The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 23, 1900, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, [ONDAY. JULY 23, 1900. VAIDEN SERMON OF REV. FATHER HEVERIN THER R HEVERIN of Oakland at St. Frage the constant efl. LAND GIVEN FOR A PLACE WITHIN = HEAVENLY GATES Late William Valentine's Peculiar Barter With a Friend STATEMENT | ———OF THE—— CONDITION AND AFFAIRS —F THE-—— B tistietietiotin CONDIT recently or Hi ) . %o ehoetetietetNeP STATEMENT TE ION AND AFFAIRS —OF THE— — O WILHELMA MACOTBURC FIRE INSURARCE COMPANY %, MAGDES GERMANY. ON Liabliities ... Total INFOME 34912 27 Total Income r Salaries, Fees and , Nati {a - payments and expenditures penditures ... 225260410 | 60544600 | s.20.5% | 12%sm | e >4 Am C % | day of April. 1%00. URANCE COMPANY GERMANTY, ount ash urse of Collect LIABILITIES. In process of Adjustment or L) $653,020 on Fire Risks ru loss, 3 re. - 1,698,513 ru Total Liabilittes .. INCOME. cash actually received for Fire for interest on Bonds and nterest and dividends Loans and from k1 3 and other rks, ote..... 771 12 National and Loecal taxes sarsisnosovien. . AHENS 11 other ts and expenditures 213,53 41 Total Expenditures . H._VATKE. Pres RUDOLF BER Subscribed and swor ent. T. Viee President. to before me, this 7th £ GEORGE H. MURPHY, T. S Viee 1 at Magdeburg. |GUTTE & FRRK, Managers, Pacific Coast Denartment, 303 CALIFORNIA STREET. EAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Manager. re me, this May Notary Public. bscribed and sworn to bef: of 7th, 19%. EMIL ALY, GUTTE & FRANK, GENERAL AGENTS, 3803 CALIFORNIA THE WEEKLY CALL, Enlarged to 16 Pages + &l per Yecar. | in his WATER FOLLOWS INTHE WAKE OF SUPERVISERS |Inclement Weather Keeps the Party Indoors at Truckee. All Are Satisfied So Far That a Good Supply of Pure Water Can Be Obtained From Lake Tahoe. PR A 5 Special Dispatch to The Call. TRUCKE July 22.—Water seems to follow in the wake of the San Francisco city officials, who are here investizating Lake Tahoe. It rained in this vicinity t night and to-day, and the mathema- lans of the party have figured out that added 132,475,631 galions of water to the with a few precincts yet to hear m. All s lake, f metropolis Reed is especially enthusias- prospects and is not greatly e protest of the Renoites, ¢ n our lake” is not tic over the worried over wh You ¢ regarded se ced says it is of secondary con ana’ capable of legal aqjusu re is pienty of Keed, and 1S as well as :g¢, Who accoms ne nature of medical newed solvent credits tne use of uiting u e peo He says four years of practical drought n which California has passed nas rmous drain on the resources Spring Vailey Water Compa of arought, says Dod ve to be curtailed. Oakland's Opportunity. an Ta »f Oakland, which n the water line, t time for Oaklana h its metropolitan negh- ade himself that the water is th to be delivered to of the Printing Com- cost of ge a_con- an Jennings s he is fully bond issue. water is only wash rubbe. as y_ would rather Ith Board, while Helms is talk O'Brien, San Franci tion of the Yuba 11l give the bene- her in an ins sheds. He w in liquids o a period of mar er skeptical at than co acquiring its o does not hestitate to | quotes Gladstone, who to Ireland acquiring aid ¥ be a day, maybe not in my of Commissioners. eather to-day prevented tended Investigation of ¢ was regaled with nces by Charley Ol- st_inhabitants here- Von Sch: in ht nt win- Said he pinches himself d then to dispel visions of have been had things been Pro, gramme now might e is work ahead for the commission in » next three d A start will be from Truckee to-morrow morning hich will convey the mem- n ridse of the Sierras r sheds of the Yuba rs. They will be piloted right and Hugh Maguire le and Nevada Power ch has made an offer of sup- 1 Francisco. The investigation h and will consume at least three days HIS SUIT DD NOT SAVE HIM FROM INJURY: Inventor Amos Wyckoff Nears Death in Exhibit- ing Patent Fabric. Oakland Office San Franecisco Call, 1118 Broadway, July 2. Amos Wyckoft, fireproof garments, was nearly burndd to death this afternoon at Oakland Park while giving an exhibition of his non- combustible clothing. The unfortunate exhibitor was so