The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 6, 1903, Page 4

The Gl Call. ee-s.JULY 6, 1903 MONDAY....ccccoceessmescss : JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. ST S I S 7 ¢éress All Communications to W. S. LEAKE. Manager. IS L TELEPHONE. Ask for THE OATL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE...Market and Third, 8. F. EDITORIAL ROOMS. ....317 to 221 Stevemson St. . Delivered by Carriers, 20 Cts. Per Week, 75 Cts. Per Month. Single Copies 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage (Cash With Order): DAILY CALL @ocluding Sunday), oDe year. All Postmasters are authorised te receive bscriptions. be forwarded when requested. Matl subscribers iz ordering cbangs of address sbould be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS o order to imsure a prompt and correct compliance With their request. OAKLAND OFFICE. 1118 Broadway....... .Telephone Main 1083 BERKELEY OFFICE. 2148 Cemter Street. .Telephone North 77 GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Adver- tising, Marquette Building, Chicago. 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NW. corner Twenty-second aud Kentucky, cpes untl § o'clock. 2200 Fillmore, open until 9 o'clock. 1 subseribers contemwiating a chamge s esidemce during the summer months can have heir paper forwarded by mail to their mew iddresses by motifying The Call Business Office. « paper will also be on sale st all summer ,emorts =md is represemted »y a local agest im wil towns on the comst. = IS THE FINANCIAL PENDULUM SWINGING BACK. reet t a ng new worthy of comment, i sensations matters ? ons up and nced the market devel- business was lacking from stock oper- k of the d t crop mews was better, lia 1 al sit n was un- g over the market in egular moving of the trops in the wire the usual large blocks of cash, both at New York and in the West, have been providing or some time it is recog- < of the burden will aiter all banks. This tends to create regarding the course of the and causes more or less hesi- the ovement or This periodically recurring appre- money market will continue adopts more elastic currency stem But rved, a better torie seems to be de- eloping was remarked in this column several weeks 2go t the great New York banks, deeming he long 2 Wall street practically over, were n , and were in fact rather will- | ng to hel ng a little bull campaign. The fact is, the financial interests of the country have swung from one extreme to the other, and from being over- or so ago have become pessimistic One condition is about as bad nothing to be pessimistic nd the future can take care of itself still prosperous and likely to remain watching on the part of its guides - There He m ews, the New York as close to the powerful of the country as any other man I thoroughly posted on the daily f the stock and financial markets, and there- course fore speaks 1 e card, says: “Wazll street continues in a conservative and some- . what besitating mood. For conservatism there is “still good reascen, while for the extreme pessimism that prevails in some quarters there is absolutely now . no justification. The average buyer of stocks forgets that many of the depressing factors which now influ- ence him have been recognized by shrewd operators weeks and months ago, and that these conditions have been largely if not over discounted by a decline of 30 to 40 points in many of the leading stocks. Just now we are in danger of running into a state of exces- sive pessimism, which is quite as hazardous as the un- reasoning optimism which induced all sorts of excesses in'l(})l-: When desirable securities begin to sell be- low instrinsic values, not good but harm follows from | forcing prices to a lower level; for confidence is un- necessarily disturbed, enterprise checked and disaster invited which reason and judgment should prevent. What is especially needed at the moment is careful discrimination. There is no excuse whatever for an undue loss of confidence when corrective influences are actively at work and the financial situation has been greatly clarified by the enormous liquidation of the last six months. There are still undigested securi- ties in existence, but these are generally in strong hands, where they are likely to remain awaiting con- ditions much more favorable to their distribution than the present.” There is no change in the important food or mer- chandise staples from a week ago. Adverse weather . is catting down previous estimates of the wheat crop in Europe and the United States, and last week’s hot " gorth wind has materially altered the aspect of the fruit and grain yield in some parts of California; but the general trade situation remains as for some weeks back. THE SA I THE COMPLETED CIRCUIT. /' the message sent from