The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 15, 1903, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1903. — WEDNE Y 15, 1903 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. 2ééress All Com TELEPHONE. Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. munications to W. S. LEAKE, Manager PUBLICATION OFFICE EDITORIAL ROOMS. Market and Thir Per Month. Single Copies 5 Cents. erms by Mafl, Including Postage (Cash With Order): DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), ote year... DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), € monthbs. DAILY CALL—By Single Month. SUNDAY CALL, One Year 1' Sunday.. 4.15 Per Year Extra | Weekly.. 1.00 Per Year Extra All Postmasters are authorized to receive subscriptions. Sample coples will be forwarded when requested Mall subscribers 1n ordering changs of address should be particular to give both NEW AND OLD ADDRESS in order o insure & prompt and correct compliance with their request. BRANCH OFFICES—27 Montgomery, corner of Clay, open mmti] 9:30 o'clock. 500 Hayes, open until 9:80 o'clock. 59 McAllister, open until 9:30 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open unti] $:80 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until o'clock. 1096 Va- lencia, open untll § o'clock. 108 KEleventh. open until § @elock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, opes untll § o'cicek. 2200 Filimore, open until § o'clock, 70 SUBSCRIBERS LEAVING TOWN FOR THE SUMMER their paper forwarded by mail addresses by motifying The Call B This paper will alse be on sale at all resorts snd is represented -y a loeal agemt in all towns on the coast. = = CANADIAN PROGRESS. ADA the taken stock of her immigrants fisc: that ended June 30 and hat she received 124,638 persons The figures are not large yei 1 the enormous immigration to ey the less considerable om a n standpoint. In fact, ur population by immigration dur- less than 1 per cent, t way a e a decided ad d is m: ated by total number of im- 45,980 were from 87 were from the British y the kins- up of the ex- yse are of course virtu natives, being of the same race ce in the forms of self- Cana provinces. bsorbed into the so structure of the communities where few years will not be distinguish- mmigr: . inental on to the country, Northern Europe and ravians or Finns. . Con- 10se races are already settled ovinces and ha y settle add ve been for the i prosperous e way of assuring the pros- at of provi en the remote It »ba alone produced 500,000 bushels of pota- r farm products, the e value of upward of luct to market severely d it will be prov- s stated that mpossible ew regions for cultivation well aware of the needs of have entered with vigor ing them. In a recent de- representatives of the western d constituents had lost in 1902 000,000 because of a lack of transpor- because of the Jack the prices paid had been depressed from upon the bate prov seventeen cents a bushel. The Government has undertaken to provide a remedy. A recent re- port from Ottawa says “To meet the need the Capadian Pacific Railway is exerting itself; the Government has aided with its credit 720 miles of ex- ~~~~ |ing them over to contractors, to be worked under the | | | than slavery. | | other is left, and all that softened the system and pro- tensions of the Canadian Northern, to Prince Albert | and to Edmonton, respectively, about 450 miles and hwest of Winnipeg, and both on the North Saskatchewan River.” In addition to what has been already undertaken the Laurier Ministry has now under consideration a project for constructing a transcontinental line from Moncton, New Brunswick, to Port Simpson, or Bute Inlet, on the Pacific Ocean. The road will be about 3500 miles long and will be virtually divided into two sections, the one east and the other west of Winni- peg. A report of the plan proposed for constructing the line says: “The 2000 miles or so from Moncton ment and lezsed to Trunk Pac on the cost of the cost the newly chartered Grand Company for fifty years, at 3 per cent of say $50,000,000. Seventy-five per cent of the 1500 miles west of Winnipeg would be paid by the Government, and this portion owned by the Grand Trunk Pacific Company. As the terms would provide that all parts of the road should revert to the Government if the Grand Trunk Pacific Com- ry should fail to keep its engagements, the whole ng may be treated of, for the present, as a Gov- ernment railway project.” Three objects are to be attained by the construc- n of the projected line. First, it will open up to settlement a rich, new country that is bound to at- tract a desirable population; second, it will provide means of conducting the traffic of the Northwest | through the cities and ports of Eastern Canada in- stead of leaving it to seek an outlet through the United States; third, it will give Canada a military strategic line about 500 miles north of the American fromtier. Finally, it is believed the line will be a paying investment for the Government. There ap- pears to be no doubt that Parliament will approve imc)vim:e. The statement is undoubtedly an exag- the plan, and Canada will take another long step toward her development as a2 natiop 2 P | will have to do something better than sending us i W F the opening of the Manchurian ports for six years. 