The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 3, 1902, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JANUARY 3, 1902 e THGES MEA IND ARMS Venezuelan Revolution- | ists on the Way to Fight Castro. British Filibustering Steamer Is Converted Into a Warship. Before Departing From the Island of | Martinique, General Matos, the Rebel Leader, Issues a Manifesto. — - Special Dispat~h to The Call. T OF SPAIN, Jan. 2—The British Righ, called the Libera- steamship Ban tador by Venezuelan revolutionists, le!‘t‘ Fort de France, Martinique, last night with an expedition under the leadership M velan war vessels are pa- coast of their country with capturing the Ban Righ. fon is working in conjunc- urgent leagers now ope- | hope g in Venezue Venezuelan revolutionists have landed | 15,000 Mausers and 180,000 rounds of am- | tion at Coro, in Guayana, where the the Government forces h 5000 men and nhas joinea ¥erdanez and Garcis n the state of Bar-| are Generals Guzman, Platero are operaung in | of Carabobo and Guarico. Botolia and Bodeno have taken “asiro. President Castro revolutionary 10N0ETO; Gene: the neid tramc on the German raii- Caracas and Valencia. Carries Insurgent Volunteers. FORT DE FRANCE, Isiand of Martin- | Jan. 2—1he Britisn steamer Ban | renamed the Liberatador, rt for the Venezueian coast. among her passengers Senor ow referred to as General 1 generals ana o of V here. t she will cmbark a numoer r volunteers while on her way to Venezuela. seneral Matos and his were at this port and when they left they the whole popula- is well known at , where he has many i newspapers have pub- ticles expressing hopes for the the expedition and the dent Castro, whose atti- dd, has earned for mm the whole werld. s departure General Matos following manifesto, calling on = fellow co men 1o take up arms: Matos Appeals to Countrymen. c Our tude the the pape men native s perishing. The | d mag.strate have | edge of an abyss. | ative land | and mndful of | number of 4 ested me when become chiet , 1 come to my and h diligence. [ necessary munitions of render it ir- me 1 hope to serve 5 between all Venezuelans € our beloved country from use’ of our arms shall | utes, bearing you_fuinil ate native country you will have the gre; public position, a-positiop mitted every error and o has compromised not let us remove this faithless | aione is responsible for the ns between V foreign powers | let us bring about the respectable ob- vance in our land of eves man’s rigats rict accomplishment of every man's ou wiil regain your good name, | back your beloved country ana the great | Liberal cause will once again become invested | with its merited prestige. God, all powertul, inspires us, and with his belp we will save Venezuela. Your country- n A. MATOS. M the steamer Liberatador, Lecember 31, Converted Into a Warship. Is of the conversion of the steamer > a war vessel show the 300 volunteers gh wiil reach the 00D and schooners t at various points if revolutionists are car- | the s of the teers sald that their landing t of Venezuela was planned a forward movement on troops and the Venezuela of other revolution- concentrated at the islands and Curacao. ot Be Classed as a Pirate. ON, Jan. 2.—If the steam- &n Righ has discarded her Britich T s actually in the service of of Venezuela the British n offer no_objection to her e by the agents of President Castro. opinion was expressed to-night by an officer of the State Department whose attention was called to the dispatch stat- | ing that the Ban Righ hed been armed | and equipped as a war vessel and is now | on her way to Venezuela. The Ban Righ cannot be classed as a pirate. Secretary Bayard's declaration that the United States could not regard as piratical ves- | scls manned by parties in arms against | the Government has been accepted by all maritime nations. The Ban Righ will, therefore, not be recognized as a pirate | by warships of any nation. If upon en- | WASE ship B e tering the waters of Venezuela she shouid | e & then President Castro will | probably be allowed to wi his will upon_the Venezuelans on board, though the British Government will undoubtediy | be able to save any of its subjects who | ured | | THE PURE i GRAIN COFFEE Grain-O is not a stimulant, like coffee. It is a tonic and its effects are rmanent. A successful substitute for coffee, ‘because it has the coffee flavor that everybody likes. | Lots {coflee substitutes in the markei, but only one food drink— Grain-O. All grocers ; 15c. and %5c. { had | touched, and tne so-called reforms | tive American missiona | claim in Oregon C SHOTGUN RULE IN GONGO STATE Existing Government a Disgrace to Civ- ilization. Officials Employ Cannibals to Messacre Rebellious Natives. Special Cable to The Call and New York He: ald. Copyright, 1902, by the Herald Pub- lishing Compeny. LONDON, Jan. 2.