The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 9, 1898, Page 2

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9 1898. ANARCHY THREATENS CHICAGO INTENSE EXCITEMENT OVER STREET RAILWAY FRAN- CHISES. . FPEOFPLE PARADING THE STREETS WITH HANGMAN’S NOOSES TO TERRIFY ALDERMEN. Special Dispatch to The Call. HICAGO, Dec. 8.—This city seems to be on the eve of a convulsion that, if brought to the issue sought by the promoters, cannot but result in violent disorder, in- volving murder, a At the extra icn of the State Leg- islature held at Springfield last winter a law known as the Allen law was passed, giving Common Councils of cities power to grant to street railway companies franchises running fifty years, providing mutual agreement re- garding compensation could be reached. Under this law local traction compa- nies caused, at the last meeting of the Council, to be introduced an ordinance extending franchises to the limit and offering what they deemed to be a fair compensation. This has brought on a storm of denunciatory disapproval from the Tribune, Times-Herald, Record, News and Post. While the law was pending in the Legislatuge the papers on and rapine. named protested vigorously against its | passage and denounced Senators and Representatives who voted for it and the Governor who signed it in terms of unmeasured violence. Mayor Harrison, whose private secre- tary was formerly an editorial writer on the Times-Herald, is opposed to the passage of the ordinance, and in an interview Tuesday said he wanted 150.- 000 men to surround the City Hall next Monday night and, if the ordinance was approved, to wreak summary ven- geance upon the Aldermen voting in favor of the measure. This interview was published by the papers named and each had an editorial commending the Mayor and urging the carrying out of his plan. kept up since till the min of the great This has been | | mass of newspaper readers have be- | come inflamed. Mass meetings were | held in various parts of the city to- night and addresses delivered that have | added fuel to the flames. Men . are walking the streets wearing minature 'hnngmuu's nooses, as advised by the newspapers, and warning the Aldermen | who believe the pending ordinance to be a good one and who have signified their intention of voting for i | The Inter-Ocean cautions the people to be slow to take the advice of its | contemporaries and in an editorial to- | morrow morning will call attention to | the fact that the anarchists who were | hanged as a sequel to the Haymarket riots of 1886 were not hanged for actual lpar!iclpauon in the riots, but for incit- ing to murder by inflammatory editori- als in newspapers with which all of the | men hanged were connected. So great is the interest in ‘the ques- | tion that the citizens have divided into | two great camps. Mass-meetings are |largely attended and personal encount- | ers between partisans are of frequent occurrence. The traction people say rather than have the city turned over to the mob they will refuse to allow the ordinance to be put upén its passage upon the | date now set and will hold mass meet- ings at which the questions involved | may be debated quietly, with the hope | of overcoming the cpposition and de- feating the ends of the newspapers now urging the lynching of Aldermen and the holders of street car stocks Unless a positive statement {s made by Mcnday morning at the latest that the ordinance will not be presented that night, and if the present incendiary agitation is kept up, a mob—two mobs, | in fact—will certainly gather and blood | will surely flow. As one step to prevent | this it being urged that the editors of the papers publishing the incendiary articles be arrested and tried under the act under which the anarchists were arrested, tried and convicted. PRAYER DROVE * HER TO DEATH Continued from First Page. v Wittmeler died. Lena, he preferred to be called was the sole legatee ?