1o Winnipeg would be built directly by the Govern- | | ernment need be ashamed. The reason assigned for A RETURN TO SLAVERY. HEN the process of disfranchisement of the negroes began in the Southern States The Call gave in detail a statement of the prac- tice of compelling negroes to render involuntary ser- vice by going through the form of convicting them of some offense against the law and then turn- lash in mines or on plantations. Ve expressed the opinion that without the ballot the negro would prove unable to protect himself against that form of slavery. Now the ballot is taken entirely out of his hands, and recent revelations in | Alabama and Mississippi show that in the process of | subjecting the negro to involuntary servitude, vir- tually to slavery, the judicial step is omitted. For- merly any one who wanted a slave would make a charge against a likely one, procure his conviction and take possession of him. Now, as proved in re- cent cases on trial before the State and Federal courts, the victim is seized by force, usually well whipped, and ordered to work under an overseer as a slave. The Southern papers have borrowed a word from the Spanish to describe this practice, and call it “peonage” instead of slavery. Under the peon sys- tem the debtor belongs to his creditor until he works out the debt. But as the creditor keeps the books and the debtor is poor and ignorant, the debt is never orked out, but descends from parent to child through generations, making a permanent system of servitude. Peonage is as obnoxious to our laws and morals as if it were called slavery. No man has a right to seize the body of another for debt. Formerly im- prisonment for debt was lawful here, & it was in Eng- land, but that is no longer permitted. To give the body of the debtor to his creditor is a worse system The relation is one that permits none f those humane contacts that were common be- | tween master and slave. Peonage is slavery with the patriarchal feature taken out. All the brutality of giving one man the ownership and control of an- | { made it tolerable is taken away. Among the stories that come up from the peon | ates it is said that the seizure of negro girls to be held in a viler servitude than slavery is becoming common, and it is expected that cases of this kind will soon be before the courts. It is wise to re- | strain comment on this blacker phase until it has been judicially examined. It is admitted that the Southern which disfranchise the negro do not contravene the sufirage amendment to the constitution. The Su- | preme Court does not say so in words, but has dis- | [3 constitutions I missed the Virginia suits on the ground that the issue d is political, and must be dealt with by Con- gress, the political branch of the Government. Hav- ing had the subtlety to successfully nullify the sui- frage amendment te the constitution, it remains to be seen whether the South can as successfully write out of the constitution the amendment which abolished slavery and forbids involuntary servitude, except for the commission of crime. There is no denying that a reaction is on in the South, and the tendency there toward re-enslaving the negro is so plain as to be noticed by the most casual observer, and so strong as to already require judicial restraint. It is a daily, almost hourly, for a white man to order a negro, who is not service, over whom he has no lawful control and to whom he pays nothing, to perform for him some personal or menial task. The order is almost always garnished with an oath and a vile epithet This practice is common. Young white men and youths are especially given to it. They domineer over negroes whom they never saw before. Often when the black man refuses the service to which the white had no right to command him he is struck or kicked. If he resent this treatment a lynching is brewed at once. | These things are not stated in a spirit of criticism or to make sectional capital, but as facts of constant