The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 30, 1897, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 30 1897 485 LITLE « [UKIN GOLD U BOARD The Portland Arrives at Seattle From St. Michael. RELIEF TRAINS OF! REINDEER. | Kingman, Arz; J. H. Bascom, Rich- mona; E. Neus-ler, M. Neussler, Chicago. An Indian who arrived at St. Michael o1 the evening of October 15 from a point on the Yukon above Nulato gives en- courggement to the North Fork expedi- 1o He says many Indians gei “heap gold” from the Koyukuk. He bringsa re- port that the Indians confirm the general impression that hundreds of miners will flee from Diwson as from a pestilence. This nat left his wvillage about two | weeks previous, and states that just be- fore his departure cizhteen men arrived frem Dawson and Minook. They were all vadly used up. Several were sick and one man hud his shoulder injured. The Indian gleaned bu: litile informa- tion from these men, other than that they were coming out b:caun e of **no food, no food.” But “plenty gold” was there. He states that they iaiked of seeing “*Seatile boat” on the Yukon flats. This is evi- dently the Humvoldt party, or Mayor Woods' **Seatile No. 1’" steawm barze. He further repornis that the Yukon River 1s freezing and snow falling, and that when less than a day’s journey from St. Michoel be jassed a drov- of eariboo. Just as the Portland was heaving anchor to sail sourh the hitt.e from San kran-isco, with her sails down and gasoiine engine working, pu<hed into tne bay. She carried about a dozen pas sengers and a small launch with wauicn to | take them up the river. Expeditions to Be Sent From the Island to D wson in January. 'x VENTURE OF THE NORTHI FORK PARTY. ‘ \ s} rentsen Prosp:ctors Start for | {oyukuk R.ve —Stezmers Re- | jeased From the lce. Special Dispatch to THE CALL | SEATTLE, Oct. 29. — Unheralded and unwelcomed the steamer Portiand glided in at Scnwabacher's dock at 6 o'c'ock this morning, forty-seven davs oat from Seat- e. Commanded by Cay William | Kidston the steamer had a rapid but un- | eventiul trip down from St. Michael, leav ing there on October 16 and s at Dutch Harbor. atrary to general tiand returned without a Klondike miner and w very little gold dast. The North American Transportation and dine Company had on board $125,000, of which, however, was in draits, as stopping two expectations the of business done with ingoing | Get Tn The ouly were iage and s Helen G. Healv of . Miliigan of San Francisco, | Horace McClure o Seattle, Will A. Steel, | TrE CALL spec correspondent, and four | carpenters and nineteen longshcremen from e, who worked for the com- ¥ rt received indicates that the «ud tributaries of the Upper | .in grea guantity the golden addens the heart of confident pector<. That sacks d nuzgets were not broaght out is due entirely to the fact that were not at hand. Hun- eds of miners whose labors had been well rewarded intended coming down the river on ile, last boats, whicn they ex- rected would leave about the midale of ’ ptember; b unusual lowness ot cgres the waters of the Yukon upset sll these | ! s, and the last boats were those nth eariler tban was ex- ious river steamers loaded | s Michael about dently believed > able Lo reach the head- | above Fort Yukon | assable barrier, as there was t wzter to cover them. fice much-needed food wus at they wo ers, but ved an 1 sufficie diggzings and many owed the.r supplies to e deta ed in a Jand where focd powertul than gol¢ the season, when it was be- sver 4000 tons of provi- iveyed into the Klondike grave forebodings of disaster sufferings. It is now | known t one-haif that quantity of food pr vas laken in. The two | rading c perating on the river put forth e to pget their freight | where it w ded, but the ele- | ments were sl i During the} have flocked months prespectors e gold fields of the | Yukon t I'ley constitute | every class condition of men. A | larze proportion of them have aiways in- | duiged in howe comiorts and the privi- | Jeges of social tal enjoyment. | They are totally brave the deso- | lation and & 1ips of an Arctic winter. | Tuey had r 1e wretched- | Dess Of an exisience n ozen country, | where for months the niziit is almost per- petual and o : commonest kind of provisions c ad in limited quanti- | ties. diappointment will many who are iations. With | r banks and hili- | d and domes | tuat every | The bitter cup ¢ be drained to t fortified to s Lie idea that a A cs were buc t of nuggets, th known claira of nesss is pre-empted, and that additionai discoveries will only be the result of laboriou: effort. Then, when the pangs ot h ome to destroy eirength and courage, untod misery and in many cuses deatn wi It is the intention of Colonel Randali, who 1S 1n commana of tie soidiers on Mictael Island, to send reindeer un the river ear herd of 700 deer will be d ber from Porc Clarenc naliklnk, vhere a Governmeni station wiil here. ‘ ter be located. This is about forty-five | mi es north