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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1896. 3 THEY CAN ONLY ELECT McKINLEY And That Is All the Sound- Money Democrats Hope to Accomplish. GROVER'S VIEWS DUE. Will Scon Follow the Example of Cabinet Members in De- nouncing Bryanism. SOME PREMATURESPECULATION Men Who Are Mentioned for Port. folics in the Event of the Nebraskan’s Election. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 10.—The telegram of Secretary Lamont in which he announces his intention to vote for Palmer and Buckner, the Presidential candidates of the Indianapolis ticket, and denounces the ‘“‘new and strange creed proclaimed ina moment of delirium at Chicago,’”’ is expected to be foilowed shortly by a letter or telegram from Presi- dent Cleveland. Itis said that Mr. Cleve- land indicated his purpose some days ago of making a public expression indorsing the action of the Indianapolis convention. Secretary Lamont’s open avowal of his attitude sets at rest any doubt as to his position and, incidentally, vindicates the prediction made in these dispatches when the Secretary returned from his visit to Gray Gables that the master of the White House would yet bring every recalcitrant member of his Cabinet into line against the Chicago ticket. Mr. Carlisle, for instance, who told Benator Lindsay of Kentucky before his visit to Gray Gables that he would vote the Democratic ticket, recently expressed him- self very strongly in favorof the Indian- apolis ticket. 1t 1s curious that the gentle- men deepest interested in this movement cannot succeed in forcing upon the people the name which they adopted for their party, namely, the “National Democratic party.” Every man, no matter what be bis sentiments toward the Chicago plat- form, recognizes that the ticket nomi- nated there is that of the National Demo- cratic party, and the sound-money Demo- crats are in very grave danger of passing down into history withont any name at- tached to their movement except that of the city where their convention was held. The sound-money men will open their campsign on the 1st of next month. They will have no literary bureau to speak of, because their activity will be confined sole- ly to sending out able speakers, whose only topic will be the danger of the free- silver heresy. The literature which they would send is already being supplied more systematically and far more liberally by the National Republican eommittee than the sound-money men could hope to do. There will be perfect harmony of action, and the sound-money sp-akers will be careful to arrange all their itineraries in such a way as to co-operate with the speakers’ bureau of the Republicans. There will be no attempt made by the | sound-money men to dictate the action of any State committee in the matter of put- ting up an electoral ticket. It is conceded that the sound-money men eyerywhere have only one purpose in view, the elec- tion of McKinley, and it will be left to their discretion everywhere to run an in- dependent electoral ticket or to place the State electors for McKinley under the Palmer and Buckner party emblem. Thus, men like Representative John K. Cowen of Baltimore, E. J. Phelps of Ver- mont and Bourke Cochran of New York, who belicve that a McKinley vote is the most sensible and straightforward way of defeating Bryan. will be cheerfully sup- ported in this work. It is generally under- stood that in almost every State the sound-money men will, a day or two be- fore the National election, practically abandon their own ticket and throw their votes to McKinley and vote for the sound- money candidate for Congress, no matter what are his party affiliations. At Democratic neadquarters the action of Mr. Lamont is discounted by the asser- tion that Senator Hill will undoubtedly come out for the Democratic ticket after the convention at Buffalo next Wednes- day, notwithstanding his telegram of to- day to the county chairman at Albany. Hill’s telegram puzzles somewhat, but they take it to mean that he refuses to be bound by instructions. The general opinion is that he will yet an- nounce himself for Bryan. His inconsistent action in advocating what he fought so bitterly at Chicago is ingeniously explained away by his friends at the headguarters. Mr. Hill, they say, went to Chicago as the representative of his party in New York, carrying, as it were, a power of attorney from them. He made his fight and was defeated. If next Wednesday the representatives of the Democratic party in New York, whose attorney he was in Chicago, decide upon a new course, then Mr. Hill, the faithful attormey of his party, will be guided by their new orders. It is believed at the Democratic headquarters in all seri- ousness that Bryan bas more than a fight- ing chance in New