President Roosevelt B to Clarence H. Mackay on July 4 evidence was given that human energy has at last girdled the globe with wires affording means for telegraphic communication round the world. The President's message made the circuit in twelve minutes. That speed, which in a former age would have seemed liké magic, will hardly affect the popular mind of to-day. Indeed some may wonder why the speed is not greater. We have become accustomed to the achieve- | ments of electricity by means of wire, and now we have special wonder only for wireless messages and for the marvels that are being wrought through the | mysterious forces of radium. | Despite the lack of popular wonder, however, the | completion of the Pacific cable is a great step for- | ward in the advancement of civilization. The work | is more important than it seems to us, and carries | with it wonderful possibilities. It places us in close relations to the far off Orient and opens opportuni- | ties of trade that can hardly be even so much as estimated at this time. That feature of the work was :uppermosl in the mind of Clarence Mackay in the | hour of his triumph, and his message in reply to President Roosevelt was an expression of an earnest | hope that “the Pacific cable, by opening the wide | horizon of the great East, may prove a useful factor | to the commerce of the United State The completion of the cable corresponds with the ‘coming of a critical moment in the history ‘of the ! East and of the world. It can no longer be ques- | tioned that Russia is aiming at something like a | monopoly of the markets Manchuria and of | northern China, and it is a foregone conclusion that | should that monopoly be established it would not be | | very long before the force of circumstances would | | impel the Russians to even further aggressions upon | | the Chinese empire. It is, therefore, altogether for- | tunate that at this juncture the United States has ob- tained 2 means for prompt communication with the Orient over a wire under American control, for we {are thus put in a position to keep posted on the | | ] | | i | i of | progress of events, and to learn promptly whatever | may happen To Californians the completion of the cable is more interesting than to other people, for it is not only closely related to our commercial interests, but it is due to the enterprise of a California pioneer Every people is ny s and the energy of a native son naturally and justly proud of the achievements of That is one of the instinc It associated their fellow countrymen tive feelings of the human heart with patriotism, and nations erect monuments. to | their great men, not only because of the honor due | | to their work, but because.oi the glory reflected | ! upon the nation itseli. In California we have felt a high degree of pride in the record made by the mer who founded the commonwealth. We have delighted in citing th evidence that men | who came to this coast to build up a new State in the | American Union represented the best elements of the 1 manhood of the time. The fic cable will be an- | other proof of the vigor and’ the sagacity of the | pioneers, and therefore the completion of the cable works as an the is something in the nature of a Californian triumph | in the world of industry and commerce In addition to this feeling of pride we have a deep | interest in the cable by reason of the advan it | will furnish us in our expanding trade with the East. All experience proves that the flow of commerce is Hitherto our trade has gone backward, | as it were. We have looked eastward to the Atlantic | States for our markets rather than westward across the great ocean of which San Francisco is the natural metropolis. The daily messages which the cable will | bring us from Manila and the populous lands of | | eastern Asia will tend to turn our eyes in that direc- ! tion, and we shall seek in a| | larger market than the Atlantic States can give. westward. then those countries It | may, of course, take years of time to achieve such markets and to adapt our industries to the needs of those pecple, but in the end we shall succeed, and | San Francisco will take rank among the greatest | | commercial centers of the globe. In this city, therefore, Mr. Mackay will find a cor- | and sanguine response to his wish that the cable may prove a useiul factor in the commerce of the | United States. We shall work for the realization. of | | that wish, and date a new era in our local history | | from the completion of this great work of a pioneer l { and a native son | As an evidence of how silly the sifly season talk | | can be made by politicians when they get a good fit | of loguacity on, it may be noted that a report comes 1irom Washington that certain Ohio statesmen have | decided that the ticket