The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 12, 1903, Page 9

(o} PLAN RECEPTION |QUIETS MATTER /MR. PAGE AGKS THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, ENGLISH LANGUAGE A FACTOR IN CIVILIZING FILIPINOS JTEWARDS BODY CHARGES FATHER FOUND IV B H. M. Williams, Late of Steamship Algoa, a Suicide. Leaves Note to Bride of Two Days, and Says He Courted Death. appeared. com’s body, oad firon, is by Willlams found in ier Quellen. despondent er's purpose of 1l health and ter gives the so- nd dicates that was ® over a transac- Francisco shortly ® rried. It involves the f n Albert Lockett's name $50 which B. H. Veeder, S water front outfitt Williams. Captain Lockett is nd Veeder went the order ¥ order was forged ush - s August 1, w - el B Dort . " has charge — e RS JEWELRY FIRM IN HANDS OF ASSIGNEE i Stern Company’s Liabilities Said Be $20.000 and As- sets $35,000. E doing he t 1e ben- Samuel the 1 was ts to in assignee he ex- e o 5 Helmauigt Fears Expulsion. Helmquist, a memn Protective to the = of the union from = they threaten to . rules of the union— that is without preferring writter charges against him and serving him with a copy thereof. An order directing the of. ficers of the union to appear before Judge Seawe! August and show 1se Wi t's prayer should not granted was issued by Judge Kerrigan, ting presiding Judge —— Tariff for New Zealand. JLINGTON, N. Z., Aug. 1.—The preser to Parliament an wat it is proposed to place a duty on certain articles of ne substantial forelgn manufacture in order to let Great B if she thinks fit to do P respond ~ WITH BRUTALITY Parent I[s Accused of a| Serious Attack on | Daughter. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, | 1118 Broadway, Aug. 1L Grace Woodside, 15 years of age, daugh- | ter of A. E. Woodside, a carpenter, lles | | serfously hurt at her home, $1 Union | | street, from a blow struck last night by ber father, who has been arrested. Wood- slde, on representations made to the po- lice this morning by Dr. J. F. Rinehart, | had his bail put at $200 pending the re- sult of his daughter’s injuries. Woodside does mot deny striking girl, but he declares he only slapped her | face, because she tried to jab him with | a carving knife while he was chastizing his son Carl, 9 years of age. i The parent laughs at the story of se-| rious injury to his daughter. He insists | that his arrest and the trouble before it were more the outcome of general family | the | disturbances than any specific act of hi On the other hand, Mrs. Woodside in- | sists that the girl was knocked sensele: ! while Dr. R comes to the fore | with the statement that Miss Woodside | was suffering from concussion of the | brain and a paralysis of the left rtial e 3 sa | 1 cAme home to a good aged over one of the started to whip him. We The mother : m to stop, and when Grace in- | “ather turned om her and struck < head with such force that she was I sent for a physician i arrested, because I | no longer trouble accused | the son Carl for misconduct my daughter e for knife. I simply slapped her ble is due to general family n't know what goes on around I am away at work, and that’s it. The girl wasn't seriously talked to her after this thing I charged with battery, ntinued to-day in the but Po- S —ee—— PEARL HARBOR ENTRANCE IS NOW THIRTY FEET DEEP Dredging Is Completed and Locks Are Open to Vessels of Large The Pearl work of Harbor are now open hes these islands, edged to the the way is ent to begin ildings akes the edger there show at completed 1 and arbor to have been the engineer in Alameda for San Francisco. with him the complete nd soundings which wil to Colonel Huer at o0 is 2t the head of the ¢ r which the work has b e. Although the work on the bar is as good as accepted, Colonel Huer, after examining the plans, will give to Clark and Henry, the original contrac- tors tified certificate showing the k to mpleted and accepted by Government —_— ——— ARNOLD WHITE IS FINED 8500 BY ENGLISH JUDGE Offends by Article on Whitaker Wright and Is Imprisoned on | Refusal to Pay. { a LONDON, Aug. 11.—Arnold White, the thor, was fined $500 by the High Court | -day for contempt of court in having | written an article in a Sunday newspa- just before Y the per m New arrival in gland itaker Wright, the ctor of the and Globe Finance Corporation, who is awaliting trial on charges in connection with the failure f that concern, calculated to prejudice the trial_ and with the object of prevent- ng the granting of bail. The editor and manager of the newspaper apologized for he publication of the article and were muicted in the costs of the hearing. Ar- nold White refused to pay the fine and was taken to the Brixton jail, from whichi | Wright has just been'released. ————— PROTESTS OF PASSENGERS CAUSE WASHINGTON TO ACT Through Baggage Will No Longer Be Searched at the Port of Honolulu. | HONOLULU, Aug. 5.