The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 5, 1901, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1901. PARIS INVESTIGATING COMMITTEE NOW WANTS TO LET GO — FIVE MORE WITNESSES WILL GIVE TESTIMONY What He Knows Grove Johnson Scheduled to Appear and Tell Concerning Foote, Runyon and Gaskill. Expense Account as Submitted by the Managers of 0 California’s Exhibit at the Exposition Is Given to the Public. —_— Special Dispatch to The Calk iarged to expense ac- ) is made -out P. tis P 4 3] i IATIVE GOVERKOR Serious Uprising Reported From the Island of Mindoro. have report- Feb. 4—Natives I the t a week g r- There have been of the provincial gov- completed. The bill after- the condl ation of govern- ch are found to be ment. The Com- ADAMS EXPRESS CAR ROBBED OF FREIGHT More That $4000 Worth of Goods Taken and No Trace of the Robber Is Found. b. 4-A car of the y attached to the at midnight Sat- as rifled en route freight estimated to be robbery was not e after the train Thomas Barber of e of the car belong- , but 2 in a car . and r Iy he unaware of the pres- ¢ of the robbers in the other car. It ht the robbers entered with a Work of the City Council. LAND, Feb. 4—The City Council resolutions Trequesting ted te, The Counc ning to prepare and mation for the munici- will be held March Il llpox Patients Recover. c AND, Feb. 4.—The Board of th has received a repokt that all ts in this city are con- recovered. There are no 0Old North Colony. in old colonial days, 1d North Colony,” an with State instead of colony, retained to the present time.. also been called *“Tui tine a from the impertance of this ar- ticle in the list of ile exports.—Philad: phla Inquirer. DRIVEN BE HOWLING GALES spend four weeks on | t for more than h was appro- It will be s of the Commis t San Francisco r they arrived in 3,943, a It will a! s expenses 150 en that footed up over d Runyon will be ex- nd Foote and John- led on Wednesday. Ll PRIVILEGES OF FLOOR FOR MEMBERS Assembly Decides Not to Keep Its Better Halves Outside the Railing. HEADQUARTERS, BSACRA- ). 4.— members’ lobby” is ure of the Assembly Chambe n railing between it and the members has proved ade- arrier to keep out the wives mblymen. ue was joined this morning, when ral Assemblymen were tapped on the shoulder by the sergeant at arms and In- formed that the new rule was in force and that no persons, not even their brides, ere to be allowed inside the new raliling. Knight of San Francisco promptly intro- duced a resolution that the new rule be not construed to prevent the préence in- side the ralling of the wives of members. The resolution aid not meet unanimous Ralston said the erule was a purpose and if the As- by making exceptions the soon be broken down en- lustrated his objection in ought down" the house. He sa | “How are you going to regulate such an My wife is not here. exception as this? 1 bring v_are you my wife or vhether it would be in rs to vote on the the defense of the adopted. Knight d a resolution ad- Assembly also, are not pros- iration of their mptly tabled the FORE Awfnl Experience of the Little Island Schooner Mokihana. | Sl HONOLULU, Jan. 24—Captain C. F. d two natives of the crew of the ng schooner Mokihana last Sunday morning irilling experience at sea previol During the whole d the vessel had been unman- of Oahu all the »rovision istant gales drove the craft reaching shore again. Mokihana is a vessel of only about She left Honolulu for Kahului, i.\!aui, and broke her rudder before she passed around Diamond Head: Re- rs were found to be impossible and the I's course could not be controlled. | Bhe was blown south till she was out of ght of land, and wiw a gale still blow- ng and no land ahead for thousands of i he men almost gave themselves up pair. Winds changed and the ves- back to Oahu, but cpuld not get | two . At the vent ashore on the ptain. Green and the were ted by the janae. Later they were onolulu by the Oahu Rail- 0! is still aground, but the beach is sandy struck. This is the third time t she has been aground. The a few weeks ago, at was on her first trip changing ownership since that last ter. M ger F. J. Cross of the Wireless | Telegraphy Com reports success in getting m »m the island of Maul | to Honolulu. The system is not yet open to the publie, however, and there is a good deal of ekepticism about its working. Cross says he is having operators trained and that when he has enough of {hem he will open