The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 3, 1900, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDA JUDGE HART WILL e e e e e e e e e e B k4 ? * TRY WATER CASE': * > Supreme Court Denies Petition of : Robert Y. Hayne, Oakland’s |: Special Counsel. ¢ E3 Holds That Time for Objection Was Passedl‘; When the Sacrameénto Jurist Was Invited ! to Sit in the Case. | Supr Court decided In an | Judge Ogden wasd I‘r,\'rwr\a::\;‘]‘g‘\'l;g da court as t - that county, Judge Greene, were t of being rate pay- Greene's C i not attend to the protest Judge Hart en- am 1 matters Robert Y. the city 0 the Sacra- for tion As retire from aklar raised an obje to applied to the Su- r & writ of prohibition to Judge Hart from trying the case. Supreme (¢ in denying the peti- says that e had been any object to w Statement of the Case s on Telegram sdge Ogden o= the names e Ogden thi appears not itself, which for the de- It was thought Sacramento, be- naa il own water ione in’ that The respondent raphed to Judge Og- the appointment d on the next 1 was there at the court and rneys as Judge E. to try the was made by e therein 1o and Judge the court fo en- akla motion herein for hearing, ise of the was re- iff and above en- applicat the order but on Ju ounsel for def, 1o the further the cause, determination any after tes- n was reafter this ion was in- Position of Petitioners, > ? the petitioners here is that LA Want to feel good in HotWeather Est.: Grape=Nuts therc’s a rea:o 4 g Z OO O QRORO: & o > | Macmillan held on to the barrel to steady | calendar | the Oakland of Judge the | report w case be- we will assume for the purposes = not to be un- determining that ques- inclined to hold ified to try legally called in the determine the cas request or consent titution provides, “a Judge 1 a Superior wuest of the but it t proposition | called to | and, practi- petitioners. This rule applies that O tE 3 Had Full Jurisdiction. e at bar the Superior Judge of ¢ i full juriediction of t ter of the action and of the | i the respondent was a duly rior Judge, qualified | that court. There was | ng to him per- | aestion whether on upon a per- Judge does mot arise. oners having requested a Judge, and having tion which he made and | to the respondent, and with the hamring of the e respordent without objection rtant matters had been disposed t now be heard to repudiate their We have been referred to no case as been held that a party having i to the calling in of a qualified preside over a court having com- liction of the case can in the f the hearing of the action stop fur- 1gs upon any such suggestion ¢ invalidity of the man- | was called in as is made case at bar. Nothing in the Point. The forsgong views make it unnecessary question whether or not was free from all eolor | did also request the | | °t as Judge of the Superior a County in the case n. We see nothing in the point at- ted to be made that when Judge Og- dispatch to the respondent he | the latter w e pereon who | been Attorney General of the ded to request the person Judge of the county of hen the latter appeared e his seat as Judge in the urt there the events which then d of themselves & re- ndent act as Judge—all in merly He_inte; was with the additional knowledge | for petitioners. | no intimation that he was either party until June 12, instead of congenting that ailed in and really r objected to h | were had in the case, en free to refuse act if he erred to take that cours in nt_condition of the would, be somewhat e sing for re wit consent of both par- aver of th joner is denled ceeding s di A e of Venue Suggested. Beatty, in his concurring Tt Chang: Justice sald Chief opinion, e 1 consider that Judge Hart | consent of the parties, and ts it was too late t c ted and submit ision. When dissat- age of con- to the cannor an ex- it he waives that remedy. either expressty Gdge =0 § z trial of the cause is ixdiction. A rumor was in_circulation vesterday | Attorney R. Y. Hayne had received | er from Judge Hart intimating that e event of his being sustained by the preme Court he would withdraw from the case. Mr. Hayne, however, said this us ‘and that he had no had no idea of Judge i intentions in the premises and presumed that the case would come up | before him in the ordinary way. on his | arrival from Sacramente. | sicsnca e iy HART'S ATTITUDE. ! The Judge Not Prepared to Say That | He Will Withdraw. SACRAMENTO, July 2.—Superfor Judge E. C. Hart was seen by the correspondent | of The Call to-night soon after the receipt of a telegram announcing that he had been sustained in the Oakland.water suit matter by the Supreme Court. “My friends up this way have all ad- vised me to stay in the ca said Judge Hart; “but I am not prepared fo say at this time what I shall do, and do not care | to discuss the subject until T have seen | ! Stanfora are at the California. | i i | [ | merchant of Sacramento, is a guest at | | | ors of the City of Paris, Is stopping at the full decision. T do not know what the Supreme Court has decided. In any event I shall not determine what my _action | shall be until I have had time to con- sider the question thoroughly. As it is now, I am very busy with work in my own’ court.” 