The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 6, 1902, Page 1

¢ Lt 4\ ATE 35 VOLUME XCII-NO. 159. SAN FRANCISCO, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1902. PRICE FIVE CENTS. LATEST STATE RETURNS REMOVE ALL DOUBT AND A SHOWER FLOUR MILL COMBINE 15 ABOUT MADE Deal Takes in All Large Plants on Coast. Capital Proposed Is Twenty Million Dollars. Northern Millers Get an'Op- tion Upon Properties in This State. A degl is practically accomplished for the amalgamation of all tht extensive Bouring interests of the Pacific Coast. It will take in the large plants of Washing- ton, Oregon and California and will call into existence one large corporation with & capital of $20,000,000 and facilities equal to supplying the present and prospectively greater demands of the Pacific Coast and of the Orient. No project has ever been proposed that is of greater interest to this State. William Thomas, of this city, is now in the East in connection with the deal. He took with him, when he recently left, complete statements of all existing plants —those that are operating and also those that have been closed down by agree- ment, together with the estimates of the volume of business that may be reason- ably expected in this country and in the other countries that border upon the Pa- cic ocean; also careful computations con- cerning the capacity of the Pacific Coast States for producing wheat. He will con- fer with the representativés of the large Eurepean capitalists who are known te be interested in the negotiations. AN IMPORTANT MISSION. Undoubtedly the general proposition was thought out carefully before the rep- resentatives of the flouring interests of California were approached. The prelimi- nary advances were made a few weeks ago by Mr. Thompson of the Centennial s of Seattle, and Mr. Wilcox of the nd Flour Mills Company. Since then the business has been pushed along as rapidly and secretly as possible. It soon became necessary to send Willlam Thomas to confer with parties in New York and possibly elsewhere, and he de- parted m whi lic Under the plan for financing the deal, the owners of existing properties are to receive on a fixed and agreed valuation twenty per cent. in cash er in bonds and stocks the new corporation to be t the amalgamation. This plan is understood to have been gener- ally accepted. The flouring properties are worth many millions of dollars. The op- tion on them, purposes of purchase and consolidation into one concern of huge size, is held by Messrs. Thompson of Seattle and Wilcox of Portland, Ore- gon. Through these gentlemen the for- gn capitalists have been attracted to field for investment. The Sperry Flour Company, one of the largest of the Califorma concerns that 1s m the city without announce- nothing concerning that in progress might become pub- at 1 was be issued b formed to effec expected to be-a part of the combine, has | eleven mills. present. Six mills are shut down at The Sperry plant takes in the Farmers’ Union at Stockton, the Ploneer mill Marysville, the Chico mills at Chico, Fresno mills, the Chico Milling pany apd properties in the Salinas ley. The Sperry Flour Company originally capitalized for $10,000,000. The Pprt Costa Milling Compa which Geprge W, McNear is largely inter- ested, hai a capacity for the production of about 200 barrels of flour per day. Crown Mililng Company of the Stockton, back of which are the Schwabackers, rep- | resented by Balfour, Guthrie & Co., has a daily capacity for flour production of 3500 barrels. The property is at Stockton. THE NORTHERN PLANTS. The plants in Oregon and Washington are quite extensive. The Company has one mill at Seattle, a fine plant, and it controls seven or eight other mills. The Portland Milling Company controls about the same number of mills as the Centennial Company. The Port- land fiour millers control about three- fourths of the floor trade of China. They have been in the past a large factor to be considered by the fiour manufacturers of California in the way of prices, etc. Since William Thomas went to the East ‘he has been in communication with parties in this city and at other Pacific Coast points. The $20,000,000 deal is not fully perfected, but is about to be and he news may come through at any time nnouncing that all parties In Interest have given their final consent and sanc- tlon to the entire proposition. Russia Grants China’s Request. LONDON, Nov. 6—In a dispatch from Peking the correspondent of the Times saye Russia has sanctioned the Chinese request for permission to dispatch 1000 troops outside the great wall to protect the raflway and to suppress brigandage. The Dowager Empress has spontaneously d¢cided, according to the Times, to con- struct a thirty-mile branch railway from the Peking-Hankow main line Western tombs. Sacramento, the Buckeye mill at | The | Centennial | to the I\ OF