—Collector of the Port E. R. Stackable to-day received the following cablegram: WASHINGTON, Aug. 4, 1903—Customs, Hon- clulu: Until furt nding investiga- tion rtment. suspend examinations of ther goods at your port, except put_ashore. ARMSTRONG, Acting Seeretary. This means a return to the old way of examining baggage of through passen- | gers from the Orient or the colonies at n Francisco instead of here. ——————— Death of a Noted Artist. NEW YORK, Aug. 1l.—Louisa Belle | Cvlver died yesterday in Denver of heart failure. She was a well known ar- | tist and an exhibitor at the National Academy for many years. She was a | great grandniece of Roger Sherman, who | | wrote the Declaration of Independence | with Thomas Jefferson. She also was a | great granddaughter of the Rev. Eara | | Stiles, who was president of Yale Col- ! | lege during the revolution, and a great granddaughter of the Rev. Joseph Bel- | lamy, at whose divinity school in Rich- field, Conn., Henry Ward Beecher's! | father and Aaron Burr, were educated | for the ministry. of all pleasant anticipations of the shadow of gloom which cannot be shaken off. Thousands of women have found that the use of Mother's Friend during pregnancy robs pain and danger, and insures safety to life of mother confinement of all and child. This scientific liniment time of their most critical trial. carry women safely thi the gently prepares the system for the sickness,”’ and other dis- comforts of this period. Sold by all druggists at $1.00 bottle. 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FRIEND | will be absolutely necessary to supply the | tions that a civilized | ana | It does not appear what people is to furnish Professor Bernard Moses Says Knowledge of Anglo- Saxon Tongue Is Necessary to Bring Natives of America’s Oriental PossessionsInto Touch With Our Institutions S | | [ ERKELEY, Aug. 11.—The first complete and authoritative state- ment in regard to the success of the system of public instruction in the Philippine Islands has just come from Professor Bernard Moses of the University of California, who return- cd to Berkeley to-day, after serving since April, 1900, A member of the Philip- pine Commission. Professor Moses goes into the various problems that have come in connection with the American ad- minletration in the islands, paying partic ular attention to the questions on educa- | tion, in which he was particularly con-| cerned Prof, or Moses was Secretary | of Public Instruction in the Philippines | under Governor Taft and formulated the educational system that was adopted by the commission. He vigorously defends the policy of teaching English to the na- tive children, holding that this is essen- tial in order that the race may come in | touch with Western institutions. Professor Moses' three rs of study 1d the administrative practice have led m to draw some interesting conclusions in regard to the institutions existing ln' the Far East. He has high praise for the business sagacity of the Chinaman and | says that the interming)ing of the blood| of the Chinaman and the Filipino wnuhl} produce a people that would combine | many of the good qualities of both races. He also holds that a certain amount of | immigration from China into the islands | up labor market for at least fifty years. ALMOST A VIRGIN COUNTRY. Professor Moses has prepared a careful statement of the important phases of the ducational problems that confronted the | commission during the ploneer years. The following is his discussion of the situa- tion in full: It is now little more than seven months since 1 left the Philippine Islands. On the way I have taken the opportunity to visit the Strait | Settiements, Java, India and Egypt. ( t of my Ph! e experience 1 pecially inter Java presents the ap pearance of an isiand whose cultivation is car- ried almost to the utmost perfection possible, while the Philippine lelands are practically a virgin country. The intensive cultivation g Java has apparently been necessary to keep the rapidly increasing population supplied with food. Hitherto it has been essful, although in the last ninety years the number of the in- habitants has increased from about 8,000,000 to 29,000,000, 1f the Philippine Islands had rela- tively to the territory as large a population as Java they would have about 90,000,000 inhabi- tants, instead of the 7,000,000 that they now hav Java stands in sharp contrast to the Philippines In many respects. It has an abund- ant and industrious body of workers while the workers of the Philippines are neither abundant nor very industrious. The Javanese are encouraged to ralse rice and are not