The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 13, 1900, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 13, 1900. NEEDS OF THE NORMAL SCHOOL Quarterly Meeting of the Trustees. ——— dressed the board. She stated that her daughter, Lizzie Kelly, had attended the ! Normal School for six and a half years | and had been kept from graduating by a | prejudice of Mrs. C. L. Place, the prin- | cipal of the training department. She had called on Chatrman Brown of the Board of Trustees and asked that justice be | glven her daughter, but that official had treated her coldly and given her no satis- faction. The same coldness had been ex- g;‘rlfinced from members of the facuity. nally in desperation she wrote to Gov- | | ernor Gage and he had referred the mat- | ter to Superintendent Kirk. Mrs. ly stated Mrs. Place took a great di her daughter because Miss Felke STANDARD TO BE RAISED — MORE CHARGE. AGAINST MRS. PLACE. —_— Eelly Alleges That the Teacher Mr Refused Her Daughter a Diploma on Purely Personal Grounds. N —The board of trus- Normal School met in r session here * There were present Trus- « Brown (chairman), G George A. Sweigert and ¥ State Superintendent Xirk, aughton and Miss Elizabeth featy the meeting wers of prejudice made against M Place of the trai Kelly, an ng schoo doption of a T that asked that he George be whole regard hly satisfactory. Pro- ggested that more > professional work k was a necessity to accom- course. This condition raising the require- to the first lasses of the training to allow their power and test of pedagogical ability. be double sber of puplls in the training school. Over 100 teachers are graduated at the Normal each vear. I McNau on suggested that the at- ng school can be in- is better opport: d by the pub ng advantages knowa to corps of teachers of the d maki; le. Th ning school can be increased by mak- ra g arrangements with the Board of Trus- e public schools of the city w trair school becomes a e city system for >n and distri for the purpos nd arrangement of the report referred to 4 was of little importance. ees favored the raising of ad n. Superintendent 3000 more teachers njamin Ide Wheeler was the afternoon session and d to the place of the nor- n Ha aid not k normal schools should attempt the rk of high schools, but should be distinct professional schools. There s no of teachers and standard of admission His greatest surprise ine high standing of which is brought about system of the State work of the ve between the high scho: It will be only z iia was r admission to th E duate teachers for e high school t of the universit work. He favored a ormal graduates who | graduates wishin course could recelve for work Kirk introducad vhich was unan- that hereafter puptls rofessional course in ossess the ADVERTISEMENTS. Walking 1o Work Is the omly way in which the business women, employed in store or office, can get open air ex- ercise. Is it any wonder that she often grows pale end thin develops a ten ency to "weak lungs.” Wken- ever there is in in breath- ng, soreness of the chest, obsti- nate cou bleeding h, ery and con- tinue the use until cured. Ninety-eight in every hundred who have used " Golden ical Discovery” for "lung trou- Ble,” have been perfectly end permanently cured. "1 was wery sick indeed” writes Mrs. Moilie Jacobs, of Felton, Keént C ewful bad. Hsd 2 blood, and was very short of peins in my chest and right lung, l.sflluddyflfll Before I took ir * Goiden Medical Discovery ' and * Pleasant Pellets’ 1 was 5o weak I could not sweep s room, now I can co a small washing. 1 fee! like a new person.” Dr. Pierce’s Pellets cure heart-burn. ©OF BOSTON Bold in boxes only—Avoid imitations. - THE DEFAULTER g of pro- | igh school graduation will | g other teacher, had interested he: in | Miss Kelly. She declared a conspt ex- { isted between Mrs. Place and Miss Dan- | feis, a teacher, to keep her dausgh graduation. Mrs. Kelly's sharpuess was shown when she told how Miss Daniels { had conditioned her daughter at one ex- amination on a paper and at a later ex- | amination the same paper was rung in jand Miss Daniels had marked it “‘much | better.” She said Miss Balis, a teacher in | East San Jose, where her daughter taught | & few weeks, said Miss Kelly was a good teacher. She intended to see that her daughter got a diploma. The board refused to take any cogni- zance of the matter until the charges had been put writing. Mr. s admitted she had consulted i alaw = 1y she will take ‘he he courts. he case is similar nry Miller, now in the 11 urts, used graduation by Mr: Place. Both these students had com pleted all their other work but that in ng department. They character- M Place as a sort of a czarina, whose every whim must be obeyed. The absence of Mt Slizabeth” McKin- non, who has been preceptress of the Nor- mal for many years, was brought up. She been away on account of si¢ ness for about four months, her place be- filled by Miss Mary George. She has | written to the trustees in regard to | her absence and they considered this a he 1s now in Pasadena. A iele- 'm ordered sent her informing h t “the welfare of the Normal demand- r resignation.” It is if s McKinnon returns at once she may allowed to resume her position. sald that SCHWARTZ NOT | Rosenbaum’s Ex-Book- keeper Exonerated. Special Dispatch to The Call. | STOCKTON, Jan.