occurrence. They show the growing’belief in the South that the negro owes subordination and servi- tude to the white, and has no right to own himself, his service, his liberty of action. He is expected and commanded to uncover his head and on all occasions give way to the white man in situations where their ul rights are exactly equal. If he refuse, as a rule, | he 1s punished by a blow. It is evident that we are entering upon a final and distressing phase of the negro question. Always where two peoples are in contact and equal before | the law, and one is treated as unequal, subordinate, | subject and inferior, it is sure to pass into perma- nent slavery, or to assert itself by a bloody out- | break. Which will it be in the case of the Southern negroes? Peonage will not solve the problem, nor will disfranchisement nor other form of subordina- tion. It is time that the thinking and thoughtful people of both sections got together on the subject. There has just been unveiled at Budapest a life- size equestrian statute of George Washington, and now if the Kaiser wishes to keep ahead of the Eu- | ropean procession in doing honor to America he | a statue of Frederick the Great AN OLD STORY. OLLOWING the reports of the secret confer- ence of high Russian officials at Port Arthur | comes the announcement that the Russian Gov- ernment has informed China that she is compelled to exclude foreigners from Manchuria and to postpone By way of explaining why she is “compelled” to take that course Russia asserts that there are in Man- churia a number of Americans and British “who in disguise are engaged in espionage.” * The reason is hardly valid. If Russia were ful- filling her obligations in Manchuria neither Ameri- cans nor British would have to go about the coun- ! try in disguise, and if they did their espionage would discover nothing of which the Russian Gov- the action, however, amounts to nothing. Sterne once said that when a minister had made up his mind what to preach about, “Egypt, Mesopctamia" and Cappadocia” was as good a text as any. By parity of reasoning when a strong Government has made up its mind what to do toward a weak one, then one excuse for action is as good as another. Russia intends to keep Manchuria. She has un- dertaken and virtually achieved the conquest by ob- | taining concessions for a railway and for a bank. It is asserted that through the railway and the bank | together she has brought about the investment of | upward of $250,000000 of Russian money in the geration, for the railway has been cheaply built and the bank has not promoted any very costly enter- | | terfere with the profits Russia expects to make. |KENTUCKY LAURELS IN DANGER. | other State. | the facts. prises. Still there can be no doubt that a large amount of Russian money has been invested in Man- churia, and it is the intention of the Government to keep out every foreigner who would be likely to in- The situation is irritating to Japan, to Great Brit- ain and to ourselves. Japan would doubtless fight if she had a free hand, but the other powers prefer to keep the peace. Russia, therefore, will in the end have her way. She knows well how to turn aside wrath by the soft lie. She has again and again as- sured the world that she intends to keep faith. Even | now her course is not arbitrary. She promises that | if the other powers will be good she will open the Manchurian ports in six years. The promise will please the diplomats. Meantime the mass of man- kind will write Manchuria down as a Russian prov- ince and cease to fret about it. e e e . Dr. Wiley, the chemist of the Department of Agri- | culture, has found adulterations so common in all kinds of food stuffs that he advises people to live mainly on bread and butter, but it is doubtful if he | would guarantee the purity even of those nursery | articles. ENTUCKY has long held the center of the K stage by sensational homicides and the antics of Cassius M. Clay. The old man married a | young girl and practically home, which is a fortress. His children wanted to protest, but shooting was the penalty of that pastime | of young folks whose old and doddering daddies marry. The affair ended in the escape of the young prisoner, her divorce and marriage to a fearless Ken- tuckian of her own age, who went around with guns and ammunition enongh on him to equip a militia company. The deserted husband was over go when this blow | struck his vernal and juvenile affections, and since then he has been the terror of the neighborhood. | Recently he ordered two doctors to treat him, and when they came threatened to kill them both if they entered the house. No