The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 28, 1897, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNE DAY, JULY 28, 1897. G.GE PREDICTS BETTER TIMES Commercial Skies Made Bright by Prosper- ity’s Breeze. Yet the Difficult Task of Cur- rency Reform Remains to Be Solved. Business Men of Boston Listen to the Sound Logic of the Secre- tary of the Treasury. BOSTON, Mass., July 27.—A company of 150 of the Massachusetts, regardless of party affilia- tions, entertained Secretary of the Treas- ury Gage at dinner at the Tuileries this afternoon. It was expected that Gage's speech would define the financial policy of the administration, but the Secretary’s remarks were confined aimost entirely to generalities. SBecretary Gage said in part: “We uave passed tnrough a wearisome storm. The loss and cost enormous, but to-day the skies are fi and the breezs of prosperity brings con fort and prosverity. mitted to rest and enjoy Noj that would be to foolish!y wait for further d wster. The administrative branch of the Government will not sleep nor rest in- active. Iis influence will be for judicious action. KEvidence of this iresh st hand in the message justsu mitted to Coneress by the President. t the administration cannot make laws. It is, then, to the legisiative body tkat your | thouzhtful attention shou en if you desire financial ref Sena- co! tors and Representatives | ze your well-considered | must constantly re- | minded of what you demand. We have, | indeed, a delicate and difficult problem to soive, the difficuity being avated by the .fact that ignorance, prejudice and passion enter in tocomplicate and vex the solution. With these drawbacks we can, nevertheless, with patience find our way. “The recommendation of the President nission was admirable in this ested a way by which a body | trained and thoughtful men could be provided to consider, at leisure, with- out distraction from other pressing themes, the important subject of currency banking reforms. It ai the same opened a forum to which coula be od every contributive suggestion all classes ana conditions of man. f there is anything dear to an Amer- ican’s heart i is the vprivilege of having Give him his say in court, let his argument be heard, and then, if the jury is against him, he rests satisfied. “To these incidental moral advantages may be added the reasonable expectation that the commission would have been )e to gather in most valuable informa- tion and finally to formulate wise recom- mendations worthy of early and favorable consideration by Congress at the regular sesston next winter. That the bill which passed the House with promptness failed of recognition in the Senate may be a matter of regret, but not of discourage- ment. “The iwo questions before the country in the last political campaign were the | tariff and the currency. One of them is already settled. Whatever the merits or demerits of the new measure-in its par- cular items, it has become the law of the | jand. The revenues derived from it wili, | a possible brief interim, be ample for and per Government expenditures, and it 1e old aphorism be true that ‘the reve- < of the State is the State’ we may say geration that the State is re- ishe We have also reached a point where, olute data furnished, commerce g0 upon their respective mis- ns of exchange and productim with iew sense of security. The responsible | party in pow baving svccessfully covered this one important issue, may be safely trusted to care equally well for the other. On the finan side there is| really no pressing need for haste. There | is certainlv no immediate occas on for| anxiety. With emyple reservesin the pub- lic treasury, with financial centers ina full supply of loanable funds, with interest invitingly low,” with crop prospects most promising and & good market favorably a-sured, with new mineral resources com- ing into view, with a territorial area sufficient to carry its present population | mes multiplied, with a people ad- in the eements of il .wente] i character, who dars indulge in dole. | ful forecasts? i “We need not ignore the fact that there were ma wounds to bs cured and ex- cited passions to be calmed. Within the limits of half a lifetime the industrial methods and processes have been reyolu- tionizad, and combinations in lavor, trage | and manufactures have superseded toa ree beyond the former processes iividual movement. It is philosopl cal to believe that they are all evoiution- ary, tending to a final higher and general good, but in their immediate effecis they produce incidental injury in many direc- t'ons. Perceiving the injury to those hurt they cry out, but cannot be persuaded that any good can come out of so great an evil. 7Jime will do much to restore, and natural laws everywhere operating will bring at Jast their compensation. In the mean- time our astuie lawmakers mustlearn to punish ments of power to pervert them into agen- cies of inju tices and oppression. Prob- lems of democratic society are rapidly de- veloping in all directions and are many and troublesome. They must be met with patience. We must not lose faith nor abate courag .”" Congressman Lovering presided at the banquet. Jefferson Coolidge made an address of wecome. Governor Wolcott spoke for the State and Mayor Quiney for the city. The burden of the speeches was rejoicing that prosperity is at Land be- cause the tanff question is settled, with incidental expression of a hope that some- thing would be done to better the finan- cial system. Indian Girl A.soulled ant Murdered, TOLEDO, Iowa, July 27.