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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1899. 3 'ELECTIONS Kentucky Militia to Be Called $ Out to Protect Voters From Intimidation. OUISVILLE Br Govermnor as com- e State D i s the central figure it litical situation to-night. The Goverr ieves the situation to be €0 serious he would not go to his , only about 100 miles st his vote to-mor- nt to-night that f the Louisville Le- organiza report for duty at 8 morning. The report me at Lanc orrow firmed, and there was no among members of the the rumor is given signifi- fact that Governor Brad- d to confirm or di the following 1 to attend: partie cur through at- on officers to snflicts with owntown ed out it may polls by the on the ground that . Fpolls remain open it may o4 +0+040+ o presence of the soldfers prevented a | free expression of popular will. Or {f the it in_action | by the Btate election officers throwing out | the vote of Jefferson County on the same | ground of military interference. In either | event the co! or throwing out of the Loulsville v likely would deter- | mine the result of the election | | " The campaign closed to-night with large | meetings, which were addressed by the ate oarty leaders, The Democrats fowded Music Hall fo listen to the last eaders, William Goebel speeches of their and Senator Blackburn, before the elec- tion rousing Each ot cess for Republicans held a the auditorfum. to the re- hairmen predi 1 The at su d in any gue be'y rown Demo- ywn quantity and likely to be rmining factor, ght the rumor that the Le- | een 1 to report at tne| { morrow morning to mergency was con- | came tne an-| police force of B. Castleman | ¥ authorities 1d upon the ground ouble they are prepar- necessary measures to | and under these circum- | an be no occaslon for the troops. _Governor | 1y certain. will not | sw and a conflict of | ek e BOTH CLAIM MARYLAND. | BALTIMORE, Md.., Nov. 6.—Both par- | o to go to the polls to-mor- | 'e leaders of each assuring elr followers of a certain victory airman Murray Vandiver of the Demo- cratic State Central Committee asserts | his party will carry Baltimore City | and twenty out of the twenty-three coun. | ties in the State, and General Thomas | ready ith th J. Shryock, the Republican chairman, concedes to John Walter Smith, the Dem- tc candidate for Governor, nothing save his own county—Worcester. The | Democratic prediction Is for a piurality | approximating 12,00, while the Repub- blican clalms are that Governor Low less. Conservative esttmates are Democrats will get a plurality of 1200 in he nine counties on th: stern_Shore and about the same in Northern-Central Maryland, which will be overcome proba- bly with several hundred votes to spare Ly the Republicans in Western and Southern ~Maryland, leaving Baltimore City, with a registered vote of about 110,- des will be re-elected by 200 or 3000 that the | 000, as debatable ground. The city elected a Democratic Mayor last spring by §000, with all the reform elements and city Orleans and Detroit. [+ newspapers save one opposing the Repub- lican candidate. In this fight most of the newspapers and reformists are with the Republican Etate ticket. Neither of the parties Is holding its own voters golidly. = Former Congressman Charles E. Coffin of the Fifth District, a leading Republican, has declared for the Democratic ticket, and a revolt of con- siderable _proportions has been organized agalnst Congressman Mudd in that sec- '!?n of the State. Senator Wellington's friends in Western Maryland and else- where are rather lukewarm in their sup- Enn of Governor Lowndes, the Senator aving accused the Governor of treach- ery, and retired at the beginning of the campaign from the State Committee chairmanship, which he had held since 18%, in which vear Governor Lowndes was elected by 18,000 plurality. ki pidn OHIO WILL BE CLOSE. CINCINNATI, Nov. 6.—There are six candidates for Governor to be voted for in Ohio to-morrow. Three of them claim their election is sure, but no one except Mayor Samuel M. Jones and his most zealous supporters make any such claim as that of the election of Jomes. Jones' vote will re- duce the vote of all the others, including ing that of the Prohibitionists, the Union Reform and the Soclal Labor tickets, and the result depends very materially on ;\'here most of the Jones vote will come rom. It is certain that either George K. Nash (R.) or John R. McLean (D.) will be elect- ed. If Jones pulls more from the Demo- crats than from the Republicans the pre- diction of Chairman Dick that Judge Nash will have 50,000 pluralty may be realized; but If Chairman Seward {s cor- rect in assumlng that Jones will draw much more heavily from the Republicans than the Democrats, then McLean will be elected. The Democratic managers have made much capital of the fact that Jones had been a Republican up to this cam- palgn and that he was himself connected with a trust and that he would not pledge himself to vote for Bryan in 1900. Ag Ohio is normally a Republican State, Jones could draw most heavily from the Republicans and still not affect the result were it not for the factional feeling which may also cost Judge Nash some Republi- can votes. It is conceded that all the votes that can be controlled by Governor Bushnell, ex-Chairman Kurtz and other anti-Hanna Republicans will be cast for McLean; but this factional work may not extend to others on the Republican State ticket. Meantime the gold Democrats as well as the Bryan Democrats are supporting Mec- Lean, and there is no factional fuss among the Democrats. The campaign has been bitter, dirty and full of charges and counter charges. It is of course expected that this vicious tendency will continue at the polls to-morrow and that there will be many arrests, especlally in the cities. g OUTLOOK IN BRYAN’S STATE LINCOLN, Neb., Nov. 6.