of St. Michael, and by cur. ting eighty miles across the country Nulnto is reached. the Yukon by water. During the early part of Ociober tae mouth of the Yukon River was congealed into a solid mass of ice cakes. Several stexmers were caught in its icy clutch it was feared that they would remain next spring; butabout the 10th ot October a thaw set in, permitting the steamers Merwin, Thomas J. Dwyer and Alice to enter the river and proceed some little distance up to a safe harbor for | the winter. A party of s-venteen, who went north from n Francisco on the steamer North Fork, started on a perilons expedition the day the Portland sailed south. They en- | gaged the steam :chooner President to | take them forty-five miles north on Nor- ton Sound to the village oi Unaliklak. There ihe: 1 go ashore and cross a portage to Nuiato. It is their intsniion | to then prosp=ct the Koyukuk River for a distance of 300 miles north. Tnis stream | has been worked with very satisfactory | results. Miners found plenty of gold on ! rs, but the difficulty in procuring pro- | visions discouraged their efforts and but very littie work has been done there of lefe years. The expedition is in charge of Captain ['vson of San Franciico, who threw up X rosition as master of the Mare Istand. Anbid pper named Emil Inglestad has been engaced as guide. He is thoroughiy familiar with thecountry in questinn and expresses zreat. faith in the probable out- come of the venture. The other members the rty are: Henry Peters, Oito hueler, Harry Warwick, Mrs. John Me- Naugit, R. R. Jones, San Francisco; H. Kendall, Oakland; Olaf Winninzstad, San Jose; Charles 8. Ozers, Anaheim; A. C. Cabel, Coulterville; D. J. Wueeler, Forest Hill; A. W. Meadows, Espario; B. F. Gray, Woodlsnd; Thomas B. Shipp, Nulatois 630 m | panies on St Fer nearly two weeks during the early part of Ociober the mouth of the mighty Yukon was ice-b'ocked. An insurmount- | able frozen barrier seventy miles in width and many miles in extent cut off ailen- | trance through the iiver channel to the waters of golden promise. steamers souczht to brave the dange:s of early forminz ice in the hope ot passing through the river. The Mare Island with her twoscore oi passengers 'rom San Fran- cisco was soon can t between floating blocks. Fortunately, with the changing tide egress was possible and she steamed out and went inlo winter guarters in the canal back of St, Michael. The steamcr Merwin, towing a large canvas-covered barge and both craft hav- ing on board about 120 of the sieamer Eiza Anderson’s passen. ers from was held with such tizht grasp that seri- ous con-quences were feared. About the 10th of October a few days of iian sum- mer set in, and during the early hours of the morning o1 Ucto enabled to steam into a Larbor of safet The channel w iddenly treed from ic. 50 that ther- w up the r.var about 125 miies and going into winter quarters near the villaze of An- dreafski, The steamer Alice, loaded with about 200 tons of provision for the Alaska Com- mercial Company, had also Leen caught in the ice at the mouth of the river, bu! ber releass came at 1he same time, and she also put into the same harbor, as did likewise the litle steamer Tnomas J Dyer from San Francisco. She had on board twenty-three of the steamer Novar- ro’s passengers. The steamer J. J. Healy did not meet with the same degree of succ The North American Transportation and Trading Company was anxious to get her and her cargo of 250 tons of provisions over the bar so as to meke an early start up the river in the spring. After two ineffect- ual attempts to vush ihrough the ice, her captain gave up the effort, and when the thaw come, he had taken the steamerinto winter quarters at the canal. The news that the river was again oven to navigation was brouzht to St. Michaei by the little steamer Yuron. She was on her return trip a ter Laving taken a cargo of supplies to the Alaska Commercial Company’s depot ut Anvik. 0r more than two weeks Caplain Alexander Ste- vens kept just veyond the icy brim. Twenty-five miles of ice cake: thick trance to the sea artt imposs bility But b vas pers: ine, and fi third effort to get through to St. Mi was successful. There is a general impression th ud frozen compactly, made his en- qnantitiee of liquor w taken into the Kiondike district carly in the season, the exclusion of breadstuffs. This the officers of the 1wo trading com paniesstren- vously deny, und allege that, considering thelarge number of m-n there, the quan- tity was eXiremely smail. All liquor is supposed to have = in bona tanrou St. Michaei. Deputy Collector of Customs Anders is stationed at this pois d he says his records suow that but 7000 gal- lons passed through consigned to Dawson Cit in anticipation of humanity that will set in next toward the Yukon goldfields unusua preparations are being made by a number of commercial and nsportation com- Michael Island. During the co'd, bleak and ion: dreary monins of winter the hum ot industrial acuvity will be heard along the bay of St. Michael. A number of river brats will b: built tn and warehous2« constructed to house the stores of provisions that will be shippea by ocean steamers (o Lnis sUDDIY po'ne. the great tide of Conirary to exvectations but'compara- | few At tively island. people will winter on present there are only the vany’s employes at 8t. Michael. At Fort Get There the North American Iranspor- tation and Trading Company employe and the soldiers and prospectors who are camped in tents or at the hotel aggregate in number scarcs more than 100. — Taking steck to Alaska. PORT TOWNSEND, Oct. 29.