The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 16, 1899, Page 2

2 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1899. COMBINE AGAINST BURNS AND GRANT SEEMS CERTAIN Supporters of the Other Senatorial Candidates Hold a Conference. Twenty-Three Legislators Present and All Agree to the General Terms of the Plan---Another Meeting ALL HEADQUARTERS, BACRA ates er than whereby nt at the Assemblym _os Angeles, Conrey > of the suppor confe t de > went present day and ended br ts in this or any other te. aving listened patiently to the Si the conference Grant should st manner of after He was so select benefit of the conference vot m v vote of the memb has resulted, then the c i member som > candid ct.” T ypposition put forth by th sion will be arrived at, ho fc 1 the afternaon. Even the sary to the QO0O000DOOOVOO0R000T0O00ODOO00D QCO0O00COCL0000000C00QO0CO0CO00000C200000000C0CO0O0QO0C00C00 KENNEALLY MARS .THE | ASSEMBLY PROCEEDINGS K CONTEST COST THE STATE| HEADQUART SACRA- resolu- y to- »f business the Leg as piled up before it will be d posed of before the middle of the month Over half the bills that have been intro- re st imittee and those rted back haye on upon which ely an impression has been made. e files, 'man Valentine of the Ways and Committée ‘has only just begun general appropriation bill ready for introduc- the earliest. The ven over wholly and nothing interest ' was accom- | fon, however, was sed x amend- came up e acted amend- tutional for the measure Clark of Santa Clara, to e founding of Leland Stanford nd ¢ t its properties from ed and Clark’'s amend- La Baree of would move to 1 ler the vote. Assembly constitutional amendm nt No. | 7 by ( i a I T A ith the books and management D and buildings pancy, use leased or other- to profit, are ex- arning therein, wh 1 t champions two ot Speaker e vigor of | out his op at | considerable ble, Wade. O'Brien and when it came | though not by a bill Sen 6, which pro- building of a wagon road n to th road, as was ) Morehouse's Sen- relating to of Supreme Court Commissioners zppointm h a segretary. trattén’s etection , relating to conven- up and passed without to c- Dunlap, relmin%\ embly bill 151, by M the ~organization i ere passed, bill 48, b and As Keen, authorizing rural cemeter and Brown's relating to | ntment of trustees. went through | rse. Kenneally's Assembly des that only native- born or naturalized citizens of the State may be employed upon public works, was ed after a hard fight, but its success was not due to the effort of its author. While the debate was on his bill he left his seat in the back of the chamber and ne next emblyman Clough of | where and roundly and | irsed every ome who voted | against his measure. Judge Clough him- | self came in for a flood of billingsgate that | never should have gone unpunished on the Assembly floor. The hot-headed Ken- | neally used his filthy oaths regardless of | the near presence of the wives and | friends of members who were in the chamber, ness prevented him making an outburst that would have caused the sergeant at arms to throw him off the flc | Wade of who was incensed at | the unwarranted attack made upon Judge | Clough, changed his vote and announced | that to-morrow he would move for a re- | consideration. and only Judge Dibble’s prompt- i | Arnerich’s Assembly bill 245, which is| esigned to reorgan the State normal | school tem, W passed with only nine | disgenting vote: Governor Gage's recent veto messages | were on the special order files and both of them. were unanimously sustain The first, Arnerich’'s Assembly bill 160 making an :i[r‘yrnprlaliun of $10,000, was calied for by Dibble, and when the vote fo overrule the veto was ordered, the| minority joined with the majority in vot- ing to sustain. [he same action 5 taken in the case of Assembly bill Belshaw, relating to the powers of guard- ians in partition. Governor Gage's the claims of the different newspaper in the State for publishing the consti- tutional amrndments&)rflposml at the last election, was_referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, to which commit- tee have also been consigned the claims that have been coming in during the past | few days. | message concerning 4 ) ———t Another Junketing Trip. CALL HEADQUARTERS. = SACRA-| MENTO, Feb. 15—The Assembly Com- | mittee_on Hospitals and Asylums will Jeave Saturday for Glen Bilen to inspect the Home for Feeble Minded. It will also 0 to Ukiah and inspect the State Insane 8% m. Bls making appropriations for improvements. for the two institutions are before the committee and it wishes to satisfy itself upon the amount of the ex- pense for the improvements