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2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, AUGUST 15, 1898 Bl G e : ADVERTISEMENTS, 8 AovERITIEEMENIE : “FIRE A SEVERE BLOW T0 FRESKD Packing-House Men Are Staggered. HUNDREDS ARE 0UT OF WORK NO STEPS TAKEN TOWARD RE- BUILDING. Heroic Efforts Saved the Southerm Pacific Freight Depot - Sum- mary of Losses and Insurance. . Special Dispatch to The Call. FRESNO, 14—The conflagra- tion that devastated a large area in the packing Louse di t in Fresno at| dnight, was not got under control | until daybreak this morni The ag- | gregate loss is now variously estimated from a conservative standpoint at from $300,000 to $450,000. together with their en- ti s, destroyed we The For- syth Seeded Raisin Packing Company's b ent, Phoenix Packing Hous Union Ice Works (partially destroyed), National Ice Compa establishment, Farme! Warehouse, Einstein Ware- house, Hob t Parsons’ Warehouse (partially destroyed) and the residen: of Joi Doyle, yardmaster. In idition to the buildings enume- rated, the Southern Pacific’s los! | be considerable. Several strings of g along the sides of and the warehouses of flames b re the force on could haul them away. The freight depot of the Southern Pa- cific was on fire several times, but a large force of lroad n were sta- ned .t managed to freight « na the packing were of a ma rtenlaub & Pratt of the Phoe Packing and Raisin Seeding Comyar state that their loss will amount to § 000 approxima s plant was par- tially covered t The rtock house was valued Cruz There was an insurance on the g and stock amounting to $0 W. Mu f the Farme estimates his loss house as the the loss y, but their loss will large quanti- consumed. 11 be su d and coal wer Hobbs & Ps nd $50,( even made Twenty- thirty ¥ some of m being loaded with gr and raisins. A 13 number cf ties were also destroyed and the ‘rack was d in a numbe ber third-c 5 duced to ash Only low, Hobbs & ¥ f pla pers were also re of t structure sons’' warehouse and fire-proof construction of tt - leigh bdilding prevented the fire from | sweeping the entire line of packing houses on both sides > track. The loss of the ncipal pack- ing hous: blow to of throwing hundr. women out of e time when they of work in s The loss nearly sixty c aisins in various warehouses and packing e lishme will not injure the business in this section in the 1 The canning crop will be packed and seeded by the remaining places. s of the district is a sever It will be the means of needy men and yment at the only find this class of the nce. Al No action has been taken thus far toward. rebuilding in the burned dis- trict. FRUITLESS HOLD-UP ON THE SANTA FE ROAD Robbers Foiled by Guards and Mes- sengers—Fifty Shots Fired, but No One Injured. ALBUQUERQUE, N. M, Aug ‘westbound expr train that left city in charge of Conductor, Barney held up early this morning at Grants Sta- 14.—The th anta Fe road, ninet; .3 est of here.” The train left the station on time and nothing was heard of the robbers until just as it star when three men boarded the engine covered the engineer and fireman and the engineer the mail and bag buple the head end of the train, with the rob- bers in cnarge, went on nearly a mile further. Th then stopped and, with the engine men forced to walk ahead, started for the express car. The car was provided with two mes- gengers and with two special guards, 4 .o men had put out all lights, and met the bangits with a volley from' the open door a8 they approached. The robbe returned the fire and about fifty shots were exchanged, but no one was hit by any of them. The robbers kept close to the engine men, and the fear of killing the latter forced the expressmen to avoid shooting into the group. After half an hour's fighting the hold- ups gave up the job and took to the hills. “Four 1 ed g hidden n did the work. A’'$ack of pre nt powder cartridges was found Imost the same place where the dynamite was found at the last at- tempted hoid up at the same place. No clew as to the identity of the out- laws has been discovered and no attempt has yet been made to follow them. This is the third hold-up or attempted hold-up at Grants within the past six months. “Black Jack” “Broncho Bill,’ “Kid Johnson and several others of the more orious of the New Mexico's bad men, who have usually been accused of the train robberies at Grants have within -the past few months, been killed or cap- :urwd_‘.;nd Zo theory yet been ad- van )y the officers as to the perpetra- tors of this last bold job. R " THREE LIVES LOST IN THE RIVER NEAR COLUSA .Mrs, Meyerpeter Goes to the Rescue of Her Husband and Perishes With Him. COLUSA, Aug. 14—Frank Schmidt, a chimney-sweeper, was drowned in the _river half a mile above town yesterday. Tt ls‘:um‘;uuml be was stricken with cramps. vord was received ] Princeton that Burr uult\leey‘:irxlllent:rt?nrg wife were drowned in the river near the gove: lace. Mr. Meverpeter was batn- ng a He cailed fy ] . and his wife ax 4 by golng 104 g:’&' boat to rescue him. The drowning man caught hold of the boat, upsecting ¢, amd in thefr struggles both hus D rikned. Tha. bodics. 