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P HE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, APRIL 19, 1901. PLAGLE ENTERS INSNE JSLUM Thousand Inmates Are Endangered in Aus- tralia. Dread Disease Spreads With Alarming Rapidity in Cities. £ Tl ARMED MEN WILL TRY 5 TO REGAIN OIL LAND Prospect of Serious Trouble When the Opposing Forces Get To- Gether at McKittrick. | ANGE April 18, of th nd 1y would at once | n on the land and | been iken there the party which seized tch to the Herald say ar e latest clash of ol w ry of the seizure of a P 1d held by the Mount I ny comes the re rt of y on the section east of ining, re one rs, moved lumber upon the for the 1s. The m building of purpose H , and d by | the the owd | reinforc went to horses, to STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY NAMES ITS OFFICERS |- beer 50 1o the decr: of the people, owing to the high price of | Dr. Dawson of St. Helena Given the Presidency at the Session in | Sacramento. | SACRAMENTO, April 18—The morning n of the State Medical Society tr- day was given over to the discussion of pers. This afternoon at the be- | the session there was a dis- | on to so change | the publ tion a viva voce vote At 2 o'clock the selection of a place for | the nex meeting was taken up under a order. San Francisco was unanimously selecied. The follow- | ing named officers were selected for the [ nsuing year: dent, Dr. W. J. G. Daw of m‘ first vice president, Dr. F. B. Car- f Francisco; second vice presi- Adams of Ouakland; secreta H. Evans of San Francisco; first it secrotary, Dr. Z. T. A assistant s i Malaby of San retary, Dr. W n treasurer, of San Francisco; board of of Oakland, Dr. , Dr. R ¥ Wadsworth, Dr. David Poweh | ’ D. Osborne of 8. | He Dr. Henry M. Pond of Ala- | m J McBride of Pasadena, Dr. & Butein of Oakland - ¢ SREE QUARANTINE OFFICERS | HAVE CHARGE OF YOUNG | Bakersfield Oil Man Who Disappeared Was Taken From a Train Near El Paso. 1 SLES, April 18—C. 8. Young, | e Bakersfield oll man, has been | ad been taken from the east- iear El Paso and sent back | N. Mex., by quarantine offi- formation reached W. S, r a sociate of Young, to- v in' a te om Young. 5 who are closest to Young iwere first fmightened by his sudden dis- but when they began tele- us points in Texas and quarantine officers could give ereabouts every one of . The exact condi- ich Young was taken from ported are not known, but ndersiood that he was taken while )g from one .car to another, thus g attracting attention, and that he aken to Deming by a petty official, neglected to notify his superiors. appearance, 1 graphing to v even the no clew them w cid ADVERTISEMENTS. NERVOUS DYSPEPSIA. A CURE FOR IT. Not a Patent Cure-All, Nor & Modern Miracle, but Simply a Rational | Cure for Dyspepsia. days of humbuggery and decep- | manufacturers of patent medi- rule, seem to think their medi- il not sell unless they :elaim that cure every disease under the sun. ey never think of leaving out dys- sla and stomach troubles. = They are e to_claim that their nostrum is abso- stely certain to cure every, dyspeptic and he need look no further. In the face of these absurd claims it is | eshing to note that the proprietors of dvepepsia Tablets have carefully om making any undue claims ise representations 'regarding the s of this most excellent remedy for these the psia and stomach troubles. They | but one claim fer it, and that is, a: nd rious stomach no farther than is and or woman suffering from indigestion, chronic or nervous dys. pep: g0 this and any man who will give the remedy a trial wiil find that nothing is claimed for it taat the facts will not fully sustain. 11 is a modern discovery, composed of Larmless vegetable ingredients acceptable the weakes: or most delicate stomach. cess in curing stomach = is due to the fact that the medi- al properties are such that it will digest atever wholesome food is taken into stomach, no matter whether the! stomach is in good working order or not. It 1 overworked organ -and re- 3 the blood. the nerves, althy appetitay gives refresh- the blessings which always a good digestion and proper of food. 2 using Stuart’s Dyspepsia Tablets no | dieting is reguired. Simply eat plenty of wholesome food and take these Tablets at each meal, thus assisting and resting the stomach which rapldly regains its proper digestive power, when'the Tablets will be no longer required. | Nervous Dyspepsia is simply-a condition | in which some portion or portions of the nervous system are not properly nour- jshed. Good digestion invigorates the ner- | vous system and every organ in the body. Stuart'y Dyspepsia Tablets are sold by 21’ drugglsts at 5 cents per package. Trey are manufactured by the F, -A. Stuart Co. of Marshall, Mich. Any aruggist will tell you it gives uni- versal w.ixflcflon. > accompa assimil: . ' 2.. April 15.