The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 21, 1901, Page 4

4 - THE SAN FRANCISCO' CALL, MONDAY, JANUARY 21, 1901. PROFITLESS TWO WEEKS AT THE STATE CAPITOL IN NEED OF MORE ENERGY Legislature Not Yet Down to Hard Work. Makes'a Good Start but Slackens Its Pace. SRR Epecial Dispatch to The Calt ).—While the thir- on made a good t seems to ergy and ks have gone importance has committee has got me have not even activity is shown in and from the em it is apparent h the Governor loped among -tongued of no opportunity has hard- lacking the to work, the e been Assembly State $70 one, .t re the chief clerk of the roll of that body. is learn- the first desk the e Assembly has also sideration o! ed Johnson the deceased 1 rt address bers a few touching words of s of the dead. The news- of How the Stenographer Worked. 1 Py W f ming at 10:3) the ared hi sembly was ting at the dictation of one ncsico newspaper men. T was wly dictating notes he had er was taking a nog: ere were passed en typewritten with the com- enographer. They rofuse gratitude, but ow the shorthand house are being ex- newspaper nies of the Electoral College Mord were the subject of comment, spiced with a B one against the propriety c owan's address. He had been war not to make it political, and sentence he announced that ked not to include politics, 1 it he launched into a party that would 1bli: A campa w vnote of jority the exercise: as expressed done and said nd the choice of all he sald con- tever the strug- he result was as the choice ress showed he Assembly n was t afternoon parted member. e e that speeded Col- t re and one not he second that has ng in a house Legislators Want Protection. Pollowing the death of Collins has come t something be done to pro- f men who leave a genfa ey are accus- during e year, and rm in the con- foned in yes- “all and to be There is not a 1 the he: r lungs. mplicated hills” and rerous enoug: ir among th members of both nator Muenter, er a week with iven leaves of ab- death of Collins man at the open- emphasized the in the time of ¥ 1] 478339 geseny Tegislature so far ound the franchise the erhap: the Se: T of Placer, although this and p airman). Taylor, Burnett, Smith geles. Selvage,’ Corlett, Davis, Ashe. Of these nine but the e is a Democrat. Truly Tabor the snowball 0 often referred in the custody of his Satanic If the vote were not so close ht be some chance, for the com- »mposed of men as fair as the ish, but that does not committee. and when it » & matter of judgment it etter if it came from more Appointment Schemes. apportionment, # new element the field, probably to-morrow. of Los Angeles, chairman of - Committee on Apportionment and. Carter has a bill of his h he will submit, and then he semblymen can fight Cutter and s. while a_bevy of the dele- ns gathers around, each one stirring mud in its own puddle and de- nding much more than it will get or -ach. Alameda wants an- lvman and she doesn't care gets him.© San Franeisco he direst vengeance if any one should rob her of a Senator. although no one has seriously threatened that so Uff of Santa Cruz and Senator Benito declare their counties vill never come together to form but one Assembly district that Alameda may profit by the move. Senator Luehsinger s sure his beloved Solano is big enough for a Senatorial district all by herself. And there are others whose wafls are not yet distinguishable in the general clamor. 1o Congressional districts, about ths new thing is Durlap's proposed bill, one that will never be presented; at least n the form announced, for it violates the constitution in one place and.-runs against the accepted thory of apportionment which will rule this session. It is tacitiy egreed that the mining counties of tha north and the vallev counties of Sacra- mento valley shall not be put together &nd if the attempt be made there will be sten- | reak in their | esentatives took notes of what some in longhand and some | at Chief Clerk Lloyd call that the y one of > Assembly all | a verbatim | stuff in the end | just poor taste last | in | n as the choice Democrats alike. In | which was a tact- ¥ _nam were g | like a contest in name er won one vote. He is an. Tabor. the Democrat, is »efore the Senate Commiitee | ns has for members YA 7B SARHLER LTHRT o8 _ST972 Bogpsd 5 LAY ERY, BILL MAY | Proposition to Wipe Freedom'of —_— e ALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 20.