The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 27, 1899, Page 4

4 Thre 4 MONDAY.... -Call .NOVEMBER 27, 1899 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. dress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. Main 1868, EDITORIAL ROOMS. .....217 to 221 Stevenson St. Telephone Muin 1874, ed to vecelve subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested OAKLAND OFFICE. +e++.008 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Mannger Foreign Advertising, Marquette B in, Chicago. NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON. . “eese..Herald Square NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: PERRY LLKENS JR. <29 Tribune Bullding CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House; P. 0. News Co.; Great Nerth- ern Hotel: Frem: torfum Hotel. NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: Waldorf-Astoria Hotel; A. Brentano, 31 Union Square: Murray Hill ¥ 1 WASHINGTON (D. J. Lo ENGS ) OFFICE. . Wellington Hotel H, Correspondent. $—537 Montgomery street, cor- open until 9:30 o'clock. 630 McAllister open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin open until 9:30 o'clock. 1941 Mission open uotll 10 o'clock. * 61 Market corner Sixteent street, 1096 Valencia street, 106 Ele nth eet, ‘open corner Twenty-second open until ® o 9 o'clock. Kentucky AMUSEMENTS. Orpheum—Vaudevilie. rting Duchess.” Evangelin The Hoolah C ‘a. corner Mason and Fllls streets—Spectalties. Central Park— G. Layng—Monday, November 27, at 746 p. m., at rd street. eeday, November 38, at T8 p. APPARENTLY STILL PANDING. AST week was noteworthy in the history of Of the eighty-four cities bank clearings only two ess from the same week 28 per cent and Macon, a remarkable exhibit, for over the United States, and great variety of in- he whole country was 41.1 est being one of 103.8 per cent at interesting as showing the iron trade. The gain at cent, at Boston 44.1, at Chi- an Francisco §7.4- brilliant returns, however, a TRADE EX- the clearing house. L and to showed a decr s repo: bust in 1808 Galveston fell off This is ease ir Ga, 19.2 per cent. it shows a2 gain nter goods. Prices for most however, and textile goods are especially firm, ces, and sales of raw woo! up 61,604,000 pounds for vember, while in o one have the sales ever amounted and for goods is so encouraged to keep on buy g quotations. nd shoes continues remarkably n excess of former yea ck orders, as new orders are for hides and leather, g scarce up to the famine point. Not s there by ich a hide market as to-day. is marked by irregularity, some de- scriptions being higher and rs lower, and the For the res show an increase, gainst 188 for the same cars continues to worry untry, and some shipments t from San Francisco to New York have ¥ days in the journey. This is not ation, however, for it keeps a en employed at the different car hing of the adjunctive demand for wool, g The der the steep rices 11 o pplies to the minor metals, s the week, over the co rk money market continues to improve I'he proposition of the Government $25,000,000 in bonds has had its effect, g part of it is that nobody wants to to buy back but the part w Government bonds, and no large blocks have been turned into the Treasury. So much for th recent w for Government assistance to ease tight money Indeed, it turns out that there has been no ney, except in Wall street, and financiers now of the enormous expansion in trade currency has been sufficient at all times to accommodate the increased demands, Wheat is the single disappointing feature in the situation. In spite of the decrease in the world’s supply persistently pointed out by the statisticians of America and Europe the market is quiet all over the world and prices have been steadily declining. Wheat is now down to a cent a pound, and at the close of the week it was trembling on the verge of a further decline. Eyerybody has been deceived in this cereal this year and even the most pronounced bulls are now losing heart. Thus far the decline in the world's principal staple has not affected other lines of trade, but it soon will if it continues. These points about cover the commercial and in- dustrial situation of the country. So Bryan is sure to be the Democratic nominee after all. Senator Jones says so and he ought to know. The disrupted Democracy has our heartfelt sympathy. Terry McGovern, the new pugilistic wonder, put two men to sleep recently in the same ring. It ic suspected that he carries 2 new brand of kmockout drops. \ | d Two-year-olds, at corner Van | the country is | weather, which | THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1899. SEARCHING FOR A LEADER. | : voices with alternations of piteous appealing and mad expostulation. There are those among them UT of ’lhe depths of their pit the fallen con- 'who inform Colonel Bryan that he can save