The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 13, 1902, Page 6

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L1118 STATEMENT OF CIRCULATION OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, Month of May, 1902. Broadway 61,740 | May May - 59,5200 i May -60,260 —_— setttcsiasssissscsensssesses.1,915880 CALIFORNIA, i b COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO.2 5% 12th day of June, 1902, personally appeared before T. Hess, & Notary Public in and for the city afore said, W. J. Martin, who being sworn accord- STATE OF CITY AND . State of California, and that ted and distributed during the month of May, ion nine hundred and Sfteen thousand eight hun- ghty (1,915,880) copies of the eald newspaper, ber divided by thirty-one (the number of days of ) gives an average daily circulation of 61,802 copies. W. J. MARTIN, bed and sworn to before me this 12th day of June, W. T. HESS, Public in'and for the City and County of San Fran- 0, State of California, room 1015 Claus Spreckels Bldg. 10 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOB THE SUMMER, Call subscribers contemplating a change of residence during the summer months can have their paper forwarded by mall to their new mddresses by motifying The Call Business Office. This paper will also be or sale at all mer resorts and is represented by a local agent in all towns on. the coast. THE CANAL BILL. CCORDING to a programme agreed upon A the Senate will vote upon the Nicaragua canal bill and all pending amendments next wrsday. Neither side is confident of success. It at since the volcanic eruption at Mar- of the supporters of Nicaragua have gone over to the Panama side, but whether the er will be large enough to carry the Panama by no means certain. s to be hoped that the vote taken on Thursday be decisive. The project of an isthmian canal has been under consideration for fifty years. The various routes have been examined again and again. Report aiter report has been made upon them. All the facts obtainable by the science of the ‘day are known to Congress. Nothing remains but to strike the b: e between the opposing arguments and decide what is to be done. It is a case in which any action is better than no action. The growing good of the country requires a short waterway between our Atlantic and our Pacific coasts. The people have repeatedly declared themselves in favor of the d. construction of such a waterway, and Congress is expected to provide for it. The Nicaraguan bill now before the Senate was passed by the House almost unanimously. At that t , however, the Panama company had not made an acceptable offer of the sale of its rights in Pan- na. Consequently the situation then was not the same that it is now, and it would be unfair to assume that the Howse will insist upon Nicaragua or noth- ing. There are, in fact, good reasons for hoping that the two houses will be able to agree, no matter chosen. A recent report from Washington in reviewing the situation says the advocates of Nicaragua are by no means so sanguine as they were before the vol- ca nature of the land along that route became the subject of special interest. On the other hand it is asserted that some of the supporters claimed for the Panama route may be won over for Nicaragua be- fore the vote is taken. If the Nicaragua men can get a majority to vote for the bill as it came from the House their victory is won, for it is not likely the President would veto it. Should the Panama men win in the Senate, however, they would have an- other battle to fight in the House, so Nicaragua has a big antage in the contést. The report goes on to say: which route be “The Senate con- tains eighty-cight members, of whom fifty-five may be classed as Republicans and thirty-three Demo- crats. The Nicaragua route has to a considerable extent been made a Democratic issue, so that its friends are assured of nearly solid . party support, while on the Republican side there is a considerable givision of forces. Hawley of Connecticut and Platt of New York, both members of the Senate commit- tee, are Nicaraguanists, and while there are personal circumstances in each case which seriously detract from the value oi this judgment, their votes count. Mitchell of Oregon is for the Nicaragua route, and there will be some scattering support throughout the Republican ranks for it. The decision, then, de- pends on whether the Republican minority, added to nearly the entire Democratic strength, will be large enough to carry the day.” The fight is interesting, but at the same time it grows wefrisome. Fifty years is a long enough time to stand round discussing an enterprise. More years of delay would be annoying. The people have no prejudices in favor of or against any route. They wish the canal. It is therefore to be hoped that on Thursday the vote will be decisive one way or the other, and that when the Republican party goes be- fore the country this fall it can point with pride to the fulfiliment of the pledge to provide for an isth- wian canal under the control of the United States, THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JUNE 13, 1902. THE FALL ELECTIONS. DURING the past winter and early spring the Democratic leaders were quite sanguine of carrying the House of Representatives at the fall elections. Of late, however, their hopes have begun to fade, and it is now stated that political ex- perts