The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 30, 1899, Page 4

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GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Forclga Advertising, Marquette Building, ESPERATE indeed must be the feelings of the leaders in the Phelan camp, when in the hope | of finding out something which will serve them | PHELAN'S RUBBER-NECKING. ‘ ifor campaign material they set detectives to follow | the Hon. Horace Davis and report to the Phelan | organs at what time Mr. Davis comes down town, what he wears, where he lunches or dines, with whom he talks and what he may happen to carry in his hand. Neither Mr. Davis, nor his iriends, nor the Repub- | | lican party, have anything to fear from the disclosures | | w hich may be made by this system of rubber-necking | on the part of the Phelan managers and organs. Hor- | ace Davis does not lead a double life. His actions,l private and public, are those of an upright man. | | Phelan’s detectives need not resort to any elaborate | system of spying to find out what Mr. Davis does by | day or by night. He is not a hypocrite and has no | | hidden course of life. By open inquiries they can find | | The Call’s exposure of the railroad scheme, it added: ___ TuD AN FRANCISGO OALL MONDAT, OCTOBZR 30 . referring to Mr. Wheeler as a candidate whom The Call has “trotted out.” Furthermore, in reference to “The man of straw created by The Call has hayseed in ! his hair and exudes heads of wheat at every pore.” Such is the sum and substance, the wit and the worth of the Southern Pacific argument against Mr. Wheeler. That is the best and the worst its evening organ can do in the way of reviling him and belittling the forces of the coast that support him. Mr. Wheeler is the candidate of The Call only because he is the candidate of the business men oi California, of Oregon and of Washington. The Call supports him because he stands as the chosen candidate of representative men of the Pacific Coast and because he is in every way by natural ability and by experience well fitted to perform the duties of the office. Having been so nominated and so recommended, and having every qualification for the position, he merits the support of all who have Pacific Coast interests at heart and who desire harmony of action among our people. Mr. Wheeler has been indorsed by Chambers of WILL BE HIGHLY PRIZED BY THE MASSES. Rabbi Myers Considers the H and of Wid San Francisco, Oct. 10. The Editor of The Call— I have no hesitancy in saying that imparting useful the idea of knowledge through the the daily press will become more and more popular and will be high-~ ly prized by the masses by the classes. The enumerated in the prospectus of the Home Study Circle are well ome Study Plan Well Chosen e Interest. Dear Sir: medium of as well as subjects ISIDORE MYERS. r a sinecure oftice wk fo right to apply for @ Gen in the nature « salary would have be 5 find, while the duties in no interfere with his continued practice he law. _ et wqually significant with the sentiment of the letter and mc nificant than his denial of its u is the fact that the appointment Mr. Bryan was at that time that of State Railway Commissione; one in which the railroads were particu- larly concerned, and that to secure (his appointment he went for his indorse. ments to the men t)(z‘.o“';)n ailroad interests. y i é’éisrié‘is leave the Presidential car date, posing as the self-constituted emy of .orporate aggression and n stantly using as his political capital his alleged antagonism to rallway monopoly t Mr. Bryan was ready to scek r road ald to secure the first office which he aspired, what faith can now put in nis assertions that he rcpresents only the plain people, for whom he fighting the aggregations of wealtt What he would in no way sord would have done had the raii- roads complied with his prayer to sup- ort him for a comm n as State oard of Transportation secretary will have to be left to the imagination, bi no one can doubt that his sense cf gra tude would have prompted a full quital for the favor thus recefv ed. Viewed from this standpoin Bryan-Morton letter is a Trée which cannot but weaken the position of | out all about him; at what hour he begins his work, | Commerce, Boards of Trade, Merchants’ Associations | ghosen and calculated to prove of Chicago. its author before the people. where he goes during the day, with whom he does business, with whom he has conversations, at what hour he goes home and where he sleeps at night. The only objection of Republicans to the Phelan rubber-necking is one that is shared by decent men of RRESPONDENT : <iie-oo..Herald