The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 13, 1898, Page 2

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1898. . of it renders nugatory any excuse the board may offer for a policy of mis- management intended to defeat the wise and beneficent purpose which in- spired the es ishment of the jute mill. It would be impossible for them to garner. surplus revenue from the product, without taking it out of the pocksts of the farmers. Not only is this true, but every increase of price fixed by them above actual cost, besides being of the nature of extortion, is an inflated standard of value for sacks to which the price for the Calcutta im- portations are adjusted. It is a fic- titious margin within which the im- porters may juggle their rates. The hardship thus imposed on the farmers is a double one. Under the specious pretext of making money for the prison fund, those farmers who use State sacks are forced to pay more money for their supplies than they should be required to pay, and all the ‘other farmers suffer losses consequent upon an inflation of price which the price of Calcutta sacks is made to ap- proximate in the market. In this manner the competitive value of the San Quentin plant is nullified if not destroyed. A careful review of the subjoined fig- ures will emphasize the point. The orig- inal revolving fund of $40,000 was in- creased to enlarge the scope of opera- tions for the directors in 1894 to $100,000. The revolving fund, be it understood, was devised as a sort of rotary capi- talization of the raw jute needed for manufacture. From this fund money is drawn to pay for jute purchases and in turn the fund receives the proceeds from: the sales of the manufactured goods. A strict and legal administration of affairs would keep the fund within the legal limitation; that is to say, at no time should the cash on hand and investments in raw jute and manufac- tured goods exceed $100,000. In other words, when the fund, as thus repre- sented by the three items of value, ex- ceeds $100,000, it should be the duty of the board to reduce the price of the goods below cost, until the equilibrium of the fund was re-established. On the other hand, when the assets and cash show a depletion of the fund, they are enabled, under the legal privi- lege of adjusting prices within one cent a sack in excess of the cost of produc- tion to reimburse the revolving capital to its limit. Tt fcllows that at no time should the board manage the sales and fix prices so as to create designedly a dividend on the $100,000, since such divi- dend can be derived only from a class of citizens with whom the State is not dealing on principles of barter. Beginning with the fiscal year, | NARUURULLRURURRNRRENNR 82888888388888338838!8888?88 B # COST, PRICES AND PROFITS. § . 3 ] g a‘fi-g ;U _flt g I a o & Yoor | BT W ] 4 P4 . a8 o & 5 b | $ B o - 4 b P-.g o ) ak s 2 3 b g A l e & K | [ —— 7T - 1893-94.........| $4.68 $6.04, $5.25,$5.00 $147,225.15 g ¥ 1894-95.........| 488 | 500, 450, 420 1764156 & # 189596...... 441 1o . 450, 4.65; 200,872.45 % @ 189697.........| 424 ($4.75, 500, 540 100,859.43 2 o 1897Ja.0. 1un-| 1. | 25030839 & e S 2 S el o g *Represented by investment in ju'e, manu‘actured 53 s goods and cash, and supposed not to exceed permanently g ¥ $100,000. i 2 BUNRUNURURRRRNNNR How did it come that the action of the board early in February was in- spired by the filing with them of a relatively few applications for grain sacks in numbers ranging from 20,000 to 100,000? Had their design been deter- mined on quietly in advance and in- formation about it as quietly imparted | to the persons to be favored? It would seem so. Calcutta sacks were a drug at $4 and $4 §7%, June and July de- livery, when the board resolved to sell sacks in any amount within a single application for a million; the order to be filled whenever it suited the appli- cant. In short order, or to put it more Lsn(‘t‘ifl(‘all_\' within fifteen days, 2,000,- | 000 sacks contracted for |sale at $4 These sacks, ware- |housed at San Quentin, remained | undisturbed until summer, when the | market got active. If this swift trans- the revolving fund | action, by which would have been abundantly relm- bursed, was of the slightest benefit to | the small farmer, it could not help | him further to increase the price on the sacks already sold and on the sup- | ply remaining to be disposed of. Yet the board, after having thus reduced its store by 2.000,000 sacks, raised the price to $5 per hundred, and sold an- were other million and a quarter, also for future delivery. Then the situation, so far as the board had any pretext for worriment over the surplus product, was modi- fied. They were entitled to feel con- nARVBRUUAURVNUNLN bags, has been disposed of, and the di. rectors on that account have raised the price for future deliveries to the highest point allowed by law, namely, $5 40 per hundred: and limited quantity to be sold to a single grower of grain to 5000 