‘r Magdalena, in her hldlelr )i;‘rus.l mentione: n s Wi unhampered Inheritor of nearly $30.000. She mourned for her husband becomingly and properly, but before she could settle down to the enjoyment of her comfort- able bequest Ler peace was disturbed by a sult instituted by George Wittmeier, now grown to manhood’s estate, and de- termined to assert what he considered his ghts. e eugh his mother had secured a_di- vorce he claimed that he was entitled to a share of the property as the lawful and acknowledged son of the deceased. The battle was long and hard fought, but Lena had the most money and she triumphed in_the end. Incidentally, during the trial, it came out that the first Mrs. Wittmeler, since the divorce which separated her from her first husband, had assumed the bonds of matrimony with five other men. Her appearance at the trial, a hard faced, wrinkled, loud mouthed harridan, with an unenviable record, and a red wig, the lat- ter considerably too small for her, did not a little to damage her son’s cause. was vain for George's lawyers to argue that the heartless conduct of Wittmeier had been the first cause of the trans- formation which had occurred since the ays that she only s washtub sufficient to visit his bedside and nurse him back to health and strength. The verdict of the jury was against the son, who always been, under all cir- cumstances, the idol of his mother's ex- istence. She heard the decision silently the courtroom as one dazed. On the er she stood for a few minutes in utter silence. Then she raised her head and lm‘!wld at the little group which had ved her. got my husband away from me, id, “and now she has got my son's away from him. Let her be happy he can; it will do her no good. She will not live two years to enjoy it. I will pray and 1 will pray. I have prayed against my enemies before and I have al- ways got the best of them. I will pra now, and with my whole heart and soul, and you will sce. Before two years have passed Magdelena Wittmeler, the thief who stole my husband and my son’s in- heritance, will be dead.” She said the same thing in Oakland, with a wild force of gesture and a light in her eyes that struck terror to the timid hearted who listened to her. And she sald the same thing to Magdelena herself once when she met her by accident on Pacific street one day, when she had come across sit a friend. rly enough, from the day the wverdict rendered which cut the only child of the dead man off with a mere “sop to Cerberus” Lena's fortunes grew worse and worse. Her lawyer's fees ate up much of her ready money; then she felt it necessary to resume business in the old *“Bottle” Mefer” keep up her income. and left establishment to dence and foresight to conduct the busi- ness properly alone, and she formed dis- ADVERTISEMENTS. Artistic Royal Teplitz Ornaments In brown shades, decorated with raised flowers and gold tracings. Latest shapes Jugs, Pitchers, Vases, Flower Holders, every- thirg that’s attractive Effective prices Great American Importg Tea o Powell 708 Larkin St. 1410 Polk St. 1819 Devisadero St. 2008 Filimore St. B21 Montgomery Av, 1190 Kentucky St. 3285 Mission™S 52 Market St. OAKLAND STORES: hinztonst. 131 Son Padlo Ave. 7 l‘oldwll. Il.{ ‘welfth St. 1510 Seventh St. ALAMEDA—1858 Park SAN RAFAEL~B St., near Fourth. Write for Catalogue, “a 11, which left her the | It | e time from her |, She lacked the pru- | advantageous alliances. At last, worn out with troubles with which she had not the ability to cope, she gave up the strug- le. The prayer that Bertha Bockman ad offered day and night for close on to two years was answered. “T have always triumphed over my en- emies. Let Magdalena Wittmeler not live to enjoy the wealth that belongs to my 0y That was her invocation up to the day she disappeared from Oakland. And thers is a prospect that the money she believed was rightfully her son’s will yet fall to him, for George Wittmeler yesterday stat- ed that so far as he knew Magdalena left no near relatives and he intended to make | another fight in the courts for the prop- erty his father had left bequeathed to her. JOINT COMMISSION MAY PROBE SCANDALS Benator Vest Introduces a Resolution Providing for a War Inves- tigation. WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—Senator Vest to-day introduced in the Senate a resolu- tion providing for the appointment of a joint commission to investigate charges of corruption in the conduct of the war with Spain. The preamble to the resolution recites that “charges have been made through the press of the country over the signa- | tures of responsible parties that corrupt | and improper means have been used to secure contracts from the Government for the purchase of vessels for the navy and | for the furnishing of clothing and other | necessary articles for the army of the United States during the war with Spain at excessive and exorbitant rates.” The resolution calls for the appointment | of three Senators and five members of the | House and imposes upon them the duty | of “inquiring as to the truth of all such | charges and to make report by bill or 1 otherwise."” The Senators