The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 10, 1902, Page 9

“ PRESENT REPORT |PIRATES ADB - ¢ THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10 1902, C 9 ON WHTERWAYS Members of Investigat- ing Committee End Their Labor. Say River Channel Can Be Improved at a Small Expense. BIE5 20 As a result of the deliberations and in- quiries of a committee appointed by the River Improvement Association of Cali- fornia' at Sacramento last May an ex- haustive report on the suggested improve- | ment of deepening the channels of the | Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers for navigation and drainage was submitted | to the committee of twenty-four at the | offises of Frank D. Ryan, Commissioner | of Public Works, Sacramento, last Sun- | day morning. After explaining the “neglected” condi- tions of the Sacramento River channel as-| a waterway, the committee, as a result of RICH GHINESE American Said to Have Led a Band of Des- peradoes. Seventeen Thousand Dollars Taken From Brig Near Manila. —— VICTORIA, B. C,, Dec. 9.—The steamer Shawmut from Manila brought news of piracy on the Philippine coast, the des- peradoes being led by an American. The brig Marcia, bound from Catanau- an, Payabas, for Manila, had beaten up the coast and was becalmed off Cavite Bay. She had as passengers five Chinese merchants who were on thelr way to! Manila to purchase goods. During the | night a sloop came alongside and six men climbed over the rail and overpow- | ered the captain and crew, binding all hands with ropes. One of these men was an American, dressed in the garb of an inspector of con- its examinations and study, goes on to state that in its opinion it is possible | and feasible o to improve and widen the | channel of the Sacramento River at a! comparatively small cost, that with the | possible exception of extraordinary floods, | when weirs will have to furnish the | needed relief, the entire flood waters. of | the combined Upper Sacramento, Feather and American rivers and of Cache Slough | can be confined to one channel. | Upon- the pirates reaching the deck of stabulary. Two of his followers also wore constabulary uniforms and carried revol- vers, as did the American. The remain- ing thrée Filipinos were armed with bolos. the Marcia the leader claimed he was the Board of Health inspector and intend- | ed to search the vessel for arms and am- munition. Instead of doing this, after the crew had been overpowered, the Chi- The report goes on to explain that it is believed that when the river shall have scoured down its own improved channel and levees on both sides have been grad- ually strengthened and raised, it will be found both possible and expedient, tenta- uvely now constructed. When once this is ac- complished, says the commitiee, a com- plete metamorphosis of conditions in the Sacramento Valley would arise with the following results: A COMPLETE CHANGE. Firet—Strong tidal action up to and beyond Secramento City Second—A water channel making _possible deep water navigation to Sacramento City and | bringing Colusa, Marysville and points be- yond within reach of ships drawing ten or fif- teen feet Third—A thorough reclamation of the five basins (o called), creating conditions of wealth and prosperity for the waste lands situated westerly and northerly of Sacramento City as to and Chico similar to those now the fertile bottom lands on the The committee is of opinion that the main e of the present trouble is the | fact t the channel below Rio Vista is too narrow and tortuous to admit a free passage to tide water of the constantly increasing masses of water which accu- mulate at that point at flood stage. The report pc s out that on the right bank of the ista River, between Rio vV Col le, the Montezuma Hil late years have presented lateral discharge and have forced the enpormous mass of water accumulating at Rio Vista find its way to tide water through a fourteen and a half miles long ne place, but 700 feet wide, and which nt and cross area is entirely in- and unadapted to do the work led upon to perform mmittee found that the breaks in he Sherman Island levee have by diminu- n of fiow caused the formation of bars further lessened its usefuiness sing the cross-section of the Sacrament by decr area of the channel. CHANNEL TOO NARROW. { his year, the river at low marked two-tenths of a or mean low tide at An- me time at Rio Vista, four- r f miles distant by river chan- the river marked fourteen feet above showing a fall of over a foot per which, the committee, in a absurd. The condition ates the existence of a gorge be- Vista: it is caused, the commit- res, by a channel too narrow and ment and by the existence of at the mouth of the river below Col- lle. The committee is, furthermore, that the fact of the tidal channel o Vista being choked, is at the the difficulties. committee finds that it prevents ” by Suisun Bay, at each waters accumulating is the cause of the high-water marks, causing to levees of Sherman, Bran- Ryer