the party | and confer a lasting benefit upon the country—by | retiring; and there are others who declare the party | can save itseli by forcing him to retire. | The New York Times appeals to Bryan to get out. | It exclaims: “If Mr. Bryan's ruthless ambition to be | again a candidate for the Presidency threatens the | ruin and destruction of the party, as it seems to count- | less Democrats that it does, he has no right to | demand of his associates and active supporters the toil and expense of a campaign doomed to so dismal an ending.” It explains to him that the country is well nigh solid for the gold standard. That the elec- | tions since the money issue became paramount in politics have given the Republicans control of an ‘impregnabk phalanx of States stretching across the | continent from ocean to ocean, and that for him to | again run for the Presidency will be an act of politi- ]cal futility. Therefore it says to him, “quit.” If he quit, who is to take his place? That question | has been a perplexing one for a long time. Recently | the Brooklyn Eagle undertook to answer it. | Democracy make an effort to find a new leader, it says, one will be readily found. Then it goes on to |add: “There are Olney in Massachusetts, Smalley in | Vermont, Morris in Connecticut, Davis+in Rhode Isl- { and, Whitney, Hill, Bissell, Hendricks, Lamont and "crhers in New York, Cleveland, McGill and A. S. | Hewitt in New Jersey, Pattison, George \)’oodward. :(‘hauncey Black and others in Pennsylvania, Camp- | bell, Outhwaite and not a few more in Ohio, Cable and Eck i is, Vilas in Wisconsn, Dickinson [in Michigan, Sterling Morton in Nebraska, and many ts in other States, eligible to the Presi- nship, qual petent for it by abilities.” is full of goodly names of men who were the robbin men name, Which of the d by the e is politically alive to- The most potent name in the list is that of David Bennett Hill, and yet that man's own town went Republican this 1 and Croker of Tammany has had to take steps to organize the party there and try to find some live man to take hold of it. As for the | rest they were, but they are not. The m | Cleveland of New Jersey will surprise many. possible he Eagle in its flight over Brooklyn can see anything like a possible Democratic candidate named Cleveland anywhere on the horizon? Clearly the Eagle has been looking backward and not forward. In explaining a recent French raid upon Chinese Foreign Minister of France declared that ent k aken what it thought to be the nt spot. Such national seems y on the same plane as that of a highway- man who selects the first convenient victim. morality | The wise men who study, the heavens have at last solved the mystery of why the Leonids disappointed us. Itappears that the meteors were properly “dated” for the earth, but came to the conclusion at the last moment that they could play to better advantage a “star” engagement somewhere else. | THE CONTEST K IN KENTUCKY. ENTUCKY seems in a fair way to settle her contested election peaceably and legally without any s disturbance or personal altercations | : 1 3 £ % leading to b ements of the | dispute h e of time, the | decrees ved and the final scttlement of the issue by the installation of the Re- lican car Taylor seems to be assured. This te threatened to it the State of the old saying that dan- h are foreseen never happen. The conserva- the better element of the people on both contest, being well aware of what might of an outbreak anywhere, carefully t such an occurrence. The complica- lead to is another g in errors committed by some of the »y mistakes in the ballots cast in some e been referred to the judgment of the 1 the decisions of the Judges seem to be promises to be satisfactor: there can be no question but what the contest ha v evil effects and may have more. It has caused anxiety in the State for some time, has comy d the Governor to keep the National Guard under arms in some districts, has made extra work for the courts and has interrupted business at a sea- son when it should have been brisk and lively. These be revived should Goebel decide to continue the fight and renew his efforts to have a large number of the cast for Taylor thrown out. Thus it will be seen that while the worst | that was feared has no!.happened, much harm has been done, and there may be more to come. Nearly the whole of the errors in the voting which | gave occasion for the contest were due mainly to the | system of balloting which prevails in the State. Had . Kentucky been provided with the balloting machines | used in several of the cities of New York, there would | have been no contest. | unerring accuracy and count the votes as they are | Where they are employed there is no excuse | evils may votes | cast. | for election officers to hold back the returns and no | opportunity for altering them or misrepresenting