The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 15, 1897, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JULY 15, 1897. ARING AN AGREEMENT Plan for Uniformity to| Settle the Miners’ Strike. WOULD BE BENEFICIAL ALL AROUND. Fixed Conditions for Mining Coal and Stated Pay for Work. MUST ABOLISH STORES OF COM- PANIES. Operators In lllinols and Ohlo Are Coming to the Terms of the Men. PITTSBURG, Pa., July 14.—The local miners’ officials have indorsed the arbi. trators’ pian of procuring uniform condi ions in miniag coal before expecting iniform wages for work. At 11 o'clock to-rught ex-Attorney-General Little Ouio, District President Dolan and Dis- trict Secretary Warner shook hands on | Dotan’s and Warner's promises to use their utmost endeavors to promote true uniformity., They will start to work to- morrow. Dolan and Warner and all the arbitra- tors but one are agreed that the plan in- sisted on by Operator de Armitt and agreed to eighteen months ago by the ma- jority ot all the operators in the Pittsburg district is tue only way to settle the ques- tion permanently ana prevent a constant recurrence of strikes in the Pittsburg dis- | trict. Of course there 1s much work still | to be done, but there seems to be no ques- tion that true uniformity can be obiaiued. The uniformity plan proposes that 95 per cent of the operators of the district sign z agreement to abolisa the company stores, pay cash wages every two weeks aad piace a check on the men at the tip- of | | i | | | pl " DANVILLE, ILL, July 14 —A commit- ee of the principsl mine operators will meet in this 2ity to-morrow and sign the tolumbus scale. They have so potified the miners. This will put an end to the str.ke in this district in which 3000 miners are affected. This s the first break in the ranks of the operators, and the miners’ officials are sanguine of victory through- out the Btat COLUMBUS, O=nIo, July 14.—The coal operators in the Jacksor district held a meeting to-day and posted notices at the mines agreeing to pay the scale of 60 and 65 cents per ton. It is believed the | miners will return to work, though the proposition will first be submitted to | President Ratchford. The miners at the | Schicks mines went out to-day, as they | yesterday voted to do, and all the mines | in Bastern Ohio are now at a standstill. | Daus will arrive to-morrow, as will John | B. Sovereizn. Several additional organ- | { 1 | | ors lelt for the West Virginia ids. 4 JILTED LOVER'S REVENGE. Invokes the Law to Recover H.s Presents, Inciud ng J.weled Garters—Delicate Task of an Officer. LINCOLN, NeBr., July 14.—Therupture of a love iffair among Lincoln society | p ople has developed a peculiar situation. | It promises the most embarrassing re- | sults, since the jilted lover declares that | he will recover every one of the many | costly presents he has given the young | lady during a two years’ courtship, and | among those presents are a number of | jeweled garters, which the young laay has not surrendered. He follows with threats | of replevin, and the determination of the | young man to send an officer to search for the eled garters has caused ani- mated discussions in local society circles | as to how far an officer might be ex- cused arryin - on such a search. | The trouble has all grown out of the en- | ement announced yesterday of M e Oakley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. | 0. R. Oakley, and Hon. Joseph Walsh, a | young atiorney of Port Huron, Mich. | Miss Oakley was on= of the maids of honor | at the great Ak Sar Hen ball last year and is prominent as a society favorite. | The printed announcement of the engag, ment was the first intimation to Mr. Harry Lansing, who thought hé was engaged to | Miss Oakley, that the arrangements be- | tween himself and the young woman | had been declared off. | The young man immediately, through | his father, made a demand for sundry | valuable and costly preseuis which he had | presented to Miss Oakley during the past | two years, but met with a distinct refusai | 1o produce them. I'he presents are valued by him at from | $500 to $600, and include, besides a watch | or two, an engagement ring and other rings, some jeweled garters and other things, whicn it would be ¢ cult to recover without the sent of the young woman. 7The mand of the young man for the return of his presenis through his father nas | been followed up bv a demand through an | attorney, who succeeded in securing a | souvenir clasp pin and an éxpensive man. dolin, but was not wholly successful. Th attorney threatened a replevin suit un- less the presents were produced, but the | young woman hinted that perhaps they were not in her possession. con- de- ARMED INDI4 iKE TROUBLE, Bucks Altack a Home and Force the In- _ mates to Flee. MILES CITY, Moy, July 14.