1uoandisnd wife covered up to this morning e oot Prominent Irish-American Dead. DETROIT, Aug. 14.—Colonel J. A. At- kinson, a prominent Irish-American citi- zen of this city, died suddeniy v Eia of the heart to-day. 7 °f neural in , after which | | | 1 | | | the unive NATIONAL SCENE AT THE . FRESNO: FIRE. STATESMEN iR SIHCULARLY CoY MERICA GAINED BY WAR Not Eager to Serve on Peace Commission. POLITICAL Beneficial Results of the Strife. IS AGAIN A UNITED NATION‘ FEAR EFFECT | MIGHT BECOME UNPOPULAR RECEIVES WITH VOTERS. SPIRIT NEW LIFE. President McKinley Finds It Diffi- | cult to Select Five Men Willing to Act for This Gov- ernment. the Struggle More Than the Mere Conquering of the Spanish Foe. Special Dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Aug. 14—The Herald's | Washington correspondent sends the following: President McKinley is not finding the task of selecting the fiv American com lers to meet the { men to be apointed by Spain an, easy one. Some of the men would 1K Special Dispatch to The Call. LONDON, Aug. 15.—The Times this morning comments editorially upon al recognition of the gener- ous part which President McKinley has | played throughout the war between the United States and Spain, and sa 1 pulse and has known how to nd direct national thought [ with them, will probably become a If foreign observers might presume to | have ypinion upon_ his conduct, it | to appoint are reluctant to serve. It is would probably be that President McKin- | reglized that the disposition of the ley has kept his finger constantly UPOD | pyuooninee o mag iy | | markedly outrunning its |jeading political issue and men in politi- movement. Everything has been done in | ; o e T e Cevery move has been discussed | cal life are reluctant to make their in- as committed one w. result of the that whe 80 defini : on the qu great political | dividual records tion in advance of the parties linine up on it. The President is finding it particular- ly difficuit, I am told, to obtain Demo- cratic representation on the commis- 1l over the United States ument_was_irrevocably v or the other, and the autious, tentative policy is he stands at this moment, the has the whole American people k. possibility the GOV before | 1n not know that there can be any |Sion. The Democratic conventions | | high smanship for a President gov- | have g grounds against | erning _under the constitution of the | holding an; in the Phil United State: and leading Democrats are | It is noteworthy ithat while tae Span- t to serve on the commission iards, wko are usnally regarded as chival- | wheve the action would be dictated by | the balance of the profit an | effect upon American ideas and aims. Not zomantic and medieval, have turved | 4 Republican administration and which tion, the Amer who are usually sup- | might put them in opposition to the d posed to be intensely patriotie, have as clared policy of their party. vet hardly given a thought to the fi I understand the President is consi cial or economic side of the question. | ering the question of naming a military What occupies the American people at|man or a naval officer of high henk as this moment is not the cost of the war, | ogne of the members of the commis- not the value of their acquisitions, nor | g loss account, o bt the moral xesult of the etrugele and |\ yropiane” GANG OF COUNTERFEITERS CAUGHT the nature of the ideas which {t stimu- Secret Service Men Capture Plates lates Whether Bryanism d or only sleep- and Dies and a Quantity of Bogus Money. ing, whether the smaller issues of party war: are suppressed by large and WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—Information has been recelved by the Treasury ret worthy conceptions of national policy or only thrown for the time into the back- there can be no doubt that the is had and will have a profound as it renovated the idea of national . impaired by the great civil strug- : ; gle, but it ha pplied that sense of con- | Service from Detroit, Mich., of a gang o | tact with external forces which is prob- | counterfeiters whose operations have ably one of the most potent influences in | given the Government conslderable trou- | | | | favor of maintaining the national spirit. ble. They are Charles, Bdward and David The Antilles themselves Introduce a 5 o : novel element into American life and open | Johnson. Through the cfforts of Detec- tions upon