—Buboni= | ! ment was evid: | that t the society. The | 3 | | Dr. (5 | 000. | that the revenue | ing from, the Irish members), or sooner than | ful, as the price of sugar is governed by the, ENGLAND FACES ~ HEAY DERICIT |Levies- Duties on Coal and Sugar to Defray { War Cost. | Commons Listens to Reading of Year’s Budget Statement. LONDON, April 19.—The exceptional terest taken in this year’s budget state- ed by the crowded con- »use of <'ommons when- it reassembled yesterday. The attendance of members was unusually large, while the appearance of the -galleries testified to the deep interest of ihe public in the fresh taxation proposals required.to meet e expenditure for 1991-02, which, accord dition of the I )00, inclusive of war charges, this be increase of £32,%1000 over iast g an b, Theé nrational bala as shown by the follows R ue, £139 tures, £183,592,000; net deficit,’ £53,207,000. Balfour, the Government leader, indi- rectly announced the forthcoming loan. Opening ‘Not Promising. The "Chancellor of the Excheauer, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, rosc at 4:18 p. m. mid rounds of cleers and commenced che budget statement. His opeaing sentence was not promising. Hz2 began: iring the last five vears we have been in- able to congratulate the house on a sheet for, 1990-01, s increase in the prosperity of the but the year 1900, especlally the last ths, showed symptoms of a change. n trade during the year consider- reased, but-in value rather than in, It is mainly derived from the high , notably coal, which red important in- d Nevertheless, the revenue for the past showed no sign of decrease and the exchequer receipts showed a surplus of £2,866,000 over the estimates. 1 however, that the excess am bound to say, c was due to forestallment on dutiable articies. But for this estimates would have been v realiz h can be sald for and restallment, but it is' an unmiti- ance to financlal statisticans. The ments of 1899-1900 amounted to £3 of The forestaliment of the past that the consuming power of the peo- maintained, ‘but there is no material ace of the expansion of that power be- which properly belong to the revenu last year. X r somewhat exceeded the previous year. 4 what is fairly attributable to increase population | Beer Estimate Too High. | The Chancellor then proceeded to review the various items of revenue, mentioning he revenue from beer was #4,00‘1.000 than the estimate. hat decrease,” said he, “is probably tributable to the fact that very many drinkers are in South Africa, and | e in the spending power | 1 co Experience has shown that we have ctically reached the limit in the ‘profit- taxation of spirits.” The receipts m duties were £1,500,000 below those of preceding year, but he had better tations for next year. » 1 prolongation of the war and the absence of buyers on the stock exchange were responsible for the unsatisfactory eld for stamps. In noting that the yield ifrom the income tax was £1,150,000 above the estimate, the Chancellor remarked that in twelve years the income on which texation was paid had been increased by no less than £120,000,000, a fact that he hoped the House would' remember when he reached a later part of his speech. | The only other points of the revenue | ‘which he need touch upon were ths ex- cepticnal receipts owing to the mint, sil- | ven coinage and the telegraph receipts, which compared very favorably with the | expenditure, The total receipts amounted : and t expenditures £183,- | £65,000,00 was for the which in South Afri d_ £8,000,000 for China. The deficit, £53,207,000, showed had paid £15 41 000 out of the for the cost of the war. The to- | 1 amount provided by the state last year | \ggregated the enormous sum of £198,- | 346,000, ‘ “As to the national debt,” sald the Chancellor of the Exchequer, “it stands | in painful contrast with last year, But | the funded debt has decreased by £1,425,- April 1 the national debt stood at 500,000, an increase of £55,000,000 on nt of the war.” | Proposes Sugar and Coal Tax. : Turning to the present yvear, the Chan- celior of the Exchequer said {hat the to- tal estimated expénditure was £167,600,000. On