The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 14, 1902, Page 7

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 14, cHOWD FALLS | INTO 16Y WATERS aster Attends a Cele-| bration at Douglas City. !d Drowned and Sixty- Five Persons Nar- rowly Escape! { The Call. | —The Fourth of July | glas City, Alaska, for ations had been made, | ter which came ve people their lives. al boat races were | entire population the sport. The crowd g wharf moored to steamer Humboldt t race the crowd to gain the up- view might be ob- weight of the the gangplank d all the persons on pped into the water plank, which rested cked off many frantic men, n were struggling to gain a hold on d bear their weight. ced to lift the | tis to the dock ed and more Flos nce & wumerous life to those who jiately. In pre- could a few , some badly red bo But that of a lit- WAITER IS HELD UP, ROBBED AND BEATEN | Albrecht Victim of Thugs| at Powell and Lombard ] Alfre Streets. ht a 'waiter, living at street, was knocked down two men at Powell and s morning. The of the ix. He was the son Davis consigned | tne first colonist ten years after this sec- the discov- | ir nces were 0 t teams could supplies as were Dayis coneeiv- He sent all them and in point beasts proved a desert, but nd not mans m was killed in -— i died here to- | s a ploneer of ful business teemed. At the | 1887 he inheritzd ate left by Charles ¢ nted to about $1.000,000. ve of Alsace-Lorraine and of the local lodge of Odd | hildren S. Pott | Mr H. Mac- | H. Lux—survive him. | James Meadows. Y, Jul —James Meadows, | e American flag raised by | in 1846, died yesterday home in the Carmel Val m this city. Deceased ve of England, and 8! time of his death, came | 1838 and engaged in ranch- ley. where he has Meadows leaves iue of the home being estimated at $100,000. | one daughter, all resi- sectio survice him. | Ada Eugenie Vrooman Lesli / YORK, July 13.—Mrs. Ada Eu- Vrooman Leslie died to-day at her MONTER. saw t nterey 1846, and_ when only 16 s widely known by her orose and verse to the She married Alfred After his | L zear ar number of other periodicals C she assisted her sons nk, in organizing the Les. e General Thomas J. Morgan. NEW YORK, July 13.—General Thomas | who has been ill at Yonkers, 4, d 0-d aged 62 yeas was born in Franklin k of the Civili War he | nd rose to the rnnk‘ gadier general. President | im Commissioner of In-| the time of his death | was secretary of the y of the Baptist e body will be taken to Roch- for burial, utbr rivate At E. Cuthbert. WASHINGTON, July 13.—E. Cuthbert, for eight vears ington correspondent of the Richmond Dispatch, died here to- age vears. He served through- War on the Confederate side. time he the Southern GRAPE-NUTS. and your Hotel will serve Grape-Nuts ¢ some hotels refuse to put on Menu because it is not given free. They serve if you Demand. | | | turned over to his head deput: | calculated that the road will be completed | | MYSTERY SHROUDS LITTLE | working over her she turned a bluish | her sufferings to appendicitis. | body | Cross Cemeter: GOUNTY GLERK MUST ANSWER An Investigation of His Office Has Been Demanded. Accuser Charges Fraud in| Printing and Dereliction of Duty. LN A Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broaaway, July 13. An investigation of the County Clerk’'s office has been demanded of the Grand Jury, and an effort is being made to carry the examination that was begun of the County Assessor’s office into other county departme F. Murdock has sent to Gilbert Curtis, foreman of the | Grand Jury, a communication in which | he charges that the County Clerk's of- | fice has been as prodigal in its orders for printing as was County Assessor Dalton in his order for books. Murdock says that many of these orders have been paid for bui never delivered, and that enough printing has been ordered to supply thé office for the next quarter of a century. This is based upon the bills that were produced in the Police Court at the ex- | amination of G. B. Daniels by Charles | 2. Snook, the attorney for Daniels, when Snook sought to show that Stedman had collected the money on these claims and made the assertion that the goods never | had been deltvered to the county. These bills were all signed by J. P. Cook, chief deputy county clerk, and this fact is made the basis for the assertion that Cook has been a party to these ex- travagant printing orders. A shot is also taken at County Clerk Frank C. Jordan. who is charged with not paying attention to his office and leaving matters