The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 8, 1895, Page 6

6 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1895. THOUSANDS ARE AGAINST THE FUNDING BILL, Mass-Meeting at Metropoli- | tan Temple Jams the | House. 1 MANY HAD TO STAND.| Prominent Speakers Were Ap- | plauded and Cheered to | the Echo. | STRONG RESOLUTIONS PASSED. The Enthusiasm Was at Fever Heat. | Addresses of Those Who Spoke | Against the Bill. If Mr. Huntington and his friends had 1y idea that the funding bill is a popular measure in Francisco, they were proba undeceived by the feeling ex- pressed at the monster mass-meeting held | San by a system of espionage, of threatened and actual punishment. they haye managed to make cowards of honorable and patriotic citi- zens. They have set before our youth an ex- ample that has sapped the very foundation of honesty and patriotism. Would there be any bosses if concentrated capital did not create them? The bribers are | the truly guilty; the bribed are the result largely of strong temptations placed 1n their | path when they are already half willing to ac- cept them. The great money power on earth is the Bank f England. Its capital stock is £14,000,000 or §70,000,000. 1i we have heretofore lived under terrorism what will be the result if the oppressors are strengthened to the extent of $30,000,0007 | Vhy, under such a noxious power used for evil we shall continue dependants and slaves for half a century or more to come. These corporations have become insolent, | arrogant and overbearing; they constitute | themselves into a secret tribunal to deal out | justice or rather injustice; they punish those | Who have the temerity to oppose them; they | threaten financial ruin to any one who dares | resist their schemes against the people. Why do we not have competing overland railroads? Why do we not have the Nicaragua © ? Because the octopus, by bribery, chi- | v end misrepresentation, has managed to | at these beneticial undertakings. | Why do we have exaggerated port charges to | keep out the competition of shipping? Sup- posing a storekeeper should charge admission | to his store and exact a fee for standing-room in front of his counter—would he, think you, have any customers? That is what the octopus forces us to do with | our shipping; it makes us overcharge itand drive it away,and thus strengthen the railroad monopoly. Through the machinations of this hydra- headed monster we are crippled, impoverished, intimidated and enslaved; and shoulder to shoulder, as one man, we should now stand | c d MAYOR SUTRO MAKING HIS SPEECH. at Metropolitan Temple last night to pro- | test against the passage by Congress of | such a matter. Long before the hour for the meeting to | be called to order arrived thousands of | people had assembled about the entrances 10 the building and hundreds had already taken their seats. As prominent men who were to act as vice-presidents or speak | against the bill made their appearance, they were cheered and followed into the hall eir admirers. ‘When Mayor Sutro, who acted as chair- | man, rapped for order not 2 chairin the | ast hall was unoccupied and the aisles | and spaces under the galieries were | packed. The gallery itself was crowded to | 1ts utmost capacity, many being seated on | lead from the entrances to the | s the platform. And it stic patriotic audience that listenea attentively to the speakers | and applauded to the echo references to the country’s welfare and the efforts being made to bring the railroad to ! & realization that its debts must be | id. Aseach of the prominent citizens | oke was introduced by the cha man he was cheered and applauded un. til it became apparent that he was ready | and then the noise ceased in- | . The vice-presidents who occu- | pied the platform in addition to the speak- ers and the ehairman were: Judge E. W. McKinstry, Oscar Lewis, J. Richard Freud, Charles Ashton, Joseph Britton, I. J. Truman, Stewart Menzies, H. L. Dodge, George K. Fitch, John T. Doyle, F. V. Cator, Dr. Frank Cornwall, Max Popper, E. 5. Barney, W. M. Bunke N. P. Cole, J. E. Scott, Joseph Leggett, V W. Thompson, M. McGiynn. George T. Gaden, W. M. Coward, O. D. Baldwin, Charles M. Sutro and George W. Monteith! Mayor Sutro opened the meeting with an address, which was as follows: Fellow-citizens, Ladies and Gentlemen—This | is the third year that we have assembled in this hall to protest against the passage of a | funding bill. Twice the snake has been scoiched—not killed. It rises up again like a hydra-headed monster, this time confident and sure to thwart the will of the people. There is sack in Washingron which s ex- pected to accomplish that Tesult; whether it will or not will soon be ascertained. We are on the eve of a Presidential election. Will any party dare 1o go before the Nation under & suspicion and charge that it has been bribed to commit the greatest outrage ever perpetrated against the American people? 