The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 7, 1897, Page 2

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, EPTEMBER 7, 1897. tbe platform he was greeted with sucha| storm of applause that he wes obliged to wait for it to subside before he couid make himself heard. He then made a bumorous little specch which brought down the house. The Rev. George Edward Walk then made the opening prayer of the conven- tion, after which the Press Club quartet sweetly rendered “Marchinz Or,” and in response to a vigorons encore gave ‘I Stood on the Bridge at Midnight.” The following letter was received from the Hon. James H. Budd: EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT. SACRAMENTO, Cal., Sept. 3, 1897,§ Conrad Trieber Esq., Secrctary Letter-Carrier Association, San _Franciseo, Cal.—DEAR SIR: Governor 5udd has direcied me to convey 10 your association his appreciation of vour valued invitation (o sattend the opening exercises of your convention on September 6 as well as your banquet on the evening of September 9. He would be pleased to be with you on these oceasions, but the vusiness which ccumulated during his vacation now so ples his time that he cannot accept your He regreis this inability and association & suceesstul conven- y respect PETER J. SHIELDS, Private Secretary. Letters of regrat were also read- from Lieutenant-Governor William T. Jeter, J. J. Valentin~, S. F. Biack, Hon. James G. Maguire, Hon. M. V. Bowers, William Alvord, A. W. Burnett and John R, Mathesws, posimaster of Los Angeles. W. W. Montague was then introduced by Chairman Meares. After the applause had somewhat subsided Mr. Montague said: *‘The duties of the employe are many and varied; ‘1t is his mission 10 carry mis- sives which may bring sorrow or happi- ness to the reciients; again they may be of great importance and the responsibil- v rests on him to see that they are prop- erly delivered. 1 hope and believe that each one of you 1ivalizes this respon- sibility and also that to perform these du- ties requires abillty, so thatit may truly be said t .at if there is anybody to be re- lied upoen it is a letter-carrier.” Three vigorous cheers were then given for the Postmaster. George D. Clark, zrand president of the Native Sons of the Golien West, then made a speech, in which he recounted the natural advantages and the wonderful beauties of the State of California, ending upwith a neat compliment to the ladies. The address of welcome was delivered by the Hon. James D. Phelan. After bid- ding the visitors welcome to this beauti- tul land of sunshine and flowers he gave a short resume of the history of the State of California from its first settlement by 1he pioneers through- the early stages of aevelopment, recounting the strugele for admission into the Union, and tbe great joy expressed when this event was finally announced, thirty-nine days after its con- summation. He then paid a tribute to the earnest work of the early settlers. the result of whose struggle is seen all around in the sibiling fields ana pleasant vineyards where was once a barren wilderness and wild beast and wilder men roamed unhin- dered through its forests. He then extended a cordial Invitation in the name of the City officials to the dele- gates to visit the parks and public buiid- ings, where, he assured them, every.cour- tesy would be extended. W. W. O'Neil, president of Golden Gate Branch No. 214, followed in an address fuil of good wishes for the association in general and this convention in particular, ending with a prophecy that the results accomplished by this gathering would be prolific in good deeds and noble actions. John N. Parsons, president of the Na- tional association, responded to the speeches as follows: It gives me great pleasure to have been able tu take advantage of this opportun- ity to meet so many co-workers. Icame to see this part of the country, after many difficulties, and wonld say to my friends who spoke so proud!y of their native State at our former conventions that, while s rich in natural advantages, it is still lack- ing in one thing. As they said, the tables are piled with luxurious fruits the vear around, where the ‘streets are sprinkled with wine,” but I have found to my sor- Tow that with all these advantages it still ueeds a railroad. “l would recommend your committee to visit the fourteen members of Congress who are now in this Cily and refer this question to them for their earnest consid- eration.”” Among those on the platform were: Hon. James D. Phelan, Postmaster W. W. Montague, Deputy Postmaster B. F. Mc- Kinley, E. A. O'Connor, John L. Meares, ational President John N. Parsons, ational Vice-President James Arkison, National Secretary John F. Victory. Presi- dent W. W. O'Neil of Golden Gate Branch No. 214, Rev. G. E. Walk, George D. a grand president N. 8. G. W., and Alexander McDonald, National treasurer | of the Letter-Carriers’ Association. At the close of the meeting a committee consisting of R..S. Logan, J. C. Levy and H. M. Locke showed the visitors the sights of Chinatown. The programme for this evening is as follows: Trip to the Chutes; a vyisit to Chinatown; address by John N. Parsons in Odd Fellows’ Hali; *Irip Through California,” by Inspector James W. Er- win, illustrated by stereopticon views, in 0Odd Fellows’ Hall. The convention will be in session both morning and afternoon. GOING T0 PIECES IN ALERT BAY Continued from First Page. oce bospital Yukon. There the Sturges will be left while the crew starts for the gold fields, and when they care to return, she will serve as as treasure ship to bring back the nuggets. pnt ot Stone 1 EOUND FOR.PEEL RIVER. Fifteen Chicagoans Golng to the Northwest Territory to Davelop New Gold Flelds, ¥ CHICAGO, ILL, Sept. 6.