and Andrus districts, Rio below The Egber and serio y thregtening others; it ex- plains the excessfve fiood heights of | Cache Slough, preventing it from drain- | g Yolo Basi and it also explains the | erdam” (so-called) at the confluence | ool POSTUM CEREAL. "OLD FOBY KNEW. Experience Teaches People. “My parents considered coffee simply a harmiess beverage for old tnd young, 80 when & mere baby I commenced to drink it, and when 1 reached womanhood found myself troubled with nervousness, head- | eche and an irritable temper and to ob- tain relief I drank more and more coffee, thus adding fuel to the fire, ] grew worse until life was one black | night of pain. My nerves were shattered, | body wrecked with suffering, my stomach | gave out and utterly refused to digest the most simple foods, and finally I lay for weeks starving and longing for food, but | unable to eat more than just enough to | keep me alive. | “While in this state my next door neighbor brought in a fragrant cup that | 1 suppesed was some new grade of coffee, | | | and although I had suffered so terribly from its effects, the temptation was too | strong to resist, and I drank it with rel- | ish. I noticed it had a rich, agreeable taste and I drank it without distress. She repeated the kindness two or three | mornings | “I began to congratulate myself that it | was not coffee that hurt me after all. I, was assuring my friend of this one day | when she astonished me by saying that 1| was not drinking coffee, but a pure food drink celled Postum Food Coffee, made from nourishing grain for building up the system and mnerves instead of tearing them down. “I then began to drink Postum regu- larly, and to get well slowly but surely. To-day I am a strong, hearty woman; my nervous system is entirely rebuilt and | with a reserve force of strength in time of need; I sleep well and awake refreshed and feel bright for each day’s task, with no indigestion or stomach trouble, and a good, serong, active brain, ready for any mental strain or tofl. There is no doubt on earth that coffee nearly killed me. “A friend of mine was obliged to resign her position as school teacher because of xtreme nervousness caused by coffee rinking. I induced her to use Postum in place of coffee, and at the end of four months she began teaching again, her nervousness gone, and feeling and looking ten years younger; her sallow complexion heving become @& beautiful, healthy bloom.” Name given by Postum Co., Bat- tle Creek, Mich, to raise the crests of the weirs| | despaired of and practically abandoned. nese were brought forth and at the point | of revolvers, were made to give over their | money, about $17,00. Obtalning this, ‘the | | pirates embarked in their boat again and | | heading toward Cavite threatened to kill | ll hands on the brig if they did not keep quiet. | When the vessel arrived at Manila the | customs authorities were informed, but | no clew was found to the robbers. | @ deieleele el 4 @ of Old River and Steamboat Slough, and which in its turn causes those waterways | to stand still and even Fun up stream at | ficod times. Assuming that the channel below Rio Vista were so corrected and improved that the gauge at Rio Vista, even in an 1862 flood, should mark, at low tide, five feet apove zero and at high tide nine feet above zero, the waters would be prevent- ed, even in the highest floods, from ever reaching at Rio Vista a helght above nine | fect, or five feet below high-water mark of March 2 this year. BIG RESULTS POSSIBLE. The committee is of the opinion that at low tide it would drop say four feet, causing such a current velocity in Steara- | boat Slough and Old River as to ald im- mensely in scouring out of those channels the sediment and “‘slickens” deposited there by the operation of hydraulic min- | irg; it alone would have a great influ- | ence on high-water marks at points above, even at Sacramento City whart, probably as much as two feet; it would solve the Cache Slough problem, as that | stream and adjacent territory would be easily drained; it would increase tidal ac tion to such an extent in the summer | months that a strong tidal action would make itself felt at Sacramento City. This increase of tidal in and out flow would further materially assist in_creating and | maintaining a deep-water' channel. Inci- | dentally, it would make possible the re- clamation of valuable tracts of land now The one measure that should receive precedence, says the committee, over all others for relief is the finding of means | for affording the enormous volume of wa- | ter now presenting itself at Rio Vista for passage an easy, short and effective way of escape to tidewater. The committee, in dealing with the “popular belief” that the cheapest and | niost practicable solution of the problem | would be the construction of a canal | called the Montezuma Canal, concludes | that the ditch would have to be at least | ten feet below low tide and 1200 feet wide, while the greater portion of the canai would