The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 17, 1898, Page 9

8 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1595, NLAWFLL PELLIEUX | NINTS AT~ COMBINE OF EARLY WAR RAILROADS Creates a Sensation at Southern Pacific and| the Trial of | Santa Fe Pool Zola. ' Interests. Intimates That France : Interstate Commerce Reg- May Soon Need Her | ulations Violatedin | Army. i California. | “Danger Is Perhaps Nearer Southern Part of the State in Than the People Believe,” the Grip of a Merciless He Says. Monopoly. OCO0CO0000C0000000000000000000000000000000000 DEFENSE OF ESTERHAZY. HUNTINGTON’S HAND SEEN | s That the Acquitted | Evidence That He Is Directing Traffic | | Arrangements for Both Lines. The General Insis Man Was Not a Traitor to His Country. Special Dispatch to The Call. Special Dispatch to The Call. PARIS, Feb. 16.—The Palais of Jus- SAN DIEGO, Feb. 16.—Signs more #ice on the ninth day of the trial of M. | convincing than words, written Emile Zcla and Perrieux was crowded | spoken, convince the people of South- as usual. The presiding judge re-|ern California that the two great rail- jected M. Clemenceau's request of yes- | way corporations—the Southern Pacific | terday that he appoint a magistrate to | and Santa Fe—have combined to make | question Mme. de Boulancey If among |the State pay the highest tribute that | the letters she has from Major Ester- | the population can bear. It is no| hazy there is not one containing the jonger a secret that C. P. Huntington following expressions and E. P. Ripley, presidents respective- | or | Firstly, “General Saussier (then the ]y of these two companies, have had | commander-in-chlef of the French conferences on the subject. On more | army and tary governor of Paris) | than one occasion J. C. Stubbs has is a clown. In our country the Ger- | spoken with authority from Hunting- mans would not show him in a circus.” | ton with respect to traffic regulations | Secondly, “If the Prussians got as far | in this particular field. Mr. Stubbs as Lyons they might throw away their js the advocate and apostle of that guns and keep only their riding whips | gospel of railroading which teaches | to drive the French in front of them?” | that everything which the land pro- | M. Laborie, counsel for M. Zola, re- | duces and the sea yields should be | nounced the mination of the mem- | taxed in hauling all that the traffic | bers of the Esterhazy court-martial, can bear. The devotion of Mr. Stubbs | but he energetically demanded that |to this principle of conducting railroad General Billot, the Minister for War, | business contributed much to make} presiding | the Southern Pacific, in the minds of | Californians, the most odious and de- be called to testify. The judge, M. Delgarogue, invited M. Labo- | ;‘\eltn present a conclusion to that ef- | gpised of all corporations. | s . When laws and public protests failed ‘ General Pellieux, who conducted the |, ‘¢ nvestigation Into. the chavis Broushe | to Eive the people relief from the ex-| Hgainst. Ma Esterhazy, created a | actions of a strongly intrenched mo- | sensation by pro: ing against the ac- | nopoly, the oppressed producers of Cal- | ceptance of the “evidence of amateur |0 CRAZY MOTHER CUTS OUT HER BABY’S TONGUE| Annoyed by the Little One’s Wailings, She Silences It Forever. SAN RAFAEL, Feb. 16.—A story of cruelty so inhuman that one is appalled at the very thought of it came to the attention of District At- torney E. B. Martinelli to-day. It was nothing more nor less than an account of a mother cutting off the tongue of a child because the in- fant annoyed her by crying. In extenuation of this horrifying act on the part of the woman, it is said that she is insane, and does not realize the enormity of the crime that has made out of a live, healthy child a creature without the power of articulation, a mute who must go through life bearing the burden of a mother’s fiendish deed. Never before in the annals of Marin County has a case similar to this been brought to the attention of the authorities, and just what ac- tion will be taken has not yet been decided upon. The story is best told in the words of Assistant District Attorney Murray, who learned of the circumstances through a Mrs. Cornwall of Nicasio, where all the par- ties to the affair reside. “I was driving along the county road near Nicasio with Mrs. Corn- wall,”” said Murray, “and we were talking about some case when Mrs. Cornwall said that there was a case in Nicasio that would proobably be brought to the attention of District Attorney Martinelli. 