The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 15, 1896, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1896. 3 A FAITH N WekINLE} Farmers of QOhio Journey to Canton to Greet the Major. PROTECTION TO INDUS- TRY DEMANDED. Sheep-Growers of the East Are Impoverished by the Low Democratic Tariff. THEY LOOK TO THE CHAMPION OF PROTECTION. Tillers of the Soil Will Assist Him in the Fight to Restore Prosperity. CANTON, Ogro, Sept. 14.—The visiting delegations took an early start this week. Major McKinley commenced his speech- making at 11 o’clock this morning, and he will not finish his oratorical labors until turday evening. At 10:30 a delegation of 1000 wool-growers and business men from Harrison County, Ohio, arrived in Canton. This delegation started from Cadiz, the county seat*and home of the venerable diplomat and jurist, John A. Bingham, shortly after sunrise. As the majority of the men in the delegation were farmers early rising was no hardship for them. The Harrison County men were re- ceived in a handsome way at the station by the Canton mounted troop, who es- corted them to Major McKinley’s resi- dence. The candidate has made a good many speechesin Harrison County—which is one of the larzest wool-growing commu- nities in the West—and he has a large number of acquaintances and admirers there, many of whom were among the visitors to-day. It was this fact that ac- counted in the measure for the ardor of the greeting which Major McKinley re- ceived when he appeared on his front porch this moruing. The farmers of Har- rison County cheered long and lustily. Ex-Attorney-General D. A. Hollings- worth was spokesman. He said in part: Major McKinley: Your friends, both politi- cal and personal, of Harrison County, 1000 in number, are here to-day to pay their respects 1o you and wish you godspeed in the manly fight you are making for American honor, American industries and American homes. The people of Hsrrison County, here and at home, beg to call your special attention to the condition of their one leading industrr, the recent prostration, almost destruction, of which by Democratic free trade has paralyzed every business center of the county. Under the beneficial influences of the sct of 1867, known as the Bingham wool tariff, the venerable suthor of which is stll living in great respect and honor at Cadiz, and who sends by us to you his greeting and assurances of support, Harrison County produced more sheep and wool than any other county in the United States on like area. Its soil seems especially adapted to sheep husbandry. This prosperous condition of our wool industry was continued under the McKinley tariff of 1890, and it became in fact, notonly tne leading industry, but a part and parcel, the woof and warp, of every industrial enterprise in the county. In 1892, the last year of the McKinly tariff, the sheep of Harrison County numbered 159,- 246, and were valued for taxation at $400,- B70. Siuce then the number of sheep has rap- idly decreased, so that in 1896 the statistics show only 92,134, valued at $165,512, the wool clip of which amounts to only 512,265 pounds. Mr. Hollingsworth’s speech was loudly and enthusiastically applauded. When the people became quiet Major McKinley stepped forward. There was a thunder of applause, and then he commenced his speech. It was addressed to the wool- growers of the country and of Harrison County. Major McKinley said: Mr. Hollingsworth, Ladies and Gentlemen— My Fellow Citizeus: I count it as a very special honor to receive this visit from my fellow citizens, composed for the most part of the farmers of Harnson Couanty. I would bave been glad to have had with you that venerable citizen and statesman, Hon. John A. Binghsm [great applause], whose message of cheer and congratulation and good will you have brought me. [Renewed epplause.] It is cspeciaily gratifying to me 1o receive & visit from so many of the farmers and wool- growers of Harrison County.® There is scarcely a county in the State which is so essentially agricultural as yours. You have no large towns; you have but few factories and your occupations are almost exclusively rural. Your county has long been noted as one of the great agricultural sections of the State, and especially devoted to that branch of agricul- ture known as sheep-raising and wool-grow- ing. There is probably no portion of the tountry of the same area that has supported 50 many sheep as yours, and for many years at least this was the most profitable industry of your farmers. It is not sogood, I believe, now as formerly. [Laughter and applause and cries of “No, no!”] The last three years have been years of great trial, not only to the wool-growers of your county, but to the entire country. You have seen your crops disappear and your fleeces diminish in value to an ex- tent that prior to 1892 yon would not have be- lieved was possible. I remember in 1891 to have delivered an address in the city of Cadiz to the assembled farmers of Harrison County, In which I undertook to predict what would happen if we had free wool in the United biates, There were few men in that great gudience who believed my prediction then. What do you think of it now, farmers of Har- cison County? [Cries of *‘We think it all ht.”” ('jgn 18&1)1 you had, according to your banners displayed here to-day, 153,503 shecp of an average value of §5 per hesd. In 1896 you have but 92,000 sheep worth only $1 50 per head. In 1891 you received from 30 to 32 cents per pound for your wool; in 1896, for the same grade of wool, from 14 to 16 cents pe- pound. This enormous 10ss to a great in- dustry is trojy astounding end calls for seri- ous consideration and prompt remedy if one van be found, and the only remedy we have in the United States is by the baliot; and if itis protection you want you know what party car- tHes the banner of protection. [Enthusiastic tueer.ng and cries of “What's the matter with McKinley? He's all right.”] “Prior to the