The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 7, 1903, Page 6

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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, opes | until § o'clcck. 2200 Fillmore, open until 9 o'clock 70 SUBSCRIBERS LEAYING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER | change of | sesidence during the summer mon their paper forwarded by mail to their mew dresses by motifying The C Business Office. | This paper will also be at all mer | resorts snd is represented oy & local agemt in all towns on the coast. IES THE MARTYR OF THE WRECK. tale that comes from the northern | stranded ship, a volunteer to watch her b per and crew went away to return and re nd the property of others that he stayed to save. A weck went by, in the solitary vigil, and finally a third of a year. because some miscreant, as ry guard was true and brave, the compass, so that r told the truth. She i h se and struck on the rocks of arren in the Arctic winter. Keel and rock of September, 1902. The captain three days later were taken off vessel and sent to Seattle—all but one. of the owners was at stake, and Wil- teered to guard it until r months later the relief stranded ship, and his skip, The proper liam Ode n, vol than fc le and ribs W, and keeping grim guard over his Beside them lay the ship’s log, yer 4, 1902, to February, 1903, he record of his lonely watch in the sailorman, at the ship’s pump to keep out | and food grew shorter Scurvy, the scourge of the sea, gnawed resh water he depended on the snow, om the ship that supply grew less log has been published. It is an record of his pain, starvation, thirst and bitter agony, and, most wonderful of all, this | remarkable man made no record of blame of the | d the owners who had heartlessly deserted | while they went about their busi- | suited them, a quarter | | | | ater. H uncomplain and less when it of a year later, set out to rescue his bones and their property. His d log is at first a businesslike record of each day’s doings, the weather and condition of the ship. When his provisions began to run short it is mentioned as if the need were another’s and not his. The weather is pitiless, great gales blow, the sun goes below the horizon and the Arctic night falls on sca and shore, and he tells it as if the effect of tem- pest, frost and the great darkness had been upon a mate whose story he told from dictation. When, finally, disease and starvation had wrought upon his strength until he could no longer make a fire to cook the miserable dole of improper food that was left, hopeless of relief, but making no record of his disappointment, not accusing the shameless wretch | who had disordered the compass nor the inhuman“ owners -and captain who had left him to perish, he‘ | bravely faced death. On December 1 he had written in the log: “My twentv-seventh birthday; carried fifteen barrels of | Febrvary 17 he wrote: “I can get aft no | No fire in the stove for three days. I hope | it wil! end soon.” And February 19: “Life is sweet, | but death is sweeter in a case like this. To-day I had | only some dried apples and a piece of ice.” The 20th he wrote, “I am waiting for my death,” and then, | probably the next day: “Death at last. Four months | alone.” The tragedy was over. He was a young | man, 2 to the young life is dear, but, no sail in1 sight, be turned like a philosopher to the only ship | that could take him off, and when death steered that | way the forlorn man hailed it as months before he would have greeted the coming of rescue. Pity and admiration for this forlorn martyr strug- gle “with each other for expression. In the presence of his bones who shall say that duty, responsibility and self-sacrifice are no longer among the master motives of men? It is one thing to die in high ac- tion, to be suddenly swept over the line that bounds the hereaiter, while the world looks on and history * gtands with pen poised to make, enduring record. But it is quite another thing to die as did William Ode, with the wrath of the northern gale for his requiem, the sunless winter and a cheerless sea around him. Those who were responsible will be lifted into the contempt of men upon the high rec- ord of his fidelity, and this martyr will not have died in vain if the sad story impress those who are any where, at any time or in any way responsible for their brother man. water.” more ’gning on to sa { a commonplace. { while in the service. | the War Office to improve the style of biscuits, but THE MENACING ISSUE. LOSELY following the burning of the negro, ‘ White, near Wilmington, Del., and the con- sequent danger of a race war between the whites and the blacks of that city, come reports of a similar outburst of lawlessness at Evansville, Ind. Those two instances do not stand alone. Statisti- cians who keep a record of lynchings report that up to the time of the Wilmington