The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 3, 1903, Page 6

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The recent severe decline " Wall 1o divorce of leg 1tly enough to shake commerce hus far produced no visible direct 1ess, though of course it must indirect influence on some ypear later on. The commerce of oceeded on the even tenor of its ks in stocks of all kinds have inancial and trading public se of inflated values. t these fic us values did not Again, as already poinfed out, a »f the shrinkage has been on paper. i thousands of shares, which have its center; has effect on general b Jarge Many h been figured ip by°statisticians in their computations of losses, were stock held unsold by the corporations themselves, énd which of course were nothing but so much blank paper as far as actual money is con- cefned. Hence the actual cash shrinkage has proba- big been greatly exaggerated. At present Wall street has become wisibly tamed down, money, both call and time, has eased off to - losver rates and for some days the street has been -uninterestihg énough.- There may be still more liqui- dation, and jndeed it is expected; but as before men- tioned the general run of stocks have now got so low that they are considered to have reached their normal level, and the leading question among inves- tors now is whether it-is not a good time to buy in again. A few days- more will probably settle this questioh The great <tgples centinue to attract attention and ai a rule the outlook in them is cheerful. Heavy raing in the Scuthwestern corn belt have given that crop an iumproved outlook, and in Kansas alone the relief of the drought is reported to have benefited the State. to the amount of millions of dollars. Timeshing teturns from the wheat States, however, thave béen disappointing, and the expected bumper crop has subsided to one of ordinary proportions. Frosts and blight are reported in the Northwest, but what damage has been done has not yet been defin- itely ascertained. A favorable feature of the past week was the im- proved export“demand for our breadstuffs, consider- able quantities of new wheat and corn being reported “aken for foreign account. Provisions continue weak under increasing supplies, though the Western pack- ers -are showing more confidence in prices and are rather’ more disposed to support the market than théy have been for several weeks back. The coun- t supply. of hogs, however, is steadily increasing, & is to be expected aiter the high prices of the past several years, and with this increase in live stock the <ured product will also increase, which means a lower plahe of yalues from now on. Indastrial conditions are reported more satisfac- tofy, and thie railroads are having all the freight they cart handle, witli complaints of a shortage in cars again 'heing'_hcard. The earnings of the railroads daring the third week in July were nearly 14 per cent larger than during the corresponding week last year. Jrtm, and steel buyers are still backward and these “lines are by no means as active as during the feverish times of the preceding three or four years. Some districts, however, report rather more demand for some lines. Hides are weaker, which impels shoe manufacturers to defer purchases of leather in expec- tation of jower prices in thé near future. In cotton goods ‘prices are maintained and buyers of woolen goods are keeping that market reasonably active. Shoe chipments from Easters manufacturing centers are reported 32 per cent larger than at this time last year end- for the season to date 16 per cent larger. This certainly does not indicate dullness in the boot and shoe trade. The distribution of general mer- chandise is reported heavy and the retailers and job- bers afl over ‘the country are reporting a very fair business. fle:{ailufcs for the week were 100, against 198 Jast year, and the bank clearings showed a loss for the week of 7.8 per cent. with aggregate clearings of over. $2,000,000,000. The loss at New York was 7.8 per cent, while most of the large cities showed gains. Our local condition continues excellent. The wheat crop of the State is not turning out as large as thought a couple of months ago, owing to the hot dry weather in.June, which caught the crop at the maturing stage and shrunk the berry seriously in some sections, But we shall have enough for our own use and probably some for export. The fruit crop is turning out fair in volume and bringing good prices, and the other products of the farm are also terning out well, so the outlook is for another good year in Cafifornia, A 5 ! v2es.Telephone Main 1083 | Telephone North 77 | THE SAN FRANCISCO CAL ' BANKING COMBINATIONS. E ARLY in our history as a nation some of our greatest statesmen and financiers sought to pro- vide for financial unity and security by the es- tablishment of a great national bank surrounded by a series