The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 27, 1898, Page 2

.o THE SAN FRANOISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1898. fota the true Callfornfan’s loyalty and love of country. Mr. Maguire himself admits and glo- in the fact that he yoied against the T révenue bill. Now, is not this voting gainst the interests of his country? Can a Spanjard be found who would not ap- plaud Mr. Maguire's vote upon this bill which armed uipped for war our oldier: 1 citi- nd ve not complained rsh necessities of the hour, why i the unpatriotic of the Democracy attempt to make this an issue. Ma opposed the issuance of to carry on the war in ted that the bonds is- Government should not be yearing, thereby preventing their by, or sale to, the people. guire should deny the truth { refer to his support mendment_reported in mbe 104 of the Congres- April 29, 1508, where, on of the Record, Mr. Maguire S ccord 1544 to say sim- at the prop- . Chairman: 1 desire on the point of crder t ition embodied by U L to. sue interest-be that being true, certai to ue non-interest-he for tk me pUrpose ply o ring Prope obli I tion gatior ing propositi nee h salable. He > at all to be woul they with an times of p mer upon w interes yment, depenain, was his action not opposed to the expend- iture of money for Government uses in - pgoinst Spain? Was he not then voting in a direction opposite to that In which American bullets were flying? A government cannot create gold and It cannot dig the earth for the eclous metals, It cannot force the I world to accept its non-inter- ng obligations for the products bor. Laborers cannot pay their .debts with indefinite non-negotiable promises to pay, and no government fiat would keep such paper at par in tife commercial world. The Populistic gov- ernmental theory of flooding the commer. 1 world with unlimited paper money long since been f sities would not gl hment to-the rag baby to keep it a month. The Government. there rise the revenue both by tax- sale of bonds, and the non- exploded and_even ve sufficient Ltion Magu I ure as an intelligent man disregarding the fact and ve, perhups, the people o the real aspect of the bill, on fell upon the money to be raised by this | paid by the {wmpl\- at large and medicines, for the of the poor, and for . against the ‘common In the course of his further remarks, thanked the people of San the support given to him in convention at Sacramento, which red him_with the nomination for nor. economic, businesslike administration. The addre delivered by Mr. Gage ed with many expressions of roval. He gains in force effect as the campaign progresses. ruptions do not embarrass him, but on the contrary stimulate him. He was ir pted -by questions several times to-night and replied so readily | that he gained the nmendation of* his hearers. He was | a trained to speak. The introduction of General W. H. L. | Barnes was. the signal for a storm of | applause long continued. U. §. Grant | sented. the matchless orator with fe- licity of expression. He referred to the ral as the genfus of Oratory who ced at the hands of the Republi- can party anythine he should ask. General Barnes spoke for an hour and a half, holding the audierce by the rm of his eloquence. The telling —and there were many—were re- ceived with cheers. The audience, in- tell t and alert, quickly caught the | meaning and spirit of his remarks be- | fore the conclusion of a sentence. | 1 began to descend In showers as | 1 was speaking, but his hear- | s0 deeply interested that they | , eager to hear every word of erly appeal to the patriotism E: ence of the masses. Ma- guire received from the genera: what the Little Giant orching g.od tic, nihilistic, and demagogic course of hi roz anarch- socialistic, single tax utterances. In the »eech he said: It is not agreeable personality or my to me to force my individual committee In the | yolume of the U that the ring | guire, attempted, s that | gres vmplated by the bill would be in OT= | (00,000 s it simply eilmi-| o, that amount bearing 3 per cent inter- scount cum’ Knowing this, | | very. f bonds to meet the enormous | liture would have more than | o the <uxation upon the present | i | | | possible, to make his stronger, knowing that , and especially war | he appealed to the | with his party against| on the plea that the | poor. | I ask was not this voting in a « )site to that from which | in bullets were flying? | He promised, if elected, to| remember that the the people of California a clean, | the United States fr Affairs upon | [ | | HBAC e () gt Sthe mnHeh the pub- lic, but inasmuch as Replics . Maguire h: .lnc? to ently dr ne into his alleged debates of Falsehoods. | publ questions and represents me as_be- sse——— i18 n0W engaged in doing the bidding of the Southern Pacific Company, and as one who has no other means of subsistence, and claim tion to 1 addr: not to th that when 1 put up my pe : given this day my dafly bread, my f to Mr. Huntington, and at Bread Giver, I venture to make a few observations before pro- ceeding to the discussion of questi which really should occupy the attention of every man who enters upon the public discussion of public issues. The entire basis of Mr. Maguir ault upon me a i found in the t that T have accepted retainers in litigated cases, and have ap- ared in the courts of this State on b f of the Southern Pacifie Company. “or a number of years I have bgen in the employ of this company in a profes- sional w but, as the company knows and as everybody else who knows me is aware, my retainer has always stopped at the Courthouse door. have never been in politics with the company nor for the company. 