such ancient, picturesque, bloodthirsty person is at present on exhibition in any | He is a Kentucky product entirely and | intends to end his life as he began it, fighting every- ’ | thing in sight. Between him and the feuds of Breathitt County Kentucky revels in sensations nearly as sustaining as her widely known and justly celebrated mint juleps. But Indiana passes her. A Hoosier farmer, | a quiet citizen who had never done anything more | exciting than plow and sow and reap and mow, and | haul hoop poles and pumpkins to town and help the old woman make apple butter, had some difficulty with his son-in-law. It seems that the latter had deserted his wife and baby and bragged about it, and would pass his father-in-law’'s house expressing | opinions of the family that were not warranted by The old man stood this several times and then got his gun and shot the young man in the leg He was taken to a surgeon, who was just preparing | to amputate the injured member when the father-in- | !law appeared and applied an anesthetic by shooting \ vard of which is computed to welgh a out all his brains as he lay on the operating table. At this distance from the stirring scene we refrain irom passing upon the merits of the case, but we can justice commend the old chap for the thoroughness of his work. Of course he must answer to the surgeon, who whetted his knife and filed his saw for nothing, since it was no use to amputate the leg of a patient who had already had his head shot off. Kentucky has not yet produced anything quite that brisk. e e, Federal authorities have invited architects to sub- mit plans for the new Custom-house for San Fran- cisco. This remarkable exhibition of activity on the part of Washington officials gives spur to hope that ! the present generation may be still on earth at the time when the structure is commenced. THE KANSAS WHEAT CROP. ANSAS is reported to have a wheat crop K whereof neither history nor romance fur- | nishes a parallel. Some authorities say there are 6,000,000 acres of golden grain ripening beneath her skies. Other stories make no report of acreage, but assert that the Kansas breezes are blowing over fields that have $65,000,000 worth of wheat in sight. | Other stories are even more interesting. They deal not with the magnitude nor the value of the crop, but | with the mighty struggle of the farmers in their ef- | forts to get it harvested. One report says that every man, woman and child in the State between the ages of 15 and 70 is liable to | be conscripted to work in the harvest fields. There is | a tale that a railway train traversing one of the most | bountiful districts of the wheat area was held up hy | embattled farmers and every male passenger com- | pelled to get out and go to work as a harvester.. An- other story runs to the effect that the farmers of an | interior county procured a trainload of workers in St. | Louis and shipped them locked in cars and under close guard to prevent the border counties from seizing them in transit. Still another report narrates that all Justices of the Peace in Missouri, Arkansas and Nebraska have been petitioned to sentence all | vagrants brought before them to two weeks in Kan- sas or a fine of $50. Probably some of the stories are not historically accurate, but they are near enough the truth to im- press the public with the greatness of the Kansas wheat crop and the scarcity of the Kansas harvest hand. They also suggest new fields of glorious ro mance for our writers of fiction. It is said that in many of the counties the work of harvesting has been carried on by the light of the moon and the stars, be- cause the sun after ripening the wheat does not shine long enough to permit harvesting it. There is a tradition that a man named Carter once raised in these United States a crop of oats so heavy that he could not stack them on the field they were grown on. He was a great ‘man in his time, but he will now have to go way back and be buried, for the world has no longer any use for him. Even the most unfortunate of Kansas farmers this year seems to have more wheat than Carter had oats, and a good deal harder time than Carter had in getting his crop harvested. £ — A German speculator was sentenced a few days ago to serve six years’ imprisonment for overissuing stock in a corporation. 1If the poor fellow had only known the customs of the United States he would have honored us with his manipulations and there- by lived in honored security and dishonest pros- perity. | | | ! | ! | A husband in this city is trying to prove in the courts that the affections of an unfaithful wife are worth $25,000 to him, It is strange how some things attain a value only after they have become worthless. ' imprisoned her in his | | | est of | months | huge arches. | ford, at the Everett; C | in this city. 