The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 2, 1897, Page 2

2] THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER = 1897. red tape, and as soon as the crowd gave him room to extend his arms, he untied the strings and drew forth a numoer of papers. one of these he re- d the others and, holdwng it out, he Selecting n pursuance of a de- States Circuit Court. nited | now read the description:of the rty to be sold, and when I have fin- ading I will -be prepared to He then unfolded the notice of sale, ch was very long, being about four mns of agate type. *This notice is so long, gentlemen,” said Mr. Cornish, “that I wiil not attempt to read it so that of you camhear.it. I will endeavor to et through it'as rapidly as possible.” He then began the reading of the notice, and, as he had said, did not read it so that people could hear it. His voice grew weaker as he read, ana finelly it-became nothing but an unintelligible mumble that not di hable three feet distant. Close to his hand stood Lawrence with 2 the notice in his and of ancery very closely. - He one of the reorganization or those connected with it the proceedings from first:to . From time to time Attorney ierce, who wasin the hall just behind wortion of the door in front of which nctioneer was nding, looked out ceiving & glance from Mr. Greer, ew into the hall onc+ more, e reading of the notice took just an y minules, and wheh it was evi- Mr. Cornish was well through column of the notice General tzgereid, who was to make the vusbed through the door and stood se by the side of the reader. nished his reading Mr. Cornish paper and placed it delib- s portfolio, He then drew -written document and, rin be only mittee ely forth a small t without announcing its nature, begsn to read. z 1t was a protest from Managing Receiver of Trumbuil the Union Pac:fic, Denver and Gu inst the saie with the r{ Pacitic property of 1wo miles rack on the Cheyenne and Northern ad. the two miles being claimea both by the Union Pacific aud the Union Pacific, Denver and G Mr. Cornish, after read- ing thep ounced that any pros- pective p of the road must be vunter the consequences of ank willing to er the protest, ownership b cluded ia the the reorgan sale proceeded. After reading this notice, Mr. Cornish placed it in the portfolio and said: *I am now ready to receive bid« for the Union Pacific was in- ale. This was agreeable to zation commiitee, -and the the I have just read. There was-a m t's silence, and then General Fi rald-said :- *I bid -$39,8 1 in the name of Louis Fuiz- Krech, AW sing purct another pause.and Mr there any more bids?” e were none, and the master con- now receive bids for the ‘sale of e bonds the description of which I nave x hundred and forty- both tance read Lis bid from a mem is hands: s month to whenav m the crowd cailed loudly: “Wait a moment, Mc.. Cornish. - What b mounts of those:bids? I cannot " and ral “John C. Cowin, nment altorney, pashed his way the crowd with great diffizulty. ad been sianding abou: ten feet from Cornish and hLad veen unabie to hear nouncement of the bids, so low had the voice of General Fitzgerald as he made them and the voice of Mr. Cor- 1 us be repeated them. Tne sale stopped for a moment as Gen- 1 the the Gover: 1 gh eral Cowin struggled through the crowd | - Cornish. - He was shown the bids on the memoran- to the side 0! M the a dum beld by Genersl ~Fitzgeraid, and made a note of them. Ltie then turned away, and Mr. Cornish agsin ~opened his moutn to say, “Are there any more bids?” and this time he succeeded. There was not a sound and the master con- tinued: “As there no more bids, I deciare the property, of which I have just read on, sold to Louis Fitzgerald . Krech, purchasing trustees, made the highes: bid-and the the descript and Alvin V all there was to the entire nd the members of the reorganiza- aitorneys lost no time in getting back to the offices of the Union Pacific road, for the wind blew t was cola out there where the n had 1 place. Urder the terms of the sale the pur- 1 sale, s tion committee and thei chiasers have ninetv days in which to pay over the full amonn: ot the purchase v, und that part of the transaction Le carried out in New York in the The Government has now the ng fund of the road and the amount of the guarantee check put up by the re- organization commitiee. This is . just zbout 10 per cent of the fuil purchase price of the roas. The members of the committee had nothing to say after the sale was over. . Attorney Winslow said that it was pos- +ible that the committee might have a s:iatement 1o issue later on, but just now he was not certain wtether it would be is- sued or no:. Regarding ihe future man- azement of theroad