are to be appointed by the | Chairman of the Senate, and the mem- | bers of the House by the Speaker of the i House. | e ———— — ‘AP?ROVE THE NEW CHARTER. | Citizens of Vallejo Vote in Favor of | Proposed Reforms. VALLEJO, Dec. 8—The election hére to- ay on the adoption of the new freehold- rs’ charter resulted in 658 for the char- ter and 170 against it. Only one-fourth of | the vote was polled. Vallejo has virtually | been without a chartef, working under | the general laws. The new charter is not | radical in its changes from the old, nor does it in any way attack local interests. The new charter makes a small increase in the list of salaried officers, gives the city a Mayor with authority which prop- erly belongs to such officer, a unifomed | police, whose continuance in office will de- | pend on efficiency alone, a Superintendent of Water Works, who will devote his whole time to the duties of his office, a Board of Health with power to_ enforce | its orders and a Board of Public Works to look after the city Investments. It pro- | vides safeguards against extravagance, | and the duties of the officers as defined in- | sure great improvements in the eity gov- ernment. The only material change in | the government of public schools was the doing away with a salaried Superintend- ént, and making heads of families only eligible as members of the Board of Edu- e ing to the Legisl er passing to the slature charter takes effect in 1901. ~ he X | ATTORNEYS SUE FRANCEE. a; e Contest. | ing phase of the Mayoralty contest de- now seated as Mayor, pending the deci- slon of the Supreme Court. | for legal services rendered during several trials, transcribing testimony, briefs. costs and other incidentals. The Sheriff took possession this evening of the furniture-store of Francee, who furnished bonds shortly afterward. The attachment and suit are the result of a quarrel be- | | tween the gnrtles over matters recently before the City Council, and it is believed | that when the case comes to trial some ;nnlcy and very interesting details as to | the Mayoralty .contest last March and | subsequent proceedings will be exploited. | SOCIALIST ELECTED MAYOR. HAVERILL, Mass, Dec. 8 —An avowed disciple of social democracy will on January 2 be.inaugurated Mayor of this city, being, so far as known,.the first soclalist to be elected to an administra- tive office in. the country. By the municipal election on Monday John C. Chase, aged 28 years, a clerk in a co-operative grocery-store, was elected Mayor, as the candidate of the Bocial De- mocracy, by a plurality of 30 votes in a field of six candidates. With him on the victorious ticket were three soclalist can- :}fl;:;- for Aldermen and three for Coun- Py the | | | | TWO HUNDRED CASES OF SMALLPOX AT BEDFORD. UNTINGDON, Pa., Dec. 8.—Among Bedford’s population of 2800 thére are about 200 cases of what is said to be genuine smallpox. This alarming condition of affairs was discovered yesterday, and up to that time there continued an uninterrupted commingling of the citi- zens of the town. The disease prevails from one end of the town to the other. The Bedford physicians disagree, some pronouncing it to be chicken-pox and others a harmless skin disease. Dr. Atkinson, State Health Inspector, says it is genuine smallpox. Men, women and children, he de- clares, with smallpox crusts on their bodies and faces, have been traveling the streets day and night and visiting from house to house, unconscicus of the true nature of theip affliction. The whole town is now closely quaran- tined, policed and guarded and vigorous measures will be prosecuted to check the plague. The danger tc the whole central part of the State is manifest, as the people of Bedford, while infected with the disease, have been traveling far and near. George Martin, a member of Company A, Fifth Regiment, of Hunting- don, who is afflicted with smallpox, contracted the disease while playing football in Bedford from an oppesing Bedford player, who at the time showed the crusts of smallpox on his face. 5 PECULIAR FINANCIAL SITUATION IN CUBA. AVANA, Dec. 7 (via Key West, Dec. 8).