The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 11, 1902, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1902 C FACTS ‘ INDICATE | MURDER George Ruiter Picked Expires Before Medi-| cal Attention Can Be Given Him. ——— Three Men Are Seen to Run as He Falls Unconscious. ‘ —_—— | e e have another mystery on| a 1 o'clock this Ruiter, who resides at | was found lying on the pet, Folsom, condition, and be- | moved to the Emer- | died. E. A. Roth- arge of the gentlemen's rtment at the near murdered 1ss street with two hree men on the talking in rather nly Rothbloom no- | totter and fall to the other two ss the street to the ce and asked him Ruiter moaned feeb- say, “They hit me; it this time Charles nown amateur ath- ed along. He noticed that vidently suffering from the 2 severe blow. om helped Ruiter to in vain to gain some o who his assaflants was fast losing was unable to give t clew to the identity cf | d ma loom packed Ruiter to | ixth and Howard streets, met Policeman Fontana, who where they t saw that Ruiter was badly in- questioned the injured inaudible re- | eman telephoned fer the but before it ar- tered omy e po ance immedi ambu ately, says he feels certain robbery the motive of the murder. til recently was an inmate of ne Asylum, from which discharged recently. steward on duty exam- of Ruiter before it was Morgue, and he stated that pression at the base of the by a blow from | | | | body caused nstrument ST. LOUIS AND BROOKLYN PLAY TWELVE-INNING GAME When Time Is Called Each Team Has Two Runs to Its Credit. NATIONAL LEAGUE. 2 10.—New York put up a otwithstanding their three | m hits when hits | burg. Attendanc H E ? 1 2t st 10 1 er and H. & Evans and | Emsie For the second day run. game was played at League s and Broe n tied twelve result ttendance, 3170. | R.-H E 2 6 of 8 .» ®f nd O'Neill; | Day 10.—Cincinnati and Bos- | game here to-day. | were the result of at critical stages. had to retire. A R S8 T T | R WS Y Batteries Thielman and Plets; | ires—Powers and The visitors were | s good pitching and | ack of him. Duggleby was men on bases. Attendance, H ST B -3 Duggleby | 10.—Boston won to-day by | he seventh and eighth innings. erris was respopsible for the | Attendance, 3700. Score; R. H 3 8 15/ . Mitchell H and Young and Criger; Umpire—Connolly. N, July 10.—Washington hit » the early stages of to-day's ned a lead Baltimore could mot who relleved Howell, ¥ [ Attendance, 2848. Score: B B B 110 % g 29 1 Ci end Clarke; Howell, obinson | ND, July 10.—Joss outpitched | and Detroit was shut out. Cleve- t= only runs on hits by Lajole, | McCarthy. Attendance, 3 DOAN’S KIDNEY PILLS. IFWOMENONLYKNEW What s Heap of Happiness Bring te San Framcisco It Would Hom Hard to do housework with an aching back urs of misery at leisure or at work. women only knew the cause; ch pains come from sick kidneys, Pills will cure it. Dorn, proprietor of the gro- Folsom street, says: “Stead- iy months 1 had ‘backache; long bef that attacks occurred and when they were at thelr height, headache, diz- ziness and loss of appetite accompanied em. After 1 went to the Owl Drug Co., Market street, for Doan's Kidney Pills the annoyances ceased. The remedy is well worth the money charged for {t. You are at liberty to send any one to me for a corroboration of the above.’” For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., sole agents for the U. B. Remember the name—Doan's—and take B0 substitute. cery at 2 1108 Eusiness Men Will Attempt | in | night | protect it. CHIGAGD STRIKE dTILL UNGETTLED Railroads Refuse to Ar- bitrate With Freight Handlers. to Arrange a Confar- ence Meeting. CHICAGO, July 10.