The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 1, 1898, Page 4

4 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1898. NO RECENT EWS FROM CONSCL LEE So It Is Believed That All Is Quiet at Havana. Supplies Sent to Private Individuals Are Seized. Goods Suffering Cubans Should Go to Uncle Sam'’s Representative. for RUIZ CLAIM STILL DRAGS. But the to Cause Spain Government Intends to Hasten Its Consideration. Special Dispatch to The Call. Call Office, Riggs House, Washington, Jan. 3L No word has been received at the State Department from Consul-General Lee since Saturday last, which is taken as an indication that all is qulet there, and that the situation remains un- changed. The department has been in- formed that the Spanish authorities in Havana had seized certain supplies consigned to a private individual, but there is no cause for complaint in this incident, inasmuch as the agreement by the department with the Spanish authorities for the free admission of supplies for the suffering Cubans looked to the consignment of all such supplies to Consul-General Lee and the exclusion of individuals from the privi- lege of free admission of geods, a pro- vision necessary to prevent upon the customs revenues. Another demand is to be made upon Bpain for the payment of $75,000 in- demnity to the widow of Dr. Ricardo Ruiz for murder of her husband Guanabacoa 1t is understood that the State Department is preparing an instruction to Minister Woodford which will be sent to that official in a few days in which he will be directed to call the attention of Minister of Foreign Affairs Sagasta to the fact that this claim was presented las summer; that it has not yet been pald, | s a detailed answer been | nor, in fact, h received to the note addressed to the late Minister Canovas. The only re- ply made has been a formal acknowl- edgment of the receipt of the claim. There is every reason to believe that the instructions which the department is preparing will be more vigorous in character than that submitted last summer. The original rote which ac- companied the claim was courteous in tone and appealed to Spain's sense of justice. Since its presentation the administration has made no attempt to press the claim, partly on account of the negotiations following the ar- rival of Minister Woodford in Madrid, which have resulted in the inaugura- tion of autonomy in Cuba and carrying out of a humane policy in the prosecu- tion of the war. It is expected by the administration that Spain may take an argumentative course and endeavor to rebut the evi- dence produced by the United States showing that Ruiz was murdered, by counter evidence that he committed suicide. The department received a letter from Mrs. Rulz a few days ago, | ADVERTISEMENTS. cars’ Few people know. the comfort and beauty of perfect natural skin. Have you used Pears’ s0ap? frauds | in | | comparison. | a million acres for a three-crop rota- | for all the wheat they raised in 189. HAWAILAN -~ STGAR TRUST IS AT WORK | Proclaims War to the Death on Beet Sugar. The Forces That Are Be- hind the Plot for An- nexation. In Direct Conflict With the In- terests of the American Farmer. TO STIFLE FREE SPEECH. | Iowa Treats a Journalist With Ex- treme Discourtesy, but the People Hear the Truth. Special Dispatch to The Call. [4444 444444444444+ | |+ As shown by the experience | 4+ of Mr. Herbert Myrick, editor of the OrangeJudd Farmer, pub- lisned at Des Moines, Iowa, vesterday, the advocates of the annexation of Hawail do not propose to permit even freedom of speech with reference to the matter. The cause which will not bear the fullest and freest public discussion hardly needs the condemnation of formal dis- approval. It is condemned by the silence its defenders would compel. ettt iae o (3 (] (] © o [ ] (4] [+] [+ [+] o (] [ (4] [+ o [} o ] [ o ] o [ [} o [ (] (4] o o (] [A] [ [ (] [+ [+] [ [+] ] [} (4] |+ |+ |+ [+ |+ [+44 4444444444444+ : DES MOINES, Ia., Jan. 31l.