—A pretty In- dian gi~l of the Tama trive was assaulied and murdered Saturday night after a big dance. The body was tound this morning. As yet there is no clew to the murderers, but the authorities believe that it was the act of some worthless white men who were ianging about the dancehouse on the night of the murder. The girl was leading business men of | have been | = Sball we not be per- those who are gra-ping new ele- | 7 | [/ /) never held office of any kind. of Shelby County. not yet outof school when the war came, Confederate army. Nashville and taken to Camp Chase in i when he was excnanged and returned to the South. Turley entered the University of Virginia and became a student of law. In 1870 he removed to Memphis and that city has been his home ever since. TENNESSEE'S NEW SENATOR. Thomas B. Turley, just appointed United States Senator from Tenness place of the late Isham G. Harris, is a well-known lawyer of Memphis. He has He is a member of the law firm of Turley & Wright. In 1870 he was married to Miss Irene Rayner, the daughter of the late Eli Rayner Mr. Turley is a native of Memphis and is 52 years old. He was but he promptly enlisted in the Maynard Rifles, Company I, One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Tennessee Regiment of the He fought at Shiloh and was wounded there, and he was also wounded at Peachtree Creek, betore Atianta. He was captured in the bsttle of Onio and held there until March, 1865, At the close of the war Mr. WEYLER'S RECALL AGAIN ENNOUNCED General Blanco Is Once More Named as His Successor. Utter Failure of the Summer Campaign the Cause Assigned. | Sharp Encounters With Guerrillas in Which the Cubans Are Victorlious. HAVANA, Cusa, July 27.—The news comes again that Weyler is to return to Spain. His reca’l has been decided upon by the Government, but wi!/l not be offi- cially published until the Government is ceriain that a general of high standing will 1ake the responsibility of leading its army in Cuba. Tne name of General | Blanco is mentioned again as Weyler's iccessor, and it is persistently asserted thst Weyler will leave in a few days for Spain. It is now well known here that Weyler, while in Sancti Spiritus, endeavored to se- cire an interview with Gomez for the pur- pose of offering him peace on the basis of bome rule. Weyler, it is thought, in spite of Gom-2z’s previous refusal to enter upon any negotiutions, would not reject a | direct proposition from him for a peaceful conference, but Gomez's answer was even more insulting than his previous ones. “Tell General Weyler,”” he said to the representalive of the captain-general, “I do not consider him a man of honor. He | 18 too deep 1n the mud to raise himselfto | my level and confer with me.” The failure of Weyler is now acknowl- edged, even by th: most uncompromising Spaniards. Weyler himself says that the central Government has thwarted him in his plans in order to satisfy public opinion in the United States. According to the captain-general, his treatment of the Cu- bans bas been far milder than woula have been the case if it had not been for the in- terference of Canovas. The immediate cause of Weyler's pres- ent disgrace was his futile attempt to carry on a summer campaign in the easi and bLis reiterated reports that he had pacified the central and western prov- inces, though the revolution proved to be as strong in those districts as ever. The withdrawal of Bpanisn troops from Pinar del Rio, Havana and Matanzas has | notonly strengthened the revolution at } those points, but has exposed the Spanish | troops thus driven to ac.ivity toall the aeadly influences of the rainy season, | whic' have killed many hundreds of them. In less than two weeks after their devarture from the west 40 per cent of the soldiers were stricken witn either yellow fever, malaria or dy <entery. News from Santiago de Cuba says that after a skirmish with the insurgents the Spanish guerrilla forces of Niguero had to retire in haste because of stronger Cuban forces approaching. They had no time to save the convoy they were carrying, <o it fell into the hands of the Cubans, who captured a large quantity of arms and ammunition, three large cases of medicines and six mules loaded with other provisions, Ina previous engagement the Spanish losses were nineteen killed—among them some officers—and thirty-one wounded. The insurgents had one killed and six wounded. The Cubans were commanded by Gen- eral Vega, who ordered the Spanish wounded left on the fielda to be humanely treated and their wounds were dressed in a neighboring hospital. WOODFORD WILL S41L TO-DAY. Rumors of a Hostil- Reception Comtem- plated by the Carlists, NEW YORK, N. Y., Juiy 27.