The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 5, 1899, Page 2

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MARCH 5, 18Y9. ANOTHER DAY FOR THE ELECTION OF Burns' Tonts Continue to Run Their Stale Bluff on the People. BOASTING PLAYED T0 K FINSH . 0ft Repeated Assertions of the Candelaria Candidate Fail to Even Excite Comment Among Outsiders. LL HEADQUAR NTO, March were added to the Democr: candidates on the joint I s were cz one vote Grant. D Assem Jesse weather cast the vote fc expects 1o get others in line next week. Senator Braunhart was the fi voter for 1 the assistant > had some diffi recorded co! was about as e recorder could Major Gav ear to the name get and it"went that way unti Kyle, the chief clerk of the 2 bfy, got it Gavin Mecl When Senator 's name was secretary of the stand the and the M. Burns.' called the assistant Senate did not clearly und ponse, “John Rosenfeld, runced “‘Daniel ired by Burns anc Johnson has fall as worthy of a reply. y maintain that the majority of the Republican members of the Legislature settled the question by a vote of 48 to 29 and that Burns must abide by the will of the majority The Grar as firm as ever, but the e holding out the sugg combination of bring about the The truth is that A strong effort to cap- nen, but there success in that irant and Burns to i Senator. are no signs to-night ¢ direction, putting on a cheer- ng. Grove Johnson nade the declaration in the Assembly to-day tha 3urns would Senator next Wednesday. The an- nouncem did not create a panic. There are no indications to-night of a break to'get into the Burns ral. Dan v to Colonel Jack i depot and it is sumed that Herrin at the San Fran- end wire imparts words r to the railroad’s candidate. - | ty writing to him and wishing him suc- d | SET THE MEXICAN Accessions to the Corral of Outside of the corral the opinion is almost universal that Burns is prac- tically out of the race. He may be able | to execute his threat that no Senator | shall be elected, but he cannot do more | than prolong the deadlock. The best informed touts take this view of the situation. The game of looking wise and boasting has been played to a finish. Three weeks ago Dibble held up one finger and remarked: ‘“When the break comes every man in the Bulla camp except one—all but one—will go to Colonel Burns.” The break did come and not one man of the Bulla forces went to Burns. Assemblyman Cosper, who was counted as a sure Burns man, went to Scott, and men who know him best assert positively that he will never go to Burns. General Barnes left the capital for | San Franeisco to-day and will return to-morrow evening. He is receiving | many messages of good cheer from every section of the State. A promi- Republican of San Joaquin Coun- | nent | ce 1ds this comment: | . “What a peculiar condition of affairs it when men, who, if running befdre the people, would stand no possible chance of election can gain votes in the Legislature over men who, if the | people had the popular say in the mat- ter, would be elected by an overwhelm- ing majority. The members of the Leg- islature cannot be blind to the almost unanimous Republican sentiment of the State in favor of yourself. How they can act in such willful disregard of this ntiment is more than I can under- stand. However, there are more things in politics than are dreamed of in all of the philosophy of the world.” It is-expected that Irving M. Scott will return to the scene of the struggle t Monday. U. Grant is here and has not been away from Sacramento | | since the battle began. He is obvious- | ly the m unconcerned man at the capital. Nothing disturbs him. The | keen observer can readily sée that Burns’' tranquillity is artificial, but Grant’s is natural. The rumors which affect Grant in the slightest degree. There may be something like an or- ganized effort upon the part of certain Democrats next week to bring Jesse Grant prominently into the Senatorial race with the hope of catching some }{nrl;ublican support to break the dead- ock. Changes Made to Meet the Objections to the Old Measure. RTERS, SACRA- Senator Dickinson's the Harbor Commi consideration by the te this morning, but all that was done was to receive a subsitute sub- mitted by Dickinson. In submitting hi substitute Dickinson referred to the ad- verse report of the Committee on Com- merce, Harbors & Rivers and said the substitute was offered for the purpose of meeting some of the objections made to the original bill in the committee. - The new act is as follows: An act to amend sections of the Politi State Harb the said ensation of appoint The people of the S and tate of California, Assembly, repre- 520 of the Political Code as_follows: arbor Commission- . is hereby con- rs and duties as are n 2 ers, to consist of stituted