1i a burglar were to appear before a court of justice and_propose to pay for the stolen prop- erty, provided the courtgranted him sufficient time to make the payment, would that be tolerated? And yet this is pretty nearly what the Pacific railroads ask Congress to do. After haviug juggled everything of value be- Jonging to these Toads into their pockets, these } corporations declare they are willing to pay the debton the exhaustéd, arained property, | provided they are given forty-four years in whica to do it, trusting of course to future | Jegislation to wipe out the debt altogether. i & poor farmer mortgages his land he must, when the debt becomes due, pay it or the mortgage will be foreclosed. Will the Congress of the United States establish the principle | that the mortgage on these roads shall not be | foreclosed, and thus discriminate between tise | poor and the rich man? Shame upon the | American Congress that would indorse such a | proposition! The law must take its course in the one case as in the other. The greatest of all tribunals, tne people of | the United States, will in November next sit | in judgment on the proposition and this re- | ! iunding question will bc made the foremost | plank in the platforms of all parties. Is there any party that would dare to go before tne people for their votes on any such proposition? 1sey no. The people, in the might of their outraged rights, would wipe out such a party from the face of the earth. This is not & question of dollers and cents; it is a question of honor. The honorof the Na- tion is at stake. 1fany one hss the temerity to snsult the American flag, do we not resent it? Do we ask what it will cost 1o protect our fiag? Would we not send armies and navies, at the | expense of millions, to avenge the insult? Ifa | criminal is brought before a court do we ask | what the trial will cost? No; justice must be | dealt out and the accused, if found guilty, must be mnished. P. Huntington has issued a manifesto to Congress, in which he attempts to show that | the Nation will profit by the psssing of the | funding bill. Shame on such & plan when the | honor of the Nation is at stake! We, the people of the Pacific Coast, are slaves and have been made cowards by the terrorism | to'which we have been so long subjected. This arrogant and insolent corporation has dom- | neered over us until our liberties as American citizens have been nearly destroyed. By the eid ol a corrupt judiciary and a venal press, and | | for self-defense in every precinct of the City; | growing stronger? If you think thaton this account you can defy the law this meeting to prevent the perpetuation of this state of siavery. Let \)u demand justice from Congress: let us remind it that the passage of a funding bill is not justice tous. 1t would be rewarding dis- honesty, rapacity and oppression. Let us prove that our manhood is not dead, that the spirit of the Revolutionary fathers is still living, that we are not cowards nor slaves. Leto ung men form clubs or companies by word and deed the ladies ought toencourage their fathers, brothers and husbands to carry on the good work persistently, and once agaii the day of freedom will dawn and the sun of justice, honor and prosperity shine over our well-loved country. When the applause which greeted his words had subsided he introduced Mayor | | i John L. Davie of Oakland, who was re- ceived with cheers. He said: “I crossed the bay this evening to aid in pro- | testing against the refunding scheme of the Cen- ral Pacific Railway Company. A few mencame | ogether & few years ago with very little money | and a great deal of nerve to buiid a railroad | across the continent. When that road was | completed they found themselves mil- lionaires five = times over. Not _satis- | fied with that, they started in to| enslave your people. So far have they suc- ceeded that scarcely a representative of any mercantile firm dares (0 appear on a platform ana appeal against their rapacity. Bo arro- gent have they become that now they intend | to avoid by fraud and chicanery the payment | of their just oblieations. | We have created this corporation and now | we permit them tolaugh in their sleevesat | their creators. Just solong as this corporation can control the Legislature they will keep out out competition. If our Legisiatures for the last thirty years had done nothing but try to keep out opposition railroads they could not have done better. 1f you are men protest. Send back your rep- resentatives with instructions to sey to the railroads: “Pay your debts or we will take your roads and show you that we can run a Tailroad just s well AS We can run & post- office.” You have let this octopus throw its tentacles about you until now you arein its power. Colonel Thomas H. Barry said: We are assembled here to evidence by our presence that the Southern Pacific has not put any shackles upon (he people of California and the people of San Francisco. 1f the road is bankrupt. if there is nothing for the people to receive, then there is enau{m confidence in the integrity in the people of the United States to believe that if the mortgage is foreclosed the people of California can make it pay. If the ten speakers who speak here to- night devoted their time toa bare recital of the | mere iniguities which this corporation has perpetrated, it would not suffice for a litany of our wos We have no desire to-night fexcept to say | 10 these men who hold that the law is power- Jess that the very judicial arm of the Govern- ment which théy have so often paralyzed is confronted with so simple a proposition that they cannot escape it. 1f you owe money, pay it. The people of California say if you owe money you must pay it. We say if the rond is good enough for Mr. Huntington it is good enough for the people. Tmagine any country or community in the world wnere any discussion would be needed of such & proposi- tion. Only where the people, strong and pow- erful, have come to deubt their own strength. They have come to fear they have created monster 0 powerful they are afraid to cope with it. No man is