the existing basis it was estimated would be £132,255,000, | aving a deficit of about £55,000,000. Sir | Michael continued: : How is this deficit to be met? I will never be responsible for the fatal policy of paying the whole cost of the war out of loans with- out putting a reasonable amount on the tax- payers of the day. The real difficulty, how- ever, is not so much the cost of the war in South Africa as the operations in China, as they will increase our ordinary expenditure even if the war came to an end within three or four months (this statement .caused cheer- £ acy the honorable members suppose. Our ordinary expenditure would not permit of the remittance of the additional taxation proposed for war purposes last year. It therefore becomes neces- sary to put our expenditures on a broader basls. The country has reacheé a point when it is| necessary to widen ‘the scope of taxation, but | direct taxpayers must. bear their share of the burden. 1 propose that 2 pence shall be added to the income tax, making 1 shilling and 2 pence in the pound. The extra 2 pence will | realize £3,800,000. There will be no addition | to the beer, wine, tea, spirits or tobacco duties. I am not disposed to oppose & customs duty | on manufactured impurted goods as suggested by Sir Howard Vincent. The average consulmption of sugar is fifty-six pounds per head. Sugar is taxed in every other community in Europe and is taxed in the United States. In this country taxes re- mained on sugar long after the institution of free trade. What 1 propose is not a protective duty, but an adequate public necessity has arisen for some duty for which the lab8ring classes should bear a fair share. The effect of my proposals on the price of sugar is doubt- bounty-giving countries. The Bounty System. The bounty system is that a country giving a bounty encourages production within its borders and at the same time does its best to restrict consumption by its own people by every possible means. The result is that there is an enormous surplus which has to find a | foreign market, and this country under the present circumitances is the only market. Therefore it is quite concelvable—unless, of course, the bounty-giving countries either re- duce the area of their sugar production or lower their own duties on the sugar for the benefit of their own population, both of which actions would mean the abolition of the bounty system—that the result of the new tax, although at first the price might rise and_consumption consequently be reduced, | would be that there would be such an inflow | Into this country of bounty-fed eugar unable to go elsewhere that the pmce might be | brought down. Again, I do not believe the | duty will injure manufacturers using sugar, to anything ilke the extent feared. Of coursé provision will be made for imposing & duty on manufactured articles from gn countries coming into competition with the home article and for allowing manufacturers a drawback on articles which they export. I allow £240,- 000 for the payment of these drawbacks 1 have endeavored to reconcile the conflicting interests. Nothing must be done to protect the British refiner to the disadvantage of the British consumer. But. on the other hand, fair play must be given to the British refiner as compared with his Continental rival. The refiner of beet sugar must not be favored as against the refiner of cane sugar, or vice versa. 1 propose a duty on refined sugar of four shillings and two pence a hundredwelght. A haif penny per pound would be four shil- lings and efght pence, so a margin of six | pence is left to cover the customs, shandling, ete. There is therefore no reason why a tax | of four shillings and two pence should in- crease the retail price more than a half penny per pound. The graduated scale of taxation would be as follows: Refined sugar, which is polarized at $ and upward, which represents two-thirds of the total imports, would pay ihe full tax. This will .diminish to a mini- mum of two shillings per hundredweight on | raw sugar polarized at 7. This scale is only | tentative and I &m perfectly willing to listen to criticism and the benefi and better knowledge. A B Molasses, in which are included the grocery syTups consumed largely by the poor, pays two shillings per hundredweight; glucose ,of which a great deal has been heard lately and which | is used in the manufacture of jams and aerated waters, will have to bear a tax of | 1 shilling and 'S pence. I anticipate a yield | will be held in Chicago. RAILROAD MANAGERS CUT RATES TQ ASSIST NOTABLE CONVENTIONS Members of the Transcontinental Passenger Association, Now in Session at Del Monte, Busy Themselves With an Important Temporary Revision of the Tariff Schedule for Many of the Prominent Organizations in the Country — E3 Special Dispatch to The Call. EL MONTE, April 18.