them. As the matter stands the board of State offi- cials, which is to make the final count and settlement of the dispute, will have to pass upon such questions as whether ballots marked W. P. Taylor can be | counted for the candidate whose right name is W. S. Taylor. No matter how such questions are answered the answer is sure to give rise to more or less dis- content. The Kentucky contest, therefore, is one of the strongest of current arguments for the general adoption of the voting machine in all elections. THE CAMPAIGN IN SOUTH AFRICA. W HEN General Buller was offered command of the British forces in the war against the Boers he is reported to have stipulated before accepting it that he should have a free hand in the conduct of the war and that his dispatches from the front, should not be made public. Both stipulations were conceded by the Government and the general is now working as he thinks best and in secrecy to fulfill his promise to the Queen and force the war to a swift conclusion. In the absence of authoritative dispatches and a | front there has been naturally a good deal of anxiety fied for it by Democracy | The campaign is to be in the future and not the past. | |a merry one. The machines work with | comprehensive account of what is going on at the | the efforts made by the Boers to check them. These affairs constitute the news of the day, and to the pub- I lic appear to be about all there is to the war. As a servative Democrats continue to lift their | matter of fact they are but a minor feature of it, for | the main movement is that which Buller is himseli preparing in silence and secrecy to strike at Pretoria. The object of the British in maintaining their com- paratively weak garrisons at Mafeking, Kimberley | and Ladysmith was from the first to prevent the Boers | from making a swiit rush to the coast and capturing the ports which the British would need for the land- ing of their troops. That object has now been ac- complished. The first fierce rush of the Boers has | been stopped. Durban is safely occupied by British | troops and the transports have Janded men in thou- sands with safety. Detachments have been sent to the relief of the besieged garrisons, but the main blow has not yet been struck, nor has the army des- tined to make it started on its march. Buller is evi- dently taking his time. Before leaving London he stated he would hardly be ready to advance before December, and it looks as if he does not intend to | permit Kruger to hurry him or to lead him to change the plan he devised at the outset. It is to be noted that while London is much ;exrited over affairs at Ladysmith and Mafeking, the | commanding general does not seem to be at all If | alarmed. He has managed to keep himself out of the newspapers with more ‘than ordinary skill. Rarely | does a report from South Africa say anything about him. If he can keep the Boers busy hammering away at the fortifications of the three besieged towns | until he gets his corps ready to advance into the Transvaal itseli, he will have achieved a marked ad- vantage. The Boers will then have to hasten back to the defense of their capital, and the hastening will be done under difficulties. . Taking all things into consideration the vital point of the war just now is not at Ladysmith, but at what- ever place Buller is getting his corps ready for the march. The rest is hardly more than skirmishing. — e According to the London Chronicle the British Cabinet has decided that the only basis of settlement for the trouble in South Africa will be a united coun- try modeled on the Canadian plan. Can the British Cabinet be counting its chickens before they are hatched? —_— A daring speculator of New York has been indicted for a conspiracy to defraud for having promised gullible investors a yearly interest of 520 per cent on their money. It would not be difficult to guess what charge, particularly characteristic of imbecility, should be registered against his victims. — SAN FRANCISCO'S TH@NKSGIVING. S we swing into Thanksgiving week it is worth fl while to take note of the general fitness of the people for celebrating that kind of a fes- We need not hunt up statistics of trade and industry, nor count up the gains made in the year, to find cause for being assured that the feast will be Abundant evidences can be seen of the prosperity of the time by simply looking at the people on the street. Did ever San Francisco show so many richly dressed, beautiful, happy looking women along her streets as at this time? Market and Kearny are as radiant every bright afternoon as if they had been tival. | prepared for a reception to royalty. There could not be such a shimmer of silk, such a glow of velvet, such a sparkle of jewels, such a glory of rich bonnets, arraying such an endless succession of fair women passing and repassing up and down, if the