enactment of the Wilson tariff faw you had enjoyed almost without inter- tuption from the beginning of the Government tariff on your product to protectyou from ihe competition of the cheaper lands and the yheaper labor of other countries. By thatact Four product was made free and opened up to Ihe unrestricted competition of all the wool of he worid. What makes that act more inde- fensible is, first, that it was wholly unneces- sary; and, second, that it was singling out one vi the greatest industries of the country for (mimediate sacrifice, leaving o.her industries [nu'xnz no greater claim upon the considera- fon of the Government practically unharmed. [Cries of “That'’s right.””] No class of our citizens have suffered 80 much from that tariff law as the wool-growers of the Uuited States, and mnone were more deserving of gezerous treatment than they. Eoinexcusable was this act that Presi- dent Cieveland, who favored a redunction in tariff all along the line, and who believed in free raw material, was unwilling to sign the bill and used these characteristic words against it: “It may well excite our wonder that Democrats are willing to depart from this (free raw-material doctrine), the most Democratic of all, tariff principle, and that the inconsist- eut absurdity of snch a proposed departure | should be emphasized by the suggestion that the wool of the farmers be put on the free list, and the protection of tariff taxation be placed around the iron ore and coal of corporations #nd capitalists.” But this did not avert the {atal blow. Less organized than other indus- tries in the country you were unable to secure the recognition to which you were justly enti- tled to, and your great product was made the victim of free trade. [Cries of “That’s right.”] The platform of the National Republican party, upon which we stand this year, much to my gratification singles out the wool indus- try and makes of it special mention as entitled to full protection under our revenue laws. [Loud appiause and cries of *‘Good, good!"] This is the language of the National platform: ““To all our products—to those of the mine and the field, as well as those of the shop and fuc- tory—to hemp, to wool, the proauct of the great industry of sheep industry, as well as to the finished woolens of the mill, we promise the most ample protection.’ [Great ap- plause.] And what the Republican party promises 1t is in the habit of performing. [Cries of “That's 1ight!”] It does not make promises to be broken. It says what it means and means what it says. If clothed with power in all branches df the Government it will give to this great indutry fair and just protection with all other indus- tries of the country. But, my fellow-citizens, what we want, whether we produce woul or any other agricultural produet, is to preserve the splendid home market to our own Amer- ican producers. [Great applause.] It is the best market in the world. There is no other market like it and upon every principle of justice and fair play 1t belongs to us and to nobody else before us. [Applause and cries of “That’s right.”] Protection to the farmer has been recognized from the beginning of the Government until now. As showing the importance of your in- dustry it is only necessary to say that in 1892 there were 700,000 wool-growers in the United States—700,000 people whose chief occupation was thatof wool-growing. There were prob- ably one-fourth as many more who were own- ers of small flocks of sheep in the United States. This industry employed besides those | who owned the flocks, it is estimated, at least | 500,000 1aborers, representing, with those who were dependent upon them, nearly 2,500,000 people. There were 700,000 tarms, averaging 160 acres each, devoted to this industry; and the mountainous regions and the vast plain of the great West, which are not adapted to other kinds of farming, have been utilized in this great industry and made valuable. Every one of these farms, comprising 160 acres of 1and—112,000,000 acres in all—has been seriously injured by placing wool upon the free list. In oneof the agricultural papers of the West I have seen the statement that in Oregon, Utah, Washington, Idaho and Western Montana there were 6,710,746 sheep, which were worth in 1892 $13,421,000, and whieh in 1896 were worth only $6,710,000. In 1892 we had 47,273,553 sheep in the United States, valued at $125,000,000. In 1895 we had 38, 298,000, valued at $65,000,000; and the total imports of woolen goods in 1892, under the Repub ican protective tariff law, was a little above $37,000,000, and in 1895, under the Wilson tariff law, these imports amounted to more than $60,000,000. (Cries of “Hurrah for McKinley and the Republican party!""] On the second day of April, 1888, in pre- senting the minority report in opposition to the Mills tariff bill in the National House of Representatives I said: ‘“Wool on the free list is a deadly assault upon a great agricul- tural interest and will fall with terrible sever- ity upon a million people, their households and dependencies. It will destroy invested capi- tal, unsettle established values, wrest irom the flock-masters their life-time earnings, bank- rupt thousands of our best and most indus- trious farmers, and drive them into other branches of agriculture already overcrowded. [Cries of, “That’s what it has done!”] Itisa vicious and indefensible blow at the entire agricultural interest of the country.” [Cries of “You are right.”] Major McKinley quoted Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson in effect that the duties we lay on all articles of foreign manufacture secures us against a relapse into foreign dependence. Con- tinuing he said: My own idea is that we should encourage home manufactures to the extent of our own consumption. [Applause.] I have said that the home market is the best market. You know that from experience; and the home raarket is made better by increasing our factories and giving employment