badly corched by the flames in which he nad peen trying to demonstrate good points invention that medical attention was necessary, and there is danger that his injuries may prove fatal. Despite the conditions surrounding the accident, | Wyckoff did not blame the severe burn- ing upon the failure of his patent to work. In fact, he declared that had he not been protected with the fireproof fabric he would surely have suffered a horrible death. The burning was caused, he sald. by the tearing of a portion of the suit while he was piunging through a mass of flaming brush soaked with coal oil. The trousers caught on a splintered tree branch and ripped just as he was in the center of the | fire, and before he could free himself from the tangle of trousers and twigs the fire had run into his undergarments and they started to burn. The fireproof outer suit smothered the spreading flames. Wyckoff sald, while he was dragging himself out of the blaze. Dr. Reinhart was called and ave the suffering inventor attention, al- eviating the intense pain. The injured inventor was removed to his home and will be under a docter’s care for some time. His legs and hands were severely burned. ALAMEDANS ARE BADLY HURT WHILE CAMPING ALAMEDA, July 22—Word was recefved here to-night of a serious accident near Santa Rosa to a party of Alamedans who left yesterday by team for a camping tri in Mendocino County. Edward an, rel: slding at the Park Hotel, was badly hurt about the head and shoulder, and Bert Fisher of the firm of Coombs & Fisher had his collarbone broken, besides being badly cut and bruised. The others in the arty—Peter Townsend, a carpenter, and B bonaid, a cigar dealer—were slightly t. “The party had & wagon loaded with cam} ut . In a telephone m: o ends here it was reported that he TaEoR was upset in @ runaway at ¢ *elog! road reen i”eulumn and Santa Rosa. Fisher was so serfously Injured that his wife was sum- moned to him. The llanrvd man was and surgeons were NEW DEAN COMES TO BERKELEY SEMINARY % | | z agree that there 1s Lut one Lake | Tahoe, and it is ideal for ownership by | quate pure water | Lake Tahoe | ing of the | . THE DIACORATE the inventor of patent | D e e e e e B e e e o S S 28 ST S o S S S S o o S8 S S S SR S B D R I S I e T DR. HIRAM VAN KIRK. | ol AKLAND, July 22—Dr. Hiram Van | In 18%-91 Dr. Van Kirk was pastor of the | Kirk, the new Dean of Berkeley | Christian Church at Buffalo, N. Y. 2_nd of seminary for the fall term. Dr. Van Kirk comes to (‘(\]”0”\13‘ ith a rep ; | | | | | D e S i L e e e L o o S " that at Jefferson City, Mo., in 1 He Bible Seminary, will begin his work | is aiso seerctary and treasirer of the Na- ugust 21 with the reopening of the | tional Board of Education of the Chris- { tan Church. | _Dr. Van Kirk succeeds Professor 8. M. v s gone to Kentueky Uni- ngton ble Seminary was estab- ago. All of the theo- are compelled to take their literary. philosophical and scientific | the University of California n minary also co-operates with the Pacific Theological Seminary by inter- ch: g courses. There are twelve stu- | dents on the roll of the seminary. tation h T repute. he has ained a and a {irk ultured pulptt ds the degres rmal Univers r m Hiram dhio. 1592; B. D., ale Universit Ph.D., Chicago | | University, 1900 While pursuing his theological studies | at INDUCTED INTO BEFUSE TO SELL THEIR FRDIT T THE CARNERIES OF THE CHURCH |Niles Orchardists Holding | Out Against Offers of the Combine. e akland Office San Franciseo Call, 1118 Broadway, July 22. Indications are strong that the fruit can- | ners' combine is hard pressed for apricots. Agents of the trust have been making ex- traordinary efforts In Alameda County Charles N. Lathrop Becomes an Episcopal Preacher in Oakland. L Oakland Office San Franciseo Call, 1118 Broadway, July 22. With the solemn rités of the Episcopal Church, Charl~s N. Lathrop was to-day ordained to the diaconate by Right Rev. Willlam Ford Nichols, Bishop of the aio- cese. The sacred ceremonial was con- | fruit growing centers to secure 'cots, of- ducted at St. Andrew's Church, Ninth | fering from $20 to $25 a ton. That figure and Cypress streets, which will be the future charge of the voung cleric. Pecullar