The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 24, 1901, Page 4

TIE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1901. RAIN POSTPONES RS OPENING. Santa Rosa’s Exposition Will Be Dedicated To-Night. Fine Displays Arranged in| the Great Fourth-Street Pavilion. Special Dispatch to The Call. SANTA ROSA, Sept. 23.—The formal ning of the fourth agricultural district | was postponed until to-morrow night | on account of the downpour of rain here | since Saturday. The arranging of the ex- hibits was hindered so much by the weather that it was found impossible to get the pavilion in readiness for to-night, but by to-morrow the big canvas exhibi- tion hall will present a most beautiful spectacle. i Mayor J. S. Sweet will deliver the open- ing address to-morrow evening and J. P. Overton, president of the board of direct- ors of fair, will make the introduc- tory remarks. Park's Santa Rosa band will give daily concerts from the band | stand in front of the pavilion. | Marin County is more in evidence at the feir this year than it was last year. | A number of herds of cattle from that county are on exhibition, as well as agri- | cultaral exhibits. ‘Among the unigue displays to be seen is that of Charles Riverman, a vegetable grower, living near Santa Rosa. In the center of his exhibit is an immense ear gf corn elght feet high and three and a f feet in diameter and made entirely rn in the ear. Walter Armstrong of Sebastopol has a | pyramid of fruit with a large prune bear | surmounting it. All of this fruit was raised on his own place. The Sonoma County Horticultural So- clety has an exhibit of splendid fruits and | vegetables, showing the different varle- | ties of these grown in Sonoma County. Onc of the most attractive displays Is | that of Kopf & Donovan's grape and | wine h It is a large house, made of grapes. Within it is a éarge collection of the various wines madé by the Italian | and Swiss Colony of Astl ! The Merritt Fruit Company, the M. L. McDonald Jr. Company and Porter Bros. | each has a display of dried fruit. H 1] A large apple thirty-six feet in circum- ference and composed of as fine apples | &s ever were grown, is near the center of | the pavilion. This is the display of L. A. Gordon of Bellevue. Santa Rosa Grange has & nice exhibit of fruit, flow- &= and pumpkins—one of the prettiest in | the fair. | B & g - 1y 8 B 5 a m B 8 & » 3 ? a new idea in her display of flow ers end plants. She has a large, old-fash- joned windmill, which turns as the| breezes strike it, and no larger or prettier | collection of plants could be shown. A.| R. Bucker and the Fountain Grove Wincry booth show fine displays of wines, Grosse has a tabie on which is ¢ his olive oil grown and bot- | tled at his Rincon Heights ranch near Santa Rosa. At Ridgeway Hall, where the fine art| exhibit is to be seen, there are a number | of elegant and costly displays. The most elaborate is the painting, carved wood and rency work of the ladies of Clover- Gale. Mrs. E. F. Woodward of Santa Rosa has a beautiful collection of hand- painted china. Miss Anna York of Healdsburg has also a display of her work in this line. A costly and rare collection of paint- ings is the property of J. P. Stanley. This is considered to be one of the finest collec- | tions in the district. Mrs. Pierce Preston has a corner of the hall in which to show her Indian baskets. She bas many old and rare curios. C. M, Bruner has quite an attraction in-his In- dian curios and baskets. He intends hav- ing &n old Indian woman making baskets for the edification of the crowd. Mrs. Charles A. Lowe and Mrs. T. J. Geary have an Alaskan booth contain- ing antiques and curios from that Terri- tory. It attracts much attention. A collection of 0ld relics of the war is entered by C. C. Oliver of Forestville. Among these are guns used in the Revo- lution, swords that date back to the| time before gunpowder was invented and shells from Philippine and Civil War | battlefields. Mrs. J. T. Campbell has a very nice ex- hibit of Japanese and Chinese work, which she collected while she was with her husband, who was Consul at Fu- chow. BROTHERS TO MATCH THEIR RIVAL YACHTS Charles Stimson Challenges Fred S. Stimson to a Race in Straits of Fuca. SEATTLE. Sept. 23.—Charles Stimson, | the California millionaire lumberman, has challenged his brother, Fred 8. Stimson, to a twenty-five mile vacht race in the Straits of Fuca. The challenge has been accepted and the race will take place on | Thursday. Tugs will take society crowds out to view the sport. Charles Stimson owns Olympic, which was_the fastest vacht in Seattle until Fred Stimson built the Bonita. This season the Bonita has beaten the Olympic in every race, but Charles still believes he has the best vacht. A handsome silk | banner has been offered by admiring friends of the rival yachtsmen. | ——— 1 = | Ito Will Land at Seattle. SEATTLE. Sept. 25.