The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 2, 1899, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1899. -@all JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. s All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager. PUBLICATION OFFICE......Market and Third Sts., S. F. Telephone Main 1865, EDITORIAL ROOM ....21T to 221 Stevenson Street ne Main 1574, S, 15 CENTS PER WEEK. oples. 5 cents . Including Postage: nday Call), one year. ay Call), € months ay Call), 3 months. ..$6.00 3.00 1.50 150 3 . 1.00 {0 recelve subscriptions. | | be forwarded when requested. i .908 Broadway | NEW YORK OFFICE Room 188, World Bullding‘ DAVID ALLEN, Advertising Representative. OAKLAND OFFICE.. = | WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE .......Riggs House | C. €. CARLTON, Correspondent. CHICAGO OFFICE Marquette Building | C.GEORGE KROGNESS, Advertising Representative. | ~MUS NT3 | Specialties. Monday evening, Feb- Burns, Grove been a lawyer of 3 He has served | 1d heard the great men | States, speak ior; 1 as for their re- | the qualifications and without or a disgrace. Yet he de- Bur nd, when so mon- | iticism that ought to be s to place shackles on the limbs | hould pos: He is not acting in the There is no journalist, legis- | the State who more fully compre- merits in statesmanship, y which he is surrounded 1s could not be elected there is no possible mistake. | tter. " a Abc n ever put forward for the gentleman he had been assailed by two rgument on its face is not bsurd but stupid. There is no additional ele- | through which it can be strengthened by Mr. The situation is unique wantonly and maliciously, | cribable pretensions are backed by un- | ulous intelligence and hold the, Legislature | ocked | Asse from Sacramento for years | ve made it his business to antagonize the | He acts as a disappointed man | is too narrow to rise above the surface of a | The spectacle of intellectual faculties nd malignant purpose, and using offi- hout regard to the public interest, is ¢ unfortunate, but a waste opportuni Johnson appears to glory in his own shame 1 ve station for the ventilation | sonal grievances and the pertinacious en and measures injurious to his im- constituents and obnoxious to that larger ency upon which his reputation must depend. tes the press and abuses his privilege by per- ly committing the very acts he professes to To rise under the sting of criticism, like a hyena from his lair, and show his teeth and spit at j 1 is a mean attitude for a statesman, and a equaled by the obstinate support of a andidate whose catalogue of qualifications is nothing but a stained blank. Tennyson informs us that “men may rise on step- ones of their dead selves to higher things,” | but the ex-Congressman is proving that through their 1 selves men may sink to unfathomable depths. D to defraud the State through the introduction of a system of conducting elections by means of balloting machines, the Legislature is giving con- siderable attention to the subject, and bills providing for making tests of such machines have been intro- duced into both the Senate and the Assembly. It is right that this should be-so. There is no.reason why a desirable reform should be delayed simply because some rascals have been detected in a scheme to make | a profit out of it. Th results of extensive experiments with balloting machines in the East have been sufficiently satisfac- tory to render it certain that sooner or later the whole country will adopt the system. It is superior to the present method in every respect. It is more economical, more accurate, more speedy and is free from liability to frauds or errors in counting. The only effect of the discovery of the scheme to defraud the State in the purchase of the machines will be that of putting the people on guard and mak- ing the officials more careful and wary in.adopting’ the system than they would have been otherwise. That will delay the introduction of the method to some extent, but the delay may prove beneficial, for in thes s in all newly adopted machines, improve- ments will be made rapidly and the price will fall. A year or two years from now we may be able to pur- chase better machines than could be obtained at pres- ent and at less price. While the delay necessary to make sure of starting right and of getting the balloting machines at a reasonable price will not be objected to, there will be a good deal of gratification in the fact that steps are to be taken at once to make thorough tests of the different machines and thus prepare the way for their adoption. Our