with sucl prescribed by pow Each of sald Commission- ers shall hold for the term of four years, provided that of those first appointed under this_act, two shall hold office for the term of three years and one for the term of four years from the date of th ective co missions and until their successors are a pointed and qualified, and the two members of the existing board having the longest terms to serve under their present appointment shall be members of the board hereby created for the unexpired portlons of - their , respective terms, under and by virtue of their appoint- ment and - qualification on the existing board. Upon_the expiration of each of the terms of the' Commissioners last named, his successor | shall be appointed and hold office for four years. Such appointment shall be made in all respects as those of. other Commissioners provided for in this act. All of sald Commis sloners must thereafter be nominated by the Governor, and by and with t onsent of the Senate, be appointed for four years {rom the dates of their respective commissions and until their successors are qualified. It the term of office of any ’xpire dur- ing the recess of the Senate, the Governor must grant a commission to his successor, which shall be valid to all intents and purposes, sub- ject, howe consent of the Senate at its ne: ion. If a vacancy occur from any office of a Commissioner before the expiration of Lis term, his suc- cessor must be appointed and hold office only for the unexpired portion of such term. In case the Senate, during its eesslon, fail to a6t on or refuse its consent to uny nomina- tion the Governor may make of persons to constitute the board herein first provided for or to fill a vacancy occurring thereafter by ex- piration of the term or otherwise, he must, Atter the adjournment of the Senate, grant a commission for the term herein provided for, or for the unexpired portion of such term, as the case may be, subject, however, to the consent of the Senate at its next regular ses- Sion; provided, that upon the passage of this Set the Governor shall nominate and appoint the three Commissioners to flll the offices here- by created. The Commissioner first appointed for four years, and thereafter his shall be of the board side at its meetings, ccessors, It shall be his duty to supervise ti to pre- official "t of all its officers and emplo es- ;ZL‘?.“uy in ‘the collection, custody and dis- ment 0f the revenues, and to require that DT "books, papers and accounts be c- t, and in proper form, and all the caely et and the regulations of the PEovis. Obe ‘enforced and cbserved. He may Do iister official oaths to the officers and A yes of the board, except the other Com- missioners, to the b 5 s of the board. 55 eetion %21 of the Political Code s . 4 to read as follows: bereby amended D (Gent” of the board must S kel bk n the sum of §50.00."snd its officers and | do enact as | the president and executive officer | and to all other persons in relation | | each of the other commissioners in the sum 50,000, which must be approved by the r 'and State Treasurer by written en- orsement thereon, and within fifteen days fter the date of their respective commissions, t be filed and recorded in the office of the etary of State, th vrescribed by law. The commissioners 1 not be sureties for one another, nor shall wy officer of the State, nor any officer or member of the Legislature, be accepted as surety on said bonds. The board hereby ap- pointed shall organize at once upon recelving their commission and shall appoint a chief engineer, a secretary, an attorney, and asslst- ant secretary, a_ chief wharfinger, and such number of wharfingers and collectors as they may deem necessary. The secretary, the chief engineer and the attorney shall hold office for the period of four years, and all of the | other officers, appointees and attaches of the | sald board shall hold office at the pleasure of | the board.” The board may require such bonds, except from the secretary, from all officers and | employes of sald board, as they may deem best | 552 of the Political Code is | Sec. 3—Section 2652 | hereby amended to read as follows | Sec2352—The monthly salaries of the officers of the board shall be as follows: The president, $300. Each of the other commissioners, $250. The secretary, $2 The assistant secretary, $150. The attorney, $200. The chief engineer, $300. The cl The the collectors, $100. The board must fix the compensation of the other employes, attaches and officers. Sec. 4—This act shall take effect immediately. ASSEMBLYMEN -ARE GETTING IRRITABLE CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, March 4.