—The | Cheyenne Indians are again making trouble for the white people near the reservation. A number of bucks, armed, ed the bome cf Matt Winter, firing 1 shots inside the house. chidren and hired man, who the house, fled by the rear way Mrs. | | Winte we and escaped without injury. It will be | remembered that Matt Winter was one of | t.e Deputy Sheriffs who accomninied Sheriff Gibbs to nelp arrest Little Whirl- | wind not long ago, and it was the general | opinicn at that time that Matt Winter would die soon at the hands of the Cheyennes. The authorities have again asked Senator Carier to bring the matter before Secretary Bliss and see if some permanent reiief from the red savages cannot be obtained. County Attorney Yorter is now at the reservation. More complaints ‘will be made and more Indians arrested, and it is hoped that the military authorities will instruct the agent to co-operae with the Sheriff this time and avoid ail trouble. - pEIiIoS Serrant Girl Innerits a Fortune, CHICAGO, Tu, July 14. — Carolina Johnson, 35 years old, who up to about a week ago was a domestic in a Dearborn- avenue home, is an heiress to the zreater vart of a fortune of from $200,000 to $400,000, the wealth of her uncle, “Halte | trict Attorney received evidence to-day | was seen to enter the cottaze alone. | bundle | bound with heavy cord. came his victims. on tain the following editorial nuder the : '(ille, “The Chrisusn Endeavor Migra.| Marquis answered: o XA *‘The insurgents risk their lives in sack- | wiale living in Duluth, Julius Swanson Sven” Johnson, a miser who lived for years in ittle Hell,” the most -qualid part of Chicago, and who was killed July 5 by falling out of his window. MRS. WACK POINTED OUT.. CONSTERNATION - SHIZES HAVANA Eighty Spanish Rich Men Arrested and Jailed. ldent fi-d as kaving Carried Parcels From 1he Cottage Where Gulden- suppe Was Murdered. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 14.—The Dis- which he declares is unimpeactable in its corroboration of Barber John Gotha's story of the murder oi William Gulden- suppe, as he says Marun Thorn has told it in his confession. The evidence is given by six residents of Woodside who live in the neighborhood of the cottage where the murder was committed. They identified Mrs. Nack among twen- ty-hve other female prisoners. All had seen Thorn and Mrs. Nack and Gulden- suppe in the cot.age on theday of the murder. On the following day Mrs. Nack She came out after a while carryitg a long done up in brown paper and Accused of Selling Supplies to Hungry, Struggling Patriots. Frlends Claim It Is Blackmall In- splred by Wayler to Secure a Large Sum. itis believed this isthe bundle that contained the severed lezs of Gelden- suppe. Mrs. Nack golL on a trolley-car and rode off with the bundle. She re- turned in half an hour, and left the house twice after that alone, each time carrying a smaller bunale done up in pa- per. Wl returned the fourth time the surrey drove up. Thorn aud Mrs. Nack came out of the house together car- rying a bundle so beavy that they had great trouble to lift it into the surrey. This, the police believe, contained the trunk of the murdered man. None of the witnesses who saw Guldensuppe enter the cottage saw him leave 1t again. One of the neizhbors described how he HAVANA, Cusa, July 14 —At the mo- ment I send this dispatch Havana isin the greatest state of excitement since the war began. Eighty rich Spanish mer- chants and bankers were arrested to-day accused of selling merchandise and medi* cine to Cuban patriots. Those under arrest include prominent members of the Unjon Constitutional vparty and men who have held important official positions. Among them are Don Antonio Quesadu, ex-Mayor oi the city of Havana; Jose Sarra, a millionaire drua- discovered blocod running from the drainpipe connecting with the bathtub in gist; Mr. Johnson, another wealthy drug- i (GIVEN GREETING BY UTAHS CHIEF Governor Wells Extends a Welcome to Salt Lake’s Guests. Annual Session of the Trans- Mississippi Congress Opened. Indications That the Attendance Will Exceed That of Former Years., SALT LAKE, Uran, July 14.—The trans- Mississippi Congress met in the assembly- hall in Temple square at 11 o’clock this morning. The building was beautifully decorated, and there was a very large attendance. The following States were represented, with more to hear from to- morrow: Arizona 2, Arkansas 22, Cali- fornia 27, Colorado 40, Idaho 16, Iowa 14, Kanpsas 17, Louisiana 6, Minnesota 5, souri 50, Montana 16, New Mexico 8, | Nevada 10, North Dakota 3, Nebraska 44, | Oregon 4, Oklahoma 6, South Dakota 5, | Indian Territory 2, Texas Utah 88, the cottage. The authorities think they will be abie to prove by this that Thorn chopped Guldensuppe to pieces in the bathtub, letting the water run over night to wash away the blood. The poiice are still futilely dragging East River for Guld- ensuppe’s head. — TELLS TALES OF FORGERY. The Biack Sheep of a Texas Fcmily Con- fesses to Cr.me and Surrenders His Liberty. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 14—In the Police Court to-day & young man who de- scrived himself as M. A. Weslow of Waco, Tex., told Magistrate Meade a long story of wrongdoing and submitted himself to the mercy of the court. Weslow said he had a wife and child in Waco, and in 1885 his father was Lieutenant-Governor of that State. His brother, he said, was at one time District Attorney of Houston, Texas. Weslow gave himself up to the police Tuesday night. He said his downfail be- gan when he was a cotton-broker in Jack- sonville, Tex. After losing $10,000 he be- gan to bet on horseraces, He vecame in- volved so heavily in debt that he was obliged 1o leave the couutry, so he went to Cuba with the Texas sharpsuooters and remained there three months. Weslow says he begzan his career as a forger in 1896. In December of that vear, while in Columbu , Otio, he forged checks on a New Orleans bank for §2000. Of the money thus obtained he bet $750 on a horserace and won $2500, with which he paid the checks. er he forged checks for $100. $75 and on the Commercial Bank of Columbus in the name of the Columbus Bar-fixture Company, by which ie pretended to be employed. He always carried forged letters written 1o himseli on the company’s letter paper, and on the strength of thesz he managed to gain the zood graces of people who afterward be- He came to New York the proceeds of th:se forgeries. He of Welcome at the Opening of GOVERNOR H. M. WELLS of Utah, Who Delivered the Add ress the Trans-Mississippi Congress. was remanded to the custody of the police until to-morrow. gist, and a professor at the university. All the men arrested represent probably over $32,000,000. Don Fernandez, president of the Cham- ber of Commerce, and untilnow a friend | of the Marquis of Palmerola, the Civil Gov- ernor of Havana, has interceded with the Marquis on behalf of the prisoners. The e S EFFECT OF THF CONFVENTION. Broad View of the Benefit of the Chris. tian Endeavor Gathering, BOSTON, Mass, July 14.—The next issue of the Congregationalist will con- ing the towns of the Spaniards, but these persons here have been doing the same tbing without danger. Now we will see if they can continue to do it.” 1t is said by friends of the arrested men that the whole business is blackmail and that the Chiefof Police has been informed ithac the prisoners will be released and no further proceedings taken if $100,000 be paid. Don Quesada, the ex-Mayor of Havana, s very indignant over his arrest. He said: “Iam a merchant and sell my merchan- dise toany one who pays.the price.”’ The Marquis of Palmerola has sent a cable to Madrid about the case. 1t is gen- erally believed that the Marquis acted under instructions from Weyler. Many of the prisoners were arrested in the Stock Exchange. A crowd gathered around the jail protesting against the arrests. The great convention which has just closed its session at San Francisco has ‘been a re- markable gathering from many points of view. Never in our history has so iarge a body of Christians crossed the contine gether. The effect of this migration m permanent aud salutary. It he ps to unite the States in firmer bonas. Mere acquaint- ance accomplishes somcthing, but the deavor spirit adds force, sectioual lines nre diminished and strife is le: likely to arise. The spirit of fraternity is engendered. youth of the East and the West join hands. Union becomes more and more real, This migration will quicker ana encourage the religious life by the Pacific, while all over the land the impression is given that Chris- tien Endeavor indicates a growth of patriotism and of the spirit of Christian unity. The dele- gates get an ali-round view of the problems of our diversified social and commercial life. Prejudice is softened. The young man can voie more intelligentiy. He will discover the spirit of his countrymen and learn that our Nation’s friends and supporters are certain.y iound upon tne prairies and by the Golden Gate, as in New England. This Instruction the schools do not always wfford, but such a convention as that at San Francisco illustrates and emphasizes it. Dk G ot T GREAYT BATILE I8 IMMINENT, Erx MaNY YEARS. PEALTH AF Weyler Concentrating Troops to Head Off Gomez. HAVANA, Cusa, July 14.—Gomez is advancing westward in the province of Matanzas. At Navajas his troops at- tacked a train in which Spanish forces were going to Matanzas: City, and the train was held all day yesterday untii 2500 Spanish soldiers were sent to its aid. ‘Weyler has ordered a general concentra- tion of all Spanish columnsinthe province of Matanzas to oppose the advance of Gomez. A hard fight has taken place near Ya- guajay, Remedios, S8anta Clara province. in which the Spanish, commanded by Colonel Albergoti, were badly defeated, leaving ninety-seven dead on the field, Five Spanish officers were killed. The train that left Gibara, Puerto Principe, Friday morning was blown up with dyna- mite. Rise in Mining Stocts Makes a Poor Man Kich. EAU CLAIRE, Wis, July 14.