—A party of fifteen Chicazoans, taking a complete ont- fit and ample provisions, will leave for Peel River, Alaska, in a few days. The men will god.rect to Edmonton, North- west Territory, and there will wait the short time necessary for the Mackeunzie Riverto freezeover. At Edmonton horses will be bought and the party will start straight for Peel River, one of the north- ern confluences of the Mackenzie. There it is hopel to develop a new gold field from which reporis of richness have come, but into which few people have heretofore ventured. Lumber for houses and tents wi!l be taken from Edmonton. Captain Anson of the Chicago Baseball Ciub has the gold fever to an alarming degree. Nearly ail the time that he does not use in taiking baseball to his men he utilizes in drawinz glimmering pictures of ih2 Klondike. Assoon as he reads the baseball budget in the papers he immedi- ately scans the columns for the laest news irom the new-found fields of goid. Itis said that Anson is to retire from the club at the end of the season and he is trying to impress uroa other members of the club tbe advisability of taking a chance for hidden treasures. AL R FIRST PAPER AT DAWSON. The Edlitor of the “*Kiondike News” Gets Out His First Issue Under Difiicultles. OAKLAND, CaL, Sept. 6—N. W. Leitch, the undertaker, has received a copy of the Klondike News, and claims it is the first copy to reach this State. It bears the date of Dawson City, B. C., July 17, 1897, and is marked volume I, No. 1. Itisa three-column, four-page paper, published every Saturday, and is full of items regarding that far-off gold field, The editor in his salutatory says: “With this issue the Klondike News makes its first appearance. Itisnotan easy thing to serve as editor, and com- positor, and reporter, and business manager, and devil, on the only paper in a town of 5000 inbabitants. We, as pioneer publishers, have been obliged to do all these things; for the printer we brought with us has hi self taken a claim and is t00 busy sacking his goid to care to work longer in lead, and there is neither devil nor business manager to be hired for wages in all the Klondike. Because of these things we are later with the number than we had promised. Nevertheless we are the first.” In another place under the head “‘The Coming of the Newspaper,” is the follow- mg: “Our first issue represents more than our friends would think possible, did they not live in Dawson. We hav been our own carpenter, our own editor, our own printer and press- man, our own subscriotiou solicitor, our own advertising agent, our own every- thing. Fortunately we have had irom eighteen to twenty hours of daylight in which to work, this being the sunny sea- son, when days are longest.” The subscription price of the paper is $20 per year invariably in advance; by the month $2 50; single copies 75 cents. The paper is filled with small items of interest regarding the claims and doings of (heir owners. bl WIIl Winter at Wrang-1. TACOMA, WasH., Sept. 6 —Men who have siarted for Klondyke via Telegraph Creek and Teslin Lake are as bad off as thoss now at Skaguay. There has been S0 much talk about the advantages of this route for a quick and easy journey to Dawson that nearly every Alaska steamer has carried to Wrangei two toa deczen men who intended going in that way. 8. Hall Young, whe left here the middle of August to try the Stickeen and Teslin route, writes from Skaguay that he found it entirely out of the question to attempt such a trip. He says there are practically no horses between Wrangel and Teslin Lake and that the route is not fually sur- veyed. He found about 100 men at Tele- graph Creek who will winter there or re- turn to the crast. Young is endeavoring to cross White e — Daparture of the Al-KI. SEATTLE, Wasu, Sept. 6.—Thbe Al-Ki got.away at 7 o’clock this evening for Juneau, Sitka, Sksguay, Dyea and other Alaskan ports with 125 passengers and twenty-five head of horses and cattle. She carried 600 tons of freight and left quite a quantity at the docks for the Queen. The Rosalie sailed at 7:30 o’clock with forty passengers and thirty horses. A number of the Al-Ki’'s passengers go to join the miners camped at Skaguay in the hope of engaging in renumerative business. Al-Ki. — No Fears for the Cleviland. PORT TOWNSEND, Wasn., Sept. 6.