The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 5, 1902, Page 5

THE SA UNITED STATES MINISTER BUCK DIES SUDDEN LY WHILE HUNTING Representative of America to Japan Expires From Heart Failure or Apoplexy While at the Imperial Duck Shoot at Tokio THE EMPORIUM. L iy ERERRRR RRRRERRRRR RRRRRRRE store (2000 dozen—24,000 Handkerchiefs). lot was marked at figures like these: 300 styles of lace edged and Swi 150 embroidered worth 20c each.............. 12¢ 300 styles Swiss embroidered hand- | kerchiefs, best 25 values,...17¢ OKOHAMA, Dec. 4—United sunes[ Minister Buck died this morning { while at the imperial duckshoot. The cause of his death is sup-| posed to have been apoplexy. Ah-| other report says Mr. Buck's death was | due to heart failure. The hunt occurred | in the suburbs of Tokio. | WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—The Japanese | Minister called at the State Départment | in haste to-day to communicate to Sec- retary Hay & cablegram he had received from the Minister of Foreign Affairs at Tokio, dated to-day, stating that while Mr. Buck, the United States Minister to Japan, was on a hunting trip this morn- ing he was taken suddenly ill and ex- e service of the deceased Minister ical and important chapter | of Japa n The State Depart- | will take the necessary steps to see | Buck’s remains are brought to | for interment if his family Huntington Wilson, the sec he legation, was designated as covered harge a cable- received at the State Depart- m Mr. Ferguson, second secre- American Legation at Tokio, was his painful duty to an-| death of Minister Buck, who | making no explanation | w t expected that the remains of the| dead Minister, who was a veteran of the | vil War, will be brought to Washington terment at Arlington, where the er selected a burial site for himself was in the United States two go. Mrs. Buck is understood to kio and the State Department will L CLERK OF BANKING FIRM | MMIGRATION OFFICIALS 3 | i -~ 5 UNITED STATES MINISTER TO | JAPAN, WHO DIED SUDDEN- LY YESTERDAY. - —2 :ddres! a proper message of condolence to er. ATLANTA, Ga., Dec. 4—Hon. Alfred E. Buck was about 60 years. old and was a- leader -in Republican- politics in Geor- gla. In 1888 he was apvointed by Presi- dent McKinley as Minister to Japan. Buck, who had made a splendid record since his appointment, was born in Fox- croft, Me., in 1832. He made his own way through school and served in the Civil War, after which he went to the South and bore a prominent part in the recon- struction of ' the Southern States. He served in Congress as the Representative of -an Alabama district. Later he re- moved to Georgla, where he was Clerk of the ‘Federal court and Marshal of th State. He had immense political influ. ence in Georgia. Tokio has been a far more important post since his appoint- ment than ever before. While he served the United States there Japan did away with the extraterritorial system and a number of delicate .international ques- tions required adjustment. Not the least of these were problems growing out of the Boxer troubles in China. CONCLUDE THEIR LABORS SHOOTS HIMSELF IN HEAD Watchman Finds Him Lying Dead | Closer Watch Will Be Kept on the | in the Office With Revolver | in His Hand. | LPHIA, Dec. 4—Howard T.| of the Columbia Min- | confidential clerk of Cassatt & Co., bakers | and brokers, committed gicide in the of- | fice of th m in the Arcade building, | Fifteenth and Market sfreets, last night | shooting b self in the head. He was | found early t ¥, lying on a lounge in the rear office a watchman. Goodwin | had a revolver grasped tightly in his right | hand and the lounge was saturated with | blood which had flowed from the wound | in his head. Goodwin was performing | some work in the office when the clerks | departed shortly after 6 o'clock last even- | ing. That wag the seen of him alive, | At the office of Cassatt & Co. to-day it | was sald no cause for the suicide could | be given. the firm of J. G s Refuses to Dismiss