outrage there had been since January 1 no less than forty-five such cases. They have occurred in the North and the West as well as in the South, and there is every reason to believe they are liable to occur wherever an opportunity for them is afforded. The extent of the evil has now become as notable as its lawlessness. It is evident that from one cause or another a considerable percentage of the Ameri- can people are becoming subject to fits of violent rage that render them incapable of reasoning or of acting like responsible persons. A mad desire for vengeance against some suspected criminal breaks out in a seemingly well ordered community, and at once hundreds of men and not a few women begin clamoring for a victim. No influence of good men, no authority of law, is sufficient to check their mad impulse, and soon another crime is added to the list that is already appalling. The lynching spirit seems, in fact, to be rapidly spreading over the country. It shows itself every- | where, even in places where it is least to be expected or condoned. An illustration of the extent to which it has infused the minds of educated men is furnished | by a recent occurrence in Philadelphia. The crime | that led up to the Wilmington lynching was com- | mitted so near Philadelphia that the Ministerial | Union of that city deemed it expedient to make al declaration concerning it. A resolution was imro-i duced beginning with the statement: “In view of the | atrocious acts of lawlessness within a few miles ul! Philadelphia, by which American manhood has been | stained, the efficiency of popular institutions brought | into question and Christianity horrified at the sight | of a multitude of people wearing its garb gloating | over the writhing form of a human being slowly burned to death in their applauding presence,” and : “The Ministers’ Union of Phila- | delphia and vicinity hereby proclaims its abhorrence | of such acts of lawlessness and calls upon all whoi | | love God and their country to use every means in their power to suppress mob rule and aid those | in authority to-apprehend and punish any who may | set the law at defiance.” X The introduction of the resolution precipitated a stormy discussion, and in the end the union adopted | a compromise declaration, con\'cming itself with say- ‘ ing: “We earnestly express our great sorrow and | grief over the awful tragedies recently enacted in a | neighboring State, and we pray for the early restora- tion of peace and right and law throughout all our native land.” MWhen men can go no further than that in denoun- cing an outbreak of lawlessness amounting to an- archy in its worst form, it is evident there is some- thing radically wrong with the tone of public sen- timent. The issue is the more fearful because it has come upon the country in a most unexpected and unintelligible way. It is but a few years ago that the first case of burning a negro at a stake occurred, | and at that time it was received with expressions of borror all over the Union. Since that time the of- fense has been so frequent that it has become almost | The terrible spirit that prompts it | appears to be increasing in force and spreading in extent, so that it has now become an issue of most serious importance to the country. When first public attention was drawn to the fre- | quency of lynching the defense was that the crime was committed only as a punishment for assaults upon That defense is no longer wvalid. | Some of the most fearful lynchings have occurred where no such crime was committed or even alleged. It has been suggested that a better system of pub- lic education in the South would put an end to the evil, but in Northern States, where a hjgh standard | cf public education prevails, there have been just as bad lynchings as in any Southern State. It seems that the cause of the crime is nothing more nor less than the breaking down of law. The people have | no respect for their courts nor for their law officers. In its last znalysis lynching is nothipg more than anarchy, and sooner or later it will have to be dealt with as anarchy and sternly suppressed by the strong hand of established order. women. p———— | The British War Office has decided to fumish; gratis false teeth to any soldier who has lost his It is asserted that the teeth of the men were injured during the South African demand for new ones. It would seem to be better for perhaps they know best A BAD PROGRAMME CURIOUS report comes from Washington to A the effect that Mr. Cannon, who is sure to be elected Speaker of the House, has decided to oppose any attempt during the coming session of | Congress to provide for currency legislation. He is said tc have declared a conviction that the coun- try does not need either a “rubber” currency or an asset currency, that the demand for such legislation comes from Wall street only, and will be opposed by the House. In