asked before reporting to the Assembly upon the bills. position, which he | seat in the Senate : notice that he | n Set for To-Day. Twent et in exe: as & unit for some cne of M NTO and Gri agr ent for all parti fternoon Rowell, Boynton, Morehouse, Muenter, ree and Melick. Knowl was the positi all the membe to a g A S said that on ac mentior After sitlor H e the civil war and gradu was the greatest Republ o the days b claring that he ry, whic by court on ag! and vote for s mpson or. held on except Sir and toget d proceeded tc he thirty me one of the selecting the candidate to be voted for and also how long the conference vote should ed. A majority believed that first one candidate e, the length of time he should be made the recipient of thi: ers of the conference. If, after all the mi onference may select som ates themselves to be rom expressions of opinion obtained to-night, e candidates immediately interested wever, until to-morrow, the tim n no definite n will be taken, for if ice of the first candidate to be voted for will not occur until the next day. WHAT THE DENNERY-ASHE CALL H DQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb, port of the Com- mittee on Contested Elections was pr sented in the Senate this morning. It showed the fight of Le n Dennery for the occupied by Porter Ashe will cost the State $28 The re- port was upon the expenses of the Den- nery-Ashe contest, and it recommended expenses be allowed as follow: To the contestee—County Cle: ; ver ation of answer, 5 cents; print- ing answer, $18; fees shorthand reporter, $694; F. J. Henny. attorn: fees, $166 G6; | H. H. McPlke, attorney’ A S, ewburg, attorney's fees, $166 sub- Charles poenas, thirty witnesses, $30; Frees, mileage, $11; Sylvester Sullivan, | $0; H. H. McPike, expenses, $82; total $1357 45. To the contestant—Fees, County Clerk and Sheriff, §1150; Mrs. C. 8. Whiteman, stenographer, $36 80; Justice Court fees, 5; Leon Dennery, expenses, $30; F. H. expenses, $22 50; E. F. Bert, ex- $3250; B. J. Mott, stenographer, telegrams, $2 10; E. F. Bert, attor. s, $250; F. H. Powers, attorney's 3 subpoenas, twenty-two wit- . $33; witness fees, $50; total, $1426 20. he report of the committee was re- ferred to the Finance and Claims Com- mittee for consideration of the items, and e Committee on Rules for the pur- of having the rules suspended for i passage. enator Braunhart’s bill providing for a al inheritances provoked tr when ‘it came up for was a disposition to pass ing file and take up the hart objecte He dered and passed, aid, as there was a man r working against it, and he icantly at Alex Vogelsang, stly talking to two Sena- tors. ne one is working against my bill on the floor of the House in viola- tion of its rules’ he declared, ‘and I want it stopped or I will ask that the se geant-at-arms be directed to do his duty. There was nothing done about it, for the bill was taken up, amended and sent back penses, $662 | to the printers. emblyman Cobb's bill for the prac- tice of horseshoeing as a fine art and for the licensing of blacksmiths was then taken up. Smith opposed the bill, and go did Sims. Smith oppesed the bill bitterly. Y clured himself against such legisiation. It established a trust of labor; it was the ranting of special privileges; it was fiampeflng trade and the chances of the voung man; it was a line of legislation vicious unnecessary, useless and ruinou Senator Taylor delivered a lecture on ation of the horse’s hoof and how very disease of the hoof is caused by improper shoeing. The bill w amended to make it apply to the whole State instead of to counties of a certain class and also to require two vears' apprenticeship before eligibility for examination. The question on the amendments, and both were adopted and the bill was passed to print. : Senator Bettman introduced a resolution in which it was resolved to adjourn on this the anniversary of the date of the blowing up of the Maine, out of respect to the memory of those who went down with the battle-ship. The resolution was adopted, and in pursuance of it when the Senate adjourned it did so in “memory of the Maine.”” . Assembly bill 607, providing for an ap- propriation of $75,000 for the expenses of the State Printing Office, was passed under an urgeney resolution. Senator Smith’s resolution providing for an urgency file was passed. The file was ordered made up. Senator Leavitt introduced a bill pro- hibiting the hunting of deer with hounds. The objection to such hunting quently hounds will run a fawn or doe until it dles of exhaustion, and so to pre vent this the idea was to stop hound: hunting altogether. Senator Braunhart's bill providing for the form of ingurance policies was passe Senator Luchsinger's bill appropriating $1150 to pay the claims of Thomas Hatch for services during the Midwinter Fair was passed. AL R Recommended for Passage. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 15.—The Senate Judiciary | Committee decided this evening that the substitute for Senator Morehouse's blood- thirsty bill for the annihilation of news- paper men should be reported back to the Senate with the recommendation that it_pass. The substitute requires the sig- nature of every juornalist to any personal article he may write. Because of the absence of Senator Morehouse, who for- mulated the substitute, the matter creat- ed no discussion and it was reported back so that the rest of the members of the Senate could air their opinions on the sub- ject when it reached the floor of the Sen- ate. The bill rcquh‘lng a license from the makers of shirts who solicit trade in other coctions of the State than thelr own, was reported back with an unfavorable rec- ommendation. ————————— The Grip Cure That Does Cure. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets removes the cause that produces La Grippe. The genuine bas L. B. Q. on each tablet; 25c. L ree members of the Legislature who are voting for ve conference th to the conference and determine upon some definite course of ac- Dickinson, The only absentees were vays entertaining. the members quietly accepted [ new candidate and cast the conference vote for him. slight variation of this plan to propose, but the general consulted in order t for holding the conference He de- | is that fre- | 4. | cepting a fee for representing that a man afternoon for the purpose of for- the various candidates they represent. to consult with their Stratton, Taylor, Davis, Currier, Valentine, Brown, Belshaw, Cos- and, 000020200000000060920980000650005000 BURNS' CAUCUS SCHEME RECEIVES ITS QUIETUS FortyRepublican Legislators Have - Openly Declared Their Unal- terable Opposition to It. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRAMENTO, Feb. 15.—Forty of the eighty-five Republican members of the Legislature have publicly expressed themselves as being opposed to a general caucus on the question of the election of a United States Senator. Many others who are known to be opposed to the caucus scheme have declined to express themselves on the ground that by so doing they might engender opposition to matters of legislation in which they are particuarly interested. With only his immediate following favorable to the caucus scheme Dan Burns finds himself driven out of his last ditch and forced either to with- draw from the conest or resort to outright bribery, with money furnished him by the Southern Pacific Company. in order to obtain votes he has been unable to get by the offer of patronage in the gift of the Governor, intimi- dation or the petty political tricks that he has sought to work out through the medium of an army of paid touts. The Southern Pacific Company's threat of political damnation to all who refuse to go into a caucus has failed of effect and the fact has been demon- strated, temporarily, at least, that a majority of the Republican members of the Legislature are not owned and eontrolled by the glant corporation. Few people aside from those here In Sacramento who were fmmediately in- terested in the Senatorial contest have more than a partlal knowledge of what a Senatorial caucus would mean to Dan Burns. Assemblyman Henry C. Dibble, who is Burns’ right hand man in the Legislature, is chalrman of the Republican caucus, and by virtue of his position he would have full charge of the caucus were it called to decide the Senatorial question. As chairman he would appoint the tellers, whose duty it is to collect the secret ballots that are cast for Senator. It is within the power of these tellers emblymen Wade and taken by Senator Simpson, who had s present had expressed their views natorial caucus, Simpson claimed the ount of the contrary views held by the ce. He sought to justify his position 1ally followed his own personal history jcan of his size and mental attain- » elect Senator Gillette as chairman. members now voting for candidates ‘ir candidates. The only difference of another should be favor to he deter- ve been voted for and -then nority candidates outl seemed satisfactory to s to their sup- hat there will be having been fixed agreed upon the a plan of procedure 000000“0OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO | YOLO WILL NOT GET* i A STRIP OF SOLANO| | CALL HFEADQUARTERS, | MENTO, Feb. to the Dixon Tribune was mainly respon- sible for the report of the Committee on SACRA- | —An unfortunate letter | | County Government this evening. As- { semblyman G. W. Plerce of Yolo wrote | the letter, and the decislon was against | moving the county line between Yolo and Solano counties in order to give Yolo §1,- 200,000 worth of taxable property. In his letter to the Tribune, dated some months ago, Mr. Pierce de¢clared that Solano had done all that was possible for the people who now wish to go over to Yolo | and that Yolo had better hot meddle in Solano affairs. Now Mr. Plerce is the champion of the disaffected. On Tuesday night the rebels were heard before the committee, and this evening | he Solano people told their story. It | began with the reading of Pierce's letter | | by"the editor of the Tribune, F. A. Hut-| | ton. Then the witn began to tear to | pleces the petitions signed by the dis- | | affected, and managed to have nearly half | | the names stricken from them, the sign- | el not having been found to be on the | | assessment roll of Solano County. | It was further shown that the tax rate | in Yolo is $1 40 on an assessed valuation of §14,000,000; of Solano $1 50 on a valuation of $15,000,000. The change of the strip as- | sessed at $1,200,000 would bring Solano up to nearly $i 60 and Yolo down to $1 30, | and in this the committee saw one of the | | points of the desire for flight into Yolo. The report was that the bill providing | for the changing of the boundary line do | | not pass. Those who were heard were: | F. A. Hutton; O. C. Schulze, manager for | | Eppinger & Co., the grain men; B, E. | ! Long, County Assessor; T. B. Bucking-| ham, Supervisor of the revolting district, | {and Dr. Baker, the oldest inhabitant. | " The case for Solano County was ably | handled by Hon. Alden Anderson, Speaker | of the Assembly and the representative of | Solano County in the House. He took en- | tire charge of the matter, collected the | evidence, comFllE~d the statistics and ex- amined the witnesses, and to him is due | the unanimous vote of the | mittee in favor of his county. | TO GOVERN THE LICENSING OF MEDICAL GRADUATES CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-; MENTO, Feb. 15.—Se¢nator Rowell has a | | bill almost ready for intreduction which | will upset a great deal of the law relat- ing to the medical profession that is now upon the statute books, The bill provides for the appointment of a board of examining physicians, nine in number, five of whom shall be appoint- ed by the regular State Medical Society, two by the State Homeopathic Soclety | | and two by the State Eclectic Soclety. The idea is that all candidates for license to practice medicine shall be examined before this board in the general branches of medicine, but when the examination progresses as far as materia medica, ther- apeutics and the theory and practice of medicine, then the candidate shall be ex- v those members of the board of | medical falth which he has decided to | practice in. The board will examine all graduates from a legally chartered medical school | or institution and upon- satisfactory evi- | dence of their fitness to practice it shall ue a certificate to them. This certifi- | cate must be recorded with the County Clerk of each county and it must be re- corded again in the clerk’s office of any | county which he may move into. The | bill aiso provides that physicians coming | from other States must appear before the board in the refiu\ar manner and re- | ceive a certificate allowing them to prac- tice, just as is required of the candidate | newly graduated. * | The bill further provides that the hoard | | may at any time revoke or refuse to grant a certificate on the ground of unprofes- | sional conduct, unprofessional conduct b |ing defined as criminal malpractice, a joint com- | | ifestly incurable disease can_ be perma- | nently cured or betraying professional se- crets, and 1t shall be presumed upon con- | viction for any offense Involving moral | turpitude. A physician is defined as any one mak. ing a business of treating diseases, juries or deformities, any one making | business of using magnetism _or elec- employing medical or surgical appliances for that purpose. A | Appropriations Favorably Reported. | CALL HFEADQUARTERS, SACRA- | MENTO, Feb. 15.—The appropriation for the improvement of San Diego harbor was cut down from $150,000 to $100,000 and re- ported upon favorably by the Senate Committee on Ways and Means this evening. Captain Barbour of San Diego appeared hefore the committee and stated that he thought $100,000 was enough, as $56,000 was sufficient for the seawall, con- $44,000 was sufficient to be spent upon the wharves, He also stated that he hoped spent in the {nymem of the back salaries | of the offigials. Bill 689, to ?