The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 21, 1902, Page 6

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(ong Distance Telephone “‘Central 2615.") STATEMENT CF CIRCULATION OF THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, Month of September, 1902. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1902. THE VOTING ‘MACHINE. O this State, to:be voteg on next mo: is in- tended to equip the people with an eption to adopt the voting machine at elections. G The use of interest tables in banks and of the cash register in business is known to have eliminated the possibility of error. that is present when each trans- action has to be figured up and noted. The fallibility of man, of the human agency, with the opportunity for diverred attention to produce error, were abol- ished by these devices, and all men concerned in the operations in which they assist were quick to.see and seize the advantage that is in their use. Out of this advantage came the suggestion of the voting ma- chine. - The regulations which hedge about the use of .the Australian ballot prove to be in a measure | the means of sometimes preventing the expression on the tally sheet of the intention of the voter. Such use of the stamp as may mean a distinctive mark on the ballot by which it may be identified vitiates the whole sheet. The voter may have innocently misused the stamp, or may not be at all responsible for the mark identified by the legal microscope, but it vitiates the whole ballot just the same as if it were put on the paper for the purpose of noting the cor- rupt delivery of a boughten vote. | There be those who deprecate the use of the Aus- tralian ballot at all, as the sign of decay. There be those who say, with a measure of propriety, that if the voters of a republic do nof so value the ballot | 23 to keep it pure, ther all these devices for its purity | are dealing with a symptom, and do not cure the September 60,420 | September 16.. 60,680 | disease of which it is the outward sign. There are September 61,340 September 17 60,140 THiaest b s':‘em‘." 60,560 | Scptember 15, . 60,510 also th(')se who believe, with equa.l slnc.erlty, that the September D, September 19.. €0,170 | cure for a corrupt franchise * is to - make September September 20.. 60,180 it impossible, .and that the - proper remedy September September 21.. 71,790 | X % September 72,990 September 22.. 60,305 for the buying of wvotes is te prevent september Senjember 23.. mg;glany evidence of their delivery. As the man who 5 S\ 't .. 1 . . . ;::;::::: s::.::h:: 25.. 60,250 ! makes merchandiSe of his ballot is a scoundrel, and September | September 26. . &.z:g‘bdongs, in the nature of things, to that class of ::::::::: - 20 g:::::::: :é 72,250 | scoundrels who will not stay bought, the man who September 14.. 71,130 September 29.. m,mibu_vs him knows well that he will sell to the other September 15.. 60,360 September 30.. 61,430 ssesssssssssssssss1,86L,8635 Total ..... R ETATE OF CALIFORNIA, &ITY AND COUNTY OF SAN FRANCISCO—ss. On this 18t fore me, Wil &nd County afoi b day of October, 1902, personally appeered be- jam T. Hess, a Notary Public in and for the City said, W. J, MARTIN, who being sworn ac- cording to law clares that he is the Business Manager of the 8 Francisco Call, a dally newspaper pubdiishcd in the City and County of Sen Franeisco, State of California, and that there were printed and distributed during the month of Secptember, 1902, one millioa” eight hundred and sixty-one thou- sand eight hundred and thirty-five (1,861,835) coples of the newspaper, which number divided by thirty (the number f days of issue) gives an average dally circulation of 061 oples, W. J. MARTL bscribed and sworn to before me this 1Sth day of Octo- 1802 W. T. HESS, otary Public in and for the City and County of San Fran- State of California, = WARNING THE VOTERS. REDIT is duc to the California League of icipalities and to the city and the county. ies who are assisting in the work of he voters cf the State against the menace to local self-government contained in the corpor- embodied in Assembly constitutional t No. 28. It is further gratifying to note that some of the most influential papers of the; in- terior are giving cordial assistance in the task by pub- lishing resolutions denouncing the scheme and givitg” them ed 2l indorsement. For the-purpose ‘of presenting the issue briefly” cisco hc ation sche amer but comprehensively to, the voters, the Board ~of Trustees of the city of Petaluma, for example, as:we learn fr the A , recently adopted an address to the electors of the city setting forth objections*fo" the scheme on the following grounds: z Pirst—It ncrease taxation. ” Second—It makes impossible the securing