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

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OAKLAND OFFICE, 1118 Brosdway.. ...Telephone Main 1083 BERKELEY OFFICI 2148 Center Street .Telepbone North 77 C. GEORGE KROGNESS, Manager Foreign Adv ilring, Marquette Building, Chicag (long Distance Telephone *‘Central 2619. WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT: MORTON E. CRANE........1406 G Street, N. W. NEW YORK REPRESENTATIVE: STEPHEN B. SMITH........30 Tribune Building NEW YORK CORRESPONDENT: C. €. CARLTON.. vessesesss.Herald Square BRANCH OFFICES—327 Montgomery, corner of Clay. open unti] 9:30 o'clock. 300 Hayes, open unti! 9:30 o'clock. 633 McAllister, open until 9:80 o'clock. 615 Larkin, open untfl 930 o'clock. 1941 Mission, open until 10 o'clock. 2261 Market, corner Sixteenth, open until 9 o'clock. 1008 Va- lencia, open until o'clock. 106 Eleventh, open until § o'clock. NE. corner Church and Duncan streets, open until § o'clock. NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, o'clock. 2200 Filimore, open until § o'clock. <= THE WAITING BOER oper. ORTUNATE is it for Joseph Chamberlain that F sy his protective tariff proposals he has been le to fix public attention upon his plans as an mperial statesman and distract it from his failures as Colonial Secretary. The chief work of his adminis- tration of the Colonial Office has been done in South Af and while the reports from Cape Colony and annesburg are contradictory, there is a growing Jor problem a good deal has been re- scems to constitute the most vexatious iculties of the country. Labor is scarcer 1 rs when under the Boer regime the na- tives could be forced to work. A report says: “For the twelve months ended on June 30, 1899, preceding the outbreak of the war in October of that year, the value oi the gold produced by the Witwatersrand little more than $85,000,000. For ! the i T a es was twelve months ended June 30, 1903, the gold product of the same district was a little more than $45,000,- # The principal factor this limitation s been the insufficiency of the supply of native laberers. The exceeding seriousness of this matter appears not only in the commercial and industrial phases of the question, but also in the whole political question. Upon the successful operation of these properties there depend the revenues of the -coun- beyond that, the fund proposed for the ion of the Transvaal. Failure to develop 1es to the extent of their capacity means gen- eral industrial paralysis and default in the revenues. A labor supply is therefore imperative.” British are thus struggling and failing r efforts to colonize the country with immi- 1d to devise a means of getting an abun- ly of cheap labor the Boers are seemingly e progress of events with keen eyes, wait- g patiently for the coming of a time when they can supremacy in the land. The London y published a letter from a correspondent sburg calling attention to the rapidity with e Boers are being organized into groups un- le and the form of agricultural associations. s that sooner or later these organizations will become political rather than agricultural socie- “Some day a strong hand will sweep into one political entity, with one >, one ambition and one solid vote.” “There is no man better ca- pable of playing the waiting game than the Boer. Not that there is anything particularly sinister in his present silence, or that ill will necessary befall when the silence is broken—as it will be. He is the man of the soil; Ke is content to live and die on the land For him Europe has no attrac- he is here to-day and will be here a hundred years hence, and he is the man who will have to vote against us, whose only ambition is to save sufficient money to enable us to return to and live comfortably *he rest of our days in the mother country. And nat- urally he must win all along the line, and, what is more, it is perhaps desirable that he should.” The one cheering feature in the situation is that whether or no the Boer is beginning to like the Briton, the Briton is beginning to understand the Boer and to sympathize with him. Sharing the dif- ficulties of life in the Transvaal, the British settler has Tearned that in many respects the Boers were right in the course they pursued before the war, and con- sequently it is quite probable the settlers will even- tually be able to establish firm relations of friendship with their former foes. That, however, is a specula- tion of the far future. At present South Africa is in a muddie politically, industrially and socially, and the immediate outlook is far from promising. D e — A Texas child swallowed, the other day, a toy monkey wrench. This strenuous endeavor of Texan youth to absorb the instruments of mechanical knowl- edge has the disadvantage of being unreasonably prejudicial to good health. Texas in its wild youth, however, is intensely physical, and anybody who can drink its whisky ought to be able to digest a monkey wrench. 