present balloting system is cumber- some, costly, slow, inaccurate, and subject to various kinds of frauds in the counting. It will be a good day fc- the State when we can have all ballots received, registered and counted by a mechanism that works with precision and is not subject to the human infirm- ities of the average clection officer. pers. Such an se, in the face of day, blyman iblic at every point. ho petty revenge. set of legislat demn. ping- de: VOTING MACHINE TESTS. PITE the recent exposure of a conspiracy B ik | 2, 1899 | | ator Mason’s inquiry: N the sixth day of this month Senator Perkins SENATOR PERKINS AND THE TREATY O will have the opportunity of his life. Believ- ing in popular government, in ich every true American agrees with him, he invited a legis- lative instruction that was contrary to his own per- sonal convictions, and which, upon reflection, w€ hope he may deem it his duty respectfully to disre- gard. If the question were the improvement of San Pedro harbor or the deepening of the Oakland chan- nel, or any Federal appropriation for the particular benefit of this State, it would certainly devolve upon him either to obey the Legislature or to resign. But, when the institutions of his country are in peril, when this majestic republic is pointed toward the surging waves of imperialism, when he is directed to indorse the divine right of kings as a source of title to an archipelago and to hold that the Declaration of Inde- pendence has no application to nine millions of Fili- pinos, obedience to a State Legislature may be trea- son to the nation. It is the will of forty-five Ameri- can States, incorporated into an indissoluble Union, and having the future of mankind in charge, that, with a deep sense of responsibility, Senator Perkins | is required to register. And, unless he abrogates his principal functions, that will must be ascertained by his own independent judgment. The atmosphere at Wa have its own peculiar odors, but it is at least iree from the stench that offends the nostrils of honest legislators in the present Senatorial contest in this State. The air of the Senate chamber is not yet deadly to patriotism. Senator Perkins is a living example of what brains, thriit, integrity and energy can achieve under Ameri- can institutions. It was the protection of the con- stitution that enabled him to carve his way from humble beginnings to his present exaltation. He cannot forget or ignore his Americanism, nof upon an issue of possible life or death to the Government, as it is now fashioned, prefer a void legislative in- shington | struction’ to fidelity to his oath of office and the wel- fare of the largest free and independent community now om earth or recorded in history. He is sur- rounded by colleagues, some of whom have uttered sentiments to which the heart of citizenship through- out the Union has responded, and which may have sounded” the keynote to the last desperate struggle between despotism and liberty. “Our Commission- ers came back from Paris,” said the great Senator of Massachusetts, “bringing with them the cast-off clothing of the pinchbeck Napoleon and ask us who have seen his fate, to discard for them the spot- less robes in which our fathers arrayed the beautiful genius of Ameri And this antithesis to Dan Burns, this master of law and of rhetoric, with the blood of heroic ancestry coursing through his veins, held up before the world the supreme and controlling pur- pose defined in the preamble to the Federal constitu- tion, to which all of its express and implied powers | are subordinate, and as an American statesman ground the argument of the imperialists to powder. And in these memorable words he met the false| rhapsodists over military glory, “When you raise the flag over the Philippine: an emblem of domain and acquisition, you take it down from Independence Hall.” Even his narrower allusion to his own political service pathetically approached the theme of nation- ality and must have appealed with almost irresistible force to Senator Perkins, who can say of the Repub- lican party, dedicated to freedom and unity, “all of which I saw and part of which I was.” We will re- peat the language of Mr. Hoar: “I stood in a humble capacity by its cradle. I do not mean, if I can heip it, to follow its hearse.” r These are the expressions of one Federal Senator, which in virility and in beauty have been unsurpassed but nearly equaled by many. They ought to consti- tute a controlling example for our Republican Sen- ator, expanded beyond the lines of party, who stands for the milliions of Americans, to