Squars NEW YONK’ €O €. C. CARLTON NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LUKENS JR.......... ...29 Tribune Bullding CHICAGO NEWS STANDS. ‘ se; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotely | all parties. i Austtorium Hotel ; e % o —_— | campaign is liable to degrade it from the high plane N ORN NN SIS mANDS: | on which politics should be conducted to the level of The introduction of personalities into the | and by individuals of eminence in business affairs in | all parts of the coast from Puget Sound to San Diego. | The only opposition to him is that made by the | Southern Pacific. That is the only discordant element | on the coast, the only voice that roars in protests | and revilings against the general movement to procure | a Pacific Coast representative on the Interstate Com- | merce Commission. | | There may be w there may be satire, in the refer- considerable interest. I should like to see the curriculum of study enriched by the addition of some of the sciences treated in a astronomy, botany, and more especially physi- Perhaps the Sunday Call ology and hygiene. popular style, €. g., —_————————— Give Davis Your Support. Napa Dally Register. San Francisco Republicans had the first grand rally of their municipal campaig last Saturday night. Horace Davis, ¢ didate for Mayor, was the prin speaker. He ought to have the cordi support of every Republican who has a vote in California’s chief city. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A. Brentano, %1 Union Square; o : : OE 52 | ke charge of th . I wish the Circle R | that kind of vilification in which spies and sneaks | ence to a “hayseed” and in saying “he exudes wheat | M&Y vakold g€ See THE IOWA—M. F. T., City. The Towa WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE.........Welllngton Hotel | delight. The Republican party has endeavored to | heads at every pore,” but such shafts can never be every success. 2 being 2 flagship, ‘has & band. s Each: flag- d. L. ENGLISH, Correspondent. Jmin leveled at the Southern Pacific Company. It has ship in the United States navy hac a ERANCH OFFICES—£27 Montgomery street, corner Clay/ open untll 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes street, open until 9:30 o'clock. 639 McAliister street, open untll 9:30 cclock. 615 Larkin street, open until 9:30 o'clock. S41 Mission street, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market ctreet, corner Sixteenth, open untll 9 o'clock. 1096 Valencia street, open until 9 o'clock. 106 Eleventh street, open until 9 o'clock. NW. corner Twenty- second and Kentucky streets, open untll 9 o'clock, AMUSEMENTS. e Musketeers.” o ase— , at 11 o'clock Horses, , at 11 o'clock, Horses, elock, MORE SPOTTED MARKETS. some orts ed by the state- en change last feverish conditions showed onous of re v 3 e il and distributive trade had fa es, accompanied by impaired collec- The general business of the were suffered no depreciation, n in ba: )8 and 3 - preceding the panic. The falling off in indi- s ascribed to the unseasonable hot s affects trade, and not to any ndise. Indeed, conditions rather uation of the current wonderful activity The money market is decidedly lat shown an improvement, sections w wise. stocks have ¥ yrovisions and ammunition by 1ent have swelled the balance due ates from abroad, while the transactions steel are the heaviest ever known so early season, amounting to 1,500,000 tons for next . or two-thirds the combined capacity of In addition the railway earnings are d immen and largely over those in October. the eastbound traftic from Chicago during the past month has been double that of the same month last year. And when it is seen that prices keep up g the line there is no reason to believe that the ing off in the movement of merchandise here ue to anything else than the unseasonable all alo slight f and there warm weather. The great staples stand about the same as last week. While iron and steel are still at high pressure, the minor metals, such as tin, lead and copper, are weak, with increased offerings. Cotton is off a fraction, as the views of European buyers are below those of American sellers. Cotton goods, however, are excep- tionally strong, and woolen goods are demand, with a further advance predicted. Wool itself is again active, large sales being reported at firm prices. Hides and leather are s in sympathy with the recent advances in boots and shoes, while lumber, after a brief halt, due to larger stocks, is again firm. Coffee has ruled firm, with some revival of the spec ulative demand. The failures for the week were 190, against 226 for the same week in 1898 Conditions on this