The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 27, 1903, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1903. KING OSCAR - OF SWEDEN NEAR DEATH Aged Monarch’s Condi- tion Grows Rapidly Worse. Over His Youngest Illness Hastens Collapse ARG ce Gustaf Is Hurrying Arrangements to the Vice- Regency. Assume LECTION OF TELLER IS PRACTICALLY CONCEDED Se: Abandon Their and Join the tic Majority OTHER HAWAIIAN OFFICIAL GOES WRONG erintendent of the Kalihi Deten- Camp Is Arrested on Charge of Embezzlemen ADVERTISEMENTS. Thirty Years of Severe Heart Trouble. Obtained No Relief UntilI Tried Br. Miles’ Heart Cure— It Cured Me. t of Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure public has learned to know that disease is curable. Fluttering, palpi- of breath and heart pains ar before its ic influence. s & heart and blood tonic. standing. As -sixth year, or more 1863, when returning urney, I was taken with a se- caused my whole & noted physician ion of the y in procuring k several bottles Miles’ New Cure for the Heart. I ed the remedy until my health was restored, and aiways keep a suppiy on hand for any emergency. 1 am now past 70 years of age and weigh 176 pounds. 1 gy sed Dr. Milcs’ Nerve Pain Pills Dr dis. The Anti-Pain_Pill ffective in a most paintul attack of neu- gia, and also for sciatica. Itis my exper- e that the remedies can be relied upon sbsolutely every time they are properly G. Bowess, Beaver City, Utah, uggists sell and guarantee first bot- Miles' Reme{dxex lt;end for free book . Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address Dx. Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind. OPPOSE HIGHER TEST FOR OIL | Consumers Urge Super- | visors Not to Pass | . g Ordinance. o gt Declare It Will Strike Blow| at Great Industry of | California. { — | A strong protest against the proposed ordinance to increase the f h test of fuel oil from 110 to 140 4 recopT ority of the Fire Com- nded by a ma with the Board of Su- ce, wa pervisors veste Lou Committee and requested et chairman of. the Lo P | presented the protest th Fire or ard | tory OIL PRODUCERS ALIGN FOR BATTLE | AGAINST PERNICIOUS RALSTON BILL Legislators at Sacramento Term It a Vicious Measure Designed to Cripple a Valuable Industry in the State and Cause the Loss of Millions of Dollars by Proposed Requirements for Tests Special ALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 26.—From every county within the State in which ofl is produced, have come letters of protest to the members of the Legislature against the passage of the Ralston bill. From Los Angeles and Orange counties, as well as from Kern, the very heart of the oil-producing terri- of California, the opposition will be particularly strong, and it is now cer- tain that the bill will be opposed by all, or nearly all, the members of both houses fiom those counties. For the purpose of combating the bill the oil producers in the south have or- Dispatch to The Call. e recommitted for con- l. ¢ I stated that a @ 8anized and h:x\lr appointed a committee i sa: is now before Whose sole duty/it will be to work against < . nce was re- this and similar bills. This committee, . protest | which is composed of some of the best- We, | the r attention t At quantitic PROPOSES NAVIGATION SCHOOL Senator Believes It Would Be Valu- able Adjunct to University. UARTERS, enator Nel appropriation of $20,- the of estab- d maintaining a de- instruction in nav- stronomy the ornia. In speaking purpose ng fit himselt roa, free of all , save the calling of a sea it anything, the real chance while it ble value to them would also greatly of the owners of sm carry would be in all large ves- increase the security At present s than 700 tons burden passengers, are entirely in | Kern | known oll operators in the State, includes W. L: Stewart, Dan Murphy, former Sen- ator R. N. Bulla, Thomas Hughes, L. W. Andrews, E. W. Bacon, W. C. Price and M. W. Turner. The members of this committee own or are largely interested in many wells in the Sunset district of ‘ount; the Whittier and Los An- geles districts of Los Angeles County and the Fullerton district in Orange County. It has been intimated In letters received by members of the Legislature that the committee, among whom are some well known politicians, will come to Sacra- mento to’enter the fight against the bill. In their letters they state that they will have the support of all the large con- sumers of oil, especially those of Francisco, for it the bill becomes a law it will be unlawful to use crude oil for fuel in manufacturing establishments. nstead only a refined product can be d and that would cost more than coal if it became necessary to have it refined a degree that would meet the require ments of a flash test at 130 degrees tem- perature. MILLIONS WOULD BE LOST. Senator O. Z no County is perhaps as well qualified as any member of the Legislature to dis- the needs of the oil industry with reference to legislation. He is himself an oil producer and is interested in con- cerns which place upon the market 20,- 000 barrels of' ofl per month. He will fight the Ralston bill. Until