of the American Railway Association, which is a re- habilitation of the old General Managers’ As- sociation, formed for the express porpose of accomplishing the total subjection of the rail- road employes of the country to the autocratic will of their masters and theultimate crystalli- zation of the railroads of the country into one gigantic monopoly that will in time destroy every semblance of competition. Recalling matters it is not difficult to see Wwhy an effort should be now made to precipi- tate a conflict on the Great Northern and at this particular time of the year. Every time the railway men strike and the strike is lost, or they are guilty of Anr violence or have it charged upon them, which attains the same object, their cause is set back that much, ‘he Great Northern road, it must be remem- bered, is further north than ln&nmfi line in the country, and the cold weather is already upon those who live along that line. Itis not an easy matter for men to strike when their %lfi!‘xmu will not only have to face the possi- of starvation but - the n&on of cold weather besides; therefore, it 18 & most opportune time for Mr. n Hills - corporation to drive the American Reilway Union from its line by discharging its members and replacing them with others at less wages; and when that is done the power Of hiis men o resist further aggression will be atan end, and he may reduce their wages at preasure. The other railroads of the country know that the effect of this will be to discour- age and dishearten their own employes; that it will throw opprobrium upon the American Railway Union, which is the only means avail- able 1o the reilroad workingman to maintain his rights. By forcing the issue at this time of the year they hope to disorganize and disrupt the labor- ing people to such an extent as to paralyze their political action a year hence. If they are able to force the issue now, they Will doubtless win. If it is delayed & year. they are just as certain to lose, for by that time toe whole American peopie will wake up to the Teal condition of things that was illustrated last summer, when Eugene Debs went to jail for a crime he never committed, while C. P. Huntington went to Europe as the result of the generosity of a Federal court in New York and ederal officials in San Francisco, to contem- plate how much more comfortable it is to com- miterime as a railway magnate than to be ;{mrged with its commission as a railway em- oye. In short, I donot believe there will be any- thing like a goneral strike if the American Railway Union can possibly avoid it, because I believe that Mr. Debs will use all his influ- epce to prevent the happening of the very thing the railroads most desire. WHAT THE MEN SAY. American Rallway Union in This State Will Take No Action Unless It Cannot Be Avoided. There is no likelihood of any sympa- thetic strike by the American Railway Union in California, uniess it cannot be avoided, according to what the members of the San Francisco union say. 'Both President L. E. Stinson and Vice-Presi- dent F. 8. Oakes, the new officers recently elected, were seen yesterday, and also ex- President Ed Marlatt. Messrs. Stinson and Oakes have been up north for several months and returned only about a month ago. Mr. Oakes was formerly president and Mr. Stinson secretary of the local union. “I do not think there will be any strike here,” said President Stinson, “but of course I do not know what the members of the union may ultimately decide to do. One thing you can be assured of, there will be no strike for a while anyway, because it takes some time to bring about a strike, and it has not been seriously talked of yet. *I suppose you know that the president of a union has no power to call any strike, though the impression seems to have been received by the public and acted upon by the courts that the Pullman strike was or- dered by Eugene V. Debs, president of the National union. This impression is en- tirely wrong.” Vice-President Oakes then explained the Inodus operandi of calling a strike as fol- ows: A president has less power in the American Railway Union than any such officer in any other organization. A strike can only be or- dered by a two-thirds vote of tie division, and a strike of an entire system can only be brought ;ihout by two-thirds of the divisions voting or it. n here. This is known as and extends from San Francisco to San Luis Obispo. If we should conclude to go én a strike the matter would have to come up on amotion by one of the members, and, as I heve said, such a motion could only carry by a two-thirds vote. Now, the Pacific system extends all the way from Portland, Or., to El Paso, Tex. At Oakland is a union covering the division from there to Fresno; at Bakersfield another union covers tie division irom Fresno to Mojave; at Sacramento is another whose juris- diction extendsto Red Bluff, and at Dunsmuir one extending to Ashland, Or., and =o on all through the entire system. Thus you see & strike of the entire system would take some