The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 18, 1903, Page 6

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CARLTON. . ..Herald Square RK BRANCH OFFICES—527 M. lock. 300 Hayes, INDIAN CURRENCY. f Mexico. 1 the work of es- fer basis than that of to proceed with Iver in 1893 1s 4d in t S t ee ¢ y for a g 1893 an er at wer of the put of the silver | e evid c nation of the Ameri bee e some years by the se e e a the welfare e Indian population and made some T re currency absolut g the Robinson | policy which s th t adopted 1s 4 gold r ereas the gold va 3 € lower than the 2t 1s 4d would much lities as 1s 1074d did thirty years lian Governm escaped the fall had it, by adopting 1s 4d in prices to which all submit to ence the closing 1l the facts was e ate events t provided the means of main g i sic position the Indian agri rist, laborer, manufacturer and trader unchanged paired, as far as any currency policy could that object, and at a time when, but for would ha ¢ passed on the currency h would have produced national dis s to be noted t his statement from an | er ed stud an affairs did not pass enge from one of the irreco ad silver. In the discussion t followed pe mpion of the white metal rose to de- but while he was listened to he orters, notwithstanding the conference natives of India as well as by British had long service in that country s conditions to work out her problem by ob in the nature of rnational the price of silver coinage in American delegates who are. to sovernment in bringing about gement are quoted as saying that there e o attempt to bind the various ( i sist the Mexican ( sovernments nderstanding is to be sought 2 Government acting separately will put general nge into operation v, wh s equivalent to saying it affects the world’s success of the Indian experiment be achieved by treating the issue sequently sanguine expectations may settlement of this much pfrp]e\c’d view of recent developments, and in the sober calm reflection, Rear Admiral Merry must he never saw that celebrated aflvice of e Frenchman: * destroy one.” . F. | -V on the subject is to be held in London | ssue affects every silver-using coun- | | HOLD THE SETTLERS. OW is California’s opportunity. The flow of 20,000 home-secking tourists to this State ince the 1st of February is a symptom that it to overlook. These people are seeking a ion 1 have the means to make it where they please. They get nd information by visiting our s, for few of them intend to seek cities either for residence or business. They are not found at the leading | They come here comfortably and in- expensively in tourist cars and want to see the coun- relo A otels. try: “They don’t care to meet real estate agents in the \;m ince. They want to see our own country people, look at the land, learn what they may of productive capacity, and inquire into our seasons to and our methods of farming, which are all novel Then they are ready to meet the sellers it were possible there should be established relation between the railroads and our rural would let committees of ranchers know on ns these seekers come, and to what number, in order t to show them the different localities which de- hat they might be met en route by ranchers serve their attention. | Every county that seeks such desirable addition to ts productive population would do wisely by having inization to get these new comers in hand and them through such investigation as they wish to make. It is peculiarly true of California that, in such business as this, matters cannot be left to go haphazar« From the Atlantic coast to the foot of the Rocky Mountains conditions are nearly the same ) seasons, summer and winter, seedtime and har- the increasing artifi- cial s the supply of moisture from the Great Lakes decreasss westwardly. But these condi- ge rapidly over the intermountain plateau, ge is complete aiter the Sierra Nevada Here everything is as an- f another world had been en- need of varied y by irrig; Moun are passed a Jocalities the need of guiding these East- Notably in Sutter They have or- of iy understood is alr people seem to be astir of Trade, ounty Beard composed nd busi W ss men, settlers to come tting expectant t what they have. first place, these new people come they or their fathers were entrymen or s on public land and the first question is “Where is there good Government land?” wered for whole State by Mr. Register of the Eureka Land Office, who » choicest lands have not been left Of agricultural land there is not domain to accommodate of new settlers, and that from lo- the publi a few hundrec om markets and railroads. The room for is to be made by cutting up the alley lands. ral people be expedited by proper means to induce these seekers to see Taking Sutter as an example among counties, it was for years farmed in 1 Wherever these have been di- ches ngs there is presented a scene the value of such lands hold | of comfort and prosperity. Every farmhouse, set in nd orchards, is in the midst the midst of vineya nd lemon trees, which furnish the family supply of those fruits, and mingled with the foliage of palm trees of many varieties there is | presented by every such home an expression of | luxury that is most alluring. A Board of Trade can, by the use of the power of zation, give to lers such reliable informa- 1 as v oin the with the esthetic in| exploiting