The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, December 24, 1903, Page 5

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL. THURSDAY. DECEMBER 24. 1903. PUBLICITY INGERN THE PHOVITE Counsel for the Shipbuilding Trust’s Founders Clamors for the Punishment of Persons Who Gave Letters to the Press REFEREE RULES AGAINST FAKING UP THE SUBJECT Accountant Who Examined the Bethlehem Steel Company T'ells of Alleged Diserepancies in the Reports of Its Earnings this report but a Pick- that no less correspond- ributed h\l he him- during the that copies of been offéred flices in New umstances,” he con- that such r's remarks on the the “alleged CALLS HALT. g, declared that he witnesses from P which pub- vesterday sk n to go into the Untermyer ob- ing injected into ant sustainedd nat the next witnes Alfred t who made gn ex- hile h"n Steel Com- protest against the newspaper witnesses ntion of bring- reports of offi vear and three had made a the examination nother sensational stating that he that the process subpena upon ay had used access to Gates. t the subjena had of his rted to “any * he would rged C IN REPORTS. ony spoke of the the annual reports company and the tted to the Stock Ex- mittee at the time the a, t the stocks of the shi ¥y was made, and “sur- the excess in earnings later statement might have ure to charge off de- wed for in the annual he Stock Exchange statement assets of July 31, 1902, were to the extent of more than rstated DR. PIERCE'S n}:mn'.& BabgCostsTancl price paid is the mother's bappiness. The father e as be romps with the vears of wifely suffering st the beby’s s lnnghter. idism is & i price to ful joy of maternity, yet cost that many a woman Such a price is too ismore than nature asks. Or. Pierce’s Favorite Pre- rnity is made l’ painless, and 2 quick com assured in zlmost every case. . $500 Reward iocr Women Who Cannot be Cured. proprictorsand makersof Dr. Pierce's —ew..puo:: now feel fully war- Favorite sas, or FPailing of Womb which they can. mot cure. Al they ask is a fair and reasom- able trial of their means of cure. ence with Dr. Picrce's writes Mrs. Anvie Lenmen. Lady Commander Bethichent. Lodge No. 27. of 106 Jackson “Fous years T was [ig Sy E Hfe a ¥e 2 medicine. 1 wish every :flmm,uvkn;dkmafl Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription con- tains no alcobol and is entirely free from | opium, coczine and all other narcotics. Tnedu!e'hoaflm a substitute for | > fhelmlemor:wnfi!pndu& of less meritorious medicines. ym:rk- accept no -b&h. - ! ures showed that | Schwab’s answer of vesterday and so | (Schwab’s) statements that run coun- () BRITAIN WILL BE AN ALLY OF JAPAN P PE RECEIVES IF THE MIKADO IS FORCED INTO WAR THE CARDINALS .— Felicitous Hr(-omlgs Mark the Reception Given by the New Pontifi to High Dignitaries HIS HOLINESS IS CHEERFUL g R America Is Represented at the Fuanetion Archbishop Se- ton and Monsignor Kennedy by e ROME, Dac —The Pope all the cardinals and high prelates to- day and they exchanged the season’s greetings. The function was unusually interesting, as it was the first of the kind under the present Pontiff. he reception took place in the gor- 5 throne room of the private apart- ments of the late Pope Leo XIIL, now renovated and used as Pope P pub- lic reception room. The Po in spotless white robes, was seated on the throne, while the dinals ranged themselves in front of him, according to precedence. Behind them were the other church dignitaries in their or- The dean of the Sacred Collegs, Cardinal Oreglia, read a short, happily- worded speech, to which the Pope re- plied with his usual affability and mod- esty. The address of Cardinal Oreglia was of a religious character. The Pope, in reply. and the Christ from the world and the redemp- tion offered to all without reference to social or political position. The L« said, me to save all the peopl yoor and rich, although he preferred to hide his glory in the stable at Bethle- he ke of the need of humility detachment of all followers of e, pe assemblage then advanced and kissed the Pontiff’s hand and broke nto small groups, Pope Pius speaking personally to each of them The United States was represented at reception by Seton (titular archbishop of of Newark, rector of the! the Gillespie Is Refused Bail. | RISING SUN, Ind., Dec. 23.—Judge | of the Circuit Court to-day he habeas corpus case of James Mrs. E e Seward and Mr. Myron Barbour, charged Downey . The bonds of the women were renewed and Myron Bar- | bour was also released on bond, but his bail was double that of the women, $20,000. All the officials of the First Na- t al Bank went on Barbour’'s bond Gillespie was refused bail. * $300.000, he said, as shown by the books of the company. The overstatement was brought about largely by the in- clusion in live assets, he said, of bad accounts. Taking up, then, the alleged with- holding of Bethlehem dividends, which, | so it is charged, was instrumental in wrecking the shipbuilding company, which owned the Bethlehem stock, Un- er obtained from Ross the state- the Bethlehem, which on had debts amounting to by September 1, 1903, y from debt, having 1. 