“ly the claim of John J. Snider for $172, was passed upon favor- | en district of San Luis Obispo County, to substitute ballots” written and prepared in advance for those handed them by the members. There is no means by which such a substitution could be detected, because the ballot is a secret one. As an illustration, let it be presumed that a dozen men cast their votes for a man named Smith. If. when the ballots were counted, but one vote for Smith was found in the hat, each one of the men who voted for him would believe he had cast the vote, for the reason that he had nc means of knowing if any- body else voted for the same man. But Burns will not get a caucus, in spite of all the pull that has been brought to bear to bring about that result. His political methods are so well known thatghe friends of the other candidates are determined he shall not be given an opportunity to win the Senatorial seat by such methods as are most familiar to him. - The opinions of some of those legislators who have not yet publicly ex- pressed themselves are given herewith: Assemblyman R. de Lancie—“I am opposed to a secret caucus. About a caucus on the open floor T have not made up my mind. But I do not see what good such a caucus would do.” ‘Assemblyman W. A. Clark—"I had rather go into caucus than not elect a Senator.” Assemblyman H. S. Blood—"T will time, but T will agree to no other.” Assemblyman A. S. Milice—“I want an anti-Burns caucus; none other.” ‘Assemblyman J. M. Miller—"“At this time I am not in favor of any general caucus, As conditions are at present, I do not think a caucus would be good policy.” Speaker Alden Anderson—*I am opposed to any general secret caucus.” Assemblyman W. D. Knights—"If a majority of all the Republican mem- bers say ‘caucus,’ then I am in favor of it; but not otherwise.” Assemblyman G. D. Marvin—*I will not express an opinion on the caucus question.” go into an anti-Burns caucus any Senator Thomas Flint—"'I do not care to express an opinion on the subject.” ‘Assemblyman C. W. Merritt—"T am not prepared to express an opinion on the subject of a caucus.” Assemblyman- C. H. Boynton—“I have not yet made up my mind on the caucus question.” jority in this Legislature they should settle their differences in the Republi- 90€00000020008000 1] 826 relates to an ap] ropriation and making improvements to the same. $978, and bill 736 is an ap%rpor‘.allon SHUUTING IN -I-HE for the e SUFFERING FARMERS ASK MENTO, Feb. 15.—Assemblyman Burnett A Mou ntain Made of Semator C. M. Simpson—'Frankly, I am in favor of a general Republican Jom way. A caucus would settle the Senatorial question for all time, and you jitol Commissioners. ~Bills 326, a d 4 of J\P for equipping the State Fish Bl 753 appropriates $310 to pay the claim for the sum of §75 enefit of to-day offered in the Assembly a petition a Molehill. caueus. elther secret or otherwise. While the Republicans are in the ma- can say that I am in faver of i were aiso favorably reported THEHE WAS Nfl O atoheries In Sisson and Price Creeks, of 7. C 'Bdson. This was cut down to James H. Barry. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- from the residents of the drought-strick- praying that the collection of taxes in the CONVENTION OF | bering about 106. GERMANS WHO WOULD SHOW UNCLE SAM THEIR FISTS Question of Commercial Relations Seems to Ha ve Stirred Up Bitter Feeling. BERLIN, Feb. 15.—The question of the commercial relations of Germany with the United States seems not un- likely to lead to a partial ministerial crisis. Addressing an Agrarian meeting rve- cently, Baron von Manteuffel, Conser- vative, said: “Had we Increased our navy sooner the United States would not have dared to use such language toward Germany.” At the annual congress of the Agra- rian League this week similar senti- ments were heard. One speaker refer- ring to the speech of Herr von Bulow in the Reichstag last Saturday, said: “It is useless to serve the Americans with such sugar bread. If we want te inipress them we must show them our fists. We want deeds from the Gov- like Germany cannot allow herself to be made a fool of, as we so far have done with regard to America.” After other speeches characterized by vigor of exaggeration, the Agrarian League adopted a resolution congratu- lating itself upon the alleged “‘return of the Government to Bismarck’'s com- mercial policy.” The newspapers, including the offi- cially inspired organs, are ogenlye talk- ing of the ministerial dissensions. It Is asserted that the Agrarian utter- ances of Baron von Hammerstein-Lex- ten, Minister of Agriculture, have so disturbed diplomatic negotiations