—The tug Pioneer,with the bark Coloradoand a scow | in tow, bound for Alaska with 200 cattle, an equal number of horses and unward of 100 dogs, put in here te-night at 8 o'clock | for the purpos: of devising ways and means for keeping the siock alive on the trip northward. While on the w. trom Beattle severa! head of cattle and one | horse died from suffocation. The scow is laden with hav and grain with which to teed the stock while ¢n the trip up and over the Daltou trail to the headwaters of the Yukon. HENRY GEORGE DIES SODDENLY Continved from Second Page. ticket for tue East. and I saw him off. Wien he reached New York he saw the Harpers and told them tnat he had hi« plates and wanted theirimpression. They told him that his work wa> a beresy and the impression of the Harper brothers would never o upon such a book. Then he went 10 Philade!phia to persuade Lip- pincott to publizh his biok. They said no; thev could not afford to do it. Of course, they had submitied the work to their crities, und their advice was that it wasa most dancerous document. Then Lie went to Chicago to secure a publisher, but failed there. He finally secured a publisher in New York, ana the book was published. So great was the demand for it that 100,000 copies were sold in that year—18%0 George, who had a common school edu- cition oniy, and knew nothing at all about grammar, aiways called in a com- mitiee of grammarians whenever he had completed a page. They ware a¥l p>rsonal friends, among 1hem being W. Swinton, then professor of English literatnre and rhetoric in the University of Califorma; Dan O’ Conneli, 1he poet; Joseph Leggett, Wwho was then principal 0. a school; Joseph O’Connor, F. M. Campbe !, Superintend- ent of Schools in Oakland, and Frank Gross of the Marysville Appeal. They would sit regularly und pa<s upon the grammar of the book and fight over the consiruction of sentenc Tuey would sit until midnicht in the discussion of the work. In that way the grammar of *‘Progress and Poverty”” was fixed, but not oue of thosegentlemen ever uniertook to improve upou the chapter on *‘Liberty.” Uf the author’s edition of 500 he sent a copy to Gladstone and to Professor Sum- ner of Yale, the professor of political economy in that iustitution. In reply His brother, John V. Three belated | tle, | 14 the Merwin was | -. | unon a physical frame by no means strong, s no ('fficultv in pushing | e inches | " | and hes rendered his name a household spring | the | natives and ihe Alaska Commercial Com- | Gladstone, in his personal handwriting, said that he was then engaged in a tre- mendous struggle for British liberty and was standing as a candidate for Midlo- thian, and did not have time for more than a casuai look over the book, but proved of its general principles. Glad- stone was running against the Duke of Buccleugh, who owned every fcot ol the county, and Gladstene was elected to serve over ihat constituency. | Onwside of “Progress and Poverty” Mr. | Georze's most serious work was on the Irish land question of 1891 ¢ Land and lts U-e+,” which was simply an elaboration of the single-tax idea, the true principle of political economy. At the time of his death he was engaged in the elaboration | of another work supplemen:al 10 * Prog- ress and Poverty,” which, in his esiima- tion, was necessary by reason of tue crea- tion of new economic conditions. Amoug politicai econom sis—whatever they may think cf hs ih ories—he bas | 1aken the highest rank, bscause of his succes-ful overturning of the doc rine of overproduction and overpopuiation. Al- Altnough M. Malthus in 1826 in his iamous treatse declared that *“war, pesii- lence and famine” were necessary to stop the growih oi population, no political | economist, incluainz M. Laboullaye, | would contend 1hat that dcetrine still has a place in th=+ science of political economy. In i.is famous book Mr. George 2bsolutaly demonstrated that as population grew the means of subsistence grew in equal ratio, and not the veriest iyroin political econ- omy undertakes to defend the Maithusian | doctrine, so success'nlly dit George re- fute it. Parrick J. MURPHY. S s WILLIAM M. HINTON’S TOUCHING TRIBUTE. Intense Energy of Henry George’s Mental Powers Too Great a Strain on His Physical Frame. | The sad news of Henry Georse’s sudden | death is but ‘the real zation of a dresd | | that had pervaded my mind for many | years. I was his intimate friend and com- | panion. 