The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 22, 1902, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, AUGUST 22, 1902. FRIDAY........: tvosnpiior «...AUGUST 22, 1902 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprietor. Adéress Al Communications to W. 8. LEAKE, Manager. TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. EDITORIAL ROOMS. .217 to 221 Stevemson St. Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Single Coples, 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage: DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year. $6.00 DAILY CALL (including Sund: 6 month 8.00 DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 8 months. 1.50 DAILY CALL—By Siagle Month 85c SUNDAY CALL, One Year. 1.50 WEEKLY CALL, One Year. 1.00 All postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. Mall subscribers in ordering change of address should be perticular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order %o insure a prompt end correct compliance with their request. PAKLAND OFFICE.. «es++1118 Broadway €. 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CALIFOR)\'XA is normally a Republican State, ..1406 G St., N. W. CRANE, Correspondent. as many an election has proven, but it is not a Gage State—-that much has been made evi- by the recent primaries. It is the desire of the Republican party that the next Governor should be 2 representative of Republicanism, but it is not their desire that Gage should be the man. The plain reve- I f the primaries is that the rank and file of the n party of California will not support Gage even should he by any means obtain a renomination. That is situation, and it behooves every delegate to the State convention of the party to take nete of it and act accordin 1l significance of the opposition to Gage can od only when studied in its entirety. Ex- cuses may be made for him with respect to any par- ticular phase or feature of the antagonism that con- fronts but no excuse meets the whole case. It is well e gh for him to say that this or that county is opposed to him for local reasons, or this or that man is hostile because of personal grievanges, hut no such plea can be made against the whole body of the opposition. It is not‘a local prejudice that caused the southern counties to elect a majority of delegates opposed to his renomination and that led the Re- P his own county to vote against him in such numbers that even with the strenuous aid of the Democratic push he was able to elect but a bare f delegation. An opposition that e, that reaches to Gage’s own section, and his own district, cannot be called it be attributed to personal animosities. It is significant of a wholesale repudiation of the Governor by the ‘party that elected; him. It means that h s been tried in office and found wanting. No man in the State perceives more clearly than Gage himseli that he has been condemmed by the mass of the Republican party. Whatever delusions others may cherish on that score, he has none, and as a last resort he has turned against the party itself and made an alliance with the predatory bosses, turning his delegates over to Burns and Kelly to be traded.as they please. In his open solicitation of support from Kelly Gage has lost but little. Witliout Kelly’s, aid he.has no chance whatever of procuring "2 renomination. With it he may gain more than he loses, for among his supporters in the convention ‘there are not many who will refuse to do politics. with the one dollar boss., Whatever increase of strength Kelly may bring to him, therefore, will be clear gain so far as the present is concerned. Of course he will have to pay for it later on, but that is another story. To the des- perate office-seeker the evil of to-day is sufficient unto the day, and he is willing to mortgage the future to anybody who can give.Hint 2 vote or.two at once. Under the conditions that have been plainly de- veloped in the primaries it is:evident that Gage could not -be re-elected even if nominated. (California is not a yellow dog State. California Republicans have never tried to make it so in the past, nor will they try now. The renomination of Gage would mean a re- pudiation of the head of the ticket by the rank and file of the party. That in turn would mean a heavy handicap for the rest of ‘the ticket, and many a worthy candidate for a_State or county office might be defeated just because a considerable portion of dent sweeps th his own cc local, nor ca voters would vote against the whole by way of em- phasizing their repudiation of the boss-named candi- date for Governor. It is evident from the effrontery with which Gage has allied himself with bosses like Burns and Kelly that he is fighting now more for revenge