—The Nebraska campaign closed to-night with rallies at a number of the larger towns. There was a thinning out at committee headquarters during the day, but much activity in the way of sending out final Instructions to precinct workers. Estimates of the chair- men at Republican and Populist head- quarters do not vary greatly, and con- servative men of both sides believe the result will be close. In this city and county Judge Recse (R.), for Supreme Judge, will run ahead of his ticket slightly, due to his personal popularity, this being hts home, and his managers contend that the same rule will hold good all over the State. They refuse to admit of the possibility of defeat for the head of the ticket, but are not so sanguine for the two university regents. At the State House, among the fusion officlals who have been stumping the State for the past month, there {s the greatest confidence in a fusion victory. Governor Poynter, who accompanied Mr. Bryan a greater part of the time In his two weeks of campaigning, said the lat- ter's presence acted as an inspiration, and if the result was at any time In doubt he had completely turned the tide. He pre- dicts ex-Governor Holcombe's election by 12,000. There have been the usual warnings by both committees to look out for crooked work, but no trouble at the polls is ex- pected. ———— CROKER IS NOT SANGUINE. NEW,YORK, Nov. 6.—At the close of the canlpaign the Republicans are confl- dent of electing a majority of the em- blymen and the Democrats of carrying the four counties that make up the city of New York. Richard Croker said to- night that the Democrats, éven if they carried every Assembly district in New York City, would still need to make gains up the State in order to control the As- sembly. Of this he is not hopetul. “There {s no organization up the State,” he sald, “and they made no campaign.” News recelved to-day points to emo- cratic Assembly gains in New York City In New York State members of the lower branch of the Legislature are to be chosen. County and judicial officers are to be elected in the four counties of Greater New York. IN - TWELVE STAT | 84040404040+ O404+04+040+0+04040 4+ 0+ O+ 0+ 04040404+ C+0404040+ O+ 404040+ O4+04040404040, Elections will be held in twelve States to-day. Ohio, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Maryland and Massachusetts will elect Governors and other State officers; Nebraska a Judge of the Supreme Court and two Regents of the State University; Pennsylvania a Treasurer and a Judge each of the Supreme and Superior courts; Nebraska three Justices of the Supreme Court, and New Jersey and Virginia Legisla- tures. There are five tickets in Ohio, five in Iowa, six in Kentucky, two in Mississippi, thres in Ne- braska, two in South Dakota, three in Maryland, five in Pennsylvania and five in Massachusetts. In Kan- sas and Colorado county officers are to be elected and municipal elections will be held in Salt Lake, New Q4040404040404 being offset by Democratic losses in the | State. Mr. Croker has increased his esti- | mate of the Democratic plurality in this county and now claims 40,000 to 65,000. Democratic and Citizens' Union leaders in | the Nineteenth Assembly District declare that Stewart, Citizen, will defeat Mazet, | Republican, by 1500. The Republicans say | that Mazet will win by a safe majority Chairman Quigg of the Republican coun- ty committee looks for a Republican plur- | ality of 10,000 in the county. John M. Par- | sons, general master workman of the | Knights of Labor and leading spirit in the Independent Labor Party, says that the labor vote will be nearer 50,000 than 30,000. The size of the labor vote will determine the result of the election. The weather to-morrow will be fair in all parts of the State. - MASSACHUSETTS ONE-SIDED. BOSTON, Nov. 6.—There is no reason to expect anything but the customary Re- publican victory. Not since 1882 have the Democrats carried the State, and to-night the election of W. Murray Crane, the Re- publican candidate for Governor, is con- ceded beyond the possibility of a doubt. The Legislature also will be Republican by the usual mlJorlt{,, only the manufac- turing centers and this city contributing to the minority in that body. There are no State issues and very few local con- tests, so that conditions are more than or- dinarily normal. Good judges place the | Republican majority between 50,000 and | 60,000. A falling off of about 15 per cent from the Republican vote of last year 1s looked for, while it seems to be gen- erally agreed that with the help of the | gold_Democrats there will be little loss in lh? Democratic vote and perhaps a slight ain. x'l'l"le Republican State Committee puts forth no definite figures, asserting onl that the candidate for Governor will pofl from 160,000 to 175,000 votes, while the Dem- ocratic State Committee predicts a vote | of 110,000 for its candidate, Robert Treat | Paine Jr., and a Republican plurality of | about 40,000 i e , IN SOUTH DAKOTA. SIOUX FALLS, Nov. 6.