The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 14, 1902, Page 2

2 EXCLUSION BILL MEETS APPROVAL Mitchell-Kahn Measure Is Taken Up by House Committee. | Most Important S8ections Are Adopted, With a Few Verbal Changes. WASHINGTON, March 13.—The House Committee on Forelgn Affairs to-day voted against considering the bill of Rep: | resentative Sherman of New York con- | tinufng the existing Chinese exclusion act | and then voted to proceed by continuous | with the consideration of the sesstons Mitchell-Kahn rigld exclusion . measure, | having the indorsement of the Pacific Coast Senators and Representatives in | Congress. The vote against the Sherman | bill §s understood to have been 6 to 7. | When this measure was laid aside there | was general concurrence on going on with | the Mitchell-Kahn bill. The actual work | on this bill by sections began this after- noon and is likely to proceed uninter- | ruptedly until results are secured. | Actual work on the bill began at the | afternoon session. The first nine pages including the important exclusion sec: tions, were approved with a few verbal | changes. The part approved also covers the provisions preventing Chinese labor- | ers from going to_the Philippines or from | coming from the Philippines to this coun- | try. The action of the committee on the | exclusion section was practically unani- | mous. The remainder of the bill, yet to be passed upon, covers administrative de- | tall, #o that the action to-day insures the of the Mitchell-Kahn exclusion - with amendments clearly re- | € it to Chinese laborere. | he Senate to-day Penrose favorably ted the Mitchell-Kahn Chinese ex- | m bill and it Was placed on the| ndar. CARLOADS OF POWDER WILL REND A MOUNTAIN Immense Amount of Explosive to Be Used in Railroad Work in Nevada. SACRAMENTO, March 13.—A remark- able scene will enacted next Sunday morning at Clark Station, near Winne- mucca, Nev. The Central Pacific Rail- road is changing its route in that vicinty and the problem was presented whether it would be better to tunnel the road through a mountain or blow a cut through it. The latter resort was decided upon and preparations are under way ac- cordingly. Three carloads of giant powder have been utilized to prepare the blast The grand spectacular demonstration | will take place next Sunday morning, when the giant powder will be set off. 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WINSLOW’S ESO00THING SYRUP AND TAKE NO KIND, OTHER Twenty-Five Centn a Bottle S exL.. | signature is on every box of the genuine nlmnhw”m Wy romedy st ouros & cold in omo dap | Miller. ! the victim. Miller had been negligent in | the first blow Harris attempted to { from his chair and | from his breast | only weapon is a cane and a club. pLOT | worm-eaten. | Each night during moth time the lamps { morning. Th | for spraying fluids. {ing the lamps also was much | Several Chmgestre Made in the {ivg, Santa Barbara County, to Gaviota; | fornia—Hite, Mariposa County, mail goes | ego County, mall goes to Nestor. J()l‘.klfind. $6; Charles A. Briggs, Alameda, | Heppner, SAN Q } UENTIN PRISONER KILLS FELLOW-=CONVICT Desperate Offender Ends One Life With a Knife and Tries to Add to Crimes. B — ‘THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, MARCH 14, 1902. the cane and tried to gain possession of it. After = desperate struggle the guard subdued the infuriated convict. Thomp- son was found unconscious where he had fallen and Harris = was discovered just, outside the door dead. The injured man was' taken to the hospital and the assail- ant to a dungeon. To-day’s affair is the first serious trouble occurring in the prison during the past_three years, Frank Miller is one of | the most desperate- men in San Quentin, as well as notorious throughout the State. He was convicted in Lassen County for killing a man and sentenced to life im-| prisonment. After being taken to San Quentin he gained a rehearing, and upon the second trial was sent to prison for: manslaughter to serve seven years. He has served about four years of this fime. ‘When en route to prison the last time Miller escaped from an officer while on/ the train. As the train was leaving AN QUENTIN, March 13.