'VIADUCT OF CONCRETE WILL SPAN A RIVER IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNI{S«+ OMONA, July M.—Away down on the edge of Riverside County a couple of hundred workmen have been busily engaged ever since | the first of this year upon some- thing unique in the bridge building line— the construction of an enormous viaduct, a fifth of a mile long and seventy feet high, entirely of concrete. This structure, which will be the larg- kind in the world, was designed by Henry Hawgood, chief of the San Pe- dro, Los Angeles and Salt Lake Rail- road's engineering department. It because of inability to obtain structural steel, all of the large companies being behind with their orders, that the necessity for the construction of a bridge across the Santa Ana River for the pas- sage of the Salt Lake trains from Las Angeles to Riverside became pressing. | Hawgood, when casting about for a sub- stitute, was led to make use of some con- structive ideas of his own. He immedi- ately set about working out the entire plan, and his specifications are being fol- lowed to the minutest detall, The bridge when completed will contain 14,000 cubic yards of concrete—each cuble on and a half-and will comprise ten Eight of these arches will have a clear span of 8 feet each and rest | on solid bases 14x28 feet. At each end of was | | | | | 1 | | 11 ! | i | -+ ; | |- ¥ BRIDGE WHICH IS TO SPAN /ER IN SOUTHERN CALI- FORNIA. N the bridge will be a massive concrete abutment and an arch. The arches are all built in seven large segments inclu sive of a center key, and each arch being constructed over temporary ske ton frame works of lumber shown in accompanying pictures. In these frames | the concrete is tamped and made to con- form to the arch outline. In view of the fact that the bridge will |span a river treacherous in quicksands | the footings are the bottom rocks of the river bed itself, which varies from fifteen | to thirty feet In depth. Much trouble has been experienced in establishing the footings, steam pumps having been used o+ to force out the water while the foun- dations were being constructed. Bach | footing supports a weight of 500 tons ir- respective of its arch, and the szrches | will contain 3220 cubic yards of concrete. { Accordingly it is evident that the mat- i ter of a common freight train, made up of an engine and fifteen cars, is a mere feather-weight, the bridge being bullt for supporting an untold tonnage. The xreatest care has been taken In preparing and mixing the composite ma- | terial—broken n i cement | of the concrete 1 in the bridge con- struction. A big steam mixing plant Is Sev- dred carloads of the broken stone te rock, dirt free—and sand r bed, which is run through from the a washing process to free it of silt, to- gether with the best tested cement, are being used. hormous conerete viaduct pnoba- vill not be completed for some week: h the workmen are laboring dili- nd conmstantly in day and night having been placed , electric arcs 3 ] . along the bridge to light the night. It Wil cost between $250,000 and _$500.000 When completed this viaduct will mean much to the Salt Lake company, as it will afford its trains a passage from Los Angeles to Riverside by way of Pomona and Ontario, through a rich country 2nd o as finely a ballasted well graded and smooth a railroad bed as can be found in this country. PERSONAL MENTION. §. Firth, a merchant of Redding, is at the Lick. Jules Cain, a merchant of Newman, is at the Lick. Dr. W. B. Shallenburg of Chicago is at the Occidental. . Grandi, a merchant of Point Reyes, is at the Russ, C. W. Barton, a publisher of Riverside, | | is at the Grana. Dr. C. L. Lewis of St. tered at the Lick. J. F. Daly, a merchant of Eureka, is at the Occidental. G. W. Towle, a merchant of Towle Sta- tion, is at the Lick. Dr. and Mrs. E. are at the California. Louis Is regis- Drake of Auckland F. C. Lusk, a well known attorney of | Chico, is at the Palace. W. W. Schrader, a shoe merchant of Los Angeles, Is at the Grand Grant Snyder, a mining man of Salt Lake, is stopping at the Palace. J. J. McSorly, a mining man of Cala- veras County, is at the California. F. W. Sisson, a lumber merchant of Flagstaff, is a guest at the Palace. J. L. Pendleton, proprietor of a hotel at Saratoga, Is stopping at the Grand. W. H. Hammond, superintendent of the Mount Whitney Power Company, is at the Lick. T. J. Villaesensa, who conduets a gen- eral merchandise business in Tucson, is at the Russ. el LS T Californians in New York. NEW YORK, July 14.