CONGRATULATION imate 5000. vested in me. interview with a Call reporter. Guven to Principles of J HAVE been officially advised that my majority will approx- This is indeed pleasing to me. this occasion to thank the people of the State for the-loyal man- ner in which they have stood by me throughout this long and trying campaign, and I pledge myself to use my best efforts to ad- vance the interests of this great commonzwealth. Of course it is a little early to talk about policies and reform in administration—if such be required—but in a general way I can say that wherever reform is necessary to the end that the greatest good may be accomplished for the greater number, I shall be quick to take advantage of the authority the people of California have I desire to take The so-called reformers who start in with the notion of tearing down and dismantling the structures which have required years in construction are apt to find themselves confronted with a task great- er than they are capable of mastering. So, I say, let us go slow and proceed along safe and conservative lines, being sure first that we are right—then we may go ahead.—Governor-elect Pardee in an | | GOVERNOR-ELECT GEORGE C. PARDEE HAS ONLY KIND WORDS FOR 1 _— OPFPONENTS. T is Governor-elect George C. Par- dee now, if you please. So off with the old and honorable “doctor,” which for so many long years has been a distinguishing | handle to his name and on With | the pew title, for a majority of the peo- | ple of a great commonyealth have voted | him their chief executive for four years, beginning January next. | When Governor-elect Pardee retired to the seclusion of his bed chamber shortly | after midnight Tuesday there was a tiny cloud of doubt in his mind as to the out- | come of the battle of ballots. But, as he said yesterday, he “thought the count could g0 on while he was asleep just as well as if he were up,” so he didn’t wait up to hear the final result. But when he came down to his library shortly after sundown last night, after a full day’s sleep, he faced an avalanche of congratulatory telegrams from friends far and near, ap- | prising him of his election and wishing him godspeed and greater successes to come. “S8o I have been elected, Etta,” said the doctor, addressing his wife, a sweet- faced little woman, who came into the studio with an armful of telegrams a mes- senger had just brought. “Yes, dear, I think so; but the messen- ger boy says,” and she paused a moment in trepidation—‘“that a bulletin has just been posted saying Mr. Lane claims to have won by a close margin.” The doctor, looking up through a pair of old-fashioned, steel-rimmed spectacles, smiled. Then his glance shot downward, and, crossing the left leg over the right, he tossed aside a handful of telegrams and said jokingly: A “Well, if Frank says he's elected—oh, pshaw! what's the use of discussing the matter—Frank always had a penchant for jest.” And the little 7-year-old Helen, who sat at her papa’s knee, laughed aloud at the doctor’s little pleasantry. “Oh, you are elected all right, papa,” sald Florence, a handsome young miss, still in her teens, who came into the room with a bouquet of flowers which had just arrived. “I was down town a little while ago and I saw the bulletin boards, which sald you had won by 4000. My girl chums have almost shaken my arm off and are already referring to me as ‘the Governor's daughter.’ " “That’s good—that's good. Did you hear my majority would reach 40007 asked the Governor-elect, turning to The Call reporter. The reporter assured him that those were the latest figures. NEVER HAD DOUBT. Says He Expact:«f Interior Would Elect Him. The doctor settled himself back in an easy posture and kicked off a moccasin, which act evidently hurt a pet corn, and taking up a bunch of telegrams began to peruse them. They were all of the same general tone, varying in phraseology ac- cording to the enthusiasm of the sender andof the friendship between the sender and receiver, all, however, assuring him of success.. After he had given them a casual glance he turned them over to Mrs. Pardee, with the request that they be filed away in his private archives as a happy remembrance of a proid moment of his life. “Of course, you expected to be elected, doctor,” the reporter ventured. “Yes, I really did,” he replied, with an accent which conveyed the impression of earnestness. ‘“There has never been any serious doubt in my mind as to the out- come since my campaign began. True, we all felt that the Republican majority would not be as large this year as it was in the last McKinley campaign, and every one realized the importance of hard and persistent work, but when you ask me if I expected to be elected I'can honestly re- ply ‘that I did so expect, and any other resylt would, indeed, have been a great T B7ond disappointment to me as well as to the party