the Appeal. BUTTE, Mont., De A Helena spe- clal says: The Supreme Court holds that there is an appeal from an order of court | in refusing to dismiss the appeal from | that made by Judge McClernan, distrib- | uting & large portion of A. J. Davis’ es- | tate. J. H. Leyson, administrator, ap- pealed from an order of the Butte Judge | and then a motion was made to dismiss | the appeai. The courtrefuses to do this. | Land Office Makes Good Showing. | WASHINGTON,, Dec. 4—A statement | prepared to-day by Assistant Commis- | sioner Richards of the General Land Of- fice shows that 6,109,038 acres of land were | disposed of by the Government during | ibe first quarter of the current fiscal | year, the receipts therefrom aggregating | $2,616,089, an increase of 600,978 acres in area and $1,184910 in receipts over the first gquarter of the last fiscal year. Canadian and Mexican Frontiers. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—The several Commissioners of Immigration who have been in conference’ here with Commis- sioner General Sargent, primarily with a view to securing a more uniform inter- pretation and inforcement of the immi- gration laws at the largest ports of the country, concluded their work to-day. It is understod the department has specific | information-as to several points on both the Canadian and Mexican frontiers where immigrants have been /crossing into the United States quite unfnolested, and arrengements are perefecting under which these runways will be closed and a more rigid inspection of the frontiers put into operation. The immigration bill now pending in the Senate also was discussed and several suggestions, bearing principally on the administration features of the measures, | will be made to the Immigration Com- mission, ‘which meets next Monday morn- mg. It is understood that the suggested changes do not change in any way the general features of the pending bill. —— Promotion for a San Franciscan. TACOMA, Dec. 4—Willlam H. Fair- banks, heretofore manager of the North- ern Commercial Company’s Dawson store, has been promoted to be general manager of the company’s large mercan- tile and transportation business from Circle City to Dawson, including interven- ing posts at Steel Creek, Edgle and Forty Mile. The promotion results from Fair- bank’'s good work for the company, espe- cially at Dawson, where he not only made large profits for his employers, but also retained the good will of the miners and the general public. Fairbanks went north from San Francisco a number of years ago. Woman’s Nightmare No woman’s happi- ness can be complete without children; it is her nature to love and want them as much so as it is to love the beautiful and pure. The critical ordeal through which the expectant mother must pass, however, is so fraught with dread, pain, suffering and danger, that the very thought of it fills her with apprehension and horror. There is no necessity for the reproduction of life to be either painful or dangerous. The use of Mother’s Friend so prepares the system for the coming event that it is safely great ‘and wonderful remedy is always appliedextefnally,and has carried thousands of women through X the trying crisis without suffering. Send for free book containing information ®f priceless value io all expectant mothers, The Bradfield Rogulator Co., Atianta, Ga. passed without any danger. This Mother’'s F riend patterns, in white, cream and butter color, | cdges, ta-diy and Saturday on'y. PR RRRERER RRRERRRRRE 22RRRRER RRERRRE, RARRRRRRLY, RERRRRRE Boys’ Clothing Stunning New Styles, $6.50--$7.50 Boys” Sailor Nerfo'k suits — sizes 214 to 7 years, in handsome serges, r:d, royal, brown and pavy blue, prettily, tim- mel and made tp in best marner. . §$6.50 Velve: Ruigian tlcuse Stits— like picture; sizes for 234 to 6 yea's, a very stylish and. c.egant dress suit for little toys. . . . - ... - 510.00 Boys' Gv reoats — Ages 14 to 20 years; cx- ford grays and fancy m'x- tures; cut lorg and loose; sprendid va'ucs 