The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 1, 1902, Page 3

ROOT ADVISES RESTORATION OF “CANTEEN” ar Secretary Adds to Earlier Ar- guments. W ASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—The report of Secretary of War Root, con- taining a fund of interesting and valuable data concerning the op- erations of the nation’s military forces in the United States and in | the recently acquired possessions | berond its borders, has been submitted to the President. The Secretary has found material for a voluminous statement of happenings since the beginning of the year. His comment on existing military conditions and his suggestions as to army development con- vey an idea of the remarkable advance made by Uncle Sam in the progressive congregation of the notable world pow- ers One of Secretary Root's strongest recommendations is for the re-establish- ment of the “canteen.” He declares he has been convinced its abolishment proved detrimental to the soldiers. Of the strength of the army he says: On October 15, 1902, the regular establish- ment consisted, according to the latest reports which had been recveived, of 3386 officers and 003 enlisted men, a total of 69,589. In addi- 1, there were 3598 men of the Hospital Corps, der the provisions of the act of March sluded os part of the enlisted t y. There were also in the service 182 volunteer dical officers, ap- pointed under section 18 of the act of Feb- Tuary 2, , all of whom are under orders for honorable discharge on account of their services being no longer required; 4978 Philip- pine scouts, enlisted from the natives, under command of 100 officers, and twenty-nine offi- cers and 840 enlisted men of the Porto Rico Provisional Regiment. The health of the men in the army shows a continued improvement. The re- port furnishes these figures: from all causes during the calen- amounted to 13.94 per thousand h, as against 74 per thousand an stre during the calendar year This large reduction of death rate was re due to improved conditions where the rate was reduced usand in the vear 1901, as 42 per thousand in the year 1900. he death rate from all causes during the year A the United ates was 6.90 per thou- 29, and in CASE OF THE MOROS. ding the unsettled Moros the Sec- at the insurrection has been disposed Now th f we our attention, not o . but to the aiready the Moros. We cannot slaves by a single act; require & war of exter- a large part of the slaves found fighting against us; be and no way to live if slavery is by no means hopeless. e numerous recommendations and insular defense, and Root much space also to a considera- ment and uniforms. Of the on the report says: he modern rifie, which 1l his adversary with distance of several miles, tinguish him from the surrounding has led to a curious reversal of es in the matter of dress. Instead € things to wear which will make idier frightful and awe-inspiring to his the whole military world is looking & which will make its wearers as us as possibie. For several years e been conducting extensive experiments e the visibility of different colors Is under different circumstancs and distances; and in March last a oficers was convened to consider the orms, and the results of these were submitted to it on, for service uniforms, of an hich is found to be, under aver- ftions the. least visible color &t con- ances, ‘and which, after long-con- the Quartermaster's Department making a fast color for woolen the requirements of cold cli- the cotton khaki used in be worn In place of the cent color, and it will be hot and told climates, the being varied to sult the climate., The blue uniform will be retainéd as i undress uniform for both otn- e same time recommended a r changes in uniforms, the good as Jong been apparent; notably, y and uncomfortable helmet s by suitable dress to be worn except where the ribed, and the substitution t buttons and other tch and reflect the light, f clouded scabbards and russet he board has been approved, rticles of clothing will be intr due economy in the dis nt stock on hand permit STYLE OF NEW RIFLE. The report continues: The Ordnence Department has produced a ri- fle which it considers an improvement upon the presenjgglervice rifle. It is clearly superior to the préent rific in some respects. It is & bolt gun_callber .30, having a clip magazine under the chamber instead of at the side, and therefore better balanced than the present £ It continues the 220.grain bullet, but increases the charge of powder from 37.6 grains to 43.3 grains. It gives an initial ve- y of 2300 feet per second as against 2000 he présent rifie, a striking energy at 1000 yards of 447.9 foot-pounds 2s against 396.2 Zor the present rifie. It has a flatter tra- “tory and weighs about a pound less. I have thorized the comstruction of 5000 for issue ctical trial in the service. ecretary Root &trongly urges the im- sediate creation of a general staff. He says it is one of the most important needs e army. Of the canteen he says: ferring 1o the operation of section 38 of DOAN’S KIDNEY PILLS. ABSOLUTE FAITH. You Can Depend Upon the Word of This San Franeisco Citizen. She has had the experience. She has thoroughly tested the article, She found it as represented.