he Lad nothing to say, but it is practically certain that it will, for the time being, be ieft in thr hands of the present receivers, who will run it as they have been running it, with the sole difference that ttev wiil be re- sponsible to the reorganization committee instead of to the Government. When the committee has perfected all of its arrange- men:s it will resfeve them. The ruture head of the road will be 8, H. H. Clark, the former president, if s heaith will permit him to take the posi- tion. He had- been expected at the sale t1o-day, but was confined to his homae iu St. Lonis by iliness. The sale to-d v was under the mortgage on the property held by the United States Guvernment., To-morrow, st-the sime time and at the same place as the sale was beld to-day wili be neld another sale or the foreclosure of the trusi deeds, secur- ingthe construction bonds, which consti- tute the first lien on the road. None of the reorganization committee cared 19 muke auy statement regarding the Kanscs Pacific_sale, which bas been po-tponed -until December 15, None of them wonld say a word as to whether the commtfee intended to bid or not. S HISTORY OF THE ROAD. Enormous Pck gs During the Union P:cfe Cons: uction, but Un¢le Sam Com :s Gut Even. The Union Pacific: was organized by aet of Congress in 1862 for the construction of a railrornd from Kansas City to Omaha and Sioux City “on- the Missouri River, tosuch a point westerly as the Central Pacific raiiway might in the meantimeé reach. It was given a subsidy amotnting in the aggregate to' §$33,000,000 in ‘United States Uovernment bonds, the bonds ana interes: to be paid by the company at maturity. It was also given every odd section ¢f Government land witbin twenty miles on each side of the roadway and the right of way, 400 feet in width, the entire distance. ln addition to this by a stbse- quent act of Congress, passed in 1864, it was permitied 10 exscute a pr.vate mort- zzerald replied: *I bid in Fitz:erald and A. W. trustees, the sum of | gage for an amonnt equal to the Govern- | ment mortgaye, Wwhich privaie subsidy | was by the terms of the act made prior and super-or to the' lien of the Govern- ment for payment of the subsidy bonds and interest, The Governmént subsidy, with the fi'st mortgage and land grant, made about $80,(00,000 immed ately avail ahie for the consiruction of the railroad over and above-the right of way which wus given by the Government, 1t was soon aiscovered-ihat the avail ble money thus arising wholly ffom the bounty of the Government was nearly doubie the amount nécessary to build and equip the road. Tue diraciors conceived the idea of diverting this surolusto them- seives by organizing a ¢ nstruction com- pany (of which they should be substan- tially the only stockhoiders) to build the road under couiracts which wouid absorb all of thiscapital and divide the enormous profits among the stockbolders, The com- pany was called the Credit Mobilier, and contemplated, in addition . to the Burpose stated, the establishment of ‘townsites on points of th~ line at which the directors of the Union Pocific Company would estab- | lish stations, thus adding o the enormous profi's to be realized-on the construction ol theroad additional-enormous profits througli the enbancement of - fand values | at and around ihe tcwasites ‘and in the colomization of the railroad grant lands. The Credit Mooilier secured: enormous fortunes for its promoters, but canie to ef and to a dishonest if. not ‘unprotita- end by offering, and in ‘many cases giving, i s stock a« bribes to Congressmen and other pub ic cfficials for {favors gran ed 0 it at the expense of -the Governmeit. The resultof this terriblegpubiic scandalis known in history as the **Cred t Mobilier” investigat.on, which finglly jed to tue adopt.on-ot the Thurmun act. Since that time the Umon Pacific has been consideravly demoralizea, and the road finally, abont iour years ago, fell into the hands of receivers. By them it Las been operated apparently much more successfully than it was ever operated by t e company,and theroad is now in good congition and a paving propeity. Lue orizinal line of the road traverses | the States of Nebraska, Wyoming and Utah, running fora shortdistance through the northern pzri of Colorado, the east- | ern terminus being at Council Biuffs in | te of Towu and the westera ter- | minus being at Ozdea, Uzab. A branch | line runs from S.oux City, Iowa, to the | eastern ‘terminus. In addition to the throug . overiand traffic of the road, arawn from the Central Pacitic Railroad, the Oregon Short Line of the Union. P. cific, now a separate road, and the North-rn, it has considerabie Jocal traftic in the rich agricultural