The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 8, 1903, Page 6

THE SAN FRANCIECO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1903. 6 % 1% G/ 4 PUBLIC UTILITY BONDS. x| E have pointed out the necessity of putting g i R municipal socialism on its merits by making TUESDAY EPTEMBER 8, 1903 JOHN D. SPRECKELS, Proprictor. 7 ceress All Communicetions to W. S. LEAKE. Manager. TELEPHONE, Ask for THE CALL. The Operator Will Connect You With the Department You Wish. PUBLICATION OFFICE. .. .Market and Third, EDITORIAL ROOMS. . 217 to 221 Stevens: . Delivered by Carriers, 20 Cts. Per Week, 75 Cts. Per Month. Single Copies 5 Cents. Terms by Mail, Including Postage (Cash With Orden): DAILY CALL (including Sunday), one year... £ L DAILY CALL (ncluding Sunday), 6 months. DAILY CALL—Ey Single Month. EUNDAY CALL. Ope Year.. WEEKLY CALL, Une Year....... Datly. { Sunday.. | Weekly.. All Postmasters are acthorized to recelve subscriptions. Sample copies will be forwarded when requested. whgnies 1.00 . $8.80 Per Year Extra 4.15 Per Year Extra 1.00 Per Year Extra FOREIGN POETAGE. 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BRANCH OFFICES—S327 Montgomery, corner cf Clay, open untl 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open until 9:30 o'clock. 683 Mcallister, open until 9:80 o'clock. 616 Larkin, open until $:30 c'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o clock. 61 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until ® o'clock. 1006 Va- jencis, open until ® o'clock. 108 Eleventh, cpen until 9 ociock. NE. corner Church and Duncan streets, open clock. NW Twenty-second and Kentucky, corn clock. 22 illmore, open until 9 o'clock. THe DEMOCRATIC WRECK HEN the Democrats of Iowa threw the Kansas City platiorm aside and turned W B e to the wall the reorganizers tilied with joy hey believed the West« had come i with the East and that the Nebraska man no longer be able to disturb the growing harmony of the camp There were good reasons for the joy of the con- servatives. For a long time the work of reorganiza- tion had been going on, and report aiter report gave encouragement to those who expected big results. The South ceased to talk of Bryan, while the names Parker and Gorman grew as familiar in mouth as household words. The action of the Iowa convention appeared to be the natural climax of a s pictu i we to would of movement which had been steadily increasing in strength and spreading over the country. Under such circumstances it was not strange that Henry Watterson declared Bryan would not have a cor- poral's guard at his back in the next national vention of the party and that he would bolt. it was natural the Populists of Nebraska should have similar views of the prospects ahead and speak with assurance of the coming bolt of the Bryanite clans. The whole situation has been changed by the Dem- ocratic convention in Ohio. In that strong important State the Bryanites under the lead of Tom Johnson have captured the party machine and made it all their own. They drew up the platform and nominated the ticket. They will name the delegates from the State to the Presidential convention, and when the struggle between the rival factions comes Ohio will be on the Bryan side. The large population of the State and its com- manding position between the Atlantic States and those of the Mississippi Valley, as well as the possi- bility that it may be 2 doubtiul State in the Presi- dential contest, give a high degree of importance to the position it takes in the Bryan column. It as- sures that the Nebraska leader will not go to the convention with only the “corporal’s guard” of which Watterson spoke so mockingly, but will have strong delegations from strong States. The Washington correspondent of the Baltimore Herald in reviewing the situation as it appears to politicians in the capital says that while the conser- watives have been going about with a dark lantern looking for a Presidential candidate the Bryanites have been working for control of State conventions and the party machine. He adds: “As it stands the Bryan wing will be strongly represented from a number of States sending large delegations to the mational convention. Ohio has been committed, for mot only was the Kansas City platiorm reaffirmed with practical unanimity, but William J. Bryan him- self is to be formally invited to stump the State this fall. Missouri will in all probability be for the Bryan ideas; Nebraska is committed; Illinois, if Carter Harrison has his way, will fall into line; Texas will be for Bryan, and the entire South, with the possible exception of Georgia and Alabama, is regarded as being for the Nebraskan's principle: It is not expected that Bryan will be again the mominee of the party or even a candidate for the nomination, but