men of the city were not doing big business and doing it well. It takes money to support a pretty woman in proper ner and give her scope for the swing of her style. There must be much coin where there are so much of beauty, of fashion and of feathers, and to rerce in comparison with which those that made Tyre mous and Babylon great were hardly more than petty trades. Moreover the men along the street are buoyant and joyous. They are evidently carrying all the costly | burden of this resplendent womanhood as lightly as a rose. They can afford it and they like to do it. It ifies them to see an inestimable girl with a 10 nder feather in a $40 hat, with a $500 sealskin ier back, and money enough in her purse‘to do her shopping to her taste and have carfare left. In this brightness of the city, this glow of good humor which shines from every eye and smiles from every face, there are all the evidences we need that n Francisco is ready for Thanksgiving. The men are proud of a city that has so many lovely women, and the women are pleased to see that men appre- ciate their efforts to make everything gay, generous and glorious. Nor would there be so much of sparkle on the street if there were not happiness in the home. In fact the radiance in public is but the outward show of the richer, warmer glow that illuminates the bliss hidden in the privacy of home life. So San Francisco is ready for Thanksgiving and for the holidays that come after it. It is the season for spending money and there is money to spend and people to spend it. Come rain, or come shine, all is profitable and all is pleasing that befalls us. We have on the best country in the world, the best State in the | country, the best city in the State and each man has | he best girl in the city. Hurry up the feast; appetite is already: serve the turkey. — Giits of champagne, pate de foie gras and plum puddings studded with jewels represent the latest freaks of British enthusiasm for the fighters in South Africa. If the craze continues the English military authorities will find it necessary to doctor the troops as well as the news. The disagreement of the jury in the case of Harada for damages against the Southern Pacific Company is reasonably clear evidence that any one who values his life or limbs must carry his own guard gates with him when in the neighborhood of the railroad's tracks. the The difficulty of forming a peace society out of warriors is being admirably illustrated in the efforts to organize the “Spanish War Veterans.” The worthy survivors of the war never said half as many mean things of the Spaniards as they are now saying of one another. —_— The shocking expose of the affairs of the Eureka Society for the Protection of Children very clearly opens a wide field for public service by the Society for the Suppression of Vice. The torture of children has not yet been legalized in San Francisco. If General Kitchener continues his devastating | march in the Soudan the “howling Dervishes,” who | have been so potent in rocking nervous people into fits, will be as silent as the ancient Sphinx. Sir Charles Dilke says that the big guns and fort |in London as to the sitnation. There are reports of | of South Africa must go. Cable advices indicate that battles here and there, of sorties at Mafeking or | they have been going and thit the pace they set was Ladysmith, of the advance of relief columns and of | altogether too speedy for English nerves. n that coin there must be an industry and a com- | STRUC ' THE NOISY The Hidden Treasure Mining Company, which operates the greatest drift mine in the State, has just had the luck to strike a new and rich buried channel in the Hidden Treasure ground on the For- | est Hill Divide in Placer County. This | channel is thirty-two feet lower than the main tunnel in the channel now being worked and is reported to yleld rich gravel, at places going $5 to the car. The strike was made 5000 feet from the mouth of the tunnel, which is now about two | miles long and through which the gravel | 1s hauled out by an electric underground trolley system. The Hidden Treasure property consists of over 2000 acres, in which have been found several anclent river channels run- ning at various depths at directions about | 1000 feet below the summit of the lava- capped divide. The equipment and the engineering methods of the Hidden Trea- sure have been of widespread interest to mining men. The electric plant is com- &loe(e and unique, and with its ald over carloads of gravel are hauled out daily in long trains. The extent of the opera- tions and the richness of the property, the product of which has reached Into the millions, have made the State's crack drift mine of popular interest as well. The property is chiefly owned by Harold . Power and family.” A few weeks ago | Mr. Power and assoclates added the Morning Star drift