The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 27, 1902, Page 6

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OAKLAND OFFICE.........ss...1118 Broadway C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Menager Foreign Advertising, Msrquette Building, Chicago. (Long Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619.”) NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH........30 Tribune Building NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. C. CARLTON..cccvvssevsssressHerald Square NEW YORK NEWS STANDS: ‘Waldorf-Astoris Hotel; A. Brentano, 81 Uunion Square; Murray Hill Hotel. CHICAGO NEWS STANDS: Sherman House; P. O. News Co.; Great Northern Hotel: Fremont House; Auditorfum Hotel WASHINGTON (D. C.) OFFICE....1408 G St., N. W. MORTON E. CRANE, Correspondent. country. of it wou animals, but since th BRANCH OFFICES—527 Montgomery, corner of Clay, opeh til 9:80 o'clock. 800 Hayes, open until 9:80 o'clock. 689 McAllister, open untfl 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open until 9:30 c'clock. 1941 Mission, open unmtil 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until $ o'clock. - 1006 Valencia, open until ® c'clock. 108 Bveventh, open until ® o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until § o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until 9 p. m. WHY BEEF IS HIGH. —_— . RED C. CROXTON, an attache of the De- F partment of Labor at Washington, has recently made public the results of a prolonged investi- gation of conditions affecting the price of beef in this He has arrived at conclusions which give little promise of any great reduction of present prices. Virtually he says that a few years ago the price of beef was so low the farmers could not get what they deemed a remunerative price for their cat- , and as a consequence they did not raise so many them. Should“there be another era of low prices Id have about the same results. Owing to the increased prosperity following the re- enactment of a protective tariff after the disastrous experiment with Democratic free trade there has been an increased consumption of beef by the peo- ple, and, moreover, the population has at the same time increased, so that the demand is thus much larger than it was in the bad years. There has been, furthermore, an increase in the foreign demand. Comparing the exports for.the five years ending June 30, 1901, with the five years preceding that pe- riod, it appears that the number of cattle exported increased nearly 20 per cent, the total quantity of fresh beef increased 47.4 per cent, while canned beef showed a decrease of 31.8 per cent, and salted, pickled and other cured beef a decrease of 18.4 per cent. While the demand for fresh beef was thus increas- ing both at home and abroad, the supply was checked by the effect of the low prices of the previous bad years. Croxton say: “It seems that several years of low prices had discouraged the raising of cattle. There was an advance in the early fall of 1889 which tended to bring into the market all available The next spring prices declined somewhat, time there has been a gradual ad- vance, and, until the end of 1901, 2 heavy marketing le. The Census Office makes a statement that as probably a decrease of about 7 per cent in ber of cattle between the taking of the elev- and twelith censuses, and while it is impossible exact on account of a lack of uniformity in the lule used, it is clear that there was no increase in the number of cattle at all commensurate with the increase of population, tc say nothing of the more cffective individual demand or of the increasing ex- The census, in its report on wholesale nd meat packing, moreover, shows an f but 2 per cent for the decade.” lanation of the margin of profits there is for r in raising and fattening cattle for market ys: “Cattle—good to extra steers—on 1 last sold in Chicago at $6 1274 per hun- s. The average in the same animals at a g date in the twelve previous years had A steer weighing 1200 pounds at the higher rate brought but $73 50, or only about $29 more than the cost of the corn for fattening. This had to include the labor of feeding, trans- T n to market, profit on money invested, when it was insufficient to cover the chief item—the cost of the steer when ready for corn feeding. As a re- sult cattle had to go higher, and there has been a dvance during the spring and summer of esent year.” This clear statement of the situation shows first t if are to expect our farmers to fatten beef for our tables we must be willing to pay them a fair price for it; and, second, tiat if we wish to prevent beef from going higher still we would do well to take steps at once to preserve the pastures of the vast ranges now in the hands of the Government. These pastures are being