whom this ¢ountry, in its integrity and in its grandeur, is the type for fu- and who spurn alike Asiatic adulteration and imperialistic revolution. We sincerely trust that the vote of Senator Per- kins will help to frame an intelligent answer to Sen- “How is liberty to be estab- lished?” Is it to be done hypodermically with a 13-inch gun?” We hope that the country and the world may be spared the infliction of the Republican Senator from California occupying his seat, with his lips closed and his limbs manacled, while his ears are filled with legislative orders, in which the voices of Howard E. Wright and the Burns contingent can be clesrly distinguished. ire history, PANSION. ) : FRoyal Statistical Society, on “An Experiment tablishing a vast colony in Central Africa contains an make tropical colonies commercially profitable. that the great producing nations must establish colo- products of their industry. His object was to dis- examination because it is free from the interference for the promotion of the trade of the parent state. effect of the tropical climate upon the Europeans mated that of every ten whites who become officers trading company, who number 120, maintain only that at no time within a proximate future can-a body Against that appalling death and invalid rate there said that in spite of numerous and severe taxes, in shown an equality of receipts with expenditure. The stitutes but 0.7 per cent of Belgian commerce. Congo colony, and had used it for reducing the bur- There is no denying that a desperate prisoner with access to matches and kerosene can create an interest- ing time. AN EXPERIMENT IN TROPICAL EX- ROM a summary given in Public Opinion of a recent address by Mr. Courtney, president of the in Commercial Expansion,” it appears the experience of Belgium in trying to ‘expand her commerce by es- important lesson for the expansionists of this coun- try who delude themselves with the belief that we can Mr. Courtney was led to make an inquiry into the subject by the frequency with which it is asserted nies and assume dominion over the less civilized races of the world in order to provide markets for the cover whether the results of experience justify that belief, and he chose the Congo Free State for his of national rivalries and affords a full, fair field for colonial expansion to show what it can accomplish One of the first facts that impressed Mr. Courtney in pursuing his statistical inquiry was the deadly who go to the colony either to carry on trade or to conduct the governmental administration. It is esti- of state nine are either buried or invalided within three years, and the cmploy_es of the largest Belgian an average service of seven months out of the twenty- four for which they are contqcted. It is asserted of Earopean officials be continued in the colony with any permanency of its constituent elements. are no commercial profits to be shown. The daring colonizers have labored and perished in vain, It is spite of royal gifts and Belgian loans reckoned as income, the budget of state has in no single year trade of the country, which has cost so much in life and treasure, remains comparatively small, and con- - Mr. Courtney’s conclusion is that if the Belgians had employed at home the money expended in the dens on their trade and industry, the expenditure of the treasure would have had a far greater effect in xl'rican tropics, the Belgian expansionists have lost a considerable part of their substantial trade with other nations. Their colonial enterprise has proven to ‘be | 2 gold brick of the worst kind. From the lesson of this experiment our American expansionists ought to learn wisdom. That the Phil- ippines are unhealthy and deadly to the American is proven by the experience of our volunteers now in the islands. That it will be costly to govern them is made certain by the sullen attitude already assumed by the Filipinos. It is the merest folly to expect either national or commercial profit from colonial expansion in such a country. Like the Belgians, we can expand our commerce ¢ effectually by light- ening the burdens at home than by increasing them for the sake of colonial adventures in the tropics. SUPPRESSION OF CARTOONS. S there are two sides to every question, there f\ are grounds for opposition to the cartoon. We admit this freely. As to whether. the grounds are such as to appeal to the intelligence must be left to individual judgment. When a legislator has a bad record, to the length of which he is striving to add, no wonder he lifts his tearful eyes in protest to see his character portrayed, and