~ She has absolute faith in its merit. Mrs. George Paul (George Paul em- ployed with the Paclfic States Telephone and Telegraph Company), residence 5 Av- ery street, says: “I never used any medi- cine or had a prescription filled which did me as much good as Doan’s Kidney -Pills. 1f ever a woman required the use of just such a strengthening, purifying and cleansing remedy for the kidneys as Doan’s Kidney Pills are I am that party. When 1 state that I suffered the most agonizi pain in my back, that at times the slightest movement increased the suf- fering, that a little: overexertion or a short walk always terminated in spasms of pains, I only half state the actual facts. The treatmént of Doan’s Kidney Pills acted directly on my kidneys, stop- ped the backache, the Janguor and depres- sion which attended the attacks ceased and my general health was so improved that in place of housework being a drag it was a vieasure to perform. I was so convinced of the merits of Doan's Kidney Pills' that I gave a lady friend of mine living in Oakland a few. She followed up ihe treatment and reports to me that the remedy is excellent. I cheerfully recom- mend Doan’s Kidney Pills.”. For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. Foster-Milburn_Co., Buffalo, N. Y., sole ents for the United States. emember the name, Doan’s, and take Bo substitute. use a large part of them would | The result | NOT IN FAVOR OF DISTURBING “G00D TIMES” Jenkins Would Put Off Action on Tariff. Speclal Dispatch to The Call. ALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—Rep- - resentative Jenkins of Wisconsin, chairman of the Committee on Ju- diclary, sald to-day: z “We ought to go to the heart of 12345 the trust question. The Sherman law exhausts the power of Congress to deal with harmful combinations. The in- terest of the people on this question is great, and someéthing should be done. The tariff is a delicate question. Undoubtedly some schedules should be changed, but when this were once begun there is no teling where we would end. Business prosperity should not be disturbed.” Senator Allison said: “The paramount duty of Congress at the coming session is to pass some law regulating great com- binations of capital, and I think Congress will adopt President Roosevelt's sugges- tions. I believe the Sherman anti-trust law should be strengthened, and I heart- fly indorse the plan submitted by Attor- ney General Knox. I do not believe the existing tariff schedules will be disturbed, nor any elaborate currency reform meas- ure passed. There is no need for Con- gressional action on the canal until the Senate is called upon to ratify a treaty with either Colombia, Nicaragua or Costa Rica. The President has the power to choose either route. The admission of Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona will be consldered and possibly accomplished at this session.” Senator Hanna to-night denied all re- ports that he intended to resign from either the Senate or the chairmanship of the Republican National Committee. “I am not going to resign from any- thing,” he said, and added:” “Such a thought has not entered my head.” Hanna said he would serve out his term as Senator, and it would then be for the people to say whether he was to retire. He continued: “Neither will I retire from the chair- manship of the Republican National Com- mittee until I shall have called the next convention to order. If the new National Committee to be selected by the delegates to that convention does mot ask me to become its chairman I will not have to pass upon the subject of my retirement. If it does tender me the chairmanship, then I shall have to decide whether I will accept it.” the act of February 2 1901, which prohibits the sale of beer and light wines in post ex- | changes. I said in my last report that a great | body of reports had been recetved which indi- | cated that the effect of the law was unfortu- nate, but that I thought a sufficient time had not elapsed to give the law 2 fair trial, that the observation and report of its wo would be continued during the ensuing year. A great number of additional reports have now been received, and they confirm the im- pression produced by the earlier reports. I am convinced that the general effect of prohib- iting the use of beer and light wines within the limited area of the army post is to lead the enlisted men to ®o out of the post, to frequent vile resorts which cluster in the neigh- borhood, to drink bad whisky to excess, and to associate intimately with abandoned men and more abandoned women; and that the opera- tion of the law is to increase drunkenness, disease of the most loathsome kind, insubor- dination and desertion, and moral and physical degeneration. These reports are ready to be sent to Congress whenever that body desires to consider the subject. Concluding the Secretary says: I do mot wish to delay in calling the atten- tion of Congress to two subjects upon which I think, if the conditions and needs of the Philippine Islands could be fully understood, there would be but little controversy, and up- on which very simple enactments would be of immense value to the people of the islands, whose welfare the Government of the United States is bound to promote. 