urged to seek other occupations than agriculture. The Filipinos are encouraged to educate themselves and to prepare themselves for all the occupa- community may offer. Schools are a very much less conspicuous fea- ture of the social order in Java than in the Philippines. The revenues of Java are turned to the Dutch treasury, and the appropriations for the island are made in Holland. The Phil- ippine Islands have their separate treasury into which are turned all their revenues, and appropriations from this fund are made by the Fhilippine government to meet the insular ex- per s. The Governor of Java has a very much Jarger official income than the President of the United States and occuples a very much finer house. In this respect there is also a contrast between Java and the Philippines. The question as to how the prosperity of the Stralts SBettlements compares with that of Java the Philippines cannot be answered di- Tectly, since the different ssttlements appear to be enjoying different a~grees of prosperity. Pe. nang. has been In a iarge measure eclipsed by Singapore. If Singapore is taken to represent the English possessions in that region, the ad- vantage in comparison with the Philippines is decidedly with the settlement. Singapore seems to be the most flourishing city in the Far East, and its prosperity due in no small degree to the presence of the Chinese. They own and occupy large numbers of the fine villas in the suburbs. Any city that wishes to strike for a leading position among the citles of the Far East cannot-afford to leave out of its calcula- tion a serious consideration of the possibility of success without the co-operation of the Chifiese. uccessful rivalry to the Chinese in business sagacity, commercial reliability and executive force. 1 entered India at Tutocorin in the south- western part of the peninsula, not far from Colombo, and gradually advanced toward the north through Madura, Trichinopoli, and Mu- dras to Calcutta and Darjeeling: then up the great valley of the Ganges ar as Lahore, and afterward southward through several of the native states to Bombay. POLICY OF TEACHING. 1 understand that there has been some criti- clsm on the commission’s golicy of ieaching English in the Philippines, based on the Eng- iish policy in India. I am’ not surprised, how- ever, to learn that such criticisms have been made. It was not to be expected that all of the thousand intelligent teachers engaged to assist in carrying out the educational policy of the Government in the Philippines would ap- prove of every detail of that policy. The pol. icy was adopted before the disapproving critics were heard from, and it is not quite clear that & different course would have been pur- sued if thelr testimony had been received earlier. The Spaniards in many instances pre- vented the Filipinos from learning the Spanish language and looked with distinct disa upon the use of this language by the native This is a. policy sometimes pursued tgymake subject people feel its subordination.” By th they made sharp the line of race distinction. The authoritics in the Philippines have ht to establish as close relations as poulh.l:u{e- tween the members of the two races, and have ot thought it advisable to hold the Filipinos joof by putting obstacles In the way of their using our speech. Some of the English In India, who wish to have the natives retain a sense of Inferiority and maintain an attitude of subjection, are op- posed 1o their learning the English e on_the nd that a knowledge of this lan- guage will make them feel and assert their equality with the members of the ruling na- tion. is no deubt that In India and in all lands where a forelgn race rules, a knowl- edge of the language of the dominant nation Lrorzssoe BERNERD P WAL 0 | velopment of a we | economie tite. o EDUCATOR WHO FAVORS TEACHIN ENGLISH LAN- GUA IN PHILIPPINES. —p natives a certain self equality with those in | power. But from ocur point of view this is not a result to be avolded, for these qualities are necessary to enable the Filipinos to play the political role that has been assigned to them. Popular self respect and an absence of the sense of subje essential to the de- red system of selt gov- | tends to develop in the respect and @ sense ernment But there is a rational ground in India a pol the English languag sued in the Philippi of poliey is necessita ditions in the two ¢ the native languages cultivation, and there an extensive literature fc needs of a civilized pec cannot be set aside with stroying the main force among the people that makes for clvil- izatlon. The Filipinos have no such literature, and, therefore, to teach them the English lan: suage is not to. subject them to any intelléctual logs, but, on the other hand. to furnish