000. in assert the them together He goes on to say: and raisc a family. tions; —_— Oakland may always be counted upon as a con- tributor, unselfish and enthusiastic. to the demands of moderr: progress. One of her actors broke a rib the othes day as a realistic incident of his melodramatic onception of stage art. The audience accepted the sacrifice as a partial compensation for the price of 2dmission. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1903 THE POSTAL INDICTMENTS. N their anxiety to justify their employment the I secret service men engaged in investigation of i matters 'in the General Postoffice seem to have |done a great deal of dragnetting without regard to the law or the facts as justification. Among the victims_ of this process is Mr. Erwin, for sixteen years a responsible, intelligent and industrious officer of the department, zealous in the discharge of his duty, and intrusted in Cuba, the Philippines and | Hawaii with the most difficult work of mail service organization and installment. In everything put in his hands he has shown the most faithful and useful service. He is now indicted for conspiracy in con- nection with the purchase by the department of the collection indicating device used on mail boxes. Scarcely without exception the devices for im- proving and expediting the mail service have been invented by postal employes. The stamping machine, the street boxes, the country free delivery boxes and even the seiled envelope and postage stamp were so invented. There is no law nor regulation to deprive such an inventor of the right to patent and profit by his invention. It is nowhere denied that the collec- tion indicator device is useful and necessary. But the secret service men find that, in their judgment, its price is too high. An inventor, however, is en- titled to a royalty on his patent in addition to the cost of manufacturing the article. This seems not to have been taken into consideration by the secret service men. If every man is guilty of conspiracy who does not disclose to the Government the cost |little else to do for some years except try conspiracy cases. As stated, the case against Mr. Erwin is that he in- troduced the patentee of the indicator device to Machen. Now it is quite possible that Machen ex- acted a fee for considering the matter. If all that is revealed about him by Mr. Bristow is true, this is probably the case, since such conduct would be in line with his alleged course in other matters. But if all the gentlemen who introduced others to him seeking business relations with the department are indicted for conspiracy, Mr. Erwin will find himself one of a great and rather respectable company. On the face of the case Mr. Erwin’s friends refuse to recognize any turpitude in the acts alleged against him. When a man enters the Government service acts do not become criminal in him which were legal and proper before he entered that service. There is {nothing in the law or regulations to make them so. | He may deal in the stocks of corporations organized | undgr the laws of this State, and, not being himself | the public purchasing agent and as such doing busi- | ness with himself as a private citizen, he may without | offense take dividends and profits derived from the | sale of any article to the Government. As for Mr. Erwin, his case can hardly be said to be one of suspension of judgment on the part of all who {know him. It is rather a delivery of judgment that the dragnet has caught a gentleman, a good citizen and an honest man, and that the attempt to convict { him will simply be the measure of some one's need |to hide himself behind the destruction of an innocent man. The postoffice scanda]s‘happcn to be all there is in sight to excuse a partisan hue and cry against the ad- ministration, and the opposition press is making the most of it. Many in the Republican party have | wrongly judged that the best way to deal with the matter is to fling victims, innocent or guilty, to the Moloch of partisanship. But there are others, rea- sonable men of both parties, who do not indorse such a sacrifice of blameless men and gentlemen, either to clear the skirts of a party or furnish means of escape for the guilty. Such men are calling a halt to the policy of indiscrimination, and they regard Mr. Er- | win as one of its intended victims whose immolation they will prevent. D e — A gentleman of th after suffering what he considers a series of marital misfortunes and abuses, has sued for a divorce on the ground that the climax of his domestic troubles was reached when his wife called him a shrimp. His complaint seems to indi- cate that when the lady said shrimp she thought lob- ster. PROFESSIONAL HO!TEL-KEEPERS. EPORTS from Paris are to the effect that a R syndicate of hotel-keepers in France has undertaken the establishment and main- tenance in that city of a training school for hotel- keepers. It is to be known as “L’Ecole Pgofession- elle d'Hoteliers,” and its object is that df bringing the business of hotel-keeping in France up to a stand- ard that will attract visitors from all parts of the world, not