run over lands at an elevation of from twenty to forty feet above low tide, | where the sofl is hard and partly rocky. COST OF CONSTRUCTION. The expense of constructing a similar canal would make the cost in she neigh- berhood of $10,000,000, and assuming that it were possible to procure such a sum for such a purpose, the committee is of the opinion that the result would be a division of the flood waters into two deep tide channels, which it does not consider desirable. The proposition of stralghtening out end widening Rio Vista channel by cut- | ting off Horseshoe Bend impressed the committee, but it had, after all, found a better, shorter, easier and absolutely ef- ficient way to procure an outlet to tide- water. The channel from Rio Vista to Collins- ville, points out the committee, is four- teen miles in length. To widen and. im- prove the same, and to correct its mouth, would cost at least $500,000. The lower reaches of the San Joaquin River are one mile wide, and the committee says for all practical purposes can be consid- ered as tide water. It then goes ont to point out that in making a cut through | Sherman Island 15,000 feet long and about | 1300 feet in width, gradually widening to 1400 feet, the distance from Rio Vista to | tide water would be reduced by eight | miles and would by actual measurement be six and a half miles. The committee feels assured that by the construction of the new mouth of the Sacramento River, high water mark at Rio Vista, even in an 1862 flood, would never rise to within five feet of that reached on March 2, last. This, say the investigators, would allow a fall of six inches to the mile, which they consider ample when once the new channel will | be in working order. : The committee’s report continues as fol- ows: CANAL EXPENSIVE. The cut propésed would be made in soft peaty land situate at an average elevation of three feet below low tide. The entire channel below Grand Island ought to be made of a uniform cross area, funnel shaped, and we recommend the eonstruction of a channel 1200 | féet wide at the confluence of Old River and | eamboat Slough, gradually wideéning out to 1300, fet at the beginning of the cut proposed and 1400 feet at the end. X This work will entail the = construction of small jetties at the foot of Brannan Island and a widening of the chanmel on the right bank. According to the estimate made at our request by the Department of Public. Works, this entire channel correction could be made for about $400,000. 1In vjew of the fact that the proposed Montezuma' canal, which would have to be excavated to an average depth of thirty feet, with a length of eight and a halt miles, and at a cost estimated at $10,000,000, would but partially accomplish what has been shown @an better be done for $400,000 by mak-. ing a cut two and'a half miles long to a depth of say ten feet, your committee is fain to_express the hope that the ‘‘Montezuma canal” proposition, that fruitful ~ discussion among saplent river residents, will no longer be considered In a serious discussion for devis- ing plans to relleve Sacramento Valley from river fi It has been unfavorably reported upon ‘by every engineer who has ever esti- mated its cost during the last twenty-five years, and it ought long agoo have been dead and buried and should hereafter remain so. FAVOR SHERMAN ISLAND. As a corollary to the. proposed cut through Sherman Island, the improvement of the mouth of the S8an Joaquin River below Antloch wouid have to be undertaken. It is & matter of sin- eere congratulation that the United States en- gineering corps is nigp only in full acéord with the views of your committee, pressed, in reference to the cut through She man Isiand, but iz Willing to undertake the im- provement at the mouth of the San Joaquin River at national expense, for which purpose appropriations have already been asked from the War Departmen shil proposed will be the first important step toward the solution of the great.problem before us. RISKS HER OWN LIFE TO PREVENT A TRAGEDY Society Favorite in Marin County Hero- ically Assists a Family by Releasing Two Infuriated Horses From a Carriage o+ WELL KNOWN SOCIETY FAVORITE WHO RENDERED HEROIC SER- VICE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF A CARRIAGE WHEN THE HORSES BECAME UNMANAGEABLE ON A SAN RAFAEL STREET. g W %, — AN RAFAEL, Dec. 9.