regular communication across the various channels that separate the different islands of the group, The Board of Health has received a plaintive kick from the leper settlement at Molokal. A number of the lepers ap- pointed a commilitee to address the board and ascertain why there was not enough pol, and the committee sent a letter to | the' board on the subject. The letter says that many of the 'lepers have become weak on account of the lack of poi, and | that many will s00n be i2id in their graves if the want is not supplied. The native Hawaflan needs pol for food “Rice, bread and crackers are all very well in | their way.” says the letter from the lep- | ers, “but we cannot live without poi.” g! | the’ board cannot feed them with poi, the lepers ask to be relcased from their lana of pain and sorrow, in order that they mra,\' return to their families and be looked | after. “Biily” Hurt, the famous gambler, is Howmolulu, having come here on the | steamship Sferra under the name and title |of Colone! Allen. Hurt had a few poker games hereabouts and was suddenly ex- posed and accused of running “‘sure thing' games. The police are now watching him very closely. Hurt rented a house in the residence district, and he is sald to have fitted it up with electric apparatus, mir- rors and other necessaries of the gambler who takes no chances to lose and he made ny efforts to make the acquaintance of local wealthy men. The report of the first Grand Jury on the island of Hawali, at Hilo, has just been presented. It deals very largely with the conditions of immorality sald to be existing in the town, and calls for vlf- orous reform. The town is referred to in the report as “a modern Sodom,” and the police and courts are urged to take mtarn measures to improve the conditions. e hackmen are much blamed for thelr part business which the Grand Jury demands be stopped. alone | WIVES | and water run- | o t attention by sig- | : ! < | “ASSEMBLYMAN KNIGHT “waNTED Jo FEIx 4T, S0 HI> BETTE ALF" | CoULO KEEP < | TRACK oOF THIN FoR-Hina | ! H | | E3 TRisE=To-,, Poiny - OR ORomp® SAIB 3uTRe =R ~owce CHAR ‘5‘;’_‘;::: Ririr i OR, 5 Noy we.f’fi'* TAaKE N STEwART 0% AraDOR. SQUEARES &UT / An_oBiecTioN (V INCIDENTS OF A DAY IN THE ASSEMBLY CHAMBER AT SACRAMENTO. I JoHN BROUGHT AnExcyse’ Fom Hi> | TARDINESS | T Secsnn b S -z ASSEMBLY STANDS BY GOVERNOR ‘Majority Prevents a Reconsideration of Health Bill. —_— Special Dispatch to The Call. ALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 4—The final p: sage of Assembly bills Nos. 538, 669 and 560—Governor Gage's quar- | antine measures, which = the friends of the Chief Executive have been | trying to get through the Assembly on | rush orders—is now very much in doubt. | The bills originally recelved the support | of many country members on the supposi- | tion that they were framed to protect California’s commercial interests.and the resolutions adopted by the various com- mercial bodies of San Francisco, prote: ing against the passage of the bills, have already changed the attitude of a num- ber of Assemblymen and insured the strenuous opposition of many Senators. The subject came up in_ the Assembly this morning on a motion by Feliz to re- consider the motion by which was pas Assembly bill No. 530, the one placing an appropriation of $100,000 at the disposal of the State Board of alth, to be expend- ed er the dire ¢’ the Governor. | =« bare quorum w nt, and after a | long con i tary tactics, in which rol calls of the absente and points of order of ed prominent parts, the tab'e , Dl Totion to Teconsider was laid on th | on motion of Johuson. The vote stood, | Ayes 24, noes 18. Knight explained his | vote against the motion to lay on the table by call tention to the resolu- tions adop Francisco. His po- sition was 'w of such action the passage of the bill should be reconsidered. Melick explained his vote against the | motion to lay on the table on the same at Knight gave. The other bills, Nos. 658 and 559, are a special order for to-morrow morning im- mediately after the reading of the jour- pal, and at that time the contest will be fought out, so far as the Assembly is con- cerned. George E. Plummer, representing the Shipowners' Association of the Pacific “oast, was the first of the representatives the commercial bodies of San Francisco to arrive to work against these measures. He was busy this morning explaining to Assemblymen the reasons for the