The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 25, 1902, Page 4

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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, cpen until § o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until 9 p. m. ——— A BRISK WEEK IN TRADE. 9 o'clock. 1098 and especial attention was called to the promptness of collections last week, the re- ports in this line being unusually significant as in- dicating a large distributive business at good prices. TRADE continues brisk all over the country, The failures were 207, against 205 for the same week | in 1901. The bank clearings were $2,105,000,000, and showed a gain of 22.9 per cent over 1901, with only | two important cities—Philadelphia and Detroit— showing a decrease. This is a pretty good weekly exhibit. Theré" were two unfavorable conditions, however, the weather and the shortage in fuel. The weather was too wet for the corn and oats in the North and too dry for cotton in the South, and the shortage in cpal seriously interfered with the iron and steel trade, necessitating large purchases of foreign pig iron. Otherwise conditions were exceptionally fine, even for this epoch of profusion and prosperity. A noticeable feature is the activity in forward trad- ing. Already the demand for woolen wear for next spring is marked, while the fall trading is lively. Cot- ton goods, too, are showing an increasing inquiry, and business the demand for immediate ‘delivery shows that stocks | are low. The boot and shoe factories are doing @ very good business, being well supplied with orders for some months yet, though the business is some- what disturbed at the moment by the pronounced advance in hides and leather, which obliges the man- afacturers to pevise their figures every day or two. Raw wool rules very firm, owing to the activity of the mills and the large purchases of Tetail clothiers. Im fact, the retail buyer is making things brisk all gver the country, especially in footwear, dry goods, | clothing, millinery, etc., and the South reports trade picking up, while the Southwest reports the best general trade for years. Hardware continues in remarkably sharp -request, and machinery manufacturers report that they have @l the orders they can attend to. Industrial activity has never been exceeded, and it is common to the whole country, but it would be still livelier were it not for the current fuel shortage. A frost in Brazil has hardened the coffee market, which has lately been handicapped by excessive supplies. Provicions have ruled weak at Western centers, and the Chicago market has broken several times lately. The packers are standing under the market and doing their best to hold it up, but the big corn crop induces heavy selling, as it indicates lower hogs later on. In fact, the high prices for cattle, sheep and hogs have caused larger shipments, which are expected to lead to lower prices. At present there is no decline worthy of note. On this coast conditions continue cheerful: As the season advances it becomes evident that the demand for most lines of California produce will be very good this year, and that prices in most cases will be sat- isfactory. Grain, as a rule, is firm, and the tendency in barley and oats is upward, while hay is showing the premonitory symptoms of an advance. s up and down with the Eastern and foreign mar- kets, but has been bringing very fair prices in the fmterior for some weeks, thanks to competition be- fween the large interests which deal in it. Wool and hides are very firm and in demand, and hops are simply. out of sight. A man with a few bales of hops in his shed has security if he wants to borrow any money from the bank. Livestock continues high and wanted, and dairy products have been above the normal plane of prices for come months. In fact almost everything that the California farmer raises is bringing good prices, and this is reflected by brisk business and casy collections all over the State. A few lines are quiet, with unsatisfactory prices, but this happens every year. The aggregate is away above the average, and the Californian has no cause whatever for complaint, Collector of the Port Stratton has announced em- phatically that political considerations will carry no weight with him in promotions in the customs ser- vice. This is probably the Collector's way of de- daring that he insists upon efficiency in his depart- ment. \ ek as & b England has ‘finally decided that she will remodel her military academy upon lines which have won uni- form success at West Point. Later she will prob- ably discover that the material with which she works has a very vital bearing upon the result. Uncle Sam is having some new guns made in Ger- many. After all it is the man behind the gun who does the work when we wish to persuade our neigh- bors that we never can do wrong. | ..20 Tribune Building open until 1¢ o'clock. 