them a | most powerful stimulus to intellectual progress. In the second place, the vastness of India's population and the strength of its traditions make it absolutely necessary that the India of the future should be developed out of the India of the past. The English have not tried to. lay a néw foundation for Indian society, but to reform the historic soctety by eliminating its features and for pureuing th refarence to the use of e nt from that pur- | e lalands, d b This difference the different con- s, in the first place, 11 are languages of | % in each of them | all the intellectual This literature unworthy introducing certa practical elements of Western organization, well as certain material appliances of our The Filipino's history a g ditions that lfe back o his contact with ;-:':‘r’rl» peans are the history and traditions of bar- barism, and they have been overlald by the soctal and religious practices of Christian so. | clety, which constitute the real foundation of whatever civilization the inhabitants of the | islande possess. Their civilization fa a Euro. pean product spread over the barbaric past This Eufopean contribution to the cultivation | of the Filipinos constitutes the only basis o which we have to build for the future. In this view it appears that the only language of eyl tivation avaiable to the Filipino fs a Eura: pean language, and with English the langaage of the Government it follows inevitably that the Filipinos will find greater advantage in jts use than in the use of Spanish, its only real rival ENGLISH BEING TAUGHT. After the Filipinos had become convineed that the established relations between the | Philippine Islands and the United States were | to be maintainea, they manifested a strong desire to learn the English language, and the authorities saw no reason for refusing ity this popular desire. . On the comrtate e believed that to meet this wish would help to glve to the Filipinos a better understanding of the purposes of the United States. = Any other course than that pursued would Haye provoked the just charge of bungling stupid- ity. The Vigorous carrving out of the Cloy. ernment’s liberal educational policy has show a contrast between the Spanish and Amer: administrations to the advantage of t ter, and this action on the part of the new Government has done as much as the execution of any single line of policy to convince the Filipinos of the benevolent purpose United States. e ‘here are various practical adva will accrue to the Deople of the Bhiipeins Islands from ability to use the English lan. guage. It will supply & common medium of communication where ho such medium now ex- ists, The possession of a common speech will tend to remove district antagoniem, and break up the prevalling provinelal narrowness and jealousy. ‘A second advantage is that it will make possible a political regime of & popular character, involving and interesting the in- habitants of all parts of the fsland. A third advantage is that this knowledge will enable the inhabitants of the islands to read Ames can books and perlodicals, and thus grad- ually become informed of the character of American institutions. Besides the teaching of English {mmedate purpose of the publle. imeerumtin in the islands is to educate and train Filipino teachers so that they may be fitted to carry on the work begun by the- American teacher. To this end normal schools have been estat. lished in varlous cities. The varlous provi ions for preparing Filipino teachers wera made with the understanding that the work of prim- ary instruction must ultimately be carried on by them, and thus after instruction In Eng. lish, tkhe most pressing requirement of the system is that it should furnish Filipino teach. ers competent to do the work demanded of them. This plan was met ineonsistent .with the project to-take & large number of Ameri- can teachers to the islands. These teachers were needed in order that the system might be practically established and the plan care ried out. Without them there might have been an organization provided by law, but it would not have been given effective force. Manning the primary schools with Filipino teachers will, in the course of time, leave the Ameri- can’ teachers to be employed In the high and normal schools, where thelr services to a considerable extent are already needed, and Where their engagement Wil come as a reward for proved efficiency and devotion to work in the Dbeginning years. The most general deseription that can be given of the form of the organization of pub- Tic instruction Is that the provinces are made school divisions and that these divisions are federated with very large powers In the cen- tral authority. ision being made for night schools, . and various schools