explaining the attitude of the coming Speaker the Washington correspondent of the New York Tribune says: “The positive attitude of Mr. Can- non on this subject is regarded by legislators who have been in close touch with the situation as an indication of the beginning of a vigorous indepen- dent policy on the part of the House of Representa- tives. There is said to be no question of Mr, Can- non’s election as Speaker of the Fifty-eighth Con- gress. His inclination for a test of strength with the Senate was clearly shown, it is pointed out, by re- marks which he made in the closing hours of the last session, when he characterized the methods , of ‘another body’ as being practically those of ‘stand and daliver.”” Should this report prove true, and Mr. Cannon, as Speaker of the House, undertake to force an issue with the Senate on the currency question, he will make a serious blunder. Popular sympathy was with him when he made his famous declarations con- cerning the duty of the House to resist the aggres- sions of the Senate, and if' he were to choose a favorable ground cn which to make a battle for the rights of the House popular sympathy would re- main with him and be a potent ally in his fight; but public opinion will be against him if he undertakes to baffle any well directed effort at currency legislation during the coming winter. It is no doubt very clever to speak of an elastic ! W important to be affected by witticisms. The expe- rience of last fall taught the people the need of scientific, self-adjusting monetary system, and if the House attempts to assert its powers by making a deadlock on that issue the Senators will have occa- sion to rejoice, for victory will be in their hands beyond a doubt. D A Paris dispatch, narrating the settlement of a will contest which resulted in making a ycing woman the heiress of d large estate, says: “Since it is known that the young lady has a large sum in her own pos- session she has had twenty offers of marriage from as many Counts. In fact, her windfall is interfering with the American marriage market.” HEN public attention was directed a few CHILD LABOR DEFENDED. Wynrs ago to the employment of child labor on an extensive scale in the cotton mills of the South there was a sanguine belief that the evil would soon be abated under the pressure of public opinicn. That belief has been dissipated. Recent disclosures have brought to light the fact that child labor is employed in some of the Northern States in defiance of law almost as extensively as in the South itself, and it has been furthermore made known that it is going to be no easy matter to get good laws enacted in the South or to get them enforced in the North. The Philadelphia Public Ledger quotes the chief of the State Department of Mines as saying that the bituminous miners in the western part of Pennsyl- vania have determined to defy the law and then | | goes on to say: “The people of the State will gen- erally be very much surprised to hear this, after all the fierce diatribes hurled at the ‘conscienceless operators’ who were supposed to have heartlessly en- couraged, or at least permitted, the employment of those of tender years in the hard and dangerous work of the mines; but wonder will grow when' it is an- nounced that not only the bituminous miners, but a large part, if not the great majority, of the very an- thracite miners who aroused the sympathies of the country so effectively in their behalf by reciting the | horrors of child labor in the mines and the callous cruelty of the operators, are also arrayed against the enforcement of the law.” A similar frankness has been displayed by the cot- ton manufacturers of Georgia. The Legislature of that State is now in session and has a child labor bill under consideration. A representative of the | Georgia Industrial Association recently appeared be- fore the Assembly and made a straight-out plea for child labor. He declared that advocates of the pro- posed legislation were either sentimentalists, antago- nists of Southern mills or demagogues seeking no- toriety. His speech contained no promise¢ of any mitigation of the existing evil, nor any admission that it is an evil. From start to finish it was a declaration of intention to run the mills by child labor as far as possible, Declarations of that kind serve to show the need of a new campaign of education on the child labor question. It will never do for this country to take a back step on that issue. It may be difficult to pro- cure the enactment of good laws in the South, but they will come in time if the progressive elements of | the Southern people are properly aided and encour- aged in their struggle to obtain them. As for the Northern States, the laws can be enforced officials do their duty and are properly sustained | by a resolute public opinion. According to a Washington doctor the drink habit is due mainly to an