The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 15, 1896, Page 8

‘THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1896. A TARIFF WOULD SAVE US FROM THE JAPANESE. There is nothing that the champions of free trade can offer as a remedy against the inundation of the country by cheap | goods from the Orient, and a protective tariff, wisely adjusted to the needs of American labor, is the only remedy the brain of political economists has yet de- vised. It was shown in a general way in yester- day’s CaLL that, while the country isnot now suffering from an invasion of Japa- nese goods, the danger is not so remote as to quiet alarm. The wise man i;« he who provides against future calamities. The man, be he statesman or patriotic citizen, who lives heedless of the future is like an Indian who dies leaving no more estate than a horse or a woif leaves. Bryan him- self dwelt on the duty of leoking out for | posterity in his recent New York speech. , It might well be asked what the future of this country would be if posterity were leit to the hard luck of such competition as free trade leaves. Japan is industrious enough to provide for the market of the Orient and then reach out for the larger markets of Western civihzation. It is then that American artisans would be compelled to meet conditions that are wholly un-American, and it is under such stem that wages would sink to a mini- mum below anything ever seen in the New World. It is well, under such cir- cumstances, to study still more carefully the details concerning Japanese work and and cunning | a sy When Colonel Henry Pierce, a well- | known business man of St. Louis, was in | San Francisco about a year ago, on his | way from the Orient, where he had made | a thorough study of industrial conditions, | he said: “On all sides I have been amazed at the cunning, industry and endurance of the little brown men. They are entering upon an industrial career that is sure to do harm to every nation where the West- ern standards prevail unless checked by wise legislation.” In the same tone recently spoke Manu- facturer John Buel of Massachusetts after s thorough study of Japan and her indus- tries. How Free Trade, as Advocated by the Democtats, Would Inundate the Country With Cheap “My eyes have been opened,” he ai “‘to possibilities I had notdreamed of in the realm of cheap labor. Ido not want to be understood as saying that Japan is at this moment a menace to us or to any | | nighly civilized nation, but I do say that those who say a people such as the Japan- ese cannot compete disastrously with Anglo-Saxons minimize the dangers. “I further say that the course if let alone, the policy of iree trade is suicidal. | It reminds me of a man who takes a lion | cub into his house. At first it is as gentle as a cat, but some day its rough tongue | zets a hard lick at its master’s face, breaks the skin, tastes the blood, and then it de- vours its foster parent. I mean to say that trade is a civilized warfare, a strug- gle for supremacy and a struggle as fierce and merciless as the steel of Spartan glad- iators. We must say to the Orient, ‘Keep your wares for yourown people, or pay us the highest tariff.” That is the opinion of a practical man ot affairs, given deliberately against the theories of the *‘Boy Orator of the Platte,” who says the American workman ought to be forced to compete unaided against men of all sorts and conditions, irrespective of race, color or servitude. But the thought- ful protectionist, viewing the pauper Iabor ot the world, says, “Never shall an Amer- ican freeman be forced to meet the labor | of hordes of overworked and underpaid slaves in foreign climes.” It must be borne in mind that though Japan is more than 5000 miles away trans- poriation on the .ocean is phenomenally cheap. Sail charters can pe secured for | the voyage from Japan to San Francisco at $2 50 a ton, but the commerciai genius of the people is such that they are forgin, abead and will soon have great freight i passenger lines from their principal ports to America. Oriental Goods. The articles of trade between the two countries are chiefly cotton goods, manu- ‘iac!ured silks, rope, jute, carpets, bags, | iron products and iron machinery, but- tons, watches, matches, bicycies and | rubber goods. These are imported en- | tirely by steamer now, the freight from | Yokohama to San Francisco being usually | $8 per ton. Freights from Japan to New York have during the past year reached the low ebb.of 40 shillings per ton meas- urement. It will surprise the casual student of the Japanese question to know that more than sixty new factories of considerable mag- nitude have been built in Japan in the past three years. Mnng factories of all rades and sizesare now being constructed. fit was but a few weeks ago that the ma- chinery of the Pioneer Woolen Mills of this City was bought for use in Japan. Those who negotiated