— Captain Neilson of the tng Pioneer, wh:ch arrived to-day from Alaska, revorts that on his trip down he spoke the schooner | Moonlight, from Seattle to Cooks Inlet, at | Frasier Reach, in tow of the steamer J. M. Colman. all fears on the part of the passengers re- garding the schooner’s unseaworthiness had been allayed. At 9 o’clock to-night nothing has been reported regarding the steamer Cleveland. No apprehension for the steamer’s safety will be manifested if she does not appear on the sound before the 10th of this month. s s TOSEND SHETLAND PONIES H. A. Ross of Dixon Belleves the Sturdy Little Animals Will Be Valuab'e In Alaska. H. A. Ross, the well-known farmer of this place, bas in contemp!ation a novel enterprise, which if carried oatis likely to pav well and introduce into the carry- ing trade of Alaska a new factor, says the Dixon Tribune. Mr. Ross, at every one in this vicinity knows, is the owner of a large herd of Sketland ponies. He has always enjoyed a haudsome revenue from this source by selling ponies to wealtny people in vari- ous parts of the State for use by their children. The original pair from which the herd sprang were imported irom the Shetland Islands by the late George Mc- Kinley. These 1slands are located off the coast of Scotland and are very cold and bleak. To guard against the severity of the climate the ponies have a thick and shaggy coat of hLair, and as it has been a clear case of the survival of the fittest, they are far more hardy than the average horse, mule or burro. In their land they are em’ployed for both riding and carrying purposes, bearing the heavi- est man or an equal amount of goods with ease. They are adapted for use in the mountsins, as their island home was mountainons and rongh in the extreme. They are more rapid in their movements than larger animals, and as they require litile feed or cire, they are suitable for use where very little of either is possible. Due consideration of all these facts has given Mr. Ross the belief that the little animals would be admirably adapted for use in packing goods over the desolate mountam passes of Alaska, and acting on this belief he will take a portion of his herd, which inciudes 100 head, to Juneau in the spring. That city is the distribut- ing point for all the mining camps, and he feels certain that he will be able to dis- pose of the ponies at a good price. His experiment will be watched with interest, as his plan is & complete revarsal of public opinion in regard to Shetland ponies. They have always been regarded as the pampered pets of wealthy bomes, arnd to divert them into this channe! of useful- ness and under circumstances so severe and trying is as startiing as it is novel. LOSSO-1UKKISH COALITION, Czar and Sultan to Uphold Each Uther’s Intereste. LONDON, Exc., Sept. 6. —The Constan- tinople correspondent of the Standard says be is credibly informed that the Sul- tan has been in direct communication with the Czar and that the correspond- | ence has resuited in the making of & mu- tusl arrangement bv which the Suitan agrees never to use his influence against Russiz in Centra! Asia and the Czar pleages himself to uphold Turkish righis 1w Europe. e For Reciprocity of Trade. [} =2 LONDON, Exc., Sept. 6.—The Times this morning publishes a dispatch from Paris giving a text of the petition sent by the American Chamber ¢f Commerce in Paris to President McKinley for the estab- lishment of reciprocity in trade between France and the United States. ————— VISiTORs to the ¢ity should not fail to inspect S. & G. Gump's gallery of paintings and different depaitments or urt goods, pictures, crockery and glasswar . Not more than a dozen miners | bound for the Klondyke were on the All were well on board, and | native | LARGE GITIES Governor Altgeld Pays His Respects to the Corporations. They Are Held Responsible for All the Workingman’s Grievances. Reviews the B!g Coal Strlke and Vigorously Denounces Gov- ernment by Injunction. PHILADELPHIA, Pi, Sept. 6.—Ex- | Governor Jonn P. Altgeld of Iilinois ad- dressed an audience of about 1000 people at Wa-nington Park to-day. His subject was “Municipal and Governrent Owner- ship and Government by Injunction.” The event which brought the ex-Gov- ernor here was the Labor day celebration by the United Labor League of this city. President Ernest Kreft occupied the chair and made the opening aadress. IHe then introduced Mr, Aligeld, who began as follows: Aside trom the financial question the most sérious problem thut conironts the people of America to-day is that of rescuing their cities, their States and the Federal Government, in- cloding the Federal judiciary, irom absolute coutrol of corporate monopoly—now to restore the voice of the citizen in the government of his country, and how to put an end (o those proceedings in some of tne higher courts which are a farce and a mockery on one side and a criminal usurpation and oppression on the other. Corporations that were to be servantsand begged the privilege of supplying cities with | conveniences or o serving the country at large have become masters. We_ have had thirty years of coloriess poli- tics, in which both oi the poiitical parties were simply conveuences for organized greed. There was nothing (o arouse tne de:p, sium- bering patriotism of the masses, and & race of politiciaus came 1o the front, many of whom had no conviction, but siraduled every propo- sition and then waited to be