that whole sentences of his speeches have had to be omitted from the official re- ports, The Ministers, moreover, have had to keep careful watch whenever he addresses the Reichstag, in order to correct possible mistakes. For instance, on January 30, he violently attacked Baron von Thielmann, Imperial Secre- tary of the Treasury, but in the official report the name of a private Deputy Herr Tiedemann, was substituted on the ground that the speech otherwise would have disturbed the delicate sugar negotiations with the United States. The offivial reports have also omitted many anti-American remarks of Baron ernment, not fine words. A great power Vvon Hammerstein-Lexten. One paper says his resignatior y be expected, since he has quarreled with nearly all his colleagues. There are renewed rumors that the Imperial Chancellor, Prince Hohenlohe, is weary of office, ‘and lobby gossip has it that Prince Herbert Bismarck will succesd Prince von Radolin as German Embas- sador to St. Petersburg. 3 THE SUPERVISORS Thirty-one Counties Are Represented. Special Dispatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 15.—The State convention of Supervisors was begun to-day. William Curtis, chairman of the Sacramento County board, was chosen to preside, and W. B. Hamil- | ton, clerk of the same board, was elected secretary. Thirty-one counties were represented, the delegates num- Various committees were appointed. The first paper presented was by A. E. Davis of Los Angeles. It was on the subjsct “Reads, Their Construction and Treatment.” The discussion that fol- lowed developed the fact that most of the Supervisors had come loaded with bricks to throw at any laws calculated to curtail the privileges heretofore en- joyed by Supervisors in the handling of county road moneys. Even the State Highway Commission is not in favor with them because of its proposed State legislation. D. Horn of Siskiyou, J. H. West of San Bernardino, P. Tormey of Contra Costa, T. D. Wells of Alameda, L. D. Adams of Placer, S. F. Ayer of Santa Clara and Charles Roeth of Alameda | all spoke against the bill. Wells said the State should have given the counties for road purposes thousands of dollars it expended in the | salaries and expenses of the Commis- sioners of the Department of High- ways. He sald ex-Assembiyman Clark of Alameda introduced an obnoxious road bill in the Legislature two years ago and as a result killed himself po- litically. Supervisor Roeth asked if any Su- pervisor was present who favored the bill. Not one responded. At the afternoon session the Commit- tee on Roads and Highways reported district be suspended until such time as | | there has been a paying crop. The signers of the petition are the same unfortunate farmers to whom aid was lately extended by the State. With the money that was advanced them they were enabled to lay in food supplies and after the first rains | there was every prosepect that their troubles wete at an end for the time being | at least. Mow, however, the winds and | the dry spell have played havoe with their | Sprouting grain and the prospect is as | black as it ever was. Another hard sea- son is to be their lot unless rain comes to them soon. The petition was ordered filed and will be considered at a time to be set. SAN FRANCISCO’S MORALS ARE TO BE LOOKED INTO CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-| MENTO, Feb. 15.—The Assembly Com- mittee on Public Morals is arranging an- other pleasant little junket to San Fran- cisco. The first was for the specific pur- pose of Investigating the poolrooms at Sausalito. This one is for the purpose of sampling every vice the municipality is heir to, ?rom the poolrooms to the slot machines and Mose Gunst's games of chance. 'The committee wiil leave here Friday morning and expects to be qana over Sunday, and there is a possibility recommending favorably an amend- ment to section 2643 of the road laws; also recommending the repeal of all other road laws, and the repeal of the act creating the Department of High- ways. It was recommended that the Legislature be asked to provide that the moneys derived from the collection THE PRINCIPALS ARE KNOWN | BOTH LADY AND GENTLEMAN ARE FAMILIAR FIGURES. fund. The committee’s report was re- ferred back to the committee to make such changes as it deemed best. A paper by John Roll on ‘“Bicycle Paths” was read and discussed and various members told what had “been done in their counties. The matter of an amendment to the law that provides that boards must an- nually fix the rate for county advertis- ing was referred to the Legislative committee. “City and County Districts; the Mutual Relations of Inhabitants; vValue