mine to_their hold- ings, and now comes the discovery of new and yet older riches below the main channel, where once flowed a river 1400 | feet and In which the gravel s mined to a width of from 400 to feet. In its formation and richness the Forest Hill Divide is remarkable. Its anclent channels have yielded about $60.000.000 and | yet but a comparatively small part of its | old has been taken out, and it will a: ord a scene of still greater mining ope- rations for fifty years. | During the week a connection was made | between the extremeties of the Morning | Star and Big Dipper tunnels on the Di- | vide, which are together over 10,000 feet in length, and it Is nearly a two-mile trip from the mouth of one to the mouth of the other. There are several important drift mines undergoing development with promise of | | being great properties in the future. The | | buried anclent channels of this State hold | | hundreds of millions of gold and are but | sufimly ‘f‘rulpecxcd yet. They offer an inviting field for the judicious Investment | of large capital and drift mining, which | last year produced over $1,000,000, or more | | than hydraulic mining, is destined to| greatly its output years. y . The Azalea drift mine of Placer County has closed down for the winter. During | | the past nine months the tunnel was ex- | | tended 1076 feet, giving a total present ! length of 2256 feet. It is expected that the | channel will be struck within T feet far- | ther. | increase in future The ofl fleld s more noisy than ever with “news” and hustling. It is still th | preparatory season of the mustering of many investors and a good many derrick: and the flotation of companles fallures begin to make people more wary. The week has produced some reports of oil strikes, especlally in the McKittrick and Kern River districts of Kern County, where it seems likely that valuable of deposits will be found. oil strike may vary according to the day or source from ten to 1000 barrels a day, as have the reports from a Kern County | well within the past few days. | A Kern County ofl man from Los An-| geles is looking for water as well as oil, | and if a water supply is found by boring, | he proposes to pipe It about the Kern | River district to auplply the rigs now ope- rating or planned. In boring for ofl, wa. ter is generally, everywhere in the oil | fields of the world, an expensive nulsance, | requiring pumping and casing with pack- ing below the water stratum to keep it from the ofl-producing bottom. In some of the districts of the semi-arid San Joa- | quin \'.ne{. however, no water supply is | struck in boring. Water is needed both for steam power and, in sufficlent amount, for the bottom of the well, to facilitate boring. The ofl men want wa- ter, but know when they have enough. In the Coalinga field the boring of many wells has waited for a water -urpn—, which is now partially secured by piping | from the hills. The Coalinga Water Com- pany is laying five miles o. water pipe to supply the want. Two mlles of pipe are id and when the supply arrives pros- pecting operations will increase. The | Coalinga Ofl Company sells $150 worth of water per month to the operators of the district, and water wells are being sunk on i.e plains. A reliable correspondent of the Mining { and Scientific Press writes from Coalinga as tollow “About a dozen outfitz are sinking wells | In various parts of the Ofl City district | and a dozen more are on the ground ready to begin. The present output of the | district is 2000 barrels of crude ofl per day. | | This is conveved to tanks on the line of the raflroad by a pipe line owned by the TUnion Ofl Company, which company is also prosecuting development work on ! acquired ofl lands in the district. The Coalinga Ofl Company have completed a large tank, with pipe line leading thereto, a mile or more below thelr wells, and it is probabla they will extend their pipe line to the rallroad. Altogether there Is a tankage in the district to the extent of nearly 70,000 barrels, 39.000 of which are the property of the Coallnga Ofl Com- | are going down. befors | A report of an | pany. “The principal part of the output from the district comes from eight wells, three or four of which are flowing wells. Coal- K ANCIENT GOLD. PETROLEUM. OIL MEN HUNT WATER. inga No. 7 is probably the largest pro- du‘cer; then comes the {ilua Goose, owned by the Home Ofl Company. A 25 horse- power gas engine furnishes power to run the pumps at eleven weus, while two or three pumps are run by individual en- gines. Gas is the only fuel used in the main camp. It is liberated from the oll as the latter is run Into old steam bollers, and is drawn under natural pressure by Klp»s from the upper portion of these oilers. ““There are a few promising ofl wells in the Kreyenhagen district, twenty miles southwest of Coalinga. Considerable