regions of Ne- braska, Colorado and that part of Wyom- ing through which it passes; ard hasa ressonable prospect of enormous iuture traflic resuliing from the certain future development of the eniire region from Ogden 10 Omaha: For the pust +ight vearsthe Union Pa- cific Company, co-operating with-its bond- hoiders. and other. capitalis s, has teen sirenuously seekitg ‘Congressionak aid to | vod the immediate paymentof its debts | | 10 the Government through various re- ! | funding schemes, by which it might be | | enab ed to transfer its whole debt, with a a nomunal rate of interest to the shoulders of 11s patrons in increased transportation rates,.distribniing the repivment of tne debt over a period of from 50 10 100 year: This scneme, if carfied through on any | of the plans suggested, would have enabled the origzinal despoilers of the Government and their successors in - interest to retain the road with all the diverted assets, oper- ating it with a profit to themseiyes and saddling the burden of the relunded in- debtedness upon the backs of the peopie depending upon the roas for transporta- | tion. | The company and all others interésted in the refunding schemes, as well as their friends in both Houses of Conzress, per- stently and constantly declared that the road was not worth mueh move than the first mortgaze indebtedne-s; ihat. any attempt on the part o the Government to enforce payment would result in the sacti- fice of substantieliv the whole of ‘itsclatm against th: road; that it was impossible for the ¢ mpuny Lo puy. or for the Govern- ment to coilect, and therefore that the in« terests of the Government would be best served by accepting the termg offéred for I refunaing. In February !ast, after the failure of the Powers refunding biil in the House of Representatives, the Attorney-Genéral en- ter ed the appearance of the Government i the foreclosure snits ihat had previ- ously been commenced: by thie first mort- | | zage bondhoiders, and decreed that a de- | cree of ioreclosure and sale mignt be en- | tered provided 1hat a bid, wuich ineluding | | the sinking fund on hand; amounting to | | about $17.000,0), and the earnings of the | -company from the Government, amount- | ing to séveral millions additional, should s cure to the Government at least $45,000,000 on account of its ciaim against tue road. This agreement for a minimum bid was made by what is known as the Fitzgera.d commitiee, having in charge the reorgani- zation of the Unior Pacific Company, and | a depost of $5000,000 was mude as a guarantee that the mmimum bid would be offered by the company in case of a foreciosure sale. In September lust the Attorney-General refused to- consent to the sale unless the mimimum -bid should be increased soas to bring the Govern- ment $50,000,000 on account of its claim. To this the committe: agreed, and the stipulation was made for the sale of the road on November 2. Subsequently the Attorney-Generai, believing that a post- ponemeni of the sale until after the meeting of Congress would be of! advantage to the interests of . the Government, applied to the United States Circuit Court (Judge Sanborn) for a postponement of the sale until the h of December, whereapon the teor- nization committee promptly offered to increase its bid so as 10 pay the entire claim of the Government on the Union Pacitic main line, provided the application of the Attorney-General for a postpone- ment of the sale should be abandoned. To this the Atiorney-General agreed. It was feared that the segregation of the Kansas Pacific Railroad, running from Kansas City to Chevenne by way of Dan- ver, only a portion of which is subject to tue Government subsidy lien, would cause a serious loss to the Government on ac- count of iis claim against that road, but the Attorney-General, who is in a position to know, stites positively that the whole of ':ihe claim on the Kansas Pacific will be paid. TH3 KANSAS PACI 1 WORPE TEE HONEY Attorney - General McKenna! Says the Government Claim ! Is Not Impaired. Prior S Not of the Unfon Pacific Has Hurt the Propsrty at All Special Dispatch 10 THE CArL Caur Orrics, Riges HoUsE: WasgiNezon, D. €., Nov. 1. } Attorney-General MeKenna ‘and ex- Governor. Hoadiey of Ohio," counsel: for tie United. States i the.