-12.—There is a myste- rious shortage in the accounts of D. .| Rosenbaum & Son. A sensational rumor was started to-day involving the name of Edward D. Schwartz, until recently the bookkeeper for Rosenbaum & Son, but there was more sensation than fact in it, | as shown from an interview with Mr. Rosenbaum himself. Mr. Schwartz is well connected, is a popular young man and | has been the trusted office employe of the | for nine years, during all of | eriod he enjoyed the esteem ani | ce of his employers and_ handlied firm's financial acounts to their sat- isfaction. | Schwartz {s no longer in the firm's em- having been discharged recently for | ltogether different cause, and it is ;u)\pufe the rumor started from that act. “I discharged him because he was ir- regular,” said Mr. Rosenbaum to-day. “Sometimes ne would not show up for work, and as he continued in his irregu- larity after being spoken to a number of times, he was dismissed from his position. We have no proof implicating Mr. Schwartz, and don’t intend to have the books experted. Mr. Schwartz denles em phatically any knowledge of the shortage, and we do not know exactly how much | money has disappeared. As far as I have looked into the matter there is a shortage of 32300, but 1 guess there is between $3000 and $4000 ali told.” . Speaking of Mr. Schwartz’s irregularity | | in showing up for work, Mr. Rosenbaum | | stated that since the bookkeeper's retire- | ment he had heard that Schwartz was in | the habit of keeping fast company, the | company being of the feminine sort. INTERESTS THE PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC COAST Bills Presented by California Delega- tion, Postoffice Changes and List | for passing | confused, an of Pensions Granted. Special Dispatch to The Call. | WASHINGTON, Jan. 12—The House | Committee on Naval Affairs to-day decid- | { ed to report favorably on the bill provid- ing that the dry dock at Mare Island Navy Yard be constructed of stone in- | stead of wood. Represertative Metcalf has been active in the advocacy of thus, | and the committee, after hearing his ar- gument, presenting the views of the Navy | Department favoring the same, adopted | the bill. The House Committee on Judiciary to- | day named its sub-committees, and Rep- | resentative Kahn was placed on that hav- ing charge of the investigation of trusts. | All legislation relative to trusts will be | reterred to this committee and the report | of the industrial commission will be con- | sidered by it. | “Representative Waters to-day intro- duced bills removing the charge of deser- tion from the military records of B. F. | Moore and Moneville Merchon of Los | Angeles. | | " Representative de Vries to-day intro- | duced a bill amending the revised statutes | | and granting the riznt of way over public | | land for canals, reservoirs, etc. The bill | | proposes to allow settlers in Yosemite, | Bequota. and General Grant Nationai | | | parks this privilege. | Representatives Kahn and De Vries to- | day presented to the House resolutions | adopted by the California Fruit Growers’ Assoclation_protesting against the adop- tion of the French and Jamaican treaties. It is hardly probable that either of these | treaties will be considered by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for some | time to come, as Reclprocity Commis- sioner Kasson left Washington to-day for | the South on account of ill health. The | members of the California delegation are highly elated over the number of Senators | who bave expressed their views on the arious treaties now under consideration, | and 1t §s confidently asserted by them that the French, Jamaican and Argentine treaties will be repudiated by the Senate and will never reach the House. Repre- sentatives Kahn and De Vries also pre- sented the memorial of the Fruit Grow- | ers’ Association favoring the construction of the Nicaraguan Canal. Theffirm‘! receipts of the Ban Francisco Postoffice for the month of December, 1899, was $93,745, against $101,754 for the same month in 1838, showing a decrease of $5006. The Los Angeles Postoflice shows receipts of 324274, agalnst $22,209, an increase of The Secretary of the Treasury to-day recommended to Congress the establish- ment of an extra lighthouse district for the purpose of operation on the coast of Alaska. The Civil Service Commission will hold an examination in San Francisco on March 1 for a wheelwright and saddler at the Presidio. The salaries of each will be $60 per month. { | McDonald, clerk in the Redding | | Postoffice. has beén removed by order of | the Postmaster General, | , Mary E. Howe has been appointed clerk in_the Custom-house at San_Franecisco. Pensions for Californians: Increase—Jo- seph R. Turner, San Francisco, $8 to $12. - Mitchell’s Will Found. SANTA ROSA, Jan. 12—The will of the {late R. T. Mitchell of Windsor, who left | big estate in this gounty, was found to- day. At the time of his death a search failed to find the will and an administra- tor was nl:‘pnlnlvd. The deceased in the | document discovered leaves $1000 to each of his three children and the residue of the estate to his wife during her lifetime. It then reverts to the children. The will (‘:rll‘:nhe.