—Berious problems confront the last days of Spain’s sovereignty in Cuba. One of the most delicate and difficult of solution is the question of the return of bonds given by civil officials and employes who now cease to hold office. Many of these are eash bonds furnished years ago, the refunding of which now becomes imperative. All such moneys having -en appropriated and spent, the Government is unable to meet these obligations or to fulfill the guarantees. The settlement of the arrears of pay due the mobilized and all the regular troops offered a brilliant opportunity for masterly .ranciering on the part of the military intendant. With money in hand for the full settle- ment of all pay due the troops, the quartermaster general devised an ingeni- ous plan. Paying the men off in notes payable in Madrid, he otrered, through trusted agents, to discount such notes at 20 or 30 per cent for cash. As practically every one of the irrezular and mobilized troops will remain on the island, the men eagerly embraced this opportunity to have their notes cashed, and a handsome profit therefore accrued to the astute originator of the scheme. SHARKEY AND M’COY SIGN ARTICLES. EW YORK, Dec. 8.—Articles of agreement for a twenty-round boxing contest between Tom Sharkey and Kid McCoy, to take place at the Lenox Athletic Club, this city, January 10, were signed to-day by both principals, The men are to box for a purse of $20,000 and 50 per cent of all receipts exceedihg $40,000. Tim Hurst was mutually chosen as referee. In order that the fight may not result in a fiasco like the Sharkey-Corbett affalr, the articles provide that the interference of any fighter’s seconds or their invasion of the ring will not stop the contest. A second or outsider who tries to enter the ring during the contest will be immediately placed under arrest. The men will box under Queensberry rules, with the exception that they will not be permitted to hit in clinches or breakaways. After the match had been made Sharkey held a friendly conference with Jim Corbett, who wished him luck in the fight and announced his intention of going to the Pacific Coast to fight Jeffries. Corbett afterward sent a dispatch to his brother in California, saying: “I" will take on Jeffries. Match me to meet him in February.” WOMEN WORKING HARD TO SHUT OUT ROBERTS. EW YORK, Dec. 8.—The efforts to prevent Brigham H. Roberts, Rep- resentative-elect from Utah, from taking his seat in the Fifty-sixth Congress because he is a polygamist and advocates the doctrine of the Mormon church is to have the organized support of hundreds of thousands of women in the United States. The initial woman’s move- ment is to take an organized form in this city at a meeting of the Presby- terian Woman's Board of Home Missions on December 20. There are a hun- dred thousand members of the Presbyterian Home Mission Society alone in the United States. The Home Mission Socleties of Congregaticnal and Bap- tist churches are preparing to make a similar campalgn against Rob- erts and women's societies of other denominations are becoming interested in the fight. The women are to give information regarding Roberts' case and the supposed danger of a revival of polygamy and to unite in obtain- ing personal letters to Representatives in all districts throughout the coun- try protesting against the seating of an avowed polygamist. ROMANTIC TALE OF AN ALLEGED DUKE. EW YORK, Dec. 8—A dispatch to the World from London says: The Joharnesburg correspondent of the Mail telegraphs: “A remarkable story was told to-day during the hearing of a charge of fraud against Charles Gunn. A statement was put in by the pris- oner In which he declared that he was the brother of the late Duke of Hamilton, and had left England after fighting a duel. For private rea- sons his death was formally announced and a sham funeral took place. “Gunn asserts that Robinson of Rotherwellbaugh filled a coffin, which was sent to Hamilton palace and nlaced in a mausoleum, and says if the coffin is opened and examined his statement can be verified.” The late Duke of Hamilton died May 16, 1895, leaving no son, and was suc- ceeded by his kinsman, Alfred Douglas Hamilton. The late Duke’s only brother was Charles George Archibald. It is re- corded in Burke’'s Peerage that Charles was born May 18, 1847, and died childless in May, 1886. If Charles can prove that he is alive he may get the dukedom and vast wealth. DAYLIGHT ROBBERY OF A CAPITALIST'S HOME. i ILL VALLEY, Dec. 8.—While Ebenezer Wormuth, the capitalist, was absent in Sausalito this afternoon, his residence in East Mill Valley was entered by robbers and looted of everything of value that could be carried away. The robbery occurred in broad daylight and yet was so cleverly planned and exec.ted that not a clew to the identity of the miscreants been discovered. L hu’l‘renough Wormuth refuses to state the amount, it is a matter of com- in coin, as the belief that the thieves secured several thousand dollars o ::T;:llmnst is known to have kept a large sum of money concealed on the premises. “ANOTHER INSULT” TO THE FRENCH ARMY- 8.