The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 29, 1903, Page 6

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NW. corner Twenty-second and Kentucky, open until ® o'clock. %200 Fillmore, open until 9 o'clock. PUBLIC UTILITY BONDS. E HE taxpayers should remember that just ahead T there is a cloud of propositions for the city to go into business. The Geary-street road is the beginning only, and they should insist on beginning right. In an Eastern y the water supply passed irom private to public ownership, the bonds for that purpose resting not upon the plant, but upon the ~whole city. One of the promoters of the change, in a review of the benefits which have resulted, says: “The water company charged for all labor and mate- : rials furmshed in tapping the mains and laying the service pipe to the curb line; under municipal owner- ship ghe peopie have been relieved of this expense.” That is an illustration of the ease with which cost of administration y be concealed when any part of it is charged off to the general fund. Here have an apparently intelligent man who really thinks that the service pipe and labor furnished by the city wo cost nothing, and the people are therefore “relieved of the expense” of making service connections. If the proper course were pursued and the city's water business were supported by its own income, such concealment in the general tax levy and such seli- deception of the people would be impossible. To illustrate: 1f Oakland follow her proposed plan of securing municipal water works and carelessly neg- lect to make the bonds a lien on the plant alone, as every service connection will have to be changed to the municipal mains, the cost to the taxpayers, to those who do not use the water among the rest, will run into many thousands of dollars, for the city will * pdy out of its general fund for the pipe, the plumb- - ing, the cut-off and the labor, and yet the people will be easily made to think that they are relieved of that eéxpense! The same applies to this city, in its proposed fu- ture engagement in the business of selling water, gas and electricity. The law and the charters of the two cities limit the rate of taxation. By starting wrong and piling up liens on the cities that shouid rest on the plants of the business in which they propose to engage, so much of the limited rate of taxation may easily be- come involved as to leave less than is required for the essential purposes of government. Therefore, good sense and good business and good economics all re- quire that each business plant owned and adminis- tered by the city must pay its own cost and support its own administration. In this way only can we hope for a praper and frugal management of the plants owned by fhe city, and for the freedom of the gen- eral revenues, to be used for the proper purposes of government. If it is going to pay the city to go into business the business will support itself, of course. If it will not pay, to make the cost of the experiment a lien on the city is to embark upon confiscatory taxation. We are quite svre there are enough voters to whom these business propositions appeal to defeat all pro- posed liens on the city for business plants and com- pel them to rest on the plants alone. At a recent session of the Diet at Budapest, where the enemies of the Austrian throne met to express their rebellious thoughts, one orator, more extrava- gant than his fellows, attacked the integrity of Francis Joseph in a bitter assault. He was hooted from the chamber, roundly denounced and censured. When men, fighting for liberties, can recognize the wide difference between a wicked institution and an innocent representative of it much may be said in hope of their future and their success. One of the famous track gamblers of the United States found himself unable to wager his money on an Eastern course the other day until he had secured a gang of bogus hayseeds, bewhiskered, guileless- looking and noticeably and apparently fit game for bunko men, to act as his betting commissioners. He won an emormous sum of money and taught the American people that only fools and the money are vanted by the bookmakers. A Chinese “native son” who sought admission at this port a few days ago declared that he had thrived and had his being in the well-known but non-existing American city of “Chop Wood” Perhaps if he had fallen back upon the more familiar and easily more significant American expedient, “Saw Wood,” he would not now be on the list of those who will de- part on the next steamer for China. ERN STRIKE. HE strike on the California Northwestern T Railway has been acconipanied by so many acts of violence, not only destructive of the com- pany’s property but dangerous to the traveling public who use the line, that the officers of the company are entitled to have their position in the affair un- derstood, to the end that blame for lawlessness may rest where it belongs. An