upon the Republicans who repudiated him than for re-election, He is willing to take a renomination upon no matter what terms. He knows he can- not rule the party, but he believes that with the aid of the bosses and the help. of Herrin he can ruin it. He has reached the point where he is fighting for revenge only. If he can put upon the Republican State Convention the stigma of boss con- | trol he will do it. His Democratic organ, the Ex- aminer, is working readily with him on that scheme. Let Gage get the renomination and we shall hear enough of Kelly, Burns and Herrin for the rest of the campaign, even if Gage should then undertake to", deny his obligatiens to them. PRyl S TP & A New Jersey ntor asserts that he is-prepared’ to furnish the.country with a fuel which he ca’]lgv “coalite” and says can' be sold for $1 a ton. As he has to make it out of coal dust, however, it -may, 'Bc the coal trust will put a cinch on him and' spoil his business. THE PROOFS. ESTERDAY we gave the situation at the first stage of the case against San Quentin management, made in the defense of ‘Messrs. Spreckels and Leake against the libel suit brought by Governor Gage in the name of the people. We now have at hand the proofs relating to the second stage, the relation of the Gov- ernor himself as a beneficiary of the unlawful acts proved in the first stage. It is now in evidence in the testimony of clerks and floor managers of mercantile houses, given in court, that bills of goods were sold-by them personally to the wife of the Governor and the wife of Joseph Aguirre,!prison overseer. One bill so. identified as sold to those Jadies and charged to the State as prison®supplies, amounting to $112 13, was for goods that are not prison supplies, : The. goods were delivered at the prisen on order of the purchasers, and the bilk when sent to the prison was altered, and changed by forgery, the items and arti- cles thereon being changed as to the character of the property bought, so as to make it appear as for prison' use; and the false.and forged bills ‘were then certified by the Warden and commissary, audited-by the Prison Directors and paid: by the State. This is, in all respects, a painful revelation. The incident it reveals is regrettable, but it is a fact that we did not create, but which we have been compelled to prove. It completes the connection at one important point, of the Governor as a beneficiary of the forgery of accounts. The proof is so clear that nothing can confuse or obscure it at any point, nor is it all. Joseph Aguirre was an unwilling witness to another phase of this consecutive story of wrong and misdoing at the prison. He was faced:by such documentary evi- dence of the illegal manufacture of furniture, and other valuable property at the prison, by convict labor, that his admissions were drawn from him unwillingly, but they had to come. Under oath he admitted the manufacture of furniture for himself, by convict labor, and that he personally shipped to the wife of the Governor convict-made furniture. He admitted that this unlawful employment of convict labor had been going on for a long time, but that not until the last month, since the exposures by The Call, did he 'recall re- payment to the State for.any State material used...His admission of the unlawful manu- ‘facture and shipment to Mrs. Gage of furniture is only a:part.of the proof on that point. When asked, “Where did you buy the material?” Joseph Aguirre answered: “I do not remember. Wood was bought from the State and at the end of the month any mate- rial that was used was deducted from the salary of the employes.” Suppose that were frue, what condition does it imply? ‘It would, if"trite, appear that the State, through the Warden, was buying material that is not a legal supply for the prison; that such material was illegally manufactured by convict labor, and its price was taken out of the 'wages of prison employes! This attempt to explain the process so as to make it appear that the State was reimbursed is as bad a revelation of crookedness as any that The Call has made, and it is made by the overseer of the prison and a brother of the Warden! The State, according to him, was a buyer of mahogany, ebony, rosewood, maple and quartered oak. These woods are not legal prison supplies.. The Warden every month verified these bills for suchfine woods, by an affidavit in which he swore that they had been “actually delivered to the said California State Prison at San Quentin, and have been used, or"are to be used, soleiy for the said.California - State Prison at San Quen- tin.” Yet, according to the oath of his_ brother, the prisoh overseer, such fine woods were illegally manufactured by convict labor, and the value of them