—Herbert | Myrick, editor of the Orange Judd | Farmer, was the recipient of most dis- | courteous treatment at the hands of the advocates of Hawalian annexation in this city to-day. He had been in- | vited, as an authority on the subject, | to deliver an address before the mem- | | bers of the Legislature on the dangers | which threaten the American farmer if the treaty now pending in Congress | should be passed and become a fact. | It was supposed by those who invited | him that the Assembly chamber could | be had, and it was generally adver-| tised that the address would be de- | livered at the close of to-day's session | of the Legislature. A large crowd of prospective sugar-beet growers had | Bathered and so frightened the annex- | | ationists they determined not to permit | Myrick to be heard, if that were possi- | | ble. | | To that end Senator Van Houten, | R R R R R e R 4 | | who has a resolution indorsing annex- | ation pending, objected to permitting Mr. Myrick’s address to be delivered | in the State House. As one objection | | suffices, the State House could not be had. The anti-annexationists, however, would not be balked, and, gathering at| another hall, heard Mr. Myrick's ad- dress, which was replete with reasons | why the American farmer should op- | pose the bringing into the Union of Ha- wail. X “Let us take Towa,” Mr. Myrick said, | “as a typical agricultural State for | If Jowa were to produce | the 227,000 tons of sugar made in Ha- | wail last year, practically all of which was shipped to this country, ’twould have built over twenty big factories, costing, say $500,000 each, requiring an investment of say $12,000,000. These | factories would require about 2,000,000 | tons of beets, to grow which fully 165,- 000 acres would be needed, or over half in which she asked to be informed as | to the steps taken to procure the pay- | ment of her claim. She wrote that she is in needy circumstances and expre ed a hope the United States would do | all it could to obtain the indemnity de- manded. The action to be taken by the de- | partment effectually disposes of reports | which have been persistently in circu- lation for several months, alleging that | Minister De Lome had privately settled | with Mrs. Ruiz, as was done by his Government in the Delgado case. SAYS SHE WAS TRICKED INTO AN INVESTMENT. Woman Asks for'a Receiver for the Northwestern Transporta- 1 tion Company. | TACOMA, Jan. 3L.—Mrs. Emma Haskin | to-day asked Judge Williamson to appoint | a recelver for the Northwestern Trans- | portation Company, which was incor- | porated two weeks ago to run steamships | to and between ports in Alaska. Her ap- | plication will be heard to-morrow, but | an m‘junctlon was issued to-day enjoin- | ing the company and its officers from | selling two small steamships they have | already purchased | In support of her requ for a re-| celver, Mrs. Haskin declares she was | tricked into investing her money in one- | eixth of the company’s capital stock, on | romises that her husband, George Has- | in, would be made the company’s gen- | eral manager. This promise was made, | she says, by her husband, together with | Lewis Levy, John Asher and Ed Heine, all prominent citizens. Haskin was duly elected manager on January 19, but nine days later, she alleges, L Asher and Heine, acting as a majority of the trus- tees, revoked his appointment and named another in his stead. Being thus pre- vented from sharing in the management, Mrs. Haskin wants the company’s af- fairs closed and the proceeds of its as- sets distributed among the stockholders. —_——— DIES IN AWFUL AGONY. Clothing Burned From the Body of a Petaluma Woman. PETALUMA, Jan. 2L—Mrs. Anna Ca- | hill, wife of J. M. Cahlll, employed on a | ranch elght miles south of this city, was burned to death last evening. While pre- aring supper, her dress caught fire, and P n Instant she was enveloped In Names. Bhe ran screaming from the house. Her husband did his utmost to extinguish the flames, but the clothing was burned from her body. The sufferer lingered until mid- night and died in excruciating agony. She retained consciousness to the last. tion. At $4 per ton, these factories | would pay out over $8,000,000 for beets, | or more money than Iows farriers got “All the hogs in Towa would not sell for enough to enable the American con- sumers to payanaveragepriceof5 cents a pound for the Hawallansugarimport- ed during the past year. The milch cows in Jowa do not much exceed In value the retail price of this sugar. The rapid development of Iowa’s dairy industry has been one of the marvels of her agriculture, yet the 75,000,000 pounds of butter made in her 72 creameries in 1896 sold for about only half enough to pay the consumers’ price for the Hawaiian sugar imported last year. “All the grain raised in Jowa in 1896, corn alone excepted, hardly equaled in value what the West pays for the sugar it consumes in one year. Yet 4,000,000 acres of land were devoted to these crops. “Iowa is the banner corn State of the West. In 1896 she raised on 8,250,- 000 acres nearly 325,000,000 bushels of corn, worth $45,000,000. But this vast crop, upon which her prosperity so largely depends, was worth less than twice what Western consumers would pay for Hawalian sugar in a