- Union and Kansas Pacific railroad- foreclosure ‘cases, held a lengthy conference this afternoon at the Department of Ju:tice. * The talk chiefly related to theé approaching sale of tue Kansas Pacific. % Tt may be stated -positively: that Attor- ney-General McKenna'has had no idea of attemptiog to. stop the sale of the Union Pacific since the réorganization committee made its last offer. Mr. Mc- Kenna is candid in bis statements regard- ing the coming Kansas Pacifi¢ sal He ridicules the idea that the Govern- ment’s ciaim on tual road isimpatred on | tion. | tee would I | securities. | nal plan, ‘aggressive canvass or’ Dr. Swaliow, the account 0/ its not being inciuded iu the Union Pacific sale. outside, itot more ‘than $7,000,000 could poss bly be lost, and altogeiher the ‘Gov- ernment-will be doing extremely well on the two raads, As to the ¢laim that tne reorganization committee will not bid for the Kansas Pa- cific and can parallel’ that road, Mr. Me- Kenna says: ‘“Fhe ownership of the Kansas Pacific is part of the committee’s scheme of reorganization. They hold Liens junior to thoseof the Government. They cannot make them good except by the ownership of the road. *“Besides there are the owners of the first mortgage. They must bid to make that good. But suppose the committee does not bid. ‘Others will; the Gavern- ment may. The road is a very'valuable its. gro-s income was over I am talking of the aided vor- Its net income in 1890 was $774,- 473 20, with unusually large expenditures for repairs.” In 1891 thé net income was $1.223.606 82. - In 1892, $1,501,260 33. It de- ned (experiencing tue effect .ol $3,000,000. [ lhe hard times, as it will experience: the effect of some good times again) through 1893,/ 1894 and 1895 to $642.899 62, rising in 1896 to $70 166 The years 1890, 1891 and 1892 are the real: test of the Kansas ‘Pacific’s net income, and it can be put down at over $1,000,000, and this is 4 per cent on $25,000,000 or 5 per cent on 20,000,000, “Does any sane man_ believe, therefore, that the reorganization committee will Jet it be sold for $12,300,000 when it will pay 4 per cent cn nearly twice that amount and 5 per cent on nearly §8,000,- 000 more than that amount, especialiy a8 the commiitee owns li-ns junior to the claim of the Government, and which will be in such event a total loss? *Then, again, suppose the road should be paralleled. Who woula suffer if this wou!d destroy or impair its vslue? It seems to me the reorganization commit- se, for it would lose its junior Tiis would be !ike cutting off oue's nose to spite one’s racs, . NEW YORK, Nov. 1.—The Hernld to- morrow wiil say: Opposition to Union Pacific plans of reoreanization developed yesterday from a new source. The Kan- sus Pacific bondholders obj:ct to the treatment of their securities under the moditied ar angements, and they pro- pose to block the organization if pos- sible. These bonds received, under the origi- 0 per cent in first 4'per cent bonds and 50 per cent in preferred stock, but these terms were niodilied so as to is- sue $75,000,000 bonds, and according to: the ameniment - Kansas Pacific consols re- ceived 50 ver cent 4 per cent bonds ana 110 per cent preferred stock. The ovposition to the plan, which is | largely interested in Kansas City consols, claims that the agreement under whici the. deposits of their consols under the plan were obtained has been broken. 1t is said that steps will be taken in the Feieral courts to test the matter it the plan proceeds on its present lines. g A TS READY FOR THE STATE BLECTIONS Continued from First Page. be selected.. Much interest is being taken in:the local municipal contest, Charles P. Weaver and George D. Tod being the Democratic and Republican “candidates respectively, Mr. Tod is the inciinbent, and the race has been the hottest here in veare. The fight has been conducted en- tirely on local issues. Ex-Senator Josepn C. 8. Blagkburn and other po sible candidstes for the United Brates Senaie in 1900, when Senator Lind- say's term will exnire, are taking tiie greatest possible interest in thie eleclion of members of tie Legisiature. ' In many of the eounties Populists and. Democrats have fasion tiekets, while in others the Republicans and National Democrats have made fusion agreements.. On account of these fusions the Democrals are claiming thet they will hold most of the Populists in line for their candiaates for-Clerk ol the Court of Appeals. They also claim that Joe A..Park-r, the Populist nominee or Clerk of the Court of Appeals, is run- ning in the ‘interest of the Republicans. On the other. hand the Kepublicans &laim that they have twice broken the ranks of the Kentucky Democrats, and say that the same causes that made this poss ble in the last two elections are stil in exist- ence. They hope to carry the State by from 8000 to 10,000 plurality, which is about e plurality claimed by the silver Democrats. Some practicai poiiticians seem to think that the national Demo- crats will make such a showing of strength as to demonstrate beyond a doubt that they hold the balance of power in the Btate and thus be able to bring 10 ter ms the