the deal provided for skilled American workmen to go to Japan and teach the natives every detail of conducting the business and operating the machinery. With the frugal tastes and great poverty of the vast majority of the Japanese it is reasonable to say that the Japanese demand will fall far short of exhausting the supply of goods under the era of renewed industry now practically at hand. The first important step after the cun- ning artisans of the Orient supply our markets will be to reach out with true commercial instinct for the markets of this country. How well they can some day do that is seen by a reference to mere facts | in detail. | Henry Norman, the well-known cor- ‘. respondent, has shown the dangers of the | Japanese as competitors, and has com- | pletely exploded the idea that they have no talent. He says: “The actual manual skill of the Japa- nese artificer seems remarkable to us, but it does not strike his fellow-countrymen as being much out of the common. In- deed, the traveler in Japan soon learns to transfer his wonder from the individual to the nation. This extraordinary people are born with a manual dexterity that is simply astonishing. This is true of every- body—men and women, low and high alike. The coolie will tie knots, repair a vehicle or lend a hand at anythinz you are doing with the knack of a man-of-warsman and the delicacy of a dentist; and any little job that requires intelligence and manual skill almost any Japanese will do for you.” J. J. Rein says in his great work, “The Industries of Japan”: “The eys and hand of the Japanese are on the average more ]éracucal than those of the Kuropean. ven the ordinary man can generally make a fairly clear sketch of an article, route or map.’’ It is thus seen that, on the word of skill- ful observers, the Japanese excel in many kinds of handicraft; that they seem to have a special skill almost from birth, and that, too, skill of a high grade, such as people in this country acquire by laborious processes and aiter years of hard study. Now, let the friends of unbridled free trade answer, Are American workmen to compete with such skill when it is offered at a few cents a day ? _Speaking of the low wage-rate in Japan, Sir Edwin Arnold hassaid: “The capacity of the Japanese and Chinese for incredible detail in their work makes them the most perfect workmen in the world, as they are the most rapid. And when one realizes that this superior ability and capacity can be obtained there at an average of 8 cents per day against twenty times that sum in America, it is not hard to see that there is reason to fear their competition."” In the same warning spirit is the ob- servation of Consul-General Jernigan of Shanghai, who said: “The steady gain indicated by the Japanese looms may be regarded by Western manufacturers some- what as the Hollander regards the first leak in the dikes that protect the mead- ows of his home from overflow. The f ture of Japan is evidently that of a great manufacturing nation.” The foregoing quotations show some of the reasons why the friends of protection have for many years urged that American factories and workmen be saved from the ruinous competition of the growing Orient. Against none of these evils has Candidate Bryan ever offered a single remedy. Under the political ideas he loves the United States would soon become as bleak as the plains. Consul-General McIvor says: ‘‘Japanese manufacturers are each year improving the grade of their fabrics and are thus demanding a larger proportion of Ameri- can cotton,’”” and each bale manufactured there meaps a decided loss to American workmen. The time is soon at hand when Japan will entirely cease impurhng goods and when she will reach out and supply the countries she has been patronizing so long. All through Japan there are manifold evidences that her stirring people, consti- tuting a population of 40,000,000, are awake to the advantages of manufacturing. Mills and factories are under way and a trained army of workmen will, ere an- other decade, be turning out all kinds of goods at rates with which even the poor- est paid countries of Europe cannot com- pete. Itdoesnot matter what line of in- dustry is investigated, for the conclusion is inevitable that Japan means to take her place among the great manufacturing na- tions of the earth. It has thus been shown bi a previous article on the subject and by the facts here presented that the only way by which Americans can_escape the evils of m%ersal misery is by a wise protective riff. $ It will not be many years before Jap- anese goods, without protection, are sure to force themselves upon the American market. Added to their perseverance and rare skill the ‘‘little brown men” work for a few cents a day, the Government has no laws against child labor, and American workmen would suffer at every turn if left without the benign i:iluences of a protection so adjusted as to insure pros- perity to all. BOVS CHARGED WITH BURGLARY, Accused of Breaking Into al Grocery and Sa- loon. CAUGHT IN THE CELLAR | One of Them Intoxicated From Imbibing Too Much of the Stolen Liquor. | | THEY ALL DENY THE CHARGE. Claim That They Were Playing Hide ; and Seek When The Policeman | Arrested Them. [ | Four boys whose ages range from 11 to | 16 were booked at the City Prison yester- | day morning on the charge of burglary. 