for next year shall be ’Roose- | velt and Taft, and that Senator Hanna shall be re- | tired from local leadershi RESTRAINING MATRIMONY. Y the learned gentleman who furnishes the | B New York Sun with legal lore it has been A said: “If a young man were possessed of 100 shares of Northern Pacific Railroad stock and he should wed a young woman who was the holder of 100 shares of Great Northern Railroad stock, the marriage contract would be illegal. It would <be ‘in restraint of trade’ Such is the scope and ‘po- tency of the Sherman act, as interpreted by the Su- preme Court, when reduced to. the bare bones of its ultimate logical significance.” ~ Here's a pretty state of things. Here's a pretty | howdyedo. Any law in restraint of matrimony .is as | much against public policy as a merger in restraint, of trade. Matrimony indeed is the suprenfe merger. Without it society could hardly get along. If'is a trust that even divorce courts never bust withimt re- gret and lawyers never undertake to digsolve without charging heavy fees. If the Sherman act $tand in the way of this long established merger and trust it | is high time to begin to think out remedies. Our schools, colleges and universities have just graduated a large number of young men and young women. The youthful and ardent host’ will have nothing to do during the summer except look for mates. In times past the search has been free from all business complications. No young man has had to begin his suit by asking the summer girl of his choice whether or no she owns railway stock. Neither has any girl, when asked to answer yea or nay, been compelled to ask for fime in which to consuilt a lawyer as to the legality of the proposed merger of property. The result is that the American youth is up against a difficulty of a new kind and has an undoubted right to kick. e Perhaps the law authority of the Sun is wrong. J { | | ns became more and more vigorous and bitter. i the palace of the Kaiser, American genius had a | ports from Berlin that the critics and the high mas- { clothes, that'when the situations of the play are not | | ception, style and rendering is but a barbarism | former Prussian guard officers and lieutenants grace | and grows there just as the steer is raised in the far | our dramatic art a’ gentle hearing, but it was not to | be. | canned beef. { lic and German theater managers to have nothing to | products. Perhaps the Supreme Court, if the issue ever comes up, will find a means of so construing the Sherman act as to_permit a2 man who owns stock in a railway to marry a real nice girl who owns stock in a com- peting line. Until that construction has been given, however. it will be well for young men and women every bachelor to dispose of all his railway securi ties before he goes to the summer resorts, and in that way obtain a freethand to woo and win wherever he can. : Out of the recent forest fires in' New England there has come an extensive discussion concerning the best means of preventing any future octurrence of the kind. It is safe to say, however, the talk will pass the summer season, and when winter comes, with its snows and its Legislatures, there will be a complete forgetfulness of any such thing as forest preservation. A an export of wheat and corn. That was quickly followed by an ‘invasion of canned meats and dried fruits, and ere long we were filling their markets with manufactured goods. Each suc- ceeding form of the invasion roused a new set of defenders of the home product, and the fight against Still the invasion swept along, hindered at times, but never beaten back, until now we are attacking the very citadel of German culture by invading their cities with American art, amusemé@nt and entertain- ment. « The first notable invasion of the latter kind was the appearance in Germany of the American “Wild West Show.” It attained a triumph that encouraged other showmen to venture, and soon the American circus was parading the fatherland like a conqueror, and American vaudeville stars were illuminating the nights not only of Berlin and Hamburg, but of all the cathedral cities and university towns. Their ad- vance was 30 swift that within a comparatively short time aiter their first appearance they won their way to the innermost centers of culture; and when a hort time ago angAmerican cake walk was given at g A BLAST FROM BERLIN. MERICAN invasion of Germany began with right to'say, “I came, I saw, I conquered.” The latest sweep of the invasion has taken the form of the introduction of American drama on the Ber- | lin stage. This movement appears to have aroused everything stalwart in Germany, and we learn by re- ters of culture and of art are raging like Valkyrs screaming for slaughter and urging on the fight ainst the insolent invaders of the