3t $ 7.5 Pennnw RRRRER URRRERERLR AR RRRR RERRY, KRR RRRE SRRERRY, KRR YRR ERANCIECO Last Two Days ot the Holiday Handkerchief Sale The largest single Handkerchief purchase ever made by a California show slight imperfections, such as a dropped stitch, and so tha whole chiefs, worth 35c to 50c ea...23¢ 150 styles hemstitched embroldered and scalloped embroldered Hand- kerchiefs, worth 15c each. 25¢ Laces, 8c 10,000 yards of Net Top Lices, from 3 to g inches wide, in very pretty the beautifal laces used for trimming dresses, hats, kimonas, etc., ard much in demand at the holiday season fcr fancy work, .very fine net, with well finished heavy 15¢, 20c and 25¢ Laces, Yard 8c 30c, 35¢ and 45c¢ Laces, Yard l4c | Sale Moravian Rugs ersian efects, beautiful colorings, szmz on both Szle Body Brussels Choice of our entre stock (thou- sands of yards) of the genuine $1.50 Bigelow-Lowall Body Brus- sels Carpets—parlor, hall, star, din'ng-room and bed-room ef- tects, sell this week, sewed, 1 lined gnd laid, per.yird e s" '72 | RRRNAANR RRRNRXRRRR ARTRRUN Wi RentRae Rutktattnl tutntar mmmm THE EMPORIUM. | ERERRY RRRRERRERE RRERRERR RERRR Handkerchiets Some of the styles embroidered Handker- De white, s Saturday only colors whte, In this store Holiday shoppers can choose from one of the Jargest retail stocks of . . .. . specialSale Mien’s Hosiery A sumple line of men’s fine quality Imported Hosery, in Lsc and Balbriggan figured effects, and nove:ty ard open work striped effe.ts, hoss that sell rezularly at soc ard 75¢ pat, to-day and while o quantity lasts . . . . . 4 G Men’s ficece-lined Underwear garmeat..50c Medivm weight Merino Uhdsrwear, par- ment . et it . . 75¢ Winter weight natural” wool Underwear, A R R e Y Finest Ausiralan wool Underwear, gar- Mmant . s aneie boon o SUNG sides, the biggest ruz value ever offered here: months. 16x32 inches. . . . .40@ | 24x48 inches. . . . 857 27x38 inches. . . $7.05 | 36x6s inches . . .$1.58 3x9 feet. . . . $2.85 |6%4xi0. ... ..86.10 taken at random throughout ®7%es . . . $2.85|9%9. . . . . .87 3 $1202:83x11, 59 55 | §255izc 11 %x15817.40 o7 i $16.50 sizz gx12 $11.6 J | $3082c 133164 $22,.50 "GALIFORNIA'S LARGEST- N blue, ALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1902, 50c¢ Ribhons, 29c 1,000 yards of 6-inch imported Satin Merveileux Ribbon, brilliant luster and soft weave, pink, blue, cardinal and biack, regularly 65c a yard, Friday and Saturday'on’y{ . . . 400 oe s e 2 1,000 yards of superb quality Foreign Novelty Ribbons, in floral warp prints, exquisite designs for ha'isay gifts, for neckwear, opera bags, ctc., real $1.25 to §1.75 valuss, Friday and'Satordaylon'y, yafd'. . 05 DT b Neivh. o ededeie Satis TOYS Special Sale Club Bags Genuine leather, with nickel catches and sicing lock, linen lined with pocket inside, 2 z:s, regularly $1.65 and §1.85; Friday on'y, all at. . o ; L. 91.29 séle Ash Barrels The Ash men no longer tupp'y them—we have sccured 4 sizes, best grade of galvan. ized iron, with tight-fitting covers, to sell at enz-quarier less than regular. 13x 20 for $1,39 | 15x 23 for $2.19 14x21 for 8 68 | 19 x 28 for $2.67 the great stock. {1 This 5-Picce Parlor Suite— Upholstered in good tapestry, stout birch frames, in pretty des'gns, mahogany finished, now................ AMERICA'S GRANDEST STORE Great Holiday Sales Laces, Ribbons and Spachtel Goods $1.00 Spachtels, 59c¢ 1,000 yards of g-inch imported Satin Merveilleux Ribbén, Erilliant luster and soft-weave, in | Another great lot of finc Tambour and Spachtel Squares (about cardinal and black, regular.y ‘soc ths yard, Fiiday and 29 c 33e¢ 59¢ In America, bought by “our own buyer in the toy markets of Europa. Santa - Claus . leaves (lo-night, Butter and Ligquor : Sales A timely Butter sale to-day that will be appreciated by housskeepers, with the price of butter ciimbing higher and higher. Our best Creamery, regular size e, Fiey nd Secwiey. DB Good Zinf:ndel or Sauterne — Gallon Kellogg's AA Ecurbon —Bor. . Woodruff Distillery Bourbon or Rye Whisky—worth double the special two- day price, gallon.. . . . . . $2.08 Wm. Williams' Scotch Whisky — O'd High- land, to-day and Saturday, tot. . . 