1If, as Maguire says, it at- tempts to or does dominate the Repub- lican party, I know nothing of the fact. 1 have mnever been in its :olillca.l confl- dence if It has any to award. I have never discussed a political question or a poli- tician with any officer of the company, and, so far as public matters are con- cerned, I am as free as any other cit- izen of this Btate. Nobody knows this better than James G. Maguire. I have enjoyed more or less his acquaintance for the last nine. teen years, and have watched his polit- ical antics with considerable mteresg. It he was not a sand-lotter, one of those disturbers of the public peace, who, in the latter part of the seventies, gave the olice of San Francisco so much to do, e was_ politically born upon the sand lot at about the same time when the in. famous Isaac Kalloch became Mayor of San Francisco. Ever since then he has been either in public_office or busy seeking to obtain one. He has been an Assemblyman, a Judge, a Congressman, and, in the inter- vals of his office-holding career, has been engaged in the precarious practice of his profession. ~He knows all about my in- come, but I know nothing more of his than that as an alleged public servant of one kind or another he has drawn from the pubiic treasury a sum approximating $60,000, altho pretending to be o mem. ber of a party whose avowed principle is that public salaries shall” correspond with the price of labor and its products. Dur- ing all his public carcer I have never heard of his inftiating any movement to reduce his own salary, whether as As- semblyman, Judge or Congressman, and he is now in full cry after an office whose compensation I8 $ a i’ear. He goes beforc the Populists claiming to be with them heart and soul, assuring them that he will faithfully and earneatly devote himself to the accomplishment of the purposes of the Popullsts as declared in tf:eir National and State platforms. He declares that he is in favor of irre- geemable natiopal money to be lssued v full legal tender for public and private debts, which said irredempable national money is to be fairly disbursed by the Government of the people, ‘What this lawful distribution may im- ply may perbaps be better understood by referring to an earlier nlatform of the national Populists in which it was de- manded that the Government -h:afld 1ssue th le for tneir use {rr ble )tag.pernm without consideration, in an amount equal to the sum of per capita the general Government only as a | | heart. | tional amendment remitting | to every man, woman and child in the Unjted S(atesl Maguire is In favor of the free colnnfie of sliver at the ratio of 16 to 1, without the concurrence or aid of any forelgn power, though he knows that free and unlimited coinage of silver at this ratio now simply means that a quantity of silver bullion may be taken to the mints of the United States and that the owner thereof shajl receive therefor as many United Statcs standard silver legal tende dollars as can be coined from that bullion. In other words, he intends that the United States mint shall give $12929 in United States standard silver legal tender dollars in_exchange for 10,000 ounces of gilver hullion worth_only %6000 at the standard of to-day. It means that a man ¢ exchange 1000 Mexican dollars worth to-day $460, for $1000 In mone; the United States. The United States mint shall give to the holder of the Msxlr‘:n: 1 dollars 31000 in United States stan legal silver dollars, which under our pr ent system are worth that amount in gold. He is in favor, as I of irre- deemable natio money to be issucd in such sums as shall gely increase the medium. this_doctrine ing Mr. Ma- ifth Con- circulating as the apostles of Democrats, inc in’ the ution of an f; acks in the p It w ue of $15 he subst 0 5 ce of bonds n green ublicans. It me idea that v_the Re est, as nce of this 1S Propo: was in pu the Populists have demanded that there shall be no further issue of United States intere ring Mr. Maguire and those who are with him in this insane proposition know per- fectly well that nowhere in the world is money loaned without the lender, more or less reasonable ac- cording to circumstances, gnd that if non- interest bearing bonds could be put out by the Government to run, say, twenty vears, they could be sald in the market only at such a discount as would make their face at maturity equal to principal | and intercet at such a rate as other inter- est-bearing bonds may bear. 3 Mr, Maguire, and those who were with him in this scheme to {ssue $150,000,000 ir- redeemable greenbacks, knew periectly well that such an issue would be subject to a simiiar discount, and, indeed, to a much greater depreciation. The non-interest bearing bonds might be paid at some fixed period. Irredeemable green- backs are never to be ransomed by the Government elther in gold or silver, but are to be replaced as long as the Gov- ernment can get hold of paper and main- tain a printing press. This country has had enough of such crazy propositions. And it is fertunate for the nation and for its financial repu- tatlon at home and abroad that Mr. Ma- guire and his allies failed in their efforts 1o create the impression- that the issue of greenbacks was vastly preferable to an issue of bonds, because the greenbacks created = a non-interest-bearing debt. while bonds would draw 3 per cent. It would geem impossible to make them un- derstand the of the argument upon which this fragment of the Popu- list's crazy-quilt is made. Bxperience is