of° any reduction of rates for any public service. ey Third—It perpetuates the incfficient features of ‘the present Railroad Commission. Fourth—It des ipal ownership of public feres with local self-government. ces inordinate powers in the hands of. sent Governor. t deprives cities and counties of license id by public corporations. fecs now I Eighth—It takes away from:local bodies all control ©of franchises. a Ninth—It establishes 8 bureaucracy. . Tenth—It is antagonistic to a republican form of gov- ernment. Each of these grounds of objection is indisputably valid. No sufficient answer can be given to a single one of them. The extent to which the working of the scheme, if adopted, would increase taxation is le- gally unlimited. The board of five Commissioners which the amendment purposes to create would have zuthority to appoint deputies and clerks in every county and every city in the State, and there is no | legal restriction upon the number of such appointees nor upon the amount of the salary or fees to be paid them. It would thus be in the power of a majority of the board, three men, to impose tax-eaters upon the taxpayers up to the full amount that “the traffic would bear.” Should there be any doubt that the amendment @ives the board a power of appointment without legal Himits, it will be removed by a reading of the amend- ment itself. On that point the language of the amend- ment is: “The commission shall have a general office in such place as it may determine from time to time, and shall appoint such clerks and employes as it may from time to time deem necessary, and shail be allowed all necessary costs..of travel in_the per- formance of duties, and all expenses and salaries in the premises shall be paid by the State.” There is then no legal limit upon the number of ap- pointees, and as ‘there” afe;in the State " fifty-seven counties and upward of one hundred cities and towns of note, a deputy, and probably a clerk, will al-~ most certainly be appointed in eath of them. We | have thus, at the lowest limit, upward of 157 néw. office-holders to start with, and. it may readily be double that number. .o Upon the guestibn of salaries the amendment says: “The Legislature may from time to time in ‘its dis- cretion regulate the salasies of all clerks and em- ployes, but failing so'to do, the commission shall have power to fix the same.”. How much restriction that clause puts upon the commission is not easy to forecast. The commission would be able to give appointments of 157 deputies and probably an equal number of clerks, to-legislators provided they would vote “right” on the salary question. How many legis- lators are there, who, if given the appointment of two friends to a Government office with power to fix their salaries, would either decline the appoint- ments or fix the salaries-at a Jow figure? . That question must be answered by the voters themselves. Whatever the answer may be, every intelligent man -will see that there is danger ifi -vthe scheme. It may mean not only a heavy burden':on. | the taxpayers but 2 new source off corruption in the Legislature itself, buyer if he can conceal the delivery of his vote. All observers knQw that the Australian ballot has greatly | removed the risk of a corrupt ballot, and has put the | vote seller at a disadvantage because he is not per- | mitted to give any proof of delivery, except such as | vitiates his ticket. - | Therefore it is held, plausibly, that the Australian | ballat has greatly purified the franchise, and that cor- ruption has been much cured by a device that- makes | its success difficult. If the tempted have no means | of proving that he stays bought, the tempter has no | security for his corrupt investment. If z fault, a vice, a felony, be made impossible, the diseased and cor- | rupt morals which its commission indicates are cured by compulsion. But the Australian ballot, preventing corruption in the casting of votes, has transferred corrupt ‘man- ipulation to the count. In the many election con- tests that have had judicial examination in this city, | evidence of this corrupt counting has been secured. Even when there-is: no _ci)'riuption of election boards, | man’fallibility, carelessnéss' and ignorance are evi- | dent-on many a tally sheet.! |, The voting machine equdlly prevents corruption of the voter and the election board, and it also entirely ‘:c]iminates the fallibility and®ignorance of the men who count. 