seduced. They were men who made every promise to the la- borer and then beirayed him. Tuese men be- | came the instruments through which the cor- porations worked. Having learned what vast sums can be ex:oried from the American peo- | ple the monopolies used part ot the wealth | they got from source (o corrupt the peo- | ple’s representatives, and thus obisined un- | limited privileges of plunder, until every greatcity in tnls country is tied and gagred and caunol even enter a protest while being zobbed. All of this falls with crushing force on the laborer, for his handsmust earn the taxes the Jandlord pays—be is forced to depend on | the public conveuiences, and always suffers under bad government. An individual rarely bas interest enough, or money eunough to bribe a city couneil or buy a Legislature. But the corporations have boih, end as the money all comes off the pub- | lic they offer temptations tuat are too strong | for average men to resist. Inasmuch as no Government can endure in which corrupt greed not only makcs the laws, but decides who shall construe them, many of our best citizens are begiuning to despair of the republic. In advocating municipal and Govern- ment ownership as a reitei for many of the ills of labor, the Governor showed the | great success of expetiments in this line in nearly all the large cities of Europe. Coming down to the coal-miners’ sirike, he said that the ordinary o:erator was not responsible for tie deplorable conditions whicn hed Jed to it, but the responsibility | rested on the Rockelellery, the Carnegies and others of inordinate wealth, who had set such low figures by reducing wages that smaller comypetitors were compeilea to tollow. Continuing, he saia: Already in 1894 the mining population had been reauced to a state of misery and degra- dstion. The miner could not educate bis children, he could not respectsbly clothe his wile and in many cases he could not furnish bread, and he struck. He felt that his condi- tion was already so bad that it coula not be made much worse, and that he nad nothing to lose by striking; but, although tie struggle was protracied and bilter, no substantial good came of it. Since that time the conditions Liave been getting steadily worse, and finaly in a spirit of desperation, only jhree years aiter toe Iast destruciive strike, the miners of this country struck agaln—struck egains: bun- ger und s ruck agaivst nakedness—and they have aguin made an houurable and heroic struggle to improve their condition. | Cousiderinz the rreat poverty to which they were reduced, the fact that there was no hops for tnemselves or their children, that they were slowly passing into siavery that was worse than chattel =lavery, for the new mas- ters refused to feed. or clothe, or bury them, as the oid masters of negro slavery had done: considering these things the conduct of the miners in maintaining the law, in keeping the peace, has been of a characicr to arouse the sdmiration of mankind. No assembiy of mile lionaires or of Corporation sgents ever sub. mitted to such suffering, or even displayed such huge patriotism or nob:lity of characier. After condemning the new methods of government by injunction he concluded: But i{f the people do not rise 1n their man- hood and stand for the principles of eternal justice then all1s lost. : This is Labor day throughout the United States, and many beautiful things will be saia about the dignity of labor, but I want to say to you thatif our Government is not rescued {rom corruption, and if the snaky form of gov- ernment by injunction i< not croshed, then it would have been beiter jor your children if they had never beei born. Do BRYXAN SPEAKS AT AT, LOU1S, Finds an Upportunity to Maks a Politi- cal Address. 8T. LOUIS, Mo., Sept. 6.—The feature of the Labor day celebration in this city to-day was an address by the Hon. W. J. Bryan at Concordia Park. The biggest crowd ever seen in the park greeted the speaker. His sveech through- out was enthusiastically applauded. Pre- vious to the meeting he reviewed a parade 015,000 laboring men. Mr. Bryan spoke in part as follows: ¢ ‘While I find pleasurein participating in the exercises o thisday I am also actuated by a gense of duty, because the obseryance ot Labor day &ffords me an opporiunity for the discus- slon of ,those questions which especially con- cern the producers ef wealth. Ina pamphict written by a distinguished New York banker I find the assertion that the prosperity of farmers and laborers de- pends upon the prosperity of the business men. o long s one reiamns such au idea he 18 certain to entertain erro- neous views upon social and po'itical questions, All of the literary, professional and commercial ciasses will find, upon inves- tigation. that they rest upon ‘those whose brain and muscle couvert the natural re- sources of the country into ma‘erial wealth. Not_only must any resl prosperity begin with those who toil. but the Nation's progress toward nigher civilization must be measured by the progress made by the producing cinsset. Under every form of government it has been possible 10 point to a few persons possessed of means and refinement, but 1t is the average | progress mnot the progress of the few | that must be considered. The improve- |ment to be hoped for must come from efforts outside of politics. Mental dis- cipline, moral training, habits of industry end ¢conomy—all have their part in improv- ing the general condition of our people, and yet the influence of legislation must not be overlooked. A form of government like ours makes it possible for the people 10 have such legisia- 1100 as they desire, but even then it is possible for a few persous 10 overreach the p-op.e 48 a whole. The welfare of the people must be sought not In the securing of special priviieges to themselves but in the denyiugcf sp=cial privileges to any one. The labor organization has been one of the most potent influences in improving the con- dition of the wage-carner. Labor organiza- tions are almost eniirely responsible for the fact that skilled labor wages have not fallen 88 much as prices, although they have not always succeeded in keeping employment up to full nme, While giviug to these organizations credit for what they have done, it is only fair to sug- gest that neither labor organizat.ons nor any other form of protection can secure to labot per- LABORDAYIN | manent immunity if the general levelof prices continues to fall. The 1dle man is tne men- £Ce to the man who has employment, and the number of idle men must necessarily increase if we have a money system wauich constantly raises the value of the dollar and constantly llo:mu the market value of tne products of abor. Arbitration of differences between large corporations and their employes is one of the bolitical reforms most needed by wage- earners. Un il arbiiration is secured, the strik- is the only way within the reach of the laborer. Society at large is interested in the applics- tion of (he principie of erbitration in the dif- ferences which arise from time to time be. tween corporations and their employes. Laboring people have a special interest jast BOW in securiug reliei from what is aptly describ:d as ‘‘government by injonc- tion.” The extent to which the writ of injanetign has been sbused within recent years has aroused s hostility which is almost umversal. Itisonly a question of time when government by injunciion will be cured by legislation, % E . The main purpose of the writ of injunction is to avoid trial by jury. Trial by jury is more important to the Americau people t0-day than it ever was before in our Nation’s history. 1t was originally intended as a prolection against society, and it is t0-day the main pro- tection tne people have against plutocracy, which is 1o this country what royalty is under a monarchial form of government. To-night the illustrious champion, of the silver cause waus given a reception at the Jeffersonian Club. At least 5000 people attended during the evening, and many of these were given an opportunity of meeting Mr. Bryan. ——— CONTENIMENT AT KANSAS CITY. Monster Procession of Toilers Marches to Patriotic Music. KANSAS CITY, yo.. Sept. 6.—Kansas City’s workingmen, 5000 strong, marched through the streets to-day. Relatives, friends and strangers filled the route on each side in“two solid banks of smiling humanity. There was not 2 word in the printed and painted banners that breathed of strike or rumors of strikes or of other ills, imaginary or real, but between each division of the parade the stars and stripes was carried, and patriotic airs from the many bands ecboed along theline of march. Patriotic speeches were listened to at the different parks during the afternoou and at the halis in the evening. SPANISH MINISTRY TO CHANGE. Conservative Government to Go Cut and the Liberals to Come In Within a Fortnight. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 6 —A special to the Herald from Barc:lona to-night, by its correspondent, says: *“I nave it on the highest private diplo- matic authority that the Spanish Govern- ment goes out within a fortnight, and that the Liberals are comingin.”” A special from Washington to the Herald says the officials of the State De- vartment have not received any informa- tion on the subject of a change in the Spanish Ministry, but they have believed ever since the death of Senor Canovas that | it was quite probable the Conservative Ministry would be succeeded by one headed by Senor Sagasta. Such a change bas been hoped for by | the admin:stration for the reason that itis betieved the Liberals would pursue a course in ragard to Cuba very different from that foillowed by the Consetvatives, both before and since the death of Senor Canovas, and that if Senor Sagasta ghould come into power he would receive with favor the new offers of the good | offices of the United States to bring about an end of the insurrection, which Minister Woodford is to make. Members of the Spanish legation were absent from Wash- | ington to-night. | . NEW CLUB HOME. Cockran’s Aocial-House for Laboring: Men Openod. NEW YORK, N. Y., Sept. 6—Holly- wood Inn, the new social-house for work- ingmen at Yonkers, was opened to tke public to-day by William F. Cockran, whose gift the building is. The corner- stone of the building was laid on Labor day of 1896. The clubhouse