said to be the only school which will teach a fool, but even ex- perience has falled to be instructive to a Maguire. ‘We have learned that paper, no matter what is printed on it,%has no intrinsic value, and that the worth of paper money must depend upon the Fiuctuation | jower of the Govern- | ment to keep It at par of the with the best money of the world, which Greenback. | was gold during the civil war, and is gold | to-day. No one but these people fails to al tender notes of the time thelr Is- sue commenced in 182 down to January, e e e B b Bl o underwent tremendous fluctuation which injured commerce, made business difficult and dangerous and produced endless con- fusion in all the financial relations of the citizens of the United States with each but a greenbacker other. Nobo will bushel of grain, and every fon of hat every article manufactured, that Service and labor rendered, involved a to.abridge his Speech in | sacrifice at that rate of 51 cents on every ler to allow time for General Barnes | 40! K. llar due. From 1865 to 1869 greenbacks fluctuated compensation to | mer recreation or the grave in which he shall ultimately rest. It is a principle which prevents investments, retards de- velopment and brings about at last that confusion In property and destruction of values which s the glory of anarchism, and would be the pride of that Ijemocracy of Europe ty which Mr. Maguire so proudly alluded in his speech in Congress on thé 27th of January, 1897, in which he declared that the exclusion of anarchists, socialists and nihilists from the United States was not desirable, and | that they were generally educated.men, many of them holding university degrees, vhose offense consisted of resistance to | tyranny, which in the conditions under | which they lived was obedience to God. Who are the nihilists? “They are the Democrats of Russia who are struggling against almost hopeless conditions o es- tablish the natural and inalienable rights. of man in that country as against the tyranny and false pretense of divine right on the part of the Czar.” If James G. Maguire had uttered no other sentiment d of property and the public tranquility than these he would be unfit to hold. the oflice of Governor, or any other office in | the gift of the people of the State of Cali- fornia. He insolently asks: “Who are the nihilists?” I will answer. They are the men who murdered the Emperor of Russia, the men who mur- dered Carnot, the President of the French Republic; they are the men who threw | trom the gallery into the pit of a Bar- celona theater a dynamite bomb which | destroyed I know not how many inno- | cent human lives; they are the men who | cast the dynamite bombs into the crowded | Haymarket Square of Chicago; they are | the men ot whom one stabbed in the back an aged woman sojourning in Swit- zerland, a human being whose life had been full of charity and good works, who | loved her people and who was loved by ‘lhem—slm?l{ and only because she was the wife of Irancis Joseph of Austria. These wretches, no one of whom as far | as has been detected was a gentleman | holding a university degree, were mainly | | eriminals under the ban of justice and | | secking by murder to reduce all mankind | and all property to one common level of | misery and horror. There is net a den of these scoundrels existing to-day in: "Burope in which James G. Magulire would | | not be an honored guest and to which he would not be elected, upon the reading of | this certificate, to honorary membership. | _There is not an anarchist or nihilist in | Europe who, seeking refuge from merit- | ed justice and searching for some quar- 1m— of the globe where he would be im- | mune, on_‘reading this declaration of | James G. Maguire, if Maguire were after- | ward Governor of California, would not turn his face hitherward and come to him sure of protection and immunity, no matter what crime he might commit in | the name of nihilism against good order, law, government and_propert-: ructive of the rights | |ONE LIFE PROBABLY LOST | estimated at between 340,000 and $50,000; | guests in the hotel at the time, but none | were injured and nearly all saved their ! personal effects. | leaving the building. | were not damaged, but the main part | | was thoroughly soaked with water | wing destroyed was four stori2s high and | | cuntained the kitchen, dining rooms anl | | rocme for help, | Elect Maguire Governor and you place | | him at the head of the list of villainous | demagogues who have disgraced public office in the United States, and In the | front ranks of which have hitherto | marched Waite, Pennoyer, Weaver, Alt- geld, Leedy, Tillman and Debs. | ~ California’ wants no Governor who is | crazy or foolish enough to avow sym- | pathy for this dastardly and cowardly | class of criminals. It will elect no man | sovernor of the State who would have it in his power to pardon the cowardl class of crimes of such assassins an m the golden State at least | during his term of office a- safe harbor of refuge for them. Tt will have for Gov- ernor no man to whom the club of Denis Kearney has descended as a scepter of right, and who will make California as hot for people who have money to in- vest or who have money to keep as Kearney ever sought to make it. { The inauguration of such a Governor, the whirling maze of sand-lotters, single- taxers, Populists, Coxeyites and social- ists, bellowing for all sorts of financial and social heresies would terrify every | man secking investment in this State and | drive every one otherwise seeking to im- prove and develop its