interest attached to the induc- tion into the ministry of tne Rev. Mr. made for apricots delivered at the les. | representatives have the growers with all sorts of Lathrep. He is the son of the late Rev. sitions to start the movement. In Henry D. Lathrop, who was one of the e at Niles a buyer offered a second | prominent Episcopalian divines of Cali- is own figure as commission If_he | fornfa. Dr. Lathrop was rector of the would get special crops for $2% a ton. The | Church of the Advent in San Francisco | situation shows. however. that the com- “from 1867 to 1877, and in lat. years @S bine will not raise its schedule, but will rector at the parish of the same name In | pay liberal commissions o those who suc- East Oakland. | . The services at St. Anthony’'s were at- tended by many of the parishioners and friends of the young deacon's family. The candidate was presented in due form by Archbishop Emory, and was in vested with the titular authority by the Bishop with full observance of the eccle- siastical functions. The new comer will begin his evangelis- | tic labors immediately. The field is a £004 one, and St. Andrew's has received much congratulation from the church of- ficlals upon securing the services of the brilliant young preacher. Mr. Lathrop was graduated from Har- vard University and from the Western Theological Seminary of Chicago, where he took a course preparatory to entrance into the ministry. John M. Lathrop, a well-known newspaper man, {s his brother, and another brother holds a po- sition in the English-department of Stan- ford University. ceed in turning fruit its way. From the Niles district, where a superior quality of ’cots is raised. cannery buyers report that they would handle double the quantity of fruit that is being offered if | they could induce growers to sell rather than to dry their yield. There is every | indication that a great amount of fruit | wiil be dried in order to maintain prices. | Th conditions, while not altogether one-sided for the growers. are the direct result of the refusal of the canneries to establish better prices for the fresh fruit required for packing. J While the orchardists were unable to or- ganize a strong association to fight the combine, many fruit men have declined to part with their crops at cannery figures that they seem to have the upper hand of | the market. It is claimed by the can- neries’ agents that the ‘cot yield of the State will be 90.000 tons and that they can handle only 20000 tons. Of course, the in- ference intended is that the prices cannot be maintained and that growers are in no position to dictate terms. But so far as | RS gATTACKfD BY CATS :" any of the large orchardists are con-| cerned the figures do not a. o worry P 2 fully in bed by three ugly 3 them. E. A Ellsworth, one of the lead- | WHILE SLEEPING i fighting cats was the unusual ing growers of the Niles district, is quoted | as placing no stock in that position. He | | says the canneries have offered him his | { own terms to secure 'cots for them, and | that he has declined the tenders. experfence of Mr. and Mrs. W. Waltz at their residence In Tesla last eveninz. Both were badly bit- ten and scratched by the trio of fe- line intruders before Waltz was awakened suffciently todrive off the nocturnal prowlers, who had mean- dered into the chamber through an open window. The experience pros- trated Mrs. Waltz, who was badly frightened as well as physically in- jured by the attack. The couple had retired early, and because of the warm weather al- lowed a window in their bedroom to remain wide open. During the night the three cats clambered threugh the window and engaged in a terrific fight on the counterpane of the Waltz bed. During the bat- tle the sleepers were aroused by the biting, scratching and caterwauling creatures, who in addition to fight- ing among themselves attacked the other occupants of the apartment. After beating off the sleep-disturb. ers Waltz and his wife dressed the numerous cuts and scratches they had received, shut the bedroom win- dow tightly and felt secure against further uncanny interruption of their elumbers. A eaes s e S e R R R R R e e e | T $ DEER HUNTERS HAV INDIFFERENT SUCCESS | AKLAND. July 22—To be at- tacked while sleeping peace- 8¢ + + +| OAKLAND, July 2.