rends the heavens with his wails. He is ex- periencing precisely the emotions of the rogue who feels the halter draw, only the legislator feels the artist draw. There can be no doubt that Wright viewed with distaste the pictures of himself, showing him to be crooked. It would not be surprising if a member depicted in the act of sloshing himself with white- wash would rather he had not been detected and ex- posed. Let it not be denied that the howlers have a grievance. Probably. the cat concerting nocturnally in the back yard would welcome a statute forbidding the hurling of a reformatory brick. Now, to the newspapers of California very little is involved in the fate of the justly celebrated anti- cartoon bill, for they would not pay to it the slightest attention. As an abridgment of the freedom of the | press, the constitution, still recognized as a docu- ment of considerable merit, would knock it into a cocked hat at the first test. When a paper oversteps the bounds by word or illustration, there is remedy in law, and it is the only remedy the kickers will get,] saving, of course, the shotgun, of which they talk so freely. There is for the honest man no sting in the car- toon. If so be he have large ears the world would never know it through the work of an artist while the ears were restrained in their tendency to wag, and even a luxuriant jungle of whiskers would es- cape if only the Svind of buncombe did not agitate | them unduly. For a man afraid of his record the cartoon is a thing of terror, herein being its virtue. 1 such men are in the majority, doubtless the scheme will be put to practical trial, but we suggest the Jaughter of the artists as the only effective quietus. | This might be made possible by the passage of the luminous and idiotic Morehouse bill authorizing any citizen offended by a paper to take to the warpath and found a private graveyard of imposing propor- tions. TAXATION OF CHURCH PROPERTY. HE petition presented to the Legislature by the TCa]ifornia Society for Exempting Churches From Taxation is not unreasonable and should be granted. | The request it embadies is one which in- volves no questions of public. policy or expediency; | the society merely asks that a constitutional amend- ment be submitted to the people exempting real es- tate and improvements used exclusively as churches and chapels from taxation. Whether it is good policy to free this species of property from the burdens of government need not be considered in any debate which may take place over the adoption in the Legislature of such a con- stitutional amendment. The only question that can possibly be involved is whether or not the people of the State of California ought to be given an oppor- tunity to pass upon the problem. It is the custom in these days to submit everything to the judgment of the people, the assumption being that they are infallible and will decide all questions according to the best public policy. Upon the sub- ject of exempting churches from taxation there will undoubtedly be a spirited debate when the consti- tutional amendment comes up for ratification; there is a great deal to be said on both sides, but the proposition is one that is easily understood and con- cerning which there need be no mystery. Every voter can readily resolve the question for himself and according to what he considers the best interests of the commonwealth. Until 1867 church property was exempt from taxa- tion under the laws of this State. In that year the Supreme Court discovered that the revenue act under which the exemption had been set up conflicted with the constitution, and in the case of The People vs. McCreery it was decided that that species of property must be assessed and taxed. But not until now has anybody attempted to disturb the doctrine of the constitution that all property in the State shall be taxed in proportion to its value. A strong point in favor of submitting the propo- sition under discussion to a vote of the peoplé con- sists in the fact that in every other State of the Union property used for religious purposes to which there is attached no income is exempt from taxation. There must be something in a doctrine which so uni- versally prevails, and undoubtedly it ought to be dis- cussed and settled in California. There should be no opposition in the Legislature to the submission of a proposition in which so many people are interested and concerning which there is so much to be said pro and con. Assemblyman Mead's effort to have superfluous at- taches given leave of absence so that they might not be at the expense