—Mur- der was committed within the walls of the State prison here to- day. One of the most desperate inmates of the institution stabbed and killed & fellow-convict and endeav- ored at the same time to increase the number of his crimes by shedding the blood of other men who happened in his’ murderous way. The man who did the killing is Frank Jeremiah Harris is the name of his work, thereby necessitating more la- bor on the part of Harris and another convict named Ortiz. These two_men complained to the convict boss, Ernest Thompson, for several days about Miller's work, and Thompson reprimanded him. This morning Harris objected to doing so much of Miller's work, whereupon Thompson went to Miller and informed him that the kind of labor he was per- forming would not be permitted. Miller demanded to know who said he was not doing his share of the work. The convict boss mentioned Harris and Miller became angry. Seizing an iron bar, Miller dealt Thomp- son a vicious blow over the head, felling him instantly. Turning around to where his coat was hanging, he took a knife out of his pocket and then rushed through the door into an adjoining room, where Har- ris and others were sitting down at work. Harris was leaning back In his chair sewing sack: Miller rushed at him, kni in hand, and dealt him six blows. thus received c to his abdomen. though badly wounded, he grappled his antagonist and fought until assistance arrived. Ortiz_at the commencement of the at- tack rushed to call a guard. John Con- nell responded and ordered the men to stor: their fighting. The jute mill guz?rd's Con- nell raised his cane to ward off a knife thrust, whereupon Miller took hold of butcher by trade. | attention, e e e e i ST S SN 3 THE 00OM OF CODLIN MOTH Northern Orchardist In- vents a Unique System. Special Dispatch to The Call. TACOMA, March 13.—What is believed to be an effectual method of conguering codlin moths has been discovered by C. R. Frazier, an experienced horticulturis of Walla Walla County. For several vears since codlin moths began to damage the fruit crop of this State Frazler ha: been experimenting. Last year he suc- ceeded in producing a splendid crop of | apples and other fruits, while orchards adjoining his bore fruit that was badly In an orchard of thirty-five acres he scattered fifty large tin kerosene lamps so made that chimneys were unnecessary. filled were and lighted, burning until y attracted to them millions of moths, which were burned and de- royed. Frazier found that the kerosene cost than his neighbors were paying The trouble of light- less than that incidental to spraying. To kill young moths or larvae which could not fly to the burning lamp Frazier placed fly paper around the trunks of his trees, Above this he wound burlap bands to kBep the paper from the air. When ycung moths began ascending the tree trunks to reach the branches they were caught on the sticky paper and died. Frazier's success & 80 complete that many other orchardists will try his pldn this year. It is expected that it will come into general use on the coast. OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC COAST Postal Service and More New Pensions Granted. WASHINGTON, March 13.—Postoffice neme changed: California—Alcatraz Land- Robert Compton, Postmaster. Fostoffices discontinued March 31: Cali- to Jerseydale; South San Diego, San Di- Postmasters commissioned: California— Rhoda W. Dirk, Gold Run; Marion A. Stcves, Florence. . Postmasters appointed: California—J. D. Ramage, Gibbons, San Luis Obispo County, vice W. 8. Nunes, resigned; M. G. Paige, White River, Tulare County, vice Stella Brown, resigned. The postoffices at Avalon and South Fasadena, Cal, will become Presidentiol offices April 1, with the salaries of post- nimallrrs fixed at $1100 and $1000 respec- tively. These pensions were granted to-day: Calitornfa: Original—Enoch H. Barreft, 8. Increase—James A. Roark, San DI- ego, $10; Charles C. Wells, 8an Francisco, §12; Stephen H. Libby, Soldiers’ Home, Los Arwele-. $12. Mexican war—Jesse A. Mills, Woodville, $12. Oregon: llzncreue—wlll!nm A. Kimball, ‘Washington: Original-Nathan B. Run- Increase—Knudt Thomp- dle, Spokane, $5, %r&. $12; John 8. Stansberry, Navy order: Boatswaln C. Wouters Is ordered to report to the commandant at Mare Island Navy Yard April 7 for com- mend of the tug Active, et oot S Bryan Visits the Capital. "\\'ASHII:U;‘(')N, March 13, ~William J, ryan arrived in Washington to- NQ};I York, en route to '{-?;rrflba\rr’g."lfl’m