—Captain Guy Bur- rows, who has just retired from the em- ploy of the Congo Free State Govern- ment after six years’ service, declares in | an interview with a Call correspondent | that the conditions in the Congo State | | are a disgrace to civilization and worse than ever before. As a typical instance of the means em ployed by the Free State Captain Burrows corroborated the state- ment of American missionaries to mbals, to Whom they iSsue r.Les to “‘mas- sacre and capture unarmed natives who rebeiled against their bruas { methods.” have sworn testimony,” said Bur- rows, “of the Belgians handing over na- tives .0 cannibal trives purpose of being eaten. valis_everywhere, and Forced labor pre- shotgun rule’ 1s | the truest” description of the present ad- deriving | ministration. ‘I'ne companies wealth from the collection of rubber are all more or less stale enterprises, as third or half the shares in them are in. variably held by the Government. Lately King Leopold and the Government have : maae some show of action against the | agents of some of the Upper Congo com- panies, but only minor othcials are ever are merely intended to throw aust in the eyes of the public, whose inaignation has been arousea by ihe stories of this reign of terror. While the present systems for the collection of rubber ana tne recruit or natives continue the Free State will re- main a disgrace to the whole of Africa.”’ REFORT REACHES LONDON THAT MISS STONE IS FREE ©Officials at Washington Would Not Be Surprised to Receive Con- firmation of Story. ’ LONDON, Jan. 2—A dispatch to the : 1 News from Vienna says a report has bee: ed there via Sofia to the effect t s Helen M. Stone, the cap- has been re- leased. 'The report lacks contirmation. WASHINGTON, J re State De- partment officials 'say they have no recent news bearing on the case of Miss Stone and therefc confirm the dispatch itting a report that ased. At the same time nation of the efforts in d not be surprising, as the s received here shows that re- ible persons are in commuaication with the brigands who hold her ca and the latter know these persons have the money that can be raised with which to ransom the captives. DELEGATES FINALLY AGREE ON EXTRADITION MATTERS Pan-American Conference Considers an Important Branch of the Work Bzfore It. MEXICO CITY, Jan. 2—To-day Pan-American delegates and thetr the fami- tone of endence a4 monument to on the Paso del of the cor ument which was deposited in a strong box in the cor: At this sion of the Pan American one article of the proposed extradition convention was ap- proved, the United States delegation staining from voting on one clause of th article, owing to the divers| legislation in the United States, but in- dorsing the project as a whole. There is no change in the arbitration situation, but its complexion has slightly improved. 1t is learned that the Chilean delegates held an interview with President Diaz to-night with a view of detaching, if pos- sible, the Mexican delegation from the i+ scheme of compulsory arbitration. GIVES MINE AND CABIN TO MAN WEO SAVED HIM Aged Miner of Shasta County Richly Rewards a Poor Wood- Hauler. 5 REDDING, Jan. 2.—Joseph Kelly, one of | the early miners of this county, gave his gold claim and his cabin to a wood- hauler named Thompson, who this morn- ing saved his life. For years Kelly, who is T3 years of age, has mined a profitable h, six miles from Redding, where he lived alone. Yesterday he set outto prospect in the vicinity. As night came on the old man lost his way. A steady rain began and he was lost in the woods. He walked blindly until all but exhausted, fearing to lie down lest he should sleep and never awaken. Barly this morning, when he had lost hope, Thompson, the wood-hauler, found him and took him ip, revived him and se- cured medical attention. The grateful old | miner says he is done with mining and re- warded his preserver with the gift of his | mine and cabin. STEADY SHOTGUN BRINGS THE BURGLAR TO TERMS ntruder at a Milpitas Hotel Prefers Life to a Morgue Slab. SAN JOSE, Jan. 2.