—A cablegram to | the local office of the Japanese steamship Tokio says that Marquis Ito t Seattle on October 2, not at the Ends Life With a Bullet. | ANGELES, Sept. 23.—Aaron A.| LOS Welk shot and killed himself at 5 o'clock this morning in a room in the Somerset House, 214 East Fifth street. He regis- ihere last Tuesday from San Fran- | cisco, but a certificate entitling the holder | 1o sick benefits and burial at the expense | of the order of Maccabees showed that he | bad joined that order at Blue Earth, | Minn., on February 6 last. | - Selecting Jurors to Try Kelso. SANTA BARBARA, Sept. 23.—The case of the people of the State of California vs. William Kelso for the murder of | Harry E. Blochman at Santa Maria on ! ning of July 3 was called in the | Superior Court at 10 o’clock this morning before Judge W. 8. Day. The day was | spent in_selecting juror ADVERTISEMENTS. Pears’ Pears’ soap is nothing but soap. i : . Pure soap is as gentle as oil to the living skin. Pears’ is the purest and best toilet soap in all the world. All sorts of people use it, all sorts of stores sell it, especin/ly drugwists. For Stomach Disorders, Cout and Dyspepsia CELESTINS] Best NATURZL Alkaline Water. | P 220 BROADWAY, N. Y. %+ Archbishop Riordan denounced peace in the land. ployes to the status of chattels a cently given utterance to their by Hearst's yellow paters. Last Saturday evening Father Peter In the face of the condemnation of the yellow press by the FATHER YORKE'S VIEWS DIFFER FROM PRELATES OF THE CHURCH in positiz advocated the cause of the st ikers and the unions and denounced the ow d o cott of cvery one whom the strikers considered an enemy, and declared that the aim of emplayt.:rs in this city was to reduce their em- nd slaves. HREE of the most eminent leaders of the Catholic church, Cardinal Gibbons, ‘Archbishop Riordan and Archbishop Ireland, have re- sentiments as to the spirit of discontent and contempt for the supreme power of the republic fosicred In eulogizing the memory of the martyred President of the United States Cardinal Gibbons and e language the insults hurled at William McKinley by the yellow sheets of Hearst. Archbishop Ireland declared on August 9 last that the aquestion of going out on strike was one that concerned personally the men who participated and that they had absolutely no right to interfere with employes outside of their own ranks. Archbishop Ireland declared that all disputes betwween employers and employes should be sgttled between them, but that citizens not concerned in the dispute might hope and pray that brotherly love and calm counsel would prevail between the disputants in order to bring C._Yorke addressed a mass-mecting of strikers in this city at Metropolitan Temple. ners of capital and the employers of labor. He advocated a boy- i distinguished prelates of the Catholic church and by the entire respec- table community of the United States and the civilized world, Father Yorke defended the Examiner against the lashing rebukes it had re- ceived following the assassination of President William McKiniey. He Archbishop Ireland States His Views on Labor Strikes RCHBISHOP JOHN IRELAND of Minnesota, who is recognized as one of the greatest students and authorities on economic problems, was interviewed on August 9 last while in New York City as to the strikes existing in the country and the conduct of the men who had left their employment. The views of Archbishop Ireland on strikes and | strikers are as follows: 2 “To employes entering willingly into a strike the matter is one of their own per- sonal concern, and others have but to concede to them their personal right to act In such manner as they will. Men are the masters of their hands and of their labor; the liberty is theirs to work or not to work, provided they understand the consequences that follow and are satisfied to accept and cndure such consequences. Not only indeed is this liberty at all times theirs, but we must furthermore grant that occasions may arise, and do arise, when a strike, however serious the conse- quences for the workman, is a means, and at times perhaps the sole means, through which rights appertaining to them and which are of vital importance to their ul- timate welfare can be secured. When it is that under this aspect of things strikes may