—From ear- ly this morning unti] nearly mid- night the members of the Trans- continental Passenger Associa- tion have been hard at work | striving to get through with the docket, so that they all may be able to return home. They have been in session several days, and it will be almost a week before some of them will be back at their head- quarters. This has caused a great amount of dissatisfaction to a large number of the delegates. . They accordingly to-day made a motion that the headquarters of the association be moved from Denver, where they are at present logated, to Chi- cago. Should this motion prevall it is probable that all the quarterly meetings The motion is now on the table and will be taken up at the next meeting of the assoclation, at Denver, in July. The rate to the Pan-Amerlcan Exposi- tion from San Francisco and the entire Pacific Coast was not changed to-day, but a few more detalls were added for the convenlence of passengers. The rate will be $50 for a firsi-tlass ticket, or, in other words, a_thirty-day fare, to the Missourl River. This rate will be good by all di- rect and the usual branch routes . that tickets are ®old on. Tickets sold one way by Portland, Or,, or Puget Sound, by the Shasta route the Southern Pacific, or by steamer by the Oregon Rallroad and Navigation Company, will have 312 50 add- ed to the amount of the ticket. For tick- ets via Portland or Puget Sound by other California points proportionate arbitraries will be added. The tickets for this special rate can be bought only on June 3 and 4, July 3 and 4, August 22 and 23 and Sep- tembeér 5 and 6. Ten days wil] be allowed vest of Chicago, Memphis, St. Louis and New Orleans. Sixty days will.be the limit for the return trip. Delegates to the Baptist Young People of America's convention, that takes place L e e e O e S of £5100,600 from this tax. The West Indies will not be excepted. My next proposal is a novel one; it is an ex- port duty of a shilling & ton on coal. In aiming to secure a revenue from coal I am not sacrificing trade. The imposition of a shil- ling, which is infinitely less than the fluctu- ations in price, will do no real injury to the coal trade, even supposing that the export of coal s chécked. I am not sure that even the Tesult will be an evil. From this source I ex- pect ' £2,100,000, making an aggregate of £11,- 000,000 from mew taxation. My final balance sheet will be, from taxa- tion, a revenue of £122,200,000; from non-tax- £21,055,000, a total of £143,255,000. I propose to' reduce the expenditure by again suspending the_sinking fund to £182,962,000. This shows a deficit of £39,927,000, to which must be added £1,250,000 for the fresh debt I have to borrow, I must ask the House to give me borrowing powers considerably in ex- cess of this deficit of £41,000,000. In order to finance the exchequer I ask power to borrow £60,000,000 by means of consols. AS to obtaining contributions from the Transvaal, Sir Davis Barbour’s reports are not encouraging at present. I think the House will see the war has brought the country to the verge of ruln (opposition cheers greeted this remark). This can no longer be consid- ered, The small war has cost £151,000,000, double the cost of the Crimean war, There was £67,000,00 of the unfunded debt redeemable within the next ten years. I have tried to put before the House a true account of our | finances for the prosent and immediate fu- ture. In our time no Chancellor of the Ex- chequer has had so difficult a task and none has had a more indulgent audience. I haye not laid proposals before the House with the view of gaining transient popularity, but I have endeavored to establish a principle of contribution by the whole community to the burdens of the state. Sir Michael concluded at 6:44 p. m. amid loud applause, having spoken two hours and twenty-six_minutes. Sir Willfam Vernon Harcourt compli- mented the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the ability he had shewn, declaring that his speech was charactérized by hon- esty. a quality very much lacking in the conduct of the war, in telling the House and the country the truth in regard to the position. The