his attention was called to the measure he had not given it notice, but waiting until the committee’s action was reported to the Senate. He took up the bill this | morning for examination, and before he read two lines he said: here is a ‘bug’ and unless that fs anged it is sufficlent to defeat the bill.” He refered to the wording of the first section of the bill, wherein fuel and illu- minating ofls are placed on the samc piane with reference to the regulations which the bill to impose ““This bill cannot be passed in form and should not be said he. “If it is adopted it would cripple the oil State and loss of millions of dol Look at the first paragraph and it will be seen that it would require the same kind of oil for fuel as is used for illuminating purposes. I Go not say that there should not be a sufficlently high test for itluminating ofl, but for the pur- poses of this bill that matter need. not now be discussed. Again, the bill pro- vides that crude ofl used for fuel must s present ed at all,’ as it stands industry of the is cause t stand a flash test of 150 degrees, a thing that s impossible with % per cent of the produced in the State. There may be places where such oil is produced, ds of men who ars not required by the | but to meet that test all crude oil or av«r! have licen: R show their ability | practically all of it would have to go r fitness 1o have their charge the lives - 50! o d e 2D Yo In They Sutmws The NivesdEurpnslivseins sbrod to refine it. I am mand. e COMMISSION FOR W(;BLD'S FAIR Johnson Proposes a Director-General and a Few Bureaus. CALLHEADQUARTERS, SACRAMEN- TO, Jan A oner general to take charge of Califor affairs at the isiana Purchase Exposition in 1904 is commi: provided for in an Assembly bill intro- d by Johnson to-day. The bill ap- riates $150,000 for the proper repre- sentation of the State at the exposition. It contemplates the appointment of chiefs rticultural, agricultural, mining and forest bureaus. For the mining bureau $25.000 is to be used. The erection of a State bullding at a cost of $40,000 is pro- vided for and $5000 is set aside for the of exploiting the seaports of the The Governor enall appoint the commissioner general within thirty da after its passage, the bill reads, and the commissioner general shall make monthly reports to the Governor. He shall receive | a salary of $250 per month and $3000 for | traveling and hotel expenses. S BALLOT LAW CHANGES. | CALLHEADQUARTERS, SACRAMEN- TO, Jan. 2.—Changes In the law of voting to protect the elector are made in amend- | ments to the Political Code introduced in the Assembly to-day by Greer of Sacra- mento. McCartney’s bill, already intro- duced, is followed in one respect. Greer's measure provides that all spaces for “no nominations” and all spaces around the | “independent nomination” squares shall be in solid black, so that there may be no possibility of the voter putting crosses af- ter them; that a cross after a name writ- ten in the blank column for that purpose, two or more impressions of the cross after any one name, or a cross placed partly within and partly without a square shail | not invalidate a ballot and that where two nominees are voted for the same of- fice the ballot shall not be declared ille- | #al, but shall not count for elther of the | two nominees mentioned. — SHEEP INSPECTOR WANTED. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 26.—A bill providing for the creation of the office of Sheep Inspector | was Introduced in the Senate this morn- | ing by Diggs of Yuba. It empowers the inspector to appoint depwties in each | county. The deputies sha sheepmen and shall moval by the State Inspector. It will be their duty personally to ex- amine all sheep every spring, between February 1 and June 1, and issue certifi- | cates to owners or persons In charge of herds found to be clean. These certifi: cates will permit such herds to pass through all counties so long as they re- main free from disease. The deputies are cmpowered to quarantine sheep and to crder the dipping of the animals. The in- spector and his deputies are to receive fees as compensation for their services, Law to Prevent Suffocation. | CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- | MENTO, Jan. 26.—Knight of San Fran- | cisco introduced a bill in the Assembly | to-day intended to prevent the numerous | deaths from suffocation caused by pro- | prietors of lodging-houses turning off the gas &t the meters and turning it on again without warning roomers. It makes such an uct-in houses where the gas fixtures are not provided with proper igniters a misdemeanor. -5 | in Orange | was ask | defeat it. be practical | be subject to re- | opposed to the bil.’ Assemblyman Amerige.lives in Fuller- ton, the heart of the extensive oil district County, and the place from Santa Fe Railway Company which the | gets nearly all the oil it uses in its loco- motives. “It is a vicious measure and cannot stand,” he said. *It should not be amend- ed, but should be killed. There are few wells in the State which produce oil of a grade which would stand the test im- posed by this measure. It seems to me that somebody wants the job of refining all the oil in the State before it can be used either for fuel or illuminating pur- poses. Did you ever hear of the Standard Oil Company? Remember it is in the business of refining oils.” STANDARD'S LABEL MISSING. “Why did they not place the well known stamp of the Standard Oil Company, ‘S. O. C.; on this bill when they presented it?” asked Assemblyman Dorsey of Kern County, when his opinion of the measure d. “It might as well have come here written on the letter heads of that corporation. If that bill becomes a law we will be permitted to use our crude oil to lay the dust on roadw or we may use it as a lJubricant, but to use it for fuel purposes would be a violation of the statute. There is hardly a natural ofl in the State which could be made to meet that flash tgst, and to impose any such | regulation upon the industry would ruin the oil producers. I notice that the use of crude oil as fuel In railroad locomo- tives is excepted from the provisions of the bill. Could it not have happened that this was inserted in order to prevent the railrbads from fighting the measure? As a representative of a county in which mil- lions of dollars are invested in oil prop- erties, I know that this bill is a pernicious measure and I shall do all in my power to I have no fears about the mat- ter, for upon the showing which we can make I am satisfied that the Legislature | will kill the bill.” Assemblyman Drew of Fresno sald that he had not looked into the provisions of | the bill, but that he had recelved word from his constituents in Fresno and also from leading citizens of Bakersfield and Los Angeles to the effect that the bill | was the child of the Standard Oll Com- pany, and that its adoption would para- lyze and ruin the oil industry and the manufacturing and shipping enterprises of California. Similar opinions were expressed by Houser of Los Angeles. He said that he had received numerous protests against | the bill from his constituents, and when the Ralston bill comes to the Assembly from the Senate, or when any other simi- | lar measure is introduced in the Assembly he will give it particular attention. Senator Ralston practically denies all responsibility for his oil bill, which has created such a stir among the oil pro- ducers and consumers. He himself does not like the bill in its present form and will insist that it be amended before he will vote for it. He said to-day: EXPLANATION OF RALSTON. What I know about oll could be written on my thumb nail and what I do not know on the subject would make several volumes in the State 'Library. The measure has been called a cinch bill, and I resent such an im- nutation, for every person who knows me | knows that I would not knowingly introduce | @ cinch measure, The bill was sent to me by | the California Petroleum Miners’' Assoclation and I really know nothing about it. Before we get through with it we will know more about ofl and will know what is best for the industry, At least we will have this infor- mation if those who ed to the bill will give us their views. It would be farthest from my intention to support a measure which would cripple any industry, and ft would not surprise me If before we get Hubbell of San Bernardi- | o+ & r7 PHLE ADORESSES THE SPEALER | | i | S (oPus 17As THE FZook | LEGISLATORS AT SACRAMENTO INTO THE SOLEMN BUSINESS OF LAWMAKING AND ACQUIRED WHO HAVE GONE FEARLESSLY If you will examine the bill itself you will see that it was Introduced by me by re- quest.” 1 know little about flash tests and | other technical terms in the oil business and I am willing to be shown the objections to the bill. There is one amendment which I know would be offered, In the last section of the bill there is a provision which excepts oil used on rallroad locomotives, Now if the bill is a good one that exception should not be made and I will insist that the proviso be stricken out. I understand that there wil be strong opposition. to. the meus. ure. If that be true we will proba- bly be given an opportunity to know what the objections to it are and all the information which may be advanced will give us that much more knowledge of the needs of the oil indus- try. 1 shall certainly not Imsist upon the passage of the bill in its present form. Ralston emphatically denied that he prepared the bill at the request of the Standard Oil Company. He admitted that proval of that corporation. He stated further that he introduced the bill at the request of Dr. C. T. Dean, secretary of the California Petroleum Mining Com- any. pAS chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining Ralston intends calling {ts members together to-morrow and then set a day for an actual investigation. He vlans to invite Captain John K. Bul- ger, United States Inspector of Hulls and Boilers; Professor O'Neil of the Univer- s¥)‘ of California, Chief Engineer Morris of ‘the Oceanic Steamship Company and other experts to appear before the com- mittee and give their views. He also in- tends inviting oil men of the southern part of the State to come before the com- mittee and express their objections. He intends to make the meeting of the com- mittee a thorough one, so that when he reports back the bill or a substitute meas- ure it may be satisfactory to al the peo- ple Interested. ——— CUBAN TREATY OPPOSED. Legislature Will Have a Joint Reso- lution to Consider. CALLHEADQUARTERS, SACRAMEN- TO, Jan. 26.