—Business men of | the city took an active part in a meeting to settle the strike of the rreight handlers to-day and at midnight, although nothing | has been definitely settied, some littl has been made. An agreement the freight handle organization would abide | the decision of the Chicago beard of bitration {f that organization could ar- | range meetings with the general manag- progress was secured from unfon that the by ers of the railroads and sccure their con- sent also to arbitration A chance for a settlement to-morrow appeared to-night when 1t was said by ember of the Chicago board of arbi tion that he had assurances that the roads to-morrow would submit a propo- sition that will be satisfactory 1o the men. Ihe roads will not arbit but will po their freight houses a statement of at th are willing to grant and the is made that the men will tind atistactory. | The ofticers of the teamsters’ union pr fess to be opposed to any strike, but they v that the desire to strike is strong nong the teamsters. The officers fearful that they will not be able to hold | the men in line. The determination of the business men | to endeavor to secure a settlement of the strike was taken ay when it was cer- tain that the freight handlers would not agree to the terms of the road submitted the night before, and when symptoms of unrest appeared among the members of the teamsters, Nearly 4000 of the latter refused to go on with their work when they heard that the freight handlers had decided to con- tinue the fight. The announcement made vesterday that such strikers as applied for thejr positions by neon to-day would be taken back re- sulted in a number ‘of men returning to | | their places | Wisconsin Central mad The Illinois Central and the agreemen of wag their men and a sched agreed upon which the freight handlers said was satisfactory to them. It was a little in advance of the average raise of 20 per cent which the roads offered en. embers of the Federation of Labor alled on Mayor Harrison during the af- ternoon and informed him that they would refuse to order a sympathetic strike in aid of the freight handler ieieimeieieieiniei=- © KANSAS. RIVERS alILL RISING Bridges Are Swept Away and Travel Is Seri- ously Impeded. Cessation cf Rain Affords Re- lief in Several Paris of Nebraska. TOPEKA, Kans., July the Kansas River at is higher than it was during the floods of two weeks ago. It has been ris- ing steadily since last night and now the gauge shows 14 feet 6 inches. The tracks on the street railway bridge have been twisted until they curve abruptly. A 10.—The water this place to- | bridge over the river at Grantville was washed away early this morning and this afternoon an incomplete bridge below the city was carried off by the high water. At Manhattan the Blue River is nearly twenty feet above the low water mark and Is steadily rising. At Lawrence the dam is much weakened and a large force | kept at work endeavoring to of men is The passenger service on the Island has been in a demoralized co all day. Washouts at Beatrice, Fairbury | and Clifton have tied up the road so that the trains cannot be run from the Mis. sour! River to the West. The Republican River at Concordia is four miles wide to-night. Thus far the dam there has failed to show any signs of | weakening. | | 'KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 10.—Thus far | the damage in the vicinity of the two Kansas Citys is confined to the lowlands across the Missouri in Harlem at Kaw Point on the Kaw River and in the west | bottoms, where a few cellars are flooded. | The Kaw is higher than at any time since 1851, and at Kaw Point the shanties are surrounded by water and boats are being used. AHA, July 10.—The flood situation in several parts of the State began to clear up to-day with the ceasing of the rains. city during the day were late. roads Lave experienced serlous washouts during the past few days, and hund 8 of men are replacing the damaged tracks. All the roads entering Omaha report im- proved conditions all over the State. DES MOINES, July 10.—The Ninth- street Raccoon River levee gave way this evening, inundating a large wholesale The rail- | and manufacturing district, doing damage | aggregating $30,000. The total damage in this city from to-day’s flood is estimated at $225000. The Des Moines River is re- ceding slowly to-night and the Raccoon is about stationary. LAD FALLS TWENTY FEET AND DEATH MAY RESULT Clancy Haterius Loses Balance While Sliding Banisters and Plunges to Walk Below. Clancy Haterius, aged 7 years, Rev. C. J. E. Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Ebenezer Church, fell yesterday afternoon from the rear porch of his parents’ dwelling, 1328 Mission street, to the boarded walk be- low, a distance of twenty feet, and sus- tained injuries that may prove fatal, The lad was amusing himself sliding down the hgnisters of the rear stairs shortly after 1 o'clock, when he lost his balance and plunged to the walk below. He struck on his head and was rendered unconscious. Though no one saw the lad fall, his mother went to the stairs to see why the sound of his play had ceased and found him lying unconscious on the son of | walk. A physician was summoned quickly, and ! although he made a careful examination of the lad’s injuries, he was unable to say whether or not they will prove fatal. Up to a late hour last night the injured | | youngster was still unconscious and his physician stated that twenty-four hours must elapse before the outcome of his in- juries can be determined. —_——— Patrol Drivers Appointed. The Police Commissioners met yesterday afternoon, Mayor Schmitz being also present, to appoint the remaining eleven patrol wagon drivers, thirteen having been appointed Tuesday night. Those wWho were successful are Michael Brady, George Duffy, John F. Holland, Henry A. La Faillle, Walter M. Grady, Edward J. D. Sharkey, John E. O'Neil, Joseph L. Leary, and Barney B. Burke. The other two positions will be filled by Walter A. Macauley, if his age is verified, and Jumes A. Mallally, subject to re-exami- nation by a physician, are | with | = was | the | Most of the trains coming into the | Haterius, pastor of the | SNOOK CHARGES CRIME TO OTHERS IN MAKING DEFENSE FOR DANIELS Accuses Stedman and Hadley of Conspiracy Against His Client, Says First Named Embezzled Funds and That Not Know of Affairs in His Own Office Defendant Did N not proper cross-examination and has nothing to do with the cage,” said Mr. Chapman. This was where Snook made his prin- cipal address, and leveling his voice at the court, but his eyes at Stedman, he said: “We expect to show that this witness, who has sworn to the complaint against Mr. Deniels, was a constant attendant at the races; that he spent his money with a lavish hand; that this money was not his own, and that he is a defaulter to the Enquirer. He has been seen by people With $400 and $500 at a time, which he “We want to show that the whole effort | of this witness was to throw the onus of | these false and fraudulent claims upon | Mr. Daniels; that in order to do this he | directed the bookkeeper to charge the substitute order to the county, when he ! knew that it was a substitute order, and | that this was part of the conspiracy to | throw the crime upon Daniels.” Tt was at this point that M. C. Chapman unlimbered his artillery for the first time during the examination, “The questions are not whether this young man bet money at the races or sawed desks open, but where are the books o i i CHARLES E.SNOOK | | | [ | i | | | | | | it | | | | ; ! [ | | | | [ | [ | [ | [ | | I | | | | | | | | | i | | | | | i I | \ | ‘ | | | R.R STEDMAN ‘ 5 g {1 ON-THE WITNESS.sTAND, | —— — - - - . e PRINCIPAL WITNESS DURING YESTERDAY'S HEARING OF THE CELEBRATED ENQUIRER CASE, THE | ATTORNEYS FOR THE DEFENSE AND THE MAN WHO REPRESENTS THE PROSECUTION IN THE { TRIAL THAT IS EXCITING ALL ALAMEDA COUNTY POLITICIANS. =4 o b A SR % AKLAND, July 10.—Charges that | was throwing to the winds. That young | that were ordered and where is the muney‘ | R. Stedman and M. de|man has made this charge against Mr. | that was paid for them? This young man | dley conspired against G. | Daniels in order to shicld himself.” may have been made a catspaw, but it is | | iels of the Enquirer and CHARGES CONSPIRACY. not charged that he ever got a dollar of | | that'S N 2 2 the plunder. He was told to go and help | hat' Stedman is guilty of embez- ‘Do you propose to show tha negotiate the claims. Later we trace the zlement, all of which are to form the | money that he was flourishing money directly to Mr. Daniels’ | main points in the defense of Daniels, | Dalton and Oakes, were made in the Po- | ice Cqurt to-day by Charles E. Snook, | one of the attorneys for the defense. The | defendants in these actions are golng to depend upon these charges of guilt upon others, as was outlined in The Call this morning, and to-day Mr. Snook indicated | this defense in the course of several ora- torical flights which were addressed to | the court, but aimed