in the | bands of his chief deputy. Murdock ais: has sent a letter to District Attorney J. J. | Allen requesting that he prosecute the in- vestigation. | Murdock’s letter to the Grand Jury is as | | follows: 1902 0. July 12, Gilbert Curtis Jury—Dear Sir Alameda County vestigation n of the d 2 zen and elector of 1 request the immediate in- | v, of which you { are foreman, and manage- | ment of the County Clerk’s office | First—It appears from the testimony ad- | duced in the police court, during the examina- tion of G. B, Daniels for felony and given | wide publicity through public prints, that J. P. Cook, head deputy county clerk, is au- | thorized to purchase upphes for which the | county has paid and W been furnished. Second—It ch supplies have never | notoriety | d sun- ¥ a matter of commc or that books, blanks s of the County Clerk's mmodation. The | cost of these count amounts, v thousands of dollars. It is a well n fact that Mr. Jordan for a long time | given to tae affairs of the office little or none of his personal attention, and that the | whole conduct and management of it has been | Mr. Cook. | It iIs ¢ charged that er this man-, agement supplies have been ordered for the of- ‘ fice for a quarter of a century or more ahead The situation, therefore, s that in some in- | £tances the county has paid for what it never received; in others that it has paid for what | it did not need. The purp of such extrava- gant waste of public moneys likewise demands TS burdens)u( taxation , even when the moneys are hon- and wisely expended, but is the greatest | erer when those moneys are squandered or stolen. He has come to realize the necessity of putting and keeping honest men in public offices, and therefore, as a representative of organized labor in this county, I respectfully request that you immediately call together the Grand Jury and take up the investigation of the matters indicated. Very truly vours, C. F. MURDOCK. “The charge has been made in the Po- | lice Court,” said Mr. Murdock, “that printing bills have been passed by tie County Clerk’s office for which the goods ivered and-on which the money b paid These bills were produced in a public court and I feel that there should be an investigation of thi As a citizen of this community I have de- manded that this be gone into. office ary XKing to Leave London To-Morrow. LONDON, July 13.—The progress of King Edward toward recovery is main- ained, and it is understood that he will e transferred to the royal yacht Victo- Portsmouth at noon ria and Albert at RAILROAD EDICT Calls for Completion of the Canton-Hankow | Line. ‘ Special Dispatch t5 The Call. PEKING, July 13.—An edict has been issued calling for the completion of the Canton-Hankow rallroad by the Ameri- can-China Development Company, which is represented here by Mr. Carey. The | decree authorizes an issue of $40,000,000 in gold bonds, and removes all the obstruc- tions as to the completion of the lines. This is the most valuable railroad conces- sion ever granted by China. The main line will be 700 miles in length, and there will be a branch 200 miles in length, The issuing of this edict is the first in- | dication of imperial gratitude for the good | offices of the Americans. The company has already raised $3,000,000 in gold. It fs | in two years. CHILD'S SUDDEN DEATH | Alice Huck Is Taken Suddenly Til and Ailment Baffies Skill of | Medical Men, Regarding the sudden death of Alice | Huck, the 4-year-old child of Mr. and| Mrs. Alois Huck of 2875 Sixteenth street, | there is a difference of medical opinion. The circumstances attending the child’s | last hours leave the impression that she had swallowed poison of some kind which bad batfied the skill of the attending phy- sicians. From the statement of the | child’s father the little one was taken suddenly ill last Thursday forenoon. The child. with others of about her own | age had been playing avout the street, when she came in and complained of pains and a burning sensation in her stomach. Her mother gave her what she believed to be a soothing draught, and placed her on the lounge, but she became worse, Phy- sicians were then summoned, and they labored over the little sufferer for three hours, but at 7 o’clock Thursday evening death’ came. During the time the physicains were color and her pulse rose to 117, with a high fever. One of the physicians was of the opinion that she must have swal- Jowed poison, while another attributed The child’s was interred yesterday at Holy e Reckless Bicyclists Cause Death. 