—Nerve and preseénce | of mind served to outwit a burglar at the Milpitas Hotel early this morning. The burgiar had visited several rooms, secur- ing a smali sum of money, but when he opened the door of the room of James Parks, one of the proprietors, he received a setbac was wide awake and had a shot- gun by his side. The burglar had a re- volver and both weapons were raised and {;olmed at about the same time, but the | urglar had not Parks’ nerve and so gave in. After he had laid down his pistol and | emptied his pockets he was allowed to go. FRADBURY DEMANDS A COUPLE OF STREETS San Francisco Millionaire Begins o Lawsuit to Acquire Corte Madera Property. SAN RAFAEL, Jan. 2—Suit has been filed here in the Superior Court by W. B. Bradbury, the San Francisco millionaire, against Jerry Adams and C. R. Wilson to quiet title to two Corte Madera streets, Enid avenue and The Lane. Adams and Wilson say that they need the streets to reach their property and that they will fight to the last to prevent the roads being fenced. Bradbury's quest for real estate has already given him pos- session of over forty lots in the town. He will be remembered in San Francisco as the man who was arrested and convicted of violating an ordinance prohibiting the reckless spraying of streetcar floors with tobacco juice. S Funeral of Rear Admiral Roe. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2—Impressive fu- neral services were held to-day at St John's Epigcopal Church over the late Rear Admiral ¥Francis N. Roe, U. 8. N., retired. The body bearers were eight sail- ors, the honorary pall-bearers being Rear Admirals Greer, Schiey. Weaver, Ludlow, Watson, Captains Sigebee and Bartletf and Frank W. Hackett, former Assistant Becretary of the Navy. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—The monthly state- ment of the public debt, issued to-day, shows that at the close of business December 31, 1m4mmmmiaflmizmmr ury, amoun 017, a decrease for the month of $8,043,192. Government, | the ! | effect that the omcials employed 500 can- or ine express ! it attended the ceremony of the laying | All the delegates signed a doc- | of State ! CORONER’S JURY FIXES THE BLAME j FOR FILLMORE-STREET ACCIDENT Carelessness of Two Employes Is Stated as Cause of Collision, : While, Conductor Escapes Censure---Motorman Breaks Down on Wiiness Stand and Sobs at Recollection of the Wild Ride | ! | | | K | vesterday into the cause of the | death of Miss Mary Phelan, the H domestic who received fatal in- | juries in the Fillmore-street rail- ! way accident on the cvening of Decem- ber 23, returned a verdict that the wreck was due to the carelessness of Timer Alexander Cameron and Motorman A. T. Deutschmann. The conductor, M. P. Phelps, who failed to couple the car to the grip on, the cable, escaped censure because thejury believed that the testi- mony, though conflicting, snowed that the timer rang the signal bells, indicating that the car was attached to the cable and ready 10 Start, a quly tnat pelonged to the conauctor alone and should not nave been assumea by the timer. | ‘rhe testimuny demonstrated clearly that the street car company’s failure Lo enforce Strictly 1is Teguwauons as o the | duties of aurerent empioyes at tne' point of aanger made the accident possible. [ Mechanical appnances that insure abso- lu fety on the gravity Section of tne | electric road were rendered inoperative y a careless confusion of duties on the part of two or three men. | 'The testimony was not complete, as but few passengers were placed on the stand, and many direct contradictions left mucn doubt as to the occurrences immediately | prior to_the wild ride down the hill. L't | timer, the motorman and the signaiman au testified positively tnat they heard the conductor’s “'go ahead” bells. If they rang | the motorman had no duty but to obey and_switch on the current that would send the car_over the brow of the hill. But the conductor denied that he gave | the “go ahead” signal, and two passen- | i gers, who claimed to have been watching nim, say that he did not. It was threc | egainst three, and the jury apparently | accepted the testimony of the conductor and passengers, for it censured the mo- | torman and had no word of condemna- | tion for the conductor, who, after receiv- | ing his orders from the timer, turned the | trolley and mounted the car again, leav- | ing it uncoupled from the cable, while he | explaired to the passengers that they | were to stay aboard, be taken back to | Vallejo street and transferred there to a | car that would take them on southward, | while