rapidly destroyed by overstock- ing with both cattle and sheep. It is a simple problem of supply and demand that confronts us, and it will be our own fault if we do mot make the supply increase instead of diminish. e — It seems a crying outrage that British army scan- dals will not down and persist in enveloping the various generals who participated in the South Afri- can war. It would seem that they had suffered in the field disgrace and shame enough. L By o It appears that the President who is so eager for an extra session of Congress to hurry through a re- ciprocity treaty with Cuba is not President Roose- veit, but President Palma. —_— From the way the corn crop is booming this year it is likely the farmers will have enough to feed their beeves and the price of meat will take a tumble in th near future. 3 THE PROOFS. HE case of Governor Gage against the proprietor ‘and the manager of The Call, for libel, is now divulged in each of its three stages. We promised to com- plete the third stage by showing that the illegally bought material was unlaw- - fully manufactured, in the prison, by convict labor, and that the furniture so manufactured—after being shipped to the home of Governor Gage by express, by rail freight, and by steamer—was delivered to him, to members of his family and to his a\’horized representatives, and was by them receipted for, upon such delivery. This is all done. The use of fine woods left on hand by Warden Hale and manufactured into furni- ture by his successor, Aguirre, is established by proof,as isthe input of fresh stock of such woods, to continue the unlawful industry. The nature of the industry carried on in “the Warden’s shop” is proved by the testimony of Captain Edgar, whose int;grity 18 above suspicion. The forgery of bills and accounts to conceal unlawful purchases is provgd by the testimony of merchants who sold the goods that were unlawfully charged. to and paid for by the State, on forged bills made out to conceal the identity of the actual pur- chases. All this is now in evidence, given under oath, most of it by unwilling witnesses. We disclosed these facts three months ago. . The time was ample for Governor Gage to make any explanation consistent with his personal and official integrity. \!ve took no snap judgment. We would have joined the press of the State in giving circulation and publicity to his explanation, in its amplest form. Instead of proceeding publicly in fl]e' matter he went behind locked doors, and made a pretended investigation and issued his dictum that prison affairs were all right! Against that, stand the facts now proved and under oath,established, and t}ze evi- dence of Captain Edgar that things were so all wrong that he tried to shut his eyes and avoid having knowledge of these unlawful things that would compel him to testify against his employers and his official superfors. It is a late day for Governor Gage to appear now before a convention and submit a blanket explanation. The manufacture for him, the shipment to his home and receipt by him and his agents, of all this property stands proved. The evidence is above impeachment. Most of it is given unwillingly by his own friends, and the beneficiaries of his pates him inculpates them. official favor. Any explanation that excul- Did he pay the prison for all' this luxurious and valuable property? If so, the Warden had no right to sell it, and dare not account for it to the State, for that would convict him of the unlawful acts that were known by and testified to by Captain Edgar. 1f the Governor allege payment, that allegation must be accompanied by his evidence that he has authority to suspend the operation of the law wfflch_ makes illegal the prison manufacture of the property he bought. He may plead for sympathy. That is the due of wrong-doers from their fellow-men, and it is tempered only by circumstances. A Governor of a State issupposed to be lifted ahove temptations and to have in mind always only the honor of his position and his ‘obligation to keep it stainless. ‘In no way can Governor Gage extricate himself from the position in which his acts and the testimony place him. When he seeks renomination by an explanation and. defense to a convention of his party, the party, if it renominate and defense to the people. him, must continue that explanation Does the Republican party care to make an explanatory and defensive campaign, against the testimony of the Governor’s own friends, the forged biils, the shipping bills, the delivery receipts and the evidence of Captain Edgar? ‘We do'not ‘think it wishes -to make a fight of that kind. It has abundant choice for the position of ‘Governor without involving itself in prison affairs that are so rank that convicts gossip.about-them. Before the case closes in the courts, each