only to Paris, where they go now in great numbers, but to the smaller towns and villages of the country, A correspondent of the Westminster Gazette at- tributes the movement to a desire on the part of the French to obtain a share of the large expenditure of tourists now poured out in Switzerland. The French syndicate has studied the trade and has come to the conclusion that the throng of visitors to Switzerland is due not so much to the scenery of the country as to the excellent hotels that abound there, and ac- cordingly it is the opinion that by establishing equally pleasant hotels in French villages they can command a good share of the patronage. The tourist travel in Switzerland is certainly large enough to excite the envy of.neighboring nations. The latest official report on the subject covers the period from January 1 to October 31, 1899, and states that during that period upwards of 2,500,000 tourists registered at Swiss hotels. It is estimated that their expenditures average 8 francs each, making a total of about 200,000,000 francs. As Switzerland has only about 2,000,000 inhabitants it will be seen that such a revenue pouring into the country in a period of ten months constitutes a very valuable accession to the channels of trade and the per capita income. No information is forthcoming as to the nature of the training to be given in the professional school at Paris, but a wgiter on the subject in the Revue des Deux Mondes is quoted as saying: “Let us imitate Swiss methods, but with elasticity and distinction. Let us receive foreigners not with the stereotyped welcome of the ho}el~ke¢p¢r, but with the courtesy and reserve of an angiem race doing the honors of a ccuntry estimated by its inhabitants at its proper value.” £ . As in our time schools of all kinds are being estab- lished and professional training is being provided for almost every occupation under the sun, there is jmo reason for objecting to the new venture. In the course of time the example may be followed else- where. In this country professional schools tend to | center at the universities, and doubtless we shall ere ;Ion‘ hear that the University of Chicago has set up ll school for hotel-keepers by way of keeping even awith ia, which i- to have a school of journal- of producing what it buys of him, the courts will have | lism. There can be no question that a special train ing for hotel-keepers is badly needed, for at the pres- ent time the American commercial traveler has to | carry an assorted lot of patent medicines in his grip to redress the evils resulting from the hotel fare. We may expect that practice to pass and the patent medicine to fade away from American life when no man is permitted to run a hotel unless he carries the | degree of B. H. (Bachelor of Hotelerie) from some cpicurean university. — A portrait of the Empress Dgwager of China, painted by an American artist, is to be exhibited at the St. Louis Exposition. It certainly will be inter- esting to know what one of the most remarkable women of modern times looks like from an Occi- dental and artistic viewpoint, —— THE UNSPEAKABLE TURK. N the presence of the “Unspeakable Turk” Europe I hesitates and waits for the coming of a more pro- pitious time to sweep him bag and baggage out of her territery and back to his native wastes in Asia. Thure are two reasons for the hesitation; in the first placc Europe is not quite sure what she would do -vith the country if the Turk were driven out, of it, and in, the second place she is very doubtful if the Tuwk cduld be driven out without so wrecking and desc lating the land that it would not be worth having. Of the two causes of delay the first is the moge talked about, but the second is the more potent. It is all very well to say that European nations are too jealous of one another to be able to agree upon a defrite policy with respect to Turkey, but as a mat- ter of fact they would agree promptly enough if they were sure the agreement could be carried out with- out costing more than the results would be worth. Furopc thanaged to partition Africa without much treuble, and in times past Russia, Austria and Prus- sia managed to agree upon a partition of Poland without any very long discussion. It would be cqually easy for those three powers to agree now with respect to the partition of Turkey but for the fact that the Turk is better armed than the Pole was or the African is, and he is not going to lie down and be partitioned without a fight. As a citizen the Turk is bad, as a neighbor he is troublesome and rude, as a worker he is worthless and socially he is, vile, but for all that he is a first- class fighting man. There are upwards of 1,000,000 of him, drilled and armed for war, commanded largely by German officers and equipped with the best weapons the gun factories of the world can furnish. He has a large faith in his religion and in the prom- ises it holds out to those who die fighting for Islam against a heretic foe. Were Europe to enter brashly upon the task of expelling the unspeakable