empty stomach. He says no man desires a cocktail after dinner. It is only the ! fellow who craves one before dinner or before break- fast that is in danger of becoming a drunkard. The moral is plain: When thirsty, take something to eat. INDIGENTS AND WANTED. ISCONSIN has a member of the ILLITERATES State Board of Control named Kuestermann, who has ideas about immigration that are no doubt derived from his own nativity. He objects to excluding indigents and illiterates, declaring that ;"so long as factories and other enterprises find diffi- lcull,v in getting men illiteracy ought not to be made a test, while a property test will shut out good and patriotic citizens.” To this it may be retorted that so long as the re- form schools and juvenile penal institutions of this country contain tens of thousands of native American Eyouths, who fester in the vices of idleness because | illiterate and indigent !(mm trades and excludes them from occupation, all | war by the hardness of the biscuits served; hence the | immigration ' outlaws them immigration might be stopped with benefit to the country until its occupations absorb all of its own native increase in population. Mr. Kuestermann is in favor of admitting indi- | gents because he says that many years ago Francis A. Hofiman landed in this country with only $6 in his pocket and later on became Lieutenant Governor | of Illincis. But Mr. Hoffman was an exception among the immigrants of his day. The most of them brought property along and nearly all of them were more desirable than those that come now from Southeastern Europe. Foreign immigration for the fiscal year ending June 30 amounted to but little short of a million, or one alien and a fraction to each 100 of our popula- tion. The country does not need it and cannot use such an influx profitably to itself or to the immi- grants. The signs of a surplus population of that kind are increasing. One infallible sign that a coun- try is suffering from such a cause is when the alien element is strong enough to deny to any part ‘of the native population its natural rights. This is being done, with the result of penalizing native Americans by enforced idlenes Regarding the naval maneuvers at Kiel the Kreuz Zeitung says of the American sailors: “They are careless in appearance and are not careful in giv- ing and returning salutes, even toward their own superiors. Their behavior would cause a Prussian corporal’s hair to stand on end.” Quite likely. Their behavior had an even worse effect on some of Spain’s sailors quite recently. A R - There is no foretelling the possibilities of the auto- mobile. The proprietor of a Santa Rosa flour mill, wishing to test his machinery, hitched a belt to an auto and found that things ran beautifully. If this keeps up we may expect to find some of our surplus bicycle riders engaged in the capacity of motor to a peanut stand, e Walkirez, the self-confessed murderer, now in the Alameda County Jail, threatens to starve himself to death if he is not fed upon delicacies instead of or- dinary prison fare. The stony-hearted jailer says he is not running a ‘delicatessen plant, so the issue * is _deurrency as a “rubber” currency, but the issue is too | clearly up to Walkirez. if the | LITTLE OCCURS TO ENLIVEN THE SOCIAL WORLD ———— Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Peixotto sailed from New York for Europe on Saturday. They expect to spend the coming winter | | in Spain. The Peixottos paid a visit to relatives in Oakland in the early spring| and were about to return to Paris, when | ! Mrs. Peixotto was attacked with appendi-| citls and was obliged to remain until she | could gain strength from the dangerous operation. Mrs. Peixotto devotes most of her leis- ure to literary work and has written ex- cellent sketches which have appeared in leading magazines, illustrated by her artist husband. [ e Admiral and Mrs. Trilley were ten- dered a reception recently at Monterey by Major and Mrs. Lassiter of the Fif- teenth Infantry. Two hundred and fifty guests were invited to partake of the cordial military hospitality. £ 0 Mrs. C. A. Coolidge, wife of Colonel | Coolidge, gave an “‘at home' last evening | | in honor of Miss Johnson of Vancouver | Barracks. The cozy quarters of the popu- lar colonel and his wife were prettily | decorated for the occasion and thelr | friends were pleasantly entertained. | P | Miss Josephine Loughborough Is still the guest of the De la Tours. She is! expected home this week. Pl 1 The C. P. Robinsons and thelr youngest | | daughter, Miss Kathryn Robinson, re- | turned yesterday from the Jarboe ranch | in the Santa Cruz Mountains. P e Dr. and Mrs. E. Brownell are expected | to return in August, when they will take possession of the Davenport house on | | Broadway, which they have rented during the absence of the owners. : . e e Word is wafted from Washington that a wedding of