The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 16, 1902, Page 8

SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY MERCHANTS MAKE DRASTIC THREAT Declare They Will Throw Garbage Piles Into ths Streets. Accumulations of Refuse Be- come Serious and Men- acing Nuisance. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Aug. 15. Merchants are up in arms against the municipal authorities because of the scavengers' strike. For several days not one shovelful of garbage or refuse has been removed from a business-house, ho- tel, T rant or residence in this city. Conditions in the produce commission- uses are becSming intolerable. Busi- ness men are making open threats to have the accumulations Larown into the treets, and thus compel the authorities to remove the offensive debris. Superintendent of Streets Charles F. hes had open and flat statements him that such a course will be nless there is speedy relief from rable conditions which have isen. The peculiar feature of the ade is that none of the city officials n be held responsible. uble primarily arises from the Oakland is absolutely at the the scavengers. For some time bave been dumping their collec- the West Oakland marsh, but n that seetion of the city ob- demanded of the Police De- partment that the practice should be stopped forthwith. A municipal ordinance which prohibits the dumping of garbage within the city Umits was invoked. here was nothing to do_but to enforce the ordinance, and that was accom plished by Chief of Police Hodgkins by ihe arrest of several scavengers. The next move was made by the attor- neys for the garbage collectors, when ttacked the validity of the ordi- nance in the Police Court. But Judge Smith held that the law was sound; that ty had the right to enact such legis- on. From that decision the attorneys inounced they would appeal. That move ume some days. Meanwhile the s being increased every hour, ge has been reached that al- the merchants to take sum- The of Health claims to be pow- erless. It asked the City Council to di- rect a suspension of the ordinance, but Council's action passing the matter the Board of Public Works has been al by City Attorney John- The city’s legal adviser says tne rd of Health should have exclusive f the garbage question, ana that d ordinance giving power to of Public Works in the prem- be amended. as the merchants are mercy of they tions on 10 declared il son Bo uld cons “théy can put their refuse ., but it will do no good, nnot haui it away and dumgp w there being no piace to deposit the uff. If 1 should attempt to dump it anywhere within the city I would be sub- ject to a just as the scavengers are amenable. Besides that, the police would be “eompelied to arrest those who pur e refuse in the streets. Of course the t Department has no jurisdiction this trouble, and could do nothing.” All of the horities confess that they > _helpless, as the law now stands, do anything. The ordinance forbids mping within the ecity limits, and they realize they have no jurisdiction over side points. There have been numer- conferences at the City Hall, but so far n;v(hi g of benefit to the city has re- sulted. MILITARY PROGRAMME FOR SUNDAY-SCHOOL Novel Rally Will Be Held by Chil- dren of First Presbyterian J Church. OAKLAND, Aug. 15.—Pupils of the Sun- chool of the First Presbyterian hurch will hold a rally and novel pro- gremme of exercises Sunday morning. Extra efforts are being made to have the members of all the departments of the school attend. Many visitors are expect- €i to be present and enjoy the numbers to be presented by the young people. Military titles have been given to the officers of the classes, and the combinin of the military and religious phases of the programme promises to be the feature of the rally. ———— MEN TAKE PLACE OF STRIKING MESSENGERS ‘Western Union Telegraph Company Finds Difficulty in Securing Boys to Carry Dispatches. OAKLAND, Aug. 15.—Two stalwart men, provided with horse and buggy, have taken the places of the six messenger boys of the Western Unjon Telegraph Company who went on strike yesterday because carfare allowance had been cut off. Local Manager Folger says messages are delivered as promptly as if the boys were at work. The strike is still in force. The company has advertised for boys, but the youths who are out are watching the office closely and threaten to punch the he of all applicants for their jobs. POSTUM CEREAL: SUSPICION Leads to the Real Cause. The question of coffee disease or Pos- tum health becomes of the greatest im- pertance when we are thrown on our own resources. Many a woman when sudden- ly left without means of support can make a comfortable living if health re- mains. A brave little woman out in Barnes, Kansas, says: “I feel that I owe