employe of the company had been mended for promotion by the officer under whom he was working. That officer, however, upon discover- ing ’hat he belonged to a union, withdrew his rec- ommendation. The aggrieved employe, instead of | making the regular appeal to the officers of the road, «carried it to the union, which responded with de- mands in his behalf. The president of the road, upon the matter coming to his attention, restated the known policy of the company, to the effect that it forbade discrimination between union and non-union labor. The officer who had discriminated against the union laborer by withdrawing the recommendation | upon which his promotion depended was censured and ordered to hereafter strictly observe the rule of the company, which enforces equality of right and forbids any discrimination against union labor. The employe concerned, having failed to take his appeal to the officers, who, under the known rule, would have at once righted him and given him the coveted promotion, but having instead attempted to accomplish his purpose by a threat, to which, in ac- cordance with its announced policy, the company could not submit, and remaining in that attitude, was discharged. The strike followed, and was met by the road by filling its quota of employe& in the vacancies voluntarily made by the strikers. Here, then, was a case in which the employer sought to do justice to union labor by maintaining its equality of right, and hastened to make its purpose | known, that its union employes might be assured Iof their safety and the security of their rights. This, | however, was not sufficient for those who dominate | the policy and action of the union, and they refused | to meet the company in the same spirit. Since the resulting strike was on the property of the company | has been damaged, the telegraph wires have been cut, its trains and their passengers have thereby been endangered, and the third party, the public, has been in many ways put to inconvenience and in some ways to loss. | The employer has kept within his lawful rights and has gone further, to show a spirit of justice and con- | ciliation. In response to this position the striking employes have relied on their power to coerce the | emplover by secret and private injury, unlawful and felonious. The third party, the public, cannot be | indifferent to this state of things. It must see that to vield to an organization which resorts to lawless acts to enforce its demand for discrimination in its ; favor is not only to admit that the law is powerless | to protect personal and property rights, but that those rights are held subject to the permission of | men who put themselves and their purposes above ‘hhc law. To surrender to such a policy is to abdicate | government and put the power to repeal the law in | the hands of men who operate by felony. To cut railroad wires means. the wrecking of trains, and that is a capital crime under the laws of | California, punishable by death. If such a felony go not only unpunished, but be made the means of | compelling an employer to take into his employ | those who are willing to commit it, and have com- | mitted it, then all protection of the law is obsoleted. | Every employer who surrenders under such circum- stances does so not for himself alone, but for every { other employer, and soon every employer becomes the victim of force and subject to a demand that he | discharge or hire at the will of others, under penalty of death to himself or destruction of his property. It is well that the full meaning of this situation be | understood. This is of no less importance to the | labor of the country than to those who employ it. bThe general manager of the road which is now sui- fering from such conduct of its strikers has stated the case clearly in a circular to its ex-employes in these terms: “We ask no ironbound contract from our employes and do not consider it necessary to give one. If our relations cannot be maintained by mutual confidence they cannot be maintained at all.” The counter statement to this, made in the acts of the strikers, is: “We base our relations on our power to injure your property, wreck your trains and kill your passengers.” recom- | Next year the Sovereign Lodge of Odd Fellows is to be our guest. After all it is not strange that when great bodies of the American people, on vaca- tion bent, want to have a particularly good time they turn toward San Francisco. Their decision speaks | well for their judgment CURRENCY LEGISLATION. T proposition submitted to the business men of Chicago by Secretary Shaw for securing flexi- bility of the currency is very clear, and the proposi- tion itself is very good as far as it goes. It is in brief a plan to meet the currency needs of the country in serious emergency by permitting the issue of bills, supplemental to the regular issues of the national banks, which bills shall be heavily taxed, perhaps as high