—Any forecast on the election in South Dakota is pure prophecy. Not a township in the State has been polled, and but one thing is cer- | taln, and that is a light vote will be polled. Chairman Kidd of the fusion ymmittee thinks 70 per cent of the vote will_be cast, and Chalrman Harrick of | the Republican committee thinks this e timate is about right. The Populists| have sent thousands of circular letters | nominated and are opposed by WWOWWW*O#O*OOMN&O*WWOWM‘ | | that vigorous efforts to preven: | town of Dayton, 5 TO-DAY. » National Interest Centers in the Supreme Struggle Being W aged in Ohio. over the State criticising the decisions of | hibition voters made the mark in the pro- the Republican Judges, who are all re- | hibition square on the official ballot, al- fusion | though they had no candidate. Last year candidates, but aside from this no active | the total vote in the district was 23,670. campaign has been made. Unless there | This year it amounted to less than 20,000. s a landslide the result will not be| Congressman-elect Allen is known in known until Wednesday, or, possibly, | national life as Speaker Reed's secretary later, as, on account of the absence of | for many years. Otherwise he was not a local contests, the returns will be slow. | prominent figure, even in his own State and neighborhood. PENNSYLVANIA’S CONTEST. ———— QUIET IN KANSAS. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 6.—What little Interest /s manifested in to-morrow’s elec- TOPEKA, Kans., Nov. 6.—To-morrow tion In Pennsylvania s centered on the vote for State Treasurer and particularly | the elections for county offices will be held over Kansas. They bid fair to be as to which of the two prominent candi- | the qu_leleszhilnh' an s'Ther)"‘_:(w":l‘lrqcllosedea dates for that office will receive the|Campaign which has bees S tsdes greater portion of the big independent | YOid of Interest, except where local issues vote cast in the general elections of the | last two vears. Dr. Swallow, the reaCher.! view, makes a prediction for Republican gains, basing his statement on the gen- eral prosperous conditions prevailing and have been made. Morton Albaugh, chalr- man of the State Committee, In an inter- editor and Prohibitionist, received 113,964 votes for State Treasurer in 1897 and 131,- | 653 votes for Governor in 1s35. In these : i the - years the Republican candidate had plu- | fatstaction with the policy of the nar ralities, respectively, of 120,717 and Lis,1oa. | Uonal administration IUe SERASENY | The Swallow vote was cast largely by in- | DTty leaders Bave made ng Sintemits: dependent voters of the leading two par. | PIG(eT 3 tles, who were dlssatisfied with the party | P 2 - 5 issues or their party leaders. This year | there is no independent candidate to draw | these votes and the Democratic leaders | claim that Creasy, thelr candidate for State Treasurer, will benefit from this in- dependent vote. Furthermore, they claim | illegal | voting in this city will result in reducing the heretofore large Republican majority returned Trom Philadelphia. The Republican State chairman and oth- | er party leaders, however, confidently claim that Barnett, the Republican candi date for State Treasurer, will receive the | full party vote and that he will have a majority in the State of at least 175 000. The total vote for Governor last year was 965,000, but the general prediction is that the vote this vear will fall fully 200,000 below these figures. MISSISSIPPI'S FORECAST. JACKSON, Miss.,, Nov. 6.—The eve of the Mississippi State election presents no features of especial interest. Conslider- able sentiment has been manifested during the past three days in opposition to the Noel amendment providing for an elective judiciary, and this awakened in- terest without doubt will have the effect of bringing a_large number of voters to the polls. It looks very much if the amendment would be defeated Democratic leaders predict a majori of 35,000 for the party ticket, and the Populists admit that there will be a de- crease from their vote of 1896, but claim they wiil elect members to the Legisla- ture from two and probably three coun- ties. as —— ALLEN WINS IN MAINE. ; -— VIRGINIA'S ELECTION. RICHMOND, Va., Nov. 6.—The election in Virginia to-morrow is for a full House of Delegates and half the Senate. The eneral Assembly in turn elects a United States Senator to succeed Senator Mar- tin and what are known as Capitol offi- The candidates for Senator are Sen- PORTLAND, Me., Nov. 6.