4 PERSONAL MENTION, Judge John F. Davis of Jackson is at the Palace. F. Nunez, a cattle man of Salt Lake, is at the Russ. | Dr. B. R. Ward of the United States | navy is at the Palace. K. Bryan, a prominent merchant of New York, is a guest at the Palace. Professor and Mrs. W. H. Hudson of | C. D. Hazzard, a mining man of Black | Hille, 8. D., is at the Occidental. | V. A. Tapscott, a wealthy mining man of Red Bluff, is at the Russ House. F. B. Maldonado, a mining man of Ari- zona, is registered at the Occidental J. A. Chanslor, a well-known oil man of Los Angeles, is a guest at the Palace. R. C. McCreary, the well-known flour | | i | | | the Grand. 1 1. L. Johnson and R. J. Sadler have | returned from a trip to Nome and are at| the Lick Houee. - o5 B Joseph R. Walker, a prominent banker | of Sale Lake, aecompanied by his family, | is registered at the Occidental. | James H. Haslin, one of the former own- | ers of the Coalinga oil wells, which were | so0ld for $2,000,000, is a guest at the Palace. Mrs. H. A. Bostwick, one of the direct- the Grand en route to New York and Paris. Mrs. Emil Dinkelspiel and Miss Dinkel- spiel, wife and daughter of a prominent Bakersfield merchant, are at the Cali- fornia. e e Young Artillerist Injured. The Fourth of July toy cannon pur- chased by William Macmilian, the 12-year- old son of Willis M. Macmillan of 123 Chattanooga street, worked like a charm at its initiatory trial in a Mission sandlot yesterday. Macmillan, with a young com- panion named John Curran, went into the lot with the new gun and a flask of black powder. After loading the cannon to the muzzie Curran applied a match while the cannon. The explosion carried away a portion of Macmillan's right This put a stop to the artiliery practice and the young artillerist was taken to the City and County Hosnital for repairs. The cannon can be bought very cheap by ap- plying at the Macmillan residence, | ship | under | Encore w | to save the bark the tug was nearly lost | under date of June 17, says: | sistance . ® - * . > . o . & K3 ® . £ . £ . & . & ® THE ENCORE AT ANCHOR OFF POINT MONTARA. 40D 0D >0 eOIPIDIOIOIDIOE0 0000400400000+ 00040-0-00000 JULY 1900 L R S R R S S A S O O S o OSSO EHS FAOM THE OCEAN D THE WATER FRONT The Barkentine Encore in Trouble Oif Point Montara. Captain Atwood Was Dangerously Ili and There Was No One Left Aboard to Navigate the Ship. e b A -masted barkentine Encore has | had an eventful voyage from the nitrate | ports. For thirty-two days the ecaptain been sick with heart trouble and kid- and the navigation of the < left to the mate, who depended on luck to reach port safely. Britis ude The in lat and t bark Brussels was spoken north, longitude 132 west, 1 did everything possible circumstanc The captain went aboard the Encore and not only gave the mate his ling cou the master of the vessel to the best of his ability. Captain Atwood w taken sick a month after the bark left Junin, and from that time on he has had a fight with death. Early yesterday morning the at anchor off Point Montara, seemed to Know just where she The tug Reliance was sent out and her up t distance below the ft House. The Encore left Junin sixty- five da ago, and the pi until Captain Atwood She brings 7848 bags of port. Atwood and later was master of the Before that he was mate of the Francis when she was burned to ter's edge during her trip from ) to New York. Disasters in the Arctic. Particulars of the wrecks in the Arctic during the rush to Nome are just begin- ning to reach the city. Private letters to The Call give the following accounts of the los and the schooner Eclipse, The whaling bark Alaska, after making an exceedingly good run of forty-eight days from San Francisco, dropned anchor off Anvil City at 10:20 a. m. on June 5, thus beating all the large steamers. On the morning of Junme 7, about 2 o'clock, it began to blow a gale from the “southeast. ~It was the first storm of the season and was a corker. mile off shore was the revenue cutter Bear, steamer Cleveland, tug Mary D. Hume, bark Alaska and schooner Louisa D. The Louisa D. put out to sea as soon as the gale came up and the steamers at once began steaming up to their anchors. The Alaska held on, ho ever, and went ashore. and no one nt- Puritan.” ship 8t ncls struck her when she began to drift. In a few seconds the ensign union down was fiying in the rigging and the Mary D Hume went to her assistance, In her efforts Cap- tain Gogan of the Alaska, seeing that all hope was gone, orde: away. war quickiy done, “When about 20 vards from the beach the hark tosk ground in an al- most dismantled condition. There were still fifteen passengers abonrd ‘and as the seas made clean breaches over her they were in a most uncomfortable ition. Luckily the Storm went dewn the next dny