1 earnestly urge, first, that the dutles levied in the United States vpon products of the Philippine archipelago imported_therefrom be reduced to 25 per cent of the Dingley tariff rates; second. that the Government of the island be permiited to es- tablish the gold standard for its currency, and to take such measures as it finds to be practicable and prudent to keep the silver coinage which it is authorized to issue at par- ity with gold, without in any way committing the United States to responsibllity therefor. WINS HIS BRIDE WHILE ON THE WAY TO THE WAR Member of theg Iowa Regiment Cap- tures the Heart of a San , Francisco Girl. WATERTOWN, Wis.,, Nov. 30.—A ro- mance of the Philippine war is back of the announcement of the engagement of Frances Melrose of San Francisco and Carl”Masteh Gardner of this city. Young Gardner was in Iowa when the Spanish war broke out and enlisted with the Fifty-first lowa Regiment. His was the first Towa regiment to be ordered out of the United States and when it did go it was to the Philippines. There it was part of the command of General Charles King and was at the front in many of the general’s battles. On the way out the regiment was given a reception by Ban Francisco young women and then it was that Gardner and Miss Melrose met. Each man in the regiment was given a memen- to to remind him of America. Gardner was favored by Miss Melrose and when he came back to this country she was st the dock to bid him welcome home to America. Correspondence had result- ed in an engagement and the wedding will soon take place. R LONG OVERDUE CRAFT ARRIVES AT A HAVEN General Siglin, Showing Effects of Experience With Tempest, Reaches the Sound. SEATTLE, Nov, 30.—A special dispatch to the Post-Intelligencer from Port Town- send says: The overdue schooner General Siglin, concerning whose safety grave fears have been growing in proportion to the time clapsing since she started on her return voyage from Bering Sea to Seattle, ar- rived late this evening in tow of the tug Boyden. As the Siglin went by here it was plain to be seen that the little craft had had a rough experience with the elements of the frozen zone. Her sails and rigging are torn and twisted and she presents a sorry sight. After passing here the Siglin ran into another blow which forced her and the towing steamer to seek shelter under the lee side of Marrowstone Point from where the latter resumed the trip up the Sound. The long looked-for schooner should reach Seattle by daylight. John F. Buzzell. SALINAS, Nov. 30.—John F. Buzzell, a ploneer of this valley, died suddenly yes- terday after an illness of two days. He was a native of Maine, 75 years old and leaves a family—Mrs. T. J. Shearer of Salinas, Mrs. James C. Moss of San Francisco and Mrs. Carrie Ware of Santa Rosa. He came to this valley in the early '70’s and was the pioneer hotel-keeper of the town of Soledad. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1902 JENTIMENT OF REPUBLICAN LEADERS OPPOGES IMMEDITE TARIFF REVISION + HANNA FAVORS SHIPPING BILL FIRST OF ALL B Epectal Dispatch to The Call. ALL BUREAU, 1408 G C STREET N. W., WASHING- TON, Nov. 80.— Senator | Hanna of Ohio believes that anti-trust legislation at ! the coming session is improb- able and should not be at- tempted. “I am strongly in favor of passing the ship subsidy bill,” said he to-day. STHTENOUD MEASURE I THE SERVTE —_— Continued From Page 1, Column 7. sideration, while Senator Quay and all of the Democratic members voted for immediate action, the result being a ma- jority for postponement. It 1is known that some of the Republican members favor an amendment for the bill so as to provide for the admission of Oklahoma only, and it is the prevaliing opinion that the committee will divide on this propo- sition, all of the Republicans except Sen- ator Quay being considered favorable to it. However, the transposition of one Republican vote would insure the re- porting of a bill to admit all three Ter- ritorles to statehood, as Senator Quay and all of the Democrats are in favor of a tri-State measure. A protracted debate in the Senate is probable. The friends of the House measure claim to have the support of all the Democratic Senators and of from