of subordinate banks in every part of the country. They succeeded in creating the bank and managed to sustain it for a considerable period, but owing to various causes opposition increased with the years and finally under the Presidency of Jack- son the issue was fought out and the bank over- thrown. Since that time there has been no serious attempt | to establish a national bank, though one was talked of during the Civil War. In place of it there has | been of late years more or less discussion.of the ad- visability of permitting the larger banks of the coun- | try to establish branch banks throughout the Union. The arguments in favor of branch banking are strong, | but as vet they have failed to convince Congress and no such authority has ever been given. It appears, however, that in this case, as in others, necessity is the mother of invention, and that the urgent need for financial institutions stronger thair any individual bank has forced the large financiers of the country to arrange combinatioi® of banks sufficiently strong to finance the vast enterprises of the time. The con- sequence is that we have now banking combinations | controlling much largér financial interests than were ever dreamed of by the most strenuous advocates of | a United States bank in the early days of the republic. In the current number of Atlantic Monthly, Charles | J. Bullock, in an article on “The Concentration of Banking Interests in the United States,” gives some striking statistics of the extent to which these great { combinations of banks have been carried out in re- | cent years. The review deals mainly with the situa- tion in New York city, but serves to illustrate the | tendency of banking interests throughout the whole country, and may therefore be faken as an indication of the general trend of our banking institutions. Pricr to 1808 the banks of New York had been of | moderate size. Only two had a capital of five mil- | lions, and the average for the clearing house institu- tions was less than $1,000,000; but to-day, says Mr. | Bullock, “the average capital is nearly twice as great, | while three banks have as much as $10,000,000 and { one has $25,000,000. In 1805 the capital, surplus and | undivided profits of the fifty national banks amounted |to $110,000,000 and their deposits stood at $507,000,- ©000; in 1902 the number of these institutions had fallen to forty-five, while their capital, surplus and | profits had risen to $191,000,000 and their deposits | to $1,057,000,000.” | The increase in the capital and the business of in- | dividual banks, however, is not so significant of the | | drift of things as is the extent to which combinations | |among them have been arranged. Reviewing the larger of these combinations Mr. Bullock deals first with those controlled by what are known as “The | Standard Oil Interests.” That combination has for | its center. “The National City Bank” and in alliance with it are twelve other financial institutions, either | banks or trust companies. Of them Mr. Bullock |says: “The entire chain of institutions employs a capital and surplus of $92,000,000, holds deposits amounting to $377,000,000 and carries loans that ag- gregate $200,000,000. * * * The same interests control also a second chain of institutions under the ‘lead of the Hanover National Bank, which includes | two smaller banks and the Trust Company of Amer- ica. * * * If now we combine the figures of the | two chains of institutions associated with the City and the Hanover Bank, it dppears that within our first sphere of influence there have been aggregated $108,- | 000,000 of banking capital, $474,000,000 of deposits and $323,000,000 of loans. And these data it should be remembered take no account of control exercised over banks located outside of New York.” The second great combination is that controlled by the banking house of J. P. Morgan & Company. That combination has under its influence three chains of banks and trust companies and through them con- trols a - banking capital of $97,000,000, deposits amounting to $472,000,000 and loans aggregating We need not follow Mr. BullocK in his review of the lesser combinations; suffice it to say that the Stand- ard Oil and the Morgan interests combined controlled not less than $205,000,000 of the $451,000,000 of the banking capital invested in the city of New York and lin all probability obtain a similar proportion of the business transacted. By reason of the combinations vast financial deals are rendered comparatively easy. | Mr. Bullock cites a case where a $5,000,000 check was drawn against a bank on an hour’s notice and “with a little skirmishing” was duly honored without trouble to the bank. Thus the combinations play an important and beneficial role in our industrial devel- opment. There remains, however, a question whether the practice of combination may not be carried too far and