of its three stages will be further revealed by testimony that is cumulative. Our only embarrassment is the abundance of eyidence that bears upon every act charged.” The case has risen above its original base, as the alle- gation of facts by a newspaper. the proofs judicially established. } . We invite such examination by the, members of the Republican gonvent g to concert measures and make nominatiotis, to ¢ontinue the party’s power in California: It consists now of this unbroken ehain of evidence judi- cially established. When men examine it, they are not inspecting what The Call says, but: on cifll‘ed We have no candidate for Governor, none that we desire to control in ‘the least degree; and no purpose that could be served by such control. We want the party:to be the custo- dian of the State’s honor, and not a cash register for the profit of bosses and the machine. GOOD OITIZENSHIP. RESIDENT ROOSEVELT infuses into his ad- P dresses some homely philosophy that is worthy of Ben Franklin. Representing the people of the greatest free society the world has known, and receiving adulations and attentions bestowed upon no other executive of any other nation, he seems to see the necessity of reminding the people that good citizenship does not consist in the glare and glitter and pageantry of life, and that while pomp and cir- cumstance may be consistent with that quality, they do not alone constitute it. In his speech in Boston he yttered philosophy that deserves to be studied by all citizens. That it is trite and true does nmot mean that it is always made the rule of action and the guide of life by all people. He defined the first requisite of good citizenship that: “A man shall do, every day, his humdrum duties well. A man is not a good citizen, I do not care how lofty his thoughts are in the abstract, if in the concrete his actions do not bear them out. It does not make any difference how high his aspirations are, if he ‘does not behave well in his own family those aspirations are not going to bear any visible fruit. He has got to be a good bread-winner, to take care of his wife and children; he has got to be a good neighbor, whom his neighbors can trust; he has got to act squarely in his business relations. In fact, he has got to do all these every day, ordinary things, or he is not a good citizen. The man or woman who makes up for ten days’ indifference to duty by eleven days’ morbid repentance about that indifference is of very little use in the world.” That is a statement of the beginning and founda- tion of all rightness of life and of all worthy citizen- ship that cannot be too often repeated by those whose exaltation of station gives them commanding opportunity to be heard and heeded. The beginning of all adjustment to every duty is at home, and among those nearest. When a nation is made up of people mindful of the nearest obligation, the duty that is in first contact, all of its larger interests are safe, for they are in control of those who have learned duty in its best school. ’ New England and the whole country appreciates this bit of philosophy, which, seeming simple, is yet profound, and in every home in the republic there will be a feeling of companionship for the President, who precedes the discussion of great problems with this reminder of the only wise preparation for their solution. e Since the first organization of the steel trust Mor- gan and Schwab have seldom been long on the same side of the ocean. When Morgan was in Eu- rope Schwab stayed here, and now that Morgan has returned Schwab goes abroad, so it looks as if they were afraid the hemispheres would tip .up if both settled down solid on either continent, When the.extravagances of the Newport set have been developed through another generation they are going to make those of old Rome look pale. Al ready the smart set thinks nothing of spending $25,000 to provide-a single evening’s amusement, and as yet the pace has hardly begun. : MISSING PEOPLE. UT of the Bartholin case in Chicago there has O developed a séries of facts tending to the con- clusion that life in that city must be made up of an involution of mystéries within mysteries, so that the unrolling of onc leads only to the revelation of another. One of the most striking features of the case thus far is that the search for the two missing women has brought out the information that a good many cther Chicago women have been missing for a long time, and in several instances it-seems little or no: attempt has ever been made to find them. Bartholin, the missing man, lived with his mother,. who kept a lodging-house, arid was paying attention ‘to 'a young woman rnamed Minnie Mitchell. - The mother of the young man disappeared. Then the girl disappeared. No special search appears to have been made