—Senator Sammy Braunhart’s fender bill came up in the | Assembly again to-day, raised a rough } house for a half hour or so and then went | to the unfinished business file because the hour for the consideration of Senate bills | had expired. Dibble attempted to break one of his own unique rules by moving to have the hour extended for a long | enough time to call the roll on the final | passage of the bill, but the House would not stand for it. It called the time limit on him. Then Dibble left his seat and 3 went to File Clerk Gyries’ desk and | quietly told him to record thg bill on the finished business file and state with it that | the previous question had been ordered and stood against the rollcall. This will | preclude further debate when the bill comes up on Monday and the bill will stand with the one amendment Dibble has added to it, which throws the whole fender matter into the hands of County | Boards of .Supervisors. Laird’s coyote scalp bill came up, and | Belshaw wanted to deny it a second read- |Ing. Kelsey had some amendments to offer, and Belshaw withdrew his mm.lm’lI that the Santa Claran might have time | to_print his changes in the journal. When Senate bill 27 came up Caminetti attacked it vigorously. The biil is de- | signed to enable the Santa Fe Railroad to purchase and amalgamate as a part of | its system the San Joaquin Valley road, and it is championed by all of the south- | ern members and most of those from the north. Mr. Caminetti saw in it a measure not to be considered hastily, and had the | temerity to say so. He was interrupted ill-naturedly by Dibble, who sald it was | too late in the session to make a political speech. Caminetti replied by demanding | | that the bill be referred to the Judiciary | Committee. ~ Valentine explained the | harmless intent of his measure, but Cami- | netti gnsisted, and made his demand a motion. It-was carried, and the bill went to_committee. . | Assemblyman Hoey, who esterday | gave notice, that.to-day he would mave to | reconsider the vote by which the Folsom i road bill was passed, called the matter up, but it was lost by’ a motion to lay on the table. ! Valentine's motion to reconsider the re- | port_which was submitted yesterday by !rhe Committee on Attaches met the same | fate. At to-night's session the newspaper claims for publishing constitutional | | amendments were the special order, and | the so-called majority report trimming the bills to sueh an extent that they could not disturb and worry his followers do nou| »gether with the officlal | was made by the minority to amend the bills back to the original sums, but they were voted down. he bills were given their second reading and will come #p for third next week. - Gage’s numerous vetoes were the special order for 11 o'clock. The Governor's ve- toes have come in lately with much reg larity, but have been flatly ignored. They were finally made the order for to-night and were ignored again. Grove L. Johnson got news during the evening that Governor Gage had_vetoed the Mullan claim, in which Mr. Johnson is interested. ‘I guess,” said Johnson, “‘the Governor has heard that I voted to down his golden poppy veto.” Then Mr. Johnson made a quick little motion to ad- journ, and it was carried before even Mr. Dibble knew it. Governor Gage's vetoes were left dangling on the file. Dibble wanted to consider them any way. Ad- journment did not make any differenci but Johnson and the rest only laughed, and the session was called off until Mon- day. |MORTGAGE TAX EXEMPTION AMENDMENT PASSED CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, March 4.—There was a few min- utes of redhot debate this morning when Assemblyman . Mead’s constitutional amendment No. 18 came up in the As- sembly for final action. Mr. Mead's amendment exempts from taxation growing crops, trust deeds and mortgages. Its principal features are as follows: Section 1. All property in the State not ex- United States, or ed in proportion empt under the laws of th this constitution, shall be te to Its value, to be ascertained as provided by law. The word ‘‘property,” as used in this article and section, is hereby dec clude moneys, credits, bonds, franchises and all other matter: things, real, personal and mixed, capable of private ownership: provided, that property used for free public libraries and free public museums, &row- ing crops, mortgages, trust deeds, used exclusively for public schools, as may belong to the United States, or to any county or municipal corporation Within this State, shall be exempt from taxa- tlon. The Legislature may provide for a re- duction from credits of debts due bona fide residents of this State; provided further, that this amendment shall not apply to morfgages and trust deeds executed prior to the date this amendment takes effect In speaking to his measure Mr. Mead . _dues, HH0+0+040+ 0+ 0+04+0404+0+0+R AMUSEMENT FOR - THE MINORITY CALL HEADQUARTERS, SAC- RAMENTO, March 4.