classic stage of Germany. The reports inform us that after the first | night of a presentation of an American play in Ber- lin the critics roared next morning that the play is a | prooi that American dramatic art is in its swaddling ludicrous they are pathetic, but not with the pathos the author intended; and that the whole piece in con- The manager of the theater who was induced to | give our art a show on his boards deemed it neces- , in announcing the play, to make something of | an apology and a plea for mercy in doing so. Ft is reported that on the programme for the first night's performance there was printed a statement running thus: “We still cherish a prejudice against American art As a ‘matter of fact we can hear them say ‘And must this come too” when we recall the sky-scrapers of Chicago, the ugly architecture of the cathedral on Fifth avenue and the transatlantic theatrical pieces with which we have already become acquainted. On the other hand we have been aroused to enthusiasm in this very playhouse bus.a short time ago when Miss'Sarah Dunedh of Cafiférnia appeared”béfore us and succeeded in elevating to ideality and the esthetic the most sensual of all forms of art dancing. It showed us that even in the country across the ocean, with its enmity for all fine forms of art and its dilettanteism in art. they are beginning to awaken thoughts and ideals which are new to even the old lands of culture on this side. Does it not seem as fitting for an old Prussian squire to emigrate to the United States in order to teach the cowboy there how to manipulate the lasso? Yet it is true that k } | : £ 1 New York restaurants as waiters to-day. Perhaps the spirit of culture is conveyed to the United States | West and we receive canned beef from the New World.” ‘Surely such a plea as that might have obtained for Probably the critics did not like the reference to Probably they did not agree that Ger- man culture could be carried to this country by Prus- sian lieutenants of the guard and diffused throughout society by waiters in restaurants. At any rate they refused to accept the play. They declared it to be a “sensations stucke;” and advised the German pub- do with it. For the time being, the critics won the victory. The play was a failure from a monetary point of view. However, we have made a beginning, and will try again. If Germany takes our canned beef she must take our drama also. We are not going to permit this unfair discrimination among American With us the dramatic artist and the meat packer stand on a level. We are all equal. Berlin must, take our art of every kind even if we hdve to and ram i build 2 theater down her throat. There is a proposition being considered by the State Lunacy Commission to make all supplies for the State hospitals by the inmates of those institu- tions. While the State hospital is of course a neces- sary institution, any effort toward making the same self-supporting will be eagerly welcomed by the tax- payers. The making of supplies to be consumed en- tirely by the makers thereof cannot be regarded as conflicting in any way with outside labor. The Consul at Kehl, Germany, reports to his Gov- ernment after a visit to this State that California prunes and apricots are rapidly supplanting those of France and Italy, and that the outlook for their in- creased sale in Germany is most encouraging. He reports the California fruit to be better and cheaper, and says the only objection thereto is in the kind of boxes used and the delay in transit. This might be worth investigating by our commercial bodies. The young lady telephone operators at Spokane ‘have st in a body, and one of their demands is that they be accorded the privilege of dressing to suit themselves. The outcome will be noted with interest, as woman has been absolute ruler of her paraphernalia from time immemorial and has guarded that right jealously. The hymn “America” is at last to be dressed up in a new tune. A New York professor has been given a geld medal by the Society of the Cincinnati for writing an acceptable melody. The old-faghioned one, even though made from imported goods, has done good service and will not be cast aside without to be careful. Perhaps the safest way will be for !a tinge of regret. | control. FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 6, 1903 SYREN MAKES A RECORD IN .BRITISH NAVY —— The British torpedo-boat destroyer Sy- ren established a record last month for getting up steam. The boat was lying at Portsmouth with a fleet of other destroyers under cold boilers when the admiral signaled ‘‘Raise steam for fifteen knots with all dis- patch.” In fifty-eight minutes the Syren had steam for speed required, and the next best vessel did not signal “ready” until twenty-five minutes after the Syren was far