of paying board bills was kind and thoughtful. It would also have tended to the ex- pedition of business, as where attaches are so thick they fall over each other they ought to be thinned out. The two boys who wrecked the interior of a hat factory present puzzling examples of depravity far more difficult to deal with than the act of a mature and hardened criminal. It is safe to say, however, that no community with such a pair loose in it is safe. RPCOER o Dibble would have the loaning of money by a Senatorial candidate to a prospective legislator made a felony. There ought to be a clause characterizing the act of accepting such a loan and then voting for the rival candidate. That’s meaner than mere felony. The. fifty-year prisoner who has just been found guilty of murder and been sentenced for life is prob- ably not enough worse off than he was. to feel the difference. Uncle Sam's soldiers are good fighters, but those increasing Belgian commerce. In other words, while | among them who fill up on water front whisky do seeking the shadow of trade in the jungles of the ‘make more noise than absolutely necessary. 'RANCHO AND RURAL LIFE. high in- G. Loppens, a flax expert of Neerpelt, Belgium, gives a very dorsement to flax fiber raised on the coast, which he has had scutchedi in the Neerpelt mills. Mr. Loppens is the inventor of & tank system for re‘;t x;g flax, to take the place of pond retting. Experiments have been made in this State with ramie, which is one of more silky fiber, but the difficulty of the way to its profitabe introduction as a field the substitutes for flax and ylelds a decorticating it has so far blocked crop. But with a system of tank retting of flax it would seem that it should become a profitable crop when both fiber and seed can be utilized. climate industry, confined heretofore low countries. Its greatest center is Flax manufacture is a moist- quite exclusively to Ireland and the at Lys in West Flanders. It may it. prove that our moist valleys near the coast are sui_ted to In 1894 Switzerland took only $720 worth of California dried fruit, and in 1897 she took $700,000. Now Switzerland excludes all of our unpe eled dried fruit for fear of the San Jose scale, and the State ‘Board of Trade is endeav- oring to get this decree modified. Many common words, descending through all languages from the primi- tive past, had their origin in the occupations ut German “tochter,” in ancient Greek “thusgater, i _tar,” is derived from the Aryan and means “a milker. rural life. Daughter, in in ancient Hindoo “dui- It comes down from a time when the people were herdsmen and every daughter was a mm:- maid. In like manner pecuniary, Latin pecunia, money, comes from “pi- cus,” a herd of cattle, and tells of a time when cattle were used as money. At last there is a concentration of interests in this State to secure pro- tection of our forests, and the permanency of their crop of merchantable timber. The Society of Waters and Forests has been formed and its good faith is shown by its refusal to immediately attack the treasury. Its ex- ecutive committee has meémorialized the Governor to ask the Legislature for authority to appoint an unsalaried commission of five citizens to serve for two years and the office then to cease and determine. This commission is ay its own expenses and to investigate the whole question of scientific }grgsgy. sthe relati%n of the preservation of forests to the conservat{on of water and the impounding and distribution of the surplus, or flood waters. Of course-such request of the Governor will be acceded to and the State will have begun in the right way to protect and preserve its matchless forests and the permanent resources of wealth which they represent. Keep a-goin'! v Keep a-goin’! If it hails, Keep a-goin'! 1f you strike a thorn or rose, or if it snows, *Taint no use to sit and whine When the fish ain’t on your line; Bait goin’ our hook an’ keep a-tryin'— eep a-goin'! When the weather kills your crop, Keep a-goin’! When_you tumble from the top, Keep a-goin’! S'pose you're out o’ every dime, Gittin' broke ain’t any crime Tell the world you're feelin’ fine— a-goin'! Keep ‘When_it looks like all is up, . Keep a-goin’! Drain_the sweetn Keep a-go See the wild bir ss from the cup, on the wing, Hear the bells that sweetly ring, When_you feel like sighin’, sing— Keep a-goin'! STATE NOTES. The River News of Rio Vista says that 3000 acres in Solano County will be planted to sugar beets this year. ‘Wild geese are a pest on the islands in San Joaquin Couny. They are accused of digging up the deep drilled wheat