—In 189, purchased 750 shares in a Colorado mine near Colorado Springs, paying 10 cents a share for it. A few years later he offered the lot for $7 50, and his friends laughed at him and refused to buy. In 1893 he came to this city and accepted a position ina shoestore. Fearing he would have to pay taxes on his Colorado property he tried to give his shares away. No person wanted them, even as a gift. Swanson was indus- trious, and a vear ago opened a shoestore of bis own. Yesterday Colorado Springs varties cffered Swanson $37.000 for his 750 shares. He will leave for Lolorado Springs n Thursday. He says $37,000 for $75 is good enough for him, and he will sell. PLANS OF —_—— McEINLEY'S OPPORTUNITY. BRADBURYS, Believed That They Wiil Suil for Europe Toarther Next Weel. NEW YORK, N. Y., July 14.—Colonel John Bradbury, the young California mil- lionaire, said this morning at Hotel Marie Antoinette that his mother and son Louis left last eveuning for California. As to whether he intended to be reconciled to his wife Colonel Bradbury refused to say. It is said Colonel Bradbury has engaged a siateroom on a European steamer leav- ing New York next week, and itis his plan to meet his wife at some point up the State and remain there with ber until just oefore the sieamer sails, so that he may escape further notoriety. Bradbury left the hotel to-night. He stated before his departure that ne would be gone for a couple of days. ——— Peoria Bank Comsolidaiion. PEORIA, ILL, July 14 —The consoiida- tion of the Bank of mmerce, a State institution with a capital of $200,000, with the Merchants’ Nuaiional bBank, is’ an- nounced. The Bauk of Commerce has been doing fairly well, but it was ‘thought better results could be secured by combin- ing its business and reducing expenses. S Congress Gives Him Pow:r to Demand the kelease of Americans. WASHINGTON, D. €., July 14.—The Senate Committee on Foreign Relations to-day reported favorably on the resolu- tion empowering the President to take such measures as are in his judgment necessary to obtain the release of Ona Melton, Mildea, who were captured in April, 1896, by a Spanish gunboat on the schooner Competitor. The resolution also ~uthor- izes and requires the President to exercise such power as is necessary to secure this end. The report recites all the facts that have | been brought in the Compertitor case, her ownership, capture and citizenship of the | three men named in the resolution, to- gether with the proceedings t us far had by the Spanish authorities, the trial, sen- tence, etc. The report characterizes it a mockery o & trial. Tne afli avits of the pariies are cited to show tnat thev.were coerced into Spanish waters, in wuich case they were not sub- ject to Spanish jurisdiction. They. were not subject to piracy, and intended no act of depredation on the seas, nor were they subj-ct to the Spanish authorities on ac- count of alleged rebeliion Railroad Low as to Kootenai. CHICAGO, IiL., July 14.—The Inter- state Commerce Commission has sus- vended until December 31 the lon g 2 short-haul clause of the intarsiate :C:nlg Slan DeQuiter e Rigginte Civ: far as business to the Kootenai district js | _ VIRGINIA CITY, Nev., July 14.—*‘Dan concerned, 80 as to enable ail railroads to | De Quill,’”’ last of the brilliant galaxy of compete with the Canadian Pacific. -journalists who once irradiated the Com- ——————— stock journalistic world, left here to-night Alfreda Laborde and William | ADVANCES made.on furniture and piauos, with | for Iowa, there 1o spend the remainder of| or without removal. J. Noonan,1017-1023 Mission | his days. He is very ill and feeble. i Washington 8 Wyoming 11, Hawaii 2; total, 435. There will be at least 435 delegates in the convention, that number having sent formal acceptances to the secretary. Nine hundred and seventy-five delegates were appointed, and the number who have notified the s:cretary of their intention to be present are divided among the different States given above. The congress was called to order at 11:35 by Secretary Culmer. He an- nounced tnat the morning trains were five and six hours late, and that this would cut down the representation of the morning session from an expected at- tendance of 435 delegates to probably about half that number. At subsequent sessions, however, he expected to see more delegates in their seats, He intro- duced Henry R. Whitmore of St. Louis, chairman of the executive committee, as chairman of the meeting, after which the Rey. Mr. Hudson offered prayer. Gover- nor Wells then deliverea the address of welcome. He said in part: Ladies and gentlemen of the trans-Mississ- inpt convention, in behalf of the peopie of Utah I extend to each of you a traternal greet- ing and warm welcome to the last and best State of the Union. We invited you to come; you accepted tbe invitation; you are here in parsuance of it, and now the freedom and hos- pitality of the State are yours. I is to be expected that the business of this