coast continue brilliant. All classes of trade are active and prosperous, and those in active merchants who handle farm produce have been doing | a large business for months. The export demand for all sorts of commodities, both on foreign and Govern- ment account, was never better than it is to-day, the only drawback being a continued scarcity of cars. Even hay and beans, for months dull and cheap, are now advancing, with an enormous Eastern demand for the latter, and heavy orders for the former on Hawaiian account. Provisions, live stock, hides, wool, dried and canned fruits, wine, oils, leather—in fact, almost everything that California produces—are more active than for years, and, what is still better, at unusually high prices. The early rains have greatly enhanced the general confidence in the future, and credits are accordingly easy, while there are no com- plaints of collections from any quarter. Failures are few and small as a rule, for when business is as brisk as at present it is an easy matter to meet liabilities. The prediction made early in the year that 1899 would be the banner year for California is being abundantly realized. How much is an Examiner opinion worth? For instance, during the great international yacht races, while that paper was being scooped every day by The Call with its Marconi bulletins, the Examiner said wireless telegraphy was a fake. Last Saturday, in an article on its fifth page describing the experiments of a naval board with the Marconi system, it printed the following: “There is no use denying the fact that wireless telegraphy is an unqualified success.” Why did it deny it, then? R Father McKinnon, who was chaplain of the Fight- ing First, gives testimony that of all the men con- cerned in fomenting the Filipino insurrection the only honest individual was one Paterno. . The chaplain adds, unnecessarily, we think, that he was a newspapery clearings, which was | per cent over 1802, | n candidates are. | ticket men on are above | keep the contest as clean as itg ov Knowing its that the ;reproach, it has been willing to concede a personal !rcspcctabfli(y to the other side. Until yesterday it appeared the campaign might be carried through to the end witl;ou( anything of a base nature to disturb | | the judgment of the voters upon the issues at stake, | | and honorable Democrats as well as Republicans will | desperation regret the vile tactics which in their | Phelan and his organs have adopted. | Since the spy system has been instituted it will | probably be continued until the close of the contest. The detectives will report to their bosses what Mr. | Davis does and says, whether he carries an umbrella It for the spies it pays well. | and whether he wears overshoes on rainy days. ork, but doubtl not pay Phelan, however, for the voters of the city can be relied upon to express at the polls their | | condemnation of that way of doing politics. | P S | Mayor Phelan seems to be somewhat premature in | { using the patronage lash to make traitors of Repub- He should at least wait until the votes of San the power to distribute politica he threatens to inaugurate a der Franciscans § | loaves and fishes before | Phelanite administration partisanship. | General Fitzhugh Lee, who antine upon his arrival at New Y | no reason for his detention except that the officers | wanted to take his temperature. The general prob- ably thought he looked as hot as he felt during the | operations of the health officials. the cloak of non- detained in quar- ork, says he can find THE EXTRA SESSION SCHEME. R “PORTS of the intention of the Governor to call an extra session of the Legislature come from every side and increase in reliability as well in or is there lacking authority and | | evidence to confirm them. It is therefore clear the | scheme is one of the issues of the time the people have | | to face, and it becomes the duty of the press as the | representative of public opinion to speak out upon | the project and by exposing the injury it will inflict upon the taxpayers and the true interests of the State | prevent its accomplishment if possible. There is nothing in the condition of the time to | justify the cost of the purposed extra session. Such | | reasons for calling one as have been invented by the promoters of the plan have been flimsy and futile. | It was asserted at one time that a decision of the | 1court on the Vrooman act had rendered it impossible | | for cities to undertake any kind of street work until | the act was amended. The falseness of that pretension | was promptly exposed. If there be any lack of street | work in any city in California it is because