gien oot o, S, Noltogky lolegation toe breakfas t luter he visited the C pnolw iy oo ¥ VERRY HARRIV. o SAN QUENTIN PRISON MUR- DERER AND CONVICT HE STABBED TO DEATH. S S ation Miller jumped through an open window, although shackled with a ten-pound *“‘Oregon boot." Jerry Harris, the man killed to-day, and | Ernest Tho on both have good con- | duct records in San Quentin and hav. pever been in trouble there. Harris wa: about 46 years old and was sent here from | Fresno for ten years on a felony charge. | He was born in New York and was al FIGHT FOR LIFE IN A SNOWSLIDE One Man Killed and Another Injured in the North. Special Dispatch to The Call. VANCOUVER, B. C., March 13.—Fred Lowden and Chris Sherbert were sleeping in a cabin at the foot of the main Ko- kanee ranch near Nelson, about 1000 feet below the summit, last Monday night when a snowslide occurred. It swept down upon the cabin, cut off the roof and piled the snow in the interior and for ten feet above the structure. Sherbert was awakened and found him- self packed In snow. With great effort he managed to make his way to liberty and daylight after thirty-six hours of a struggle. He reached daylight yester- day. He was compelled 10 scoop the heavy snow out in front of him and roll it into balls and pull it under his body as he tolled toward the surface. Sher- bert made his way laboriously to the Molly Gibgon mine, where he induced the Italian laborers there under promise of $10 to go to his companion’s rellef. They shoveled the snow off Bowden until they came to his head and then they saw that he was dead,” The body was taken out to-day. Bowden's fingernails were torn off, showing that he too had made a des- perate struggle for his life. Sherbert's feet and hands are badly frozen and his feet may have to be amputated. He was clad in a thin shirt during the time he was fighting for his life, THROWS A LIVE BABY INTO. A GARBAGE CAN Prominent Phy:gh‘n of Washington Is Held to Answer a Most Serious Charge. WASHINGTON, March 13.—Charles E. Hagner, for many years a well-known physician In this city and a member of one of the oldest families in this section, was to-day held for t¢he action of the Grand Jury as the result of an inquest over the body of a prematurely born baby of Mrs, Peter Blair, found yesterday altve and doubled up in a shoe box, thrown into a garbage can in the rear of the Blair house. At the inquest to-day a ! colored woman peinted to Dr. Hagner as the man whom she saw place the box in the can. The latter, admitting he was the man, said he fully belleved the child was dead at the time. The physi- clan at the hospital where the child was carried after being found testified that the baby was alive when received, and the negro woman testified that the child was crying when she found it. The Coroner's jury in its verdict held that *‘the child, which was born alive and lived several hours, died from hem- orrhage of the brain, which might have been caused during premature birth, and that Dr. Hagner, who attended at the birth, was gullty of inexcusable neglect.” Jonilhs A via s New Tutor for State University. ITHACA, N. Y., March 13.—Professor Henry Morse Stephens, who holds the chair of modern European history at Cor- nell, to-day sent in his resignation, to teke effect at the end of the present col- lege year. He has accepted the professor- ship of Buropean hist at the University of Callfornia. Professor Stephens s nn Foglishman and a graduate of Oxford, He came to Cornell in 1804 on the recom- mendation ‘of Professor Goldwin Smith, During the past elght years he has besn one of the most prominent members of the faculty, He I8 the author of a well known work on the Krench revolution and other historleal hooks and essuys, e Magic. The way Salva-con cuyes Plies, . . | warmth, | the criticism of the measure because it | conflict over Cuban reciprocity had pro- SENATORS MGLE ~ SHPSUBSIDIES Hanna Warmly Replies to Opposition of Berry. Perkins Also Speaks in Favor of the Pending Measure. WASHINGTON, March 13.