hie car would return to the bay | He alore of the three had knowledge that | | the car was not attached to the cable {and that he would have to dismount | again and make the coupling before the | car could safely start down the steep in- cline. | Coroner Reads a Lecture. Scareity of testimony from passengers was one source of uncertainty as to whether or not the ‘go ahead” signal from the strap bell was given. Coroner | Leland was_ much annoyed that more passengers had not been subpenaed by his deputies. His sharp iniunction t Deputy McCormick to ‘““dig up” some of them would have led one to infer that there had been a general slaughtering of passengers and that the unfortunates Were already beneath the sod. Mayor-elect Schmitz was a witness. He told of seeing the cars crash together: of telephoning from his residence on Fill- more street to the Market Street Raflway offices, telling them of the accident and asking them to send physicians. and of his Zolng to the assistance of the injured. | Concerning the mechanical appliances the Mayor-elect sajd he had paid particular attention to them and deemed them ab- solutely safe. He said that if the pre- scribed precautions were observed by em- loyes accident would be impossible. He Pad not known of any previous mishap on the gravity line. Motorman Deutschmann furnished the one dramatic incident of the inquest. He was telling on the stand that he heard the “go ahead’ bells. started on the ‘“first notch.” heard the conductor shout “stop.’ and did stop the car. He sald he looked about and saw the conductor in the rear of the enclosed portion of the car and heard him explain to the passengers that they would transferred at Vallejo street. As Deutschmann told this he arose to show the conductor’'s attitude and, overcome with the recollection of what followed—the wild ride down the hill, the collision and the screams of thé women and cries and groans of the in- jured—the motorman sank back into his seat and covered his face with his hands, sobbing, his body trembling with emotion. Mrs. Caroline Bopp and Mrs, Emily Sampson, passengers on the southbound car that 'was struck by the runaway car, gave unimportant testimony. HE Coroner’s jury at the inquest T Superintendent Lynch Explains, Henry H. Lynch, superintendent of con- struction for the Market Street Rallway e That the said Mary Phelan, age 29 years,. nativity Illi- nois, occupation domestic, single, residence 2520 Green street, in the city and county of San Francisco, came to her death at the Southern Pacific Hospital on the 24th day of December, 1901, through frac- ture of skull by being thrown from o~ Fillmore-street car on December 23, 1901, at 7:40 o’clock p. m. by collision be- tween cars at the switch be- tween Green and Union streets, which collision was caused through the careless- ness of Timekeeper A. D. H Cameron and Motorman A. F. Deutschmann. — Verdict of Coroner’s Jury. [TOTrORMAN . B B A.Z7 DEUISCHIAN i ON THE FTAND. i covovcror M. P PHELES DECLARED THE CAR WAS' S7ARZED WITROUZ Vsl STCALS o 3 = THREE STREET RAILWAY EMPLOYES AND A WOMAN WHO WAS A H PASSENGER ON THE CAR STRUCK BY THE BUNAWAY WHO TES- ‘ TIFIED AT THE INQUEST. i L | Company, explained the mechanical safety | from the timer—testimony which other applhances and_ the egulations as to ‘ evidence showed to be mistaken. i signals. He said that If a car started down the hlll toward Vallejo and Green streets without being attached to the cable no brakes could stop It, as it wouiu skate faster than it would run on revolv- ing wheels. M. P. Phelps, the conductor, told of the delay of forty minutes at Union street on account of the accident at Fillmore and California streets; of finally reaching the top of the hill and his immediate u coupling of the car from the grip, expec ing to continue on the run southward. As he mounted the platform again Timer Cameron was talking to the motorman and on finding that the car was forty min- utes late the timer ordered the conductor 10 o back to the bay. as that would put him on his regular time again. told him, Phelps testified, not to issu transfers to the passengers, but to take them down to Vallejo street and there let them step across to the up-coming car. Phelps said he turned the troliey, but got on the car to tell the pazsengers to remain aboard without waiting to couple the car to the grip again. The car started without his having given the “go | akead” signal and he caught the rope and rang for the motorman to stop and then