1 felt that the intense energy of his mental powers was 100 great a :train | and I constantly warned him to take the greatest care of his health, and even ifdis- posed to disregard the ordinary precau- tion on his own acceunt he should feel that ihe cause which ne advocated, which invoived the interests of millions, de- manded from him every effort 10 prolong | his usefuiness. When he accepted the | nomination for Mayor of Greater New York I ieit that he had undertaken a task vevond his phy:ical powers. Mr. Georg had ail those qualities which | make a good man and a good citizen. He | was generous to a fault. He loved his home and idolized his wife and children. He was a faithful friena and endeared himself to all whoenjoyed the great boon of nis intimate acquaintance. His lifs | was devoted to the weltare of his fellow- man. No nebler smbition can be con- ceived than that which from early youth e had marked out for himself, and which he followed with an unswerving energy | alike in poverty and trinmphant success, | and though death is always sal for 1hose who are left behind, no more glorious death can be looked for than that to wnich Mr. George has -uccumoed. *‘He died at his post doing duty.” No words can express the admiration I | bad for his mauy noble and g-nerous qual- ities, nor the pride I felt in being the friead of one who had achievsd the grand- | est success of this century in a :cience whicl aftee's the weifare of every human { beinz. With but a common-sckoo! edu- cation Le took the highest position as a | writer, whose style wes almost [aultless, word in five continents and fanuliar to iers of ull the leading languages of the | 1d. W. M. Hixtox ST HAD MANY TRIALS IN SAN FRANCISCO. | Bad Business Management That! Caused George to Retire From ! the Evening Post. | Colonel John P. Jackson, Collector of | the Port, bought the Evening Post from | the Hinton-Rapp-Gieorge Company. It | | was tue ouly time in his life the shrewd | colonel was bunkoed, ipough he laid no | blame™upon Henry Geor.e tor the trans- | action. A man named Thompson, during | the absence of Henry George, pret:nded | | to huve suthority to sell the latter’s inter- | | est; at least he made Jackson so believe. | Afier the money was paid Thompson skipped out anq went East. In this way Colonel Jackson hal to pay twice for the | ‘ntercst in tve paper held by Georga, peaking vesterdsy of tue transaction, 1e. Jackson saiu: “Henry Georze had not as much knowl- | edge of business principles as a boy 11 vearsold. He was what we call & genius. His head was always full of economic i wheories, The Post was oractically swamped when I took hold of it. Henry Georee had bought a Bullock press for | 325 000 and the burden of that debt was | tou anuch for bim ard his associie . | They were afraid they were going to lose | the proserty for the debt, so they started a moruing paver called the Argis, which 1an for a f=w week< and taen suspended. | ““After this George had quiie a hard | strugele for existeuce, atd t.rourh the nce of a few iriends the office of State Inspector of Gas Meters was pro- | cured 1or him. It was a sinecure, but it | enabled him to live very modestiy while he wrote nisfamous vook, ‘Progress and Poverty.” The best work L remember him | doing while he was editor of the Post was | nis defense of the rights of seamen. ~ His v:gorous assaults on Captain Ciark of the American ship Sunrise for cruelty to members of his crew resulted finally in | the prosecuilon, conviction and punish- | ment of Clark.” Tracinz Henry George's life in San Francisco by a re:erence to the dir¢ctories for several years it will be seen tha: he otten changed his residence as well as bis placa of work. | 1n 1866 he :s described os a printer, re- siving 1313 Six.h street, corner of Ship- | ley. In 1867-68 Henry George isde cribed as editor oi tne Daity T.mes und dweliing at 871 Folsom sireet, uear Fifth. In ths 1868-69 directory he i< down as editor of | the Daily Ghronicle, dwellinz at 1202 Fol- | som sireet. In 1870 he appears simply as an editor, re~iding on the east side of Anna lane, near E.lis street. In 1872 he | is recorded s« editor ot the Evening Post, dwe ling at 608 Stevenson street. In 1873 ne is de cribed as a member of the firm of Hinton, Mabon & Co., and | dwelling at the Gevernment Hou-e, where- ever that w In the following vear’s directory his_residence is located on the west side of Valencia sireet, between Nine- | teen and Twentieth. In 1875, 1876 and | 1877 his home iy at 625 Harnson sireet. | In the directory of 1876.77 he is first de- {*cr.bad 88 an Inspecior of Gas Meters. | His next residence is g ve'r at 420 Second street in 1878, In 1879, 1880 and 1881 he re<ided at 417 First sureel, and 1t was in this house t at he wrote ‘‘Progress ana Poverty,”” setting up much of the copy with his own hands from a case of tyje he had placed in one of b'srooms. His office as Inspector of Gas Meters was at | 521 Mission ~treet. Launching at Fatrhaven. EUREKA, Oct. 20.