at the head of Sted- ; man on the witness stand. | | It was very much Mr. Snook’s day In court. The attorney for the defense had the unfortunate Stedman on the grill all | day and managed to make several ad- dresses in reply to objections interposed by the prosecution, in which he told what he wanted to prove by the witness. What he was most anxious to prove was that there was a plot between Stedman and | Hadley by which Hadley was to secure control of the Enquirer, and that Dan- iels did not know what was going on in Lis own office. | Mr. Snook directly charged Stedman | with belng a defauiter and with having wrongfuily spent money obtained from the Enquirer on the racetrack, and tried to show that thousand-dellar orders for { printing were blowing in and out of the | Enquirer office without the knowledge of | Mr. Daniels, which caused M. C., Chap- man to start an address to the court about innocents abroad, which address was checked by the diplomacy of Judge Smith before Mr. Chapman had the op- portunity to uncork the full vials of his sarcasm. LITTLE INFORMATION. But the amount of information that was obtained by the day's examination was very small. Stedman was on the stand | during the entire day and was subjected to a constant fire of cross-questions. His memory was a little better than yester- | day, but still it was only bright in spots and those spots gave little comfort to the defense. Even the adroitness of Mr. Snook availed but little and the speech to the court in arguing objections of the other side was the vehicle that was most generally used to give the claims of the defense. The same ground was gone over repeatedly to show that Stedman disliked Daniels and that his testimony was con- sequently biased, and so the day wore away with most of the interest centered upon the defense, which had just been made public. Almost at the very beginning of the day’s examin~tion Mr. Bnook went into the ‘;:hnrges against Stedman when he askad: “‘How many times have you been to the races during the last vear?” “We object upon the ground that it is | was the money that was stolen from the county?" demanded Mr. Chapman. It was not the same,” replied Mr. Snook. “Then you would better attend to your own defaulters,” retorted Mr. Chapman. Mr. Snook wanted to know if Stedman owed the Enquirer any money now, but thig line of questions was stopped as not having anything to do with transactions with the county of Alameda over books. The afternoon session had hardly got under way hefore Mr. Snook took a shot at Hadley, the recently discharged busi- ness manager of the Enquirer. He started a line of questions tending to -show that Hadley had induced Stedman to put in the bill for the fifty-nine plat books, which is claimed to have been the sub- stitute order for the seventy-five working rolls which were never made. This line was objected to and then Mr. Snook out- lined what he expected to prove and charged conspiracy. “There was a general conspiracy on the part of Hadley and this witness to throw the blame upon Mr. Daniels,” sald the attorney. “These two were pursuing a well-defined scheme to cast diseredit upon Mr. Danie! with the idea of acquiring the proprietorship of the paper as its ultimate object. This was all part of that conspiracy.” DESK-BREAKING INCIDENTS. Then Mr, Snook asked Stedman about scme printing job that was secured from the County Clerk and for which the money had been collected from the county, but for which the Enquirer had never been pald. Stedman eclaimed that this order was given to him privately, that he had sold the claim to J. B. Lanktree with the understanding that Lanktree should pay the Enquirer for the printing and that he was to keep what he got from Lanktree. Judge Smith finally stopped this line of questions upon the ground that the wit- ness was not on trial, and this did not affect the claims that were in issue. From this Mr. Snook went to a series of desk-breaking incidents that occurred in the Enquirer office when nearly every- body seemed to be sawing open the desks of The other side. Snook charged that Stedman had tried to induce a young clerk by the name of Warren to make an affidavit that Danlels had sawed open Hadley’s desk. This Stedman