so mean that the law shall not Srmecl him; noman is so great that he can defy the law. Do you say, Mr. Huntington, because you have robbed California, do you say because you are growing rich, while the necessaries in our littie homes are growing scarcer, you are says that California may vote Democratic this year and Republican next year, but whataver her politics may be so far as you are concerned you must pay your debts. %enry E. Highton on being introduced said: This meeting converges upon a single point, with two subdivisions. The point fn the re- lease of the people of the State of California from a more abject and poverty-breeding slavery to the existing overland railroads than they now endure. The two subdivisions are: First, the defeat of each and every measure that may be proposed in Congress for refund- ing the indebtedness of the Central Pacific Cmnpn)v: second, the immediate foreclosure of the morfgages held by the Government against thatcompeny. I take the liberty on my own account of adding a third subdivision, namely: the re- storation to the security held by the Govern- ment of so much of its value as has been il- legally withdrawn, and the conversion of the present holders of that withdrawn value into trustees for all the bondholders, including the Government, through the largest equity suit in history, based, however, upon ancient and - simple ' principles, and which, on the one hand, would not import into the litigation the Nationgl sympathy against a.direct attack upon the Palo Alto Universiiy, and, on the other, would exclude any possible aefense, based on a strained con- struction of the State constitution or of State legislation, defining the personal liability of stockholders in corporations. The argument on the main propositions be- fore the meeting has been long since closed. The people of this State, and all people, trans- acting business through the Centrai Pacific Raitroad Company, except the few thousand | within the sphere of its control or influence, are, and long have been, not only united, but intensely determined in their opposition to re- hlmding and in their advocacy of prompt fore- closure. Mayor Sutro then introduced Charles M. Shortridge, who said: I think you will all agree with me that Mr. Huntington’s nerve is all right. He may have defects elsewhere, but in that respect he com- mands admiration. We can hardly do other- wise than admire the nerve of men who went to the Governnent of these United States and asked it to give them money and backing enough to enable them to construct the great- est railroad on the face of the earth, while less | admirable, but not less nervy, was the cool manner with which, after the construction of the road, they proceeded toloot it and pocket the money. The proceedings of Mr. Huntington and his associates in these later days have shown no decline in their original nerve stock. They have builded palaces, bought diamonds, lived in prodigality and purchased princes. They have had moriey to assist impecunious foreign nobles to pay their gambling debts, money to construet sumptuons hotels and money to in- vest in the devolopment of Central Africa, but they have had 1o money to pay their debt to the Government. When a man is in debt and cannot pay he is generally in & baa situation, but these men are not. Huntington shows no signs of distress. His nerve is all right. The reason why the railroad corporation is unable to pay the debt it owes to the people is because it has never tried to pay. The cor- poration has employed able and brainy men to attend to many k inds of work, bu it lias never employed one to devise a means of paying that honest debt it owes to the Government that created it and subsidized i Mr. Hun- tington does not offer even to pay anything on account. Neither he nor his associates nor his prince make any attempt to curtail ex- enses in order to pay a cent. On the contrar e has had the audacity to ask the Gover. ment to fund the debt for 100 years at 2 per cent. After the first break, however, this was too much even for his nerve, and he has since offered to compromise on & plan to fund the debt for forty-four years at 3 per cent. Even & sand-lot audience could understand that proposition and see the mingled audacity and impudence in it. 2 One of the finest exhibitions of the nerve of the man is evident in his statement that he is trying to get the funding bill passed in the in- terest of California, and is ul(e:xdm% to it as a part of the business of the people. If he really thinks he is there to do any business for us we will send him word to-night that he can take Henry E. Highton. an immediate holiday. We have in Senator Perkins of the Republican party and Senator White of the Democratic party able men who are paid to attend to our business at Washington, and they have efficient help in the State delegation in the House of Representatives. These men are there to look after our affairs. They should tell Mr. Huntington he is not needed to look after the funding bill or any other part of the people’s business, and that it is the resolve of California to entrust her affairs to men who have less nerve, perhaps, but are more honest, more patriotic and more devoted to all that is implied in honesty and pe triotism. Charles A. Sumner was introduced by the Mayor. He said: The time has been when the brains are out the man would die. Time has been when a subject which has been intelligently discussed in a community would eventually be solved. It seems, however, that