at Washington predict @ sweeping Republican yictory. The change in the estimates of the result of the campaign is due to the failure of the Democratic leaders to formulate an issue which will have any support from the independent vote. It was believed that the cry of anti-imperialism would win over a large number of voters who supported. McKinley two years ago, but the Oregon election has shown the vanity of such expectations. In the Congres- sional districts in that State the Philippine question was made the chief issue of the fight, and so far from losing anything by it the Republicans elected their candidates, by larger pluralities than before. That fact, taken in connection with the defeat of thg Republican candidate for Governor, shows that how- ever divided Republicans may be on local issues they are united on those of the nation. Senator Lodge, who has recently been on a visit to his home, stated to a representative of the Bos- ton Herald that the Republican party would not wait for Democrats to make an issue of the Philippines, but would take the aggressive, as usual, and submit the question to the people as an affirmative policy, while the Democrats would be able to offer nothing but negation and denunciation. He is quoted as saying: “There will not be any need of the Demo- crats forcing the issue. As I said before, we wel- come it, and are prepared to go before the Ameri- can people and let them decide it. In the State of Oregon the Philippine policy was an issue in the Congressional_elections, and the result was that the two Republicans elected were given a larger major- ity than their predecessors ever received. Congress- man-elect Tongue made this question the specific issue, and distributed thousands of copies of the speech which I delivered in the Senate throughout his district. I am confident that wherever this issue is raised and properly presented, which will be the case so far as our side is concerned, the result will be the same, if not more pronounced than it was in Oregon.” Even the most ardent Democrats must admit that their party has no policy to submit to the voters this year. ~ Senator Gorman is reported to have told the leaders in Congress that they could not make a campaign on the “water cure” or win votes by at- tacking the army. Most Democrats doubtless agree with him, but unfortunately they have no other is- sue to offer. State platforms adopted by Demo- cratic conventions thus far in the campaign have been notable only for what they have left unsaid. They contain no reference to Bryan or to free sil- ver. They have ripped away the old planks of the platform, but they have put nothing in their places. It seems, then, that we are to have another cam- paign in which the opposition party will content itseli with denouncing, condemning, denying and declaring “unconstitutional” about everything the administration has done. To a people made prosper- ous by protection they will denounce the Dingley tariff. In the face of financial stability established by the gold standard they will deny that Republican legislation has been beneficial. Heedless of the heroism of the army they will condemn the action of our troops in the field as if they were bands of marauders or buccaneers. In short, they will avow an antagonism to everything that has been done, but will make no declaration of an affirmative policy upon any issue whatever. Democracy, then, is going before ‘the people not to tell them what shall be done for the good of the country, but to find fault with the administration. Upon not a single issue of the time has that party or any of its leaders even so much as a helpful sug- gestion to offer. All the great plans for raising an issue in Congress have dissolved into thin air. The question before the country, then, is whether sup- port shall be given to a party which has established prosperity, or to one which “views with alarm” every action taken to provide it. ready spoken on that issue, and there is no reason to doubt that the rest of the Union will speak in the same assured voice and return a2 Republican major- ity to the next House. The disclosure that General Weod, an officer of the United States, was using money belonging to the Cuban Government to subsidize the New York Ex- port Association to boom the Cuban reciprocity bill shows a curious complication of men, money and measures, There may have been nothing wrong in the action, but it certainly was a freak. THE SEAL FISHERIES, RECENTLY the Ways and Means Committee of the House of Representatives reported favorably a bill which virtually authorizes the killing of all seals in Alaskan waters provided no satisfactory arrangement can be made with Great Britain for their protection. . Since the submission of that report it is announced that Assistant Secre- tary of State Pierce will soon sail for Europe to present at The Hague the case of the United States in the controversy with Russia over the seal fish- eries. There was a time, only a few years ago, when the seal question loomed up big in the domain of inter- national politics, and the discussion of it brought forth words that portended war. By one means or another the issue was evaded by diplomatists until new issues arose to distract public atrention. The war with Spain, the war in South Africa and the invasion of China by the powers have intervened since the old days of the excited Bering Sea dis- pute, and most Americans had forgotten all about it or thought'it satisfactorily adjusted. It comes up now like a ghost of the past, but it is not a ghost. It .