2261 | Wheat | THE FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, tities of cabinet hardware. THRE PROOF'S. AUGUST 2'5 sooe | HE second stage of the San Quentin revelations is not yet con‘clgded. By testi- . b k | mony under judicial restrictions and rules, much of its most important part being wrung from unwilling witnesses, it is now proved that the prison was made the scene of unlawful industry. Itis proved that raw material for furni- | ture found on hand in the prison by Warden Aguirre, to the value of $6000 or $7000 was unlawfully manufactured into luxurious furniture, and’ then the industry, illegally carried on, was continued by restocking “the Warden’s shop” by large purchases of | ebony, mahogany, rosewood, maple and quartered oak and the purchase of large quan- By the shipping receipts of the steamer Caroline, Wells, Fargo & Co. and the North Shore Railway, and the oath of officers of each in identification, it is proved that | loads of this furniture were shipped to the Governor’s home in Los Angeles. There were over thirty such shipnients and they included about twenty lots of furniture crated | and more boxed and wrapped in burlap. These shipments are proved by evidence that as genuine by proper witnesses. duct of the prison all right. whom I was employed.” not the Governor see him? The answer is obvious. ered and punished. stands unimpeached, for it is written in the shipping receipts, identified and confirmed While the testimony bearing upon this second stage of the revelations is not concluded it brings us to the third stage and the last. The first stage consisted of proofs of forgery of hills, mischarging supplies and pur- chase of material for private use with-public money. The second stage introduced the proof of the unlawful manufacture, by convict la- | bor, of great quantities of fine furniture from illegally purchased material and the ship- ment to the Governor’s home of enormous quantities of such furniture. We approach the third stage and, mark well what follows, we will now prove by | the receipts and their identification under oath, that the furniture so shipped, by the Caroline, Wells, Fargo & Co. and North Shore Railway, was received at the Governor’s home and was receipted for and. delivered. Will the reader retrace these digests of the proofs made in court, as we have pre- sented them in these columns, and so place himself face to face with the two stages past and the stage to come, and reflect upon what it means? Remember that Governor Gage went behind a door and investigated the prison and reported the management and con- What witnesses did he examine? Captain Edgar was at that time still an officer, grown old in the State’s service as captain of the yard. He had outlasted the terms of four Governors and was the fixed link which joined all administrations of the prison and represented continuity of policy. Put on the stand as a witness Captain Edgar uader oath declared that he knew the manufacture of furniture in “the Warden’s shop” was a violation of law, was a crime, and asked why he, second in command in that prison, had never entered that shop nor known what went on there, except by the went in and the furniture that came out, he answered: “I thought that trouble might come of it, and T did not care to place myself in a position to testify against those by material that When Governor Gage pretended to investigate, why did he not call Captain Edgar, the senior in service of all the officers of the prison, the one trusted, respected and honored by every citizen, the man known by penologists all over the world, and ask him | what was going on? Had he done so does any one doubt that he would have told the Governor, as he told the court, that the work in “the Warden’s shop” was against the law, was a crime, and that “trouble would come of it.” The simple statement of Captain Edoar, ungarnished and plain, would have told and included the whole story. Why did The reason is told in the receipts and evidence of the | shipment and delivery to the Governor’s home of the furniture made in defiance of law out of raw material paid for by the State. That is the only reason, and it accounts for the fact that the Governor covered up that which an honest Governor would have uncoy- Can the Republican party join in trying to hide this thing by nominating him?