fif- teen to eighteen ‘Republicans. There is, however, determined opposition on the part of some of the Republican leaders who deny that the omnibus bill has the strength its friends claim for it. Other questions which, In addition to the appropriation bills, are expected to receive the attention of the Senate at this session, are the trusts, the tarift and Cuban reciprocity. It is possible that the Cuban question njay be postponed until the pending commercial treaty with the Cuban Government shall have been transmitted to the Senate, but there has not been any determination on that point. Very few Republican Senators admit the probability of any change of the tar- iff law during the present session, but =ome bills to modify present schedules may be introduced and speeches made thereon. Some Senators speak of the creation of a tariff committee as a possi- bility, but there are differences of opinion as to the utility of such a body. There is quite a unanimity of opinion favorable to anti-trust legislation and this opinion goes to the extent of predicting results along the lines Indicated by Attorney General Knox for the amendment of the Sherman anti-trust law. Differences of opinion as to the consti- tutionality of some of the proposed changes have developed already. The Committee on Judiciary will attempt to reconcile these differences and, If it suc- ceed, the present indications are favor- able to affifmative action by the Senate. The Democrats will place no obstacles in BUNKO MEN ATTEMPT A TRICK AT A }'EOTEL Effort to Obtain the Money of a Baseball Player Narrowly Frustrated. SACRAMENTO, Nov. 30.—An almost successful -attempt was made to-day to bunko Win Mercergythe baseball player, and Lew Wilcox, clerk of the Golden Eagle Hotel. Soon after the baseball teams had gone out to Oak Park to play the afternoon game, a young man wear- ing a messenger boy’'s coat and cap rush- ed into the Golden Eagle Hotel and de- livered a note addressed to J. W. Wiigon, the proprietor of the hotel, as follows: “Mr. J. W. Wilson: Send me the en- velope I have in the safe. One of your ‘good fellows' is making quite a money talk out here, and I'll either make him put up or shut up. Wrap it in a piece of newspaper and tell the young man to hurry back. ‘WIN MERCER.” Clerk Wilcox is familiar with Mercer's signature and believing the note.genuine, at once handed to the messenger a pack- age which he at the moment, by mistake, thought contained Mercer's money, but which contained the railroad tickets of the baseball men. A few minutes later another messenger ran in and returned the package of railroad tickets with the following note: “Mr. Wilson—Can’t call a bet with rail-_ road tickets. This fellow means business and has his money up. Joss says to send his sack out. Rush the kid back befure the game is over. Wrap it up well. “MERCER.” Merggr, who is financial agent and cash- ier for the party, had over $300 in currency in the safe and Joss about as much more, ‘When the second messenger made his ap- pearance the clerk grew suspicious and intrusteg the money to a member of the party. It was soon discovered that neithpr | Mercer nor Joss sent for the money. ‘De- tectives are working on the case. N7 il 47\ -7_/————— e o3 L3 ———b CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE WAYS AND MEANS COMMITTEE, AND SENATOR WHO URGES THE PASSAGE OF THE SHIPPING BILL AT THE SHORT SESSION OF CONGRESS. * - - it - ) PLATT’S PLAN PAYNE THINKS > | R ‘ Special Dispatch to The Call, 4 Special Dispatch to The Call. ALL BUREAU, 1406 G ALL.. BUBEAY, . 1408 . S ‘ STREET N. W., WASHING- STREET N. W., WASHING- TON, Nov. 30.—Chairman RN, Ny, #0.7=— Sematar Payne of the House Ways FAste of ey, Yoxk sid te- and Means Committee said to- day: “The Republican party is opposed to any revision of the tariff. It would e political sulcide. I am in favor of a bill to strengthen the Sher- | man anti-trust law.” e Bl o8 the way of such legislation. ‘There is no longer serious talk of con- stitutional amendments for the control of trusts, as it is recognized that in a short session it would be impossible to obtain action on such amendments. The present week will barely witness the beginning of the three months’ work. To-morrow the usual committee of two Senators will be appointed to call on the President and resolutions of regret for the death of Senator McMillan of Mich- igan will bring the day's session to a close a few minutes after its assemblage. It is possible that the oath of office may be administered to General Alger, Senator McMillan’s successor, but even this cere- mony may be postponed for a day. PROGRAMME FOR THE WEEK. On Tuesday the President’s message will be read and beyond this no business will be attempted on that day. The ses- sions of Wednesday and Thursday also will be barren, with an adjournment from Thursday until the following Monday. On Monday, in accordance with the agree- ment of last session, Senator Beveridge doubtless will present a report from the Committee on Territories on the statehood WORKING TO DEVELOP TEXAS AND LOUISIANA Southern Pacific Directors Vote Funds te Further Their Col- onization Plan. CHICAGO, Nov. 30.