|is a real live question and has been alive all these years. Possibly the controversy may give some employ- ment to the High Court of Nations, which has been idle ever since it was created. The United States, .| Great Britain and Russia are too big to fight over a few seals, and they would make a fine show as petitioners before a court of arbitration. The seals themselves seem to be doomed. They will doubtless be ended long before the controversy which has been started over them, The report sub- mitted to Congress sets forth that the extermination of the herd goes on rapidly, and avers that by the wholesale slaughter of the mother seals thousands of the young die of starvation. It costs the United States a large sum every year to patrol the sea, and since the patrol is not sufficient to protect the herds the conclusion is drawn that it would be best to end | the matter by killing all the fur seals found on the | Pribyloff Islands with the exception of 1000 males Oregon has al- | and 10,000 females, which are to be protected for the preservation of the species in the interest of science. It is not at all likely that the desperate -remedy proposed will be carried 'out. Some way will doubt- less be found to arrange the international guestions without having to adopt.such an alternative.. Still it is difficult to protect the herds, and even should the Governments of Great Britain, Russia and the | United States combine it is doubtful if they could put a stop to the cruel and wasteful slaughter. The results thus far obtained in the way of protection are not encouraging, for the report says that the seal herd has been reduced from 4;700,000 in 1874 to 224,- 000 at present, and that the United States has spent $1,441,331 since 1890 protecting the herd, over and above all receipts for rent, etc. R The chief interest excited by the selection of Michael Henry Herbert as Embassador “to the United States seems to be that he married a sister of Mrs. ‘Cornelius Vanderbilt. The appointment gives that ambitious young matron a new prestige in society, and it is believed the other Vanderbilts will have either to do kowtow to her or get out of the country. B — THE AUSTRALIAN DROUGHT. DVICES from Australia are to the effect that' A the seven dry years which have so distressed the people have culminated in a drought that amounts to a veritable disaster. The losses have been enormous, and there is danger they will be much larger unless abundant rains come speedily. So serious is the situation that British papers are giving an unusually large amount of space to reports from the country. The Sydney correspondent of the London Mail estimates that within the seven dry years the loss in livestock alone amounts to upward of $75,000,000. Men thrown out of employment on the stricken ranges are thronging the cities, where no work is found for them, and the state govern- ments have been compelled to provide means for their relief. The only sections in the whole of the vast country that have escaped the drought are the northern rivers district of New South Wales and por- tions of Riverina. ! - The Westminster Gazette in commenting upon the reports from the various drought-stricken sections says: “It is the old familiar story, only worse; sheep, rabbits and other animals dying by thousands, and the rivers dried up. 'And once more there is the agitation for the colonial government to help in the construction of more huge reservoirs and for the extension of the employment of deep artesian wells,” In Queensland they have to sink to an enormous depth, and the water, when it gushes up, is unbearably hot; the cost of boring is almost five shillings a foot, and several of the sinkings are considerably over a mile. Nevertheless the money expended has proved a valu- able investment.” One report says: “Mr. McCaughey, Australia’s sheep king, removed a million stock some months ago from the vicinity of Bourke to the Riverina; less wealthy owners are driving their flocks. The droves leave broad, close-cropped tracks, reminiscent of the work of a gigantic scythe. The routes are strewn with skeletons of sheep. A natural reservoir of fifty square yards in this district is surrounded by heaps of bones, and the sheep, which were too weak to depart after drinking the water, dropped dead. Overhead the crows and hawks are screeching threat- eningly in a sky of burnished blue, The scene is weird and characteristic. Tn portions of Western Queensland the four-year-old cattle have never had wet skins. A common method of treating exhausted horses is to slit the palate with a knife, the animal’s own blood is swallowed, and this acts in a reviving manner.” Following the lack of water there comes of course the inevitable lack of food. Forage is scarce and can be obtained only at enormous prices. To make the matter worse the newly organized Federal Gov- ernment has imposed a customs duty on the importa- tion of fodder, ~nd accordingly it cannot be brought in from New Zealand at rates cheap enough to afford relief. One of the larger cattlemen of the country is reported to have been paying $1500 a day for food for his stock. A good many are mixing straw with treacle to make it palatable and are feeding their stock on the