Interest in army circles celebrated on June The bride Miss Margaret Thompson, daughter Colonel and Mrs. C. 1. Heizmann, U. 8. and the happy man was Lileutenant John Randoiph, U. 8. A, . | ot Ay Fay, gave a farewell bachelor dinner on | Sunday evening downtown in honor of | his approaching marriage. A San Josei girl, graduate of the State Normal School, | class of '03, will be Mr. Fay's bride. The | wedding will not take place until next | | month., { | i ! | i | { | Lulke Fay, son of the late Senator John | | | | | | | . The Hutch at Sausalito was the scene of a jolly celebration on Saturday, when a number of guests were entertained with | . | | | | fireworks. A special launch was provided | i | ! to bring the merrymakers back to town late in the evening. Among those present were Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Costigan, Cap- tain and Mrs. H. E. Cloke, Miss Char- lotte Ellinwood, Miss Leontine Blakeman, | Miss Carrie Ayres, Miss Edith Findley, | Claude Terry Hamilton, Dr. Harry Tevis, | Robert Greer, Denis Searles and Harry | Holbrook. { . | Miss Pearl Landers returned from Mon- | | terey to be the guest of Miss Helen Dean | | at Hotel Rafael over the Fourth. | I I | Mrs. Eleanor Martin gave an informal | luncheon on Friday at her home on | Broadway. ¢ S | 0. E. Warren and party will leave San Francisco thls morning to return east- iwznrd after touring this State for two months and visiting the Yosemite Valley. So pleased are Mr. Warren and his friends with California that they will re- turn in the near future to reside. Mr. Warren is at present editor of the Nashua Telegraph at Nashua, N. H. In the party were Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Peper, Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Stetson, Mr. and Mrs.. Charles Collins, Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Gils, Mr. and Mrs. Willlam Harris, O. E. Warren and Charles Perry. . . | Mr. and Mrs. H. Lowenstein announce the engagement of iheir daughter, Mar- tie, to Myer Hirsch of Portland. An en- gagement reception will be held next Sun- | day at 1385 Geary street. R Mrs. William Nuttall and her little daughters, Mildred and Ruth, are spend- | ing a few weeks at the Hotel Bellevue, Mill Valley. PR Mrs. Carl Hansen and Mrs. Charles Voge are spending their summer vacation at the Hotel Bellevue, Mill Valley. PERSONAL MENTION. 0. J. Woodward, a banker of Fresno, is at the Lick. T. G. Noyes, a lumber man of Napa, is at the Palace. | T. W. Huckstif, a merchant of Martinez, '} is at the Russ. | George V. Northey, a mining man of Sutter Creek, is at the Lick. M. M. Harris, a builder of organs, of Los Angeles, is at the Grand. Dr. G. G. Graham and family of Pitts- burg are registered at the Grand. | George Nixon, banker and politician of ‘Winnemucca, Nev., is aL the Palace, R. H. Thiesser, who is connected with the Department of Agriculture in Wash- | ington, and wife are at the Occidental. George Dawson, instructor at the Chi- cago Athletic Club, arrived on the late train last night and is at the California. Frank Donahue, a newspaper man of | Sydney, was among the passengers who arrived from the Antipodas on the stam- er Sonoma yesterday and is stopping at the Occidental. A. Lohmann, who represents the North German Lloyd Steamship Company in Sydney, and whose late father was direc- tor general of the same company, is at the Palace. He is on his way to Bremen. ‘Word was received in this city yester- day that Edward Chambers, general freight agent of the Santa Fe road, is confined to his home in Los Angeles, suf- fering from a badly cut hand.. While returning the other day from the East he attempted to open a bottle of mineral wa- ter on the train for an invalid and the bottle broke, the glass entering his hand and severing an artery. For a time it was feared he might bleed to death, but a telegram was sent ahead for medical assistance and the flow of blood was finally stopped, but not until Cham- bers was in a very weakened condition. Californians in New York. NEW YORK, July 6.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—Mrs. C. Mason, at the Navarre; F. B. Taylor and V. Waldron, at the Im- perial; J. A. Benson, J. C. Bengon, G. Welland and R. Palmer, at the Grand Union; J. M. Donald, at the Vendome; M. Eiliott, at the Rossmore; J. E. Field,~at the Herald Square; J. H. A. Folkers, at the Union Squ ; J. Nute Jr.,, at the Westminster; H. D. Richards, at the Ash- land; J. Wiillamson and wife and Mrs. Thayer, at the Hoffman. From Los Angeles—Miss M. Creeck, at the Gilsey; D. W. Coyle and H. S. Knight, at the Criterion: C. 8. C. Johnson and W. L. Kuhn, at the Victoria; Miss Kirkpat- rick, at the Cadillac; H. A, Lewis and Miss Lewls, at the Everett; Mrs. P. J. McCormick and Miss K. McCormick, at the St. Denis . D. Walker, at the Marlborough, and M. L. Wicks Jr., at the Holland. ————— Large Shipment of Gold Coming. SYDNEY, N. 8. W., July 6.