—More than $100,000 will be spent by the management of the Southern Pacific in the next five months in colonization of Southwestern Loulsiana and Southern Texas. The decision to in- crease the efforts which are being made to flll up these lands was reached at a general meeting of representatives of Harriman lines held here last week and cloging to-night. Attending the conference were J. C. Stubbs, traffic director of the Harriman lines; Ben Campbell, assistant traffic di- rector; 8. F. B. Morse, passenger traffic manager of the Galveston, Harrisburg and San Antonio and the Gal- veston, Houston and Northern and assistant trafic manager of the Southern Pacific. The work in Texas and Louislana is in charge of Col- onel Morse, who declares that in the next ten years the development of these-scc- tions would be greater than that of any other sections of equal area in the world. “You will appreciate that this may not be an exaggeration,” said he, “when I tell you land is being sold there to-day at the rate of 100,000 acres per month.” e MEMORIAL BUILDING TO COST TWO MILLIONS Friends of the Late Bishop Taylor ‘Will Undertake to Raise the Funds. RICHMOND, Ind., Nov. 30—Methodists of the United States, and especially those who were friends of the late Bishop Wil- Ham Taylor, who recently died in Cali- fornia, will be asked to assist in the work of raising a $2,000,000 memorial fund. The movement has been started by the board of trustees of the Taylor University and their idea is to have the memorial take the form of a building on the university campus. - 2 day: “There will be no tariff re- vision at this session. Public opinion 1is not sufiiciently unanimous on any point to warrant the expectation of an agreement. If the subject were taken up at all it would lead to ' endless debate, which would be fruitless. If the President 1 submit a Cuban reciprocity treaty it undoubtedly will be ratified.” * o R R T TR ¢ bill, and it will then go over until De- cember 10. There will be an effort to confirm some cf the numerous nominations expected to be sent in at the first opportunity. The list of those in whose interest this effort will be made includes Oliver Wendell Hclmes, whose nomination as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court will be one of the first to be sent to the Senate. There are a number of cases Involving constitutional -questions before the court, whose hearing has been postponed until a full bench can be ob- tained and the desire on the part of the court for prompt action doubtless will have much influence in securing expedi- tion in considering this nomination. A large number of bills will be intro- duced on Wednesday and Thursday and the foundation will be laid for what all predict will be a very crowded session. L e e B e B B e e el VICTIM OF HIGHBINDERS DIES FROM HIS WOUNDS Chinese Jailed at Santa Cruz Pro- fess to Know Nothing of a Murder. SANTA CRUZ, Nov. 30.—Ah Chung, a victim of highbinders, died at the County Hospital to-day. Bvidence shows that he ‘was stabbed with a stilleto while in bed. Ha left a statement on a blood-stained plece of paper, naming three Chinese who had assaulted him and adding that it was on account of a war among tongs and due to his being concerned in taking away a Chiuese woman. He was followed from Gilroy, Salinas and Watsonville. At each of these places he was warned in time to escape- the highbinders’ vengeance, but they kept after him until he was cornered in a washhouse here when he was unable to defend himself. ¢ Inmates of the washhouse tell a story to the effect that Chung found the house locked, as the owner was away, and en- tered it by breaking a pane of glass. In crawling through, they say, he had his thrcat and abdomen cut. They alSo claim that ‘he committed suicide. None of the Chinese here can identify Chung. It is thought he had been employed in Gilroy. Three Chinese are in jail on suspicion of knowing more than they care to tell. They - plead ignorance as to the manner in which Chung met death. Fishermen Probably Drowned. Search is being made by the friends and ‘relatives ofgtwo fishermen—Deachiz- zia¥l Fizolo, residing at Twenty-first ave- nue and D street, south, and Vincint Ceoftguta, residing at 1843 Nineteenth avenue, south. The men named left their homes last Friday for a fishing trip along the southern shore of the bay, since which time they have not been seen or heard from. An overturned boat was found on the Alameda shore. Two rubber coats and a soldler coat were found in the boat and answer the description of those taken by the missing fisherman. SAYS CURRENCY SYSTEM LACKS IN