bags.” Thirteen days later, or on March 30, Calcuttas stood at $575 spot and $575 June delivery. This bcom in prices, which could not have occurred as it did were the San Quentin surplus handled with rigorous adherence to the | provisions of the Ostrom law, fell most severely on the small buyers, should have been enabled to purchase for prompt delivery at bedrock prices in June and July when the sacks were | coming into use. The profit value added to the cost price at San Quentin had to be paid by the small farmers into the coffers of the middlemen and what is known as “The Big Five,” constituting the Calcutta pool. Between these impor- ters there is no competition as to prices; in fact, they are so perfectly organized for the purpose of maintain- ing prices that they have “flyers” through the State who are employed to check up the middlemen and hold | them as strictly as possible to the pool quotation. Hence it comes that | these dealers so often offer their cus- | tomers choice as between the Calcutta and San Quentin sacks. | 1893-94, an examination of the records | tent with themselves, and in a beatific | ORDERS TO HASTEV will disclose the surprising fact that state of mind, so far as was con- the capitalization of the San Quentin | cerned any fear lest they be burdened | stock and product has been progres- sive and enormously so. The was then represented by raw jute, $14584 64; manufactured goods, $32,- 640 51; cash, $100,000; total, $147,225 15. In the succeding year it was swollen | jute, by $28,916 41, 088 02; as follows: Raw manufactured goods 957 22; cash, $96 32; total, $17 At the opening of the 1896 term vear it stood: Raw jute, $33214 53; manufactured goods, $141,825 54; cash, £5832 28; t $200,872745. But this was not enough, so in 18 when the farmers were promised prosperous year, the board developed its masterful stroke of mismanagement by forcing another dividend of $50,000 On January 1, 1897, it is found that the score stan. Raw jute, $19,150 82; manufactured goods, $131,157 57; cash, $100,000, or a total represented by the revolving find of $250,308 39. So that in three and a half years the directors have juggled £150,000 out of the farm ot to mention the immeasurable los they caused the farming industry by reason of the co- operation they have so glaringly ex- tended, by the maintenance of exces- sive prices for sacks, to the combina- tion of Calcutta importers and the middlemen. Business expediency can- not justify such a willful perversion of the law. In following the systematic manipu- | a over lations of the board to a logical and | by 40 cents per 100, or a total of $5000. | inevitable end, in a few decades they would have squeezed the farmers out of enough money to run a life and fire | insurance auxiliary to the other State | institutions. On the basis of the profits | of the three vy, past they would | have shaved from the farmers’' crops the handsome sum of half a miilion, and in a single generation their ex tortions would be represented by fig- | ures little less than $3,000,000. Who shall dare to say that the San Quentin jutemill was founded and its revolving fund created for such a | purpose? Taking up the operations of the | board for 1897, it may be affirmed at[ the outset that they could not have | failed to perceive the hardships they were inflicting on the farming indus- try by the extraordinary course they | pursued. Section 2 of the Ostrom law | distinctly says: “Demands for jute | goods by consumers shall be promptly | filled.” If this means anything it is | that immediately upon receipt of the | application or order, accompanied by | the required 10 per cent deposit, the goods shall be shipped. As further | specified in the same section, the re- maining 90 per cent of the purchase | money shall be paid on receipt of the | consignment by the farmer or actual consumer. As section 2 says orders shall be promptly filled, it cannot mean that sthey shall be accepted as contracts for | the delivery of sacks at some indefinite | time to be subsequently named by tha applicant. This clause simply gives plain expression to the manifest pur- | pose of the whole act; namely, that the | sacks shall go to actual consumers, and that they shall be sold for prompt de- livery when needed. Now, what did the board do? Did they go to the trouble to advise farm- ers throughout the State of an inten- | tion to dispose of the 3,000,000 and more sacks on hand in lots for future de- livery? that sacks were to be #old to any and all affidavit applicants, and that a sin- gle applicant might secure the option on a million sacks if he would swear he intended to consume them? Did they | serve notice that unless the thousands of small and needy farmers got in their application during the early part of the month of February, when the number of sacks to be used by wheat-raisers was problematical at the best, the price would be raised by the arbitrary action of the board, so that when the sacks were