and farmers have hired rifle- men to go on the warpath against them. The Vacaville Reporter proposes to change the name of Browns Valley to Poppy Glen. As the Legislature has adopted the poppy as the State flower this is the first attempt to take the official posy into local nomenclature. Biggs Notes says that a fine and profitable hemp crop was raised on the Hutchins place at Gridley. Henry Block, on his ranch at Gridley, plows fifty acres a day with four gangplows. Each gang cuts forty-eight inches and the four gangs turn sixteen feet. Every half mile makes an acre of ground turned over seven inches deep. Redlands has shipped 402 carloads now outrun shipments. of oranges for the season, and orders The Mountain Democrat says that pineapple culture is to be tried at Folsom. There were several cases of mushroom poisoning recently at Antioch. Atropine is a specific for mushroom poisoning. When you eat a toadstool and-it attackes your interior send fora doctor and tell him to bring atropine along. E. G. Magetti, at Marshall. Sonoma County, is milking 145 cows and makes daily 140 pounds of butter. He has 1670 acres of ranch pasture and feeds no grain. His cows are all made muley by dehorning. The Denman creamery at Santa Rosa is handling two tons of milk per day and pays 98 cents a hundred pounds for milk with 4 per cent of butter fat. The California linnet is again winning bad repute by destroying fruit buds. buds alone. The only remedy is to destroy the linnet until he learns to let fruit Selma is the latest candidate for a cannery, and the Enterprise is pull- ing for it in a way to make something come. The tomato is increasing as a kitchen favorite. The pack.in the United States last year was 5,797,806 cases of two dozen tins each. The finest toma- toes in the world are produced in California. s The Fresno Republican complains consumers of Fresno raisins. that the people of that place are poor NEW RUBBER TRUST STRIKES A BIG SNAG Manufacturers Will Not Come In. BAIT FAILS TO ATTRACT CLUB OVER EDITOR DUNLAP’S HEAD. Charles R. Flint, the Chief Promoter of the Scheme, Threatens Him ‘With a Libel Suit for With- holding Support. The efforts of Charles R. Flint, the New York capitalist, backed by a syndicate of Eastern bankers, to organize a new rub- ber trust under the name of the “Rubber Goods Manufacturing Company,” are not meeting with the brilliant success antici- pated. Mr. Flint was in San Francisco a short time ago in the interest of his pet project and rosy pictures of the big money to be made by those who went into the pro- posed scheme were freely circulated. But for some reason or other Mr. Flint's mis- sion to the coast was not crowned with success and it appears, according to re- ports received from the East, that he is having a hard row to hoe in his endeavor to induce the independent manufac- turers to surrender their business or ex- change their holdings for stock in the new concern. Not only that, but the pro- motors of the new trust have succeeded In antagonizing the India Rubber World, a paper of wide influence, devoted to the Interests of manufacturers and dealers of rubber goods. The result has been a declaration of “war to the knife” between the trust promotors and the paper, which promises to become exceedingly interest- ing as time passes. Mr. Flint's alleged threat to sue the editors of the paper for criminal libel has had the effect of in- creasing the bitterness of feeling and all efforts to patch up the quarrel, which is is to have its origin in the attempt of Mr. Flint to whip the India Rubber World into line in support of his scheme, have signally failed. 'he new trust is intended as a sort of running mate to the United States Rubi g United States Compmz boot and shoe trade and the manufacture of all-kinds of hard rubber. hat the Rt e Rubber Goods acturing mpany shall control the manufacture and sale of all lines not cl: as rubber ds. e assets of the com- panies now in the trade that are con- sidered alslfible to join the new combina- tion are umn&lad at , and they are ited with doing a business of $25,- r ,000 per annum. the new compan - ai 000,000, one-half the stack to be issued in 7 per cent cumulative preferred shares and the remal ei—reru nting trade marks, patents, good will service tracts—in ord shares. orij corporate the com, ago, but the poration papers have not been filed taken as conclusive evidence that the scheme has slipped a cog somewhere. When the movement for the organiza- tion of the trust was first started Mr. Flint—who was selected to engineer the schme because of his success in