as 6 per cent. It will be seen that such issue can only be made when the interest rate exceeds the tax sufficiently to make the currency profitable to ‘the issuing banks. No doubt in an incipient panic such a currency may serve a useful purpose and perhaps would check an approaching stringency and restore confidence. It would also be an object lesson in flexible currency that might lead to a further application of the system. Mr. Dawes, in his exposition at Pittsburg, takes occasion to gird at what he calls “the radical element” amongst currency reformers. By that he means the men who desire a flexible currency issued to meet an emergency arising under normal conditions and not incident to a panic. These lradicals will accept the Secretary’s plan, but will hardly abandon their own. It was formulated to relieve districts remote from the money centers. In such districts the seasonal demand for currency varies. At seedtime and har- vest, for instance, there is a call for the use of credit that is caused by the expanded activities of the sea- son. Farmers meet the demand of seedtime by a mortgage on their future crop. Commercial men meet that of harvest, when the crop has tz’he moved to market, by bank loans at a high rate®f interest. In each case it is a more costly use of credit than is wholesome or necessary. The currency reformers, who are called radicals, propose to economize the use of credit under such circumstances by the issue of an asset currency, at HE exposition by ex-Comptroller Dawes of the !THE CALIFORNIA NORTHWERST-~the moment of its issue free from tax, but later, after it has completed its function, subjected to such tax as will call it in to the banks which emit it. By this plan business men everywhere will be able to use their credit cheaply and the tax on the issue will not be added to the interest they pay, as in the case of Secretary Shaw's panic currency. It will be seen that there are wide differences be- tween the two propositions. The first is a plan to enlarge bank credits at a rate of interest that cannot be less than the tax on the currency, which is to be used when financiers are in desperate straits and are willing to save themselves by paying a high price for currency. The second plan is intended to flow with the normal business conditions of the country, reliev- ing business men remote from the money centers by giving them currency at a living rate. In other words it is a plan for the more even and equitable distribution of the loan fund of the country. Under present conditions that distribution is so faulty that when business men in the money centers use their credit for 2 or 3 per cent those at a distance from such centers pay 8 and often 10 per cent. While it may not be possible to absolutely equalize interest in all parts of the country, equality may be more nearly approximated by a well secured asset currency. There are other considerations, political in their nature, entering into the problem, which are leit out entirely by the plan of Secretary Shaw. It is not wholesome to have our system of finance and credit always in focus as part of the pleadings of partisan- ship. In that respect the country was on the edge of a great peril in 1896. When the causes of that dan- ger are calmly analyzed it will be found that the attack on the national credit got sympathy and sup- port because the people remote from financial centers were made to believe that their difficulties were caused by lack of quantity in money, when the real cause was a lack of distribution. They believed that the whole country was suffering from a currency famine, when the real difficulty was a lack of mo- bility, t is well to look ahead and by prudent measures make it impossible to again betray any considerable number of the people into a like error. No one pretends that any revenue or currency system can be a positive insurance against panics. They are part of the system of action and reaction from which it is impossible that the business world shall detach it- self. But the vigor of a panic will be materially im- paired by statutory provision for a better distribu- tion of the loan fund and a more economical use of credit. A new play, one of those that are listed as of the uncomfortable sort, has been produced in London and has created a sensation. It is not of the nasty problem kind. but seeks to point a moral that the British aristocracy overeats. This play is destined to failure. People will revolt at the exposure of their gross vices and smirk smilingly in approval at the naked presentation of their gilded offenses. T A GREAT WOMAN GONE. HE death, by an accident, of Mrs. Elizabeth T Shields in Sacramento shocks the whole State. She was an able woman of affairs, moved al- ways by the highest public spirit, a promoter of the State’s interests, a planter of long experience and a wise and safe adviser as to all of the rural interests of our people. For many years she