single year. JTowa’s oat crop is grown on about 4,000,000 acres and is worth $12,- 000,000, but it must be doubled to equal what consumers pay for Hawalian sugar. Jowa's wheat crop must be trebled toequal in value what Ameri- can consumers pay for Hawalian sugar. “The cost of producing sugar in Ha- wail is 1% cents—Iless than 2 cents per pound—according to the annual reports of the Hutchinson, Ewa and othér com- panies. Refining at Pacific Coast re- fineries costs less than % cent a pound. The present freight rate from Honolulu to Missouri River points is about % cent a pound. This makes the cost to the producer from 2% to 3% oents per pound for refined sugar delivered in Nebraska or Iowa. It is believed that 3 cents would fairly represent the average cost of SBandwich Island re- fined sugar laid down in Nebraska or Iowa. “The American Sugar Trust, realizing that this domestic beet sugar industry was destined to create a disturbing factor that might necessitate a com- plete rearrangement of its trade, re- fused to renew iis contract with the Hawallan trust. So the island monop- MADE A MANIAC BY THE BRUTALITY OF A SHIP’S MATE Seamen of the George Stetson Teli a Story of Awful Cru- elty to One of Their Number. with the ship. him off the forecastle. his cabin. his clothes and bedding. marks with him to the grave. Burke's story is corroborated in PORTLAND, Jan. 31.—If thestory of John Burke, who came around the Horn on the American ship George Stetson sailor, can be believed, the officers of this ship are gullty of the most barbarous cruelties that have been reported at this port in many a day. The Stetson arrived at Astoria with a cargo of coal on Thursday, be- ing 174 days out from Baltimore, where she took on cargo. Murphy is in command and George Harvey is first officer. The victim of the alleged brutality of the officers, and especially of. that of First Mate Harvey, is a seaman named Amos Stone, son of a ‘wealthy jewelry merchant of Boston. taken off the Stetson at Astoria a raving maniac, this condition as a result of the treatment he received on the voyage. ‘“‘Stone was singled out as the especial object of Harvey’s brutal- ity soon after we left Baltimore,” said Burke, in narrating his story. “Harvey, for some reason, knocked him insensible with anirontopmaul, and as the rest of us feared we would be treated likewise we were at the point of turning back tour hours after we we saw what had happened we scampered up the masts to turn to. The mate, however, informed the captain, who , bullied us into remaining “Stone, as the result of the injury he received, was laid up for some days, during which time he was given little to eat. As soon as he re- covered sufficiently to venture out and report for duty Harvey kicked From that time on Stone was unable to leave He was starved and beaten almost daily, and by the time we reached Astoria he was skin ard bones and a raving maniac. we were rounding the Horn, where the seas would open the door of Stone’s cabin so as to let the water in to soak I have also seen Harvey open the door of Stone’s cabin and with a heavy leather strap beat him until big welts stood out on his legs and back. Stone, reason, would not wince under this scourging and stood like a statue, without saying a word in remonstrance. “An effort was made to obliterate the marks on Stone’s body before the ship reached Astoria, but without success, and he will carry the During much cooped up in his cabin he had nothing but refuse to cat, and the place was the most foul-smelling I was ever in. even during the time he was in irons. accustomed as I was to seeing displays of brutality on the high seas.” Dierks and Charles Russell, three of the crew, who are now staying in Larry Sullivan’s sailor boarding house, on North Second strect. C000000000000000000000000000000000 in the capacity of Captain Stone is said to have been having arrived at left port. As soon as As were very bad, Harvey who was already losing -his of the time Stone was He was abused like a dog, It made me sick to look at him, 0000000000000 0000C000000000C0C00000000000000D000 every detail by Ernest Weyl, Ira secured refineries at Crockett | and elsewhere on the Pacific Coast, and proposes to sell its sugar throughout | the West at any cost. It can well af- | ford to sell at cost for two years, or | even at a loss, to kill the beet sugar% industry, for then it could renew its | trade with the trust, dividing the coun- | try between the two organizations, and | | { putting up prices ‘as much as the traf- fic would bear.” “In addition to these purely commer- cial reasons for the impending war