—After the passage of a considerable number of un+ objected bills to-day the Senate resumed consideration of the ship subsidy meas- ure. Berry of Arkansas, a member of the Commerce Committee, which reported the bill, made a vigorous argument in op- position ‘to it. Hanna replied to some of the points made by Berry and a brief colloquy en- sued, participated in by Hanna, Berry, Spooner -and Clay. o “To say,” declared Hanna, with some ‘that the Senators on this side of the chamber who are favoring this| measure are thereby fostering a power to build up a monopoly or to favor any syn- dicate is unfair, If a newspaper report is to be: taken as proof to sustain the| statements that have been made it is hardly worthy of consideration. Not one ton of these foreign-built vessels, if pur- chased by Americans, could be admitted to American register or receive any bene- fit under the ship subsidy bill and no one knows that better than the Senator from Arkansa Could' Get Coastwise Trade. Hanna went on to say that Berry had | urged that the enormous power and in- fluence of Morgan and his assoclates would be brought to bear on Congress to secure the admission of the foreign-built vessels to American register. That was gratuitous. If it were true, this bill would offer little inducement to those owners, as by having their vessels brought under’ American register they would participate in the very profitable coastwise trade of the United States, Perkins of California, a member of the Commerce Committee, made an extended speech in support of the pending measure. He believed it was the duty of the coun- try to try the experiment proposed. If it prove to be a failure it couid be re- pealed by Congress, but he was satisfied | that in its operation it would be a great | success. Ivery American eitizen, he said, was interested either directly or indi- rectly in the bill. He was satisfied it will be as far reaching in its zood results as any piece of legislation that had been before Congress for many years. As a shipping man, Perkins pointed out that | the proposed subsidy, or differential, as | he preferred to call it, would not ‘“‘begin to pay one-half of the operating expenses of the ship,” therefore, he maintained, did not contain the provision of the bill of last vear that a vessel must carry at least 50 per cent of her cargo capacity in | order to participate in the subsidy, could | not be operated except at a loss, and “Yankees are not in the habit of doing | busin in that way.” Debates in the House. WASHINGTON, 3.—The House ay al debate on the Post- office’ appropriation bill and completed consideration of twelve of the twenty- seven pages of the bill. No amendments were adopted. The principal portion of the general debate to-day was devoted to he discussion of the appropriation for | several mail facilities. Jenkins of Wis- | consin presented a detalied statement of his reasons for his theory t Cuba is | now under the sovereignty of the United | States, which sovereignty, he contends, cannot be allenated without an act of | Congress. Jenkins' views attracted much; CONFEREES WORK ON GUBAN TANGLE| Committee Meets to Frame Compromise Agreement. WASHINGTON, March 13.—Late this afternoon the work of harmonizing the gressed so far that a committee of con- ferees or arbitrators representing the two sides of the controversy assembled to frame a compromise agreement. The meeting occurred in the private quarters of the Ways and Means Committee room, With Chairman Payne and Representa- tives. Dalzell and Cannon present in be- half of the Ways and Means reciprocity elcment, while five members of the op- position, namely Representatives Metcalf of California, Dick and Tayler of Ohio, Fordney of Michigan and Morris of Min- nesota, acted as arbitrators in behalf of the Republicans who have resisted the Ways and Means original plan of 20 per cent reciprocity for an uniimited period. Ihe conterence lasted about two hours and was not productive of final results, an adjournment being taken until 2 p, m. to-morrow. All the plans of compromise that have been suggested were reviewed, rarticularly that limiting the reciprocity period until December, 1303, Beyond dis- cussing the several plans no action was tuken. When the conference closed it was stated that the discussion has been along sucn harmonious lines that an agreement seemed assured. Chalrman Fayne and his associates séemed to be less confident than the other conferees that an agrcement was in sight. Prior to the meeting of the arbitrators the ele- ment 0pposing the Ways and Means plan assembled to determine on a course of action. It was decided to name five