opposi- tion of San Francisco business men. He asked that delay be granted until other representatives should be able to reach Sacramento, and his efforts helped to pre- vent the immediate defeat of Ieliz’'s mo tion to reconSider the passage of Assem- blv_ bill No. 560. The fight against Assembly bills 558 ana 559 will be bitter. Assemblymen who vot: ed for the appropriation bill on Saturda: and who had changed to the oppositicn to-day as a result of the new information they had received, but were unable to ob- tain a reconsideration and were compelle to see the bill pass out of the Assembly’s | hands with their votes recorded.for it, will make every effort to-morrow to defeat its companion measures. The Health Committee of the Senate to- day took up the consideration of that por- tion of the Governor's biennial message relating to the plague, which had been referred to it, and decided to report it back to the Senate without recommenda- tion. This was done on motion of Rowell, who made the motion “in view of the fact that the Federal and State quarantine officlals and the Federal and State offi- clals were working upon the problem treated of in the measure.” Assembly bill 560, which carries the ap- propriation of $100,000 for the Governor to' use in suppressing contagious diseases, having passed the Assembly, came before the committee, but it will not be consid. ered until to-morrow. Neither will t other measures on the same subject in- troduced in the Benate by Cutter. mitanist o ek MINING INSPECTOR BILL MEETS DEFEAT Senator Curtin Delivers an Able but Futile Argument in Its Support. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, F#b. 4.—If solid facts and clear- cut arguments could have pulled an un- popular bill out of the ditch of defeat, Curtin of Tuolumne would have had his Mining Inspector bill passed by the Sen- ate to-day. It is seldom Curtin has any- thing to say, but he made his first ap- pearance in debate this session this-after- noon, after a half-dozen Senators had rent the air with their oratory while op- posing the measure. * Curtin’s idea is to provide an inspector of mines, whose duty it shall be to look up complaints regarding the safety of any mine, and to suggest changes and addi- tions'to the safety devices and appliances. There is no penalty attached to a disre- gard of the inspector's sufi:u;lona, but in case of an accident where he has warned the company, his evidence would augment the -damages recovered, and where an accident occurred when he had passed a mine as being safe, his evidence would bear out the mine-owner in his claim that the accident was unavoidable. Curtin closed the debate on the biil with a twenty-minute speech that would have carried the measure had not so many Senators committed themselves against it gzlfn‘pposln‘ it on the floor of the Senate Y g‘L ux% ‘;l:bau:. He should ha.ve!m_ a3 Curtin took his defeat tly and fused to cumber the useless noumo(nmflanum o~ COMMITTEE ACTION ON NEW BILLS Appropriations for Two Public High- wags Favored. — e Spectal Dispatch to The Call. ALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 4—The Ways and Means Committee of the Assem- bly adopted to-day a new quorum rule, that will make that body more than ever a feared arbiter of the fate of bills. In future a quorum is to consist of the chatrman, or whomever he may designate to preside in his absence, and three members. The committee con- sists of eleven members, and practically all of them but the chairman are on other important committees, and at times will be compelled to be absent. The Ways and Means Committee meets daily, and under the new rule a favorable or unfa- vorable report on almost any bill may be ?bl‘alned by the proper amount of manipu- ation. At the Ways and Means Committee meeting to-day favorable reports were agreed upon for the bill introduced by Berry appropriating $5000 for flumes and floodgates at the outlet of Lake Earl, Del Jorte County, and for Ray’s bill trans- ferring the $50,000 previously appropriated for the Mariposa road to a new Yosemite road fund, to meet a Federal appropria- tion of $80,000. The Assembly Committee on Roads and Highways decided to-day to recommend for passage Assembly bill No. 532, by Milice, carrying an appropriation for a San Jacinto-Temecula road in Riverside and San Diego counties, and Williams' bill appropriating $10,00 to aid in the con- struction of the Alameda-Contra Costa wagon