—General Woodford has completed all arrangements to sail for Europe to-morrow. He says he expects to go directly to London and remain a week. There will also be a week’s stay at Paris. This partlv confirms the Madrid report that Woodford wouid try b secure English and French co- very popular among ner own people, and it is possible that the Indians may kill any one arrested for the crime. operation in a joint indemnity demand upon Spain. MADRID, Sparx, July 27.—Several pro- | California vincial newspapers say the Carlists are preparing to receive General Woodford with a hostile demonstration. Minis- terial organs advise the public to keep cool, and El Correo (Liberal) says the loyal, cultured people of Spain will see | that the new American Minister receives | | adds, “our situation 1s critical and it is | not to our interest to go looking for aa- | ventures.”" | The Hebrew Chawtauguans. | ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 27.—The proceedings of the first annual Jewish summer assembly were resumed to-day. Among the speakers were: Dr. Louis | Grossman of Deiroit, Simon Wolf of Washington, L. L. Leucht of New Or- leans and Professor Gotiheil of Columbia University. —_——— Smallpox Epidemic in Alabama. BIRMINGHAM, Axa., July 27.—There are twenty-eight cases of smallpox here and the disease is spreading in spite of vaccination. At Bessemer a mob fired on nurses and patients in the pesthouse last night. WAS NOT SATISFACTORY Delegates ~ Were Derelict at the Salt Lake | Congress. They Failed to Obey Inmstructions in the Matter of Convict-Made Goods. Previous to the departure of the dele- gates to the Trans-Mississippi Congress at Salt Lake they were all instructed to do all in their power to protect the manufac- turers of California from the inroads made on its trade by the convict-goods dealers of the Eastern States, who for years have made the Pacific Coast the dumping ground for their products. The Manufacturers and Producers’ Asso- ciation was particularly interested in this matter, and to Tirey L. Ford, asa delegate, President Kerrgave a letter of instruction, which set forth most explicitly whatthe local association wanted to accomplish. In bis letter Mr. Kerr enumerated the many articles that are being dumped into this State every year and where they come from., He gave figures that showed that nearly ali of the prisons of the East are sending convict-made goods to California and at prices that make legitimate compe- on out of the question, and the last re- quest was that tyue 1epresentatives from this State do all they could in California’s interest. It now seems that the delegates from this State, to a great extent, have disre- garded their instructions. Mr. Ford has returned from the congress and to Mr. Kerr Le sent the following letter, in ex- planation of why tue instructions were not followe 1: Pursuant to request contained in your letter of the 22d ult., 1. relation to the question of pure foou and the question of tne products of convict labor, I desire to say that I presented botu questions to the California delegation to the recent session of the Trans-Mississippi Congress at Salt Lake witn the following re- suits: Considerable objection was made by a por- tion of the delegation o tasing up the ques- tion of the productsof convict labor, and in view of such expressed oppositio: by & por- ton of our delegation Idid not deem it wise to press that mutter upon the congress. Inreiati n to the question of pure food I found 110 such opposi.ion upon the part of the California aelegation, and I therefore pre- pared what I believed to be a suitable resolu- tion, which I introduced and which received tne indorsement of the congress. The resolution, a copy of which I regret to say 1did not preserve, will appear in the pub- lished proceedings of the congress and is to the effect that the congress would look with favor upon any legislation, &tate or Nationai, which would prevent the sale of impure arti- cles under the guise of pure or unadulterated food products. I regret my inabilits to secure the co-operation of the Califoraia delegation in the matter of the products of convict labor_ Mr. Kerr was greatly surprised at this information, and it is likely that the mat- ter will be seriously discussed at the next ‘meeting of the association. —————————— Senator Mahony All Right. Senator J. H. Mahony has succceded in de- feating death once more. Notwithsianding the severity of the operation performed on him at the German Hospital by Doctors Morse ana Nob e, in which bis head was almost cut off in removing cancerous growths irom his neck, be has ieft the uospital and is now at his rooms in the Baldwin Hotel, apparently as well as ever. He thinks every part.cie of the poisonous cancer has been removed and he will not be troubled in future by the pear- ance of it in any form. In this he has the hopesana best wishes of his numerous iriends. ————————— Otto Normann’s Failuare. M. Friedlander has been appointed assignee for the property owned by Normann & Iverson, in the resort known as Normann’s Cafe uuder P the Baldwin Hotel. The place was fitted considerable expense several months and 1ts failure to score a success was prise. good treatment. ‘‘Besides,”” the newspaper ; LABOR LEADERS N CONFERENCE Adopt a Plan of Action for Prosecution of the Strike. Promise Moral and Financial Aid to the Struggling Miners. Will Ho'd Mass-Meetings In Thelr Interest In Every City of the Country. WHEELING, W. Va., July 27.