a fear is felt among the reorgan- izers that he will be able to frame the platiorm and dictate the head of the ticket. That would of course be as bad as the renomination of Bryan himself, and as a consequence the Johnson victory in Ohio is fill- ing the conservatives with alarm. Some of them appear to be already making preparations to bolt. For the moment, at any rate, the Bryanites have the laugh on their cide. It is now time for Bryan to meet Watterson’s taunt by saying that the gold faction leaders will go to the convention with a “cor- poral's guard” behind them and then bolt. — The United States Government has assumed the task of trying to destroy the Japanese slave trade in the Hawaiian Islands. There is still reason to hope, therefore, that some day, when Uncle Sam is at peace with his friends and has nothing else to do, he may seek to blot out the Chinese slave trade in San Fran- cisco. con- It is strange that Sir Thomas Lipton in his three stubborn, gallant and sportsmanlike efforts to lift the cup never reflected that there is no luck except in the four leafed clover. Let him design a Shamrock IV and try again. 4 the | So, too, : and | all bonds issued for public utilities a lien | only upon the plant itself and not upon the taxpay- |ers. The principle which requires this is so plain and | proper that it cannot be successfully antagonized. American cities are being urged into municipal ownership because cities in the British Isles have | very generally embarked in it, calling it there “mu- gnicipal trading.” The cities in England, Ireland and | Scotland which have gone into business have raised “thc capital for commercial investment by general tax- | ation, the bonds and stocks issued.being a lien upon }lhe city and not upon the plants. The effect has been lan enormous increase in municipal debts. ;The an- nual reports of the local government board sfmw that the debts of the cities have increased between 1891 (and 1902 by 201 per cent. The annual average of in- i crease has been $125.000,000, and in 1902 it jumped to $144,677,465. 5 | In the period of 1874-1899 the debts of Eng- lish cities increased from $465,000,000 to $1,470,000,000, the increase of more than one billion dollars being due to borrowing money for investment in public utilities, to be paid by the | taxpayers. The debts of such cities incurred for | public utilities amount now to $50 per capita | of their inhabitants. The Chamber of Commeres of London, investigating the stagnating effects of this vast debt incuired for business invest- | ments, found that sixty-one municipalities, in- | cluding Glasgow, were conducting either all or | most of the public plants at a loss, the deficit be- | ing made up by extorting from the taxpayer. These facts should warn all municipal taxpayers against permitting the bonds for any kind of business | investment to be a lien on the municipality. If the | business can be run at a profit, or if it can pay the | cost of starting it, and of its operation, let it do so | and bear the burden of its own securities. | The Examiner favors municipal ownership of the | Geary-street Railroad. In attempting to discuss the ‘queslion it says, in answer to The Call's demand that the bonds shall be paid by the plant and not by the people: “If that argument were to have weight the city government would have to go out of busi- | ness. Push the question a little further and we | should be asked, ‘Why should the people of the | Western Addition be taxed to pay for the paving of | Kearny street? Why should the people of North | Beach be taxed for building the Mission High School? | Why should the Richmond District be taxed to pay | the repairs on the City Hall?”” Now all of that looks | very smart, but it isn't. Streets are paved by a tax |on the abutting property. The building of school- houses is reciprocal. When one part of the city is ! taxed with the whole city to build a new school- house in a certain district that district is in turn | taxed to build schools for the other districts which | have contributed to it. But unless the Geary-street | Railroad can be made a movable feast, and carried | around the city for the convenience of all the tax- | payers, the statement remains true that all the rest of the taxpayers are to be burdened to create a utility which they cannot use. The Examiner’s ignorance shown in this further statement: “In the case of the Geary-street Railroad, however, the people of the Mission, Potrero, North Beach and the other dis- tricts are not asked to pay anything in taxes. They are asked to acquire a valuable piece of property without the expenditure of any of their own money. The money would be furnished by the bond buyers and the interest and principal would be paid out of the earnings of