856 Greatest of Furniture and Carpet Sales Continued We zre making up the volume of trade lost during the extensive alterations that have been in progress during the last thrze C Every piece of furniture in the store has been cut in price—investigate. - We mention to-day a few sample prices $29.25 Last Two Days of ihe Extraordinary Children’s and Misses” $3. 59, $4.00 and $4.50 Hats for, . . Ladies’ $5.c0, $6.00 and $6.75 Velvet Hats for . . . . . 2 ¥7.00, $7.50, $9.75 Trimmed Hats, gocd practical headwear, fi Pretty Moire Tatfeta and Veivet Hats, worth $:0 and $:1, for. . .$7.50 Our own bsst-make Hats, worth frem $12 to $16.50, for . . . Hats from $19 to $15, our swellest imported stapes, for. . 1,2c0 pieces in all), the squates 32x32 inches, the scarfi 18x54 ‘nches, new and pretty pat-erns, su'table for pilow thams, table covers, tid'es, sideboard covers, bureau scarfs, etc., worth in the 1egular way '75¢ and $1.00 cach, Friday and Saturday . . - 18x36 Scar’s, in same desigzs, regularly 65c and 75¢ Friday and Saturday only . . Bl F Swagger Box Coat If you need a nice, $20.00 Maple Dresser, $20.00 Metal Beds, . $34.00 Folding Beds. . $32.500ak Buffet..............$26.90 $1.25 Dining Chair..............$1.00 $3.50 Men’s Rockers/. . . ... $4,50 Hal Chairs, $2,80 {80 Brass Bed, $68.75 $72, 50 Golden Oak Bedroom Suite 3 pieces now $15.00 Bookcases. . ... $5.00 Center Tables... ... .. $3-75 Oak Tabou ettes, $6.00 Gi't Chairs £37.50 Easy Chair...... $40.00 Cheval Mirrors, $12,50 Dressing Table.......... illinery Sale - $3.95 .$5.85 . $9.00 -.$16.50 59¢ each, - . .48c Don’t Miss This 10r $7.95 warm win er coat, see this offering of the big store. The garments are in the pretty styles shown in ilustration, made of allwcol Kersey, in the weight you can wear every day in the year in this climate —beautifully made in every way, fer- fect fitting, and finished with many rows of tail- or stitching; 12 dozen of them: while quantity —$7.95 ...816.25 ...$15.85 ..$31.25 ...$2.95 RARARARE WRRRARHARN WARARRR RRRAR AR RRAA R HARARRER W AR TRAR RS R RR AR AR RTAREE ARARRA R ARRNRRER AAARARRRAN G | | | | JUSTIE HOLMES HEADS THE LT Senate Confirms Some Nominations of the President. | i WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—The Senate | was in session to-day one hour and five nvinutes, most of which time being spent behind closed doors. After the reception of a number of bills and petitions and the adoption of a concurrent resolution | calling on the President for the papers in the plous fund case, recently arbitrated | before The Hague tribunal, Beveridge | had read the resolution adopted by the | delegates to the Oklahoma Non-Partisan | Convention favoring the admission of Oklahoma and Indian Territory as one State and oposing the House omnibus statehood bill. The Senate then went into executive | session and at 1:50 adjourned until Mon- day. The Senate confirmed the nomination of | Hon. Oliver Wendell Holmes to be Asso- ciate Justice of the Supreme Court of the | United States, to succeed the late Justice Gray. There was no opposition. The President sent the following nomi- nations to the Senate:* Robert M. Mc- Wade, Pennsylvania (now Consul), to be Consul General at Canton, China; Martin A. Knapp, New York, Interstate Com- merce Commissioner (a reapointment); George W. Ellis, Kansas, secretary of le- gation at Monrovia, Liberia. Also a large number of army promotions and ap- pointments. The Senate Committee on Foreign Re- lations to-day sauthorized favorable re- ports on all the nominations to diplomatic positions before it, as follows: Robert Mc- Cormack, Embassador to Russia; Cha lemagne Tower, Embassador to German: Bellamy Storer, Embasador to Austria; David E. Thompson, Minister to Brazil; Willlam' E. Sorsby, Minister to Bolivia; J. B. Jackson, Minister to Greece; Arthur 8. Hardy, Minister to Spain; Leslle Combs, Minister to Guatemala; Percival Dodge, secretary of the Embassy at Ber- lin; R. 8. Hitt, second secretary at Ber- lin; Peter A. Jay, third secretary at Paris. OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE OF THEj] PACIFIC COAST Several Changes Are Made in the Postal Service and More Pen- sions Granted. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—Postoffices es- tablished: Washington—Gross, Columbia County, Rufus Gross postmaster. Fourth- class postmasters appointed: California— Josephine Lyons, Elder, Humboldt Coun- ty, vice Antonio M, Lyons, resigned; J. R. McDonald - Jr., Grayson, Stanislaus County, vice Mark E. McDonald, re- signed; Goerge A. Notlay, Shelter Cove, Humboldt County, vice Elizabeth Cowan, resigned. These pensions were granted to-day: California—Original—David Hendrickson, Santa Rosa, $8; David H. Benson, San Francisco, $6 (war with Spain). Increase, reissue, etc.—Rufus M. Robertson, Los Angeles, $8; Henry C. Hogg, Saratoga, $10; Jonas V. Brighton, Pismo, $8; Charles E. Van Hoesen, Los Angeles, $10; George A. Lowell, Chico, $8; George W. McKel- vey, San Diego, $6. Widows, minors and dependent relatives—Elizabeth M. Pierce, Hollister, §8; Hannah F, Quatman, San Francisco, $8 (Indian wars). Oregon—Original—Jameés Downing, Mon- tanville, $8; Maxwell Ramsby, The Dalles, Sirius. The comet is moving northwest. §8 (Indan wars). Widows, .minors and dependent relatives—Olive L. Siegenfehr, J(-fl;;sun. $8; Nancy M. Ornduff, Was- co, $8. ‘Washington—Original—Norman McLeod, Cheney, $12; John A. Phalen, Rossburg, $6; Lafayette G. Allen, Battle Ground, $6. Increase, reissue, etc.—Frank W. Pringle, Orting, $12; John H. Hartew, Conconully, $12; David’ 8. Elsey, Sunnydale, $12. Navy orders—Commander G. L. Dyer is detached from the Naval Academy and Zoes to the Asfatic statlon via Coptie from San Francisco, January 3; Com- mander R. H. Galt is detached from the Naval Hospital at Mare Island and or- dered home on three months' sick leave; Lieutenant C. R. Miller goes to the Pen- sacola naval training station, San Fran- clsco. L Army orders — The leave of absence granted First Lieutenant George M. Knox, Seventh Infantry, Department of California, is extended one month. L ————— ABOUT “CARTOONS IN COLOR” And the Famous Artist, Oscar Holli- ! day Banghart. Oscar Holllday Banghart, the famous young {llustrator, is an enthusiastic prophet of the coming supremacy of American artists. Mr. Banghart knows whereof he speaks, as he studied under the most famous masters' in Parls, Mu- nich and Dusseldorf, where he met the best known artists in Europe. He be- lieves that the day is not far distant when Parislans will attend art classes in New York, instead of as at present our Ameri- can art neophytes flocking Parisward. Of late years our American illustrated weeklies have shown great improvement. Life, Colllers’ Weekly, Frank Leslie's, ete., are now no whit inferior to the great London weeklies so far as their art con- tents are concerned. Charles Dana Gib- son, A. B. Wenzell and Oscar Holliday Banghart are the three illustrators best known to the magazine reading public. All three have made a speclalty of what for want of a better term may be called “'society ' subjects.”” ‘Gibson and Wenzell excel in depicting men, while Banghart is second to none as a delineator of the American girl. He has an extraordinar- ily dainty touch, and probably no other American artist has so wide and enthusi- astic a clientele of feminine admirers. The originals of Banghart's illustrations for various magazines have always com- manded very high prices. No contempor- ary American illustrator seems so sure of,a bril'iant future. And the best of it all is that Oscar Holliday Banghart is absolutely unspoiled by the extraordinary: success he has,made. He is to-day, with the plaudits of New “Work’s leading art- ists ringing in his ears, the same simple, kindly, democratic gentleman that he was when he sat upon a high stool managing an