“hdle:!h:or pl'obdalte in the Superfor Co rocee 2 tion will be wit .drnwn.ng‘ L ACKIINy e Seeking to Check Hazing. WASHINGTON, Jan. 12—Representa- tive Lloyd of Missour! to-day introduced a bill I’i‘l’ change the oath of a cadet of | the Military Academy so as him on admis=ion to th’é hutltuu!:n {:q'n‘:g ;cg‘ge“t‘n .I:nl c{.!::hofm‘t h‘e will abstain T an while at !ge academy. P | rica and el POLICE TRACKING A COUNTERFEITER Believed to Be Ex-Con- vict Reeves. B i , [ e e S TSt S =) t | RICHARD REEVES. o e e et e S S ! ! % : Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN RAFAEL, Jan. 12.—The identity of | the mysterious stranger who entered a | store here about a week ago and passed off several counterfeit dollars is at last establ ed almost beyond all shadow of a doubt. The man is supposed to be Rich- ard Reeves, a convict, who was dis- charged from San Quentin on January 4. Reeves had served a three-year sentence counterfeit money in Los | Angeles. So sure are the authorities that | he is the man that a warrant has been is- | sued for his arrest. | On the Sth of January a man entered the butcher store kept by Otto Smith and bought a chicken, for which he tendered | a dollar and left the store. Half an hour | later the dollar w: found to be a false | one. The next day the stranger made his appearance in Martin’s grocery store and called for a dozen oranges. He was about to give a dollar to the clerk when Otto Smith, who happened to be in the store at the time, recognized ih him the customer of the night before and warned the clerk to beware of him. Accordingly the dollar | was “rung”’ by the clerk and was prompt- Iy found to be false. Smith immediately taxed the man with passing bad money the preceding night. The man seemed although the jingle of sil- ver was heard in his pockets he told the two clerks to wait and after a short time reappeared with a ten-doliar gold plec(-.i Martin's clerk changed it and the man | paid Smith a dollar out of the change. | That evening the rumor got about that | Guard Machado was the man who had | tendered the counterfeits, but later devel- opments point to his double, Reeves, as the man. Reeves is a heavily built man of about | | 45. His face is rcmarkable for its heavy eyebrows, In which he resembles the guard. His extraordinary likeness to Machado was a matter of comment at the | prison, and the officials there are all con- | vinced he is the man. The explanation tendered by him of the way he came to | get the money shows he was familiar with | the prison. When Otto Smith charged him with passing the bad money he sald | he was a guard and professed to have borrowed the money of one of his col- leagues. MALIETON AN T0 THE POWERS Denounces the Partition of Samoa. R LONDON, Jan. 12.—Malletoa Tanu, in a letter to the London Times, published to- day, inclosing coples of the protest he | addressed to the United States, Great | Britain and Germany against the Samoan | treaties, characterizes the partition of Sa- | moa as a gross violation of the treatles | and as a crime against the law of na- | tions only equal to the dismemberment | of Poland, Denmark and France. He thinks that if it is for the great powers | to promote wars and annexations to dis- | | tract the minds of the peoples then The | Hague conference was the greatest farce | of the century. | The writer also asserts that the civil-| ization introduced by the great powers in | their annexations in the South Seas, Af- ewhere is inferfor to the prim- | itive state of the countries stolen, leading | to war through breach of faith on the part of the government officials and to | the decimating of the peoples by conta- | gious diseases and spirituous liquors. He | continues: The missionaries who graced our country with their holy and unholy presences introduced the same religious differences and hatreds against each other as pertained at the hour in civilized states. he missionaries live in pala- tial concrete houses, with all the luxuries their countries can afford, and charge us for B! and prayer books, which, eent as free offerings. Malietoa Tanu further charges the mis; sionarfes with extracting all the money les we understand, are possible from them, in return for which they received only a Bible, a prayer book or a_“Pllgrim’s Progress.” He charges the Wesleyan missionaries with having collected £27,000 at a single meeting at Tonga, adding: The missionaries aroused a great spirit of em- ulation, telling the natives that the largest giv- ers would be the most acceptable In the sight of God, thus reversing the epirit of the ‘“wid- ow's mi The Samoan chief concludes: ““These be thy gods, O Israel.” Faalogotal, Samoa. ol