—At H. D. Bendi sen’s shipyard at Fairhaven this afternoon was lannched afine three-masted :chooner, which was christened Mildred. The Mil- dred, which is the third vessel launched there this season, has a carrying capacity of 550,009 teet of lumber. The managing owner is Albert Meyer of San Francisco. The vessel will go into the Hawaiian Isiand trade. She has been chartered by J. R. Hanily & Co. of 8an Francisco, and will 1ake a cargo of redwood to Honolulu on her ma den voyage. ! the denial failed of full effect. {YET STAND> SUSPENDED | long as the church cares to have him, DR BROWN DECEIVEY THE PRESS Repeats the Trick He Played in This City. |GIVES OUT A FALSE REPORT. Again Turns Condemnation by Peers Into “Gomplete Vindication.” BUT THE BAY CONFERENCE IS SUSTAINED. Howaver, the Gay Pastor Can Re! | main In Chicago as Long as the Church Will Tolerate Him. Epectal Dispatch to THE CALL. CHICAGO, Oct. 29 —Dr. C. 0. Brown ha< been reprating here the tacties he fo!- owed at the close of the council at the First Coneregational Church at San Fran- cisco, which caused bis undoing. The story sent out yesterday to the effect that | had triumphed here over the Bav | Brown Conlerence came from Dr. Brown. In ef- fect the unfrockel pastor has been ceek- ing to pose before the public as an inno- cent and injured man whken he has been justly and righteousiy condemned in a court of his cwn selection. It will be remembered that on the night the council called at San Francisco to | probe the Overman charges c¢iBsed, D-. Brown hastened to the agents of the press associations wilh a statement that he had been acquitted, when the verdict was that while tne adultery charge had not been proved he bad been guiity of conduct "in- becoming a minister. This statemeat coming from Brown went all cver the country, and although it was subsequently denied and Brown shown to have been guilly of falsehood, Denials always do. Dr. Brown, like history, has repeated himeelt. advisement last night, he made his way to the city editor of the Times-Herald, and the story of Dr. Brown's vindication sent out from here was the direct result of the conversation between the discred- ited minister and the journalist. D Brown had tried once again to turn con- demneton into acquittal. The attempt will tail here as it dd in San Franci-co. Congregationalism 1n Chicago has taken Dr. Brown’s measure. e e But Dr. Brown May Remain Pastor of the Gresn-Street Church In Chicago. CHICAGO, Oct. 29.—Rev. Charles O. Rrown, D.D., still stands suspended from the minisiry. The Bay Conference was declared to-day by the mutual council of the Congregational Church to be justified | in its action in suspending him. At the sama time the finding of the council vindicates hiia of the original serious charge and urges that the confe. ence and the minister strive to adjust their differences. The vital point of the findings reads as follows: “We find that, while the Bay Confer- ence in its actioa fell into some irregulari- iies of procedure, we are still led upon the whole to justify said action of the Bay Conference in suspending D=, C. O. Brown, D.D., on the ground of charges seriously affecting his ministerial standing.” This clause read, *'On the ground ot un- ministerial conduct” when the resoluticn was adopted about midnignt last night. The partial copy of the re<olutions given out to-day had it so, but the council tnen | ain, and the | went into executive session a friends of Dr. Brown—notabiy Dr. Wal- lace—fought for a milder woraing. The discussion lasted into the afternoon, ana then the change in wording was made. Tae veriict is a victory for the Bay Con- ference, with a palliative for Dr. Brown. His position at the present time is a strange one. He is suspended from the Bay Conference on the Pacific Coast. This finding has been justitied by the ap- pellatabody. His ministerial standing is affccted. Sull he may remain as pastor of the Green-street Churen, Chicago, as He mav remain a member of the Chicazo Association as long as the association cares Lo welcome him into the fold. No steps were ordered taken Chicagzo Association of the action to-day, and it wili remain officially ignorant of it until somebody cares to bring the matter to its atiention. Mr. Brown proposes to keep right on witn his work in the Green-street Church until he is forced to drop it. The finaing of the council opened with along preamole rehearsing the calling o: the council, i s plan of meeting and the proceedings. Then comes the following | inding- “One—We find that the resuit of the San Fraucisco council declares that tne evidence velore 1L does notsustain the charge preferred. Two—We find that while the Bay Ccn- ference in its action fell into some irregu- iarities of procedure we are still led, upon the whole, to justify said action of the Bay Conference in suspending Rev. C. 