the advantages life in such localities. ! Sacramento Vailey should offer a most desirable r the exertion of every energy in attracting These people are | want to know why the large tracts are being sub- vided for sale. The reason is because the products | of the land, put to its noblest use, are too valuable new | immigration wary. for it to e held in large bodies In the prairie States, whence most of these people | , the tendency is from small to large holdings. | com The crops are | d in variety and the quarter sec- tion farms are being sold to be aggregated into vast estates, because the monotony of production enables in a wholesale way. Here the exact One family on forty acres, properly planted and tilled, can clear more money produced on 2 half section in the Mississippi and with easier labor. their management is true | opposite than 2 alle It is no use to bring people here in thousands to stop a day in our cities and be rushed through the country to see it from a car window. They should | be taken to the rural districts to study our productive conditions. If the new Board of Trade in Sutter County will find a way to do this other counties will { be glad to follow and the press to help with all its i):m\‘(‘r of publicity. | | The American Department has the reputation of being absolutely implacable and unfail- g in its pursuit of malefactors who offend against it. Reports from Washington indicate that the time has come for the department to carry out its principles upon itself. Postoffice ——— THE IRISH LAND BILL | YT seems possible for more than seven centuries | I of contention to be ende¢ by the Irish land bill | proposed by Wyndham, Chief Secretary for | Ireland. The great convention held in Dublin on | the 16th inst. indorsed the bill after the most | memorable discussion ever held in the history of the | people | | Wyndham's bill is conceived in justice to landlord nd tenant and Ulster and Connemara seem to be joined in its support. The psychological hour seems to have arrived in which agreement between the Saxon and the Celt is possible and is not to pass with- cut results. Ireland seems in a better frame of mind because the people are more prosperous and England is a bit weary with centuries of contention which has | not added to her prestige nor her power. Even | Michael Davitt found it impossible to rally the ir- | reconcilables and joined the large majority to make the conclusions of the convention unanimous. | The bill makes ownership of the land by the peo- ple casily possible, without injustice to its present holders. The landlords have fotind their estates made unprofitable by reason of the agitation which was started by the land league and the prospect is that Ireland. under the operation of the law, will become the most prosperous, as it is the most fertile, of the British Isles. | The political consequences to Great Britain gre ! of the highest importance. Thg empire has been ; morally weakened by the Irish grievance, which the ithe world. The comributiSB of Great Britain to of | o desire to find some | been going on slowly and it may | They | modern civilization has been tarnished by the cease- less opposition of the Irish, by which all that was bad and faulty in English policy has been kept fore- most, to the obscuratian of what was good. It may | now be hoped that the two peoples will move forward | | | | | with the consciousness of a common destiny and with each willing to credit the other with the genius and accomplishments which belong to it. A degree of prosperity for the last few years has checked Irish migration and no doubt thousands of the voluntary exiles from the island will now return, | lured by liberal land laws and humane government, | to repeople the land of their fathers. This will bring about more natural conditions there and more agree- | able to the whole world. The reign of King Edward will be made illustrious by this just settlement of the Irish question and if it have grave faults they will be forgotten in this great achieverhent. D — The success of Mayor Jones in his recent fight for | the Mayoralty of Toledo against three parties and :a]l the newspapers and the politicians has so raised his prestige that some folks are now saying if he | were not such a local freak he might become a na- tional statesman. PAN-GERMANISM. ACIAL rivalries, struggles, antagonisms and | jealousies are by no means so great in Cen- tral and Western Europe as they are in the: Southeast, where Macedonian, Turk, Albanian and Bulgarian are converting the old Ottoman despotism into an anarchy, but still they are acute enough to“ | furnish curprises to American students of the sit- uation. No movement toward a concert of action | is undertaken by any Government in that part of | Europe but what it is immediately confronted by an | | uprising of one or more races denouncing it as I‘ scheme to wrong them. | An illustration of the sensitiveness of the people to | such jealousies is shown at this time by the recep- tion accorded in Austria to a suggestion that Austria tand Hungary might profitably unite with Germany, Holland and Denmark to form a commercial union for the purpose of shutting out. competing products and protecting the home market. It was believed by the men who made the suggestion that the bugaboo | of the “American industrial invasion” would