the city | | lacks the money or the enterprise needed to carry 1t1‘ { on. There is nothing in the law to prevent it. | Equally absurd is the claim that legislation | necessary to enable the State to carry on the work of river improvements. It is true that by reason of con- | fusion in the acts of the last Legislature the courts | ; have decided that the office of Commissioner of Public | | Works no longer exists, but that does not prevent i(hc river work nor the auditing of the expenses of | | carrying it on. In short, no reason yet advanced for | | an extra session is sufficiently valid to amount even flo a presentable excuse for holding one. On the other hand the objections are many and strong. The State is now in a flourishing condition. Business is brisk and all prospects are bright. There { is an abundance of work in city and country. Work- ingmen find no difficulty in obtaining employment at | good wages. The early rains have been abundant for | the season, and there is every assurance the winter will bring us enough not only to make the crop of the coming year, but to fill to fullness the natural reservoirs which were depleted by the long drought. The fruit and other crops of this year haye been good and have brought good prices. An abundant stream of revenue has poured into the State, and from one 1cnd of it to the other there has been a revival of ‘cntcrprisc and of energy which can be counted on to bring about great benefits to all classes of people. Why should all these bright prospects be disturbed and the attention of the people distracted from busi- ness by an unnecessary legislative session this winter? There is nothing the Legislature can do to increase business or to promote the public welfare. The session will entail a large expenditure of money which must be made up by the taxpayers. Money which might be employed in making needed improvements will thus be turned over to politicians, and the tax levies will have to be higher. The only object Gage can have in putting the State | to the expense of the extra session is that of pro- moting the scheme of electing Dan Burns or some | other railroad tool to the United States Senate. It is a schemer’s game from first to last, and rests upon false pretenses. SOUTHERN PACIFIC TACTICS. B Wheeler, who has been recommended to the President by the Pacific Coast Jobbers' and Manufacturers’ Association for appointment to the vacancy on the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Southern Pacific Company has set its evening organ to the task of reviling him. That task the organ undertook to fulfill on Saturday by ignoring the asso- number. is | Y way of showing its malice against William R. {and now it is the turn of the business men of the | tucky corporation opposes it, even though that cor- | poration would itself be benefited. | nancy, however, is upon them all. | Company, Stubbs was put up to make his little speech, A ciation and the business men of the entire coast and | thought that he would finish a job well begun grown no hay in California, nor produced any wheat. It has done what it could to ruin the hay-grower and the wheat-grower. It has never shown a regard for the property of hay and wheat producers further than to cast npon it the eyes of avarice and to lay upon it the hands of greed; and it is but natural its organs should show no respect for the character of that class of the industrious people of the State. The so-called “hayseeds,” however, have on more than one occasion shown the Southern Pacific they are not men of straw, cities of the coast to give the domineering monopoly another lesson of the same kind. The curse of a malignant distemper seems to be upon the Southern Pacific whenever Pacific Coast interests are at issue. The moment anything is pro- posed to advance the welfare of the coast the Ken- | In the present movement, were the railroad managers capable of taking a clear view of the situation, they would per- ceive it is to their advantage to promote the trade of | the coast, for that trade must furnish them with freight for transportation. The blindness of an utter mali_z-" They oppose the | candidate of the coast without why or wherefore, and in opposing him resort to such falsechoods as saying | The Call “trotted him out,” and to such futile | mockery as references to men with hayseed in their hair exuding wheat heads at every pore. It is a poor argument and a mean wit, but it shows the animus | of the Southern Pacific Company. At k { The saffron hide of the yellow journals is at last tingling to the existence of wireless telegraphy. The | experiments now being made with the Marconi