actually required for the crop, the cost to the small farmer would be 65 cents more per hundred? Did they in any manner, by impartial correspond- ence or action, indicate either the de- sire or purpose to obey the law of 1893, in letter or spirit? To all of these pertinent inquiries the facts must answer no. 11 Did they give timely warning | with surplusage. Did they then re- to the cost of the output, and give TO HAVANA fund | adjust the price of sacks approximately | AV the small farmers a chance to get in| at the eleventh hour on the ground floor? Not at all. On the contrary, after the surplus was exhausted, or af- ter it had been pledged for delivery, | they once more jolted the price up, this time to $540 a hundred. A little fig- | uring at this point will be entertaining as well as enlightening. The 10 per cent deposit required on the 2,000,000 applications amounted to $9500, and on the 1,250,000, $7250, making the total con- tract deposit $16,750. For this sum of money the board made a warehouse transfer of the grain-bag surplus of the San Quentin mills. Before final payment was made on the purchases, and cepted, at a time when the board had nothing but future product to calcu- late on, they overstepped the law to swell the price to consumers to $540 per hundred sacks. To the intending purchasers the warehouse stock was thus made to rep- resent the following watered profit. On 2,000,000 sacks the price was ad- vanced by the resolution of March 13 5 cents per hundred, or $13,000. The 0,000 sacks sold after the resolution of February -20, fixing the price at $5 per hundred, were made by the March resolution referred to, more valuable It will be noted that the tctal of the increased appraisement thus artificially | contrived was $18,000. Now mark the comparison! Only $16,500 was paid for this aggregate bargain, so that the watered profit on the future delivery sacks was made to cover the 10 per | cent deposit guaranteeing delivery, and leave a margin of $1500. That is to say, the prices advanced by the board were advanced on stock.still in the State warehouse, and the total increase of value represented by this advance more than reimbursed the applicants the 10 per cent paid the State to initiate the purchases. On what ground this proceeding can be commended it would take a special- ist in specious pleading to suggest. { The reports from the mill show that the actual cost of production at the time the 5.40 rate was fixed was in reality 4.24. Tt is specifically provided by law that the board time fix a rate in excess of 1 cent a sack above the cost of production. Therefore, here is a plain violation of law, unwarranted by any emergency or excuse of ignorance. When the board had no more surplus sacks to | sell and were dealing merely with the simple problem of the present output, they not only went to the full legal limit in readjusting the price, buf be- yond it. In summing up the evil effects of the course pursued, the thousand and one small farmers in the last analysis were the sufferers, for to them the | sacks handled in carload lots by mid- dlemen . at hundred were advanced with the local freight rate added, while the inferior Calcutta sacks were glven approximately the same rate. The ‘tremendous swing the middlemen enjoy in dealing with San Quentin sacks is indicated by the fact that Calcuttas and San Quentins are | quoted side by side on the Produce Exchange. A review of the quotations of last year will demonstrate not only the sympathetic movement in the prices of | the foreign and domestic products, but a systematic one. the prison board fixed their price at | 84 75, Calcuttas were quoted similarly. | February 20, when San Quentins were raised to $5, Calcuttas registered the same. March 20, the date of the $5 40 advance by the board, Calcuttas went {up to $6 25 for June and July delivery. Here is an object lesson in price mani- pulation. Three days before the last Calcutta advance, while the majority of the farmers of the State were ignor- ant of what was going on, the following information was given out on 'Change and published in the commercial col- wumns of The Call: “All the output of the San Quentin prison, amounting to 3,300,000 grain $475 and $5 per to . $540, x weeks after the plan was in- | shall at no | In February, when | Continued from First Page. communication with Consul-General Lee, who will cable him whether or not it will be necessary for him to go to Havana. The distance between Key West and Havana is eighty miles, and this can | be covered within four hours by the battle-ship. Upon her arrival Captain Sigsbee will at once see Consul-General Lee and make such arrangements for the protection of American citizens and American interests as the Consu- lar office may deem necessary. | According to information received by | officers of the battle-ship it is under- | stood that the original orders for the | vessel to get in readiness to proceed to | Havana were issued before she left New York on December 11. Captain | Sigsbee was then informed that the ad- ministration might require him and his | vessel to go to | emergency arise. He at once proceed- ed to Key West, where he has been | anchored up to the present time. e | CUBAN INSURGENTS SAID i TO HAVE EXECUTED TWO DEFENSELESS WOMEN. Riotous Demonstrations in Havana, Led by | Many Officers of the Regular | Army. | Copyright, 159, by James Gordon Bennett. HAVANA, Jan. 12.