York. This is not the idle campaign claim of the shouters about the headquarters, but is the calm judg- ment of the men who do not as a rule give out campaign interviews. Senator Gorman, who spent nearly two weeks at Saratoga studying up the politi- cal situation in New York, is said to be fully convinced that Bryan will come down to the Harlem running very little behind McKinley, if not pasningjxim, and if Tammany only does its duty New York will be in the Democratic column. Cer- tain it is that this claim was never made for New York until the recent visit to the National headquarters of Senator Gorman. And itis believed that Senator Gorman is anthority for the firm faith in Mr. Hill. There is such an amount of assurance that Mr. Hill will come out for Bryan and that New York can be carried for Bryan with proper effort that it is already said at headquarters that Hill will be made Secre- tary of State “in case Bryan wins.” The rest of the Cabinet has not yet been entirely parceled out by enthusiastic Dem- ocrats, but at present ex-Governor Hogg of Texas, who is now at the New York headquarters, 1s spoken of as the Attorney- General; Governor Stone of Missouri is slated for the Secretaryship of the Inte- rior, thus succeeding his Missouri rival in polities, ex-Governor Francis; George Fred Williams of Massachusetts is to be the Secretary of the Navy, so that Newport and “society’’ generally is to have & kid- glove representative in the Cabinet. The treasury is to go to Senator Teller, because Mr. Bland, whose name naturally suggests itsell for that office in case free silver wins, intends to be Speaker of the House of Rep- resentatives. — TO BE PRINT, IN ENGLISH. Red Men Will Not Have Their Ritual in “Any Other Language. MINNEAPOLIS, Mixx., Sept. 10.—After a lengthy consideration of the new ritual to-day by the Grand Council of the Red _Men. the committee’s report, recommend- ing that the ritual be printed only in Eng- lish, was adopted by a vote of 72 t0 3. A vote on the place for the next council was again postponed. Houston, Tex., with- drew and Nashville took its place. The semi-centennial will be held in Philadel- phia next year. The Degree of Pocahontas was changed so that only the wives, sis- ters, daughters anc mothers of Red Men will' be eligible. The proposition from Red Men now living 1n Canada to extend the order to the Dominion is not favor- ably considered, the objection being that the order is a distinctively American one. the politicians | e e e Non-Union Miners Attacked. LEADVILLE, Covo., Sept. 10.—A party of union miners attacked several non- union men at the shafthouse of the Coro- nado mine this evening, painfully wound- ing two of them, bu their injuries are not of a serious nature. This scrimmage is the only foundation for the reports sent out from here to-night that there had been a riot and several killed. e i Failure Due to Poor Business. LINCOLN, NgBr, BSept. 10.—A. T. Lemeng & Co., extensive dealers in books and stationery, closed their doors this morning. giving chattel mortgages aggre- gating nearly $40,000. New York, Ohio and local banks and the National Wall- paper Company are the principal creditors. The firm is one of the oldest in the city, but business for a year has been poor. BOURKE CCCKRAN'S STAND Cannot Accept a Congressional Nomination From New York Republicans. Will Vote for McKinley in November, but Is Not Prepared to Leave His Party. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 10.—Bourke Cockran has declined the nomination for Congress offered to him by the Republi- cans of the Twelfth District. In his letter of declination he says: The assault led by Bryan on American honor and industry is fraught with such danger to tne country that I shall yote for Major McKin- ley as the most effective method by which 1 can aid in preventing its success. I could not, however, accept any nomination during this campaign to any office however exaited for which 1 would be indebted to the political organization whose candiaate Iam compelled to support by the exigencies of & grave National peril but to whose distinctive principles I am opposed. FWhile the Democratic organization remains a party to the Populist conspiracy against wages I shall labor untiringly for its defeat, but Iwhlnot consent to profit by its overthrow. The faithless leaders who have betrayed the Democratic Convention to the Populists de- serve a crushing rebuie at the polls and I am anxious to join in administering it to them, but I am resoived to share the exclusion from office which I shail urge the people to impose | on my party. g LOS ANGELES WEDDING. William West and Miss Fielen Ball Made Man and Wife. LOS ANGELES, Car., Sept. 10.