1 asked her about it, and she told me that a woman living about one mile from Nicasio, on the Lucas graded road, had cut the tongue out of her voungest child. The infant had been crying too much, and she took this method of stepping the noise. “We drove along and she said she would point out the house and the woman to me, but she said she did not know her name, as she had been there only about a year. When we came to the shanty, which I should say had about two rooms in it, judging from the size, she told me to look. I saw a woman driving a cow. She looked wild, was poorly clad and had heavy boots on. She walked along, yelling at her cow. I saw one of the children, who was clad in scant clothing.” The family moved from Oregon to Nicasio, which is on the line of the North Pacific Coast road, about ten miles from San Rafael, and took up their home in a shanty about one mile from the town. When they first came down they brought five children along, and left them at the place while they went back to Oregon, presumably for the rest, for there are eight children in the family. ‘When they left the five children at Nicasio and went north, the lit- tle ones were as wild as Indians, and scampered out of sight on the ap- proach of strangers. The people about Nicasio were mystified and at- tempted to feed the children that they might not starve. The little ones were roughly clad, and the rags hung about them in ribbons. They lived on acorns and what little wild fruit they could gather. At last the neighbors, seeing their pitiful conditicn, would leave the food near the shanty, and, after their benefactors were out of sight, the children would steal up and eat it. This was repeated until the parents of the children returned from Oregon with the rest of the family. For a year the family has lived near Nicasio in poverty, filth and distress, and now comes the story of the cutting cut of the tongue of the youngest child to add to the other disgusting details. The mother is unquestionably crazy. Judge Mijller, who lives in that section, said that some time ago he saw the woman roaming about the woods near Fairfax, about three miles from here, with only a pair of boots on. She was nude and acted in a crazy manner. She is tall, being about six feet in height. She is said to be a cousin of Frank Bernard, a Portuguese who is frequently in trouble. His occupation is that of selling wood and at this he makes a hand-to-mouth living. (] [A] o o (] o (] o [ (] [} (4] COoO0000000000000000000000000000C000 ifornia turned their gaze to the East | to watch for the approach of a com- | 0000000000000 00C0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 experts who have not seen the original bordereau,” adding that he also desired to rai ice in the most emphatic manner against slanders which are cal- culated to de: confidence in the hands of the army at a time when dan- ger is perhaps nearer than people be- lieve.” This statement of the general had a A effect in court. General Pel- lieux said the first facsimile which ap- peared in the Matin was the nearest correct of all. He added that there was writing on both sides of the pa- per, which was flimsy, and he be- lieved that when the bordereau waspho- tographed, it was impossible to pre- | vent the writing on the reverse side from showing through. As the ink used was somewhat faint, the wit- peting road. | poration. The figures are not at pres- The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe |ent available to show what Los An- seemed to have more of the spirit of | geles has done for the Santa Fe, but development in its management, to be | the fourth annual report of the Board animated by more intelligence in its|of Directors of the San Diego Land and policy of extension than any other | Town Company (the Santa Fe syndi- Eastern road tending this way, and 0 | cate) which was made in 1890 and pub. its approach was hailed with especial | lished in Boston in 1891 clearly shows delight. | that the company then had derived $1,- Never did a railway enter a field w'th | $82,841 from the sale of one-third of the trolled by Earl; the Fruit Growers Ex- press, controlled by Armour, and the Santa Fe Fruit and Refrigerator Line, managed by the Santa Fe, were brought into an agreement not to fight each other. No attention now is paid to a shipper’'s request that an Earl or Armour refrigerator car be used. Everything is included in the pool and the railroad combine takes the car that so much popular favor as the Santa Fe | lands which the public-spirited people | happens to be on the sidetrack near- found in coming to Califurnia. Fig uratively speaking, California went out | to the Santa Fe corporation. to the desert to meet the builders and | tender them franchises, lands, conces- | fact to estimate that Southern Cali- stons, rights of way, deep water ter- |fornia gave to secure the extension of minals and assurances of public sup- | the Santa Fe into this territory lands port. Could the value of all that was | which have since been sold for a sum tendered and accepted be computed 01 | equaling the cost of the road's con- a cash basis it would make a sum of | struction from Barstow to San Diego. ness thought it necessary to touch up | the writing in order to render 1t more |Money equal to the cost of construct- distinet. | ing a parallel line on the whole system Continuing, General Pellieux said he s considered the proceedings showed that | River and the Pacifi the defense attached no weight to the | The Santa Fe for years fulfilled the evidence of the sworn experts who had | €Xpectations of the people. New indus- seen the original bordereau, and had | tries were brought forth in the State, compared it with the acknowledged |cities grew and thriving towns multi- handwriting of the accused, while the |Plied. The traffic increased and the testimony of amateurs, one a dentist | rallway corporation under the effect- and another a foreigner, was receiv ive administration of the old Santa Fe with full confidence. “Such tactics do mnot surprise me,” | the wonderful development of Southern added the general, “since they were |California spread throughout the world. foreshadowed in my office by Matthieu | People living north of Tehachapi talked Dreyfus, when bringing charges |Of returning prosperity and reasoned against Major Esterhazy. T asked him | that it would not come until railway if he desired a second expert report | competition brought it. on the bordereau. As he did not re- | S0 much for a brief review of events ply, 1 concluded that if the expert ex- | immediately following the extension of amination had not been favorable to |the Santa Fe system to Los Angeles, him, he would have demanded an- | San Diego, Riverside and San Bernar- other. dino. “For some time there has been much A change significant and ominous has talk of handwriting, people discussing | taken place. The public is no longer who could have written the hordereau. | in the confidence of the Santa Fe. The Well, I will prove to you here, with the | cOrporation once regarded as liberal papers in my hand, that the officer who wrote thebordereau belonged tothe | ministry of war, was an artilleryman and was seconded for service on the | staff.” The statement of General Pellieux | caused a sensation. M. Laborie here interrupted the witness, saying: “I ask that Colonel Picquart, who is at the present moment at the house | of Magistrate Berliese, be summoned to | hear this evidence.” “It is not your turn to speak,” re- | plied the presiding Judge. | M. Laborie, however, returned to the charge, protesting and insisting that | Colonel Picquart be called. When Gen- jcard advertisements from the newspa- eral Pellleux was allowed to continue | pers along the line of the road. The hxfi evidence he said: | newspapers are not affected to speak of An analysis of the bordereau indi- | by such curtailment of advertising ex- cates that only an artillery officer at- | penses, but travelers In haste to ascer- tached to the war ministry could have | tain the exact time of train arrival or known the facts or have used the |departure have to hustle around to find technicalities employed in the border- | a hotel clerk or raflroad ticket agent to eau. An infantryman could never in | get the desired information. his life have spoken of the things of | The Southern Pacific nature of a which the bordereau speaks. (Sensa- |time-card advertisement was based on a peculiar system of rewarding merit. A _exclaimed the general, |If the paper constantly praised Mills, raising hisflvmge, “what remains of all | from whom all passes flow, and went this fabric? Not much: Yet they ac- |Into a rhapsody of delight when C. P. cuse officers of acquitting a guilty man | Huntington pald his annual visit to c Ocean. -9 down the grade until it has reached Stubbs’ class in the ethics of traffic. It is not all surprising that the first signs of the change were noted by the agents of the Santa Fe. It had been | their pleasure to meet communities half | way and make concessions where the | points conceded would please the public and not deprive the road of profit. ‘When instructions from headquarters advised against doing this thing for one town and that for another they began to talk in whispers. It was surmised that motives of econ- omy caused the withdrawal of all time- in pursuance of orders.” (Prolonged | California, the editor was a good man Fp¥r}41atmn.) ¢ | whose ideas of journalism should be en- e general also said: “I have the | couraged. The Santa Fe advertise- soul of a soldier, which revolts at hear- | ments went to the press under different ing the infamous aspersions showered | conditions. The company, so far as the upon us, and T can keep silence no |press knew, had no Mills to praise and longer. I