| Can it face the testimony and carry into the campaign the’ task of explaining the® written proofs and the testimony of Captain Edgar? We do not think the party will try. HEN the delegates to the Republican State W Convention assemble to-day the dominant desire in the minds of most of them must be that of nominating candidates who will have the | support of a majority of the people on election Jay. There may be a few se devoted to this or that aspir- ant that they would prefer to lose with him rather than to win with some one else, but a great majority of the members realize that the increasing welfare of the State is largely dependent upon the success of the Republican party, and consequently their desire is and must be to nominate candidates for whom all genuine Republicans and independents will be willing to voie. | Inlooking over the field on the eve of the struggle intelligent men can hardly fail to perceive that amid a group of worthy candidates there stands one who is unworthy and whose nomination would mean sure defeat. The salient feature of the situation is this | candidacy of Gage, forced to the forefront by all the push which the combined bosses of the State can bring to bear. It is the one thing above the political horizon that menaces disaster to the party, and every loyal Republican in the corvention ought to give due consideration to the nature _of that candidacy, how it arose and what it means. The records of the primaries show that Gage is in no sense the gubernatorial candidate of any con- siderable number of genuine Republicans. No Re- publican organization nor mass-meeting of Republi- cans of its own initiative asked him to be a candi- date. The position he holds before the convention has been carefully worked up by the railroad bosses. The delegates who represent him in the convention were elected in the main by the aid of the Dmocratic push in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sacramento. That vote which was at the disposal of his bosses at the primaries cannot be counted for him on elec- tion day, and even if it could be it would not offset the heavy Republican defection that would follow his nomination. . While the strength which Gage has in the conven- tion is factitious and dependent on the railroad polit- ical machine, the opposition to his candidacy repre- sents not only the prevailing sentiment among Re- publicans, but the dominant tone of public opinion without regard to.party. The people of California have noted the progress of Gage's administration from the day when zs an open ally of Billi Herrin he used the influence and the power of the office of Governor of the State to cajole or bulldoze Repub- lican members of the Legislature into voting for Dan Burns for the United States Senate. They have watched the Governor turn the normal schools .and the Home for Feeble-minded into the spoils of poli- tics to make jobs for predatory politicians. They have followed intelligently the disclosures concerning the scandals at Glen Ellen and at San Quentin. They have contrasted these evidences of Gage’s subservi- ence to the railroad and its allied bosses with his contemptuous disregard for the welfare of the State, and they have become too utterly disgusted with him and his for it to be possible to elect him, even were he to be renominated unanimously. That is the situation. Gage has behind him nothing but the bosses and the strength of push and pull £ which the bosses can contral. In front of him are the CGAGE AND THN PHOPILI. tepresentatives of the Republican party and of the people—the men who stand for straight politics and official honesty. His nomination can be brought about only by trading and intrigue, while his election cannot be obtained at all. Such being thé case, no intelligent delegate to the convention can have any hesitation as to the course he should pursue. The fight for Republicanism cannot be made under the lead of a discreditable and discredited candidate allied with Billy Herrin, Dan Burns and Martin Kelly. D S T —— German army officers made a great ado a few days ago over one of their number who killed a2 man on the morning of the day upon which he was to have been married. From the nature of the reports one would suspect that the celebration was in honor of the fellow who died. —_— Statisticians of world repute place the United States third in commercial importance of the nations of the earth. No wonder our beloved and suspiciously generous English cousins are flattering us into a friendship in which they expect to gain everything and give nothing. Governor Gage and Martin Kelly have linked arms in unholy union and the State is scandalized. In this unique festival it seems a shame that the inmates of the Almshouse, who received twenty-five cenits and a glass of beer to vote the Gage ticket, could not be included. There will be at least one congratulation in the approaching Republican State Convention at Sacra- mento. It will bring the Governor of the State to the place where he ought to be as chief executive. Perhaps the people of Sacramento think otherwise. —_— England’s colonies have decided to help the mother country in the matter of liberal ship subsidies. It is sincerely to be hoped that this family charity will be great enough to prevent passing around the hat among the rest of the nations. —_— Nineteen lawyers are now engaged in a struggle to untie the marital knot which unites an Oakland couple in unhappy bond. It is almost unnecessary to add that the ill-mated pair possess millions of dollars in community property. A Los Angeles man has set about the heroic task of proving himself to be alive, an interesting fact which the courts decline