the road.” Now if that were true, which it is not, the thing we are contending for would be already present, and the bonds would be a lien on the plant alone and not on the city. The people will read on the ballots for those bonds that they are voting on “a proposition to acquire by oricinal construction and completion by the city and county of San Francisco a public utility, to wit: a street railroad, and TO INCUR A BONDED DEBT OF THE CITY AND COUNTY TO THE AMOUNT OF $710,000.” That language is plain. It is a debt of the city and county, and not of the Geary-street Rail- road, and has to be paid by all the taxpayers, whether they are served by the road or not. The Examiner says the present Geary-street road, | owned and run by a corporation, is a paying busi- | ness, and the city’s road will pay better. It de- 1c]arcs that the present road pays 5 per cent interest | on $671,000 in bonds, and dividends of 2% per cent on $1,000,000 in stock. This amounts to $58,500 per year, a sum greater than the interest and sinking | fund of the bonds that are to be made a lien on the | city instead of on the road. If the Examiner is so | certain that the city will be a great success in the | railroad business, why not show that confidence by | taking these bonds off the backs of the taxpayers and putting them on the road? To refuse this is to doubt that the city can run a road as successfully as the present corporation. of the subject is The people of Oakland are dreaming of a greater Oakland which shall include themselves, Berkeley and Alameda in one grcat municipality. Whatever else may be said of the project in its present form it certainly is a splendid dream which some day may find a more tangible reality than suggestion. OR an understanding of Mississippi politics e ———— Flhcrc is needed a carefully drawn diagram with an elaborate array of explanations on the mar- MISSISSIPP1I POLITICS. gin. - The diagram has not yet been forthcoming, but there are plenty of explanations. In fact, the press of the Southern States is full of them, and everything would be satisfactory were it not for the fact that the explanations are themselves about as confusing as the facts they undertake to explain. It is agreed that Vardaman sought the Democratic nomination for Governor as an avowed representa- tive of the “anti-nigger” element in the State. In the course of his canvass he not only advocated clos- ing all schools for negroes except those that could be maintained by school taxes paid by negroes, but he declared himself an opponent of negro education altogether. On that platform he deieated a conser- vative candidate of high character, receiving the nomination, which is equivalent to election, and ac- cordingly,will be Governor of Mississippi. On that showing one might safely conclude that a majority of the Democratic voters in Mississippi are of the reactionary type and would like to reduce the negro to the old slavery if they could. There a s to be no other way of understanding the se- lection of such a man as Vardaman to be the stan- dard bearer of the party and Governor of the State. However, there remains another phase of the story ta he tald. In the same contest that resulted in a victory for Vardaman the Democrats made nomina- tions for candidates for the Legislature, and in doing so they assured the election of a Legislature pledged to maintain the present system of public schools for white and black. Thus the Legislative vote cancels or at least contradicts the vote for Governor, and outsiders are left to decipher as best they can the true status of the political sentiment. A good many Southern papers declare that the vote for Vardaman was designed as a rebuke to the President because of his alleged revival of the race issue in politics. Such declarations are hardly worth noting except as an evidence of the desire of even the Bourbon Southerners to find an excuse for the election of such a man on such a platform as Gov- ernor of a Southern State. The negroes of Mississippi are reported to be much alarmed over the situation, as the more credu- lous among them are circulating a rumor that it is the intention of Vardaman to deprive them not only of their schools, but of their property. A good many of them have arranged to leave the State, and a wide- spread spirit of distontent and uneasiness exists among them. Such a feeling will of course disturb the relations between the two races, and the whites in the end may suffer as much as the blacks. Evidently the Democrats of Mississippi have made a mistake, and no amount of explaining will wholly undo its ill effects. e S The diplomatic representative of the United States of Colombia at Washington is reported to be in very bad favor with our Government. Under existing circumstances, created