had been a di- rector of the State Board of Trade, and her wisdom and her work were influential in the exhibits of the State’s resources in the great expositions in this country and in Europe. As a fruit planter she had the genius of an international merchant added to the experience of a producer. She was a student of her business from the selection of soils to the selection of a final market, and it is saying even less than is deserved to say that no one man in California has impressed our rural industries and our horticulture more beneficially than she, In her home she was the soul of hospitality, un- affected in manner and direct in speech; her acts were dictated by a heart that knew no unkind im- pulse and a head that was wise and thoughtful. Her death is a sore sorrow to her household and a dis- tinct loss to the commonwealth. She had just re- turned from attending, as a delegate, the Irrigation Congress at Ogden, where she inspected the great interstate exhibit of fruit, to enrich her own knowl- edge, and to receive conspicuous honor and recogni- tion from the horticulturists of other States and the officers of the Agricultural Department. Her instruc- tive presence will long be missed from the gatherings of the planters and of the organizations which pro- mote the settlement and the intensive farming of our rural districts. A mother has fallen, to whom in a high sense the good people of this commonwealth were the children of her wisdom and care. General Hunter, the British officer who was brave enough to express an honest opinion that the shoot- ing of the naval guns at Ladysmith was notoriously bad, refuses either to retract or to apologize, al- though subjected to great governmental pressure to do both. The blunt soldier has evidently not learned the lesson that in these days of modern complications the truth is simply a convenience, as is everything else. —_— If nothing else positive may be said of the charter of San Francisco it at least has proved a mine of wealth to the lawyers. Litigious officeholders, who do not want to go out, and ambitious citizens, who want to go into a public snap, dre warring upon one another without end. And the charter, delightfully ambiguous, supports them all, on one side or the other, with complete assurance, —_— A girls’ suicide club has been in thriving existence in Idaho, and already some of the members have ac- cepted the fate which they deserved. Such clubs as these are not altogether a menace to civilization or a shock to modern ideas of right and wrong. They remove from life, without unnecessary turmoil or in- jury to others, perverted beings who otherwise would work serious mischief upon their friends. Our local footpad industry, thriving, unmolested, progressive and now almost in the category of one of the gentle arts of peace, has assumed a new phase. Times appear to be dull or victims are chary, as the knights of the streets and byways have taken to rob- bing small boys. We are thus saved from the accusa- tion that we have nothing new to offer in this unique element of city life. The first sale of land, a great part of the domain of the Duke of Leinster, has been made under the Irish land act. This certainly should mark the beginning of an era which in Irish history should be the best; one that will signal for many generations a reign of good feeling, good will and happiness for a race that has suffered much. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1903, INSURANCE MEN HELD FOR ACT OF FIRE CHIEF HONOLULU, Sept. 22.—Judge de Bolt last week rendered a decision under which the various forelgn insurance companies are held liable for losses sustained in the | destruction of Chinatown by fire in Jan- | uary, 1900. The companies claimed exemp- | tion under a clause in their policies pro- | viding that they should not be held liable | for any losses caused by an act of the civil authoritles and further claimed that the big fire was due to an order of the Board of Health under which the Fire Department proceeded to burn several buildings. The fire got beyond their con- trol and burned thirty acres of bulldings. In the case of a Chinese claimant against the Manchester Insurance Coms pany evidence was Introduced to show that the late Fire Chlef made an error and started the fire outside the limits he was ordered to burn, as condemned on ac- count of plague. On this showing, which affected all the cases, Judge de Bolt in- structed the jury to find for the plaintiff. —_—————————— WRITER ON ECONOMIC SUBJECTS PASSES AWAY Henry D. Lloyd, a Well Known Con- tributor to Current Magazines, Dies in Winnetka. CHICAGO, Sept. 28.