—The re- sult of the larzest conference of labor leaders in the history of trades unionism and in the interest of the striking coal miners was & vote to-day of moral and financial aid and & determination to be- gin a campaign to awaken interest in the strikers’ condition. At 12 o'clock to-night the committee appointed to prepare a plan for successful prosecution of the strike made its report, which was adopted after much discussion. It provides that on August 5 public meetings be held in every city of the Union. Speakers will be provided to fully acquaint the people with the condition of the strikers. In addition every organization of labor will be expected to contribute financial aid to the strikers. Each union will also put organizers into West Virginia to work under Ratchford’s directions. They will be assisted in every possible way except by open sympatny with the sirikers. Agitator W. H. Miller was driven from Fairmont to-night by a Deputy Sherift on the strength oi Judge Mason’s injunction preventing riotous assemblages., This morning a score of strikers’ wives attackea and injured several Itahan miners. The conlerence of lubor jeaders, which was secret, began at noon, with President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor as chairman. The conuition of the strike was announced by President Dolan of the Piitsburg Disirict Mine-workers. President Ratchford of the United Mine- worker=, W. D. Mahone of the street rail- way organizations and Eugene Debs all agreed that the men employed by the New York and Cleveland Coal Company in the Pittsburg district and the miners in the West Virginia field must strike be- tore the battle can be won. The commit- tee was appointed to agree upon plans for the prosecuion of the strike included Sovereign of the Knights of Labor, Mor- rissey of the Railway Trainmen and Presi- dent Gompers. In antic.pation of to-day's conference the strike situation seems to have taken on unusual quietude. Contrary to re- ports, the Mononga men are at work in greater numbers than ever. Iu the south- ern part of the State stories of accessions 1o the strikers’ ranks are also denied. In- terest 1n the strike in the Panhandle and along the Ohio line is growing intense. To-morrow the strikers will march to Bogegs Run and Eim Grove, where many men are workiog. e THE UNIFOEMNITY MOVE. Operators Meat at Pittsburg, but Nothing I« Accomplish-d. PITTSBURG, Pa., July 27.—Not half the cual operators of the Pittsburg dis- trict attended the meeting to-day to secure a ‘‘true uniformity” movement in coal- mining and thus paving the way to end the sirike., The river operators were con- spicuous by the absence of representative men. In factitis believed that the intro- duction of river men as a factor foredooms the movement to defeat, as they were no considered in the uniformity movement eighteen -months ago. A committee was appointed to prepare a uniformity contract. Much of its report consisted of parts of the unitormity con- tract of eighteen months ago. The new matter is: “The question of thick and thin vein differential shall be arbitrated if not determined by the convention. If the requidite 95 per cent of signers shall not be obtained eighty subscribers may call a mesting, modify the contract and pledge the support of all subscribers to the action of the meeting. *'To settle the question of wages a com- miasion of nine operators and nine miners shall select a board of arbitration.” The report was ordered printed. The convention meets again to-morrow. A prominent operator told THE CALL corre- spondent that it would be impossible to secure the signatures of 95 per cent of the operators and that the movement would consequently fall through, — Gorernor Mount’s Appeal for 4id. INDIANAPOLIS, Ixp, July 27.—Gov- ernor Mount, following up his appeal for funds with which to relieve the distress of the striking miners, has appointed a com- mittee of seven to accept all money aad see to its prompt distribution. There is no change in the strike situation in this seciion. Seven thousand eight hundred miners will stand solialy together. With. aid, as a result of the Governor’s action, they say they can hold out indefinitely. AN IMPOE1A -1 CONVENTIOUN, Building and Loan ssociatons League 10 Mert nt Detroi:, DETROIT, Mick, July 27.