was deducted from the wages of the prison employes. This is a stage of rottenness that was unsuspected. Yet Joseph Aguirre confesses it under oath. With this going on at the prison Governor Gage, pretending. to make a full in- vestigation, reported that the prison was properly conducted and everything was right and straight!" Now, did Joseph Aguirre, in that investigation, tell the Goyernor that the convict-made furniture shipped to his home in Los Angeles was of material first bought unlawfully with public money, and thengpaid; for by a forced levy upon the wages of the prison employes, the employes. of the State, paid by the taxpayers? If so, did not the ‘Governor see that money was taken out of'the public treasury-to pay those employes for service given to the State, but was diverted to pay for material used in the unlawfyl man- ufacture of furniture for private account? If he knew this, is it possible that he is so dull or so indifferent as not to have seen that to the extent to which such wages, paid out of the treasury, were levied on for such purposes, it was merely the unlawful and criminal use of the taxpayers' money for the private benefit of the recipients of the large amount of furniture illegally manufactured? For this startling, this most astounding revelation, his personal friend and supporter, Joseph Aguirre, is responsible. It cannot be set down by the' Governor’s apologists and supporters as a piece of personal or political malevolence. Tt comes from his own com- pany, companions and familiars, So, we enter so-far upon the second stage of this buéiness, and we ask Republi- cans how they will like to make a campaign before the people to re-elect Governor Gage, carrying on their backs this testimony of Joseph Aguirre,and trying to explain it satisfac- torily to the taxpayers and honzst people of California? | A NON-PARTISAN ISSTE. be destribed as non-partisan none is more im= portant than that of defeating the scheme em- bodied in Assembly constitutional amendment No. 28, The Call has repeatedly directed attention to this i¢sue, for it is one that mo voter should be permitted to overlock. It should be dealt with by the State conventions of both parties and be emphatically = re- pudiated and denounced. Neither party can:afford to ignore it, for while it was introduced by a Democrat it was passed by Republican votes. Ample explana- tions have since been given of the means by which it was passed, but many voters may not have heard them or paid attention to them, and consequently in order that the issue may be set right the conventions should take action. It is to be borne in mind that the scheme em- bodied in the proposed amendment is no slight altera- tion in our constitution and system of gpvernment. On the contrary,’ it is something.in the i:vature of a revolution that, is purposdd. Should the %'mendment pass the enfire control of corporations ‘operating rail- ways, street car lines, water, gas, electri¢ light and power, express companies, insurance companies, banks, and, in short; the whole series of corporations controlling public utilities and the great agencies of commerce and finance, would be taken from the hands in which control is now vested and be placed in that of a board to be appointed by Governor’ Gage—a board of five members to hold office for terms varying from two to ten years. It would mean a surrender of local control of even such things as the local water and gas supply. It would mean a complete subordi- nation of the public to the cosporations, and the peo- ple would have not even a voting chance to get rid of the corporation' majority on the board for six years to come. An issue of that kind is too important, too far- reaching and too dangerous to-be left to.the hazard of discussion during ‘a heated ' political ‘campaign. When once the canvass, begins the attention of _the public will be naturally given to those issues on which the: parties are divided, afd, as it is a foregone con-. ‘clusion that n6 one will defend the amendment, 4t is “quite dikely no one will' go out ‘of his way 46 atfack it, * Thus the: matter mdy be entifely overlooked dur- ing, the campaign apd many voters.