incline | | the people of the varius countries to favor the plan. The first suggestion of it, however, brought out a ! | very different response from that which was ex~i [prcted. The Germans appear to have been the only | | people who regard it with any favor. From all the | | others comes the cry that it is a new scheme of the | Kaiser to promote “Pan-Germanism.” | It thus appears that in all parts of Central Eumpe. | Pan-Germanism is deemed much more menacing | |than the American invasion. That such should be the case among the Poles, Hungarians and Czechs of the Austrian empire is not strange, since for a| | good many years there has been a strife between | them and the German elements of the empire and | each side suspects the other of a desire to crush it | into absolute subjection, but the feeling seems to be | as strong in Holland as in any part of Austria. | The “American peril,” therefore, does not alarm the | masses of Europe as much as it does the manufacturers | and the territorial nobles whose tenants complain of | the competition of American farmers. Consequently, | while statesmen are devising ways and means for act- | ing in concert to protect their markets against our | expanding trade, the people watch such conferences | | with suspicion. They are inclined to look upon every | report concerning the American danger as merely a | stalking horse for an economic Pan-Germanism. Whether there be any justification for the distrust \ i of the Germans or not, the existence of the fear seems | at this juncture to be the only thing that prevents | | some attempt to form a Central European alliance | to exclude American goods from those markets *“It is an ill wind that blows good to nobody.” We | have no desire to engage in a tariff war with all | Europe and thanks to the German bugaboo it is not | at all likely we shall have to do so. Carnegie has offered to pay the doctorg bills of all the Cornell students who have been stricken by the | typhoid epidemic in that neighborhood, and now, of course, the doctors don't care how long the epidemic lasts. The security is good B — A CHANCE FOR WILHELM. OWN in Macedonia there is urgent need for a strong man with a mighty army. The Sultan is evidently powerless to keep the peace and the people are living in a condition of anarchy. On the one side the bands of the Macedonian committee | are trying to force them to rise, while on the other the Turks are standing ready to slay them if they do. All reports are to the effect that outrages are committed on both sides and that the self-styled | “Christians” who are urging on the revolt are as bad, if not worse, than the Mohammedans who are trying to keep it down. & When the nations of Europe gave warning some time ago that if the Macedonians undertook a rising this spring they would be left to the mercy of the Turk, the Macedonian Committee replied by a state- ment that they would undertake no revolt, but that in place of it they would carry on such a course of brigandage, commit so many crimes and cause so many disturbances as would compel the intervention of Europe. It appears they have kept their word, | and the people are harassed by-the Christian brigands as atrociously as ever they were by Moslem Bashi Bazouks. A recent report giving an account of the methods of the committee says: “Secret conscript officers visit the Bulgarians who have not enlisted and demand their signatures to an oath to rise at the appointed time and also an ammu- nition tax is levied on general principles on every man, according to his ability to pay. Those who re- fuse, under the obligation of loyalty to the Sultan, are shot down if the emissaries can readily escape, or otherwise are marked out for secret assassination at | long range by sharpshooters. Money is exacted iu‘I this way not only from Bulgarians, but also from | Turkish and Greek residents of Monastir for the pur- | chase of ammunition.” Thus harassed on every side, the frightened peo- | ple are fleeing the country as fast as they can get out, | and soon Western Europe will be filled with wretched | | refugees. The situation clearly calls for the interven- | tion of a Caesar, and the common voice of humanity might well say to Kaiser Wilhelm—the one strong | man in Europe in these days: “Get there, Eli, and do your best—or worst—before midsummer.” ] Professor Giddings says that if the present expan- ' sion of Eastern cities continues there will be, in seventy-five years, a continuous city from Boston to Washington; and the safety of the prediction lies in Never write a letter and never genius of the race has made part of the politics of | the fact that no one is likely to live long enough to i refute it. IDAHO STOCKMEN UNABLE TO PAY THEIR DEBTS John R. Sweetser of Novato, Marin County, filed a petition in insolvency yes- | Victory yesterday in the United States | clary and Finance at a m terday in the United States District Court [Clrcun Court in the case of James C. Ca- | terday In the Mayor's offic of | on behalf of the great cattie firm Bweetser Brothers & Pierce of Conant, Idaho. The labilities are $24§,212 and the assets ,490. Personal property of the value $5345, Dbelonging to John R. Sweetser, is claimed as exempt. The firm is composed of John R. Sweetser, Lewis H. Sweetser, A. I Sweetser and J. M. Plerce. unsecured, and of the assets $206,000 are