—The Court of Cassation this afternoon ordered a stay of e Picquart court-martial. Several of the newspapers the court has examined the secret documents in the ARIS, Dec. proceedings in th here assert that Dreyfus case. re”l‘he anti-Dreyfus papers are very angry over the decision of the court, which they describe as another insult to the army. roceeds are to be set und to aid irrigation; also reserving and dedicnfin%nll lands in township 32 north, range east, Mt Diablo meridian, Nevada, for astorage res- ervoir, and $15,000 is appropriated to con- g}mc‘t’ %‘tc‘;{ls' etc., to store the water of umbo) ver. The Secretary of War has submitted to Congress the report of the board of engineers on the Sacramento and Feather rivers and their tributaries. The report recommends an appropriation of fim for the purpose of deepening the ra- mento River below the city, which can be improved by a system of wing dams at of the State. The aside as a speclal INTERESTS THE PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC COASY Senator Perkins Introduces a Bill to Increase the Pension of Com- ‘modore Hopkins’ Widow. WASHINGTON, Dec. 8—Senator Per- kins to-day introduced a bill increasing the pension of Mrs. Louise M. Hopkins, widow of Commodore Hopkins, to $75 per New Phase in the Salinas Mayoralty | SALINAS, Dec. 8.—A new and interest- | | veloped this aftermoon, when Renison & | | Jones, attorneys, filed an attachment for | | the sum of $1055 against Charles Francee, | The suit is | printing | | month. | Representative Barham presented a pe- | tition from citizens of San Anselmo, Cal., | favoring a bill prohibiting the sale of | liguors on Government reservations. | A postoffice was to-day established at Bonita, San Diego County, and I L. | Waters was appointed Postmaster. The | following California Postmasters were ap- | pointed to-day: Lloyd T. Stephenson at | Chat, Lassen County, vice George P. Holman, resigned; Virginia Summers at Haydenhill, Lassen County, vice Charles P. Sherman, resigned. Private Peter Byrne, Battery B, Fourth United States Artillery, now in confine- | ment at the Preslaio, 8an Francisco, who | deserted at Fort Adams, R. L, Decem- | ber 3, 1889, and surrendered November 16, | 1898, while serving in Troop M, Fourth | United States Cavalry, under the name of Francis J. McMahon, is restored to duty without trial upon conditon that he make the time lost by desertion. Private yrne is transferred to Troop M, Fourth United States Cavalry, to serve the re- mainder of his original enlistment. First_Lieutenant Archibald Campbell, Third United States Artillery, is to g:to- ceed via San Francisco to join his - te i te Arthur H. Jordan, Troop L, Sixi nited States Cavalry, Presidio, San Francisco, é:d déclc::nr'ed from the service of the Uni es. L < lons have been grani Jows: California: Original—John Craven, San Francisco, $6; Solomon Barnett, ‘Woodland, $6; George W. Bush, San Jose, $6; John Barton, Santa Rosa, $6. Oregon: " Original widows, etc.—Tabitha J. Fordney, Yoncalla, $12. ‘Washington: Original widows, ete.— Marja Windmiller, T ton, $8. Senator Stewart has introduced a granting to the State of Nevada 2,000, acres to be selected by the State author- itles from unappropriated non-mineral land, and to be disposed of under the laws or near shoals so as to give a depth of seven feet; that a four-foot depth can be obtained above Sacramento City to Col- usa and a three-foot depth then to Red Bluff by the removal of snags, and the concentration of the channel widths by tempornr'lthorks at an annual expense of ,000. e board reports the river has een surveyed from Red Bluff to its mouth. - RaPreuemnfive Loud has introduced a bill amending *“‘An Act in Relation to Internal Revenue,” by adding at the end thereof the following: ‘“‘Provided, how- ever, that the Commissioner of Internal Reyenue be authorized upon application of a distiller, to allow any package or cases, or packages, encasing not less than two tins, said ‘nckues or cases, or packages encasing tins, to be of not less capacity than ten gallons, wine measure, to be fili- ed with distilled spirits from receiving cisterns in such manner as sald Commis- sioner may, by regulation, prescribe for the egur}mn of exportation from the United States. And there shall be charged for each of sald packages or cases for the expense of providing and affixing stamps five cents, instead of ten cents as now required by law.” The bill is limited to export, and, there- fore, in no way conflicts with the spirit distilling interests of the country. The size of the package is in keeping with the law and regulations of the department and does not increase bureau labor. The chnzo for export stamps is not ed by Congress to realize revenue, but to assist the export and shipping trade. Representative Barlow intro- duced a bill appropriating $25,000 to pay Fred B. Mallory Jr., of Los Angeles, for injuries received by him while visiting the United States transport Arizona :Jl'lu‘ie 'sll;i w:.: 1({!’