immense business enterprise. An exhibition of the originals of Oscar Holliday Banghart's twelve famous pas- tels, entitled “When Cupid Holds the Relns,” “Morning = Glories.” ~ “Vanity,” “Between the Acts” “A Fair Masquer- ader,” “Only a Rose,” “The Cogq “Dorothy,” “Beauty at the Links, Summer Girl,” = “When Hearts Are Trumps,” ‘Cupid Baits the Hook,’ was recently held in Chicago. Not since the exhibition of “Drawings by Phil May” has there been in Chicago s0 successful an exhibition of original drawings by a living artist. Some of the pictures fetched very considerable prices, The sum total of the sales is marvelous, in view'of the fact that it is but five or six years since Mr. Banghart returned from Paris. He is a prolific worker and commands his own prices. Society wom- en in New York almost beg to be allowed the privilege of sitting for him, so great is his vogue as a painter of the 400, - —_——————— New Comet Is Moving Northwest. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—The TUnited States Naval Observatory reports that W. 'W. Dinwiddie, one of its staff, last night observed the comet discovered by Glacobini at Nice on Tuesday. The obseryation was made here at mean time 12 hours 32 minutes, yright ascension.?7 Lours 17 minutes 25 Reconds, southe; declination 1 degree minutes. The comet is nearly on a straight line joining Trocyon and Sirius, and is about one- third of the distance from Trocyon to CUBAN TREATY ~ TOBE APPROVED Senate Is Ready to Sanc- tion the Reciprocity Measure. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4 — President Roosevelt Is assuré@® that if the negotia- tions with Cuba for a reciprocity treaty are concluded satistactorily by the State Department the treaty will be ratified by the Senate during the present session. The latest advices from Minister Squiers, dated about two days ago, were to the effect that in his judgment the treaty would be completed and ready for sig- nature in the course of three or four days. It is underStood that the treaty does not differ materially from the outline draft which was prepared here. ‘While many Senators were and still are oppesed to direct legislation by Congress on the subject of Cuban reciprocity, some of them at least, and perhaps a majority among the Republicans, would vote to ratify a reasonable reciprocity treaty. Senator Elkins, who led the anti-Cuban reciprocity forces in the Senate during the last session of Congress, to-day in- formed President Roosevelt that he would support a proper Cuban reciprocity treaty and expressed the bellef that such a treaty would be ratified by the Senate sdon after its presentation. Such a solu- tion of the commercial obligations of the United States to Cuba would be entirely satisfactory to Elkins and many of his Senatorial colleagues, who opposed the enactment of direct legislation because they feared such action would open up a tariff controversy, which, in the view of strong advocates of the protection ays- tem, might prove embarrassing if not dangerous to the Republicans. The President, it is understood, had re- ceived assurances from other Senators, who last spring opposed reciprocity legis- lation, that they will support by voice and vote a Cuban reciprocity treaty. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES RATIFIES THE CONVENTION It Authorizes France, Belgium, Italy and Switzerland to Issue Ad- ditional Silver Coins. PARIS, Dec. 4—The Chamber of Depu- tles to-day ratified an additional mone- tary convention between France, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland, authorizing each country to Issue additional silver coins to the value of $2,500,000. The house devoted the remainder of the gession to discussion of the Government bill establishing a new sugar regime, which has been rendered necessary by t?e Brussels convention. After a number of amendments had been rejected the Chamber adopted the first article of the bill fixing the tax on refined sugar from September 1, 1%03, at 2 