place so large a.percentage of the capital of the country in the control of a few hands as to be a menace to the general welfare. Mr. Bullock does not fear monopoly, but says: “It is unfortunate to have the largest banks and their affiliated institutions so closely identified with particular corporate inter- ests. This gives to the great,captains of industry almost unlimited control over other people’s capital {and enables them to tie up in their own enterprises banking resources that should be available for the uses of the community at large.” l In addition to the isthmian canal treaty the Colom- bian Congress is discussing ways and means of estab- lishing the currency of the country on a gold basis. There is something like $650,000,000 of paper money outstanding, and financiers are wondering how they can redeem it without mortgaging the nation for a century to come. A COLLEGE TRAINED WOMEN. ISCUSSION in this country concerning the effects of the higher education of women has tended to the conclusion that while it mate- rially benefits the race in an economic and moral way it inclines women to avoid the responsibilities of marriage and maternity. It is true that the fac- ulties of Vassar and of Wellesley have protested vig- orously against that conclusion, but none the less most of our magazine and review writers have gone on asserting the higher education of girls to be one of the main factors in the diminutiogyof the marriage and birth rate among the American people. The issue being an open one, it is worth noting that British authorities add their voices to the pro- test of Vassar and Wellesley against the prevailing belief. Recently an inquiry was made by the princi- pal of Newnham College for the purpose of finding out what had been the results of university training on the graduates of that institution. Newnham is a woman’s annex to the University of Cambridge. Its students are permitted to compete for university AY, » those given in the colleges for men. The records of its graduates therefore constitute a fair showing of what university education is doing for women in Eng- land, and according to the reports of the inquiry the results have been the very opposite of what has been generally asserted concerning the tendency of the highly educated woman to avoid motherhood. The Newnham inquiry discloses that not only are the graduates stronger and healthier than the average woman of a similar social grade, but that their chil- dren are healthier and brainier than those of less highly educated women. Tt is further stated that the investigation of the standing of the graduates and of their relations to society generally tends to establish the doctrine that while intellectual men have nearly always been the sons of intellectual mothers, young women who have stood high at the university have nearly always been the daughters of able fathers. Thus the intellect of the mother seems to descend to the sons, while that of the father goes to the daughters. In a strikingly large number of cases the graduates of Newnham who have won high "honors at Cambridge are the daughters of men who in their student days won honors. D — The startling expose of the attempt made to intro- duce an insane patient upon the old soldiers’ home at Yountville as an inmate is a striking example of | the fact that when we are forced to choose between | two evils, a knave or an idiot, it is unqualifiedly | better, in matters affecting public interests, tp accept | the knave. He is less likely to work a general injury. s e e 2 TOO MUCH JOHNSON. OME time ago Tom Johnson of Cleveland, in S announcing that he would not be a candidate for the Governorship of Ohio, went on to say that he deems himself better fitted for the office of | Mayor than the office of Governor, and will be con- tent with the Mayoralty of Cleveland so long -as he can render service acceptable to his fellow citizens. | It was rather a modest statement for him and there has been a good deal of speculation as to the meaning | of it. . The statement struck the people of Ohio as being a “dark saying,” not only because modesty is not a salient characteristic of Johnson, but because it is well known throughout Ohio that his political ener- gies have been by no means confined to Cleveland. There is hardly a county in the State where his in- fluence has not made itself felt through the medium of either his oratory or his coin, and it has always been understood that he was exerting himself in that way for the purpose of getting elected Governor so that he might have a good position to stand on when reaching for the Democratic nomination for the Presidency. Such being the view taken of his ac- tivity in politics, there was no little surprise when he announced his modest desire to remain Mayor of Cleveland, leaving the office of Governor to more ambitious men. As a result of public curidsity in the