budget, continued Sir Wil- liam, was but a chapter in the disastrous incident of the war. It was purposed to borrow altogether £127,000,000 more—four times as much as was borrowed for the Crimean war. Irish Member Protests. John Redmond, the Nationalist leader, asked what interest Ireland had in the| war which jed to this extraordinary, dis- astrous and disgraceful financial situa- tion. He protested against fresh taxation, which, he said, imposed great injustice upon Ireland. which, as admitted by the Government ' commission in 1893, ~ was greauy overtaxed. He severely attacked ‘oseph Chamberlain and the war policy. Replying _to criticisms, Sir Michael Hicks-Beach said there were valuable as- sets in the Transvaal colony, but that it ‘was impossible to say what the contribu- tion for the war, in' the present state of that country, would be. At 1:40 this (Friday) morning Balfour, the Government leader, said it was neces- sary to pass the resolution to authorize the war loans to-night, whereupon the House divided on the sugar duty, which was adopted by a vote of 183 to 125. The coal duty was adopted by a vote of 171 to On the resolution to authorize the war loans being put before the House, John g}ed}xlno{ndnmed-tohnwrt tg;ogteam Sir chael -Beacl House then -.djoumod.mu 2 0 GLIMPSES OF SOME OF THE MEN WHO ARE TAKING A PROMINENT PART IN THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE TRANSCONTINENTAL PAS- 1 SENGER ASSOCIATION'S SESSION IN DEL MONTE, in Chicago July 25-28, must avail them- selves of the Pan-American rate, and tickets must be bought on July 3 and 4. For the Grand Army encampment, that is to be held in Cleveland, Ohlo, September 10 to 14, a thirty-day rate is allowed. Tick- ets must be bought on September 5 or 6 For the National Irrigation Congress at Colorado Springs, July 12 to 16, a one-half rate has been granted. The Trans-Missis- sippl Congress takes place at Cripple Creek July 17 to 20, and the railroad men decided that they would allow a thirty- da’iy rate for this meeting. he Modern Woodmen of the World, who meet in St. Paul on June 11, get a but thirty-day rate, ‘tlcket- must be or 4. bought'on June 3 A thirty-day s also allowed the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine, who hold their annua] meeting in Kansas City on June 8 and 4. The time allowed on these tickets is the same as for the Pan-American excursion. The rates for the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks at Milwaukee, the National Edueational Association at De- troit and the Knights of Pythias at St. Louis had been made at the last quarterly meeting of the /A'ranscontinental Associa- tion. To-Gay the time was extended on éhese three tickets from thirty to sixty ays. T 3 2 e 2 2 2 ) SOUTHERN PACIFIC PREFERS THE COURT OUTSIDE OF POMONA —_— POMONA, April 18.—Three railroad cases have been removed from Pomona to Azusa. The papers were transferred to-day. The cases, which ' are those of Tha People against B. J. Mulvahill, Woods and Maag, for alleged disturbance of th2 peace, grew out of the railroad trouble last Saturday. The defendants were in charge of the construction gangs of tlie Southern Pacific that attempted to lay a track through the streets of Pomona. The place of trial was transferred to the next township at the request of the de- fendants on account of alleged bias of the Pomona Justice and on account of pub- lic sentiment against the railroad people. * The action’ of the Southern Pacific against the city of Pomona for $1000 damages and to permanently enjoin it from interfering with the work of laying tracks will be set for trial to-morrow. SALT LAKE, Utah, April 18.—The Ore- gon Short Line and Utah Northern Rail- roads and the Utah, Nevada and Caii- fornia have, through their attorneys, ap- pealed from the decision of the register and receiver of the United States Land Office at Carson City, declaring their rights to the Linecoln County (Nevada) ade forfeited. The matter now goes Lo the Commissioner of the General Land Omcf at Washington for final settle- ment. It is over this right of way that the pregent fight between the Senator Clark and Harriman interests is being waged. The appealing roads, allege error on the part of the Carson City officials in de- claring the grade forfeited because it had to be abandoned. According to re- ports from Nevada the Clark interests 2na the Bhort Tine forces are actively engaged in pushing the work of construc- tion, but no further trouble has occurred. | ——— IMPRISONED IN A TUNNEL. Senator Clark’s Partisans Bottle Up Soms Short Line Laborers. SALT LAKE, April 18.