is located in Gettys square, in the best part of the bus’e ness seciion, the lot having cost $30,000 | and the house $120,000. Mr. Cockran has given an additional $10,000 for the purpose | of a first insiallment of books for a free | circulating library. Besides the library, | the Hollywood Club witl be provided with a comnodious reading-room, in which the leading newspapers will be kept on file; a smoking-room, = Ilunchroom, a gymnasium, titted up with complete ap paratue; dressing-room, eic.; an audito- rium capable of seating 500 versons; plunge baths, bowling-alleys, billiard-ta- oles, bicycle tracks, ete. In addition to these provisions for male acults, the boys are to have a gymnasium, billiard-table | and baths on the fifth floor. Itis intended that on one night in each week the club- i.ouse shall be open to the wivesand daughters of the members. ———— VETERAN AND STATESMAN, Death of Ex-Congressman Lew Hanback From Fever. KANSAS CITY, Mo, Sept. 6.—Ex- Congressman Lew Hanback, aged 58 years, died at his home in Armourdale, Kans., this morning of typhoid malaria fever. He had been ill but two weeks. Congressman Hanback was Winchester, Ill, in 1839, and came to Kansas in 1855, He served through the war with distinction as a Union soldier. He served two terms as Probate Judge of Shawnee County and wzs successively assistant chief clerk of the Siate House of Representatives and Becretary ot the State Senate. In 1877 be was Assistant United States Attorney for Kansas and in 1882 wai t to Congress from the Sixth district asa Republican. At the time of his death he was Adjatant-General of the State G. A. R. e EMMA DaVis DISAPPEARS. She Was to Have Been BSent England. CHICAGO, IrL, Sept. 6.—Emma Davis, the 12-year-old girl who was taken from her home by E. A. Tubbs and his wife and rescued from their Madera vineyard by W. R. Parnell of the California Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chiidren, has not yet arrived at Chicawo on her way to New York, where she will embark for her bome in Englana. The twenty-four hours’ notice which Parnell wrote he would' give the Young Women’s Christian Association of her ar- rivalin Chicago has not yet been received. Ir view of the faci that it may be delayed, the association no:ified its travelers” aid societies at d fferent depots to keep careful lookout on the incoming Cali- fornia trains. S Buit Aqninet Insurance Companies. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Sept. 6.—At- torney-General Crow filed in the Suprems Court quo warranto proceedings to oust the Amarican Central Insurance Company and the Citizens’ Insurance Company, both of St. Louis, for entertaining « pool or trust to regulate, contr 1and maintain prices to be cuarged for fire insurance in Kane¢\;: City, and prays for judement for dissolu.ion against the defendants and that their righ s to do business under the laws of this State be forfeited. — ol Death of Kobert Bleakley. NEW ORLEANS, La., Sept. 6.—Robert Bleakley, president of the advisory board of ihe Intérnational Commercial Congress, which met in Philadelphia in June, presi- dent of the of the local Dcck Commission and ex-president of the Commercial Club, died last night, after a brief iliness, Home to born in | Bleakley was one of the best-known men i the city, DREAD ORDEAL FOR LUETGERT Contents of the Potash Vat Will Be Put in Evidence. Also the Human Bones Found Among the Ashes From the Furnace. A Witness to Testify That the Ac- cused Man’s Wife Was In New York May 7. CHICAGO, ILL., Sept. 6.—An important conference was ‘neld to-day between the Stawe’s attorney and the experts in the Luetgert murder case, in which *‘corpus delicti’” waa under discussion. 1f the State can prove conclusively the ‘‘corpus delicti”—can show that portions of the body of a human being were taken from the fatal vat and from the ashes in the furnace—it will have a case of remark- able strength. The great point is the identification #s human of the bones found near the outhouse where Frank Odorafsky said be dumped. the residue of the vat and of the bones found in the ashes from the furnace. None of the par- ties of the conference would tell definitely of the results. “It can be stated,” said State’s Attorney Denon and Assistant State’s Attorney McEwen, “that tue State has found that itcan produce convincing proof of the ‘corpus delicti.’ Further than that it would be unwise to state at the present time. It is predicted that the fiercest battle of the Luetgert trial will come when Police Inspector Schaack, who has been very active in ferreting out the mystery sur- rounding Mrs. Luetgert’s disappearance, takes the stand, should it finaliy be de- cided to call him as a witness. Itis at the door of the North Side in- spector that Adolph Luetgert lays his present troubles, The sausage-maker is extremely bitter against Schaack, and his attorneys have tried to oring evidence to show that witnesses have been coached, and even that money has been used by the police in fixing testimony. KEfforts were made to show the police methods in the instance of Goitlieb Schimpke, by try- ing to draw from her that the agreement with the police matrou was merely a sckeme to keep the girl under police control. 