—Senator Devlin this morning introduced a joint resolution instructing our Senators In Congress to vote against the ‘ratification of the proposed treaty with Cuba, reducing the duty upon sugar and upon other products of the island. It is as follows: Whereas, A treaty has been negotlated be- tween the President of the United States and the President of Cuba whereby it is sought, among other things, to allow sugar from the island of Cuba and other products to enter the United States at a reduced rate of duty; and Whereas, Such trea it adopted, would be injurious to the beet sugar Interests of Cal- ifornia and to our horticultural interests; therefore, be it Resolved, by the Senate, the Assembly con- curring, That our Senators In Congress be and they are hereby instructed to vote nst the ratification of said treaty and to us all hon- against any treaty that may be hereafter pro- posed whereby sugar, citrus, declduous fruits or other horticultural products grown in other countries may be admitted into the United a duty less than that now provided by law. yRemh'ed, That the gecretary of this Senate be instructed immediately to telegraph a copy of this resolution, properly certified, to our Benators in Congress. “The interests of California are opposed to the ratification of the Cuban treaty,” sald Senator Devlin in an interview. “We grow sugar-beets and citrus fruits, and we should insist so far as we can in up- holding the duty. If duties are to be raised to protect articles produced in Cali- fornia, they ought not to be reduced on articles produced in other States. The only protection that this State gets from the Dingley act is on beet sugar, wool and other products grown upon its soil.” Grabbing of Swamp Lands. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 2%. — Assemblyman Waste introduced an amendment to-day which, he says, is intended to prevent the grabbing or fllegal securing of swamp and overflowed lands. It provides that where any person has held “open and no- torious” possession of a tract for ten years and has made improvements thereon, and an application is made by any one else for its purchase, the Sur- veyor General, upon proper affidavits be- ing made, shall transfer the matter to the Superior Court for hearing. Any false statement or affidavit concerning the pur- chase of swamp and overflowed land de- feats the right of the applicant and if such untrue afidavits or statements are shown to be willfully false the applicant shall be held gullty of perjury, 35 G THE DISTINCTION OF BEING THE GENUINE “TALL TIMBER.” g3 E through with this the bill would be changed ALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- £0 that the authors would not know it the bill as presented meets with the ap- | orable means to secure its defeat and to vote | | MENTO, Jan. 26.—The Assembly | Committee on Revision and Re- | form of Laws, which is sitting | jointly with the Code Commission | and the Senate Committee on Code Re- | vision for the recodification of existing | statutes, had a tilt with the Assembly Ju- diciary Committee this morning. It was | precipitated by Johnson, chairman of the | latter committee, who made a motion that J all the bills submitted to the Revision Committee should go before the Judi- | clary Committee before being finally acted | on by the House. The work before the Revision Commit- | tee is of a most Important nature and entails atduous labor upon the members, The statutes considered by it, though al- ready in type, have to be reported to the House In the form of original bills and consequently any changes that the com- mittee desires can be made by it before reporting. If the Judiciary Committee had the last chance at the bills it could also make changes. Houser, chairman of the Revision Com- mittee, said when he submitted a report | this morning that few changes had been | made and that these few were trivial. Johnson, in a lengthy speech, sald that he was unwilling to accept the report of the Revision Committee as final and made | a motion for reference to his committee, Houser made a spirited reply, saying | that the Revision Committee was work- | ing four afternoons a week and four nights and that if the Judiciary Commit- tee was to go over the identical work he | didn’t see the use of his committee exist- ing. Camp, Knight, Waste and Covert spoke | against Johnson's resolution, saying that | there was no need of the . evision Com- | mittee’s work being gone ov r by the Ju- diclary Committee. Johnson withdrew his motion. BANK COMMISSION BILL. Senator Hahn Will Prepare Measure for a New Board. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 26.