launching the United States Rubber Company on its successful career—approached the propri- etors of the India Rubber World to secure the support of their paper for the enter- prise. glgh( here he encountered an un- expected obstacle. The publication jointly owned and edited by H. C. P son and John R. Dunlap. = While Mr. Pearson was inclined to look with favor on the proposition, Mr. Dunlap declared he would have nothing to do with it. He was alternately cajoled and threatened, but all to no purgos& Finally Mr. Dun- lap, in view of the difference of opinion on the subject prevailing between him- self and his partner, offered to Sell his share of the paper outright. This did not suit Mr. Flint, however. He desired above all things to retain the services of Mr. Dunla? ‘with the paper—perhaps fearing that if he should dispose of his share in the publication Mr. Dunlap might imme- diately start a rival sheet, which would be bound to antagonize the rubber con- solidation scheme. According to the story going the rounds in this city, a plan was concocted to force Dunlap into line. On December 30 Mr. Pearson paid a_visit to the office of Mr. Flint in New York. After a brief consultation with Mr. Flint and 8, P. Colt of the United States Rubber Company, who is also interested in the new trust scheme, Mr. Dunlap was sent for. and asked to state his position. Just what occurred is not stated, but a stenog- rapher, secreted in the room, is said to have made a verbatim report of all that transpired. With this report as evidence Mr. flm: is alleged to have threatened ta prosecute the India Rubber World ‘‘for attempting to extort money under threat of making injurious publications.” The following day a representative of Mr. Flint called at the office of the paper and tried to restore harmony. He assured Mr. Dunlap that if he would withdraw his opposition there would be no prosecution and that the events of the preceding day should be considered as never having taken place—in other words it was “all a blunder.” As an earnest of his sincerity, or the sincerity of the trust he repre- sented, the visitor gave promises of ex- tensive advertising in the India Rubber ‘World if it would adopt a friendl, tude, and actually submitted an order for over $18,000 worth of space in the paper. Mr. unlag refused to accept the over- tures of the trust, however, and the “Yent of the mnnogoly left the sanctum with the understanding that it was to be “war tq the knife."” One ol the arguments used by the pro- moters of the new scheme is that the combination of the leading manufacturers of rubber goods will enable the trust so formed to immediately reduce the price of its products 7} per cent, by reason of reduced operating expenses,* The history of the United States Rubber Company is pointed to as showing the perfection of this idea. It is further claimed that by reason of its greater capltal and increased facilities, the trust cuuld control the price of the raw Pmduc!. and thereby shut out the competition of the smaller concerns oPeraung independently. The opponents of the trust point to the fact that with all its immense capital the United States Rubber Company has not been a glorious success, inasmuch as a number of fac- tories which it was gompelled to buy at fabulous prices paid 1. r dividends than the trust can ever hope to pay. For in- stance, the Converse Company paid $1,800,- 000 in a single year on a capitalization of $5.000,000, which is more than the trust which absorbed it has paid in any one year with a capital of $40,000,000. It {s also claimed that the rubber business offers irresistible inducements for money mak- ing for persons with comparatively small capital, and that, trust or no trust, inde- yendent factories are bound to continue 0 exist and flourish and that as one is bought \lmo(her will take its place. In fact the Iness of starting factories for the purpose of selling the same to the trust may soon come to be a recognized and profitable industry. is atti- Unabue to Agree. The jury in the case of Cornelius Sulli- van, chargzed with the murder of his step- father, Charles J. Pratt, reported that it ‘was unable to agree upon a verdict last night. It was discharged by Judge Law- lor. For some flmat!ubl.flvfinf stood 6 to 8, but tchofiudto 1 n‘ 2 conviction, nero” it ghln 5 for | ‘where it l GURIED THER * FRIEND N HS BELOVED LA © Remains of Senator Boggs Interred. SAD RITES AT CYPRESS LAWN SERVICES ARE HELD IN THE » PALACE HOTEL. Ritual of the Episcopal Church Is Read by Rev. Robert C. Foute. Delegation of Legislators in Attendance. The remains