off on her course. The Syren Is fitted with water-tube boilers of the Reed type. The accident on board the armored cruiser Good Hope two weeks ago, by which seven men were scalded in the boiler-room—three of whom have since died—is believed to have been caused by heavy gun firing. The concussion is said to have broken one of the anchor bolts of one of the elements In the Belleville boil- ers, lifting it from its cone and causing a rush’ of heated water under a pressure of 300 pounds into the fireroom. . . The system of paying premiums for ex- cess of speed was discontinued in our navy about seven years ago, and since then the contractcrs have been content to come up to the requirements and making no special efforts to make records. The handsome bonus of $175,000 earned by the Oregon, against $38,500 for the Indiana and $100,000 for the Massachusetts was earned through superior design and workmanship in details of machinery, and through the adoption of propellers suit- able for the vessel. The propellers of the three ships varied in their slip, being 24.85 per cent for the Indiana against 22.6¢ on the Massachusetts and only 14.33 per cent for the Oregon. The incentive to earn a premium resulted in getting better ships for the Government than the con- tracts stipulated, but in the case of the four monitors recently completed it is rather disappointing to note that the Wy- oming, built by the Unfon Iron Works, makes the poorest showing. The vessels were to make a speed of 11.5 knots on 2400 horsepower, and the trial speed data show that the Nevada made 13.030 knots, her screws having a slip of only 9,57 per cent; the Arkansas, 12.713 knots and 9.44 per cent slip; the Florida, 12.4 knots and 24.45 per cent slip, while the Wyoming made only 11.8 knots, owing to the excessive slip of her propellers, which averaged 0.07 per cent. It is safe to assume that if a pre- mium of $5000 for each quarter knot excess over contract had been offered the Wy- oming would have turned out faster than any n{t other monitors, while now she is the Mowest of her class and detracts from the /former splendid record of the Union Iron Works. Similar disappoint- ments may be locked for in the protected crulserg approaching completion as well as in tHe battleships and armored cruisers under construction. The outlook for additional ships during the next session of Congress is not very promising. /The United States Shipbuild- ¢ . ing Trust is practically out for some in-| definite period as a bidder on navy work, leaving only five private - shipyards , at which battleship building can be carried on. Of these latter yards the Newport News has already four battleships and three armored cruisers under construc- tion, the Cramps’ yards three armored cruisers, the New York Shipbuilding Com- pany at Camden one battleship and one armored. cruiser: Fore River has three hattleship: one battleship. The two last named yards are taxed to their full limit with the work now on hand, leaving only three | yards as competitors for the three 13,000- ton battleships to be contracted for with- in six months. . The compietion of the battleship Mis- souri at Newport News during the pres- ent year, and the Ohio some time during 1904, will leave thirteen battleships—in- cluding threel 13.000-ton ships not yet placed—to be completed between 195 and 197, in adaition to which there are eleven armored cruisers to be finished within two, three and four years. Only one bat- tleship, the Connecticut, is building in the New York navy yard, two battleships and three armored cruifsers in trust yards and the remainder are distributed among six independent private yards, on the -as- ! sumption that contracts for the three bat- tleships will be placed with Newport News, Cramps’ and the Camden yard. Therefore, if additional ships are to be laid down during the next two years the Navy Department will be forced to utilize the navy yards. An additional battleship can be built at the New York navy yard and iwo at each of the yards at Boston, Norfolk and Mare Island. There is a huge gong in the office of the Chief of the Bureau of Navigation which has not been used for several vears, of which the fellowing good story is told how | a civilian got revenge on a martinet of-| ficer: Captain F. M. Ramsay was super- intendent of the Naval Academy from 1881 to 1886, and during part of this pe- riod James R. Soley, a professor in the navy, was head of the department of Eng- lish studies. Ramsay, while a capable of- ficer, was a perfect martinet, and above | all things delighted to show his authority over the unfortunate civilians under his Soley had a very' unpleasant life for about a year, when he managed to get transferred to the library. In a few years the wheel of fortune brought about a changed