1,08 ANGELES, July 13.—Four boys on bicycles, scorching abreast down First street, caused the death of Willlam F. Price, an old peddler, this afternoon. Price had been to a grocery store, and he was crossing First street from south (o north, near the Vendome saloon, on his way home when the band of reckless bi- cyclists swept down upon him. He was thrown upon the cobblestones with great Violence. = Price was picked up and re- moved to the Emergency Hospital, where he soon died. Two of the wheelmen, J. Oilgen and Eugene Breslin, were arrested, The others escaped. : 1902. 'PIONEER OF WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP CELEBRATES FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY William Barry, Who Has Been a Resident of Alameda County for Half a Century, Entertains. Many of His Neighbors and Pioneer Friends at an Afternoon Banquet at His Home in Centerville % % HOT FOLLOWS SNEERING WORD Tragedy Occurs at Small Mining Town in Oregon. Special Dispatch to The Call. PENDLETON, Or., July 13.—As William Johnson of ‘Long Creek sneeringly re- marked, “You wouldn’t shoot anybody,” J. R. Crisman, enraged because Johnson had given him a beating, shot him | through the heart. Johnson died in- stantly. The affray occurred at Galena, a min- ing namlet 100 miles south of here. The details reached Pendleton to-night. John- son had just ipped a_Swede who chal- lenged him to fight in J. R. Conger's sa- loon, when Crisman, who had previously been worsted in an encounter with John- son, made an insulting remark. Johnson started for him, but was held back. Cris- | man immediately secured a revolver, re- turned and shot Johnson as the latter de- fied him. Crisman went out of town to a place where he had a pony staked, and sur- rendered at Canyon City, thirty miles away. There were threats of violence. Johnson was a prominent and popular resident of Grant County and % years old. Crisman is a Galena saloon man. PROHIBITION ALLIANCE AND COMING CAMPAIGN The Prohibition Alllance will hold a dis- trict convention in the Howard-strel Methodist Episcopal Church on the after- non and evening of July 19. Representa- tives will be present from Santa Clara, Alameda, Solano and San Francisco coun- ties. J. E. Brand of Berkeley, the dis- trict president, will preside over the pro- ceedings. During the afternoon session the con- vention will deal with practical temper- ance work in a serles of papers ajpd dis- cussions under the general heading ‘‘The Alliance in the Coming Campaign.” In the evening three set addresses by able speakers will be given. Singing, instru- mental music and recitations will be in- terspersed throughout both sessions. Sup- per will be served by the San Francisco Alllance to the visiting members at 6 o'clock. Among those who will be present and participate are Dr. W. S. Urmy, Mrs. Mary E. Teats, Arthur C. Banta of San Jose, Rev. N. L. Freeman of Vallejo, Professor S. P. Meads of Oakland, Dr, Sheppard of Berkeley, P. R. McCabe of Berkeley, T. H. Montg{) ery of Oakland, H. A. Johnson, Mrs. H..8. Staynton and C L. Meracle, State chairman of the Pro- hibition party. 3 MAN WHO HAS RESIDED IIN WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP FOR HALF A CENTURY AND WHO CELEBRATED THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS RESIDENCE THERE YESTERDAY BY A BANQUET. -3 AKLAND, July 13.—In celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of his arrival in Alameda County, Wil- liam Barry gave a banquet yes- terday afternoon at Centerville to about sixty guests, his pioneer friends and close neighbors. It was on July 12, 52, that Mr. Barry settled in Washing- ton Township, and there he resided con- tinuously for a half-century. Mr. Barry arrived in Califorpia in May, 1852.. Two months later he reached Jar- vis Landing on a schooner and walked to Mission 8an Jose. He took part in the first election that was held in Alameda County. From that time Mr. Barry has watched the county grow from a mere cattle-grazing and stock-raising district, KANGAS RIVER dILL AL3ING Portions of the Sante Fe Railroad Track Are Washed Away. LAWRENCE, Kans., July 13.