resources to some | portion of our blessed land where Ma- fiulro and Maguireism are happily un- nown. The peroration was beautiful and im- pressive. Men and women of the vast assemblage as they wended their way | their homes talked of General | to | Barnes’ great speech and predicted a | great Republican triumph. To-mor- from 63 cents to 75 cents, in the year 1870— | row night Gage and Barnes will ad- the year In which the Franco-Prussian war broke out—they rose to 8 cents, feil again in 1873, rose to in 1874, and dropped again to $7 cents Tn 1575. At this time agitation began in favor of the re- sumption of specie payments, a Republ can measure initiated and carried through by the Republican party, and, under thes stimulus of this hope, greenbacks as- sured of redemption after gradual yearly advancement went to é\nr when specie payments were resumed. Toes any man having property, or ex- pecting to have property, desire a re- newal of such condit‘ons? In fact, no sensible or reasonable per- son does, but Mr, Maguire, with his hair full of fictitious hay seeds, and his ears adorned with Imitation straw, goes through the country standing upon a platform and shouting for a condition of things which he knows would be ab- solutely ruinous to the best prospects of the country. He Is in favor of depriv ing his fellow citizens of the right to make contracts for the payment of money in whatever coin the debior and credi may t. He is in favor of hav the Government borrow gold and repay its debt in depreciated silver. He is in favor of an income tax public revenue, although it has been cided by the Supreme Court of the Unit States that such a2 tax is unconstitution He is in favor of the Government ow ship of all railroads and t more than all, he is in favi ernment takin 0 all Emd‘s method of cess of the actual present needs of the owner thereof. And here is where the single tax is ex- pected to play its part. Of this fallacious, dangerous and socialistic dogma Mr. Ma- guire has been an advocate to the utmost of his ability. Not later than November 6th, 15886; in a communication .o the Examiner néws- paper, he declared that the land question | was coming and was then near at hand, and that the single tax idea had largely | and generally taken hold of the popular He declared that already the sln- le taxers demanded t ractical efforts . commenced immediately to force the issue into polities in California. He made the following statemen: “The Leglisiature will be asked at its next | s a constitu- the whole question of taxation for State, county and municipal purposes to the Legislature as a first step toward the single tax. The moment that amendment is submitted the battle will be on in earnest.” And I here call your attention to amendment No. 2, being Senate constitu- tional amendment No. 10, providing for the framing of local county government acts by inhabitants of counties for their government, and providing that each county and municipality may determine the method and mode of taxation for county and municipal purposes. This proposed amendment to the con- stitution {s now before the people, and, with Mr. Bfuh’e as Governor of the State of California, this single tax bat- tle will indeed be on in earnest. In this same communication he declares that every human being has a natural rela- tlon to the land, the common herllags of all mankind, from the immediate gift of the Creator, which no common law can or ever could rightfully cut off by any form or system of land tenure. . He denies that the ownership of land has ever added the value of a farthing to the world's wealth, or a jo{ stock of happiness; that it is a sor#ld and extortionate system which compels the session to submit to the vo masses of God's cnildren to pay tribute to | a few for the privilege of ° inhabiting God’s earth, And ue allowed that the only sclentific and effective remedy for what he calls land monopoly was wie sin- gle tax. This single tax dogma is commonly understood to mean that the burden of taxation for national, State and county and municipal pul‘t)u!eil shall fall upon the land alone; that personal property of all kind, stocks, bonds, money. buildings of all kinds In cities and In the country, shall go frge of taxation; that the great railway corborations shall be taxed only upon their right-of-way, leaving fran- chises,” depots, shops, machinery and roll- lnfi stock free of any charge or burden whatever which may ald to support the cost of government, It would naturally secem that a dogma so absurd as this would furnish its own answer. And so it does from every eco- nomic point of view. The real object of the single tax is not to place the burden of taxation where it properly belongs, upon all property of all kinds and wher- ever situated, but to so burden land that its owner cannot afford to hold any more thx is absolutely necesfar for fi’qs im- meRiate personal needs while livin, for his grave when dead, and tha balance of his present holdings shall go into the public treasury whence the et the land shall be given out .to the people according to the Govern- ment’s cem?rehenalon of the necessities of the people. If this is not soclalism of the most advanced and pernicjous kind, no mfi‘b :"nt:émt socialism II)...“ Let e adopted, and no man s own his farm, his city lot, his place of sum- | dress the people of Santa Ana. to the user's | HUMBOLDT REPUBLICANS. Hold a Big Rally and Organize a! | Gage Club. BUREKA, Cal., Sept. 36.