-may- cast their Ballots fo:it in-utterdigndrance of what it-megns. Such. being the case, the copvgntions that rc‘prese'nt the ‘great parties of the State should-take the ! MONG the issues of the campaign which may recay- #< - - tion of presenting the-issué to the public and femind- ing them of the danger embodied in it. Because it has no open defenders it must not be supposed that it will lack supporters. It was carried through the Legis- lature silently, by trickery and without debate. Simi- !ar ta(.:tics will be emplcyed by the corporation bosses in trying to get it adopted by the people. If they can prevent a discussion of it they will. If they can keep the State conventions from’ denouncing it they will. In fact, their one hope is that nothing will be said on the subject at all, so that on election day when their workers get out they may be able to find a large num- ber of voters ignorant of the object of the amendment who will be induced to vote for it because “a iriend” asks them.. ———— Justice Holmes, recently appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States, is reported to have asked in. a recent decision, “What have we better than a blind guess to sho ™that the criminal law in its pres- e.nt form does more good than harm?” That sounds like a good question for a philosopher, but it comes queerly from a Judge. : —_— : Having been required to remove their hats in thea-" ters, some Dehware women decided to remove them il'l church also, but they dressed their hair so pret- tily that the pastor of one of the churches denounced them for displaying vanity in church; ‘and thus we see that with or without millinery woman has a hard time. ¢ ——— New York is having a hard time making her art fit her benevolence. A shart time ago it was decided to erect drinking. fountains for dogs, but the designs submitted have all been rejected on the ground that they were not artistic enough to satisfy a dog and enable him to enjoy his drink. Russia, the dispatches announce, is the unhappy possessor of.a revolutionary and murderous society numbering twelve thousand persons. - It might not be abad idea for the Czar to apply for membership as a matter of self-protection. A Kansas. bridegroom is accused of having his b._ndc hypnotized so as to make her stay in love with i?fm, and in doing so, he has not only demonstrated his ingeriuity but added a new terror to matrimony, --Roosevelt may talk about the strenuous life, but his M]ow. g__resident, Castro of Venezuela, is the fellow that lives up to it and turhs somersaults through revolutions as easy as a circus man through a hoop, i KNIGHTS LEAVE SAN'FRANCISCO TO VIEW STATE —_— Trains leaving this city yesterday car- rled away many of the Pythians. Some of them began their journey to their Eastern homes, but the majority took ad- vantage of the excursion to the Sacra- mento Valley. The latter will return to San Francisco Sunday and after resting a day or two will commence their home- ward journeys. Barly yesterday morning a force of workmen were put to work removing the exhibits from the grand nave of the ferry building and before night hardly. a vestige of _the display remainéd. -Without a doubt the ccunty exhibits achieved the success of the Pythian celebration. Thousands of FEasterners visited the ferry building each day and an examination of the registers, Whick were maintained in almost every booth, show that most of them were suf- ‘ficlently interested in California to desire further information. Each county exhibit was liberally supplied with literature, but before the end of the celebration hardly a bit was left. Solano, Sacramento, Butte and Santa Clara coupties, with their dis- plays of fruit, were the most popular ;ol the county booths.. This would seem. ‘to be conclusive proof that the shipments of California fruits to Eastern markets not only net returns to the grower, but al§o advertise the entire State. During the afternoon the. various coun- ties, through their representatives, ad- dressed the following letter to Willlam McMurray, who has been instrumental in making the exhibition a success: SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 21, 1902. Mr. ‘Willlam MecMurray, chairman County Exhibits Committee—Dear Sir: At the close of the exhibition there was a meeting held by all of the different exhibitors of the several counties of California, wWho in meeting re- solved to express thelr heartfelt thanks for the excellent management which: has been exer- clsed by you and your assistants during the time of the exhibit, and was undoubtedly the cause of its success. : We offer our thanks and appreciation’ for all the courtesies extended. Yours very truly, Fred M. Buck, Solano County; Morris Brooke, Sacramento County; R. H. Jury, San Mateo County; Robert Hector, Placer County; E. B. Rich, Pacific Grove, Cal.; 'W. R. Haw- kins, Monterey County; F. H. Lang, Monte- rey County; Charles T. Wyer, Fresno County; R. H. Gallagber, Fresno County; J. W. Bar- ker, Butte County: 'Charles Fetters, Butte County; J. K. Vail, Butte County; J, F. Mad- den, Placer County; Samuel Butker, Nevada County; L B. McMahill, Santa Clara County; G. W. Ingalls, State of Nevada; P. J. Hazen, manager Stanislaus exhibit; C. W. Coazens, Sacramento” County; A. L. Carpenter, Mendo- cino County. The same representatives also presented Captain Fred Raabe, who has had charge of all of the details of placing and arrang- ing the exhibits, with a tidy little sum of money as an expression of the apprecia- tion of the many favors he had rendered during the past week. CHANGES TO BE MADE AMONG MARINE OFFICERS Navy Department Discovers an Error Was Made in System of Ranking. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—The Navy Department has made a decision which affects the rank of marine officers ap- pointed from civil life under the naval personnel act. Under that act the Presi- dent was authorized to fill vacancies in the marine corps from civil life, and sev- eral groups of appointments were made, the latgest being eighteen on May 21, 1900, The, appointees after passing their exam- ination- was commissioned ~ by .numbers and took rank according to their standing at the examinations. In thus renking these officers the Navy Department fol- lowed the law and practice in the case of cadets graduating from Annapolis, who rank according to standing. Recently one of the marine officers, Lieutenant Arthur J. O‘Leary, questioned the action of the department in view of section 1209 of the Revised Statutes, which provides that the officers of the same grade when - appointed and commutissioned on the same date shall take rank accord- ing to previous service. Lieutenant O'Leary himself, llke most of the other marine officers appointed from civil life, had seen service as a _volunteer during the Spanish war, and hé claimed the ben- efit of the statute. The department, upon the recommendation of acting Judge.Ad- vocate General Hanna, has sustained his contention. This rul(ng will involve a re- adjustment of the rank”of all marine of- ficers appointed from civil life since the Spanish war. : - OUTLAW COFER SEEN IN A LOGGING TOWN Call Correspondent Gives Informa- tion That Reopens the Oregon A Pursuit. 2 “WALLA WALLA, Aug. 21.—A telephone message this afternoon to The Call corre- spondent from Kamela, Or., said that Al Cofer, the fugitive Freewater outlaw, who shot Deputy Sheriff Ritchie after a serles of daring hold-ups in the Walla Walla Valley, was just entering the freight yards at that %a.ce preparqtork&o boarding a train for Hilgard, Both - mela and Hilgard are loggln and_wood towns at the summit of the Blue Moun- tains,. in Oregon, and are 125 miles from here by rail. The Call correspondent im- mediately . communicated with Sheril Taylor at Pendleton and Taylor starte men_to Ksmell: and Hilgard at once to locate the outlaw. e fugitlye after ap- pearing in Adams, Or., on Sunday night, when the posse was seeking him in Washington with bloodhounds, apparent- 1y took to the mountains ard crossed the big divide into Union County. He and his confederate have separated. —_— CAPTAIN OF THE RANGERS IS FORCED TO RESIGN Arizona’s Governor Takes Action as Result of Saloon Affray in Bisbee. TUCSON, Ariz., Aug. 21.—Captain Bur- ton C. Mossman of the Arizona Rangers has been compelled to resign as a result of the recent saloon fight in Bishee, and Governor Brodie has appointed Thomas Rynning to succeed him. Rynning is & man of wide reputation. He 1s a typlecal frontier officer and was a lleuténant in cne of the Rough Rider companies In ‘uba. Ranger Willlam Page, who compelled |] the release of Burt Grover from.the Bis- bee jail at the point of a six-shooter, was caught by Bisbee officers in Tombstone Canyon and lodged in jail. He was given a preliminary hearing to-day and boun over to awalt the action of the Gran Jury. £ Under the new captain’ the Arizona Rangers will be reorganized’'and an effort will be made to eliminate all “bad men" from. their ranks. b R Captain Ryan Probably Acquitted. - WASHINGTON, Aug., 21.—The papers in the case of Captain James A. Ryan, Fif- teenth Cavalry, who was tried by court- martial by order’' of thé President charges of adnmiinistering the water' cug to natives in the Pblllpglnbl, have been received’ at ' the War Départment, and ‘when considered by Judge Advocate Gen- eral Davis will be forwarded to the Presi- dent. Cagtam Ryan did not deny admin- istering the water cure, but insisted that it wu»necessarg in ordeér‘to accomplish results/ He had some trouble ‘with the civil authorities and made a_very tart re- port regarding one of- the Judges of the civil government. This was a basis of the trial. ‘On account of the préponder- ance e{‘t}me tesdthnr;‘ony‘i 1nh‘!u.vor of Captain yan s understood ‘that''the lce quitted him. SoRr.gp Dr, Russell Wilson Not Executed.’ WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—Minister Mer- boa | B o ey sefeens of & ry of Nicaragua in a majl t State Department dated Ad“ulm1 st 6 :..;' It now transpires that Dr. g:uull Wil- son did not land at Bluefields with: Colombian revoluti pedi » t Pinzon, nfl"‘a‘{{.