2 This, taken with the bitter personal feel- ing waich Attorney Vincent is said to barbor against Bchauck, would likely make the court scene that would follow the introduction of the inspector as a wit- ness one of the most exciting features of the trial. In fact, it has been learned that the de- fense has some twenty-five witnesses who will be put on the stand for the purpose of impeaching the testimony of the in- spector. Attorney Vincent of the defensa re- ceived a telegram from A. W. C, Groty to-day stating that the New York man would be on hand to tell tue story of see- ing M tgert in New York City May 7. This aecision was made by Luetgert’s attorneys mostly because of the attack made upon him by Captain Scheltler on the witness-stand. 5 That this 'will cause some fively times at the trial is antic.pated. The aitorneys for the State have announced that nothing would please them betier than to have Grotty get on the witness-stand. The po- lice claim to have evidence to show that his story could not be based on facts, and if he attempts to repeat it under oath he will be prosecuted for perjury. FIGHT AGsINST REDUCED RATEs. | Companies Unite in an Attempt to Restrain the South Dakota Rail- road Commission. SIOUX FALLS, 8. Dak, Sept. 6.—The application for an injunction to restrain the South Dakota Railrosd Commission from putting into effect the rates recently adupted came on for hearing in the Fed- eral court to-day. The roads joining in the application are the Chicago, Milwaukee and 8¢, Paul, the Chicigo and Northwest- ern, the Minneapolis and Omaha, the Elk Horn and Missouri Valley, the Chicago, Burlington and Quiney, the Burlington, the Cedar Rapids and Northern, the Great Northern and the Soo line. George R. Peck of Milwaukee, M. D. Grover of St. Paul, ex-Senator C.. F. Manderson of Nebraska, L. W. Bowers of Chicago, ex-Congressman Thomas P. Wil- son of St. Paul and W. B. Sterling of Omana were among the attorneys who ap- veared for the raillroads, Senator O. 8. | Pelmer of Sioux Falis, Thomas H. Null of Huron and Fred M. Brown of Rapid City appearing for the commission. In their bill of complaint the companies | contended that they werelosing money in the State and that any reduction in ra‘es wou!d be confiscatory. claims that their roads are operating at a The discrepancy protit in South Dakota. arises over a disagreeme commission and compani of profits. The comm enough credit is given to South Dakota for through business originating in this State. The Chicago, Milwaukees and St. Paul claim to have lost $4,004,00840 in South Dakota in the past five vears. The Northwestern claims to have iost $699,550 during the same period. The Commissioners say that this loss is not real, but is the result of artistic book- keeping. Judge Gariand of the Federal court said that he did not care togo through the evidence and to listen to the annual reports until he wa: istied that the bill of the company was sufficient, This was taken as an intimation by the court that be regarded the bill as insuffi- cient. An adjournmeént was taken until to- morrow, when this question will come up for bearing. BUS s RETALIATORY TARIFF. Artic’es Imported From the United States Which Argentina Pro- poses to Tax. WASHINGTON, D. C., Sept. 6—Senor M. Garcia Merou, the Argentine Minister, has not yet received official notice of the message sent to the Argentine Congress by President Uriburu suggesting either reciprocal treaties with the United States orretaliatory tariff legisiation 1f the United States declines to make a treaty, but he is familiar witi its purport, s it is in line with the negotiations he has conducted for some time with the State Department. He is expewing information from his Government. The present action in Ar- gentina was foreshadowed by Senor Merou in an official note which Le sent to Secre- tary Sherman some time ago. In this the Minister referred to the painful surprise of his Government on hearing of the prac- tically vrobibitory rate of duty which threatened Argentine wool. 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It makes manhood out of frailty, and it will even make the gloomiest man on earth feel bright and happy whole man again ? take a week, and perhaps a few days longer. doctors and they will help you and HUDYAN will CURE you. do you stand that weak BACK? again. Have you a desire to be a If you have, ask about HUDYAN. The cure may Tell the truth to the Why It may be that you have some form of blood taint that you are not anxious that everyone should know Is your hair getting thin? Do you have you any scale on your skin ? of. Are vour teeth slightly loose? have lumps in the throat? Or If so, or even if there is anything else the matter with you, all you have to do is to write to the doctors for free advice. are free too. you will be the one who will suffer most. Circulars about the wonderful *“30-Day-Blood Cure” To-day is your day, and if you postpone till to-morrow Get manliness. HUDSON MEDICAL INSTITUTE, STOCKTON, MARKET AND ELLIS STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO. sented a statement of the trade