—To-morrow the fifth annual convention of the United States League of Local Building and Loan Associations will open in the council chamber and delegates from the East, West and Bouth are repistering in large numbers to-day at the headquarters in the Hotel Cadillac. Among those on the ground are Hon. Michbael J. Brown, Philadelphia; Lafe W. Sanborn, Galesburg, Iil.; Herman W. Cel. leraius, Cincinnati; Addison Burke, editor of the Philadelphia Ledger; J seph Puist, clerk of the Philadelphia City Coun- cil; C. 8. Hartough of Leavenworth, A. J. Duncan of Columbus, deputy insp:ctor of building and loan associations of Ounio, and Albert 8. Barnum, treasurer of the 1llinois League. The convention will be of more than or- dinary importance from the fact that the conditions that bave brought about the collapse or legal entanglements of large associations in Ohicago and eisewhere will be exhaustively discussed. Zomorinos Must Pan for dheir Foreign Clothing. NEW YORK, N. Y, July 27.—Ameri cans re:urning from Europe this year find that the customs officers are far stricter than befo: Formerly a traveler could bring in any emount of wearing apparel and personal effects free. Now personal effects costing over $100 1aust pay duty. So U Ricucle- Riders Apt to Suffer. CHICAGO, ILL., July 27.—In the rivalry occurring in this neighborhood the bicy- cle-riders are apt to suffer. The suburban towns around Chicago are now threaten- ing to tax all bicyclists passing through. | perity and s uence, FARMERS ALL ARE JUBILANT The Price of Flour Goes Up Fifty Cents in Ten Days. C. 8. Laumeister Gives His Views on the Wheat Market. The Tariff and Klondyke Gold Has Helped to Restore Confidence in the Country. With wheat at $1 45 as against 66 cents for the corresponding month of 1896, and flour at $4 50 as against $3 40 per barrel in July of last year, it wounld seem as if Cali- fornia was about to assume its original station among the foremost States of the Union for good vrices and high wages. Flour has jumped up 50 cents a barrel inside of the last ten days and other products are keeping pace with this ad- vance. In speaking of the increase in the price of wheat during the past month C. 8. Laumeister, the millman, said: The increase in the price of wheat and bar- ley within the past month i nothing more nor less than a return to the prosperous condition of Californis. We suffered on this coas: more through sympathy with tue suffering of the Eastern people than from any real cause of our own. Our State was never depressed through its own fault, Yes; Iattribute the signing of the Dingley bill by the President as one of the causes for Testoring the country to a condition of pros- Itcannot be denied that during the entire administration ot President Cleveland the condition of the country was unsett.ed. Now that the tariff is disposed of | and & fixed principle estabiished the country will undoubted.y take & boom, 50 to speak. The gold discov-ry in A'aska, too, wili help this, not only on this coast but throughout the East. In aadition to this the scarcity of whent in France, Australia, South America and India must of necessity raise the prices in the United States. 1100k to a brightfuture within the incoming year, and I am in hopes thatour darkest hours have passed. E. A. Bresse, grain broker, said: It has been a lorg time since wheat-growers have had reasen to feel jubilant. Advancing prices have been recorded for a short veriod | each season during tne pust three years, but they came after the farmers had soid their wheat io the middiemen, therefore no benefit was derived by the producers. A change has been brought about this year which has its foundation upon natural causes. Every wheat- raiser who is within reach of & newspaper has learned the conditions of wheat crops abroad. It isnot en exaggeration to say that uo wheat- growins country otlier than America and Cau- ada WAll have anything like a fair crop. France leads the countries where the crop 1s short. Eugland will harvest at best not over a two-thirds crop. Hungary, instead of being an exporting country, may find it necessary to import wheat. India and Austraiia and Ar- geutine are out of the exporting business for several monthsto come. Latest advices from Australia indicate a re- quircment of large quantities of Californian wheat (0 supply waits untl their harves:, which means January. South Africa will draw heavily upon American wheat this year. Russia’s condition cannot be other than very 00T, as the censorship of thal country has orbidden crop condition reports to be sent out. Shipments from Russia during the past two months have been far below those of 1896 during the same period, and 1897 shipments from the Argentine are many millions less thnn those of 1896. The one important item in the wheat situa- tion is the exiremely low s:ocks of millers in all countries. The ‘experience of the past three years has made mil ers reckless of tueir own interesis. Heretoiore they have been flooded with wheat at haryest time. Things have