system by the United States Government are of such world- wide importance that the yellow sheets are forced to report them and in doing so acknowledge tardily the wonderful triumph of The Call in reporting the inter- national yacht races. Even nature seems to have entered the conspiracy to encourage the expansion policy of the United States. The Rio Grande River has overflowed, straightened out its bends and thrown considerable valuable Mexican territory into the United States. Wclcclion of Dan Burns to the United States Senate could not be forced through the Legis- lature by the railroad the managers of the Kentucky corporation determined to save the prestige of the | company at any cost. It was given out accordingly that Burns was not the candidate of the railroad but the candidate of Herrin, and therefore it was Herrin who was repudiated and not Huntington. Now that the widespread support given to Mr. Wheeler for the office of Interstate Commerce Com- | missioner renders it certain the railroad candidate for the office will have no advocates among the business | men of either California, Oregon or Washington, it | once more becomes necessary to do something to save the prestige of the road. This time it is Stubbs who | is put up for the sacrifice. It is announced that Chipman is not the candidate of the railroad but the candidate of Stubbs. During the conference between the committee of the Pacific Coast Manufacturers’ and Jobbers' Asso- ciation and the managers of the Southern Pacific MR. STUBBS’ CANDIDATE. HEN it became evident last winter that the | and he is reported to have said frankly: “Chipman is my candidate, not the candidate of the Southern Pacific Company.” The language is almost identical with that of Herrin declaring: “Burns is my candidate and Mr. Huntington had nothing to do with the matter.” By close investigation it might be possible to dis- cover some difference between a Stuhbs candidate and a railroad candidate. It would not be a difference, however, of any importance. A Stubbs candidate who by any chance was not a railroad candidate would very soon be pulled down by order of Huntington, and Stubbs would do the pulling. We give the correction as a part of the lighter news of the day and for what it is worth. If it be of any advantage to Mr. Chip- man to be known as Stubbs’ candidate rather than the railroad candidate, we are willing he should have the benefit of it. Hoyle has knocked out Cupid in an Oakland home. A young wife, tiring of the lottery of love, tried cards, ard now she is suing her husband for divorce because he refused to play casino with her according to Hoyle. The South African general who saw his army routed while he read his Bible and prayed for victory is prob- ably convinced now that the god of battles is some- times more easily propitiated with bullets than with Bibles. = George Suisser, the murderer of Sheriff Farley, believes that he cannot receive a fair trial in Monterey County. He neglected to add that a fair trial is just what he does not want. It is not likely that Californians will be heard again to say that they don’t care a fig for things in general. The fig crop, it is estimated, will add a million dol- lars to the revenues of the people of the State. — L The Montana horsethief who, after being fatally shot in the back by a pursuing Sheriff, ate the records | more or less hurt. | 18.5 knots—fell short one-quarter knot of Rabbi Bush-Street Synagogue. AROUND THE CORRIDORS F. J. Pluger, a leading fruit man of Fresno, is registered at the Grand. Louis Dundelfinger, a wealthy merchant of Fresno, is a guest at the Palace. D. C. O'Reilly, a well-known railroad | man of Portland, is a guest at the Pal- | ace. Dr. and Mrs. Bevan of Melbourne, Aus- | tralia, who have been touring the United | States, are at the Occidental. Mr, and Mrs. Tnomas Ewing, prominent society people of Los Angeles, are among the recent arrivals at the Palace. | A. Tognozzini, a wealthy banker and capitalist of San Luis Obispo, is among the recent arrivals at the Grand. F. X. Schoonmaker, a well-known Re- publican politician who stumped the | State for McKinley, is registered at the | Palace. | G. W. Chrisman, a wealthy fruit grower of Ventura, is at the Lick, where | he arrived yesterday on a short visit to the city. C. E. Orr and E. Mackintosh from | Scotland, who are traveling for pleasure, arrived last evening and are registered at the Palace. Thomas Langford has come down from his home in Eurcka and Is registered at | the Grand, where he will remain for the | next few days. Licutenant Runge, Engineer von Egidy, Licutenant Moller anad Lieutenant Dar- mer, a party of German naval officers who have come here to join the cruiser Geler, are registered at the Palace. e e CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Oct. 29.