—The opening of the + | season for deer has been inauspicious so | 4 | far as the hunters’ luck in the Livermore | + Mountains is concerned. Scarcity of 4 | water has kept the forest denizens out of | 4 | the lower ranges. Nimrods report little 4 success Unless they shall work their 4 | way far into the high peaks, deer hunt- pé ing will not pan out well this season in | that favorite territory of local huntsmen. Among those who have made hits so far | 4 | are James Barker. who brought down a | 4 | fat buck on the Hayes Range. | Constable Fitzgerald and W. H. Harvey of Livermore killed one deer at Favilles. ’Georxe Taylor, Van Ness Taylor, Norman McLeod and A. C. Mc have gone to | the Buckeye Gun Club's preserves for a | week of hunting. William Schiuter's party ]:hot a small deer in the Haves Range. S e | SACRAMENTO’S GAIN. o ' fissessment Roll Is Much Higher Than That of Last Year. Special Dispatch to The Call SACRAMENTO, July 22.—Considerable satisfaction is gained by the citizens of | | Sacramento from the fact that the county | assessment roll shows that the county of Sacramento to-day is a full x’flsm,ooo higher than it was a year ago. e in- teresting feature of this statement Is that | the roll is one upon which every dollar may be collected and is not even in the remotest particular inflated. The assess- A oenaan o, "ol fonis 0 round fumbers 85 TOOK MORPHINE. mént(it {8 oticed of TMON in personal s v roperty alone, due princ y to the in- Joe Greenwald, a Well-Known Sport- Prensed valuation of the business of the Man, Ends His Life. { big firms and corporations. ty Assessor Berkey figu SEATTLE, Wash., July 22—Joe Green- | the gain will result in a decrcase of the L R e e e e e wald, a sporting man, well known all over | tax rate of 20 cents on each $100 valuation the Pacific Coast, died here to-day from | from last year’'s tax. This should give a morphine taken wiih suicidal intent. His | State and’county tax rate for propert B e well-to-do Californians, Tiving | Within the city limits of 31 40 on' the $10) near Eureka. and for perty in the county outside the elty ts of $1 50 on the $100. The delin- quent tax list this vear was so 1l as scarcely to justify the newspaper charge | for advertising it, and these evidences of prosperity are matters for general con- gratulation here. ————— Minneapolis possesses the greatest flour - ea pe the Judge Robert P. Trippe Dies. ATLANTA, Ga., July 22.—Judge Robert Pleasant Trippe, believed to be the last survivi of the Confederate ng member St e e i i a0 N { pro- would defeat Buchanan. fhe THE STRUGGLE FOR KANSAS IN 1855-58 Copyright, 1900, by Seymour Eaton. AMERICAN POLITICAL PARTIES. ————— XIV. (Concluded.) The Federal Governors. It was in the territory of Kansas that the sectional question of slavery or no slavery formed the absolute line of divi- sion between the two parties. Until that question was determined no other matters could receive attention. The territorial governors appointed by the Democratic Southern cause. upon the ground and the situation grasped these same nro-slaverv Democrats—almost without exception—were won to the free | el speaks loudly for State side of the qua the justice of that s Andrew H. Reeder of Pennsylvania en- tered upon his official duties in October, 1854. He was an enthusiastic Democrat of the Douglas school, a lawyer of reputa- tion and an honorable man. He honestly desired to quiet the turbulent spirit al- ready manifest on the border and to deal fairly with all. Having traveled over his domain, he ordered an election for lavery administrations at Washing- | ton were of course pro-slavery Democrats, | | sent out, every man of them, to serve the But the fact that once | Journeyed to Washington to state his cass to the authorities. was arily dis- | missed, December. . ’h:n‘seif too much after official chief and effectually | free state cause. General Denver of Virginia. who came next upon the roll ounced his on to carry out poiley of his pred cessor. He accepted the appe nt gly, determined to resign as soon as possible. whi d in October. 