The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 26, 1902, Page 5

THE : SAN ' FRANCISCO CALL, ATURDAY, JULY 26, 1902 DIRECTORS LAUD | MACKAY'S WORK Tribute Rendered to Memory of the Dead Magnate. Sorrow of Business Associ- ates Expressed in Reso- lutions. o CYONTY NEW YORK, July 2%.—At a special meeting of the board of directors of the Commercial Cable Company to-day the unanimous!y adopted: rd in the minutes death of our be- Mackay, n his capacity We recog: ompany is due his ability and his believe ‘that no other man ould have created a telegraph eys h wide extent and such merit, ceans and throughout in the midst of such dif s as have from t courage, one of u: sts among al our ap- on_ for npany were al e following res 0 s of the Postal arned with W. Mackay, ector since since Janu- Joh t his associates in r to have been his ho knew him best, should of this company of their ir admiration of his eath of John W. board have lost unerring guide, a great leader, and the He was honest, his name honesty. He was just, He was generous, ever aid- He was far-seeing, judging cor- Tairs. He was humble, seek- fellows g and presperity without eous, fearing God- and Fortunate in unlocking vor the treasure house of vast wealth wisely. Great ss of purpose and fidel- he compelled the ad- Ve of those who knew embers of this board S S Mackay Receives News at Sea. QU TOWN, July 25. — Clarence e late John W. Mackay, ger on board the Cunard »ania, from New York ed here to-day, Te- his father's death by oh at 3 p. m. July 24, from i steamer Saxonia of the ckay received a large num- wireless news ympathy for Campania’s passen- TEE “PICKING-UP” MACHINE FOR DEEP SEA CABLES Grapples and Brings Up the Broken Strands From the Depths. uly wonderful piece of mechansim “picking-up” machine used in all g ar ble-hoisting operations. is a powerful variety of the steam- winch family, but also a most aristocratic - aborate member, fitted with gear- c clutches, patent brakes and ious appliances. To give some capabilities in dry ow speed lift twenty-five tons at of one mile per hour, or at.fast he rate of four miles Moreover, it can be quickly al- d D to changing circum- ed or lifting welgt. made ready, the big grapnel, ed to seven or eight hundred fath- s of chain and rope, is passed over the sheave, or pulley. and as soon as it s bottom the ship is sent slowly 2d. Back and forward across the path e cable, as pointed out by the friendly \ Several times figures, it to , although a b mermaid’s grottos’ stra soul on 0 the bow, watching the y rope come steadily up and over the well-oiled pulley. At length the grapnel itself appears, holding tight on to the truant—July Lippincott's Postal Receipts in Great Cities. e postal reports for May show total ts above $1,000,000 in New York, an advance of more than 14 per cent in ex- cess of the figures of May of last year. Chicago fell below 8 per cent of increase, while Jersey City, our flourishing neigh- »or on the other side of the North River, ined more than 17 per cent. There is deal of letter writing on the of the Hudson and the sales and postal cards are Cjity is modest, coy and mever boasts herself. But resist the temptation to send ful letter of inquiry to Chicago asking what is the matter. — ' things in jewels these 7 in the cheaper lines. A car the other day wora h what looked exactly teeth in brilliants. ul POSTUM CEREAL. OUR NATIONAL DISEASE Caused by Coffee. | Physicians know that drugs will not | correct the evils caused by coffee, and the only remeédy is to stop drinking it. Dr. W. J. Allison of Heber, Ark., say “I have been a coffee drinker for fifty years and have often thought ‘that I eculd not live without it, but after-many. gears of suffering with our national /mal- @dy, dyspepsia, I attributed it to the @rinking of coffee, and after some thought determined to use Postum Food Coffee for my morning drink. I saw that Postum was made carefully with direc- tions, and found it just suited my taste. At first 1 used it only for breakfast, but 1 found myself getting so much better that 1 used it at all meals, and I =am pleased to say that it has entirely cured me of indigestion. I gained 19 pounds in four months and my general health is greatly improved. \ “I must tell you of a young lady in Illi- neis. She had been in iil health for many years, the vital forces low, with but little ex- | love | * | funds, the peasant is forced-to come to | PASGING TRAINS ARE FIRED UPON Mysterious Attempts to Kill or Wound Travelers. 