congress, involving the discussion of so many subjects of deepest concern to the Westand South, will engross a large share of your time during this visit; yet it Is my ardent wish that you fina sufficient” opporiunity to investigate the social and material conditions of Utan, and so learn for yourselves what manner of people we are. If the glimpses ot some of our glories which you have obtained from car windows as your trains thuudered hither through our moun- tains ana valleys have whetted your appetites for further information concerning us, I am sure vou will ot be disappointed i you delve deeper into the larder where our good things are stored; and, when you have risen from your repast of research and investigation, I think you will be willing to concede that our people are honest, moral and thrifty and our Swnte nn El Dorado of discovered and undis- covered wealin, The Governor was followed by Mayor Glendenning, who sa1d in substance: Mr. Cheirman, Ladies and Gentiemen of the Trans-Mississipp1 vongress: It is with much g\esxure thatI greet vou this morning and id you a'cordial welcome toour city. Having recently been investigaling the purposes of your congress, I believe that great advantages must acerue to the whole country because of the deliberations of so carnest a body of rep- resentative men, distinguisned in statesman- ship, in literature, in engineering and in various branches of our Government service. Itis astrong tribute to the general good the congress must have accomplished in its former session that this one is able to bring together so large an aitendance, and while you are with us I trust you will make yourselves thoroughly at home. As the chief executive of this ity I extend to vou all a most cordial welcome. . Everything is yours to commana. Judge Goodwin also pave a generous greeting to the men and women within the city’'s gates, and assured them that Sait Lakers would be sorry when the meeting had adjourned. Colonel John Doniphan of St. Josepb, Mo., then re- sponded to the speeches of welcome in be- balf of the congress s follows: Ladies and Gentlemen: Thanks for your generous welcome, which is as broad as your rairies and substantial as your mountains. Gr. will enjoy it inthe bospiiable spirit in which it is tendered. The Iriumphs of your energy cannot fall to impress us wi:h due re- spect and admiraiion for the men who have evolved this beautiiul and magnificent city from the chaos of the material elements found by the ploneers of 1847. [Appiause.] nLvA;u ‘Ihn‘u s century -uomgzg:e:mm trllns- issi region, represen ¥ twenty-four States snd Torritories, 20,000° people snd untold wealth, was & terrs incognito, whose possibilities dimly dawned upon the great apostle of 0CT A Jefferson launched the expedition of Lewis and Clark into the wilder- ness, to be followed by an immense host of the infomitanle Angio-Saxon race, which eventu- ally founded this mighty empire crowned with all the trophies of progres:. May the deliberations of this body be char- acterized by the wisdom of the past, and m its councils eventuate in substantial gooa this vast region, comprising two-thirds of the pire for a moral and cultured people far ex- ceeding any in recorded history. [Applause.] Various State organizations were then veriected and the convention took a re- cess. The evening session was called to order at 8 o’clock, and there was a very good at- tendance, much larger than in the after- noon. The special order was the consid- eration of the annexation of Hawaii, but before that subject was taken up a resolu- tion was introduced and adopted, with a cheer, extending the thanks of the con- gress to President McKinley for his ap- vointment of Captain W. L. Merry as Minister to Central America. William A. Kinney of Hawaii gave an address on ‘“‘Hawaii,” and was loudly cheered at various points in his speech. He extended a greeting from President Dole and his Cabinet to the Congress. He quoted irom a number of reports, showing tnat the imports to Hawaii from San Francisco were greater than those to China, Japan or Mexico. There was no doubt in his mind that there would be war between Hawaii and Japan, unless the United States should step in and pre- vent it. It was in the power of the United States to do this now by annexing the islands, and any proposition short of absolute annexation would prove futile, and produce the greatest complications imaginable. Lorin A. Thurston followed in the same strain, Hawaii did not want to become a State, for the present at least, and he was aware of the fact, as were ail otuers, that she would not be fit for it for some years to come. He declared emphatically that aprotectorate would not answer. He paid a tribute to the character of the men at the head of the Hawaiian Government. The congress then adjourned until to- morrow. Three thousand of the ladies of Salt Lake attended a reception in honor of Mrs. W. J. Bryan, who arrived in Salt Lake to-day. The function occurred in the City and County building, and was one of the most pleasant social events in the history of the State. Tue women of the Democratic clubs of Utah were at the head of it. At the close of the reception an excursion trip was taken to Fort Doug- lass, where a concert by ihe military band and reception by the officers and ladies followed. ENDEAVORERS IN COAST CITIES. Eight Hundred of the Easterners Visii Santa Cruz—Thousands Weicomed at San Jose. SANTA CRUZ, CAL, July 14.