and ail hands were got off, but the bark is a total loes, The purser of the Nome City, writing of the Iith we were boarded unch from the 4 the loss of the vessel and thirty people were ashore at ff, about 100 miles from St. ked us to render as- t small boats and on arriving at the cape found that not only were the crew of the Hunter there but also the men from th> schooner rlipse. been nipped in the ice and drifted ashore at Cape Roumanz) We took them all off and later, when we spoke the steamer Valencia, put eight of them aboard her. The people we have aboard the Nome City are Captain Carl Kras, Mate Henry Dyer, Second Mate Andrew Arnold, Stewari John' ¢ of, penter David_Johhston and The crew advised us that i flors J. Oleson, lLardinois and J. Hanson of the e, Captain W. McKenzie, Steward Joe Kat nese), Cook K. Mamatoe (Jap- orh_Storm Johnson and abir Boy W. W and Pas- sengers E. T. Johnson, E. H. Davis, W. G, Wilson, Robert Murphy, W, C. Seely, W. A. Muihr and James Shannon of the Hunter. Bold Highway Robbery. John Nellson,steward of the British ship Manydown, lying at the seawall near the foot of Sansome stri was held up by three highwaymen early Friday morning | and robbed of his gold watch and $7 ia money. Neilson was returning to the ship at 2 a. m., after spending the night uptown The three robbers, it is thought. followed the steward from a house where he had spent most of the night. They wore ne masks. One of them covered Neilson with a pistol. The robbery was reported at the Harbor police station, but.none of the highway- men has been captured. The stolen time- piece is a valuable one. ‘Water Front Notes. The schooner Abbie M. Deering arrived from the codfish banks yesterday with 40,000 fish. She reports the Stanley with 35000, the Blakeley with 20,000, the Fre- mont with 27000, the Lizzie Colby with 15,000 and the Uranus with 35000 fish. The catch has been a remarkably good one this season. The yacht Secret picked up the scow ner Nathalia last Sunday. The lat. fehorag adrift, and stood a £o0d chance N going on the Alameda mud flats, Cap- ; Lee Gale of the Secret put a crew :‘:)‘;urd and sailed the Nathalia into Oak- land Creek. : ‘Al of the Chief Wharfinger's men will be at work on the Fourth. The festive youth and the explosive cracker are !uln' 1o keep all hands busy around the docks. The ex-transport Victoria has been char- tered by Dunsmuir's Sons to carry coal ter Harbor. l;?me A‘bléey hudbeqn . Moore ‘0., and wil] ik %&ue h. beel: rancis e has rchased by the Interisland Smmhlrg &m ny of Hawaii, and her home po; i b Tuture be Honolulu, but doctored | age was an un- | was | was formerly on the | s of the barks Alaska and Hunter | Anchored about a | Her anchors were in | the quicksands and hardly had the first blast | This | bark Hunter, | Both vessels had | (INVOUN'S CASE WAIS DECISIN THE JUDGES Captain Goodall Tells of the| Eureka and San Diego Embargo. Federal Quarantine Officer Had Ef- fectually Nailed Up Those Ports Against San Francisco Mongolians. S De Haven concluded ng of the contempt Federal Quarantine Officer Dr. Kinyoun. The first witness was Captain C. Minor Goodall of the | Pacific Coast Steamship Company. Shortly after the order was issued eit- ing Dr. Kinyoun to show cause why he should not be punished for contempt, the witness called upon Dr. Kinyoun, who | then made the statement that as the | steamers of the witness went three miles | from land when going to and from Eureka | and San Diego they would be required to | have health certificates in order to avoid | | being quarantined on their arrival at the | ports of their destination. The witne: had always understood that Dr. Kinyoufi | had jurisdiction over all the quarantine officers in the State of California. The | steamship company’s officers therefore re- quired a certificate from every person go- ing to Eureka and San Diego. “There was no discrimination with r gard to person asked Judge Morrow. “No sir; none at all,” replied Captain Goodall. “You understood that the trouble at the other end of the voyage was on ac- count of the quarantine instituted at San | Francisco by Kinyoun?" asked Mr. Camp- bell. On objection being made by Mr. Coomb: | Mr. Campbell expiained that he wished | to show that Kinyoun had gunraminedl San Francisco and not the State only, | and that he had refused certificates to Chinese and Japanese. Captain Goodall in reply said that on Saturday and Sunday, June 16 and 17, his Judges Morrow an: the I rrocecdings against company did not carry any Chinese or! Japanese. He knew, howevar, that Dr. Kinyoun had issued a ceriificate Japanese to go to Kureka, but he did not | know of his issuing or refusing to issue any to Chinese. Dr. Kinyoun was called to the stand | | by Mr. Campbell. He denied that he had | | ever refused to issue certificates to Chi- | nese or Japanese, but at the same time admitted that he had not given any ('er-‘ tificates to people of those nationalities. | He had refused to issue certificates to | eight Chinese who came to him with Mr. | Barnard, clerk for Reddy, Campbell & | Metson, and his refusal was based upon | the fact that the applicants had not com- | plied with the requisition to show that they were not suffering from the bubonic plague or had not been exposed to it. | In reply to his questions on that subject | Mr. Barnard said that he did not think | | that those Chinese could comply with the | | requisition because they had been in Chi- natown where the plague was. ‘ “T am very glad,” sald Dr. Kinyoun to | the court, “that the representafives of the Chinese Consul admitted to me in the | presence of witnesses that the plague did exist in San Francisco. Captain Goodall and myself talked about this contempt case, and in conversation [ repeated to | him 'that I did not demand certificates | ! from_him for travel within the limits of | | | | this State, and Captain Goodall remarked that he understood that. As early as| June 5 Captain Goodall informed me that | he was having some trouble with the | Japanese Consul about not carrying any | Japanese or Chinese on board the boats | of the company, but that he was not go- ing to carry any Japanese or Chinese on | | his boats The witness said further that on June 7| a_Japanese nurse accompanying Mrs, Wall of Oakland was peremptorily refused | ge (o Eurcka by the Pacific Coast | | &(enmshlp Company notwithstanding that Dr. Kinyoun had interceded for the | Japanese. | The witness stated further that he had | at that time indisputable evidence that the bubonic plague existed in Chinatown from March 7 to June 5 and that the “department” had corroborated the evi- dence that he had introduced. Clerk Barnard was called as the next witness and testified that when he called upon Dr. Kinyoun with the eight China- men the doctor said thit they could go to any part of the State they chose; that he would not stop them; that it was not necessary for them to have health certifi- cates, and that he would not grant them certificates because they had been in the infected district. | S. M. Shortridge and John E. Bennett argued the case for the complainants and | United States District Attorney Coombs for Dr. Kinyoun, after which Judge Mor- row announced that a decision would be | rendered, probably this morning. — Shortage Due to Clerical Errors. Ex-Tax Collector Sheehan has depgsited $315 91 with City Treasurer Brooks to cover the shortage caused by clerical er- rors during his administration of that of- fice. This amount, however: only covers the shortage mentioned in Sheehan's own Teport. The clerks in the Tax Collector’s office have discovered an additional short- age of 351 94 and have not yet completed the examination. Tax Collector Scott has filled the J»n- tion made vacant by the death of J. H. Hegler by promoting William H. Villette, a clerk in the tax office. Louis Devoto was appointed as successor to Villette, Tax Collectors must in the future, ac- cording to the act of 1895, which goes into | effect to-day, deed to the State all pro; erties on which delinquent taxes rem: unpaid for five years. ‘Eddie Greany Protests. In a _communication to Auditor Wells Eddie Greany, who for years past has at- tended to the shoeing of the horses in the various departments of the . has proteniad asainst the clalms John ‘Rourke, who was lately awarded the contract. The Auditor has referred the protest to his attorney. | the Fourth of July celebration. | Invocation FOURTH OF JULY COMMITTEE HAS ENDED LABORS “Columbia” of Street Parade Will Be Miss Helen Marie Pettit. The Line of March Designated and Increased Expenditure for Fire- works Authorized by Those Who Are in Charge. e d e The Fourth of July committee of eight- €en met at the California Hotel last night and wound up their labors in behalf of Not much business was done beyond adding $100 more to the fireworks fund. William H. Hazell, chairman of the defunct regatta committee, who had been seclected to choose a Goddess of Liberty, announced that one of the fairest of her sex had been unearthed at Weinstock & Lubin’s. Helen Marie Pettit is her name, and Mr. Hazell says she will ably fill the part and the robes of Columbia. The committee on decorations—Dr. Gardner, P. Pond, Thomas W. Hickey and | Isador 1. Brown—reported that merchants along the Hne of march had been visitea | and all promised to be to the front with elaborate displays of bunting. The route of the parade, which will set out at 10 a. m. sharp, is to be as follows: From Battery street up Bush to Mont- gomery, Montgomery to California, thence fo Kearny to Market and up vVan Ness avenue. At Van Ness avenue and Post street | Major tain e up the parade will be reviewed by General William R. Shafter and Ca Henry Glass, U. S. It will be mas as follows: 4 First Division. Police, with Drum and Bugle corps, on Bat- tery. street, resting on Market. Troop A, grand_marshal and aides and Cas- assa's Band on Market street, between Bat- tery and Front. Colonel, staff, band and Batteries