situation there has been made a careful study of the relation of Johnson to Ohio and of Ohio to Johnson by a correspondent of the New York Herald. The corre- spondent discovers that the reason why Johnson pre- fers to remain Mayor of Cleveland for the present is that he cannot better himseli. He says: “A Re- publican majority of seventy or eighty thousand is more than Johnson cares to go up against. He never is interested in a losing proposition. That is why he has refused to comsider the Governorship this year.” | However, in declining to make the losing race, Johnson has not been so contented in Cleveland as he pretends. He has ulterior ambitions which show themselves despite his efforts to conceal them. Evi- dences of his political plots and plans reveal the fact that he is on a still hunt for the Senatorship now held by Senator Hanna. He is working hard to get a Democratic Legislature elected so that he may | assure himself of a seat in the Senate as the first | step toward the coveted succession to Bryan as a Presidential candidate. As to the methods, the tactics, the characteristics and the chances of the aspiring Mayor the corre- spondent says: “The Republicans of the nation should not underestimate Tom L. Johnson’s shrewd- ness and resourcefulness as a politician. He has had an uphill fight in Ohio, but he has turned the city of Cleveland from a strongly Republican town to a strongly Democratic one. He is also courageous. He violates precedent by doing things which a timid politician would not do. While abhorring bossism in the Republican party he has assumed and exer- cised all the powers of an absolute dictator in the Democratic party. He names all the candidates put upon the Democratic ticket in Cleveland and it makes no difference to him whether the candidate is popu- lar in the generally accepted sense. He pays no at- tention to creed or calling or nationality in the selec- tion of candidates, nor does he regard geographical and other considerations which appeal to the average politician. Above everything else, however, he gen- erally manages to put himself upon the popular side of all questions, and he can make issues faster than the Republicans can meet and dispose of them. His declaration of war upon Senator Hanna means that the coming campaign in Ohio will be a bitter one and of national importance.” That then is the explanation of the modest state- ment of Mr. Johnson that he would rather be Mayor of Cleveland than Governor of Ohio, because he deems himself better fitted for the work. He is by no means so free from ambition as he pretends, and before he finishes his scheming the nation may have a tussle with him. San Francisco Judges lave set down their feet, opened their judicial mouths and decided that youth- ful robbers in the city must be punished to the limit of the law. While the wise men of the law and pen- ‘alties are doing the job why not take a turn out of a few old robbers who appear to be eminently suc- cessful in the pursuit of their profession? The President of the City Council of Stockton was arrested the other night, among other interesting prominent and disturbed gentlemen, enjoying a quiet game of poker. Somebody may have given the ar- resting officers the tip that the president was losing. Otherwise how could such a stupid raid have been undertaken? - The Board of Public Works has given another characteristic illustration of ‘what it believes to be economy in the administration of public affairs. Tt has increased the salaries of every member of the clique which controls the board and has asked for more money for phantom improvements. The yacht Reliance has proved her superiority over all other American competitors and will defend the cup against Shamrock IIL This is the first sad news, but unfortunately for him not the last, to be broken to Sir Thomas Lipton since his arrival upon prizes and honors and it gives courses fully cqual to | our sporting and hospitable shores. 3Ry A 5, | | Admirals Melville and Bradford, chiefs of fishergen are to be added to the comple- “ble value of torpedo attacks. Another in- AUGUST 3, 1903. TRIAL SHOWS MONADNOCK’S IMPROVEMENT Rear Admiral Evans reports that the monitor Monadnock in a recent fuli power speed trial of eight hours averaged 11.78 knot® an hour, and that for two hours, with four boilers under forced draught, ‘the speed averaged 12.1 knots. This is a decided improvement in a vessel which, when completed seven years ago, made only 11.63 knots on her trial. The ensines! and boilers of the Monadnock were built at Mare Island under the supervision of Chief Engineer George F. Kutz, U. 8. N., and the recent performance reflects credit on the officials and workmen in the navy vard, as well as the present engineer of the vessel, Lieutenant 1. V. Gillis, to whom the Secretary of the Navy has written a complimentary letter. The Mo- nadnock was placed in commission Feb- ruary 20, 1896, and cost $2,134,054. The cost of repairs up to July 1, 192, amounted to $77.300, an average of one-half of one per cent of the first cost per annum. The Menterey, built at the Union Tron Works | at a cost of $2,728548, and mmmtsslnn-a{ Febrnary 13, 1893, has cost in repairs §161,- 330 up to July 1, 1902, heing an average of six-tenths of one per cent of the first cost per annum.