The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 20, 1903, Page 6

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FROSPECT OF PEACE. pears probable that peace may be secured ja The British Minister ed Japan's consent to a list of ia by w anchuria is to be re- » China and the principal towns of that prov- be vpened to trade and all troops are to pan h the guard of the railways. Rus- ce her timber on River and her assumed rights in except concessions ede that the country south of an’s sphere of influence. Russian Minister to the United Paris, is quoted as saying that Rus- to annex Manchuria, but, hav- road and incurred enormous expense ard her rights and realize He adds that this was so well t none of the powers except Japan se- that she evacuate Manchuria on Oc- but behind it is the fact that the forced across Manchuria under cover of nd the aff had in it none iree consent by which China could ment, as a public and erprise, to build a railway on her soil. d the departure from China of r Western powers by a specific aw her own, and when she from ewed that promise after its violation, knows now her purpose and Ii the other nations did v expect her to withdraw from Manchuria on October B it was because her faith had been so at no one expected her to keep it. ved, and the fruit of her . were at once employed, with unusual in making demonstrations intended to de- pendence of Korea, thereby threatening ence of Japan. present attitude, exploited in the last delivery ount Cassini, is due solely to the vigorous stand by the Government of the Mikado. If the pro- als secured by the British Minister, Sir Charles Macdonald, are accepted by Russia, and her sphere of influence is thereby delimited, the world has no guarantee that her faith, pledged to the new arrange- t, will be any better kept than the promise to evacuate solemnly given to the concerted nations at Peking. Russia’s word has ceased to be good for anything, and if Japan be wise she will continue to strengthen her navy and to gird herself for a struggle with Adam Zad I§ is one reassuring sign that the representative of Great Britain has intervened to establish an under- standing. This he could not have done without the consent of his Government, and maybc.he has acted instruction, which would mean a British and not a Japanese initiative. His presence in the matter is sort of assurance that the British-Japanese treaty of amity and alliance is considered to be something stronger than a bond of courtesy between the two nations, and that Great Britain does not intend to cave her ally to bear the shock alone when it comes. It is a strange and rather romant': feature of the affair that Japan, limited in territory and population, stands between Russia and all Continental Europe, re- sisting the design of the Czar to make future civiliza- tion conform to the Cossack model and to put his foot on the neck of the world. There seems good reason why Russia should at present accept the pro- posals framed by Sir Claude Macdonald, and there also seems no reason why she should keep her prom- ise to observe them. In such a case the rest of the world may well consider its duty to back Japan in her determination to keep Russia out of Korea and to secure the future progress of China as an independent empire. This will arrest the growth of the northern glacier, and perhaps confine it "within bounds which will Jeave room enough for the other races to live. lapan has, in this affair, fully emerged from her isola- tion, and her courage and diplomacy place her in the - group of world powers which have obligations to each other that must be acknowledged. is well d another Gove: Manchuria an a Several negroes, prosperous, industrious, doing no harm and guilty of no offense except good citizen- ship, thrift and honcsty, were tortured to death a few - days ago by frenzied mobs in Texas. And yet with this blister on our civilization we care to concern our- selves with the horrors perpetrated upon the unfor- tunate victims of other peoples of the earth, T THE VISITING BANKERS. HE meeting of the National Association of Bankers in San Francisco is the first great gathering of business men of the Union at a | Pacific Coast point. We have had many national ‘bodxes of benevolent, patriotic and professional or- | ganizations, but now come the bankers to transact ‘the annual business of their association and to look | out upon the Pacific, most of them for the first time secing that great ocean across whose waters is to |come a commerce that will equalize the material con- ditions of this coast with those of the Atlantic sea- board, which