at- tention is being attracted to this district and several outfits are sinking wells there. In the Parkfield district, north of the Kreyenhagen. the Cholame Valley Oil Company is sinking a well, which is now down 130 feet and shows some ofl and as. Other outfits are on the ground in his district. ¢ ““Coalinga is the focal point for ofl dis- tricts stretching north and south alon| the Coast Range of mountains. Althoug] some distance from the ofl flelds, Han- ford is the seat of much of the business activitly which marks this industry. The newspapers at Hanford devote consider- able space to ofl literature and gossip, while the investors or magnates make this town their headquarters, congregat- ing mainly at the Hotel Artesfa.” Ofl prices remain steady and are apt to do so until a very large increase in the yield 1s in sight. Los Angeles crude ol sells now at 81 10, The superior Coalinga product is practically all dellvered under contract in San Francisco and about the bay at unknown prices. It Is reported that last week $1 10 was refused by one of the Coalinga producing companies and $1 20 asked. As has been reported in the newspaper dispatches, the Standard on Compary has again raised the price of Eastern crude petroleum to §1 18 per bu& rel for the Pennsylvania product _an $1 07 for Ohio ofl, making a total advance of 40 cents within three months and re- viving wildeat operations in those flelds. Selby’s smelting works at Vallejo Junc- tion 18 among the large b‘&‘ establish- ments using oll for fuel, and there it Is used for smelting as well as for wWer. Secretary Undermill that their con- sumption I8 between and barrels month. The supply comes from South- ern California under a long contract with the Union Ofl L'umplnf'. It is used in generating steam and s the fuel used o the reverberatory furnaces. For both of these Uses it is found cheaper, cleaner and more satisfactory than coal. The newly opened territory of the ofl district in the city of Los Angeles, & western extension of the old field, which is petering out, is developing great prom- ise of a rich yleld. The district comprises about 120 acres, in which twenty-five wells The production is al- ready 500 barrels a day and may become as great as that of the original yleld. San Francisco capitalists, through Easton, Eldridge & Co., are making more heavy investments in producing wells in he Los Angeles field. The properties of the Rex Oil l:omfmny have now been bonded. The wells are producing about 11,000 barrels a month, and if the deal is concluded wells ileldln‘ 25,000 barrels a month or about half the yield of the Los Angeles field, will be in the hands of San Francisco men. A Los Angeles account says that a “white oil well” has been struck at 560 eet in Placeritos Canyon, near Caliente. The ofl is nearly a clear, transparent white in color “and can be used for tlluminating purposes.” Such a product would be not ‘nf strange in some other arts of the world, but would be peculiar n the Callfornia fleld, where the oll is enerally heavy and with an asphalt base, No scientific analysis of this or of the light Coalinga ofl has been made public, if made at all. The Union Ofl Comfn.ny is laying a new eighteen-mile pipe line from the Santa | Paula field to Norwalk on the Southern Pacific line. It may be extended to S PeAdrsoaon lg! gont, nta Barbara report says that G. L. Allen of L.os Angeles has put a big force of men to work building a road up to the mountains back of Rincon, near that city, and will begin the development of ofl on a large scale immedfately. The fleld 13 near the wells sunk by the Alaska Mining Com- m\n?‘-. This cnmpnns’ spent uofio and sank several holes feet, but was un- successful. The Santa Maria Valley, in Santa Bar- bara County, has been struck by the ofl boom. Large tracts have been bonded. Pittsburg capitalists are ready to do ex- tensive prospecting near Los 8’"\.‘0!. Ofl 1s going to be nuts for the lawyers. Legal tangles about ofl Jands and ofl com. panies are already multiplying. Regarding Esmeralda County, in South western Nevada, the Inyo Independent says: “Sodaville is booming on the pros- pects of the copper mines. The demand for accommodations crowds all facliities there, and new people are coming in. The copper smelter Is expected to be running by January 1 next. A new one and one- half mile line of water pipe is being laid. The Elmer Dunlap mines, seven miles in direct line or thirteen by the road from Soda, are sald to be second to none in rl(‘hl;jll." ai A big copper discovery is reported f; Death \'afiey. a 1ean'z.vm.’