ELASTICITY Comptroller Ridgely Suggests Some Remedies. ASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—The annu- al report of Willlam B. Ridgely, Comptroller of the Currency, starts with a table giving a de- tafled statement of the resources and labilities of all the national banks of the United States, as shown by the reports of condition made in response to the call of the Comptroller. This ta- ble shows that on September 15, 1%2, the date of the last call, 4601 assoclations re- ported, with aggregate resoufces of $6,113,928,912. The loans and discounts amounted to $3,208,127,480, or more thah 50 per cent of the total resources of the banks. The items of surplus and undivid- ed profits amounted, respectively, to $326,- 393,953 and $169,216,512. The individual de- posits reached the highest point in the existence of the national banking system, $3.209,273,863. Thére was due to approved reserve agents, other than national banks, State banks and bankers, trust companies and savings banks, the sum of $1,200,431,- 233, From September 30, 1%1, to September 15, 1902, there was an increase of $418,581 617 In the aggregate resources of the r perting banks, the principal items of in- terest belng loans and discounts, $261,511,- 662; United States bonds, $12,579,520; due from national and other banks, $5217,-: 372. There was an increase in capital stock of $30,193,537; in surplus and othes profits, $65,048,537, and in individual de- posits of $271,520,660. Regarding the consolidation of national banks the Comptroller recommends that the Revised Statutes of the United States be amended to provide, in effect, for con- solidation of national banks on the lines of the law of the State of New York, ex- cept that the corporate existence of the closing bank shall be terminated as pro- vided by section 5220, and that where the capltal stock of the absorbing bank is increased for the purpose in conformity with the provisions of section 5142 that the new stock may be issued to share- holders of the closing association upon surrender and cancellation of their old shares at the book value of the stock of the absorbing bank, but not less than par. Continuing, the report says: The most serious objection which has been urged against the national bank currency is its lack of elasticity; that it does not automatically | respond to the demands of business, but is de- pendent upon the price of bonds and other con- siderations. There can be no denial of the fact and there is really none made that the lack of elasticity Is a serious defect in our bank notes, | Which greatly reduces their usefulness not only under normal business conditions, but when there is danger of financial difficulty. If this defect can be remedied or lessened without im- pairing the safety of the notes it should be done, and done at once. - The greatest demand for increased currency comes, of course, when it is required for mov- ing crops in the farming States. 1f this can be supplied quickly and automatically as re- quired by the banks in those States, and if, after performing its duty, it is returned to the ks and retired, it will mark a great ad- vance in the improvement of our facilities for handling the vast and rapidly growing business | of_this country. In the latter half of each year the problem is presented to the banks to furnish currency needed to handle from to 3000 millions of | bushels of grain, eight'to ten million bales of cotton and & corresponding quantity of other farm products. The total value of these prod- ucts for the year 1902 will not be far from 5000 millions of dollars. This calls for the use | of a vast sum of money. 1f our bank circulation can be made more au- tomatically elastic, so that the banks can sup- ply more or less of circulation as needed, which is so safe and reliable that it is readily ac- cepted_and used for all business transactions. we will have a force at work in our financial affairs which will diminish the Mability of a | money panic, and will be.an efficient ald when we shall have an actual condition of panic. HUSBAND IS ACCUSED | ‘OF KILLING HIS WIFE Clumsy Attempt Is Made to Have the Case Appear to Be a Suicide. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Nov. 30.—Mrs. Charles Dubois, a bride of but a few months, was found dead in her room yes- terday safternoon with a bottle of car- bolic acld laying at her side and a note | which stated her intention of taking her | life. An autopsy was held last night and | no poison was found in her stomach. The | side of her head was crushed, apparently | by the blow of a blunt instrument. The | coroner held an inquest this morning | which led to the arrest of Charles Dubois, husband of the dead woman, who is charged with the murder. —_— Mrs. Janet C. Bailey. SAN JOSE, Nov. 30.