—“Whisper- ing” Gavin McNab was the Dem- ocratic cholce in the Senatorial ballot to-day. His candidacy was sprung, badly, by Senator Sammy Braunhart, who called attention to his entrance into the Assembly chamber with the startling an- nouncement that he was ‘‘going to switeh.” Assemblyman Fairweather, Dem- ocrat, switched to Jesse D. Grant, whose politfcs has never been as- certained, and Senator Langford made another flop, this time to Phelan. Altogether the minority spent a very pleasant half-hour. In the Republican ranks there was no change and no incident to mark the balloting. But one bal- lot was taken and that resulted as follows: BARNES ESTEE LD (D.) N (D. WOAO4O4T40 4+ 04 O+ O 40+0404T4CHI404040 4 0+ O+ O 404040404 +O404C40+ 0404 0+ D40+OITI0I04040404 040+ O 4 +D40H00+ OI0+O+0+0+0+C+E of an agent. He declared the expenses of Stratton’s primary law was read to the Senate this morning, and also another message approving the rider, which toned down the penalty provided in the first bill, which was_allowed to be inflicted upon .any one who, having been appointed to serve as an officer of a primary election, refuses to do so. Senator Bulla’s bills 336 and 337, amend- ing the Political Code so as to make it a misdémeanor to interfere in any way with telephone wires, were passed. S S ADMIRAL DEWEY RETURNS THANKS | CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, March 4—Admiral Dewey has received the hearty congratulations cabled him yesterday by California, and to-day, in‘answer, came the following to Major Kyle, chief clerk of the As- sembly: “MANILA, March 4, 1899.—Kyle, Sac- ramento, Cal Heartfelt thanks. “DEWEY.” Three hearty cheers went up when the message from the hero of Manila was at once taken by Kyle himself to the Senate .chamber, where it was greeted with another enthusiastic out- burst. It was ordered printed in the journal of Monday. A PREMIUM SET ON GOING TO THE POLLS CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, March The Assembly this morning accepted Mead's constitutional amendment No. 13, and in doing so de- clared itself against poll taxes and simi- lar charges against the franchise. on ment could and should be saved. But| The provisions of Mead's amendment Mullan paid no heed to the revocation of | are as follows: i - his appointment and went right along | Section 12. The Legislature shall provide with his lobbying in Washington. It was in 1891 that Congre various States who wi State claims, and it providing that the s became tired of the persistence of the agents for the working for the passed a_resolution g State claims be not | Said tax shall be paid into the State poll tax of not 1 inhabitantef this State over 21 and under 60 years -of age, except paupers, idiots, fnsane persons and Indians, not taxed il WL T il MEXICAN DAN-—“IT'S ME! THE PARTY BE DAMNED." sald that under the present law the mort- gage tax works a_hardship on the bor- Tower; that the original intent was that the lender should assume the tax, but that as it is at present the borrower was compelled to pay it. : ‘Wade of Napa said th#t he was against the bill_for the reason that the present Jaw had operated successfully, and he could see no reason for changing it now. Dibble and_Judge Clough sided with Mead, and the amendmenf was adopted with few votes cast in jts disfavor. - B S MULLAN’S CLAIM GETS THE VETO CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, March 4—With a willing stroke of his pen the Governor to-day punctured one of Assemblyman Johnson's best be- loved bills. It appropriated $45,616 30 to pay ths claim of John Mullan for collect- ing $225,081 51 due from the Federal Gov- ernment to the State. The claim which the Governor has killed dates back torthe Civil War. At that time there was a “‘direct war tax’ levied upon the various States, which provided for an annual income of $20,000,000. California’s share of this was $254,538 66. Of this amount the State paid $247,445 41, leaving a balance still due of $7033 26. In December of 1882 Mullan was ap- pointed by Governor Perkins to collect this tax from the Federal Government, which had by that time started to pro- vide for the paying back of the war tax, and his appointment was ratified by the Legislature in the spring of 1888. This ratification was made by concurrent reso- lution, and in addition to ratifying his appointment the Legislature fixed Mul- lan's compensation at 20 per cent of any amount he should collect. The first installment of the tax was paid back to the State in July of 1884 It amounted to_ $38,676 52, but before it was finally turned over $7093 26 was deducted, the balance due from the State to the Federal Government. The balance of the amount to be refunded, 331,583 26 was paid over