to admit. Perhaps he be- longs to the Gage gang and suffers under unusual difficulties. Our fellow citizens in Hawaii are showing a most marked aptitude for the enjoyments of American politics. At a recent election in Honolulu all the ballot-boxes in sight were stolen. An enterprising individual has laid claim for the entire city of Santa Ana. He has probably been reading about the fellows who are claiming the earth. France is to come to California for prunes, and of course California is agreeable. We would like to meet her on a similar errand every year. AUGUST 25, 1902 STRENUOUS SEASON IS AWAITING SOCI F the debutantes of the coming sea- son attempt to pay their numerous I “tea calls,” in addition to obeying all other edicts of society, all will not live to relate their strenuous ex- periences in the social zoo. About thirty dear girls will make their formal bows during the coming autumn—an exceed- ingly large number. It will be remem- bered the single dozen girls who came out last year were more than busily en- gaged in extending and receiving hospi- tality and that, as a result, the majority of them narrowly escaped nervous pros- tration. Several were compelled to take the rest cure. Two became serlm‘ly in and one died. Nevertheless, the array of enterta_ln- ments already outlined for the coming season is even more formidable. There will be nearly three times as many ‘‘com- ing out” teas, while the entire thirty debutantes must be feted by those al- ready “out” and assist in receiving at every one else’s tea. They must sweetly endure a round of luncheons, dinners and dances as long as there is anything left of them. During much of the time last season the popular girls were only at their homes a few moments of each day—only long enough to struggle out of one gown and into another. Then, away to.another function! . Fears are already being entertained for the health of the new buds by anxious parents, and rightly so. It would be vast- ly easler for the fair members of the young set to stand the strain ahead of them were it not for the arduous number of “tea calls” which they are in duty bound to pay, however informal the af- fair, This custom 'is largely prevalent in the West and our Easterh friends ex- press surprise that we should unduly fa- tigue ourselves in this- way. The situation is this: A woman sends word to her friends that she will be “at home” on a-certain day, and at such time they go to see her. Then, a fortnight later, the friends repeat their call to dis- charge their obligation in having called. This, after the hostess had pronounced the affair informal! It would seem more practical to save one's strength for larger affairs, and the best surviving buds of 192 will be those who act upon their judgment, taking social duties in their own hands and leaving informal tea calls unpaid with comfortable con- sciences, Among the new debutantes will be the Misses Helen Dean, Gertrude Josselyn, Daisy Parrott, Alice Herrin, Mabel Toy, Jaunita Wells, Genevieve and Hazel King, Miss Wilson, Gertrude Eells, Maude Bourne, Belle Harmes, Jane Wilshire, Laura Sanborn, Etalka Williar, Gladys Merrill and Anna Foster. . o s * One of the smartest autumn weddings will be that of Miss Bernice Landers and John Griffin Johnston, on September 17th. Trinity Church will be packed to the doors with friends of the popular bride and groom. The bridal party will include Miss Pearl Landers, Miss Carrie Haven, Miss Mabel Landers and Miss Elsie Cohn. The wedding breakfast will be given at the home of the bride’'s parents, Mr. and Mrs. William J. Land- ers, Broadway. i o i Mtss Marion Eells will become the bride of Lieutenant Conrad Babcock, U. S. A., on October 28 next. The parents of tha bride-elect, Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Eells, are now entertaining Mrs. J. B. Babcock at their summer home in Ross Valley. R One of the latest comers in this city is Mrs. Charles Contoit Hibbard, a fascinat- ing soclety woman of New York City. She is bright, vivacious and has many personal charms. She is a tall brunette, with splendid figure and dresses very well. ETY BUDS ON COMIN G OUT e Mrs. Hibbard exhibits a decided fondness for jewels, especially pearls, of which she has a rare collection. -Because of her charms Mrs. Hibbard was several years ago induced to begin a professional ca- reer, taking a position with a Frohman company, but soon her present husband, a wealthy chap, met and married her-and nowadays her leisure is given to society. g eie Other fall weddings will include the marriage of Miss Margaret Salisbury (o Danforth Boardman, Miss Sophia Plerce to Dr. E. E. Brownell, Miss Ida Robin- son to Mr. Innes, Miss Vesta Shortridge to Emile Bruguiere. $5 % e Several automobile parties were given to Hotel Mateo, San Mateo, yesterday. The hosts were Courtney Ford, W. H. Deming and wife, C. C. M?Ure and wife and others. . e e Mrs. C. P. Robinson gave a pretty tea on Thursday for her relatives, Miss Ken- dal and Miss Maud Robinson, who are visiting her daughters. e e Among the prominent soclety people at Hotel Mateo within the last few days are Mrs.. Emma Shafter Howard and son, Miss Marion Huntington, a guest of Miss Sophia Coleman; H. M. Graham of Hon- olulu; F. B. Zahn, U. S. N.,, and wife, ! * | | | | ; ! | L | | H ‘ i + . 