for the mother, but the disappearance of the girl roused suspicions and an-effort was made to discover her. After the hunt had been going on for eight days there was discovered the remains of a human body so decomposed that it was impossible for the Coroner’s jury to.be sure of the sex. "Near. the remains were found some clothing which friends of Miss Mitchell identified as hers. Physicians as- serted that the body could not be hers because the extent of the decomposition was such as could not. have occurred within the time even had Miss Mitchell been killed on the very.night she disap- peared, ] While the discussion was going on there came to the police a grim and grewsome array of other claim- ants of the body. Each had a story to tell of a miss- ing girl and each supposed the discovered body was hers. At the latest reports more than a dozen.of these missing girls have been reported.” It is a heavy record for a single city, Chicago owes it to the coun- try to straighten the case out. It would be too bad if the body which has been discovered should be stripped of such decayed flesh as remains on it and anatomists. should then perceive from the skeleton’ that it is that of a man after all, .and that Miss Mitchell and the rest of the girls may be somewhere still alive and kicking. e The latest society. novelty in England is for the great dames who attended the ‘coronation ‘to wear their state Tobes at public receptions, to which ad-’ mission is charged, the money to go for some. char- /iuble purpose. It is said the dames like it, the pub- Tic likes it, the grand robes are made to serve some useful purpose, and whatever of‘mi&, sycophancy. | or other sin there may be in the performance is cov- ered by the charity. . : ; It is no uncommon thing for burglars to shoot when cornered, but in Chicago recently two of them fired upon two policemen simply because the police were following them; and thus we have another illustration that in' Chicago things are very often. “too previous.” : e : s It is now announced that the first patent for an a Swiss inventor in 1804, but the returns are not al in yet,.and perhaps we may learn that Pharoah hac one, ? 2 . et L au-- tomobile was gfinu@ by the French. Government to AUGUST 27, 1902. PROF. JORDAN .COLLECTS MANY RARE SPECIMENS STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Aug. 26.— President David StarrJordan returned to the university to-day from a summer's trip spent in Samoa collecting specimens of fish for the United States Fish Com- mission and the zoological laboratory at the university. He was accompanied by his wife and younger son, Knight Jordan, and by two Stanford professors, Dr. Ver- non Lyman Kellogg of the entomology department and Professor Robert Edgar Allardice : of the mathematics " depart- . ment.’ Dr. Kellogg spent the summer col- lecting insects for the private laboratory, ‘while Professor Allardice enjoved the out- ing as a‘pleasure trip. In an interview with a Call reporter Dr. Jordan said: “My trip was enjoyable and its mondtony varied by a good' many in- _teresting adventures. I spent the greater part of my time cruising’ between the islands of Upolu and Tutuila, stopping at their capitals, Apfa and Pago-Pago. The harbor of Pago-Pago is one of the finest in_the world, because it is formed by the mouth of an old crater and hence is thoroughly protected from wind and storms. In my search for fish I explored the coral reef near Pago-Pago for five miles and it is one of the most perfect coral formations I have ever seen. We had an army of natives searching every nook and cranny of that reef for miles and miles. We secured the specimens by blasting with” dynamite in the larger crevides and using poison where that was impossible. We collected- in all 1000 speci- mens, of which 617 were different species. Two hundred of thése species were entire- 1y new to me and probably 100 at least were unknown to science. “In regard to- the.islands of, the Pa- cific, apart from their ichthyological value, T may. say that I believe it to be impossible for any-white people to make their homes in any of the islands south of the Hawalfian Tslands and north of New Zealand. White men may be able to live in them, but" their wives and children can- not survive the clfmaté. The native Sa- moan, even, is often diseased, elephantia- sis’ being' especially common. As a labor- er he is lazy in his own home, but works well if transplanted to a less tropical cli- mate. - The American possessions in Sa- moa are chiefly valuable for the produc- tion of chocolate and cocoanuts. “The results of our work this summer will_be published by the United States Fish Commission. I intend to publish some of my sociological observations in the islands.” ELKS' MONEY IS INTACT . AND ON DEPOSIT IN BANK Grand Exalted Ruler Cronk Says Hes Found the Books Properly Balanced. OMAHA, Nebr., Aug. 26.