—Henry D. Lloyd, a well-known writer on economic subjects, | died of pneumonia to-day at his home in | Winnetka. Lloyd was to have joined to-| night in the visit to the City Council of del- | egates to the Municipal Ownership Con- vention. He was born in New York City May 1, 1845. From 1869 to 1872 Lloyd was as- | sistant secretary of the American Free Trade League, organized by William Cul- | len Bryant, Governor Wells and other | prominent men. He prepared a manual for voters with the characteristic title, | “Every Man His Own Voter,” which was distributed throughout the country in that | campaign. Lloyd came to Chicago in 1872 and un- til 1885 occupled a position as an editorial writer on the Chicago Tribune. Since then he has devoted his time to the pub- lication of articles on labor problems in | the current magazines. ————— GOVERNMENT PRINTER DENIES THE CHABGE] Committee Is Appointed to Examinei | | | Into the Management of His Department. WASHINGTON, Sept. 28—As a result | of recent criticism of the list of charges | made by the Government printing office for printing and bookbinding done in that institution for the various departments of the Government, Public Printer Palmer to-day announced -the appointment of a committee to investigate these charges. The complaints of the excessive charges made by the Government were an out- growth of the discussion over the case of William A. Miller, assistant foreman of the binflery, against whose retention the bookbinders’ union is waging a fight. In connection with the complaints against | the schedule of charges, the Public Print- er points out that no profit ever has been expected for that kind of work, and that the Government merely charges cost prices and then adds 10 per cent to cover the administrative expense of non-produ tive labor, such as messengers, doorkesp- ers, watchmen, ete. — e — MANSION OF NEBRASKA'S GOVERNOR UNDER GUARD Amnother Attem;}rtu Steal Omne of State Executive’s Children Is Feared. | LINCOLN, Neb., Sept. 28.—The guard around the Governor's mansion has been increased, as another attempt to steal one of Governoer Mickey’'s children is feared. The four smaller children are not | permitted to leave the house unless ac- companied by an older member of the family. The penitentiary 1is being searched, as the plot is supposed to have been formed therc for the purpose of get- | ting revenge upon the Governor. The po- | lice have a description of the ex-convict | who made the attempt and are searching for him. i | — e ——— | NAVAL OFFICER DIES | AT YOKOHAMA HOSPITAL Rear Admiral Co;p;r Cables to Wash- | ington News of Death of Com- mander E. M. Hughes. ! Ad-| WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—Rear miral P. H. Cooper, commanding the ! notthern squadron of the Asiatic fleet, has advised the Navy Department by cable | of the death yesterday at the Yokohama | hospital of Commander E. M. Hughes. | He was assigned to duty last November on the Asiatic station in command of the | gunboat Annapolis. He entered the ser- | vice in 1866 and for consbicuous service | was awarded an additional number in grade. AT S e A 0f Interest to People of the Coast. | WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—Postmasters commissioned—Oregon—Willlam H. Mor-| ris, Rex; Peter Ficker, Troy. f Additicnal rural free delivery service ! route No. 5 will be established November 2 at Spokane, Wash. Army orders: First Lieutenant Reuben | B. Miiler, assistant surgeon, now at San | Franecisco, is assigned to duty in the De- partment of California; Captain William F. Creary, paymaster, is to proceed from this city to Westpoint, Ky., thence to San Francisco for duty in that city. LSS S o O Fresno Meat Company !ncarpcnuu! FRESNO, Sept. 28.—The Fresno Meat | Company filed articles of incorporation | this morning with an authorized capital | stock of $200,000. The incorporators are D. C. Sample, T. M. Hayden, Samuel Evinger, F. J. Burleigh, F. D. Vanderlip | and G. J. Nees, all of Fresno, and T. B. | Mathews of Selma. The capital subscribed 1is $66,000, of which $50,000 is by Evinger, a wholesale butcher of this city. The cor- poration will begin work immediately. —————— Wedding Bells Are to Ring. VALLEJO, Sept. 28.—John F. Ward and Miss Mary Clark will be married to-mor- | row in St. Vincent's Church, the Bev“ Father Driscoll officiating. The bride will | be attended by her s , Miss Hattie | Clark, and Lawrence Ward will be his brother's best man. A reception will fol- low the ceremony at the home of the bride’s mother, on Florida street, and the honeymoon will be spent in the southern part of the State. — NEW ADVERTISEMENTS. Is Rivaled by Human Hair Where Dandruff Is Eradicated. Sealskih is admired the world over for its softness and glossiness; and yet the human bair is equally as soft and glossy ‘when healthy, and the radical cause of all hair trouble is dandruff, which is caused 3{ a ferous parasite that saps the! tality of the hair at its root. Newbro's Herpicide is the only preparation that is fatal to the dandruff germ. Without dan- druff there is no falling hair, but a luxu- riant growth of glossy, soft hair is cer- tain. uring the scalp won't cure dan- druff. Kill the dandruff germ. Thousands of women owe their beau suits of halr to Newbro's ‘l‘?ie d’fle; Sold leading n stamps for Co.. Detrott, Mich > Herpicide | hattan DENVER CITY REPUBLICANS AT VARIANCE DENVER, Sept. 28.