3 %+ The machine makes- a’‘mistake by the voter impossi- bie, and of course destioys effectually the individuality | and identification of his'hl}ot. It does not reveal-him any more than the cash irégister can preserve the Adentity ‘of a customer whose payment it records. ::f,hc ‘machine automatically prevents voting for more | than one candidate for the same office. If there are ['twelve “Supervisors to vote for, the voter can vote dor ‘that number only, -and:the machine will make ‘no‘record of an.excess vote, It receives and counts and totals the vote for each {-candidate “with such “exactness and cele‘rity that in | | this City the vote for.each candidate can be known. | and officially certified within an hour afd a half after | the palls.close. Its economy is great. It does away | with_the enormous expense of ballot paper and print- | ing, and"booths, and saves in the pay of clerks and- | judges. 1i the American ballot had always been | virgin' and’ above suspicion, still' the utility of the | voting machine would commend itself as a device to secire absolute.accuracy and economy of time and money. All large Eastern cities are adopting it. The most ignorant voter can learn its use in a | few minutes, and it is such a distinct advance and | advagtage that the people cannot be too _strongly { urged to support the constitutional amendment which will validate its introduction. — Having had to postpone her exhibition for a year St. | Louis is now discussing: the advisability of opening’ {a month earlier in the year and continuing it for a f‘ month later, thus making an eight months’ fair and i breaking the time record. e —— CURRENCY SHORTAGE. HE recent experience of the country in a cur- Trency shortage has served to emphasize the efforts of the executive committee of the In- dianapolis Monetary Conference to secure. reform by legislation for a safe and elastic currency. Those cfforts will be renewed at the coming session of Con- | gress. The most casual observer has been made aware of the strain that has just been experienced -in - the | effort to suddenly redistribute the surplus capital of | the couptry so as to serve the public need in moving. the crops of the season. The agricultural interests require at the market season additional currency. For. well-known reasons the present volume of currency ccongests in the money. centers and is there when it is nee ed elsewhere.” Its presence and congestion at points ‘far ‘away from the necessity for its'legitimate “use-invite 5pq-jxlatgie'" investment, which, though spec- pulative,- invelves so many- non-speculative interests that its .withdf'awal‘ for export to the country affects | stocks and raises the rate on legitimate call loans, and all business is pinched. To provide for this annual emergency, to do jus- tice to the rural interests and to prevent such a shrinkage in currency at the money centers as may cause a panic, it is necessary to provide for the emis- sion-of*a temporary volume of well-secured currency. It is believed that a law authorizing national banks to emit an emergency currency, on sound assets other than Federal bonds, will meet the necessity. Such a currency will not become a. permanent in- crement to the currency of the courtry. The law authorizing its) issue 'may prevent this by subjecting it to taxation at a eertain period aiter its emission. This will causg the bagks, issuing-it to call it in' and redeem it, to empe:-s;ish'taxation. Th’e’fiill'recomn;eh_(hd‘by*the Banking and Cur- trency Commiiftee -of the House was objected to by- bankers. Perhaps it was too elaborate, and it may well be that a simpler measure more modest in its NE of the amendments to the constitution of . provisions ‘will compel public indorsement. The Secretary of the Treasury has had to take extraor- | difiary measures to relieve the financial situation. Fortunately the Treasury was full of money that could be released to the depository banks, and by purchasing immature ‘bonds ‘and anticipating interest: payments. All _these measures could be safely used because the Treasury had a surplus. But reverse that condition and the Treasury cannot come to the rescue of the cou‘ntry and a panic will result. The need and the risk combined should urge ac- tion upon Congress. The public wish in the matter should be ‘made known. THe labors of the monetary executive. committee have been great. Its com- pleted measures in securing the gold standard and liberalizing the banking system-have been of-the highest value and it should be ‘supportéd in the last measure it has in hand, the securing - of an “elastic. currengy. e 1 A New Jersey man claims ti; have an ' educated’ alligator ten feet long who will éat\ from :the same plate with the household cat without trying to swal- low either the cat or the plate; and now if the <alli- gator trainer will whirl in and_ train somEfo{'\/thOS'e New Jersey trusts to eat from the.same dish as the public without devouring the ‘public he “will be a national benefactor. ! i j ——— LONDON'S NEW PROBLEM. ECRETARY