by recent events, we are al- most tempted to suggest that the character of this representative is such that it is enough to make us forget the rules of common sense in discussing him. e T— A QUESTION OF LIFE. EPORTS from New York concerning the pro- R ceedings of the International Congress of Ac- tuaries are to the effect that while all dele- gates were agreed that the average duration of hu- man life has been increaged of late years, there was a wide difference of opinion as to the manner in which the added longevity has been obtained. It was main- tained by some that the general increase in the length of life affected all classes of civilized men, while others asserted it has affected none but the weak—in other words, they maintain that sanitary science has not increased the vitality of the strong, but has di- minished mortality among invalids. The subject is an interesting one, and when the proceedings of the congress are published in full the debates un it will doubtless prove to be instructive. The theory that science is conserving the weak rather than promoting the welfare of the vigorous is not a new one. A good many physicians have argued that the increase of insanity and of all forms of ner- vous diseases among civilized people is due almost wholly to the tendency of the time to maintain alive weak children who in a less scientific age would not have survived infancy. The preservation of the weak. it is argued, enables them to marry and to transmit their weakened blood to the next genera- tion, so that the entire race of civilized man is be- coming affected with inherent tendencies to nervous disorders. It is not stated in the reports that any of the dele- gates to the convention went so far as that, for they are not doctors having theories of disease, but life insurance men dealing with statistics. They find that on the whole the average risk is safer now than it was in former times, but they are not agreed that a really strong man is any safer risk now than of old. One of the speakers put the case of longevity in this way: “The first reason is the better care children receive in the present day. The dealing of the human race with the epidemics is vastly better than before and has improved in the last few years. The third cause is the progress in medical and surgical science. We find that the mortality in particular diseases has de- creased very greatly in the last forty years. These in- fluences are all alike in this respect, that all repre- sent not an increase in the vitality of the strong, but a diminution of mortality among the weak.” The issue is one upon which it seems no class of experts is at this time capable of pronouncing defini- tive judgment. All valid conclusions upon it must be to a large extent based upon statistics, and it ap- pears that as yet we have no statistics that can be safely relied upon. That much was brought out dur- ing the congress by the caustic criticism pronounced upon some governmental statistics. Thus a report of one of the discussions says: “F. L. Hoffman in his address said: ‘When we are told by a Secretary of War that the mortality in Cuba is not more than that in the city of New York, it does not require much actuarial knowledge to cause one to smile and to know that it is nonsense’ He also declared the statement that the death rate of the city of Havana is no greater than that of Washington to be untrue. For some time to come the death rate of Havana will be from 50 to 100 per cent greater than any Northern city.” Where doctors differ laymen will not undertake to decide. It will be perceived that an interesting ques- tion has been raised and that discussion upon it is liable to go on indefinitely. The United States authorities have determined that criminal immigrants, who commit an offense within three years after their admission into this country, must be deported to the land whence they came. The only possible objection which Americans can have to this very excellent law is the shortness of the time allowance. If there be any danger on earth to a criminal foreigner it is to be thrown from a new field of operations back to one that has been worked out. Y The Democrats of Pennsylvania have pominated a complete State ticket and, strange to say, have dis- played unmistakable enthusiasm in the process. Per- haps of all the nations it is only in the United States that men will give stubborn loyalty to what they know is an impossible cause and inevitable defeat. A Democratic State ticket in Pennsylvania hasn't cven the value ofja Confederate bill, for it lacks the merit of being a Buriostiy. ——— Aguinaldo has again invited the fierce light of the calcium of public opinion upon himself, and emerg- ing from obscurity, deriounces most vehemently the evil of gambling among his countrymen. His de- nunciation should be tempered by the reflection that the most desperate chance his countrymen ever took in their lives was when they hazarded their liberty upon his honesty and lost, “ LEHmEIR. s An unfortunate man who visited Sacramento during the congestion of the State Fair failed to secure a room for a night and in desperation stabbed himself repeatedly that he might die. Who will say that in blind intuition he did not after all choose the better way? : \ GREAT NUGGET BREAKS RECORD OF KOOTENAY VANCOUVER, B. C., Sept. 7.