time to be acted u}mn. since it would have to have two-thirds of these divisions in its favor. Of course I admit that if the emergency existed we could all act pretty promptly, but there is 1o particular reason for us going out as yet. Iknew last June that the Great Northern men would strike. The men have been talkin about it all summer. They have F]enxy o grievances and good reason for striking. President Stinson told of some of these grievances. He said: When President ‘“Jim” Hill of the Great Northern said he was paying Engincer Best 206 per month.he forgot to add that the rakemen right behind him got only $45 per month. Here is the scale of wages which the Great Northern has been pa)‘ing: Engineers $4 15 per 100 miles, firemen $2 40 per 100 miles, conductors 3 cents per mile and brake- men 2 cents ‘;ur mile. On its face this may not look bad, but you must consider that while it was all right for the men on the prairie runs the men on_the mountain runs did very poorly, though their work was much harder and, of necessity, slower. The mountain runs are no more than 110 miles long at the most and many of them are less. One is only 60 miles, but it isso hard that 100 miles is allowed for it. The prairie runs are all the way from 150 to 200 miles long. Naturally the moun- tain men work at great disadvaniage by com- parison of compensation. Mr. Hill is simply using the wages he paid to Engineer Best as a play to the gallery. William Best was the man who did_ splendid work in rushing his train through the Hinek- ley (Minn.) fire, saving a great many lives. The only reason he discharged Best was that the latter was one of the conierence commitiee of ;1}0 American Railway Union that called upon him, The opinion of Vice-President Oakes was that the Great Northern strike might ex- tend to its Eastern ' connections, namely, the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy and the Wabash, but unless the strike became Feneml all over the country it would hardly affect California. At any rate all the divisions of tlie Great Northern have not yet gone out. The principal ones so far out are those at the Hillyard shops and Spokane, Wash.; Kalispell,” Mont.; Devils Lake, N. D.; and St Cloud, Minn. The majority of ‘the Great Northern men, it was said, are members of the American Railway Union. The local union met lasi night and voiced expressions of sympathy with the strikers. No action other than this was taken however. The principal business with which it is now engaged is the new ritual the order has adopted and to install the new officers. The new local secretary is C. J. de Leda and the treasurer D. Shaffer. The delegates to the Labor Council are yet to be chosen. Eugene V. Debs is to be out of prison on the 11th inst. No visit to this City is ex- pected. Tt is said he will go at once to Terre Haute, Ind., which is the present headquarters of the American Railway Union. Organizer James A. Hogan, who is in Utah at present, may come here soon. e ot BOUND TO HAVE A LICENSE. After Pricing 'Them He Could Only Have a Dog. A bewhiskered man, who didn’t look as prosperous as some of those behind him, pushed himself to the front of the line in the City Comptroller’s office yesterdav, and stood at the license window. “Is this where they get wagon licenses?"” he asked the clerk. ‘“Yes, this is the place; pay your money upstairs and bring the receipt down here,’’ was the reply. _‘“‘Lemme see. How much is a wagon license?” m%uired the unprosperous man, as he fingered his pocket. “1t will cost you §3.” “No less’en that?"" ‘'No, that's the price regulated by law.” ‘“How much for an express license?’ “That will cost you §1 25.” ‘“Well, I can’t afford it. I'll run my old wagon in the shed and turn my horses out to pasture. Iain’t got money enough and can’t borrow it.”” “Well, 'm sorri —2 “Say, how much is a dog license?” ““One dollar.” ‘“Well, gim’me one. That's all I can afford.”—Indianapolis Journal. e Confining the Witness to Facts, The characters of three Bangor cats have been called in question, and the Supreme Court at Bangor is considering whether the cats are really guilty of the crime charged, viz.: The killing of 320 chickens. “I heard a report,’” said a wilness in this celebrated case. “Never mind what reports_you heard,” interrupted the law- er. “State only what you know.” “But t was the report of a.gun,’”’ remarked the |- witness, whereat bench and_bar laughed without reproval.—Augusta (Me.) Journal. AID FOR THE CUBAKS, Two Large Expeditions Sail From Halifax for the Islands. DODGED THE PATROLS. Authorities Learn When Too Late of the Departure of the Vessels. CARRY ARMS AND AMMUNITION. Fast Schooners Purchased From Cana- dian Agents Convey 'the Supplies. HALIFAX, N. 8., Nov. 6.