HAY'S circular note to the.pow- S ers concerning the ill-treatment of Roumanian Jews found a prompt sympathetic: response ‘in London, though it was received coldly élsewhere..' It appears the sympathy of London fiwis something more than a kindly feeling for ‘{Americans. London’ is, in fact, suffering in much the same way that‘we are fropx the Roumanian oppressions: The.poverty- stricken and harassed Jews ‘in. fiying “from Rou manian tyfanny swarm toward tl;.e._U'nited,;States,,hut thousands of them never get farther than London,. and the result is an increase of poverty in that city, | which has become, a serious problem’ to tl;e authori- ties. i $ A royal commission appointed some time ago to investigate the extent and nature of alien immigra- tion to Great Britain has found that its inquiry will virtually be an examination ‘¢oncerning ~immigrant Jews, so largely does that race of immigrants ~pre- dominate over all others. The extent of the evil is shown by the statement ‘that “in-one year in London alone no fewer than 24,522 Jewish immigrants re- ceived substantial relief from the Jewish Board of Guardians .and similar sectarian organizations (not including the Society of Friends of ‘Foreigners in Distress). Of.these no fewer than 14,682, or 60 per: cent, were ‘new’ cases. In other words, nearly 50 peri cent of the Jewish immigrants to Londen iduring the vear arrived here dependent oqzcharit‘y."‘ ¥ Baron Rothschild is one of the members of the royal commission, and some aniusement has - been caused by the statements of several of the witnesses that the Baron himself is largely responsible for much of the pauper immigration. The witnesses said the Baron's well-known wealth and generosity. are great attractions to indigent foreigners of the Jewish race, and some of them asserted that his mame is freely used by shipping agents to induce poor Jews to take passage to London. The-reports say there were some smart passages at arms before the commission over those bold assertions. It s quite likely, how- ever, that there is some truth in them. In fact, some lAmerican shipping agents may be inducing immi- | grants to come here on the ground that the well- | known wealth and liberality of many famous Ameri- cans will assure them of relief when they once estab- lish themselvés in the country. The investigation has had the effect of irritating a good many Jews, and an interesting sidelight is thrown upon their feelings by a letter from one of them to the commission saying: “You will pardon me if I say that we consider ourselves far superior to the English people. Ifthe English Government have this quéstiop seriously at heart, as you would have us believe, why don’t they pass a restrictive measure? They dare not, and they know it. The moment such a measure was passed English: credit would go down. You may rail at us,as much as you please, but, your Government is.dependent upon people of our race for its finariced.” Yo't will, I hope, forgive me also if I say that without the brains and the intellect of our race the English nation would be nowhere.” Not intil the royal commission makes a full re- port of the result of its investigations will it be pos- sible. to make a conclusive judgment upon the problem. From the reports here given, however, it appears that Great Britain and the United States have good right to make common cause against the mistreatment of Jews in Eastern Europe. It is not fair that either London or New York should be made to feed and clothe people whom foreign despotisms have deliberately reduced-to wretchedness in order to force them to seek our charity.t Marie Corelli was invited to a royal reception at Braemar, but “The Gentlewoman,” a London publi- cation, in reporting the reception omitted her name. Thereupon Miss Corelli wrote to complain and said the omission appeared to have been intentional. The editor replied that it was indeed intentional, for Miss Corelli in her-books has so often. expressed contempt for newspaper puffs and for “snobs” who like to see their names in newspapers that he had given orders her name should never appear in his paper. Hé clgsed by saying.that since her complaint shows a desire- after all to get newspaper notice he would publish it. There is now a merry row, and the public is waiting’ to hear Miss Corelli’s last word. Judge Pennypacker, who is running for the Gov- ernorship of Pennsylvania, recently asked the ladies at one of his meetings to tell their friends that he:is a better-looking man than the newspapers or: the lithographs represent him. - We have here a new is- sue in American politics, and if it catches on no one short of an Apollo will ‘ever dare to run for. the Presidency. . : ool ; A Danish_engineer claims to have