mixture. For the purpose of mitigating the evil as far as possible the Government has remitted the rent due by lessees of crown lands and the Government rail- ways are moving stock from the barren districts at one-half the ordinary rates. Rains are due in Aus- tralia at this season of the year, but it is said the meteorologists do not expect them to be sufficiently abundant to save the situation. Fortunately, Aus- tralia has but a scanty population, and while the loss of property will'be heavy the mortality will not be great. - e — e Whitelaw Reid may be posing as the representa- tive of the United States at the coronation, but J. Pierpont Morgan seems to be cutting most ice with the King. At the Choate banquet to his Majesty Morgan was very nearly the whole thing. —_— There has not been a single measure before this Congress on which the vote of either House was divided by strict party lines, and it is either an“era of good feeling or else there is a whole lot of con- fusion in the minds of statesmen. Peace in South Africa is expected to benefit American trade as well as that of Great Britain. The Transvaal will be a better market than ever for our goods, and our only regret will be that we will have to thank Kitchener for it. It is said that Webster Davis has decided to leave Kansas City because some of the people said unkind things about him, and it is therefore fair to assume he is going to locate in some place where no one ever heard of him, J. Sterling Morton’s Conservative died with him, but it has a successor in the Nebraska City Weekly that promises to keep up the crusade for tree- planting and good government, so all the country will wish it success. New York Police Judges have been punishing men for'“disorderly conduct” time out of mind, but now one of the higher courts has decided that no such, offense is known to the laws of the common- wealth. Cleveland 4s going to be one of the after-dinner talkers. at the Tilden Club banquet, Md it seents like bringing a man from innocuous desuetude to a resumption of pernicious activity. The city officials in St. Louis appear to have had no boss of any note, but they managed to shake the plum tree harder than anything known to New York | or Philadelphia, A5 DEATH CLAIMS CANNON, OLD EXCHANGE THE HEAVIEST OF MEN| BUILDING'S FATE ES SR throughout the world as the heav- est of all men, died suddenly from heart disease at his saloon, Mar- ket street, between Eighth and Ninth, yesterday morning at 4 o'clock. Cannon had been ailing for a few days, and on Wednesday afternoon retired to his room at the back of his place of busi- ness. At 3 o'clock yesterday morning his bar- tender handed him the cash returns, and he was then able to discuss the business of the night. Although ill, his death was not expected. Deceased weighed 613 pounds. A native of Zurich, he was deemed there one of the foremost athletes, and as a wrestler met many men in the arena. It was not until ten years ago that he commenced to grow to abnormal proportions, his weight increasing with alarming rapidity. With it all Cannon remained good-na- tured, and a bohemian life was his choice. @ et @ CHIN TAI MUST STILL REMAIN IN DETENTION ‘The Secretary of the Treasury notified Customs Collector Stratton yesterday that Chin Tal should be allowed to land. But because of certain legdl complica- tions Chin Tai must remain at the deten- tion shed for some time yet. She arrived at this port from Hong- kong last September, claiming admission as the wife of a merchant regularly dom- iciled here. Her husband had returnsd to China for the purpose of bringing her to this country, but he was taken sick there and sent his wife on ahead of him. Before the Chinese Bureau she swore that she was a native of China and the wife of a merchant, entitled to be and re- main in the United States. The Collec- tor denled her a landing on the ground that the intention of the law was to enable the wife and minor children of a domiciled merchant to join him here. Her husband, not being in the United States, the Collector decided that she could not avail herself of the statute. In order to gain time her counsel, George A. MacGowan, obtained a writ of habeas corpus from United States Dis- trict Judge de Haven ‘on the ground that she was a native born citizen, of the United States. Judge de Haven de- cided that she and her witnesses were liars, and ordered her remanded to the custody of the steamship company that brought her to this port. In the mean- time the woman’s husband arrived in San Francisco, and, the fact being brought to the attention of the Collector, a re- port was sent to the Secretary of the Treasury, who replied yesterday, in- structing the Collector to land the wo- man, she having proved that a common law marriage existed between her and the merchant. Mr. MacGowan went be- fore the United States District Court yesterday and asked Judge de Haven to modify his order of remand so that the woman might be placed in the cus- tody whence she had been taken, with- out any reference to deportation. i The counsel raised the point that in a habeas corpus proceeding the: court could do only one of two things—remand the petitioner to the custody whence taken, or discharge the petitioner from custody. Judge de Haven intimated that it was his opinion that the order he made could be construed as a remand only, and refused to modify the order. When the time comes to deport the woman the order of the Collector will bé .served on the steamship company, and, should the company interpret Judge De Haven's order as an order of deportation and refuse to allow the wo- nian her liberty, a new writ of habeas corpus will be applied, for. PERSONAL MENY¥ION. T. Hamtin, a mining man of Reno, is at the Occidental. F. C. White, a banker of Fresno, is at the California. D. §. Rosenbaum of Stockton is a guest at the Palace. D. D. Allison, an {insurance man of Fresno, is at the Lick. J. M. Gardner, a capitalist of Los An- geles, is registered at the Grand. D. E. Spencer, a prominent resident of Pacific Grove, is at the California.’ H. Wyttenberg, president of the Port- land Cracker Company, is at the Grand. C. G. Fennell, a mining man of Val Verde, Ariz., is registered at the Palace. F. A. Dickinson, proprietor of the Ho- tel Ben Lomond, is ‘a guest at the Cali- fornia. Dr. W. M. Lawlor, superintendent of the Home for Feeble Minded at Eld- ridge, is at the Grand. 7 A. [M. Berglevin, a dealer in California wines in the Eastern markets, with head- quarters at Chicago, is at the Palace, H ENRI MAURICE CANNON, known - IN THE BALANCE —_— Thete is a great stir among the mining, share brokers of the city. This is due to the fact that only two more business days will pass before the final solution of the fate of the Stock Exchange bullding in Pine street will be put to the test of votes. On Monday forenoon next the pres- ent owners of the property in Pine street will meet in their business home to decide whether they will accept an offer of $300,- 000 for the exchange building or reject it. Opinion is not unantmous on the subject, and the deal for the property is the themea of continual discussion whenever brokers meet who own seats in the exchange. The fact that the offer of $300,000 has been made was mentioned some time ago. It has taken some weeks to make the preliminary moves leading up to the vot ing on this important question. The pur- pose of the exchange to sell had to be ad- vertised. The general public will be greatly interested. Business in mining shares has not been lively for a long time, but there is the glamor of romance about the exchange building stiil. While the great mining excitements of ye: ago took place in the old buiiding on California street, there have been days in the newer building in which interest was at fever height. The deal in Consolida California and Virginia of a few ye: ago, when the stock ran from 25 cents sw§ share to $65 per share in a very shortr time, is still remembered. Business be- came so much mixed that the exchangs shut down pending an adjustment among the brokers, several of whom failed al- most simultaneously. ‘What the exchange brokers will do for quarters if they decide to sell their pres- | | ent structure is not determined. The sup- position is that if the sale is authorized there will be a perfod of two months or | so before the deal could be finally closed | up, and that would allow time for select- ing a new location for the board meet- ings. —eee Novel Entertainment. A novel entertainment will be given on the lawn of Mrs. Albrecht’s residence, | | Fruitvale, to-morrow, in aid of the Ala- meda County King’s Daughters’ Home for Incurables and the Presbyterian Chinese Girls’ Rescue Home. There is to be a chorus of thirty voices, bagpipes, Chinese, Japanese and Persian booths. The young ladies attending them will be attired im gorgeous Oriental gowns. —_— e Cal. glace fruit 50c per 1b at Townsend’s.* plichamn bt S it i Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's.* ————————— Townsend's California glace fruit, 5c a pound, in artistic fire-etched boxes. A nice present for Bastern friends. 639 Market | street, Palace Hotel building. . e — Special information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Main 1042 O —_———————— Ten years ago ten of every seventeen physicians in Berlin did not earn_more than $750 a year, and only 250 earned more than $2000. To-day the situation is even worse. public at the Chutes. He came to the United States five years ago, landing first in New York, and three years ago he came to this city and was engaged to present himself to a curious Cannon was 52 years of age; his height was 5 feet 10% inches, circumference of waist 96 inches, chest 72 inches, thigh 54 inches, calf 30 inches. Deceased leaves a wife. He was an enthusiastic member of the San Francisco Schuetzen Verein, ?? Going to Thunder Mountain ?? The Northern Pacific Rallway is the best, cheapest and quickest route. From Lewiston and Stites, Idaho, there are good wagon roads to either Warrens or Dixie, from which points the trails into this district are most accessible. For rates, etc., address T. K. STATELER, G. A., 647 Market st., S. F. . B e — Burnett's Vanilla Extract Is the fixed stand- ard of excellence. Has outlived criticism. Is the finest, purest vanilla extract that can be bought. SUNDAY CALL The Sundap Call’s Special Cor- respondent Graphicallu Relates His Experience Within the Shadow of Burning Mt. = JUNE 15, 1902. Pelee. The Outing Season Is at Hand. Uifustrated Pages of Bathing Girls, Campers, the Arks and the Inhabitaats Thereof, Yachts and Their Fair ews; also the Canyon Seekers. An American Girl’s Experience as a South African Baroness. How to Furnish the Piazza for Summer. The Oakland Elks, Magic Puzzles and Human Interest Stories,