—E. A. Bridge- | ford and wife and H. Bridgeford of San | Francisco are at the Raleigh; Arthur Page and wife of San Francisco are at| the Arlington; H. H. North, Immigration Commissioner, is in Washington en route home from Europe. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. The floating dock at Havana has been sold by the Spanish Government for $600,- 000 to a syndicate of Vera Cruz mer-| chants, The Russian Minister of Marime has set | aside $7,000000 for the improvement of | Port Arthur naval station. Besides for- | tifications it is proposed to deepen the | channel in the harbor to a depth of | thirty-two feet and to build two jettles. | { The Japanese torpedo-boat dsstroyersi built by Yarrow and Thorneycroft are | giving satisfactory results on their trials. i The Sazanami, bullt by Yarrow, averaged | 31.382 knots over the measured mile, and the Kageron, a Thorneycroft boat, aver- aged 30.24 knots during a three hours’ trial at sea. A serious accident occurred on board the British battle-ship Prince George on | October 6. A boat was being hoisted out | by means of the large steam derrick, when the arm of the derrick broke, pre- cipitating the boat to the deck and in- juring seven bluejackets. One of the sallors lost a leg and the others were Quite a number of steam trials came oft last month of British war vessels, more or less satisfactory. The battle-ship Canopus had a trial of eight hours under full power, giving 13,763 horsepower, an excess of 263 horsepower, but the speed— the calculations. Of the 30-knot torpedo- boat destroyers the Spiteful made 29.9 knots and the Cheerful 30.152 knots. At the beginning of the present century the money value of the British fleet was | not quite $0,000,000. Since 1889 Great | Britain has expended $300,000,000 in buila- ing new ships and the present value of the 489 serviceable vessels is given at $540,- 000,000, segregated as follows: Sixty-four battle-ships, $260,000,000; 119 protected cruis- ers, $145,185,000; 22 armored cruisers, $56,- 635,000, and the remaining 284 vessels, con- sisting of crulsers, gunboats, torpedo- boat destroyers, etc., at $78,180,000. The Swedish Government recently in- vited bids from ship-bullders at home and abroad to bulld a couple of armored ves- sels of limited size. Eighteen bids were received, of which four were from home yards, eight from Great Britain, one Danish, three German and two French. The absence of American bids is not be- cause of inability to compete in that line but on account of all the prominent At- lantic shipyards having a surfeit of private and Government work. A European naval war would bring many disagreeable surprises to the sev- eral powers, for the number of ‘“lame ducks” would be numerous. The French and Russlan navies abound in such; the modérn armored fleet of France is rarely away from the dockyards undergoing he- roic treatment, and there are ugly rumors about some of the new ships of Russia. The armored cruiser Rurik, of 11,000 tons, on the China station, is said to be In a bad state, the wood sheathing being rot- ten and the supposed armored belt of 10 inches is alleged to consist in places of wooden blocks which also are rotting. The French torpedo-ship Bouvet ot 12,205 tons, completed only a few months ago, has been ordered to Toulon for ex- tensive repairs. Her trial developed the fact that the engine foundations were too light, and as a consequence could not work up to the requisite horsepower. The repairs, as they are called, will consist in taking out the triple-screw engines, re- of his identity and then swallowed poison, evidently _4 for the machinery, all of which will con- moving the foundations, which are part of the hull, and substitute adequate beds | complete breakdown of the engines. | were sufficiently réfreshed during the cool | of the | Ovenshine's brigade went into camp about sume much time and money. The Bouvet was begun in January, 1893, and launched in April, 189, and cost over $5,000,000. Her speed, which was to be 17% knots, fell | greatly short of the calculation, and even at a reduced speed there was danger of a The mean consumption of the American water-tube boilers tried on the British gunboat Sheldrake were found to be less than for cylindrical boflers developing the same horsepower and under like condi- tions. Nine runs, aggregating 9000 mlles, were made under horsepowers varying from 1500 to 2150, and the corrected aver- age of coal burned was 163 pounds per horsepower