—The railroad building war in Nevada continues. Those of the Short Line forces who were in pos- | session of both ends of tunnel No. 1, west | from Nevada, have been driven into the tunnel by the San Pedro, Los Angeles and | Salt Lake men—Senator Clark's crowd. | ‘The Clark people have barricaded both ends of the tunnel, securely bottling up fl:fi: Opponents in the darkness. The im- , but unless reinforce- ments from the outside come to their ald they will soon be forced to capitulate. In the meantime the imprisonment of many Short Line men has checked the @ iimirieiei il i @ A Month’s Test Free. If you haveRheumatism, writeDr. Shoop, Racine, ‘Wis., box17,for six bottles of, hisRheumaticCure, express paid. Send no money. Pay $.50 If cured® - t rapid track laying. The Short Line attorneys have drafted an appeal to the General Land Office at Washington from the decision of the Land Commissioner at Carson City, Nev., glving the.disputed grade to Clark's com- pany. | TRUST YIELDS T0 THE UNION Dismissed Men Taken| Back and Strike Talk Is Ended. Steel Workers Gain Point Over Which Trouble Originated. PITTSBURG, Aptil 13.—There will be no strike in the plants of the American Sheet Steel Company. The trouble that broke out in the W. Dewees Wood plant in Mc- Keesport last week and which forga time threatened to cause a general strike of all union iron and steel workers in the couw try has been settled in an amicable man- ner. The members of the general execu- tive board of the Amalgamated Associa- | tion of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers held a long session to-day. ‘It started out with a general feeling that a strike would come, as the workers would not concede the only point in dispute (reinstatement of the men discharged, it is claimed, for joining the union), and so far as could be learned the officials of the American Sheet Steel Company were equally determined. During the morning session of the ex- ecutive board John Jarrett, acting for the American Sheet Steel Company, appeared with a proposition for the members to consider regarding a settlement of the difficulty. In general this proposition was that all men discharged from the Wood plant should be reinstated, including Hol- loway, and that all but Holloway should return to work at once, Holloway to be returned within ten days. The board insisted tht Holloway should be treated in the same manner as the oth- ers, and finally Mr. Jarrett changed his proposition to include Holloway after three days’ suspension, and the agreement was drawn up and signed at 7 o’clock to- night, as follows: We have discovered after a careful examin: tion of the points at issue that, as usual, m takes and misunderstandings _underlié trouble at ‘McKeesport, and we reach the con. clusion that it will be to the advantage of al parties concerned to start the Wood mill with the old employes on next Monday, And it is- further agreed that the contract 2, April with reference to working conditions in the | mill and scale matters shall be observed until July 1, 1901, and in the meantime Mr. Smith and Mr. Holloway shall have a meeting to adjust any difficulties which may exist between them. T. J. SHAFFE President A. A. L S. and T. W. JOHN WILLIAMS, Secretary-Treasurer A. A. I. S. and T. W. JOHN JARRETT, American Sheet Steel Company. In explanatior of this agreement it was stated that the matter will remain in ex- actly the same position as before the trouble broke out. The organization of the locals of the Amalgamated Assoclation among the employes of the mill will be continued, though the company will not recognize it in any way in dealing with the men. The Amalgamated Assoclation stated they did not wish the company to recognize their organization at present, and simply asked the company to allow the men to do as they pleased and act with freedom when outside of the mill. The company officials, on the other hand, say that so long as the Jocal among their men does not try to force recognition and the men work under the personal agree- ment with them they would not allow any feeling against the men. Both sides are satisfled, and the strike that has ex- isted for a week Ras in reality, according to the officers on both sides, been due to a misunderstanding between the two sides to_the dispute. The settlement will bring the matter to an issue, it is caid, when the scale for the coming year is brought