—Although the | cartoon bill has been dead since the day after its passage, a bill will be introduced in the Senate | by Davis to-morrow giving it the official ax. No one ever minded it, its provisions have never been sought by any one whose | features or feelings were hurt by the artist’s pencil and it has not had even the | poor pleasure of going before the Supreme Court and being knocked out in a free le- | al fight. | |~ Davis’ measure is in the form of a bill to repeal section 1 of an act entitlea “An act to add a new section to the Penal Code, to be known @s section 258, relating to the publication of portraits and carica- | tures,” approved February 2 1899, The cartoon act was a measure rushed | hrough the last session of the Legislature | | ¢ USELESS ANTI-CARTOON BE REPEALED Out Law Restricting the Press. on the wave of feeling arising from the Burns Senatorial campaign. No one ever thought it was a good measure, and when it was finally rushed through those who spoke in its favor and voted for it were willing to declare it would always be a dead letter. Tts passage was the signal for much oratory, good and bad, and a great deal of congratulation among those who hoped under its protecting wing to escape much of the castigating they would deserve in the future, as they had deserved in the past. It was hurried to the Governor, and he set aside a half-hun- dred good bills tha* had been passed by the House to sign the measure, and amid great satisfaction it became a law. Since then it has lain inactive, like a toad in a cellar, and in being brought out to be done away with it is serving its best purpose. The " signatifre law, which is one of the same stripe, will probably be put on the same toboggan. trouble from beth sides. Dunlap's |d»n| lumps the Sacramento Valley with Pla | cer, El Dorado, Sierra, Calaveras, Ama- | | dor and half a dozen other mining coun- | | ties that will not stand for it any mm‘>1 { than the valley counties will stand for the | miners. And in making a fourth and fifth district Dunlap would take the northern half of San Francisco and put it in w Marin and with the southern half would link San Mateo. The constitutic avs that when more than one Congre: | sional District is contalned within the | undaries of a countv the district shail he t be carved out and then the remain- | £ of the county shall be linked with con- | tiguous territory. One district may be | made in the southern par. of San Francis ‘\ co and the remainder to the north joined to Marin, or vice versa, and the remain- der to the south joined to San Mateo or even a district may be made to the west | and th eastern portion may be joined t a proposal that rom Alameda more no would-be apportioner ca n the middle and divide th city with the countrv. The Franchise Bill. In the franchise bill there is a lull. pos- sibly before a storm, but it looks now as if the south may achieve by amendment | what it was at first thought it would have to fight for. Could the term fight be anplied to the | university legislative campaign it woull | be apt, for there is every prospect tha | the State's “educationai crown’ will havs |to get down with the rest and scrap for the bones. It seems ihe intention of the | Governor to go as far as possible towar.1 | getting the univeraity into politics. A litfle last session, & little mors | | this. Just an Inch more if he should get | | in again and anotber after that, and the | institution will be on a par with State | | hospitals, insane asylums and peniten- | tiarfes. It is the Governor's idea that | | the university should come to every ses- | sion with palm extended asking for| | enough to live on for the two yéars com- | | ing, and unless past 2ni present metho | change there will be no lark of strinzs | | upon what will be given. The Governc ; | has offered the money for the Governor s { | mansion_and he has offered other and| | equally glittering gifts, but what the un! versity wants is not alms but incom | something by right and not by favog; | something to count on and not hope for | The Alameda delegation, it is suspected. | at the inspiration of the Governor, has cancused and discussed and conferred and | | meditated, but so far there has been no | | result except to provoke the inquiry as to why Alameda is consulted to the ex- clusion of the remainder of the State. Tt | i= not an Alameda institution, despite A’ | amedass justifiable pride of possession, and others more distant but not less in- terested are beginning (o wonder when | they will be allowed to say a word. The | measures proposed bv the Regents. tha alumni _and the organized friends of the university have been passed by and the needs of the institution are being pro- | vided for in the same old way. MORE THAN A MILLION | IN APPROPRIATIONS | Long List of Bills Presented to As- sembly and More Are in | Preparation ALL HEADQUARTE SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 2).