be allowed, or even commended, is a question to be Cetermined by close exam- ination of the circumstances of each par- ticular strike. “I am laying down general principles of ethies—not deciding the merits of any par- ticular case. But while the right to enter upon a strike is and must be conceded as a right belonging to the personal freedom of workingmen, this must ever be demanded— and in the name of the same principie of personal freedom under which m=n may refuse to work—they who cease to work must in no way interfere with the liberty of others who may wish to work. The personal freedom of the ‘individual citizen is the most sacred and precious inheritance of Americans. The constitution and the laws authorize it; the spirit of the country proclaims it; the prosperity of the people, the very life of the nation, requires it. Whatever the other interests at stake, that of per- sonal freedom of the individual out- ranks them all, and this must be sus- {ained even if those are to be sacri- ficed. “Neither State nor fellow citizens may interfere with my personal liberty. This is the very core of Americanism. This is the teaching of national and Christian ethics. It is not for me to dispute the benefits that may be believed to accrue to the workingman from labor unions; nor am I prepared to say from the information that comes to me through newspapers that in the present strike unions pretend to short- en personal freedom of men that do not join their ranks. But this may be ever emphatically asserted and maintained as an inviolable principle that however much labor unions may have reason to widen their muster rolls, and however much they have the legal and moral right to do this through pacific and persuasive meth- ods, they must not attempt to wrest from men outside their ranks the right to work, or to seek to coercs them into inactivity by illegal or un- just attacks upon their civil and moral freedom. “Equity and !aw are superior to the per- sonal welfare of an individual or of the aggregations of individuals, and equity and law demand that the personal free- dom of the citizen, whoever he is, be made sacred and secure. So long as this freedom is respected the questions evoked in the present strike may be left, in my opinion, to the men, employers or em- ployes, who are directly concerned in it, although meanwhile all citizens Lave many reasons to hope and pray that brotherly love and calm counsel will prevail both among employers end employes, and that peace will soon reign in the land.” B 0 e o 2 2 S 2 o PRESIDENT GOES T0 WHITE HOUSE His Wife 'and Children ‘Will Join Him There Wednesday. CALL BUREAU, 146 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Sept. 23.—President Roosevelt 1s now domiciled in the White House, He ate his luncheon and dinner there to-day and will sleep there to-night. Mrs. Roosevelt and their children will join him on Wednesday. The President walked to the White House from the residence of Commander Cowles this morning accom- panied by his brother-in-law, Douglas Robinson. Robinson remained for a few minutes and the President then began receiving a stream of callers who took up nearly his entire day. Secretary Gage arrived at the White House at the head of all the officials’of the Treasury De- partment, who receive their appointments direct from the President. There were about twenty of them and each one was introduced in turn by Secretary Gage. Postmaster General Smith and Secretary of the Navy Long called and had short conferences with the President on busi- ness matters connected with their dep: ments. Other callers Included Justice America’s Cardinal Denounces the Use of Seditious Speach ARDINAL GIBBONS, in deliver- ing a eulogy on the life of the martyred President William Mc- Kinley last Thursday in the cathedral at Baltimore, Md., dwelt forcibly on the suppression of seditious language and incen- dlary speech. The eulogy of the Cardinal was a masterplece of eloquence and is here reproduced; “It has been my melancholy experience in the course of my sacred ministry to be startled by the assassinations of three Presidents of the United States. “In the annals of crime it is difficult to find an instance of murder so atrocious, so wanton and meaningless as the assas- sination of Mr. McKinley. “Whatever may have been the errors of judgment on the part of the late Presi- dent (and who is free from them?), no man can honestly charge him with tyranny or official ‘corruption. : “The Redeemer of mankind was be- trayed by the universal symbol of love. 1f 1 may reverently make the comparison, the President was