—Miss Alice Hoffman, a society favorite, golf enthusiast, former champion ten- nis player and expert. equestri- enne, is the heroine of the hour in San Rafael. Her brilliant acnievement was notdn athletical sports, but in stop- ping a runaway team and thereby saving | the lives of J. W. Cochrane, his wife and three children, at the risk of her own. Cochrane, who resides on Petaluma ave- nue, has a team of spirited horses. Yes- terday afternoon, about 2 o'clock. Mrs. Cochrane and three children accompanied Mr. Cochrane on a drive. While driving down Petaluma avenue the fire alarm sounded. The horses became excited and attempted to run away. Mrs. Cochrane was on the front seat of the vehicle with | her husband, while the children occupied the rear seat. The team became almost | unmanageable and but for the expert) horsemanship of Cochrane would have i thrown the rig into a fence. By putting | on the brake and holding a tight rein he was enabled to keep the team in the mid-. @i The problem at the present time confronting us i the contruction of a channel below the foot of Grand Island to tide water of proper align- ment, width and depth to accommodate th» combined waters of Cache Slough, Steamboat Slough, American, Feather and - Sacramento rivers, This we are convinced the proposed cut | through Sherman Island and proposed channel correction will furnish. That' work accomplished the next step will be to procure a channel from the foot of Grand Island to the mouth of the American River for the combined floods of the three rivers last named. After having taken care of American River our attention will have to be directed to find means of easy escape for the united Sacra- mento and Feather rivers from the mouth of the American River to that of the latter stream. Finaily a new channel for the Sacramento River proper above the mouth of the Feather River will have to be made, of such character as wiil prevent excessive flood heights at Co- lusa and voints below and as will efable adjacent landowners to build levees which ean | cope with the situation, even In an 1862 flood. CARE OF FLOOD WATERS. With this cut through Sherman Island fin- ished and permanent water gauges established along the river at not too large intervals the problem of taking care of the flood waters of the Sacramento Valley can gradually and surely be accomplished. ~The gauge readings at flood periods would give us invaluable in- formation of the existence of -nsufficient channel areas, and in case the fall in the flood plane between any two gauges should for a given distance greatly exceed the aver- age it would indicate the fact that the river was choked at that point and a remedy could be found. This could be afforded either by the cutting of a point by a dredger, by scour- ing out the channel bottom by propérly direct- ing the current by jetties or by widening the | channel in o certain section, By working up stream in this way we will gradually reach the upper Sacramento and a happy and perfect solution will have been found for the reclamation of the Jands border- ing_upon that stream. Neither will this work require a very long space of time. Assuming the necessary ap- propriations were promptly forthcoming two vears ought to finish the: cut through Sher- man Island: two years more ought to bring us to the mouth of the American River, and two years after that at Colusa and points above. But at present all the energies of every man having at heart the welfare of the two valleys should be centered an that one initial step. i : EFFECTS OF JETTIES. The committee speaks of the beneficial effecty of the jetties by increased scour- ing action of the river, as is shown by the gauge reading at the foot of E street, Sacramento. It shows the river to be at L _ _ _ ____ __ _ _______ _ _ . __ ] NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. THISTLES AND DANDRUFF. An Interesting Parallel and a Valu- " able Deduction Therefrom. Cutting down thistles no more relieves.. the land of thistles than does scouring the sealp cure dandruff. In each case per- manent relief can only come from eradi- | cating permanently the cause. A germ that plows up u: scalp in searching for the hair root, where it saps the vitality, atecs anndruft, falling hair and pai ness. If you kiil that germ you'll have no dandruff, but a luxuriant suit of hair. Newbro’s Herpicide is the only hair prep- ration In the world that cures dandruff, Lmn. hair and baldness by killing the germ. ‘“Destroy the cause, you remove the effect.”” Sold at leading dhl‘l stores, Send 10 cents in stamps for sample to The Herpicide Co., Detroit, Mich. ’ dle of the road. The horses succeeded in cramping the front wheel, however, and commenced to kick. Mrs. Cochrance was unable to alight and her children were too frightened to do so. Several times the animals barely, missed the mother's head with their hoofs. To quiet them was impossible and their kicking became more violent. Finally one of the horses got straddle of the pole, making the other more vicious than ever. g Miss Hoffman, who drives every after- noon ‘along the boulevard in her trap, happened along at a time when the Coch- ranes were in a most serious predica- ment. She realized the situation at once, stopped her horse, and jumping out of the rig, went to their assistance. Coch- rane told her not to get near the animals’ heads, but she did, seizing them by the bridles, and tried to quiet them. The horses plunged and in every way en- | deavored to get away, but Miss Hoffman retained her hold.. She was dragged some distance. After quieting the horses Miss Hoffman unfastened the fraces and re- leased the animals. o 