12 SR Third Criminal Act Within a Week on the Coast Railroad. e Special Dispatch to The, Call. SAN JOSE, July %.—As the Coast limit- | ed wrain, which arrived in San Jose at 9:20 | o'clock this morning from San Francisco was entering the city, a bullet was fired into a passenger coach, passing through | two windows. Luckily, no one was sitting | in the seat. The shot is supposed to have | been fired from a grove of trees near the | bank of Guadalupe Creek. | This is the third attack on passenger | trains in the past week. About a week | ago Dr. Dogge, a prominent physician of this city, was hit by a rock thrown | through a car window near Palo Alto and | is now confined to his bed. For two days | he was unconscious and it was feared he | would die. A few nights ago-a bullet was fired into a passenger train near Gilroy. Officers along the line of the railroad have been asked to keep a sharp lookout and it is said Southern Pacific detectives are going along the line. UNUSUAL REQUEST FOR REDUCTION OF PENSION Inquiry Developed the Fact That the Man Was Inmate of an Asylum. Ware, the Commissioner of Pen- received a letter from a man in Illinois a few days ago which read: “I am now getting a pension of $30 a month. Recently the Lord has prospered | me, and 1 do not think I should get so| much>money. 1 gave my services to the | country, and I think I should have some | pension, of course, but 1 think $30 a | month is too much. Is there any way I can have my pension reduced or suspend- | ed while 1 enjoy the prosperity that is mine at present.” e only request for a reduction r received by the bureau. referred to the pension examiner istrict which the man lived, who | reported as follows: | “I have the honor to inform you that| the person who applied for a reduction | in his pension is now in the insane asy- lum at this place, and has been for some time.” Mr. sicns, e E— THE FIRST DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ‘Was Made by the People of Charlotte, | Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, in 1775. Not every student of American history is aware that the Declaration of Inde- pendence signed at Philadelphia on July | 4, 1776, glorious olfi document that itiis, cannot claim to be the first expression b; American people of revolt against British | rule. The first Declaration of Independ- ence was put forth more than a vear be- fore the immortal second, May 20, 1775, and its birthplace was the little town of C rlotte, Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The two Carolinas were | settled largely = by . strenuous = folk— refugees from religious persecu- tion in Scotland and France, followers of Knox and Calvin. Covenanter and Hu- guenot brought with them over the sea tne sturdy independence and the fearless adherence to principle which had led them to dispute the divine right of kings and uphold to the death the divine rignt of conscience.—Woman's Home Compan- | fon. PRODUCTS OF OUR GOLDEN STATE - WILL CHARM VISITING PYTHIANS Nave of the Perry Building Is Being Transformed Into a Horticul- tural and Floricultural Bazaar of Great Beauty. g HE nave in the Ferry building is being rapidly transformed into a grand horticultural ‘and flori- cultural bazaar. A display of products from the several coun- tles of the State will be given durin Pythtan week and an op- portunity mfforded-the visitors to admire California’s fruits, flowers, vegetables and grains. Each of the countles will distribute literature relating to its pro- D — American Elephants. ! Enough information is afforded from | vear to year by newly found fossils to en- | able the naturalists to improve their’ classification of the elephants that once | roamed over North America. Frederic A. | Lucas, one of the experts in the National | Museum in Washington, writes to Science | to say that at least three such species | have now been identified. Elephas primo- | genius, which is the species whose frozen | bodies have been exhumed in Siberia, lived in Alaska, British America and as | far south as Washington, D. C., and St. | Louis. It had upward curling tusks, a shaggy hide, attained a height of from | nine to thirteen feet, and is popularly | known as the mammoth. Then there was | 2 second species, Elephas columbi, which | inhabited the southern part of the United ! States and was a little larger than the | creature just described. The late Joseph | Leidy of Philadelphia, one of the greatest | authorities in these matters, thought that | he recognized a third species, to which he | gave the name Elephas imperator. Lucas savs that teeth discovered in Indian Ter- | ritory last fall confirm Leidy’'s bellef on this point, and establish Imperator as a distinct specles. —_———— Telephone Hurts Railroads. It is an odd fact, but true, that some steam railroads have complained of the harm done to their best class of passen- ger traffic by the long-distance telephone, while hotels in Western cities have also attributed a reduction of patronage to the same cause. Travel between St. Louls and Chicago, for example, is said to have | been appreciably cut down by the tele- phone. Such a result would seem difficult to trace tangibly, although one meets | people daily who, to avold weary trips, | have governed themselves on the injunc- tion, “Don’t travel; telephone.” But the telegraph and the mail have also been deterrents, and if there is any validity to the alleged reason the high-speed elec- tric travel of the future may restore the | former conditions. It is indeed hard to concefve that with travel methods thus perfected the roads would not enjoy to the utmost degree the patronage of a public which, after all, likes to be in mo- tion, and loves dearly to taste and see everything, everywhere, with its own physical senses. —_———— | Now the Automobile Bank. American bankers learned a long time | | ago that savings deposits were to be had for the seeking, and several methods of seeking them, particularly by distributing | | small boxes, have been used success- lly. French bankers have just taken veral strides in advance by introducing | | the automobile savings bank, which tours | the country districts at stated intervals | and gathers in the savings of the thrifty | peasants. An electric motor car has been bullt for the purpose. It provides, seats for a cashier and two clerks, arranged about a revolving table. There are shelves on the | walls for the bank books and a strong box is built Into the body of the car. The officlals are from the Mezieres treasury | | administration and the cashier has power to receive deposits of any amount. As there is no desire on the part of the au- thorities to facilitate the withdrawal of the central bank when he needs money. The automobile bank began - its- rounds some weeks ago and has met ‘with a most favorable reception. Heard in Chicago Museum. “What kind of ducks are these?” asked the visitor in the ornithological - depart- ment at the museum in Chjcago. “Labrador,” said 'the attendant. “We paid $1000 for those two specimens.” “Gosh!” exclaimed the visitor, turning to his wife. ‘‘He says they pald $1000 for ‘em. I've bought finer ducks for half a dollar many a time. What have you got ‘em in that glaes case for?” he inquired, addressiug the guide again. ‘““Because they are about the most not- able exhibit we have. Those birds were shot in 1856. Labrador ducks are now ex- tinct.” ““He says,” explained the visitor, turn- ing to his wife once more, “they put ’em in that glass case because they haven't a pleasant odor. And I don’t wonder at it. pain. 1 wrote her of the good that Pos- tum did me and advised her to try it. At the end of the year she wrote me that Postum had entirely cured her, and that she had gained 40 pounds in weight and feit like herself again.” They were shot in 1856.” ‘While it may be entirely true that all things come to him who waits, his land- lady is apt to have her doubts as to the remittances. ducts, so that the strangers may be fully advised about the Golden State and its grand possibilities. The members of the éxecutive commit- tee have given a great deal of time and attention to their work, and much en- thusiasm has been aroused among those who are assisting them to make the movement a grand success. The committee named to select aceom- modations for the military branch of the Pythians is working energetically, and the visitors will be comfortably housed. It is no small undertaking to find ac- commodations for 10,000 men. The mem- bers of the committee fully realize the magnitude of their task. They have ar- ranged plans for housing as many as possible in the Mechanics’ Pavilion, and in acdition