cannot stand still and see |no Huntington to exalt. The time-card of the Santa Fe between the Colorado | | management was gratified. Stories of | and progressive has gone by degrees | | The cost of building from Barstow to San Diego was $3,000,000. Space is not available for a history | of the events preceding the donation. | Before the war a railroad was projected | from Memphis to San Diego. After the | war Tom Scott, with the Texas Pa- | cific, entered the arena and San Diego's | hopes were shattered when Scott had to | abandon his plans for a continental | road. When President Nickerson of the Santa Fe system came forward with promises, made in good faith, it is be- lieved, to establish and maintain great terminal facilities of his line on the bay city—in fact, citizens of all classes— gave him everything he desired. In ef- fect the people of Southern California built the road, and hence it came to be regarded as an institution friendly to the people. Sentiment figured in the receipts of the road. Passengers went out of their way to travel on the line, | and shippers gave it business because | the road stood in with the people. When the friendly attitude of the Santa Fe was changed to one of indif- ference the people of San Diego fancied that the new management under the reorganization effected by the Union Trust Company of New York had some | special grievance against their city, | but when they began to inquire into the facts and receive information in confidence they ascertained that the policy of the company had changed. They were informed that Mr. Ripley did not favor the system of develop- ment which was inaugurated when the road entered the State. It was ex- plained that he disliked excursions he- | cause they bunched the travel. As for train accommodations, he would not provide them unless the volume of pas- senger business justified the provision. Men who are in position to know what 1s going on inside are pretty cer- tain that C. P. Huntington has more to say in the management of the Santa Fe system than President Ripley. Things have come to such a condition that shippers cannot select the route of shipment. Recently a Riverside shipper ordered several carloads of freight sent to Chicago by the Santa Fe. He was told that it could not be done, as the Santa Fe had had its share of business from that point for the pe- riod and the Southern Pacific was en- titled to the haul. Again, the Santa Fe has been in- creasing rates on freight. When freight rates are advanced it is a pretty sure sign that Stubbs has infected the man- of San Diego, the leading men of the | of San Diego gave in their generosity 1 est the point of shipment. The assertion was made to-night by It is not wide of the mark of actual |a leading man from New York that there was an agreement in writing, but that it may not be signed. The com- pact embraces too many points and involves so many propositions that a | mere verbal understanding would not be acceptable. The combine embraces the passenger traffic, as well as rates on oranges and lemons. This man, who knows what he is talking about, but will not permit the use of his name in a published interview at the present time, said: “The Interstate Commission could by active effort ascertain that the South- ern Pacific recently gave to the Santa Fe a check for $10,000 to adjust a | month’s dealings in passenger busi- ness.” The further significant fact is de- veloped that the Santa Fe, which for- merly handled from 60 to 80 per cent of the oranges and lemons, is now 900 cars short of the Southern Pacific in this season’s business. The crop for shipment this year requires 11,000 cars. The damage by frost was overesti- mated. A survey of the fleld shows | that the number of cars will fall but little short of the original estimate of 12,000. Of this number 4400 have gone forward and the number handled by the Santa Fe is 900 less than that of the Southern Pacific. The Santa Fe, while participating in | the profit without performing the serv- | ice, may gain a temporary advantage, but when the pool breaks, as it inev- itably must, the Southern Pacific will have the business. Every move down here shows that Ripley is outclassed by Huntington. There is a talk that the Santa Fe is top heavy with freight talent. This story is told to account for deficiencies in the passenger serv. ice, but when the truth comes out along the whole line it will be found that the Santa Fe has not one freight | man able to hold his own in Stubbs’ class. When the directors and leading | stockholders who now fancy that the company is being conducted according to safe .and conservative methods awaken to find that the Southern Pa- cific has got the bulk of the business and the profitable end of the local pas- senger traffic, there