REVOLUTIONARY FORCES WINNING IN VENEZUELA Government Troops Beaten in Battles With the Followers of Her- nandez. Spectal Cable to The Call and New York Her- ald. Copyrighted, 1900, by Jun!lorgordnn Bennett. PORT OF SPAIN, Trinldad, Jan. 12—Tt is announced here upon apparently good authority that notwithstanding the offi- clal statement of the Venezuelan Govern- ment that the revolution in that country was at an end, the insurrection is stiil S el Dt th s 0 days aft tion crushed General Hernandez inflicted a severe defeat upon the Government troops at El Naipe. The same authority says the rebels took many prisoners and | captured 362 Mauser rifles, sixty-eight cases of cartridges, many 'flags, seven cannon and three Maxims, while the Gov- ernment loss in killed was heavy. Reports yesterday from the east c of Venezusla say that the Tevolutiontats under Generals Antonio Neci and . Joce Diaz have successfully atiacked the Gove ernment forces, which retired. Seven of the Government troops were killed and ten were v;loundm'lfled & Among those was Domingo Neci, brother of the revolutionary leades, N Tt is also reported that the Government troops have been surrounded at Guera by revolutionists under General Ducharme. —_— Mrs. Filben Injured. Bpectal Dispatch to The Call. PACIFIC GROVE, Jan. 12—Mrs. Filben, wife of Dr. Thomas Filben, the present superintendent and moral and prudential manager of Pacific Grove, has just met with a serlous accident. While descend- B 8, Slhot caught I such & way. tht lhe'm thrown the whole length {)( the | where an affidavit flight, falling on her right side and sus- ning a ompound fracture of the tight forearm and a dislocation of the right shoulder, besides being badly bruised in other places. The injuries are of such a character that many weeks will be re- quired for them to heal, but the attending physiclans do not apprehend any perma- nent bad results. HOTEL AT SANTA MARIA DESTROYED BY FIRE Conflagration Which Threatened to Wipe Out the Entire Business Portion of the Town. Special Dispatch to The Call. SANTA BARBARA, Jan. 12.—Santa Maria was visited by the most disastrous | fire in vears early this morning. The fire | started in the kitchen of the Santa Maria Hotel, supposedly from the range. It broke into a fury shortly after midnight read rapidly to all parts of the The guests and employes were ed in time to escape, but many lost personal effects. The fire then spread to the brick store adjoining, owned and occupied by Has- low & Co., dealers in general merchandise. The store and warehouse at the rear were badiy damaged. A vacant bullding on the opposite side was also burned. The losses aggregate $12,000 or $15,000, partly covered by insurance. The Santa Maria Hotel was not the | leading hotel of the town, but was an old | structure, a two-story frame building, | fronting about fifty feet on Main street. It was owned by J. R. McCarley. The citizens turned out and fought the fire with chemical engines. It threatened to wipe out the entire business portion of | the town and it was after daylight before | it was fully under control Plague Claims Many Victims. BOMBAY, Jan. 12—The number of deaths here, largely from the bubonic | plague, jumped up to-day from 282 to 376. | The normal death rate is 75. | BUCKLES ROASTS DEBTORS LAW Releases Defendant on a Technicality. gl SUISUN, Jan. 12.—John Steiner of Val- lejo recently sued John Plageman to re- cover $424 due him in accordance with a decision In the Justices' Court of Val- lejo. Plaintiff alleged that he was un- able to obtain the same by reason of the defendant's fraudulent acts. Plageman was arrested and released on a writ of habeas corpus. Steiner then filed an afi- davit on second application for the arrest of Plageman. Defendant's attorney made a motion to set aside the order for the arrest on_the following grounds: First—Want of jurisdiction, because a second arrest cannot be made of a de- fendant in a civil action before a judg- ment. Second—Want of jurisdiction, because the name of John Plageman {s not set out in the body of the affidavit for order of_arrest. Third—Want of jurisdiction, because for an arrest in a civil action is made on information and belief it must state the facts on which the information is founded and the reason for not producing the affidavits of the in- formants. Judge Buckles has rendered a decision discharging defendant from custody in which he says: “The arrest of a defendant in a ecivil action, although authorized by the laws of this State, is but the scabby, miser- able, lecherous lineal descendant of that villalnous law of barbarous times which allowed a man to be imprisoned for debt. In my opinion every step required by the statute 1o be taken in order to land the defendant in jail must be s!rchlK followed and no single requirement of the statute omitted. “So far as I am able to learn from the authorities cited this question has_ only been before our Supreme Court onas, and that the very early case of McCilvey vs. Moorhead, 2 Cal. The court there said: ‘When a party is once arrested and