sprang to the door and shouted for him to stop. but It was too late. The car was bew yond the brow of the hill and the brakes would not_hold it. Rules Not Obeyed. Phelps said that the practice had been with some motormen to start the car as soon as the signal bells were rung at the box by the side of the street with- out waiting for the strap bell “go ahead" signal of the conductor. He sald also that it ‘was the conductor's duty to go to the signal-box and ring the eclectric bell to let the conductor on the upcoming car know that his car was attached to the cable, but that the timer on occasions when he was there and somctimes the switchman or signalman stationed there Gid it for him to save time. He heard the bells run by Cameron, as other tes- timony proved, but thought it was the conductor of the éther car at the foot of the hill signaling that his car was at- tached. He stated with great positiveness that he did not give the “go ahead" sig- nal. Deutschmann, the motorman, from the dramatic element he lent dry proceedings, gave very positive tes- timony against the conductor. He said that after hearing the “go ahead" bells, starting the car and then bringing it to s full utofi. when he heard the conduetor shout at him, he looked around, straight into the conductor’s face, and that after Phelps had finished his explanations to the passengers he nodded and said “All right” in answer to the motorman’'s query, “All right?” It was then, Deutsch- mann said, that he turned on the cur- sent and, sent the car over the brow of the hill. Miss Mary Kellv, who was Miss Phe- lan’s companion, and who is still in the hospital on account nglur injuries, could not throw any light oh the details of the accident. * Clifford Ayers, a schoolboy living on Devisadero street, was sure the con- ductor did not give the “go ahead” bells, but he was also sure that the conductor turned the trolley as soon as the car stopped, before he had re o1 aside Cameron | the | | Timer Gave the Signal. Alexander Cameron, the timer, who was cent out on Fillmore street to straighten out the tangle after the first accldent, said he rang the electric signals, having | ro doubt that the car was coupled to the grip and knowing the motorman | would not start till he got the con- Guctor's “go ahead.” He had no ade- quate response to the Coroner's questions | as to why he signaled that the car was | attached and ready to begin the descent | without seeing for himself that it had not been uncoupled. Miss Lena Harley of 287 Fillmore street, who was a passenger, said she distinctly heard the conductor uncouple he car.” She was sure the coflgucwr did rot ring the strap bell and tiat no stop was made after the car started. Her testi- ! mony was very definite.and convineing. | | ~J. H. Leaf, the signalman, swore that he heard the “go ahead” bells, put did | not (see the conductor pull the strap. He | | admitted that he had sometimes rung the signal bells from the box, though it was not in accordance with the rules. Frank P. Kelly, attorney for the Mar- ket-street Railway Company, was present during the inquest and frequently joined in the examination of witnesses. The Jjury deliberated but a few minutes. The jurors were: De Witt W. Toll, foreman; Claud Messersmith, Hugo S. Rotermundt, George Marcus, P. XK. Law and George Schmidt. Turkey Releases the Prisoners. CONSTANTINOPLE, Jan. 2.—The re- cent arrest of two naturalized Americans at Tripoli, Syria, for refusing to pay the tax providing for exemption from mili- tary service, has led to sharp representa- tions on the part of the United States Minister to Turkey, John G. Fleishman, to the Porte. The latter promptly order- ed the release of the men arresied and instructed the authoritles not to molest Amerjcan citizens. Admiral Sampson Is Sinking. ‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—Admiral Samp- son’s malady progresses slowly but very steadily toward the end. Medical sclence cannot check it. Symptoms of arterial degeneration have appeared, such as are incident to his malady, injecting great vncertainty into the case. Moreover, the patient is becoming less tractable and re- sponsive to treatment. 5 No Hope for Seamans. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—Adjutant Gen- eral Seamans of California is very weak to-night. The physicians hold out no hope of recovery. —_——————— The 0ld Hump-Backs . Are not to be compared to our new Pat- ent Back, flat-opening Blank Books, which cost no more than the old style and are infinitely better. Dally Jou Cal- endars, ries and Calendar Pads 1902 at the right Sanborn, V. Co., 741 Market si | the Federal iledo Railway and Light Company, | their money. the city depositories. ! tal resources were placed at | cluding a surplus fund of $335,0w. { Andreas; Charles A. Henry, | Shaffer, Westminster, $8; Roswell L. Em- { astronomers cf the university, twelve of | BIG SYNDICATE 15 EMBARRASSED Bankers Take Charge of the Affairs of Everett and Moore. A Stringent Money Market Causes the Suspension of $130,000,000 Concern. CLEVELAND, Ohlo, Jan. 2—The finan- clal affairs of the Everett-Moore syndi- cate, owning or controlling a number of urban and interurban electric railways and an extensive system of local and | long-distance telephone lines in Ohio and Michigan, passed into the control of a committee composed of seven prominent | bankers of this city to-day. This action | was taken, it is stated, as the result of | temporary financial embarrassment oa | the part of the syndicate, which has for some time past been affected by the strin- | gency in the ‘money market. | The committee chosen has been at work investigating aflairs of the syndicate and expresses the firm belief that the concern is entirely solvent, and tnat its embar-; rassment will be only temporary. i ‘The Everett-Moore syndicate is_accred- ited with controlling more tnan 1200 miles | of urban and interurban electric hnes in | Ohio and Michigan, with many new ex- tensions still in course of construction. | Among tie telephone properties owned | outrignt or controlled by the syndicate | are tne Cuyahoga Teiephone Company of i this city, with more than 10,000 subscrib- | ers; the United States Telephone Com- | pany (iong distance), the Federal Teie- | phone Company, the Stark County (Ohio) | ‘Yelephone = Company, the Columbian County (Ohio) 7deiephone Company, the | People’'s 'Teiephone Company of Detroit, the Wood County (Ohio) Telephone Com pany and a number of others in which Telepnone Company is the | controinng factor. Among the more important electric | street railroad properties in which the syndicate is iargely interested are the Cleveland kileciric Railway Company, the Detroit United Railway Company, tne T}?- the Northern Onio Tracuon Company, the | Cleveiand, Painesviile and kKastern Rail- way Company, thé Detroit and Toledo Shore Line railroad Company and the Lake Shore kiectric Raliroad Company. All of tnese lines are declared by the committee to be, with scarcely an excep- | tion, in good physical condition, perfectiy soivent and in no wise embarrassed. The aggregate capitalization of all the various propertes owned or controlled by the synaicate is said to be about $130,- Expert accountants have been employed by the committee in charge to examine and report upon the condition of all the | No statement has | ndicating the liabili- | ties of the dicate. Henry A. Lverett and H. W. Moore re- | fused to-day to be interviewed concerning | their aftairs, declaring that a statement | issued by the company covered the entire matter. The committee of bankers ganized by electing H. P. Newcomb as | chairman and E. llotson secretary. Colonel Myron T. Herrick to-night gave cut the following statement relating to the affairs of the Everett-Moore syndi- cate: { Personally I have had mo connection with | and no knowledge of the operations of the | Everett-Moore syndicate. Although I am named 2s one of the members of the commit- tee for the reorganization of their affairs, I | have now no actual knowledge of their con- | dition except as informed by another com- | mittee of Cleveland bankers, which has spent | more than a week in making an_ investiga- tion. While 1 have taken no part in this investigation, the bankers who conducted it are among our safe and conservative men and their report should inspire confidence. The | entire affairs of the syndicate are now under- | going a thorough investigation with the as- | sistance of chartered accountants, and all per- sons concerned should, In my judgment, feel ! assured that the interests of all classes of creditors will be conserved by competent busi- | ness management at the hands of the commit- | tee chosen. i As a result of the financial embarrass- | ment of the Everett-Moore syndicate a | run was started on the Dime Savings and Banking Company, of which Everett and | Moore are directors, late to-day. All de- or- | | mands were promptly met, and President ‘Watterson said the bank had ample funds on hand to pay ail depositors who desired The institution is one of When its last re- port was issued in October the bank's to- | $5,762,007, in- OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE | OF THE PACIFIC COAST . National Banks in San Francisco Re- | Ported to Be in Good Financial Condition. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—Postmasters | commissioned: Willlam J. Burns, San | Powellton. ! Onsdorff, Battle- Washington — Peter ground. | These pensions were granted: Califor- nia, original (war with Spain)—Frank O'Brien, Stockton, $36; Carl J. Omoltke, San_ Franciseo, Increase—John J. Boyle, San Francisco, $8; Nathan J. Wal- ler, Pasadena, $12; Roger Ross, Sol- diers’ Home, Los Angeles, David R. 8. erick, Los Angeles, $8. Oregon: ~Increase—John W. Thomas, Amity, $8. Washington: _Increase—Theodore H. Merihew, West Spokare, $12. i The abstract of the condition of the na- tional banks of San Francisco at the close of business, December 10, as reported to the Comptroller of Currency, shows an average reserve of 3121 per cent: loans ! and aiscounts, $20,541,123; individual de- | posits, $18,085,890. Director W. W. Campbell of the Lick | Observatory has been here for the past week. representing the University of Cali- | fornia at the meetings of the American Astronomical Society. He presented to the soclety fourteen papers on astronomlcal! subjects of current interest, written by ! these being members of the Lick Observa- | tory staff and two from the Berkeley as- | tronomical department. Those relating to the Crocker eclipse expedition and to the new star in Perseus were of special interest. HEINZ MAY NO LONGER | INSPECT ANACONDA MINES i Montana Supreme Court Grants Stay of Proceedings to Amalgamated Copper Company. HELENA, Mont., Jan. 2—The Supreme Court to-day granted the application of | the Amalgamated Copper Company for a | writ of supervisory control over an order ‘. made by Judge Clancey, permitting F. A. | Helnz to make an inspection of the Ana- | ccnda and St. Lawrence mines to ascer- tain {f, as he clalms, the work in those | mines is_encroaching upon his ground in | the Fairmount mine. Attorney C. F. Kelly, representing the Amalgamated Copper Company, confined his efforts to-day to trying to secure an | order staying that of Judge Clancey until the Supreme Court can hear arguments upon application for & writ of supervisory control. Kelly claims that the .court be- low had made the order without due con- sideration of the showing made by the Amalgamated. He urged the court to grant the stay pending a hearing upon an application for a writ of supervisory con- trol. The court granted the stay this afternoon. | —_—— Still After Carter’s SAVANNAH, Ga., Jan. 2.—In the United- States court to-day Marion Erwin, special | assistant/to the Attorney General of the} United States, filed a new bill in the case ! of the Government vs. Oberlin M. Clrter.' The bill seeks to prevent the Savannah Brewing Company, the Savannah Light- erage and Transfer Company and the | Propeller Towboat Company, in which | Carter held large blocks of stock, from | paying the interest accruing to either the ! agent or the receiver for Captain Carter’s | property. 1 i AL NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—Willlam J. Jerome took the oath of office as District Attorney of | New York to-day. B | Gramer, — ADVERTISEMENTS. FOURTEEN "~ MORE YESTERDAY Not Yet Too Late to Take Ad- vantage of the Low Piano Prices. Sale Ends This Week. Select a Fine Piano To-Day. Ten Dolfars a Month Looks Easy, and It Is Easy. Store Open To-Night. Don't Be Late at This Sale. You'll Never Again See Such Bar- gains. Our vast assortment has been somes | what broken by the great number of in- struments sold during the past few days, but we still have left some of our choicest and most costly styles of the celebrated Kimball and other fine pianos. All of them must surely be sold by Saturday night, and in view of that fact we want customers to-day for some of our fanclest and most expensive instruments. It may not occur to every one that it pays sometimes to sell goods at cost and even less than cost, but any good mer- chant will tell you that this is sometimes expedient and necessary. Now is the time for the prudent man or woman who stands in need of a good | piano to buy, now—to-day—while this big sacrifice sale is still in progress. Do not fail to see these very latest style fancy mottled walnut cased Colonial up- right planos, regular