had centuries the start of us, because it faces Europe as the source of immigration and | commerce. Since California became American territory the | process of opening China to external trade was begun jin earnest. Our commerce with that country had its | beginning in the immigration of Chinese here. It was, after all, a limited immigration, and during the | whole period that it was free and unrestrained less |than three hundred thousand Chinese came here. But | during the same period millions of Europeans flocked Elr) the Atlantic seaboard, stocking the Eastern States |with an assimilating population. But small as our Chinese population was it was sufficient to establish | commercial relations with that empire and to fix lamong us Chinese merchants as factors of our | products who know the wants of their own people, and Chinese bankers who are probably as expert in | the science of banking as any of the gentlemen in the | American Association of Bankers. The commercial | relations of this city and coast have survived the | strain of excluding Chinese immigration, and we are | still in relations of good understanding with that best | nation of workers in all Asia, in whose expanding | wants we must look for the expansion of our com- | merce. | The next commercial opportunity that interests us |is offered by Japan. Yet how recent is the opening “nl that empire to trade! The bankers will find here iJapanesc commercial houses and banks and news- | papers, but less than fifty vears ago the Japanese were {unknown to us and we to them. The first Japanese” | ever seen on this coast were a few castaway sailors, | who survived the wreck of a junk and were found by |a hitherbound vessel floating on wreckage in the Pa- cific. We did not know what they were. Had they | been men from Mars they could not have been more | strange to us. | These things illustrate the extreme newness of our relations to that part of the world, to which we must look for trade as the East looks to Europe, and what we have done here must be judged in the light of the brief perspective of our commerce and finance. | When it is so considered, our visitors will certainly | appreciate the industry with which we have cultivated our opportunity. At the moment when Thomas H. Benton, standing on the steps of the Courthouse in St. Louis, pointed westward and exclaimed, “It is the | East; it is India,” much of the territory traversed by our visitors to come to us was as unknown as to its | topography, geography and resources as the unex- | plored parts of Africa are to-day. Yet there are men | still living who heard Benton declare that over that | territory was the road to India. | As these gentlemen explore our land they will be | impressed that they have come into another world, |into a region physically the antipodes and antithesis |of that they know. As they find our weather now, | so they would find it in December, January and all the months between the winter and summer solstice, | unbroken, except by the early rains which give our | January landscape the verdure and flowers of the ?Eastern June, and by the latter rains that baptize our i]and with the final fertility that assures the harvest to | follow seedtime. Our financial history is of special interest to them. During all the suspension of specie payments, in the | Civil War period, when the legal tender quality passed | by law from coin to currency, we maintained gold as | our standard of value, our legal tender and our com- | mon currency. It was the only case of the kind in the | world’s history. No use now to discuss its wisdom. We did it, and it is one of the most stupendous facts lin all the romantic story of finance. Even now they | find gold in circulation everywhere. We mine it in our ledges and placers, and we coin and handle it, hoard and invest it, as the common money of the people. The economic effect is everywhere notice- able. Paying wages in gold eagles induces labor to | be thrifty. It seems such concrete property that a workingman no more squanders it than his house, and his surplus earnings, in gold coin, go to the savings bank or into some interest-bearing invest- | ment. Oi the enormous variety of production in this win- terless land the bankers will see examples in their visit to-day to the State Board of Trade. They will learn that the continuity of crops and harvests is here unbroken. Every day in the year we are gath- ering the products of the soil for market. We are extending our fields, gardens, vineyards and orchards, |and can respond to any present or future demand for their products, either from our hinterland in our own