—Twenty cars, carrying 800 Christian Endeavorers, came in at 1 o’clock to-day, and their oc- cupants proceeded to take the city. The victory was an easy one, for nearly every one deserted to the ranks of the invaders, led by a band of local Endeavorers rep- resenting the several churches of this city. There were carriages and electric cars ready to carry the visitors about the city. The excursion in carriages included the driveway along the ocean shore past the lighthouse and away off toward the sloping hills that meet the Santa Cruz Mountains half way. The electric cars carriec hundreds of the visitors to Vue de I'Eau, where they had a fine view of the ocean and watched the charging of the oreakers against the rocks, and to the beach, where the surf is the big at- traction to all comers to Santa Cruz. The delegates had their luncheon at the Big Trees, so that no time was lost here dur- ing the four hours’ stav. SAN JOSE, CaL., July 14.—The city was crowded to-day with Christian Endeavor isitors, and the purple and goid and E."” badges were conspicuous on the streets. It is estimated that there were at least 2500 visitors, They arrived on two excursion trains, at9and 11 o’clock. A recention committee and citizens with carriages met them at the depot, and those who desired were taken for a drive through the orchards surrounding the city. Those who did not go fora ride were escorted to the headquarters, in the First Presbyterian Church. From here they strolled about the city looking at the sights, or took rides on the cars into the suburbs. SEATTLE, Wass., July 14.—Seattle is making great preparations for what is to be in the nature of asecona Christian Endeavor convention. Present indications are that fully 3000 or 4000 of the Endeavor- ers who were in attendance upon the great San Francieco religious meeting will find their way to the metropolis of the North- | west. They come on a sight-seeing and pleasure tour, and many will extend the trip as far northward as the glacierregions of Alaska,” The arrivals will extend over| a period of one w: ek, beginning with to- | morrow evenine, when the Connecticut Endeavorers, 225 strong, under the leader- ship of Jumes K. Williams, will put in an appearance. —_—— | NGVEL -INVENTION OF TACOMANS. Fish for Salmon With Scoopnets Operated by an Engine on a Schooner. TACOMA, WasH., July 14.—The steamer Edith has sailed tor the Gulf of Georgia, waere it will engage in fishing for salmon in a novel way, The steamer is chartered by F. G. Fisher and A. L Wright, paten- tees of a new fishing apparatus which is adjustable and designed to be attached to ths bow of the steamer. It consistsof a scoop-like extension made of long strips of iron, an inch wide, bolted together and having meshes of several inches in length and an inch wide. ‘The scoop projects twelve feet beyond the bow, is twenty feet wide and six ieet beneath the waterat the outer edge. At the bow the extension aivides in the ‘ceriter and runs abreast either side of the ship twenty feet, the wings gradueally rising the farther back they reach, The scheme is to run the steamer through a school of fish at force enough to force them back upon the wings, at the end of wnich is attached an endless con- veyer of wire netting designed to rise in'a scoop movement and pick: ur the fish, carrying them to the draw of the vessel. The conveyer 1s arranged to work in a guiding trough and to dump the fish at the bulwarks. The conveyer will be operated by a small engine on the deck. If this apparatus works—as tests indi- cate that it will—Fisher & Wright will be able to catch salmon in whaolesale quan- tities by steam power. Tney may revo- lutionize the fishing businessif the supply hoids out. ' Tuey will make special en- deavors to find the humpback salmon, Wil which swim in large and compact schools. v oo o ind, Sacramento Kail .iccident. SACRAMENTO, Can, July 14—A stranger who gives the name of Frank Laniz was struck by a switch engine at Sixth and E streets, in this city, to-night, and was 50 horribly mangled that there is no possibility of his recovery. The man, who.is evidently of the laboring class, as he was dressed in overalls and carried a roll of blankeis, entered a saloon a few minutes before the accident, got a drink of whisky, purchased a small bottie ana then walked directly on to the railroad track before the approaching engine and was knocked down, He gave his age as 67 years, said he was a native of Switzer- land and that he had ‘a brother residing in San Francisco, and then lapsed into in- sensibility. SllEggaibly 8an Luic Ubipo Blaze SAN LUISOBISPO, CAL., July 14.