managers. I expected to get my votes from the very districts the returns show I have recefved them from—the country counties. There never was a time when we hoped to carry San Fran- cisco. This was from the very inception of the canvass conceded to Mr. Lane. ‘What we hoped to do—and the results show we have succeeded—was to keep the Democratic vote in San Francisco down as low as possible. San Francisco, like other great cities of the country, under normal conditiens is Democratic, and it is all nonsense to talk to the contrary.” The doctor spoke with the ‘utmost frankness, in the same clear, open-heart- ed manner he has observed'throughout his campaign.. “Of course,” he continued, “there was some question as to how large a vote we would poll in the countles outside of San Franeisco, and while I‘never tried to make any defiriite estimates I was pretty well satisfled that my majority would rznge from 5000 to 10,000. In my tour of the State I tried, as best I could, to form some idea regarding the sentiment of the “Tuesday’s result proves that:the peo- ple of California have'stood loyally, by the principles of the Republican party and that they are unwilling to accept the meaningless sophistries of the profession- al calamity howlers. < The result, more- over, shows that the people are willing to let well enough alone—to stand hard and fast by the party which has made it possible for. our people to be prosperous and contented. I 'am, indeed, glad’ that we have elected a Republican Legislature, because the selection of a_ Republican United States Senator is of especial sig- nificance at this time, ‘when the wise and beneficent policies of the administration are still in their inciplency.” “Who will be the next Senator?”’ was asked. “Some good Republican, the reply. “Have you any personal preferences?” “Not especially,” he said, with a shrug of his shoulders. “I should say, however, that the Alameda man,” meaning Senator Derkins, “ought to be returned to the Sen- ate.””. L] Turning to the interviewer the Gov- surely,” was community, and this I did by taking aside | orpor_elect inquired, with a display of in- some one who knéw and then questioning’ him carefully, asking only for a plain, conservative, honest opinion. It is impos- sible for one in the center of a political whirlpool to tell how the current is run- ning outside, and, as I say, I never did much actual figuring. 1 can figure all right for the other fellow,” the doctor added with a chuckle, “but I cannot al- ways figure well” for myself. S I;BOPLE ARE LOYAL, Unwilling to Accept Sophistries of Calamity Howlers. terest: “Have you heard of any other candi- dates?” He was informed that some of Governor Gage's friends were talking about pitting him against Perkins. He seemed quite' in- terested and gave a look of surprise. He didn’t appear to take much stock in the Gage talk, however. “Los Angeles County stood by us in grand- style, didn’t it,”" sald the doctor, as he picked up a telegram from the thairmian of the county committee, “Let’s see, what does he say? . Oh, here it is. “Here, doctor, are .some . more ' tele- | ‘Los Angeles County wilt give you 5500 grams,” said Mrs. Pardee, as she began | majority,’ " he added, reading the mes- orpening another consignment of yellow | sage aloud. “Well, ‘well, that's good. ervelopes which had just arrived. The | We must give the palm to Los Angeles ‘doctor tossed them aside for uwfif and continued: RTINS ‘County 'this time for the noble manner in which it bas stood by the ticket. When "quietly, joking = with o our: old frlend Uncle Eli Denison was alive ‘and at the head of the Alameda County Republicans he gave us a ma- jority approximating the Los: Angeles vOte, -but I do not remember anything quite like it until now. MET AT LATHROP. Rival Candidates Fail to Furnish Fun - 3 Crowd ed. “Taken all in all,” continued the doctor, “this has been a remarkably clean and clear-cut campaign. Personalities have not ‘been indulged in and there has been a-noticeable lack of mudslinging. The utmost, good feeling has existed between Mr. Lane and myself during the cam- paign and really”—the doctor again lapsed intd a4 humorous strain—“it is too bad that such a good man had to be beaten. Frank is a genial sort of fellow and a g0ood man. I have known him since boy- hood and we have always been friends. I shall never forget a little experience 1 had down at Lathrop a few weeks ago. Mr. Lane-and myself happened (o cross each other’s trafl at this point. I got off my train to get a bite to eat at the railway lunch counter and as I was going into_the little room Lane came cut. We shoek hands and began talking together, each other good natyredly about our campaign. Within a few minutes more than a hundred people had congregated about us, expecting, evi- dently to see us whip out a bowie knmife or a hip revalver and begin shooting