which parties may tive Webb, the department Las ured up_ que 3 d?flrr greatly and worthily. This in itself is a gain, and one which was more or less conscientiously sought when the war was some of the important paraphernalia used by them. Chief Wilkie ards the rest as a most important one, as he iden- undertaken. The, perilous unreet Spoken | ties the men with_ the issies of Han- pational evil, which sprany. directly, so | S5k end Windom 32 covnterfeic Wills, PO relgners can judge, from the dis. | Which have been circulated freely in the appearance of clear, intelligent party i \\}hl and East during the past eight fues. That unrest, we may assume, years. vanighed and been replaced by new At sthe “he the ‘gang the jetles or solicitudes which may become | officlals recover and back dcute, but are very unlikely to beécome |Plates from h the Hancock counter- | morbid. feit was m i als plates for ‘Bevond the Antilles lies a more difficult | making the nd small seals on these question—the Philippines—and that ques- | bills. There were also taken fifty $2 Han- fon does-not_end with the Philippines | cock and 500 $5 Windom bills—the latter themselves. These isiands may be taken | being regarded as the best all-round coun- | terfeits discovered for yi s Johnson, who is said to be at 1 of the gang, is about 63 years 0ld, and according to the statements of the secret service officials here, he has spent considerable time in prison for counterfeiting. GRS E GOT HIS FINAL EKNOCKOUT. Pugilist Dies in Colorado From the Effects of a Fight. IDAHO SPRINGS, Colo., Aug. 14— James Rewark, a local pugilist, died this afternoon from injuries received in a twenty-round contest last night wi Robert_ Watking, & colored. fighier. "R wark claimed to have been the champion of New Mexico at one time. Watkins is under arrest. r just now as a symbol of American awakening and of the entry of the re- public upon a new career which, Philip- pines or no Philippines, she I8 hences forth bound to follow. Records Broken at Gilroy. SAN JOSE, Aug. 14.—Over the Gilroy course to-day Bunt Smith broke two ama teur one mile records. On the first trial, with a fiving start, he broke the fir: record, the time being 1:49, against 1:5) . made by Smith some weeks ago. With a standing start the mile was made in 2:06, the former record being 2:121-5, made by Charlee Franklin, The tandem record was also broken. The flying tandem time was the same as Smith's, beating the former record of 1:62% of Haggerty and Williams. 800000000000000000000000000000000 EXTRAORDINARY PLETHORA OF GOLD AT WASHINGTON o0 WASHINGTON, Aug. 14—Here {s an anomalous situation. The war is ended, but the money provided by the sale of bonds to carry it on has scarce begun coming into the Treasury. This means, to begin with, that but half of the four hundred millions authorized by Congress will ever be issued. The issue of a hundred millions of Treasury certificates has not been made and but a small percentage of the money from the sale of the two hundred millions in bonds has come to the Government, and yet the gold in the Treasury to-night amounts in round numbers to $197,000,000, while the cash balance is $268,000,000. Thus at the end of the war, lasting 113 days and costing about a million and e half dellars a day, the amount of gold on hand exceeds the high-water mark of 1890 by more than ten millions and is about twenty-five millions in excess of the amount on hand at the out- break of the war. CO00000000CO0R00000000 0000000000000 0C0000000000000D0000 . QooccoooCoCCoCCO 0000000 PINE CREEK RICH I VIRGIN GOLD Late Discovery Excites Juneau. NEWS CAUSES A STAMPEDE RUSH OF PROSPECTORS ¥YROM SOUTHEASTERN ALASKA. Miners Employed on Discovery Claim Take Out Sixty Dollars a Day in Gold Nuggets to the Man. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. JUNEAU, Alaska, Aug. 10 (via Seat- tle Aug. 14).—What is regarded as a most important discovery of rich placer diggings is reported to have been made on Pine Creek, a small stream emptying into Atlin Lake, a feeder of Lake Tagish. The dideovery 18 located in the Northwest Territory, Canada. - The news has caused a great stampede from Juneau and other Southeastern Alaska points, and it is estimated that at least 1000 prospectors have started for the location. As reported here, the find was made two years ago by George Miller of this city, about the time the Klondike strike was made. Miller allowed his discovery to lie dormant and went to the Klon- dike. Last June he returned, and, tak- ing a few friends into his confidence, revisited the place and staked out claims. Walker Carter, who has just urned from the diggings, says: “I saw four men shovel in twenty-six ounces In two days, one pan from bed- rock containing $4. This