188 He had strive: dealing and political governors hi whose r To him [ ally for fair Of all the te The Lecompton Constitution. £ the promises by which Gove: One ¢ the October the Lecompton not adopt a co The October a free delega In . by a shallow and [ R e S e el e o L i et - < THE WESTERN TERRITORIES IN1S34 AFTER THE PASSAGE OF THE KANSAS ~NEBRASKA BILL . - |& Wt PPN >o e a_congressional delegate. By the aid of 1729 votes of Missourians, who came into the territory for the sole purpose of cast- ing those voies, the pro-slavery candidate was elected and took his seat unchal- lenged in the House of Representatives at Washington. The following spring similar tactics, with even more barefaced fraud and violence, devosited 80 per cent of the ballots cast and chose a territorial legis- lature of the desired complexion. Gover- | nor Reeder, having canvassed the returns and heard the protests of free State set- tlers, was convinced, as he stated in pub- lic. that the principle of popular sover- elgnty had been uuerlz overthrown in Kansas, the rights of her citizens out- raged, the country conquered by force of arms. But regard for the wishes of the President and his garty obliged the Gov- ernor to content himself with throwing out a_few members as chosen by force and fraud, leaving the legislature _strongly pro-siavery still. Not content with this. that body showed its contempt for law and its defiance of the Governor by fm- mediately seating every man to whom he had refused credentials A bitter quarrel ensued and charges against the Governor were made at Washington. He was vir- tually removed by the President and at once actively joined the free state party, becoming one of its trusted leaders. Shannon of Ohio, who succeeded Reeder. arrived in September, 1355, apd put himseif at once with intemperate zeal upon the side of the lawless, pro-slavery faction The territorial government and the State government under the Topeka constitu- tlon were now contending for recognition, and the logic of events wrought a consid- erable change in Governor Shannon's [ e e e R R e e s . . & ¢ ; - 3 L 4 + . ¢ * * * * S 4 ; 4 * 4 pe + . * * * * ® ¢ . - * * ) 4 2 B: $ L 2 . ° + JAMES BUCHANAN. 4 L R e e e ] views. But his unwise course at the be- fncumbency rendered it im- possible for him to play the pacific part which he later undertook, and he finally fled in all haste to secure his own safety from the territory which he was incom- etent to govern. PGeary o Pennsylvania followed in Sep- tember, 1856. He had been chosen no less for his great executive gifts than for his Democratic sympathies. The presidential campaign was at lts height when Governor Geary reached Kansas, and he saw that Kansas must be pacified with all speed or the Democratic rty was doomed. He declared to the ssourians that one more of their raids So determined and so skillful were the governor's meas- ures that a short lived quiet did settle the territory In course of a few and had Geary been honestly su rted by the federal admjnistration he ?r‘:mld noydoubt have luctflded in estab- ginning of his | lishing justice and order in Kansas. But lainly toward too, soon leaned too osing favor at the free state party and, hington, he was forced to w}:;bex;lm Walker of Mississi nvu the fourth Governor of Kansas. tha time of his appointment, in the spring of 1857, the hope of mal sas a slave State had been abandoned as futile, and all administration energies were to be concentrated upon the effort to make a Demecratic state. It was for this pur- se that a man eminent and experienced E’ pariy tactics was chosen for a position so injerior. Governor Walker proved an excelient official, winni the confidence of the free siate settlers and inducing for the first time, in the election for the terri- let . But the high handed T " e mfm-mm: ot Tes) dro‘fefloovnnor Walker also “he m.fe of thel{bzwfmt'l He could not nance n: £ Sent Buchanan was detormi the yleldis took terri left as NEXICO | F @IS P40 000007 e tb e i v eitdeieiteiede ignoble trick. org the high circles of th Istration, called upon the peopi clauses of the constitution. was ‘‘the constitution constit on with slavery clauses ndt submitted to vote tution with no slavery” still made