The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 26, 1902, Page 4

- THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1902. ns to W. S LEAKE. Manager # ddress Al ommunicatio; Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Departmenrt You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, S. F. | EDITORIAL ROOMS. ....2%7 to 221 Stevenson St. | Delivered by Carriers, 15 Cents Per Week. Terms DAILY CALL (including Sunday), oze year.. DAILY CALL dncluding Sunday), 6 months. DAILY CALL (including Sunday), 3 months. DAILY CALL—By Single Month. EUNDAY CALL, One Yesr,. WEEELY CALL, One Year. All Postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested. | Mall subscribers in ordering change of address ehould be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order o insure 3 prompt and correct compilance with their request. OAKLAND OFFICE .1118 Broadway ©. GEORGE KROGNESS. Yensger Yoreign Advertising, Marquette Building, Chieago. (ong Distance Telephone “‘Central 2619."") XEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. 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HEN the press of the country was indulging W dire forebodings and the Hearst papers | were faking the way to a popular furor in ! behalf of the irresponsible autocracy of Castro, The | Call forecast the course of events in the Venezuela | difficulty. We said there myst be arbitration, and there is. Every nation west of the Danube sought to test the | Monroe doctrine, to see whether in addition to Latin- American sovereignty and territory it also protected: Latin-American violation of the rights of person and | property of the nationals of other countries. The lat- | ter has for some time been the interpretation of that | American doctrine by adventurers like Castro. But; now they will learn otherwise. The Monroe doctrine | is purged of a dishonorable construction, and the | issues to be arbitrated by President Roosevelt will b:’: decided on the lines of legal stability for the right of | man to his own person and his own property. ! In the general use of arbitration the arbitrator be- comes functus officio when the award is rendered, | having no power to enforce it. The nation concerned | in the award in behalf of its nationals has the func-| tion of enforcing the judgment. The very august | tribunal of The Hague is a court with international | judicial power, but without authority to enforce its | finality. In its case the nation concerned in enforcing | the judgment bécomes the sheriff—the executive officer. | The selection of President Roosevelt as arbitrator | is, in a%ense, compulsory. On The Hague panel| from which an arbitral court is drawn are the | nationals of all the European countries that are in- | terested in the issue to be tried. Canceling them off the eligible pancl, there ate not judges enough to constitute 2 court. It is therefore not from willfulness, 2s some mistaken papers have asserted, that the con- certed powers ask President Roosevelt to act, but from necessity. His services as arbitrator will disclose another feature in the Monroe doctrine not heretofore con- sidered. When his award is made it is the judgment of the leader of this hemisphere, and it must be obeyed. Castro, like other Latin-American rulers, has been in the habit of shuffling, evading, temporizing | and wasting time in avoidance of the obligations of | law and honor. This will be no longer tolerated. It is already in evidence that parties stand ready to finance the award, and thereby put Venezuelan finances on a sound footing when it is understood | that President Roosevelt is the judge and the United States the sheriff, and execution will promptly follow judgment. When all this is disclosed there will be no more spoliation of alien nationals in Latin- America. Those governments will have learned re- spect for the rights of person and property by com- pulsion, and they will be better states for the lesson. SE——— The House of Representatives has adopted a measure designed to place restrictions upon the man- ufacture and sale of impure foods. Some friend of this municipality should send.a copy of the hali-made law to our Board of Health. If no other good were accomplished it might keep our local officials out of * mischief while they were striving to understand | the bill. Five of the boodling officials of St. Louis, strange to relate, have been convicted. Perhaps this is a covert move on the part of the city to establish a foundation for 2 museum of freaks relating to Ameri- can municipal life. A convicted office-holder of an American city ought to command a premium in a| museum of curiosities. Santa Teresa, the lady who has won more than her share of notoriety by pretending the possession of miraculous powers, is suing for divorce. Even from