of Good Roads to Each,” and “County Hospitals, Their Use and Abuse,” will be the subjects of discus- sion to-morrow. CHIEF OF POLICE STOPS THE FIGHT Saves ‘Stockings” Conroy From a A Bald Fake Perpetrated by a News- paper on the Public Shown Up in Its True Light. The sensational story of a prominent | society woman having been shot in the | Cafe Zinkand as published in a daily paper for the last two days is without ex- ception the rankest fake ever perpetrated on the public. The Cail is in a position ‘to state to its readers this morning that the episode about which the newspaper raised such a sensation was nothing more than a case of a woman not of the four too | of licenses be paid into the general road | | tricity for the same purpose, or any one | struction of which is contemplated, and | none of the money appropriated would be | at it will introduce an innovation by :gklng with it the Rev. Barton Perry, chaplain of the Assembly, who has about run out of material for morning prayers. The chaplain at any rate has his ull at work and is confidently expecting o participate in the trip —— Vacation for Gage. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 15—Assemblyman Cami- netti to-day introduced in the Assembly a resolution which provides that Gov- ernor Gage shall have four months’ leave of absence at such time as he shall see fit to take it. The resolution was made the speefal order for Tuesday. Mr. Cami- netti explained that he asked leave for Mr, Gage solely as a matter of courtesy, and not upon the Governor's solicitation. it is a custom, he said, that has been al- ways honoreg by observance'and in this case he is mbrely returning, as a Demo- crat, a like courtesy shown Governor Budd by a Repubiican member of the last Legislature. : Would Aid the Bankers. CALL HIEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 15—The Committee on Banks and Bankers met this afternoon and took under consideratian bill 985, which allows county, city or town treas- urers to deposit the funds collected by them in an incorporated bank in the said county, town or city. As the law now stands the Treasurer is compelled to de- posit moneys collected by him in a special deposit vault, The bankers are making the fight, smu"i that they can be realiz- ing interest on the money in their posses- sion if the bill is made a law. The com- mittee referred the bill back without rec- ommendatio] | WANTS THE MACHINFE SHOPS. STOCKTON, Feb. 15.—A delegation from the Merchants' Association will go to | San Francisco to-morrow to make the | Santa Fe people a proposition relative to the location of the machine shops. This city s in the fight for the shops, and will spare no reasonable inducelnent to secure | their location here. hundred drinking a little much and falling down in the lavatory of the cafe, inflicting a painful injury on the side of her head which rendered her un- conscious for some time. The ‘‘promirent society man’ who the newspaper said accompanied the woman is a well-known character of the tender- loin, likewise a well-known ward poli- tician. The Call discovered the identity of the woman yesterday, but as the in- cident in the cafe has absolutely no news value, inasmuch as the unfortunate lady who was the object of the newspaper's sensation is. as before stated. not a so- clety lady, her name will be withheld. At the time the lady was discovered lying unconscious in the ladies’ lavatory a reporter was taking refreshments at the bar. He noticed a commotion and immediately yellow brain surmised that one of the four hundred had been the victim of a shooting” affray. He tele- phoned his suspicions to the newspaper office and immediately a horde of report- ers were detailed to ferret out the mys- tery. Without investigating the matter, the paper published a scandalous fake on the word of its reporter, who happened to stray into Zinkand's. All day yesterday and the day before the newspaper men hovered about Zink- and’s, offering large sums of money to waiters and others employed at the cafe to disclose the woman'’s identity. The morning paper that published the story has been trying to get a real, good sensation for some time, and fafling in its frantlc efforts, decided that the little af- fair in Zinkand's gave an opportunity to exercise its well-known tendencies to publish fakes and falsehoods. Aged Woman Rides a Bicycle. Probably the oldest living bicyclist woman in County Essex, England, aged 3, who is an adept rider and whose sprightifness Is astonishing. Most people could enjoy health s a 3 : until very old age if they took proper: pre- Death of a Whist Expert. e 3h Pravert, Mlieants ‘br tHE Tiebatied organs by taking an occasional dose of Hos- NEW YORK, Feb. 15.