2 e S e e e e o 2 ST ) 6.9 feet, or lower than at any time since 1862, and, notwithstanding this lower ele- vation, channel area hak increased and the bed of the river lowered materially. The captains report an excellent channel for reaching Sacramento, while the mail Yoats in former years could not reach Sacramento city wharf during two months of the year unless they had been lightened. This, says the committee, should be an encouragement to continue on thé lines lald down, for it is belleved that the cut proposed through Bherman Island alone would cause tidal action to be strongly felt in Sacramento. Jetties, says the committee, may seem to ob- struct, but instead they are in accordance with good hydraulic practice and should not be disturbed. The members of the investigating com- mittee were Frank Miller, president; P, J. Van Loben Sels, George McNoble, F. H. Harvey, G. Peart, W. Tarke and G. E. H. Glide. . MRS. EDWARD A. REDDY FOLLOWS LATE HUSBAND Widow of Former Superintendent of Almshouse Dies at That Insti- tution. Mrs. Carolyn Barah Reddy, widow of the late Captain E. A. Reddy, at the time of his death superintendent of the Alms- house, died at that institution, of which she was the matron, last Monday. Mrs, Reddy was beloved by the many who knew her for her kindly manner and high character. She was well connected and during her lifetime became acquaint- ed with many people of prominence. Her father was Benjamin B. Jackson of Yreka, Calif. Mrs. Reddy Became matron of the Almshouse when her husband was made superintendent and assisted him greatly in his splendid and successful efforts to better the condition. of that institution ard bring it to the high standard that characterized it when he died. s It 1s supposed that grief over the death of her husband hastened Mrs. Reddy’s end. He was the brother of Patrick Red- dy, the prominent attorney, also dead. —_—— LEWISTON, Mont., Dee. 9.—The Am Hotel was destroyed by fire carly to-day. " AD What Shall We Have for Dessert ? This question arises in the evewdl.mmltm"..mmny o mizsten . No botis 2. . No boiling —Lettion, berry and Strawberry, Get u:yvm'gmtu—day.v tocts. no to | EVICTION TALES i HEARERS Strike Commission Lis- tens to Pathetic Testimony. Old Miner Tells of His Wife’s Death After Loss of His Hcme. SCRANTON, Pa., Dec. her home, attention. After closing the Jiarkle case the repre- sentatives of the miners called witnesses | who formerly had beer employed in the mines of several companies, -to show that a blacklist existed and that some of the | the agreement | companjes had broken which ended the strike and resulted in the appointment of the arbitration com- mittee. The first witness to-day was James Mc- Monigle, a miner formerly employed by the Markle Company. He said the breast he was working in was so dangerous that he complained to the company officials that he might be killed. He was told that if he worked in any other breast he would not be given any cars. He went out on strike and after the suspension he was re- ‘fused work and evicted from his house. D. D. Gallagher, another Murkle miner, | testified that the company charged him | %5 cents a gallon for oil that sold in He- belton, a few miles away, for 18 cents, and 32 cents a Quire for blasting paper that could be had for 15 cents. 4 Chairman Gray asked what the outside market price for powder was. the independent operators said $1 2 a keg. but attoffieys for the miners said % to 9 cents a keg. The companies are selling 1t to the miners at $150 a keg. DEATH FOLLOWS EVICTION. Andrew Hannik, a Hungarian, told how the Markles evicted him. He was followed, by Henry Coll, another Markie miner, who told how his family, including his | motherin-law, who was 100 years old, were set out on the road with their house- hold goods. He gave a graphic deserip- tion of how he was injured many times | in the mines. He sald cne of his legs was no better than a wooden one: he had only one eve, his hands had been crushed, his rips broken and his skull fractured. The company gave him noth- | ing until after the employes took up a | collection for him; then he was given $50 after having been on the injured list for The company took out of the two years. collection the rent he owed. Then followed the most pathetic story yet told the commission. ried on. walk. The day on which thrown out was rainy. was quite cold, much. “We were, greatly worried because of our having been turned out of the house and one night,” “she dled. “She died?” sald Judge Gray, who was | pacing to and fro across the room, as | he quickly turned when he heard the man’s last words. “Yes, sir, yesterday.” All the Commissioners and many of those in the courtroom were much af- fected by the old miner's story. The wit- ness went on to say that he did not know whether the centenarian was alive to-day or not. She was in bad condition owing to her daughter's death when he left the house last night. No one cared to cross-examine and Judge Gray said: “That is all, Mr. Coll, and