0. Brown, D.D., on the ground of charges seriously affecting his ministerial stand- ing. “Three—But we hope and advise that in view of the excellent ministerial service ot Rey. C. O. Brown and the syffering endured by h'm the Bay Confer and Rev. C. 0. Brown together may find some way of securing the relief, by council or otherwise, of the disabilities resiing upon him by the ac:ion of the Bay Conference.” Tune *charges seriously affecting bLis ministerial standing” are those of pay- ment of hush money to Mrs. Davidson, threatening of a witness against him, and conniving at the abssnce of a witness. I'be fiudings were read this afternoon at the New England Congregationsl Church. A sub-committee drew up the preamble during the morning and then the councii went into executive session 10 adopt the resolution as a whole. The discassion as to the wording fol. lowed. When the doors were again thrown open Dr. Brown and his prose- cutors ranged themselves alone the wall, and the assistant moderator, Rev. Nehe- While his case was stiil under | to notify tne | miah Boynton oi Detroit, who presided, spoke. He announced that there were tut three things on the order of business: The reading of the finding, prayer and adjournment. tev. D. E. Bradley of Grand Rapics, the scrive, read the findings, Mr. Boyn- ton then led the meeting In prayer and announced that the conlerence nhad dis- so ved. The agzed Dr. McLean, who is regarded as Dr. Brown’s chief adversary, said that he was satistied. *‘The verdict was just,” said he. “We will do all in our power to come to an amicable arrangement and un- derstanding with Brother Brown.” Dr. Brown met defeat without a wink. He -at alone in the rear of the assembly- room when Scribe Bradley announced the verd:ct, bat expressed his disappoini- ment when the counc | had dispersed. He did not demand relief from the cuarge of infidehty, he said, as the Bay Conference had done that, but he wished to be free from the ‘‘ministerial inability" in which he now finds himself. The result of the council's action will likely lesd to the rejection of his applica- | tion for membership in the Chicago Con- | gregational Ministerial Association and a breacn in the membershin of the Green- street chuich, of which Dr. Brown is now pastor. An impressive part of the final session of the council was the prayer delivered by Dr. Boynton. In his app-at the doctor vrayed for purer mantood and woman- hood, and that the bles«ings of heaven be upon all those interested in the work of the couuncil, whieh, he said, concerned the whole Gongregational church. “I think that I shail have todrivea dray or become a reporter on a news- | vaver,”” said Rev. Dr. Brown, with a touch of sarcasm, while awaiting the re- turn of the final verdict. When seen afterward he sad: “This does not disqualify me to remain pastor of the Green-strect church. It is now in order, I suppose, for the Bay Con- ference to take the first siep as suggested inthe last section of the finding. I shall be only too willing to nccept any reason- able overture the Bay Conferenceis willing te make to me. But I may say that my experience with Congregational council | verdicts is that they are almost as bard to | interpret ascon-titutional taw.” | Rev. Dr. Brown admittet that the find- ing of tue council would precipitate a dis- | cussion of his rightto become a member | of the Chicago association. It i- claimed he was only suspended from the Bay Con- | ference and is stiil a member, thus pre- venting nim becoming a member of any other conference in the church. AL BE THANKFDL, FOR PROSPERITY President McKinley Issues His First Thanksg.ving Day | Proclamation. Asks That Due Acknowledgment Be Given for Elessings Show- ered Upon the Nation. Spectal Dispatch 1o THE CALL WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—The Presi- | dent to-day issu-d his first Thanksgiving day proclamation, as follows: In remembrance of God’s goodness to us during the past year, wnich has been so abuudant, letus offer up to him out thanks- ziving and pay our vows unto the most high. Under his watenful providence in- dustry has prospered, the conditions of labor heve beer: imyroved, the rewards of the hus- bandman have been increased and the com- foris of our homes multiplied. His mighty hand has preserved peace and protected tne | uation :spect for law and order has been | | strensthened, love of free institutions | | cherished aud all sections of our bsloved | couniry brought into closer bonds of fraternal egard and generous co-operaiion For these great ben:fits it is our duty to praise the Lord in a spirit of humility and | gratitude aud to offer up to him vur most enrnest supplications. That we may sccnowl | edge our obligation as a people & has so graciously granted us the bles free governmant and material prosperity, I, | Willlam McKinley, President of the United states, do hereby designate and set apar: | | Thursday, the 25th day of November, for ne- | | tionsl