con- ferees instead of three, in order to make the body more representative of the vari- ous sections interested. It was also deemed desirable not to give the con- ferees power to make terms, but only to consider and report back. This precau- tion was taken in order that there might be a full understanding of the compro- mise plan by all of those who opposed the original Ways and Means plan, Rep- resentative Tawney of Minnesota, who directed the contest at the outsef, was asked to go on the conference, but he de- chned, and instead nominated the com- mittee of five subsequently named by the conference. MEN NARROWLY ESCAPE DEATH IN THE SHAFT Seven Employes at the Treadwell Property Crawl Away Before a Deluge. SEATTLE, March 13.—Steamer adyices recelved from the porth tell of ‘an ex- tremely narrow escape of seven men in the shaft of the Treadwell, mine on Wednesday, March 5, A strange coin- cldence is the fact that all of the party were In the same shaft during the fire which destroyed the compressor building and at that time saved their lives by crawling through underground workings to_a deserted ufiutt. b The prompt. action of a foreman, whose name is not known, averted a tragedy this time. While the men were in the mine a large water pipe over the shaft burst and a deluge followed, There was no chance of escape for the men except through the IRII’! and the foreman made a dash through the torrent, He succeeded finally fn shutting off the water, His Retirement. LONDON, March 13,~The report that Herbert Hooth, third son of General Booth, who was in command of the Bul- yatln Army In Australia, had withdrawn frumhlhc army, s confirmed here, I8 the ' wllhdrawul.c ciune of Lu\fnmn»nder Booth's . granted. ADVERTISEMENTS. GRIP BACILLUS COMING WESTWARD p iy Epidemic Started in Russia and West- ern Europe. Moving Rapidly West- Bacilius of Grip Magnified 16,000 Times. It Has Already Crossed England and the At- lantic. Has Rcacl;,_d the East- ern Sea Coast of the P Unit tes. ward. ed Sta : il R - (Special Cable from London.) " [ " “The Epidemic Will Be General All Over the United States in a Few Days. oo dy Mrs. Theophile Schmitt, oo Almost everyhody fe of -Secre- 33 ¢ knows that Peruna will Taty 6t _lt;&efiererf\lgn “MEDICAL TALK” Says: % cure acute catarrh: But llon it [tiar fiom Speaking of remsdies for la grippe, the editor of Medical ? e w4 ;1::;{; actu(: O T L avenathy Talk, one of the popular medical journals of the present | catarrh. Tt they did “I suffered this winter § time, says: “Whatever may be said against proprietary medi- 1 By would use Feruns fi"grf'i; e Rt okine | cines in a general way, the fact remains that there are more iy B AT three bottles of Peruna ¢ pegp/e who rely upon Peruna as a remedy for la grigpe than } ready the news is had disappeared.”—Mrs. use all other remedies combined. No other remedy is so polay :D;@;;i’{r;fp[t::; T echmitt tive J. 1. | widely used and implicity balievad in as a remedy for /a i untailing remedy for Ia Caldwell, from Benton, } grippe as Peruna. There is no way to account for this fact } “the. demand for Peru- ("thave found Peruna except that Peruna is what the people belisve it fo be—a $ . n\rvr:é[s‘::m'mfi'.fé 0 be a most effective : t acllities .o o2 TS | apoarfic for fa griope. i 55 g i (!}:]pdr;se?‘ma!lve J. . eeese ettt ee sttt et ettt steteRte sttt eees L iies rages s Congressman George H. White, from Tarboro, N. C., says: “I find Peruna to be an excellent rem- edy for the grip. I am more than satis- fied with it."—Congressman George H. White. Hon. James R. Guill of Omaha, Nebr., writes: “I am 68 years old, am hale and hearty, and Peruna has helped me attain it. Two years ago I had la grippe—my life was despaired of. James R. Guill, Mrs. Harriet A. S. Marsh, president of the Woman's Benevolent Association of Chicago, writes: “I suffered with grip seven weeks. Nothing helped me. Tried Peruna and within three weeks I was fully restored. Shall never be without it again.’—Mrs. Harrlet A. S. Marsh. La grippe has always been a peculiarly | fatal 'disease. Its ravages are not so alarming as diphtheria, or so much | dreaded as smallpox. but its number of victims are greater than either. Silently~insidiously—it gathers in _its| fearful harvest of preclous lives. It does | not soread from man to man like a con- | tagious disease, nor does it belong to | limited localities like malaria. It is in the air everywhere. It Is of climatic origin. No man can escape from it, no woman is safe from it. Peruna- saved me.”