there is 10 be a re- presentation of the funding bill to Congress. It has peen said that the Government of the United States owes a great deal to the four men who were instrumental in constructing the Central Pacific Railroad. I deny it. The stimulus came from the people of this State. Long before any of these gentlemen were identified with the movement it had been can- vassed and projected. It was born of & popu- lar avpeal, and was made possible by the exi- gencies of the civil war. These people by their claims to gratitude insult the intelligence of every man who was in California at as early a date as 1856 and 1862. Yet C. P. Huntingion has the audseity to come forward, in behalf of these men, and say, “I did it.” Tt is said we must defeat this bill on the ground that if we | do not we will be enslaved. ‘What is the ground for that assertion? You pay to-day from %1 to $3 more on every article transported on this railroad than you ought to at just rates of transportation. You do this on road built by the people’s money. Is there no slavery here'? C. P. Huntington a few days ago said in re- gard to the election at Sacramento: “We do not try to interfere with elections except to op- se our enemies.” Who are thelr enemies? hey can be judged by the character of their friends. They are known as the men who are ready to do their work in conflict with the in- terests of the people. This Huntington bill is simply a scheme to avoid an honest debt. They say they are willing to pay, but not ready. When will they be willing? The answer is simple. They will be willing when they get ready. The Government by general and local patron- age gave to thisroad $440,000,000. More than $1,000,000,000 has been paid info their cof- fers, yet now they claim to be bankrupt. They say they will be ready in fourty-four years— when Colonel Crocker will be.74 yearsof age nnddths only one capable of delivering the goods. Notwithstanding the audacity of this cor- poration in again presenting this iniquitous bill, I am here to teil you they will pass it un- less the people of the” Pucific Coast rige upin their might and prevent it. You say the people will rise up and oppose it. Where is ihe representation that should be here on the platform this ovenlnfi. They are not here be- cause they fear their freights will be raised, or in some other way they will Le brought under ‘Pheit?e“u“ machinations of the Southern acific. This meeting will be published in the East to tae extent of about three lines. 1f it was a corporal’s guard and in favor of Huntington it woult:fiez acolumn. Your own public press, be 1t said to your honor, is unanimous in this matter, and though it takes a week toget there it will have its effect in Washington. If the people will be earnest and steadfast in this matter C. P. Huntington will again meet certain defeat. Are you prepared to pay freight and passenger rates to put more money in the capacious pocketsof C. P. Huntington? The Central Pacific cannot pay its debts while Huntington is rich from the lootings of the Central Pacific. i If American citizens allow themselves to be plundered in daylight.and then complain be- cause they have submitted don’t you think they deserve {t. It seems very strange to discuss such a uhn%le oroposition, but many queer things get through Congress, and C. P. flum,- ington has lost none of qlll ways that are dark. The following resolutions were then read by Becretary Keynolds, who prefaced the reading with a few earnest remarks. WHEREAS, Indifferent to defeat twice im-| PSS flicted, a third attempt is now beinfi made to Fuu.hrou h Congress & fundinibx 1 regard- ess of the fact that the people of this coast and the United States are almost unanimously op- posed to granting any new privileges to ‘men who have robbea the Government of its securi- ties, and who have the effrontery to demand an extension of time for many years ata low rate of interest on debts due to the people; and whereas, the honor and life of the Govern- ment are invoived in enforcing the obligations | gé l‘zhe rich as well as the poor; now, therefore, Resolved, That we demand of Congress that the Pacific Railroad corporation be dealt with as other aebtors are, and that the mortgages on their railroads be foreclosed. Be it further Resolved, That the chairman of this meeting is hereby empowered and requested to appoint a committee of fifty, for the purpoee of making this a permanent organization to oppose the passage of any funding bill by Congress. The resolutions were carried with a roar of enthusiasm that shook the house, A couple of socialists who were in the main body of the house attempted to in- troduce resolutions on the subject of Gov- ernment ownership of the railroads, but as it had been decided to discuss nothing but the funding bill the Mayor declared them out of order. Before declaring the meet- ing adjourned Mayor Sutro read the fol- lowing telegram froma ex-Congressman Caminetti: JACKSON, Cal. Mayor Sutro, San Francisco: Call a State con- vention. Permanent organization is necessary. This would arouse other States, thus crystalliz- ing the sentiment. To strain a point in favor of the railroads in this contest is treason to the people. A. CAMINETTL This was loudly applauded, as was also the following from Congressman Maguire: ‘WASHINGTON, D. C., Dec. 7, 1895, Mayor Sutro, Chairman mass-meeting Metro- politan. Temple: 1 congratulate you on your rompt acion. The voice of the peopie of ifornia defeated the funding bill in the last ongress, ana it will