to idle workmen. [Great cheering.] Put every idle man in the country towork and your consumers will be increased [cheers and cries of “*That’s right”’}, and when your consumers are increased then your mar- ket is improved and the better the price you receive for your products. [Criesof Good, good!”] It was said that if we opened up this coun- try to the free use of the wool of the world the farmers would be benefited. It was done, and with what benefit you know better than I can tell you. Now they tell you that free sil- ver [laughter] is the panacea for all your ills, [Renewed laughter.] And you have the same money in circulation now that you had four years ago, but you wool-growers have not got as much of it as you had then. [Cries of “That's right] As free wool degrades your industry so free silver will degrade your money. [Applause and eries of “That’s right, 100.”) You have salready been fleeced by loss on your flocks and you don’t propose to be fleeced further by loss on your money. [Cheer- ing. My fellow-citizens, I am glad to receive you end welcome you here at my home, and it wiil afford me sincere pleasure to shake hands with each one of you personally if you desire me to doso. [Great applause.] Major McKinley dined at the residence of Isaac D."Harter this evening. Mr. Har- teris a brother of the late Congressman, Michael D. Harter. Major McKinley read the reports from Maine during the evening with evident satisfaction, but without very great sur- prise, for his advices from Augusta had prepared him for a victory of more than ordinary proportions. Major McKinley will receive three dele- gations to-morrow. The first comes from Mich igan, the second irom Somerset County, Pa., and the third will be com- posed ot the Grand Army posts of Canton and vieinity. Yallejo Answers Rev. Mr. Willis, VALLEJO, CaL., Sept. 14.—The Vallejo Evening Chronicle says: “Elder E. R. ‘Willis of Napa district is, it would seem, spitefully inclined toward Vallejo, and in- stead of getting a true cond:tion of affairs and facts he is taking a whole lot for granted in his flines and flourishes at the Methodist conference. All of the churches in this city vesterday were well attended at their Sunday services, both morning and evening. When the Rev. Mr. Willis says taat the church-going population of Vallejo is ungodly, he is pasely misrepre- senting the facts, — i Pualo Alto’s Debating Society. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, CaL., Sept. 14.—The Inter-society Debating League has elected the following officers: Presi- dent, J. T. Burcham ’97; vice-president, G. L. Williams "97; secretary-treasurer, A. B. Morgan '98. An executive committee was appointed to arrange for three joint meetings of all the debating clubs “this semester. e Opening the Fresno Route. FRESNO, CaL., Sept. 14.—The claims of Q and Diana street property-owners for damages for the passing of the Valley road by their places have all been seitled ex- cept two of the largest. Toey are out of town, and it is believed that satisfactory settlement can be made with them as soon as they return. . BOURKE COCKRAN TALKS AT OMAHA Great Crowds Turn Out to Hear the New York Statesman. FIERCE RIOT AVERTED. Planks Used as Seats Give Way and the Audience Grows Surly. BRYAN’S FRIENDS MAKE NOISE Again Those Unanswerable Qusstions Are Aliuded To by the Noted Speaker. OMABA, NesR., Sept. 14.—W. Bourke Cockran spoke at the Collisseum to-night to a crowd estimated at 12,000 people. Sec- retary of Agricuiture Morton presided. Several thousand more tickets were issued, and what with heat and the breaking down of benches and people going out it was twenty minutes before order could be had. Several thoasand Bryan men, includ- ing several silver clubs en masse, were in the audience and cheered every reference made to Mr. Bryan. Mr. Cockran began by saying that he was profoundly grateful for this hearing and that the West would give to a man from New York—a State which Mr. Bryan bad denominated ‘ the enemy’s coun- try”’—such an audience. He hoped never again to hear a citizen of this land speak of any part of it as ‘‘the enemy’s coun- try.” He had the highest respect for Mr. Bryan’s character. Personally it was above reproach. That was, he said, what made his candidacy on the platform that was made at Chicago by Populists captur- ing the Democratic convention so danger- ous. If the nominee were a dangerous man on that platform there would be less to apprehend. If all Mr. Bryan has said about the pean money-changers were true, our Gov- ernment must be a failure. If free coin- age would raise the rate of wages to the laborer, he himself, not professing over- weening love for the laboring man, but simply on the theory that it would benefit him personally, wonld indorse free coin- age. He had asked Mr. Bryan upon what wages were based, and Mr. Bryan had not answered him because he could not. To raise the price of everything would accom- phish nothing and the agitation would be useless, If Mr. Bryan raised the prices of commodities above wages it would be injurious to the laborer, while if wages were pushed above commodities it woula injure the farmer. No one could pay $2 for a dav’s labor when he could get it for $150. lanthropy. traveler, but he had never s Pprosperous or erops so abun t as those tbis year in the West, excep at a cloud, the agitation of free coinage, had been cast across the country. But this cloud would be cleared away in November by the triomph of National honesty and honor. The best news he coald take back East would be that he had seen in this city the largest audience he had ever seen and that the Bryan campaien had collapsed. Secretary Morton made a brief speech on taking the chair, but even the report- ers could not catch his words, and it was merely pantomime to the audience, which ‘was struggling for seats and yelling, *‘Sit down!” to those who stood in the aisles. In the attempt to seat so vast an audi- ence planks