—A special cable to the Sun” from London says: Henry Jones, ‘“Cavendish,” the well-known au- thority on whist, died to-day. tetter's Stomach Bitters. Even after dyspep- sie, indigestion, billousness and constipation have secured a foothold and become Ghronic, the Bitters will afford speedy relief. ably, as was bill 730, ereating a Board of Knockout at the Hands of Peter Maher. HAB}TFORD. CONN., Feb. 15 Maher!of Ireland and *“Stockings’ roy of Troy fought two minutes and for- ty seconds of the seventh round to-night at the Coliseum, when Chief of Police Lyle jumped on the platform and ordered Charley White, the referee, to stop the fight. White did not act quickly and the chief stepped between the two men, while several policemen mounted the stage. At the time the police interfered Maher had Conroy in the latter's corner and was hitting him with both hands. Conroy tried to run away and held his hands to his face. He was apparently helpless Conroy was in good condition at the close of the fight. There was no blood spilled. The bout was for ten rounds for 31200, the loser to take $400. Maher rushed Conroy in the first and the Troy man showed to poor advantage. He improved in the following rounds and landed se | eral hard ones upon Maher's face and got | in the only uppercut of the fight. In the | fifth 'round Conroy was knocked down, but was up quickly. He showed little | skill. 'STARS AND STRIPES 1 RAISED OVER THE MAINE | Graves of the Martyr Sailors of the | Wrecked Battleship Are Also | Decorated. | | HAVANA, Feb. 15--The sun shone | brigntly this morning for the first time in several days, when the wreck of the | United States battleship Maine, destroyed lin Havana harbor on the evening of Feb- | 1uary 15, 1898, was decorated with a large | American flag. | At 9 o’clock the stars and stripes were hoisted at half mast by Captain Baton of | the United States auxiliary cruiser Reso- | lute, who, with Mrs. Esther Rathbone and | Mrs. Dudley and ten sailors of the Reso- | lute rowed to the sunken battleship. The | only others taking part wa: battalion | with officers of the First Maine Heavy | Artillery. An immense rope of greens festooned | the fighting top, each loop hung | with laurel wreaths and tied with red, | white and blue ribbon. The Cuban Club | of Havana had placed an artificial wreath on the boat crane and this Captain Eaton transferred to the peak of the gadff. At 10 o’clock high mass was celebrared in memory of the Maine victims in the Merced Church, at which Major Cieneral Ludicw and several of his staff were present. This afternoon the graves at Colun Cemetery were decorated in the presence of American officials, military and naval details participating. CEBU OCCUPIED BY THIS TIME NEW YORK, Feb. 15.—A Tribune special from Washington says: The authorities at the War Department ex- pect dispatches from General Otis by the end of this week announcing the occupation by an American force of Cebu, the third city of importance in | the Philippines. When General Miller started for Iloilo his instructions were, after establishing American authority at that port, to proceed immediately to Cebu and occupy that place. For this purpose the Fifty-first Iowa Volunteer Regiment was sent after him, but on account of unexpected opposition to the landing of General Miller's troops at lloilo, compelling a tedicus delay of the forces on shipboard, the Iowa Regi- ment was returned to Menila last week and the First Tennesse: was sent to take its place for the purpose of gar- risoning Cebu. It appears that that reg- iment was landed with other troops at Tloilo on Saturday and Sunday, but in view of the ease wita which Iloilo can be guarded against attack on the part of the natives it is thought that by this time General Miller has found it pos- sible to re-embark & portion of his forces to carry cuat the original pro- gramme of securiag Cebu. —_—————————— ARRIVED, Wednesday, Bridgett, Feb. 15 Stmr. George Loomis, —— hours from Ventura. Stmr Cleone, HEEINs, 32 hours from Crescent City. Stmr Point Point Arena. Schr Monter¥, Landing. irena, Hansen, 10 hours from Beck, 14 hours from Rowens SAILED. Wednesday, Feb. 15. Stmr Alics Blanchard, Hall, for Coos Bay. HIPPITY HOP TO THE BARBER SHOP TO BUY Barbers™ Coats from the same purchase. street, near the F S/Cents. To-day we offer good style and quality barbers’ coats at the un- heard-of price of 25 cents, from the Baldwin stock. belong to our stock and so g0 out along with other similar bargains Save one-half and more by supplying YOUr present and fytsre wants at Smiths' Cash Store, 23-27 Market 4 These do not