—Hon. La Grippe Is Epidemic Catarrh. . La grippe is acute catarrh excited by peculiar climatic conditions. It sweeps across a continent in a single week, like the blizzard of winter or the hot wave of summer. It does not depopulate whole villages like the black plague, nor deso- late a home like malignant diphtheria, but it counts its single victims here and there incessantly, night and day, week after week. Since 1850 Dr. Hartman Has passed through four or five epi- demics of la grippe. During all this time he has conducted an extensive practice of medicine. Few (if any) physicians pre- scribe for so many patients. His experi- ence in climatic diseases has been. simply prodigious. Thousands of patients are continually under his directions, either personally or by correspondence. The Doctor’s fame in treating la grippe is known from the At- lantic to the Pacific. The Doctor belleves that he has never yet lost a case of la grippe, and is en- thusiastic in the conviction that he never will. Dr. Hartman’s Remedy. The remedy upon which the Doctor has relied for the cure of la grippe for over forty years is Peruna. Peruna is a scien- tific” catarrh specifie. It cures catarrh whether acute or chronic. La grippe is simply acute catarrh. an epldemic. The present epidemic of la grippe will increase this demand four-fold. ? The resources for the manufacture of Peruna are not unlimited. This extraor- dinary. demand may exceed the possible supply of it. Every Person, Especially Every Family, vide themselves at once with E“.‘ZL‘"L?,’?'%I this well-tested remedy for la_grippe. E Peruna has been the regular prescrip- tion of Dr. Hartman for over forty years. It has become the safeguard of thousands of households. In the midst of this epi- demic no one should fail to take a dose of Peruna before each meal to guard against the possibility of an attack. | “Those stricken with the disease should begin with teaspsoonful doses of Peruna every hour and continue until the acute symptoms subside, after which two tea- | spoonfuls before meals will be sufficient | to continue the treatment until complete recovery. If you do not derive prompt and satis- factory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case, and he will be pleased to give you his valuable ad- vice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. HEPBURN CANAL BILL IN SENATE Morgan Reports Favor- ably on It Without Amendment. CALL BUREAU, 406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, March 13.—Impor- tant developments have cleared away the diplomatic ebstructions to the Hep- burn canal bill, which passed the House, and Senator Morgan favorably reported it to the Senate to-day without amend- ment. The bill is now on the Senate (‘al-X endar and Ats chances of being brought to a vote during the present session are said by its friends to be better than ever. Just before the final vote in the Commit- tee on Interoceanic Canals was taken Senator Morgan made an important state- ment, as the direct result of a conference at the State Department with Secretary Hay, relating to the attitude of Nica- ragua, Costa Rica and Colombia. Mor- gan was instructed by the committee to confer with Secretary Hay concerning certain points ih the diplomatic negotia- tions, and his statement to the commit- tee, approved by the Secretary, leaves the way clear for the bill so far as our diplo- matic relations with the Central Ameri- can countries are concerned. It was first ‘found at the State Department by Sena- tor Morgan that the negotiations with Costa Rica can be concluged at the con- venience of the United States and without any disagreement as to details. The sec- ond basis of negotiutions with Costa Rica and Nicaragua conforms to the canal rights and privileges referred to in the treaty ratified between the United States and Great Britain, viz., a perpetual lease of the canal belt from ocean to ocean, with the right on the part of the United States to construct, own, control, manage and protect the canal and to collect and appropriate all tolls and income of the canal for the benefit of ‘the United States in the belt six miles wide. This belt may be increased during