A, O and B | and Light Battery C. Third Artillery. U. §. A., on Market street, right resting on Front. Ircquols Band and one company United States marines on left of artillery Second Division. Field, staff, band and First Regiment Infan, try, Nationaf Guard California, on Main street, right resting on Market. Signal Corps on left of First Infantry, Third Division. Marshal, ¥. P. Bull. val battalian on Beale street, right resting on Market. Carriages, Adjutant General Goverror's stail. Carriages, president, orator and poet of the day. Fourth of July ‘committee Guatemalan, Costa Rica, Honduras and Mexi- can Consuls on left of naval battalion. Fourth Division. R. B. Hale, marshal. ela Cadets on Beale street, right resting on Market street. Fifth Division. Division marshal, Dijeau’s band, Independent M atringes, Veterans of the Mexican . Carrlages, Board of Supervisors, Board of Ed- ucatlon_and Board of Harbor Commissioners, east side of Fremont street, right resting on Market street. Sixth Division. Frank W, Marston, division marshal, Bennett's band, Native Sons of the Golden W Committee of Ninth of September Celebra- tion on west side of Fremont street, right rest- ing on Market street. Seventh Division. oty e i omobites. - a 3 T Swhittams, 1. H. B, Varney, Tillmann & Bendei, J, M, Wilkins, with Goddess of Liber- ty, F. A McLaughlin (automobile), First Seamans and | street, right resting on Market street. In the afternoon, at 2:3) o’clock, Metro- politan Temple is to be thrown open and an interesting programme of literary ex. ercises will be given. It is as follows: riotic overtures. Blum's Orchestra Tavoca ev. Jacob Nieto tato marks. : Haluta oy Horace Wilkon, Fresident of the Day e Old Flag Forever.....Leila France the Declaration of Independence.. 5 Song, “America”. P Knickerbocker Male Quar ........... Blum's Orchestra The officers and the literary committee of the celebration are as follows: Officers—Horace Wilson, chairman; H. J. Stafford, vice chairman: R. H. Warfleld, grand marshal; Themas W. Hickey, secretary. Literary committee—Henry C. Gesford (chair- man), Willlam T. Baggett and Isidor I. Brown. EX-GOVERNOR BUDD AND GAVIN W’NAB IN COURT Partiality of the Latter to Proxies Sarcastically Referred To by the Former. Ex-Governor Budd was the center of in- terest during the hearing of the action by which Insurance Commissioner Clunis seeks to recover a license fee and to com. pe! the Pacific Debenture Company to fur- nish a bond as is required under the law of all insurance companies. During the argument ex-Governor Budd made two announcements worthy of mention. He said that the Pacific Debenture Company ‘was one of four things. It was either an insurance company, an investment com- pl‘-nr a nm:g or a fraud. These gon- clusions, he said, he had reached through a summing up of the evidence introduced in the case. Gavin McNab, who re. sented the company, objected to ,,'_&v. ernor Budd's remarks, and the latter drew on a further objection by stating that as Mr. McNab could not vote proxies he would doubtless be worsted in the argu- udge Murasky adjourned the case ment. | for further argument. EARLY ENGLISH DISCOVERERS AND EXPLORERS (Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton.) and French, | staff, 'band and League of the Cross | DISCOVERERS AND EX III ‘We are accustomed to think lightly of i the “discovery”” of America, as if as Co- lumbus sighted land, behold, a new con- tinent was made known. A continent, however, is not revealed in a moment; its shores must be coasted before the true nature of what has been found can be learned. As a matter of fact, it was an island off the coast of America that Co- lumbus first saw, and he died believing not that he had discovered a new cont nent, but that he had revealed to Europe some islands lying close to the shores of Asia. His aim was to get a short and easy water route to the markets of Asia. sands of miles north and south, blocked his path we may well believe America wouid have been a source of sorrow rather than joy to the brave explorer. The real beginnings of the discovery of America_were made only when the huge extent of this coast line began to be un- derstood. Many actors and many expe- ditions shared in the work. It done chiefly by Spaniards and Portuguese, often under Italian leaders like Amerigo Vespucei .and Columbus himself. The French and the English had very little part in it. As early as in 1494 the Pope divided the new regions between Spain and Portugal, and exciuded all other na- tions. The King of England, Henry VIL vas a good Catholic and obeyed the papai authority. He ruled over but a small ter- ritory compared with the vast British emJ;flre of to-day—over England, Wales any representing “Greater Britain; his sub- jects numbered in all probability consid- erably less than 3,000,000, and his throne was continually menaced by par- tisans of the rival house of York. There were, in fact, many reasons why Henry VII should simply mind his own