will be a storm in the East. The preponderance of the Southern Pacific’s business in oranges is in a measure explained by the activity of Eastern lines. On the $1 25 rate the Southern Pacific gives the Union Pa- cific and the Towa lines and other ‘Western roads a slice. These Western roads then meet secretly and offer | orange shippers a rebate on consign- ments east of the Missouri River. The result is that the shippers crowé their business upon the Southern Pacific. The Santa Fe, having a direct line from San Diego to Chicago, gives nothing to the Eastern roads. It makes men trying to detach the army from its chiefs, for, if the soldiers cease to have confidence in them, what will the | chiefs do in the day of danger, which | publication was a public convenlence. The idea of public convenience has un- dergone a change. It is now given out that if the publication of a time-card agement. Apart from any speculation as to Stubbs’ influence In making rates for Southern California shippers, the no rebate. tion to make a $1 rate, and that was contemplated before the recent change The Santa Fe is in a posi- | is, perhaps, nearer than people think? | “ad” is a 21 public convenience the news- 'r_hen, gentlemen of "he Jjury, your sons | papers should publish it for the conve- would be led to simple butchery. but at | nience of the public, the sz?m\-"lxmp M. Zola will have gained Trains were formerly moved with a rrks}:d\ x;)'llrlry and \\:1‘11 have achieved | some regard to the convenience of the fi"“;,‘,‘ [le 'ag r-r n.nd will be able to lay | traveling public. Now the schedules Frsfln; ;.‘r;s b:eor: ewl;,uré)pe. from which | are arranged, so far as one cHief point g o pe %ut, |in Southern California is concerned, so ; et ot \is outburst was in- |as to impose the greatest annoyance s;;‘;% n conclusion General Pellieux | possible onhthe tourists who are num- W = | bered by the thousands. To catch the % “re sho;x,]]d hhme been glad if the | morning * train out of Coronado the 2 _u;- ~n_\ar]td.sh iad acquitted Dreyfus, | traveler must rise at 5:30 o'clock in or- ;:thl ;\(;u & ave shown there was no | ger to get his breakfast and-cross on Sealn ey for ali of us to|the fen—yI to the railway station in San Leaving the witness stand the gen. | Diego. If the passenger can get his eral was long and loudly cheered, R %,‘.E‘,’,E;’“g‘o“ ;11:31?01:0 alch | they await until another train gnes: | The Santa Fe no longer considers that | it collected from San Diego in a short Nominations Confirmed. ‘"me the sum of $12,000 for extra bag- Feb. 16.—The Senate | the following nomin- atlons: To be Consuls—E. S. Cunning- ham of Tennessee, at Aden, Arabia. Chief Justice Supreme Court of Okla- homa, John H. Burford, and Bayard T.l Advances made on furniture and planos, with or without removal. J. Noonan, 1017-1023 Misston, —_————— gage. ‘When the promoters of the Los An- geles Fiesta and the San Diego Water Carnival asked the Santa Fe to stand in with a contribution to help along the enterprises, a cold refusal to entertain the proposition was ziven by the cor- Hanner to be Associate Justice. fact stands out clearly that the pro- gressive policy of dealing with the pub- lic which made the road popular and prosperous under the Nickerson re- gime has been abandoned and Southern Pacific methods of inciting ill will and | public discontent have been introduced. There is talk to the effect that the English stockholders who are supposed to control the situation here sought Huntington's friendly counsel and ad- vice, but this may be mere conjecture. It is probably nearer the mark to as- sert that Mr. Ripley, whose genius as a rallroad man is not exceptionally brill- iant, is outclassed by C. P. Huntington. From an authentic source it is ascertained that the pool, so far as it related to orange shipments, was established to embrace the orchard product of Southern California for the season of 1897. A semblance of com- petition was put forward and to some extent it was genuine, as the refrig- erator companies contending for the had not been admitted to the secrets of the conibine, and, therefore, so- licited traffic in 1897 with some vigor. Subsequently the C. F. and X., con- employment of their respective ears- of management. On a $1 rate Hun- tington could not give the FEastern roads much of a percentage without tapping its own big share. He is op- posed to this on general business prin- ciples. The Santa Fe, in maintaining the $1 25 rate, simply surrenders con- trol of the traffic. The rate is main- tained to protect the Southérn Pacific and its maintenance is contrary to law. A Santa Fe agent in talking to a lead- ing shipper remarked: “I don’t care a —— for oranges, but if you have any dried frult I would like the business.” There is no such thing