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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1898. / REPUBLICAN CONVENTIONS f Y MEET TO-NGHT Aspirants for Places on the Ticket. CONTESTS WILL BE CLOSE SEVERAL POLITICAL SURPRISES ARE EXPECTED. It Is Generally Believed That There Will Be Dark Horses in ! Some of the Con- | tests. eral ted 1t is pr nment will be t night. The Munic held in the maln a to order by Tho 1 ot an of the Republican C C ttee. The Judicial, Edu- e Legislative Convention, 1 the lower hall, will be, in 1 to ord of r by the P. H.| County all around and most friends in rry off the prizes. | ble speculation as to | local ticket. ‘I 1 W. H. H. Hart, in the race and| ing for them. The . Patton are not jut_admit that they ittle on hand. Tne name 0 been mentioned fight contest is before decided. t an- e who Spir been eral weeks. Head has a ends in his battle and the be said of Blattner. Ti y that ) place has ¢ among the cham- wo candidates resent a deputy un- am Joost, a , are )l\xmklng mes Giileran ¥ claim that he is the running; 3 e ts make s there the matter | back is- making a s trong c Ad- nomination is | that there will ses” in the fleld. | 0 looked for in the interesting not closed that the s will not be en- st minute, n and Loas Tolle are x Collectorship. and Supervisor John are out for the Assessors was mentioned as a candi ard of Equalization at d off an His fight, supporters now believe | he 'has a winning chance. The | 1ds of Siebe are equally sanguine. | ice Judges Joack n and_Low 1d like themselves. Prose- -y Thomas Graham, A. B. x nas J. Lennon are also fight. As the are o four nom- some one of the quintet will be | pri 1y mentfoned | o iperior Judges, are Judge James ) whose term expires tnis year, Justice of the Peace Barry, Ex-Police b Davis Louderback, J. K. Bonestell amble for the five s of the Peace Cook and Kerriga e to succeed themselves. for Justic Justic Groezinger, would not re other are Maur ; r Thomas F. Dunn, | K wong, D. A. Ryan | a A. Barnard, idge D. J. Murphy | and Assistant District Attorney Hosmer are contesting or the nomination for | District Attorney OBJECT TO SLATES. Dissatisfied Oaklanders to Hold an Independent Convention. OAKLAND, Cal., Sept. 26.—As a result of several conferences of the dissatisfied elements of all parties it was decided to- | night to call an independent convention | to nominate a county ticket. The independent conventio: Hall at Germania xt, and he follo ble me have signed the Ex-Assemblyman Robert Gay, ex- all: Councilman les H. rieton, C Naismith, Richard Hipp, C Wilkins, Dr. R. K. Butler, Amos Roberts, C. H. Kern, J. W. Ward, James >. H. Eitel and M. J. Beitencourt. Alameda Political Notes. | OAKLAND, Sept. 26.—The new ‘Demo- Committee is com- County Centr: 1 of the following: d—John McNamara, M. J. O'Dea, | hy. urd—C. Erickse Vard—P. W H. Townsend, J. J. Peg- | . n. on. O'Kane, L. Kehoe, P. J. | W. Logan. J. P. Reddy, M. | H. C. McPike, | W. Laym D. O'Gara, P. Mullan, G. D. | George I-uches, C. B. Trower, | i1, J. F. Hayes, | F. St. Sure, W. L. Newell, C. T. 0 omas H. Murray, F. Eden Township—Carl Iverson, C. Petersen, A. de Camp. Murray Township—Willtam Egan, F. Fen- non, George J Whashington Township—J. F. Chadbourne, A. | J. Roderigues, O. P. Moul A meeting will be held in a few days when the new committee will organize and arrange for the campaigr. | County Clerk Jordan has reopened his | office for registration, and will register | tiil fitteen days prior to election. ~The Republican County Centrai Commit- | tee meet to-morrow afternoon. All the | candidates will be present, ana the dec ! tails of the cami 1l be decided upon. Young Men’s Zepublican Club. A large and Interesting e Men's Republican Club held at Lower Irish-American Hall last evening. Prominant speakers addressed the audlence, among whom were Dr. Heino, Charles Barry and William Tannian, John Smith, the favorite ballud P tertained the members with a selec- tion of latest son The meeting indorseq Judge Troutt for Superior Judge and Edward | Hoad for Sherif. | Anybody sick at home? Order some ports, Tokay or Angelica. Big crowds for our lovely wines, be. Mohns & Kaltenbach, 29 Market st. n& of the Young | mento B | Arthur H. Sanborn, now a deputy in the Sur- | Committee desires to notify delegates to | | incapacitated early in the fight. | by the referee, who awarded the honors | | Head Said to Have Been Sent to the | to the Royal THE POPULISTS FISHTING FOR A PARTY NAME | Lively Row Before the| | Supreme Court. BOTH SIDES ARE READY FACTS OF THE CONTROVERSY ARE ADMITTED. The Fusion Contestants Ask That Secretary of State Brown Be Compelled to Recognize Them. The fight for the Populist party desig- nation on the State ticket will be heard this afternoon by the Supreme Court sit ting in bank. The case was set for hear- ing yesterday, but as counsel had not agreed on a statement of facts, a continu- ance was necessitated. WAR BREAKS OUT AMONG THE FUSIONISTS Smarting Under the Humiliation. EVERY FACTION IS MAD 1 FITZGERALD WAS BEATEN IN THE CONVENIION. Never Was tne Prospect for the Re- publican Ticket so Bright as at Present. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, %8 Broadway, Sept. 2. The Silver Republicans are mad. The Populists are madder and the Democrats are the maddest of all. And all their an- ger is directed at the humiliating condi- tions which prevailed at Saturday's con- vention. Judging from the expressions of The proceedings will come up in the | form of a mandamus suit begun by Ed- | ward I. Hutchison, the fusion candidate | for Lieutenant Governor, to compel S(‘(‘-i retary of State Brown to recognize the wing of the Populist party that nominated | James G. Maguire for Governor. | It will be remembered that there was a | bolt in the Populist convention at Sacra when Maguire was nominated. The *‘middle-of-the-road” Popullsts, were opposed to Maguire and fusion, | withdrew and organized another conv tion. The “middle-of-the-road men” nom- | inated a straight Populist ticket, with T W. H. Shanahan of Shasta as their stand ard bearer. When -the convention s urned both factions filed their tickets ith Secretary Brown, who after con- siderable deliberation decided that the ticket headed by Shanahan was entitled to the Populist " designation. Thereupon Hutchison instituted the mandamus pro- ceedings against Brown in the Supreme Court. When the case was called yesterday af- ternoon, T. V. Cator ppeared for the “‘middle-of-the-roadsters,” while Senator White, Garret McEnerney, and Judge | Van Meter appeared for the fusion Popu- lists. Senator White said that there e isted some points of difference concern- ing the deductions to be drawn from the pleadings. He stated that he and his col- | leagues’ had worked on the matter all Sunday and were not yet through with ieir labors. 1 think,” said he, “that if the hearing is continued until ‘to-morrow afternoon we can meet with Mr. Cator and agree upon a statement of facts. Then both sides will be ready to proceed with the argument of the law points invoived.” | Cator announced that he would confer | with the other side, and the hearing was | accordingly postponed. The attorneys then withdrew, and after three hours' consultation arrived at an agreed statement of the facts. The dif- | ferences were but slight. The only ob- Jections found were to some of the de- ductions made by Cator in his answer filed on behalf of Brown. The stipulation | will be typewritten and signed by all of the counsel this morning, and in the af- ¢ wigUlicnis ve heard by the court. The Thirty-Eighth Republicans. “The Owl Club” Republicans _of the Thirty-eighth District at their last meet- | ing in Oriental Hall, 605 McAllister street, | elected the following officers: President, | Charles F. McCdrty; vice president, John | Bell; secretary, Sol Kraus; treasurer, Fred Kronenberg Jr.; sergeant at arm Thomas XKelly; campaign committee— Charles McCarty, Thomas Frazer J John Bell, Joseph Strauss, Thom: ly; executive committee—George Tantau, Henry Wreden. Fred Kronenberg Jr., Frank Kent, W. Buckley, George Rohrs, Ed Kerdell. The meeting was enthusiastic, and re- sulted in the indorsement of the follow ing candidates: For Recorder. Martin Lewis; Police Judge, A. B. Treadwell. The club has a membership of 300. | - Ready for the Convention. | The Republican Leglslative, Judicial and Educational delegation of the Thirty-fourth | Assembly District met last night in Native | Sons' Hall on Seventeenth street. The mem- bers present organized by electing Charles H. ver chairman and George S. McComb sec- | A resolution Indorsing the candidacy of Frank | W. Bennett for State Senator from the Twen- | tleth Senatorfal District was unanimously | adopted. The entire delegation pledged them- | selves to support him in the convention and to | cast its vote as a unit. | The municipal delegation also met at the same place and organized by electing Jam W. McCabe chairman and E. W. Ensas retary. e | Political Notes. John T. Graham of Precita Valley is being | pushed to the front by his friends for Super- visor of the Eleventh Ward. Graham is a Republican, a Grand Army veteran, and s pop- ular with the members of his party. S. Harrison Smith is seekling the Democratic | nomination for City and County Surveyor. | Opposed to him are ex-Sher!ff J. J. McDade and ref Veyor's office, Stephen Byrnes, president of the Precita Val- | ley Improvement Club, is seeking the Demo- cratic nomination for Assemblyman from thc‘ Thirty-fifth District. ———— | Republican Conventions. | The secretary of the Republican County the local Republican convention that the municipal convention will meet in the | main hall, Native. Sons’ buflding, 414 Mason street, at § o'clock to-night, while | delegates to the legislative and judicial | convention will meet in the lower, or ban- | quet hall, at the same time and building. | Favor E. L. - ead for Sheriff. The Thirty-fitth Assembly District Republi- can Club last night at its headquarters, 1329 Valencia street, Dr. E. N. Torrello presid- | ing. School Director E. L. Head was unani- | mously indorsed for the nomination for Sheriff. SOLLY SMITH LOSES THROUGH A MISHAP | NEW YORK, Sept. 2%.