—To Senator Hahn has been assigned the task of preparing a bill for the appointment of a new board of bank commissioners to take the place of | the present board, it being now conced- ed that the bill which was Introduced by Senator Caldwell to repeal the pres- ent Bank Commission law will pass both houses and receive the signature of the Governor. Senator Hahn has been at | work on the new bill several days, and it may be introduced to-morrow or when- | ever the time is considered opportune for its Introduction. It is desired that the new bill follow as closely as possible ypon the heels ol| the one to legislate the present board out of office. In fact, the Senate Committee on Banks and Banking may see to it that the two bills are reported about the same time and that they go through the varifous steps to final passage as twin bills. It is necessary that the State always have a banking law and this is consid- ered a portion of it. Senator Hahn's bill will provide for a Bank Commission of four members, instead of three, as at present, one reason for this being that it is desired to have the commissioners work in palrs, thus expediting thelr la- bors and making the inspection of the va- rious banking institutions much more satisfactory and comblete. There will be several additional sec- tions to the proposed law in which the powers and dutles of the commissioners will be more clearly specified. —_— More Power for the Mayor. CALL HEADQUARTERS, SACRA- MENTO, Jan. 26.—By an amendment to section 3423 of the Civil Code, Senator Nelson proposes to give the Mayor of San Francisco greater appointive and re- moval power. Senator Nelson stated that if the Mayor should remove an official, the person so removed would immediately get a restraining order and the Mayor's hands would be tied. He cited the case of the Health Board of San Francisco. He sald that the Mayor removed the board for cause, but its members secured | W., WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—A peace- | to be the result of the dispute between | Acre, | received advices from Rio de Janeiro that | tion in London announces that the Bo- | livian Minister at land for twenty sufficient to maintain him in comfort {few years ago he met with an accident, | suffering a broken leg. Being unable to | care for himself he turned over his in- | consideration that BOLIVIA YIELDS 10 THE DEMANDS Consents to a Peaceable | Settlement of Acre Dispute. Anglo-American Syndicate Is Likely to Lose Its Charter. Special Dispatch to The Call. CALL BUREAU, 1406 G STREET, N. | able settlement instead of war promises | Bolivia and Brazi] over the territory of | occupied’ by an Anglo-American of which Sir Martin Conway, a cousin of the syndicate, W. Emlyn Roosevelt, | President; the Belmonts and other Amer- | fcan capitalists are interested. J. F. de | Assis Brazil, Brazilian Minister, to-night | be dealt with, President Pando of Bolivia has yielded | to the Brazilian Government's contention | that the ownership of the territory | should be settled peaceably. | This is belleved to mean that the char- ter of the Anglo-American syndicate will | be practically nullified by Bolivia, from which it was obtained. | LONDON, Jan. 26.—The Brazilian lega- | Rio de Janefro has | officially notified the Brazillan Foreign | Office that President Pando has been given full power to enter into a formal agreement with Brazil regarding the Acre dispute. Pending these negotiations, | which are expected to lead to a peaceful | solution of the difficulty, the Brazilian Government has ordered a naval and mil- itary mobilization to meet the eventuali- | ties of the situation. | LA PAZ, Jan. 2.—The second contin- gent of the Bolivian expedition to Acre left La Paz this morning under the com- mand of President Pando. It will join the first contingent at Buenos Ayres on the Beni River. | Aged Miner Sues for Property. GRIDLEY, Jan. 2.—Henry Warden, an old miner, who for many years hds{ delved in the hills of Butte County for | bidden riches, has fallen in hard lines. | He owned a half interest in a gold claim | years the mine ,\‘leldml‘! Al terest in the mine to George L. Strong in | Strong should take care of him during the remainder of his life. Warden now brings suit in the Su- perfor Court of Butte County to recover the property, alleging that Strong has failed to keep his part of the agreement. ZEaER s President Commutes Death Sentences, WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—The Presi- | dent has commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence pronounced against George Barclay and James Brummott, who were convicted of murder in Okla- homa and sentenced to be hanged Feb- ruary.12. In the case of Homer Bird, convicted of murder in Alaska, the Presi- dent has declined to Interfere and he will be hanged within a few weeks. ——— Transport Dix Is Believed to Be Safe. WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—Quartermaster General Ludington has recefved a cable message from the agent of the quarter- master’s department at Nagasaki, Japan, saying that he had investigated the ru- mor started at Seattle that the army transport Dix had been lost in the vicin- ity of Yokohama and had ascertained from reliable sources that no such report was current in Yokohama. Bank Robbers Are Foiled. CHARLOTTE, N. C, Jan. 26.