was on Dis- cover, m. Pine Creek is about fif- teen miles long, and will average sev- enty-five feet in width. The current is very rapid. The diggings are what are known as bar diggings or summer placers. Discovery claim is about eight miles from the mouth of the creek. Bedrock is only five feet from the sur- face, and is of a slate formation. Mil- ler has five men at work shoveling into sluiceboxes, and he pays them $12 a day each, settling every night with dust taken from the boxes. The men are taking out $60 a day to the man. The gravel shows from 20 to 160 colors. Captain Strickland of the Canadian mounted police and several men are al- ready on the ground, and have staked claims for themselves and reserved the Government claims. When I left thirty- three claims had been located, and the balance of the creek is reserved by the Canadian Government. “When I was coming out to Juneau I met a large number of prospectors going into every bay along Tagish Lake trying to find the spot which they had heard of, but whose location they did not know. The news has caused 8reat excitement in Juneau, and every boat leaving here is crowded with prospectors. The gold brought in from the new diggings is —like that frem the Klondike-—very coarse, but it is said to be worth §2 an ounce more. STRANGE DROWNING OF A TACOMA MAN William Deming Smith Mysteriously Lost From a Small Vessel at Blaine. : TACOMA, Aug. 14.—Willlam Deming Smith, manager of the Alaska Packers’ Assoclation’s Puget Sound canning in- terests, met a mysterious death at Blaine yesterday. His body was found in the Sound under circumstances in- dicating drowning, and a Coroner’s in- quest has been started to determine the cause, Some time ago Smith’s company sold the steamer Puritan to men who in- tended taking her to Alaska. This agreement failed and the steamer was ‘|anchored 150 feet off Blaine dock. Yes- terday afternoon Smith hired a small boy to row him out to the steamer to get some papers that he wanted to transmit to San Francisco. There was nobody aboard the steamer. He went aboard, and the boy, after waiting a long time, became alarmed and started to investigate. On the farther side of the Puritan was a sloop 100 feet away. A man on the §loop knew nothing of Smith’s presence on the boat or of his disappearance. He and the boy search- ed the Puritan, but could neither find him nor give any evidence as to his disappearance. An.alarm was given, and on the theory that Mr. Smith had fallen over- board draggine parties were organized. This morning his body was found. The senenl impression is that death was ue to heart trouble, and that he fell overboard during the attack. OGOEN EXCITED OVER A HEALER Hopeless Cases Appar- ently Cured. BLIND SEE AND DEAF HEAR THE WONDER WORKER MAKES NO PRETENSIONS. Does Not Claim to Be Christ—Hails From Colorado and Is on His Way to. the Pacific Coast. Special Dispatch to The Call. OGDEN, Utah, Aug 1 —Ogden peo- | ple are very much exercised over the workings of one J. Landos, a healer, who is curing the lame, the halt and the blind in a miraculous manner, and as rapidly almost as they can be | brought before him. Landos came to Ogden a month ago to recuperate, and about ten days ago allowed himself to aid a sick man, with the result that the man arose and walked. Since that time people have been flocking to his rooms, and to-day there are many prominent and well- known people in Ogden who are mov- ing about apparently well and who were, some of them, practically given up by the physicians. The wife of a prominent attorney is one lady who was confined to her bed for three wecks and had suffered.two operations. Landos visited her and ADVERTISEMENTS. TELEPHONE GRANT 33 and 38. &C o 222-224 SUTTER TREET. SPECIAL Monday—Tuesday —Wednesday BUTTER, our choicest creamery. +..... square..40c SARDINES, new shipment import- ed French, % tins, large boneless fish. packed in fine olive oil, reg- ularly 35c tin.... ..tin..25c ICE CREAM FREEZERS, “Lightning” 2qts. 3q 4 qts. 6 qts. special price.$1 45 $1 65 $1 90" $2 45 reg. price....$1 75- $210 $260 $3 00 REISLING, choice old table wine, our bottling, regularly $4 00 doz. ats. dozen..$3.00 50c dozen allowed for empty bottles. PURITY WHISKY, made in Ken- tucky, spring of 1892; bottled in bond; regularly $1 25.bottle..