regular Democratic organization. SRS L SERENITY IN NEBRASKA. Political Managers of All Partles Pretend to Be Confident of Success. LINCOLN, Nepr, Nov. 1 — Political managers for both parties in tnis city ex- press supreme confidence as to the result of to-morrow’s battle. Even with their admirabie organization and vperfect har- mony in their ranks the Republicans must, nevertheless, face a compact fusion of all elements favorable to free silyer, whicn ‘& year. ago carried the State by 11,000 plurality. The National Democra and Prohibitionists are not a serious fai tor'in the race.and to-night it is'given ont that an underefanding exisis wiiereby the National Demotrats will voté almost sol- idly for the Republican nominees.: Added o this is the tact that the lascday of reg- stration- in ‘the cities broughi-out an” un- expectedly " large enrollment, which' Re- puolicanselain is'a good augury, . Fugion- iiis deny ‘this. and insist that” having made & mMosL aggressive campaien; théir 10ifoWei§ "sre most interested .and the larger the vote the better their chances: The blanket ballot'is 1o be tesied for the first iyme to<motrow and the effect; ivis believed, will be 10 greatly delay ihe re- tarns, 5 P W. J. Bryan made bis final speech in benalfof the fusion ticket .1p-day-and to- -hight; speaking in Lincoin; Omaha and a number-of smaller towne. : 5 QUIET IN PENNSYLVANIA, Aggressive Canvass of Dr. Swaliow; a Prohibition Cand date, the Only Camopalgn Feature: . . . PHILADELPHIA, No; -The ‘cim- paign -Just closing hus been exeeptionally quiet, the .only featire ‘huving been the Prohibition: ‘candidate for Siate Commis- sioner,” which has. been wholly on'the lines of reform -in politics, with" little ‘or no reference to the liquor question..' The State officers to b chosen are Siate Tréas- | urer ana Auditor-General, wood, Republican, ‘or State. Treasurer, had a plurality of 174,264 in a fotal vote of. 769,136. The prohibition vore was-20,770. Republican - Chairman Elkins, i kLis He savs:.that, at the | 7 {emedl, . 1 o In 1805 Hay- | fizuring ‘ot the result, predicts a vote of 786,665, - and a Republican plarality of 177,490. He concedes BSwallow 45,500 votes. Democratic Ciairman’ Gorman® _says there wilt te a total vote o 925,000, and that the Democratic candidate will have a g&urnmy of 15000.. He gives Swallow ,000. Chairman Jones of the Prohibition party claims that Swallow will havea majority in twenty and probably in thirty-seven o tbe sixiy-seven count es, and that he wil receive at least 50,000 in ‘Philadelphia alone, He gives no estimates of Swaliow’s vote in the Btate. e MIXED IN COLORADO. At Denver There Ars Twanty-Two Different Tickets In the Fied znd Confusion Is Expzcred. DENVER, Coro., Nov. L—Althouch there are but three candidates for Judge of the Supreme Court, being the only State office to be filled to-morrow; the baliot to be voted ‘in this city contain: iwenty-two different tickets bearing thel names of nominees for county offices.l Parties ‘with no standing without for- mality or convention forced their em- blems upon the baliot for but one pur- pose—to confuse the voters. Many volers, disgustea with the state of affairs, declare they will remain away from the polls. The contest between Charles L. Hayt (R.) .and William “H. Gabbert (D. and Pop.) for Judge of the Supremn Court appears 10 be very close. KEven money is beiny wagered on the resultin the pool- rooms to-night. In this cotintv the real fight is between the Silver Republican ticket, most of the cAndidates upon which are alco upon the Taxpayers' ticket and the Civic Federation ticket, which was in- dorsed by the Democrats. From present appearances some of the candidates upon each of these tickets will te elected. MARYLAND’S STRUGGLE. The Legislative <Contest Over- shadows the State Ticket and Munic' pal Controvarsi s BALTIMORE, Mp, Nov. L—With tte coming election but a few hours distant both sides express the greatest confidence - the outcome, and each puts forth clain:s that inciude everything, Thelegi-- iative contest oversnadows the Siate ticket, ‘the municipal contest in Balti- more and every other feature of the fight because: upon “its outcome depends the pontical futnre of Unitea States Senator Gorman. The Republican and Democratic leaders have been werking hard to-night prepar- {ing for the eiection to-morrow. Two | Judges are to be elected and a Uniied States Senatorship is at stake, as the next Legisiature will elect a successor to. Sen- ator Gorman. The Democratic leaders say if the Legislature i1s Damocratic, Sen- ator Gorman will be returned. Botn par- ties ciaim that they wiil be success!ul, but the greatest confidence is manifesied by the Republica; ——— ISSUES IN NEW JERSEY. As No S‘ata Ofc:r Is to Bs Elec =d, Questions Are Con=- fined. io Local Matters. NEW YORK, Nov, L.