1 | know what to do. | nodded approval. Herrick acted as spokesman. They all denied being 1n the store or knowing any- thing about the stolen articles. They belong to respectable families and live in the neighborhood. “Burke, Dillon and I,” said Herrick, ‘‘were at the theater last night, and as it was lete when we got out we walked around till about 2 o’clock, when we went to the Oakland Dairy on Ash avenue, be- tween Gough and Octavia streets, to get a ride round the City with one of the milk- men. I had often done that before, and used {o drive a wagon myself for John Evans, *The milkmen had gone and we did not There was a coal wagon on the avenue with empty sacks in |1t and we slept in it till about 6 o’clock. “We met Benny Smith shortly after6 o'clock. He lives next door to the grocery. We spoke about goiug to the Lurline Baths to have a swim if we could get the money. Smith said there were some demijohns in his mother’s cellar | and we could get them and sell them. ““We got into the cellar by a hole in the rear and thought we would {uve some fun plaving hide and seek. That was what we were doing when the policeman came and arrested us. I had a piece of tobacco in my pocket which 1 bought. It wasn’t taken from Harris' store.” *‘Where didjyou get the liquor?’ was asked of Benny Smith, who was suffering from the effects of bis libations. 1 found a soda bottle in the cellar,” he said, *‘with something in it and Idrank it. 1didn’t know it was whisky. Say,” he said to Dillon; “‘where’s my hat?"’ Dillon told him it was in his cell. Little George Burke is the most inno- cent-looking boy of the four, but he is said to be the toughest. recling off his story George looked at him with admiring eyes and occasio air and could only whisper that it was too bad boys couldn’t play hide and seek with- out being arrested. Six weeks ago George was arrested by Policeman Collins and The Four Young Defendants Arrested Yesterday on a Charge of Burglary. They are: George Burke, 11; Benny Smith, 14; Patrick Dillon, 16, and Frank Herrick, 16. When the wife of John Harris, grocer and saloon-keeper, 439 Grove street, opened tiie store yesterday morning and went into the saloon, she saw that some one had been there before her. Several bottles of liquor, two or three boxes of cigars, plugs of tobacco and a number of bottles of sarsaparilla and iron had disap- peared from the shelves. Her husband reached the store about 9 o'clock, and she told him the place had been broken into. He notified Policeman Fleming, and Fieming found the four boys in the cellar underneath the store. He had todrag two of them out by the feet. Smith appeared to be the only one of the four that had swallowed any of the liquor. He was considerably ‘‘under the infuence,” and when in the City Prison he became sick and bad a hard time of it for balf an hour. . A search was made of the cellar, and a box of cigars, some tobacco and a number of empty botties were found, which Harris identified as having been taken irom his store. The boys were seen in the prison, and booked for some public institution, but his father, a most respectable citizan, got him released. He has been a source of trouble to his family for a long time, pre- ferring to roam the streets at night than stay at home, An investigation showed that the boys might have effected an eatrance to the | cellarby 2 hole in the rear wall of the | house adjoining the store. There is no | dividing partition betw: | the one underneath Harris’ store. that cellar and ! In the floor of Harris’ store underneath the bar there is & hole large enough to admit a man’s body. Wby it is there Harris does not know, as it was there when he took possession a few weeks ago. There is a gradual incline from the floor of the cellar to this bole and it would have been an easy matter for the boysonce they got into the cellar to crawl up the incline and through the hole in the floor to the store. —_— The ground under the city of San Salva- dor is full of caverns of unknown depths. A man was once digging a well there. The last stroke he s:va with his pick the bottom fell out, and he and his pick fell through, nobody knows where. —————— BARRY'S STAR says Judge Low was impaled. * While Herrick was | Own Resources. George worean injured | THE BOYCOTT AS A RAILWAY AMENITY As Used by General Pas- senger Agents It Proved Successful. HARMONY THE RESULT. | Canadian Pacific Brought to Time by the Asso- ciation. IT8 RESIGNATION WITHDRAWN Américan