—The Republi- | | cans opened thelr campaign this evening Lecome due January 1, 102, amounting to at Russ Hall, where an enthusiastic rally was held, and the Henry T. Gage Repub- | | lican Club of Humboldt County organ- | 1zed with 300 members. Ringing speeches | were made by J. P. Monroe and T. Selvage, prominent Republican orators, arraigning Maguire and commending Mc- Kinley, advocating Republican principles and asking for the support of the Gage- Neff ticket. Selvage sald the election of Maguire would be equivalent to slapping McKinle of McKinley's worst enemies in Con- | Eress. | A drill_corps will be organized to-mor- | row night, and a lively campaign vAll be carried on. Gage will speak in this county during the campaign. Ormsby County Nominees. CARSON CITY, Sept. 26.—There was no opposition to the following ticket at the | | Republican County Convention to-da Senator, George H. Mills; Assemblymen- Augustus Cutts, Ed T. Dupuls, H. B, Van- eatten; Sheriff, Gilbert Briggs; Clerk and | Treasurer, George Tyrrell; Auditor and | | Recorder, Charles Peters; District Attor- | | ney, Samuel Platt; long term Commis- | sioner, J. P. Woo.oury; short term | Commissioner, Robert Grimmon; Justice | of the Peace, W. Goodman; Constable, | | W. H. Christle; | Trinity’s Republiean Ticket. WEAVERVILLE, Sept. 26.—The Re- publican County Convention which met here to-day nominated the following tick- et: Sheriff, A. J. \&3; Matre; Cougty Clerk and Recorder, George R, Wallace; Assessor, B. L. Newman; Treasurer, A. J. Davidson; Superintendent of Schools, | Lizzle H. Fox; Coroner and Public Ad- | ministrator, Dr. G. K. Osbourne; Dis- trict Attorney, D. J. Hall; Supervisor First District, J. Boyce;' Supervisor Fourth District, G. W. Yocum. S LUPA Lo % Walk-Over for Republicans. BUISUN, BSept. 26.—The Democratic Central Committee of Solano County met in Sulsun to-day. Raleigh Barcar of Vacaville was elected chairman, H. K. White of Benicia secretary and J. A. Lamont of Vallejo treasurer. John Ryan of Benicla was chosen as the nominee for Supervisor in the Third District. Other vacancles, Includlnfi Clerk, Auditor and Surveyor, were not filled wnd the Re- ublican nominees for same offices will gave no opposition. NEW YORK DEMOCRATIC ' STATE CONVENTION Delegates Gathering at Syracuse and Gubernatorial Booms Are aunched, SYRACUSE, Sept. 26.—~Many of the 450 delegates to the Democratic State Con- vention on Wednesday, are here to-night. Each candiflate for a place upon the | State ticket is well represented. Among | the first upon the ground was the Erie County delegation, and the gubernatorial | boom “of Justice Robert C. Titus was among the earllest to be launched here. Mayor James K. MoGuire's frignds are H]uturally numerous and enthuslastic in s home town, All the Tammany delegation have not yet arrived, but there are a sufficient pumber here to keep the talk of Mayor Van Wyck's candidacy before the pub- lic. His chances, however, received a ;e:‘ bnfk tf-nl hlt w‘}im members of the srie County delegation announced Mer. Croker had R{nled to them (hltt{l.: | candidate for Governor would ge | named from territory south of Albany. Mr. Croker has stated from the be- glasge has Tossman il ol oot 438 would not, ate for a posi- tion on the State ticket. o & Sunkald g Sage Must Pay the Tax. WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—Russell Sage has had a controversy with the Collector of Internal Revenue at New York relative to the instruments of writing used b; | brokers and known as_ "p:l&l." “calls" uns | “spreads. Sage ap{)ul to the Com- | missioner of Internal Revenue, who has | decided against him, and rules that the papers referred to are taxable at the rate | was alive. | debris. | about the INORTHERN PACIFIC’S "In Addition to Owning the Road, a | Railroad Company. Master Cary finds | | that there is due the Creditors' Company, { although it has succeeded in acquiring | { elfie, the enormous sum of $86,202,681 73, | with interest from S 1o settle in the face, as Maguire was one $18,000,000. | SMALLPOX AMONG of 2 cents for each $100 or fraction thereof of the amount, — To Cure a Cold in One Day R T HOTEL VENDOME | VISITED BY FIRE Rear Wing of the Struc- ture Collapses. FIREMAN MARK McDERMOTT MISSING. Guests Escape From the Burning . Building Without Injury, Sav- ing Most of Their Personal ¥ Effects. 8peclal Dispatch to The Call, SAN JOSE, Sept. 25,—Only a miracle saved the Hotel Vendome from total de- struction by fire to-night. As it was, the rear wing of the hotel burned.two stortes down and then collapsed. The loss is fully insured. There about were 100 There was great excitement among the guests, but all had time to dress before Considerable tur- niture and beddlng in the hotel was car- ried out. President McDonald sald the loss would reach nearly $0,000. The structure will be rebullt at once, Tte north and south wings of the hotei The | About twenty guests al¥o lived in this portion. | ‘When the wing of the hotel collapsed | | four firemen who were in the matn bulld- | ing fighting the flames where the wing | adjoins, were dragged down In the wreck, | | Miles McDermott of Eureka Company is | believed to be dead, as he has not been heard of. Dick Williamson of Torrent Company | |is pinned beneath a heavy beam. At 2 o'clock his head was uncovered and he | He s badly injured, but it will be some time before he is taken out. | James Nagle and Edward Hultz were on the third floor, and fell on top of the | Nagle was badly burned about | the legs and arms and Hultz Injured head by striking timbers. Fred Hambly, Paul Farrer, Frank Hogan, P. Gilleran, George Welch and | Jack Doyle saved themselves by cling- | ing to the hose and swinging back into | the main building. GENERAL CREDITORS | , Vast Sum Is Found to Be | Due Them. MILWAUKEE, Sept. 2.