—A piece of gold quartz the size of a man’s head, with a section of pure gold as large as a man's two fists, was the sensational find made yesterday on the Gold Park claim in the Poplar Creek district. The big nugget, the finest ever found in Southern British Columbia, was at- tached to the rock by beautiful stringers | of gold that ran through and around the ore. This afternoon $1000 was refused by the owners for the nugget. There is eas- fly $800 of actual value of the yellow metal. The find was made on the same claim | that started the recent exgitement in that | district. Near it other smaller nuggets | were found, but this big one stands in a | class all by itself. To-night it was| brought down to Kaslo and placed on ex- | hibition, A few feet away from where this nug- get was discovered a shaft is being sunk. A makeshift, hand-worked hoisting buck- et is being used, for the camp is very new, and quantities of fine gold can be | seen clinging to this bucket. In the bed of Poplar Creek, near by, almost any handful of sand will show sparkles of' fine flour gold. Thirty-five thousand dollars in cash was paid yesterday for a claim lying be- | tween what is known as the Lucky Jack group and the Swede group. The buyers were J. J. Young of Calgary and Coch- rane Bros. of MacLeod. Mining men who have just returned to Kaslo say that in all thelr experlence they have never seen anything to come up to the fortunes that are in sight in the new district. There is a wood and coal famine in Kaslo and other towns within a radius of fifty miles, for workmen and laborers have all left city jobs to go mining. Men, women and children have joined the stampede. ot apmn s B PERSONAL MENTION. Senator Thomas Flint Jr. of San Juan is at the Palace. Colonel R. J. Northam and wife of Los Angeles are at the Palace, 8. G. Hanna, a prominent insurance man of New Zealand, is at the Palace. C. A. and A. M. Rust, wealthy lumber- men of Saginaw, Mich., are at the Palace. Thomas J. Kirk, State Superintendent of Schools, came down from Sacramento yesterday and is at the Palace. Bruce Cartwright Jr., son of a well- known insurance man of Honolulu, and Henry Damon, son of a Honolulu banker, arrived yesterday from the islands and are registered at the Palace. They are returning to college in the East. Congressman G. W. Smith of Illinois, a member of the House Committge on| Postroads and Postoffices, who has | been mentioned as the probable successor | to Congressman Loud as chairman of that committee, arrived from Honolulu yes- terday and is a guest at the Palace. He has been making a tour of the Orient. R A Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Sept. 7.—The following Californians are in New York: From San Francisco—A. E. Black, at the Imperial; | ‘W. P. Buckingham, at the Grand Union; G. G. Dreyfus, at the Herald Square; Mr. Gould and wife, at the Vendome; C. E. Hill, at the Hotel Imperial; N. Holm, at the Grand Union; H. C. Hyde and wife, at the Winsonia; T. I. Jones, at the Hotel | Navarre; A. H. Landsberger, at the Im- | perial; Mrs. §. MacGrath, at the St. Denis; P. M. Maher, at the Herald Square; N. Nolan, at the Grand Union, | and C. J. Waterhouse, at the 8t. Denis. From Los Angeles—J. H. Adams and wife, at the Grand Union; F¥. E. Beach and R. D. Greer, at the Astor; H. W. Lawrence, at the Murray Hill; Mrs. Mc- Cormack and Miss McCormack, at the Sinclair. A R S AR, RANGE3Z OF COLORADO | ARF COVERED BY SNOW | | Drifts Make It Impossible to Run Trains to the Summit of Pikes Peak. COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Sept. 7.— A heavy snow fell on the range between | Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek last right. It was impossible to run trains | to the summit of Pikes Peak to-day on account of snow drifts, although traffic will be resumed as soon as snowplows can clear the cog road. SALIDA, Colo., Sept. 7.—A heavy snow fell on the Continental Divide last night and the entire range is covered with several feet of snow. The Saguche range, comprising the collegiate peaks, Princeton, Harvard and Yale, all more than 14,000 feet high, are large monuments of immaculate white. The temperature in the valley is 50 degrees. LEADVILLE, Colo., Sept. 7.