do it agein if properly called forth. The Pacific railroads must pay their debts or the mortgage must be fcre- clo; We may yet have a public trans. continental highway. JAMES G. MAGUIRE. F. J. Sullivan, Barclay H’enley, James Mayor Davie of Oakland. H. Barry, I. Richard Freud and Colonel Rogers were billed to speak, but the late- ness of the hour prevented. FOREIGN FAQTS AND FANCIES. Nearly $400,000 is the amount obtained from the bicvele tax this year by the ! French Government, the number of ma- chines deciared being just under 200,000. They are well spread over the whole coun- try, since Paris and the department of the Seine returns 38,000, less than a fifth of the to*al. Under the new French arbitration law there were fifty-one appeals by working- men last year and four by employers. The masters refused to arbitrate in twenty-four cases and the workmen in sixteen. There were 391 strikes during the year. At St. Augustine’s Walk, close to the parish church of Northbourne, near Dover, | the place where the apostle to the Eniesh | first settled, a memorial lichgate has been | erected, where biers may be put down | before entering the church. | Some 2400 Belgium 5-franc postage | stamps were recently discovered stowed | away in acupboard in a postoftice at Cureg- hem. All were obsoiete and therefore | valuable, and the Postoffice Department put them up at auction and sold them for 36,000 francs. From 8 in the morning to 8 in the even- ing 19,000 persous are traveling every hour between the Marble Arch at Hyde Park and the Mansion House in London. The current moving toward the city reaches its highest point, 11,000, at 2 o'clock; that moving west an hour earlier. A curious fact is thav there is not, as was supposed, a great current into town in the morning and a return current in the evening, but that the motion is nearly the same in both directions. The persons who travel on foot are twice as many as those who ride. The chateau of Amboise has been bought from the executors of the Comte de Paris by the Duc d’Aumale, who intends mak- ing it a home for the soldiers that fought under him in Africa, after which it will become a state museum like Chantilly. Charles VIII was born and died in the chatean; it was the scene of the bloody massacre following the Conjuration d’Am- boise in 1560, Leonardo da Vinci is buried in the chagel and Abd el Kader wasim- prisoned there for two years. In 1848 the chateau was confiscated, but it was given back to the Comte de Paris in 1872 by the National Assembly with the other domain lands that had {clonged to Louis Phi- lippe. The restoration of the chateau was begun twenty years ago by Viollet le Duc. —_— . ———— 1 +“Sporting Duches: Duchess—One law for the rich and an- other for the poor, indeed! Ishould think there was when a dressmaker can get a ver- dict against a Duchess like this, with costs, too, on evidence that was as false as the French accent she gave itin. What had the size of my waist to do withit? As my coun- sel said, it wasn’t evidence, and she said she’d never seen anything so much in evi- dence; and the court roared! My dear! The things that woman wags allowed to get up and say! Evidence! Impudence, I call it, when it wasn’t rank perjury. Not fit me, indeed! Why, as I told ’em, Busvine made me a habit that fitted me like a skin, and the Judge said, evidently the sort of habit that was second nature, and the idiots laughed. If there was one thing that was in worse taste than his summin up it was his jokes, and I told him so, an: he said I was guilty of contempt of court, ;:g?lu“[d' “What did such a court ex- Too Easy. "It'a"lnrd to tell just what the public ; gtu, said the theater manager, with a igh. ‘It hasn't struck me that way,” replied the treasurer. ““It seems painfully easy to me. Innine cases out of ten it Wwants its money back.”—Washington Star. ——————— Going Too Far. Anzxious In?nlrer—Au you the man that answers questions? Clerk—Yes. Anxious Inquirer—How much do you get a week ?—Somerville Journal. —————— : "l‘he author of the heautiful sacred lyric, “There Is a Green Hill Far Away,”.is Alexander, the wife of the Bishop of Derry, and all hymn-loving England is much cgg:erned because now lies at death’s . . CAMPBELLOFFERS TERMS His Reply to the Proffers of Agreement in the Lux Estate. FIVE SCHEMES SUBMITTED. He Is Willing to Have the Property Divided by Outsiders if Necessary. The latest phase of the litigation sur- rounding the old firm of Miller & Lux is | developing into offers of a compromise. | The German heirs of the estate of Miranda | Lux have been suing Henry Miller for an accounting of the affairs of the firm, and | within the last few weeks repeated offers | to compromise have come from various sources, particularly from Jesse Potter. Jesse Potter was at one time executor of the estate ot Miranda Lux, but some time | ago he vacated that position, and he is now suing to break the will on the ground | that the testatrix at the time of the ex- | ecution of the document was of unsound mind. | there, as if keeping an | —curtain. z has, among other field accessories, a case | of wooden decoy ducks. With these and a | little scheming he proposed to annihilate the coyote. | Having placed .the decoys in a sedgy | place in the lake, and kept his ducks con- | lined all day, he lay in concealment ready o shoot the coyote, but the rascal was too | smart and never showed a hair. The farmer gave it up in disgust, but neglected to remove his decoys. The next night the l woli went his rounds, and, finding