“! ntthsel(fle. The‘A{,l- n en _the property of the United States, and Mr. h&llory‘l claim s not regarded as meritorious. Barlow also introduced a bill granting certain lands in San Gabriel to the Lowe Institute of that place. WILL SEEK TO MODIFY AGREEMENT CLAYTON - BULWER TREATY IN WAY OF NICARAGUA CANAL.. IT IS EXPECTED THAT ENGLAND 'WILL AID UNCLE SAM IN SECURING CONTROL i OF THE GREAT WATERWAY. Special Dispatch to The Call. EW YORK, Dec. 8.—The Wash- ington correspondent of the Her- ald says: President McKinley is in favor of opening negotiations with Great Britain for the pur- pose of modifying the Clayton-Bulwer treaty so as to permit the construction and control of the Nicaragua canal by the United States. Should Congress during the ' present session fail to enact the pending Mor- gan bill the President also favors en- tering into negotiations with Nicaragua and Costa Rica looking to the construc- tion of the canal under the auspices and control of the United States. On the authority of a high official of the administration I am able to state there is absolutely no foundation for the re- port that Great Britain, through Sir Julian Pauncefote, has protested to the State Department against that feature of the President’s message dealing with the canal question. On the contrary the authorities have every reason to belleve that Great Brit- ain will consent to any reasonable mod- ification of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty that the President may desire, 80 as to remove obstacles which it places in the way of the control of the canal by this Government. So satisfied are the offi- cials on this point that I understand negotiations will scon be actively under way, which, it is hoped, will culminate in an agreement especially intended to give this Government the right to con- struct and control the proposed water- way. It seems to be pretty generally under- stood that the conflict of interests over the construction of the Nicaragua canal will prevent action during this session | on the Morgan bill, and in this event there is reason to believe that when President Iglesias of Costa Riea re- turns to Washington the latter part of the winter he will discuss with Presi- | dent McKinley and ‘Secretary Hay the advisability of entering into a treaty for the construction of the canal by this Government. Iglesias is in favor of such action and so informed the au- thorities while here. But nothing can be done by the authorities on this line until the Clayton-Bulwer treaty is modified. WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—In the Sen- ate to-day Caffery of Louisiana intro- duced the following resclution: Resolved, That it is the sense of the Senate of the United States that the President enter into negotiations with the Government of Great Britain | for the purpose of abrogating or mod- ifying the Claytcn-Bulwer Treaty so far and to tue extent that the same may be deemed to prevent the United States from owning, constructing, controlling or operating an oceanic canal across the Isthmus of Darien. CHECKS HASTE IN PENSION BILLS Vest Calls a Halt in the Senate. MAKES DEMAND FOR QUORUM PAST DELICACY TO OBJECTIONS REMOVED. Regards Payment to Ve.erans a Sac- red Duty, but Seeks to Secure All Proper Consideration of Measures. Special Dispatch to The Call. WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—In connec- tion with the consideration of bills on the pension calendar, in the Senate to- day, Vest of Missouri said: “I do not want to be captious about this pension business and do not want to set myself n~ as a reformer, but this thing of passing a lot of pension bills simply by the reading of the titles, and when a quorum of the Senate is not present, has got to be stopped.” After further referring to the meth- ods by which pension bills are passed by the Senate, Vest said: “Men of the South have permitted these bills to be passed, having some delicacy