discharged he cannot be arrested again in the same action. It is always pre- sumed that the plaintiff in his affidavit for arrest has stated his case as fully as he can to effect his object.” Counsel for plaintiff maintains, however, that from the wording of section 481, Code of Civil Procedure, the order of arrest may be made as many times as a proper show- ing is made to the court. The section reads: ‘The order may be made whenever it appears to the Judge,’ etc., but the all- sufficient answer to this is that when the case_of McCilvey vs. Moorhead was de- clded the statute, as far as the point in- volved is concernad, read exactly as it does now. Of course the order of arrest could not be made until the afdavit was first made, and under the ruling in the case cited the word whenever as used in the said section simply means that the order of arrest cannot be made until there is an affidavit of arrest.” WITTHAUS POSITIVE BARNET WAS POISONED Very Little Evidence of Importance Given at the Molineux Trial. NEW YORK, Jan. 12—The proceedings td-day in the trial of Roland B. Molineux for the murder of Mrs. Katherine J. Ad- ams were comparatively uninteresting. Harry S. Cornish and Mrs. Florence &, Rogers were recalled for the purpose of identifylng the glass from which Mrs. Adams drank the poisoned bromo-seltzer and for the purpese of testifying in detail regarding the incidents which eaused the death of the victim. Herman J. Witte, a Cincinnati lawyer and a former assistant to the Chief of Detectives in the Ohio me- tropolis, was called to identify a letter which he obtained from the Vannohl Com- any in Cincinnatl. The letter Is what is nown as a bogus Cornish letter and con- tained a request for a “five-day trial rem- " 'he witness also identified other bogus letters obtained from the Vannohl, Com- pany, also for the “‘five-day trial remedy,” and signed “H. C. Barnet. Professor Witthaus again made his arance on the witness stand and testi- gga in great detall concerning the amount of poison which he found in the body of Mrs. Adams. Being asked the cause of the death of Mrs. Al ‘lms he replied, “Poi- son—hydrocyanic poison. Professor Witihaus in econclusion sald that the cause of Barnet's death was son, in the absence of violence, and whe: asked if he would place his judgment against the judgment of the attending pgvsldnn if the latter testified that the patient dted of diphtheria, replied in the affirmative. Halla May Be Insane. Special Dispatch to The Call. PASADENA, Jan. 12—Mrs. August Halla, the wife of the dairyman who mys- teriously disappeared over a week ago with & Kzrge sum of money on his person, believes that her husband has gone mad and is living the life of a_wiid man in the mountains. It was last Friday that Con Biedebach and another Pasadenan travel- ing in the mountains saw a man about 20 years of age, With a sandy complexion and wearing a cap, roaming about a lone- ly canyon near Switzer's Camg. a sum- mer resort now deserted for the season. Biedebach says the man stared at them like a maniac, and when they approached him ran away. They found where he had stamped a small area in the grass and had lald down rags to slecp on. Strewn ahout the place were bits of orange peel and seeds of dried prunes, suggesting what the wild man had been trying to subsist on. When officers went in search of the man they found the signs of his having been in the place, but could not oeate him. Mrs. Halla, the wife, says that Bledebach's description of the man he saw tallies very well with that of her husband. Though the Hallas had been very comfortable, since the disappaar- ance of the man of the family the wife and four Young children are destitute. The oldest girl, Minna, is 6 {ea , Aug st is 4, Henry 1% years and Ralph a 2-mo .ths-old babe. One of the children is paralyzed. The family cannot speak much English, and has been temporarily residing with Mrs. Charles Perry, who is also German. Mrs, Perry says they must leave her, as ' she does not feel she should support them, and is afrald that the wild man may re- turn_from the mountains at any time and murder them all. 3 WAY THE SHIPPING BILL SHOULD PASS Senate Committee Hears Arguments. Sl i WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—The Senats Committee on Commerce to-day began hearings on Senator Frye's bill to pro- mote the commerce and Increase the for- eign trade of the United States and to provide auxillary cruisers, transports and seamen for Government uhe when neces- sary—the measure popularly known as the | subsidy bill. Senator Frye, chairman of the Com- merce Committee, presided and made a general statement of the efforts which have been made during the past few years to advance the interests of the American merchant marine. Former Senator G. E. Edmunds, attor- ney ot the committee of those interested in the shipping interests of the country, made an explanation of the pending biil. | kKamunds sald cne of the objects of the | measure was to place vessels of American | register upon an equal footing with for- eign-built vessels in the trade