country or from far Asia. Having observed the basis of what we have done and of what we will do in the future, we expect the Eastern bankers hereafter to believe their brethren from San Francisco when they say with the apostle, “We come from no mean city.” Turkey has announced that she will make at the St. Louis Exposition a display worthy of her place and dignity among the nations. It is to be presumed that exhibits of the Macedonian unpleasantness will be left at home. A DANGER POINT. NE of the most serious phases of the mu- O nicipal contest arises out of the power which the charter invests in the Mayor and in the various boards and commissions appointed by him to carry out his will in the city government. The pow- ers given these bodies are so varied and so far reach- ing that they directly affect the business interests of thousands of people. In the hands of unscrupulous men such powers can be readily turned to evil pur- | poses, and accordingly it is not at all impossible that if an unscrupulous man should hold the Mayor’s of- fice for two successive terms, so that he would have the appointment of all members of the different boards and commissions, fie would build up a political machine more formidable than any now existing in the United States. The power of such an administrative machine would be far greater than the conservative citizen supposes. Through one board or another the Mayor, seeking domination for selfish purposes, could control the Police Department, the Fire Department, the School Department, all persons employed in the department of Public Werks, the saloons of the city and all per- {addition the Department of Public Health has power to harass every householder and to seriously inter- fere with his enjoyment of his property. At the time the charter was under consideration the danger of placing such large powers in the hands ! of the Mayor was fully discussed, the advocates of the plan arguing that the very fact of having such an au- tocratic Mayor would lead to the selection of good men for the office, since the people would not dare to elect an unscrupulous man, no: the creature of such men, to the office. The argument found favor with the people, the charter was adopted, and now we have to confront the issue of electing the right man. Three candidates for the office are in the field, but | it is well understood the fight is really between but two of them, Henry J. Crocker, the Republican can- didate, who represents the conservatism of the com- munity, and Eugene E. Schmitz, who represents Abe Ruef and Abe Ruef's ambitions. Another term of Schmitz would see the organization of an adminis- trative machine more powerful than Tammany, and the bosses who are back of him would have a control of the interests of so large a class of the people as to give them an almost tyrannic power in the com- munity. That is a menace that has to be faced when- ever consideration is given to the serious phases of the campaign. It <hould be borne in mind by every voter. Conservative citizens and taxpayers cannot afford to take chances of two years more of Schmitz and Ruef. B e — In the northern part of the State recently a man aged 75 years and a woman four years his junior were I married. The old people were hopeful, happy and | contented in the prospect of new and long life. This is the way we do things in California, and perhaps it | is opportune for somebody to lay it all to our glo- rious climate, A been issued which is devoted largely to a de- scription of Napa County. The area of the county is 800 square miles, or 512,000 acres. The as- sessed lands amount to 404,704 acres. The total as- sessed valuation, including the railroad, exceeds $13,000,000. The population of the county is 18,000; of the city of Napa 5000. The State and county tax outside of incorporated towns is $1 72 on the $100. Mentioning particulars the Register alludes to the employment of factory employes in the city of Napa. Five hundred persons are earning wages in manufac- turing establishments all the year. When the driers and canneries are caring for the fruit crop at least 500 more employes are enrolled as wage-earners. Napa maintains a Board of Trade, the duty of which is to encourage men of business and also home-seek- ers to locate in Napa. In the past few years the dairying industry in the Napa Valley is reported by the Register to have grown to large proportions. The culture of the olive is found to be profitable. Nut-bearing trees are on the increase, and almonds and English walnuts are sure and profitable crops.