—Ninety feet of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe track at Lakeview was washed away to-day by water rushing into the old river bed from the Kansas River. The pre- vious break in the track across the east- ern arm of the lake just formed had not been remedied and a work train was caught between the two breaks without coal or water. The water continued to rise at the lake all day and flowed over the Santa Fe tracks at the east side, washing away some of the rails. The country east of the lake is badly flooded and many fami- lies are moving away. The river here is three inches higher than it was yester- day. It broke through its north bank a mile north of here to-day and is now giving the Union Paclfic Railroad cause for alarm. JUDGE CONLAN HOLDS COURT BY TELEPHONE Discharges the “Drunks” in Prison From His Residence in Mill Valley. The telephone since its introduction into the affairs of life has been utilized for many purposes, among them being the marriage of persons living in different cities, but Judge Conlan inaugurated a ncvelty yesterday in its use by holding court by himself at his residence in Mill Valley and discharging the “drunks” on the register at the City Prison. It was done rapidly and expeditiously. The Judge called up the desk sergeant by phone and instructed him to line up the “drunks.” The desk sergeant in a minute or o replied hrough the phone that they were all lined up, and the Judge replied, “They are all discharged,” and they marched to the elevator and waited their turn to be taken to the basemen: and to liberty. The charter distinctly provides that “drunks,” as well as other prisoners, shall be taken into court and their cases heard. It has been the practice for Judges to hold a sort of informal court in the prison each morning so as to comply In a man- ner with the charter provisions and dis- charge the inebriates, but this is sald to be the first time they have been dls- charged by the use of the telephone, which may be novel but not legal. —_— Sailors Indulge in a Fight. Antone Nicholi, a sailor, recelved a se- vere beating at an early hour yesterday morning on Third street, near Bryant. His assailants, Manuel Magdlino, Juan Sabello and Marinaro Requa, were arrested by J. T. McCormick and Special J. Cunningham and charged at the City Hall station with an assault with deadly weapons. Nicholl's injuries consist of several contused and lacerated wounds on the head and face, which were dressed at the Emergency Hospital by Dr. Harvey. i e e L Blocton, Ala., is able some months to pay all the town expenses from the profits of the local Hquor dispensary, which it shares with the county. | — overrun with horses and steers, to one of the richest counties in the State, with a diversity of resources, agricultural and horticultural, that are unequaled. hen Mr.. Barry arrived in the new county Oakiand was nothing but an oak- studded rove, with sparsely settled homes. The half-century pioneer is now one of the prominent orchardists of the county. His home is ut Niles. For sev- epteel) years he has been Horticultural Commissioner of Alameda County, and in such affairs is deemed one of the leading men in this section. His guests of yesterday came from Al- viso, Mission San Jose, Union City and other points in the township. Besides Mr. Barry there are now only two men residing in Washington who were there when he arrived. These old residents are James Hawley and D. D. Kenyon. L e B e e e e S 2 Y LONDON BROKERS 60 T0 THE WLL Three Firms Unable to Meet Their Financial Obligations, LONDON, July 13.—The adjustment of the settlement, the existence of considera- ble speculation for a rise and an absence of general investors from the market af- fected the Stock Exchange adversely last week and caused declines in most direc- tions. A feeling of apprehensiveness per- vaded the atmosphere and many opera- tors were glad to see the week end. Tha public was not disposed to relieve specu- lators of the loans and securities they were carrying and three failures resulted. The market was again obliged to borrow considerably from the bank in order to meet the demands fo the®settlement and the consol loan installment, but as there is no special demand this week the bank is expected to be reimbursed, at least un- tdll another Stock Exchange settlement is ue. Paris is again buying gold in London. but the desire to send money to France is not sufficiently pronounced for gold to be taken from the bank for that purpese, and no inflow of gold is expected, as K:fl! is absorbing all interest in the open mar- ket and the arrival for American account is light. American railway securities last week were steady, with an optimistic tendency. Industrials 'were quiet and South Afri- cans were_disappointingly weak. BERLIN, July 13.