—George P. Cronk, grand exalted ruler of the Elks, says: “‘Regarding the funds of the organiza- tion:I have just returned from Meadville, Pa., where I have beén checking up the accounts of the treasurer. I find that every dollar of the Elks’ money is intact and it 1s'now on deposit in the Bank of Meadville and in New York drafts. There were some reports current with regard to the funds, and ‘not wishing to. enter upon my new duties without first knowing the status of the matter I went personally to Meadville to check up the books. Of what transpired there I am not in a po- sition to speak at this time, but may make a statement later. I was taken to Meadville at this time because L. was un- able to secure by telegraph a verification of the report of the auditing committee. “You may say that I found the books balanced and the money of the organiza- tion in the proper hands.” * Big Fire in San Luis Obispo. SAN LUIS OBISPO, Aug. 26.—A frame building on the corner of Higuera and Garden streets belonging to “the Metz estate was completely destroyed by fire about 4 o'clock this morning. The build- ing was occupied by C. H. Meyer as a cafe and saloon and by H. Berkemeéyer as a bakery. The loss on the building is about $3000. Meyer's loss is about §1500, while Berkemeyer lost about $400. A ‘bullding across Higuera street and the cracker bakery on Garden street were damaged to the extent of about $600 each. The resi- dence of Thomas Barrett was also dam- aged to the extent of about $400. sl < oetlas Posse Follows Train-Robbers. SPOKANE, Wash., Aug. 26.—A special to the Chronicle from Rathdrum,:Idaho, states that a posse is out hunting for the train robbers who held up the Northern Pacific express near Sard Point last night. It is believed that the higliwaymen are working toward the Great Northern Rail- way. The nature of the country is such that they may be able to keep. concealed for several days. Two tramps wha were on the tender when the robbers appeared ?.ra dbelng held to «dentfy them if cap- ured. Cut in-Lighting Rates. PALO ALTO, Aug. 26.—The fact that the Palo Alto Municipal Electric Com- pany has been furnishing its patrons with electric current for lighting at 10 cents per 1000 per “watt hour, together with the contemplated issue by the town of $12,000 bonds_to- éxtend its plant, has forced teh United Gas and Eléctric Company to low- er its rates almost lalf. Beginning Se tember'1 the United Company will fur- nish light at 10 cents Iinstead of 173 cents, as formerly, to all points on the peninsula between San Jose and Millbrae. G = . Disappears at Sea. NEW YORK, Aug. 26.—Captain C. W. Phillips, commanding the Panama Rail- read Company’s steamship Advance, dis- appeared at sea on August 21, during the voyage of that vessel from Colon to this port..-He was 62 years of age and resided ir Brooklyn. It was thought on board that*while leaning over the rail he was attacked by vertigo and fell into the sea. Among the passengers who_arrived on the Advance was ‘H. A. Gudger, United States Consul at Panama. Failure of a Lumber Company. KANSAS CITY, Aug. 26—The Culver Lumber Company, successors to the Kan- sas City. Southern Lumber Company owning extensive timber forests at Craig- head, O. T:; with lumber,yards at Kan- sas City, Mo., and a sash and door and box factory ‘at Kansas City, Kans., went into receivers’ hands to-day, on the ap- plication of H., A, Culver, the company's manager. Assets are estimated at $630,- 000 and labilities at $250,000. ——— Tobacco Men to Hold Conference. LONDON, Aug. 26—An important con- ference of the tobaccointerests has been called to take place in London September 17, in an effort to curb the fierce rate war which followed the formaton of the rival combines. The meeting will include rep- resentatives of the American combine, the Imperial Tobacco Compauy, manufactur- ers, importers and wholesalers and it is hoped by, those interested that it will re- sul g,ln‘ a ‘community of interest arrange- meft whereby the trade will be placed on a more" satisfactory fgoiing. DY DR bt Runs Into a Freight Train: .. WELLINGTON, Aug. 2.—A passenger train; west bond on the Panhandle di- vision of the Santa Fe system crashed into a south bound freight on the Rock Island system at the junction here last right, piling up several freight cars and tially wrecking the passenger engine. 0 one was hurt, although the: passen- gers in the west bound train were ‘shaken up and thrown from their ts. Traffic was delayed until morning. - ; ¥ Ruling Regarding Customs Duties: EL PASO, Tex.,rAug. 26.