her own point of view she probably realizes that it requires something more than a power divine to manage a man. In these nights of hold-ups and the operations of midnight marauders our police officers are entitled to the highest consideration. They are succeeding ad- mirably in keeping out of the way, and are sparing | us the humiliation of being robbed. Senator Morgan still insists that the canal will be constructed by the Nicaragua route, and when he gets | deserving of careful consideration. TRUST LEGISLATION. TTENTION has been directed by The Call to the recent statement of Judge Grosscup in | his address before the University of Nebraska | that the first step toward efficient legislation against | the ‘evils of trusts must be the repeal of the Sherman anti-trust law. The Judge argued that the law, if strictly cnforced, would prevent two grocerymen doing business on opposite sides of a street from form- ing a partnership to operate their business in com- mon, whereas, if not strictly enforced, it would place | business at the mercy of officials, who might prosecute one set of men and spare another set. The argument appears valid on the face, and, com- ing as it does from a jurist of such eminence, it is It is to be noted, however, that other suthorities not less eminent hold | that the act is of value, and that it may prove suffi- cient for all present needs in dealing with the prob- lem. The House of Representatives has taken that | view, and an amendment to the legislative appropria- tion bill providing a sum of $300,000 for the Attorney General ir enforcing the act was passed without a division, receiving support from both parties. It is believed in Washington that the House is so firmly | convinced of the sufficiency of the Sherman act that it is doubtful if any further legislation on the subject can be carried through that body at this session. On the other hand, it is noted that Senator Hoar has taken a keen interest in the subject, and has an- nounced that he is preparing a comprehensive bill in the way of remedial legislation. He has obtained | from the Senate the unusual privilege of filing the bill at any time, and it is now being awaited with much interest. In an address delivered in Boston last Octo- | ber Mr. Hoar announced that he is virtually the | author of the so-called “Sherman act,” and stated | that the section defining the offense was framed by | him after the bill had been submitted to the Judiciary Committee. This would seem to imply that the! Senator is fairly well satisfied with the law, and that | his new bill will not be radically different from it. In his speech Senator Hoar summed up the evils | of trusts by saying they cause, first, destruction of competition; second, the management of the indus- tries by absentee capital; third, destruction of local public spirit; fourth, fraudulent capitalization; fifth, secrecy; sixth, management for the private benefit of the officers; seventh, the power to corrupt electjons, and in some cases to corrupt the courts; eighth, in- difference to public sentiment. He further expressed the opinion that the first, the fourth and fifth of these evils should be cured by legislation, while the others could be safely left to the natural operation of eco- nomic Jaw. It is understood, moreover, that Senator Hoar's bill is to represent something more than his individual | opinion. It is announced that he has been in confer- ence with Attorney General Knox on the subject. and Washington is prepared to receive the bill as anl administration measure. That has awakened renewed | interest in recent addresses on the subject by the Attorney General, and it is recalled that in a recent speech at Pittsburg he said: “Corporations and joint stock or other associations, depending upon any | statutory law for their existence or privileges, trading | beyond their own States, should be required to doi business in every State and locality upon precisely | the same terms and conditions. There should be no | discrimination in prices, no preferences in service. | Such corporations, serving the public as carriers and in similar capacities, should be compelled to' keep | the avenues of commerce free and open to all on the | same terms, and to observe the law as to its injunc- | tions as to stifling competition. Moreover, corpora- | tions upon which the people depend for the necessities | of life should be required to conduct their business | so as regularly and reasonably to supply their needs. They should be subject to visitorial supervision, and full and accurate information as to their operations should be made regularly at reasonable intervals. Secrecy in the conduct and results of operation is unfair to the non-managing stockholders, and should, as well, for reasons of state, be prohibited