4 | FasciNATING NEW YORK i SOCIETY WOMAN WHO. 1S l VISITING HERE. +* —op from Mare Island: Lieutenant Wallack, U. 8. A;; Major Lewis Smith, U. 8. A. ., 0 The Sterling Postleys have returned from Monterey. They are at presemt at Belvedere with Mrs. Postley’s mother. PR Misses Kate and Alice Herrin zre hav- ing a2 good time at Bartlett Springs. > .o Miss Sallie Maynard is on her way East, where she will remain for some time. Miss Flood accompanied her. & a5 00 Miss Alice Brigham is convaleseing from her recent dangerous iliness at the sum- mer home of the Brighams, Lake Tahoe. SALLY SHARP. e * ittt @ PRESIDENT ACTS AS GODFATHER AT CHRISTENING NAHANT, Mass., August 24.—President Roosevelt left Newport to-day at 2 o’clock on a sumptuous train of four special cars. Accompanying him to the station were Mr. and Mrs. Winthrop Chanler and Senator and Mrs. Lodge, the latter two journeying with the party to Nahant, the home of the Lodges, where the President will spend the night. A quieter day eould not have been spent by the President. As is his custom, he arose early, and, after eating a light breakfast, left the Chanler house at 9 o’clock and went out to meet Mrs. Roose- velt, who had come up on the Sylph dur- ing the night. The President was aboard the ship about two hours. Mrs. Roosevelt ac- companied him ashore and spent a haif hour at the Chanler residence, taking a look at the baby, but did not remain for the christening. She left shortly before the event for Oyster Bay. The President remained at the Chanler villa, where the ceremony of christening the baby was performed by Rev. John Diamond of the Episcopal Church, in the presence of the President, who acted as god-father; Senator and Mrs. Lodge, the latter acting as god-mother; Mrs. Julia Ward Howe and a large number of the personal friends of the family. The affair was regarded as one of the most auspicious events of the season at that fashionable resort, due not only to| the prominence of the Chanlers, but to the fact that the President of the United States would act as god-father to the child. The traveling Sunday was something new for the President, but in this in- stance he was obliged to depart from his usual custom, as he went to Newport for no other purpose than to attend the christening, and it was necessary to make the short journey to Nahant in order to maintain his schedule. Lieutenant Gover- nor Bates and Adjutant General Dalton of Massachusetts boarded the train at Newport and completed the arrangements for the entertainment of the President and party in Bostofl to-morrow night. That the enthusiasm attending the President’s journey shows no abatement was evident to-day by the crowds gath- ered about the station at Newport, which cheered his arrival and continued cheer- ing until the train was lost to sight. Stone Bridge, R. L; Fall River, Taun- ton and Mansfield, Mass., turned out in force to greet the President and as each place was reached the train was slowed down, the President appearing on the rear platform and bowing his ac- knowledgments. At Boston' the entire party entered the special train, which was standing on an- other track, the crowd in the meantime continuously cheering. Upon arriving at Lynn, where carriages were in waiting to take the party to Nahant, the sight was one to be long remembered. Stretched from ' the station, through the city and across the peninsula to Nahant, a dis- tance of four miles, were fully 60,000 per- sons, who cheered again and again as the President passed. There were two miles of carriages’ on either side of the road. The President rode with Senator Lodge and was escorted from Lynn to Nahant by a troop of cavalry. The arrival at Nahant was a signal for another out- ‘break of applause, and the two places seemed to vie with one another as to < which should be the more cordial in its NATIVE POLICE ARE AMBUSHED BY LADRONES MANILA, Aug. 24.—Ten members of the native constabulary were ambushed yes- terday at a point near Magdalena, in the provinee of Sorsogon, Luzon, by a band of sixty ladrones. The latter were armed with rifles and bolos and a desperate fight at close range took place. One mem- ber of the constabulary was killed, two were wounded and three were captured. Seventy ‘constabulary have taken the field in pursuit of the ladrones. The defense in the Freedom sedition case has called Governor Taft as a wit- ness to show that many former insurgent leaders who were guilty of various of- fenses condemned by the laws of war, have been appointed to civil positions. Governor Taft gave testimony to the ef- fect that many such former insurgents had been appointed, but had proved