for speclal instruction. The details for this organization are con in a law which I which was_adopted by the commission last October. The exi ting law makes the system of schools a bureau of edu- cation under the Secretary of Public Instru tion. in whom rests the final administrative authority. Under him s & general superintend- ent of education, and In each division there is @ division superinten QUESTION OF LABOR. uesti Jabor fn the Phul 5 L E N eastisd vrome there is a prospect or not of a favorable lution without Chinese immigration is & dirf- tormulated and | John MecCoy of Haywards, Colonel Hast- | | ings of San Leandro, Mayor Olney and | UNION ORGANIZER WOUNDED. Halller, Alabama district organizer of the | Alabama United | 1ocal | started and were then { versed' the decision of Justice Bigham, | lnn strike is estimated at 2700. Hundreds OF ERAND MRMY Committee Arranges for Special Boat From San Francisco. Irvington People Subscribe $600, Making a Total of $1615. Oakland Office San Francisco Call, 1118 Broadway, Aug. 11 The programme for the reception of the Grand Army veterans on August 21 was partly arranged to-day at the meeting of the executive committee held at the rooms of the Board of Trade. The members of the Grand Army and their families will be brought to Oak- land on a.special boat, which wlill leave San Francisco at 9:30 a. m., making the trip by way of the Oakland harbor route and landing at the foot of Broadway. The party will march to the “Willows, where the address of welcome will be delivered, after which lunch will be served. - The total amount of the subscriptions received up to date is $161525. This is little more than half enough to defray the expenses of the reception and the members of the committee fear that the programme will have to be curtailed un- less more funds are forthcoming. Only ten days now remain for preparation and the soliciting committee is working hard to secure the necessary amount. At the meeting this afternoon Rev. I. H. MecCullough reported that $500 had been subscribed by the people of Irving- tan. The committee voted to request the Board of Education to grant the school children a holiday on August 2i, or If that was impracticable to grant them a half-holiday in the forenoon. Chairman Evans appointed as a com- mittes on programme: H. B. Griffith of | Berkeley, Dr. T. Carpenter of Alameda, | J..W. Evans of Oakland. e Southerners Resent His Affiliation With a Colored Man. | BIRMINGHAM. Ala., Aug. 1l.—Joseph | United Mine Workers of America, was shot and seriously wounded in the arm at Horse Creek yesterday morning and B. L. Greer (colored), vice president of the| Mine Workers, was as- saulted and severely beaten by a c of citizens. Halller had been to Empire | with Vice Prestdent Greer, where a small of the United Mine Workers was organized, and the two men were about to board a train for Birmingham | According to Greer they were in the slmi tion when five men entered and ordered | the two men to march down the railroad | tracks at the point of pistols. They! ordered to trot, | which they did. Various indignities were heaped cn them, Halller being forced to| kiss Greer. Greer was then assaulted and beaten. | When Halller was forced to trot the | | men began firing at him, and he finally fell. The pursuers then left him and re-| turned to town. The two men were picked up by a freight train. | sidio x s Welsh Miners Lose on Appeal. LONDON., Aug. 11.—The Appeals Court | to-day, by a majority of two to one, re- who on August », 182, in a case where the Welsh coal ewners' assoclation sued the miners’ federation for $500.000 dam- ages for ordering stop da without con- sulting the owners, decided in favor of the defendants on the ground that there | was no malice in the action of the ‘men, | who believed that a reduction of the out- put would benefit both parti junliste Cripple Creek Mines Shut Down. CRIPPLE CREEK, Colo, Aug. 1L.— Practically all the mines in this district except those operated by the Woods In- vestment Company are closed in conse- quence of the union miners’ strike, which began yesterday. The number of miners of miners are leaving the camp for other locallties. —_————— Mob Pursues Child’s Assailant. MARSHALLTOWN, lowa, Aug. 11— The 7-year-old daughter of A. I. Macon, a prominent farmer of North Hudson, was assaulted to-day by one of a party of horse traders who were camping near her home. The child will die. A large mob 1s in pursuit of her assailant, who will be lynched if captured. —_—ee————— Disbarred Attorney Will Appeal. HONOLULU, Aug 11.