—Appropriation bills to date provide for expenditures amounting to $1.775,000, and there still remain numer- ous items for the support of State institu- tions that must be introduced, and mem- bers have in course of preparation many additional bills for appropriations not | falling within the ordinary reckoning of State expenditures, On top of all this wiil probably come a lump sum of $200,000 for the University of California, to be expend- ed in the two succeeding fiscal years. Proposed State highways and a_pro- posed Btate highway system figure large- iy iIn the appropriation bilis, footing up a total of $506,000. 1t is already proposed to appropriate $235.000 for the State normal schools. State insane hospital appropria- tions aggregate $250.000. The system of | impounding and restraining dams for min- ing debris calls for $150,000. and water and forestry investigation $130.000 more. A little item of $100,000 is a proposed expen- diture on the Agricultural Park, to ac- quire title to it from the State Agricultur- al Society. The normal &chool expenditures are dis- | tributed as follows: San Francisco Slate' Normal School, 100,00 for a new building, $50,000 for maintenance; San Diego State Normal School, 350,000’ for addition to building: Chico State Normal School, for new building, $25.000: Los Angeles State Normal School, $10.000 for improvements. An_expenditure of $100,000 for the estal lishment of a State system of highways is gropom in a bill introduced by Johmson, posed expenditures for individual State highways are as follows: Highway con- necting_the county highway systems of ! Santa Barbara and Kern counties, $5,- s | Johnson. | TO, Jan, 000; Salinas to San Miguel, $50,00; Merced Falls to boundary of Yosemite Natlonal Park, $50,000; Lake Tahoe road. from near Myers Station to Tahoe City. $36.000; Fol- som read, between Sacramento and Fol- som, $35000. Lick Observatory to. San Joaquin River, $30,00; Los Banos to Hol- lister. $20,000. A proposed expenditure of $75,000 for a hospital for insane convicts s embodied in Assembly Bill No. 153, introduced by John has introduced a bill ap- propriating $50.000 for a_polytechnlc school at San Luls Obispo. The sum of $67,000 1s to be appropriated for the salaries of the Supreme Court Commissioners for two_consecutive fiscal years. Improved machinery for the State Printing Office at a cost of 360,000 Is proposed. A new buliding for the Veterans' Home at Yountville is proposed. to cost $50,000, and other expenditures for that institu- tion will aggregate $18,000. in addition to the $45.000 regularly allowed by the State for maintenance of veterans there, A vroposed new dairy school, in Kings County, 18 to cost §20,000, and dairy nspec- tion is proposed, to cost $16,000 in two years. WILL OPPOSE TAX ON TRAVELING SALESMEN President Davis of the Coast Com- mercial Travelers’ Association, Arrives in Sacramento. CALL HEAQUARTERS. SACRAMEN- 20.—Robert H. Davis of Oak- land, president of the Pacific Coast Com- mercial Travelers' Assoclation, arrived this evening. He will have the final draft of a bill made and introduced, the pur- pose of which is to prevent Boards of Supervisors or Town Trustees from im- posing a tax upon commercial travelers. The measure will be carefully drawn, in order not to exempt sollcitors and ped- | dlers from license ordinances, the ex- emption applying only to those who deal exclusively with retailers. Hull McClaughry came up from San Fi sco to-night to represent W. D. in_his contest for the seat held Henry of the Forty-second As- sembiy district. John Morton of Los Angeles s here to look after the interests of the Southern California-State Hospital at Patton, San Bernardino County, for which appropria- tion bills aggregating §192,500 have been introduced. Senator Wolfe came back from San Franeisco to-night with a bill which he will introduce appropriating $1000 for a State trophy to be offered at the National Scheutzenbund festival, which is to ve held at San Franecisco in May. WANT COUNTIES DIVIDED. Copper Interests Will Do Much Lob- bying at Phoznix. PHOENIX, Ariz., Jan, 2.—The twenty- first session of the Arizona Legislature begins to-morrow. The legislators have all arrived and have been busy caucusing over the selection of a President of the Council and a Speaker of the House. Bugene §. Ives of New York will likely be made President of the Council and P. P. Parker of Phoenix Speaker of the House. The complexion of both houses is dectdedly Democratic. The most important matters before this session wili be a_reapportionment Bill, and the question of dividing certain coun. ties. Representatives of various copper camps are present to press claims for county division. There seems to be a strong disposition on the part of the cop- per camps to form themselves into new countles to escape heavy -taxation. Jerome, Clifton and Bisbee are the camps most active in seeking county division. LIBRARY FOR MONTEREY. MONTEREY, Jan. 20.