—Snow fell in this city for two hours last night. ———— RIFLES AND REVOLVERS POP AT A CAMP MEETING Attempt of Constable to Make Ar- rests Results in Three Men Being Killed. SOMERSET, Ky., Sept. 7.—Three men were killed and several wounded in a battle in which rifles and revolvers were used at a camp-meeting at Mount Vie- tory, Pulaski County, twelve miles east of Somerset. Services were in progress when William Bolton, a constable, attempted to arrest two men named Richmond. A fight fel- lowed, in which Bolton, though wounded, killed both the Richmonds and was himself killed by Columbus Garrison. Several per- sons were wounded by stray bullets. Of- ficers are searching for Garrison. —_—————————— Blood Money Will Not Go to Son. HONOLULU, Sept. T.—Attorney General Andrews has decided not to pay to John Jones the reward of $500 offered for in- formation leading. to the arrest of his father, B. M. Jones, for double murder. The decision is based on the fact that the murderer gave himself up to his son, and also on the general ground that it is against public policy and is a scandal to allow a son to collect blood money for ar- resting his father. e son intended to use the money to pay ‘counsel for Jones. —_—e—————— Fatal Quarrel Between Stockmen. LIVINGSTON, Mont., Sdpt. 7.—At Clyde Park, twenty miles northwest of Living- ston, Ed Proffit last night shot and killed Sam Lee. Both were well-known stock- men. They disagreed about a dance to be given in the neighborhood, when with- out warning Proffit drew a revolver and fired two shots into Lee. cuict s s Denies Rumor of Engagement. LINCOLN, Neb., Sept. 7.—Mrs. William J. Bryan saild to-day that there was no truth in the rumor that Captain Rich- mond P. Hobson and Miss Ruth Bryan were engaged to be married. \ : —_———— Great Opportunity to See Yosemite at The excursion via Southern Pacific, arranged for September 17, will show the wonderful in the golden light of autumn. Thou- sands have seen the valley this season and includes ‘ways, sleeping oar car, sf cluded h‘.fih t. " The big trees are in- T tinerary at Information | was standing on the ralls just as it had | | best paying mines in the district. | OLD MINE CAR FOUND AFTER HALF CENTURY NEVADA CITY, Sept. 7.—An old ecar and blower have been found in the work- ings of the Pennsylvania mine, now known as the Oustomah. Several days ago men employed In the old works of the mine came 88 the car. It was buried completely with debris from caved- | in workings. Nothing was left but the bed of the car, the wheels and gear. It | been left fifty years ago, when the mine | was abandoned. Larry Mullen, a well-known miner, when he was shown the car said that he had run it when he was working in the old mine half a century ago. Mullen is | an old man now. The finding of thé car | called to his mind many memories of the Pennsylvania, which once was one of the | The old blower is a crude affair and was made by C. Wheeler, who still re- sides her: —_———— | SAN JOAQUIN’S CROP OF POTATOES SMALLER | | Acreage of Onions About the Same as Last Season and Price: Good. STOCKTON, Sept. 7.—There is but an acreage of 15,000 of potatoes in San Jo- quin County this season, against 25,000 last year. Not only is the acreage small, | but the yield per acre is from 20 to 25 per cent less. They are now selling at from | % to 9 cents a sack, as against 35 to 4 cents last season at the opening. As to| onions, the prices range from 6 to | cents a sack which is a trifle higher than | the previous season, and the prices are | better sustained. The acreage this year | is about the same as last year, or per- | haps a trifle less. There is an unusual | condition in the fact that the onions are | rather small. From fifteen to twenty | carloads of potatoes and onions are daily | shipped from Stockton to Arizona, Texas | and New Mexico. Against 35000 acres of ‘beans last year there are 2,000 this season. Prices are considerably higher than last season, when beans were from $2 to $210 per cental; this year they bring from $2 50 to 52 60. The yield is poor. Vegetables in | San Joaquin County are having an off year. ——————— STUDENTS AT STANFORD ARE GRANTED DEGREES University Council Awards Honors to rourteen Members of Vari- ous Departments. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Sept. 7.