—The following Cali- fornians are in New York: From San Francisco—H. Sellinglegent, at the Imperial; Miss J. For at the Grand Union; W. V. Huntington, at the | Earling; Mrs. L. H. Lewls, at ths Wellington; | R. D. Tweedie, at the Broadway Centrai, and E. Peck, at the Metropolitan. From ® Angeles—C. Rodman, at the Astor; 8. Coleman, at the Imperial; A, Frankenstein, | at the Herald Square; L. Grego, the Grand | Union; Mrs. McCormick and Mi mick, at_the St. Denis, m San Jose—A. P. Murgotter, Broadway Central. From Santa Rosa—R. C. Moody and wife, at the Grand Unlo ——————————— Death of Prominent Priest. LOS ANGELES, July 4.—Rev. Father Joaquin Bot, for forty years pastor of San Gabriel Mission, dled at an early hour this morning at the Sisters’ Hospital Father Bot assumed charge f the historic old mission April 27, 1888, nd with the exception of the vears 1870 to 1872, spent at Santa Barbara, had served continuously at San Gabriel. The deceased priest was 68 years of age and a native of Barcelona, Spain. at the NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. CHANGING SENTIMENT. lage.” Goldsmith In his Deserted Village™ spoke of a certain chape! where those who “went to scoff remained to pray.” 8o In life one often laughs at what he does not understand and later, when he does understand, his laugh turns to praise. There were gome who doubted the merits of Newbro’s ‘‘Herpicide,” the lp germicide and hair dressing, but since they have tried it they are now among its best friends and strongest dorsers. Herpicide kills the germ that eats the hair off at the root, and the hair then grows again. As a hair dressing it is incomparable. Try it. Sold by leading druggists. Send 10c in stamps for sample to e Herpicide Co., Detroit. Mioh. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. t the Grand; A. Han- | Lacey, C. L. Hedges, | K. McCor- | \ HAWAIIAN POLITICIANS PREPARE FOR CAMPAIGN of Recommending Speaker of Last Legislature for Governorship. HONOLULU, July 14.—The lull in polit ical life usually following a session of the Legislature is not apparent in Honolulu. Contrary conditions exist and the two principal parties. embodying as they do, many factions and cliques, are already commencing active preparations for the primaries and convention which precede the general election in November, which election will be the first held under the county government act recently passed by the Legislature in the face of great oppo- sition, after long and serious debate. The Independents are serfously consid- ering the advisability of recommending F. W. Beckley, Speaker of the last Leg- islature, for the Governorship. —_—————— Transferring Chinese Records. HONOLULU, July 14.—The Department of Commerce at Washington is preparing to take charge of the Chinese Bureau work here, and preliminary to a transfer of the Chinese records from the Treasury Department to the Department of Com- merce the authorities have sent 30,000 Chi- | nese registration certificates here to be used in connection with the work of the new department. —————— A Snap | With a camera creates a life-long remem- | brance. The photo supply department of Sanborn & Vail's, 741 Market street, has everything in the photographic line. * Independents Consider Advi-bflity‘ A CHANCE TO SMILE. | Mre. Knicker—"“They say a fool and his | money are soon parted. Mrs. Bocker—"it isn't so. George is a | perfect 1dot, and I can’t get a cent out of | him."—New York Sun. “I eall that a good cigar.” “Do you? Whew! Did you buy #t7 “Well, no, not exactly. I did a little favor for a friend and he gave me a couple.” “What was the favor?” “Why, he asked me if I knew a man named Wickersderfer.” “Do you?™ | “No."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. | “Judging from your symptoms,” the | doctor told him, “there is nothing the | matter with you except the late hours | you keep. You are indulging yourself | largely in malade imaginaire.” | “Doctor,” sald Mr. Geyboy, indignant- {1y, “I give you my word of honor I have'nt indulged myself in a game of any | kind for more than six months!"—Chi- cago Tribune. p s R LE § Tl DI Look out for 81 Fourth (front of barber, | grocer); best eyeglasses, specs, e to 5c.* —_—————— Townsend’s California glace fruits and candies, c a pound, In artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. T15 Market st., above Call bldg.* — s Spectal information supplied daily to business houses and public men by the Press Clipping_Bureau (Allen's), 230 Caji- Telephone Maln 1042, fornia street. 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