® Citrus fruits are grown, but more profit is to be found in stone fruits. “There are | many localities in California,” says the Register, “‘that are becoming known as the ‘home of the peach’ or the ; ‘home of the prune,” but Napa Valley is the home of all good things horticultural.” Viticulture is one of the leading industries of the county. Some of the finest wine cellars in the world are there. Many underground cellars are tunneled into the hills for aging wines. They are visited by sightseers. Stock farms are on a large scale, and are noted for thoroughbreds. The manufactures are men- tioned collectively by the Register: “Napa has begun | to reach out as a manufacturing center and stands upon a par with many cities of much greater preten- sions. Within her limits are located representative and prosperous establishments, and among them are | two tanneries (in which are made glove, shoe, har- | ness and sole leather), a glove factory, shoe factory, I shirt factory, box factory, hat and cap factory, four | cigar factories, planing mill, fruit driers, cannery, dis- tilleries and wineries. Nearness to San Francisco, | the beést shipping facilities by rail and water, make of { Napa a natural manufacturing center, where high grade help is always in demand.” The causes of prosperity and accessories to growth have been provided mainly by local capitalists. The people of Napa, in other words, have confidence in themselves and their facilities. The schools and churches are numerous. A cement plant has begun’ operations in the county that turns out 2000 barrels in product daily and pays $20,000 per month in wages. The city of Napa is forty-six miles north from San Francisco. The distance is made in a little more than two hours by rail and in four hours by steam vessel. The water lines carry freight and passengers between Napa and San Francisco, and rates are kept down by rail through water competition. The city, as viewed by the Register, is found to have improved more in the past two years than in any Corresponding period in its history. “The establishment of cement works near by,” says the Register; “the expansion of our factory interest; the coming of an electric road and the natural growth attendant upon healthy agricultural and commercial conditions—all these things contribute to the making of Napa what it is and what it must ever be—one of the foremost of California’s interior cities.” INDUSTRIES OF NAPA. SPECIAL edition of the Napa Register has S— Dowie has already had an “experience” in his as- sault upon the “breastworks of sin” in New York, but it was not particularly of the penitential form sort. A thief, evidently incorrigible if not sacrilegious, entered the apartments of Mrs, Dowie and stole a $1500 dia- mond and pearl brooch. It is probable that Dowie now has a sterner idea of the necessity of his assault and will throw something of personal feeling into his appeals to reform and restore. There is still hope for dueling German students and encouragement for their well wishers. Two of them surprised Berlin recently by fighting a duel with pistols, a procedure which indicated that they seriously meant harm to one another. Still more as- tonishing was the fact that one of the contestants was fatally wounded. As soon as dueling becomes dan- gerous in Germany it will cease to be a fad. In order that he may learn the amount of work done by each letter carrier of Stockton and justly regulate inequalities the postmaster of that city has turned carrier and is serving each route in turn him- self. The experiment is novel and interesting. It proves that there is at least one officeholder in Cali-_ fornia who does not look upon the acquisition of a snap as a triumph of conscience. Tillman, given his life by a jury’s judgment, says he regrets deeply the death of Gonzales. So do many thousands of Americans who wished to see punished the man who took Gonzales’ life. In some affairs of life regrets are among the things that had best be left I sons engaged in occupations r.equirin( licenses, In - unsaid L] | who were loth to NOTED PLAYER ENTERTAINED BY SOROSIS CLUB The Scrosis Club tendered a reception yesterday to the great virtuoso, Otto Spamer, who during the late Symphony concerts gave the rarest pleasure to that part of the discerning public that knows an artist when it hears one. ‘‘Sees one?” Well, hardly. Otto Spamer doesn't carry any of the external attributes of the musical artist, except his violin. He wears halr at normal length, and all his dis- tinguishing features in the musical line lie in his brain, rather than in his hair. And he dresses most sanely, and, what is rarer still in a great artist, he acts sanely. And how he