—Amos L. Allen, Republican candidate for Con- | gress in the First Maine District, was | elected to-day by a majority of more | than 4600 votes over Luther F. McKin- | ney, the Democratic candidate. With the | in York County, to! Mr. Allen's majority is 4657. | hear from, Dayton will doubtless reduce this, but tin and Governor Tvler. The j Hot siiEey o DR e vote throughout the State will be light The First Maine District was Speaker | ;g the Legislature will be overwheim- Reed's district last_year, and he had | o "I ni&atic. The canvass has been ex-Congressman McKinney as his oppo- | 118 o Ftawr b yRerhens have nent. At that time Mr. Reed's plurality | SRiritiess and very few specc Was 5526 over McKinney, but there w : a prohibition candidate, who polled 3 votes, thus reducing his majority to 4791 There were only two candidates this vear, but it is evident from spofled bal- jots that a considerable number of pro- San Francisco is a Republican city and should be under Republican con- trol. BUSINESS LAD | OVER ONE WEEK B SUPERVISTRS Politics Shortened the | Meeting. GAS CONTRACTS POSTPONED CASH PROVIDED FOR NEW | PATROL DRIVERS. AR eet Matters Were Most Important Taken Up by the Board at Its Weekly Meeting—Hospital Plans Delayed. g v'e meeting of the Board nf‘ was th rtest on record. a stronger attraction t s and the sesslon last- most important the numerous d sewer matters. Gas ans for the proposed Hospital went over for n the suggestion of the & hoard discharg- patrol drivers in | de good by y »m the po- slce Department dopted without | mean: that Commissi § of their 1 pointment appoint e ¥y Quimby & Har- who are construct- th street tunnel, thelr first ADVERTISEMENTS. | "BEYTER LAYE || THAN NEVER) | gp— APPLIES TO THE use oF DLPierce’s Gelilen Medical SCove Taken early it 1 CURFE THE COUGH AND PESITORE SOUND BODILY HEALTH. ITALWAYS HELDS || FTALMOST ALWAYS HEALS, | Pacific payment of $1355 was put over for one week. The following reetwork PETITIONS RECEIV The following petitions were received and re- ferred to the Street Committee: Elizabeth 1. Hammond, for permission to lay & wooden sidewalk {n front of her property on the north side of Clark street, between Davis and Dru Becker & Prauschkolb, for per- m > erect an electric light sign on the | outer edge of the sidewalk in tron 3 ol O'Farrell street; Trocadero Gulch on the line « avenue, and for the grading and « ¢ said avenue to Ocean a: ands of the Green es Vailey Water Works; on her petition for the rem Presidio and Ferries Ra! o road Company to thelr proper place on Union street, between Hyde and Larkin, and that the company be | cited to appear before the committee and show cause why the petition should acted upon; Frank Estate, to project bay win eighteen r sidewalk at the northeast and Stockton streets; E. Campin Imann, for the paving with n_street, from Hari n Eighth and Nint! of gas lamp on same; p; mission to perform the work Tilden street, favorably Bquare avenue; Ban Franci pany, for permission to rem b from'roadway of Sansome street, between Cali- and Pine, al repave with bitumen by private contract; Standard Oil Company, for the privilege of making a road between Berry and Channel street, part on the &treet and part on the sidewalk, at their own expense; prop- erty-owners, for the retention of the gas lamp on Plerce ‘street, betwe Haight and Page; g 'and Roofing Company, for a on of the questions involv in the 1 ons directing th uperintend treets to remove all buildings, etc., that ob- ay of Michi and Tw on e ers tc eight-inch sewer in Cuv treet, between the Southern Pacific Rallrc and Bosworth street, by private contract; Unlon Paving and Contracting Company, for permission on behalf of property-owners to nstruct cesspools, culverts, curbs, ete., by private contract in the Intersection of Walle street and De Long avenue; Flinn & Treacy, for fon to pave with bitumen, by private Lafayet place, between Green and treets; property-owners, for an exten- six months’ time on th Jve street, between Clayton nd Cole, | Masonic_avenue and Ashbury street, Ashbury and Clayton = streets, enue, Cla shbury streets, Fulton and Masonic avenue, y and Cla between Grove and Hayes, the crossings Masonic avenue and Grove street, Grove and Clayton and Grove | and Ashbury stréets. PROTESTS RECETVED. | The following protests were received and re- | terred to the 8 Committee: B Property owners, agalnst the paving of Plerce een and Vallejo; property- e paying of the ing of streets; property-own- > of the Work of pav. between Union and Fil- against the paving of | st the ac ing Buchanan street, property-owners, | ngton street, between Fillmore and ner. | RESOLUTIONS OF INTENTION. | Resolutions of intention to perform the fol- | lowing street work were adopted: | Construction of plank sidewalks on the south- | erly line of Jackson street, between Cherry street and First avenue; granite curbs, La- | fayette place, between Green and Unfon | artificlal stone sidewalks, in front of | lands commencing at a point on the | outhwesterly line of Sixth street, 225 feet from Bryant street, running eet; artificial stone | bétween Franklin | 5 culverts, granite I sidewalks, on southeasteriy | y corners of Waller street and | and soutnweste De Long avente. | STREET WORK RECOMMENDED. The Superintendent of Streets recommended | the performance of the following street work: | Granite curbs, on the easterly line of Church atreet, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth, | roadway of same to be ](-uvw] with bitumen; | I gramite curbs, on M