$1.00 Send for catalcgue, free. Always sees that his linen, and fancy Vests are weil laundered, white and i maculate. We are catering just now 5 the summer man in laundering every- thing that Is necessary to his | weather apparel. Negligee 3 duck, pique and crash vests and white linen col and cuffs. Ladies shirt waist ete., we launder just like new The United States Laundry, office 1004 Market street Telephone South 420. PROCLA STATE OF CALIFORNIA, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, SACRAMENTO, July 30th, 1388 WHFREAS, The Legislgture of the State of Caliornia, at its thirty-second session begli- ning on the fourth day of January, A. D. 1897, two-thirds of all the members elected to each | of the two houses of sald Legislature voting in favor thereof, proposed the foliowing de- scribed amendments to the Constitution of the State of California, to-wit: AMENDMENT NUMBER ONE. (Being Sepate Constitutional Amendment No. after a few minutes she arose and isi 41.) apparently completely cured. Others have had their hearing and eyesight restored, and the whole city is talking of the wonders. Landos is said to have come to Og- den from Denver and Pueblo, Colorado, | and is traveling to the coast. He is% a strong, vigorous, healthy man, dark complexioned and about six feet tall. He makes no claims or pretensions of | being the Christ, and dresses and acts like any ordinary citizen. i Strangers are coming into Ogdvni daily to visit him. His treatment con- sists simply of laying on of hands, and his hands do not touch the body except about the face. MANLY There is no Men are seen at a glance. hesitation, no holding back, no trem- bling limbs, no sign of weak knees. These are men to be proud of. Men to be admired by all. Manliness is indi- cated in the walk and in every action | of the whole man. In the puny mortal you may not see at a glance how weak he is, but he knows the sad truth. STRENGTH For the weak “Hudyan"—that won- drous remedio-treatment—is the one thing that sheds hope on their paths, for “Hudyan" has over 20,000 men out of hopeless wrecks. It reaches every case. The boy who has had vices may be unfit to work, but “Hundan"” sends new life and vitality into his So with men. made system. AND VIGOR. ‘When the improper use of any organ, gay the liver—but it makes no differ- ence what it may be—causes weakness, the “Hudyan” treatment repairs all the damage done. It helps stunted growth, too. Send and ask for ab- solutely free testimony about it. Then ask for medica} advice, too. All free. Why not have it? Could not be bought for any amount of money elsewhere. One place in the world can you get “Hudyan.” Those who have biood taint in either the tertiary, the secondary or the primary form should ask for 30 day blood cure” circulars. They are free, too, bear in mind. “30 day cure” is effective always. It leaves the systemn as pure as it was when you were born. - No after effects. Don't forget. All circulars and all ad- vice free. HUDSON MEDICAL INSTITUTE, STOCKTON, MARKET AND ELLIS STS., San Francisco, Cal. AKERS OF “DeRFECT PE fITTING SPECTACLESSEYEGLASSES HICAPPARATUS, OPTICIANS:“pygrait” SCIENTIFIC 642 MARKET ST. INsTRUMENTS unDER cHROWCLE BuRDING, CATALOGUE FREE. gh? ‘Woodbury’'s Faclal Soap, Faclal Cream and Faclal Powder will be found efficacious for preventing Wrinkles, Freckles or chapping. They are sold everywhere at 25 cents each. : lway's Ready Rellef for 4 ¥ %mm%m%‘“% ol H e sickness. Nausenr ote.” Al § | of the qualified electors thereof, A resolution to propose to the people of the elghteen of art D of le el ion, by tion, in relation to revenue and taxzat which it s osed to amend sald section to read as follow; Section 18. No county, oity, town, township, board of education, or school district ghall in- cur any indebtedness or liabllity in any man- ner or for any purpose exceeding in any year the Gncome and revenue provided for it for such year, without the assent of two-thirds voting at an election to be held for that purpose, nor un- less before, or at the time of incurring such indebtedness, provision shall be made for the collection of ap annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on' such indebtedness as it falls nd also provision to constitute a sinking fund for the payment of the principal thereof on or before mat which shall not exceed forty years from the time of contracting the same;” provided, however, that the City and County of San Francisco may at any time pay the unpald claiMs with interest thereon for materials furnished to and work done for sald clty and county during the forty-third and forty-fourth flscal years, out of the income and revenue of any succeeding year,or years: pro- due, pa altering or for an: for any material furnished for any street, lane, | alley, court, piace or sidewall struction of any sewer or sewers in said city | and county are hereby excepted from the pro- | visions of this section: and in determining any claim permitted to be paid by this section, no statute of limitations shall apply in any man- ner: and provided further, that the City of | Valiejo, in Solano County, may pay its exist- ing_indebtedness incurred in the construction vaterworks, whenever two-thirds of