—George A. Davis, one of the attorneys who was disbarred by the Supreme Court yesterday for un- professional conduct in the Sumner case, sailed for San Francisco to-day on the steamer Sierra. Davis said that he would appeal to the United States Supreme Court from the decision of the Supreme Court of Hawaii. @ -t @ cult question, One of the difficulties which the employers of labor -are likely to encounter arises from the fact that, the bulk of the popu- Tation, i composed of persons who either culti- | vate independently their small holdings or are attached to other persons in a traditional rela- tion not greatly unitke that of fendal depend- ents. The part of the population that Is meither in the position of individual cultivators Mor attached to any household or estate is small, and consequently the number of labor- ors actually avallable is limited. Persons who have been accustomed to gain their living in a certain way cannot be expected to abandon their ancient habits immediately on tha ap- pearance of @ person or company asking for their labor. Those who respond to the new de- mand at once are only & part of the supply of labor which the community in question may furnish when it shall have adjusted Itself to the new conditions. It will therefogg be impos- sible to know the labor capabilities of the Phil- ippine Islands till they shall have acquired bre of the charactertistics of the Industrial communities of Europe and America. 1t may be safely affirmed that withcut the admiesion of laborers from some source the supply of Tabor will be short for the next fifty years at least. From whatever source the needed la- borers come they ought to fulfill certain con- ditlons. They ought to be able to thrive i the {ropica: they ought to have the strensth and kil necessary to meet the demands of a so- olety where much of the heavy work remains be done; and they ought to be capable of to cantageous amalgamation with the pres- e bitants of the Islands. Immigration or Java is not only out of the ques- i gn“gjft posstble, would be undesirable. In Tt Ty R s o8 the BEitos T e than “the Chinese. The quallties of peoples are such as to suggest a su- perior product as a result of their union. The Filipino likes to be well dressed; the Chinaman is better pleased with a cash surplus on de- posit. The Fillpino wishes a position Involving little work, and he somewhat indifferent about the amount of pay. The Chinaman ‘wishes a position ‘“"Mnflg‘ruh pay, and he 15 somewhat_indifferent about the severity of Persons who unite in themselves Fill) ‘and Chinese blood display a remarka- ble eamblutwn"o: qualities. 'nr:‘ h&n c'di' respect for good form e Chi- L lous energy and business sa- Filipinos, naman’s marvel nct count themseives B aside ail pecullarities of dress or man: her that would recall the Chinese factor in their origin. They are Filipinos with more tl the ordinary Filipino ability. If the ilippine Islands are to be epen to imm! tion from any source, a certain lmmm from China would probably be more likely to brink immediate Drosperity and be followed by greater permanent advantages than that which might be bad from any other source, g | speech, which was responded to by Mrs. | ing and other workshops, under threat OF FRANGHISES Recommendations Made by Committee Lull ' Agitation. ALAMEDA, Aug. 11.—With the decision of the Citizens’ Advisory Committee last night to have prepared and presented to the City Trustees an ordinance srmuns" to the Southern Pacific Company the two franchises it seeks for its local roads, on | condition that the management of the| corporation accede to certain stipulations | embodied therein, there has come a lull in | the railroad agitation that has had Ala- | meda by the ears for five weeks. Acting upon the request of the Commit- tee of Fifty, the City Attorney is draft- ing an ordinance that will contain all of the stipulations recommended by the ad- visory body. After the ordinance is in-| troduced at the regular session of the City Trustees next Monday night it will be within the province of the municipal | legislators to amend, curtail and shape it | as they see fit. It is not expected that | the ordinance will be ready for passage before the last meeting of the City Tru: tees In September. There will be sent to | the Southern Pacific officials a copy of the ordinance as it will be introduced next Monday night, and it will then be in or- der for the representatives of the com- pany to conduct negotiations with the City Trustees with the object of settling the matter of the franchises to the mutual satisfaction of the Southern Pacific and the city of Alameda. It is said that the stipulation requiring the Southern Pacific to pay into the mu- nicipal treasury $0 a month for the prt ileges conveyed in the franchises is what has thus far prevented the representatives of the corporation from coming to a defi- nite understanding with the representa- tives of Alameda. All of the