between | tke two countries, which he said showed that the main articles sent by Argentine | to the United States aie wool, hides, zoat- skins and bristies. In 1896 the shipments | of wool to the United States were 22,736,- 851 pounds, valued at §2.638,257. Argen- | tina also furnished 21.9 per cent of all the bides brought into the country, coming next to the United Kingdom; 13 per cent of all goatskins and 15 per cent of all bristles. : The new tariff, the Minister said, fixed practically prokipitive rates on weo! and hides. The wool schedule he represented tQ be paculiarly burdensome, as the Ar- gentiua wools have more shrinkage than Australian wools, thus permitting the lat- ter to have an advantage. He :ihen pointed out that Argentina bhad made heavy tariff concessions to the United Btates, specifying as follows: “We have on the free list, besides other articles, mowers, redpers, threshers, raw petroleum, coal, coke, locomotives, rails and sleepers. We have reduced the duty on lumber (yellow pine and oak), on canned goods, on petroleum, on cotton goods, und weare levying a moderate duty on all other American products imported there (5 per cent ad valorem on plows, ma- chines and motors of all kinds for agrical- tural purposes, sewing-machine:, resin, wire forcepe, fences, etc.).”” The value of mowers and reapers shipped from the United States to Argentina, he said, wus $7,317,445 for the year ending July 1, 1895, while ihe shipments of min- erzl oil, lumber, toois, all kinds of instru- ments, railroad equipments, etc.. also | were large. This document ne followed up with.a more recent statement in which he showed by official statistics that for a period of ten vears, 1887 to 1897 inclusive, the trade of the two countries has almost bulanced, the shipments from Argentina to the United Stales being $57,903,788 and those from the TTnited States to Ar_entina $57,161.605. President Uriburu's -plan | contemplates that the Arcentina tariff | rates sball be remodeled so as to provide a maximum tariff and a minimum tanff similar to the plan of European countries, Tueadvantages of the minimum rates will then be accorded to the United Statesif a | reciprocity treaty is negotiated which will | give concessions to Argentina goods. Ar- gentina will urge tuat a treaty be nego- tiated by wkicn the President grants 20 per cent reduction in the duties on such goods as may be agreed on. The agreed negotiations will not be open until, how- ever, Senor Merou receives explicit in- structions from uis Government. pastitdy Ay AN INTERNAIIGKAL AFFAIR. State Bepartment Discussion QOver the Landing of a Foreign Cable Line. WASHINGTON, D. C,, Sept. 6.—Officials of the State Department and of the At- torney-General's office have been confar- ring recently relative to the French cable which lands at Cape Cod. The cable was first laid under authority given by the President, throngh Becretary Evarts, in 1879, and recentiy the French company has been replacing this line with a new copper cable. This met with opposition, and Senator Frye introduced a bili to pre- vent the landing of cables without the assent of Congress, while Senator Nelson afterward offered another bill leaving the question with the President. Neither bill paesed Congress. While this was under consideration in the Senate Committee on Commerce the statement was made that il the French catle was landed pending Congressional action & United Stafes revenue cutter would cut it. Throngh the summer the work on the caple progressed steadily and information received here to-day indicates that the last link in the line will be complet=d in midocean in aboct ten days, although there may be delays owing to the delicacy of this final operation. The American connection at Cape Cod is said to have been comvleted with the line running into midocean. The question before the State Depart- ment and Atiorney-General has been as to the right to land a cable of foreign company. There appears to be much doubt as to law, or whether there is any law on the subject. The French company has urged that the line wuas a renewa! of the eld iine and not a new line. Tney clso | have pointed out in a communication to the Senate Committee on Commerce that the line was teg.c impor ance to the | United States, asitis said to be the only cable which does not pass over the British territory. What if any action the new Government will take has not been deter- mined so far as can be learned. R A Boys Mangled by Dynamite, CHICAGO, ILL, Sept. 6.—Four boys, The fac-simile signature of is on every wrapper of CASTORIA. | Pharmac whose ages range from 7 to 11 years, wera | severely injured to-day by the explosion of a dynamite cartridge which they lound while playing. The injured: W. Martin, eye torn out; John Martin, leg broken: Frank Olinski, face mangled; Joseph Olinski, face mangled. CUETECUTL Manager Tayior Disappears. SALT LAKE, Uran, Sepot. 6.—A special to the Tribune from Butte, Mont., says: Jerry Tavlor, mansger of the Rocky Mountain Telegraph Company, hasdisap- peared, leaving a shortage in bis 2ccounts, the extent of which is not yet known. 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