—An at- tempt was made to rob the bank vault at Macksville early this morning. The | noise of the explosion aroused the cash- fer, who, with another officer of the bank, rushed into the building and were fired on by the robbers. A number of shots were exchanged, but no one was wound- ed. The robbers escaped with a small amount of loose money. e A SANTA ROSA, Jan. 26.—Miss Lillian Rosen- berg was badly burned in the basement of her father's residence Saturday cvening by the ex- plosion_of a quantity of gasoline. which she and a_maid were using for cleansing some arti- cles of clothing. The flame of a candle came in contact with the cleansing compound and its ignition caused the arms and shoulders of Miss Rosenberg to be badly burned | [ | Commerce Commission or pu | rate under the provisic | ment provided that suits shall be brou EXTEND POWERS OF COMMISSION Proposed Amendments to the Interstate Commerce Law. Senate Committee Agrees to Report the Elkins Anti- Trust Bill. WASHINGTON, Jan. 2.—The Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce agreed to-day to report the Elkins anti-trust bill | with some amendments that a subcommit- tee is perfecting. Among the amendments | made to the bill was one relating to re- bates as follows: Every violation of this segtion shall be proe. ecuted in any court of the United States having jurisdiction of crimes within the district in Which such violation was committed, or through which the transportation may have been con ducted, and when the offense is begun in jurisdiction and completed in another it may inquired of. determinec and punished in either jurisdiction in the same | manner as if the offense had been actually and wholly committed therein Another amendment amends section 10 of the present interstate commerce law relating to publication of tariffs, as fol- lows: In construing and enforcing the provisions of this section, the act, omission or failure of ady officer, agent or other person acting for or em- ployed by any common carrier shall in every case be also deemed to be the act, omission or fallure of such carrier, as well as that of the person. The following provision was adopted: ‘Whenever any carrier flles with the Interstate lishes a particular of the act to regulate commerce, or participates in any rates so filed or published, that that rate, carrier, its officers, or agents, act. shall be rate, and any departurs from such rate, or any offer to depart ther: from, shall be deemed to be an offense unde this section of this act Another amendment makes it unlawful to discriminate in regard to furnishing cars to shippers. Still another amend- by United States district attorney ing out the clause “by direction of | Attorney General,” so that the Attorney the General will not have to initiate the suits. | LEAVE TOWN HURRIEDLY IN FEAR OF A SHOOTING Deputy Sheriff From Harrison Gulch Explains His Departure With Hammans. REDDING. Jan. there has been no 3. %.—Strange to say arrest in connection with the shooting at Harrison Guleh. Saturday morning Lopez entered the store owned by Hammans. The two quar- reled over a barn that Lopez owned and Hammans had torn down. Hammans drew his gun and fired three shots at Lopez, the shots taking effect in Lopez's stomach. Hammans immediately pro- ceeded to Redding in company with Dep- uty Sheriff Snively, who at the time was tending bar for Hammans. When asked | why they were so anxious and speedy in getting away from the Gulch, Snively said: “To prevent the possibility of more shooting.” News reached here to-night that Lopes had died, but it cannot be verified, as there is no telephonic connection. Entertainment at Veterans’ Home. YOUNTVILLE, Jan. 2.—A delightful entertainment was given Saturday even- ing at the Veterans’ Home. The pro- gramme was under the direction of Mrs. Nellle Holbrook-Blinn. A one-act farce called “A Lesson in Whist” contributed largely toward the evening’s entertain- ment. The several characters were sus- tained by Miss Jean Baldwin, Miss Char- lotte Johnston, George Denison and Dr. W. H. Sleberst. The Misses Baldwin and Johnston and Mr. Denison delighted the @sudience with recitations. The audience was enthusiastic in its applause after the singing of Miss Beatrice Maltman. Miss Jullette Chandler and Paul Harvey danced and sang. Mrs. Mildred La Rue was the accompanist. i Of Interest to Pacific Coast People. WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—Fourth-class post- masters appointed: Oregon—G. A, Patterson Highland., Clackamas County vice William C_ Buckner, resigned. Washington—C. M. Wolford, White Salmon, Klickitat Coun vice Rudolph Lasterback, removed. These pensions were granted to-day California— Original—John F. Jewett., South Pasadena, $8; John B. Averill Soldiers’ Home, Los Angeles $§8 Widows, minors and dependent relatives— Martha J. Buchanan Santa Paula, $8. Wa ington—increase. reissue, etc.—Joseph Sun- d Tacoma, $10. Is a triumph of constructive and musi- 0ssip Gabrilowitseh, a restraining order. 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