—This evening Miss Helen Ball, daughter of Captain and Mrs. C. J. Ball, was married to William West of this city. The wed- ding took place at the residence of the bride on West Adams street and wasa very interesting affair, over 200 invita- tions being 1ssued. The ceremony took place in the large drawing-room, under a crowd of white carnations and smilax. The bride was led to the altar by her father, who gave her away. Miss Hattie Kimball of Oak- land was the maid of honor, Miss Liliian | Wellborn and Miss Mae Newton were bridesmaids; the best man was Dee Sale and the groomsmen were George Stamm, George Larence, Fred and Horace Hen- derson. The little ribbon-bearers were Thomas Creighton and Athlene English. The music was under the directicn of Pro- fessor Krauss, the violinist, and there were also selections of vocal and instrn- mental music by Mr. Zinck, tenor, and Miss Delphine Todd, sovrano. The cere- mony was performed by Rev. A. S. Clark of Christ Church. prat s CE i SEIZED BSEALEEK AT VICTORIA. Captain Brown of the Aurora Seems to Have Been Unlucky. VICTORIA, B. C., Sept. 10.—The seal- ing schooner Aurora, Captain Thomas Brown, arrived to-day from Bering Sea, where she was seized by the United States | revenue cutter Rush on August 10 for having aboard three skins bearing sup- posed marks of a shotgun. These pelts have been kept separate from the others secured by the sealer, and when the schooner was overhauled Cap- tain Brown drew special attention to them. He was unfortunate, however, in not having landed all his guns and am- munition at Atu before entering the sea and thus avoiding suspicion. Hadjheobserved this optional formality there could have been no excuse for the | seizure, for Captain Brown firmly con- tends that the holes in the skins were made by a spear. After the seizure 2 prize | crew was placed aboard the Aurora, and she was sent to Unalaska. Here she re- | ported to her Majesty’s steamship Icarius | and was ordered home. —_—— KFERCKHOFF DEAD, For Many Years a Prominent Resident of Los angeles. LO8 ANGELES, Cav., Sept. 10.—George B. Kerckhoff, an old and wealthy citizen of this city, died at Santa Monica yester- day. He was 73 years old. He leaves a widow, a daughter, Elizabeth, and three sons, Herman, Anton and William G. Kerckhotf, all resi ding here. Mr. Kerckhoff was born at Lingen, Ger- muny. He came to the United State in 1851 and settled at Terre Haute, Ind. He resided there until 1879, when he removed to Los Angeles. He was the founder of the well-known Kerckhoff-Kuzner Milt and Lumber Company, of which cor- poration he remained the treasurer up to the time of his death, though not other~ wise tuking an active part 1n the adminis- tration of its business. He was extensivel interested in real estate transactions an various other business enterprises. Mr. Kerckhoff was a memb-r of the City Council for a time. He was an honorable, upright man and generous in his dealings. A s The Al-Ki Overdue From Juneaw. SEATTLE, Wasn., Sept. 10.—The Pa- cific Coast Steamship Company’s steamer Al-Ki, running on the Alaska route, is three days overdue from Juneau. Some anxiety is felt in this city for the safety of the vessel, but the company’s agents say there is no occasion for alarm, as she has probably been greatly retarded in her GEORGE B. MINISTERS MEET IN CONFERENCE Second Day’s Session of Methodists at Pacific Grove. ELDERS MAKE REPORTS San Francisco Said to Be a Wicked City, but Not So Bad as Vallejo. MANY M'KINLEY ADHERENTS. Scheme of a Reverend Gentleman to Rehabilitate the Politics of the Country. PACIFIC GROVE, Car., Sept. 10.— After the usual early morning prayer meeting, at which the attendance is grow- ing, the second day’s session of the Cali- ister at Smith River by a saloon.keeper was read and humorously regardea by the conference. The saloon-keeper said he wanted a minister who was not so hot against saloons. > The matter of the organization of the district missionary societies then came up. The general Methodist Conference at its last session arranged for the appointment in each presiding elder’s district of a dis- trict secretary, whose duty shall be to work up interest in missions. The matter of the manner of the appointment oi_this committee was referred to a committee. The only sign that the conference showed of entering into a spirited debate to-day was on the action of the general confer- ence in admitting women to its member- sbip and the question of what action the California conference should take subse- quent to it. 3 Parliamentary tactics orevented a pro- tracted and very spirited debate, as the conference is understood to differ on the matter. The action of the general con- ference as to the admission of ministers and laymen to equal representation also brought out practically the same situation. A motion by Rev. Mr. Anthony, to take up the matter to-morrow morning