- Both of these monitors have been in Philippine waters since 1509, and from all accounts the Monadnock has | proved itself the better vessel. The controversy over the.design of the | two 13,000 ton battleships for the United States navy still continues, the Board of Construction being evenly divided, and Secretary Moody is in a quandary as to his decision¢” The senior member of the board, Rear Admiral O'Neil, chief of the Bureau of Ordnance, is in accord with Chief Constructor Bowles, and construes the act of Congress relating to the two | ships to mean as follows: “Two first-| class hattleships, CARRYING THE! i HEAVIEST ARMOR AND MOST POW- ERFUL ORDNANCE FOR VESEELS of their class, upon a trial displacement of not more than 13,000 tons, and to have the highest PRACTICABLE speed and great radius of action.” The emphasized words are theirs, On the other side are Rear the Bureaus of Steam Engineering and of Equipment, who contend that the intent of Congress is, according to their idea, ex- pressed by emphasizing the law as fol- lowd: “Two first-class battleships, carry- ing the heaviest armor and most powetful ordnance FOR VESSELS OF THEIR CLASS upon a trial displacement of not | over 13,000 tons, and TO HAVE THE HIGHEST PRACTICABLE SPEED AND GREAT RADIUS OF ACTION.” The size | of the ships was limited to 13,000 tons in accordance with the sensible advice of | Admiral Dewey, and contrary to the wishes of the Board of Coastruction. | O’'Neil and Bowles now recommend de- signs in which armor and ordnance equal’) almost to that of 16,000 ton ships is incor- porated, which necessarily sacrifices speed | and coal capacity, while Melville and | Bradford contend for faster ships and coal capacity, with a corresponding reduc- tion in weight of armor and ordnance. It was rather an odd selection of ves- sels comprising the United States squad- ron which recently visited the ports of Germany, France and England. Cnly one of these, the Dhattleship Kearsarge, de- signed in 1865, attracted any attention, while the cruisers Chicago and San Fran- cisco, twenty and sixteen years old re- spectively, and the gunboat Machias, thir- teen years old, belonged to classes lomg ago considered obsolete. The London En- gineer, which still seems to belleve that no country except England can produce efficient war vessels, commented on the American battleship with its usual sar- casm, saying: *The Kearsarge is the finest example afloat of the art of the fad- dist. * ¢ * We may have some bad ships in the British navy, but to contem- plate the Kearsarge may be balm even when the worst of these is about.” The London Times' naval expert, on the other hand, gave a couple of columns July 11, describing the characteristics of the American ships-and fairly criticizing the Kearsarge, and concluded by stating: “I came away from the Kearsarge strongly impressed with her great offensive and defensive abilities, with a feeling of ad- miration for the completeness and the ef- fective character of her internal fittings, and strong in the conviction that in her the United States possesses a ship which any nation in the world might be proud to own.” RS The British admiralty fias entered into an agreement with thirteen insurance companies whereby a uniform and auto- matic method of insuring warships re- pairing at contract yards is effected. The maximum sum is $2,500,000 and the longest period two years. Sixty-two per cent of the insurance is placed with the compa- nies and 38 per cent with brokers. The rates for over $500 are: Thirty-six cents for one month, 60 cents for two months, 80 cents for three months, $120 for six months and $1 60 for twelve months. A similar system of insurance is contem- plated for ships under construction at private yards. On June 30 last there were fifty-ona ships of war under construction for the British navy in the United Kingdom. Of these twelve ships of 120,450 tons were building in the dockyards, and thirty- nine of 171,150 tons at private yards. In addition six vessels of 28,100 tons for for- eign navies were on the stocks or com- pleting under contract or awaiting buy- ers. The British battleship King Edward VII, which was launched at Devonport July 23, Is the largest war vessel in any navy, but only 350 tons larger than the five ships of the Connecticut type buill- ing for the United States navy. The keel of the King Edward VII was laid March 8 last year and unusually rapid progress has been made during the sixteen and a half