denied, but claimed that Warren had told him 'that Daniels had sawed the desk. “What is the object of this line of ques- tions?" asked Judge Smith. “We want to show the prejudice of the witness against Daniels,” replied Mr. noolk. “I don’t think that you have to go as far as that to accomplish your object,” replied Judge Smith. Then Mr. Snook made another speech about conspiracy. pocket, because he cashed the checks and in- dorsed them. There is no charge that the witness got the money, and does counsel mean to say that he is the guilty party, and that these two men are innocents abroad in this matter?” Mr. Chapman was waxing sareastiec and Judge Smith quietly ruled out this line, of testimony, giving the attorney no time to finish his remarks. The afternoon became rather dull after that, and nothing of importance was ae- complished until adjournment, which was had until to-morrow morning. iy DALTON’S CASE CONTINUED. Called in Superior Court but Goes Over Until Monday. OAKLAND, July 10.—The indictment against Henry P. Dalton for issuing the Oakes claims and getting the money thereon was called in the Superior Court this morning before Judge Ogden. Dis- trict Attorney Allen was present in per- son to conduct the prosecution, and with him was W. W. Foote. R. M. Fitzgerald represented Mr. Dalton. The District Attorney was ready to pro- ceed, but Mr. Fitzgerald stated that ' Charles E. Snook and Willlam Lair Hill | were engaged in the Daniels case in the Police Court, and he would like to have them present during this trial. Judge Ogden wanted to know how long it would take to try the case, and it was estimated that it would take eight days. ‘After some argument it was decided to send for Judge Melvin, if he could be found, and have the case continued unti] Monday next. Licensed to Marry, OAKLAND, July 10.—Licenses to marry were issued to-day to Allen Griffith, aged 49, Alameda, and Martha E. Fountain, aged 45, San Francisco; Frank P. Grace, over 21, and Pearl B. Cockrill, over 1§, both of Santa Rosa; John C. Freitas, 21, Point Richmond, and Annle J. Freitas, 20, Berkeley; O. ‘Willlams, 26, Selby, and Annie Roberts, 21, Minneapoli: R B Late Shipping Intelligence. DOMESTIC PORTS. ASTORTIA—Sailea July 10—Bktn Quickstep, for Redondo; stmr Fulton, for San Franciseo; schr John A, for San Francisco, PORTLAND—Sailed July 10—Bark Jacob- son, for Queenstown. SEATTLE—Salled July 10—Stmr City of Se- attle, for Skazway. Arrived July 10—Stmr Rainier, from San Franclsco; stmr Edith, from San Francisco. | ber and officer of the Republican Na- | tional |Dr. Robert C. Brower| | in his family are said to have been the | that was to be his last ore. OCEAN STEAMERS. SOUTHAMPTON — Arrived July 1l—Stmr Kensington, from New York o WOMAN AGCUSES AN EX-GENATOR ! Dorsey to Be Sued for Alleged Breach of Promise, New York Marriage Developsi Sensation in Los Angeles. Special Dispatch to The Call. LOS ANGELES, July 10.—The marriage a few days ago in New York City of ex- United States Senator Stephen W. Dor-| sey has brought a thousand pangs of dis- appointment to a Los' Angeles woman, Mrs. Harrlet Elizabeth Joralemon, who resides at 414 West Twenty-gecond street, | and she now announces through her at- torneys, Earle and Creede, her intention | to begin against him a 350,000 breach of promise suit, The papers have been pre- | Dured. She says Senator Dorsey has been | | a gay deceiver. The aggrieved woman in an affidavit | filed to-cay in the office of the County | Recorder discloses alleged Intimate reia- tions with Dorsey since she met him last | August and explams that she was in-| duced to advance from the position of “ccretary to that of fiancee under a pro posal that he would in the near future marry her. She says they straightway | went to living together and that she cotld not have been more dutiful or af- | fectionate toward him had she been his| lawful wife. | She¢ says his marriage In New York was ali unknown to her until she read | the press dispatches two days ago. He had ‘left her, saying that he was xmn(. East on business, and had told her noth- ing of his approaching marriage. | The affidavit filed to-day is subscribed | and sworn to before James W. Creede, a notary public, and gives