changed. Farmers are awake to their interests and will not part with their wheat at unreasonably low prices. They know counditions warrant o'd-time prices end are playing their cards to that end. Europeans have an exa.gerated idea of America’s wneat stocks, but wuile this season’s crop. rromises to surpass that of 1896 by 100,000,000 bushels the fact must not be 1ost signt of that “the in- visible supp!y”’ that is in farmers’ hands is probably 100,000,000 bushels short of last year. How any one can figure out differently is beyond com prehension. Another fact that bears strongly, which msuy are overlooking, is that Europe requires thirteen months' sup'lies this crop year in- stead of twelve—a Very uncommon occurrence. Many argue that the decline in silver must ectas & wull against wheat advancing. One cannot eat silver, however, but must eat tne vroducts of wheat. Couutries where silver values aff:ct the price of wheat luckiiy have no wheat to sell this year. A jew figures regarding wheat conditions may be of value to those who are studying the situstion, It is not a high estimate to give the invisibie a d visible supply of wheat or July 1 at 30,000,000 tushels The Govern- ment Agricuitural Department estimates win- ter, and spring wher 1t 520,000,000 bushels, This wouid mak: a iotal of 550.000,000 bushels. These rigures are not far .rom cor- rect. Our home wants are estimated at 4.09 bushels per capita. _Tne population of the United ~States is 70.000.000, making in round numbers 295,000,000 bushels. a very low estimate; sceding, etc., 50,000,000 bush- els, a total of 345,000,000 bushels. Exports from rhe United States, erop of 1896, were 156,000,000 busnels, making upon this basis 511,000,000 bushels that are re- quired from American §tocks. Unaer ordinary conditions tuese figures leave a surplus of 50,- 000,000 bushels. Uniess foreign conditions have been misrepresented, which is not at all likely, it is sale to say that America will be called upon to spare 225,000.000 busheis for export this year, which would exhaust our stocks. These figures have rot been arrived at for speculative purposes; they are cola facts, which time will prove correct, re- gurdiess of temporary actions of the market. A cereal which has been a strong factor in whea: depressfon has been corn. In 1895 and 1896 the corn yieid was immense, reaching 2,300,000,000 bushels last vea:. The exports ol corn for the crop year ending July 1 were 175,000,000 bushels, equal to any two years previous. In ove week 8,000,000 were cleared from Atlantic ports. The conaitions this year are not favorable. Keliable iniormation gives the shortage at 500,000,000 bushels. This wouid indicate on July 1 a yie. of 1,850,000 bushels, but severe damage has resulted since that time, which must have reduced this esti- mate. Before corn came into general use abroad it required 1,750,000,000 bushels for home re- quirements, or about what is now expected of the coming crop. Muny argue that old stocks are heavy, but that is & mistaken idea. Corn has been used for fuel throughout Nebraska, Jowa, Minnesota ana ihe Dakotas during the past two years. At market quotations ruling during the periods mentionea it required $12 worth of coal to fill the agency of $9 worth of corn. Another feature which low prices bring about it the matter of waste. Corn has been far below the cost of production aud is to-aay. There has been a firm undertone to the mur- ket of Iate which promises eniargement in tre uear future. The higher corn goes the better for wheat. The sky seems clearing for the tiller of the soil—surely teiter late than never. Judgment in a Libel Suft. Judge de Haven of the United States District Court rendered & decree yeslerday in the libel of the Noyo Lumber Company against the schooner Alice Kimball, B. H. Madison and others to the effec. that the damnges snould be cqually divided; that each party should pay its own costs, aud that the libelant should recover the value oi the serv.ces rendered by the steamer Noyo in towing the scnooner. United Siaies Commissioner Man-~ ley was instructed to take testimony for the purpose of fixing the amount of damages and services. —————— The First Fruitear. The first car of apricots leaving Santa Clara Valley this season was shipped to-day by the Berryessa Fruil-growers’ Union, San Jose, to Hamburg, Germany, via Sunset route and stenmer. The shipment consisted of 1000 25-pound boxes of apricots. ———————— A Niantic (Conn.) woman has taken and preserved a New York paper for forty- one years. ALL JURORS T0 GET THEIR FEES Judge Hebbard Interprets the Law Passed Two Years Ago. Interesting Point for Taxpayers and Other Citizens of San Francisco. Additional Burden Imposed on the Treasury by This New Departure, Judge Hebbard of the Superior Court has decided that all jurors summoned and who appear to try cases in the Superior Court are entitled to be paid. per-diem compensation whether they are called to the jury-box or not. Thus is set at rest a controversy that has cansed