months up to the launch. The wzight of hull, including armor, is 10,075 tons, of which 6100, including 675 tons of armor, was incorporated in the hull when the ship was floated. The engines are being built at the works of Harland & Woldf, Belfast, and are to develop 15,000 horse- power, giving a speed of 185 knots. She is to have fourteen Babcock and Wilcox water tube boilers and six old-style cylin- drical boflers. It is expected that the ship will be ready for commission in the latier part of 1904, The approaching naval maneuvers of the British navy in home waters promise to be of more than usual interest. The home fleet, together with the crusier squadron, will endeavor to hold control of the narrow seas, while the channel fleet will seck to devastate commerce. This year large drafts of merchant seamen and ments of all the mobilized ships, and ef- forts will be made to establish the proha- teresting feature is that submarine boats are to take part in the maneuvers and will probably be attached wo the channel fleet. The value of oil as compared with coal will also have a practical test, as the battleships Mars and Hannibal and the armored cruiser Bedford are to be rua by oil fuel thron.lmm t}- maneuvers. . A shipbuilding high school has been opened at Kiel. The term is two years and is open for naval architect students who already possess some knowledge of the theory and p.fl.el.iee 21\ shipbuilding. ‘When the French cruiser D'Entrecas- teaux returned from the China station the ship was found to be considerably overloaded, suspicion was aroused. overloading due to a great number of preserved pro- visions clandestinely stowed in the cop- 1 PLEA COMES FROM CHINESE REFORMERS PEKING, Aug. 2.—In connection with the racent arrest in Shanghai of seven | Chinese editors on charges of sedition and the probable decision of the foreign Minis- ters on the question of turning the editors over to Chinese jurisdiction, a represen- tative of the Reformers has sent the fol- lowing letter to the press: We earnestly hope that the authorities of the civilized nations will give a timely warn- ing to this Government, which seems prepar- ing a Bastile for the true lovers of China. It would be very discouraging to progres- sive Chinese if the seven reformers under ar- rest at Shanghai should be surrendered to the Chinese Government and heheaded. Their writ- ings are, of course, offensive and seditious. yet they should be punished as though they had spoken in a like manner against the American or British governments, which exist for the welfare of the people. ernment of this land has become so corrupt and has proved such a curse to the peopie that our reformers deserve the sympathy of all enlightened men, who can perceive in what a miserable state these millions are kept. The letter concludes: “Is there any hope for China except in revolution or re- bellion?"* China is witnessing a return to the con- ditions which followed the coup d’etat of 1888, Political discussion among the Chinese, which increased during the im- perial court's recent policy of friendliness toward foreigners, has suddenly stopped. The plan of the Dowager Empress to ter- rify the reformers by the execution of Shen Chien, which occurred last Friday, has been successful. All of the liberal Chinese, particularly those who have been associated with the reformers, are in the greatest fear of arrest and it is difficult to find a Chinese who is willing to men- tion politics or Friday’s tragedy, although the latter is about the only topie of con- versation among trusted friends. The of- ficials are particularly dumb. The affair is disappointing to the for- eigners, who had hoped that the Empress Dowager's association with the ladies of the legation would have a civilizing in- fluence. Prince Su, the most liberal of the Manchu Princes, who in siarch last issued a proclamation against incense burning to mlilitary idols because it was the chief rite during the Boxer troubles. is reported to have risked his office by opposing the execution of Shen Chien. —————————— PERSONAL MENTION. Senator J. B. Curtin of Sonora is at the California. Dr. and Mrs. W. A. Nuport of Chicago are at the Palace. J. J. Carpenter, a photographer Ukiah, is at the Lick. Dr. and Mrs. K. Urban of Petaluma are registered at the Palace. C. V. Inderrieden, a wealthy resident of Chicago, is at the Palace. E. F. Beck, manager of the Internation- al Bank, and wife, who have been spend- ing their homeymoon in the East, bave returned to the city. J. P. and S. R. Brown, who are iden- tified with the shipbuilding interests of Ldndon, are guests at the Palace. . Louis Vetter, a well known insurance agent and club man of Los Angeles, ar- rived from the south yesterday and is stopping at the California. He has come north to attend the Bohemian Club jinks. C. H. Smith, a wealthy lumber man of Minnesota, was was prominently men- tioned as a candidate for Governor of that State two years ago and who Is largely interested in sugar pine timber in the northern part of California, is at the Palace. General R. H. Warfleld of the California Hotel has been an inmate for two days of a private hospital, where he underwent an operation yesterday. The surgeons at- tending him stated last evening that he would be able to return to the hotel to- morrow. ——e—————— SHIFs OF THE ATLANTIC SQUADRON TO PLAY WAR “Enemy”” Will Leave Bar Harbor To- Day and Lose Itself Out on the Ocean. BAR HARBOR, Me., Aug. 2.