notice to the | world that the property where she lives | on Twenty-second street helongs to her as | a gift from Dorsey in consideration for | her services as his housewife and in view of his alleged promise to marry her. She declared that net only did he tell her she | could have the house and lot, but she as- serts that he gave her all of the valuable effects it contains, and even went so far | as to put her in actual possession. The | property is worth several thousand dol- | ars. Dorsey was very prominent as a mem- | Committee during the campaigns | of 1572, 1876 and 18%0. In 1873°he was elect- ed to the United States Senate from Ar- kansas, that State giving the peculiar spectacle of an overwheimingly Demo- ! cratic Legislature electing a man known | as a radical Republican. The Star| Route scandal caused his fail from power, and under the short administration of Garfleld and that of Arthur he lost his influence. He then retired entirely from politics, and since that time has devoted himself to his business affairs in New | Mexico and Colorado. PR MOTHER-IN-LWW ENDS HI5 DOUBT Takes Poison When She Appears, Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, July 10. Upon seeing his mother-inlaw, Mrs. A. L. Levy, pass the door of A Mon | Chateau in Pleasant Valley this after- | noon Dr. Robert C. Brower, a dentist with an office at 313 Ellis street, San Francisco, exclaimed: “Well, that settles it for me!” Then, after making an excuse to the proprietor, Oscar Kellogg, that he wanted to get out of sight of his mother-in-law, Dr. Brower sauntered into the gardens of the chateau and swallowed the con- tents of a bottle of carbolic acid. Within fitteen minutes he was dead. Help was summoned from Fabiola Hospital by Kel- logg, but it was too late Dr. Brower did not give any reason for his. desire to die, but frequent quairels cause. His wife denies this, however, and lays it to the illness of her husband and herself, Mrs. Brower has been recuperating from an amputation of the leg at a cot- tage near the chateau, while her hus- band has been living in the city. He met Mr. Kellogg in the city to-day and ae- companied him to his place, Informing him on the way that he was going to Pittsburg to-night. At the chateau Kellogg watched Dr. Brower carefully, as he was acting queer- | ly. Dr. Brower smoked a cigar, and told | «. A. Faulkner, one of the guests, that| He tendered | Faulkner his watch and 70 ecents in change, but Faulkner declined to accept. | Afterward he poured a bottleful of car- | bolic acid into_a glass and was about to drink it when James Scott, another guest, dashed it to the floor, spreading its con- tents on his clothing. Scott says he | rhought the man was fooling. Then when Brower's mother-in-law walked by the door he made his last desperate effort to die and succeeded in his purpose. | “He was despondent because of an ill- ness of his own and because I have been | getting along so slowly,” explained Mrs. Brower. ‘““He had come over to see me, | but he didn't call at the house. I sup-| pose he didn’t want to see me when he felt so badly.” Dr. Brower was 35 years of age and a | native of Japan. He married Miss Ad- die Levy five years ago in Alameda. He | was divorced from his first wife, by | whom he had one child, now 9 years of | age Mrs. Brower. | DENIES REQUEST FOR TROOPS. | Governor Stone Says Guardsmen Are Not Police Officers. HARRISBURG, Pa., July 10.—In reply | that this shade is less and living with his zrnndmother,‘. | to a request for troops from Sheriff Gom- | Your telegram of to-day that strikers are ' gathering in large crowds at Lansford and Summit Hill, in Carbon County, and citizens are attacked 'and beaten and in danger of their lives and that you find you are unable to pre- serve order and proteet the citizens and there- fore must call on me for troops, received. The law under which the National Guard is called out does not fustify action under the cireum- stances and conditions which you recite. The National Guard are not police officers, These conditions are entirely within your own prov- ince and with the ald at your hand you ought to overcome the difficulty without the aid of State troops. 