francs per 220 pounds. The various ballots show a ma- jority in the Chamber of about 250 in fa- vor of the bill. The debate was ad- Journed. Archbishop ‘of Canterbury Is IIl. LONDON, Dec. 4—While speaking on the education bill in the House of Lords to-day, the Archbishop of Canterbury;-Dr. Temple, was overcome and would have fallen had it not been for timely assist- ance. Amid a sensation the Archbishop was led out of the House of Lords by the Archbishop of York, Dr. MacLagan, and ‘the chaplain of the M. WILL CAREFULLY STUDY THE MAIL REFORM CASES Postmaster General Payne Says No General Reclassification Rule Can Be Laid Down. WASHINGTON, Dec. 4—The decisions of the District Court of Appeals yester- day in the second-class mail reform cases will be studied carefully by the Postoffice Department officials before any definite cenclusion is reached as to the future policy in reference to, reclassification re- I forms. Postmaster General Payne to-day cxpressed the opinion that in view of the fact that one of the decisions was in fa- vor of the Government and the other two adverse, and that a number of other cases are now pending In the lower courts, each case of exclusion or proposed exclusion of a publication from the sec- ond-class privileges would have to be determined by itself, and that no gen- eral rule could be laid down under pres- ent conditions:;The‘department some time ago suspended its aggressive exclusion policy, pending a determination of the issues “in court, and this situation will continue for the present. L WASHINGTON, Dec. #.—The House Com- mittee on Appropriations has agreed upon the nsions _appropriation_bill. It appropriates 159,847,600, which is $5370 more than for the current ' year. R -5 £ NEW YORK, Dec. 4.—Willlam C. McNutt, who is accused of having obtained $18,600 on false pretenses from a lawyer in Chicago, sur- rendered himself to the police to-day. JUDGE WELLBORN HEARS THE FRUIT-GROWERS’ CASH Argument Made in Interstate Com- merce Commission’s Suit Against Two Railroads. LOS ANGELES, Dec. 4—Argument in the suit by the Interstate Commerce Commis- sfon against the Southern Pacific and Santa Fe rallroad systems on the ques- tion of the right of the rafiroads to route cars from this section at their own dis- cretion, frrespective of the wishes of the shippers, was heard all day to-day by Judge Wellborn, sitting in the United States Circuit Court. The argument was on the demurrey filed by the defendants against the complaint of the commission. When the Interstate Commerce Com- mission was here last it heard the case of the citrus fruit growers of Southern California against the rallroads on this point. The commission decided in faver of the fruit growers and ordered the rallroads to route the cars according to the pleasure of the shippers. This the roads refused to do and suit was brought by the commission to force them to obey. Attorney Herrin made the opening are gument. He declared that *“tI has never been any evidence Introd! to show that any pool ever existed bétween the two lar roads named as defend- ants in this ®ase.” The argument over the demurrer lasted until 6 o’clock. The case will be taken under advisement by Judge Wellborn and upon his decision de- pends a matter of great importance to Southern California citrusg fruit growers. Good Dress Hats $2.50. | If the popularity of a hat is good evidence of its value we know that ours at $2.50 must be unusually good. They must be better than any other hats sold about town for the same price. . We are selling more of the hats every'day. Each order to the factory is larger than the preceding one. We only mention this to show that you are sure to be pleased in buying something which has satisfied others. The shapes are Derbys. Fedoras, Graecos, Pashas, Dunlap Crushers, Tourists and Columbia shapes. The colors are black, brown, cedar, pearl, steel, elm and otter. e F Every hat union-made and guaranteed. oA Out-of-town orders filled—write us. SNWO0D (0 | 718 Market Street