—A number of ladies of this city have organized a li- brary association, the object of which is to found a permanent public library {n Monterey. The officers of the new organ- ization are Mrs. Charles D. Henry, presi dent; Mrs. M. M. Grogg, vice president; Mrs. Joseph F. Moore, secretary; Mrs, J. P. Sargent, treasurer. A book committee comoled of Mrs. W. T. Read. Mrs. M. Harris, Mrs. Wilitam Kay, Mrs. ¥. Zimmerman and Mrs. Wal- lace C. Brown has been appointed and the intention is to put the new project on a ractical and substantial footing at once. teps have already been taken to secure a bul ng, and a large number of by have/ been purchased. e pecintnor & Barge Strikes a Bridge. COLUSA, Jan. 20.—A barge in tow of the steamer Dover ran against the end of the old drawbridge here last night, knocki; the pilot house from the barge and seri- ously {njuring the barge pilot, Charles Rodgers. The bridge was not damaged. NEW PLAN TO SELECT SENATORS Davis Prepares a Compromise Reso- lution, Revamping of the Pres‘ent Electoral * Law. SRS Special Dispatch to The Call CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 20.—The question of the election of a United States Senator will be brought up again at this session, this time by Senator Davis, who has a plan that has proven efficacious in the casa of Presidential Electors and should .work as well in the choice’of a Senator. Davis’ plan would simply transfer to the section of the United States constitution that re- fers to the selection of a Senator the lan- guage used In the section referring to the selectlon of Electors, which would have 2 Senator by appointment by the Legl lature or by popular election at the op- tion of the Legislature. vArtlcle I, section 3, subdivision 1 of the United States constitution says: “The Senate of the United States shail be com- posed of two Senators from each State fchosen by the Legislature thereof for six )'e:r! and each Senator shall have one vote. ¢ There can be no doubt of the intentlon In regard to Senators under this language, but with Electors it is different. Article 11, section 1, subdivision 2 of the consti- tution says: “Each State shall appoint in such man- ner as the Legislature thereof may direct a number of Electors equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress." Under this section it is made optional with Legislatures whether they shall ap- point Electors or the Electors shall be elected by popular vote. Senator Davis. would have practically the same language apply to each and upon this idea he has framed the following joint resolution, which will be submitted o the Senate to- morrow: Senate joint 1waolution No. the appointment of United each State. Resolved, By the Senate and Assembly joint- Iy, that article 1, subdivision 1 of the constitution of States should be amended to read The Senate of composed of two Senators from each State, Each State shall appoint in such manner as the Legislature may direct sald two Senators for six years ard each Senator shall have one vote. By placing Senators upon the originally occupied by Electors, Davis believes that in the course of time political evolution will bring about the electon of Senators by popular vofe just as it has brought about the election of Electors. “Originally Legislatures appointed the Electoral College dire "' sald Senator Davis this afternoon, “but after a few vears it got so that many of them left that power to the people, but as late as 1832 a number appointed the Electors. ‘“There never was a national nominat- ing convention until 1 when Andrew Jackson ran for President, and was nomi- nated for the office by the Democratic party in a_convention held in Baltimore, and up to 1860, at the breaking out of the rebellion, the Legislature of South Caro- lina_appointed her Electors. : ply relative to States Senators by plane Senator “If'we adopt.the same law_and 3 it to the selection of a United States Sen- ator the selection in each State ultimate- Iy passing into the hands of the people will be but a repetition of history. “The trouble in getting the section re- lating 1o the selection of a Senator amended has always been because of the Senate itself. A great and respectable ortion of that hody has come from the New Enfi'lund States and the South, where politics are settied and where the appointment of a Senator by the Legis- lature has been most satisfactory. With this resolution there is no reason why the conservative members of the States of New England or the South or anywhere else should raise opposition to ‘the plan because its adoption will pass up to each Legislature the question of whether it shall appoint directly by its own voice or indirectly by the votes of the people, 13 ;;IFI as in _the case of the Presidential Slectors. The question of the selection of a United States Senator by the people would thus work ijtself out as naturaily and as easily as the question of the elec- tion of Presidential Electors by the peo- ple has worked itself out.’ Senator Davis' idea is a new one and strictly in line with the tendency of the constitution to let each State regulate its own affairs in its own way. By the amendment the conservative States could go on as they have been doing and the greater number of others that are agltat- ing the question of a selection of their Senators by a direct vote of the people can work out their will, leaving no radi- cal change in the system. Senator Davis considers his amendment an _entering wedge. HH444444444444444440 THE DAY’S DEAD.: BDL444444444 4444444440 L. N. Sayer. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 20.—L. N. Sayer, a well known contractor and prominent Re- publican politician, dropped dead at home, 1040 East Fiftieth street, at 5:3 o’clock to-night of apoplexy. Mr. Sayer was a member of the Stafe, County and City Republican Committees and was an earnest worker in the party. He was ap- parently in the best of health up to the time he died, and his death was a zreat shock to his family. He leaves a wife and five children. The deceased was a Lromi- nent Mason. Mrs. Sarah Elphick. PENNGROVE, Jan. 20.—Mrs. Sarah EI- phick, one of the best known pioneer women of Vallejo Township, passed away at her home here yesterday morning after an illness of a few hours. Deceaséd was a native of Pennsylvania, aged 79 years. and has resided in California for upward of thirty years. A husband and a num- ber of grown children survive her. Hon. John Leisenring. PHILADELPHIA, Jar. 20.—Hon. John Leisenring, the well-known mine owner of Luzerne County and member of Con- gress from the Luzerne district %n the fifty-fourth Congress, died at the Univer- sity Hospital in this city last night. Ha had been a sufferer for a long time from heart and kidney troubles. Dr. Robert Graham. LEXINGTON, Ky., Jan. 2.—Dr. Robert Graham, n?ed 79 years, who was for many vears president of the Kentucky Univer- sity_and also oresident of the College of the Bible and Hocker Female Coliege, died to-day at Pittsburg, wiere he was visit- ne. RAIN FALLS IN THE SOUTH. San Diego and Los Angeles Receive Welcome Drenching. LO8 ANGELES, Jan. 20.—Rain began falling at 5 o'clock this morning and has continued at intervals throughout the day. Reports indicate that the precipitation is general throughout Southern California. At 5 o'clock this afternon, when the last measurement was taken by the local weather bureau, the rainfall was .22 of an inch for the storm and 8.07 inches for the season, against 457 inches to ‘the same date last season. Since § o'clock probably a tenth of an inch has fallen, and the in- dications are favorabie for a continuation of the storm. SAN DIEGO, Jan. 20.—A brisk rainstorm came up from the south this afternoon. and from 2 o'clock until 5 there was a recipltation of .28 of an inch in this city. eports from the country indicate that about the same amount fell there. The rain is needed. Indications are that the storm will continue during the night. The storm prevented the San Diego-San Ber- nardino ball game. + + + | VICTORIA'S LIFE -3 g | M/zflfiflo/j Feo, TRANGE Co AL 77 L d « Lors Jorne, ”7//]7/” APPORTI ALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 20.—Cagter of Los Angeles, chalrman of the Assem- | bly Committee on Apportionment and Census, {s working on an ap- portionment bill which will present radi- cal departures from the lines lald down | by the Cutter bill. He has practically completed the division of the State into | Assembly districts, but as yet he has not | touched upon Senatorial and Congres- sfonal districts. [ Carter has attempted in his bill to group | the counties with small population into | Assembly districts according to their com- | munity of interests. Mining counties are | grouped and agricultural counties put in | other districts as much as possible. He | has attempted to give as equable repre- | sentation according to population as pos- | sible, and to some extent has taken into | consideration the probabilities as to growth in population of various sections within the next four ycars. Cutter’s bill gives San Bernardino Coun- ty_but one Assemblyman, while Carter will_give it two. ' The county’'s population 1s 27,927. The population per Assembly- man for the whole State is 18,563. Carter points out that Cutter gives Humboldt County, with 27,104 population, nearly 1000 less than San Bernardino, two Assembly- men. Carter would reduce Humboldt to CALM SETTLES UPON LONDON ———— Continued From First Page. | able sum for its news service could pos- sibly publish an article so brutally cruel at a moment when the whole coun- try is o full of sorrow. i In reference to the report that the Prince of Wales did not see the Queen when he went down to Osborne