thats Late Shipping Intelligence. enough.” i : ARRIVED. FOUL AIR IN GANGWAYS. Tuesday, December 0. Two more witnesses told of how they were refused work by the Markle Com- pany, and then J. B. Gallagher, national board member of the United Mine Work- ers of America for the Hazleton distriet, took the stand and told of conditions as he found them at the mines of, the Mar< The air in some of the kle Company. gangways, he said, was so bad that-min- ers’ lamps would not burn. air that he had to go out. was now working for that company. An 18-year-old Hungarian slate picker employed by the Markles said that be- fore the strike he received 8 cents, and now he received only 75 cents a day. The company never notified him of the | reduction. He sald the breaker boss, who | stands over the pickefs, often clubbed him, kicked him and swore at him for not picking slate faster. ¥ Mrs. Kate Burns of Jeddo was an engineer inside the Markle mines. The husband was port. to relieve her condition. CHARGED WITH BACK RENT. containing only two rooms, help earn the daily bread. At the end of the first month the lad brought home his wage statement, show- ing that the mother owed $3% for back rent. The boy's wages for the month had been taken off the bill and he came home She submitted to this, and in the course of time her next boy was old enough to help earn a living, and e received cted for ‘The tears of the mother on the witness time welling up, and the money she empty-handed. he, too, was sent to the colliery. the older brother, the second no pay, his earnings being rent. stand were by this n when she added that earned for ':lalnll'lgh ‘was never given to the company for rent, the Com: 1 the Markle it took 'the three of them —Tales of evie- /| tion from houses owned by G. B. Markle & Co., the narration of the death of a wife as a result of an enforced removal from and the story of a mother whose husband was killed in the Markle | mines, and of how she aad her two boys struggled for years to pay the Mnrklesl the back rent and coal bill she owed them, were the pringipal features of to-| day's sessions of the coal strike hearing. ; The testimony as presegted by some of the witnesses whose lives are given up to the coal mining industry was -at times pathetic and surprising to the commis- sioners, who listened to it with undivided Some of The old miner, decrepit from many injuries, told under examination of how the eviction was car- The wife was sick and her 100- year-old mather was blind and unable to they were't He took them as best he could to Hazleton, seven miles away, and placed them in a cold, damp, empty house. This was last month, when | the atmosphere on the Hazleton Mountain His wife became worse. Medical aid was kindly furnished free by a Hazsleton doctor, but it did not help her he sald between sobs, she died, and I buried her “If he had a arill hole started and. the lamp went out | he would continue work in the dark until | his condition became so weakened by the | So far as he could remember not one man who was on any of the Markle grievance committees then called to the stand and told of how she and her two boys worked thirteen years to pay off an accumulated house rent and coal bill due to the Markle Company. She was examined by Lawyer Darrow and in answer, to his questions said her husband killed underground, leaving her with four children, the oldest of whom was a boy of 8 years, to sup- The company never did anything After her husband had been killed she moved from her four-room house into one one room above the other, and for the next six years she struggled as best she could to get along. She took in washing, scrubbed for the neighbors and once in a while she was given the cleaning of the offices of the Matkle Company. During these six years, she sald, she kept her children at school, and when the eldest child was 14 years old she sent him to the mines. to offices er, but was kept by missioners ed at one another in surprise. She thirteen years to make up the debt, the mother's earnings from neighbors being the prin- FRIENDS HONOR - FAMOUS JURIST Bar of Supreme Court Gives Dinner to Jus- tice Harlan. President Pays High Tribute to the Guest of the Occasion. N SRSt WASHINGTON, Dec. 9.—The dinner given by the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States at the new Willard Hotel to-night to Justice John Marshall Harlan, in recognition of the completion of twenty-five years of service on the bench of the Supeme Court, was a bril- liant function. ‘When the guests had been seated grace was said by Rev. Richard D. Harlan of Lake Forest, Ill, eldest son of .the Jus- \llce. who had come to Washington espe- cially for the. occasion. Justice Harlan was in his happiest mood and gave every evidence of his appreciation of the honor bestowed on him. His two other sons— James S. Harlan, Chief Justice of Porto Rico, and John Maynard Harian of Chi- cago—also. were present, while Mrs. and Miss Harlan and a host of friends were interested