per hour. The steam ranged from 120 to 150 pounds, the average being 146 pounds, and 9.85 pounds of coal were consumed to each square foot of grate surface. The objection to water-tube boilers in the merchant service has | hitherto been on account of the idea that | these boilers were not as economical as the old style, but the performance of the Sheldrake and on the Norwegian steamer | Tasso would indicate that there is no | longer a foundation for such belief. The | latter vessel had her Scotch boilers re- moved and American water-tube substi- tuted, with the result that in six voyages aggregating 9200 miles there was a saving | of ninety tons of coal and an increase In speed of six-tenths of a kno GOOD WORDS FOR THE ‘ THIRTEENTH INFANTRY | BUTTE, Mont., Oct. 10, 1899. Editor San Francisco Call—Dear Sir: In a special dispatch to the Anaconda | Standard, dated October - 9, from San Francisco, I notice the following state- ment in an interview with Major J. J.| Weisenberger of the First Washington | Volunteers, just returned from Mauila, viz.: “The American people do not realize | the gravity of the Philippine situation. | The entire Thirteenth Regiment of regu- | lar infantry dropped their arms, their | haversacks and their baggage and fled like sheep before a midnigit nsurgent at- | tack. 1L was not the fauit of the men. | When they have had a soidier's training they will be the equal of any men in the islands. They were bundled aboard f.henr! transpert before they even knew how to | load their guns. Wien the ship reached | Manila they disembarked at once, a.nd‘ without any drilling whatever were marched to the firing line and ordered to | make camp within sight of the enemy’s | lines. Their colonel protested against the | orde aining that his men were un- | disciplined. J 1 have never before had occasion to ap- | peal to a newspaper for correction of | facts, but assuming that Major Weisen- | berger has been correctly quoted I wish ' to sav that his statement is so grossly | inaccurate and so manifestly unjust to &‘ gallant regiment that 1 feel compeiled to detall the circumstances that occasioned | this story. Acting as aid to Brigadier General Sam- | uel Ovenshine in the advance on Para- naque on the 10th day of June, whose brigade consisted of the Fourteenth In- fantry, Thirteenth Infantry and part of the Twelfth Infantry and Sixth Artllley, all of these troops came under my per- gonal observation. To the Thirteenth Infantry was given the task of clearing the country of insur- gents resisting the advance on the right flank, and gallantly and speedily was it done. During the day in a march of fifteen miles over foothills, through tall tangled grass, without water and under a blazing tropical sun, this regiment out of a total of nearly 1300 lost 263 men from heat ex- haustion, who were left behind, to follow the column when able to walk. Some of these men, among whom was Colonel Smith, commanding the regiment, re- turned to Maniia, but the greater part evening to rejoin their command that night. Other regiments in this expe- dition lost proportionately as many men in this march, which was one of the most trying ever undertaken around Manila. On the night of the 10th of June General one and a half miles from Las Pinas. Out- osts were stationed at different points rom three to six hundred yards from the brigade, forming a complete cordon around the camp. During the night, while it was ralning and intensely dark, the two hundred Chi- namen accompanying the brigade as packers, stampeded and rushed among the troops, crying that the Filipinos had | surprised us. This alarm was so palpably | false that the officers jumped in among | thelr troops, quieted them and then put them under arms. There was no confusion; not a shot was fired, not a company moved from its po- sition, not a man threw down his arms and “fled like sheep”; indeed. it was the occasion of remark among officers at the time that the Thirteenth Infantry, newly recruited as it was, should show such steadiness under such tryin, circum- stances. Two men out of nearly 3000 got hysterical and had to be forcibly quieted. ‘This is simply all there is to the story of the Thirteenth Infantry throwing down | their arms and fleeing like sheep before a | midnight attack of insurgents, and it is a matier of regret to me that I feel called upon to denounce such a fabrication by | an officer belonging to a regiment that acquitted itself so gallantly under all cir- cumstances in the Philippine !s}gxl‘grf' Late Captain First Tdaho Voluntee) e TS, Bryan’s Letter to Morton. Omaha Bee. Former Secretary J. Sterling Morton has finally produced