considerable trouble about the courts for several years. Incidentaily, it will add several thous- and dollars annually to the cost of main- taining the courts. Citizens who, day after day, have been dragged from their usual vocations to dance atten tance on the convenierce or caprice of Judges and lawyers have com- plained bitterly of their loss of time with- out any compensation for the hardship thus arbitrarily imposed on them. They bave pointed te the fact that the salaries of Judges and clerks and. bailiffs were paid whether any business was done or not and have demanded to know why jurors, if their services are necessary to to the administration of justice, should not also be properly remunerated by the public for services rendered for the benefit of the community. On administration of the City’s affairs have insistad that citizenship, with its rights and privileges, implies the bearinys of such burdens as may fall to the lot of the ciuzen. So many exempiions have been claimed and allow a by law and couris, however, that the list of those available for jury duty has been materially reduced, afford- ing cause for complaint and supplying | ground lo: the demand so often made that all who are summoned to serve as jurors shull be paid the usual fee, whether accepted 10 try a case or not. Samuel M. Hilton was the first to bring the matter to a lezal test. He answered 10 his name as a member of the panel for twenty days, but was not accepted to try any case before the court. When te asked County Clerk Curry for his certifi- cate of service that officer reiused to issue the paper because Mr. Hilton bad not actually served as a juror, -0 suii was brought to enforce theciaim. Inrendering his decision Judge Hebbard said: The last law on the subject is an act entitled “Au act to establish the fees of county, town- ship and otber officers and of jurors and witnesses In this Stale,” approvea March 28, 1895, which act contains the foilowing lan- guage only in relation to jurors’ fees: For attending as a grand juror or juror in the Superior Court, for each day’s atiendauce, per day, $2: tor attending Justices’ Court, for each juror sworn to try the cau per day, in civil cases oniy, 82: for each mile ally traveled in at- tending cour. as a juror, except in criminal cases in Justices’ Court, for which no ailowance shal made, in going only, per mile, 15 cents. Section 7 of the act reads: ‘“The following couuty, township and other officers shall have charge and co.lect the following fees,” ana | the concluding sections of the act are as fol- lows: Section 3. All acts and parts of acts incon- sistent herewith are hereby repeaied. This act is in its nature and scope general, extending to every county in the State and to every officer thercof, and (o every fee tnereto apperiaining, the City and County of San Francisco not excepted. (See Miller vs. Curry, 113 Cal., 644). Itis A new law establishing such fees, amend- atory of no pariicular act, but repealing every law upon the subject theretofore existing and inconsistent with it. It repeals theact of Feb- ruary 27, 1866, in so iar as that act, by its silence in providing no way by which a juror may be paid for each aay's attandance in cases where he 1s not sworn 1o try tle case, is incon- sistent with it, and because the Supreme Court | in two iate cases hasaecided (hat jurors are entitled to per-diem compensation when they are in atiendance on the court (Jacobs vs. El- liott, 104 Cal., 318), and thata juror may be in attendauce upon court without being impan- eled to try acau-¢, and tor every day of such attendance the statute authorizes him to be | compensated (Mason vs. Culbert, 108 Cal. 249). Itrepeals the act 56 general law, with no saving or excepting clause as to the special act of 1866, The court decided that previous enact- ments toucning the issuance of certifi- cates by the County Clerk had not been disturbed and the petitioner has a right to demand such certificate and if nis statement of facts be correct he is entitled to pavinent out of the County treasury. The demurrer (0 the petition was there- tore overruled and the County Clerk was allowed five days in woich to make joinder of any fact he may be thereto ad- vised. Thousands of dollars in withheld fees will be presented at once with demand for payment. Some few of those that ac- crued early in 1895 may be barred by the statute of limitations. It 1s intimated that the extra drain on the City treasury on account of this new law will amount to not less than $10,000 a yeur. LETTER-CARRIERS, Important Meeting of the Committee of Arrangements for the National Convention. The committee of arrangements of the Tetter-carriers’ Association for the Na- tional convention, to be held in this City from Monday, September 6, to Sunday, September 12, met in Judge Conlan’s courtroom last night, Chairman Frank E. Smith presiding. There was a full at- tendance. Communications were read from various associations in the East thatlarge num- bers of delegates and others