—The election in New Jersey to-morrow promises 1o be de- cided upon a very lightvote. There is no Siate officer to-bé elected this year and the election hinges largely upon local issues. . Six counties elec¢t State Sena:iors who will ho!d over 1o vote for a successor o James Smith as United. States Senator. Tne Democrats will probably make gains; espzcially in the lower house. — 10 SEAD SIBNALS ) COASTING FLEETS Keeping the Ships in Constant Communication With the Shore. | The Board Appointed by Secretary of the Navy Long New Per- fectir g Its Plans. $pecial Dispatch to THE CALL. Cary OrFice, Rigs House, | WASHINGTON, D. €., Nov. 1§ A board appointed vy Secretary Long has now under consideration the estabs lishment of Coast line signal stations by which flests ‘sailing close inshore along tiie- Atlantic and" Pacific coasts may be kept 10 almost.constant ‘communication; i vecessary, with {he Wasbingtor: author- ities. “Fhe plan contemplates: the use of life-saviug stat.ons, and the establishment of speclal stations where none now exist, that could be used for signal purposes. The boara consists of Commander. Schoul- ter, Lieutenants Gibbons and Harlow, and Lieutenant Anderson of the New York | State militia, and has already advanced far in its work. All ihie stations along the seaboar! wiil be connected by wire, so that every move- ment of the fleet, when in sight, can be observed and reported. Ships can send signals from a distance of probably eight or ten miles off shore, which, being inter- preted by the shore stations, will be for- warded to Washinzton. The answers can be returned to the sigral station ana then transmittea to the ships. ‘The system has workea with great suc- cess abroad, and will be introduced here as soon as the general plan is perfected. The State militia will have charge of the stations and operate them in time of emergencies, In time of peace the life- saving men will direct them. Etsc ot e WHEAT IN AUST..1A-HUNGARY. \ Shortage of the Crop There Kas Caused a Great Importation of American Grain. WASHINGTON, Nowv.: 1. — Secretary- Wil<on, ai the Depariment of Agriculture, bas.just issued a.réport prepared under his direction by Frank H. Hitchcock, chiet of the section of foreign markets, that the- present. wheat shortage in.-Austrias Hungary, and the conseguent imporia: _tion in that country of American grain. at Reighenbiirg, Aus ria, an importation of 400 carloads of American .wheat. was miade as eatly as August, coming:. by ihe -way: ‘of “Hamburg. Orher. ‘importaiions were reported, amorg ‘hem o6he of 36,700 bu-hels of red winter No. 2 and Kansas wheat,’ purchased: through the Vienna Prodnce” Exchanve:. Alter ~récaunting -these unuisual importation<of season. the bulletin- presents view" of .the grain situa-ion in"Austria Hungary during the pi en years. The crop of the present ‘season. is remarkably gs official estimates quotes fulfilled, the con.binad - wheat product are. ton littie more than 130,000,000 bushe! 000,000 bushel 1ix 1896, - Greek and- Roman - doors al ways-opened outward, and "wheri a- man'.Was passing out'of a house he knotked on the door, so .28 not to open 1t in the face of a pas-er-by. X . or 60,+ shori.of Lue-crop harves.ed | and treating everybody: in sight. "It was ‘gives some interssting ‘acts refative to | Aceording to the United: States:consul’| ‘of Austria and- Hungary will: amount: 16 -I'lobn who sent out ang bought $5 worth of | brass beer checks and disiributed:thiem to WILLIAM LANDS FIGHT 1§ WON Republicans of Sacra- mento Certain of Victory. Their Entire Ticket Destined to Win at the Polls Td-Day. Close of a Campaign Which Hae Been Replete With Exciting Incldents. Special Dispateh to THE CALL. SACRAMENTO, Nov.1.—A few weeks ago there was written upon the sands an imscription wh ch read: “Tam going 10 be Sacramento’s next Maiyor, and don’t you forget1t.” R. S.” To-nignt ** R. 8.” is listening to the rise of a tide which will belore the setting of to-morrow’s sun wash out. forever what was written there. R. S. 'has made a desperate tight to stem this tide; he has hurriedly thrown up tittle entertainments, dug muny little holes, made dams—of various kinds—but his barriers were of sand, and as the tide creeps in first one and then the other of his structures fall, and now R. 8. is sitting on a rock on the shore calmly watching his last b 'pe wash away. Down the beach a little further there is | another “playhouse” built of sand, which like its neighbor is doom:d, wh:ile the builder of itis standing with a broken shovel-blade and is wondering ‘‘what the wild waves are saying.” He will know 10-morrow. 