does play with that bow! den you go into stygian darkness, where a soul writhes in despair. This is the art of that bowstring that sends shivers down your spine and lures a lump into your throat. Otto Spamer was honored by the Sorosis Club, but he repaid his debt a thousandfold in the music he play- ed to it. And how the hearers drafk it in! The club members and their guests missed never a note, and their apprecia- tion must have been sweet to the artist. This club has rather distinguished itself in past years by entertaining musical celebrities. Last year it held a splendid affair for the great Wilczeh, who, by the way, has much in common, physically and mentally, with Mr. Spamer, their present guest. This clever violinist began his career at the age of 11, when he became concert master, of the Hoch Conserva- | torium at Frankfort. At 18 he entered the tutelage of the great Wilhemj—whom those of us with good memories recall— and now, at 20, he is the peer of his great master. The club whose guest he was yesterday will attend solidly his two concerts to be glven this week, the first Wednesday evening and the second on Saturday afternoon, at Lyric Hall. These promise to be as “functionary” as the affair of yesterday, when many stunning gowns, mostly white, rooms. The afternoon was further devoted to a delightful paper by Mrs. C. T. Mills, pres- ident of Mills College, Mrs. W. S, Davis, chairman of the committee on education, directed the programme, while Mrs. Os- car Mansfeldt looked after the music, covering herself with glory. The follow- ing selections were rendered: ! (a) In Memoriam (b) Nocturne (Op. 2 (c) Alrs Hongrois . ‘Wilhelm .Ernst The Daughters of the California Pio- neers were hostesses at a delightful af- fair yesterday afternoon, when they en- tertained about 150 guests in the parlors of the Pioneers. How the old pioneers do love to linger about at these affairs and enjoy the pleasant programmes that are offered—likewise the good tea that is brewed by Tom, the indispensable. A talk upon Indian basketry was given by Superintendent Wilcomb of the Park Museum, who brought with him a truck- load of basket treasures. Treasures? ‘Well, some of these, the feathered Po- mos, are worth $500. ‘“‘Besides,” said the speaker, “they carry with them more than a mere commercial value to lover of primitive art, for they tell the tale of race origin. self-same designs as we find among the Hopi and other Arizona tribes.” Here is a pgop to the Atlantis tale. Mr. Wilcomb held the attention of \hej guests for an hour, fllustrating as he talked. No more interesting topic could have been chosen, as basketry is of ab- sorbing interest at the present hour, since it has come to be looked upon as a history of primitive man—and Mr. Wilcomb knew his subject as do but fow. Miss Niggle, a child with a fine voice, sang two pretty ballads. Violin solos by Miss Aristine Pixley, a dialcgue, “The Quarrel,” by Miss Niggle and Gladys Ra- gan, and readings by Miss Beatrice Peck completed a most interesting programme. Miss Peck, who is a stranger to 8an Fran- cisco audiences, scored great successes two years ago in Chicago, and latterly in Seattle, by her interpretations at social affairs, and yesterday added fresh laurels to her reputation as a drawing-room reader. Unaffected, charming and chic, she scored a splendid success. The programme over, the Daughters served tea—such good tea—to their guests, separate themselves from Mr. Wilcomb’s baskets. Small won- der. < . s e Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Spieker and their daughter Georgie returned yesterday from a year's absence in Europe. stopping temporarily at the Palace, ex- pecting to open their home at an early date. . s After a delightful stay of six weeks in Southern California, Mrs. Otto Berman and her daughter, Miss Berman, have re- turned to their }'mm: on.Fulton street. The beautiful Aline Ford daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Denslow Ford, is| to become to-day the bride of Lewis Pierce in Los Angeles. The young people will start upon an extended Eastern tour immediately after the ceremony, return- ing to the city some time in January. Mr. Pierce, though extensively concerned in the cattle interests of the State, will undoubtedly make this city his headquar- ters on his return. . . Miss Fassett, who leaves for the East on the 28th, was the guest of honor last night at a charming dinner at the Palace. The following guests were present: Mrs. Crocker, Mr, and Mrs, D. A. Bender, H. J. Crocker, Judge and Mrs. Van Fleet, A. Wright, C. H. Crocker, y and Mr. and Mrs. J. Sloat To-day the Century