were used, supported at either end by a chair. People crowded upon these until the boards broke, and those who were seated had to stand. Hundreds spoited frequently with small groups of standing psople who had no place to sit, who could get neither in nor out. When the meeting was called to order these standing groups interfered with the sight of those sitting, and confusion fol- lowed. Cries of “8it down” were continu- ous from those sitting, and were responded -to with hisses by those standing. The trouble, if any there was, was in 1ssuing tickets to more than the seating capacity of the Collisseum, and then throwing open of the doors for all others to crowd in. By the use of other chairs and boxes the broken planks were again made to do service, and after the people nad again been properly seated, there was no further disturbance, and Mr. Cockran was ac- corded respectful hearing, except that his reference to Bryan on two or three oc- casions was greeted with rounds of ap- plause by the friends of that gentieman who were In the audience. _Beveral avowed Bryan supporters were given tickets by the committee who had the meeting in charge, and these men, probably inadvisedly, interrupted the speaker a few times by prolonged cheers for their favorite. —_———— TOM WATSON IN NEBRASKA. Asks the West and South to Preserve the People’s Party. OSCEOLA, NEBR., Sept. 14.—Thomas F. Watson spoke to an audience of over 3000 here to-day. The weather up to 10 o’clock was very disagreeable, it having rained throughout the entire night. This kept away a great number of people from the surrounding country. Mr. Watson spoke for nearly two hours and presented a com- crime of 1873 and the dealings with Euro- | Wages are not regulated by phi- | Mr. Cockran said he had been a great | people so | of these boards broke, and the crowd was | plete argument for all of the Populist | party and principles. His reference to the fact that of all the Congressmen elected from the Southern States through the aid of the Populist party, he was the only one who had remained true to the faith, pro- duced tremendous cheering. His criticisins of Sewall, the Democratic nominee for Vice-President, was couched in gentlemanly language, and his main point was that this was a fight for the vreservation of the Populist party, and in order to get the needed reforms the West and South must stand shoulder to shoul- der, as from those sections must come tha votes necessary for success. Continuing hesaid: **11 1 believed it best for the interests of Mr. Bryan I weuld willingly get off the ticket. Perish my name forever if Icannot be instrumental in freeing this people.’” He called attention to the fact that sound-money Democrats had gone to the South and selected General Buckner. In closing he made an appeat to the people of Nebraska to look weil to their interests on_election dav. Congressman Bell addressed a large audience at a mass-meeting this evening. Both speakers leave for Wahoo in the morning, at which place they speak to- mMOrrow. i L 1 Flocking Back From Alaska. SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 14.—The three- masted schooner Sophie Sutherland, with ninety practically*‘dead broke’’ Cooks Inlet miners, arrived in &:rt this afternoon direct from Bix-Mile Creek. Of this num- ber of disappointea gold-seckers not a man | ran, made expenses. There are about 1000 men .yet on Turnagain Arm and its tributaries. Those returning to-day say that of many creeks emptying inio Cooks Inlet only one, Mill Creek, carries gold in paying quantities. —_——— PLEAD FUR CLIFTON MAYNE. Affidavits Filed by the Girls He Was Con- ricted of Wronging. LOS ANGELES, CAL., Sept. 14.—Clifton R. Mayne, now in jail under sentence of twenty-five years for a crime against the Shipton girls, and retained pending an appeal to the Supreme Court, has sud- denly sprung 1nto public notice again, be- cause of a motion filed to-day in the Su- perior Court, supvorted by numerous affi- davits, asking the court to set aside its former ruling denying to the prisoner a new trial. 9 The affidavits are from Della Shipton, a sister of Eisie, who charced Mayne with having wronged her. She now declares that she had testiied falsely in the trial as to hersister’s age. There is anaffidavit from the mother, stating thatshe gave the child’s age incorrectly at the time of the trial, and that Elsie was really born in 1880, whicih would place her slightly over the aze of consent. LUS ANGELES HOLD-UP. South Riverside Man Seriously Wounded by a Footpad. LOS ANGELES, CaL., Sept. 14.—John E. Dold of South Riverside was probably fatally shot by & footpad in Elysian Park on the outskirts of thiscity about 7 o’clock this evening. Dold was out for a stroll near the highest point in the park when he was approached by a medium-sized man, dressed in dark-blue clothes. The stranger demanded that Dold should hold up both hands. Dold was frightened by the unexpected order, and instead of complying made a move as though to draw a revolver, when he was tired upon by the footpad at close e. The ball entered the left side of Dold’s abdomen, ranging back toward the spinal calumn, where it remains. The footpad made his escape. —_— SAN DIEGO MYSTERY. Waves Cast Up @ Bottle Containing the Story of a Wreck. SAN DIEGO, CAwL., Sept. 14.—A floating bottle was picked up at La Jolla yesterday, in which was a scrap of brown paper, on which was written in pencil the following blurred lines: August 26, '94.—Shipwrecked five weeks ago and sinking. Name vessel Eldo No water and only a quart bottle of brandy. Enough bread to last about ten days. Calculate 1150 miles from nearest land. Are in long buat twelve persons. Name of capiain, Sawyer. Thirteen persons drowned. Iam only one who can write in Englisn language. JOHN SMITH. NEW WHATCOM FAILURE Frightened Depositors Cause the Collapse of the Bennett Nationa! Bank. | | Withdraw Their Money Because of the Agitation in Favor of Free Co nage. NEW WHATCOM, Wasn., Sept. 14.