—Colléctor of Customs Garrett to-day received a.ruling tx;om t.h;l é'l;‘reuury Department on smug- W eatly simplifi N e s o mited States here with a maxi- mum of $100 worth of duitable goods, on ' which no duty shall be collected. Ml e A TR GRAVE CHARGE AGAINST HEAD OF A RAILWAY OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 26.—President Hor- ace G. Burt of the Union Pacific Rail- road was this afternoon placed under ar- | rest oy ten warrants charging him joint- ly with W. Arnett, an Indianapolis labor agent, with falSe imprisonment. Burt went to police headquartérs, where he gave a bond of $10,000 for his appearance at court to-morrow morning, at which time the case was set for hearing. The warrants were sworn out by men who were members of the party brought by the road Sunday morning. They came from Indianapolis and were in charge of ‘W. Arnett, a labor agent. Louis Lord, a member of the party and who swore to the charges in one of the warrants, said the men had been em- ployed by Arnett to work in the Union Pacific shops at Denver. He says that when they reached:Council Bluffs they were locked in the car and armeéd guards posted at the doors to prevent their es- until they reached the shop yards in this erty.. Lord asserts that many of the members of the party were married men and left good positions. They were told that no strike existed on the road. SEARCHING FOR HEIR TO ESTATE IN GERMANY John Schwartz, a Laborer, Inherits Several Thousand Dollars Left by His Mother. MARYSVILLE, Aug. 26.—John Schwartz, a laborer, is being searched for in this section by agents of the North German Lloyd Steamship Company. Schwartz is well known in Marysville and Woodland, as well as on farms in the intermediate vicinity. His mother died six weeks ago in Germany and left a $25,000 estate in the hands of the steamship company with in- structions to hunt up her son in Califor- nia, who is entitled to one-half. Schwartz last worked at Dunnigan and is supposed gy have left there for Napa or Santa osa. L Pe Death Quickly Follows Accident. EUREKA, Aug. 26.—John Ford died here yesterday as the result of an accident. ‘While engaged in operating a wood-saw- ing machine his arm came in contact with the saw and was amputated just below the elbow. Ford died from shock. De- ceased was about 47 years of age and was married. —_——— Collapse of Sam Small. BRATTLEBORO, Vt., Aug. 2%.—The col- lapse of Sam Small, the well-known temperance lecturer, who was to speak r the No License Local Option party here last night, by Rev. Mr. Small's own admission to-day, was due to intoxication. Mr. Small says was drunk. I have no excuse to offe Must Pay the Death Penalty. TACOMA, Wash., Aug.26.—The Supreme Court has denied a new trial in the case of Alexander P. Vance, who is under sen- tence of death for the murder of Charles F. Franklin at Eatonville in this county in September of last year. ANSWERS TO QUERIES. THE GUNNER'S DAUGHTER—W. B., City., “Kissing the gunner’s daughter” was a term that was used in the Eng- lish navy, and meant being flogged on board ship. MADSTONE—A. N. 8., Oakland, Cal. A madstone is a light porous. one. of light greenish color, said ‘to- possess: the. prop- erty of drawing the venom from the bite :0f a mad dog au%‘g@l with hyd ‘dflfi'hiig Amkhnt ny utigfi‘: have been published about the reputed power of this stone, but the truth of these physicians of the world. MARRIAGE—A Subscriber, San Jose, Cal. What are commonly called ‘“tug- boat marriages,” that is, marriage on a vessel three miles off shore, are not legal marriages. If a woman was divorced within a year anywheare and came to Cali- fornia to contract a second marriage, she must_wait a, full vear from the date of the decree of divorce. before she can marry again in this State. WHITEWASH—H. J. M., Sunol, Cal. The following is given as a good white- wash for outdoor use: ‘water-tight barrel or other suitable cask and put into it half a bushel of lime. Slack it by pouring boiling water over it, and in sufficlent quantity to cover five inches deep, stirring it briskly till thcroughly slacked. When slacking 1as been effected, dissolve in water and aGd two pounds of sulphate of zinc and one pound of common salt. These will cause the wash to harden and prevent it from cracking. This wash may be ap- plied with a common whitewash brush, and will be found much superior, both in appearance and durability, to common whitewash. e Superior Lodge Social. Superior Lodge of the Anclent Order of TUnited Workmen gave the first of a series of quarterly socials in its lodge- rooms on Polk street, near Sac- ramentd, Monday night. There were many ladles in attendance, also many members of the order, who were treated to a pleasing programme of entertainment. There was a fancy dance by Misses Frances Rolh and Elsie Koch; recitation by Miss O. P. Miller, a quarter of an hour of fun with EMon Lambert, a few remarks about the order by David 