the | painted decoys, carried them to the far- thest point on the lake, for what purpose I do not know; but when the ducks were released in the morning they immediately made for the decoys. The coyote was appointment, and Fixing his heart on vengeance and a percussion cap on his muzzle-loader the farmer made a systematic hunt for the coyote and found” him asleep on a ledge of rocks. The thief got a half-ocunce bail in his stomach, whicn, beinlgx unable to as- similate, he carried off a hundred yards, where it caused bis death. DR, W, . JOHNSTON DEAD. The Chair of Chemistry at Cooper Medical College Left Vacant. A Well‘Known Physician Who Figured Prominently in the Bowers Case Passes Away. Though Potter has made offers of com- promise there has never been any accepta- | ble plan for an agreement submitted. | Henry Miller, one of the firm, also wished the matter settled by agreement, if possi- | ble, but no plan has come from him by | which any end of the litigation may be amicably reached. The suit ior an ac-| counting means the settlement of the en- | tire affairs of the firm of Miller & Lux, | which were not in a very intelligible con- dition, and, as her property consisted | mainly of her interest in the firm, a settle- | ment of the estate of Miranda Lux and a | sa‘tli]sraction of the legacies left under her will. | J. H. Campbel!, attorney for the German | heirs, has now come forward from the | other side and has announced the terms | under which his clients will come to an | agreement. There are five propositions submitted, and Mr. Potter is hard to suit | if at least one is not found satisfactory. | His offer of a compromise, he claimed, was | made in the best of faith, but the German heirs have forestalled him in the terms | and have offered to Mr. Miller and to him- self, for the offer is not limited, all the | terms which seem feasible under the cir- | cumstances. Following is Mr. Campbell's letter to Henry Miller: | SAN JosE, CAL., December 3, 1895. Henry Miller Esq.~DEAR SiR: We have al- ready Written to you pointing out how incom- plete and objectionable is the agreement lately submitted Ly you. To show how earnest we are in seeking to have a settiement of the affairs of the firm of Miller & Lux we hereby ofter you all of the following plans,out of which you may take your choice: {8 rst the profits of the past eight months | But and the livestock on the lands lately parti- tioned should be divided at once and the bills receivable and overdue accounts putiuto the hands of collectors of the various localities for immediate collection and division, Further receipts should be divided monthly. 'As to the realty and the personalty naturally going therewith, any of these methods of divi- sion will be satisfactory to the heirs: 1. Divide said proper visions and {\'c us the right of choice. 2. Let the Lux heirs divide the property and take your choice, or let the cheice be deter- mined by chance or by bidding. 3. State an amount which you agree to take or glve for one-half of said property at the op- tion of the Lux heirs; 10 per cent within thirty days; balance in'ten equal vearly pay- ments; deferred payments bearing 6 per cent interest; compounded. 4. Select a commissioner; let the Lux heirs | select & second and these a third. Let this board divide the property into two shares and | v yourself into two di- | Dr. William D. Johnston, the well-known physician, died at the Lane Hospital, Clay and Webster streets, at an early hour yes- terday morning, after a painful illness of three weeks. The deceased medical man was well known not only to the profession of which he was an honored and respected member but to people of this City and State gen- erally, in consequence of the prominent positions he held as caief of the chemistry department of the State Mining Bureau for a number of years and until he ten- dered his resignation to Governor Budd last April; also through his occupying the chair of chemistry and toxicology in the Cooper Medical College from the founding of that institution up to the time of his death. In addition to these responsible and honorable positions, he had been fre- quently called into the courts as an expert in medico-legal cases. The most promi- nent of these were the celebrated Dr. Bowers case, where that medico had been tried and convicted of the murder of his wife by acministering piils containing a phosphorus substance, the ingredients o waich, on an analytical examination by Dr. Johnston, werz found in the woman's stomach; and the case of John Martin, r. = cently tried in this City. where the two widows of the deceased Martin brothers had legal complications regarding the ‘}yroperly left, with which the public is miliar. Dr. Johnston was born in Albany, N. Y., in 1846, and came to California with his parents when 8 years of age. He was edu- ceted in the public schools of San Fran- cisco, graduating from the High School, { after which he placed himself under the preceptorship of the celebrated Dr. L. C. Lane, and at the same time he entered the medical department of the State Uni- versity, from which he graduated in 1871, receiving the degree of doctor of medicine. By the faculty at the Cooper College, as well as by all his associates through life, the deceased was much esteemed asa genial, warm-hearted man. His funeral will ta place from the auditorium con- nected with Cooper College this afternoon at 1 o’clock, under the auspices of Mount Moriah Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons, of