spectators in the. gallery. Interest in the banquet, outside of Jus- tice Harlan, centered in President Roose- velt. His arrival shortly after ,9:30 o’clock was the signal of a great out- burst of applause. The President warmly congratulated Justice Harlan, grasping | him by both hands before taking his seat. When the time for speechmaking ar- rived Wayne MacVeagh im a few appro- priate remarks introduced the President, who spoke in part as follows: Mr. Chairmaii and Gentlemen: It is a pe- culfar privilege to be here fo-night as one of those gathered to do homage to & career which has honored Ameries. It is not an Idle boast of this couniry whep we speak of the court | upon which Mr. Justice Harlan sits as the | jmost {llustrious and important in all the civil- “ized world. It is not merely our own people who say that—Iit is the’ verdict. of other na- tions as well. Mr. Justice Harlan has served for a quarter of a century on that bench. During that time he has exercised an influence over the judicial statésmanship of the court of a kind such as is possible only under own own form of govern- ment. For the Judges of the Supreme Court of the land must be not only great jurfsts, but they must be great constructive statesmen. It will be a bad thing for the nation If er we grow as a nation to submit to the sup- | pression of efficiency and morality, if we ever grow to accept the belief that we are to have two camps, in one of which will be grouped | the men who mean well but who do not do things, and in the other the men who do things but who do not mean well. The art of successful self-government is not an easy art for people or for individuals. It comes to our people here as the inheritance of | ages of effort. It can be thrown away; it can | be unlearned very easily, and it will surely be unlearned if we forget the vital need not merely of preaching but of practicing both sets | of virtues—if we forget the vital need of ha: ing the average citizen not only a good ma but a man deeply sensible of the responsibility resting on évery man of the Supreme Court. whose power for g00d of evil scarcely could be exaggerated. But he rejoices that in the judg- ment of America it had steadily held the country in the path of safety, sd that to-day our people believe preservation of the Union under the constitution is the surest guarantee | of liberty regulated by law as well as of the | | | success of all movements and all policies de- manded by the common good. Other speakers of the evening were | Chief Justice Fuller, Justice Brewer, Sen- | ator Hoar, Edward Blake of Canada, Judge Alexander P. Humphrey of Ke: tucky, Assistant Attorney General Beck | and R. Ross Perry of the District of Co- lumbia. NEW WESTERN HOTEL. C Bloomdahi, S Jose E Crotteau, Wis J Highland, ‘San Jose(J Bourbanks, Wis J J Thomas, Rio Vista Miss Bourbanks, Wis O Borger & wf, Mexico/Miss L Bourbanks, Wis H E Harrison, Valiejo|J Murray, St Paul H L Porter, Vallejo |J P Bogsgs, St Paul J,G McGann, Oakiand/E Kelley, St Paul P'Brennan, Cakland |Migs Walsh, N Y S T Wines, Ruby VallJ J Treavor, N Y L Covert, Ruby Valley' R Davidson, N Y H Driseoll, Oakland, |Miss Davidson, N Y J King, Oakland G B Spartan, Sit Lake | J B Lane, Portland |Miss L Spartan, § Lke | J D Morris, San Jose [Miss E Spartan, S Lke | H Rosseau, s“s"}';;e P Crawford, Reno B heeler, ts D Sweeney & 4, | F G Clark, El Paso | Reno '3 W Burns, Byron Spgs C Humblebee, Scranton | B Spread, Byron Spgs W Harris, P J F Firsch, Oakland |W Kane, Pa J Scott, Oakland B_Baird, Philadelpha | G Gibson, Omaha M Redford, N ¥ G Jones, Omaha J D King, N Y Mrs Buckholden & son,| Miss L King, N Y Philadelphia i Stmr National City, Johnson, 25 hours from Cleone. DOMESTIC PORTS. PORT TOWNSEND—Arrived Dec 9—Ship Paul Revere. from Port Gamble, for Cape Town; schr Alcalde, from Whatcom, for Mon- terey. Sailed Dec 0—Ship John Ena, from Seattle, “LoRT “rAkeLEy. R —Sailed John Smith, for Ballard. it g SAN DIEGO—Arrived Dee 9—Ger ship El- frieda, from Hamburg. ~Reéports having buried ORIA, stmr Sequol Willapa Hhtbor for San mnmcs:' o towed ! n by the tug Wallula in teriogged ~ tion ang her rudder xone. it @ “iiimivieiinivisellel el @ cipal dontribution toward tenance of the family. The debt was cleared last August. During the six years from the time her husband was killed unfil the time when the first boy went to work the company never asked the main- WHITE SQUADRON WING A VICTORY Escapes the Blue Scouts and Captures Harbor of Mayaguez. Channel Is Mined Before the Supposed Enemy Ap- poars in Sight. ——— MAYAGUEZ, Dec. 9.