—A short time ago, owing to the rumors that Cuban fili bustering expeditions were leaving Cana- dian ports, the customs officers made ex- traordinary preparations to prevent any breach of the neutrality laws, but from in- formation which they have received to-day it seems that their extreme efforts to pre- vent such action being taken have been fruitless. While the information came too late for the ‘authorities to interiere, it is known that two expeditionis have left for the West Indies during the last three days, and that the expeditions were fitted out in Canadian ports. That there were a number of Cuban agents in Canada looking for every chance to benefit the cause of the patriots was known to the authorities, but, owing to the strict watch which was kept on all the coast ports, it was not thought possible that any vessel could leave without the na- ture of its cargo and its destination being known. To-day, however, one of the revenue patrol vessels came in with the informa- tion that yesterday it had sighted two suspicious vessels leaving the harbor. It signaled them to ‘‘heave to,”” which they did, and thinking that they were all right it did not take tvhe trouble of boarding | them for an inspection The authorities | learned later that the two vessels in ques- | tion, after leaving the harbor, had gone to Swaa Cove, a little below Halifax, and | there had taken on a large supply of men and stores, including several cases of arms and ammunition. These facts were learned from one of the patrol of the coast guard, who had been seized and held untul the | ! sailing of the ve The author; vestigation, which led to their finding that | during the month several wmysterious strangers had been making efforts among | Halifax shipping agents to purchase two | fast schooners, and that early last week | they effected a purchase. the shipping agent, who, it is alleged, soid | the vessels, confirms the rumor. The customs authorities have no direct information, but from the facts at hand | the expedition is undoubtedly the largest yet sent from the mainland to Cuba. RAN ON TO THE ROCKS. Hamburg - American Liner Canadia Ashore Off the Little Metis Light. QUEBEC, Quesgc, Nov. 6.—The Signal Service reports from Little Metis Light say that the German steamship Canadia of the Hamburg - American Packet Company, from Hamburg and Antwerp for Quebec and Montreal, with a general cargo and passengers, 1s ashore at Little Metis Light, 175 miles below Quebec, with her bottom cracked and tanks full of water. The pas- sengers and crew are safe. The Canadia had on board eighty-three passengers. All of them were safely landed at St. Ulrica, a small village on the coast at the mouth of the river Blanc. They proceeded from there to Little Metis,where they are now quartered. in charge of the purser of the ship. s at once started an in-| The Rebels Defeated by Portuguese. BOMBAY, Inpia, Nov. 5.—Advices re- ceived here from Goa, Portuguese India, show that the Portuguese expedition sent against the rebels has defeated them at Cudnem, killing twenty-five and wounding thirty. The Portuguese loss was tritling. It isYiKeiy that this defeat will put an end to the rebellion. S Due d’Harcourt Dead. PARIS, ' France, Nov. 5. — Charles Francois Marie, Duc d’Harcourt, head of the d'Harcourt-Brevron family, and for- merly &8 member of the Chamber of Depu- ties, died suddenly of apoplexy 1n this city to-day. He was born in Paris June 2i, 1835. et Reopened Its Doors. MONTREAL, Quesec, Nov. 5.—The Banque du Peuple, which suspended pay- ment July 15, reopened its doors this morning. The wicket of the paying-teller was at once surrounded by a large crowd of depositors to draw 25 per cent which the directors had decided to pay. —_— The Belgic at Hongkong. LONDON, Exa., Nov. 5.—The British steamer Belgic, Captain Walker, from San Francisco August 24, via Yokohama, which was ashore at Kings Point, Japan, and was floated and brought to Yokosuka prior to October 11, arrived at Hongkong to-day. e Loss of the Inchulva. LONDON, ExG., Nov. 6.—Advices from Concepcion, Chile, state that the British steamer Inchulve, from Cardiff, via Las Palmas for Acapulco, before reported wreccll:ed, foundered. All on board were saved. —_—— Brig and Crew Lost. LONDON, Exa., Nov. 6.—A dispatch from Yarmouth says that a brig, the name or nationality of which could not be ascer- tained, foundered off that place to-day and all on board were los t To Double Their Typewriter Plant. The decision of the Remington Type- writer Company practically to double the capacity of their already extensive works tutional diseases like Catarrh require con- stitutional remedies. This is why you cannot cure Catarrh by inhalants, snufts o1 iocal a{‘;p]!cation!. The true method of cure is to purify the blood | and expel the disease germs by taking ' | ood’ Sarsaparilla The One True Blood Purifier, Inquiry from | at Ilion, N. Y., is very significant of a gen- ernl_ jmprovement in the busimess oute look, for the tvpewriter is now so inti- mately connected with every form of A\hannx}ul actvity that the prospenity of the manufacturing iudustry serves gqn_\'emenl barometer of general trade ¢ a)lml:]s._ The Kem_ingmn peovle will erect N additional building, 150x54 feet, six stories high. Thisis to be complete e & = kS pleted at °¢ and will be equipped as speedily as {‘:‘x;“l;}v. for the demand is so large as to m-m\”‘ l;rusem. capacity of the plant to its RN “eftn'ek-lse }u:: ivly‘mrcm lfnrl the fu- 2 e business w. sight.