business and leave the new regions to the care of those who had found them. We have it on the highest authority that the love of money is the root of ail evil. No doubt it is, but the desire for gain is also the root of the commercial enterprise that has ministered so much to human progress. The English were al- with the East. John Cabot, a citizen of Venice, who had traveled in the East and who for some reason had made his home in England, succeeded in arousing even King Henry himself to an interest in the matter, and finally, in 1497, was able with royal approval to sail forth from Bristol in eommand of a small ship, and probably of only one, to find a new route to China. Spanish agents in England were watch- ing events, and it was necessary that Cabot should seek a route not alreads forestalled by Spain or Portugal—so h safled out past Ireland into the wes pecting to reach China in due course. encounter and what disappointment was in store, for thousands fl{'m“?)‘i not oniy of sea but land lay there to block the route to Asia. The mysterious unknown has, however, its own fascination, and Iwe need not pity the men under the spell of this potent charm. It would be a strange spectacle in these days to see an English crew under an Itallan captain. The Italians were, however, the best ma- riners of that age. Cabot reached land; whether it was Newfoundland or Cape | Breton or Labrador that he first saw we | do_not know, nor need we take special peins to inqiire, ' He raised the fag of ingland and claimed the country for Henry VII. Along the coast for many he salled, saw when he landed from to time snares for game, trees felled and other traces of human habitation, but met not a human being, nor apparently did he wish to. His force was small and the temper of the natives would be un- certain. Soon he turned homeward, had a quick voyage and was back in England three months after leaving it. Cabot’s return, with the report of the new territory he had reached, created the kind of interest in England that journey through darkest Africa aroused ten years ago. Every one talked about it; the King gave Cabot a pension of £10 and ultimately a pension of £20, which was not illiberal, for it was quite equal to $1000 a year in our own day. Cabot himself assumed the swagger of a naval hero. They called him the ad | miral, and he made lavish gifts of ter- | ritories in the newly discovered regions. | His barber was promised the lordship of | an island and some of his priestly friends | bishoprics. | _All this bright promise came to little. | Cabot ‘'made a new vovage in 14%. So | little authentic knowledge have we that it is not certain whether his son Sebas- tian went with his father on either the first or second voyage. Again Cabot | reached land and apparently sailed far south of any point he had visited pre- viously, but he soon found his way back to England, and was still drawing his pension in 1499. When he died we do not now. Sebastjan, his son, lived for more | than half a cdhtury after, and is accused s of telling fanthstic tales to later genera- ! tions about hif own exploits in those vo: jages westward and of stealing his father's laurels. The Cabots did little to. ward the discovery of America: th made no settlements, opened up no trade. Their work, however, is Interesting as | the pioneer effort upon which was based | the subsequent English claim to North America, which time has so fully justi- | fled to the Anglo-Saxon race. Spain was quick to protest against Ca- | bot ana all his works. Henry VII was goon busy with plans to marry his son to Catherine of Aragon, the daughter of | the Spanish sovereigns. Ferdinand and | Teabella, and had no desire to quarrel. | Then Henry VIII came to the throne and quickly stirred Europe to its depths b; his assault upon the church's power. Oc- casfonally adventurous Englishmen tried to find a passage to Asia by passing through North America, but without suc- cess. It began to be whispered that Asia | might be easier reached by salling, not | to the west, but along_the north coast of Europe, eastward. Englishmen tried it in 152 and failed. More than a quar- ter of a century later, in 153, they tried | it again, opened up trade with Russia, | wrought in‘ reality better than they had lanned, but found no sea route to Asi | P "America_meanwhile the English did nothing. and nearly three-quarters of a century_after Cabot's voyages English- men had no footing in the New World, Had he known that land, stretching thou- | Ireland, with Calais on the Continent | own | [cady keen traders, and not likely to sit idly by while others gained an advantage. Columbus, it was believed, had found another trade route to Asla, and it the English did not bestir themselves they would have little | share in_ the profitable commerce We know well enough what Cabot would | —_— PLORERS OF AMERICA. | Henry VIII begam the quarrel with the | Roman church. His daughter Elizabeth | continued the strife to the death. Within five