road. The Assembly Committee on Public Health and Quarantiné decided to-day to accept the invitation of the commercial organizations of San Francisco to meet their representatives in the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce on Wednesday aft- ernoon at 1 o'clock to hear arguments against Assembly bill No. 294, creating a State quarantine officer. The decision is provisional, and there is a suspicion that the committee will change its mind if the friends of the Governor's quarantine measures crack the whip about its heels with convincing sharpness, The Assembly Committee on Federal Relations, by a vote of two to one, but three members being_present, agreed to report Cutter's anti-Kinyoun ’resolutions favorably. Melick will present a minority report. The Senate Health Committee decided to report without recommendation the bill to recognize osteopathy as a branch of the medical profession. @cirieiedeleleolorimionis e e sfelefefoiloini=in @ MRS, NATION 1§ ASSAILED Continued From First Page. scenes which will almost certainly be in- augurated in the closing, Mrs. Nation later entered the drugstore of B. F. Sims and announced that she was lying in wait for the members of the Leg- islature. She walked behind the prescrip- tion counter and examined all the differ- ent kinds of liquor kept on tap. As the members of the Legisiature came in she conducted them behind the counter and asked them to drink. They refused in each case, however, not because they did not want the liquor, as they had gone to the store to get some, but for reasons best known to themselves they preferred not to get it from Mrs. Nation. Mrs. Na- tlon .sajd she was from Kentucky and knew all the different kinds of liquor as soon as she tasted them. She tasted the liquors in the drugstore and pronounced many of them excellent. Before leaving, however, she warned the druggist to dis- pose of his stock at once or his store would get smashed. “You have a nice store here.”” she said, “and I would hate to spoil it; but you must wn;ch o;xt, or I wl‘l"l. g A number of women, wives of pr citizens, attacked the two joints %‘.fi:fi?& at McCune, a small town fifteen miles west of Pittsburg, Kans,, to-day and de- stroyed the furniture and fixtures at both places. A large quantity of wet goods was destroyed and broken bottles and jugs 1it- tered the floor. The women held a short prayer service first, and then, after arm- ing themselves with hatchets and ball bats, marched on the jointists. The sa- loon keepers fled after a short parley, dur- ing which they attempted to dissuade the crusaders from their purpose. The dam- age done will amount to ). ‘eeling runs high, but none of the wreckers have been'arrested. The joints are all closed. Bonds Declared Illegal DENVER, Feb. 4.—In the United States District Court this afternoon, Judge Riner handed down a decision declaring the $4,700,000 water bond issue voted by the city two years ago to be illegal. —_—— Gu-nua has to imj all Indian corn (in 189,000, mgérl:hall i‘:- used), because %efl'fl t mature in the PURITY OF ELECTIONS LAW STAYS Cutter's Repeal Bill Sustains Second Defeat. ST, % Speclal Dispatch to The Call. ALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 4—Cutter's bill to repeal the purity of elections law met a second defeat before the Senate this morning when it came up under a motion to reconsider the vote by which the measure was defeated last Friday. Shortridgs and Smith of Kern spoke in favor of the motion to reconsider | and the debate was waxing warm when Leavitt moved the previous question. It was carried, the roll was called and Cu:- ter’s bill to repeal the election laws was kiled for good. Muenter’s bill knccking out the bank commission was killed, and as no recon- sideration was asked for it will stay dead. The bill was supported by Shortridge, Muenter and Caldwell and opposed by Wolfe, Cutter, Devlin and Davis, who pointed out that the commission was no expense to the State. The Senate this afternoon passed Senate bill 204, making an appropriation to pay the salarles and expenses of the employes | ot the Commissioner of Public Works in | the fifty-first fiscal year; also Senate bill | 341, making assauit with a deadly weapon by one prisoner confined in State prison upon another a capital offense; also Sen- ate bill 279, fixing thc term of imprison- ment for persons guiity of bringing about false imprisonment punishable by con- finement from