— The Bennett National Bank of this city closed its doors this morning, announcing that owing to the steady withdrawal by | depositors during the last six weeks it | could- not meet the demands made. In the last month the withdrawals have been $60,000, which is over ha!f of the deposits. The run has been by people who were frightened by the silver agitation and pre- ferred to have gold instead of running the chances of being repaid in 53-cent dollars. The bank closed last December, but | opened again under most promising cir- | cumstances. A statement of assets and Jiabilities cannot be secured until the bank examiner arrives, but Cashier Baldy states that the assets are in such shape that they can be realized on quickly. The tota! deposits at the last statement were $106,000, leaving about $50,000 to the credit | of depositors. gosiel e o TIBURONS SCARE. Officers Summoned From Sausalito to Capture an Offender. TIBURON, CAL., Sept. 14.—Joseph de Wolfe, a deaf mute, ran amuck here last night. He attacked his aged mother and threw her into the street and started in to “do up" the rest of the town. The con- stable of Tiburon was absent, so steam launch was sent to Sausalito for aid. Con- stable R. R. Garrity of that town, accom- vpanied by Deputy R. Barry, came over and arrested the man. De Wolfe was brought before Judge Berude of Sausalito to-day and charged with battery and disturbing the peace. He was sehtencea to sixty days in the County Jail. San Dirgo Water dSuit Decided. LOS ANGELES, CAL., Sept. 14.—An im- portant decision was rendered by Judge Ross in the United States Court to-day, in the case of Charles D. Banning, receiver for the San Diego Land and Water Com- pany, vs. H. C. Osborne et al. The suit is an injunction to keep the defendants from bringing injunction suits against the re- ceiver of the company. The opinion was on exceptions to the answer. The effect of the decision is that the company could fix the water rate in default of any order by the Supervisors to that effect. The opinion is a_ voluminous one, covering many pages of typewritten manuscript. Ene Ntrange Fish for Stanford. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Car., Sept. 14.—The zoological department at Stan- ford has justreceived avaluable colle$ tion of unclassified trout from Admiral Beardslee, United States navy. Mr. Beardslee, who is an enthusiastic fisher- man, discovered several new species of trout in the lakes in Washington. [hese were found to be such when classified at Stanford. The latest consignment, which he addressed to Dr. Jordan, arrived to-day. As several more new specimens are prol ably among the collection the opening of the case is awaited with interest. — Wanted at Martines. PORTLAND, O, Sept. 14.—T. E. Hughes was arrested here to-day on a tel- egraphic warrant from Sheriff R. R. Veal of Martinez, Cal. The telegram stated tbat Hughes was a California and Ken- tucky ex-conviet, and the instructions were that he would call at Wells, Fargo & Co.’s Express office for a package. Hughes is wanted at Martinez for felony. The de- tectives here had been on the lookout for three days for their man, and after inces- sant yigil at the Union depot and express office, whither the decoy packace was 3ent, they effected his capture this morning. gt i T A San Rafael Divorore’s Plaint.| SAN RAFAEL, CAL., Sept. 14 —Charles Benson, Auditor and Recorder of Marin County, appeared before Judce Angelotti to-day to bave reversed thedecision grant- ing to his divorced wife, Laura M. Benson, the custoay of their child. The Judge, after listening to_the testimony, decided the former decree shoula stand. Lo SIS Whatorm Bank Failurs. WHATCOM, Wask., Sept. 14.—Tne Ben- nett National Bank, which failed last No- vember, being some weeks later permitted to open, has closed its doors again. De- posizors, it is claimed, will be paid in full. AGUA CALIENTE SACHEM DEAD Alejandro Barker Passes to the Happy Hunting- Grounds. MOURNED BY HIS TRIBE Weird Funeral Services Held on the Great Warner Ranch. ONCE PREVENTED A MASSACRE Saved a Party of Whites Frcm Death at the Risk of His Own Life. S8AN DIEGO, CaL., Sept. 14.—Alejandro Barker, chief of the Agua Caliente In- dians on the great Warner ranch, died on Friday, and the Indians have been hold- ing funeral services ever since. They will elect a chief during the week. The funeral services were weird in the extreme, and the two or three hundrea whites en- camped at the Hot Springs were edified by an example of aboriginal ceremony. The leading bucks gathered around the campfire and one by one spoke with great feeling, referring to the good gualities of the fallen chief. The women sat at the fire and kept it replenishea and added their unearthly wailing to the long howls of the men. The body of the chief was placed in the center of the crowd, covered with a blanket, and candles were burned at his head and feet. His family was at- tended to by the medicine man during the funeral. Alejandro was a good man and a friend of the whites. He favored schools, and the Government school on the reservation thrived through his efforts. His own daughter speaks English as well as Span- ish and writes well. The family lives in a respectable adobe house. Alejandro leaves considerable property, consisting of crops, horses and cattle. Away back in 1876 there was great trouble on the Warner ranch because of the efforts of the owner to eject the In- dians, who, he claimed, were squatting on the land surrounding the Hot Springs. The ranch includes the Valle de San Jose and San Jose del Valle, 33,000 acres in all. The land at the springs is good, and the Indians, who had considered it theirs from time immemorial, refused to leave. The result was a deadiock that was not broken for a long time. The owners formally ordered the In- dians off, and they again refused to stir. Then harsher means were resorted to, and officers were sent to eject the Indians. The latter showed