yvears after Elizabeth came to the ‘lhrnn?, in 1358, it was inevitable that Protestant England and Roman Catholie | Spain were to be the respective champions of two bitterly hostile parties, and many 1"61’" eager to appeal a on as possible ) to the sword in settlement of t Hawkins and iled America Drake as and the story f their exploit reads 1i fairy tale. The scene was i the south—we shall come to it presently; but meanwhile we look at what England still tried to do in the nerth. When the early explorers, to amazement, found that solid | stretched northward 3 southward definitely and that the route to Asia was blocked the idea grew that as the land seemed never to end a channel which might reach from ocean to ocean must be | sought. Magellan found in the south such |a tortuous channel, now known as the straits of Ma and sailed through into the Pacif an. He ved that | south of this channel the land_stretched {away indefinitely—a belief that Drake was to diprove later by discovering Cape | Horn, with the illimitable sea to the east. west and south. Magellan's stormy straits | were soon disused as too full of peril. | Some still dreamed of a better passage a: | the far north. Jacques Cartier in 1535 sailed up the St. Lawrence, hoping that he might in some way get through to China. He failed, of course, and gave up: then | forty years later the English again took up the task that Cabot had failed to ac- complish. It is a story of herolc effort their land continued for well nigh 300 years, to be | successful only in our own age. Martin Frobisher made the new start. | Beginning about 1560, he urged the search | for a northwest p: | years the attempt. wa | led, in 1576, the first of three successive | voyages to the north. Drake at the same | time was struggiing in the south to follow | Magellan into the Pacific, and did it. Fro- | bisher was a skiliful seaman, a firm ruler, | ‘verie’valiant, but withal harsh and vio- |lent.” Like other English seadogs of the time, he was deeply religious, and plous phrases then found a use which we should | deem irreverent. ‘‘Before the @ God" was the challenge he | sentries, and the answer was age, and made. ter long Frobisher | God came Christ, his sonne.” Queen Eliz- abeth took a deep interest in his plans. A joint stock company was formed, with the | Earl of Warwick as chief mover, and among the heavy shareholders were the | Queen and the leading courtiers of the day. In the far north Frobisher found a narrow passage which looked like a chan- ‘nnl similar to Magellan's, but proved to be only a long, deep bay, now ramed after |its English discoverer. He found, what | excited him even more, on one of the bar- | ren islands a black stone that seemed | heavily charged with gold. Back to Eng- |land he hurried. It was gold, some who ought to know said, and next year Fro- bisher went again to the north with a | larger company. determined to abandon the search for a route to Asia and con- tent to carry back to England all the precious ore he could find. The natives, whom we know as the Es- kimos, proved troublesome. Some men were kilied on both sides. The English the country, as they sald, more ready to eat them than to give them to eat. " They saw and described icebergs | with torrents of water pouring down their | sides, dogs drawing sleds—a sight to them | apparently strange—and many other note- | worthy things. Above all, they found more | precious ore, loading their ships with hun- | dreds of tons of it and went back _to Eng- |1and rejoicing. A third time, in 157, Fro- | bisher returned, with no less than fifteen | ships, gathered still more ore and went | home,, to find in the end that it contained {little or no gold. to be himself plunged for |a time into deep poverty and to have some | trouble in forcing shareholders who had | subscribed funds to pay up. The search |for the northwest passage th: endad for the time in a scramble for gold. Our own | age has seen incredible quantities of gold | found in America in the same latitude, but | the valley of the Yukon, which empties its | waters into the Pacific, was to prove the | real E1 Dorado. Frobisher had salled through what we know as Hudson Straits. and he added something to the knowledge of the north- Fern coasts of America. He lived to serve his country in other ways—to fight with Drake against the great Spanish Armada. John Davys in 15%, 15% and 1387, with | slight means but in a herofc spirit, vo | aged into the same northern seas, but | failed in his main object. His name, how- ever, is not yet forgotten in connection | with the far north. | The English had meanwhile secured the one piece of territory which they acquired permanently in America in the sixteenth century. Newfoundland had long been a rendezvous for fishermen from all the | coasts of Europe. but as yet it belonged definitely to no European power, though more than ore claimed it. Sir Humphrey | Gilbert. one of the noblest spirits of tha century, high in favor at court, led