condition, Ramsay be- came Chief of the Bureau of Navigation and Soley was made Assistant Secretary of the Navy and at once started in to get revenge on his old tormentor. He ordered a monster gong to be placed in Ramsay's office with a push button on his desk to connect with it, and Soley had fre- quent occasion to summon Ramsay up one flight of stairs to the Assistant Secre- tary’s office. It was a loud sounding gong ringing out with a volume and sud- denness that would startle every occu- pant on the lower floor. Its primary ob- ject was well understcod and no one sympathized with Ramsay for the hu- miliation to which he was subjected dur- ing two long yea —_———————— The streets of Bombay are excellent, as are generally the main roads throughout India. They are thoroughly macadamized or metaled and made smooth by heavy roller: . e ——————— NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. SCIENCE PREVENTS BALDNESS. The Fatal Germ and Its Remedy Now Facts of Science. 1t is the rarest thing in the world for a man to be necessarily bald. No man whose hair is not dead at the roots need be bald if he will use Newbro's Herpi- cide, the néw scalp antiseptic. Herpi- cide destroys the germ that cuts the hair off at the root, and cleans the scalp of dandruff and leaves it in a perfectly healthy condition. Mr. Mannett, in the Maryland block. Butte, Mont.,, was en- tirely bald. In less than a month Herpi- cide had removed the enemies of Hhair growth anl:i nature did its work by cov- in ering hi iead with thick hair an inch long x weeks he had a normal suit of hair. Sold by lcading druggists. Send 10c in stamps for sample to The Herpicide Co., Detroit, Mich. CASTORIA Th Kind You Have Aiways Bought Bears the Signature of chiefly | and Moran Erothers, Seattle, | | PIUTE TRIBE NOW PASSING FROM NEVADA Special Dispatch to The Call. DAYTON, Nev., July 5.—The passing of the famous Piute tribe of Indians is realized more clearly in the recent action of the Government is opening a greater portion of their reservation to the public. When the allotments were made and com- | pensation was awarded it was found that | of this once powerful tribe but 100 fami- | lies remain, and a number of these are dying off from an epidemic in the neigh- borhood of the Duck Valley reservation. Major Laughlin, inspector of Indian res- ervations, arrived here two days ago for the purpose of completing an arrange- ment with the Indians for the disposition of their lands. The reservation is an ex- tremely large one, and a portion of it is minerdl land of a high quality. Owing | to the fact that it has been'reserved for | the use of the tribe miners have been burred and prospectingor development has never gained headway, As soon as it is thrown open to settlement a boom is ex- | pected in the section and hundreds of peo- ple are waiting to take up property. The opening of the country will throw all of the mineral land out of the red man's district. Rich timber land will also be | sold and this section of the State will | be greatly benefited. A small portion of the reservation will be reserved for its original owners. This portion will be nothing more than grazing and farming land. When Laughlin arrived all of the In- | dians had gathered to receive him. They had-appointed several of their number to receive the officials of the Government and to present them to the tribe. It was agreed to give each Indian who is the head of a family twenty acres of land and $20 in cash. The land is to be held in trust for a period of twenty-five years, and at the end of that time is to be deed- ed to the holder, with the understanding that it is to be held in severalty. The money is to be paid at once. The Indians accépted the proposition after a short conference, and the surveys will com- mence within the next few days. | Reports from Elko County say that Piute Indians are dying in large numbers in the vicinity of the Duck Valley res- ervation. The exact nature of the disease is not stated, but it is understood to be some sort of fever. PERSONAL MENTIO R. Vereker, a rancher of Willows, is at the Lick. Dr. B. F. Keith of Terre Haute, Ind., is at the Grand. | is at the Lick. | The Rev. F. J. Mynard of Hanford is at the Occidental. is at the Grand. H. E. Pickett, a merchant ville, is at the Grand. Fred Cox, a banker of Sacramento, tered at the Grand. idward Walden, a fruit grower of Gey- | serville, is at the California. T. J. White, a merchant of Denver, and wife are registered at the Occidental. | Don Ray of Galt, former Prison Di- | rector, and wife are guests at the Lick. | T. J. Norton, chief counsel of the Santa Fe road for its Western system, is at the | Palace | George T. Meyers Oregon, NG is registered at the Occidental. | Mrs. 8. A. Kidder of Grass Valley, pr ident