one to ten years in State prison. In the Serate this morning Caldwell introduced a constitutional amendment to ‘be submitted to the people at the next election to increase the Supreme Court of the State to nine members and the Chief Justice. The resolution provides that the court shall be divided Into three depart- ments, and cases are to be assigned to each by the Chief Justice, and the judg- ment of any department is to be fin: The Chief Justice or four Justices may order a case heard in bank, and in such cases the concurrence of six Justices shall be necessary.. The proposed amendment also abolishes the Supreme Court Com- missioners, and provides that the Gov- ernor shall appoint the three additional Justices after the amendment is adopted. Caldwell introduced a bill making it a misdemeanor for the owners of sieep- ing cars to permit the berths of the same to_remain down when unoccupied. Senator Welch of San Francisco intro- duced a bill to pay the claim, of $1300 of Christopher McNuity for injuries received at Washington-street pier. Senator Devlin introduced a joint reso- lution, which was adopted, inviting the Congressional Committee on Rivers and Harbors to visit California to examine the waterways and harbors of the State. The Senate passed the pill to provide for the completion and . equipment of the bullding of the San Dieso Normal School. e MERCHANTS' ASSOCIATION FAVORS CIVIL SERVICE The board of directors of the Merchants’ Assoclation has published an official ap- peal to the members of that organization to stand by the municipal clvil service. They state that it is the foundation of good government, and that they have an abiding faith in the service and the Com- missioners. The appeal is as follows: To the Members of the Merchants' Assocta- tion and the Public: It is not strange that the introduction of civil service in place of the spoils system should meet with opposition. It will always be opposed by those who want positions and fall to obtain them and by the natural opponents of the administration which supports the system. This association, seeking no office and hav- ing no enmity o1 any _administration, st stand by the civil service principle and by those who endeavor to carry it out. It is the principle by which the merchant con- duets his business; the principle of common sense; the principle of good government. With- out it, we cannot hope to make Francisco a credit or a satisfaction to her citizens. With it, we may, in time, remove the greatest ob- stacle to her success. The directors of the ts'" Association have made if the first in”their efforts to aid in municipal affairs, To assist in its establishment they consented that our secretary should serve as «ne of the commissioners. We know his worth ard his absolute reliability. One of our di- rectors resigned to accept another appointment on the Board of Civil Service Commissioners. They must not now be doubted unless proof can be given of thelr malfeasance, Civil service has had a fight to sustain jtselt in national affairs, and wherever else at- tempted, and we must expect the same experi- ence here. It has much to gain from experi- ence and much to learn from such errors as must necessarily occur. But citigens should not weaken in its support and the mem- bers of the Merchants' Association must not ‘be misled by unsupported newspaper attacks. Our president, and a committee of this board have endeavored to ascertain If there Is any just ground for the various criticlsms recently made, and we are report that care- ful inquiry has _de no proof of the slightest tendency t unfairness or of any lack of absolute uprightness and integrity on the part of the Charges We ask that a reasonable charity be nted for such slight Sl st o it Sk e that this foundation principle of sood gov. errment be permitted a establishment l’no -ro;lnl affairs. RS OF THE MER- K3 WILL DO NO MORE THAN RECOMMEND State Board of Edu- cation to Submit No Bills. —— Special Dispatch to The Call. ALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 4—The State Board of Education has decided after all to leave bills and legislation alone, and to do no more than recom- | mend to the Legislature what leg- islation it deems advisable. The board met this afternoon and whiled away an hour or so discussing the formation of a textbook commission. President Wheeler was opposed to the idea, for he said the State Board should not ‘allow a_matter so