against Western beet sugar, is the feud between the Hawalian trust, including | Augustus Spreckeis, the latter’s father, | Claus Spreckels. The older man has | been quietly selling out his interests on the islands for several years, because | he realized that the American people would not much longer permit a few | planters there to wax fat at the. ex- pense of our farmers. He evidently felt | that it was only a question of time be- fore the advantages that had made him 80 rich would be taken away by the abrogation of the reciprocity treaty. In that event he foresaw a brilliant future for beet sugar in the West, and hav- ing demonstrated the possibiiities of that industry at Watsonvlille, is now completing what will be the largest beet sugar plant in the world at Sa- linas, California. “To the bad blood that had previously existed between the father and son is now added indignation among the planters’ ring that Claus Spreckels should have ‘deserted them,” as they term it, and ‘war to the knife, death to beet sugar,’ are the watchwords or the Hawaiian sugar trust.” SAYS HER DAUGHTER HAS BEEN ABDUCTED. Marion Mancla Mason, the Operatic | Star, Asks New York Police to Arrest Her Ex-Manager. ATLANTA, Ga., Jan. 8L.—A special to the Constitution from Savannah, Ga., | says: Marion Manola Mason, the op- eratic star, wired to the police authori- ties in New York to-day asking them to arrest Harry Askin, late manager of the Manola-Mason theatrical company, and to hold him until she could come on to New York. Askin and his wife left here Sunday night on the steamer City of Augusta, and should arrive in New York to-night or to-morrow morning. Mrs. Mason claims Askin has abducted her daughter, obtaining her consent to go with him by making her belleve that she was a talented actress and promising her he would make a star of her. For the past three years Adeline Mason has been her mother’'s under- study. She is sald to be engaged to Charles Dana Burrows, a nephew of Thomas B. Reed, the Speaker of the House of Representatives. The engage- ment _has been kept a secret, as it was feared Speaker Reed would make a fuss. She is 18 years old. Mrs. Mason is pros- trated with grief and lies ill at the De Soto Hotel. ————- GIGANTIC PAPER COMBINE FORMED Organization of a Company Com- posed -of All the Big Firms in the Country. ALBANY, N. Y., Jan. 3L—The Inter- national Paper Company of Corinth, Sar- atoga County, N. Y.; a combination of all the big firms in the country, filed articles of incorporation to-day. The company is formed to ‘“maintain, conduct and manage in the State of New York and elsewhere all kinds of paper and any other fiber and, as a part of and incident to such business, the mining of iron pyrites, clay, sulphur, agolite and any fibrus minerals and materials; the purchase, lease and development of woodlands, and to purchase and hold merchandise in New York and other States of the United States, and Canada.” The capital stock of $45,000,000 1s divided into $25,000,000 preferred and $20,000,000 common stock. The directors are: Ogden Mills, D. O. Mills, Wiillam B. Dillon, Judson T.:Fran- cis, Hall Park McCullough, M. E. Ingalls Jr. of New York City; A. N. Burbank:of Bellows Falls, Vt.; Thomas 8. Coolidge.of Glens Falls; Warren Curtis of Corinth; . W. Drew of Lancaster, N. H.; F. T. Honor of Newton, Mass.; David W. Snow of Portland, Me.; Edward R. Greene of Brooklyn. P Miner Killed by a Fall. ANGELS CAMP, Jan. 31.—Fred Chap- man was instantly killed in the Bolithe mine last night. He fell a distance of fifty feet from a bucket to the bottor of the shaft. How the accident occurred.is not known. Chapman had a wife and two chlld;e:a.. He was a native of Cornwall, ngland, and 10 years of age. ) DEFIES MATOR AND CITIZENS San Jose’s Council Con- tracts for a Fire Alatm System. Agrees to Pay More Than the Amount of the Com- pany’s Bid. . Mayor Koch Will Veto the Deal, but It Will Be Passed Over His Head. Specral Dispatch to The Call. SAN JOSE, Jan. 31.