in 1583 |an expedition to Newfoundland. The fear | of Spain or of Portugal was no longer fore the minds of the English. Drake had | dared to raise the English flag even in the | Pacific. Engiand was powerful upon the gea—much stronger than Spain—though the world still thought otherwise. In New- foundland. with much ceremony, Gilbert proclaimed Elizabeth sovereign of the country and declared that he would shear off the ears and do other terrible things |to_any one who dared speak disrespect- ‘flllly of her. He perished on his way homeward and died as a brave Christian | | founa | should. Calais had been lost in the ‘reign |of M-rr, and Newfoundland was the first | and only region outside the mother isles | over which the English flag waved in any- | thing like security while Elizabeth | reigned. Nor was the tenure of New- | foundland safe. The French for more than a century disputed, not without suc- | cess, the English ownership. It was in tha | north of America that the English were | to do their mightiest work of colonization. | Such a future would have seemed incredi- | ble enough when Elizabeth died, in 1803. New England was not vet. From the Are. | tic_Ocean to Mexico reigned a cheerless and_cruel barbarism practically untouched | by Europe, though these coasts had been known for a hundred years. The Spanfards | had, however, done something consider- ably farther south. What the English did | against them we shall see in the next | paper. GEORGE M. WRONG. University of Toronto. NATIVE SONS APPORTION GOLDEN V_IE_ST PARLORS The visiting board of the Grand Parlor of the Native Sons of the Golden West met vesterday afternoon for the purpose of apportioning the pariors of the State to those who will make the official visits during the current term: ‘o Grand Trustee George Radcliff of Watson- ville were assigned pariors in Yolo, Placer, Yuba, Butte and San Joaquin counties: to Grand Second Vice President Lewis F. Byington the pariors in Alameda and Amador counties: to Grand Trustee Judge M. T. Dooling of Hol- lister parlors in Plumas, Sierra, Placer, Ne- | vada, Lassen and Yuba® counties; to Grand Trusiee J. R. Knowlands of Alameda parlors in Sacramento, El Dorado, Placer and Nevada counties: to Grand Orator Judge H. R. McNo- ble of Stockton parlors in Contra Costa and Solano countles: to Grand Trustee James L. Gallagher of this city parlors in Santa Clara, Santa Cruz and Marin counties; to Grand First Vice Presideng Frank L. Coombs of Napa par- lors in Santa Barbara, Ventura. Los Angeles, Orange, San Bernardino and San Diego coun- i'to Grand Trustee Will D. Shea of this rlors in Shasta, Trinity. Siskivou, Napa and Lake countles; to Grand Trustee Percy V. fong of this city parlors in Tuolumne, Marl- posa, Merced, Tulare, Kings. Kresno and K. Counties; to Grand Trustee Charles E. Laughlin (chairman) of Quincy parlors in San Mateo, San Benito, onterey and San Tuis Obispo counties: to Grand Treasurer Henry S. Martin of this city parlors in Sonoma, Mendocino, Humboldt and Del Norte counties. The San Francisco pariors will be ap- portioned among the several members of the visiting board in such a manner that each parlor will be visited by two of these officers. The medal fund of the Native Sons was turned over to Grand Treasurer Martin for the purpose of apolyin ject for which it was coll There are a number of volunteers who have not yet applied for their medals. it for"the ob- | 70 ‘STRIVE FOR THE TRADE OF SKAGUAY | A Skaguay merchant, Mr. Peterson, senior partner of the firm of Peterson & Co., is in the city and has called upon sev~ eral leading merchants, trying to per- | suade them that the interests of San Francisco would be largely promofed by running steamers from this port direct to Skaguay. The argument that he has em- ployed Is that Skaguay is the gateway to a country that makes large demands for, manufactured and food products, can- ned goods and the like, and that thers are twenty steamers running from Puget Sound to Skaguay direct, and none from San Francisco. Mr. Peterson also says that the mer- chants at Skaguay would prefer to trade with San Francisco, for the reason that there are larger stocks of goods in this city to select from, and there are other conveniences to be considered. The sub- ect may be brought up before the San rancisco Board of Trade and also be- foge the Chamber of Commerce for con_ sideration after the Fourth. . C. Rulofson of Baker & Haniilton, who has talked with Mr. Peterson, says that the outlook for San Francisco to get a profitable business in AV appears | to be_very . if the facilities can be | provided. business that Puget Sound with the country tributary to Skag- uay is large and profitable. —_—— Assessor Dodge Restrained Again. United States Circuit Judge Morrow is- . sued a restraining order yesterday against Assessor Dodge prohibiting him from | ceeding to collect taxes on the shares of t;:r.n:ll‘;tock of the tour pational banks in be heard during the October term of the court.