up for settlement. The union will seek at that time to have the Wood plant included in the next scale agreement, and the company it is belleved will be ready to oppose this part of the agreement emphatically. ‘When asked to-night concerning this the ‘officlals of the Amalgamated Assoclation they would not cross a bridge until they came to it. The company officials rnnflod in the same strain. At the conclu- slon of the conference this evening the sald members of the executive board departed | for their homes. There did not seem to be any dlnp:*nnn on the .part of either side of the dlspute to clalm a victory or the better of the settlement. PROSPECTORS IN LUCK IN NORTHERN OIL LAND ‘Wells Near Port Townsend and Port Angeles Said to Furnish an Excellent Product. TACOMA, April 18.—The oll boom is ex- tending to Dungeness Valley, near Port Townsend. BExperiments show that the farm ot Levi H. Cays s Impregnated with petroleum. On several occasions during the past ten years Cays has been unable to secure good water ‘ the sinking of wells because the wal thus obtained was heavily coated with oil. Ben Pilcher, a son-in-law of Cays, had been spending the winter in California investigating the ofl business there. He has returned and arrangements are being made to sink an oil_well this spring. E. C. Hickman, representing Hawes and Hoagland of San Francisco, has arrived at Port Angeles to obtain leases on land supposed to be oil-bearing. He has se- cured leases on 3000 acres east of Port Angeles and is now negotiating for leases on property west of that town. Hickman states that an expert sent to that section last year by his company reported the presence there of first class oil indications. His principals agree to sink a nine-inch | wvell in the near future. The golf shirt has the distinction of being the proper shirt for summer, and, by happy coincidence, it is the most comfortable, too. We have just reccived a swell lot from New York. The bosom of the shirt.is made of good quality taffeta and the body of good percale that matches the bosom in color and pattern: colors: Blue, lavender, purple, ‘pink and white—the colored shades have white perpendicular stripes; the colors are fast and +4he seams are double sewed and reinforced. Price but soc. Out-of-town orders filled—write us. ~ SNWo0Ds (D 718 Market. Street. NOT ALL TRUTH SIS M. ML |Great Northern Presi- dent Talks of Syndi- cates. Says Many Reports of Com- binations Have Been Unfounded. ——— SEATTLE. Wash., April 18.—President James J. Hill of the Great Northern, who is now in this city, on being asked by a correspondent if he had anything further to say touching publications concerning the merging of various railroad corpora- tions into a great syndicate, sald: “Say that I have read the various state- ments published and that where there is one clean-cut statement of facts there are about a dozen of an erroneous character. (It is truo that several large railway cor- | poraticns are endeavoring to make closer traffic arrangements, and that such ar- | rangements involve the Burlington, but up to the present time there as been nothing consummated upon which to base | correct statemen! oy It is apparent that Hill has been greatly anno by the coupling of many rail- | roads other than those with which he has been dealing, and he did not hesitate to say that interviews which had been given out by the heads of such railroads were merely “guess work™ and contained little truth. Hill left Seattle for St. Paul at noon to- | day. his visit to the coast at this time | having been more for the purpose of keep- ing bis promises to take the party with | htm across the continent than for any- | thing else. Sale of Murphy Rancho. | SAN JOSE, April 18—The Commercial | and Savings Bank of San Jose has just | sold the Dan Murphy rancho in Durango County, Durango, Mexico, comprising 500,- 000 acres, to an_Eastern syndicate repre- sented by T. J. McGarry of Grand Rapids, Mich., for $1 per acre, Mexican money. The bank took the land for a loan of $I7T5.- 000 made to Murphy a number of years |ago. It is understood that Murphy, Who |is an invalid, will receive some benefit | from the sale. | ADVERTISEMENTS. BUFFALD! | Have you got it? | Got what? Why your ticket to the |Pan- American Exposi- tion, via the Michigan Central Railroad or Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway- Direct routes. Fast |time. Superb train ser- vice. Everything up to |date. 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