—Fire broke out to-night in Peter Bank’s grocery store on Higuera strest. In a short time it had gained great headway and speed to Krebs’ drugstore on one side and Diess’ meat market on the other. The build- ings being of wood burned rapidly and were soon consumed. Before the flames were got under control Greenfield’s meat market adjoining was partially destroyed. The buildings turned so quickly that the entire business block would have been 4% | destroyed but for Vetterline & Butcher’s brick building, which prevented a further territory of the Union, and destined in the | spread. The buildings were Insured for providence of God io become the seat of em- ANNEXATION 15 ASSUR A Fa'vorable Report to the Senate on the Treaty. NO AMENDMENT OF THE CONVENTION. Vote of the Foreign Relations Committee Is Practically Unanimous. WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED AT THIS SESSION. During the Recess All Literature Bear!ng on the Subject Is to Be Collated. WASHINGTON, D. C., July 14.—The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has ordered a favorable repori to be made to the Senate on the Hawaiian annexation treaty. The committee has made no amendment to the convention, and the vote by which it was adopted was practi- cally unanimous. Daniel and Turpie refrained from voting. The treaty was favored by Davis, Foraker, Clarke, Cullom and Morgan, and the proxy of Frye was also cast in the affirmative. Lodge, Mills and Gray were absent. Itis not expeeted that any considera- tion will be given to the treaty this ses- sion. In the recess a sub-committee, con- sisting of Chairman Davis, Foraker and Turpie, will have prepared for the use of the Senate all literature bearing on the subject tbat is available. Chairman Davis, at the executive session of the Senate, reported back the treaty to that body, and without debate it went to the executive calendar. UNION PACIFIC Failure in the Senate to Tcke Up the Resolution to Suspend the Cleveland Agreement, WASHINGTON, D. C., July 14.—The net result ot five hours’ struggle in the Senate to-day was the passage of the joint resolution, to which there was no objec- tion, permitling a tem porary studio to be erected in some public grounds in Wash- ington for the construction of a statue of General Sherman. Early in the day an effort was made by Morgan and Harris to take up the resolu- tion requesting the President to suspend the agreement made by Cleveland’s admin- istration for the foreclosure and sale ot the Union Pacific properiy and for the receipt by the Government of over $45,000,000 in full payment of its lien. The attempt to take up the resolution was resisted by Gear and Thurston. As there was no voting quorum present the first two hours of the session were wasted in aye and no votes and in calling the roll. A bare guorum usually responded to call, but when it came to voting many of those present were paired. After this had gone to tiresome length the joint resolation as to Sherman’s studio came over fromt the House and furnished op- portunity for discussion: Under cover of it Morgan said all ne desired to abont the Union Pac:fic matter, and his argument was replied toatequal length by Thurston. The re-o!ution 1tself was not really before the Senate, but an effort will be made to take it up to-morrow. Thurston, discussing the situation be- tween ‘the Government and the Union Pacific Company, said: ‘‘There isa cuar- antee secured by a deposit of $4,500,000 that when the property is put up tor sale there shall be bid a sufficient amount to net the Government $45,000,000 of its claim of $68,000,000. Thatis all the agreement there is. My objection to this resolution is that if by its passage the gnarantee falls to the ground there can never be anything like such a bid and guarantee again. No one can point out a man with $1,000,000 behind him who will guarantee thut a better bid will be made at any future time,” Thurston said the Government was to receive $47,700,000 for its debt of $66,000,000 or $67,000,000 including the interest vaid by the Government on the subsidy bonds. If any set of gentlemen would guarantee a higher bid and wouid deposit $4,500,000 to make it good he would consent to the passage of the pending resolution. STRIKE OGN THE CuLUMBIA. Taree Thousand Fisherm=n to Quit Be- cause of Another Cut in Prices. ASTORIA, Or, July 14.