—The City Coun- cil took another step to-night in its raid on the city treasury. A resolution for the purchase of a fire-alarm system from the United States Fire and Police Telegraph Company was carried unan- imously, and this, too, in the fdce of | adverse public opinion. The price is | $3900, payable in monthly installments | of $65. | This is $1500 higher than a bid sub- mitted by the same company a month ago. An additional expenditure of a large sum will be necessary to rewire the city for the system. Only Council- men Fay, Dittus and Nolting were | present, but Krieg, the absentee, is also In favor of the system, and the fire alarm system will be saddled upon the city despite the Mayor's veto. It.s said Mayor Koch will refuse to sign the contract, and that the affair will be carried into court. The Council at first proposed to give the contract to the United States Com- pany for $3900. Mayor Koch put a stop to this by refusing to sign the con- tract, as bids had not been called for. Then bids were advertised for and the United States Company submittted a bid of $2400 and the Gamewell Com- pany one of $3300. Notwithstanding that the United States Company offered to put in the same system as the one adopted to-night for $2400, the Council gave the same company the contract for $3900, or $300 over the bid of the Gamewell Company, claiming that it was a larger system. Councilman Fay presented a long typewritten statement, explaining his action. It was a weak defense, and criticized Mayor Koch's action on nu- merous questions. Councilman Nolt- ing also explained his interest in the awarding of the contract. Although the people of the city op- pose the purchase of a new fire-alarm system, and regard it as an attempt to loot the treasury, the resolution pur- chasing the system will probably be passed over the Mayor's veto. GREAT BLIZZARD EXPECTED IN NEW YORK Already Traffic Is Impeded by Blind- ing Snow, and a Big Storm Is Predicted. NEW YORK, Jan. 81.—Since 3 o'clock this morning snow has been falling in this city and vicinity, and to-night a strong west wind and falling tempera- ture call forth many predictions of a bliz- zard. All day there was a fog on the bay in addition to the blinding snow, and traffic on the water was impeded seri- ously. There was one serious ferryboat collision, and many accidents were nar- rowly averted. The cable and elevated roads in this city and the trolley lines in Brooklyn and Jersey City kept snow lows in constant use, and were not adly leeded. The cold weather filled the city lodging houses to overflowing last nlght and to-night, and many women and children who applied for,sheiter were sent to the different hospitals. Trains and railways terminating in Greater New York and Jersey City were delayed by the storm, but not to a t extent. The storm started like the blizzard of March 12, 1888, that tied up traffic in this city for several days. * Weather Forecaster Dunin sald to-night: “The weather conditions ha::j :n a | 1897 only strengthens it. ‘| gree in excess of the annual increase of METHODS OF PROTECTING SEAL HERDS Dr. Jordan’s Second Letter to Secretary Gage. Questions Considered by. the Bering Sea Com- mission. 4 Pelagic Sealing- Responsible for the Depletion of Herds. SHOULD SPARE FEMALES. Explains the Changes an the St Paul and St. George Island Rookeries. Special Dispatch to The Call. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Jan. 31. The second preliminary report of the Bering Sea Fur Seal Investigation, conducted by a’'commissfon of which David Starr Jordan was president, was issued to-day. In his letter to the Sec- retary of the Treasury, Dr. Jordan says: I have the honor to submit herewlth‘ a second brief preliminary report on the | work of the Bering Sea fur seal investi- | gation commission for the season of 1897. I This will be followed in the course of the coming year by a final report, mono- graphic in character, which will take up in detail all phases of the fur seal ques- tion. The most important part of this work of 1897 has been to ascertain by a duplication of the census of 1896, the | changes which have taken place on the | rookeries of St. Paul and St. George | Island, and to trace their causes. Im- portant among the different matters brought up were the following: The changes which have taken place on Commander Island since 1896; the condi- tion of the bachelor herd as shown by the quota of killable seals; experimentation on a larger scale in the branding of fe- male pups and adult cows for the purpose of depreciating the value of pelagic skins; further experimentation in the herding of young bachelors in the salt lagoon of | St. Pauls Island during the season ofl pelagic sealing, for the purpose of pro-| tecting them from the pelagic fleet, and | investigation of the methods of huntinig | the sea otter, with a view to devising means of saving them from extermination | inAlaskan waters; an investigation so far| as time will allow of the present condi- tion of the salmon fisheries of Alaska; a | reconsideration of the effects of the Paris award. The sole cause of the decline of the fur seal herd is found in pelagic sealing. This conclusion was reached last year, and a reconsideration of all the questions