as raflway competition in Southern California to- day. Huntington has the Santa Fe so tied up and hedged about by pools and agreements that the men on the road do not know what company they are | working for. All of the great advan- tages which the generous people of the South gave to the Santa Fe have been bartered away. ——— Latin is used in all the civilized coun- tries in the world for physicians’ pre- scriptions, SALE OF - THE KANSAS PACIFIC The Road Bid In by the Reorganization Committee. i \ RICE OF WHEAT 0N THE JUyp “Shorts” Are Now at the Mercy of Leiter. Advance of Over Seven| Knocked Down to Agent ! Alvin W. Krech for | ! $6,308,000. l He Encounters No Competition | and Makes but a Single Offer. AFTER THE ENTIRE LINE. | Middle Division of the Railway Will i Be Disposed of at Auction To-Morrow. | | Spectal Dispatch to The Call. | TOPEKA, Kan., Feb. 16.—The Gov- | ernment lien on the Union Pacific Rail- (road in Kansas was wiped out to-day | at the Union Pacific station in this city. The Kansas Pacific road was bought in by Alvin W. Krech, representing the reorganization ‘committee, for $6,303,- 000. There was no competition at the sale. Mr. Krech was the only bidder. | Mr. Krech waited until Judge W. D. | Cornish finished reading the long { drawn out decree of foreclosure and | then quietly stepped up to the special | master and said: | “On the part of the reorganization | committee, I bid $6,303,000 for the road.” | Ten feet away the bid was not heard, | but it was one of the final steps in the | big railroad deal. Judge Cornish then | repeated the amount. | “I am offered $6,303,000 for this prop- | erty by Mr. Alvin W. Krech, represent- | ing the reorganization committee,” said |he. ‘“‘Are there any other bidders? “There being no other bidders I de- clare this property described in the de- | cree sold to Mr. Alvin W. Krech, on the part of the reorganization committee.” | The party will leave Topeka after the | sale to-morrow and go to Salina, where | on Friday the third sale will take place. | This will be that of the middle division of the road, a stretch of 254 miles, un- | der a special mortgage. Mr. Krech will buy in the property, paying the upset price of $5,300,000. | On Saturday the entire line of the | Kansas Pacific from Kansas City to | Denver will be formally sold at the Union Pacific station in North Topeka. This will be under the consolidation | mortgage, and the upset price will be | $8,000,000. |~ It was stated by one of the principal | attorneys in the case to-day that no one | except the United States Government |and the reorganization committee was | qualified to bid on any of the sales | this week. The Government qualified only to force the company to bid, as required by the arrangements made at ‘Washington and St. Louis. Among those present at the sale were Winslow S. Pierce, chairman of the re- | organization committee; Horace G. Burt, president of the .Union Pacific; | General John H. Cowan of Omaha, as- | sistant counsel for the Government; J. 1. Brinkerhoff, general superintendent, and J. B. Frawley, general passenger agent. The history of the Kansas Pacific is a history of the methods by which Jay Gould acquired his fortune. The road was built from Kansas City to Chey- enne, Wyo., in connection with the Union Pacific system under a system of Government subsidies. The original | legislation gave the Kansas Pacific Company equal rights for rates of transportation over the Union Pacific road, but the latter so disregarded that law and placed such ohstacles in the way of the Kansas Pacific getting its share of the through business that this was one of the main causes of its bank- ruptey in the fall of 1873. It was in the latter part of 1874 that Mr. Gould ob- tained virtual control of the Union Pa- cific. Under his management the Kan- sas Pacific was still prevented from getting its just dues and so a reorgani- zation was prevented until other finan- cial difficulties intervened, and he was enabled to get control of the Kansas Pacific Company’'s stock and bonds at a mere trifle. In 1876, a few days after the election of President Hayes, a re- ceiver was appointed. This receivership proved Gould's greatest coup. He | bought the stock at two or three cents on the dollar, compromised the Denver | extension bonds and when the consoli- i dation was formed the stock of the two companies was valued alike, share for share. Union Pacific stock was worth inbuut 80 cents and Gould came out of | the deal ahead by several millions. During the last few years the road has paid fairly well. Last year its gross earnings were $2,250,000, and the net earnings were $705,000. MME. BERNHARDT UNDER A SURGEON'S KNIFE Submits to an Operation in Paris ‘Which Proves to Be Entirely Successful. Copyrighted 1598 by James Gordon Bennett. | PARIS, Feb. 16.