with Cuba, | | Porto Rico, Hawaii and the Philippines. | he compensation to be pald American vessels amounted to no more, as Ameri- | cans never asked for anything more than | fair play. In referring to the Philippines, he said that, as an anti-expansionist, he was bound to recognize the facts as they | existed. The United States had expanded and it was necessary to regulate our busi- | ness affairs accordingly. ! Another object was to provide for fast | vessels of large capacity, not only that | they should be able to carry great car- | | Bues to ports of destination quickly, but that they should be capable of bekng(‘ changed quickly into defenders of the| country and its interests. This, too, as an | anti-expansionist, he recognized as neces- sary for the protection not only of our commerce, but also of our dominions, and he would' not hesitate, he said, to put | $20,000,000 or $25,000,000 into a plan to ac- coinplish the ends the bill had in view. A long discussion was precipitated by an Inquiry of Senator Martin as to why it was provided by the bill that 0 per cent of a ship applying for register and the subsidy should be owned by Americans. | Edmunds regarded the provision as neces- ary to insure practical American owner- ship and control. Chairman Frye said it was the principle of the bill to bring under the United States flag American-owned ships, manned | by Americans, which had been compelled by financial considerations to sail under a | foreign flag. The vessels under the Amer- ican flag would be able to successfully compete with foreign ships only because | gflllhe subsidy provided for in the pending ill. Louis Nixon, a ship builder of Eliza- bethport, N. J., said that American ship- owners had a monopoly of the coastwise | trade, but the pending bill had little to do with that, It was the trade on the ocean with foreign ports which it was proposed to get. The cost of vessels and their oper- ation under the American flag were much | greater than they were in Europe. They | could be built here as cheaply as any na- tion could build them. There were reasons | for this which did not apply to merchant | vessels. Nixon said that if he were given abso- | lutely free materials and free labor—the | contract law being repealedi—he would be able to compete successfully with foreign | ship builders; but he hoped this would not | be done. Nixon thought it particularly desirable | to encourage and build up the American tramp steamers—those vessels which are so essential to the building up of the car- rying trade of the nation. W. D. Munson of New York, president | of the Munson Steamship line, believed | that if the bill passed the American ship builders would rise to the occasion and soon establish a great merchant marine. | He declared it would be impossible for his company to use American vessels under PLAGUE VICTIMS AT THE HAWAIIAN CAPITAL EBight Additional Deaths Reported and All Honolulu Is Under Quarantine. WASHINGTON, Jan. 12.—The State De- | partment has been informed by Mr. Hey- wood, United States Agent at Honolulu, | under date of January 1, that eight deaths have occurred from the bubonic plague at | Honolulu since the last telegraphic re- port, December 26, which announced three | deaths from that cause. Mr. Heywood | reports that the entire city of Honolulu is quarantined. ety A LAND FOR TEE COLONY. Russians Inspect Ranch Property at Paso Robles. | Speclal Dispatch to The Call. | SAN LUIS OBISPO, Jan. 12.—R. E. Jack | stated in an Interview this evening tha.l‘ A. Bodyunsky, V. Potapoff and F. Barns off, three Russians representing a colony of 7000 Slavs, and W. H. Holabird of Los Angeles, interpreter, are at Paso Robles. These gentlemen have been looking at | some ranch property in this county with | the view of founding a colony. While they are favorably impressed with this | county no decision has yet been made for a location here. Count Tolstoi is said to | have subscribed $10,000 to aid the project | and tne Southern Paclfic Company W!Il‘ grant certain favors to colonizers and colonists. LA Relief Corps Organized. PACIFIC GROVE, Jan. 12—In antiel- | pation of the department encampment of | the Grand Army of the Republic, which the local Grand Army veterans hope to bring to Pacific Grove in 191, a chapter of the Women's Relief Corps of the Grand | Army of the Republic was organizzd in this city last night. Mrs. Buckels of the | General Sol Meridith Corps No. §7 of Sui- | sun organized the new corps and installed the officers. Mrs. Elizabeth S. Worthing- ton was chosen president; Mrs, Colonel H. D. Talcott, first vice president, and Miss Emma Dawley, secretary. Other corps officers were also elected and installed. The new corps is to be known as the Lu- clus Fairchild Women's Relief Corps, and additional to the usual duties of organiza- tions of this kind its present duty IS to be the furtherance of efforts to secure for this place the next annual department en- campment of the Grand Army of the Re- public. The members of the corps include residents of Monterey, Pacific Grove and Oak