and slashing. And when notning of the sort happened the’ crowd seemed really sur- prised. ‘Mr. Lane took his train, I re- turned to mine and this was all thero was to the affair. Of course we differed politically, but there has never been any personal feeling between us.” £ Mrs. Pardee spoke of a fear that she had for the safety of her husband dur- l?g'hu tour of San Francisco and es- ¢ Continued on Page 2, Column 6. S CHEERS GOVERNOR-ELECT PARDEE Republican Standard-Bearer Expresses Gratification at Stanch Support the Party by People of the State. TAFT WORKS T0 PREVENT STARVATION Disaster Threatens Many of the Filipinos. Wave of Cholera in Wake of Rice Crop Failure, Two Million Dollars Appro- priated to Alleviate the Widespread Distress. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W.. WASHINGTON, Nov. 5.—The starva- tion which has threatened a large part of the native population of the Philippines on account of the failure of the rice crop will be averted through the prompt rellef measures inaugurated by the insular gov- ernment. Telegrams received at the War Department from Governor Taft at Ma- nila show that the situation is very seri- ous. There is scarcely a province which is not distressed. Governor Taft stated that thére was great danger of the rice crop failing on account of a pest of locusts which has visited the islands. The locusts devastated flelds as fast as sprouts appeared. This handicap was accom- panied Dby an epidemic of rinderpest among the carabao, or water oxen, which are used.as domestic beasts of burden. CALAMITY IS INCREASED. Upon this double calamity was heaped a third virulent wave of Aslatic cholera, which swept across the archipelago, claiming thousands of victims. This dis- ease thoroughly demoralized the natives. who were. rendered.unabla to give even ordinary cultivation to their flelds, while the extra work occasioned by such draw- backs as rinderpest and locusts was far beyond the capabilities of the inhabitants of all the provinces. ; Colonel Clarence R. Edwards, Chief of the Insular Bureau, was asked by Gov- ernor Taft to ascertain what it woull cost to send a ship load of provisions out to Manila. ' Colonel Edwards found that such a quantity of supplies would cost $92,000, and so informed Governor Taft. Governor Taft has telegraphed no re- quest for supplies, and Colonel Edwards is of the opinion that the Philippines Government has decided that it is better to buy rice and other provisions to which the natives are accustomed in China and to distribute and sell them in various parts of the archipelago than to depend upon supplies from the United States. Unoflicial reports from Manila state that the Philippine Commission has de- cided to appropriate $2,000,000, Mexican, for the work of relief and that a large part of this sum will be expended in the importation by the Government of rica from China. MILITARY CONDUCTS RELIEF. This rice will be sold at not less than cbst to the natives and will be shipped to various provinces on chartered steame: The fact that so large a sum has been appropriated for relief work leads to the belief here that no supplies will be asked for from the United States. The relief work has already been conducted by the military authorities 1n Batangas. Several of the provincial Govermors in reports have referred to the rather desperate con- dition of the natives. Owing to locusts, rinderpest, with its accompanying loss of domestic animals, and cholera the natives are impoverished, still retaining only their farms. It is proposed that an agri- cultural bank system be established. Un- der this plan a bank will be established in each province, and Filipinos who own land will be able to borrow money by giving mortgages on their farms as se- curity. fe———e——— ANTI-SEMITI CONTROLS LOWER AUSTRIAN DIET Burgomaster Lueger of Vienna Scores a Double Victory in the Elections. VIENNA, Nov. 5.—Elections of members to the Diet of lower Austria, in which the anti-Semite burgomaster of Vienna, Dr. Lueger, is supreme, have resulted in a complete victory for the Christian So- clalists, or clerical anti-Semite party, which captured all but one of the seats for Vienna, and which will command fifty out of the seventy-eight seats in the Leg- islative Assembly. The Increased majority gives Lueger complete control of both the lower Aus- trian Diet and the Vienna Town Council for the next year. A i it COLLIDE IN A GORGE Three Men !fll;md Two Others Seriously Injured in the Accident. DENVER, Nov. 5.—A special to the Re- publican, from Castle Rock,. Colo., says the Colorado and Southern north bound passenger train, running on the Santa Fe track, at 6 o’clock this evening struck a band-car in a gorge one mile north of Castle Rock, killing three men and seri- ously injuring two others. The dead are Morgan, Sutton and two track laborers, whose names are not obtainable.