invented a pro- peller that acts also as a rudder. It is said to operate on the same principle as the tail of a fish, and when it wiggles the boat not only moves but moves in the right direction. There are some people, how- ever, who will not believe the inventor until they see the invention working. - . - A man in New York who had his beard torn out. by a street car accident has sued the company for’ $10,000 damages, and maturally the company pro- tests against having to raise the wind to such an ex--| tent just to blow through one set of whiskers. The proposed organization of a grocers’ tritgt? ot good, and when it is completed let us hope the gro- cers will trust us all, - . % COUNCIL WARNS VOTERS AGAINST AMENDMENT 28 — The Santa Barbara Independent of Octo- night before by the City Council of Santa Barbara, warning voters against Assem- bly constitutional amendment No. 28. -The Independent explains that “‘some time ago the League of the American Municipali- ties, of which this city is a member, called ; the attention of the council to the dan- gers. that would he incurred should the amendment be added to the constitution. The proposed amendment deprives the -city of the power of controlling municipal lighting txugnwater plants and similar mu- vnfelpnl systems and places their contfol in, the hands of six commissioners, to be ‘appointed by the Governor, at salaries of oo each per. annum. The State league ‘Tequested that a resolution be passed by the ‘couneil calling upon the voters to down the mieasure.” - The resolution: follows: * ; E v ' ¢ the city of Santa &“r?&fi.fihfiyw%f:: o cleoiors of this city shall be ‘called upon at the approaching election to’ vote upon Assembly constitutional amend- ment No. 28, which is 'an amendment to the State constitution which vests the control of all municipal water and lighting systems in & State board -of commissioners to be appointed by_the Governor; and, SRR oy P Whereas,” Said_amendment would take away from this city the power of controlling its Wa- sterworks .and fixing the rates of -water fur- nished ‘customers, and would, in the judgment of .this Couincil, be detrimental to the best in- terests 'of “this city, therefore be it esolved, That'the voters of this city are, igrespective of party affillations, requested: to vote against ‘said”. Assembly = constitutional amendment No. 26, which will be found printed on the sample and official ballots furnished for use at the general election in November, 1 'PERSONAL MENTION. W. F. Price, a prominent attorney ' of Banta Rosa, i8 a guest at the Grand.. ._S. Aronson, a well-known merchant. of ‘Seattle, is among the arrivals at the Pal- ace. i+ i ‘W. H.. Nichols and Dj t Hollister, both extensive frult-growers of Court- land, are at the Grand. -Harry C. Jones, a' mining man, who makes his headquarters: at Denver, . is registered at the Palace. s } Dudley Evans, president of the Wells- Fargo Express Company, arrived from New York yesterday and is at the Palace. Charles.T. Cook of Tiffany’s, New York, is'at the Palace. He is accompanied by Mrs. A. Porter and W. H. Maclay, also of New York. The party is touring Cali- fornia. 3 Victor, J. Robertson, treasurer of the Commercial Publishing Company, and one of’ the ed?tors of the Commercial- News, has gone to the Gulf States to remain over the holidays. He {s aceompanied by his wife.and mother. . Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Oct. 20.~The .following Californians are in New. York: From San Francisco—C. 'C. Danbaugh and J.°Li Danbaugh, at the Marlborough; ! E. C. Eyans and wife, J. P. Brown and wife and Mrs. M. M. Montague, at the Manhattan; Mrs, H, Allen, Miss T. B. Al- len and Mrs. G. G. Butler, at the Hol- land; B. J. Wisge, at the Broadway Cen- trel; R. 8, Chapman, at the Victoria; D. W. Davidson, at the Cadillac; H. Frank- | lin, D."M. Hart ‘and Misq M. Kearney, at the Imperial; M. Goodman, at the Grand Unjon; D. A. Hilbig, at the Hoffman; R. J. Jose, at the Gilsey; G. Martin and wife, i at the Ashland; W. J. Morse and wife, at the Criterion; Mrs. L. Nelson, at the St. Denis; M. W. Schmitt and wife, at the Savoy, and Dr, A. A. Stern, at the Ger- ard. 4 From Los Angeles—Mrs. Archibald, at | the Holland; G. Arnold, at the Hoffman; | >. Foy and wife, at the Herald Square; W. W. Johnston Jr.,at the Imperial, and W. H. McFarland, at the Continental. Frem San Jose—W. H. Alexander and F. A. Dixon, at the Holland. From Santa Barbara—H. Edwards, at the Imperial. —_—— COURT-MARTIAL TRIALS DURING THE PAST YEAR! Death Sentences Are Imposed in Eight Cases and Carried Out in Three. ber 17 publishes a resolution adopted the | HONOR:- IS DUE TO A FAITHFUL PUBLIC SERVAN — : T + | = N7 : REPUBLICAN NOMINEE 'FOR JUSTICE OF THE PEACE OF