one there would result a struggle that would be even more un- speakable. In the face of such a foe Europe hesi- tates, and Europe is right. There are conditions of evil that can be much better cured by time than by the sword, and as matters now stand around Con- stantinople it would seem that to go slow is the surest way of getting there without losing one or bath feet on the trip. « B e When the State Board of Equalization decided to increase the assessment of San Francisco as out- rageously as it did it must have reached the conclu- sion that the “stand and deliver” industry has reached such proportions in this city that we are ready to submit to any extortion. Tt —— LATIN-AMERICAN METHODS. N official of the State Department declares that A there will be no further negotiation with Co- lombia about the isthmian canal. We will now turn to the bandits who rule Nicaragua and Costa Rica and try to negotiate that route. Un- fortunately Colombia has set them an evil example, which they may follow to defeat us again. The quoted official of the State Department says: “What is the use of trying to deal with people who do not ob- serve the first principles of intercourse? The Co- lombians no doubt think they did a smart thing when they held up our cablegrams.” The American people are beginning to inquire how long our Government proposes to stand being spat upon, insulted and snubbed by those pestiferous Latin-American states. They have long been in the habit of robbing and maltreating Americans without rebuke or punishment, and séem to have concluded that as our Government will not protect its own citi- zens from their outrages, it is safe to insult it directly. This has been done by Colombia in this canal af- fair, and no other Government would rest under it. The interception of official dispatches to our Minister to Bogota is equivalent to an act of war. The Gov- ernment of Colombia should be ordered to apologize to Minister Beaupre, and be compelled to do it, hat in hand. Upon refusal Panama and Colon should be bombarded and a force landed to march on Bo- gota. Of course this is an act of war and must be au- thorized by our Congress. Our domestic dema- gogues would object and do much blatherskiting about our sister republic, but healthy Amnierican sen- timent is in no humor to listen to the semi-treason of demagogues. Either we must put an end to Latin- American bullying or take our place at the cross- roads of the world placarded: “Uncle Sam, the in- ternational cuspidor. Everybody invited to spit in his face.” ————— e Not long since the highest officials in Constanti- nople declared that the revolution in Macedonia would be settled within a week. As usual the Turk was right, but not in the manner he expected. The revolution in Macedonia has been ended by an up- heaval which has sent the torch and the sword throughout the Balkans and has troubled the rest of Europe to guess what the final outcome may be. In a recent sham battle, in which Emperor William participated to the great edification of his troops, the _oflicial rflpire’_ without the preliminary of delib- eration or discussion, enthusiastically declared the Emperor victor. Is anybody daring enough to sug- gest that that umpire didn’t know his business or had no concern for his future?- The Oakland youth who stole a hive of bees and was robbed of the profit of his venture by the sting- ing objections of the captives must serve an impris- onment of five years for his exflmt It is thus al- ways with pioneers in any field. They must pay the penalty of prejudice against invention even in thievery. At a recent sham battle in Leavenworth three of the spectators, by the collapse of an observation stand, were killed. The people of Leavenworth should take consolation in the fact that a sham battle | is not the only American game in which the specta- - [ tors generally get the worst of it. PROTECTION FOR NEWSPAPER PATRONS IN «ROLL OF HONOR" OF PRINTERS’ INK ROM the “Little Red School House,” figuratively speak- ing, located at 10 Spruce street, New York City, Printers’ Ink, known throughout the Unlon as the “Little School- master in the Art of Advertising,” has evolved a plan Whereby the publishers of newspapers may advertise taking, but as a clearly defined business transaction. To the newspaper itself the opportunity to gain a wider publicity in & manner which carries with it a practical indorse- ment of its worth by a recognized authority on values is one of which early advantage should be taken. One feature of the Roll of Honor which gives it an added state the advertiser agalnst misrepresentation. The American Newspaper Directory submitted and dated. charge for which is 2) cents per line per ognizes the right of an advertiser to know made under oath. enter upon his advertising contracts not as PERSONAL MENTION. Spellacy, an ofl man of Bakersfleld, is at the Palace. Dr. and Mrs. Maddox of Eureka are guests at the Grand. 