—New York Tribune. ST Eeew ——— e DANGEROUS FOOTBALL. Harmful and Demorali ing to Students, and Leads All Sports in Fatalities. So R\r‘us the brutality of football is con- cerned there can no longer be two sides to the question, writes Edward W. Bok in the November Ladies’ Home Journal. The most uncompromising advocates of the game have conceded this fact. It one game ufv college fontball differs from an- other it 1s purely and simply in its degree of brutaiity. How disastrous and fatal were these displays last year will be brought home more directly to people when by care- fully computed figures it is shown that forty-six deaths resulted last year from col- legiate games of football within a short period Of four months. No record has, of course, been kept of broken ears,lost visions and other distigurements. As'a matter of fact there is no sport practiced by any. civilized nation which can equal a record of forty-six deaths in four montns, * % #* When we regard the effects upon the players we meet s condition of things equally serious. Leaving the ph: 1in- juries entirely out of the question game of football, as it is played to-day, is an absolute detriment to the mental develop- ment of those who participate in it. 1 have, during the past six months, been at some-pains to carefully inquire fnto the class standing of the men who comprise college football teams, and the results were interesting. In two cases I found that_the majority of the football players stood among the lowest in their classes, while in the other two instances this same fact was true of one-half of the members of the teams, * * * TFurthermore, the so-called ‘““fame” which is bestowed upon these college football players is directly injurious. Their lives are ex- ploited, their portraits are printed, their every movement is chronicled until the subjects are made to feel a prominence which is at once preposterous and absurd. Before a boy hardly out of his fitting school he is spoiled by a misplaced im- portance of himself and a mistaken ‘fame,’’ the evil effects of which he carries with him throughlife. * * * Nor isthe effect on other students a wholesome one. It requires a strongly balanced mind, such as is rarely given to a growing boy, for a young man to pursue a craving for knowl- edge when all around him he hears noth- ing but football talk and sees the men next to him become'the talk of the country. It strikes for him, at the very outset of his career, a false note. 52 0SS S HYDRAULIC LIFEBOAT. Over Nine Knots an Hour Attained at a Speed Trial. A new hydrauli t lifeboat has just been tried in England. The propulsion of the vessel is effected by means of a nearly horizontal centrifugal pump, having an impeller 30 inches in diameter, driven | direct by a compound surface condensing , having cylinder ¢ inches and n diameter, with a stroke of 12'inches. The pump is fed by an inlet ships and delivers through four out- 1 the side of the boat—two for motion abedd, one on each side below the water aft, and two for motion astern, above water forward. The engines only run one way; the direction of motion of ‘the boat being governed by valves in the discharge pipes of the pump, which are manipulaied rom the engine-room or by the an:{rs- man, who ean cause the boat to turn on her center independently of the rud The speed attained was 9.25 knots. gineer (New Yo = High prices never made good clothes. Good clothes mean some~ thing else besldes good cloth and trimmings. It means that fine fin- ishing touch that issorare. Itmeans “style” and ‘“‘tone.” Just examine "the “hang” of those Elack Worsted Suits we are selling at $12 50 and $15 and you’ll know what we mean. Double-seated and Double-kneed Boys® School Suits $5. Do you know our 50-cent Neckwear ? English Top Coats 812 50 to $35. All-Wool Trousers $3 to $11. “THE HUB,” & CORNER Kearny and Sutter. ~——NO BRANCH STORES ANYWHERE—— Itisthemedicine above all others for catarrh, and is worth its weight in gold. Ican use Ely's @l Cream Baln with safety and it does all that is claimed for it—B. W. Sperry, Hartford, Conna TARRH ELY’S CREAM BALM Upens and cleanses the Nusal Passages, Allays Patn and Inflapima- , Heals the Sores, Frotects the Membrane colds, Restores the Senses of T:gte ant L The Balmis quickly absorbsd and gives. rellef at once. A particle is applied 1ato eaeh nostril and ig agrseable. Price 50 cents at Druggists or by mal o ELY BROTHEKS, 56 Warren A GOOD BELT Sellson its merits, but 1t takes big advertising 10 sell & poor one. This small advertisement will give you our ad- dress. Call and “Dr. Pirrce’'s Galvanic Chain BELT” will do the rest. 23 Free Pamphlet No. 2 tells all about it. Address MAGNETIC ELASTIC TRUSS CO., 704 Sacramento St., cor. Kearny, 5. F. Dr. Gibbon’s Dispensary, 5 KEARNY ST. 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