by law.” Should the new bill take the form of an adminis- tration measure, it is probable the House would pass it despite the prevailing belief in that body that the present law is sufficient. It is therefore not improb- able that we shall have something in the way of new legislation at this session. The Democratic element in Congress remains an uneertain factor in the prob- lem. The leaders of that party hoped to make polit- ical capital out of the trust issue, and they will not be inclined tc help the Republicans settle it. If they do so it will be done ungraciously; but they are be- tween the devil and the deep sea, and it looks as if they must either support a Republican anti-trust bill or stand in with the trust: The childlike confidence with which strangers to the city submit to the wiles of that municipal pest known as the bunko-steerer and separate themselves from their coin suggests that the fool-killer is not yet ready to be banished from the earth. As a matter of duty he must remain among us. OUR MATCHLESS CHRISTMAS. ARELY can even Californians hope to see a R holiday seastm so perfect in every respect as this has been. The rains came just at the right time to clear the sky and brighten the earth; then they gave way to day after day of sunshine and pleas- | antness, so that no hour of the day or evening was dis- | agreeable to the shopper or the pleasure-seeker; and | they culminated yesterday in a‘day that realized a poet’s dream of Elysium. It was a day propitious to every and any kind of festival to which the heart or the caprice of man might incline him. It was fair enough for picnics in the open air. Garden parties would have been as comfortable as dances within doors. Whether one sought the churches or the parks he found a glory of flowers and a sense of an ever-present beauty that made a gladness for the eye. The enjoyment of the | people was equal to the occasion. There was no single charm of the day that did not have its fine influences on the minds and the hearts of old and young alike, and the Christmas was as joyous as ever fancy painted. Something was perhaps added to our delight in the day by the contrast which it made with the re- ports of thc morning concerning the weather in the East. The dispatches brought us news of blizzards blowing over the entire East from the Dakotas to | the Atlantic. In Minnesota the mercury went down ito 20 below zero, and the railway service in many parts of the State was crippled so that passengers eager to get to their homes for Christmas were de- layed. From Wisconsin came reports of a blizzard that swept the State on Christmas eve, covering warmed up on the subject his description of any other route is almost volcanie hing with drifting snow and impeding traffic. ‘xg,n s suffered the coldest weather of the winter, | | 000,000 in May, up to above 1,300,000,000 in June, accompanied by high winds, and similar reports came from most of the States of the Mississippi Valley. We have many reasons to rejoice in our State, for its resources are rich and varied; but after all our cli- mate is cur true golden blessing. It makes life a joy all the year round, and furnishes fruits and flow- ers for every festival, whether of summer or of winter. There is no other land like it under the sun. It was made for Christmas and for human happiness. A body blow has been struck at the envious, sour- spirited critics who come among us, accept our hospitality, feed upon our generosity, revel in our good cheer and then go away to attack our morals. One of our French restaurants has failed for lack of patronage. W Currency, in an address before the Bank- ers’ Association of New York, has repeated the warning to the country that while currency re- form is necessary to the security of business it will not be obtained without earnest efforts on the part of those who understand its importance. He is quoted as saying: “It is going to be extremely difficult to get anything done in the way of currency legislation. To accomplish anything there must be united and strong effort. There should be no pride of opinion or authorship in these matters, and no desire to have something new. Stability and soundness are the first requisite for.a financial proposition—novelty is the last.” 4 That such difficulty should exist in obtaining legis- lation of the kind is one of the curiosities of popular government. It is conceded by men of nearly all shades of opinion that some sort of reform is neces- sary, and there is little disagreement that the most serious defect in the present system is a lack of elasticity in the currency. The issue is not one of partisan controversy nor one of sectional antagonism. Nevertheless all authorities on the subject, one after another from the Secretary of the Treasury down, have repeated