5 Houghton Murray, a mining man of Cisco, is at the Palace. Banker Blix W. Paxton and wife of Santa Rosa are at the Palace. L. M. Mendelsohn, a merchant of Fow- ler, and wife are at the Palace. Hon. Reginald Black and wife and son of Bydney are among the latest arrivals at the Palace. F. Rutherford, a mining man of Agua Caliente, Mexico, arrived from the south vesterday and is at the Palace. E. P. Dunn, manager of the Arlington Hotel of Santa Barbara, is spending a few days in the city and is registered at the Palace. United States Senator 8. M. Cullam and his family returned from a visit to South- ern California yesterday and are staying at the Palace. Count von Lowenstein of Hamburg, who is making o tour of the United States, arrived from Los Angeles yesterday and is registered at the Palace. Fred Milbrook of New York, treasurer of the Big Four lines, is registered at the Palace. He is on the coast on.a pleasure trip and will spend the balance of the week at Monterev. General Manager Kruttschnitt of the Southern Pacific Company departed Sat- urday evening for New York, whither he was summoned by President E. H. Har- riman, who has just returned from a trip abroad. —— e SWEET SONGS DELIGHT YOUNTVILLE VETERANS Soldiers of the Civil War Treated to an Entertainment at the Home. YOUNTVILLE, Sept. 14.—The Veterans’ Home at Yountville was the scene of the most delightful entertainment of the sea- son Saturday night. The participants were Mrs. Myrtle Marshall, the Misses Jean Durrell and Rose Broderick and the Press Club Quartet, consisting of George King, A. E. McMillan, R. H. Hunt and R: E. Keene. There was no set pro- gramme, the entertainers giving freely of their talent and responding generously to the rounds of applause which followed each well-rendered number. Both the ballads and coon songs con- tributed by Miss Rose Broderick were highly appreciated by the audience, and the young lady answered gracefully to the many encoresshe received. Mrs. Myr- tle Marshall was delightful in her rendi- tion of the coon songs with which she favored the veterans. Miss Jean Durrell first touched the hearts of the audience deeply with a little recitation entitled “When I Was in the Army,” and then in a twinkling brought down the house with comic recitations. The singing of the members of the quartet was splendid, in- dividually and collectively. Their rendi- tion of “Annie Laurie,” given by request, was especially appreciated by the veter- ans. They were all in fine voice and were untiring in their efforts to make the even- ing’s entertainment a success. The ac- companist for the evening was Mrs. W. i J. Batchelder. The entertainment was under the man- agement of Hugh M. Burke, a director of the home and chairman of the amusement | committee. Several ladies accompanied | the visitors to the home, and all left yes- terday afternoon expressing themselves as well pleased with their visit. —_———— MAIL WILL BE TAKEN TO OIL FIELD CAMPS Rural Free Delivery to Have an In- teresting Trial in Kern County. BAKERSFIELD, Sept. 14.—To-morrow morning a rural free delivery will be | started from the Bakersfield postoffice to the Kern River oil fields, leaving here at 8:30 o'clock every morning. The route | will be about twenty-five miles in length | and will take in ail the properties around the edge of the field, leaving those in the central part to be served as now—by the Ol City postoffice. The route is the first one to be estab- lished in Kern County, and differs from any other in the country inasmuch as it is the first rural route to handle the busi- | ness of large corporations and of an ex- clusively business instead of farming community. The route will handle the mail of a number of the largest compa- nies in the field, and the experiment will be watched with great interest by postal officials. ———— SPORTIVE WHALE LEAPS NEAR A FISHING PARTY Smelt Catchers at Capitola Nearly Drenched by an Inconsider- ate Cetacean. SANTA CRUZ, Sept. 14.—While O. A. ‘Hale, with his wife and daughter of San Jose, and P. C. Hale of New York were their publications and at the same time to do so under conditions created by Printers’ Ink in a manner which will protect the the Printers’ Ink “Roll of Honor,” wherein no amount of money can buy a place for a paper not entitled to it. The conditions are as follows: No paper can secure a place upon the list which has not according to the 1803 issue of the the directory a detafled statement of circulation, duly slgned With the exception of a few “gold mark’ publications, so called because of the excellent quality of circulation, nd other papers can secure advertising space in the Roll of Honor, the contract, with 10 per cent discount if entirely paid in advance. The protection to patrons of newspapers lies In the assur- ance of Printers’ Ink that certain onerous conditions have been complied with by the publisher, who, having space to sell, rec- purchase, and publicly offers him a perfectly clear and concise statement of the distribution of his paper, which statement is The element of doubt therefore is eliminated, and one can | fishing for smelt at Capitola yesterday a | whale appeared within fifteen feet of the boat, jumped into the air and spouted, | almost drenching the party. —————— San Diego Raisins Plentiful. SAN DIEGO, Sept. 14.