—Dave Sullivan of Ireland and Solly Smith of Los An- geles, featherwelghts, met to-night at the Greater New York Athletic Club for a twenty-five round bout, but Smith was | The bout was stopped at the end of the fifth round | to_Sullivan. | During the second round Smith had the misfortune to break his left arm near the | wrist. He used it ufhuy a few times in the third round, and {t hung loosely in the next two rounds, and it was seen by everybody that the Californian could not continue.” Smith’s accident robbed him of what certainly would have been a vie- tory, as it was apparent to every one that he was by far the cleverer. Sullivan's brother, “Spike,” bet a lot of money on his brother's ability to best the ‘Western man, forcing his price to 100 to 75, | and he won a big plle on the result. - MAHDI’S TOMB FOUND, BUT NOT HIS BODY Royal College of Surgeons in London. LONDON. Sept. 21.—The: Dally Tele- graph’s Cairo correspondent says: It is reported that Major McDonald has reached Lado, where was located the 's tomb, and the body was de- :{?é‘f:d" An_enthusiast, 1t s sald, se- cured the Mngd!'s head and s sending it ol]egedol tSu(; 'nh!a:nML(;n- N 'he correspondent adds ajor %’:.rch;rnd's position is absurd and that the natives ignore him. ! they would have demanded t! | acceptance Astation ta be erected at the fusfonists to-day, the Republican ticket should go through In November without let or hindrance. The Demo- cratic portion of the ticket is objection- able to the Populists, the Populists’ tail is _objectionable which refuses to be wagged by it, and the Silver Republicans, why they were brought into prominence at all. In the Democracy the old fight broken out with more vigor than ever. The Fitzgerald and Laymance factions went Into the convention feeling toward each other and came out feeling more bitter. The favorite of the Fitzger- ald wing was McLeod for Sheriff and the closeness of the vote by which he was defeated by the Laymance candidate, Landregan, shows how thoroughly the party is disrupted. Now all are quarreling. The English- ymance faction declare that they were jobbed by the Fitzgerald people in the matter of conceding the nomination of Assessor to the Silver Republicans. They openly assert that this nomination was’ given to the Silver Republicans with the full understanding that a Silver Re- publican should receive the nomination, or else, they argue, why were the Silver Republicans recognized at all. The Sil- ver Republicans nominated, or rather in- dorsed, the Republican nominee, Henry Dalton, and the anti-Fitzgerald folks de- clare that this was the result of a secret deal made in the interest of Edward Fitz- gerald, recently nominated in San Fran- cisco 'for Public Administrator. It is claimed that Robert Fitzgerald entered into a deal by which Dalton's friends se- cured his indorsement by the allled con- vention {n return for certain support across the bay for his brother Edward. This has so antagonized the English-Lay- mance wing of the Democracy that they tively declared to-day an independ- andidate for Assessor would cer- ba placed upon the ticket. The Populi are dissatisfied because they were anxious to nominate Sheriff White to succeed himself, and were forced to give this office to the Democrats. As the Populists were already split be tusion was broached, and are now divided again Into the Dutton and White Twings of the party, their vote may safely be ¢ ded at this time as scattering. Many Siiver Republicans declare that were not consulted regarding the di- vision of the spolls, or if they had been, at they be given the office of Recorder, which they wanted for A. K. Grim, who is a Sllver Republcan: ‘They declare that the nom- ination of a Republican by the Silver Re- publicans is simply a farce and that they were jobbed. The Republicans are highly elated at the turn that fusion politics has taken. There is more confusion in the allied ranks than there was two years ago when every fusion candidate on the ticket was beaten. ROOSEVELT SEEMS TO HAVE A CLEAR FIELD Believed Black Will Not Go Into the New York Republican Convention. SARATOGA, N. Y., Sept. 2.