SAUSALITO TOWNSHIP. +* OSEPH H. PRYOR, editor and pub- lisher of the Sausalito News, is the nominee of the Republicans in Marin County for Justice of the Peace of Sausalito Township, which includes with- in its boundary the towns of Mill Valley, Richardson, Tiburon, Belvedere and North and South Sausalito. This township, by reason of an act of the Legislature, is en- titled to but one Justice, and- as it is rap- idly. settling up and the zerm of office is four years, it necessarily becomes a very important one. Mr. Pryor is qualified in every way for the duties of the office. For two terms he has filled the office of Town Recorder of Sausalito, the duties of which are concurrent with that of Justice, except that the jurisdiction is limited to the municipality. Mr., Pryor has also been twice ciccted to t‘e office of Town Clerk of Sausalito. His Newspaper is con- stantly booming the couti, both by reg- ular and special editions,®and it is the duty of the citizens to snow their appre- clation by electing him to this important | office: The section embraced within the Sausa- lito Township will within the next term contain twice the population that it has to-day. To keep pace with the times, the citizens ‘should ‘elect a man of unques- tioned integrity and marked ability for the office. Mr. Pryor has these qualifica- tions. —_——— BIG TRADING CORPORATION IN PROCESS OF FORMATION Proposes to Sell Canadian Products Exclusively at Prices Minus Middleman’s Profits. LONDON, Oct. 20.—Considerable inter- est Is taken in a proposed trgding corpo- ration now in process of formation with the object of opening stores throughout the United Kingdom to sell exclusively Cenadian products, at prices minus the middleman's profits. e Earl of Aber- deen, former Governor General of Cana- da, is among the supporters of the mova- went, which originated with W. R. Nur- sey, formerly Minister of Agriculture for Manitoba, who is now in Canada arrang- ing to raise part of the capital of the con- cern from /among the producers, growers | and manutacturers of the Dominion. The total of the proposed capital Is $2,750,000. P N Turn First Sod for New Railroad. BURGOS, Spain, Oct. 20.—The first sod of the Vasco-Castellano Railroad, which WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—The report of General George B. Davis, judge advocate | general of the army, shows that during | the year ended June 30 nineteen commis- | cloned officers have been tried i court-| martfal trials. Of these six have been | acquitted. Two cadets have been tried | and convicted. The number of enlisted | men convicted was 4854, the sentences in 138 cases being disapproved, and 430 cases resulted in acquittal. The number of men sentenced to dis- honorable discharge was 2645. Death sentences were imposed by courts-martial in eight cases of enlisted | men; four of these sentences being on | conviction of murder,. two on conviction | of desertion and of entering the service | of ,the enemy, one on conviction of de- | sertion alone and onmé on convietion of | robbery and larceny of United States arms and of attempting to steal ammu- nition after desertion. The sentences were’executed in three cases of murder and in the other cases were commuted to dishonorable discharge, forfeiture . of all pay and allowances, and imprisonment at hard labor for life’in four cases, and for a term of three years jn the remain- ing case of desertion only. The records of military _commissions show thal 720 persons were tried, being 260 less than in the preceding year. Of this number 576 were convicted and 144 were acquitted. sentences were disapproved. Death sen- tences were imposed by military commis- sions in about 235 cases (nearly all na-, tives of the Philippine Islands) on convic- the list, and the sentences were executed in about 128 cases. In the remaining cases . the seutercec were commuted - to imprisonment for.life or for a. term of. years. ——— TORPEDO BOAT FLOTILLA o SAILS FOR CULEBRA ISLAND Will Take Part in the Maneuvers of the ‘Atlantic and “European (uadrons. F WASHINGTON, -Oct. 20.—The Navy De- partment is informed- that the torpedo boat flotilla, commanded by Lieutenant L. H. Chandler; has left Norfolk for Port Royal, 8. C., on fis"way to Culebra Isi- and to take part in the extensive man- euvers of the North and South _Atlantic and European squadrons early in De- cember. The flotilla is composed of the | torpedo boat destroyer Decatur and the torpedo . boats Bagley, ney, Biddle, Stockton, Thornton and W e:.y together ‘with the steel tug Nina. . KINGSTON, Jamafca, Oct. 20.