“ Bt it cause.” FOREIGN PRUNE AND . WALNUT CROPS SMALL e The Pacific- Commercial Museum has received from Albion W. Tourgee, United States Consul at Bordeaux, the following concerning the walnut crop of south- western France, which comes into compe- tition with California nuts: The walnut crop of this region for 1902 will evidently be very much below the average. My first report from a disinterested agent who went through the departments of Lot and Lot et Garonne, the chief walnut producing regions, was -to the effect that there were “no walnuts worth taking into account.” More recent reports have practically confirmed his observation. The general impression s that there Will be from one-fifth to one-fourth of an average crop—with a decided inclination to the lower figure. . What there is of this crop is ‘#ald to be at this date in very good com- dition. Ordinarily there are considerable sales at thig season for future delivery, but I am unable to learn of any this year. Making due allowance for the natural tendency of the growers to underestimate the crop with a view of enhancing-prices I should say that it Would be entirely safe for American producers to estimate the French walnut crop this year at not more than one-third the average yield. Concerning the prune ‘crop of the sams reglon, Consul Tourgee reports that the impression in that vicinity is that the to- tal will not be more than one-tenth of the average yield. Merchants from Bor- deaux and from the very heart of the prune-raising country are sending to Cal- ifornta for prunes to flll their orders and to keep up thelr trade. He has not been able personally to verify all reports, but says that the prune crop of the region will be practically a “negligible quantity in the world’s market of 1902.” ! —_— + PERSONAL MENTION. Isaac Bird, a merchant of Merced, is at e Lick. ‘R. C. Terry, a wine man of Clayton, is at the Lick. W. T. Tillotson, a mining man of Red- ding, is at the Grand. ‘W. 1. Hupp, a mining man of Folsom, is reg,le!ered at the Lick. g A."J. Bell, Tax Collector of Ventura County, is at the Grand. Railroad Commissioner Blackstock of Ventura is at the Grand. Mrs. A. O. Brady, wife of the Governor of Arizona, is at the Occidental. G.y Holterhoff, treasurer of the Santa Fe at Los Angeles, is at the Palace. W. T. Summers, a well-known resident of Santa Barbara, is at the California. Patrick Brennan, Public Administrator of Yuba County, is a guest at the Grand. E. P. Cglgan, State ; Comptroller, is down from Sacramento and is staying at the Lick. W. 8. Collins, an extensive land owner of Los Angeles, is among the arrivals at the Palace. G. F. McNoble, Assistant District At- torney of San Joaquin County, is at the Grand from Stockton. \ J. P. Chinn, a merchant of Porterville, is in the city on a short business trip and has made his headquarters at the California. Clinton B. Hall of Santa Barbara is at the Occidental: He has been spending soveral weeks at Bartlett Springs and is en route to his home. Captain Charles T. Hinde of Coronado and J. B. Alexander of Los Angeles, who manage the ~Spreckels - properties in Southern California, are both registered at the Palace. A. G. Wells, general manager of the Santa Fe, with headquarters at Los An- geles, Is at the Palace. He is in the city in reference to the recent sinking of the slip -at China Basin. —_————— NO CHANGES ARE MADE IN EXECUTIVE STAFF Officials of Humane Society Will Re- tain Their Respective Positions During Ensuing Year. The trustees of the Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Animals met yes- terday and elected their officers for the ensuing vear. The executive staff, which is the same as that of last year, is com~ osed of N. P. Cole, president; John artridge, vice president; James 8. Hutchinson, treasurer, and Charles B. Holbrook, secretary. Treasurer Hutchin- son has held his office In the society for thirty-five years. Secretary Holbrook’s report of the work accomplished during the last month showed that 265 cages of alleged cruelty had been lnveauidefl and that 218 ani- mals had been relieved. It was also an- nounced that 3700 children from'the public schools of this city had recently joined the Band of Mercy, which is an auxiliary of the society. Southern Pacific Wins. In the United States Circuit Court yes- terday in the suit of Eugene Pierce.vs. the Southern Pacific Company to recover $30,~ 000 damages for personal injuries, a ver- dict was returned for the defendant. OILING ROADS 'IN VALLEY OF THE YOSEMITE s . 