other stipu- lations are of minor importance when compared to this one. It was the sense of the Committee of Fifty last night that the corporation should be required to pay something for the two franchises, and | that is the way the situation stands at| present. Whether the Southern Pacific will consent to pay the $500 or whether the management will endeavor to secure | the franchise free or for a lesser license | is not apparent at this time. It Is proba- ble that the railroad people will desire more conferences with the representatives of the city on this stipulation. When the Committee of Fifty adjourned last night it dfd so to meet at the call of the chair. The next move in the matter of the fran- chises will be made by the City Trustees | Monday night. | —————— GREAT COUNCIL OF RED MEN IN ANNUAL SESSION Nearly All of the Eighty-Eight Tribes in the Jurisdiction Are Represented. SACRAMENTO, Aug. 11.—The Great | Council of the Improved Order of Red Men began its session, which will last| all week, at 10 o'clock this morning in | the Assembly room of the State Capitol Great Sachem J. R. Tyrrell of Gras Valley presided, and an organization effected soon after the session began. Acting Mayor Elkus delivered an ad- dress in which he welcomed the visiting Red Men to the capital city. Great Sa-| chem Tyrrell responded to the address in a fitting spefch. The Sacramento command presented a | beautiful regalia of the Degree of Poca- | hontas to Mrs. Kate Wilson. Great chem Tyrrell made the presentation Wilson, The degres of past sachem was given to sixty-five past sachems There are eighty-eight tribes in the ju- risdiction of the Great Couneil and nearly all of the mare represented. ———— CANAL TREATY'S CHANCES ARE CONSIDERED REMOTE Seven Colombian Senators For and Seventeen Against Its Ratification. PANAMA, Aug. 11.—The latest news from Bogota s not favorable to the rati- fication of the canal treaty. A correspond- | ent writes that seven Senators favor and seventeen oppose ratification. and that unless some radical change occurs soon ail | efforts to secure its ratification will fail The friends of the canal hope that ex-| President Caro, one of the leaders of the | opposition to the Government and an op- ponent of the treaty, may again drag the question into politics in the belief that such a move would eventually compel the | Senate, when the vote is reported, to di-| vide on the lines of support or oppoesition to the Government. Senator Perez.y Soto, an enemy of the treaty, who in June viciously attacked Minister Herran for having negotiated it, has published in his paper, the Constitu- tional, a bitter arraignment of the Pan- amd people who favor the treaty. pleiatutnods - etk ity SOLDIERS AND STRIKERS IN FREQUENT CLASHES Shooting Affrays Are of Daily Oc- currence on the Streets of Kieff. LONDON, Aug. 11.—Firms here have received mail advices from Kieff, Russia, dated last Saturday, which say that the strigers have completely paralyzed buse iness and will not allow finished machin- ery to be delivered from manufactories. The men turned girls out of dressmak- of death. The streets are fu]l of soldiers, according to these advices, and shooting occurs daily. The price of bread has risen 150 per cent and is still going up. The troops are manning the waterworks. ——————————— ESTABLISHING NEGRO COLONY IN WASHINGTON ST. PAUL, Aug. 11.—Rev. J. F. David- son of Tacoma is settling the negro prob- lem in a practical way by organizing the colonization movement among the negroes of the South. He passed through St Paul to-day with a party of twenty-five colored people, all of whom will take up lands in Washington State. This is the vanguard, Davidson says, of a consider- able movement of colored people from the Southern cities to the farming lands of the West. The leader of the party is a colored minister in Tacoma, the pastor of the Olivet Baptist Church. His party consists of negroes gathered in Louisiana. All of them profess to be farmers and say that their object in going to the Pacific North- west is to take up land. —— e Cut Short Their Work Hours. VALLEJO, Aug. 11.—Commandant Mc- Calla, noticing that the workmen on the navy yard issue forth from the work shops at the first tap of the stop work bell, estimates that the cost to the Government on the part of the workmen preparing for such an immediate exodus must be considerable. He makes in a general no- tice published to-day an appeal to the pride and the interests of the workmen directing that work be continued up to the expiration of the hours of lakor. The commandant evidently means business. —_————— HI A, Mont., Aug. 11.