the thereof voting at on election held for that purpose, shall so decide. Any indebted- ness or labllity incurred contrary to this pro- vision, with the exception hereinbefore recited, shall be vold. AMENDMENT NUMBER TWO. (Being Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 10.) A resolution proposing to the people of the State of Californta an amendment to the Con- stitution of the State, by adding & new sec- tion, to-be known and designated. as seven and one-half, article eleven thereof, pro- viding' for the framing by the inhabitants of countles, of local county government acts for thelr own government. The said proposed new section to read as follows: Section 7%. The inhabitants of any county may frame & county government act for thelr own government, relating to the matters here- inafter specified, and consistent with, and sub- ject to, the Constitution and laws of this State, by caueing a board of fifteen freeholders, who have been, for at least five years, qualified electors of such county, qualified electors of such county, at any gen- eral or speclal election, whose duty it shali be within ninety days after such election, to pre- pare and propose a county government act for guch county, which shall be signed in dupli- cate by thc members of such board, or a ma jority of them, and returned, one copy thereof %o the Board of Supervisors or other legisla- tive body of such county, and the other copy to be sent to the Recorder of Deeds of the county. Buch proposed county government act fthall then be published in two papers of gen- eral circulation in such county, or If there be ot two such papers, then in cne only, for at east twenty days, and within not less than thirty davs after such publication it shall be submitted to the qualified electors of such county, at & general or special election, and 1t @ majority of such qualified electors voting thereon shall ratify the same, it shall there- bmitted to the Legisiature for its after be su Jov its rejection or approval, as a whole, power of alteration or am roved by a majority of the mem! §o°sach house, it shall be the county govern- Tent act of such county, and shall in such case become the organic law thereof and super- sede any existing county government act, and a1l amendments thereof, and all spectal” laws Inconsistent with such county government act. "X copy of such county government act, certi- fied by the President of the Board of. Super- Tisors or other legislative body of such county, and authenticated by the seal of such count: Setting forth the submission.of such eoun government act to the electors, and its ratifiea fion by them, shall be made 'In duplicate and Geposited. oné in the office of the Secretary of Gtate, tho other, after being recorded in the office’ of the recorder of deeds in the county, among the archives of the county. All ‘courts shall take judicial notice thereof. The county government act go ratified may be amended, at intervals of not less than two SYears, by proposals therefor, submitted by the Jegistative authority of the county, to the Qualified electors thereof, at a general or special election held at least forty days after e ioublication of such proposals for twenty Joe P ewspaper of general circulation in o and ratifled by at least thres- fths of the electors voting thereon, e ofoved by the Legislature as herein pro- 2lied “for the approval of the county govern- ment act. such county, In submitting any such county gov- ernment act any alternative article or propoi iom may be presented for the choice of the voters, and may be voted on separately with- out prejudice to others. Tt Whali be competent in all county govern- ment acts framed under the authority given by This_ section, to provide for the manner in Which, the times at which, and the terms for Which' the several township and county officers iher than Judges of the Superior Court, shail 26 “dlected or appointed; for their compensa- tn; for the number of such officers, for the tonsolidation or segrezation of offices, for the Smber of deputies that each officer shall have, B Yor the compensation payable to each of ¢h deputles, for the manner in which, the e 4% ‘Which, and the terms for which the members of all boards of election shall be Hlected or appointed: and for the constitution, fesulation, compensation and government of Fuch boards, and of their clerks and attaches; s0, to prescribe the manner and method by Shich all elections by the people shall be con- Jucted: and may in addition determine the fests and conditions upon which electors, Jitical parties and organizations may partici- pate in any primary election. Whenever any county has, in the mannerand method herein pointed out, adopted any county overnment act, and the same shall