—The raisin crop in this section is larger than ever and the proceeding | a shortage of labor will permit, but grow- _ers are confident that they will be able | to gather the entire crop. i ——— G t— Andrew Fair Gains Strength. Sept. 14.—Andrew Fair, plan is embodied in sees fit, thus giving for that edftion of value is the privilege accorded to a publisher to growth of his circulation weekly, monthly or quarterly, as he in convenient form to readers of Printers’ Ink up to date information regarding his paper. This plan of Printers’ Ink is certain to grow In favor with responsible publishers, inasmuch as its promoters are a recog- nized autharity on advertising values, and the appearance of the name of a newspaper in every issue of Printers’ Ink as be. ing entitled to the highest consideration on the part of an adver- tiser is certain to bear satisfactory frult. And as a right con- ception of it grows with publishers, the Roll of Honor, which now comprises only issue "under yearly what he is asked to a speculative under- homes. CALIFORNIA CLUB BEGINS YEAR’S WORK The California Club has resumed Its year's work with a swing that presages 800d results. The club, as now organized with its thirty-two sections, is really a succession of smaller clubs bound togeth- er by tles of fraternity under the samo roof tree. With its numerous activities and its unwieldy proportions, this segre- gatlon into sections was a judicious plan. In this manner each member may affiliate with a group of women working along such lines as appeal particularly to her. To-day the club programme will be car- ried out under the direction of the depart- ment of education. and portfollo work will be specially considered. Mrs. W. A. Maddern will deliver an address on “The Need of Pictures in the Country Schools,” and Dr. Dorothea Moore will present for inspection a model portfolio. This means of cultivating an artistic sense among children is receiving much deserved atten- tion by the club. The engagement is announced nf Mrs. Eugenia Lee Thompson and Theodore Mansfeldt, the well-known cellist. The wedding will oecur at 3 o'clock, Septem- ber 20, at the Swedenborgian Church. P e Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Kinsey have pur- chased an attractive home in Belvedera and are now located there. With them are Dr. T. J. Gruss, their son-in-law, and wife, who will share the pleasures of the new fireside. To-day the wedding of Miss Evelyn Laughton and Morris Darreto of New York will take place at the home of the bride in Belvedere. The bride is a pop- ular girl, and is a cousin of the Misses Ella and Cherry Bender of Green street. . e e At 12 o'clock to-day the wedding of Miss Anne Apperson, niece of Mrs. Phoebe Hearst, and Dr. Joseph Marshall Flint will take place at the country residence of the bride's aunt, “‘Hacierda del Pozo de Verona,” hear Pleasanton. Seventy-five guests have been bidden to the/ceremony, this number including only the relations and most intimate friends of the bride and groom. Among them will be Mr. and Mrs. William Randolph Hearst, Mrs. Frances Flint, mother of the groom; James Weber Linn of Chicago, Professor Nott Flint of the Chicago University and Mrs. Flint. Rev. Dr. N. B. Gallway will officlate and the service will be that of the Episcopalian church. Miss Elsa Woodworth, a former school- mate of Miss Apperson in New York, has been chosen as maid of honor. Mrs. Hearst will give the fair bride away. Four children will attend the bridal couple— Miss Elizabeth Wheeler, Miss Jean ‘Wheeler, Master Edward Clark and Mas- ter Randolph Apperson, brother of the bride. The best man will be F. R. 8. Bal- four. After a wedding breakfast, for which elaborate preparations Lave been made, the happy couple will depart for the Hearst residence on the McCloud River, “Wyntoon.” In this delightful retreat the honeymoon will be spent. —— JAMES J. HILL’S TRAIN RUNS INTO BOULDERS Northern Securities Company’s Pres- ident and Other Railroad Offi- cials in a Wreck. LA CROSSE, Wis, Sept. 14.—A special train, consisting of an engine and two coaches, containing President J. J. Hill of the Northern Securities Company and President Harris, the first and second vice presidents, Chief Engineer Breckin- ridge and other officials of the Burling- ton, early last evening ran into two large boulders which had been washed upon the track by a severe rainstorm near Alma, and the engine was badly dam- aged. Outside of a bad shaking-up and a few bruises none of the officials on the train were injured. A flerce storm was in progress when the train left this city for St. Paul, and the engineer was running at reduced speed when the engine crashed into the break. A similar accident occurred at the same place about a year ago, in which Train- master Purdy lost his life and others were injured. Much damage was done railroads in the vicinity by the storm. nu- merous washouts being reported, and all trains ate late iInto the city to-day. —e— AIRSHIP YARN EXCITES INDIANAPOLIS RESIDENTS Boys Find Model Believed to Have Been Used by In-' ventors. INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. M.