with- out debate, finally prevailed, though there ‘was some outspoken objection to shutting off the right of iree speech. The matter of accepting by the conference the under- graduates from accredited literary and theological schools was referred to a com- mittee composed of Reverends M. D. Buck, J. W. Ross ana W. 8. Urmy. After the transaction of a few formal matters the regular session of the con- ference adjourned, and the auditorium was occupied in the afternoon by auxil- iary meeting. At 2:30 o’clock Mrs. Alfred Kummer presided at the meeting of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society in the audi- torium, The scripture lesson was read by Mrs. C. C. Lombard. Reyv. Mr. Osborn led i rayer. he first talk of the afternoon was made by Mrs. R. 8. Cantine on “Medical Mis- sionaries.” She said her talk would be progress owing to the unusuaily dense foy The Al-Ki was to have sailed to-day from this port on her return trip. i fifilmu = meetings with the presiding elders. At his request Rev. M. H. Alexander, D.D., was appointed assistant statistical secre- tary in place of Rev. W. C. Kurnow, who is not present at thé conference. Several ministers wear McKinley but- tons in their coat lapels, but not a Bryan butten is seen. One of the secretaries said he thought that a large majority of the conference members were for McKinley. This evening the Sabbath observance anniversary was held, a fine audience being present. Rev. Dr. M, C. Briggs of San Jose, who travels in the interest of Sabbath ob- servance, presided and delivered the prin- cipal address. He spoke of the need of a Babbath for laboring people, a Sabbath for rest and home hfe. Rev. John Stephens of Simpson Mem- orial Church, San Francisco, made an address in which he said that he did not want a return to the blue laws, but did want a greater observance of the Sabbath. Rev. Dr. W. R. Goodwin of the Cali- fornia-street Methodist Church, San Fran- cisco, spoke. He said if bicycies brought eople to church he would call on the Eord to bless them, but if they did not he might feel more like calling on the Lord to do the cther thing. He added that San Francisco had all the vices of Sodom and Gomorrah, and felt that the good people in the City were the salvation of it from the'wrath of God. He said he would like to have God President of the United States for one term, Jesus Christ Secretary of the Treasury and some preachers in Congress, and then the industrial, the Sunaay and the financial questions would be settled. He said there is gold and silver enough in this country, but what was needed isa better way of using it. He said there ought to be a little more morality about it. Honry JEMc0hY ot REdR eI o ico o eneral secretary of the Young Men’s Christian Association, who is attending the conference, donned his bicycle suit this morning and went out for a spin. He rode along the sidewalk, being_igno- rant of the fact that there is a Pacific Grove ordinance against it, and was Scene at the California Annual Conference of the Methodist Ep'scopal Church, Now Being Held in the Methodist Church at Pacific Grove. fornia conference convened at 8:30 o’clock. The congregation was larger than on the previous day. Opening devotional exer- cises were conducted by Rev. Alfred Kum- mer of Oakland, lesson and led in a powerful prayer. A number of other clergymen also made feeling prayers, and all invoked a special blessing on the conference and the im- portant work before it. At 9 o’clock Bishop Foss took the chair and presided until the noon recess. He remarked that the Methodist Episcopal church is the only body of its kind which annually inquires into the personal char- acter of its ministers. Following this statement there were numerous and fervent “Amens.” In this connection it is gratifying to the confer- ence, though nothing out of the usual or- der, that there is not a charge of any kind against any member. Rev. F. A. McFaul of Lockeford resigned during the year because he could nolonger accept the doctrine of the trinity. As the names were called this morning the ministers in several districts reported the amount of money collected auring the year for missionary work and confer- ence claimants. The reports were quite gratilying. They show an increased in- terest in the work. The amounts were taken down by statistical secretaries, who, when all the reports are in, will make the footings and report the result to tha con- ference. The presiding elders, too, were called on for their annual reports of the work in their respective districts. Those were very complete and extensive, and sub- joined are extracts made from as many as reported this morning. The reports were listened to with great interest by the entire congregation, and veports of good work in any field were enthusiastically