1If there is a condition of riot, mob or Insurreetion which the county authori- ties are unable to suppress the Governor will send troops, but under no eircumstances will he do so urless the civil authority is exhaust- ed after reasonable effort from the Sherif and the_protection of life and property demands it. (Signed) WILLIAM A, STONE. e Marine Engineers’ Strike Is Settled. | PORTLAND, Ore., July 10.—The marine engineers’ strike has been settled, both sides making concessions. ———————————— More Light for City. The Supervisors’' Artificial Light Com- | mittee yesterday recommended that sixty- one new arc lights and forty-eight new gas lamps be installed in various parts of the city. Action was taken on the pe- tition of property-owners and residents bert of Carbon County, Governor Stone | this afternoon sent the following tele- gram: of the Sunset district, west of Castro!' street district. Sunnyside district, West- ern Addition Improvement Club, Univer- _sity Mound, Bay View Improvement clubs and others. l GAPITAL PLANG INIMENSE DEAL South Yuba Canal Com- pany Soon May Have New Owners, Rockefeller Interests Thought to Be Behind Nego- tiations. periBitis o Special Dispatch to The Call NEVADA CITY, July 10.—Within a month it is expected that the largest deal ever made in this section will be con- summated. The extensive interests of the South Yuba Canal Company may pass in- to the hands of a big concern now figur- ing on the purchase. Tne property con- sist of great water rights, covering Ne- vada, Placer, Sierra and other counties, consisting of several hundred miles of flumes and ditches, besides several large lakes in the mountains, an electric plant and mining claims. The South Yuba furnishes the water for the mines hereabouts, for Grass Valley, Nevada City, Colfax, Auburn and other places, and aiso e ic power for Sacra- mento and all the small towns along the uthern Pacific between Colfax and Sacramento. The persons who have secured an option on the big holdings are: Charles N. Fel- ton, ex-United States Senator from Cali- r General W. 8. Graham, W. C.'Ralston and J. H. Batcher of Sac- ramento. They are now here looking over the property. It is reported that the deal will involve $5,000,000, and that the power and light system will be extended to San Franeisco and other citles. It is believed that Rockefeller is behind the probable deal. DRAB UNIFORMS FOR THE “BOYS IN BLURE.” WASHINGTON, July 10.—Tt is probable that the new army uniform is to be of a color entirely new to the military service of this country or Europe. The report of the army uniform board, now before the Secetary of War, recommends that the uniforms of soldiers be made of a eolor known officlally as “olive drab.” It is not quite brown, nor green, but a mix~ | ture of brown and drab, known commer- cially as the “olive mix." Practical experiments made by the of- ficers of the board demonstrated the fact sible in the fleld than any other color. The well known khaki was easily discovered because of its yellow shade: blue was rejected with- out much discussion and the gray of the West Point cadet turned to pronounced lack when seen at a distance. The board does not advise the adoption of knickerbockers, but adheres to the present shaped trousers for infantry and provides for tighter fitting riding trous- es for the cavalry. In the opinion of the board some change should be made in the cartridge belt, but no new design is offered, as the board considered it advisable to have the Ord- nance Devartment make further experi- ments before making a permanent chansge. S SRR P Letter Carriers Choose Delegat Samuel F. Stevens, Charles de la Fon- taine, Ray M. Locke, I. C. Cross and Frank Newton have been eclected by the letter carriers of this city to attend the rext annual convention. which will be held in Denver in September. ADVERTISEMENTS. bood enough for anybody! ALL Havana Fi Ler ** FLORODORA "™ BANDS are of same value as tags freoi * STAR" * HORSE SHOE.," *SPEARHEAD,"**STANDARD NA “ OLD PEACH & HONEY.” ' “ SAW LOG,” ' OLE VARGINY™ or “MASTER WORKMAN"" Tobaces, MEN Exelusively. Strictly Reliable Specialists. Dr. Talcott & Co. Will not ask for a dollar a cure is effected. é Varicocele, Stricture and Piles Cured in 3 Days. 1140 Market Strect.