in real estate and $123,8% In cattle on the | Idaho ranch. The principal creditors are Haley & Saunders, Salt Lake, $65,000; Wickersham Banking Company of Peta- {luma, $31,800; R. D. Robbins of Suisun, $10,000; $21,000; Henry Cowell, San Francisco, Crocker-Woolwarth National Bank, San Francisco, $12900; San Fran- cisco National Bank, $13,300; Wells, Fargo & Co.’s Bank, Idaho, $19,000; Utah Na- tional Bank, $10,000; First Natignal Bank of Pocatello, §594; V. J. A. Rey, $6000; John Sparks, $777; E. E. Staples, $3000 John E. Dooley, Salt Lake, $30,000. The affairs of the firm of Sweetser Bros. & Plerce have been in a muddled state for a number of months, resulting from the pressure of demands from nu- merous creditors who were seeking a set- tlement. Several months ago the firm called a meeting of its creditors in this city and an agreement was entered into wherein it was hoped that the firm would be afforded a way out of its difficulties without lo to the creditors, charged that the creditors in Idaho vic lated the compact by levying sttachments and otherwise hampering the business of the cattlemen. A second meeting was called, but with the same unsatisfactory results, and finaMy realizing that some move necessary to protect the Cali- fornia creditors, who had shown a dispo- sition to assist the firm in every possible way, John R. Sweetser decided that his only recourse in fairness to these credit- ors was bankruptcy proceedings. One of the members of the firm, A F. Sweetser, disappeared several years ago and was later declared dead by the courts of Idaho. John R. Sweetser having had a residence in Marin County for a number of years found this fact an advantage for his local creditors when he arranged to put his firm through bankruptey, for it gave him the desired chance of filing his petition here. Some time ago, when it became apparent that the California and ld'flho creditors could not agree, the Wickersham Bank people levied an at- tachment on the Sweetser ranch in this State to protect their claims of $31,000. SUBORDINATE OFFICERS CHOSEN BY GRAND LODGE Those Who Are to Do Field Work for Ancient Order of United Workmen. The corporate directors of the rand Lodge of the Anclent Order of United Workmen met yesterday iIn the office of the grand recorder. E. A. Freeman was appointed grasa or- ganizer for the current term, to have charge of the extension work of the or- der and to have supervision of the depu- tles who are to carry on that work. Various methods of conducting the work were discussed and it was decided to prepare a list of prizes to be offered to members of the order for individual efforts during the next twelve months. An executlve committee, consisting of the grand master, grand recorder, Edwin Danforth, Herman Schaffner and w. J. Peterson, was appointed with instruc- ticns to hold semi-monthly meetings. A special committee of three, consist- ing of David 8. Hirshberg, J. J. Bennetts and H. Schaffner, was named to devise R plan for conducting the official organ {\on the best possible lines. David 8. ceputy grand to_the board. Past Grand Master W. H. Barnes was appointed grand lecturer. Hirshberg was appointed master and legal adviser Of the total liabilities $152,282 are | but it is RAILROAD WINS IN THE CAVIN DAMAGE SUIT ‘The Southern Pacific Company won a vin against that corporation to recover $40,000 damages for personal Injuries re- | celved by the ditching of a train near ! Mill City, Nev., on February 17, 1901. The jury, after having been in deliberation but five minutes, gave judgment for the detendant. James G. Maguire and Houx « Barrett appeared for Cavin, and Peter F. Dunne took care of the rallroad’s in- terests, This was the second trial of the | case in the same court, the jury having disagreed on the first trial. Cavin was a railway mail clerk and was rendered a cripple for life. He was allowed leave of absence for one year, the full limit, but at the end of that pe- riod he was still unable tq resume his duties and he was dropped from the civil service list. His counsel contended that the railroad company did not use due dili- gence in guarding against the accident, and Mr. Dunne convinced the jury that the accident had been caused by a cloud- burst. The case of Charles A. Schuyler, an- other railway mail clerk injured in the same accident, was then placed on trial before a jury with the same counsel. Schuyler asks for $20,000 damages. A well known bicycle trick rider named Clinton R. Coulter was killed in the same accident, and his widow, Bertha Coulter, sued the company for $100,000 damages. She recovered $4500 damages in the same court. Mr. Dunne appeared for the rail- road company on that occasion and Bert chlesinger for the widow. The evidence was practically the same as in the Cavin | case, but there was a different jury panel. | PERSONAL MENTION. | L. A. Spitzer, a merchant of San Jose, {1s at the Grand. H. D. Chandler, a fruit grower of Vaca- le, is at the Lick. Mayor George E. Catts of Stockton reg- istered at the Lick yesterday. H. Fugishina, a horticultural student of Japan, is at the Occidental. R. Roberts, a banker of Madera, is among the arrivals at the Palace. J. N. Gregg, a mining man of Redding, |is among the arrivals at the Grand. R. M. Green, a druggist and well known mire owner of Oroville, is at the Lick. Thomas Derby, owner of a quicksilver mine at New Almaden, is at the Palace. Dr. F. K. Alnsworth, the Southern Pa- cific physiclan at Los Angeles, is at the Palace. Mark R. Plaisted, proprietor of the Evening Democrat of Fresno, is register- ed at the California. C. B. Deeves, manager of the Continent- al Fruit Express Company at Los An- geles, is at the Palace. Willlam D. Tupper, an attorney of Fresno, is at the California, accompanted by his wife and child. H. E. Adams, manager of the Stockton Gas Company, I8 here for a few days and Dr. R. M. Mattson, superintendent of the irsane asylum at Honolulu, arrived in the city yesterday and is at the Grand. Me Is here on a vacation and is en route to the East to pay a visit to his parents. Loty S0 Californians in New Yotk. | NEW YORK. April 17.