§«n mfifl tlhfidl'e whlchl ll: llIld to bbb.elkh! feet wide nd very rich. It can traced near !v;g miles. Jocatt o orty-two location notices wers Shasta County last Wednesday. ® fladin J. 0. DENNY. | 'The Call publishes communications in which subjects of general Interest are | discussed or containing information- that | will be of interest to its readers, withqut holding itself responsible for the opin- fons of the writers.] Editor The Call-Sir: Will you kindly permit me a little space in which to make | clear one or two points touched upon byl Father McKinnon in his rather incohe- rent “reply” to certain statements in the Monitor affecting his position on the sub- Ject of “Church Looting in Luzon”? The fact that many persons who read this | “reply”” in The Call did not read the edi- torial in the Monitor, to which it has ref- erence, is my only reason for making the request. I shall not take any notice of the vulgar abuse or uncalled for person- alitles in which the chaplain sees fit to indulge. They dc not deserve any. Ir Father McKinnon is satisfied to put him- self on record in that way, I do not grudge him the gratification that his gift in that direction affords. ‘With regard to the first item in his bill of particulars, to wit: the stricture of the Northwestern Catholic on time-serving Catholic chllgum , 1 have only to say | that Father McKinnon having voluntarily lp?lled the cap to his own head he is welcome to wear it. Item No. 2 is more important. It has to do with Father McKinnon's alleged re- ply to Mrs. Funston's inquiry concerning the propriety of appropriating to her own use a plece of goods, be said to have been once a adorn- { ment_of a statue of e Virgin in Cal can Church. Father McKinnon calls a “malignant item™ denounces the story as a lie. In that case, if r Reaney is correctly reported by the De- troit .flzuml. the chaplain of the Olym- pia is the llar. Hfie;'e h“thol n:;;y an:!mll as it appeared originally in the rof Journnl,p as the statement of Father Reaney: | “After our troops had taken possession (of Caloocan Church) somebody, I don't know who, presented Mrs. Funston with what Is sald to have been once a part of the raiment of a statue of the Virgin. Mrs. Funston showed it to Father Mc- Kinnon and asked him if there would be any harm in her having it. ‘“’Father McKinnon, you know, was the chaplain of the First California Regi- ment, who goes back as private secretary to Archbishop Chapeile, d is also a chaplain still. He was the first American to enter Manila after the slege. Father McKinnon told me on examining the garment, or cloth, or whatever it e couldn’t tell what it had been—whether “h'“ u{h'lllk or lo’w‘-fih tl“ , or whether purpose for w] had been used was sacred or profane. He 'THE CHURCH LOOTING CONTROVERSY, Editor Connelly of the Monitor Takes Exception tothe Recent Statements of Chaplain McKinnon. told her there would be no harm Ing it. ¢ * ¢ How such lloI’Vl:lkle;: started about Mrs. Funston could have originated is not easy to say. It was probal wi due to the ocovetousness of somebody who would have liked the plece of cloth himself or herself, as a souvenir.” The Detroit Journal, commenting edi- torially on the interview in its news col- e = “Rev. W. H. L. Reaney, chapl Olympia, Tias completely’ aispoeas of the church desecration charges made against General Funston and the Kansas volun- teers. Father Reaney says that church at Caloocan had been used by the Fillpinos for _mlllu.rg' Purposes some time before the United States troo, arrived. The church had been thorough y secular- ized and the natives had stripped it of everything of value. After the American troops occupled it somebody discovered a garment alleged to have been part of the raiment of a statue of the Virgin, and resented it to Mrs. Funston. Father Moe. innon of the California volunteers told her there was no impropriety in her ac- cepting it, and consequently she kept it. That is all there Is to the story of dese- cration, about which irresponsible sips have attempted to make a sensation.” ather Reaney, so far as we know, has not denied the story as published, or Questioned its accuracy. T{e Journal is an “‘administration pa and certainly could have no motl 1or misrepre- senting such stalwart supporters of the President and his advisers as Fathers and McKinnon and General Fun- ve proved themselves. body Iying in this matter is Until '(l'il:ld“r from Father Reaney, we are en to our own opiniol wrpn‘lc{:hor t}l‘e ‘l‘rllo it !li 5 SN g ather McKinnon is forced to adm: after all, that the churches were loou‘;: and in some Instances by soldiers, but he acquits the Government of all responsi- bility and blame. Why? Because, he as- serts, nobady can prove that the officers whose duty it was to prevent such things, failed to do the best they knew how. though their alleged efforts were lament. ll}ly"ulllnuc'eenrul. not trespass upon vour - ture to point out and consider th:mtl::- dictions with which Father McKinnon's “reply,” ltke his previous oral delfver- ances under the same head, fairly bris- tles. The reverend gentleman, by om- clously profecting himself into a