to Mullan and he turned it into the State treasury and received in return $7735 30, a 20 per cent commission on $38,676 52, instead of on $31,583 26, the amount . actually collected, or an excess of $1418 95. In +February of 1888 Governor Water- man revoked Mullan’'s appointment as agent of the State, setting forth as a cause that the work was a matter for leg- be identified was adopted. An attempt] islation and did not call for the services paid if any part of them was-to go to any agent for their coilection. The Legislature of California accepted this condition and in_the same year the Governor received a draft from the Feéd- eral Government for $208,246 83, and then a little later another for the balance due, $8110 98. Despite the fact that these amounts were paid after the appointment of Mullan had been revoked, he claimed the credit of securing the money and demanded his for the amount, .but the courts would have none His sult was defeated on th= peint that the appointment had been illegally made; that the appointment by the Governor in the first place was not legal, and the subsequent ratification by the Legislature by concurrent resolution | Mullan was further advised that it was his business to know how far the powers of the Legislature went in the matter of appointments, and he accepted a defective one at his own 20_per cent commission. It “was refused and he sued of his contentions. did not make it so. peril. In view of this decision and the revoca- iton of Mullan's uppolntmflnt by Gover- ore the-bulk of the claim was pald In and In view of the fact that he is ahead of the. State over $1000 anyway, the Governor vetoed the bill pro- nor Waterman. bet viding for his claim. SENATE ROUTINE BY A SMALL HOUSE CALL HEADQUARTERS, MENTO, March. 4—For the afternoon to-day. luctant, too, and ators to make up the quorum. ferent matter. Assemblyman Caminetti’s bill 439, pro- SACRA- first time since the beginning of this legislative ses- sion the Senate convened on a Saturday The Senate was re- the sergeant-at-arms had to hunt the Capitol over to find Sen- It was a bad beginning, for only this morning a resolution frecm the Committee on Rules added another half hour to the day’s ses- sion, beginning next Monday, by order- ing the morning convention of the Sen- ate at 9:20. The Senate wants to do more work—that was_the objéct of the resolu- tion—but Saturday afternoon was a dif- school fund; provided that every male who votes at a general election shall be exempt from the payment of such poll tax for the next ensuing two ATS. Smith’s Registration Bill Approved. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, March 4.—Senator Smith's bill providing for a new method of registra- tion has found the approval of the Gov- ernor, who so reported to the Senate in a message submitted this evening. Senator Smith’s bill provides for the abolition of the great registers and for the registration of a voter by a system of affidavits similar to the ones now sworn to before a registrar. Instead of having the facts contained in these printed in a register the bill provides that copies of the amidavits themselves shall be bound and used as a register at the poliing- places. The idea is that when a voter appeuars at the polls he shall sign his name, and his signature as well as his description as it appears on the affidavit shall be the meuns of identifying him. It is claimed that a comparison of the signature writ- ten In the booth and the one affixed to the affidavit will form a method of identifi- cation which cannot be beaten. The bill further provides for a .small in of the bound aflidavit, whict 1 be mailed to each voter in order that he may assure himself that he is properly represented in the register so formed. The act will do away with thousands of dollars in printing bills. e Cleaned Off Its Table. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Maich 4—The Senate Finance Committee this afternoon finished up a number of bills that have been hanging fire for some time. Those bills which met its approval are the following: Senate bill 722, making an appropriation to pay the funeral expenses of the late Btate Treas- urer, Levi Rackliffe, and Assembly bill 622, appropriating money for the support of orphans and abandoned children. The bill making an ugpropfi:llkvn to pay the claims of certain | rectors for milosfi! in !ruvelmf from the State ormal School Jose was also allowed. to and at San h‘xblmng f“(reatl{nx," nndl (the l"b\;yln or = giving of any cigars or Intoxicating bey- i erage, or any temperance heverage,, to No Restriction to Racing. any person by a candidate for public of- +\Was pagsed to third reading. Short- ridge wanted to kill the bill offhand, with- out decond reading or anything else, but he was persuaded to let it live until third fice,’ reading time. The Governor's message approving CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, March 4.