have selected locations where they will erect more than 1000 tents to accommodate those who cannot be quar- tered in the temporary barracks. The plans for the {llumination of the city_are under the direction of Willlam R." Hewitt of the Department of Elec- tricity. The entire illuminating plant will at the close of Pythian week revert to the city. The following additional contributions are announced: ‘Previously reported, $12,750; from subordi- nate lodges (additional), $3500; theatrical managers, $500; Davy Crockett, $100; Blelen- .i. o e s e i THREE OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS AND THE ELECTRICIAN WHO IS ARRANGING FOR THE ILLUMINATION OF CITY STREETS FOR NEXT AUGUST. - berg & Weniger, $100; Caley & Roeder, $100: London, Paris 'and 'American ~ Bank, $100: George H. Fuller Desk Company, $50; Colonei A. Andrews, $60; Gladding, McBean & Co. (first donation), $25; F. L. Turpin, $25; Thomas Day_Company, $25: Hansen & Elrick, $25; D.” W. Saylor, $20; Carrau & Green, $10; Anglo-American Crockery and Glassware Com- pany, $10; Thomas Denigan Sons, $10; Hirsch & Kaiser, $10; H. A. Deckelman, $10; Golden Gate Comuressed Yeast Company, $10 man, Borel & Co., $50; San Francisco Bank, $50; Hibernia Savings and Loan So- clety, $50; & J. Sloane Company, $50; Cali- fornfa Basrrel Comnany, $26; Golden Gate Cloak and Sult House, $25; Baldwin & Howell, $25; T. Fricot, $25; Crocker Estate Company, $25! Norton Tanning Company, $23; B. Bern- hard, $20; W. S. Townsend, $10; Levin & Ellis, $10; Pittsburg Aluminum Company, $5; H. F. Maas, $5; Great Western Smelting and Refining Company. $5; 8. H. Harmon & Co., $6. Total, $18,460. s N Planning Pythian Tours. The California Promotion’ Committee — has arranged dates for excursions as follows to various points in the State for the entertainment and instruction of the Knights of Pythias and the thousands who will accompany them to California: Seven trips, one each day, August 10, to 16, to Oakland, Berkeley and ' Haywards; daily trips, August 12 to 16, to San Jose and Palo Alto; daily trips, August 13 to 16, about the Bay ‘of San Francisco; two trips to Monterey and Paclfic Grove, on August 13 and 14; to the Big Trees and Santa Cruz, August 14; to San Jose, Mount Hamilton and Lick Observa- tory, August 16; three daily trips from August 11 to August 20, inclusive, to Mount Tamalpais; August 12 to_14, tour of San Joaquin Valley, stopping at Fresno, Clovis, Exeter, Visalla, Lindsay, Porterville, Bakersfleld, Hanford, August 13 to 15, tour of making stops at Sacra- , Folsom, Newcastle, Loomis, Oroville, Chico, Vina, Red Bluff, Corning, Or- land, Willows, Colusa, Woodland, Vacaville. Trips are being planned to the Napa Valley, Russian River Valley and via the coast line to Santa Barbara and other points. @ -ttt il el el e e et bell @ BABE SURVIVES PECULIAR PERIL Rescued From Beneath Overturned Buggy in a Ditch. OROVILLE, July 25.—A peculiar acci- dent occurred yesterday two miles east of Oroville. Mr. and Mrs. Schofleld were traveling and he was driving a wagon with their household effects, while the wife was driving a buggy with a child of 5 and an infant of eight months. Her horse became frightened at a wa- ter wheel in a deep ditch and wheeled and backed the buggy into the ditch, over- turning the vehicle. Schofield rescued his wife and eldest child, and then, seeing something floating down the ditch, ran down to seize it believing it to be the baby. A man named Ingraham came along just at this time and ran to their assistance. He waded into the ditch, raised the buggy and took from under it the Infant. It had been under the vehicle three or four minutes. Ten minutes’ work-on the little one brought it to-all right. When the child was found it was standing on its head, and Ingraham believed that this position saved it, as the water was not forced into its lungs, as would have been the case otherwise. John Bull’s Idea of a Jackpot. The Kansas friends of 'Gene Ware have dug up an English edition of “Ironquill,” annotated ‘liberally in explanation of its Americanisms. The refrain, “Who' open- eth a jackpot .may not always rake it down,” suggests difficulties disposed of in a footnote, which lays down a safe and conservative rule for foreigners in the great American game: ‘“‘The ‘jack- pot’ i8 a feature of a gambling game at cards in which each player contributes an equal amount of money to the for- mation.of the ‘pot.’ To ‘open’ a jackpot means. to start the gambling for that par- ticular pot. It can only be done by that player who has a hand of a ceértain pre- scribed degree of excellence. If he can sustain his supremacy he may win, but in the course of the play he may lose. If he wins, he wins n]li’ Hence, to open a jack_lpot. in slang parlance, means a per- son with a temporary advantage endeav- oring to get all that his associates have in sight, Four kin opén on.”—New Yo ‘ribune. It is mighty hard to keep your mouth shut when you have nothing to say. T(! 1!_5 a good hand to! MANIAG AT LARGE ON SHASTA HILLS Escapes From County Courthouse in Redding. Special Dispatch to The Call. REDDING, July 25.—Charles Recknagel, an insane man, broke away from the courthouse in this city this afternoon and is wandering in the woods in the vicinity of this city, baffling all the efforts of the Sherit and his posse of men to capture m, Recknagel was brought to this city from French Guich last night and was to have had his examination for insanity this afternoon. He has heretofore served a term in the Napa asylum, and four months ago was discharged from ‘that in- stitution as cured.” He is now as insane as before his Incarceration, and is at times violent. Recknagel was brought to this city by his brother. He was taken to thé court- house, and while his brother was taking a drink of water he broke away and ran | like a deer out of the courthouse square | and down the street to the county road toward Anderson. His brother and the Sheriff and a posse gave chase, but as vet they have not been able to locate him. Recknagel is a strong, athletic fel- low, and it is feared he will do some harm before captured. He formerly livea near Auburn, where eight years ago his family met with reverses that drove him insane. e = In Cardiff, Wales, before the saloons were closed on Sunday, with a,popula- tlon of 80000, there were sixty-fwo coj victions for Sunday drunkenness in 1881. Last vear, with a population of 170,000, there were but nine cases. e o T R N e Stories by the acore | None can ask for more. | Best that pen can write Surely must delight. Summer fiction prime Yours for half a dime. Published in The Call, One that leads them all Out next Sunday morn Buy or be forlor: 2 3 e T TR T AT s = .; his. English NORTHERN GALE CLAINS VIGTIMS Two Men Perish and Many Others Are Missing. VANCOUVER, ' B. C., July 2.—The heavy gale which has been blowing for the past forty-eight hours is responsible for two known deaths and there is every reason to believe that eight or ten other men have been drowned in the storm- tessed sea. Last night two Indians found an up- turned boat off the middle arm of Fraser River and upon investigation found a man clinging to it and supporting him- self in the waters among the floats of his fiching net. The man did not live to reach shore. When landed at the Fraser River cannery he was dead. The body kas been identifled as that of Fritz Fa- bian, who had posed as the inventor of a neavigable airship: Ertangled in the net among the floats on which Fablan was supporting himself was found a coat, in which were a num- ber of letters addressed to Florian Schmalz. It has been learned that Schmalz and Fabian had been fishing to- gether and there is reason to belleve that Schmalz also was drowned. Did Not Satisfy Cabman. ‘When D. M. Osborne, the Ayburn man- ufacturer and one of the most active anti- Bryan Democrats in the last campaign, ‘was visiting in London an English friend remarked that it was impossible to sat- isfy a London ‘“‘cabby,” no matter what one gave him. “T think I can do it,” said Mr. Osborne, and they took ashansom driven-by an Irishman. After riding three or four blocks they got out and Mr. Osborne handed the driver a soverelgn. He was walking away, when the driver called him back. 'he driver was fingering the gold piece lovingly. ‘was going to protest against being paid so much entered the American’s head. It vanished when the ‘“‘cabby” said: “I say, sir; an' don’t you think blcomin’ drink?” Mr. Osborne handed over a shilling. “1 was wrung" he said when he rejoined riend. ‘‘You cannot satisfy it a shame to break this for a a lon cal The weekly malil to the English army in South Africa s 204,000 letters. The possibility thnt‘ he ! FRUT ROTTING ON THE TREES Dearth of Laborers Is Causing Heavy Loss to Growers. Suisun Valley_ Orchardists Are Unable to Gather Their Crops. Special Dispatch to The Call. CORDELIA, July 25.