thanksgiving and prayer, which all of | P | the people are invited to observe with appro- priate religious services in their respeciive | places of worship. On this day of rejoicing and domestic re- | union letour prayers ascend to the Giver of | everv good and perfect gift, for the continu- | ance of hisTove and favor to us, that our { hearts may be fillea with chariiy and good wili, and that we may be ever worthy of his beneficent concern. Iu witness whereof 1 have nereunto set my hand and caused the | seal of the United States to be affixed. | Done at the city of Washingtou this twenty- | | ninih aay ot Octover, in the vear of our Lord, | oue thousand eight hundred and ninety- seven, and of the independence of the United | States the one hundrea and twenty-second. By the President, WiLLIAM MCKINLEY. JOHN SHERMAN, Secretary of State. AN ARCTIC FGX'S ADVENTURE. | Escaping From His Owner, Reynard | Robs Fis Eoosts and Meets a Violent Death. BOSTON, Mass, Oci. 20 —From Arctic | snows to Massachusetts hen roosts and a violent death came one of Lieutenant Peary’s wild foxes which be captured on his late expedition. The animal escaped and devastated farms and poultry plants | for miles around, ereatly frizhtening the | people. Robert Perry of Pilipston was with Lieutenant Peary’s expedition, and among the trophies which he brou:ht home was an Arctic fox, wtich eventually foun ta home at Mr. Perry’s residence in | Phillipston. Reynard dia not enjoy it. The climale was notcongenial and he tinally succeeded in escaping, The ani- mal found the weil-stocked poultry-yard of the Heywood farm. The fox pait sev- eral visits there in the course of his voy- age of destruction, and John Driscoll, a farm hand. yopped him in the neck with arifle. Coon, fox, cat and bear and sev- | eral other animais were named, but to- | | dav it was igentified as an Arcric fox, and o letter from Mr. Perry, wh.ca Elisha S. | Knowles received this morning, veri- tied it. S NEW STATIONS NEEDED. The Weather Bureau Desires Their Estab ishment in the Southwsst- ern Part of the Country. WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—The annual report of the Chiaf of the Weather Bu. reau, W. L. Moore, asks for the establisn- ment of siaticnsin the southwestern part of the country, embracing the territory of Nevada, Utan, Arizona, New Mexico and Southern Caiifornia. Itis stated thatfr - quent storms originate in this territory, and itis desired to have places from which information can be attained regarding them. At present there are fifty cities of more than 50,000 population not baving a Weather Bureau station, and it is thought in some of them, -t least, stationscould be established. Severa!of them, however, are near piaces which already have sta- tions. Thenew estimate includes an item of $20,000 for the purchase of signal lights for ail stations displaying storm signals. There are now 253 ports displaying signals, 28 A McKinley Leaves for Ohio. WASHINGTON, Oct. 29. — President and Mr«. McKinley, accompanied by Sec- | capture any of TERRORIZED BY EQUINE PESTS Stockmen of Northern Arizona at Their Mercy. Twenty Thousand Wila Mus- tangs Roam and Rule the Ranges. Slaughtered by Indlans and So'd to Buichers ¢s Fe d for Fat- tening Hogs. Special Dispatch to THE ALL PRESCOTT, Oct. 29 —Wi'd horses are becoming a pest it Northern Arizona. In Navajo County the reservation Indians are selling wiid ponies 1o butchers, who use them as feed for fittening hogs. Their number is constantly increasing, and they are becoming a menace to the cattle ranges. Sheep and cattle owners are looking sbout for some means of relief, and it is not unlikely that they will or- | ganize a grand redeo, ora series of tiem, wherein the wild horses wiil be gathered in only to be shot. ““Ihere must be 20,000 bead of wild horses in Northern Arizona,” said Wili Barnes, one of the largest cattle-owners in Navajo County, vesteraay. *“Over in our county, south of Hoibrook, they are the Woist nuisance that can be imagined. It | has reached tte point where we cannot safely turn out a riding horse to graze. ‘We bave to keep our saddle animals and round-ap horses stabled all winter or take them down to Pueaix for pusture. The Wld stock not only eat up the ieed but they run catile off the range. They bave chased off ail the cattle from the wost end of the Hash Knife Range, cne of theb:st zrass districis in Northeasiern Arizona. “It is useless 1o put out sult for the stock, for the wila horses chase awav all the cattle that come nearit. At this sea- son of the year they are fat and have shining hide-. They sweep over the coun- ury in great bands, cathering up any stray animals they may come across. A horse is as good as lost that crosses the:r tracks. Some of these wild horses ure good stock. Not iong azo ihe ‘Circle S’ ponies were the very best in Northern Arizona. They made fine mounts and their value corresponded. Now there must be over 3000 of these ponies running wiid and