—An operation was performed by Dr. Pozzi yesterday on Mme. Sarah Bernhardt at a private | hospital, No. 19 Rue d'Armaiflloe. It | was entirely successful. It was com- clock and lasted an hour and forty minutes. Chloroform was | used. When Mme. Bernhardt recovered consciousness she thanked Dr. Pozzi for his skill and then asked how long it would be before she could walk again. The reply was that she would be well again within six weeks if no complications set in. Dr. Pozzi, upon being seen by several correspondents, stated that the opera- | tion was necessary on account of an in- ternal hemorrhage, consequent upon the formation of a cyst, technically de- scribed as intraligamantaire cyst. It was as large as a cocoanut. et i Sacramento Pastor Recalled. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 16.—The mem- | bers of the Congregational Church of | this city voted unanimously to-night to extend a recall to Rev. J. B. Silcox | of Chicago, their former pastor. Before | coming to Sacramento a few years ago Mr. Silcox was pastor of a church in Oakland. He has occupied the pulpit in the Leavitt-street Church in Chi- | menced at 9 o" Cents Within Two Days. The King of the Chicago Pit Reaping a Rich Harvest. FURTHER RISE EXPECTED. Armour Predicts That the Cereal ‘Will Yet Comrnand $1.23 a Bushel. Special Dispatch to The Call. | | CHICAGO, Feb. 18.—There was no | mistake about Leiter’s control of the wheat market to-day. Those who a week ago wondered what he was going to do with all his wheat were trying to find out to-day what he would do with | his money. There was very little| wheat to be had in the pit and prices | moved up higher than at any time on | the crop for May. In August, when cash wheat touched $1 for the first time since 1891, May | touched $1 01%. Since that time it has been down to 97%c. To-day the price | was rushed up from 99%c to $1 03%, and | later on the curb to $1 06. At last it | was $1 05. An advance of over 7 cents | in two days shows the grip that Leiter has on the market and the perilous po- sition in which shorts find themselves. The advance looks sensational, but it was without undue excitement in the pit. Outside of Leiter’s holdings of about 18,000,000 bushels there is no large speculative interest. Heavy traders who in the past have been long from 500,000 to 2,000,000 bushels or more, when prices were very much lower, are not following the advance with large holdings, and, while they believe in | higher prices, are willing to let Leiter | have the benefit while they trade in a modest way. Calls for to-day on May wheat sold on the curb to-night at $1 05% to $1 11%. There was hardly a trader to be found who did not believe that unless Leiter came to the rescue and sold enough to prevent an advance calls might be good. Buying came from New York, the Northwest, California and from St. Louis. Foreigners have been short on | July and May against cash purchases, and while a good many have come in | and closed their losses, the larger num- ber are still out. | Leiter sold a little cash wheat at the | best price he ever secured. He had | about 100 cars loaded at Armour's ele- | vator to-day, which is to go direct to | Liverpool. Armour is also shipping | wheat on his own account, as he is a believer in higher prices, and thinks Liverpool is the place to sell it. Mes- sages from the Northwest said lnnt} Armour and Leiter were bidding 3| to 4 cents over the market for cash | wheat. Armour in an interview to- | night said that he was not short a‘ bushel, as he believed wheat would | sell at $1 25. Referring to the story | that he hal given a $3,000,000 check to | Peavy, the Minneapolis elevator man. | to secure a return of wheat borrowed | from him during December, he said | that there was not a word of truth in | it, as he never borrowed a bushel of | wheat; and he added: “We never bor- | row wheat or money. SILVER THE KEY T0 PROSPERITY Ex-Congressman Towne Given a Great Ovation at San Bernardino. Eloquently Pleads for Bimetallism and Predicts Bryan's Ulti- mate Success. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. SAN BERNARDINO, Feb. 16.