Grove. —_—— CLUBHOUSE DEDICATED. Los Angeles Women Hang a Crane in a New Building. Special Dispatch to The Call. 1L.0S ANGELES, Jan. 12—This morning an informal home-coming was the feature of the meeting of the Los Angeles Friday Club of Women. The new clubhouse, bullt in the mission style of architecture | with a typlcal California exterior, was | dedicated by the hanging of the crane in | the immense fireplace. This was done by Mrs. J. F. Sartori, who is responsible for the erection of the house, costing $18,500. The ceremony had a double significance, as it was the %th birthday of Mrs. C. M. Severance, the president of the first woman'’s club in America. The clubhouse will be formally opened January 13, when the club women of Los Angeles and other citles will attend the dedication. e b e, CHIEF SPOTTED TAIL DEAD. Noted Sioux Sachem Passes Away at the Age of Eighty-Nine. PARIS, Jan. 12.—Spotted Tail, the well known Stoux Chief, who has been here exhibiting, died of heart disease yester- day, aged 89 year: Sale of Globe Bank Assets. BOSTON, Jan. 12—At a meeting of the Roston Clearing-house Association to-day it was voted to sell the collateral held as security for the $3,500,000 in Clearing-house certificates issued to the Globe National Bank before its collapse. R LATE SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. ARRIVED. Friday, January 13. Stmr Matteawan, Croscup, % hours from Ta- g SAILED. Friday, January 12. Crescent Citv. Stmr Aloha, Jorgenson. Hale's. Hale’s. Eehrehrrprehrchishsirshshirirshrnjrais shrefrafrelecisjrshehrshielr 23 ‘E a day of 2 children’ 3 cloaks children’s tweed reefer dren’s children’s golf capes of colored plaids of differe children’s eton suits of collars, jackeis trimmed skirts plain, with pleated children’s tailor suits ture; some are 6 and double - breas:ed, backs, with two pockets: col'ars, while others are caline reductions in women’s wraps less you h acked. new giove ; arrivals $1.50 pair. 150 boxes only of balsam tolu com fon soap, made of buttermilk and witch bazel, 3 cakes In a box...........7€ & box special sale of French bri: brushes, were 20c, now. + “ the store mother like: B e dardecdeede sl dende do e e e e e el e e el e e saele s cle e e e e e e she senia e e sone + Saturday is necessarily chil- S day we offer as a special feature for the little ones some cioaks and capes at little prices—good goods, though, every one. large sailor collar, prettily trimmed in braid, welted seams throughout, sizes 4 to 14, only......$4.50 hoods or yokes, high storm collars; these capes are full sweep, sizes 4 to 14years........$2.50 lav-down lined, pleated backs, bottoms, sizes 8 to 10, 12 and 14 years.....$3.50 . do not fail to hear Mrs. Reynolds’ daily Al’nOld knlt talks on the proper dressing of chiliren. she will give your case her special at- goods tention. the success of our Januarv sale of womsn's cloaks and wraps has been truly wondertul. prices have in many instances been cut to remember at $5.00, $7.c0, $8.c0, $10.00 and $18.00 $6.7. . to-day. better coms this morning—in fact before they are all gone. aven’t seen them yet—just besn un- pique stitch—your sizz $1.00 pai. new Dent gloves in Havana and red—your si perfumery department it we plcase you, tell others; if we don’'t, tell us. 935-947 Market Strect. & SRR B e R S e o e day at our store, and this jackets, double-breasted, navy blue, trimmed with nt shadings, either with tan mixture, large sailor with round pearl buttons, backs, sizes from 6 to 14 of tan and brown mix- some are 12 buttons, collars, new style some have inlaid velvet self colo skirts per- 3-inch hems at and no wonder! the than cost. the cloaks that you can $2.45, $4.45 in and for are coms now and yourself gray mocha gloves, the very latest, line of the well-known fac-simile combs, worth 20c per se Hudnu famous white rose, phanotis, Hudnut's freckle lotion..$1.00 a bottls + s s 6 s 0o 5 1 0 6 s 0 s s 6 s o B s o s o s 1 s o 0 1 0 o s o s s s s s s o B o s o o HAVANA OFFICIAL OUSTED BY WOOD Supreme Court Fiscal in D.sgrace. HAVANA, Jan. 12—“Federico Mora, Fiscal of the Supreme Court, is hereby | removed from office for the good of the public service. This removal Is the re- sult of an investigation into the condi- tions existing in the administration of justice under his supervision.” The foregoing official order was handed to Senor Mora this morning by Governor General Wood. Senor Mora's fall has been predicted ever since the first case was brought against the customs officials, | | and the disgracetul the those condition of prisons, especially as affecting awaiting trial, has been generally charged | against him. For some time it has been said that Mora has been devoting too much attention to social affairs and too little to his duties. General Wood's in- vestigation has shown that the office of | the Supreme Court Fiscal is largely re- sponsible for a number of the untried cases, and that not only Mora but others in the Department of Justice have been persistently trying to block the charges against customs officlals whom Collector Biiss is