you a letter for the good Postum Coffee has dene me. For years I was a great suf- ferer with nervousness without ever sus- pecting the cause. Two years ago I came down with nervous prostration. My work was light but I could not do it. I could not even sew or read. “My sleep was broken and unrefresh- ing, I suffered intensely and it seemed only a matter of time till I must lose my reason. My mental distress was as great as my physical, when one day a friend brought me a trial of Postum Coffee and urged me 1> use it instead of coffee for a few days, saying that Postum had cured her of Jiver trouble and sick headaches. I re- plied that I thought I could not give up coffee, 1 had always used it as a stimu- lant; however, the Postum Food Coffee proved to be pleasing to the taste and I used it, and was surprised to see that I resting and getting better. “My husband bought several packages and insisted on me using it altogether, Gradually, but not the less surely, I fully recovered. I mever used coffee afterward, and when 1 was left 2 widow a year later 1 was able to open a dressmaking shop and support myself and little -girls.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creck, Mich, 2id Superintendent of Streets | REGENTS OF UNIVERSITY HONOR FORMER STUDENT Bernard A. E:cheverry, a Member cf the Class of '02, Who Gained the Highest Grade in Analytical. Mechanics, Is Appointed Instructor in the College of Civil Engineering < ERKELEY, Aug. 15.—Among the appointments recommended by President Wheeler at the meet- ing of the regents of the Univer- sity of California was that of Bernard A. Etcheverry to fill the place of instructor in the college of civil engin- eering. This is an unusual mark of dis- tinction, sirice the newly elected in- structor is a member of the class of "02, which graduated last May, and usually men of wide experience are chosen to fill positions in the technical colleges at Berkeley. Etcheverry proved himself worthy of the appointment by the remarkable rec- ord of scholarship which he maintained during his college course. He was the medalist of his class, being given the preference over the heads of students — -- 3 [ o *: O 1 H Ped E T CHENERD> SIS Brssas e re R GRADUATE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA WHO HAS BEEN HONORED BY REGENTS. | I — 3o with higher averages, owing to the dif- ficulty of the engineer course. He is one of the very few men who have gained the highest grade in analytical mechanics, generally conceded the most difficult course in the university. Born in France, Etcheverry received a thorough preliminary training at the Lycee de Bayonne, the famous technical college of that country. Immediately upon his entrance into the university at Berkeley he showed himself to be a stu- dent of the highest order, and maintained this record throughout his entire course. He is a member of the fraternity shortly E3 ¥+ to be initiated into the Ps{ Upsilon order. L e o e o e e e e e e e e ae ] ) JENNIE HEATON MEETS REVERSE Sustains Defeat in First Attempt to Recover Real Estate. Oakland Office S8an Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Aug. 15. Miss Jennie M. Heaton met with her first reverse in her battle for the estate of the late capitalist, Warren D. Heaton, when Judge Hall to-day granted a non- suit in the three cases on trial before him for the recovery of $36,000 worth of prop- erty located on Ninth street, between Webster and Harrison. Miss Hea- ton alleged in her complaint that the deeds conveying the property involved to Lulu Annette Leet, Nellie Leach and Mary Cordelia Heaton had been procured by fraud after the capitalist’s death, and that the documents had never been legal- ly_delivered, Judge Hall decided that the testimony introduced was insufficient to show that the deeds had not been legally obtained and granted the nonsuit. Miss Heaton has had two prolonged bat- tles in the courts to be declared the daughter of the late Warren Heaton. The first trial before Judge Greene resulted fa- vorably to her, but this decision was re- versed by the Supreme Court. A second trial was ordered, and Miss Heaton was ain declared to be Heaton's daughter. £he was then made administratrix of the Heaton estate, consisting of about $6000, besides the $36,000 worth of property which Judge Hall to-day decided was rightfully | in the possession of other people. Miss Heaton will appeal. Miss Heaton’s first financial backing in her many suits came in the way of a lucky lottery ticket, which netted -her more than $3000. MINISTER CONGER'S NEPHEW GAINS PARTIAL VICTORY Must File Amended Com- plaint in Suit for Divorce. OAKLAND, Aug, 15—Charles D, Con- ger, a nephew of United States Minister Conger, gained a partial victory over his wife, Lillie M, Conger, who is suing him for divorce on the ground of extreme cruelty, by the decision of Judge Hall this morning, who sustained a demurrer to the complaint. Mrs. Conger was grant- ed ten days in which to file an additional complaint. Mrs. Conger alleges that her husband had forced her from their home in Ala- meda on two different occasions. The husband is putting up a determined con- test 1o his wife’s action. Mrs. Henrietta Castro will have to file an amended complaint against Angelo Castro, whom she is suing for divoree, as Judge Hall to-day sustained a demurrer to the complaint. Wife J INDIA PRAISES THE UNIERSITY Calcutta Mirror Advises Students to Study at Berkeley. BERKELEY, Aug. 15.