—The steam. ship Ventura, which sailed from this port to-day for San Francisco, has on board 81,500,000 in gold. | until | nearly took the man along with it. | | county. ! Near a precipice it took | around on one side of the firs, ! maining near the precipice. RIVER WATERS SPREAD OVER RANCH LANDS LOS ANGELES, July 6.—J. B. Lippin- cott, consulting engineer of the United | States Geological Survey, has returned from the Colorado River country about Yuma and tells of the unprecedented flood of waters now rushing down that stream. Melting snows and cloudbursts in the up- per reaches of the Colorado have swollen it far beyond the record of summer rises. The river has broken over dikes and levees at many places between Needles and Yuma, and thousands of acres of ranch lands are under water. Forty thou- sand acres of bottom lands below Yuma are flooded to the depth of from five to fifteen feet. A canal which furnished ir-| rigating facilities for ranchers between | Yuma and the mouth of the river has been washed out. Water from the river is rushing down the canal and inundating | thousands of acres of rich farm lands. | Lippincott was caught in a portion of | the flood caused by the breaking of one| of the levees along the river at Yuma and was rescued by an improvised life- saving crew patrolling the flooded district | in boats. He says the flood is the worst | that has been experienced since the Gov- | ernment land below Yuma was opened to | settlement, | “This is the annual overflow of the Colo- rado River,” sald Mr. Lippincott, “but| the volume of water is many times that | | Benerally passing through the channel at like the overflow | flood tide, Nile ine lorado River, a season of summe which is caused by meiting snows and | heavy rains in the mountains of Montana, Wyoming and Colorado. This flood er has washed its way through the Grand Canyon, celing in all more than 2000 miles. At the present time the river is discharging 75,000 cub! feet of wa 2 | second and there have been practic additions to the flood during the last fi teen hundred miles which the water h: aveled. The farmers below Yuma had| n warned by Government reports that the flood was coming and they drove most of their live stock to the high ground be- | fore it reached them. The loss of prop- erty and of growing crops is very heavy. The river down below Yuma will average | almost ten miles in width.” .+~i‘l-l-+-l—-t-l~i-H’H+-H-l-+-l-H—l-i'." MAN BATTLES WITH A BEAR AT A PRECIPICE REDDING, July 6.—On the edge of a cliff, 100 feet above a canyon, John Watts, a cattle raiser of this county, lay | on his back and hung on to the jowls of | a bear which had fallen on top of him | the animal was shot by Watts'| Then the beast, in its death rolled down the precipice and companion. struggles, | | | That is the story that Watts and his| companion, John Ogburn, tell of an oc-| currence in the Big Bend region of this | The bear ran up a ridge near | the camp, with the dogs and men after it. | fuge in a thick | Ogburn _started Watts re- clump of young firs. The bear saw Ogburn, but did not see ‘Watts. Out it ran, plump t Watts, | knocking him down and falling en top of him. Watts, for some reason, took a firm grasp on each jowl of the bear. Before the bear re ed its senses sufficiently to hurt the man beneath it. Ogburn came | running with his rifle, pressed it against | the bear's side and sent a bullet into its heart. As the beast kicked in its death strug- gles and was nearing the edge of the precipice, Ogburn yelled to Watts to clutch a young tree growing within reach. The advice was heeded. A second after- ward the bear toppled over the edge. | _—e————— Bankruptey Notes. A. Rodesino, a merchant of El Dorado, Calayeras County, filed his schedule in involuntary bankruptcy yesterday in the United States District Court. He owes | $663¢ and has $4%62 assets. Albert Pool, a | rallway employe of Oakland, filed a vol- | untary petition in insolvency. He owes | $961 50 and has no assets. Prince Adelbert to Join the Squadron, | BERLIN, July 6.—Prince Adelbert, third son of peror Willlam, will join the German East Asiatic s dron in October | for a year, but_he wiW probably return by way of the United States In time to visit the St. Louis Exposition. Townsend’s California glace fruits and candies, 50c a pound, In artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 715 Market st.. above Call bidg.* —_——————— Spectal information suppiied dally to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 Cali- fornia street. Telephone Matn 1042. " —_—————— WASHINGTON, July 6.