hon- est, straightforward and earnest. He said that some of them had been gullty of murder from American standards, but from their own standpoint they undoubt- edly believed their conduct of the war to have been legitimate. Governor Taft said that he had found these appointees to be loyal and that they were not chosen be- cause they happened to be insurgent gener- als, but because they were men of influence among their own people. He said the experience of the civil authorities with these men had been most satisfactory. Governor Taft has resumed the gover- norship of the archipelago, relieving Luke L e Tas Reon acting Serre nor during Judge Taft's absence. Com- missioner Bright is preparing to visit' the United States. Cholera official statistics show a total lo date of 24,266 cases and 18,040 deaths. The actual number of cases and deaths is greatly in excess of the official reports. In Manila but eight cases were reported yesterday. In some of the provinces of Luzon the cholera situation is bad, 414 cases and 317 deaths being reported from the province of Ilocos Norte yesterday. Mrs. Chaffee, wife of General Chaffec, has been seriously ill for the past week, but is now improving and is out of dan- ger. Woman Would Join Union. WINNEMUCCA, Nev., Aug. 24.—Mrs. Rose Howard, who owns several valuable mining claims in the Chiquita hills, has made application for membership in the Searchlight (Lincoln County) Miners’ Union. This is the first case of its kind on record there, and the members of the unfon were In a quandary as to how to dispose of it. After much debate it was referred to the Western Federation of Miners. Mrs. Howard is firm in her pur- pose to join the union, claiming that she is an active mfer and should be granted the same privileges as any man. Prominent Lodge Men in Convention. DENVER, Colo., Aug. 24.—The annual convention of the National Fraternal Con- gress will meet in this eity to-morrow. The congress is composed of fifty-seven fraternal orders. and 300 delegates wili attend the convention, representing 4,000,- 000 persons. Many important questions will be discussed. Promnent lodge men from all parts of this country and Ca: will attend. gy T ) greeting. Flags and_ bunting wi - played everywhere. i nd To-morrow afternoon the President will .deliver an address from the steps public library bullding in Nahang o PRINCE CHING PROMISES TO PUNISH BOXERS ——— PEKING, Aug. 24.—The Viceroy of Hu- nan confirms the report that two British missionaries, named Bruce and Lewis, have been murdered at Chenchow, in the southwestern part of that province. The missionaries, who are supposed to have been members of the China inland mis- sion, returned to their posts recently. They wrote to friends here at that time that the people seemed disposed to be friendly. It is said that the cause of the anti-foreign outbreak which resulted in the death of the missionaries was the be- lief on the part of the superstitious na- tives that the clergymen by uncanny means caused the outbreak of cholera in the province, from which many residenta are dying. A mob assembled, wrecked and burned the mission building and slaughtered the missionaries with rude weapons. They also wounded Chinese retainers of the missionaries. Prince Ching has expressed regret over the affair to Sir Ernest Satow, the Brit ish Minister, and promises to see that the leaders of the outbreak are punished. An edict to the same effect has been issued. A party from the gunboat Snipe, which is in the Yellow River, and a missionary attached to the Chinese inland mission at Chengtu, escorted by Chinese soldiers, have gone to Chenchow to investigate. UNION PACIFIC SLASHES RATES TO PACIFIC COAST Cut Is Said to Have Been Made in the Interest of Home- Seekers. OMAHA, Aug. 24—The Union Pacifio Railroad has taken an extensive slash at passenger rates to the Pacific Coast and during September and October will make a rate to California, Oregon, Wash- ington and other Western States of $2 from Chicago and $25 from the Missou=t River. It is stated that the cutting of this rate is the independent action of the Union Pacific Railroad and that it is made in the interest of home-seekers, extensive Stop-over privileges being allowed. Noted Indian Chief Is Dead. GUTHRIE, Okla., Aug. 24.—Old Bull, Omaha Indian chief, who was a lurvlv:: of the wars waged on the Indians by General Custer, is dead at the Arapahoe Indian agency at Coly, Okla. He svas in the Custer battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876 and afterward entered the regular army, serving until retired on account of age. Y A Americanization of the World. BERLIN, Aug. 24.—The Lokal Anziger says an evidence of the growing Ameri- canization of the world is shown in a plan to establish a post-graduate medical school at Frankfort after an American model. A private person has contributed $500,000 for the establishment of this school. g e Prunes stuffed with apricots. 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