approved in the usual manner. A complaint by letter against the min- i He read a scripture | chiefly about the women medical mission- ary, and referred to Dr. Carrie Swain of New York, who made many converts in India and became famous throughout that foreign land when the strictly relig- ious missionary made little progress. At first the medical missionaries, by | reason of their knowledge of the healing | art, made much more progress. English physicians cannot be admitted to the room of ‘a woman in India, except a woman of the street, and on this account the women of India have suffered untold pain. She | gave several instances where the Gospel had found an entering wedge in foreign lands through a Christian physician hav- ing traveled and cared a dignitary and made a way for it. Mrs. Lucy Drake Osborn, a missionary late of India, entertained the audience with a talk on that country. She said that the great majority of the population of India is on the verge of starvation, except for six weeks of the year during the mango season. They carry starved children around and keep them starved in order to better get alms. Regularly organized missions are doing the best missionary work in India. A collection was taken up, and the meeting concluded with the singing of several songs in Mahrattee and Hindus- tanee by Mrs. Osborn. Following' the missionary meeting was a pentecostal meeting of song, prayer and praise, led by Rev. Mr. Bain. He awak- enea a wonderful religious spirit. Mem- bers of the congregation kneeling at the chancel and responding with fervent amens to the preacher’s praying made one of the most impressive scenes of the con- ference, and certainly the most impressive of the second day. The concluding meeting of the afternoon was that of the Ladies’ Aia Society. No business was transacted except the ap- pointment of a committee to make nom- inations for officers to beelected at the an- nual meeting of the society next Saturday afternoon. The meeting was called principally for the purpose of making arrangéments for a reception to the wives of the ministers, to be =iven in El Carmelo Hotel on Satur- day evening. Bishop Foss is holding daily cabinet Rev. A. H. Needham, RN \\\\\ AN \ at Pacific Grove, and Pastor of Pacific Grove Methodist Church. promptly arrested by City Marshal Rich. Subsequently the matter was dropped. Presiding Elder E. R. Willis of the Napa district reportea that hard times had aff:!cbed both salaries and collections, He said: “The word Vallejo is not synonymous with righteousness. King Alcobol is on the throne. The city stands because there are more than ten righteousones in it. To see a man at the mourners’ bench in Val- lejo wonld surprise the people more than an earthquake. “I believe that God will capture this modern Jericho. Brother Woodward’s work has been chiefly confined to leading the people into higher religious experi- ences. “‘Benicia,’”’ he said, *‘is the same kind of =0il that is found at Valiejo and the same conditions prevail, They have paid off a large portion of the church debt. ‘At Vacaviile there was not a tent a year ago, but now there is a chapei free from debt. The church is in Vacaville to stay. “As to Dixon every saloon-keeper there would like to see Brother Wa lker cremated. This field was like astrong, vigorous man who had falien into a de- cline and magnitied his feebleness. Ithas been largely the mission of the pastor here, Rev. Mr. Walker, to tell the people that God is not dead. “The towns of Madison and Guinda are a new and promising field. Up to this year the congregation had to meet in the schoolhouse, but now it has a chapel of its own free from debt. “In lake County, with a population much scattered, the church property is improved. “I am hopeful for a new church at Eureka. At Yolo and Blacks the church has been lifted out of obscurity. Brother Rodda bas raised a $500 debt at Ferndale, and at Woodland the churchis strong and without a discordant note. An effort to proselyte the church members was foiled. “Results at Ukiah are growing in ex- tent and the church at Crescent City is stionger than for years. *“To be, or not to be is the question at San Rafael. If help is not obtained the Sheriff will get the church there. It woula be a shame for Methodism to abandon one of the most important cities near San Francisco. *Windsor Church is inadequate to the present demands. Hydevllle, a long time dead, has come forth again and wants preaching this year.’” The Green Valley debt on the parsonage had been paid and the next step will be toward a new church. The debt at Man- chester has been canceled. Petaluma is one of the most substantial charges and the outiook for a prosperous year is en- couraging. AtBoonvillea new church has been erected. “Calistoga’s year has been