Central and Masohic a to be paved with basalt blocks; granite curbs, on Potrero avenue, between enteenth and Mariposa streets, roadway to be paved with | bitumen. PRIVATE ter street between enues, roadway be CONTRACTS TO 1ZED. Resolutions authorizing the performance of street work by private contract as follows were | BE AUTHO! Improvement Company, to lay , artificial stone sidewalks, !run—( stone gewer, With two manholes and covers, in Twenty-fifth street, between Guerrero and San Jose avenue, and to pave roadway with bitu- men; same, 'to lay granite curbs, on Nan Jose avenue, between Army and Guérrero streets, and to pave roadway of same with bitumen; W. | ¥. Hanrahan, to pave with bitumen the cross- | ing of Twenty-fifth and Shotwell streets. | STREET WORK FULLY Resolutions were ing the following street worl Fillmore street, between Haight and Page, | basalt pavement: Fulton street, between Stan- yan street and Iirst avenue, basait; Alabama | Etreet, between Twenty-fourth and Twen fifth, bitumen; Potrero avenue, between Six- teenth and Seventeenth, bitumen. 4 Resolutlons of full acceptance of the following strest work were passed to print: Clay street, between Spruce and Maple, bitu- | men; Buchanan street, between Unlon and Fil- | Dbert, bitumen:; Masonic avenue, between Oak | and ' Page streets, bitumen; Henry street, be- | | ACCEPTED. lly adopted fully accept- tween Sanchez and Noe, bitumen; Clayton street, between Hayes and Fell, bitumen. MISCELLANEOUS MATTERS, Hearing of the protests against the construc- tion of artifictal stone sidewalks on Central ave- nue, between Oak and Page streets, was set for November 13 at 3 p. m. Andrew Downey was granted permission to | board to establish | plishes BUYS A MILLION ACRES OF LAND vestment in Pacific Coast . . Timber. sa; the world. cated on the Pacific Coast. the lumbering and logging industry. profit. reconstruct, with planks, the sidewalks on both fronts of his property on the southerly corner of First and Minna streets. The City and County Attorney was directed to report as to the liability of the city and county where it is claimed by R. C. de Boom that the city and county has trespassed on and taken his land for the purpose of constructing & culvert at the crossing of Mission and Canal aperintendent of Streets was directed to property owners on Brosnan street, be- tween Valencia and Guerrero, to construct art Superintendent of Streets was directed to contract with J. J. Dowling for the recol fon of the corner at the Intersection of rch and Reservolr streets at a cost not to sxceed $157 The Superintendent of Strests was directed to grant Flinn & Tracy thirty days’ extension of time on their contract to pave the crossing of Central avenue and Haight street. arney Jacobs was granted permission to erect a pole with an electric light transparency on the outer edge of the sidewalk in front of 80 Kearny street. The Claus Wreden Brewing Company wasg granted permission to maintain a platform ecales on the sidewalk on the east side of Tay- lor street. between Greenwich and Lombard. The Superintendent of Streets recommended | that the clerk be directed to readvertise for proposals on the construction of sewers, etc., in Fifteenth street, from Castro ‘to the west- erly termination of Fifteenth street. The Superintendent of Streets requested the official grades on Berry street, between Seventh and De Haro streets. C. E. Newman, the bond expert, recommended the approval of the bond of Charles A. Warren to_explode blasts and use explosives. The City Engineer recommended the establish- ment of certain grades on Thirty-second, Thir- -third. Thirty-fourth, Thirty-fifth, Thirty- sixth and Thirty-eeventh avenues and on H, J, T and K streets. SPENT THREE YEARS, PORTRAYING HUMANITY Staying at the California, where they arrived yesterday from the Doric via the Hawalian Islands, dre Mr. and Mrs. J. Hubert Vos. They will remain in the city but a few ds ington, D. C., where Mr. Vos goes for tie purpose of seefng the American Commis- oners to the Paris Exposition relative to arranging for the exhibition of some forty or fitty different pictures, the painting of which has occupied the last three years. Mr. Vos is an artist of note, a Hollander - | by birthy bup aniAmerican byftholGe, 88 | pepartment itawas sald that nothing oL he was naturalized some two vears ago and adopted the stars and stripes as his national emblem, notwithstanding fact that he had been decorated some time before by the Queen of the Nether- lands in appreciation of the excellence of the work that his brush had accom- Mr. Vos some three years ago conceived the 1dea of painting the different types of the world's population_for exhibition at the great Paris show. He had previously gone_quite thoroughly through the differ- ent Buropean races and, coming to this country, he put in a vear in depicting the different North American types. _Two years ago he left for the Orient, where he has remained ever since, work- ing constantly at his self-imposed task. He now returns with the result of his la- bors, which he will put in as an Ameri- can exhibit and which should certainly win for him distinction at the world's great fair. His studies have been selected from