— The University Council met to-day and granted degrees to fourteen students who have completed their courses of study at the university. The following twelve re- | celved the degree of bachelor of arts: In English, Jessle Eugenia McClellan of | Palo Alto; in history, Harvey Spencer Percival | of Corning; in_economics, Walter C. Maloy of San Jose: in law—Carl Frederick Dittmer of | Redding, Reginald Goodwin Fernald of Santa | Barbara, Abe Perry Harris of San Jose. Hall | Carlos Ross of Belmont, Andrew Carl Thomp- son of Stanford; In physiology, Mary Ashmun Hodgo of San Diego; in geology, Irving An- derson of Wallace, Idaho, Earl H. Knepper of | Los Angeles, Edward Augustus Smith Jr. of Stanford. The degree of master of arts was awarded Miss Dorothea Elizabeth Nath | of Davenport lowa, a student of Ger- man, and Miss Effie Lemonda of Palo Alto, a student in the English depart- ment. - RAILROAD EMPLOYES DEMAND HIGHER PAY Workmen in Southern Pacific Ma- | chine Shop at Sacramento May Strike. SACRAMENTO, Sept. 7.—Trouble {s again brewing in the local machine shop | of the Southern Pacific Railrcad Com- | pany and there is prospect of a strike | in the near future unless some amicable | arrangement i3 made In the direction of | meeting the demands of the workmen. 1 There are about 275 men employed in the | machine shops and their pay is thirty-five | cents an hour. An increase of pay is de- manded. There has been no complaint as to_the number of hours. H. J. Small, who is the head of the shop system of the Southern Pacific Company, was in the city for a time yesterday, it is understood he was here for the pur- pose of having a conference with some of the men from the machine shop. What action was taken, if any, has not yet been divulged. ———————— FTALLING OF PISTOL CAUSES DEATH OF AGED MAN Prominent Resident of Ukiah Is Ac- cidentally Shot at Baker Springs. | UKIAH, Sept. 7.—H. T. Hatch, an old | and respected resident of this city, was | accidentally shot at Baker Springs near | Potter Valley Saturday evening. He had | driven Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Hunter of East Oakland over from this city and was un- loading their baggage. Mr. Hunter's pis- tol, a forty-four, was lying in the wagon and when Hatch picked the holster up it fell out, struck on a step and was dis- charged. The ball entered Hateh's groin | and came out just back of the left hip. The injured man was brought to this city yesterday afternoon, but died at 6 o'clock. He was a native of Indiana and was seventy-three years old. ———e Gl . HORSE SEES THE WAGON AND DIES FROM FRIGHT Sight of a Steam Vehicle in Sa- linas Fatally Affects an Animal. SALINAS, Sept. 7.—A peculiar accident occurred here this afternoon. A horse driven by a prominent grocery man while proceeding down Main street was met by a steam traction wagon coming in the op- posite direction. As soon as the animal saw the engine it suddenly stopped, shiv- ered and dropped dead. The driver was thrown out, but escaped with slight bruises. gt RN MASONS LAY CORNERSTONE OF 2 SACRAMENTO CHURCH Grand I.,odgo of California Conducts Impressive Ceremonies in the Capital. SACRAMENTO, Sept. 7.—The corner- stone of the new Westmirkter Presby- tyrian Church to be bullt at Thirteenth and K streets was laid this afternoon with imposing ceremonies by the Grand Lodge of Masons of California. Viticulturists Name an Agent. STOCKTON, Sept. 7.—The committee named last Saturday by the local viticul- turists to select an agent to seek their grapes a market Mtpe:denl of ::: Winemakers' Assoclation, at a meeting to-day named Charles A. Wetmore of this city. Mr. Wetmore to-day. He will endea: Ensri, a native of Ohio and a pioneer of this county, died yesterday at Briceland, aged 70 years, began his labors | REMAIN LOYAL TO THE KANSAS CITY PLATFORM DENVER, Colo., Sept. 7.—Adair Wilson was nominated for Judge of Supreme Court on the first ballot by the Demo- cratic State Convention this afterncon. The platform reaffirms alleglance to the prineiples of the Democratic party as set forth in the Kansas City platform; de- clares that there should be no compro- mise with lawlessness, whether it be in an individual or a corporation; condemns the use of the military arm of the Gov- ernment at any time unless it Is demon- strated that the civil authorities are un- | able to enforce law and order, and de- nounces the State Board of Equalization for “allowing the corporations to escape from paying their just proportion of taxes,” thus among other things pre- venting *a proper representation at the St. Louls World's Fair.” A resolution was presented and passed to the effect that the party still favors an eight-hour law. The convention then adjourned. —_———————— THREE SISTERS OF POPE VISIT HIM AT VATICAN Pontiff Spends an Hour With Them Exchanging Reminiscences and Planning for the Future. ROME, Sept. 7.