Railways Threatened to Leave It Absolutely to Its T. H. Goodman, general passenger agent of the Southern Pacific Railway Com- pany, returned yesterday from New York and Chicago, where he had been engaged | for some time with business of the West- ern Passenger Association. The meetings which Mr. Goodman attended were of a dual character, as they combined pleasure with work. Many of the days during the annual gathering of the general passenger agents were given up exclusively to social pleasures of a varied character. Other days of course were devoted to business strictly, and then questions of vast importance received the serious consideration of the men in whose hands lie the management and control of passenger traffic all over the United States. This year, however, the subjects discussed were not al! of general importance, rules and internal affairs consuming most of the time. “The only really interesting matter which we considered,” said Mr. Goodman yesterday, ‘‘was the resignation of the Canadian Pacific. I suppose that would interest the Pacific Coast. The Canadian Pacific sent in its resiznation to the asso- ciation, claiming it wished to be free from the binding agreement imposed upon it by membership in the association. It wanted concessions and to do business inde- pendent of our rules, The association re- fused to accept the resignation, but as the Canadian Pacific was insistent it was brought to time when the American roads announced that if the company witharew they would have no further dealings with the main line of the Canadian Pacific. This was too much for the Canadian line, and the result was the resignation was withdrawn. ‘‘Heretofore the great railway s over the northern frontier had a clear ad- vantage over American transcontinental lines. These roads have been compelled to operate under the interstate commerce law. They are not aided by the Govern- ment so liberally as the Canadian road is subsidized and fostered. With considera- ble assistance from the Dominion Govern- ment the Canadian Pacific could afford to carry its on passenger or freieht traffic at rates much lower than those prevailing on the American transcontinental lines.” So whenever that road grew weary of re- straint it presented documents to show t large differentials should be granted in its favor. As the association could see no remedy it usually acceded to their de- mands and people could travel up into Canada, across to Vancouver, B. C., and thence by steamer to San Francisco, for a trifle less than the fare directly over the American route. “‘On this occasion, however, the Ameri- can roads submitted their plan, which was r\nctiul? a boycott of the Canadian Pa- cifie, and the poycott worked like a charm,” SOCIALISTIC VIEWS. The State Organizer Predicts Radical Changes in the Future. There was a large and attentive gather- ing Thusday night at 970 Folsom street, | the headquarters of the Jewish Branch of the Socialist Labor Party. The chair was occupied by Mark Leitus who introduced Theodore Lynch, the speaker of the even- ing. He spoke on the topic *Why Ameri- i|::n ,‘;Vorhn‘mun Shonid Become Social- ts. After referring to the augury of plenty and prosperity that the early settlers of this country enjoyed, when they had free access to the natural opportunities and to the bright promises of the revolution and the Declaration of Independence, th speaker showed by statistics now th: ardent hopes of onr forefathers were im- possible of realization to the great masses of the common people who are forced by the existing industrial conditions to grind out a bare existence at the treadmill of economic servitude to which they are un- willing captives. He said in concluding, that with the increasing intelligence and united effort on the part of the wage- workers there is every reason to hope for a change. During the discussion that followed the address short speeches were made by sev- eral of those present, including George Speed, William Edlin, G. Cameron, E. Lux and Mr. Nagle. e et BROKE UP THE PARTY. Maurice Hogue Whacks His Wife With a Broomstick. Maurice Hogue, 12734 Rose avenue, went home last night in an ugly mood. He had been drinking, and when, his little son, who was having a birthday party, ran up to him he took hold of his arm and twisted it till the boy yelled with pain. “Don’t do that, Maurice,” said Mrs. Hogue, as she went to the boy’s assist- ance. “I'll teach you to interfere,” said Hogue, and seizing a broomstick he whacked her over the head and legs till she ran scream- ing out of the house. The birthday party broke up in disorder and Mrs. Hogue and her boyv went to the Receiving Hospital. The boy’s arm was found to be all right, but Mrs. Hogue had contusions on her scalp and legs. She declared that she would swear out a warrant for her husbana’s arrest this ; morning on a chaige of battery. e A Young Man From India. To-morrow at 3 