—The following Californians have arrived at the hotels: From San Francisco—Dr. J. Van Den Bergh and Miss Van Den Bergh, at the New Amsterdam; H. Londoner, at the Psrk Avenue; F. Mandelbaum, at the Im- W. Erwin and E. T. Nichols, at the As- tor; W. H. Morrison and wife, at the | Manhattan. From Los Angeles—C. C. Eppers, at the Tmperial. ————— New South Wales may be judged from the fact that a meat-preserving company at Albury has purchased 120,000 sheep at from 6 pence to 1 shilling a hea has made his headquarters at the Grand. | perial; F. H. Stocker, at the Navarre; J. | The disastrous effects of the drought in | CORPORATIONS AGREE TO PAY CITY TAXES 4 Committe The Supervisors’ | compromise with the Pacifi | ptone and Telegraph Company and W Fargo & Co. whereby the tions named agree to pay a gating $85,000 for delinquent compromise carries with it the 1&: of the telephone company to pay th | tire taxes on its dssessment of ¥23.755 the year 192, Including $500.000 f | chise, providing the city walves t | alties for delinquency. For thé yea the telephone compan | $2,989,470, including 31, It has brought suit to test the v | the franchise assessment, and th s taxes. 1 | visors’ joint committee agrees in return | for the payment of the taxes to rec mend to the board the canceling of t assessment of the franchise to the amount | of $750,000, and also to remit the penal for delinquency. The mratter of the assessment of $1,00,000 | on the franchise of the Sunset Telephons Cempany for 190 was left | pending a further consultation Pillsbury, who with Alfred Su dore V. Halsey and F. W. Eaton condu ed the negotiations for the corporatic Should the board ratify the action of t committee the suits against the e tion for delinquent taxes will doned. The committee also agreed to mend that in return for the company g ing an adequate telephone service, ifclui- | ing a private exchange at the City H | and free service to all the departments of | the municipal government. At | sehools and libraries and ot may be designated by the ‘ pervisors, to the extent of &0 | that the ordinance passed ow April | imposing a license of ¥ cents a on nickel telephone machines be re | As a further inducement the c« | will recommend the passage of a | tion declaring that the subdivision o | der 48 imposing a licens on nickel machines does not apply to tel- ephone companfes. This w the dismissal of the suits against the mittee pany to enforce the payment of some $200,000 in back licenses on nickel ma- chines under the terms of the old ordin- ance. The dismissal will be subject to tha approval of the City Attorney, who has charge of the litigation | The disputed point of assessment on ths franchise of Wells, Fargo & Co. was le | to the decision of the United where the suit now lies. T | was for $750,000 for the last three | the taxes amounting to abe company agrees to pay some amount of the undisputed portion | 0a its personal property. | In addition to Mayor Schmitz and Su pervisors Brandenstein, Comte, Loughery, Braunhart and Booth, was represepted in the proceedings b Ruef, who Instituted suit against the companies while acting as | former Tax Collector Scott ———— Insolvent Farmer. Willilam H. Emery, a fa ville, Solano County d a f taxes two fi sclvency yesterday in the United & District Court. He owes $738 9 and ham no asse —_——— Townsend's Cal e fru glac ! Townsend's C: candies, 50c a po | boxes. Moved from Pal | Market st., | Special information supplied business houses and public mw I Press Clipping Bureau (Allen's) | fornta street. Telephone Main 1 — | Just 23 minutes was the time taken | an ordinary cable message in going rour the world from Boston. via Vancou and Australia less and gray, with P: | | | Remove the ca | Hinderco “IN A BAD FIX.” BY ARTIST SIDNEY L. BRACKETT. Sidney L. Brackett was born in Newton, Mass., Oct 11, 1863. When a mere boy he showed great talent for drawing. Me studied art with the late John B. Johnston and the well-known portrait painter, Frederick P. Vintom, and at the Boston Art Museum. Naturally a great lover of animals, he finds gTeat pleas- ure in portraying them—perhaps his greatest success has been his well-known paintings of kittens, of which he now makes a specialty. He is a descendant of Captain Richard Brackett, ome of the earliest colo- nial settlers, who landed at Salem in 1636. He i3 a member of the Boston Art Club, the Sons of the American Revolution and the Society of the Colomial ‘Wars. His pictures are to be found in many of the most prominent collections. 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