—There is hardly an impartial observer here to- night who does not believe that the ticket to be nominated by the Republican State Convention to-morrow will be headed by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt for Governor and Timothy L. Woodruff for Lieutenant Governor. Chauncey M. Depew, who is to name Mr. Roosevelt, arrived hera during the afternoon and is positive that his candi- date has an almost clear field. It was pretty well decided late to-night that Governor Black will not go into the con- vention. His friends are urging him to do so, but up to this time he has sloull‘f' | maintained that it would not be dignifie ITALY ACCEPTS THE CZAR’S INVITATION Willing to Participate in the Peace Conference, but Fears Unfore- seen Difficulties. ROME, Sept. 2%.—The Government has sent to Russia a diplomatically worded acceptance of the Czar's Invitation to take part In _an International peace conference. In its note of the Government expresses with and admiration for objects of the Czar, but says it sympathy the .fears that difficulties will arise over the discussion of questions other than that of armament which ‘“‘might accentuate in the very heart of the projected confer- ence a conflict of opinions, the conse- quences of which would not leave us without anxiety.” The Government suggests that the Czar | eliminate this possibility by formulating a definite programme limiting the dis- cussions to the central idea. CHILE ANR ARGENTINA ARE COMING TO TERMS No Doubt That Their Differences Will Be Peacefully Settled by Arbitration. VALPARAISO, Chile, Sept. 26.—All dif- ferences between Chile ~na Argentina undoubtedly will be settled peaceably. I | am Informed that both Governments have agreed that the dispute over Puna Ata- cama is to be submitted to arbitration, once the co-operation of Bolivia is ob- tained. The Chilean boundary expert, Senor Barros Arana, has accepted the post of envoy In arbitration by Queen Vie- toria _of the dispute over the southern bnundnr&fl A protocol with Peru will be dlscfisse nd approved by Congress this week. e ON THE FIELD OF LABOR | United States Peace ommission Ar- rives in Paris. PARIS, Sept. 25—The Peace Commls- sion of the United States arrived here to- | day from London and was met at the rallroad station by the United States Em- bassy, a number of Americans and many reporters. A considerable crowd outside the depot witnessed the departure of the Commissloners__ for their hotels. The journey from England to this city was uneventful. TO UTILIZE GOAT ISLAND. Naval Training st;tion to Be Erected at That Point. NEW YORK, Sept. 26.—A special to the Herald says: Commander F. W. Dickins, assistant chief of the bureau of naviga- tion, has made arrangements to leave Washington thdl first part of next week for the Pacific Coast. Upon his arrival there he will inspect the island of Yerba Buena and select a site for a tr that point. to the Democratic dog | with the excep- | tion of those on the inside, are wondering | has | bitter | ¢GOOD THING” No. 3. S Extra Fine Under- / % wear Offer. Line of men's full- all-wool $2.00 un- derwear for $1.35. Percale Shirts, full body, separate cuffs, new styles, 50 cts. New ideas in Neckwear—Ascots and Paffs, 20 cts. L L R L EEEE R R E R R R L R R R Rk ADVERTISEMENTS. 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PARIS, Sept. 26.—At a me-.ing of the Cabinet this morning, all the Ministers being present, a decision was taken in favor of the revision of the trial of former Cant 1. Dreyfus and the docu- ments in the case will be sent to the Court of Cassation. The crowds of people outside the offices of the Ministry of the Interior, where the Cabinet council was held, loudly cheered ‘he Ministers and there were shouts of “Vive Brisson.” “Vive le Revision.” The Cabinet ordered the Minister of Justi-~ M. Sarrien, to lay before the Court of Cassation the petition of Mme. Dreyfus, -vife of the p-isoner of Devils Island, for a revision of her husband’'s case. The court, therefore, will decide the legal question as to whether the first trial of Captain Drey- fus was vitiated by the forgery com- mitted by the late Lieutenant Colonel Henry, who was a witness before the court-martial and who confessed to having forged a document in the case. The Cabinet meeting was prolonged and animated. The Minister of Agri- culture, M. Viger, is reported to have bitterly opposed a revision and it is rumored he will resign. The Minister of Justice has an- nounced that he has given instructions that proceedings are to be taken im- mediately agalnst any one attacking the army. It is supposed that the instructions to prosecute any one attacking the army were {ssued at the request of General Chanoine. The city is excited and the Bourse is in a disturbed condition. It is doubt- ful if the action of the Cabinet is popu- lar among the masses, especially the common people, who, it {s