—President Wheel- er received to-day a copy of the Calcutta Indian Mirror, which contains high praise for the University of Cali- fornia, and especially recommends the course in irrigation at Berkeley for native students in India. The perlodical cites the instance of the two Hindus who came to this university last year as a worthy example. “Irrigation as a sclence is not taught anywhere in India,” says the Mirror, “ard its absence is most sorely felt, If more young Hindus, studying in Cali- fornia, would bring back a thorough, practical knowledge of this science alone, they would do a service to their country, | We hope that the example of the two gentlemen from Lahore, Mr. Amar Naf and Mr. Ram Lal, will soon find szaé*y‘ followers.” The Mirror comments on the fact that Egfi,a(nmvers‘éyc(ffx Callloréfla. has many cse an nese student: iro}n {ndim udents but none “It is a cause of much reflection on the part of the Indians,” says the paper, “that while Chinese and Japanese stu. dents at the University of California re- celve so much consideration, India is left out almost entirely. Our yoing men need the quickening touch of the West and they can only receive it by going to a ;’est_ern university like that of Cali- ornia.” — Dragged Along Mountain Road. NEVADA, Aug. 15.—Joseph Silvey, a teamster at Camptonville, met with an accident yesterday that will cost him his life. Sivey was driving a,mule team from Forest City to Camptonville, One of the mules took fright and started the others on a mad run. The driver's foot got_caught in a rope on the brake rod pulling him from his high seat to the road. “Silvey was dragged over the rocky ;oldl for a great qlg;tsncej and was fright- ully mangled. ere is ni his recovery. B ands T —_—— To Connect the Berkeleys. BERKELEY, Aug. 15—Work on the long-expected ° line ~ between Berkeley and West Berkeley has commenced. The Oakland Transit Company will extend the present Telegraph avenue line down Uni- ‘versity avenue to the present end of the line on San Pablo avenue, mal o tinuous circuit. Actunl track s SOB7 follow the completion of the surveys, Licensed to Marry. OAKLAND, Aug. 15.—A marriage 1j. cense was issued to Frank E. Maddin, aged 30, of San Franeisco, and X Fard. aged 26, of Oakland. Marie E.| ment amo THi K “COFFEY” 5 FUBITIE Police Suspect Check- Passer Is Wanted at Denver. Find Similarity in Descrip- tions and Start In- | vestigation. —— Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Aug. I15. In their efforts to discover ‘‘Lieutenant Edgar N. Coffey’s” reasons for trying to hasten his entrance into the State peni- tentiary the police department has un- covered a clew to his identity that is now being run down in the hope that the record of the dashing young check passer may be further revealed. Detective Denny Holland is now busy trying to ascertain whether the pseudo lleutenant is not Robert L. Huntington, a ccllector and a fugitive from Denver, who on May 24 fled from the Colorado capital with $1500 in currency he had stolen. Com- munication is now being had with Chicf of Police Armstrong of Denver. In a meager description of Huntington which has come to the Oakland police there is & marked similarity with ‘“Coffey’s” physi- cal characteristics. Huntington is de- scribed as 23 years of age, 5 feet 7 inches tall, 150 pounds weight, light hair, blue- gray eyes, fair complexion, smooth face, pronounced blonde, nice looking and well educated. This fits *‘Coffey” to a dot with the exception of the height. The Oakland prisoner is a little taller. But that discrepancy does not count for much with Detective Holland, who declares to Chiet of Police Hodgkins he is convinced Huntington and ‘‘Coffey’” are identlcal. In tracing Coffey the police have learned that last spring he was in San Francisco, that he left and went to Den- ver in April, and could have been there according to his own statements during May. He has also confessed that he lost $300 or more in gambling since that time. But what clinches the detective’'s theory is that ‘“‘Coffey” inadvertently said he knew a Robert L. Huntington in Denver. Chief Hodgkins has evidence that ‘“‘Cof- fey” operated with bogus checks in San Francisco, and he is satisfied now that the handsome and youthful swindler en- listed in the army to bury himself from police pursuit. L e e i e et FEAR OFFICERS HAVE CONSPIRED John Gates and Others Make Appsal to the Courts, DENVER, . Aug. 15.