—Ex- Congressman C. A. Towne of' Duluth, Minn., spoke on silver and prosperity in the pavilion in this city to-night and was given a great ovation by the Democrats, the Republicans and the Populists. Although it was slightly raining the audience was composed of 2000 people, many of whom were from the surrounding towns. Guns were fired, bands of music were in evidence and the usual dressing of pageant was on hand. ) The speaker said in part that the cause of bimetallism was as old as civilization itself and its principles were as easily understood as the rule of three, but they had been so largely perverted that many intelligent people had erroneous ideas of what they con- veyed. The good of the country is the end prescribed by all parties, and to forsake one’s party is not such a dread- ful thing. He tried it and never felt s0 good in his life. The campaign of 1896, he said, has not stopped. It will g0 on and on to the end of all time. There never was before a defeated party that began so soon after being vanquished to celebrate a victory. You cannot have good money unless you have enough money, but it may be- ct;\;::e 80 good that no one can get any of it. Money is not only a medium of ex- change, but it is a representation of value and a medium of deferred pay- ments. The value of a piece of money is what it will buy. There never was such a crime committed in all the ages as that which in twenty-five years cut the value of commodities half in two and raised the purchasing power of gold 50 per cent. One per cent of the people in the United States own more property than the other 99 per cent. The gold standard is a scheme to en- able you to get in debt easier, but will not let you get out of debt. The pro- ducers of the world have never yet re- ceived their just dues, Mr. Towne closed with an eloquent peroration concerning the policy of what he .terms the three great reform parties uniting in the next election and predicted the election of Bryan to the cago for three years past. presidency. The fac-timile TALKS AGAINST ANNEXATION Senator Morrill Opposed to the Acquisition of Hawaii. Does Not Desire Coolie Compe- tition With American Labor. From a Military Point of View This Government Would Be the Loser. Specfal Dispatch to The Call. 1 Call Office, Riggs House, ‘Washington, Feb. 16. Senator Morrill of Vermont occupied the entire time of the executive session of the Senate to-day in a speech oppos- ing the annexation of Hawaii. The speech was intended to show that the acquisition of the Hawailan Islands would be against both good policy and the traditions of this country. He had always stood against the acquisition of distant lands, and was still opposed to that policy as one caltulated to under- | mine the integrity of the Republic. Mr. Morrill said that, commercially, Hawail had been vastly exaggerated, and contended that the annexation would result in the inevitable destruc- tion of the beet-sugar industry of the United States because of the inability of American labor to compete with the coolie labor employed on the Hawaiian plantations. From a military point of view he argued that the control of Hawail would be a source of weakness rather than of strength, because a navy would be required for its defense in time of war, while in time of peace we should not need the islands on this account. Senator Morrill quoted with especlal emphasis a letter from Daniel Webster, dated in 1843, advising the maintenance of the independence of the islands, and closed with an appeal to the people of the United States to continue this policy. WHILE SLEEPING HE: EXHORTED Death of a Remarkable Som- nambulist Divine at Evans- ville, Ind. During His Dreams for Forty Years He Had Called Sinners to Repentance. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. SAN BERNARDINO, Feb. 16.—Rev. J. C. McReynolds, pastor of the Christian Church of this city, has just received news of the death of his father, Rev. B. D. McReynolds of Evansville, Ind. The elder McReynolds was subject to strange experiences in his sleeping hours. - He was known in the neighborhood as the “‘som- nambulist parson.” If he heard a sermon which deeply impressed him he would almost c¢ inly repeat it that night in his dreams, and in a manner that his neighbors across the way could distinctly hear, . Traveling through Illinois once, he stopped over Sunday and attended church. That night the sermon was repeated from the room of the strange guest. A news- paper man sleeping in the same hotel re- ported the sermon in the morning paper, nd this was the first knowledge the sleeping preacher had of his dream and midnight audience. Rev. Mr. McReynolds says his father has repeated his sermons also, and al- ways revised and improved them in the delivery. The body of his sermon as well as his prayer was fervent, eloquent and original. Through the course of forty years he has preached to thousands, who arose from their beds to hear these midnight discourses, and sometimes to weep under his exhortations to sinners to turn and live or to rejoice while they listened the vivid descriptions of the New Jeru- salem and the inheritance of saints. - Try the “Koh-I-Noor” lead pencil, and you will have no further use for others. ® e SCORES OF LIVES LOST IN A SEA DISASTER. Trans-Atlantic Line Steamship Fla- chat Wrecked on the Canary Islands. 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