pointed out, still cling to the fetich of the honor of the army. In the Intransigeant to-day Henri Rochefort accuses Major Esterhazy of having been bribed by the so-called Dreyfus syndicate to ‘“‘cover himself with dishonor by confessing to a for- gery of which he was twice acquitted.” M. Rochefort adds that he paid Es- terhazy 1000 francs for coples of all the documents in the case and that, in addition, with two other newspaper men, he paid Esterhazy, who was lit- erally without a centime, 300 francs monthly to prevent him from going hungry while waiting to obtain a pen- sion. Continuing, M. Rochefort says: “Recently, without any apparent in- centive, Esterhazy mysteriously went to London, abandoning his 300 francs monthly. Why this emigration? Who paid for his journey? With what money has Esterhazy pald for his meals?” M. Clemenceau, in the Aurore, re- marks: “France is divided into two camps, those who conceive that the in- terests of the country depend on the concealment of facts by lies and those who have a sufficlently high esteem of | the country to separate enthusiasm from the aspirations of justice and truth.” The Libre Parole asserts that Ester- hazy has telegraphed to the Minister of War, General Chanoine, protesting against the story published in the Ob- server of London, purporting to be a confession made by the major, the sub- stance of which was that he was the author of the bordereau, a document ‘which. is said to have furnished proof reyfus. A of the gullt of D: WIDE SCOPE OF INVESTIGATION Commission Maps Out Its Work. NO STONE TO BE UNTURNED SELECTION OF CAMP SITES A PROLIFIC SUBJECT. Charges of Favoritism to Railroads Will Receive Special Atten- tion—Geaeral Plan of Procedure. Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, Sept. 26.—The com- mission selected by the President to in- vestigate the conduct of the War De- partment held its first formal session to-day, with all the members present. The meeting was in the room of the Fortification and Ordnance Board of the Department, but it was found to be too small for the purpose, and it was announced that future meetings would be held in apartments secured in the Lemon building on New York avenue. To-day's meeting was strictly secret. No newspaper representatives or others not connected with the board were ad- mitted. After a meeting of two hours’ dura- tion, an adjournment was taken until 10 o’clock to-morrow. The proceedings were limited to the outlining of a gen- eral policy and the formulation of let- ters of inquiry, which will be made public to-morrow. The letters decided upon are to be addressed to the Secretary of War, the quartermaster general, the commissary general, the surgeon general and the chief of the Ordnance Department of the army. They will consist in the main of inquiries intending to bring out all the facts that can be given rel- ative to the organization of the volun- teer army. These officials will be asked to give special information, so as to cover each of the departments in ques- tion, concerning the condition of the army, both at the beginning and the close of the war. For this purpose a date in April has been selected as the one for the beginning of the prepara- tion, and another in August for the close. The questions are so formulated as to call out answers covering the or- ganization of camps, the purchase of supplies and the taking of contracts with transportation companies and also to show the methods adopted for fur- nishing supplies to the various com- mands and for protecting the health of the soldiers. There will be an espe- clal effort to develop the motives that actuated the department in the choice of camp sites, as there have been charges of favoritism to railroad com- panies. The commission also considered seve- ral letters of complaint from persons professing to have information bear- ing upon the subject of the investiga- tion, and decided to address replies to the writers, requiring them to put their charges in specific shape and inform- ing them of the scope of the inquiry. It is intended, if the replies received to these letters show the writers to be in possession of real Information, to summon them before the commission when it is feasible to do so, otherwise to secure their affidavits. When, how- ever, it becomes evident that their ac- cusations are mere idle complaints, with no information to back them, the writers will receive no further at- tention. The commission expects to extend its inquiry before it closes its work to the extent of summoning before it the com- manding officers of the various divi- sions and brigades and probably the colonels of regiments from which com- plaints have emanated. They will be expected to give full information as to the pains they may have taken or fafled to take concerning the location of their troops and their general welfare. —_——— Kitchener Raised to the Peerage. LONDON, Sept. 62.