yesterday, all sorts of reasons are suggested. One | which had currency was that the Queen | was entirely out of her mind. Another | and more probable explanation is that | every attempt is being made to conceal | the seriousness of her condition from her | and that none of the royal family exrem; her constant attendant, Princess Beatrice, have up to the present been allowed in | the sick chamber. People are asking why | it was the Princess of Wales was driven at a hard gallop from the East: Cowes | Landing stage up to Osborne. All London listens for the tolling of the great bell, known “Big Tom," which hangs in Bt. Paul's Cathedral and which will ring its toll. telling of the death of the Queen and Empress. S SINGS TO SAVE Princess’ Son Prevents the Invalid | Sinking Into a Fatal Slumber. COWES, Isle of Wight, Jan. 21, 12:30 a. m.—The Queen's extreme weakness has caused almost more alarm than the paralysis. Much difficulty has been ex- perienced in administering nourishment. | To this weakness were probably due the long spells of unconsclousness through which she has passed, although it Is al- most impossible to distinguish these from t..e insidious encroachments of paralysis. For more than a week the court at- tendants have had hard work to preveut her sleeping at the wrong time. The last time she drove out the villagers were astounded to hear the clear treble of the son of the Princess of Battenberg sing- ing popular songs from the royal car- riage. The explanation is that he wos singing to keep his grandmother awake. Now and again she dozeu, awakening to tei the boy to keep up his chant. which, 16 the oniookers, contained a world of pathos. 3 | wmperor William, the Prince of Wales and Duke of York are all expected to ar- rive at Osborne House to-aay (Monday). The only royal personage who arrived yesterdav was Prince Victorla of Schless- nolsteln, wno arrived during the after- | P festerday at Osborne, hedged around with intense secrecv. began with a touch- ine scene. Among the bright sunshine, ‘n marked contrast to the gloomy skies of Saturaay, there drove out from the pal- ace grounds a carriaze containing wreaths ror the tomb of Prince Henry ui Battenburg in the little church at Whip- pingham about ten minutes’ ride from the royal residence. Then followed car- riages containing the Princess of Wales, the Princess of Battenburg, Princess Louise and others, all dressed in the deep- est black. The face of the Princess of Wales showed signs of the anxiety she was undergoing. The annual memorial service for Prince Henry, always a sad occasion, was more than usually sorrowful, for the shadow of a still greater bereavement was up- ermost in all minds. The Princess of Wales and the Princess of Battenburg sobbed bitterly, and there was gcarcely one of those royal heads bent in prayer that did not shake with a grief which could not be suppressed. The departure of the Prince of Wales for London shortly after 2 o’clock to meet Emperor Willlam was quletl{ accomplish- ed. The Queen had been informed of the Katser's coming and had sigaified her 1 - CARTER PREPARES NEW Groups Small Counties With Regard to Community Interests. @-f-inin bbbttt e e - | wanted the Emperor to postpone his vi«it ONMENT BILL one and turn the extra Assemblyman over to San Bernardino, justifying it not only by present population but by the proba- bilities for the immediate future as weil, | as he points out that San Bernardino | County is growing in population much faster than Humboldt. | Carter groups Yolo and Sutter together, and Yuba and Butte. Cutter puts Yuba and Sutter together, although their com- bined population is only 13,000, and leaves Butte an Assemblyman by {tself. Alpine, Mono and Inyo are grouped by Carter on account of convenience of travel and common interests. Cutter takes Inyo and places it with Tulare, ignoring, Car- | ter claims, lack of community interests and the long distance between Independ- ence and Visalia, the county seats. Cutter puts Mono in with Tuolumne, Mariposa and Madera. Carter points ouf that to go from Mono to Tuolumne one must cross the summit of the Sierras and | traverse nearly eighty miles of mountain | road. | Carter leaves Tuolumne and MafiYe a In | one district, as at present. He will prob- ably put Amador in with Calaveras. Cut- ter puts Alpine also in with these two, and Carter objects to this grouping on account of the remoteness of Alpine. Carter will also take up the Benatarial districts next, and then the Congressional districts, As'to the latter, whatever else is done, Los Angeles will be constituted a separate district, which is also intended by the author of the Cutter bill. desire that the Prince should go to meet him. Rather against his wiM. the man who for the moment was practically the King of England obeyed his