the letter written to him by Willlam Jennings Bryan in 1889, in which Mr. Bryan says in black and white that he is seeking office not for the honor, but for the money that is in jt. Colonel Bryan has denied positively that he ever gave expression to such a senti- ment as would place him upon a level with the ordinary office seeker who looks upon politics as an occupation and its emoluments as a means of living. Colonel Eryan will probably now come boldly forward and admit that he had forgotten the existence of this letter written under circumstances which might justify its contents. As a young | man is R. | mony, perhaps band. HALF-DOLLAR OF 1826—J., Cit market price ot a half-dollar of 1 cents to $110. That is what dealers them for. NO COMPANY J—W. M. K., City. The reason thereisno Company J in a regiment is that the letter looks so much like the [ in the brass letters used in the army that it would lead to confuslon. PALMISTRY—H. B., City. The best way to send the lines of hands is to have the palms of the hands photographed, if you cannot call on the palmist and sub- mit the hands for examination. FRESH AND SALT WATER-S. J. A, Port Blakeley, Wash. One cubic foot of fresh water weighs sixty-two pounds five ounces and one of salt water welghs sixty-four pounds three ounces. TWO BIG SHIPS—H. A. W., City. The horsepower of the Atlantic liner Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse is 30,000 and her speed 22. The horsepower of the Oceanic is 45.- 000. Her speed has not yet been made public, but is said to be about 23. MONEY IN BANK—A. S, City. If an actlon has been commenced against an in- dividual and it becomes necessary to lev an attachment, and there is proof positive that the Individual has money in a bank, an attachment could be levied on that money, but the bank officials, prior to any such proceedings, could not be compelled to disclose the fact that the individual did have money in bank. POLITENESS—S. A., City. This cor- respondent writes: “A gentleman is intro- duced to a young lady at a private house. By chance they take the same car to reach their respective homes. The lady lives at a point between the starting point and the gentleman’s home. She is not escorted by any one. Should the gentle- | man leave the car_ with her and escort her to her home?” In a case of that kind, the gentleman knowing that the lady is without an escort could offer to escort her to her home, but should the lady decline, he need not repeat the offer, and all he would have to do would be to Taise | his hat and say “good evening” as she leaves the car. CIVIL GOVERNMENT—R. D., Salmon Falls, Cal. At the election held in No- vember, 1898, the aggregate of votes cast in the State for the office of Goverror was 288,03, divided as follows: Gage, Republican, 148,34; Maguire, Democrat, 129961; Harriman, Social Labor party’ Prohibition, 4297; scatter- alary of the Governor of 5143; McComas ing, 9. ‘The California is $6000 per anpum. Jacob H. Neft is Licutenant Governor, Republican th salary $10 per diem as president of State Senate; his home is in_ Col Placer County; Secretary of State, Charles F. Curry, of San Francisco, Re- ublican, salary $3000; Controller, E. “olgan of Santa Rosa, Republican, salary HOOE; Treasurer, Truman Reeves of San Bernardino, Republican, salary $3000; torney General, Tirey L. Ford of San Francisco, Republican, salary $3000; Svr- veyor General, Martin J. Wright of Visa- lia, Republican, $3000; Superintendent ot Public Instruction, Thomas J. Kirk of Fresno, Republican, salary Chief Justice, W. H. Beatty of H Assoclate Justices, R. C. Harrison of San Francisco, C. H. Garoutte of Woodland, J. W. Henshaw of Oakland., Jac Temple of Santa Rosa, T. B. McFarland of Sacramento and Walter Van Dyke of Los _Angeles. The salary of each is $6000. El Dorado County is in the Fifth Sena- torial District and in the Fourteenth As- sembly District. The Senator is E. W Chapman, Democrat. and the Assembly S. Raw, Republican. The per diem of Senators and Assemblymen is $8. Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend's.* —_— Speclal information supplied daily to business houses and public men by t.e Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 510 Mon - gomery street. Telephone Main 1042. * —_—e———— Mrs. Henry Peck—First we get horse- less carrfages, and then wireless tele- graphy. I wonder what next? Her Husband (}n_efekl,\-)—\\‘ueless matri- Life. “M=-s. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup” Has been used for fifty years by millions of mothers for thelr children while Teething with perfect success. 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