which lodge the deceased was a past master. In addition to this he was DR. WILLIAM D. JOHNSTON. [From a photograph.] let the choice or shares be bid for or settled by chance, or 5. Let the said board divide the property as they please. Choice to be settled as above. Let them also settle every controversy, e. g., how | and by whom the business shall be conducted, | ete. Any of these five plans will suit the German heir: f none are sfactory to you please state why and we may be able to remove the objection in some one instance. We should be pleased to have you submita | few rroposmom in_general terms as direet, simple and comprehensive as the ve for | our action. But no method of division which includes a continuance of the business seems to us feasi- ble which does not brace a co-operative management of it. Respectfully yours, J. H. CAMPBELL, for the German heirs. 00YOTE AND DECOOY DUOKY How a Poultry Farmer at Last Caught the Culprit. St. Louls Republic. Although the coyote is essentially the plains representative of the great wolf family, he sometimes invades the forest lands, greatly to the prejudice of the forest farms. Cunning and treachery being its marked characteristics, the coyote is no disgrace to its kind. Picture an ordinary prairie wolf with a last-stage-of-consumption ex- pression on his thievish countenance, his teeth habitually exposed to the yellowing influence of the arid region sum, and a spirit of gaunt hunger pervading his every look and action, and you have a good idea of Mr. Coyote of the plains. His cunning is illustrated by the follow- ing incident poul 'mer living in the Pinon timber, near Rio Piedre, a tributary of the Rio Grande, had consiructed a large reser- voir for the double purpose of affording water in time of drought and furnishing a swimming-place for a fine lot of Muscovy ducks. This brings us to the point. Those ducks were the pride of the coyote's heart, and more especially the stay of his stomach. His visits to the duckpond had the merit of regularity and the charm of success. 2 | The farmer is a great sportsman, and a member of California Commandery, Knights Templar, the order of Knights of Honor and the United Order of Workmen. The deceased leaves a widow and four children, two boys and two girls, the youngest of whom is 4 years of age. —_————— SHARK STOPS A STEAMSHIP. Nobody Believed the Yarn Until It Was Officially Confirmed. _In a series of shark stories recently pub- lished in a London weekly one of the yarn spinners tells this “rouser’ : _“I believe the record shark,” said Bil- lings, “‘is an old twenty-footer which they hemmed in in the harbor at Mauritius with lighters, and which the ebb tide left stranded in the mud.” ‘‘Babies, babies, all of ’em,” said Mus- Kl:ovl? {)‘to this shgrkl Did you ever see a shark big enou; to stop a P. . steamer of 8000 l%ns?” D S No one took it up; the silence was quite oppressive. “Well, this one,” said he, “was basking near the top of the water when the Hima- laya came steaming along, and she posi- tively cut half way through that shark, and the carcass of the big fish proved so great an obstruction that the skipper had to stop the engines and back off.” Offers to bet all sorts of things, from new hats to dozens of wine, that no shark ever fogled could have kept in one piece after being struck by the huge steamer, and further, that the whole story came out of an overworked brain, were showered upon the Australian, who subsequently ?roduqed a ty pewritten letter of wel;llch the ollowing is a true copy : PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM NAVIGA- TION COMPANY, 122 LEADENHALL STREET, Dear Sire Wo nal: U Ath October, 1895. 2 ir r: e have to acknow] - ceipt of your letter of the 2d innl.‘;dr!: ;:(lelc.u;e( your recent voyage in the Himalaya, and in reply thereto beg to ui that we have looked :gotkh;‘s‘h&p;s lgg, '2;':2 t “e lnciddal;t you reter to n the ult., and the log as follows: S e ¢8:34 A. M.—Shark foul of stem, “8:58—Stopped. “9:04—All clear. Proceeded full speed.” A somewhat similar incident occurred in the case of the Victoria in Apri last. We are, yours faithfully, D. B 1 J. D ATNES, For the Managing Directors. —————— Medical Missionaries. The success of the Christian medical missionary abroad is yielding new fruits. First there were a few men where now there are hundreds; then came the female medi- cal missionaries. who have achieved more than their male coileagues; then came female trained nurses, who are now to be found in the more thickly populated, non- Christian countries, and row, last_of all, native women are being sent to Europe and America, there to be educated as phy- sicians. The two who are in this country have i been re-enforced by Mei-Li-Shi and Ping- Yung-Cheng, two Chinese women, who are now studying medicine at Ann Arbor, Mich., and by two Chinese and one Japa- nese, who arrived last month, but have not yet matriculated at any collegiate in- stitution. In the London schools no less { than fifteen young women from Japan, { China, and especially India, are pursuing similar courses. One of these, an Indian princess, has gone so far as to be taking a special course at Oxfora University. The work which can be done by these women is far greater than what might be supposed. In all of these lands, but especially China and India, there is a profound prejudice against foreigners. It is not because they are foreigners, but merely because most foreigners have no caste or class distinc- tions, and violate those which prevail in the