mother's wishes. It was rumored that the Queen to Osborne House, as she did not wish to recefve him in her present condition. Apparently in her lucid moments she be- lieved that she would be able to conquer the dread disease which had fastened !t- self upon her. During the afternoon the long hill road to the palace grounds was crowde. with people, particularly voung men and women arrayed in their Sunday garb, dot- ting the landscape with vivid patches of color. The local gentry after church ser- vices wrote their names in the visitors’ book at the lodge. which contains no sig- nature that would mean anyvthing to the | world outside of the Isle of Wight. Inquirfes of importance all came by tel- egram. and these were legion. Hundreds of people of all sorts and conditions, cler- gymen predominating, flooded Cowes with | telegrams asking for the latest news. A swarm of people. among them correspond- ents from all quarters of the globe. con- verged toward the lodge gates. Their In- quiries generally took the form of a timid “How is shi addressed to the police- man, who barred all comers, and an in- quirer who had been answered would be immediately surrounded by others, less bold. who sought the news. When night fell the country became de- serted except for the newspaper writers, who waited wearily in the lodge. PRAY FOR THE QUEEN Loyal Subjects binithe:!ity of Denver Hold Impressive Service for Their Ruler. DENVER, Jan. 20.—Many subjects of Great Britain and naturalized Englishmen in Denver joined to-day in the special prayers for the recovery of Queen Victo- ria. In'St. Barnabas. the leading chapel of the Church of England in Denver, the rector, Rev. Charles Marshall, prefaced the morning and evening services with a brief review of the reign of Victoria. Then followed the prayers for the Queen as lald down in the ritual of the church. The large congregation repeated each word reverently after the rector, making a most impressive service. This is the first time in Mr. Marshall's pastorate that the ceremony has been observed. SEES BRITAIN'S POWER TOPPLE Chancellor of Nebraska University Predicts the Disintegration of the Empire. LINCOLN. Neb., Jan. 20.—Dr. E. B. An- drews, chancellor of the University of Nebraska, preached to-night at the First Baptist Church on the life of Queen Vie- toria. “She hath done what she could.’ was the chosen text of Dr. Andrews. The chancellor predicted that after her death the empire would gradually disintegrate. Australia would first seek independence, and then South Africa and perhaps Can- ada would follow. This, he thought, would come to pass because there was “no like- i ol mascts smather” rabee 5 the Queen.” HIGHEST OF FREE MASONS Prince of Wales Is Grand Master of the Grand Lodges of the WILL WORK IN AID OF UNIVERSITY President Wheeler to Visit the State Capital. Intends Addressing Senate and As~ sembly. i B e CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 20.—President Benjamin alifor- Ide Wheeler of the University of ¢ nia will come up from Berkeley to-m row, arriving at 12 o'clock. He has ex- pressed a desire to meet the members each branch of the Legisla t talk with them upon the needs of the ur versity and the character of the me: ures best fitted to provide necessary reve- nue. If consent be given he will address both the Senate and the Assembly dur the course of the afternoon and will g any information he possesses on the sub- ject in hand in answer to inquiries by the members. The conference with the Alameda Coun- ty delegation to-morrow night at which lenator Rowell and Assemblyman Alden Anderson having the university b charge were to be present, may pos be abandoned. Whether or not it w held will depend somewhat upen the velopments of to-morrow afternoon’s se. sion. _Governor Gage's absence pract cally blocks any effort toward effecting a compromise in the matter of university legislation. HURLED DOWN THE SIDE OF A HILL Thomas Roy Meets With an Accident and Barely Escapes With His Life. SAN RAFAEL, Jan. 20.—An old resident of this county, Thomas Roy, met with a bad accident on White's Hill this afte: noon and barely escaped with his life. While crossing the hill his horse becama trightened and plunged over the embank ment. Horse, driver and vehicle rolled down the guich. Mr. Roy was thrown out and terribly cut and bruised horse struggled to his feet and scrambied back to the road, drawing with him the shafts and front wheels. After reaching the rcad the animal commenced a furious pace down the grade. Several teams had narrow escapes from collision with the runaway. The injured man was removed to his brother's home and medical ald summoned. — Killed by a Fall. MERCED, Jan. 20.