—Application was filed In the United States Circuit Court to-day by John W. Gates, James Blalr, John J. Mitchell and Arthur J., Singer against the Colorado Fuel and Iron Com- pany and John C. Osgood, John A. Keb- ier, Alfred C. Cass, Dennis Sullivan and David C. Beaman, for an injunction to restrain the defendants from preventing the plaintiffs from casting, counting and having considered the votes which they allege they are entitled to cast at the an- nual meeting of stockholders for the elec- tion of directors and officers of the cor- poration. The complaint recites that of 259,178 shares of stock outstanding, the plaintiffs own and control by proxies 191,609 shares, giving them a clear majority, but that it is feared that unless the court grants them protection they will not be allowed to cast thelr votes, because of conspiracy and collusion on the part of the officers and other shareholders. Numerous written demands, the com- rlaint says, have been made upon _the secretary of the company, David C. Bea- man, to furnish the books of the com- pany, in which a list of the stockholders and the number of shares held by them is kept, but none of these demands has been comp.ied with. Relying upon that fact, the plaintiffs “allege that the de- fendants have failed and neglected to ILEQE in the State of Colorado any such Look as required by the statutes and that the only stock book kept by the defendant corporation, showing the names and ad- dresses and holdings of shareholders is the transfer book, the stock ledger and the registry book, kept respectivelz by ihe Knickérbocker Trust Company and t}'Ie Atlantic Trust Company, in New York, and at the annual meetings lists ot the stockholders were taken from such books and these furnished the baslis and cata to determine names and holdings of 2ll stockholders who should have the 1ight to vote at the electlon of officers.” The complaint alleges that the officers of the company have transferred to eighteen persons, mostly employes of the company, five shares of stock each with the evident object of packing the meet- ing and frauiulently control the election cf officers. It also alleges that the de- fendants deny . the right of ' Arthur J. Singer and William N. Vaile to vote, on the ground that their ilames do not ap- pear on the stock book and that they have obstructed every effort to have the names placed on the stock book. NOTABLES OF NATION AT SENATOR’S FUNERAL Ceremonies at Home of Late James McMillan Marked by Simplicity. DETROIT, Mich.,, Aug. I5.—Extreme simplicity marked the funeral services this afternoon over Senator James McMil- lan. The Senator’'s late residence was crowded to its capacity and many per- sons were unable to gailn admission. Both branches of Congress, the State Legislature and all departments of the State and city government were repre- sented. Governor Bliss was present with several of his staff. The Senatorial dele- ation included Senators Hanna, Ohio; oraker, Ohio; AHison, Iowa; Lodge, Massachusetts; Burrows, Michigan; Falir- banks, Indiana, and Cockrell, Missouri. The Rev. Alfred H. Barr, for a long time the Senator’s pastor here, officlated at the services. The interment was private. Followed by his family and a very few intimate friends, the body was taken to Elmwood Cemetery and placed in the McMillan mausoleum, which was filled with flowers. As a mark of respect, the car works, which Senator McMillan developed, were closed to-day and the many other plants in which he was interested stopped work at the hour of the funeral. Every wheel on the Detroit and Cleveland steamers steamers stopped. for a while at 2:30 o'clock. SRR e Tube Service Awarding Deferred. WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—Bids were opened to-day by the acting Postmaster General for the rental cf pneumatic tube service in Boston, New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Washington, Chicago and St. Louis, several of the builders or their representatives being present. The bids greatly exceed the appropriation of 00,000 granted by Congress to be used for this purpose for the fiscal year 1%03. It was announced after the opening that ne awards would be made at present, as it would be necessary to make some adjust- the different cities in order the appropriation, X to come wi AUGUST 16, 1902. OAKLAND’S REALTY TEN PEREECT ORGANIZATIO N Association Has Already Mads Its Power for Good Felt in Inavgura'ing Movement for Rem.val of Unsightly Sign:, Dead G:ass and Rubbish From Front of Houses 3o- J | AR \ AKLAND, Aug. 15.