the.waming that if we are to get the reform we must fight for it as if it were some- thing over which a battle were raging. The present currency of the people of the United States is not a system, but a chaos. Mr. Ridgely said of it: “Our currency laws are a patchwork from beginning to end of measures passed for the emer- gency of a civil war, concessions to greenback fiatism, free silver and bimetallism, all compromises with prejudices and ignorance. Theys can be and must be | altered if our .progress in the trade of the world is to have the assistance of our financial system and not continue to be made in spite of it.” Speaking under the restrictions of his office, the Comptroller advocated no particular measure now be- fore Congress, nor did he intimate any preference for one over another. He did, however, insist upon the | passage of some measure that would give elasticity | CURRENCY REFORM. ILLIAM B. RIDGELY, Compttoller of the to our currency. As an illustration of the benefits of an elastic currency in times of crisis, he said: | “The most notable recent instance was during the last | crisis in Germany, where their splendidly elastic bank currency was of the greatest assistance and protection | to all classes of business. During the year 1900 its | volume fluctuated from about 1,100,000,000 marks in | January to 1,300,000,000 in March, back to 1,100,- down below 1,100,000,000 in August and up again above 1,400,000,000 in December.”” That we are in pressing need of a similarly elastic currency system has been demonstrated by the con- ditions which prevailed from the time the crops be- gan to move last summer down to the beginning of the holidays. Again and again did the national treasury have to go to the relief of the money mar- ket; and when it could do no more then a combina- | tion of capitalists had to form a pool for the relief | of the situation. - Everybody knows that such a con- dition of affairs is dangerous, and that the danger will recur next summer unless reform be instituted | at once. Still it seems it is going to be difficult to | get the reform. Evidently it is time for business men to inquire into the matter and find out why Congress | neglects to act. highwaymen in this city. One of the murderous on the severities of penitentiary life. tion of municipal operation of public utili- accounting is done few reports of the results of such control. Attention has also been directed to move- it is therefore worth noting that the same issue has The work in Massachusetts has been undertaken system adopted will probably be essentially the same describes the proposed bill as follows: “It is sub- the creation of a bureau to be known as ‘The Bureau to be three deputies and a clerk regularly employed annual inspection of the books of the various counties various counties of the State in proportion to their counts are audited. The expense of the new system comparison at any time of the amounts expended beneficence to municipalities. In short, a uniform that the movement to establish such accounting by defects, and it will then be easy to remedy them, so | vacancy in the presidency of the United | | if there were, and I should be offered one, | ! to consider anything of the kind.” | Steel Corporation besides being a larse TELLS OF LOOT OF CATHEDRALS IN OLD MEXICO TOIEDO, 0., Dec. 2%.—Warren J. Baker, | secretary of the Northwestern Ohio Ma- sonic Relief Association, to-day for the first time makes public the secret history of the looting of Catholic cathedrals dur- ing the Mexican War, tells how it was done, and of the burial of the treasure, His tongue was loosened by a newspaper dispatch from Mexico City telling of the discovery of a chest of diamonds, sap- phires, rubies, pearls and golden images beneath the flagstones in the chapel of Las Vozcainas College, in Mexico City. Mr. Baker's story rivals the mythical tales of Captain Kidd and, moreover, bears ‘the unmistakable stamps of truth. He says that his father marched from Vera Cruz to Mexico City with General Scott's army during the Mexican War. He and a tentmate, after plotting for weeks, dug their way into some of the richest cathedrals and pil- | laged them of their fabulous wealth of all sorts of valuable stones and huge golden images. For hours they looted, carrying their burdens of precious stones to a hid- ing place beneath the flagstones in a ca- thedral yard. Shortly after Baker's com- panion died. Baker returned to his home In New York and then went to Hillsdale, Mich. Fifteen years after plundering the cathedrals he confided his story to an intimate friend. The friend wrote to the Mexical Government asking “if there would be any chance of a division of the spoils if he should tell the Government where it could find the sacred and valu- able altar decorations that had been sto- len. In a letter bearing the official seal the Hillsdale man received warning that if he knew of any one who had a hand in the notorious pillaging, or if he himself | participated in it, he- would do well to forget all he knew about it and keep quiet, lest his life be sacrificed in revenge for the desecration of the cathedrals. Baker took the advice, but still intended to secure the treasure he had buried. e o RATILROAD EXTENSION REPORTED FROM TEXAS Texas and Pacific Will Build From Mineral Wells to Trinidad, Colorado. DENVER, Dec. %.