—The Boerse continued dull last week and all departments were weak except domestic Government securi- ties, which were firmer upon the growing ease of money and buying for English account. All Industrials were lifeless at lower quotations, the weakest being elec- trical shares. Shares of the North Ger- man line and "the Hamburg-American Steam Packet Company, although contin- ually sold for Hamburg and Bremen_ ac- count, recovered slightly. Irons were low- er, notwithstanding the announcement of large American purchases and satisfac- tory trade conditions in Silesla. Domestic bank stocks were dull fractionally lower. Stanford Man Seriously Ill STANFORD UNIVERSITY, July 13.— Roy C. Leib, Stanford, '03, a son of Sam- uel F. Leib of S8an Francisco and presi- dent of the board of trustees of Stan- ford University, is lying at the ‘point of death at his father’s home in San Jose. Last week he underwent an operation for appendicitis, from which he seemed to recover, but a second operation became necessary and the result of it is awaited with great anxiety. Leib is a law stu- dent and next year is his senior year in college. and Sierra Republicans Nominate. DOWNIEVILLE, July 13.—The Repub- lican County Convention met here vester- day and made the following nominations: Superior Judge, Stanley A. Smith; Sherift, James McGregor; County Clerk, Henry E. Quigley; Assessor, N. B. Fish; Dis- trict Attorney, W. L. Redding; Superin- tendent of Schools, Miss Josie Finane; Coroner, Archie McDonald. . F. Esch- bacher, H. K. Turner, ley A. Smith and Mason W. Mather were elected dele- gates to the Btate convention, REV. NAT FRIEND 5 STRENUOLS Scorching Sermon on the Wickedness of Mankind. Delivers a Pulpit Discourse That May Give Sinners Pause. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, July 13. “What Oakland needs is the gospel of | the ax, not of the glad hand,” was the declaration to-night of Rev. William Nat Friend in a discourse on moral and civic conditions in this city. The young clergy- man's sermon was a blow at hypocrisy, political immorality he declared was \ blackening the city’s name. Mr. Friend occupled the pulpit of the First Methodist Church. He had many hearers. Among them were not a few of his old political associates. The text was from Matthew, 11:3—1 “But what went ye out for to see?” And the minister said: They call this a child's book. They say the church preaches either a brimstone or a soft- | soap gospel. There is a prevailing idea among manhood that it is not the stuff men are made of. They are sure that love of the Christ-like type cannot lodge in the frame of a manly man. Let us ask ourselves asked Wi those who came to him about John, went ye out for to see when you came to church to-night? Was it not as then a reed shaken by the wind? Do you not often | look upon the preacher as a weak brother in make-up, having which he would be in another walk of life—would be making money—would be dabbling in stocks? But instead of looking | out for himself, you set him down as thinking | the world owes him a living. And such a man can exercise no influence; he is merely an ex cuse for a man, do you think? STORIES ARE APPALLING. Do you not often go to church out of curi osity to see the minister in soft raiment? It is a dear, guileless child that such a ome fs. You oftener stay away. But when you do g0 you think all ministers must be atter his pattern. Therefore, the world accounts the preacher of od’s word a carefully coddled nursling of the What_use to listen to such an excuse for & man? But I know many look upon the preacher as simply a wholesale and well-paid dispenser of what we call in our up hand.” They insist he preach only the sweet truths of the gospel. To be severe, they say, is out of his sphere. That is what men who know not God come often to church to hear— | something that will not hurt. People are very | much afraid o. being hurt. | But to be frank, this is no time nor place | to-night for the softer phases of religion. | There are too many exouses for men in this community. That is my message to-night. Thecdore Parker, the great London preacher, once sald to an inquirer who roticed few books on the study shelves: ‘‘My library is down on the streets of the city; my books are human beings; my reading, daily life.”” We have a great library of that kind In Oakland. I nave been browsing through it during the past few weeks, T have been reading exciting stories of moral brigandage and blackmail, of spiritual black- guardism. The storfes are appalling and all the most so because they are true. There ars moral monsters, blackmailers, abroad in this city, who can laugh at the devil's work as coarse. They