—Mrs. Janet C. Balley, wife of J. R. Balley, manager of the Western Union Company in this city, died at El Paso, Tex., last night. About a month ago Mrs. Bailey went south be- cause of a tuberculous affection of the throat. Her condition was so serfous on | Friday that her husband was summoned to El Paso. She had resided in this city for many years and was popular in church and soclety circles. Besides her husband she leaves a son, Forest Balley, | now a student at Stanford. Her mother, ‘Mrs. Cutter, and her brother reside at Mountain View. | authorized. Nvigorous campaign against CONTROVERSY . OVER SIZE OF BATTLESHIPS Growing Opposition to Ponderous Vessels. > Special Dispatch to The Call. i ALL BUREAU, 406 G STREET, N. W., WASHINGTON, Nov. 30.—Size versus numbers of battleships Is now the paramount question in the navy. Foremost officers of the navy are found ranged on two sides of this proposition: “Shall we build more ex- pensive 16,000-ton battleships of the type of the Connecticut, or shall we revert to the less costly Indiana and Oregen class?” The controversy has been brewing for some time, but the opposing sides have rot yet come together in an argument. Now Secretary Moody, in his annual re- port, reéommends that Congress author- ize the comstruction of two battleships, the type of which he does not specify. Senator Hale, chairman of the Commit- tee on Naval Affairs of the upper House and the most prominent factor in naval iegislation for a decade, declares him- self opposed to the construction of any mere battleships of immense tonnage. Senator Hale sald to The Call correspond- ent to-night: “I am in harmony with President Roosevelt in the matter of increasing the navy, but I believe in moderate additions. 1 am told that contractors are be- hind in the work on the ships already 1 will not go so far as to say that we should have the best navy in the world, but we should have as good an as up-to-date ships as any afloat. I am opposed to the construetion ofrany more lurge battleships of a tonnage of 14,000 to 16,000. , Experience has shown that .we could build three ships of the Oregon type for what it costs for two of the larger ones. Small battleships of gued speed, say seventeen knots, are most ef- fgetive In a modern na I also believe in a moderate increase as years go by in armored cruisers.” Among the foremost advocates of a re« turn to the construction of battleships of the type of the Oregon, Indiana and Mas- sachusetts, or of ships somewhat larger, like the Maine, which is rated at 1000 tons displacement, are Rear Admiral Tay- lor, chief of the bureau of navigation, and aptain Mahan, the well known naval T They hold that ships of the type of the Connecticut are too expen- sive and that the increased expense does not give a result in proportionately In- creased efliciency. SMALLPOX IS SPREADING IN DISTRICTS OF UTAH Practically Every House in South Cottonwood Is Under Strict Quarantine. SALT LAKE, Utah, Nov. 30.—The prev- alence of smallpox has created consider- able alarm among the residents of Mur- ray and surrounding towns in the central portion of this county. At South Cotton- wood, one of the well built up districts of the county, practically evegy house is said to be under quarantine. There are fully fifty cases of the disease in the settle ment and the entire precinct is threat- ened with an epidemic. Heaith Commis- sioner Farabee has complamed to the State Board of Health that it would be {mpossible for him to cope with the dis- ease unless drastic measures were adopt- d against violations of the quarantine aw. He was advised to have arrested all persons violating the health regula- tions and will immediately inaugurate & the further spread of the disease. PLACER GOLD FIELD NORTH OF HERMOSILLO Mexican Woman’s Discovery Starts a Rush of Prospectors Across the Boundary. HERMOSILLO, Mexico, Nov. 30.—The discovery of a placer gold fleld, which is believed to rival In riehness the. miost noted finds in the Klondike reglon, has been made northeast of here, near* the boundary of Mexico and Arizona. It was made by a Mexican woman, who picked up a gold nugget at a spring. She took the nugget to Douglas, Arizona, and was paid $500 for it. There was a rush to the scene of the find and prospectors are wild with excitement over the rich returns which the placers are yielding. American prospectors are pouring across the bor- der from Arizona. Friends Advise His Imprisonment. SACRAMENTO, Nov. 30. — Herbert Thornton Wardman, a commercial dfum- mer, is in a padded cell in the City Prison, being detained for safe keeping at the re- quest of friends, who say that he has been drinking heavily. Wardman comes from Memphis, Tenn., where he is highly connected. He has been very successful and his friends say too much prosperity led to excesses. His wife left for San Francisco yesterday. When searched at the City Prison he had $30 in gold and $1200 ln\ehecn on his person. ¢¢HO. 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