—A horrible story was brought in this morning by the | captain of a steamer from Gibara. | News has just been received that an- other Spanish officer has fallen victim “to the ferocity of the insurgents while \engaged in a peace mission. Major | Puga, accompanied by a guide, visited | yesterday morning the camp of Colo- | nel Juan Delgado, near Rincon. 3oth | were taken prisoners, and on the ma- | jor frankly admitting that the purpose | of his visit was to propose acceptance | of autonomy preparations were made | to hang them. While ropes were be- |ing adjusted Delgado found that the | soldiers of Villaviciosa regiment were | cloging in on him from all sides. He ‘then gave orders to shoot both pris- oners and retreated, escaping without losses. The bodies of the officer and | his guide were recovered by the troops and brought to Rincon. The feeling of discontent that has | been smoldering in army circles for several weeks broke into violence this morning. As I write a crowd that has already sacked two newspaper offices is surging in Central Park, shouting | “Viva Espana.” Peaceable citizens are | greatly frightened and the streets are ‘almost deserted. Everybody looks upon | the demonstration as against autonon- omy, but it is probably primarily trado and La Discusion, both of which | have been denouncing General Weyler |and making charges of fraud against | army officers. The crowd included and | was led by more than sixty officers of the Spanish army. | The demonstration commenced at 10 | o’clock this morning, when a large crowd, led by Spanish officers, went to | the office of the Reconcentrado. near | the palace, forced an entragce, tore up proofs and wrecked some of the office | furniture. Senor Arnauto, the editor, | succeeded in escaping before the crowd arrived. A large force of police ar- rived before much damage was done, and the crowd drew off without a col- lision with the police. The crowd then marched up O'Rellly street to the office of La Discusion, situated on the north side of Central Park. 'This office it completely sacked, mal- treating one employe, the rest having fled. Here the police seemed unable to do any good. Several Spanish generals soon ar- rived on the spot from the Hotel In- glaterra, situated near by. They in- cluded General Parrado and his staff. There was also present Gov- { ernor Bruzon, Chief of Police, These | gentlemen are using their best efforts to pacify the crowd, which will prob- ably disperse before the police and regulars are called out. From La Discusion the crowd went | to Diarie de la Marina, but the man- agement had locked wnd barricaded the doors. There is great excitement throughout the city, intensified by the fact of the participation of Spanish officers in the riot. the | who | Havana should an | against the two newspapers, Reconcen- | AVICTIN OF THIBETANS Henry Savage Landor’s Awful Experience in the Wilds of Asia. One of His Eyes Is Burned Out With Red-Hot Irons. He Loses His Reason and Almost His Life, but Is Now Very Much Better. Special Dispatch to The Call. | LONDON, Jan. 13.—The Daily Chron- | fcle, in a description of the experiences | in Thibet of Henry Savage Landor, the | artist, writer and traveler, who nar- | rowly escaped death at the hands of | the Thibetans when endeavoring last | autumn to reach Lhassa, the capital of Thibet, says: “His valuable diary, maps and other papers, including in- | | teresting photographs, were only inter- | rupted when Mr. Landor himself was | under torture. One of these represents | the scene of the torture of a native | companion, tied naked to a tree and | slashed and bruised by a circle of hide- | ous beings dancing around jeering at and taunting their victim. | “Another photograph, taken after the rescue, shows two unrecognizable men, all the hair burned off their heads, the skin lacerated and seamed | other witnesses, but they testified to | that the note came into her possession | for money loaned by her mother to Mr. | TWO TEACHERS AS WITNESSES Progress of the School Inquiry at Los Angeles. Miss Blanford Tells of a Note She Holds Against Chair- man Davis. Miss Duncan’s Warrant Shaved by Director Braly—Kubach Causes a Great Surprise. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12—Only two | witnesses of importance were examined | on behalf of the defense before the Board of Education to-night. These were Miss C. M. Blanford and Miss L. A. Duncan. There were a number of | nothing new. | Miss Blanford, who is a teacher in| the Amelia-street School, testifled that | she holds Mr. Davis’ note for $200, and | on the 1st of July, 1897. The note was Davis in 1892. Her mother transferred | the note to witness on July 1, 1897 Mr. Davis still had the money and was | paying interest. She did not consider it a deposit but a loan to Davis. There | was no security, but she considered it a safe investment. Her mother was with burns, and in the eyes two ghast- ly slits. Mr. Landor lost one eye. “The Thibetans repeatedly white-hot irons so close to the eyes of their captives as, without touching | them, to shrivel and wither them. | This was practiced day after day. Mr. | Landor was rescued when nearly dead, after being three days without | food and water, by a party including | Mr. Wilson, Mr. Larkin and Karak | Singh Pal, nephew of the Rajawar of Askote, who had heard from trading Thibetans that a white man was doomed to be beheaded in the interior | | of Thibet. “They started with the idea of pro- | curing at least the mutilated bodies. | By forced marches and after thrilling | escapes from treacherous guides and | adventures nearly costing them their | lives, these three men reached the suf- | ferers. | “Mr. Landor had already lost his | reason. After three hours’ attention he regained sufficient consciousness to say where he had concealed his cam- eras. They had a photograph taken of the savages cowering in terror of the avenging whites. Mr. Landor was car- ried to Almora (in the Lumaon dis- trict of North India) by slow stages, from which point he dispatched run- | ners with news for home. He Kept the diary, maps and surveys and has al- together 200 photographs and water colors. His instruments he was obliged to byry ju the Himalayas. It is not probable t Mr. Landor will | ever be well enough to return.” MORE MONEY IS NECESSARY | Admiral Walker Writes | to the Secretary of State. held | Wants a Further Appropria- tion for the Nicaragua Canal Commission. | Special Dispatch to The Call. | Call Office, Riggs House, | ‘Washington, Jan. 12. | Admiral Walker, at the head of the Nicaragua Canal Commission, has sent to the Secretary of State the following letter asking an additional appropria- tion for the work of his commission, and it will be sent to Congress: The Nicaragua Canal Commission, with its staff, instruments and outfit, is now in Nicaragua in condition for continuing the surveys and examinations into the proper route and the feasibility and cost of con- struction of the Nicaragua canal, with the view of making complete plans for the | entire work of construction of such canal. | A large amount of money has been ex- | | pended in bringing to Nicaragua a_staff | | of about one hundred engineers and sur- | veyors. A large additional force of na- | tive laborers must be employed and the | working parties must_be maintained and fed from the United States, as they can- | not be suppiled with promptness and cer- | tainty from the resources of Nicaragua in the wild parts of the country where | their work will be prosecuted. Work of the nature upon which this commission is engaged is in this country carried on at great expense. The monthly | | payroll will be large and the expense of transportation and maintenance will be heavy. Now that the commission is here | with its staff, instruments, outfit and storcs of all kinds, it would be most un- | fortunate to be obliged to suspend the work and send the white employes back | to the United States because of a lack of funds. A great loss of money and a | | long delay wouid result therefrom. and I | therefore recommend that an additionai | appropriation of $100,000 for the use of this | commission be asked of Congress by special bill, the money to be made im- mediately available so that there may be | no doubt of the work being carried through continuously to the end, and that the whole question of feasibility and cost of construction of a canal by the Nicara- gua route may, so far as possibie, be settled at once and forever. MAY OPEN A SHIPYARD ON THE PACIFIC COAST. NEW YORK, Jan.12.—A special from Newport News, Va., says: A man who gives his name as John Bryden and his address as Seattle, Wash., is in this city offering expert mechanics at the local ship yard special inducements to g0 to Seattle, where, he says, a big ship building plant is to be establish- ed. He Intimates, but does not posi- tively say, that the Cramps are to start the enterprise. He is offering | wages much higher than paid at any ship yard in the East. s aits sl THREE HUNDRED PERSONS KILLED BY AN EARTHQUAKE. LONDON, Jan. 13.—The correspond- serts that 300 persons were killed by an earthquake at Amboyna. - . Advances made on furniture and planos, with | given the mother had become outlawed | | witness when the mother assigned the | | elected as a member of the Board of | | | | country. 