—General Sir Herbert Kitchener has been elevated to the peer- age. g TRINITY SUED BY A MINING POOL Corporation Attack on Assessments. BIG LEGAL FIGHY OPENED MOVE MEANS MUCH TO THE 2 COUNTY. If the Allied Companies Are Victori- ous the Public Schools Must Close and Road Work Cease. Specfal Dispatch to The Call. REDDING, Sept. 26.—A proposition at law which, if carried to a successful issue, means the closing of the public schools, the cessation of road work and the practical impoverishment of Trin- ity County, is now in full swing. Five #} of the largest and wealthiest mining corporations of Trinity County have in- stituted suit against County Clerk Car- ter to wipe from the assessment rolls the increased assessmentsof the several companies levied by the Board of Equalization. The suits are brought against the County Clerk for the reason that the assessment roll has been re- ceipted for by him from the Assessor, and is possession. The Board of Supervisors, sitting as a Board of Equalization, cited the sev- eral corporations to appear and show cause why their several assessments should not be raised. Representatives appeared before the board and after giving them a hearing at a stormy ses- sion lasting several days the Board of Equalization raised the several assess- ments as follows: Original TIncreased therefore not in the latter’s | 32,300 74,250 9,000 21,500 The wealthy mine owners who own or control the great properties just | enumerated formed a pool and decided | to carry the question, which is far- | reaching in its effects, into the civil | courts. They have employed ex-Sena- |tor C. W. Cross of San Francisco to | prosecute their claims. R. L. Carter of Trinity County and the law firm of Garter, Dozier & Wells of Redding and Red Bluff have been retained to look after Trinity County's interests. The Chloride- Bailey mines, originally assessed at $500 and raised to $15,000, i\\ere recently sold to a domestic syn- dicate for $30,000. Homer Wilson, a | financial agent of San Francisco, pro- | moted the sale. A fine ten-stamp mill has been added to the property’s equip- | ment. The Altoona Quicksiiver Min- ing Company is regarded as one of the bes( mining properties in the State, having an output monthly of 600 flasks of quicksilver. The company has one pump in its great modern plant worth | double the original assessment. The Brown Bear mine is the famous prop- erty from which Henry Martin derived the fortune which Mrs. John Martin sought in the courts to share. Baron E. de la Grang: of Parls is at the head of the French syndicate owning La Grange hydraulic mines, controlling an immense acreage of the richest gravel deposits in Trinity County. This com- pany lately put in a siphon line of two. foot hydraulic pipe on which the rail- road freight alone from the East to Redding amounted to over $9000. The company also drove a water canal tunnel which required two years to finish. If the mine owners win their suit it means a loss to Trinity County of $5000 annually. Trinity is sparsely settled and many of the county offices are combined so that such a shortage in reality means to that isolated com- munity what a defleit of several hun- dred thousand dollars would mean to San Francisco. One factor that was of importance in the bringing of the suit by the pool of mine owners was the recent sale of | the Chloride-Bailey group. Unless the assessment as raised by the Board of Equalization is paid clear title cannot be given <he original owners. WORK FOR THE IROQUOIS. Dispatch Boat Between This City and Honolulu. WASHINGTON, Sept. 2.—The Navy Department has decided to send the big ocean-going tug Iroquois, now at San Francisco, to Honolulu for the use of the naval station to be established there. 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To. i v o- | ernment during the war as an auxiliary R e B #15.000 | 5Val vessel, and it is said that in addl. e - 4150 7250 | tlon to regular service as a harbor tag Altoona ~ Quicksiiver Mining | at Honolulu, she will be used as a disc COmPpany wssses et % 30 Togon | pateh boat running from Honolulu to San La Grange Hydraulic Mining ‘rancisco. ADVERTISEMENTS. ©000000000000000000 Rheumatism After Suffering 34 Years, 4, 1898, TRES PINOS, Cal., Sept. v T stand ready years' standing by your Sanden's ectric Belt.”" It has completely cured troubled as I was. I was also suffering with am now entirely free from pain and feel I honestly Yours very truly, JAMES BEGUE, Tres Pinos, Cal. the paln an. stiffness as speedily as Its cures are numbered by the thou- If you have Rheu- He will tell you If you can- Don’t put it off. Act to-day. Call or address, NOT IN DRUG STORES. There ©000000¢C0000000000000000000000000 PO000000