—The Times to-day says that the announcement comes from an apparently authoritative source that the branch of the Texas and Pacific Rail- road from Weatherford, Tex., to Mineral ‘Wells, Tex., is to be extended to Trini- dad, Colo., where connection will be made with the Denver and Rio Grande Ralil- road, thus giving Denver another direct road into Texas and the South. It also says that the Denver and Rio Grande will expend something like $2,000,000 im- BISHOP MAKES HIS LAST TRIP B-uPneT G-uy TAN. - % HAWAIIAN PRELATE WHOSE MALADY IS SAID TO BE IN- CURABLE. * Hawaiian Prelate Journeys From Hilo to Honolulu in ONOLULU, Dec. 24.—The Roman Catholic Bishop, Rupert Guls- tan, is expected here on Satur- proving its roadbed between Denver and Pueblo in anticipation of increased traf- fic as a resuit of the new extension of the | Texas and Pacific. Further improve- | ments are contemplated from Pueblo to | Trinidad and Walsonburg, Colo. | The road from Weatherford to Frinidad will be about 450 miles long and will form a link which will give the Gould system its own road from New'Orleans, La., to Ogden, Utah. It will form an outlet from all of the Northern Pacific ports to the | leading Gulf shipping points and give the Gould system a new connection of its own in the West. It will also be the follow- ing out of Mr. Gould’s policy of making himself independent of the Hawley-Harri- man interests in the event of an extension | of their fight, as it will be a parallel road | for Mr. Hawley's Colorado and Southern | Texas road. PRESIDENCY OF STEEL COMBINE IS NOT VACANT H. C. Frick Denies Story That He Is About to Assume Management | _ of the Corporation. PITTSBURG, Pa., Dec. 25.—“There is no States Steel Corporation or any other ex- | ecutive position that I know of, and even i my own affairs require so much of my | time that it would not be possible {orTr:eT e | above statement was made by Mr. H. C. Frick to-night. “I am very much averse to newspaper interviews,” continued he, “but my name | has been used so persistently in connec- tiom with positions in the United States Steel Corporation that I rather welcoms the opportunity of making this state- ment. I have retired from active business | and nothing would induce me to take any | position that could claim time from my own affairs. | “I am a director in the United States | stockholder and am very much interested | in its success, and while I am willing to | give all the time and attention required of me as a director, I could not accept | any position that required my daily and active attention.” sl FURIOUS FLAMES CATCH FOUR SLEEPING PEOPLE Woman and Three Children Victims of Rapidly Spreading Fire. MALONE, N. Y., Dec. 25.—Four persons were burned to death to-day in the house | of Julius King at Piercefield, a prominent | pulp and paper manufacturing town in | the Adirondacks. The fire had galned“ sach headway before it was discovered that Mrs. M. J. McGovern, King's eldest cdaughter, and her three children, who were sleeping on the lower floor, were not able to get out and all were burned to desth. One of the children, whose body was found close to a window, evidently had made heroic efforts to escape. King and his wife, with a few boarders on an upper floor, escaped by jumping out of the windows. One man was seriously burned. It is not known how the fire started. R S S EARTHQUAKES CONTINUE TO DISTURB ANDIJAN Railroad Suspends Traffic and Mili- tary Authorities Assume Con- trol of the Line. ST. PETERSBURG, RQec. 25.—According to the latest advices from Andijan, Rus- sian Central Asia, the shocks of earth- quakes are daily, and a particularly vio- lent series of shocks during the night of December 22 and the following morning set all the rolling stock on the railroad in motion, resulting in a panic among the railréad men. The traffic is suspended on the railroad and the station is closed. The military authorities are taking over the control of the line for some distance frcm Andijan. The damage resulting from the recent earthquake amounts to several million dollars. Sl gt B Hibernian Societies Are United. SYRACUSE, N. Y., Dec. 2%5.