—For the ad- vancement of the city in gen- eral and for the better mutual advantage and protection to themselves and their patrons, the local realty dealers have perfected an organization. It is known as the Oakland Real Estate Agents’ Association, and al- though but a few weeks old it has already made its power for good felt in inaugu- rating a movement for the removal unsightly “to_let” and ‘“for sale” signs throughout the central portion of the city, and the removal of dead grass and rubbfsh”ffom the front of vacant houses and lots Among the reforms that the assoclation proposes to make Is the establishing of the exclusive contract system and the compeling of mushroom concerns and curbstone brokers to respect the rinciples and ethics of the business. nder the exclusive contract plan nu- merous agents will be prevented from of- fering the same property to prospective buyers and slashing prices ruinously in order to effect a sale. The system will also do much to lessen the practice .of offering property for sale without author- ity, and other sharp schemes that un- scrupulous agents are wont to use to the discredit of-real estate brokerage. The association will act in harmony with the municipal Street Department for the keeping of the city's thoroughfares, parks and squares in a clean and attrac- tive condition. Meetings are to.be held by the association once a month, The of- ficers are: President, F. J. Woodward; vice president, E. P. Cook; secretary and treasurer, Robert A. Jackson; directors— M. T. Holcomb, A. J. Snyder, W. J. Lay- mance, 8. P. Meads, J. 8. Meyers, W. P. Todd, M. L. Wurts. ‘With few exceptions all of the local real estate firms and agents of any stand- ing are affiliated with the new associa- tion. of - & | PRESIDENT OF THE OAKLAND REAL ESTATE AGENTS' AS- SOCIATION. H % . “Oakland’s real estate dealers have done what they should have done long ago,” said President F. J. Woodward. ‘“They will now work in harmony, and the result will be that the agents and-'prop- erty-owners will profit thereby. We have begun a crusade for the removal of ad- vertising signs on houses and lots in the central section of town. The city’s Street Superintendent has signified his willingness to assist the assoclation in improving the appearance of buildings, lots and streets. We will co-operate in doing anything that will tend to improve Oakland and advertise its business and advantages to the outside world. Here- after the local real estate business will, I am sure, be conducted on the high plane that it should be.” L i e o e e e e e S T ) ROYALISTS NOT BEHIND RIOTERS Cabinet Statement 1Is Followed by Many Protests. PARIS, Aug. 15.—The semi-official an- neuncement made after yesterday’s Cabi- net meeting that the Royalists are direct- ing the agitation against the closing of re- ligious schools in Brittany has evoked considerable comment. Catholic leaders and the Catholic press deny that the movement is anti-republican. Count Al- bert de Mun, who, with Abbe Gayraud, is the guiding spirit of the resistance in Fin- isterre, declares that the movement is en- tirely spontaneous on the part of the peo- ple themselves, and that not an act or a shout has occurred in Brittany to justify the allegation that a Royalist conspiracy exists. Count de Mun says that the ‘Mar- sefllaise” has been sung everywhere, and that it is evident that the Government is apprised of the situation and has invented the Royaiist scare in order to create a di- version. Francois Coppee in an interview ex- pressed a similar view in more violent and picturesque language. e Patrle says it is rumored that the Government intended to arrest the Royal- ist Senator from Finisterre, M. de Cha- maillard. Ministerialist organs assert that the Government possesses curious information as to the manner in which the Breton peasants were deluded into a belief that they could successfully resist the republic. ¢ The situation at'St. Meen and Folgoet remains unchanged. An important pil- grimage to Folgoet took place to-day, on the occasion of the feast of the Assump- tion, 15,000 people gathering. from the sur- rounding country. Processions from near- by villages arrived during the morning, headed by priests, bearing crosses and banners and chanting. Admiral de Cuverville, Abbe Gayraud, who is & member of the Chamber of Depu. ties, and Councillor Soubigon have ad- dressed a protest to the Premier, M, Combes, on account of the allegations of Royalism, saying: “We protest against the attempt to give a political character to the demonstra- tions of an indignant public conscience, ‘While applauding the legitimate protests of the population who are grateful to the sisters, we shall continue to strive to pre. vent acts of violence. Long live the Lib- eral republic.” —— Golden Wedding Anniversary. REDDING, Aug. 15.