8till farther down there is another shift- ing pile, and beside it sits a little man whose feet are aireadv wet. Still hestands there just the same, half hopingz that something may happen which will spare | him, but it will not. Every hour brings the tide a little higher, and the only hope —t: e only structure that wiil stand to- morrow’s storm—is the oue which is built upon Land. What will nis majority be? is the only | question now asked. Many predicted at first that William Land would weaken as the time for the test grew near; buton the contrary, he has gathered ~trength all along the line, and showed bimself to be as zood and thorough a politician as he is a Land lord. Mr. Land has been a great surprise to many of bis friends, who have seen him only’in t ose walks of life where private enterprise isnot brought cut by the glar- ing calcium light of pubiic interest, in- quiry. and criticism. e lias stood this glure, and:while an attempt wes made at first to detract from the esiéem whicn an honorable liie will naturaliy invite, it failed completely. because tfe. .chargzes ag.inst hs private life brought gut an in- quiry which cleared him. AS Frank Miller said, “He has a wondefful jind of energy”’; and in the Ianguage of F. B. Adams, “When William Land has finished his term of office, the peovle will say ‘as he waks the streeis, ‘There xoes ‘the best Mayor Sicramenio ever had.'” o i The other fights look, equally bright for | the Republican candidatés, and not a man of them will ‘auffer-defeat. Da Ligne has grown strongin the estimation of the peo- ple. aud his_election is assared. - Robin- son, Y-uing anat Erost wil}, of course, win, while Panabyker. and Stack will astonish their friends when the vote is counted. There 1§ -not as reetcer in town but | earries’a banner “Vote for Brown.” As Brown's little district takes in_only a few blocks many people are wondering if we arenot getiing a litfle “'too much Brown.” i ominent Democrat Jast nigh “You ‘would ‘think be was running. for | @overnor.” from a locksmith. The candidate dis- tributed them and told the men of dif- ferent places where the checks would be good for'a drink. -On Saturday night there were 200 voters kicked ount of difier- ent saloons: L The men who were kicked out are look- ing for the candidate, while i candidate has sent word to the man who ‘soiu him the key tags, to come un to hi- basement, ,Ias he wants to see him alone ior a few | moments, There is still another independent house- to-house candidate who has been going | around slipping under the doors of resi- dences littie pieces of cardboard ~upon which is written; “Thixis my voting num- ber.”” The “head of the house” of an up-| town residence came home . the o her snap night, and thinking the poor candidate was looking throu:h the keyhole of hi door, kicked him over the railing. When | be found out bis misiake he wanted to | apologize, but the candidate said | “*That's ull right; 1 am get! used to | that. .Just remember my number on elec- tion day.” ent candidate marked | isited with a piece of | chalk. Those who were with him were | marked with an X; tho e against bim | with an 0. He siruck Captain Fisher's | house, and the captain, tainking ne was marking the plac: for tramps, ran him in. The most authentic story, however, | comes from downtown, where the inde- | pendent candidates. are as thick as bees | around a locust blossom. One of them went to a prin.er to huve some announce- ments printed and piaced within anen- velope for distribution. i A day or 1wo afterward he senta boy ous with them. instructing him to leave an envelope on every doopstep in his ward. This the boy did, but immediately following bim came another boy, who as | fast as an envelope was deiivered entered | tne same )remises, picked up the en-| velope and slipped something e!se inside | of it { ‘When the candidate got home that | night his neighbordhood was in a state of iurmoil. Within each one of thess en- velopes was a ‘lit s slip which said: “I might say to you in confidence that Iaman A.P. A" As hie ward is' composed entirely of a H barnian colony, the result can be im- agloed. OFFIC-Rs What folks are doing in the Great and Gay Greater New York. - Their inside and outside life.. What they like, and what they don’t like. How they spend their money. Something. about them is always in THE PURITAN. 10 cents at new of Frank Munse: THE LARBEST TAILORING ESTABLISHMEMT ON THE COAST. : Our BUSINESS SUITS, to order, for $15.50 and $17.50 are the best in the country. For thie Halldays we offer for dress oses FINi - DOESKINS, PIQU EAVER AND ENGLISH DIAGONAL SUITS; made to order, B25.00. Good va'usat $35. - Don't milss this op- portunity, asthe are golug fast. JOE T. POHEIM, 201-203 Montgomery St., cor. Bush, 844-846 Market St., opp. Fourth, 1110-1112 Market St., San Francisco. 