without a praud. On the Frercoin central Apache County there must be 3000 head of loose bronces and perhaps the same number are on the Navajo Reservation, the property of the Indians, who do not seem to know what to do with them, “*Some of the Indians are getting quite a revenue from the ponies, which they sell to a Holbrook tutcner for $3a head. What does the butcher want with them? He isfattening hogs on them. Thureedoi- !ars is the ruling price for the wild horses, 1 would like 10 sell a great many off my ranges at that price, and some ¢f them are very we | bred and woula made valu- able horsesif broken. “The only time when it is possible to ihe wiid stock isin the early spring, before the grass has come and when the pon‘es are lean and weak. Then, cn the Esperanca ranch four men are mounted on herses especally tramed and of speed and bottom. The wild horses are started just aiter they have | drank and are the more ‘loy,” and a | banen ot the animals 1s cut off from the main lLerd and corraled. Sometimes it is necessary to shoot the lead mares—for the females nlwavs lead the wild bunch.” Mr. Barnes is a member of the Live- stock Sanitary Commission of Arizona, | and will lav the matier before that body n northern ranges of their with the view of having some legal acii taken to rid th cquine pest CELESTIAL FEMALE SLAVES. Women's Kome Missionary Association To'd About tan Francisco’s Chinatown. BOSTON, Oct. 27.—At the eighteenth annual meeting of the Woman’s Home Missionary Association in BerkeleyTemple Wednesday Miss D. E. Emerson, represent- ing the American Missionary Association, talked about the Chinese women. The association, she said, has worked for twenty-five years among the Chinese in California under great disadvantages. Tnere are in San Frencisco now 2500 Chinese women, of whom 1000 are wives and 1500 slaves. Many of tne latter are brought here for immoral purposes. Since the law prohibiting the importation of Chinese was passed. the price of a girl of 16 bas risen from $16L0 to $2500. The association employs ftive women missionaries, who get at the women by petting the children, for Chinatown is filied with brighily dressed boys and girls. There is fooi-binding there, and some of tue women have painfully small feet. Some of the women take work from the shops, while others are engaged in dress- making or embroidering. These women are learning from their little children. The missionaries of <1l denominations are re-cuing many of the siaves from the houses of ill-tame. Many of these girls were deceived d did rot know when they came what was in store for them. The speaker spoke of the terrible traffic in girls, not only among the Chinese, but among the negroes of the South. e PROSPERITY IN WASHINGTON. Senator Wilson Say_stha People of That State Have More Koney Than They Know What to Do With. WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—Senator John L. Wilson of Washington, who arrived to-day, said: Money! I never saw so much money in my life. The people of my State actually have more money than they know what to do with, after paying their debts.” “Where did they get it?"” “They are making it. We have fifty million dollars worth of crops in our State this year—wbeat, oats, barley, hops, net to spesk of fish and the products of the forests. The farmersof Washington have a wonderful wheat crop. There is one county in the State, Sherman County, with cnly 700 voters in it, and the countv raised 3,000,000 bushels of wheat. There is another county where thé crop makes the per capita wealth of the county $100. Every man, woman and chiid worth $100. The section of the State east of the Cus- cade Mcun:ains, called the ‘Inland Em- pire,’ raised forty-three million busheis of wheat. They are getting 60 and 70 cents a bushel for it, and that isa big profit, for they can reice wheatin Wash- ington for 25 cents to 50 cents a bushel. “Then theie is the lumber indusiry. There are 200 shingle-mills in the State, and they are all running night and day. You couldn’t get an order filled under thirty days. There is no misiake abou: prosperity baving come to our peopie.”’ T0 MOTHERS OF LARGE FAMILIES. Mrs. Pinkham's Advice Free. In this workaday world few women are so placed that physical exertion is not constantly demanded of them in their daily life. Mrs. Pinkham makes a special appeal to mothersof large families whose work is never done, and many of whom suffer | and suffer {or lack of intelligent aid. To women, young or old, rich or poor, Mrs. Pinkham, ) of Lynn, Mass., ’ extends herinvita- tion of free ad- vice. Oh, women! do not let your lives be sac- rificed when a & word from Mrs. v Pinkham, at the first approach of weakness, may fill your future years with healthy joy. Mrs. A. C. BUNLER, 1123 North Al- bany avenue, near Humboldt Park, Chicago, Ill., says: “I am fifty-one yearsold and have had twelve children, and my youngest is eight years old. 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