have been broved by the Legislature as aforesald, the rections of sections four and five of this article providing for the uniformity of system of county governments throughout the Siate, and Mkewlse providing for the election and appointment of officers, and the regula- fion of thelr compensation, shall not apply, Sald county government act shall, as to any of the matters hereinabove provided for and de- clnred by such county government act, not be ubject to any law or amendment enacted by the Legislature, except by amendment first gubmitted to the electors and ratified in the manner hereinabove sat forth. AMENDMENT NUMBER THRE (Being Senate Constitutional Amendment No. 44.) A, resolution proposing to the people of the State of California an_amendment to the Con- itution of the State, by adding a new section, be known and desfgnated as section five an: one-half, article six. thereby providing for the organization of @ court, to be known as the Court of Claims, The sald proposed new sec- tion to read as follows: Eection &%, The Court of Claims shall con- stet of any thres Judges of the Superlor Court, ¥ho may be requisted by the Governor to hold court at the regular terms thereof. The Court ¢ Claims shall have exclusive jurisdiction to ear and determine all claims of every kind and character against the State, under such Jaws as may be passed by the Legislature, and ts judgment thereon shall be final, The ferma g€ the Court of Claims shall be heid os fol- fltblcl f Angeles, commenci the second Monday of In the City and émmty of San Francisce, eommencing on the second Monday In July, the Clty of Eacramento. LOMMENCIIZ OR E &) al | State of California, an amendment to section | the Constitu- | vided, that any and all claims for making, re- | work done upon or | or for the con- | otion | to be elected by the | MATION. the second Monday of November of each yeaf, The Judges holding such term of court shall receive no extra compensation therefor, but shall receive their actusl expenses, to be paid out of the general fund of the State treasury, The Legislature chall enact all laws necessary to organize such court, to proyide the pro cedure thereof and to carry out the provisiong of this section. Amendment AMENDMENT NUMBER FOUR. (Belng Assembly Constitutional No. 31) A resolution to propose to the people of the State of California an amendment to the Cone stitution of tie State, amending article eleven, by adding a new sectfon thereto, to be known as section number five and one-half, relating to | consolidated city and county governments. The | #ald proposed new section to read as sollow! Section §5%. The provisions of sections fous and five of this article shall not, nor shall any legislation passed pursuant thercto, apply to any consolidated city and county government, now exieting or hereafter formed, which shall have become, or shall become, organized under section seven, or sccure a charter under section elght of this article. AMENDMENT NUMBER FIVE. (Being Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 36.) A recolution to propose to the people of the State of Californja, an amendment of section | fiftcen and sectich sixteen of article five of the | Constitution of the State of California, by which it is proposed to amend sald sections to read as follows: Section 15. A Lieutenant Governor shall be elected at the same time and place and in the Same manner ag the Governor, and his term ot office and his qualifications shall be the same, | He shall be president of the Senate, but shali only have a casting vote therein. Section 16. In case of the impeachment of | the Governor, or his removal from office, death, fnability to dis rge the po and duties of his office, nation, or absence from the | , the powers and duties of the office shall | devolve upon the Lieutenant Governor for the residue of the term, or until the disability shall cease. And should the Lieutenant Gover- mor be | ched, dlsplaced, res aie, or hfcnme 1 pable of performing the duties of his T be absent from the State, the president * pro tempore of the Senate shall act | a8 Governor until the vacancy in tha offica of | Governor shall be filled at the next general | election when members of the Legislature shall | be chosen, or flity of the Lieu tenant Covernor sh: In case of o va- cancy in the office of Governor for any of th reasons above named, and neither the Lie | tenant Covernor nor the president pro tempore | of the Scnate shall succeed to the powers an | duties of Governor. then the powers and duties | of such office shail devolve upon the Speaker | of the Assembly, nntil the office of Governor shall be filled at such general ‘election. | AMENDMENT NUMBER SIX. (Belng Assembly Constitutional Amendmeny No. 38). A resolution