—Another sen- sation which may lead to serious results was sprung here to-night. After busi- ness hours at about 6 o’clock notices were posted at all of tbe salmon canneries, ex- cept at the new Union Fishermen’s Co- operative Company, announcing the fol- jowing schedule prices for fish, taking effect to-morrow: Red Chinook salmor, 100 pounds or over, 3 cents a pound; steel heads ard light-colored salmon, 134 cents. The price has been for Chinooks 4 cents. It is understood tbat the fishermen, some 3000 in number, will strike and re- fuse to work at the reduced rate, depend- ing on the Union Co-operative Cannery, in which 200 or more of them are stock- holders, to keep up the 4-cent price. This cannery was built and put into operation this season, and is’ the outgrowth of the strike last year, which resultea so dis- astrously. It a question, however, whether they can pay 4 cents and sell their fish in the market in competition with Alaska and local canneries, when the olaer institutions can not do it, and they may yet be compelled to join in the reduced price. Fish are now and haye been for two weeks running very well and large catches have been made. Many of the men are siill in debt, and a strike at this time in the heart of the season and during the run of the finest and firmest fish would be dis- astrous. FORECLOSURE. ey Aequel to a Cloiis Chavivari. FRESNO, CaL, July 14 —Constable E. 8. McClung of Clovis was tried by a jury in Judge St. Johu’s court to-day on a charge of disturbing the peace. He and several others tendered R. E. L. Good and wife, who bad just been married, a charivari on the night of June 19. The peace disturbers kept up a terrific noise, with cans and shotguns, from 11 until 1 o’clock. ‘Lhebride became hysterical, the shotguns beiug discharged within two feet of her window. Good ordered the men to leave several times, but they refused. The jury acquitted the constable after an exciting ir.al NEW TO-DAY! Shifting_Scenes Price evolutions are ever taking place in a big howse, especially in one of the magnitude of ours, and es- pecially in our Yound Men’s Department. We're going through owr house, cleaning howse, and cleaning out all small lines. The styles are risht de- sirable: they must be or they wouldn't have sold down to a few of a kind. There’s an air of correct- ness about our 1 o0wung men’s clothes that the young men like. There's snap, there’s style, there's vim, there’s a Jdoodness about 'em. In ouwr Youns Men’s Depart- ment to-day some Young Men's Suits that have sold down to a few of a kind ; they wers $14 and $15, and some amond ’em sold for $12. One lot of "em all to-day. These are for young men between the agdes of 1.4 and 19, and a right smart Lot of looking suwits they are; blwes, fancy mixtures, single-breasted sacks and double - breasted sacls, smartly tailored. Your pick of any of ’em to- day at $7.45. (SECOND FLOOR. Take Elevator). R THE FRISCO BOYS, 9 11 13 and 15 Kearny Street. 2 Entire Buildings, 8 Floors. “BRANDY AND WATER” Many Barrels of Spirits Will Be Dumped Into the River Thames. , How English Customs Officers Will Handle the Stuff Sent From This State. The Manufactursrs’ and Producers’ Asso« ciation’s members are greatly pleased with the progress made in throwing obstacles in the way of those who made such an ef- fort to send that “sheep-dip’’ brandy to England under the name of “California grape brandy.”” The authorities at Wash- ington have already taken the matter in hand and have promised to change the rules relative to bonded warehouses so that herealter the products therefrom will be known by their true names and their compunents publicly announced. Not only has success beer made in this direction, but the exporters of the vile stuff have been balked through the efforts of Naval Officer Colonel John P. Irisb, who has followed the consignment from the time it was s:nrlgd on its way to Eng- land. He at once communicated with the customs authorities in Engiend, and re- cently he received a very satisfactory re- ply. The customs officials there informed Colonel Irish that they would seize the stuff as soon as it arrived on British soil. They proposed to confiscate it and dump the whole mess into the Thames without any ceremony. * The case of the local Federal officers against Inspector Dockery of the Healtn Department still hangs in the air. The papers in his case were sent from Wash- ington on June 10, but they have fuiled to arrive here. That is they have not reached the hands of the proper authorities. The statement of the people in Washington is that the papers had been misdirected and that the Postmaster nere has been in- structed to try and find some trace of them. When Dockery’s case will come up for triai is not known. A ——————l Wanted at Angels Camp. STOCKTON, Carn, July 14.—For some time past the officers at Angels Camp have been looking for a youth named James Pease, who is wanted in the min- ing town on a charge of grand larceny. This afternoon Deputy Sneriff Black found tue young man in hidiog on the outskirts oi this city and placed him under arrest. He had with nim a valuo- able horse and saddle, but claimed that these belonged to him and that the charge brought zgainst him was the outcome of a conspiracy on the part of relatives to t him outof the way. Constabie Wil- iam Fouts of Angels will arrive to-more row to take Pease back to that place.