Club will tender a reception to the ladies accompanying the visiting bankers. The function will be given at the clubrooms on Sutter street between 4 and 6 .o'clt:ck.. As for the Confederacy ball at the Pal- ace on Thursday night it would seem that soclety en masse will be in attend- ance. Maids, matrons and dowagers alike have their gowns home from madar’s and there will be a brave showing of gay costumes and pretty women. ————— BOGOTA GOVERNMENT MAY RENEW THE NEGOTIATIONS WASHINGTON, Oct. 19. — Minister Beaupre, at Bogota, has informed the State Department that the Colombfan Government is still considering the canal question and that the committee having the matter in charge has submitted a' re- port upon the concession to the Panama Canal Company from 1904 to 1910. These dispatches are ambiguous and the de- partment cannot say whether the com- mittee has recommended the invalidation of the concession and a return to the com- pany of $1,000,000, which was paid for it, or whether it favdrs confirming their con- cession. The report is to be printed and discussed in the Colombian Congress next week. The Colombian Government hav- ing Intimated that it desired to renew negotiations for the construction of a canal, this Government will not act un- til it has been determined that a reason- | Was able time has been given the Government at Bogota to formulate and present a proposition. —_——— - 5 a pound, in tic fire- artist etched A nice 1 Ts Mo n:u-n or Inl\-u. —_—————— e Special information _u' dally to First you are thrilled with a quiv- | ering exaltation as you catch a glimpsa§ programme for the week will be of the sunshine of a soul; then of a sud- | lows: were seen in the club-| Wilhelm] | the | In Africa we find the | They are . CHURCH FAIR WILL CHARM IN SAN JOSE I | SAN JOSE, Oct. 19.—St. Joseph's fair, !in aid of St. Joseph’s Catholie Church | will open at Turn Verein Hall to-morrow ! evening. The ladies of the church are | now busy decorating the hall and arrang- | ing the booths for the fair. | tinue until next Tuesday evening. | Rev. Father Kenna president of Santa Clara_College, will preside as chairman. { The Rev. Peter C. Yorke of San Fran- i cisco will open the fair with an address. There will be a musical and literary | programme and dancing each evening, with matinees on Friday and Saturday. | All kinds of fancy articles and refresh- | ments will be sold and there will be raffles ‘ | and other amusements. Meals will also be served each noon and evening. The fot | Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock Land- | ers Stevens and his stock company will give a benefit verformance. Wednesday _evening—Solos by the sweet- ! volced tenor, Willlam O Brien of San Fran- cifco; recitations, comical and serious, by Thomas W. Hickey of San Francisco: charae- ter sketches by Dr. Sefberst of San Francisco: music by Brohas orchestra. evening—Hibernfa night. songs and Gaelic dances; cornet solo by Mr. Lake; talent from Francisco, Omx- | land and San Jose: muslc by Leo Sullivan, W. { Lake ana Miss Miiler. Friday, 3:30 p. m.—Benefit matinee by Land- ers Stevens and his superb stock company. | _ Friday evening—Young Men's Institute night. | Music by T. Sullivan's orchestra. Saturday, 2:30 p. m.—Matinee, under aus- | pices of children of Notre Dame. Music, instru- | mental and vocal; Punch and Judy show. ng—Promenade concert. Ben- Irish 5 ] 2 5 2 () 2 g z 5 g & g z g E § i H @ E * I dina of San Francisco; Gaelic songs an | dances: music by D'Ablaing’s orchestra. | Tuesday evening—Disposal of articles. e WEDDING BELLS TO RING i IN A YOLO RESIDENCE | Miss Ruby Odell McKay Will Be- i come the Bride of George H | ‘W. Scott. WOODLAND, Oct. 19.—On Wednesday a wedding of more than ordinary Interest | on account of the family connections of the contracting parties will be solerhn- | ized in this city. Miss Ruby Odell Mc- Kay will become the bride of George W. | | Scott of Madison. The bride-to-be is the ! daughter of J. W. McKay of Mississippi. but since her mother's death she has made her home with her aunt, Mrs. J. M. Bland, at whose residence the ceremony will be performed. She is an accomplish- | ed and popular young woman. Mr. Scott is a native of New York, but | for some time has been the manager of | the big farm of his uncle, George W. | Scott, a wealthy ploneer. The family is ! one of the oldest and best known in the | Sacramento Valley. After a brief honeyA‘» moon in San Francisco the young couple will return to the farm near Madison. TRIES TO STOP FIRE AND IS FATALLY BURNED | | S i ‘Wife of a Mariposa County Merchant | | | ! Meets With a Terrible Death. MERCED, Oct. 19.