—The apricot crop in- this section and in Suisun Valley is dead ripe, and sufficient help cannot be | obtained to harvest it. Fully nine-tenths | of the crop is being dried and the great- | est difficulty Is in engaging cutters. The ; loss will be heavy to some of the grow- ers as the peach and pear crop will be ripe in one week. There are hundreds of persons now employed, but not enough to_save more than two-thirds of the fruit. FRESNO, July %.—Vineyardists are all erturbed over the scarcity of Oriental abor—Chinese and Japanese—for the grape-picking season. The crop will be an unusually large one and the picking is done in three weeks in the month of September. Chinese and Japanese and Indians from the mountains have been the mainstay of the vineyardists. White men will not do the work under the blazing sun, compelled as are the pickers to do the work with backs bent ten or twelve hours a day. It is said that the Chinese and Japanese, who at this season of the year would be flocking to the raisin-grape growing belt, have decided to | give ¥resno the go-by, because of the high handed methods pursued by officers in the collection of road and poll taxes. | Lumber Mill Destroyed. SEATTLE, July 2.—Fire destroyed the | plant of the Bryant Lumber and Shingle | Company at Fremont, 2 suburb of Seattle, shortly before noon to-day. The | mill and all the outbuildings with the ex- | ception of two drykilns were burned and | the fire was with difficulty kept from spreading to adjacent property. The loss | i3 estimated at $50,000. i Fire Razing Pine Forests. GRANTS PASS, Or., July 2.—Fires have again broken out in the pine forests | of the Western and Southern Josephine | Mountains, large area of timber has | been destroyed and the fires are spread- g;g. Careless campers are probably to lame. COMMENT ON GAGE. Gage and Lawlor. In framing his affidavit for'a writ of pro- hibition to “prevent the trial of the libel sult | against Spreckels and Leake before Judge Fritz in San Francisco, Governor Gage gave | as a reason why the case should not be tried there that he, Gage, would be subpenaed as a | witness and would be kept “‘from his home and | business, to great loss of time necessary in | his affairs.”” Now wouldn't that jar you? Kept from his home! The constitution says the | Governor_shall reside at Sacramento. Is that his home? If so, he is generally “‘from home.™ And how about his ‘‘business” and ‘‘affairs?” | His business is to serve the people of the State and his affairs are the official affairs of | the public. And strange to say, the Governor knows he is an innocent, libeled and abused | man, who wants to be vindicated at San Pedr but who is fighting with his might to es- | cape being vindicated at San Francisco. \ Dr. Lawlor, superintendent of the Home for | Feeble-Minded at Glen Ellen, was accused of | infilcting cruel punishments- upon the inmates | of that institution. Governor Gage promptly | ordered an investigation. The investigators found that Dr. Lawlor was a kind and hu- | mane man, but that some three months ago he | made an ‘“‘error of judgment”’ which he him- self discovered to be an error, and the prac- | tice which he voluntarily discontinued, before any public complaint was made. Governor | Gage found that Dr. Lawlor was an eminently | humane man and ordered the directors to re- move him. The directors then notified him to resign under fire and he complied. Thus Law- lor has been made a scapegoat for Gage. Gage should be held personally responsible for all | | the fll-treatment received by the inmates of | Glen Ellen, for Gage knew and was warned, that Lawlor was in no way fitted for the p | sition to which Gage had him appointed. And in the name of consistency, why did not Gage order a prompt investigation of Warden | Aguirre of San Quentin?—Ukiah Dispatch- s The Gage Machine. The fact that Governor Gage has found it | necessary to open headquarters in his ‘home city a month ahead of the primaries in order to conduct the most vigorous campalgn pos- | sible for his renomination does not' look as | though the ‘‘people’’ were such a unity for him | as the mail chorus would lead the blic to believe. The Governor evidently does not de- pend on his administration or his popularity | | for & renomination, or if he does his man- agers are 0o shrewd to be misled by any such frail theories. The Governor has got to fight, and fight hard, to win. He must use all the power of his position and all the strength and sagacity of the Burns machine. 