—8pecial Mas- | ter Cary has filed a decision in the United States Court of great importance to the general creditors of the Northern Pacifi | the entire property of the Northern Pa- | ember 1. This may | be added to & further sum which will | 4 The only tangible assets of the North- ern Pacific Company that remain are the lands east of the Missouri River in North Dakota and Minnesota. There are nearly four million acres, but there is a great deal of litigation to be settled first with reference to taxes that have not been pald and the holders of tax certificates with. These lands are in the sion_of Recelvers Bigelow and Me- and are valued at not more than posse: {enr; The decision, if upheld, will give the company about 9 per cent of the pro- ceeds from the sale of the lands, with 10 per cent to the other general creditors. - AMERICAN TROOPS Special cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 1888, by James Gor- don Bennett. MAITLA, Sept. 25 (delayed in trans- mission).—There are five mild cases of smallpox among the American troops. The men have been isolated and sur- geons do not fear any spread of the disease. Payson Caldwell of the Thirteenth Minnesota Re; iment, a ‘well-known so- ciety man of Minneapolis, died sud- denly on Saturday of perforation of the intestines cons quent upon an acute at- tack of dysentery. FIERCE FIGHTING IN FRENCH WEST AFRILA Army of Sofas Defeated by Soudan- ese Sharpshooters in the French Service. PARIS, Sept. 26.e-An official dispatch from Bt. Louls, Benegal, French West Africa, says a force of Soudanese sharp- shooters in the French service, com- manded by Lieutenant Waolfel, has de- feated an army of Sofas, under one of Samory’s chiefs, capturi; men ane selzing 300 Gras riffes an ?un.ntltles of ammunition. It {s added that the French had one sharpshooter wounded. —— CRAMPED BY LOANS ON WESTERN MORTGAGES Appointment ot a Receiver for the New England Loan and Trust Company. NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—Otto T. Bannard of 30 Broadway was to-day appointed re- celver of the New England Loan and Trust Company by Judge Shipman of th United States Circuit Court, on a su brouuhg B ll":'lelfllflnl ES:!“S. t"!“ll?lul i?}rp pany o adelphia, ant al lon of 8t. Albans, Vt. > The company was a large lender of money of Western mortgages, ——— DEADLY CYCLONE AT MERRITON, ONTARIO ST. CATHERINES, Ontario, Sept. 26.— A cyclone struck Merriton, ten miles from this city, with terrible violence this after- noon, killing three persons and injuring many. The dead are: Clara O'Nefll, em- gloyed in the Lincoln Paper Mills; Mrs. ohn Bickley and Frank Moffatt. Portuguese Republicans Meet. SAN LEANDRO, Sept. 26.—The Portu- guese McKinley Republican Club of San Leandro met Saturday evening. After transacting the usual business 1% ch;h Faaned a resolution to indorse the ican State candidates for office and Vic- The Growth of Socialism. 1t In argued by deep thinkers that the of soctalism is due to the large standing of the world, in which men are often made to enlist against thelr will, and thus become dis- contented with existing conditions. The growth ::.l: o Hostatter' ’ Biteaen wh s B t P or mlnuw!n Bitters, which 1s mfi. ague and all nervous troul wth | nine miners from nearly every tor H. Metcalf for Congress, county can- didates being left over for another meet- ing. The club has a roll of over 1w mem- ers. ALL CALIFORNIA GETS A WETTING Rainfall of the Past Tnree Days General Throughout the State. SAN JOSE, Sept. 26.—The rainfall last night amounted to .26 of an inch, a total for the storm of 133 inches. TRACY, Sept. 26.—The first rain of the season visited Tracy about 11 o’clock last night, several showers falling between that hour and morn.ag. STOCIKTON, Sept. ffi.—-ll began rain- ing hard here shortly after 2 o'clock to- day with no sign of a let-up. BAKERSFIELD, Sept. 2.—Rain began falling yesterday afternoon and continued all night and most of to-day. The gauge shows thgl precipitation to have been .9 of an inch. PORTERVILLE. Sept. .—The first rain for this season commenced to fall Sunday afternoon and continued steadily until 3 p. m. to-day, the total precipitation for the storm amounting to 2.10 inches. the heaviest for any one storm since 1892. YUBA CITY, Sept. 2.—The first rain of the season fell last night amounting to .41 of an inch. TULARE, Sept. 26,—Almost four inches ?f rain has fallen In the last twenty-four hours. SAN MIGUEL, Sept, 26.—As a result of the rainfall last evening and to-da: farmers are beginning to feel hopeful at the cessation of the drought. VISALIA, Sept. 26.—The first rain of the season commenced falling last evening. and continued until to-day noon. The fall ;x'as 3.5¢ inches, the heaviest in the his- ory 26.—Rain fell here last nl&ht to the depth of .48 of an inch. VOODLAND, Sept. 26—It has been raining here at intervals since Saturday evening. e BRINGS MANY MINERS, BUT LITTLE GOLD DUST Steamer Fulton Arrives atPort Town- send From Alaska—New Strikes and Disasters. PORT TOWNSEND, Wash., Sept, 26.