—Assembly bill 831, pro- viding for the prevention of pool-selling except at racetracks was accepted as an amendment for his own pool-selling meas- ure by Senator Braunhart this evening. Bay was read in the Assembly, and it | for the levy and collection of an annual | s than $2 on every male | | Burns’ laiest scheme to make himself CROOKEDNESS ~ WAS Mexican's Chief €ALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA-| MENTO, March 4.—As soon as oppor- | tunity offered this morning Grove L.| Johnson attempted to put in play Dan Senator. As The Call of this morning said he would do, he made an abortive attempt to adjourn sine die this present session of the Legislature. To accomplish it he called up the resolution to adjourn to-day, which was adversely reported yesterday by the Ways and Means | Committee. The Speaker, however, was | forewarned and sternly informed John- son that his motion was out of order. The Assembly, with Speaker Ander- son leading it, was in no mood to tol- erate any such crooked scheme as the Burns touts have just failed to make good. Grove Johnson's motion of this morn- ing was expected and not one in the House but recognized it as the first move to bring about an extra session after such a time as Burns and his gang had succeeded in quietly maneu- vering a caucus that would result in the Mexican's election as soon as the Governor should be forced to call for a reconvention. The Burns push in the House was lined up in solid phalanx and ready to stand with Johnson should he succeed in getting consideration for the resolu- tion. There were others who stood with him as well, though with not the same incentive. They were those who hy- pothecated their warrants for three or| four weeks ahead and blew their sub-| stance into such paltry delights as this of Sacramento affords. Already hey have been reduced to the lunch countg and the argument put to them yesterday that if they left the BURNS' LATEST SCHEME WAS NOT - & BIG SUCCESS RIS I P Johnso's Sine Die Adjournment Motion Was Quickly Squelched. NOT TOLERATED ‘Much Arrogant Bluster as to the Future Indulged In by the Tout After His Defeat, general appropriation bill unpassed they could come back here and do their business in extra session on full pay readily appealed to them. They were ready to-day for anything that showed the alluring twinkle of dollar marks, but they were not of sufficient num- ber to carry the plan into effect. John- son had a forlorn hope and he knew it, but he stood by Mr. Kenneally’s “Cun nel Dann M. Burns” faithfully in the face of the Speaker and the decent el ment in the chamber. Johnson made no further attemnt during the day to call up the resolu- tions, but in speaking about the ques- tion of an extra session later, he said: “If an extra session is called it will be empowered to elect a Senator whether such object is included in the call or not. When Senator Stanford died in office, Senator Hearst was ap- pointed to succeed him. Shortly after this, in the summer of 1886, the Legis- lature met in extra session to con- sider irrigation matters. In the mean- time the Legislature had become R publican and some one moved that a Senator be elected. It was so ordered. and A. P. Willlams was chosen. More than this, Willlams was seated.” Johnson's attention was called to the fact that if he, as one of Burns' lead- ers, should move to adjourn sine die it might be construed to mean that the Mexican had given up the fight. In reply to this he said: “If such an in- terpretation is to be placed on the move I shall be opposed to again bringing the matter up. I have from the start favored an adjournment at the end of sixty days. I am confident that D. M. Burns will be elected United States Senator next Wednesday. I now make the, statement that he will be elected Senator on next Wednesday at noon. Rather than have any false reports about this thing go out, I shall not again bring up the resolution to ad- journ.” . mbly bill does not restrict rac-| sixty days in_any county in any \r. nor to any other time, a feature ich marks the principal difference be- tween it and the one for which it may be made a substitute. It was referred to the Judiciary Committee with orders that a report upon it be returned on Monday | at 10 o’clock. The bill was taken up by the committee later in the afternoon and it was decided to recommend that it do The bill will come to a vote on when it will be decided whether epted by the Senate. t will be 2 | + i | Selection of Jurors. | CALI. HEADQUARTERS. MENT?, March 4 or Braunhart's bill relating to the selecting and returning of jurors was passed by the Senate mls" morning. The