o'clock, at the Cnhristian Association building, Mason and Ellis streets, Rev. J. C. Perkins, who has spent the last ten years in India, will address the mass-meeting for young men only. He is said to be the first graduate of the University of California WILL HAVE ITS OWN FULL TICKET The Civic Federation De- cides to Go Into Politics. LESSON OF VIGILANTES. The Time Has Come When the Federation Believes Re- form Necessary. COMMITTEE REPORT ADOPTED. It Provides for a Municipal Ticket for the Coming Elec- tions. The Civic Federation held an executive session Jast night in Assembly Hall, Mills building, and adopted the report of its C. 8. Perkins, the New Seerctary of the Civic Federation. to enter the gospel ministry. He is a graduate of the class of lge74 and -l‘;’o a ‘le from the Hastings Law College, and for a time followed his profession in this City. Mr. Perkins is a native of San Francisco and has ?een eminently successtul in his work in unday afternoon, as he w! relate many remm&mna{u of his work. —————— Concerning Consumption. It is & known tact that the consumptives of the world flock to California, thus endanger- ing the lives of healtny peopleand making our State one vast hospital. An abie article on this subject will be found in this week’s News Let- ter, which will be lpg)rechwd by the pro- fessional as well as by The layman. Something must be done to stop this undesirable influx, and the writer demonstrates ciearly the reasons for 5o doing and how it can be accom- plished. The other departments of the paper x-.xa 2ll up to their usual standard of excel- nce. ” ] ] —————— Gone Out of Business. The Pioneer Woolen-mills yesterday applied to the Buperior Court for permission to dis- solve the corporation. There were 1000 shares of capital stock in the corporation, 7723 of which were voted in favor of dissolution. This s the last corporate act of a once pros- Bfiolu institution. e old North Beach mills ave been idle for years and have been turned oV blwmxh] of Jupanése. All the obli- gstions and debts of the concern have been straightened ou gy r sy t, and now the corporation is PURAE AR OR On the steamer whart of Algiers stran; ers are besieged by the native beast ped- dlers, extolling in broken French the mer- its of their tame baboons, jackals, monkeys and young lions. committee on political action. I J. Tru- man presided and about twenty members of the federation were present. The report recommended that a move- ment be organized to place before the voters of San Francisco & full municipal ticket. According to the announcement prepared for the press and given out after the meeting adjourned this report was dis- cussed in detail and after a long consider- ation of its various parts was adopted. The following was issued as the report of the committee: To the President and Members of the Civic Federation—GENTLEMEN: Atour last meeting a committee was appointed to inquire into the resent political situation, with a view of rmualatlog soxie’ practioxl. plan throush which the taxpayers of this City may be able at the ensuing election to prevent a repetition of the municipal calamity now hanging over us. Honoring and respeciing the opinio:s of all our fellow-citizens, and their political preferences in National and State affairs, muture and deliberate consideration of tne important subject intrusted to our hands, we feel it incumbent u us to candidly an- nounce that in our opinion those great #0 essential to the perpetuity of our Natis Government bave no necessary relationship to the welfare prosperity of govern- ments. The sad experience of the past in nearly every city the United States has plainly demonstratedfthe fact that municipal administration is best subserved and a greater degree of progress reached by placing the af- fairs of each locslity in the hands of those ‘who have permanent interests in the honest management thereof regardless of party. The contending faciions of both the Repub- lican and Democratic mrl‘leu. NOW At War over the spoils expected the election in No- vember next, are irreconcilable. Any settle- B Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. ment or .d‘jus(ment by either or both parties within their respective party lines, or the old familiar compromise through which each may Teceive a certain share of the offices, would almnl?' result i1 perpetuating the present dis- graceful methods now being inflicied upon an already tax-eaten, boss-ridden community. The infamous plan oi dividing the offices as demonstrated at the last election is still fresh in our minds. While some of the bungling participants in that plot are now in San Quen- tin the more timia and crafty ones, equaliy guilty, are oceupying public ‘Diaces, nd some are to-day tremblingly drawing the dishonest profits of their bold criminality. Under the present consolidation act there is not now and cannot ever be hereafter any pro- tection to property