— The steam schooner Fulton arrived to- night, fourteen days from St. Michael, ving encountered several severe gales during the voyage. She brought fifty- mining district in Alaska, and among the crowd, according to the statement of the purser, there is only between $50,000 and $100,000 in gold dust. Among the passengers were John Em- erson of Minnegota and Charles Danfels of Honolulu, who left Kotzebue Sound August 2. They have prospected nearly every stream emptying into the sound, but ‘found nothing bevond small colors. They heard nothing of the reported strike on the River. y to return south. the houses which opened there to catch the trade of the miners had their goods packed ready for shipment to some other point. Seventeen prospectors are known to ! have been drowned during the season at Bottom Inlet. Many others are missing. They are supposed to have lost their lives in attempting to ascend the small rivers. GOMEZ'’ RESPONSE TO \ NEW YORK, Sept. 26—A Washington | special to the Herald says: When asked to-day what action would be taken by this Government ‘upon the appeal sent out for food by Cuban. General Gomez, Acting Secretary Meiklejohn said to me that the landing of the stores of the Comal was a reply to that appeal. It is expected that the Comal will begin by to-morrow un- loading her stores at Matanzas, and this cargo will be followed by others as neces- sity develops. I was to-day Informed by a high official that no food would be dis- tributed to men under arms, so that the orce under Gomez must disband before receiving supplies. This Government was &t first firm in its refusal to allow food to be distributed to Cubans -otherwize than under direction of American officers as provided by an act of Congress. NEW REBELLI&I BREAKS OUT IN SAN DOMINGO Speclal cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, 188, by James Gor- don Bennett. CAPE HAYTIEN, Haytl, Sept. 25.—Re- port has reached here of a new uprising | in San Domingo, led by Miguel Picardo, acting Governor of Monte Cristi, to which point troops were recently seit by the Government. A battle is said to have occurred near Monte Cristi yesterday. Darby Admitted to Bail. FRESNO, Sept. 26.—Frank Darby, ac- cused of killing Louls Boldini, whose trial occupied the Superior Court all last week, at the end of which the jury failed to agree, asked this morning {0 be admitted to bail. Judge Webb granted the request, fixing the bond at $5000. ‘rhe Judge stated from the bench that the bond must be as good as cash before he will aceept it, i cdaly Drowned at Mare Island. VALLEJO, Sept. 26.—Louis A. Hottin ger, an apprentice on the Pensacola, wa drowned alongside the ship last eyening. He was returning to the vessel from a boat and missed his foothold on the swinging boom falling into the water. A strong flood tide was running and he was lost to sight in a few moments, v i Pool-Seller Convicted. SACRAMENTO, Sept. 2%.—In the City Justice’s Court to-day Frank A. Daroux was found fiullly of conducting a pool- room and selling pools on the E‘allfnrnla Jockey Club races. He was fined $50. The case will be carried to a higher court. piEziade Killed by a Fall. BEATTLE, Sept. 26.—John McGregor, a sallor, either fell or was {ulhed out of a second-story window last night and in- e the | About 1500 men | APPEAL FOR FOOD | stantly killed. He fell a distance of twen- ty-four feet and struck the sidewalk head rst, SANTA BARBARA CONFERENCE ENDS After the Announcement of Appoint- ments Dele sates Depart for Their Homes. % SANTA BARBARA, Sept. 26.—THe final day’s session of the Methodist Episcopal to & close this afternoon at 3 o'clock, af- ter the reading of the appointments by Bjshop John Hurst. The Bishop in his final address spoke in the highest praise of the conference and said that it Had been one of the most successful he had ever attended. ‘The conference opened with devotional services conducted by Evangelist Charles N. Crittenton. The entire morning was taken up with con- ference business and final reports from the different committees. A great many delegates boarded this afternoon's train for their homes. Bishop Hurst will Te- main in Santa Barbara for a short visit. He has been collecting curios and old California relics for the museum of the. {smerican University at Washington, | “Among the conference appointments to- | day were the following: | ¢ Fresno District—Presiding Elder, T. G. Mil- “’fr, Arroyo Grande, W. R. Bel Bakerefield, this morning ell Sigley . Rich; Estrelia, P, A. Tlilmore, . | A. B. Emree; Fresno, A. Graves; Goleta, C. | W. Stowell; Grangesille, J. A. McMillan; Han- | ford, A Miller; Hueneme, A. M. Oshorne; Kern, Stephen Gascoigne; Kernville, J. .C. Livingstone; Lompoe, J,C. Elliott; Los Alamos, | J. H. Henry: Piru, B. A. Johnson: Reedley and Traver, William Dunwoodie; Sanger and Easton, G. E. Foster; San Luis Obispo, J. M | Hilbish: Santa_Barbara, C. A. Westenbers; | Santa Paula, Frederick Miller; San Miguel, | Alfred Ramey; Santa Maria and Nipomo, 'S. S, Sampson; Selma, S. B. Woolport; Tehachapi, | | & | E. 8 Chase: Visalla, J. H. J‘nnd Lakeside, H. N. Baker; West Saticoy and Montalvo, F. W, Johnson; Edward Thompson, secretary Biple Soclety. 'SIR ARTHUR CURTIS \ COMMITTED SUICIDE Story Told by a Member of His Party Just Back From the Ash- croft Trail. VANCOUVER, Sept. 26.