'hat befng | so apparent to everybody, the mail .chorus ought to siide off to some other argument.than that of spontaneous popularity. It is plainly | evident that herolc measures must be adopted | to secure even his home county for the Gov- ernor.—Santa Ana Herald. e o v L | Democrat, | I Gage’s Wounded Reputation. With a great display of wounded honer and | purpose to punish Messrs, Spreckels and Leake of the San Francisco Call for criminal lbel, Governor Gage has not given much e\'ldem:c‘ of a desire to push the suit he has com- menced; or, perhaps more truly, he has shown little, if any, desire to have the evidence pro- duced that would either prove him innocent or | guilty. Commencing the suit against Spreckels and Leake at San Pedro, 500 miles away from the official records and the witnesses necessary 1 case, bears a close resemblance to shyster practic | Governor Gage's law practice has included | much_ of the criminal kind and probably in- volved efforts to defeat as well as to adminis- ter justice, and he must have known full well that Spreckels and Leake would use every available means to defeat the effort to force | them to trial at San Pedro, it for no other | reason than to defeat what has all the appear- ance of shyster practice against them. ey now have the case on appeal to the Supreme | Court of the United States, where it will not | be. heard till after the election. | It seems to us that if Governor Gage feels | sure that the official records and pertinent testimony would vindicate him and convict | Spreckels and Leake he would have made it | | as easy as possible to produce the evidence tand encouraged its early production in | | court. This he has not done and voters wl!l; | draw their own conclusions.—Pomiona Times. $76,000 for Old Manuscript. A remarkable Biblical manuscript has | been discovered at Jerusalem. | It belonged formerly to an aged hermit | named Core, who dled at Jerusalem July 13, 1879. He left a small fortune, which went to his relatives, and along with the | money there were some strange docu- ' ments which no one was able to decipher. | Recently these have been examined by . some learned Hebraists, who find them | to be written in very ancient Hebrew and | by the Apostle Peter. A translation of | | the introduction to the documents reads | as follows: | ‘‘Peter, the Fisherman, servant of Jesus, | son of Mary, thus speaks to the people | in the name and by the will of the Lord.” | The epistle ends: I, Peter, the Fisher- | man, in the name of Jesus, and in the ninetieth year of my life, have decided to | write these words of love, three Paschs | after the death cf my Lord and master,: Jesus Christ, son of Mary, in the house | of Boller, near to the Lord’s Temple.” | The archalc form of the manuscript is | taken as proof that it dates from the days of Peter. The London Bible Soclety is trying to obtain possession of it and has offered the heirs $76,000. ——————— A Rope for Mark Twain. ‘The Missouri papers are telling this story of Mark Twain's recent visit to tie State: A big crowd gathered at a rafl- | way station to meet him. A little boy krew that somebody was coming, but he | did not know Mark Twain from Bossie | Franeis. ' This kid perched himself on top | of a freight car, where he could see what happened. The train rolled In; and as Mark stepped off the people became ex- cited and shouted, ‘“Here he is! Here he is!” - The kid on the boxcar thought a great criminal had been caught, and shouted, “Git a opre! Git a rope!” Mr. Clemens laughed till the tears ran out of hiy eyes.—New York Tribune. | | leged Modoc County lynchers. | plicity in the lynching. 5 KENNEDY NO FOE OF THE LYNCHERS Cause of Lookout Assas- sination Is Still in Doubt. Murdered Man a Friend of Accused Mountaineers During the Trial ——— Special Dispatch to The Call. SACRAMENTO, July 2%.