—James F. Dolan of Syracuse, president of the An- cient Order of Hibernians, has signed pa- pers whereby the order throughout the world is brought under one governiflg board. The ratification of the agreement of the amalgamation of the societies of the United States, Canada, Australia and Ireland comes in the nature of a Christ- mas greeting from the president of the organization to his brothers in the far away countries and those at home. —_— . Attorney General’s Daughter Tll. ‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 25.—Miss Rebecca Knox, daughter of the Attorney General, who returned from Pittsburg for Christ- mas, is quite ill at the Knox home on K Grip of Incurable Malady H day, December 20, from Hilo. He has recovered to,such an ex- tent that it is believed he can make the trip in safety, though it is certain that he can never recover from his malady,. which |is said to Le cancer of the stomach. A room on the first floor of the Mission has been prepared for the Bishop's use here, His robes of office and miter were sent to Hilo at the dying prelate’s request. PERSONAL MENTION. F. L. Caughey, Recorder of Mendocino County, is at the Lick. Charles Allen, a mining man of Spo- kane, is at the Grand. Congressman Francis G. Nevada is at the Palace. Dr. A. H. Suggett of Marysville is at the Occidental, accompanied by his wife. H. Demmick, connected with the Mare Island Navy 'Yard, is registered at the Grand. Thomas J. Dillon, a well known attor- ney of Honolulu, is-a guest at the Cal- ifornta. R.’C. Lydecker, general freight agent of the Oahu Railroad at Honoluly, is at the Occidental. Assistant to the President Julius Krutt- schnitt of the Southern Pacific Company, who is in New York, is not expected to return tq this city until the early part of next month. Dr. J-de S. Bettencourt, who has. been visiting the leading hospitals of Europe and pursuing special studies in Vienna during the past eight months, has re- turned and will resume his practice in this city. . Newlands of ———— Osage Indians Are Wealthy. GUTHRIE, O. T., Dec. 2%.—The Osage Indians of Oklahoma, of whom there are 1500, have to their credit the sum of $3,554,- 498 in the United States treasury, accord- ing to the annual report of the Osage agent just made public. They own 1,400, 000 acres of land, making them, per capita, the wealthiest people on earth. Their re- ceipts for the year, from all sources, amounted to $579, Train Service Disarranged. LOS ANGELES, Dec. %.—The Southern Pagific and Santa Fe train service is badly disarranged owing to the heavy holiday travel and arrivals are from two to nine hours behind scheduled time. BEFORE DEATH % ANOTHER DEATH DUE TO DISASTER AT HOT SPRINGS HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Dec. %5.—Joe Ken- ney of Hot Sorings, a victim of yester- dzy's poolroom explosion, died during the night. Four more of the victims are likely to die. These are: C. R. Donaelly, Chicago; Willlam Metzger, 12 years oldy Hot Springs; Thomas O. Zier, engineer Arlington Hotel, Hot Springs; W. S. Me- Inerney, Louisville, Ky. 2 Benjamin Murray, the driver of a gaso- line tank wagon, who was arrested, charged with criminal negligence, made a statement this morning. He says he made a connection from his wagon to the gasoline tank in the cellar under the pool- room. Upon entering the cellar he found twenty or thirty gallons of gasoline over- | flewed in a large pool on the floor. Fear- | ing an explosion he rushed to an oprn window and closed it. He says the door was then opened by a negro porter and the gases coming into eontact with the lighted cigars in the poolroom ignited, and the _ explosion followed. Murray was blown against the side of the cellar, but escaped with slight injuries. Charles Walker. one of the owners of the poolroom, stated to-day that the wrecked portion of the building will be | rebuilt at once. He with several em- | picyes was on the second floor when the expiosion occurred, but all escaped to the street in safety. | BATTLES WITH ALASKAN COLD AND STARVATION San Jose Man Lives for a Week TACOMA, Dec. 25.—C. A, Likeman of San Jose, who has been employed by the Canadian Government as lineman on the | ine between Ashcroft, B. C., Bennett | and Dawson, just before leaving for Cali- fornia said that Alaska had no charms for him and n future he would seek a land where snow is never seen. Like- man was the only employe who could not | telegraph and to this fact he attributes his misfortunes. Early in October Likeman started out for his station on Topso River and after encountering a terrific storm arrived at his destination, only to find that all the provisions had been stolen by Indians. For three cays he subsisted on bacon rinds left by a predecessor. The com- panion who was to work at the same sta- tion failed to arrive at the specified time and Likeman, believing him lost, started out for the next station, fifty miles dis- tant. On this trip Likeman was without provisions, with the exception of bacom rinds. For three days he battled with one of the worst snowstorms ever known in Alaska, finally reaching the post, but more dead than alive. There the sur- geon was compelled to amputate four fingers and a toe. Likeman declares the terrible memory of his wanderings for those three days is yet a nightmare, and which he will never get over. FINDS NUMEROUS RELICS IN OLD BURYING GROUND Prospector of Delamar Uncovers Many Coins Among Indian Im- plements and Skeletons. KESWICK, Dec. 5.