Ha- wallans, Javanese, Soudanese. Sikhs, Thi- betans, Chinese, Mongolians, Koreans, Japanese and the Gotticks of Afghanis- tan. The paintings are not individual por- traits, but are more in the style of com- posite pictures in which the artist has endeavored to portray the racial charac- teristics of the different peoples of the | Ortental world. During his travels among the strange tribes of the East Mr. Vos has had some thrilling adventures and in several instances he has nearly lost his life for his devotion to his art. While in Honolulu Mr. Vos became ac- quainted with Mrs. Elenor Kaikilani Gra- ham, a young widow of kanaka blood, who was acknowledged to be the most herfec of the many beautiful women in awaflan uoclet{. The artist made such good use of his time that when he left to continue l\:h Journey westward he took and then leave for Wash- | MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 6.—A special to the Triburie from Ashland, W ys: Frederick Weyerhauser of Chippewa Falls, the greatest lumber man in Wisconsin and Minnesota, is just closing another deal which more than clinches his title as the most exteasive manipulator in lumber and logs in His latest and most stupendous deal {s the purchase of 1,000,000 acres of lumber lands from the Northern Pacific Company. The price paid is $6,000,000. This is the largest timber deal ever closed by one person in the history of In speaking of the deal Mr. Weyerhau- ser says that it is simply an investment. to,advance out in the Western country and that he will realize a handsome This timber is lo- He belleves that timber is bound R O AR SR N ) GrI 990004390 9040040 9004090909040 0990909090090 000009000@ with him the belle of Honolulu as his wife | and traveling companion. —_—————— Remember the vast patronage placed by the new charter in the hands of the Mayor renders it imperative to elect to that office a man of known fidelity to duty who will not use the patronage to further his political am- bitions. HEALDSBURG’S WATER © FIGHT IN THE COURTS Light and Power Company Sues the City to Prevent Building of Another Plant. SANTA ROSA, Nov. 6.—Actions were commenced here this morning by the Healdsburg Electric Light and Power Company against the city of Healdsburg ang Board of Trustees, City Treasurer and Contractors Stanley 'and Martin, ask- ing the Superfor Court to enjoin defend- | ants from constructing a water and light- ing system for Healdsburg, now in course of building. Plaintiff alleges that amend- ment of the orlginal plans for construc- tion of the works by the City Trustees renders the original contract “and plans void. The conditions of the suit are very much ke the suit brought by the municipal water works. Another al- legation of the complaint is that revision of the original plans of construction of both systems means a damage to the city of Healdsburg of about $17,000. OREGON LEAVES ON MYSTERIOUS VOYAGE HONGKONG, Nov. 6.—The battleship Oregon, which intended leaving Tuesday for Manila, fired a recall gun vesterday and left port during the night. She is said to have received orders to proceed to Cebu. She was seemingly unprepared for se: WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.—At the Navy known there as to the cause of the Ore- | gon's sudden departure from Hongkong or title role her destination. If sheis bound for Cebu it is believed the order must have been given by Admiral Watson without consuiting the Navy Department. Cebu s an island in the Philippi group. There has been trouble there ';?n‘(‘:: last June, when the native Governor was slain by’ forces presumably hostile to Americans. Two months later a company of the Twenty-third Infantry was am- bushed and three men Killed. Germany Not Harassing England. Special Cable to The Call and the N Herald. Copyrighted, 1599, by eJan::l }’}‘:-k don Bennett. BERLIN, Nov. 6.—The. report that the continental powers had invited the United States Government to demand ter- ritorial cessions in China with a view to themselves taking advantage in the same direction of England’'s embarrassment with the Transvaal is denled by the Tage- blatt, so far as Germany Is concerned. Rose Relda’s Debut. PARIS, Nov. 6.—Miss Rose Relda of California made a most successful debut this evening at the Opera Comique-in tne elibes’ “Lakme,” her singing and acting drawing forth unstinted ape plause from an appreciative audience. Almost the entire American colony in Paris was present. Cike gl e Noted Crop Statistician Dies. NEW YORK, Nov. 6.—Ervin Monroe Thoman, the well-known crop statis- ticlan, died in this city on Saturday of consumption, aged 34 years. the old water | | works company here against the clty of Santa Rosa at the time of the buillding of | | chief treasure while they | any STEYN’S ARRAIGNMENT OF ENGLAND'S TACTICS NEW YORK, Nov. 6.