betrayed by the uni- versal emblem of friendship. The Presi- dent could have said to his slayer, ‘Be- trayest thou the head of the nation with the grasp of the hand? He was struck down surrounded by a host of his fellow citizens, every one of whom would gladly have risked his life in defense of his be- loved chieftain. “Few Presidents were better equipped than Mr. McKinley for the exalted posi- tion which he filled. “As President he was thoroughly con- versant with the duties of his office and could enter into its most minute detalls. His characteristic virtues were courtesy and politeness, patience and forbearance and masterly self-control under very try- ing circumstances. When unable to grant a favor he had the rare and happy talent to disappoint the supplicant without of- fending him. The domestic virtues of Mr. McKinley were worthy of all praise. He was a model husband. Amid the press- ing and engrossing duties of his official life he would, from time to time, snatch a few moments to devote to the invalid and loving partner of his joys and sor- rOWS. “It is a sad reflection that some fanatic or miscreant has it in his power to take the life of the head of the nation and to throw the whole country into mourning. It was no doubt this thought that inspired some writers within the last few days to advise that the President henceforth ab- stain from xuhllc receptions and hand- shaking and that greater protection should be given to his person. “You might have him surrounded with cohorts, defended with bayonets and have him followed by argus-eyed detectives, and yet he will not be proof against the stroke of the assassin. Are not the crowned heads of Europe usually attended by military forces? And yet how many of them have perished at the hand of some criminal. The strongest shield of our chief magistrate is the love and de- votion of his fellow citizens, “The most effective way to stop such crimes is to inspire the rising generation with greater reverence for the constituted . authorities and a greater horror for any insult orinjury to their person. All seditious lan- guage should be suppressed. Incen- diary speech is too often an incentive to the acts of violence to many with whom the transition from words to deeds is easy. “Let it be understood, once for all, that the authorities are determined to crush the serpent of anarchy when- ever it lifts its venomous head. “We have prayed for the President's life, but it did not please God to grant our petition. Let no one infer from this that our prayers were in vain. No fer- vent prayer ascending to the throme of heaven remains unanswered. God an swers our petitions either directly or in- directly. If he does not grant us what we ask he gives us something equivalent or better. If he has not saved the life of the President he preserves the life of the nation, which is of more importance than the life of an individual. He has infused into the hearts of the American people a greater reverence for the head of the na- tion and a greater abhorrence of assassin- ation. He has Intensified and energized our love of country and our devotion to our political institution! McKenna, Senator Pritchard, Senator Millard, Senator Cock- erell, Senator McComber, Representatives Babcock of Wisconsin, Bingham of Penn- sylvania, Lester of Georgia, Long of Kan- sas, Martin_of South Dakota, Kehoe of Kentucky, Prince of Iilinois, Gibson of Tennessee, ex-Secretary John W. Foster, ex-Senator Blair, ex-Senator Carter, ex- Representative Handy of Delaware, Gov- ernor Merriam, director of the census; Commissioner Evans, Assistant Secretary Ryan of the Interior Department and Dr. 1 8. Stone of this city. Senator Penrose, Game Warden Foster Exonerated. SAN JOSE, Sept. 23.—County Game Warden Fred L. Foster was to-day exon- erated of the charges preferred by Dr. A. M. Barker, president of the Santa Clara County Fish and Game Association, in an attempt to oust him from office. The hearing occurred before the Board of Su- pervisors and the board unanimously voted its confidence in the Game Warden. Barker charged Foster withg being negii- gent in the performance of his duties. In his answer Foster alleged that Barker had brought the charges through spite and hoped to place a personal friend in office as Game Warden, Ordained to the Ministry. BANTA CRUZ, Sept. 22.