1 ent of the Standard at The Hague says | of Hawail, calling attention to the a private dispatch received there as- fact that almost half of it was com- or without removal.J. Noonan, 1017-1028 Mission. an old client of Mr. Davis. The note | and a new note was made in favor of | indebtedness to witness. - Davis is the newly elected chairman | of the Board of FEducation, and was Education by the League for Better | City Government. Miss L. A. Duncan, a school teacher, testified that she had eashed her No- vember warrant at the Southern Cali- fornia Savings Bank, of which J. H. Braly, a School Director, is president. The warrant was for $72. She was| charged 70 cents for the accommoda- | tion. The warrant had to run more | Chinese, holding that they could not find means to prevent Hawaii’s becom- ing a State of the Union at some fu- ture day and declared that the people of that country were not of a charac- ter calculated to send acceptable Sen- ators to Washington. | There was apparent to-day a dispo- | sition on the part of some Senators who | announce themselves undecided as to what-course to pursue on the Hawaiian question to mix it with the Cuban prob- lem. They are friends of Cuba, and their desire to have the administration | take a more pronounced position in the interests of Cuba as a return for their | assistance on the Hawaiian treafy. —_———— THE TREATY'S FRIENDS SERIOUSLY ALARMED FOR ITS PASSAGE. Not a Single Republican Senator Can Ea! Spared, and There Is More Than One Now Wavering. CHICAGO, Jan. 12.—The Inter Ocean’s special correspondent at ‘Washington, who has been a thick and thin advocate of Hawaiian annexation, has been forced to admit that the pro- ject is in danger of defeat at the hands of the Senators. In his dispatch, pub- | lished this morning, he says: “The | Hawalian treaty is in danger, and the | danger is from Western Senators. Sen- ator Thurston of Nebraska openly op- posed annexation this morning. He has sent a letter to his constituents declar- | ing his opposition to the treaty and | giving as a reason his desire to give | better protection to the beet sugar in- | dustry of his own State. Senator THE WAHLBERG | Captain and Two of Her Crew ‘Brought to San Diego. While Gathering Curios on the Lower Coast the Schooner Is Wrecked. ” Her Anchor Chain Parts During & Heavy Swell—All Hands on Board Escape. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. SAN DIEGO, Jan. 12.—The schooner Anita arrived this morning from Santo Domingo, Lower California, with a cargo of gold ore and several thousand dollars in bullion. The Anita also brought up Captain Charles Hart- wick, Harry Drent and Andrew An- derson of the schooner Wahlberg, which was wrecked at Lagoon Heads, 300 miles south of San Diego, on De- cember 17. On December 8 the schooner Wahl- Spooner gives no reason, r does he | admit that he is opposed to annexa- | tion, but he is giving no help to those | who are working for the treaty, and they fear that on the vote he will be | recorded against them. | “Senator Mason, who had been re- | garded as a staunch adherent of the | cause of annexation, is now counted as | lukewarm, if not actually in the camp of the opposition. His lukewarmness may be attributed to the fact that until | Cuba is free he thinks the United States should not trouble itself regard- | ing the Hawaiian Islands. | “If the Republican Senators stand to- gether it is possible that enough Dem- ocrats and silver men will act with | them to ratify the treaty, but no Re- publican Senator can be spared.” DEMANDS THAT JAPAN PUNISH MURDERERS. Administration Protests Against the Leni- ency Accorded the Slayers of an than a month before it could be col- | lected from the County Treasurer. Before cashing it she had spoken to Mr. Braly about it, and he had agreed to have the bank accommodate her. Mr. Braly is a member of the League for Better City Government, and was indorsed by that organization. It is expected that the defense close its case to-morrow night. prosecution will have rebuttal dence to put In and arguments probably begin Monday. C. J. Kubach was elected a member of the School Board two weeks ago by the City Council to succeed Joseph F. Adams, the confessed boodler, who re- signed from the board. He will not be a candidate for re-election. Kubach was elected by four Republican votes and by thd fifth and controlling vote of will The | evi- will | the Council, that of Herman Silver, who represents the League for Better City Government in that body. Ku- bach has participated in the reorgani- zation of the board, and it was sup- posed that he would stand as the Re- | publican candidate at the election | which is shortly to be held in the ward. Last night Kubach, to the surprise of | every one, addressed a letter to the secretary of the Republican city com- mittee absolutely declining to stand a: the Republican nominee in the ward. It was supposed that Kubach would appeal to the people of the Seventh | ‘Ward to indorse his action in voting as | he did to reorganize the board. He has been with the League for Better City | Government people, and has voted wit! hem all along. ‘When