involved give no reason to alter or modi- fy it. The investigation of the season of Pelagic sealing involves the Indiscriminate killlng of males and females, the latter forming at all times the greater part of the pelagic catch. When we take into account the | loss of the herd through old age and| the small percentage of the young which survive to breeding age, we find the mar- gin of increase in the herds to be very small. The killing of females to any de- three-year-old breeders must cause a de- cline. Under pelagic sealing this increase has at all times, since 1895, been vastly exceeded. ‘ GAVE FOOD TO THOSE WHO COULD NOT PAY. How Captain Ray Settled the Supply Problem at Fort Yukon. ‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—The War De- partment has received advices from its agent at Dyea, Major I H. Rucker, Fourth Cavalry. In one dispatch, dated January 12, the major says that W. H. Rank, just in from Dawson, December 16, had dispatches from Captain Ray, the army officer sent into the mining country by Secretary Alger to report upon condi- tions there. Rank says that Ray, who was at Fort Yukon, had seized all the supplies of the Alaska Commercial Company and of the North American Trading Company in the name of the Government and was issuing them to the people, selling at the com- pany’s prices to those who could afford to ay, and giving to those unable to pay. here were 600 Peo%le at Fort Yukon. Rank further said that Ray would ask the Government for 500 troops to be sta- tioned at Circle City and vicinity. S MILLIONAIRE STIMSON SUMMONED BY DEATH Heart Disease Causes the Passing of One of Los Angeles’ Richest Men. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 31L.—T. D. Stimson, one of the wealthiest business men of Southern California, dled at his Figueroa- street residence this morning of heart disease. He had been sick for several weeks, but was expected to recover until last night, when his condition changed for the worse. The deceased capitalist had large and various interests in South- ern California, where he had lived since 1890. Immediately after coming here, he built the costliest residence on Figueroa, the fashionable street, and also the Stim- ‘he will put on a line of boats up the WILL RIVAL PACIFIC MAIL MONOPOLY Line of Steamers to Operate on the Mexican Coast. Captain Smith Expects to Secure Much of the Southern Trade And Shorten the Time Between New York and San Francisco. HASSEQURED CONCESSIONS May Compel the Southern Pacific to | Carry Freight and Passengers at Proportional Rates. Specfal Dispatch *~ The Call. CHICAGO, Jant .31.—Captain A. B. Smith of Los Angeles, Cal, is in the city in the interests of a new line of steamers he proposes operating on the Mexican coast in opposition to the Pa- cific Mail, which, he says, will shorten the distance betwden New York and San Francisco by six days’ travel. It is to be operated in connection with the Tehuantepec railroad, a concession for which he has already obtained from the Mexican Government. He has also been granted a right of way for the Gulf of California and Yuma railroad to connect the northern terminus of the steamboat line with the Southern Pa- cific Rallroad, which, Captain Smith says, can be compelled under its char- ter to carry freight and passengers no matter by whom offered at propor- | tional rates. | In case he must, Captain Smith says Colorado River to the Needles and there connect with the Atlantic and Pacific. Four steamers have been purchased, and with these semi-weekly trips will be made, the distance being 1800 miles. | Captain Smith is very much elated over the prospects, and figures he will be able to control a greater part of the Mexican and South American business. The boats will carry the Mexican flag, | and will have the protection of that | Government.. Besides the concessions named, Cap- | tain Smith has also obtained a grant of 1,000,000 acres of land, embracing the extreme northwestern portion of Mex- | ico. This is a rich mining country, and | in portions is very fertile agricultural | land. | SUDOOVBUODACCHTHORTTY Fear His Defeat for the Wheclmen’s League Presidency. NEW YORK, Jan. 31.