—Rev. W. J. Speers, a deacon in the Methodist church, was ordained to the gonfel ministry by a council in the Congregational church to- night, and thus became a Congregational preacher of the wor y ——— O — Last Buffalo Excursions. Southern Pacific direct lne—limited trains—personally conducted excursions. $87 round trip. Cholce of routes. Last chance to see the great Pan-American Exposition. Lots of literature at Infor- mation Bureau and ticket office, 613 Mar- ket street. Rev. FatherYorke Asks the Unions to Fight Their Employers ATHER PETER C. YORKE, in addressing a mass meeting of the strikers last Saturday evening, gave utterance to the following sentiments: “The trouble is that when he (the employer) bargains with you, he does not want to bargain with you as a man: when he hires you, he does not want to hire you as a reasonable being: when he employs you, he does not want to employ you as an American citizen, but he wants to bargain with an animal, and to hire a man; he wants to have In his service something which will do noth- ng but put out work, and never think that it has a soul. “You have here in San Francisco the Employers’ Association, which is a union of rich men specially started tor the purpose of crushing out all the unions of poor men. * * * That is the plan of campaign. Do not mistake it. You can see it before you as clearly as you can see your way. It is the de- struction not only of the Teamsters' Un- ion, but the destruction of every union in San Francisco; that is their aim, and the destruction of them in order that you men, American citizens, equal before the law 'with them, endowed with the same rights, having ‘the same souls, but hav- ing perhaps higher aspirations, and hav- ing, I believe, cleaner lives—that you are to be their chattels, their slaves, to be treated far worse than chattels or slaves were treated in the days of old. P . . ““All the people that are in any way con- nected with business and with the Em- ployers' Assoclation, with the hiring of men or living upon them, whether living on their father's money or, like present barnacles, living on some rich millionaire to-day—all these people have put them- selves together on one side; they have all massed themselves against you; they are there just as are a herd of cattle when they are attacked by wolves—they all come together, put their heads down to the ground. 8o have all the rich men and hangers-on of the rich men of the city got together—against what? Against the teamsters? Not much. Against the long- shoremen? By no means. Against every man and every, woman who is earning wages in the city of San Franeisco, in the State of California. L e . . “The second way in which you can help them is by not only paying your money into the strike fund accord- ing to your means, but also by tak- ing care that none of your money gets into the pockets of those that are fighting you. 2k o el lile e “So I say to you, no matter whether it be store, wholesale shop, newspaper, or any other business that is against you in this fight, let every man and every wo- man, and let every’child, too, say to him- self and herself, ‘I will go without if T can do without in any way rather than patronize such a one.’ i A S Rl e e i “Three of the papers of this city have been pitching into you pretty hard. They have been slandering you in their news columns and they have been writing you up in their editorials. One of the papers has been standing up for you. And now, when this terrible crime stained our coun- try only a few days ago, instead of de- cently ~keeping their little, miserable squabbles to one another, nothing would do them but to stand over the bier of our martyred President and {alk like fish-women. They did that, not that they cared a rap about Mr. McKinley, not that they cared a whit about the constitution of this coun- try, but simply because they thought it would injure a rival; that it would help their business and extend their circula- tion. g . PR e S S “Put not your trust in politicians. Put rot your trust in political parties. I do not care what the name of the party is, I do not care who the man. is—I implore you, my friends, do not put your trust in politicians or in any political party. “Let me tell you that whoever you elect Mayor, I do not care what party he is from—I am not talking against one party now or the other; I am talking against all parties—I do not care by what name they are called, the man who would be elected by you would be just as far from you as if vou took him and put him up on top of Mount Shasta. SINTA FE AOAD I K BIE DL Negotiating for Purchase of a Line Running Into Mexico. AUSTIN, Tex., Sept. 23.