important as the selection and compilation of textbooks to leave its own hands. The measure sug- gested by the subcommittee which met yesterday, providing one Commissioner to find and arrange for the purchase of suitable copyrighted material, under the direction of the board, was discussed, but the board was unwilling to go even that far into the realm of legislation, prefer- Ting to content itself with suggesting to both houses what legislation it deems needful and then leaving the matter in the | hands of the two committees on educa- tion. In pursuance of this determination, the following communication was pre- pared: To the Senate and the Assembly ¢ the State of California—Gentlemen: - It e sense of t Education on the question of State schocl text-books: First—That provision should be made for | securing the best books obtainable. | Second—That provision be made for special 5pert examination in the case of each book adopted. Third—That provision be made for giving such clerical assistance as may be needed in tLis matter. the clerk so appointed to be se- | lected by the State Board and placed under the direction of its secretary. Fourth—That full control of the educational side of this matter remain in the hands of the State Board of Education. Fifth—That the State Board be empowered to enter into contracts for securing the use of copyrighted text-book m: sistance the committees m given, but otherwise the State Board will officially go no further in the matter. FIGHT OVER GREER'S FOLSOM ROAD BILL Fisk Submits a Minority Report and Reveals Committes Secrets. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 4—The second reading of Greer's Folsom road bill precipitated a contest in the Assembly this morning, but in the end the amendments recommended by the Ways and Means Committee were Incorporated and the report adopted In committee of the whole, allowing the b'll to go to third reading. Fisk, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee, was allowed. to bring in minority report. In the course of the dis- cussion he revealed one of the secrets of the executive sessions of the committee, whose actions this year have been care- fully guarded from public criticism by ut- most secrecy 2nd executive sessions in all action upon bills. Fisk sald it was only fair to the Assembly to know that the committee had voted only by a bare ma- jority to recommend that the bill do pass. Greer said he had not anticipated that the chairman of the committee would reveal detalls of the committee’s action, but that since Mr. Fisk had done so he would state that the vote stood 5 to 8 in favor of the bill The bill provides for an appropriation of to be available when the citizens interested shall have raised a fund of $15,000, the intention being to obtain addl- tional subscriptions of money and labor after construction shall begin. Melick, Fisk, Chandler and others opposed the bill on the ground that there wa& no guar- antee In it that citizens of Sacramen and along the route of the road would r spond liberally enough to complete the road without further demands upon the State. Melick said he had favored the bill two vears ago, when the county was re- quired by bond issue to advance @ sum equal to the State appropriation, but by the present bill that matter was left witn- out guarantee and the result probably would be an uncompleted road waiting for further State appropriation to save what had already been expended. s R ot PLAN FOR WHOLESALE JUNKETING EXCURSIONS Assembly Committee on Commissions Would Visit Many In- stitutions. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 4—Bliss, as chairman of the Committee on Commissions and Pub- lic Expenditures, introduced a resolution in the Assembly to-da— that shows the Eeneu] e:#emeul for junketing trips to ave seized at least a portion of his com- mittee. The resolution was to authorize the committee to take such junketing trips as it should find necessary to carry out the Assembly’s instructions to investi. gate and report what State commissions, 1f any. might profitably be abolished. Melick, a member of the committee, in- an objectlon and succeded in de- ferring action till to-morrow. The cost to the State of such junkets would moun up into the thomnsfl. T i —_— To Cure the Grip in Two Days Tazafive Bromo-Quinine semoves the camen.