an ugly temper, and blood- shed was averted only by the withdrawal of the officers. Meantime the owners went to law, and when tue Indians saw there was danger of losing their ancestral homes they seceretly set fire to the house of the ranch foreman, and planned to kill him and all other representatives of the owner, as well as any officers who came to inves- tigate the affair. hen Alejandro Baker stepped in and put a stop to the proceedings. He was denounced by his tribe and was in danger of death for some time, but his counsel finally prevailed and the lives of the whites were spared. Later the Indians indorsed his policy. A case is now pending in court for the ejection of the Indians irom Agua Caliente. It was begun b{ ex-Governor John G. Downey, owner of the ranch, and is con- tinued by his heirs. Chief Alejandro, through his superior intelligence, was a great stumbling-block to Governor Dow- ney. The shrewd chief won his point as long as he lived, the Indians being still at Agua Caliente, with the indications favor- able to their staying aslong as they want to. e Killed by a Mad Bull. SAN DIEGO, CAL., Sept. 14.—Jesus Mel- endrez, 2n old settler of San Rafael Valley, Lower California, was gored to death by a buil yesterday. A son of Melendrez was injured so badly that he may also die. Both men were after the bull and had suc- ceeded in lassoing him, but theriata parted after the men dismounted from the horses. They were charged upon and mangled in sight of their relatives, who were unable to go to their assistance. e Death of John N. Young. SAN DIEGO, Cax., Sept. 14—John N. Young, one of the best-known residents of the county, died last night of consumption, aged 67. He came to the coast in 1859, and for the following ten vears was in the Ship- ing business at San Francisco, coming to gan Diego in 1869. He was wealthy and popular. S el GIFT TO GLEMNWOOD SCHOOL. Colonel Miles Purchases a Flag to Be Hoisted by Scholars. SANTA CRUZ, CAL., Sept. 14.—Colonel Evan Miles, commanding the First in- fantry, now in camp at Garfield Park, has endeared himself to the citizens of Santa Cruz by his readiness to familiarize the public with the duties and responsibilities of the rank and file of the army. One of the com mendabie traits in his character has jus: been found to be his loyalty to the vi'lage school. ‘While en route to Santa Cruz he pitched camp one night at Glenwood, tifteen miles | from here. He learned that the school- | house needed a flag and that a subscrip- tion was being taken up for the purchase, te quietly remembered the fact and ordered a flag for Miss Josie Coonev, who presides over the school. She is a daugh- ter of Mrs, J. G. Cooney, grand senior vice-president of the Catholic Ladies’ Aid Society. On Saturday next Colonel Miles, with his regiment, will have a gala day at Glenwood. The First Infantry band will play patriotic airs during the raising of the flag and a ball in honor of the gallant colonel and his staff will end the festivi- ties. —_— S8 iNTA CRUZ CONCLAVE., Ladies of the Catholic Church Will Meet in Convention. SANTA CRUZ, CAL., Sept. 14.—All is in readiness for the ovening of the Grand Council of the Catholic Ladies’ Aid Society at Hotel Del Mar to-morrow. Mass will be celebrated by Rey. Father Hugh Mac- Namee at 8:30 o'clock. Breakfast and a reception will follow. Father McNamee will, at 1 o’clock in the atternoon, deliver the address of welcome. Mrs. Margaret Deaue, the council’s grand president, is in Paris, and Mrs. J. G. Cooney of this elt{ grand senior vice- President, will presi de. The twenty-four branches ui the order, from all sections of the State, will send each two delegates, Thes., wih eleven grand directors ang oficer~, will muke a gathering of nearly e Children Cry for Pitcher’s Castoria. seventy delegates in council. They will be in session four days. One of the most important matters in contemplation isthe establishment, of a_home for girls on a large and undenominational plan. The following are the grand officers: Mrs. Margaret Deane, grand president; Mrs. J. G. Cooney, grand senior vice- resident; Mrs. Thomas Keegan, Santa 0sa, grand junior vice-president; Miss Maria Flynn, Oak'and, grand treasurer; Miss Margaret Curtis, grand secretary: Mrs. Mary L. Lohse, Oakland, grand deputy. ey el TACOMA’S SENSATIONAL SUIT. The Late H. Cranston Potter's Widow Brings Action to Collect His Life Insurance. TACOMA, WasH.,, Sept. 14.—A $15,000 suit is the sequel to the drowning of H. Cranston Potter of Tacoma at the Oliff House, San Francisco, last February. At that time the insurance companies hold- 1ng risks on Potter's life made a thorough investigation and it was supposed here that a lawsuit to cotlect might be necessary. The matter quieted down and it was generally believea that all policies had been paid until to-day, when Mrs. Potter started a suit against the Preferred Accident Insurance Com- pany of New York for $15,000. Potter took out a policy in 1894 for . The complaint does not_detail the nature of the policy, but says the value of the paid-up policy for which it provided, whereby the plaintiff could receive $10 weekly during her natural life, is $10,000. Judgmentis accordingly asked for $15.000. It is understood the insurance company refused payment on the ground that Pot- ter came to his death through intoxica- tion. Mrs. Potter and children are in London, as guests of Mr. Potter’s father. Potter was a brother of James Brown Potter and a relative of Bishop Potter. e TIBBITTS AT SEATTLE. The Mining Engineer En Route to His Home From Buluwayo. SEATTLE, Wasn., Sept. 14.