—John Muller, a ploneer resident of this community, was found dead this morning a few miles his home, which s four miles south Hornitos in Mariposa County. Mr. Mul- ler came to Merced on a business trip a fow days ago and started home Friday evening. Saturday morning his team was found near his home and a search was made for the owner, which was continued until this morning, when his body was found a half mile off the main road and about seven miles from the Muller home. An inquest was held this afternoom and it was found that Muller had met acc dental death by being tipped out of his rig. which ran into a steep gully. His skull was crushed and neck broken. It is thought he was asleep and that the horses wandered off the main road. The finding of $60 on his person removes ail suspicion of foul play. —_— Quiet at’ Salem. SALEM, Or., Jan. 20.—Although nearly all the members of the Legislature re- turned to Salem to-night all has been quiet around the hotel corridors. The con- test over a Republican Senatorial cau- cus will take place to-morrow. Those who favor a caucus still claim to be con- fident of securing forty-six signatures (o the caucus call, whils the oppoments of the caucus to all appearances have no fears. The Legislature will convene at 2 o'clock to-morrow aftermoon. The first ballot for United States Senator will be taken in separate sessions Tuesday at noon. —_— Receives a Tidy Legacy. PENNGROVE, Jan. 20.—Adam Baitin- ger, an old German laborer, who has been employed for a number of years on tha ranch of Fount Cook, five miles north of Penngrove, on the Santa Rosa road, has just received notice that he has been left a tidy sum of money by the death of his father, a prominent resident of Wurtem- burg, Germany. The legacy will amount to several thousand dollars. It is ov forty years since Baltinger departed from the land of his birth. i n HE Manager Nevin Il LOS ANGELES, Jan. 20.—W. G. Nevin, general manager of the Santa Fe system. has been granted a six months’ leave of abseace on account of ill health_and will 0 abroad shortly to recuperate. His office uring his absence will be filled by A. G Wells, general superintendent, and J. Hurley, superintendent of the New Mexi division, will temporarily assume the du- ties of general superintendent. — Catherine Miller Ashore. SAN RAFAEL, Jan. 20.—Last night the schooner Catherine Miller went ashore at the mouth of San Rafael Creek. She car- ried a cargo of coal consigned to Cheda & Co. It Is believed that the boat will be saved with but little damage. - Injured in a Mine. MARIPOSA, Jan. 20.—W. T. Berkin and a man named Kelly were Injured by a cave-in_at the Mariposa mine this after- noon. Kelly suffered the fractufe of two ribs and one leg. Berkin is belleved to be fatally injured. soon become King of England, but be- cause he grand master of the Grand Lodges of England, Ireland, Scotland apd Wales, and is also grand prior of the - der of Knights Templar in England and grand patron of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry in th United gdom, having received t thirty-third and last degree in that branc of Freemasonry For more than thirt¥-two vears he h been identified with the Mas There is not a member throu world who takes deever or mc interest in its welfare. In the es by 3 order the position which he occugp a bis r 1 station and Masonry he fully exemplifies personal contact with his M ic br ren when visiting various lies with which he is affillated the equality upoa which all Free Masons stand when meet- ing as such, soclal lines being relaxed to a remarkable degree. Masonry e Where receives his hearty and unqual support and his presence at Importan* Masonic functions is always sought f and usually with success. Like his gran father, the Duke of Kent. his royal ness was admitted into a fraternity und a foreign constitution. He was initi h into the mysteries of Freemasonry by his. M gesty the King of Sweden while . & vi:# to Stockho!m in December, 186 In September, 1569, the Grand Lodge o England conferred upon him the rank »f past grand master and in December of the same year he became grand maste being invested with the Insignia of Masonic rank by Grand Master the Barl of Zetland at the grand quarterly commu- nication. In the previous month, on the motion of the Duke of Leinster, grani master of the Grand Lodge of Preland, tha title of patron of the order in Ireland was conferred upon his royai Highness by tha Grand Lodge of Ireland, his investurs taking place at a grand communication held in Dublin August 14, 157l. He was United Kingdom. Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, is the most prominent living Free Mason, not only by reason of the fact that he may i subsequently elected worshipful mastor of Royal Alpha Lodge No. 16 In Willis Rooms, London. and later worshipful master ‘of Apollo University Lodge No. &7, Oxford. Queen Victoria is a patroness of Masonry.