swagger up and down the streets they' have slain, Let the church be as prosperous as it may, they laugh with the assurance that at any time they choose they may go up to the sanc- tvary door and pull out, for their nefarious purposes, the softest praying elder or the most seintly appearing deacon. And they can. they do. They have set their price on every man in Oakland, FOURTH A LAGER BEER SHOW. 1 read many other books of weak-kneed, soft- soap hypocrites. They flock into the churches. they crowd the lodges, they make a lager beer show out of a Fourth of July parade. The moral monster has destroyed all confidence. He has looted manly trust until men begin to think the whole city must be run on basest | hypocrisy. They say that a man who falls to an_excuse for a man. ‘When these are the conditions that exist, do not look for anything eise than a gospel of har¢, tough truth. Confidence in human na- has got to find his match in the moral glant who cannot be bought with honeyed promises | or_yellow gold. The gospel to-night for Oakland is the gos- pel of the ax, not the glad hand. This city is changing, morally and religlously, as well as commercially and_geographically. vast deal of spiritual evaporation going on in this city. You have seen the beautiful apple g0 to the evaporator and come out tough, brown pulp. So it is becoming with men— squeezed dry of all decency, honor, Christian life, by the devil's big machine of moral black- mail. And at the roots of the civic tree the a fast disappearing public confidence, At the finish of all inquiry we butt square- 1y against this question: ‘‘Who is running this city—God, or the galumphing swaggerers who prey upon Christian and elvic honor and in- tegrity 7" No wonder we do not know God; for no man can who has not first learned Christ's gospel of manliness. That is the rest of my sermon. Go preach it in confidence and hope to your- self and to your friend. TAAIN GOLLIDES ~ WITH A WAGON Two Boys Thrown From Rig and Entangled in Wreckage. ALAMEDA, July 13—Henry Mueller and Joseph Mueller, boys, were thrown from a milk wagon in a collision with a train on Railroad avenue, near Oak street, this evening, and narrowly es- caped belng crushed beneath the car wheels. The vehicle on which they were riding was wrecked and the horse in- jured so badly that it had to be killed. Henry Mueller was driving the wagon toward Park street. The train was mov- ing in the same direction, and behind the rig. At Oak street the engineer sounded the danger signal. Young Mueller drew his horse to the right and close to a fence. There was not room enough to admit of the train clearing the wagon, and it was struck by the locomotive and two coaches and demolished. Both boys were entangled in the wreckage, but when they extricated themselves it was found that they had sustained no serfous inju- ries. The wagon and horse were owned by the Old Alameda Dairy, conducted by Jacob Mueller, the father of the boys. Corlxduc&or Murphy was In charge of the train. Licensed to Marry. OAKLAND, July 13.—Licenses to marry were issuea yesterday to John B. Brag, aged 30, Portland, and Nettie Hubbard, aged 29, San Francisco; Clarence M. Hen- derson, 271, San Francisco, and Eleanor McCoy, 19, Oakland; Henry C. Shaw, over 21, and Laura E. Hart, over 18, both of Stockton; Charles H. Pinneo, over 21, and Genevieve L. Woodworth, over 18, both of Oakland; Willlam A. Cole, 24, and Mabel Dassel, 22, both of Niles; Elam Sabbott, 37, and Katherine Joost, 34, both of Saa Francisco; Augustus B. Childs, 35, Oak- land, and Catherine 8. Carrigan, 2, Stock- ton; John Donohue, 38, Oakland, and Mary J. McMorrow, 25, San Francisco: Christine A. Evers, 42, and Margaret Clark, 30, both of Oakland; William J. Webber, over 21, Bncramens and Lizzie M. Jones, over 18, Oakland; John F. Fava, over 21, and Lena Taniagni, over 18, both of San Francisco. — e ‘Want a Garbage Crematory. OAKLAND,July 13.—The Board of Health has voted to request the City Council to rovide funds for the erection of a gar- Page crematory. . A | which he said was prevalent, and at the | a class of men who think they represent true | the question Christ | the community, with something missing in his | date way the ‘‘glad | blardiy, grinning at the carcasses of honor | For | recognize and live by this false plan is only | ture has got to be restored. The moral monster | There is a | moral borers are feasting on the substance of | @ inimiiiiivinivimriviiisieireiisil @ | 7 PERKING VOTES " FOR MICARAGA Believes Title to Panama Route Cannot Bs { Obtained. Returns to Oakland and Tel's of Work in Congress. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, July 13. United States Senator George C. Perkins returned to-day after eight months spent | in Washington. After the adjournment of Congress Senator Perkins made a visit to | his native town, Kennebunk, and then | came west. In an interview, Senator Per- kins said: “The California delegation in Congress | was notable this session for its harmeni- 1 ous work. Coombs, the new member, has | done_splendidly, and this applies to all | the resc of the California delegation. Loud | is indefatigable, Senator Bard is of the highest character and he has dignity and | standing which commands the respect of all who know him. My relations with him | were of the pleasantest character. “So far as iocal political atfairs are con- i cerned I shall not take sides in any fac- tional fight that may exist. I believe it to | be improper for a Kepresentative in Con- | gress to use his influence in faver of or against any one. I believe the Republican party wiil nominate a ticket that will in- sure the support of all of us. As in the past, 1 shail go on the stump this fall, ! believing it my duty to meet the peopie and to give account of my stewardship. AGAINST RECIPROCITY. “My position in Congress on the Cuban reciprocity measure was, as s well | known, against the proposition. I believa we have done enough for Cuba by reliev- ing her of the Spanish yoke and establish- ng her as a government. If more is (o e done let us sive a rebate to the Cuban | Government on sugar exported into this country, rather than to the owners of | plantations, 50 per cent of which are | owned by Canadians and speculators, 23 | per cent by Spanish, French and British, and only 2 per cent by Cubans. | “I voted for the Nicaragua instead of | the Panama route for a canal becauge I | believe title to the latter cannot be ac- | quired. Besides that the protocol wiil { Colombia_provides that the toll rates | may be fixed by the president of the Ge- | neva peace conference should the joint | committee from the United States and | Colombia fail to agree. The Panama | route is not favorabie to salling vessels, {as the west end is in the calm beit and | the trade winds do not extend within 5@ miles of the coast. The bill, however, as passed gives the President the right ef selection, and if he and his legal aavisers find the obstacles insurmountable at Pan- ama they can choose the Nicaragua route. “The passage of the Chinese bill, for which I voted, re-enacts all of the exist- ing exciusion law, and gives the Treasur: | Department power to enforce most strin | gent rules to keep out undesirable imm gration. The bill carries exclusion inta | the Philippines, Hawail and Porto Rico, | and is a strong act, for which the Repub- | lican party can be thanked. IMMIGRATION QUESTION. “Fhe immigration question is important. Last year 600,000 immigrants arrived from Europe, a large percentage of whom ars {unfit for citizenship. I am in favor of an educational test, which will tend to protect the dignity and manhood of American labor. “California gets over $5,000,000 in appro- priations for public work, and if a bat- tleship or cruiser is ordered built hera nearly $10,000,000. More than $1,000,000 is allowed for river and harbor Improve- ments, while $126,000 will be used for | lights and fog signals in the vieinity of | San Francisco. For the Mare Island Navy { Yard $415,500 is- authorized. A new cus- | tom-house for San Francisco has been | authorized, for which $1,000,00 is aporo- priated, thus insuring a handsome and substantial building in place of the ol | one now used by the customs service and | postoffice. | “Los Angeles and Fresno are to have new public buildings. “Congress in wisely refusing to order | the construction of a Pacific cable by the | Government has enabled the Commercial Pacific Cable Compauy to Frocezd with ts wox}, and the result will be that a cable will be in operation to Hawail in a | few months and to the Philippines in about a year. “I am assured by the Navy Department that coaling stations, for which appro- priations have been made, will be estab- lished at San Diego, at San Francisco as soon as Mission Rock is available, on Puget Sound at a place to be selected and at Sitka and Unalaska, Alaska.” Dlness Provoked Dr. Brower’s Suicide | OAKLAND, July 13.—The Coroner's jury { that _sat in the inquest into the death of | Dr. Robert C. 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