asked by a Call representative | to-night why he declined to make the race Kubach said: *“I have private reasons, which I decline to make pub- | lic. T also have decided that I could not be elected to the board, as the ward is Democratic. Then, too, the good peo- ple would not turn out at a special election, and all of the push would be | against me. They would all turn out| and my supporters would stay at home, | so I will not run. MCKINLEY TALKS FOR ANNEXATION Continued from First Page. tages, which were rapidly dev@lopingj in the far east. He referred to the improvement of the commercial out- look between the United States and| China, and instanced the fact that one Minnesota firm had exported half a million dellars’ worth of flour to that The last half-hour of Senator Davis'| speech was devoted to a recapitulation | of the subject, in which he dwelt at| considerable length, and portrayed inf strong language the origin and close of great wars, which was intended to il- lustrate the probable ultimate result of present operations in Chinese waters. ‘When Senator Davis took his seat he | was congratulated by almost every Senator present upon the force of his | argument, the thoroughness of his re- | search and the brilliancy of his pre- | sentation of facts. Both Senators | Hoar and Mason were heard to re- mark that it was a great pity the rules of an executive session prevented the publication of the entire document. Senator Allen (Pop.) of Nebraska fol- lowed with a speech in opposition to | the treaty, which was comparatively brief. He called attention to the di tance of Hawali from our own shores, referred to the necessity we would be under of defending the islands in c‘nse‘i of war, and claimed that on this ac- count it was necessary for the United | States to establish and maintain a sep- arate fleet for their protection as well as an army on the islands. He said coal was no longer contraband of war, and contended that the United States was in far greater danger from the British establishment at Esquimalt than it could possibly be because of the location of any foreign power in Hawail. He deprecated the idea of assimilating such a population as that posed of Chinese and Japanese. He contended that the annexation of the islands would open the doors for a vio- American. x NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—The Herald's ‘Washington correspondent telegraphs: | The administration is indignant at the nominal sentence imposed by the Japanese on the murderers of Ameri- | can Naval Apprentice Frank Epps, who met his death in the harbor of Nagasaki last month. I was told to-day_that Minister Buck | had been instructed to protest against | the leniency shown the criniinals and to urge that they be given a sentence commensurate with the enormity of | their crime. The instruction is the result of a | cablegram which the Navy Depart- ment received late yesterday after- noon from the commander in chief of the Asiatic station. In his message | Commodore Dewey announced that the trial of the criminals had been concluded and they haa been sen- tenced to pay a small fine. In view of the facts in the case the authorities say it is absurd for the Japanese Government to permit the escape of the murderers in the manner reported by Commodore Dewey. BRITISH SURVEY PARTY ATTACKED IN BELOOCHISTAN. Number of Native Guards Killed or Wounded in a Battle Near Metramut. CALCUTTA, Jan. 12—News has been received from Metramul, in Be- loochistan, of an outbreak against a British survey party there, numbering 200. A number of the native guards were killed or wounded. The extent of the outbreak is not known here. Captain Burns reports that the whole Kei Valley is in turmoil and that the troops of the Khan of Kelat are holding Nasirabad ‘(a military post of India southeast of Ajmore). Fort Pasni has been looted and Or- mora itself is threatened. Three companies of infantry, with two guns, will start immediately for Gwadur. A special cable to the Sun from Bombay says: A British survey ex- pedition, consisting of 150 natives un- der Captain Burns, has been mas- sacred on the coast of Beloochistan. Captain Burns alone escaped. REDS ARE EXCITED, BUT NOT ON THE WARPATH, WICHITA, Kans., Jan. 12.—A special to the Eagle from Guthrie, O. T., says: The Mayor of Shawnee, O. T, has wired Governor Barnes that the report- ed Indian outbreak in the Seminole country is a ‘“whisky scare.” The Sheriff of Pottawatomie County has also wired the Governor that he does not believe any murders have been committed. He reports the Indians as tremendously excited, but not threat- ening. A later dispatch from Guthrie | says: “Governor Barneshas offered $1000re- ward for the arrest and conviction of the members of the mob which burned the two Indians to death in Pottawat- omie County and has instructed coun- | ty officials to leave nothing undone to bring them all to justice.” NEW TO-DAY. 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