—It is reported in Mexico raflway circles that the Atchi- son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Com-~ pany is negotiating for the purchase of the Rio Grande, Bierra Madre and Pacific | Railroad, which runs southwest from El Paso to Terrazaz, in the State of Chihua~ hua, Mexico. If the deal is consummated it 1s proposed to extend the acquired line southwest to the port of Guaymas, on the Gulf of California. Such purchase and extension would give the Santa Fe a new direct outlet for its Oriental and much of its Pacific Coast business. The Rio Grande, Slerra Madre and Pacific road was inspected a few days ago by a party of high officials of the Santa Fe, and they were well pleased with its condition and prospects. The proposed extension would traverse a large section of the trouble- some Yaqul Indian country, and the Mex- ican Government has offered a liberal subsidy for the building of a road through that region, as such a line would be of great value from a military standpoint. lArchbishop Riordar: Says Church - Must Stand by Society RCHBISHOP RIORDAN, in de- livering his sermon at the me- morial services in the Cathedral in San Francisco last week, re- ferred to the work done by the Catholic church in upholding or- ganized soclety and civilization. In his se}:rnon Archbishop Riordan in part said: We have come here this morning to re- call the life, to mourn the death and to pray for the soul of that noble Christian President who lately stood among us in health and who to-day is deposited in the grave, slain by an assassin. He was a good man. “Xou would not have believed that there was in any part of this fres country one mind so malevolent as to plot ill against President McKinley. ““You, as Catholics, understand th - mity of that crime; you have beon tausht by ;lelsepg':‘nt!t‘ sacred precepts of the church e civ] overnmd constituted authoritjes. iR “You know how persistently the Roman Catholic church has com- bated that evil, conscienceless, god- less, negative philosophy called an- archism. “The Catholic church from the begin- ning has been the conservator, the guar- dian, the ally of the civil authority and of the state, and in the dark and stormy period of history when all government by right of law was imperiled and seemed about to go to pleces it was the Cath- clic church which came to the rescue of civil society, which saved the laws, literature, the arts of peace, organ- struction. “It is an awful thing to know that in this great land, which has opened its doors, its ports 'to the oppressed poor, the miserable of all nations, which has been the nest and home of the largest political freedom, which denies no man the benefit of equal laws, which protects civil and religious liberty, the elected chief magis- trate, a plain democratic citizen, should not be able to walk among the people who have raised him to the highest emi- nence #nd whom he served loyally, de- voutly and according to law. It is a shame to recall, it provokes cur bitter indignation to think of the contumely, the ridicule, the abuse, the denunciation which were poured out by degraded, unmanly, cowardly and malignant newspapers upon the noble, worthy gentleman, William Mc: ey: against the painstaking, hon- oral%a‘nl gx‘esldent, who 1 u're!t'i no man, who bore hatred for none. Shame on those papers which hounded President McKinley and used every false and dishonorable means to place him“n a false light before the nation; which misrepresented his words and actions; which cartooned and lam- pooned him; which denied him not only the respect due to the head of the nation, but the respect paid to the humblest citi- zen. Shame, I say, upon the cowardly, in- famous maligners who, during the years when President McKinley was striving sincerely for the nation’s good, treated him as brutally and unfairly as they would not have dared to treat a common criminal, an outcast; as they would not treat the very murderer who slew him. “The press must respect the constituted authorities. The welfare of the state and of society demands it. To ridicule the President is to ridicule the republic. To ridicule and sneer at the con- stituted authorities is to ridicule and sneer at the nation. To attack elected and lawful rulers so foully, so_unfairly, is to raise up enemies against them and against the republic. No more must we suffer the propaganda of anarchism.” ized society and civilization from de- NEW CABLE LINE 10 PHILIPPINES Will Connect California With Our New Island Possessions. Projectors Expect to Have Wire Laid to Hawaii Within a Year. ——— ALBANY, N. Y., Sept. 22.