—J. H. Tib- bitts, the South African mining engineer, whose home is in San Francisco, passed through Seattie to-night, en route to the California metropolis. For a year past he has been in the employ of Clarks Con- solidated Mining Company, limited, at Buluwayo, but his contracts were can- celed. Owing to the uprising of the Matabeles being practically at an end, Mr. Tibbitts expects a rush of English and Americans and rapid development, especially as regards mining, of Matabele- land and Mashonaland, two states consti- tuting what is known as Rhodesia. Col- onel Rhodes he regards as a ‘‘good and great man, whose ultimate aims and pur- poses are to transform Rhodesia into a iull-fledged republic and not to make the country s British possession, as has been charged.” Tibbitts is accompanied by James B. Hughes and George D. Munford, New York capitalists, who propose going ex- tensively into placer mining in Sierra County, Cal., and A. L. Arundell, a Chi- cago capitalist. The latter will remain for a few days investigating mining proper- ties in this State. . Suicide Near Madera. MADERA, CaL, Sept. 14.—Coroner Payne was summoned this morning to the ranch of George Hely to hold an inquest | over the body of a young man named W. B. Hill, 27 years of age, from San Fran- cisco, who had committed suicide last night. Hill had been sent to the Hely ranch from an employment bureau in San Francisco and had only-been here a short time. el Scattle Ship- Building. SEATTLE, Wass., Sept. 14.—The rev- enue cutter Golden Gate, to be stationed in San Francisco harbor, has reached that stage of completion where it is ready for its boilers, which are i1n transit from Charleston, 8. C. Robert Moran of the firm of builders, stated to-day that the Golden Gate would be ready to be placed in service within thirty days from the arrival of the boilers. NEW TYO-DAY. HEADQUARTERS REPUBLIGAN COUNTY COMMITTEE. 850 MARKET STREET. Call for a Republican Municipal Pri- mary and Nominating Con- vention. RESOLVED, THAT THE REPUBLICAN County Committee of the City and County of San Francisco, State of Californis, the same belng a committee authorized by rules and customs of the Republican party of the State of California to call elections for said party in the City and County of San Francisco, for the purpose herelnafter specified, does hereby call and order an election tobe held on Saturday, the 19tn day of Septem- ber, 1896, by the qualified Republican voters of the City and County of San Francisco, at the time and places and for the purposes and subject to the conditions and qualifications hereinafter set forth, and that it is hereby declared and determined to call, hold and conduct sald election in accordance with the ruies prescribed in Part 8, Title 11, Chapter 14 of the Political Code of the State of California. Resolved, That sald election shall be held on Saturday, September 19, 1896, In the various As- sembly districts of the City and County of San Francisco, as established by an act of the Legisla- ture of Califorais, entitled *An act to divide the State into legislative districts, as requirea by sec- tlon 6, article IV of the constitution, and to pro- ‘vide for the election of Assemblymen and Senators in such districts, approved March 11, 1891""; pro- Vided, however, that there shall be at least one ana not more than two polling-placesin each Assembiy district, as may hereafter be determined by the executive committee; and the polls shall be kept open continuously between the hours of 12 o’clock noon and 7 o’clock in the evening. Resolved, Thatthe County Committeemen from each Assembly district shall select election officers, viz.: One inspector, two judges and two clerks or each poliing-place, the same to be submitted to the executive committee for approval, also palling- Flaces, and that the executive committee thereof shall act as a returning or canvassing board and take general charge of the primary herein called. Resolved, That ail polling-places must be on the ground floor and the ballot-box so placed as wo be seen from the sidewslk. Resolved, That no barricades or other obstruc- tions shall be erected or maintained In front of sny polling-place, but the said polling-places snall e as free of all obstructions as they are at general elections, and that uo returns will bé recelved or counted as official from any polling-place whers this provision has been violated. Resolved, That the official ballot-box at each polling-place must remain In a plain and unob- strucied view from the opening of the polls to the ciose. The bailot-box must be so placed that the ‘voter can eusily see the Lop of the box and his bal- lot deposited. Resolved, That no peddling of tickets or soliciting the insurance | NEW TO-DAY. ———— T of votes shall be permitted within 100 feet of the polls, and the committee requests the police offi- cersan duty to keep the polls free and unob- structed at all times. This shall not be construed to apply to the presence of challengers. Resolved, That an official map of the district, showing the boundaries of various precincts, shall e posted in a conspicous place outside the polis. Resolved, That In addition to all other grounds of challenge in the laws of the State governlng gen- eral elections this committee hereby directs ana orders that the following sdditional test be put to voters: “I will pledge myself to vole for the nom- inees of the Republican party at the coming elec- tion. Resolved. That the executive committee shall procure and provide for each polling-place a ballot- box a8 Is used at the general election; alsoat least w0 copies of the precinct regisier, embracing within the boundaries of the Assembly district, and for each particular polling-place one copy ot sald precinet register must remain at all times in- side of the polling-place and retained by the elec- tion board for the purpose of ascertaining whether the nume of the voter appears on the precinct reg- ister, and to place a check opposite the name of the voter after he has voted. Resolved, That for this primary election only the Pprinted precinct registers used at the general elec- 100 held in November, 1894, shall be used, and Do person shall be permitted to Vote whose name does not appear on the precinct reglster in the Assembly district in which he offers to vote. Resolved, That the objects