slavery perpetual so far as concerned the sia aiready in the territory and their spring. The free state men, as a of course, refused to vote, but the new legisiature, which they controll mitted the whole constitution Jle In January, 188, and it lown by an enormous majority. The slave state party had in their turn declined to vote, voters were at leas slavery. News of the Lecom tution swindle revived the decli est of the country in the fortu Appeal had been made to congress two to one agal ton consti- sas. for the admission of the territory to statehood under the Lecompton titu- tion and the Democratic party was soon | in a violent wrangle over the tion. Douglas and many othe | Democrats and party newspapers protest- ed against the measure, to which the President adhered tenaciously tion of January, which y question the real wishes of the Kan settlers, effected nothing with the admi stration. Every resource of offic ronage was brought to bear to a nce the cause of slavery. The bill passed the Senate, but hung fire in the House, a finally falled to pass. Disgraceful scenes oceurred during the heated congressional debate. The bitterest and most scorch words were not enough. many of the members became engaged in .ctual fist fights and only becau more | dansemus weapons happened not to be at | hand was thers no bloodshed or serfous bodily injury. The wounded feelings were not soon healed. The Dred Scott Decision. The whole subject of slavery in the | federal domain came before the count | in a new phase, while the status of K | sas was still unsettled. The Dred Scott decision of the Supreme Court will be cor | sidered more fully hereafter for its im | portant bearing upon party history. It is mentioned here only to show its connec- tion with the original subject of dispute in Kansas. Dred Scott, a negro slave, had sued for his freedom several years before on the ground that he had been taken by his master to the free state of Illinois and to the free territory of the northern portion of the Louisiana purchase, where, accord- ing to the Missouri compromise, slavery could not exist. In due course the case came before the highest court of the na- tion, and two days after the inauguration of President Buchanan the decision was rendered. The negro was returned to sla- very since no negro of slave ancestry | could stand before a court of the United | States as a “citizen” competent to sue or | be sued. The court then went on to dis- | cuss the other chief constitutional points | involved, and the decision pronounced the Missouri compromise act “not warranted by the constitution and therefore void.” This absolutely knocked all foundation | from the doctrine of popular sovereignty | under which the long struggle for Kansas had been carried on, for since congress rial legislature which should possess tha wer. y possible circumstances bar out sla- very, and the doctrine of popular sover- eignty worked only one way—to permit the Jll:ens of a federal territory to vote the institution up, never down. Only a sovereign state could establish freedom. Kansas a State. | 1In 1568 the Kansas Legislature once | more called a constitutios convention, which met at Leavenworth. The free- | state 'y was now supreme and the con- stitution _adopted prohibited slavery. It was ratified people sent to ro-sla- v . time on the alleged ground that the population of the territory was insufficlent. The fol- lowing year still another convention | adopted ~ the Wyandotte constitution, | which also prohibited slavery. This was ! ratified by the e. sent to congress. and Kansas was at last, after years of waiting and repeated refusals, admitted as a state. But it was not until after the Union had been a and Senators from the seceded states had withdrawn that the opposition of the up- per chamber was overcome. ISAAC MACY. Towa College. Death of a High School Student. BERKELEY, July 2 _Howard Arnold Springer, a student of the Be: school. died this morning at the home of his father, 8. O. Springer, at 1510 Lowsa street. young man was lm.n of age. Funeral services will be Wed- nesday from the home. The re- mains will be cremated in the Odd Fei- lows' crematory in San Francisces mbered