contro- versy which dld not concern him, has, unfortunately, nlaced himself in a very bad light and plight. His attempts to ex- tricate hl&u«lf are painful to witness, because, thus far. they have only served to plunee him still deeper into the mo- rass of difficulties and inconsistencies into which his well-meant. but immature, zeal has betrayed him. Yours m%ctfnfl T. A. CO! San Francisco, November 26, ALY, AROUND THE CORRIDORS C. H. Noble is registered at the Ocei- dental from Korea. W. H. Leacock, a capitalist of Toronto, Canada, is at the Grand. C. J. Cox, a leading attorney of Hol- lister, Is at the California. J. R. Foster, a popular hote! man of Marysville, is a guest at the Lick. H. Levitt, a wealthy mining Grass Valley, Is a guest at the E. M. Tilden, a prominent frul of Woodland, is staying at the Captain E. J. Rathbone, a lead ness man of Seattle, Is a guest at the Grand. R. H. Herron, cne of the foremost mer- chants of Los Angeles, is a guest at the Palace. M. H. Flint, one of the best-known m chants of Los Angeles, Is among the & arrivals at the Occidental. Bank Commissioner John Markley came down from his home In Geyserville - terday and registered at the Lick Mr. and Mrs. John W. Goss, well- known soclety people of Portland, Or., are at the Palace for a short visit. Captain C. H. Grant, commander of the transpert Sherman, will stop at the Oc- cidental while his vessel remalns in port. Manager Willlam Fahey of the Cosmo- politan Hotel has gone to San Jose, whera he will remain for about a week seeking rest and recreation. Frank Bennett, a prominent rallroad man from Vancouver, B. C., is at the Oc- cidental, where he arrived yesterday, ac- companied by his wife and family. K. Yamamato and T. Kimura, two mer- man of are registered at the Palace on their way back home to the Orient. —_———— CALIFORNIANS IN WASHINGTON WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.—Representa- tive Julius Kahn and wife arrived to- night and are at the Hamilton. Mr. Kahn will call on Speaker Henderson to-mor- row. C. N. Beall of San Francisco is at the Shoreham. N. S. Wright and Dan Marx of San Francisco are at the Arling- ton. NEWS OF FOREIGN NAVIES. Five steel torpedo steam launches have been built at the New Admiralty dock- yard, St. Petersburg. They are ¥ feet by 9 reet by 4 feet, displacing 1l tons and have engines of 120 horsepower. Thesa boats are Intended for squadron service, and will be carried on ‘he respective flag- ships. The Italian armored cruiser Vettor Plsa- ni, of 6500 tons, was begun at Castellamara December 7, 1592, and launched August 4, 1595, but did not have any trials until last month. Under a six hours’ natural draught trial the engines developed horse power. As they are intended to & velop 13,000 under forced draught the out- look Is not very promising to reach either the power or speed of twenty knots. The Hermes, second-class sheathed cruiser of 550 tons and 19,900 horsepower, has passed through a fifty-four hours’ continuous steam trial at sea under one- fifth power. During the first thirty hours the steam was at 264 pounds, horsepower 2099 and the speed 13.4 knots. During the following periods of twelve hours each the steam was 238 and 162 pounds, the horsepower 1074 and 1018 and the speed 10.45 and 10.4 knots. The coal consum 1 for the three periods was, 2.22, 261 and 2.31 pounds per Indicated Horsepower per hour. The Hermes is one of a type of cruisers buflt by contract for the British navy and are raplidly being brought for- ward for commission. Their full power speed 1s 20 knots, but the ordinary cruis- ing is, as shown in the above trials, from 10.4 to 13.4 knots under one-fifth one~ tenth power, with economical results. No less than thirteen battleships are undergoing alterations French docke yards, which alterations are either in the motive power, removal of superstructura and change in armor or armament o total reconstruction. This applles, (‘ course, only to such vessels launched up to within eight years ago and which hava become somewhat obsolete. The Re- doubtable s receiving new triple expan- sion engines, the Devastation new guns and boilers, the Courbet, Baudin, Du- perre, Formidable, Indomptable, Furieux and Requin are getting new armaments and the Neptune, Hoche, Marceau and Magenta are having their superstructures razed and new bollers installed. It is the queer practice in the French navy to make aiterations to ships in plecemeal, and as a consequence they are no sconer completed at the dockyard when it tg about time to be taken in hand for new bollers and later on new armament or alteration in upper works, armor or othes improvements. — Cal. glace fruit 50c per Ib at Townsend's.* f Special information supplied dafly to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's), 510 it gomery street. 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