—The far West is now the seat of war in Potter’s Leagué of American Wheelmen presidential cam- paign. R. M. Welch of San Franecisco, who has been prominent in the California secession movement, is declared to be directing the anti-Potter campaign in that part of the country. Copies of cir- culars that have been issued in Colorado and circulated among L. A. W. members west of the Mississippi, and which de- nounce the league president, have found their way East. As a resuft the Potter campaign committee got down to active work again to-day. It exhibited letters in which votes of Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Towa und even Colorado itself were said to be solid for the New Yorker. A table was made up to show that Potter is certain of 288 votes in the St. Louis assembly. Nevertheless Potter’'s friends are not easy in their own minds, for they fear that the work being done in the West by Sterling Elliott and R. M.gWelsh,added to Potter’s stand on the Sunday racing ques- tion in the West and his strong friend- faget=taieiotetiteetatetetat et ship for Chairman Mott of the racing boax;d. may possibly turn the tide against him at St. Louis. — ERROR OF A CLERK. Bungling Commit_nTent in the Case of a San Quentin Convict. SAN RAFAEL, Jan. 31.—it. developed to-day in habeas corpus proceedings be- fore Superfor Judge Angellotti that two commitments from San Francisco, pre- sumed to be alike and certified to by Deputy County Clerks, were as unlike in the main points as they could possi- bly be, In consequence Patrick Kclly, a convict in San Quentin prison, who de- sires his freedom on technical grounds, went back to the penitentiary. To-mor- row he will be brought again into court, and during the interim an investigation will be made. Patrick Keily was sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment by Judge Wallace o San Francisco for burglary. There were six prior convictions against Kelly. P\Pil ¥ filed a writ of habeas corpus. ”fl'“nll he was being held in prison unl:\\f«fu that in the sentence of ten years pro- nounced against him, Judge Wallace %d gone beyond his jurisdiction, as he s‘hn'v:l have sentenced him for a shorter time. To-day two certified copies of the co mitment were produced in court, one Sta ing that Kelly had six prior (‘nn\lclhllms against him, while the other had not ?fi in it on this vital point. Which fol'l'flm1 S ment was truthful is the question whic will be decided to-morrow. it Only One Winning Favorite. NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 31.—The we_athnr was clear and cool and the ;rack st:ls];: fairl ood condition to-day. d Slen(’l’mfn was the only winning favorite. Selling, six and a half furlongs—W. C. T. won, Mazarine second, Bton Jacket third. Time, 1:241%. Selling, six furlongs—Crystalline won, Eitho- lin second, Globe II third. Time, 1:17%. = Selling, ‘mile and twenty yards—Maggle won, Basquil second, Brighton third. Time, 1:47%. Handicap, one mile—David won, v ofce third. , 1:44%. Royal Choice third. Time, % cugs-dudne Siva second, Selling, seven and a half Steadman won, Ellsmere second, Jack Of Hearts third. Time, 1:30%. won, me, ing Brush Ar- hird. 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B e kit NOMINATIONS CONFIRMED. ‘William J. Mills to Be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of New Mexic.. WASHINGTOR, Jan. 31.—The Senate to-day made the following confirmations: ‘William J. Mills to be Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the Territory of New Mexico. John R. McFie to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Mexico. Edward B. Tremper to be Register of the Land Office at Seattle, Wash. l(!!llu’of Col&ux(.)mwuh.. to be o e Lan ce at ‘Walla, Wash. R William E. Chaplin of Laramie, Wyo., to be '%5‘““" of the Land Office at Chey- o. enne, Wyo.. Postmasters—California: Theodore W. ; Bdward Oakford, Leydecker at Alameda; Tulare. Hawali and Japan. Dispatches from Washington state that there dre about to be important developments in the Japanese imbroglio with the Government of the Hawailan Islands. However this may be, cer- tain it is that the disturbance of the stomach caused by simple indigestion.will develop into chronic_dyspepsia unless checkmat start. The t stomachic is Bitters, form resembli; the blizzard than i mgfiier eltg‘rlgmfillo{ ’Il‘.g: " | of the Stomach Which promptly rectifies gas- tric trouble, and does away with irregularis i =S B “Oh George! I don't know* what to do, I'm sure. Pasayshe will néver consent to my marry- ing a man as extravagant as you are. He says you never chew anything but that expensive Piper Heidsieck Tobacco.” The new five-cent piece of y of choice tobacco ever PIPER 'HEIDSIECK PLUG_TOBACCO SHAMPAGNE FLAVOR) besides being 40 per cent. larger than the old five-cent piece, It 1s the best tobacco ever offered at any price, offered for five cents, “Expensive ? Why, the old maxn's behind the times. The size of the plug has been in- creased 40 per cent. Piper Heid- sieck is really the cheapest to- bacco on the market.” and the largest plug ¥ P