—W. W. Breen, a miner of Delamar, has been prospect- ing for gold on the banks of Squaw Creek, a half mile east of the Buily Hill mining camp. He found no gold, but he struck an old Indian burying ground that panned out pretty well. Besides the usual | number of skeletons, in various stages of preservation, he found considerable value, as follows: One hundred copper cent pieces, dating from 1810 to 1560; a quart of beads of many .shapes, sizes and Colors; twelve 25-cent pieces, each with a hole in it, and the most recent date being 1857; seven 50-cent pleces of ltke early dates; a pint of round earthen pleces, which were evidently molded from white clay and sun-dried or baked and probabiy used as a medium of exchange; a watchcase, several knives, pipes and dishes; a peck of obsidian arrowheads, an cnyx ring and a tomahawk or two. A ety Change in Railroad Management. KANSAS CITY, Dec. %5.—J. A. Edson, general manager of the Kansas City Southern Raflroad, has resigned and will succeed J. M. Herbert as manager of the Denver and Rio Grande, the Rio Grande Southern and Rio Grande Western roads of the Gould Rocky Mountain system. The change becomes effective January 1. The office which Edson vacated will be abolished and B. F. Dickson, now su- perintendent of maintenance and way, wiil take up the duties of general man- ager in connection with a promotion to the title of gemeral superintendent. —_—— Prunes stuffed with apricots. Townsend's* - The Sund J from men who know what One of the biggest religious Christ with the fatal kiss. ‘WHERE ? man-interest situations a newspaper office, Then come “When man From Indiana,” C. N. Williamson; sireet. Miss Knox, who was to have F S — The police have begun to reap the winter crop of thieves will spend the next twenty years of his life in San Quentin. He may then return to us to lesture UNIFORM ACCOUNTING. O VER and over again, in discussing the ques- ties, The Call has directed attention to the fact that owing to the uncertain way in which public operations are of any value in determining the com- parative economy of municipal and of corporate ments in Ohio and in New York to provide for a simple and uniform system of-public accounting; and now been taken up in Massachusetts and will be pressed upon the Legislature this winter. by the State Board of Trade, and will have the sup- port of the Boston Associated Board of Trade. The as that embodied in the Ohio Board of Commerce bill. In discussing the measure the Boston Transcript stantially what was advocated at last summer’s con- vention of the national municipal reformers, namely, of Inspection and Supervision of Public Offices,’ under the direction of the State Auditor. There are under the Ohio act, and the State Auditor is author- ized to employ examiners at a per diem rate for the which are provided for in the measure. The expense of maintaining the bureau is to be divided among the population, and the cost of the annual inspections is to be paid by the taxing bodies for which the ac- will not entail hardship on any county. The object of unification is to make possible a ready and accurate for similar purposes in the different counties.” What is good for counties applies with equal system of public accounting will be of great value to any and every community. It is gratifying to note State authority is sprgadingA The practical operation of the law in one or two States will soon reveal its hat in a few years a thoroughly good system can be opted everywhere. started for California on Saturday to join her aunt and uncle in a trip to Japan, &as been obliged to give up the journey, Great Stqry Seclion OHN BRISBEN WALKER has laration that the day is close at paid over ONE MILLION DOLLARS but as he points out they will have to actually know, for TO-DAY IS THE DAY OF THE NOVEL more than at any other time in all the checkered history of the world. Its influence is far-reaching—all absorbing—tremendous. That is the sort of writing the world wants nowadays—books they are writing about, and that is the sort’of modern, up-to-date literature that giving to its readers ABSOLUTELY ABSOLUTELY FREE—and ponder is “THE GOSPEL OF JUDAS ISCARIOT,” win. 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