—Both Assist- ant Attorney General George Sturtevant and Deputy Attorney General Post are at a loss to account for the assassination of Edward Kennedy near Lookout as connected with the recent trial of al- These offi- clals say that Kennedy's testimony fa- vored the men accused of having strung up Calvin Hall, his three sons and Daniel | Yantis. Except that Kennedy gave old “Bob” Courtwright a good reputation when questioned regarding that moun- taineer’s record for truth and veracity— an attempt having been made to impeach Courtwright—Kennedy’'s connection with the trial was not one at which the lynch- ers could take. offense. It has been sald since the trial of the lynchers, however, that Kennedy de- clared frequently that if the accused men had got thelr deserts they would have been convicted and hanged. If this was so he apparently underwent a change of heart. Kennedy had a business deal with E. S. Trowbridge and the Leventon broth- ers, three of the men suspected of com- If there was any quarrel between the men nothing is known of it in the office of the Attorney General. Until further news is received from Alturas, Sturtevant and Post will continue in the belief that the assassina- tion of Kennedy was not an Indirect re= sult of the lynching trial, and under these circumstances they have no comment to make as to the probable course of the State_should later developments indicate that Kennedy feil a victim to the venge ance of the leaders of the Modoc mob. STATISTICS OF SPEECHES IN GREAT CANAL DEBATE- Few Matters Have Ever Been So Much Talked Over in the Senate. An examination of the Congressional Record during the progress of the debate on the isthmian canal bill shows some in- teresting facts about speeches. They filled 420 columns of the Record, as follows: Senator Morgan’s eight speeches, 172 col- sixteen speeches by fourteen Sena- columns. Senator Hanna's two speeches in favor of the Panama route filled forty-two cul- umns in the Record, Senator Mitchell oc- cupying the same amount of space with two speeches for Nicaragua. The entire 412 columns were filled as follows: Speec!’gem Column: Senator Morgan Ser:ator Hanna. Senator Mitchel Senator Harris . Scrator Turner . Senator Fairbanks Senator Kittredge Senator Spooner Senator Gallinger Senator Cullom Senator Pettus . Senator Teller Serator Clark of Montana. Senator Hawley .. TR v ot sivsdadanaunsny e 24 This statement does not include Ao A S A | nweBBEERESES 9 (3 44 the | speeches of Senators Stewart and Allison, which _have not yet appeared in the Rec- ord.—Brooklyn Eagle. —_———— SAFES IN THE MODERN UP-TO-DATE CHURCHES Gold and Silver Services Exposed to as Little Risk as Possible. “The modern up-to-date church,” sald an architect who is now: working on pians for a large suburban place of worship, “has many equipments that were not thought of several years ago. It may sound strange to speak of a safe in a church, especially in view of the old say- ing, ‘As safe as a ghurch.’ And yet quite a number of churches now have safes in them, not necessarily to keep money in, but for the preservation of books and rec- ords, together with the silver plate that is often of great value. The average com- munion_service, for instance, is usually of the heaviest silver,and sometimes of gold, where the congregation is a very rich one. A safe guards against fire as well as burglars;, and has now come to be regarded as quite essential.”—Phila~ delphia Record. e~ Was Firm in His Conviction. Senator Heitfeld tells a story which is called to his mind by the prediction that ngress is abolit to adjourn, as follows: 'An Irish friend of mine, named Flah- erty, had a conversation with me about another Irishman we both knew. “*'Q'Grady seems to be doing well where he is,’ I sald. “YARY said Flaherty, ‘but he'll mot lasht long in it." ““Why not?” I asked. ‘He seems to be dog well.” ““Fhrue for yve’' sald - Flaherty, ‘but he'll not lasht a month. I've said so iver since he got the job two years ago, an’ I say so now.” " DR. PIERCE’'S REMEDIES. We Know What Is going to happen to the little boy who is stuffing himself with green apples. A man couldn't be induced to try experiment ; and yet the man with fi"mbu food for which he will pay a alty than colic. It is this and thoughtless eating which is gig:if: of stomach. trouble and i consequences. p.Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discov- ery cures d and other forms of “stomach trouble.” It restores the weak and run-down man or woman to sound health. “Some time has elapsed since I in rd to the treatment I have it the ol its them closely. taking five bottles Pierce nearly six mouths since I com- menced your treatment