—Sir Arthur Curtis, the English Baronet who disap- peared mysteriously from the Ashcroft suicide. This is the statement made by Ambrose Atwood, a member of ‘the un- fortunate nobleman's ill-starred expedi- tion to the Klondike. Atwood -reached | here from Port Simpgon on the steamship | Horsa, after encountering untold suffer- ings on the trail, His story differs in many respects from that told by Roger Pocock several months ago. Atwood says that after Quenselle was passed the party quarreled frequently. isaster after disaster followed them, their horses bein; ruined by rain. grlosl and their outfits he quarrels drove Sir Arthur to distraction, and daily he be- came more_despondent. trackless forest, which runs hundreds of miles to the barren lands of the great northwest, final disaster overtook the party, and they quarreled more fiercely than ever. Onc morning after the horses had strayed into the wood and while sev c;‘a! in camp were en tion, inged in an alterca- Sir_Arthur, looking like a mad- hed out of his tent, crying: d's sake, men, don't act like | He then got into a quarrel with a brother Englishman and they almost came to blows. but no one paid any attention to the re- mark. After a while he calmed down, and, lighting his pipe, said he would look for | the horses, He walked into the forest, | and was never seen again. |, “We all think now.” said Atwood, “that | he carried out his threat and threw him- | self into one of the dark, slugflsh streams | that run through the forest. believe the | Indians who have been searching for his | body know where it is, but will not give |1t up until the reward is larger. At the present time $1000 is offered, and the want $3000.. Before 1 left word wflsrecelves | that Sir -Arthur's English relatives were on the way out and ‘would continue the search.” Atwood is an educated Boston man and | ‘;ens ;\la story simply and with'a convinc- | ing alr. NEGRO LYNCHFD BY | KNOXVILLE, Sept. 26.—A special to the Sentinel from Mountain City, Tenn., says: About 2 o'clock this morning a mob of 1100 men overpowered the Johnson County | Jailer and took John Williams, the negro | who serfously stabbed Sherman Dunn and | assaulted Mrs. Mollie Shelton in this county a week ago, from jail and hanged him to_a tree about oné mile back of | town. His body is still hanging, with a large crowd standing about, - Claims He Was Defrauded. | WOODLAND, Sept. 26.—W. H. Grant of | this city by his attorneys, Bridgeford & | Clunie, has commenced action against J. | F. Hink in the Superior Court of San | Francisco to recover $500 paid to the de- fendant as the purchase price of 100 | shares of stock in the Cadmus Gold Min+ | ing Company. The plaintiff alleges that the stock is worthless and that he was imposed upon by defendant, who repre- sented that the mine was a valuable one and_that the stock woui. soon draw & | dividend. A great many residents of | Woodland were inauced to invest in this mine. — Pacific Coast Pensions. WASHINGTON, = Sept. 26. — Pensions have been granted as follows: California: Original-Mason Jacks Los Angeles, $8. Increase—Robert (. B’gfl: S danington: * Orlginal—G Vashington: riginal eorge H. - vis, St. Andrews, $6. e P e Ex-Governor Pattison Declines. PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2%6.—Ex-Gover- nor Robert E. Pattison, who was nom- inated for Congress a few days ago b; the Democrats of the Sixth Districr, to. day formally declined the nomination. @ ADVERTISEMENTS. LADIES' CAPES $1.00. ‘We offer this as a great leader to city and country patrons everywhere, There are many good reasons, why you should buy one, even if you have made up your mind that you can afford a $10 wrap this winter. Shall we glve you some of these reasons? Well we will when you come in or send to look at the capes. 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LADIES nwmn DR.FELIX LE BRUN'S b i e két. Price, $1.00; sent by mail. Genuine sold only by GEO. DAHLBENDER & Ci 214 Kearny st., San Francisco. | Age, tologt 1 Sole Agents, “NO QUACKS.” A good Electric Belt will cure WITHOUT MEDICINE. till you Mention this paper. United States Branch. STATEMENT ——OF THE~— CONDITION AND AFFAIRS ~—OF THE— Palatine INSURANCE COMPANY F MANCHESTER, ENGLAND, ON THB 81st_day of December, A. D. 1397, and for the year ending on that day, Bs made to the | Insurance Commissioner of the State of Cali- fornia, pursuant to the provisions of sectlons 610 and 611 of the Political Code, condensed per blank furnished by the Commissianer. ASSETS. Loans on bonds and mortgages. Cash market value of all stocks and bonds owned by company. Cash in company’s office. Cash In banks,. Interest due and accrued on all stocks and loant .. 13,3750 Interest due and accrued on bonds and mortgages ... . 500 Premiums in due course of collection 355,57 80 LIABILITIES. Losses adjusted and un Losses in process of in suspense .. Losses resisted, including expenses. Gross premiums on fire risl ning one year or reinsurance 5 per cent ross premiums on more than one year, $1,013,- Total assets justment of nin ; reinsurance pro rata 504,675 08 e AR other demands againat the come Total Habilitles ............ IN COME. Net cash actually received for fire premium 132,000,740 24 1,600 00 Recelved for interest on bonds and ages ........ = Rerolved" tor ‘interest and aividends lcans and from on bonds, stocks, . all other sources. Total income ... : EXPENDITURES. N unt paid for fire losses (in- o aime "f2f306 56, losses of. e ..41,121,208 29 vious years)... Paid or allowed fof commission or brokerage ........: .. 416,05 51 Pald for saiaries, fees and other charges for officers, cler] 173,718 48 Paid 45,309 83 ind expenditures 5,068 41 Total expenditures . $1,860,480 48 Fire. Losses incurred during the yea: $1,035,689 00 Fire Risks. [Premiums, es . t £ 5 Risks and Premiums. Net amount of risks writ- ten during the year... Net amount of risks ex- lnth dul‘ll’llg the year.. et amount fn force De-| cember 31, 1897, $230,791,940,82, 496,784 6§ 265,908,405 2,921,919 11 245,348,162 2,722,216 20 WM. WOOD, United States Manager. Subseribed and sworn to before me this 224 day of January, 1898, GEO. V. TURNER, Notary Public. PACIFIC COAST DEPARTMENT, PRINCIPAL OFFICE: No. 439 California St., CHAS. A. LATOS, Manager BAN FRANCISCO,