—The United States collier Leonidas with 2000 tons of coal on board towed a barge to Port Antonio yesterday from Havana and is now transferring her coal to the barge, Which will remain at Port Antonio for the purpose of coaling the American fleet of ‘warships duflngju coming maneuvers, Arrangementd’ are making at Port An- tonio for the reception of the fleet early in November. Much, significance is at- | tached locally to the selection of a Brit- ish port as the headqharters of the opera- tions of the fleet. " .= W —_— Decides Against .the is to have direct communication between Madrid and Bilbao, was turned to-day. with much ceremony. General Polavieja represented the King and many notabili- ties were in attendance. The new line will shorten the journey between Bilbao and Madrid from eighteen to seven hours and will tend toward the development of the iron and coal districts. ¥ D TR0 Archbishop Chapelle Goes to Rome, ROME, Oct. 20.—Much interest is taken at the Vatican in the arrival here of Archbishop Chapelle, who is regarded as the leader of the faction of the American Catholics oppesed to Archbishop Ireland. It is understood that Archbishop - Cha- | relle will present to the Vatican and Propaganda the views of the clergy an- tagonistic to Archbishop Ireland’s atti- tude in regard to the Philippines. MAKES FIERCE ATTACK ON THE TRADES UNIONS LEEDS, England, Oct. 20.—The tenth annual conwention of thé Labor ‘Associa- tion opened here to-day. The delegates represented 400,000 workmen. President John Chandler made a virulent attack on trades unionism. He claimed that the growth of industrial freedom greatly tended toward the diminution of strikes and declared that the actfon of trades unions in going to excess in violence to personal freedom was a disgrace to labor in this country. Nothing could more for- cibly illustrate the intolerance which per- verted trades unionism than the state- ment sald to have been made to Rev. Charles Edwards, a Pennsylvania clergy- man, some time ago by a non-unionist, that striking coal miners had threatened to cut off the ears of every man return- ing to work. “If British trades unionists do not sym- pathize with these abominable atrocities, the speaker said, “why do they yote ona thousand pounds sterling in aid of the strikers of America who made such an in- famous threat?” ANSWERS 10 QUERIES. Isthmus of Panama may be crossed at any time of the year. It takes about five hours to traverse it. GOVERNMENT LAND—A. F., City. For Informatfon about how to take up Government land call at the United States Land Office on Commercial street in this city. DICE SHAKING—N: N, Milton, Cal | If in dice shaking by four players it is | agreed before the play that if one player ties another player, then ail are ties, the oniy thing to be done is to shake again. OAKLAND—Subscriber, Oakland, Cal. The census figures show that the popu- lation of Oakland was in 1900 66,9%0. The Oaklanders are not satisfied with these figures and have ordered a local census, which, they claim, will show a population of at least 75,000, R A CRIBBAGE—D. L. R, City. In the fol- lowing play in cribbage there fs but one run—7, K, 6, 3, 2, 1, 2—namely, 3, 2, 1. The last player cannot make “a back run of three.” “Two is an intervening card— that is} he can count 2, 1, but is estopped by the 2 from making a sequence with the 3. DIED WHILE PLAYING-J. D.,, Lar- kin, Cal. On the 15th of May, 188, Ed- ovard Remenyl, a well-known violinist, played “‘Invincible Old Glory” at the Or- pheum and fer an encore commenced to play another air, when he was stricken with heart failure and dropped dead on the stage. RUDD AND ESTEE—A. M., Vallejo, Cal. At the general election held in Cal- ifornia November 6, 1804, James H. Budd, Democrat, reéceived 111,944 votes; Morris M. Estee, 110,738; Honry French, Prohibi- tlonist, 10,51, and J. V. Webster, People's party, 51,304. The total vote of the State was 284,548. Budd did not have a major- ity, but had a plurality of 1206. BEGGING LETTERS—H., Orange, Cal. There Is 1o law against sending through the mails a letter asking for financial as- sistance. If begging letters are sent to well known wealthy people, such never reach the party addressed, as they are received by a secretary to each, who ‘s instructed to “‘consign all begging letters tc the waste basket.” IDENTIFICATION—J. R., "~ Oakland, Cal. If you ‘are here with a certificate of ceposit and -there is no one to identily ycu at the place where the money ought to paid and the party will not pay without identification . you might have your photograph taken, sent to some one at the place where you formerly resided znd have two persons who kiew you there make affidavit before a notary tha: the photograph is that of yourself and also bave affidavit made by parties who know your signature. B _—— Prunes stuffed with apricots. 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