—At Cottonwood to- day Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Johnson , cele- brated thelr golden wedding. The vener- able couple have spent forty years of their marfleaplil.te in 8 a cfim ap o PANAMA' FEAR THE INGURGENTS Colombian Government Rapidly Reinforces Garrisons, KINGSTON, Jamaica, Aug. 15.—The British steamer Floridan, from Liverpool, July 24, for West Indian and Central American ports, arrived here to-day from Colon and reported considerable insurgent activity in the neighborhood of the isth- mus. An attack on Panama was feare the Colombian Government was mdnfi:g strenuous efforts to largely reinforce the garrisons there and at Colon. Regarding the recent battle at Agua Dulce the Flor- idan’s officers report that the Government of Colombia claimed the insurgents were routed, but that it was belleved at Colon that the engagement was undecisive. ; SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Aug. 15—News has Treached 'here from the camp of the Colombian revolutionists tn the Agua Dulce district that after a naval engage- ment the Colomblan Government gunbeat Boyaca was captured by the revolution- ists. Three hundred Govérnment soldiers and Generals Ortiz and Henao and sup- plies of munitions of war and provisions Were captured with the Bovaca. Ths gg:,c;m;lan aevu]unolxiuxts aiso are said to ecured a gasoline launch in the Government service. T According to advices received h ere the isthmus the Boyaca left Panamn.‘;\‘:lr; 29 with 300 troops of the Colombian Gov. the revolutionary fleet ana obli; - treat, since when nothing had bi:g ;oear:d of the vessel on the isthmus, except a Tecent report printed in The Call that the boat had been captured by insurgents, —_— Y —_— Briggan’s Trial Nears the End. REDWOOD CITY, Aug. 15—The mur- der trial of Joseph Bri; ggan is fast proaching the close. This afternoon :ll:; last of the testimony was presented and the Distriet Attorney began argument. To-morrow the defense will argue and the Prosecuting Attorney will close. It is ex. pected that a verdi By ct will be had before —_— Sleeps on 0ld Camping Ground. REDDING, Aug. 15.—Thomas Greene, once Sheriff and now Coroner of Shasta County, camped at the river bridge just fifty years ago to-night. He has lived in Shasta County ever since. To-night he took his blankets to the same point on here the river bank and has camped t) as a reminder of phe d: 9 His way to sn,l‘ oty a gold neids. o '| siderable expense WIFE EJEGTED FROM ER HOME Two Hours Later Files Complaint for a Divorce. John Commins Is Accused of Spiriting Away His Children. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 118 Broadway, Aug. 15. Two hours after having been ejected from her home, $70 East Twelfth street, by her husband this morning, Mrs. Anna Com- mins filed suit for divorce against John F. Commins, a prominent real estate broker of San Francisco. The wife alleges that her ejectment from her home was the culmination of a series of harsh and cruel acts at the hands of her husband. The couple were married eight years ago in Alameda, when the bride was scarcely sixteen years of age and the groom was on the shady side of 40. < The wife says that their married lifs was happy until about a year and a half ago, when her husband's nature change: In her complaint she alleges that in Feb- ruary last her husband slrézped her, and repeated the act with a harder blow three days later. On July 27 last, the wife says, her husband struck her, and she left him for three days. When she returned her two_children, aged 3 and 5 years, respec tively, were missing. Since then, the wife says, she has implored and begged her husband to return her children to her, but that he has persistently refused to let her even know where they are. On August 1, the wife recites In her complaint, her husband ordered her to leave the family home, saying: “I cannot love you any more. I feel coldly toward you, and I want you to leave me foi- ever.” ‘After two weeks of unbearable silence, Mrs. Commifis says, her husband forcibly ejected her this morning from their home. The wife asks for the custody of the two children and $100 a month alimony. The husband is said to be worth about ,000. Ems——a———— CUBA TREATY FIGHT NOT NEAR AT AN END Preparations for Resumption of Con- troversy if Extra Senate Session Is Called. WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—Advices re- ceiveq in Washington indicate that the beet sugar Senators will continue their fight aginst a commereial treaty with Cuba should the President convene the Senate In extra session in November for the