anxlous to prove guilty of whole- sale bribery and corruption. Every possible influence has been exert- ed to protect the incriminated men from the punishment which is their due. But the public has scarcely been willin believe that high officials of the ranl Mora have been implicated. Senor Andrade and Senor Plerra are prominently mentioned as possible suc- cessors in the fiscalship. General Wood is particularly desirous of securing the services of an able and honest lawyer, an indefatigable worker and a man whose loyalty to the Cuban cause is unquestion- able. Senor Andrade has a strong politi- cal backing, but by many he 5 ered too vigorously anti-American. Senor Pierra was formerly the editor of the In- dependencia. His loyalty to the Cuban cause is unquestioned, and, as he lived many years in the United States, he is friendly to the Americans. Either ap- pointment probably would be popular with the people. AH HONG SOBBED AS HE LEFT PRISON Must Return to China Without the Highly Prized Pig- Tail. to of Special Dispatch to The Call. SAN QUENTIN PRISON, Jan. 2.—A new idlosyncrasy of the Oriental charac- ter revealed itself here to-day when Ah Hong, who was leaving the prison after serving a fourth term of ninety days for grand larceny, flung himself weeping on the neck of the United States Marshal and blubbered out In nl\lngied Cglnes:um‘;d nglish his griet at leaving and gratitude E)rguveml:llr:lle kindnesses shown him y_his guards. "’Al!:l H{J‘f“lg has four times seen the inte- rior of San Quentin, and the thought that he would never again gaze on its gray walls or watch the busy workers in verti- cal stripes raising vegetables and weav- ing sacks while a uniformed i.lard paced close by proved too much for his Oriental feelings and he wept. _ ‘Ah Hong is to be deported, and fiere, say the flinty hearted prison authorities, lies the cause of his grief. Ah Hong has no queue. Like little Bo-Peep’s muttons, he will re-enter the Flowery Kingdom minus his caudal appendage. What fate will be- fall him on his return without the yard of silk and hair is veiled in mystery. He may lose his head as he has lost its chief adornment. DANCE IN HONOR OF MISS MARY CROCKER Brilliant Social Affair at the Home of Mrs. Whitelaw Reid in New York. Spectal dispatch to The Call. NEW YORK, Jan. 12.—A brilliant dance was given by Mrs. Whitelaw Reid this evening in honor of Miss Mary Crocker. Invitations were issued for 10 o'clock, but it was an hour later before dancing was begun in the beautiful music room, which is also the ballroom. Mrs. Reld, who wore white satin appliqued with gold and a and ornaments of e Mo A T consid- | guests. Quantities of roses were in the ecorations. A center piece of pink roses | was placed on each of the supper ta- | bles, which were set in the dining room | and adjoining the foyer. The cotillon was danced after supper. | Several couples ticipated, led by ‘Worthington Whit ouse and Miss | Crocker.” The favors represented a num- | Ber of pretty articles designed to be use- ful as well as ornamental, such as gold stickpins and hatpins, silver vinaigrettes, brocaded workbags and handsome satin sashes. There were also some small cop- ies of old English prints framed in goid. Ater the cotillon a light buffet supper was served. e VAN COPP IN PASADENA. “In Investigating the Charges Made Against Mrs. Scribner. Spectal Dispatch to The Call. PASADENA, Jan. 12—A. H. Van Copp, the well-known New York attorney, is in the city to represent Mrs. Lucy Scribner, | who is named as corespondent In the suit | of Mrs. Dr. J. C. Fraser against her hus- band for divorce. The attorney who came 50 far in the interests of the widow of the prominent publisher fs investigating all of Mrs. Fraser es, which are to the ner and the doct traveled together across the continent and at several times were guilty of undue in- | timacy. All parties concerned in the case are firm in_their determination to prose- cute it to the last extreme, though many of their friends urge that the matter might be settled out of court. gt Daniels Is Hopeful. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12.—M. J. Daniels, the representative of the various commer- | cial bodies of Southern California who i3 in Washington for the purpos ing the proposed treaty with Jamaica on | its relation to tariff on citrus fruits, tele | graphed to-day that the outlook for the defeat of the measure is favorable since the recess of Congress and he hopes to see the matter settled soon. 14 | Runaway Boy Arrested. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 12.—Another Oak- land youth has been taken in by the po- His name is_Leslie le, but he refused to tell who his par- xcept that they live in Oakland. admits that he is “on the road.” magistrate gave him a sen- ve day: Does your back ache? Have you dull, dragging pains below your kidneys? Do you feel tired and al- ways want to sit down? If you do, you will fina quick and won- derful rellef In my Electric Belt. It is nature's remedy for these troubles. 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