—The ‘Republican State Convention, to select a candidate for Justice of the Supreme Court to suc- ceed Presiding Justice John Campbell, whose term expires, will meet here to- morrow. To-day two conventions of the | Republicans of the city and county of Denver were held and contesting delega- tions will ask for recognition by the State convention to-morrow. There is said to be a strong likelihood that neither will be seated and that Denver will not be repre- sented. The split in Denver is not due to adher- ence to opposing candidatés, as there now seems little doubt that Judge Campbell will be unanimously chosen to succeed himself, but to the question whether or not the party leadership shall res't with former Senator Edward O. Wplcott. There were many charges of fraud in the primary election Saturday, not less than seventy-nine of the 204 precincts sending contesting delegations to the city and county convention. Of these, only two anti-Wolcott delegations were declared elected by the Central Committee. As a consequence the anti-Wolcott delegates declined to attend the convention called at the Tabor Opera-house, but organized another convention at Coliseum Hall. " PERSONAL MENTION. A. D. King, an oil man of Hanford, is at the Palace. Dr. Steward and wife of Los Angeles are at the Palace. Marion H. Diggs. a merchant of Wood- land, is at the Grand. Dr. Charles E. Quail and wife of Penn- sylvania are at the Grand. wrank Buck, the well known fruit grow- er of Vacaville, is at the Palace. Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Hamilton, prominent residents of Livermore, are at the Russ. Mr. and Mrs. Burrows of New Haven are guests at the Palace. He is a promi- nent insurance man of the East. & E. W. Gillett of Los Angeles, general passenger agent of the San Pedro aad Salt Lake road, is at the Palace. E. D. H. Skimming of London, a rep- | resentative of a large British firm that is | interested in the lumber trade on this coast, arrived yesterday and is registered at the Palace. S e 528 Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Sept. 8.—From San Fran- cisco—L. 8. Coggins, C. T. Colon and wife, Imperial; Mrs. E. B. Copp. New Amster- dam; P. Dalyliesk, D. B. Hodgsdon, Vie- toria; J. H. Humphreys, Grand Hotel; | Mrs. W. Kohl, Holland House; W L. Lee, Astor House; Dr. C. S. Maguire, Impe- rial; F. S. Moody and wife, Holland; Dr. F. R. Orella, Manhattan; R. C. Robinson, Hotel Imperial; J. V. Selby, Hotel Man- Miss Shea, Mrs. Shea, Continental Hotel; Mrs. K. E. Sloper, New Amster- dam; S. W. Smith, Astor House; Mrs. T. T. Willlams, Holland; Mrs. M. Wilson, Rossmore; M. I. Cahn, Imperial; Mrs. H. L.,Hill, Manhattan. —e—e—————— Objects to the Court’s Arraignment WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—Action will be taken by Secretary Moody on the pro- test of Paymaster Harry E. Biscoe against Admiral Evans’ arraignment of the court of which Biscoe was a member for the inadequate sentence imposed upon Assist- ant Paymaster Rishworth Nicholson for insulting and attacking the German Con- sul at Chefu. The Secretary has all the papers in the case before him. After ex- amining them his answer to Paymaster Biscoe probably will be supplemented by an offictal indorsement of Admiral Evans’ review. _—ee————— Revenue Cutter for Hawaii. HONOLULU, Sept. 22.—An inthrnal rev- enue cutter is to be located in Hawaiian waters in the near future, according to a letter received here from Collector Stackable of Hawaii, who is now on the mainland. There is a large extent of coast to be watched here and a cutter has beer asked for ever since annexa- tion. It is stated that one of the vessels now at San Francisco, probably the Me- Culloch, will be sent here. — et——— Sudden Death of a Clergyman. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn., Sept. 28.—Rev. Truman F. Allen, pastor of the Thir- teenth-avenue Methodist Church, was stricken with apoplexy yesterday just as he finished what he thought might be his last sermon to the congregation. In three hours he was dead. Rev. Mr. Allen was born in Vermont sixty-three years ago. i e e 0 Dowager Countess of Rosslyn Fails. LONDON, Sept. 28.—The failure was an- nounced in the Bankruptey Court to-day of Blanche Adelesa, Dowager Countess of Rosslyn, mother of the present Earl of Rosslyn, the actor, whose stage name is James Erskine. Her liabilities are said to be considerably more than $25,000. BOLTERS JOIN RANKS OF THE HOME RULERS HONOLULU, Sept. 2.