cabinet grand sizes, retail price 3500, now $287. Terms twenty-five dollars down and ten dollars a month if you are not prepared to pay all cash. Don't fail to see these | beauties to-day. Let us also call your attention to the most beautifully dappled English oak cased Kimball and Estey upright cabinet grand pianos ever shown in the city. You still have at least a half dozen of each particular style to choose from, and it will pay you handsomely to make your selection to-day. Several regular 50 strictly high grade and most elaborately finished styles now $337 and $330. Thirty dollars down and $12 a mouth buys them. All of these remalning mahogany and walnut cused upright planos, called w2 made and warranted by the Emerson Piano Company, should be dis- posed of to-day. They are ordinarily sold for §350, but here they are now $186. Easy | terms of payment as desired. Several very fancy cased Richmond up- right pianos, also brand new, should also find homes to-day. After these are gone i you will pe asked to pay at least $325 for them—§176 and upward here now during this sale. HEasy payments, too. Do you want a good used pianoe? We have several of them of standard makes. A Gabler upright in excellent order at half what you would ordinarily expect to pay for such an instrument. Pay four or five dollars a month for it if you like. Don’t fail to come in to-day. Store will be open until late to-night In order to accommodate those that cannot well at- tend during the day. Remember the place, 645 .darket street, upstairs, in the Bishop building, below Kearny; take ele- vator. Eilers Plano Company, wholesale and retail piano dealers, San Francisco, Poertland, Or., and Spokane, Wash. SURPRISE HER. Your Little Daughter Needs a Piano and She Needs It Now. Only a few of these beautiful new Kim- ball and Steinway and Emerson and Estey and other fine pianos left for sale out of this the largest wholesale stock ever shown in the city. Scores ot homes have taken advantage of our sacrifice sale | which commenced last Mondaay a week | ago. All of the remaining instruments should go to-day. Remember it will prob- ably tame money and lots of it to buy a nne kumball or Steinway piano atter this sale cluses. And whle you nave the op- portunity to buy one at almost half price and on payments little more than rent, wWhy not do so? iHemember tne piace, Kiers Plano Company's wholésale warerooms, 646 Market street, i the Bisnop bullding; take elevator. A GREAT PLANT. What One of the Great American Music Journals Says. In a recent editorial by the editor of the New Yors sausical Courier, ine greac American authority un matters nUsical, he says: ““rnere is No UM o iie ca- pacity of the w. W. humbau Company as % Plddo manulacturer; every olle will ad- mit that. ‘1'ne capacity runs in every di- rection. There 1s no Lmit to factory ca- pacity—no umit to the capacity to aosorb every exceient idea in pianc structure; no Lmit to the capital hecessary to get the greatest experts and speciausts, and nQ limit to secure the very anest material and put it togetner In the very best style. ‘that ail must be admitted. “if pianc peopie desire to see what is constituted under the term ‘original’ we advise them to look at the several new designs and styles of Kimball upright planvs. Look at them. They are entirely outside the ordinary character of pianu case work. The finish is simply exquisite. ““Then look at the interior. The ordin- ary piate styles and furnishings are sup- janted by new features simpiy startling. *“fhen iry the pianos. Test them se- verely. Go through the questions of dip, of repeat and of sympathy of touch. All these will be found deiightful for planists, and the tonme is rich, resonant and re- fined. The Kimball piano of the present day must be viewed as one of the great- est_successes of recent piano history. “Of course with this piano and the mil- lions behind it. and the brains and e: nd the knowledge of the business the conditions of the piano trade to aid it, there is difficulty in predicting tne future grandeur of the Kimball house. ““With old houses retiring or golng to pleces, new alignments ensuing, a rear- Tangement of the conditions of the roceeding vividly before us, effect. It is now being felt pulse s so great as to be startling in its character. “Having prepared our readers ‘what we‘::n' haw to state, we hereby “-m-" that the W. W. Kimball Company is ar- i ‘dv:;c:.‘nn b-n -“-r ; a output of these great factories Sixty finished planos dally, _—