or property-owners from the ceaseless demands of corporations who are bonded and stocked far in excess of thelr legitimate value. Nor may we expect honest public service from either brincipal or sub- ordinate municipal officers who are more or less dominated by persons or corporations of | self-confessed disbonesty. Nomination and election to City office, ac- cording to the customs prevalent to-day, mean merely common public plunder and apject private serviiude whenever the occasion arises, regardless of the name of the party in power. Political party nominations of men hereto- fore regarded as above reproach in a large ma- jority of cases after election have developed the fact that they were simply awaiting the opportunity, and misfortune has invariably overtaken the City’s valuable privileges which they had been selected to protect. Deplorable evidence of this fact is already exemplified in the Geary-street railroad franchise. Under the preveiling farce of holding party primaries and the subsequent convention tableaux very few aggressively honest and up- right men are nominaied for offices having olitical patronage. The time is now come or the people themselves, Who represent nine- tentbs of the_voting capacity of this City, to say at the polls whether they wish to remain serfs to impecunious political eriminals and lace-hunters, led by an insignificant minor- ty, or whether they desire to assert their American citizenship and assume & pari of the'duties and responsibilities of City govern- mental management. There can be no genuine betterment of our City government until it is done by the people themselves outside of National party lines. It must be spparent to every one that any change will prove advantageous. There is only one method we can discoyer by which our municipal affairs can be conducted economically and honestly, and a violation of election laws be made as sure of punishment as a violation of Anr other law. Many of our fellow-citizerns will readily re- call the Vigilance Committee of 1856 and the class of men who originally composed its membership. The cause and history of that organization are well known to ail; and hard- Iy less exasperating tnan the schemes which gave it origin are tnose resorted to by the so- called politicians of to-day. The exposure of the corrupt eriminal prac- tices developed at the trials of that committee aroused the masses to action for self-protec- tion, and a party composed of the best eitizens of the City was formed. For a period of about twelve years no city in the Union was better or more economically governed. These facts conclusively demonstrate thai the time has come when a citizens’ ticket of tried men, known to be true, regardiess of former party amliation, would carry every prezinet in the City and County of San Fran- cisco. Theretore your committee would earnestly recommend that all good citizens urite in or- ganizing a reform movement for the purpose of placing before the voters of this City & full municipal ticket that will commend itself to the support of all good citizens. C. B. PERKINS, D. GILBERT DEXTER, GEORGE T. GADEN, R. LAMBERT. W. F. HARRIS, R. L. RIGDON, Committee, C. B. Perkins, the genial merchant and prominent member of the Simpson, Memorial M. E. Church, was unanimously elected secretary of the organization. FIREWORKS T(-NIGHT. Pacific Parlor 10, N. 8. G. W., will Celebrate at the Chutes. The chutes will be turned over to Pacific Parlor No. 10 of the Native Sons of the Golden West this evening, and the mem- bers will have a jollification preparatory to the celebration at Stockton on Admis- sion day. An elaborate and appropriate display of fireworks will be given, and the set pieces will all be distinctly Californian. A bear flag will be raised and other emblems of the order will be shown in pyrotechnics. Conn Fredericks, the ‘“‘demon cyclist,” will coast down the chutes on his ‘bicycle at 10 o’clock. The committee in charge of the evening are W. H. Hazell, F. W. Smith, J. G. Klemm, J. R. Kropp, D. L. Fitzgerald, J. J. Dunn, H. E. Faure, Charles McMenomy, John A. Steinbach and J. H. Cunningham. The_ ordinary rate of admission will be charged. THE GOODSPEED ESTATE, A Decision on the Motion to Strike Out “and” in the Demurrer. Judge Coffey Denies the First With Exceptions and Sustains the Latter. In the matter of the will of Lucy C. Goodspeed, deceased, for probate, Judge Coffey yesterday rendered a decision upon the motion of the respondents, represented by Delmas & Shortridge, to strike out parts of contest, and also upon the de- murrer to the contest. Judge Coffey holds that the motion to strike out should be denied, saving the right of the respondents to have an ‘| amenaed contest filed, stating clearly and concisely the grounds of opposition to the probate of the proposea will. With re- spect to the peculiar parts of the motion granted facts only should be