—The an- nouncement by prominent persons of Irv- ington that they had seen airship pass has caused great excite; t here. This afternoon, in a field several miles from Irvington, some boys found a large, tor- pedo-shaped paper covered with a canopy and with two dummy figures in it. It was thirty feet long and is belleved to be a ‘model of an airship some local mechanics are working on. —_— Demand Return of the Taxes. SALT LAKE, Utah, Sept. 4.—A demand has been made upon Internal Revenue of Jersey of New York huila 200 names of publications of every class— daily, weekly and monthly—will doubtiess grow to a volume of which the originators hardly dared to dream when the plan was first contemplated. L T B S et A CHANCE TO SMILE. say when she swimming 7" “What did your maw found out you'd been in asked Johnny. “Say,” scornfully echoed Tommy, rub- bing himself. “She didn't give time to say anything!”"—Chicago Tribune. “Bigsby has written a play.” “Yes, and he's awfully set up over it." “I should say he was. He thinks he's a great dramatist. Why, if he committed some criminal affair I know what he'd “He'd demand to be tried by a jury of his Shakespeares.” — Cleveland Plain Dealer. Mrs. Dearborn—She must be very rich. Mrs. Wabash—Oh, she is.” “Do you know the source of her fn- come? “Yes; she draws alimony from five for- mer husbands.”—Yonkers Statesman. The agent—That's the lowest bid we ever made for supplies. The head of the bureau—What is there in 1t? The agent—Why, there is very little in it for us. The head of the bureau—And what is there in it for me? The agent—For you? The head of the bureau—The bid is re- Jected. The agent—For what reason? The head of the bureau—Stupidity.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. Jenkins—Then you mean to teil me I have told a le? p Chambers—Well, no; I don't wish to be quite so rude as that, but I will say this— you'd make a very good weather prophet. —Chicago Journal. “What's the cause of that infernal racket on the floor above?” asked the customer. “I think,” said the bartender, his cheel paling as he listened, “it's one of these Democratic harmony dinners.”—Chicago Tribune. —_——— . DRY AS THE DESERT IS THIRSTY RANDSBURG Mayor Closes All Saloons and There’s Not a Drop to Drink but Water. BAKERSFIELD, Sept. 14.—As a resalt of a disturbance created by a number of strike-breakers who arrived a few days ago from Joplin, Mo., to work in the Yel- low_ Aster mine, Sferiff Kelly has closed all the saloons in Randsburg, and now not a drop of liquor can be purchased in the town. ‘With the exception of the trouble men- tioned thers has not been the slightest breach of the peace in the town. Abeut sixty men are now working in the Yellow Aster mine, but the mill has not been started. About eighty of the strikers are making their headquarters in Randsburg, some working on leases of their own and others in the smaller mines around town ‘which have recognized the union. ————— . ENGINEER IS KILLED IN A YARD COLLISION Locomotive Smashes Into a Cab at Roseburg, Or., and Causes & Death. ROSEBURG, Or., Sept. M4.—About 1:20 o'clock yesterday morning in the Southern Pacific yards here an engine backing from a switch to the main line crashed into the cab of a switch engine moving in the opposite direction, almost instantly kill- ing Ray Carlon, engineer of the switch engine. His fireman, Robert Forbes, was | considerably bruised, but escaped serious injury. | The regular engine had no light in the jrear and therefore was unseen by En- gineer Carlon in the darkness until the | moment of collision. The other engineer | believed the switch engine had stopped | further up the line and that the track | was clear. The dead enginecer leaves & | young wife. | Santa Clara Pioneer Dead. SAN JOSE, Sept. H.—G. B. Montzom. ery, a Santa Clara County pioneer but for many years a resident of Hollister, died yesterday at his home in the latter place, | aged $3 years. He was a mative of Ken- | tucky and came to San Jose in 184. In | 1889 he went to Hollister, was proprietor | of the first hotel there and was afterward Justice of the Peace and Town Attorney. | He leaves six children. —————— Kern County Tax Rate Fixed. BAKERSFIELD, Sept. 14.—The County Supervisors have unofficially determined upon a tax rate of §1 8 for the ensuing year, which is an increase from §1 4 dur- ing the last year. Of this amount 2 cents is levied for the St. Louis fair exhibit and | 18 cents is the raise made by the State | The rate will be officially fixed on the 23d | st —_——— | Britons Buy San Diego Grain. | SAN DIEGO, Sept. 4.—The British ship | Milverton cleared for the United Kingdom to-day with $8100 worth of wheat and barley. She is the second large vessel to | leave this port this season carrying grain e — Herpi rge H Walla, Wash.. says