about entering objections to the course of procedure. Recent events have obliterated sectionalism and we are united. We can, therefore, come here and object to this spoliation—and I use the word advisedly—without fear of having our motives impygned or our words misconstrued. “We are payine out in round figures $141,000,000 annually for ~e.sions, and it is our duty to find out why it is that thirty-three years after the close of the Clvil War this thing of pension claims shows so enormous a sum. I have been criticised by some of my people because I have not taken a more determined stand on this pension gquestion. I want, however, to pay munificently and liber- ally in pensions. I regard such pay- ment as a sacred duty, but I do object to the passage of these bills without proper consideration and with the same restrictions that are hedged about other measures.”. Gallinger of New Hampshire, as chairman of the Pension Committee. agreed with Vest in his desire to have the pension bills carefully considered. He thought a quorum of the Senate ought-to be in attendance when the pension calendar was considered. The anti-scalping bill passed yester- day by the House was received and. at the request of Cullom, chairman of the Committee on Interstate Commerce, was laid on the table instead of being referred to the committee. A similar bill has already been reported by the Senate Committee on Interstate Com- merce. . A constderable number of pension bills had been passed before the Senators. one or two at a time, began to leave the chamber. Finallv true to his warn- ing, Vest raised the point of no quorum. Forty-eight Senators re- sponded to their names and considera- tion of the pension bills was resumed. At the expiration of the one hour al- lotted to the consideration of the pen- sion calendar, twenty-six bills had been passed. At 11:50 o’clock the Senate west into executive session. At 2:15 the Senate resumed business in open session. > Morgan called up the Nicaragua canal bill, with a view to making it the unfinished business. He moved that the the bill. Pettigrew moved to adjourn. De- feated, 13 ayes, 42 noes. Morgan’s motion to proceed with the consideration of the Nicaragua canal bill was then carried, and after the bill hcd been laid before the Senate. thus becoming the unfinished business. the Senate, on motion of Morgan, at 2:25 p. m., adjourned until Monday. Gallagher Given the Decision. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 8—Billy Gal- lagher, formerly of Oakland, and Jim | Trimble of this city fought fifteen rounds Senate proceed to the consideration of | here to-night. Gallagher was given the decision by Referee John Brink. The contest took place before the Los An- geles Athletic Club. Gallagher was the aggressor during most of the match, but Trimble cleverly ducked his blows and escaped punishment until the final round, when he attempted to mix it up and was worsted. The men had fought once be- fore to a draw. L S TOMMY WANTS TO MEET BOB. Ryan to Post a Check for a Fight With Fitzsimmons. SYRACUSE, N. Y., Dec. 8.—Tommy Ryan says that he will meet Bob Fitz- simmons at 154 pounds, weigh in at the ringside, and that he will post to-mor: simmons within three months at the Mo: arch Athletic Club for 60 per cent of the Bross receipts: WN e UTE | DO POUR IN THE SO LAND menced falling in Riverside and vicinity to-night. The precipitation was copious and the indications are favorable for continuation of the downpour, which is greatly needed. The weather indications here to-night are for an early storm. —— - Santa Barbara Kickers Win. SANTA BARBARA, Dec. 8.—The Santa Barbara football team defeated the In- LOS ANGELES, Dec. 8—Rain (‘om—i al dian team from the United States Indian | About | School of Phoepix, Ariz., to-day. a thousand people witnessed the game. The score was 5 to 0. H. U. Castle of San Francisco refereed and William Winn of Los Angeles umpired the game. This makes the Los Angeles High School and Santa Barbara the champiens of South- ern California. They will meet during the holidays to determine their suprem- acy on the gridiron. Miller Holds the Lead. NEW YORK, Dec. 8.—The scores of the fifteen leaders in the six-day bicycle race at 2 a. m. were: Miller, 1473; Waller, 1470; | Plerce, 1461; Albert, 1426; Stevens,’ 1356. | Gimm, 1342;" Aronson, 1301; Lawson, 1331 BChimear. 