countries mentioned. A prince, an embassador, a consul, a general, a colonel, an admiral, a commo- dore and a captain are always welcomed in the East, because their position is as- sured and because they themselves observe a system of rank and etiquette which cor- responds very closely to their own. On the other hand, in the Oriert a merchant or business man has a very low caste. In addition to this complicated condition of affairs it is universally regarded as shock- ingly immoral for men and women to meet together socially. Woman’s society is composed exclusively of women and man’s of men. This accounts for the success of our female med- ical missionaries, where the males sometimes fail. When, however, the na- tive women who know and understand fully the nature of class ana caste in their own communities become qualified M.D.’s | they can penetrate any and every house- hold where sickness comes and, as Buddha remarked in one of his most touching fables: *‘‘mmortality is to be found in that house where sickness and death have never crossed the threshold.” The few Christians who are already carrying on their double duty of healer of the body as well as of the soul have had tte greatest success in both _capacities.—Margherita Arlina Hamm in New York Mail and Ex- pre: A party of miners from the Yukon River mines of Alaska arrived at Port Townsend last week with their pockets bulging with nnggets and gold dust. They had from $ 000 o $5000 apiece, the result of two years at the mines. - ! The Swedes of Chicago and Illinois are about to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of their settlement in Illinois. There are | at present 43,032 Swedish born citizeus in | Chicago, and about 75,000 in the State of Tllinois. ———————— | The London Galloway Association con- | sists of persons from Wigtownshire and the Stewartry of Kircucbridge and has a roll of about 200 members. The London Lamiriesshire, has a membership of about | equal size. DR. SHORES' COLUMN. S THIS WHAT AILS YOU? Read Carefully the List of Symp- toms Prepared by Dr. A. J. Shores for the Benefiof Catarrhal Sufi"erersf INEXPENSIVE (U3 Dr. Shores’ Fee but $3 Per Month Until Cured—All Medicines Fur- nished Free—Patients Living at a Distance Successfully Treated by Mail. SPEEDY AND Thousands of people are to-day suffering from the baneful etfects of catarrh, in one or the other ofits various forms, without any knowledge of the character of their ailment. Many diseases known under various specific names are really of catarrhal origin and na- ture. Every partof the mucous membrane of the nose, throat, ears, lungs, stomach, liver, bowels, kidneys and bladder are subject to disease and blight by catarrh. DR. A. J. SHORES, the eminent specialist, has carefully arranged a }ist of symptoms to enable many s;fl'erers to understand just what it is that ails them: “Is the breath foul ?” *1Is the voice husky ?” “Do you spit up slime 7" “Do you ache all over 2" “Do you blow out scabs 2" “*1s the nose stopped up ? “Do you snore at night 2" “Does your nose discharge ?” “Does the nose bleed easlly Is there tickling in the throat 1 “Do crusts form in the nose ?”” “Is the nose sore and tender “Do you sneeze a great deal s this worse toward night “Does the nose itch and burn “Is there pain in front of head 7 «“Is there pain across the eyes “Is there pain in back of head ?” “Is your sense of smell leaving 2" “Do you hawk to clear the throat ?”* “Is there a dm(rp(ng in the throat ? “Is the throat dry in the mornings “Are you losing your sense of taste “Do you sleep with the mouth open "' “Does your nose stop up toward night " “Have you a cough?” “Are you losing flesh?” “Do you cough at night?'* “Have you pain in side “Do you take cold easily?” “Is your appetite variable’ “Have you stitches in side? “Do you cough until you gag?” *‘Are you low-soirited at times?' Do you raise frothy material Do You cough 6n going to bed “Do you cough in the mornin; +Js your cough short and hacking “Do you spit u{- little cheesy lum! “Have you a disgust for fatty foods “Is there tickling behind the palate ‘“Have you pain behind breastbone?” “Do you feel you are growing weaker?” +Is there a burning pain in the thro Do you cough worse night and morning “Do you have to sit up at night to get breath?” 2 “Is your hearing failing 2 “Do your eyes discharge? «Are the ears dry and scaly " “Do the ears iteh and bur “Is the wax dry in the ears? “Is there a throbbing in ears? “Are you gradually getting deaf?" “Have you pain behind the ears?” «Js there a buzzing souad heard " “Do you have a ringing in the ears?” “Are there cracking sounds heard?”" s your hearing bad cloudy days?” Do you have earache occasionally 2! ‘Ate the sounds Jike steam escapin Do you constantly hear noises in the ears?” Do your ears hurt when you blow the nose? “‘Is there a roaring like & wuterfall in head? “Do you hear better some days than others?” Do the noises in the ears keap you awake crukh n you blow your nose do the ears “Is your hearing worse when you havea cold?” medicine used, which in no case shall $3I exceed $3 a month until cured. DR. A. J. SHORES co0., (INCORPORATED), Expert Specialists in the Cure of Catarrh and All Forms of Chronic Diseases. Parlors—Second floor Nucleus Building, cor- ner Third and Market streets, opposite Chron- icle Building. Office Hours—9 to 12 4. M., 2to5and 7 to 3 P, M.; Sundays, 10 to 12 A. M. Take elevator. Persons living at a distance write for symp= tom blank. TREATMENT FREE—The only charge will be for actual amount of