one of the best ir its history for Methodism. Prog- ress is reported at Ukiah and at nearly all the remaining charges of the distrnict.” John Kirby, presiding elder of the Oak- land district, which has an area of 15,000 square miles, reported that upward of half of the forty-seven charges are free from debt. He said: “‘Over $7000 of debt on churches and parsonages has been paid during the past year. Rev. G. H. Jones of Thirty-fourth- street church and Rev. Wallis of Twenty- fourtli-street church, Oakland, have raised considerable of the church debt during the year. A new parsonage has been built at Dimond, with a small mortgage of $1100, but the church is free from debt. ‘At Linden the church has been im- proved, and at Coulterville the church has money in the treasury and the edifice is in good order. *‘The parsonage at Amador has been en- larged. A new church has been built at Pino and paid for as each nail was driven. There has been no great revival in the district, but in several places the revival fire Las burst forth. “Rev. F. A. McFaul of thc Oakland dis- trict has resigned during the year, having abandoned the doctrine of the trinity and gone into ‘logic,’ where the song birds never sing.” F. J. Masters, presiding elder of the Chi- nese district, which extends to all cities of the conference, reported that never before has there been such an interest in San - Fraucisco Chinatown in the gospel as dur- ing the past conference yea Colored Miner Killed at Roslyn. Secretary of the California Annual Conference| ROSLYN, Wasw., Sept. 10.—John Allen, a colored miner, was fataily crushed by a fall of rock while working to-day. DETECTIVE WORK AT SACRAMENTO The Dead Robber’s Compan- ions Believed to Be in the City. TWO ARRESTS ARE MADE One Man Is Turned Loose, the Other Kept in Strict Seclusion. MUCH MYSTERY AND SECRECY. Clews, Descriptions and Photographs That Are Expected to Lead to Results. SACRAMENTO, Car., Sept. 10. — After several days’ hard work the detective forces of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company and Wells-Fargo have evidently arrived at the conclusion that the much- wanted train-robbers whose companion was killed by Engineer Ingles in last Sat- urday night’s attempted hold-up are at the present time walking the streets of this city, trusting to evade detection among the immense crowd of outsiders who throng it rather than to make any attempt at escape by any of the carefully guarded thoroughfares leading to other localities. All day long there has been extreme sctivity among the rank and file of man- hunters, and at least two arrests have been made, one of which is rumored to be important—with how much truth it is impossible to ascertain, as Hume and Thacker, who are captaining the search, bave sealed the mouths of their subor- dinates. All that can be learned isthat a man named Mike Golden was arrested this morning and has since been turned at liberty, though he is said to be still under surveillance, and that later a man named Sullivan was placed under arrest and con- veyed to the County Jail, where he is kept in strict seclusion. From the impene- trable air of mystery which has been cast around him it is thought that possibly he may be one of the trio who made the at- tempt on the company’s train. On the other hand there are companions of this same man who claim to have been in his company during the entire night of the robbery. That the whole scheme was concocted in this city by outside talent has been proven beyond a doubt. The robbery of the powder magazine and the purchase of the fuse and caps have both been traced to the dead man and his companions, whose actual description is in the posses- sion of the detectives. Their hanging-out places while in this city are known and there is but little doubt that it is a mere matter of time until their capture is effected, as it is claimed that the photos of the two men wanted have been secured. CAMPBELL’S CASE AT REDWOOD. Judge Buck Will Not Hear the Issus In- volving His Fee. REDWOOD CITY, Carn, Sept. 10.—* Judge Buck will not hear the issue involy- ing the allowance of Attorney Campbell’s fee in the estate of Charles Lux, deceased. The clerk to-day wrote Governor James H. Budd requesting him to designate some other Judge to hear the issues. Conse- quently the case which was set for argu- ment for next Saturday will be continued. This action was caused by the recent E‘ublieation of certain articles in ‘- San rancisco dailies containing reflections of a serious nature against certain attorneys in the case. —_— Unadilla’s Propeller Repaired. VALLEJO, CAL., Sept. 10.