—The game of war will begin to-morrow morning at daylight, when the “ememy,” consisting of the battleships Indiana, Texas and Massachusetts and the torpedo-boat de- stroyers Lawrence and Whipple, in com- mand of Admiral J. P. Sands, will sail from here to lose themselves out on the Atlantic. Two days later the fleet of bat- tleships, cruisers, scout ships, training ships and torpedo-boat destroyers will leave and take their respective stations along the coast to watch for the approach of the enemy. Admiral Barker, who is in supreme command, has transferred his flag from the Illinois to the Kearsarge. The Kear- sarge, Olympia, Illinois and Prairie have just been equipped with the wireless tele- graph system, and communication has been successfully carried on between the ships. of ————————— PRETENDER TO MOROCCO’S THRONE REPORTED DEAD Buhamara, Who Would Succeed the Sultan, Sajd to Have Died From Wounds. TANGIER, Moroceo, Aug. 2—Tt is re- ported that Buhamara, the pretender to the throne of the Sultan, has died of wounds received. Buhamara has been reported dead a number of times since he first raised the standard of revolt in 1892. Early in the revolution he issued a proclamation claim- ing that his aim was to seat Mullah Mo- hammged, the brother of the Sultan, on the throne. The last large fight in which he was reported to have been ed oc- curred June 16, when he defeated the War Minister of Morocco, with a loss to the latter’s forces of 600 #nen. At that time no mention was made of his hnvln' been wounded. —————— AMERICAN CORPORATION BUYS MEXICAN ORE FIELDS Company Said to Be Negotiating for | Other Properties in the Same Country. AUSTIN, Tex., Aug. 2—The Tula Tron ‘Works and iron ore fields situated south of Guadalajara, Mexico, have been pur- chased by the Tula Iron Company, an American corporation which was recently organized with a capital stock of $4,000,000, It is reported that the company is nego- tiating for other iron properties in Mexico and that it will erect a large steel plant in that country. Ralph M. Roach of New York, who is connected with the General Electric Company, is said to be princi- pal promoter of the enterprise. \ @it @ perdams while the ship was victualing the China squadron. These provisions had been stowed away with the object of selling them when the ship ret: : p returned Lo a But the Gov- | SOME ANSWERS TO QUERIES BY CALL READERS —_— QUOITS—G. F.. Ross Valley, Cal law of quofts says that the distance . playing shall be eighteen feet. r ITE EXPEDITION — Subscriher. rrU T the expedition against the Piuts Indians in California was from April 12 to July 9, 1560. 5 AGUE—G. L. LUTHER LEAGUE-G. - office of the Luther League of is in Buffalo, N. Y. C. G. Grauer city is the secretary. DAUGHTERS OF REVOLUTIC 0. S., City. Mrs. J. L. Moody i gent of San Francisco Chapter of Daughters of the American R Address, 3522 Clay street, San Frar City Ar The rica hat .Amr;nRAt GOATS — Sub: Canyon, Cal. There is a - article on the raising of ‘Angera goats in | Yolume 5 of the Overland Monthiy one in the August number, 1908, of Coun- try Life in America. D TRIAL—Inquirer. City ANv(zm?gcnorN"nm guilty” in a eriminal case is a bar against further prosecution { upon the same charge. In other worls | there cannot be a second trial for the same offense after acquittal. BEST TIME— R. G., City. The best time made by a German Lloyd line prior to January of the current year was that made by the Kronprinz Wilhelm November, 1501; time, 5 days 8 hours 18 minutes; average hourly speed, 23.21 knots. JAMESTOWN — Subscriber, Berkeley, Cal. The three hundredth anniversary of the settlement of Jamestown, Va., will fall on the 13th day of May, 1907, and during that year there will be an inter- national exposition under the direction of the Jamestown Exposition Company, of which General Fitzhugh Lee was chosen president. TEETOTALBR—Inq., Long Beach, Cal. Teetotaler, a xenri applied to an abstainer from all fermented liquors, originated with Richard Turner, an artisan of Pres- ton, England, who, contending for the principle at a temperance meeting in Sep- tember, 1333, asserted “that nothing but te-te-total will do.” The word was im- mediately adopted. iLE DU DIABLE-J. F. G, City. Ils du Diable, or Devils Island, %n which Captain Dreyfus was imprisoned, is one of ,the group