of the Nevada County Narrow-gauge | Rallroad, is registered at the Palace. of Placer- is a State Senator of —————— CHEERFUL TONE PERVADES LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE in Prices of Investment Shares Are Good. Stock /Exchange last week continued to be cheerful. A more hopeful situation which set in during the previous week continued and the whole list showed de- cided improvement, especially the gilt- | edged securities which are deriving bens- fit from cheaper money. While the at- wosphere was clearer, the prospects of a continued improvement in prices, espe- clally of investment stocks, are very good, the public as yet showing no great de- zree of eagernes and consequently the volume of business done last wek was small. Americsns participated in the specula- tive movement. Kaffirs were temporarily excited by a private telegram stating that the Transvaal Government had au- therized the importation of 50,000 Chinese for work at the mines. This report, how- ever, remains without confirmation. ———————————— Harriet Martineau visited the United States in 1840 and reported that only seven occupations were open to women. They were teaching, needlework, keeping boarders, working in cotton factories, typesetting, bookbinding and household service, John Markley, a rancher of Geyserville, | J. H. Leggett, a merchant of Oroville, } arrived from Portland yesterday | | Prospect of a Continued Improvement | LONDON, July 5.—The feeling on the | GOVERNMENT’S OFFICERS FIND NO FILIBUSTER e i Special Dispatch to The Call. N, 5—At the direct TUCSON, Ariz., July & request of the State Department the United States District Attorney of Ari- sona has just completed an investigation irto what was reported to the Mexican Government as a plan for an armed force tate of Sonora on a filibus- there to establish an ith the ultimate pur- the United States. h an investigation ican Embassador o the Attorney to invade the S tering expedition, independent state, W pose of annexing it to The request for suc came through the rMe:d . nd was at once referr ?}eneml‘s department and by him to the Federal authorities of the Territory. Phoenix was specified as the headquarters of the alleged revolutionists, and ther_» and elsewhere the government officials made a thorough investigation. What they discovered to be the cause of all this trouble was that a few months ago P. K. Hickey, a well-known business man, was conversing with friends on the subject of the treatment of American railroad men in Sonora. With some warmth he averred that “some day we will simply have to go down there lnr! annex the country to the United States. ¥e went no further with his remar indeed, he forgot he had ever sald any thing on the subject. But the words werd picked up by a passing Mexican, who told the Mexican Consul, who passed the in- formation along through official channels. ————— A CHANCE TO SMILE. Mollie—What character did you take at the masquerade? Chollie—1 went as a fool. “Oh, I thought every one had to wear some disguise'—Yonkers Statesman. “A woman may be a pretty poor shot.” remarked the Observer of Events and Things, “but when she throws herself at your feet she'll come pretty close to hit- ting your pet corn.”—Yonkers Statesman | Here's a man who must pay $1000 for | having said “Boo’ to a gl In the dark A fellow who couldn’t think of anything better than that never should have been left with a girl when the lights were out —Utica Herald-Di | | Stranger—Fuel is pretty costly here this | winter, ? | Fire Insurance Man (in accents of sad- | ness)—Costly? Sometimes we burn as high as $100,000 worth of buildings in a sin- | gle night.—Philadelphia Times. Comfort and Style.—Miss Lacey—I don't | feel comfortable in this waist at all Miss Gracey—Why not? Miss Lacey—It makes me feel uncom- | fortable because it's too comfortable to | be a good fit.—Philadelphia Pre: From the pagoda of the iate Prince Li | Sum Whot we heard strains of strange and weird musie. Turning to our guide we asked: “What | causes that peculiar melod “Why,” he explained, the soldiers playing on hi more American. hat is ome of loot.”—Balti- “Didn’t you tell me dat dog you sold me were a huntin’ dog?" “He don’ want fo do nuffin’ but look foh a comf’able place to lie down in.” “Da’s right. Huntin' wahm spets is his : specialty.”—Washington Star. : Mr. Dolan, “what do vez think iv Venzweala?" “Well,” was the answer, “I haven gone far inty the subjeck. But the way they're hemmerin’ its forts I should say it ain't necessary ty look in the geogra- | phy ty learn that it's wan o' the smallest | countries the - map.”—Washington. | star. “Rafferty wife)—Here you a nice | Greening (shopping with his is something that will make | dress. 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