of said election are as follows: First. ‘Ihe election of 243 Celegates to consti- tute a Republican Municipal, Legislative, Judicial and xducational convention. to meet at 1 . M. on the 32 day of September, 1896, at ths City and County of San Francisco, to nominate candidates for all municipal and juditial ofiices, and to make such provisions for the nomination of candidates for members of the Legislature of the State of California to represent the various Assembly and Senatorlal districts of the City and County of San Francisco to which said City and County is en- titled, all of sald nominees to be voted for at the general election to be held November 3, 1896, in the City and County of San Francisco, State of Californis, and for the transaction of such other business as In the judgment of the convention may be required for the benefit of the Republican party. The apportionment of said delegates to said con- vention will be as follows: ‘Two delegates at large from each Assembly dis- trici, and one delegate for each 100 Republican votes cast for Hon. M. M. Estee at the last general election held November 6, 1894, and fraction of 100 of fifty or over as follows: Twenty-eighth District Twenty-ninth District. Thirtleth District. Thirty-fourth District. Thirty-fifth District. Thirty-sixth District Thirty-seventh District Thirty-eighth District ‘Thirty-ninth District. Fourtieth District. Forty-first District Forty-second District.. Forty-third District. Forty-fourth District Forty-fifth District.. ‘Total.. PEp. Resolved, That the time and manner of the pub- lishing of this call shall be as follows: Printed copies of this call shall be posted at each of the polling places for this primary election in the City and County of San Francisco, and also in Varigus other places throughout the City, and pub- lic notice of the posting of this call shall be given by aavertisement in & paper of general circulation in the City and County of San Francisco. Resolved, That in conformity with the law no person shall be allowed to vote at the Republican primary to be beld on the 19th day of September, 1896, in sald City and County of San Francisco, in any poiling place thereof, unless his name shail be found enrolled in the registerof voters in force and in use at the last general election, held on the 6th day ot November, 1894 Resolved, That ail ballots voted at the primary election must be 12 inches long and 6 inches in width, and the paper shall be of uniform color and printed upon paper furnished by the executive committee, and shall be In type required by the election laws in force November, 1890, and in a form prescribed by the executive committee, and 1o other ticket than those In accord with these re- quirements will be recelved, the wording to be as follows: ASSEMBLY DISTRICT — FOR — 1. Delegate Kepublican Municipal Convention. 2. Delegate Republican Municipal Convention, 3. Delegate Republican Municipal Convention. 4. Delegate Republican Municipal Convention. The numbers to be followed consecutively ac- cording to the number of deiegates which each district may be entitled to. Resolved, That within one hour after the can- vass of the votes of each polling place, and when all the returns have been properly signed and sealed by the election board and clerks of election, the returns must be brought in in properly sealed packages by one of the election board, designated Dy the board for that purpose, to the chairman of the executive committee, 850 Mar ket street, who shall mark oneach package received by ‘him the date and hour of the day of its receipt. He shall also give a receipt to the party from whom he re- ceives the package. The chairman of the execu- tive committee shall take all necessary care and precaution for the safe keeping of all packages de- livered to him and to keep them in his custody intact and unopened until the time designated for the opening of the canvass of the returns. Resolved, That the executive committee shall fill all vacancies of primary election officers and make all changes In the poliflg places. Resolved, That all precincts or districts where Republican voters fail to vote for the apportion- ment of delegates to which they may be entitiea, or where fraudulent work atthe primary is proven beyond question to the executive committee, then the executive committee will appoint delegates to Tepresent said district. Resolved, That this commlttee hereby declares In most emphatic terms that ir it shail appear at any polling place that there has been any wrong or fraud committed or any law violated, or that the voters have in a manner been intimidated, or that any bona fide Republican has been de- barred or prevented from freely exercising his right to vote, the executive committee Will set aside and declars null and vold the election at such polling place, and take such steps as may be aeemed necessary and advisable to give the repre- sentation to which sald Assembly District may be entitied tc under this call. Resolved, That the said executive committee shail meet at 8 o'clock P. x. on the day of sald primary and remain continuously in session until returns of said primary are canvassed, and they shall then, by resolution, declare which delegates are entitled to their credentials. Resolved, That 1o proxies shall be accepted by this convention. Resolved, That the executive committee is here- by endowed and authorized to take any and all actions they may deem necessary, not in confiict with the provisions of this call. The eiection officers will recelve their creden- tials and election paraphernalia at the rooms of the County Committee. Adopted at a regular meeting of the County Committes held September 10, 1896. CHAS. W. MAN WARING, Chairman Republican County Committes, JNO. M. CHRETIEN, Chairman Executive Committee Republican County Come mittee. GROVE P. AYRES, \ Secretary Execntive Committee Republican County Com- mittee. JOHN JACKSON, Secretary Republican County Committee,