—It was announced at the Navy Department to-day that the cific adron will leave Dutch Harbor on its return trip on August 6. I | ro demonstration. | Choate BRITISH GUNS WILL SALUTE OUR SQUADRON PORTSMOUTH, Eng., July é&—In the @idst of the entertainment of President Loubet England has not neglected to make full preparations for the reception of Rear Admiral Cotton's squadron. The American warships were not expected to arrive until to-morrow morning, but the heavy weather in the channel drove the Kearsarge, San Francisco and Chicago into Spithead to-night. As soon as the news was communicated to Admiral Ho- tham the vessels of the channel squadron began to twinkle a welcome with their electric lights, but beyond this there was The gunboat Machias has not yet arrived, but is expected to join Admiral Cotton before morning. The British squadron at Portsmouth is more formidable in offensive power than the channel squadron, which received Pres- ident Loubet at Dover to-dav. The city is decorated with the British and American colors. The American war- ships assembled at Spithead will enter Portsmouth harbor at 9:30 to-morrow morning, passing through the line of the British warships, which will fire salutes. This compliment will be returned by the and her comsorts. Official be exchanged by Lord Charles Beresford, Admiral Miine and Rear Admiral Cotton. Admiral Hotham will be the t to-morrow mnight giving a dinner at the Admiralty House, which will be attended by Admiral Cotton, Flag Lieutenant Hussey, Flag Secretary Manna and the captains of the American warships. After the dinner both fleets will be illuminated On Wednesday, besides the entertain- ments at Portsmouth, Admiral Cotton, his captains and 1 Attache Stockton will be the guests of honor at a dinner | at the Londom house of the Earl of Sel- borne, First Lord of the Admiralty. Later, accompanied by twenty-three other offi- cers of the squadron, they will attend the state ball given in honor of President Loubet at Buckingham Palace. On Thursday the American officers will be entertalned at breakfast bv the Pil- rims’ Club and afterward Admiral Cot- ton, the captains of the American vessels and Attache Stockton will dine with the King at Buckingham Palace. On Friday the Lord Mayor will give the American officers a luncheon at the Man- sion House, and in the evening they will attend a dinner given by Embassador at the American embassy, to which King Edward has been Invited, but it is feared that his Majesty will be unable to attend. The entertainment will end July 13 with a ball given at Ports- mouth. Rear Admiral Cotton will return some of the courtisies extended to the American squadron by giving a reception | and dinner on the Kearsarge on July 4. —_———————— GOVERNOR DOLE LACKS . LEGAL POWER TO REMOVE Haweijan Supreme Court Renders an Important Decision in Case of a Suspended Official. HONOLULU, June 30.—The Governor of the Territory of Hawail has no legal power or authority to remove or even suspend the heads of departments except with advice consent of the Sen- a was the unanimous decision of he Supreme Court in the case of ex- Auditor H. C. Austin’s demand for his salary during the period of his susp sion. A similar ruling was made in the case of James H. Boyd, former Superin- tendent of Public Works, who was sus- pended by the Governor pending trial on charges of alleged embezzlement. Boyd has already received the pay to which he was entitled during his term of suspen- sion, and Austin will now réceive his sal- ary from September 26 to November 30. The eftect of the ruling s that any wrongdoer In the government service, no | matter what crime he may commit, will be paid his salary until the Governor can summon the Senate in special session to give its advice and consent to the re- moval of any appointee of the Governor. ——————t LAWYERS ARE ACCUSED OF WRONGING A CLIENT Attorney General of Hawaii Prefers Grave Charges Against Two Prac- titioners at Honolulu. HONOLULU, June 2.—In the Supreme Court yesterday Attorney Ceneral An- drews preferred charges of unprofessional conduct against Attorneys A. 8. Hum- phreys and Frank E. Thompson. The charges arose through their action in the case of John K. Sumner, who sold prop- erty to the Oahu Raliroad and Land Company for_$110,000, which amount was tied up in litigation until yesterday, when Sumner secured $43,025, all that was left ¥ of his money. acted as attorr a settlement witk tied up the ol¢ iphreys and Thompson s for Sumner, arranging his relatives, who had man’s estate, but failing, it is alleged, to procure a rele: from them. Subsequently, it is alleged, the at- torneys acted for the heirs and relatives, causing their former client's money to again be tied up, thus acting without pro- fessional propriety. It is further alleged that they threatened by legal process to prevent Sumner controlling the money. ADVERTISEMENTS. San Francisrn Blure Book ADDRESS ALL COMMUNICATIONS To TELEPHONE MAIN 1780 SANSOME ST., ROOMS 47 TO 85 THE E. D. BEATT] Being Compiled for:: s:333 Seasom 1903 - 1904 Containing the Leading Families .m::d stically Arran; desi CHAS, C. 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