® OBJECTS TO THE LOSS OF A DISTRICT Devlin Argues on Be- half of Sacramento Assemblymen. Is Given Time to Prepars Substitute Apportion- ment Bill. Special Dispatch to The Call. e ALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Feb. 4—Represented by Senator Devhin, Sacramento mada a desperate fight to retain her third Assembiyman this after- noon. Devlin appearéd before the Senate Committes on Apportionment, which proposes to take from Sacramento one of her three Assemblymen and turn the coveted legislator over to Mono, Al- pine and Inyo counties. Though small in population, it was shown that these three countles are very much of a world by themselves, and by the physical charac- teristics of the State they are cut off from the other countles to which they are jolned for the purposes of forming dis- tricts, both Senatorial and Assembly. Deviin argued that if Sacramento, with a population of 45,000, had but two As- semblymen, each would represent 22,500 or far above the allotment for y districts. This was answered by the comment that should three be ai- lowed each would represent 15,000, or much below the allotment. Devlin then called atteption to the fact that, even were this s0, the commites was attempting to allow a separate Assembiyman to three coun- tles the aggregate population of which was no more than 10000. This was met with the argument that the injunction of the constitution was that the State should be apportioned In the manner that woulds best represent all the people, and that the plan of thegcommittee, which was the one which cut Sacramento's representation by one-third, had been submitted only after a careful cogsideration of the needs of the whole State. In vain Devlin argued that Sacramento was _entitled to the extra Assemblyman by the terms of the constitution, which says the people of a county shall be rep- resented equally, for he was met with an- other and broader provision, which re- quires that the people of the State shall be equally represented. It was shown that because of their small population Inyo, Mono and Alpine could never obtain recog- nition in conventions, and as they all have an identity of interest it was decided to give them one Assemblyman to them- selves. The committee finally stopped Devlin's argument with the proposition that in- stead of tearing to pleces the plan which the committee had drawn he should sub- mit a better one, with Sacramento holding on to her three Assemblymen. This v lin said he would try to do so. and so he was given until next Wednesday to work out the salvation of his county. Lardner was to the front with a claim to have Placer recognized as a complete Assembly district, joining El Dorado with ‘Amador to form another. but no action was taken upon it. Should this be done Davis' voice will be raised In protest, for he wants none of El Dorado in his Sen- atorfal district, and the coupling of El Dorado with Amador would compel him to take it. - Funds for McKinley Reception. SACRAMENTO, Feb. 4—In the Assem- bly this morning Senate concurrent reso- lution No. 5, setting aside §1000 for the en- tertainment of President McKinley on the occasion of his contemplated visit to the State, was adopted. when you are well, to sub and scrub, nlm when the back aches and the head throbs, a woman’s work is hourly torment. No woman can be strong and healthy of body who is the vie- tim of those womanly diseases which ae often responmsible for feminine sufferings ‘Women who have used Dr. Pierce’s ;a— vorite Prescription for the cure of diseases of the womanly organs, say that work doesn’t tire them any more. “Favorite Prescription ™ regulates the periods, dries enfeebling drains, heals inflammation and ulceration, and cures female weakness. It makes weak women strong and sick women well. There is no alcohol in "Favorite Prescrip- tion,” neither opium, cocaine or any other e health for ni: s (ever since K3 r hea r nine the Dirth of my child)» wiites Mrs. Armintic ‘Watkins, of Acme, Kanawha Co., W. Va. “"Had female weakness, was very i lar and would suffer untold misery. Our fa: doctor did not do me any good and I concluded to write to you. When I wrote I had no idea that I would ever well, but when your letter mel ha . 1 commenced Dr. medicines as directed and [ o strength. I was soon able to the T of six. % (hink there mever were sach medicines in the world. I took eight bom-a three of ‘Favorite Prescription' and five ‘Golden Medical Discovery” and two vials of Dr. Pierce’s Pellets cure constipation. found in the Natural Vichy Water,