—Charles H. Snell, aged 76 years, one of Montana's oldest ploneers, was found dead In his bed at his residence to- FOR A DIVORCE San Leandro Capitalist’s ‘Wife Appeals to the Court. Husband’s Aversion to Tub Is One Ground of Complaint. L ——— Oakland Office San Franciseo Call, 1118 Broadway, Aug. 1L Does refusal to bathe constitute a ground for divorce? The question will be passed up to Judge Ellsworth for de- cision in an action begun to-day by Mrs. | Jennie Page against Rufus Page, a San Leandro capitalist. Page, it is alleged, goes long periods without taking a bath, all of which is repulsive to the finer sen- sibilities of his wife, and she wishes a firal separation from him and $150 a month alimony. Page's aversion to water is made the subject of special mention in the com- plaint, which has been drawn up by At- torney J. E. McElroy. ot more than six times a year, it states, does Page get into a tub, although urged by his wife to do so. Page's reasom, as stated, is be- cause he is afraid of taking cold, ail of which it is pleaded constitutes a species of cruelty and good cause why Mrs. Page should be given a decree. It is not the only ground upon which the divorce is asked and it Is sald that Page's miserly instincts go to the extreme of buying poor meat in order to save ths difference between an inferior quality and the price he would have to pay for a good grade of meat. Mrs. Page also alleges that he has not bought her a dress since she promised to be his bride, for better or for worse, ten years ago. She once asked him for an al- lowance of $5 a month and he is quoted as baving told her she was crazy. It is al- leged that he would only let her have eggs in the summer season, when the price was low. Judge Ellsworth has issued a restrain- ing order agalnst Page to keep him from disposing of any of his property unmtil firal disposition of the case is made. It is alleged that he owns property to tha value of $30,000 or $40.000 and that a goodly portion of it is invested in Spring Valley Water Company stock. ——————————— Marri: ge Licenses. OAKLAND, Aug. 11.—The marriage licenses were Issued County Clerk to-day: James M. 21, and Virginia G. Prindle, 19, both of San Francisco; Benjamin Wood, 5, Hay- following by the Gilman, wards, and Julia V. B. Jackson, 50, Oak- land: John D. Owens, Selby, and Marguerite J. McAllister, 22, Lafayette: Edward H. Zimmerman Watsonville, and Edith M. Hanson, Berkeley Michael Wrinn, 36, S8an Francisco, and Rose Cullen, 28, Oakland; Harry Parsons, over 21, and Margaret Ryder, over 18, both of Alameda; Willlam Hughes, 24, and Agmes V. I 2, both of land; William W. Theobald, mento, and Maud M. Hogan, 23, Oaklan John J. Doherty, 30, and Kate Loftus, 22, both of San Francis James A hepley, 53, and Eliza H. Saygers, both of San Francisco; William H. Jac son, 31, and Ealine M. Young, 23, both of San Franeisco. —_——————— Goldman Wanted in Chicago. Chief Wittman is in receipt of a tele- gram from Superintendent O'Neil of the Oak- | Chicago departmént to the effect that F. Goldman, the young traveling salesman who was taken into custody Sunday and detained in the City Prison, is wanted for forgery. Goldman will be held pending the arrival of an officer. He maintains that he is not wanted there om any charge and denies knowledge of the for- gery mentioned in the dispatch. ————————— Notorious Outlaw Regains Liberty. BLACKFOOT, Idaho, Aug. 11.—“Bob™ Meeks, a notorious criminal and member of the “Hole in the Wall” gang, serving a sentence of thirty-five years for bank rob- bery at Montpelier, Idaho, and who was recently transferred to the insane asylum at this place, escaped from that institu- tion night before last and has so far elud- ed the officers. He is supposed to he head- ing directly for the old rendeavous, and, it is believed, is being helped by his for- mer associates. — e English Is Better. OAKLAND, Aug. 1.—The condition of Willlam D. English to-night is a little better. The change is not particularly noticeable, but in a case so serious any improvement is an encouragement. —eeeeee ADVERTISEMENTS. Mrs. Tupman, a prominent lady of Richmond, Va., a great sufferer with woman’s troubles, tells how she was cured. “For some years I suffered with backache, severe bearing-down paingy leucorrhcea, and falling of the womih 1 tried many remedies, but nothing gave any positive relief. “1 commenced taking Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vi e Com, d in June, 1901. When I had en the first half bottle, I felt a vast improve- ment, and have now taken tem bottles with the result that I feel like a new woman. When I commenced taking the Vegetable Compound I felt a worn out and was fast a hing complete nervous collapse. I weigheo only 98 pounds. Now I weigh 100§ and am improving da; gladly testify to the b:;:?n x‘ ceived.”— Mes. R. C. TUPMAN, 423 Wes 30th St., Richmond, Va. — 35000 forfeit it