—A nice piece of work has been performed at Mare Island on the tug Un: a in making temporary repairs to her four-bladed pro- peller, one biade of which was broken on her trip from San Francisco recently. As the expense of docking the tug would equal that of the largest cruiser Con- structor W. S. Baxter hit upon the plan of lifting the stern of the tug sufficiently out of the water with the aid of the big traveling-crane to allow the workmen to make the necessary repairs, and the tug is now as good as ever. R s 2 GREAT ACTIVITY AT SAN LUIS. Rousing Meeting of the McKinley and Hobart Club. SAN LUIS OBISPO, Car., Sept. 10.— Last evening a rousing meeting of the McKinley and Hobart Club was held at their headquarters. Chairman Fowler presided and made .a few opening remarks. He was followed by G. ?V Kemp, who delivered a half-hour speech on the tariff which was warmly applanded. The club is daily increasing and using every effort to have all voters fall in line for McKinley and Hobart. The Bryvan Club met last night at the opera-house and an address by C. A. Barlow, the fusion candidate for this dis- trict, was listened to. The Udell letter to THE CALL, in reference to Barlow, is hav- ing a telling effect upon the community. e Tl Big Clambake at Sawsalito. SAUSALITO, CAr., Sept. 10.—There will be a great clambake at Sausalito on Sun- day, September 20. The town is papered with bills announcing that this will be a iree affair, and that chickens in every style, crabs and lots of other good thinga will be served. The aim is to more than equal the effort made by Tiburon, and the North Pacific Coast Railroad Company is expected to assist largely. The commit- tee :n arrangements will be named this week. SIS wn 5 Chinaman Killed Near Bakersfield. BAKERSFIELD, Carn., Sept. 10. — A telephone message was received here this evening from the Fish ranch, twelve miles west of here, thata Chinaman had been killed by the falling of a hay derrick mast. He was a trusted employe and had been in the employ of Mr. Fish, proprietor of the ranch, for a number of years. VILLEJO HAS A SUICIOE: Richard Willis, a Veteran Marine, Shoots Himself Through the Head. Dismissed From the Yountville Home for Disobeying Rules, He Suc- cumbs to Despondency. VALLEJO, CaL., Sept. 10.—Poor, old and broken down, Richard Willis shos and killed himself last night. He was the podsessor of three honorable discharges, more than a dozen small discharges of one year each, and an autograph letter from Hon. Gideon Welles, ex-Secretary of the Navy, for gallant and meritorious conduct during the several engagements of the United States ship New [ronsides in the assaults on Fort Fisher, in December, 1864, and January, 1865, during which en- gagements he was wounded in the legs, and as a result was in receipt of $36 per quarter as pension money. For twelve or fifteen years past Willis has served as signal quartermaster on the receiving-ship Independence. About three years ago he decided to quit the navy and go to the Veterans’ Home at Yountville. He remained there fora time and having disobeyed the regulations was discharged, with the penajty of not being entitled to admission for six months. ‘Willis was old and infirm and had been since subsisting on the small pension re- ceived. He had been stopping in a little room near the water front, but becoming a pauper and unable to pay the rent he was turned out. A neighbor gave him a couple of nights lodging and again he was left to drift out into the night, when an old lady took compassion and offered to share her humble abode with him. Willis thanked her and with but 20 cents lefc he asked her to have a sup of beer. They drank to- %ether in a saloon at the corner of Branci- orte and Capitol streets, when Willis ex- cused himself for a moment and passed out of the front door into the aarkness. He had not gone iwenty feet before taking a_revolver from his pocket, which he placed to the side of hisright ear and fired, and by the time the inmates of the suloon had reached him he was dead. Willis was a native of England, about 80 years of age. ——————————————————————————————————————————————————— NEW TO-DAY. Only One Only One Only One There’s only one firm in the entire length and breadth of this great State who can say to you: “‘Come to us and we will sell to you direct— Fine Clothing made by our- selves from cloth manufac- tured by ourselves in our own Woolen Mills at the exact wholesale price the dealers pay us.” That firm has only one lo- cation in San Francisco—in the SECOND block from Market, on Sansome street. Don’t be deceived by imita- tors—look sharp for the Blue Signs and the two names, “Oregon City Woolen Mills” and “‘Brown Bros: & Co? All-Wool Men’s Suilts, $12.50; Boys’ Suits, $7.50; Children’s Suits, $4.50. BROwN s S Wholesale Manufacturers Props. Oregon Cite Woolen Mills Fine Clothing For Man, Boy or Child RETAILED At Wholesale Prices 121-123 SANSOME STREET, Bet. Bush and Pine Sts. ALL BLUE SIGNS ceecaaasde