stated; facts as contradistinguished from the law, from argument, from hypcthesis and froimn the evidence of facts. A legal inference or conclusion from the facts should not be stated; that is not the province of the pleadings under our system, which is to develop the facts. The contest is addressed to a certain in- strument propounded for probate and, therefore, the motion to strike out such hrases as ‘‘pretended wili” 1s proper. g‘he phrase is unr.ecessary and redundant and should be ousted. In the ovinion of the court the sixth ground of objection is especially worthy of censorious attention—the tender of issue concerning the condition of the de- cedent at the time of her death. Thisis clearly not pertinent, necessary, relevant nor material to the issue. In other para- graphs are alleged fraud, duress, menace and undue influence. These are but con- clusions of law and tender no issnable facts, in the manner stated. The objections specified and enumeratea NEW TO-DAY. Cheapest, Because the Best GAIL BORDEN EAGLE BRAND CONDENSED MILK Send for that little book, “Infy ¥ Y ant E:m:, " great value to mothers. s.:: N. Y. Condensed Milk Hudson Street, ..e:' York — tion, Tt BEFORE ano AFTER ihihe borrors of ‘The reason sufferer- are n:.tm - Prostatitin. CUPIDEN £ s the oniy i hl‘bfl.fl 1““0).!1)7 2 e K of res surall weak b A g,g:g-:?; W ninety per cent are troubled with box. and money returned mail, Send for Fham e Poxes does not & permanent eure, Adress DAVOL MEDICINE GOu 1170 Marser semen o o) in the decision are sustained and the motion as to them- granted .and’ as to the rest denied. Continuing the decision says: i rrer should be sustained, because a8 1t stands 1 becomes necessary to modify the pleading and bring it within the rules already adverted to, so that respondents may answer direct allegations, to the end that the issues involved may be c}\enrly Fel;etsented to the court 1 of the contest. 3 TR R elar astention s directed to the first ground ot demurrer—that the contest misjoins several causes of action. It is self-evident that fraud and force cannot be exercised by the same person on the same person at the same time to achieve the same end. The evidence required to sustain the charges of fraud and ot duress or menace would necessarily be opposed one to the other. Requiring different evi. dence, they constitute different Causes of ac- tion within the purview of the code, and under section 427, C. C. P., the grounds should be separately stated. The allegations throughout the contes amounting to & charge of conspiracy on part of Daniel Suilivan and other persons known to the contestants, are plainly y de- murrable, for certainly the proponents have a right to know the names of the conspirators (Miller vs. MeDermott, 31 Cal., 271). Demurrer sustained; ten days to amend. —————————— T0 FOLLOW “OLD PARD.” Herbert Fairfield’s Unsuccessful At- tempt to Commit Suicide. Herbert Fairfield, a boarder at the Va- lencia-street Hotel, attempted to commit suicide last night. He went to his room, closed the door, turned on the gas and, covering his face with a piece of carpet, lay down on the floor to die. William Gerken, the proprietor, noticed the smell of escaping gas and found it proceeded from Fairfield’s room. He opened the door and saw Fairfleid uncon- scious on the floor. | Fairfield was taken to the City and | County Hospital. The doctors worked on | him for some time nntil he was brought back to consciousness. Then he was taken back to the hotei. Fairfield has been assisting his brother for some time,who is a carrier for one of the morning papers. By occupation he is a fireman, but lost his position during the strike on the Southern Pacific two years azo. In explaining hisreason for attempting 10 end his life he said: *I used to fire for Cornwall, the oldest engineer on the Southern’ Pacific, who died on Tuesday. I was fond of the old man and went to his funeral yesterday. “His death made me despondent and I got drinking. I felt despondent over the old engineer’s death, and a feeling came over me that the best thing I could do was to follow him to the grave. ““The feeling was a pleasantone and I suffered no pain, but when the doctors were bringing me back to life than I suf- fered the most excruciating agony for scme time. Idon’t think I will try it again.” Fairfield is 32 years of age. He was married, but divorcea from his wife. NEW TO-DA' ——AT THE—— No-Percentage Phamecy, 953 Market Street. ‘We have secured the seryices of an emi- nent Physician and Surgeon, a reliable, honest man, who will hereatter treat all patients applying to us at a very small charge. CONSULTATION FREE Including chemical and microscopical analysis of the urine. The poor treated FREE OF CHARGE Between 9 and 10 in the morning. We will guarantee an absolute cure in every case we undertake. None but cura- ble cases treated. 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