—Mrs. T. J. Chichi- | zola, the wife of a merchant at Indian Gulch, Mariposa County, was burned to| | death last night at her home. Early in the evening her 6-year-old daughter, while handling a lighted candle, [ set fira to the lace curtains in a bedroom of the residence. In response to the child’s eries Mrs. Chichizola ran into the | room and in attempting to extinguish the | flames her clothing caught fire. She was | horribly burned and death ended her suf-| he said. He had | ferings this morning. | The deceased was formerly Miss Cuneo | ;nnd her people are wealthy Itallans of | | San Francisco. The remains will be | | shipped there for interment. | —_————— | | GENERAL MILES MAY LIVE iN SOUTHERN CALIFORIA | | . | Former Commander of the Army | | Thinks of Building a Western | Home. { LOS ANGELES, Oct. 19.—General Nel- ! son A. Miles has arrived in Los Angeles f after a leisurely trip through Texas, New | Mexico and Arizona, during which he in- vestigated oil lands in Texas in which he is interested. He will remain in Los An- | geles several days, inspecting some prop- erty that he holds in this vicinity, and | | will then proceed north by way of San| | Prancisco, through to Oregon and Wash- | ington. During an interview General Miles | stated that he might eventually build a | home in Southern California and locate | here. —_——————————— i LOS ANGELES AUDITOR ANSWERS DEATH'S CALL Popular Official of the Southern Cali- fornia Metropolis Dies After Long Illness. LOS ANGELES, Oct. 19.—Elijah E. Un- | ger. Auditor for the city of Los Angeles, dled to-day at his home in this city. Death followed a protracted illness and was not unexpected. E. E. Unger was born in Muscatine, Iowa, and was 46 years of age at the time of death. He came to Los Angeles in 1886 | from San Francisco. In 1300 deceased was | elected City Auditor and was re-elected to | | the same office upon the expiration of his | first term in 1902. He leaves a widow, one | | son and two brothers, one of whom, Cress | | Unger, 1s employed in the San Francisco | Swift Landing on a Rock Pile Fails | to Hurt a Moistened | Swede. REDDING, Oet. 19.—Ludwig Amanure- sen, a Swede, aged 26 years, fell off the | California Express as it was traveling twenty-five miles an hour between Delta | and Kennet Saturday night. He landed | ion a plle of rocks beside the track and | | he lay there, practically unhurt but in a drunken stupor until he was picked up and brought to Redding last night. The Swede does not know whether he ! | fell off the platform or out of a window. When asked about it he sad: “I don’t know. Ay bane feeling putt: good, I gass.” e ———————— LIME IN THE CARGO SETS FIRE TO VESSEL Steamship Champion Blazes Near Esquimalt Navy Yard and Is Run Ashore. NANAIMO, B. C., Oct. 19.—The steam- ship Champion, Captain Westerlund, ! which arrived at Ladysmith yesterday, | was totally destroyed by fire last night. The vessel was loaded with 12,000 barrels of lime consigned to the Esquimalt Navy Yard. She had a rough trip across the | gulf and water reached her cargo, caus- | ing it to develop heat. The heat set the | woodwork on fire and the blazing vessel H on the beach. The loss will reach about ——————— Former Cabinet Officers Traveling. PRESCOTT, . Oct. 19.—General Russell A. Alger, former Secretary of ‘War, and Cornelius N. Bliss, former Secre- tary of the Interior, left here to-day for Los Angeles after a visit in the territory extending from the Mexican line on the south to the Santa Fe Railroad on the north. General Alger has extensive in- terests in Arizona. B It will con- The | which Dowie delivered an ! he devoted himself chiefly ZIONISTS MAKE A CANVASS OF NEW YORK CITY NEW YORK, Oet. 19.—After attending | an early service in Madison Square Gar- | den John Alexander Dowie and “Restcra- tion Host” numbering 400¢ began to-day a £ the city. Be- instructions, | house-to-house canvass of | fore giving them his final Dowie said: “I am going out to do a little restora- | tion work myself and I won't be far from { Wall street. EBray for me.” | The majority of the audience at the early service was composed of Zlonisis No robes were worn. Dowie preached a sermon on “The Sin of Idolatry,” with ap- plications to present conditions. = A “divine healing meeting” was held in the garden from 10:30 a. m. to noom, at address on “The Opening of the Beautiful Gate of In his address Dowie alluded to some clergymen as “mean dogs,” and others. whese criticisms of him had been pub- lished in the newspapers, he sald were “working for the deviL™ Of the 3000 or more that were assembled when the noon meeting began less than