—The Consul Gen- eral of the Orange Free State in this city gave out to-day the full text of President Steyn’s proclamation calling on the Orange Free State Boers to support the Transvaal. The proclamation reads a: follows: Burghers of the Orange Free State: The time, which we had so much desired to avoid, the moment when we as a nation are com- pelled with arms to oppose injustice and shameless violence, is at hand. Our sister re- public to the north of the Vaal River is about to be attacked by an unscrupulous enemy who, for many years, has prepared himself and sought pretexts for the violence of which he is now gullty, whose purpose it s to destroy the existence of the Afrikander race. With our sister republic we are not only bound by ties of blood, of sympathy and of common interests, but also by formal treaty, which has been necessitated by clrcumstances. This treaty demands of us that we assist her if_she should be unjustly attacked, which wo unfortunately for a long time have had too much reason to expect. We therefore cannot passively look on while injustice is done her and while also our own dearly bought freedom is endangered, but are called as men to resist, trusting the Almighty, firmly believing that he will never permit injustice and unrighteous- ness to triumph. Now that we thus resist a_powerful enemy, with whom it has always been our highest desire to live In friendship, notwithstanding the injustice and wrong done by him to us in the past, we solemnly declare In the pres- ence of Almighty God that we are compelled thereto by the injustice done to our kinsmen and by the consclousness that the end of their independence will make our existence as an independent state of no significance and that their fate, should they be obliged to bend under an overwhelming power, will also soon after be our own fate. Solemn treaties have not protected our sister republic agalnst annexation, against conspira- cy, against the clalm of an abolished suzer- ainty, against a renewed attack which aims only ‘at her downfall. Our own unfortunate experfences in the past have also made it sufficiently clear to us that we cannot rely on the most solemn promises and agreements of Great Britain when she has at her helm a government prepared to trample on treatles, to look for feigned pretexts for every violation of good faith by her committed. This 1s proved among other things by the unjust and unlaw- ful British Intervention, after we had over- come an armed and barbarous black tribe on our eastern frontler, as also by the forcible appropriation of the dominion over part of | our territory, where the discovery of dlamonds had caused the desire for this appropriation, although contrary to existing treaties. The desire and Intention to trample on our rights as an {ndependent and sovereign nation, not- withstanding a solemn convention existing be- tween this state and Great Britain, have also been more than once and are now again shown by the present government, by giving expres- sions In public documents to an unfounded claim of paramountey over the whole of South Africa and therefore over this state. With regard to the South African republic, Great Britain has moreover refused until the | present to allow her to regain her original position In respect to foreign affairs, a position which she had lost In no sense by her own faults. The original Intention of the conven- tions to which the republic had consented under pressure and circumstances has been perverted and continually been used by the present British administration as a means for the practice of tyranny and of injustice, and among other things for the support of revolutionary propaganda within the republic for Great Britain. And while no redress has been offered, as justice demands for injustice done the South Atrican republic on the part of the British Government, while no_gratitude Is exhibited for the magnanimity shown at the request of the British Government to British subjects who had forfeited under the laws of the re- public their llves and property, vet no feeling of shame has prevented the British Govern- ment now that the gold mines of Immerse value have béen discovered in the chuntry, to make claims on the republic, in consequence of which, if allowed, will be that those who or whose forefathers have saved the country from barbarism and have won it for civiliza- tion with their blood and their tears, will lose their control over the interests of the country, to which they are justly entitled according to divine and human laws. The consequence of these claims would be, moreover, that the zreater part of the power will be placed in the hands of those who, foreigners by birth, enjoy the privilege of depriving the country of its have never shown loyalty to a foreign government. B #ides, the Inevitable consequence of the accept- ance’ of these claims would be that the in- dependence of the country as a self-governing, independent sovereign republic would be fr- reparably lost. For years past British troops in great numbers have been placed on the frontlers of our sister republie in order to compel her by fear to accede to the demands Which would be pressed upon her and in order to encourage revolutionary disturbances and the cunning plans of those whose greed for gold is the cause of their shameless under- takings. Those plans have now reached thefr climax in the open violence to which the present British Government now resorts. While we readily acknowledge the honorable character of thousands of Englishmen who loathe such deeds of robbery and wrong, we cannot but abhor the shameless breaking of treatles, the feigned pretexts for the