to propose to the people of | Siate of Callfornia an amendment o Section | six, Article nine of the Constitution of the St | of ‘California, relating to grammar schools by | which it is proposed to smend sald section to | read as follows: | Section 8. The public school system shall in | clude primary and grammar schools, and such | high schools, evening schools, normal schools, | and technical schools as may be established by | the Legisiature or municipal or district authorify but the entire revenue derived from the State school fund and the State school ta: shall be applied exclusively to the support o primary and grammar schools. Grammar schools shall include schools organized in & echool adistrict, or union of school districts, having more than one thousand inhabitants, in which a course of study shall be taught which will prepare pupils to enter the agricultural, mining or sclentific department of the Uni- versity of California. AMENDMENT NUMBER SEVEN. (Being Assembly Constitutional Amendment No. 84). A resolution to propose to the le of the Sfate of California an amendment G0 Section two of Articie four of the Constitution, in relas tion to sessions of the Legislature, by which it is proposed to amend said section to read as follows: Section 2. The sessions of the Legislaturs shall commence at twelve o'clock meridian o the first Monday after the first day otr.n:.:x?x-rryl next succeeding the election of its members, and shall be blennial unless the Governor shalt | in the intertm convene the Legislature by proce lamation. The Lesislature shall then in sesson for twenty-five days, after which it must adjourn to some date not less than thirty nor more than sixty days from the time of ad- journment. If the two houses fail to agree upon a time at which they will resume thetr session, the Governor shall, by proclamatio | fix a date for such reconvening, which ehall be | within the limits above prescribed. Upon rec assembling, the Legislature shall compiste its session. No pay shall be allowed to members for @ longer period than seventy-five days, and no bill shall be introduced in efther house ex. cept at the first twenty-five days of the soeston | without the consent of three-fourths of thy members_thereof. nt to the provi. NOW, THEREFORE, Pursua sions of the Constitution, and Lesisiature of the State of Callfornia. ensitiig “An act to provide for the submission ot Lok posed amendments to the Constitution of ‘tp State of California, to the qualified eleotors fo their approval,”” approved March 7, A D 10y the above-deseribed nroposed amendments o hereby published and advertised to b obrs upon, by ballot, by the gualified electors of tha State, ot tho election Statd, ot 't to be held throughont A, D. 1898, TUESDAY, NOVEMEER 8, The sald proposed amendraents are to be sepe| and form as fol arately voted upon fn manner lows: 3 Fach ballot used at euch election mu, tain_ written or printed thereon the fof words, whereupon the voter choiee as provided by law: Amendment Number One, be; Constitutional - Amendment e 24 (exempting certain claims azainst th City and County of -San Francisco, ang the_existing Indebtedness of the " of Vallejo for the construo ow may express his 3 the ‘City water works from the provislons of the Constitution requirin to b paid from the Income And mims nues of the year in Which they '“l incurred), For the Amendment? Amendment Number Two, bl Constitutional Amendmtn{n!ll‘soen.g (providing for framing local ~ecount government acts by Inhabitants o counties elr gove: For the Amendments =~ onD- l Amendment Number Th 1 ete Constitutional Al’:le:r;d:flgl‘ S{x:‘ 4 4 (providing for the creation of 4 Court of Claims to determine clyime against the Stdte. and to consist of. thres Superlor, Judges desianated by e Gov serve wi compensation). Bl For the Amendment? Amendment ‘umber F Sembly . Constitutiona; ' Anein No. 31 (exempting consolidated cities and countles, organized or to be or-. ganized, or holding o charter un- der the ‘Gonstitution, from certain leg- slation in relation’ to For the Amendment? oo ue®): ] Amendment Number Fi sembly _ Comstitutional As- iment T being As- Ro. 36 (relating to ofice of Geaament providing for succeksion thersto tn S ioutonast Govera s alsabity e vernor other office during term). s i AF‘ord!hl {\g‘:flwnst? mendment Num ix, being Assem. biy Constitutional flendm:gt No. 58 relating and defini; rammar Schools). i For the Amendment? Amendment Number Sovs sembly onstitutional Amen No. 3¢ (providing for adjournment of en, bet: Legislature for not less th: nor more than sixty days Quring such For the Amendment? o 4 Ne Yes, e As- Yes session). “Na ‘Witness my hand reat Seal State of &Ilfommm%:yam year : first above written, : JAMES . BUDD, Governor, L3