would visit the C:ty during the convention with their families, and it is expected that over 1000 delegates will be present. After reports of sub-committees were read it was decided to commence canvass- ing ai once for fruit, flowers and money, | as $7000 will be required to make the cou- vention a success. There will be a parade on the afternoon of September 6 and that evening the open- ing exercises will be held in Odd Fe.lows’ Hall. On Admission day the visiting dele- gates will be driven to the Presidio, the Park and the Cliff Hovse, and in the evening will be entertained at a banquet. September 11 will “‘letter-carciers night” at the Mechanics’ Fair, and the closing day, Sepiember 12, the delegates will be treated to an excursion on the bay. A Jetter was read from Horace G. Platt, secretary of the Hopkins Institute of Art, extanding an invitation to the delegates to visit the institute. The souvenir badge adopted some time ago will have lor a background a repre- sentation in colors of the American flag, which will be the colors worn by the dele- gates. The Rosy Freshness [And a velvety softness of the skin is inva- riably obtained by those who use Pozzonr’s plexion Powder. ithe otber hand economists in the | {1866 because it 188 | WELBURN HELD FOR TR Ex-Speaker Gould of San Joaquin Assists the Defense. No Evidence for the Prisoner and He Was Held on Two Charges. His Bonds Raised From Five Thou- sand to Ten Thousand Dollars. Osca M. Welburn, ex-Collector of In- ternal Revenue, appeared in Judge Heacock’s court yesterday morning with Gavin McNab of this v and Frank H. Gould of Stockton as his attorneys, for | further examination on the charge of % having embezzled portions of the salary of Clerg Aiken in his office. The Governmen! was represented by United States Attorney Foote and Assiste ant Attorney Schlesinger. The continuance until yesterday was for the purpose of allowing the defense to in- troduce the testimony of Louis Loupe, ex-chief deputy for Mr. W8lburn, and the | testimony of such other witnesses as they might choose to call on behalf of the defendant. But the announcement was made that Mr. Loupe was yet too ill to ap- pear. Thereupon Mr. McNab announcad that he waived all furtier examination for his ciient, but the anncuncement caused no sufprise to the attorneys for the Govern- ment. It had been rumored about for several days that the delense would not putin any ev.dence at all, it not veing de- sired that their case should be foreshad- | owed at this time. Judge Heacock in giving his decision said: There is only one order for me to make, and that is to hold the defendant for trial belore the District Cou The bonds heretofore fixed have been $5000 and $10,000, but the criminality is such and as no defense has oeen made, and s this 18 A case of a public officer, I think it my duty to fix a like amount of bail in each case. I therefore fix the amount of bail at §10,000 in each case, uud in defauit thereof that 'the defendant be remanded to the custody of the United States Marshal. The bonds previously fixed were $5000 on one charge and $10,000 on the other. Daniel M. Burns, who was on the old bonds on the criminal charge, signed the new bonds, ana after some delay the | other surety, Thomas H. Williams Jr., {appeared and also signed them, after 1 which the prisoner was released. It is a significant fact, not heretofore mentioned, that Louis Loupe was not subpenaed at all. ln view of this neglect on the part of Attorney McNab, his reflec- tions upon Mr. Loupe’s motives may be rated as below par. A BOEN THIEE. ays He Inherited a Tendenoy to Steal Everything. United States Commissioner Haacock | yesterday morning held Frank Sigmund to answer & charge of stealing brass cast- ings irom the United States ship Omaha. J‘Tne evidence in the case of Charles Ol- cott was accepted as evidence in the case againsi{ Sigmund. Olcott was watchman on board the Omaha and wus the vrinci- pal in the scueme of plunder. He toid Assistant Attorney Schiesinger yesterday that he iniended to plead guiity to the | indicument. *I was born a thiel,” he said. “My father was a thief before me and I in- | herited the tendency.’* | It would not console the prisoner if he | were informed that Judge de Haven might have inherited a propensity for { inflicting the higlest sentence known to the law on criminals of Olcott’s stamp. H — e e 1 Mrs. Gross’ Furniture. Judge Heobard has given judgment in favor of Mrs. Martha Gross and agsinst J, Nunan and the Sheriff for the sum of $97. The de- fendants removed furniture which belonged to 1he plaintiff, and the court found that such action was not justifiable, for the reason that though the iady’s husband had mortgaged the chattels they iu fact belonged to her. NEW TO-DAY. Don't Stop ‘Tobacco Baco-Guro Baco-Curo Bacg-Curo Baco-Curo Fifty cents and $1 per box: 8 boxes (gmar. anteed cure) $2 50. If your druggist does not. keep it, we will send It. EUREKA CHEMICAL & NFQ. CO.. 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