the construction to a width of ten miles at the option of the TUnited States. Third, for the lease, rights and privileges granted the United States will pay Costa Rica $1,000,000 ninety days Ntter the ratification of 'the treaty and after that $10,000 annually. The United States will pay Nicaragua $6000 without any additional stipend. The protocols agreed to and signed in December, 1900, by the United States, Costa Rica and Nicaragua remain with- out alteration or dissent on the part of the governments named. Senator Morgan learned at the depart- ment that the former Minister from Co- lombia, Senor Silva, had an informal con- versation with the Secretary of State on the subject of concessions along the Pan- ama route, but made by this Government. Senor Silva has taken leave of the United States as Minister from Colombia, and Senor Concha has been appointed to suc- ceed him, but has not presented his cre- dentials. ' The majority of the committee believe it is not advisable to wait for a long period of years for propositions from Colombia, so long as there is a clear cut E‘oposluon from Nicaragua and Costa ica. Senator Morgan, in reporting the Hep- burn bill, said that there would be no long written report from the majority of the committee, He would, however, pre- sent to the Senate all the reports of the various sub-committees which have con- sidered the different points of the con- troversy and also the testimony. which has been taken by the committee on the subject of canals. This testimony will cover 1500 pages of printed matter and goes back to the time when the charter of the old Panama Company was first The members of the Senate steering committee are not prepared to te this time when they will give the bill the right of way. The Post to-morrow will say that Sena- tor Dietrich of Nebraska proposes a new plan inconnection with the Panama offer, whereby the $40,000,000 shalll be withheld until it is shown that the canal can constructed for $200,000,000, the estimated o If, when completed, it shall cost this Government $160,000,000, the ad- ditional $40,000,000 shall be paid to the Panama Company. If, on the other hand, the canal costs ,000,000, then the com- pany will forfeit the amount of consider- ation it asks of us, Senator Dietrich says he talked the matter over with the agent of the Canal Company, and the latter thought the company would be willing to accept the nrapnsition, R IS Wiseconsin on the Way North, VALLEJO, March 18 — Infarmation dated at Acapulco, February 27, states that the warship is now on her way from South American waters. She will stop at Magdalena Bav for ten days and thence proceed direct to San Diego. albuesu> ol o Leaves Large Fortune ta Charity. LONDON, March 13.—James Dick, the so-called ‘“‘rubber king,” who dled at Glasgow, March 7, bequeathed £100,000 for distribution among his employes, and the bulk of the balance of his fortune goes to charity. His cashier gets £5000, his cook £2000, and other domestic ser- vants are to receive in the aggregale thousands of pounds, The. clerks get from £300 to-£300 each. WIRELESS TELEPHONE COMPANY INCORPORATES Articles Filed Place the Capitaliza- tion at Five Million Dollars. PRESCOTT, Ariz., March 13.—Articles of incorporation were filed yesterday by the Wireless Telephone Company of America. The incorporators are J. B. Green, W. B. Whelpley and W. T. Quinn, all of New York. The capital stock is c;aled at $5,000,000, divided into 5,000,000 shares of each. shirts go on sale to-day at A Flash in the night—-the passing from the United dtatea vessol Wisgonsin We are now showing a comprehensive line of spring shirts that will give you the correct idea of what will be worn this sea- son. We have selected from the lot a shirt to sell for 6oc. The price is low, to be sure, but we want to tempt you to come and witness our display. A shirt offer like this will certainly bring a good many people. The shirt is golf style, with mercerized silk front, in tan ground, with blue, black or pink stripes; the body is made of plain cot- ton, tan color, and matches the iront perfectly. The 60cC Out-of-town orders filled—write us. SNWO00D 5 (0 718 Market Strect of Light of the swift and luxurious California Limlted‘ gleaming with its real electric Hights. It races from San Francisco to Chicago In three days the M N Santa ke ) 1 A <