—The three sisters of Pope Pius X, who lived with him at Ven- ice, arrived in Rome to-day after a sepa- ration of about six weeks. A special ear- riage was provided for them by the rail- road company, so that they traveled in a much different way from what they had been accustomed to do In the past. They were received immediately by Plus and the reunion was most touching. The sis- ters tried to kneel, but were prevented from doing so by their brother, who took them in his arms and embraced them. One sister in a tone of disappointment said: “How well you look, brother. You have not needed us after alL.” The Pontiff replied: “I am always your Beppo, but I am doing very well here.” An hour was spent in exchanging rem- | iniscences and making plans for the fu- ture. The three sisters are now staying in a convent until an apartment which is being arranged for them to-mofrow at the San Angelo bridge shall be ready for | occupancy. ————— HIGH CHIEF OF APIA IS SAID TO BE DYING His Noble Service to Shipwrecked Men During Hurricane of 1889 Won Him Great Praise. TUTUILA, Samoa, Aug. %.—Seumanu- tafa, the high chief of Apla, is dying. He is the chief who rendered noble service to the United States during the great hurricane of 1589 and received recognition for his assistance in saving the lives of the shipwrecked men. Although the Ger- mans were fighting against his party at that time, when he saw his enemies cast upon thesbeach he took them under his care and allowed no man to interfere with them. His son-in-law, Judge Gurr of Tutuila, who was with him during the troubles of 1889, has proceeded to Apia to attend bim. There have been continuous rains in Tutuila during the so-called “dry sea- son.”” The copra crop for the year has been considerably reduced and the drying of the nut stopped for the present. ——r— NATIVE POLICEMEN KILL A CONSTABLE AT GABUGAO Mob Him for At:mpunl to Arrest One of Their Number for Dis- obedience of Ordeus. MANILA, Sept. 7.—Lieutenant Sutton of the constabulary was murdered by a mob of native policemen at Gabugao a few days ago while attempting to arrest a policeman for disobedience of orders. His assailants were promptly arrested and jailed. A body of scouts and constabulary com- bined have succeeded in scattering the in- surrectos who were reported a few days ago causing trouble in Cavite province in the district fronting on Laguna de Bal. They have been driven out of the moun- { tain ranges, to which they had fled for shelter when routed by the constabulary in an engagement which took place last week. After dispersing them the force returned and captured their camp, to- gether with a large amount of supplies and ammunition. —_———— OLDEST WHITE WOMAN IN HAWAII PASSES AWAY Fall Received Six Months Ago Greatly Weakens Her and Shortens Her Life. HONOLULU, Sept. 7.—~Mrs. Eliza T. Gulick, the oldest white woman in Ha- wall, who would have been 100 years of age had she lived until next February, died in Honolulu on August 27 of old age. Mrs. Gulick was known as Mother Gulick and was a member of a well- known missionary family. She came here vears ago as a school teacher and among her pupils was Pacheco, afterward Gov- ernor of California: Samuel Parker, the well-known Hawailan, and a number of prominent residents of the llawalian lsl- ands. She was a daughter of General Thomas, a hero of the war of 1812, and was a nurse of Andrew Jackson before he became President. The aged lady had a fall six months ago which greatly weakened her and hastened her end. ————— Impressive Scene at Cemetery. HONOLULU, Sept. 7.—All the remains of Hawallan monarchs fn the royal mausoleum in Nuuanu Cemetcry have been removed from the mausoicum to a temporary structure near by to allow re- pairs and improvements of the mau- soleum, for which the last Legislature appropriated $17,50. The bodies were re- moved in theif costly caskets by night and with something of the old-time Ha- walian ceremony for such occasions. The scene at the cemetery was an impressive one. Ex-Queen Liliuokalani was present to witness the removals of the bodies of her ancestors and other raiatives, as were the Prince and Princess Kalaniana- ole and others of royal lineage. —_——————— Murderer Appeals for Clemency. HONOLULU, Sept. 7.—The rcase of George E. Ferris, formerly of Watson- ville, Cal., who has been sentenced to hang for the murder of John Watson, has been submitted to Governor Dole on appeal for executive clemency. The de- fendant's attorney has submitted new evidence, which it is claimed shows that Ferris acted in self-defense when he stabbed Watson to death. Ferris has wasted away since he was confined in a murderer's cell to such an extent that it is doubtful whether he will live to be hanged If the appeal goes against him. —_—e—————— . Wales, Sept. 7.—The lockout in ns in piate’ (ndustey 1n South Wales, due to a anding wage dispute, which began terminated to-day as the result of jsion reached at a joint meeting of the the questions in ca s0c a pound. in artistic fire- etehed boxes. A nice t T 'LD.‘""UI! for llltln. Rt o, eve OO Mte- Special Information supplied datly Press Clippine Bureat un-'»."'a'.’m':.. atzeas, Telenbone Main UMz, o