—A notable victory was achieved this morning by Admiral Sumner, in command of the white squad- ron, with the Iowa, Illinols, Albany and Chicago. He captured Mayaguez without resistance at 6:24 this morning and im- mediately mined the harbor. The Nash- ville and Eagle subsequently entered the channel and reported that the Atlanta and the San Francisco had last been seen off | Ponce ana that perhaps’ they had been overtaken. Admiral Sumner's victory was due to the careful execution of his plans. Under the rules the white squadron would win if it entered the port selected and worked for ome hour laying mines before the arrival of a blue squadron double its strength. The white squadron would lose if it was intercepted by a su- perfor force at sea or within one hour after having anchored in the port selected. Therwhite squadron sailed from Trini- dad the morning of December 4 And especially careful watch was kept Decem~ ber 7 when the four vessels were due north of Culebra Island, which Admiral Sumner supposed to be the center of the north and south line of the blue scouts. In order to avoid these scouts Admiral Sumner kept moré than 200 miles away trom the land. On December 8 the lowa, Albany, Illinois and Chicago ran parallel with the north shore of Porto Rico until directly north of Mona Passage, when they turned to the south with the inten- tion of making San Domingo, sneaking along the shore of that island and mak- ing a dash across the Mona Passage un- der forced draught to Mayaguez. ‘When entering the Mona Passage at 2 o'clock this morning the squadron stopped for a short time. No blue scouts were sighted until dawn. Then the Olym- pla, Cincinnati, Detroit and Montgomery were seen. These vessels had been scout- ing on the north shore of Porto Rico. All preparations for mining the harbor had been made when the four vessels of the’ white squadron dropped their anchers in Mayaguez harbor at 6:24 o'clock this morning. The last vessel to anchor was the Chicago. Boats were lowered at once and the mining of the chanmel was fin- ished in thirty-four minutes. It is expected that Admiral Sumner will sail to-night for Culebra Island, where he will transfer his flag. Admiral Dewey will then organize the fleet; Admiral Hig- ginson will have command of the first squadron; all the battle ships will be in the second division, which will be under command of jAdmiral Crowninshield. The second squadron, to include all the cruis- ers, will be under the command of Ad- miral Sumner. Aeeeegeps—peey DETECTIVES DECLARE THE WILL A FORGERY Assert That Mrs. Driggs’ Claim to the Hill Estate Is Based on > Fraud. CHICAGO, Dec. 9.—Telegrams from Los Angeles received in'Chicago to-day, say~ ing that Mrs. Gertrude Driggs, the wife of Nelson Driggs, the counterfefter, had presented an alleged will mdking her daughter the sole heir to $142,000 in cash left by a man known as Charles Hill, who | died May 17, 192, were read with interest by the officials of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency. The operatives of this agency have been working quietly for some tme on the Hill case and this even- ing they pronounced Mrs, Driggs’ action one of the boldest attempts at fraud ever | made in this country. They asderted positively that Mrs. Driggs never knew or heard of Charles ‘Hill until .a Los Angeles lawyer injudi- clously gave an account of his death and a statement of the money he left to the newspapers. The managers of the local Pinkerton agency aver Mrs. Driggs originated and is tfying to put through a cleverly ar- ranged plan to get possession of the for- tune of a man whom she brands 48 a counterfeiter and former associate of her husband, when, In fact, he was an honeat but eccentric man, who lived under an assumed name. They add that the man known as Charfes Hill was Salem B. Charles, uncle of Salem B. Charles, ehair- man of the Street Committee of Boston, Mass. s Manager Schumaker of the Pinkertom Detective Agency said to-night: Mrs. Driggs never the man known be- fore his death as Charles HIll. He was nét & | counterfeiter and never knew the woman's hus- band nor George Manning. ~Hill died lsst May ndling his estate was unable . This lawyer injudiel ory to the Los Angsles papers. 't that $142,000 in cash awaited Mrs. Driggs saw a chance to get including the a claimant. | the money and she presented the bogus will and claimed that Hill had been a former com- panfon of her husband, who was one of ti most notorious counterfeiters this country éver produced. Mrs. Driggs had a plausibie story fixed up, and as Hill lived the Iife of a recluse few persons could contradict her yarn, ey e SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., Dec. 8~ All ‘doudbt as to the fate of the barge Ceitic was settled to-day by the of a quantity of wreckage near Thessa- lon, Ont. The Celtic was commanded by Captain Jeffrey and carried a crew of 7 her for rent. This is a sensational sale because at a Low Price mercl n't terms. on easy OPEN EV/ unprecedented in the history of San Fran- cisco. It affords you an opportunity to get A High-Grade Piano ‘We must vacate premises. It would be unwise to store our stock until our bulld- ing is ) B0 We are determined to Sell All Our Pianos ; At Sacrifice Prices We Include the wonderful toned WEBER piano, and all our musieal Banjos, Guitars, Mandolins, etc. ot this opportunity pass unhecded. We will sell for cash or e s . Geary St eight. it is ENINGS.