1228 Soyeans, e arvie: ) ; Joyeaux, 1131; 1126; Julius, 1065 o4 rville, INTERNAL REVENUE DECISIONS | Thomas Will Not Arrest for Serving Wine in Pitchers. ‘The following recent decisions have been issued regarding internal revenue taxa- | tion and the special war tax: i Merchants do not bring themselves within the have been married on the 12th of last April. The wedding was postponed, how- ever, and the groom to be, as Miss Wal- lace supposed, was called from the city on business. While absent he daily penned his fiancee messages of love. His ardor began to cool by degrees, how- ever, and at last the day came when he spurned his love and broke the engage- ment. Miss Wallace now seeks to soothe her outraged feelings by recovering a judgment for $50,000 against the capital- ist. Capitain, who has been long and fa- vorably known in business circles, is said to be exceedingly wealthy. He was born in Frankfort in 1846. Consul for Peru. President McKinley has recognized Senor Don Carlos Estenos as Consul for Peru at this port. HEAD SWIM HEAD SWINM HEAD SWIM HEAD SWIM® HEAD SWIM HEAD SWIM HEAD SWIM HEAD SWIM Jxkkkxxkk HEAD SWIM ¥ wupyay s HEAD SWINM x * HEAD SWIM x CURES. » HEAD SWIM Frxwxxvnk HEAD SWIM SWIMMING SENSATION IN THE HEAD, the necessity to hold to pillar or post only for a second, shows there is Something the matter with the man. What Is the Matter ? Undoubtedly the individual is afflicted with some form of liver disorder. 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F.. and Oakland Baja California DAMIANA BITTERS Is a powerful aphrodisine and specific tonic for the sexual and urinary organs of both sexes, and a great remedy for diseases of the kidneys and bladder. A great Restorative, Invigorator and Nervine. Sells on its own Merits; no long-winded testimonials necessury. NABER, ALFS & BRUNE, 323 Market street, 8. F.—(Send for nts, ircular.) definition of bankers in the Mrst paragraph of section 7 of the act of June 17, 1538, by reason | of selling thelr own drafts to their customers; | they are not on this account | special tax as bankers. | An unstamped package of cigars cannot be | repacked in another box made expressly for | it. The stamps on an outér box will not pro- | tect the inner box, neither can a stamped box be contained in an unstamped outer box. ! The office will not approve of dummy pack- | ages for the purpose of advertlsing cigars. Clgar packages having a less or greater num- ber of clgars packed therein than the number denoted by the stamp will be forfeited. In reply to a letter of inquiry which you have addressed to this office as to whether you “can make and sell blackberry wine without spec- fal United States Internal Revenue license, you are hereby advised that you cannot do so unless the wine is made by you from blackber- ries of your own growing or gathered wild by yourself or by persons in your employ, and un- less this wine {s sold by you only at the place of manufacture, or at but one ‘‘general office’ | (Section 3246, Revised Stafutes). If this or any other wine is put up in bottles for sale, tax must be pald thereon under the following pro- visions of schedule B of the act of June 13, 1898 (war revenue act): “'Sparkling or other wines, when bottled for sale, upon each bottle containing one pint or less, ic; upon each bot- tle containing more than one pint, 2c.”" A fair or entertainment given by a fraternal organization (even though the public pay for admission) 1s held not to be such an 'exhi- bition or show as is contemplated by the eighth paragraph of section 2 of the act of June 13, 18%, 1f the proceeds are to be devoted to “'sick benefits”” or to other like subjects, and spgcial tax is not required to be paid therefor under this act. A draft or order drawn on the treasurer of such _an organization by another of its off- cers for the payment of money to a third per- son whether ““for payment of bills or for ‘sick benefits,’ * as you state, or for any other pur- | pose requires a Zc stamp under schedule A of | e e tactat t b | n entertainment given by a grange of the | Patrons of Husbandry, such as @ ‘“harvest | home festival" or the like, is not regarded as | such a public exhibition or show for money | required to pay | as the statute contemplates and special tax is | not required to be paid therefor. Jugs, pitchers, ete., used in serving wine in | restaurants and elsewhere for the purpose of evading the war tax stamps will be considered as bottles and must be stamped as such. But a saloon-keeper selling wine by the glass is al- lowed to draw it from the cask into bottles for that purpose without stamping the bottle. Special Revenue Agent Bert M. 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