transgression of law, the violation of international law. and the in- justice and the numerous right-rending deeds of the British statesmen who will now force’ a war upon the South African republic.. On their heads be the guflt of blood and may a just Providence reward all as they deserve. Burghers of the Orange Free State: Risa as one man against the oppressor and the vio- lator of rights! In the strife to which we are now driven have care to commit no deed unworthy of a_ Christian and of a burgher lann under date of November 3 say that of ‘the Orange Free State. Let us look for- ward with confidence to a fortunate end of this conflict, trusting to that higher power, without whose help human weapons are of no avall. May he bless our arms. Under his banner we will advance to battle for liberty | of bringing the English people closer to- and for fatherland. M. T. STEYN, | gether.” State President. | 5 | |BULLER'S TASK MAY BE A VERY HARD ONE Nov. 6.—The movement of Boers into Cape Colony is beginning to awaken British fear that they have great- ly underestimated the forces they will have to meet and that even General Bul- ler's task may not be so easy as antici- peted. Loy MARTIAL -LAW IN SEVERAL NATAL DISTRICTS | LONDON, Nov. 6.—Advices from Cape LONDON, martial law has been proclaimed in the districts occupied by the British troops | between the Orange River and De Aar. | The Premier, W. P. Schreiner, has sent . a circular to the magistrates and others| It IS becoming apparent ‘haht ?114 ‘1h=_ warning all persons against statements to | British caleulations based on the lovalty the effect that the Parliamentary institu- | Of {herd Has been a very cerious leakage tions and constitutional government will | o¢ Dutch sympathizers from Natal and be lost or detrimentally affected. He adds | Gape Colony. Otherwise there is no ac that ‘the_prociamation of martial law is| counting for the large force of burghe only a matter of temporary urgency in| reported from all directions. The W: some districts and does not compel the | (fiice consequently is being urged to have burghers of the colony to participate in | mey, % e . \. O e o e, | more troops in readiness for all possible HPlr_inCF Chrizlian \'h'(qr of Schleswig- | olstein, grandson of Queen Victoria and INSURGENT STEAMER RAMMED AND SUNK Colombian Rebels Meet With Disas- a captain In the King's Royal Rifles, and other officers have left pe Town for smith to replace the dead and wounded. The Boer prisoners have been taken on board the British cruiser Penelope. They number nine officers and 180 men. An orfinciax nr{llce posted at the land- trous Loss at the Hands of rostis office at Vryburg October 25, refer- i r ring’ to_the bombardment of Mafeking. o AL B O s “The big Pretoria gun wrought | KINGSTON, Jamaica, Nov. 6.—Reliable great destruction, but the enemy obsti- | Colombian advices just received here de- nately holds his own.” scribe the pursuit and result of an en- Other advices from Vryburg say the | gagement With an insurgent convoy British flag still floats over Kuruman, but | Steamer by the Colombian cruiser Her- that a Boer force is about to proceed | cules under General Rodriguez, accom- | panied by the steamer Colombia, having troops on board. The insurgent steamer The Drag s rammed and sunk and four all_ones were captured after a san- | guinary fight. Ten of the Ci ros, with the surviving insurgents, escaped into Rio | Blanco. The insurgents lost 20 men, and the loss of the steamers is regarded as a severe blow to the insurgent cause. il Gold Found in Egypt. Special Cable to The Call and the New York Herald. Copyrighted, I by James Gor- don Bennett. ROME, Nov. 6.—A telegram from Mas- | sowah, Egypt. says English and American engineers have discovered three lodes of gold near Osntara. The lodes may be profitably worked. s T ae Prominent Physician Dies. SAN JOSE, Nov. 6.—Dr. Charles F. Far- ley, a well known pioneer physician of this city, died here to-day. He was a na- tive of Alabama, aged 77 vears. He wasa re them. There are ups and downs in | brother of Judge M. Farley of Salinas and warfare, and the disappointments we |an uncle of Sheriff Farley. recently mur- have suffered are having the good effect dered by George Suisser in that city. thither. The Dotariss command has been reinforced by 3000 Boers and has gone to | Kimberley. i GENERAL WOLSELEY TALKS OF THE WAR LONDON, Nov. 7.—General Lord Wolse- | ley, the commander in chief, who was | the guest of the Authors’ Club last even. | ing, said that the short service system in | the British army had at last been ac- knowledged as the right one, even by its | stfie‘nuoui op] oneinls. 1 | iscussing the situation in Sou the fleld marshal remarned: T ma ac | ous commands I have learned much of Boer character, and I can say truthfully that the Boers as a people are the most ignorant with which 1 have ever hees brought In contact. Their aspiration is to rule the whole of South Africa. This i | g point the English people must keep It used to cost considerable to get tailor-made clothes—not so now. We have the tailoring business fig- ured down to a minimum of cost—we make good suits and overcoats to order for $10. 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