8. Hirshberg, shadow recitation by Miss Blanche Forester, cornet solo by Charles Turner, vocal solo by W. E. Smith, so- prano solo by Master P. Fernando and fancy dancing by Fannie Goodwin and Isabel Higgins. There was dancing be- tween each number. L. H. Kohn was master of ceremonies. ————— » Entertainment by Company I. Company I of the League of the Cross will give a literary and dramatic enter- tainment in Mission ‘Parlor Hall, Seven- teenth street, above Valencia, to- morrow evening. The event will be for the benefit of the armory and uniform fund. The evening's entertainment will consist of numbers by the Misses Etta and Marie Welsh and M. Thieler and Wil- liam Ogilvie and others. A revised ver- sion of the laughable farce, “The Great Elixir,” by members of the company, and an individual competitive drill for a gold medal will be given. The medal is known as the Doyle trophy, in memory of Jo- seph H. Doyle, deceased. Dancing will conclude the evening’s entertainment. e 3 Seven Pines’ Open Meeting. The hall of the Seven Pines Circle of the Ladies of the Grand Army of the Re- public in Pioneer hall was not large enough to accommodate the many ladics and gentlemen - who went there to at- tend the open meeting Monday night and enjoy the excellent music and literary programme that was presented under the direction of the officers. The meeting was brought to a close by singing ‘“‘America.” ———— s Eastern Star Banquet. Otive Branch Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star had work Monday night in the initiatory degree in the presence of an unusually large number of members of the order. The officers were all attired in white and performed the work in a manner that won for them many words of praise from the visitors. After the work of the pvening there was a banquet i honor of the new members and many congratulatory speeches. " Local Architects Ate Favored, William M. Bunker, the Chamber of ‘Commerce representative:at ‘Washington, D. C., telegraph . S B R R 3 five of ar selected ~ to ee:om_hou.xnuin )gna or _the new men. The favor was s + quest of th trustees hm.:bm Vs cape. He says they were kept in the car | city, where they were given their lib-| has been doubted by many of the leading | “Take a clean, | 4 all present | LACK OF FUNDS TO PAY JURORS IN THE HAWAIIS HONOLULU, Aug. 19.—Owing to the in- efficiency of the appropriation for current expenses, the First Circuit Court to-day ceased jury trials and Judge Gear, the Presiding Judge of the present term, dis- charged the jury, leaving the Territory with the prospect of being six months without a court In session with a jury. There s no money available for the pay- ment of jurors and other expenses, though there are more than a hundred prisonérs in jail awaiting trial. The Judges of the First Circuit Court, A. S. Humphreys; George D: Gear and W. J. Robinson, addressed a communica- tion to Governor Dole to-day, apprising him of the situation ahd informing him that, according to the estimates of Chief Justice Frear of the Supreme Court, the sum of $15,000 or $17,000 would be needed to last through the six months before an- ;uther appropriation can be secured from the next Legislature. | A conference took place this afterncon between the Governor and the Judges to discuss poseible ways and means of keep- ing the courts going. It was proposed to transfer to the general expense fund all the moneys paid out for bailiffs, charging the salaries of bailiffs to the appropria- tion for the Police Department. . This would leave funds at the disposal of the courts for two or three months’ sessions. The legality of such a course is ques- tionad, however, and the Auditor will ob~ tain legal advice before agreeing to issue warrants on such a basis. The proceedings in the Circuit Court to- day indicated an entire suspension of trials, except of jury waived cases, until after the next Legislature meets. This would mean a practical suspensiom of the courts of justice. The Judges have refused to hold prisoners indefinitely in jail to await trial. s PERSONAL MENTION, M. Biggs Jr., a banker of Oroville, is-at the Grand. Richard S. Miner, an attorney of Reno, is at the Occidental. Garrison Turner, an attorney of Mo- desto, is at the Grand. Dr. von Voigts Rhetz, German Consul at Guatemala, is at the Palace. Jack McClurg, a real estate dealer of Fresno, is registered at the Lick. ‘W. F. Delert, a mining man of Jackson, is among the arrivals at the Lick. Captain J. E. Hansen, a prominent offi- cial of the Alaska Exploration Company at Nome, is a guest at the Oeccidental. M. 8. Arndt, a Stockton dry goods mer- chant, js here on a short business trip and hds made his headquarters at the California. 2. ————————— Californians in New York. 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