—The Republica; county convention has been followed the belting of a number af poli from the Republican party to jo Home Rulers. James H. Boyd, the forme superintendsnt of public works, who wa defeated by a large majority for a nox ation for Supervisor, has become a H Ruler and announces that he will a a nomination from that party. Repre tative Jonah Kumalee and Charles Wilcox brother of former Delegate to Cong Wilcox, have taken the same course. other recent bolter from the party « C. P. laukea, former chamberlain to I Kalakaua. Boyd was removed from fice by Governor Dole at the time of t scandals of last fall, but was exonerat on trial for embezzlement. His brother R. N. Boyd, is a candidate for Cou Surveyor on the Republican ticket ar another brother. R. S. Boyd, Is the p- ent head of the land department. In two of the county conventions res lutions were introduced indorsing George R. Carter as successor to Governor Del In Hilo, East Hawall County, the resol tion was tabled. In West Hawali Cour it was adopted. A Democratic ticket for some of the s pervisorships is being put up, with the ur derstanding that the Home Rulers will dorse the nominees. Otherwise the Dem crats will take no part in the comin campaign. The Home Rule ticket is n yet in the fleld, but it s stated that R W. Wilcox, the former Delegate to Con gress, will be a candidate for Sheriff o this Island, against A. M. Brown. the present High Sheriff of ihe Territory. The other candidates in Honolulu are b2 E. Murray, a clerk in the Public Work office, for County Clerk; Isaac Sherwuod a Hawallan, employed In the Territor: Auditors office, for County Auditor; W. 1T Rawlins, for County Attorney; J. G Pratt, Territorial Assessor, for Count Assessor; S. E. Damon, of Bishop & Co. bank, for Treasurer; R. N. Boyd, part native, for Surveyor. For Supervisors large the convention chose G. F. Rento: Manager of Ewa plantation; Mark I Robinson of the lumber firm of Allen « Robinson, and John Lucas, contract In the Fourth district the Superv named are J. A. Gilman and A. Hocking and in the Fifth Frank Pahia and 8. ( Dwight, both part Hawalians. In the outside districts the mixed Hawailan and white. pal contest outside of Honolulu Hilo, where Territorial Sheriff L. A. A drews won a nomination for County Shcr iff, after a bitter contest which caused personal encounter on the floor of the convention. g e TRUSTEES OF MUSEUM REPRIMAND BRIGHAM Catholics of Hawaii Believe That Punishment Inflicted Is Not Severe Enocugh. HONOLULU, Sept. 22.—A protest mad by local Catholics against the employ ment of Professor W. T. Brigham curator of the Bishop Museum has b answered by the trustees of the mu with a letter stating that Brigham been reprimanded for making slandero statements reflecting upon the late F' Damien, but that the museum does desire to lose his services and therefore be retained. The professor is stated to have ma some remarks gravely reflecting on th character of the priest who died at leper settlement to a party of tou at the museum, among whom were eral Catholics, who reported the matter The Catholics here are not satisfied and Bishop Libert says that the matter will be laid before the American people in the form of a statement to be published in all the Catholic papers and other pa- pers which are willing to publish it. —_—e————————— Confers With State Department. WASHINGTON, Sept. 28.—Edwin W. Trimmer, American Consul at Bluefields was at the State Department to-day to confer with the authorities about the re- ported troubles at St. Andrews Island off the Nicaraguan coast. It is expect the gunboat Nashville, which has bee ordered to St. Andrews, will get un way from Pensacola to-day. .Bluefleld probably will be one of her ports of ca —e—e————— Falls Overboard and Is Drowned. HONOLULU, Sept. 22.—Charles Elleson mate of the schooner Robert Lewers, fell into the harbor from the vessel some time late on Saturday evening and was drowned. The body was recovered to-day He was a Mason and was given a Ma- sonic funeral. —_—ee—— Townsend's California glace frults and candies, 50c a pound, in artistic fire- etched boxes. A nice present for Eastern friends. 715 Market st.. above Call bidg. * —_—ee——— tickets ar The pri was tsts to Special information supplied daily business houses and public men by Piess Clipping Bureau (Allen’s), 230 C: fornia street. Telephone Main 1042 ing. Gadden Girl's fads. Girl. articles. course you've seen the cats. word. “The Night Watchman’s Story.” series of Spearman’s railroad stories to resist reading it anvwav. craze in literature. done. _ And then there are the Sings who put a girdle of Fitch This series alone magazine way you won't need m you won't miss the Gadden Gi: Girl Then there are two full pages of “Hali-hour Storiettes.” the The Gadden Girl. Have you seen the Gadden Girl? If you are a woman don’t say that you never heard of her, for just at the present time she is one of the most original creators of fashions in Uncle Sam'’s realm. She is the originator of the iridescent pear! for hair ornaments and she wears them in quantity that is nothing short of amaz- And what think vou of the musical jewels? Do you know anything about her? 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