—The Com- mercial Pacific Cable Company, with a capital stock of $100,000, ‘was incorporated here to-day by John W. Mackay, Clar- | ence H. Mackay, Edward C. Platt, Albert Beck, George G. Ward, Albert B. Chand- ler and Willlam W. Cook. Respecting the purposes and prospects of the new company Mackay said to-day that the Commercial Pacific Cable Com- pany had been organized for the purpose oi laying a submarine cable from Cali- fornia to the Philippine Islands by way of Honolulu. The length of the cable will be about $500 miles, the part to be first laid being from California to the Ha~ waiian Islands. This portion, Mackay ex- pects, will be in operation within nine months. The time required for the laying of the remainder of the cable from the Hawaiian Islands to the Philippine Isl- ands will depend upon Fow quickly the cabe can be made, but Mackay believes the whole cable will be completed within two years from this date. On August 23 Mackay made applicatior. to the United States Government for landing rights in California and the Hawaiian Islands and the Philippine Islands. | The new company, Mackay announces, | is willing to lay the cable on the same | terms and conditions at San Francisco, Honolulu and Manila, so far as landing rights are concerned, as were imposed by | the United States Government on the | cable lines which have been landed on the | Atlantic coast of the United States. The new company does not ask any subsidy | or any guaranty, which is Mackay's rea- | son for believing there will be no trouble | on agreeing with the Government on the | terms and conditions upon which the cable | will be landed. | The new cabie when it reaches the Phil- ippines will connect at that point with the | present submarine cable running from | the Philippines to Japan and_ also the cable running from the Philip- pines to China. A direct cable_ route from China and Japan to the United States will thereby be established. At E;e!ent cablegrams from China to the nited States have to be sent by way of Europe. Mackay says that the present cable rates from the United States to the thpgines and to China and Japan would be reduced when the new cable is laid from 30 to 60 per cent. High Price for Wine Grapes. SAN JOSE, Sept. 22.—Wine grapes are selling at a higher price in Santa Clara County than at any time during the past twenty years. Several contracts were closed on Saturday at $29 a ton, and grow- ers predict the limit has not yet been reached. The Wine Growers' Association is offering $25 a ton, but independent buy- ers, to prevent being shut out, are offer- ing more. Growers have been reluctant about accepting the §25 rate of the asso- ciation and sales have rarged from that sum to Saturday’s sale at $29, when one of the largest vineyards i1 the southern part of the county disposed of its crop at that figure. It is asserted that with con- certed action among Pomona, Napa and Santa Clara vineyard interests a rate of $30 per ton spot cash will be in force in a few days. Bathers Fear a Rattlesnake. MONTEREY, Sept. 28.—A novel method of aisposing of rattlesnakes was adopted last week by a Monterey man, and as a result the frequenters of the water front are in mortal terror of being bitten. E. Michaelis, a barber, has 1ad three full grown rattlers in a cage in his shop for some time. Growing tired of such dan- gerous pets, he decided to get rid of them. He put them into a box and threw the box into the bay near the wharf. The snakes speedily got.out of the box and swam ashore, two of thera being found and killed in the fishermen's settlement, but the third and largest is still at large. Persons accustomed to a daily dip in the surf here fear an encounter with the ven- omous reptile. PO il Stanford Juniors Name Officers. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Sept. 23.— The junior class at its meeting this after- noon elected Cornelius Duane Hauverman to the presidency. Hauverman is a chem- istry major. He played tackle on the sec- ond eleven last year and is trying for a position on the varsity this season. The other '03 men elected to office were: T. E. Stephenson, vice president; W. I. Traeger, secretary; F. F. Gundrum, treasurer; C. Nanamore, sergeant at arms; . Raitt, athletic manager. e S Decides Against Recorder Pryor. SAN RAFAEL, Sept. 2.—Superior Judge Angellotti this morning handed down' a lengthy decision in the test case of Recorder Pryor of Sausalito against this county. Pryor sued for $9, alleged to be due for services rendered in prosecu- tions in his court for violations of the State law. In the decision Judge Angellotti held that Recorders of cities of the sixth class could make no charge against the county. The constitutionality of the law in this regard was upheld. 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