of Senator John Bo Colusa are now reposing beneath the of his beloved Californ The of the neer, statesman and f v, whose name for half a century was al- most a household word throughout the State took place from the Palace Hotel vesterday morning and all mortal of this grand chara laid In its last resting pls Lawn Cemetery. For fifty | of John Boggs has t a synonym for hon | his memory will long | section of the State w | to develop. Early in the morning th | deceased began to a | ily apartments on t | Palace wr the | whom | fully in a almost smoth rent among the m a mammoth eross co; violets, maiden bells | ed by a white dov | flight of the soul from the bod ing the inseription, * | league,” from th s the name en to Californians nd integrity, and > cherished in that 1 he did so much riends of the nble in the fam- th floor of the re rema mem | lature. Immense pillows made of violets, | maiden bells and a of ferns were of the casket, while ately perfumed roses placed along the sic the hundreds of d of various hues perfumed the air. At 10:45 the Rev. Robert C. Foute of Grace Episcopal Church stepped to the head of the casket and read the beauti- ful and impressive funeral service of the Episcopal cllurch, concluding with a prayer. The remains were then conveyed to the Palace court, where the he and carriages were in waiting, prece by the honorary pallbearers and the leg- islative delegation and followed by the be- reaved widow and children of the de- ceased. Following were the honorary pallbearers, all of them life-long friends of the dead: Lieytenant Governor Jacob H. Neff, Senator E. W. Chapman. Gen- eral N. P. Chipman, E. B. Pond, Will S, Green of Colusa, C. Lusk of_Chico, Colonel George Haager and W. P. Har- rington of Colusa, Judge McFarland, John H. Jewett of Marysville, N. D. Ride- out and Senator A. P. Williams. The legislative delegation was composed of Senators Boyce, Bettman, Morehouse. Maggard, Sims, Chapman _and Dwyer, and Assemblymen Duniap, Belshaw, Cam: inetyi, Glenn and Sanford. : The' funeral cortege wended its way to the ~ Southern Pacific station at Third and Townsend streets, where a special, train was in waiting to convey the mourners to Cy- ress Lawn. At the cemetery a tent had een erected by the side of the open grave to shield the funeral party from the sun | or rain during the brief ceremony at- tending the placing of the body in the ground. As the casket was lowered beloj the surface Dr. Foute read the buridl service and an improvised choir, com- posed of friends of the family, sang “Nearer My God to Thee.” A closing prayer followed, and as the threatening clouds overhead began to send forth warning drogs the clods of earth began to fall on the coffin that held all that | was earthly of him who was held all that while on earth as one of ““God’s Noble- men."” ANSWERS TO GOBBESPONDENTS. A BACK DATE.—The 1ith of August, 1847, fell on a Sunda; A ROYAL FLUSH—A. K., Oakland, Cal. In the game of poker, a royal flus;I is: , king, queen, jack and ten spot of one gucii, ar’:dsn?us(. to be counted as such, be in the first deal. A PIECE OF PROPERTY—A. A., Oak- land, Cal. If you bought a piece of prop- erty 40x125 and your deed describes that property so that it shows that just that sized lot was sold to you, you could not claim 43x125 simply because the Assessor’s map shows that the property assessed to you is apparently three feet wider than your deed calls for. You cannot be called upon to pay for more frontage of street assessment work than the deed you hold calls for. GAMBLING—A. L. H., Carrville, Cal The buying and selling of legitimate stocks in a legitimate business and the man who acts as a broker for others, simply buying and selling for a definits commission, cannot be considered a gam- bler in the true sense of that word word, but it is a common belief that all who deal in stocks are engaeed in “‘stock gam- bling.” It having been held that the ame of poker is not a game of chance, gul a game of skill, it cannot, under that ruling, he said that a man playing for an- other at such a game is a gambler. —_—e—————— Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsends.* —_———————— supplied dally to Special information business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mont« gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * —_—e————— New Consul General for Salvador. Senor Encarnacion Mejla of this city has been appointed Consul General for the_republic of Salvador, with his office in San Francisco. He succeeds Dr. Eus- tacio Calderon. 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