measure makes several radical | changes in the present law of secuting | jurors, principal among them being a spe- | cifie tion that the Superior Judges, SACRA- thems: , and no one else, shall| select the names of persens to | serve on juries. It provides also | that where the list is finally verified | each Judge must attach tc_his list an af- | fidavit attesting the fact that he person- | ally h lecied the names. It is furtaer | provided 1 the act that no person shall | serve a -and juror within two vears | ©of a previous term, nor on a trial jury car of a previous term. Nor | more hin a | |STEAMER BUTTORF , STRIKES A BRIDGE The Vessel Supposed to Have Sunk, but It Is Thought the Passen- gers Escaped. SHVILLE, Tenn., March 5, 1:45 a. telephone special to the American The steamer H. Buttorf struck the Louisville and Nashville bridge at this place at 1:40 o’clock this morning, and at present is sinking on the opposite bank from th | city. 'The first known of the accident was | the sound of the boat crunching into the western pier of the bridge. Those awake at the wharf boat, about 600 yards below | the bridge, heard the boat signal for the i m.—4 from Clarksville says: W, tate Normal School Dl-i draw to be opened. A few moments later the crash came, followed by the cries of women and | sounds of confusion on board the boat. | The boat made for the western bank, but on account of the timber and other obstructions she could not reach it. As the boat is across the river from the city | | nothing is known as to the fate of the | | It is belleved the boat has at many, if not all, the pas- sengers ecscaped. SKiffs are now being | hurried to the rescue. | “The Buttorf was en route from Nash- ville to Paducah. e e | DEATH OF J. M. COOK. | Was the Head of a Great Tourist | Agency in England. LONDON, March 4—Mr. J. M. Cook, | the head of the great tourist agency, is | dead. He never recovered from the ill- | ness which he contracted while con- ducting the recent tour of Emperor William of Germany in Palestine. John Mason Cook was born at Mar- ketborough, England, in January, 1834, and from his tenth year was associat- ed with his father, the founder of the | famous excursion business, in its exec- utive management. In 1851 he was his father’s chief assistant in the already large enterprise handled by Thomas Cook in conveying 165,000 persons to the great British exhibition, and con- tinued working in connection with his father until 1856, when he accepted an appointment as acting superintendent of excursion traffic of the Midldnd Railroad of England. In 1864 the excur- sion business increased to such an e -tent that Mr. Cook joined his father permanently. | CREEK CHIEF REPORTED DEAD. Ishparhecher Said to Have Been Sum- | moned Before the Manitou. MUSKOGEE, 1. T., March 4—It is reported here that Ishparhecher, prin- cipal chief of the Creek Indians, is dead at Okmulgee, capital of the Creek Na- tion. The rumor canpot be verified. | jety is felt for the ship | aging and trou | annoyed me. Okmulgee is quarantined on account of smallpox, which is epidemic there. Ishparhecher was a full blood Creek Indlan and for four years had been the principal chief of his people. Ever sinee he became a leader among the Creeks, Ishparhecher fought all legislation tending to change the tribal conditions in the Territory,. and only recently he was practically forced into giving his consent to the negotiations of the treaty between his people and the Dawes Commission. The sterling hon- esty and the indomitable will of the aged chief made him much respected among both Indians and whites. pemge Bakersfield Attorney Dead. BAKERSFIELD, March 4—Hon. T. W. Lockhart, a_well known attorney of this city, died this morning. His body will be shipped to Des Moines, I 10-mOrrow for interment. He was a native of Leba- non, Ind., and came to Bakersfleld in 1892. — Ship Dominion Overdue. VICTORIA, B. C., March 4.—Some anx- Dominion, from Honolulu for this port. The bark Do- minion, which left Honolulu thirty days after the ship, arrived this morning with- out any intelligence of her namesake. - Santa Clara Beats Berkeley. SAN JOSE, March 4.—To-day the Santa Clara College first nine defeated the first nine from the University of California by a score of 11 to 8. Joe Corbett was present as coach for Berkeley. ADVTRTISEMENTS. ““PBetter Be Wise Than Rich.” Wise people are also rich | when they know a perfect | remedy for all annoying dis- | eases of the blood, kidneys, liver and bowels. It is | Hood’s Sarsaparilla, which |is perfect in its action. It | so regulates the entire system as to bring vigorous health. It never disappoints. Goitre—“For 42 years I had goitre, ot e o my Deck, which was discour- Yiesome. 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