4 Leveling - the ‘fust} with oflifor seventy' miles—that is the blg project that haa: been undertaken by the Yosemite Stages Company on the read that leads from thé rallroad’s end at Raymond to the Sen<’ tinel Hotel, in the Yosemite Valley. This use of bil is the most extensivéd experiment that has been made on roads in California or elsewhere. The subjugast tion of these miles of dust means the ack, complishment of a project that is new i the history of road.Luflding. Oil has beeh. used on short stretehes -of .road in this State and the East, but ‘there has been no: attempt to cover sévehity miles. = i Beginning at Raymiond. the,oi road now winds among the hills‘and vallays a diss tance of thirty miles—a black pathway. that points'the way of travel fop the tour- ist. Thirty miles are all that- will treated with oil this year, as the first contract calls for that number only, and the stage company desires to ndte the ef- fect of the elements upon‘the:réad durin the coming winter. F 3 ! . The experiment-as it stahds now is @ decided success. The dust has been com pletely subdued, and travel ffom Ray+ mond to Ahwahneg.escapes the thick dusé that makes stagifig so discomfliing. Nat even the horses show traces of dust. ‘Where the ol has been freshly \lald the ‘wheels throw flakes of ofl into the air and occasionally upon a passenger, byt in all other places the riding is as pledgant as on a city boulevard. b5y 18 One of the great advantages abput oll is that it makes a smooth road but of & rcugh one. The wagon wheels work tie oil and dust into a sort of paste, which is forced into the ruts, making a perfect- ly_even surface. f If these thirty miles of’ oil withstard the assaults of winter the stage company will treat the remaining forty miles info the valley in time for next summer!s travel. - The work_ is being done at gredt cost, the contractor for the work char; ing 60 cents a barrel for the oil, making each mile cost about $300, exclusive of the cost of transportation, which is being borne by the stage company. The oil is first heated o almost the boilipg, point and then distributed upon the Toadway by a patented machine, which mixes It with the soil. Three coats are mecessary to get the required firmness, but ‘inf the future one coat in two years will be suf- ficient to keep the road compact. « -~ GRAND COUNCIL NAMES NEW SET OF OFFIGERS Director Thomas W. Kelly of Santa Cruz Is Elevated to the Presidency. SANTA CRUZ, Aug. 21.—Thomas W. Kelly of Santa Cruz was, to-day. élgeted grand president of the Young Men's In- stitute for the coming year.- He was the unanimous cholce of the Grand Council. The following were elected delegates to the Supreme Council that meets in _Octo- ber zt Omaha: Supreme Direcfor Frank J. Klerce, E. R. Myrick, John Reilly and D. Driscoll of San Francisco; alternates— Dr. Morris, John A. Dunleavy of San Francisco, Rev. Father Enright of Sac- ramento and L. E. Mahan of Eureka, , Other officers elected were: Honorary chaplain, Rev. P. W. Riordan of San Prancisco; chaplain, Rev. M. D. Slattery of Napa; grand first vice president, Janres G. Whalen of Livermore; grand second viee president, Joseph- Sex of- San Jese; grand secretary, George A Stanley of San Francisco; grand treasurer, W. T. ler of San Francisco; grand marghal, Henry Berg of Marysville; grand inside sentinel, Robert H. Flowers of Ferndale; g:ni‘rouu;éle sentinel, P. J. Thornton,.ef arcisco. , The new grand directors are: J. P; Fitz- gerald, Gilroy; Rev. T. C. O’Connell, Al meda; J. W. Sharp, Marysvilles T, Cody, Sacramento; M. A. Mclnnis; Qak- e G Wiley: & V. Queen and. T, J, Maroney, San Francisco. After the_election Sua?rem President Frank J. Kierce installed the newly elected officers. tr This evening the Grand Couneil r‘mg‘ took place in the Sea Beach Hotel. J. H. Leonard, president of the local counctil, was toastmaster. - N Vallejo Strike Is Ended. VALLEJO, Aug. 21..—The- strike begun here three weeks ago by the carpenters and allled trades has been séttled and the men returned to work to-day. e E loyers' Exchange granted the carpen- ers’ demand for $4 a day, but reserved the right to employ only such union men as it pleased. . ———— s - Prurnes stuffed with apricots. Townsends* Townsend’s California Glace frutt and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire-etohad Dboxes. A nice present for Hastern friends €39 Market st., Palace Hotel h\fl'l}m‘. v Al Special information supplied dafly. te eal len’s), Toraie PRt Telmhons Mamm i N Ukiah Excursion. Purchase your. ticket for Ukiah exeur- slon next Sunday at ‘650 Market ' street, Chronicle bullding. Each ticket sold in- sures a seat. Round trip $200. » BY MARY Next Sunday's Call CATHERWOQOD & # COM-. . PLETE IN THREE ISSUES - OF THE SUNDAY. CALL, _ AUGUST 24, AUGUST 31 . . . 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