485 Fourteenth St., Oaicland, Cal. 602-605 K St., Sacramento. 143 8. Spring St., Los Angeles, Cal. FOR ALASKA. Big Batch of Deputy Collectors Ap- | pointed by the Presi- dent. | WASHINGTON, Nov, 1L.—The Presi- dent, with the advice of the Secretary ot the Treasury, has decided that Alaska | needs more deputy collectors and inspect- ors. and the following deputy collectors wi'l be apnointed: Willis P. Mc¢Bride, J. Frank Sinnott, Joseph A. Arment, Clarence 8. Hannum, Joseph E. Floyd, Clarence and L. An- drews. William Millmore is designated as an inspector. All of these officers will be ctedited to S tka, but will be assigned to duty at Unga, Wrangel, Juneau and Dyea. Babies Thrive On It} g WILL G0 30 DETROIT: Sharp Correspondence Precedss the Ar- rival of the Old Yantic, DETROIT, Nov. L—Governor Pingree to-day received a telegram from Theodore Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy, in reply to h's telegram of Satur- day to tke effect that the State of Michi. gan would not accept tihe United States steamship Yantic uniess she was repaired and uniess the Government wonld assume responsibility for the damages to the Can- |-adian sieamer Cadienne in her collision | with the Yantic last Friday. Mr. Roosevelt wired: “Yantic i: prac- tically unirjured. If not recripted for at once she will zo to Boston, - Others want her. The Navy Department has already spent more money on her than it olght to have done.”’ Governor Pingree re‘erred the telegram to Commander Wilkes of the Nava! Re- serves. Mr. Wilkes said later that Colonel Hodges was in Montzeal and would re- ceipt for the Yantic and that the vessel would come to Detroit at once. 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A man way up in the Fifth- Ward—as he saw a G-straet onr well bannera!; said: “Who'is Brown? - He is running for ‘Frustee over in the Thirds car passes my door 10 vote for him?"” “Yon may have friends there.” “1f T have D'l tell 'em to vote agin him. - This thing of plastéringevery ¢arin the town with the demand that I shall { vote for Brown would make you. think there was no one else on the ticket.” “The streetcar people must be awfully frieniily to Brown.'’ siid anothen ~ *“Does he work for them?” *No, he paysier that. - Banners posted on those cars cost money." ““Is be running for Mayor?” “No, Trastee in'the Third.” “How cnn I vote for him when I live in the ¥ifth?” *“You can’t.” 1 can’t, can’t I?” *No, you can’t.” “Then 1 wou't.” Came the reply: *“There wid you—and that's no lie. S Paine ana Fennish will be out with their friends in fu!ll foree to-morrow, and when the fight is over there will be several disappointed independents down in the Tnird and up in the Ninth. There has been a wonderful growth of Independents this ~year. They hav cropped out like mushrooms in a barn- yard when the sun is warm. Most of them will find the sun very warm before it sets to-morrow. They have been so numerous in some of the wards that they n lost their bearings and, ‘in .many cases, spent time and money and carfare in localities outside of their wards. An uptown independent started out the other night ‘‘to mix things up on the homestretch,” he put it, as he had mnot made much of a canvass vet and was saving his powder for the final charve. | He commenced cutting & wide and beauti- ful swath from the very first saloon he entered until he teased his mowing for the night.. = . Up one side the. field and down the other he went, bufning- money:like a fuse are thousands 12 o'clock when-he met the last gatherine whd the toast hie proyosed was to himseif! He wae full of ‘enthiu iasm, enconrage- ment, selizconfidence xnd steam beer. He -had 1iot mot a man who was against nin;. he had'not seen:a single. obstacle, in his way to.the Trusteés’ door;: he was | happ: at the-ambition-of a riletinve was within’ ifis Tach. - "He made ‘a speech and thanked: the: boys . for. the votes he was yoing “1o .get, when some one asked him what was-his-ward., = . When:he told"them a shout'of laughter went upthatdisturbed: the mileticows in Yolo. ~He had-nut been in hisidistrict but oive time that night.’ When. the: truth | dawned: .upon -him. - smiled: a sickly smile 2nd went home:.-. His wife was vake and askad bow he liked'it ay: ‘had gope. He. made a reply cannot ‘be " given- bere.-and next .day countermanded an order for: 10,000 cards. - Another independent. candidaie sent e keg ot beer over. -0:Washiugton before ha thought that his wird-ex ended only to the widdle of the Sacramento. 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