half remained when Dowie had finished speaking. Later Dowie, accompanied by Mrs. Dow fe, his son and Deacon W. P. Kindle, called on Mayor Low at the City Hall and told the Mayor that his people had respect for New York and admired the Mayor for what he had done. He thanked the Mayor for police protection and de- parted with the Zion salute, “Peace be unto thee, brother,” to which the Mayor responded, “Thank you, sir.” Twelve companies of the Zion ncst, numbering several hundred persons each, were engaged to-day in the house-to- house canvass of the city. Each com- pany was divided into bands of ten, every band having a captain. To-day they vis- it.d Manhattan only. The arrangements were under the direction of Elder Abra- ham Lee and Deacon George Mitchell and the field marshals. Deaccness Jessie Og- den had charge of the house-to-house canvass in the fashionable district of the city. r \’V'nen Dowle opened his night ‘meeting in Madison-square Garden he faced an immense throng; when he closed it his audience had dwindled to only a few hundred persons besides the ‘“‘host” he brought with him from the West. He fretted, fumed, threatemed, cajoled and finally resorted to the use of epithets, his hearers meanwhile leaving the meet- ing, several hundred together, drowning the sound of his voice. He had an- nounced that to-night he would tell how it was revealed to him that he was “Elijah” and also that he would have something to say to the newspapers and their reporters. His talk was inter- spersed with several hymns. At times when the tramp of those leaving the hall was more than his veoice gould overcome to denuncia- tion of tobacco smokers, liquor drinkers and newspaper men, all of whom he classed as ‘“dirty dogs” and “dirty birds.” Several times the audience hissed Dowie. After one ich demonstration he shouted: “We come here and we get your impudence, but I will get your hearts and then I will get your pocket- books. “There is nothing so joyful as spending | Divine Healing.” money for the Lord,” he continued. | “They say I came to New York for money. 1 don't deny the soft impeach- ment.” He said the story that his wife lost a | $1500 diamond pin was untrue, as she never owned a pin like that, nor had she | lost anything. The tales printed about his people being hungry were also lie “licked” the press Chicago, he shouted and he would “lick the press of New York. He would lick these “‘vultures.” Finally he came to the promised story of revelation. He quoted scripture to show that Elijah was to come a third time. —_———— PREPARED TO CONTINUE WAR AGAINST MEAT TRUST Directors of the Independent Pack- ing Company Hold an Important Meeting at Denver. DENVER, Colo., Oct. 19.—The directors of the Independent Packing Company, the antagonist of the meat trust, met here to- day for the purpose of electing officers and outlining the future policy of the company. The trust agreement by which 51 per cent of the stock is to be held in escrow { by the directors was adopted and a trust committee appointed. It was decided to postpone the election of president until the meeting of the National Live Stock Association in Portland, Or., January 12, 1904. L. F. Wilson of Texas was elected vice president, F. W. Flato Jr. of Missourt treasurer, and . F. Maitin of Colorade secretary. The meeting will be in session to-mor- row, when the future poiicy of the com- pany will be outlined and arrangements made for the financing. The capital stock of the company is $5,000,000. The company is incorporated under the laws of Arie zona. —_——— Sale of Cruiser Is Restrained. TRENTON, N. J, Oct 19.—The Govern- ment attorney took out a writ of replevin in the case of the United States cruiser Chattanooga, which is advertised to be sold by the Sheriff to-morrow under a Jjudgment obtained by Babcock & Wil cox against the Crescent Shipyard Com- pany. The obtaining of this writ will operate to restrain the sale. The cruiser is uncompleted and the Government has already pald $500,000 on account. —e—— Santa Fe to Increase Its Service. TOPEKA, Kans, Oct. 19.—The Santa Fe has declded to put its California Lim- ited train into service again on November 29. The officials of the road are hers ta arrange a new time card, which will per- mit the running of the train. The officials are discussing the matter of putting on another train to run from Kansas City to the West. S — Death of a Colorado Miner. JUNCTION, Colo., Oct. 19.—James Taye lor Sharp, a well-known pioneer of this State and one of the riders of the fa- mous “pony express” in the '80s, died to- day, aged 82. 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