purpose of relieving conditions in_the island. The opposition will be led by Sen- ator Burrows, who organized the defeat of the measure in the Senate last winter. In the coming contest the opposition will be waged on entirel different grounds. Last spring the Cuba measure was defeated for economic reasons. In the new struggle the propesition to be ad- vanced is that a commercial treaty which raises or lowers the rate of the tariff is contrary to the fundamental law if it is negotiated by the executive branch of the ['Government and ratified by the Senate, the House not participating in the mak- ing of the law. It will be claimed that if the President, with the consent of the Senate, can ralse or lower the Cuban tariff, he can by the same process revise the entire tariff system. The controvers; is an old one, but it will beécome very important in the next session of the Sen- ate or Congress. 3 . g SO AR S Populace Crowds Into Westminster. LONDON, Aug. 15.—The plan of open- ing Westminster Abbey to give the pub- lic an opportunity to view the coromation fittings has involved the authorities im- measurably and is proving to be a much more troublesome task than had been im- agined. Wednesday the admission fee was $1 25, and yesterday it was reduced to 60 cents. Great crowds inspected the build- ing during these two days, but this morn- ing the rate of admission was further re- duced to 12 cents and throngs past all calculations congregated long before the doors were opened. By noon the line ex- tended a mile to the westward of the ab- bey, in closely packed ranks. A small army of police was called out to keep or- der. The people passed through the tu¥n- stiles at the rate of 2500 an hour. Al- though thousands turned away, giving up hope of entering. the line was still grow- ing up to the middle of the afternoon. Police Capture “The Blizzard.” BATTLE, Wyo., Aug. 15.—Frank Bliz- zard, known as “The Blizzard Kid,” against whom charges of attempt to mur- der, horse stealing, robbery and other crimes are made and who has been sought by the officers for a year or more, was arrested here to-day and taken to the Rawlins jail. Blizzard was here last night and in a saloon a Mexican claimed to recognize him as the man who killed his brother. The Mexicans present sur- rounded Blizzard when the Americans in the room interfered and in a brief figiut Blizzard was wounded in the leg. PRI e Vi Dredger to Reclaim His Land. MARYSVILLE, Aug. 15.—Charles Silva of Sutter County is having towed up the Sacramento River a mammoth dredger, which will be landed at a point four miles above Vernon, where there is no levee to interfere, and worked inland half a mile. Silva hopes to reclaim 1200 acres of land by levee building, and is so confl- dent of suceess that he has gone to con- in the preparations. The experiment will be watched with in- terest, and its success will mean the prosecution of similar enterprises by other overflow-land owners. SRR e e Will Rebuild Old Levees. MARYSVILLE, Aug. 15.—A solution of the problem facing the residents of swamp land district No. 7, along the Sac- ramento River in Suttér County, has been reached, and it will at least tide hem over the coming winter. This dis- rict comprises 6500 acres, and its levees protect 25,000 acres more below it. The ple living in the big bend seuth of the ack levees have agreed to rebuild the old Munkittrick and Gardner levees if the district will close last winter's break in Moon levee and connect with th 8ys- tem. ' 3w / Broker Accused of Fraud. NEW YORK, Aug. 15.—Herbert T. Beat- ty, aged 29 years, a broker, was arraigned in the Tombs Police Court to-day charged by Charles W. White, secretary and treasurer of the Balvanera Mining Com- pany, with not accounting for funds aud st of the company, amounting to $17.. 500. Beatty was paroled in the custody o his counsel for examination on August 19 The complaint alleged that Beatty had at various times disposed of four blocks of the company’s stock and had failed to ac- count for the pruceeds. e i Mails in the United Kingdom. LONDON, Aug. 15.—Phe annual report of the Postmaster General shows that the large total of $3,335,000 was found im let- ters undelivered during the past year. The undelivered letters totaled no less than 10,000,000, while the delivered mis- sives amounted to 2,451,500,000, an average of 589 for each person in the United Kingdom. The Postmaster General also Teports that fresh experiments with mo- tor cars showed that they cannot be re- lied upon to carry heavy loads of mall matter with the same regularity as wag- ons drawn by horses. fouraishem S SAN JOSE, Aug. 16.—'Jack” Reardon, foc embeszlement, and G. S. Miller, for forgery. were to-day sentenced to twa years and ona year respectively in the State