of Les Iles du Salut, off the coast of French Guiana, thirty-one miles northwest of Cayenne. The group con- sists of two other islands besides the one named, St. Joseph and Ile Royle. - CRYSTAL PALACE—Subscriber, City. The Crystal Palace’ in New York, ~built chiefly of iron and glass, in the form of a cross with a dome, was commenced in October, 1852. The exhibition held therein was opened to the publie in August, the following year. This building with its contents, as exhibited by the. American Institute, was destroyed by fire in Sep- tember, 1559. CALIXTINS—A. 8., City. The Calix- tins were a sect derived from the Huss- ites, in about 1420, who demanded tha cup (Greek, calix) in the Lord's supper. They were also called Utraquists. The name Calixtins is also applied to the fol- lowers of George Calixtus, a Protestant, who died in 1656 and who in his day pro- posed a reunion of Cathollcs and Protest- ants based on the Apostles’ creed. mento, Cal. Three of the largest vessels are the United States armored cruiser Cal- ifornia, 2 length, 7 breadth, 246 depth (there are several other vessels in the United States navy of the same dimen- sions); the Formidable, British battleship, 430, 70, 26.9, and the armored crulser of the navy of Chili, 412, 62.09, 22. The California is to be rated as 22 knots, the Formidable 18 and the O'Higgins 21 MARINE CORPS—Subseriber, City. The established Ly act of Congress November 10, 1775, authorizing the enlistment of two battalions, to be called the first and see- ond battalions of marines. The corps was re-established by the act of July 11, 1798. The marines are liable at any time to duty in the forts and garrisons of the United States. While enlisted they are exempt from arrest for debt or contract. There is no regimental organization, but the corps may be formed into companies as the President directs. PITCH-S. G. S, Richmond, Cal. In the game of pitch the points score in the following order: First, high; second, law; third, jack, and fourth, game. If two parties are playing and the game stands six points each, he who scores high goes out first, as that takes precedence of the other points, unless jack is turned up by the dealer. The same is the case when the game stands five to six; the former goes out on high and low, although the latter may make jack and game in play; but if the former make jack and hold high, the latter will go out on low, so says Hoyle. THE INSANE—C. K. E, Watsonville, Cal. By the act of 1585 it is the duty of the Superior Judge committing a person declared to be insane to one of the State institutions to ascertain if such person has means with which to pay for personal maintenance and for clothing while in the institution, and if so to apgoint a guardian of the estate of such insane person and have the guardian. pay for maintenance and clothing. If the party so committed has a husband or wife, father, mother or children able to’ pay for the keep of the party committed, it becomes the duty of such to pay. NOBILITY—M. D. R., City. In Great Britain nobility ranks as follows: Knight, Barodet, Baron, Viscount, Earl, Marquis and Duke. A Knight is entitled to be ad- dressed as “Sir’; a Baronet 's a dignity of honor one degree above Knights, and has precedence of all the orders of Knights, except Knights of the Garter, which is the only knighthood that is he- reditary; a Baron is one who holds a rank rade of rank in ihe British l}:‘:u:'::t I:mu. Then comes the Vis- count, followed by the Earl. whose rank corresonds with that of Comte in Erance and Graaf in Germany. A Marquis is one who ranks above all of these and is next to that of Duke, who is next to the Prince of Wales, according to seniority cf patent. GAUGE — Vallombrosa, . Hmflxgtgumy. Cal. On the Continent of Europe the standard gauge of railroads is generally 4:% feet. In Russia it is 3 feots in Spain 5:9 feet. In the United States there are many miles of track 4:9 feet in width, but for traffic purposes this is not a break from the standard of 4:8% feet. In India the width of tracks is 5:5: in New South Wales, 4:813; but in Victo- ria, to the south, it is 5:3, while in Queen d, to the north, it is 3:8. Queensland, New Zealand. and in South Africa the width is 3:§ feet. In Lower Egypt it is 484 in Egyptian Soudan. 3:6: in Ireland it is 5:3, and in Great Britain 4:8%. In London the Great West- ern main line changed from 7 feet to 4:8% in 172. The narrow gauge is generally 3:6, but on some roads it is 3 feet. —_——— Towmfil California glace fruits and candies, a pound, artistic fire- etched A nice present for Eastern friends, 715 Market st., above Call bldg. * —— business nouses and public men by the Press Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 3 T (. s). ”- ¥ A The ‘steamer of the Norts m LARGE AND SWIFT—F. K. J, Sacra- " United States Marine Corps was first . between a Baronet and a Viscount, being * 2