1903, and of August. sum to debt term ment that April 1, 1902, $712,000, had emerged entirel paid off $325,000 since April $750,000 during the month In addition to applying this reduction, Ross said, the Bethlehem company had, since July 21, 1903, in-| vested $313,625 in the Uruguay Iren Company. In regard to met carnings Ross' fiz- the earnings, $330,- 176 in 1901, had increased to $1,261,891 in 1902, and $1,662,530 in 1903, dividends of $525,000 being paid in 1901, none in 1902 and $250.000 in 1903. These last dividends, Ross said, went to the shiphuilding company, to be ap- plied on the $10,000,000 issue of bonds M. Schwab. . , third vice president of the York Security and Trust Com- which loaned $350,000 to Nixon a Dresser on their note on August 12, testified that, so far as he knew, this loan of $350,000 was the only one made t6 Nixon and Dresser, and that nc loan had been made to the Trust Company of the Republic. It had been understood before this that the anmunt of this loan was $700,000, and that J. P. Morgan & Co. deposited this amount with the trust company to provide funds for the loan. It was upon the New York Security 1902, and Trust Company that the $7,246,000 check was drawn by Schwab to pro- vide Nixon and Dresser with funds for the purchase of the Bethiehem plant, | and Root was questioned about Schwab’s daiiy bala at that time. it was shown that Schwab’s balance was rapid increased immediately prior to August 12, 1903, to an amount sufficient to cover the amount of the check, but Root could not say svhether this was by deposits from the Morgan account. H Inquiry about other loans, however, brought out the fact that on August 5, 1502, the trust company loaned to Olivep Wren, Schwab's secretary, | $2,000,000, taking as security L’nlted, tates Steel Corporation preferred stock, the loan being repaid on Decem- | ber 5, 1802. Root did not know that ! Schwab was connected with this loan. —_— NIXON SCORES SCHWAB. Says Statements in Latter's \nswer' Are Maliciously False. ' NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—The follow-_ Charles L. Fair, have settied »r have" ing authorized statement was given | out to-day at the office of Lewis Nixon: “Mr. Nixon has had many inquiries as to his views relative to Mr. gave out the following statement: i “There are so many eof his ter to my recollection that they had best be cleared up on the witness; stand. However, that I ever gave him or showed to him a so-called prospec- | tus on June 14, or that I in any way misled him is not only ridiculous, but maliciousty faise. I was anxious to keep the company going. Having sold | none of my bonds or other securities, all of my intefests were tied up in lu' success—and it would have been a | success had any of the aid which a constituent company. is expected to glve been forthcoming from Bethle- | railwa Continued From Page 1, Column 7. ficers are incompetent and of doubtful courage. * r Ernest Satow, who for more than th ears has represented the Brit- ish Government in Pekjng, sees only a faint prospect of war being averted. Minister Satow was the British diplomatic ser for a quarter of a century. He is one the greatest living authorities on rese history znd literatyre and is ce in Japan tant communication with the st statesmen of Japan. He is oted as saying that any one who magineg that Japan will not fight f. hat she conceives to be her greatest terests does not know the Japanese Sir hard Hart, director of the Chl- nese impyerial maritime customs, said to-day that he feared China would be the chief sufferer by the war, should it occur, for she might be ground be- tween the tWo miilstones. The decgdence of the Chinese Gov-. ernment has never been more conspic- uously displayed than in these times, when her Ministers go from legation to legation imploring oth Governments to help China, without any thought of Chi; ‘helping herself. There is abso- lutely no strong man among the ruling Ministers. Wu Ting Fang, the well-known ex- Minister to the United States, tells his official friends that he despairs of Chi- na’s. future. “I see no hope.” he says, “for China. The partition of the empire, socner or later, is inevitable.” He is disgusted with the official life P-—kmg and proposes to resign his e\permn(fl is that of the| enlightened Chinese offi- He did good work in negotiating cials. the commercial treatiés recently signed, : and was summoned to Peking and given the vice presidency of the Board | of Commerce. The president of this| important board is Prince Tsai Chen, | a routh, whose only qualification for | the position is the fact that he took a! hurried trip around the world when he represented China at the coronation of | ; King Edward. Yet he vetoes most of | | the practical proposals made by the other members of the board. The greatest discouragement prevails among the provincial officials who come ; to Peking. They all declare that they never before found the Government so ! lacking in able men. The new Chinese Board of Commerce | | has promulgated the railway laws com- | piled by Wu Ting Fang, former Mini: ter to Washington and now vice presi- dent of the board, of which Prince Tsal Chen, son of Princg Ching, is president ‘These laws are calaulated to materially | cripple the borrowing capacity of the | v companies and to restrict the| control of the railways to the Chinese securi holders. The regulations fur- ther restrict the holding of shares by foreigners to a maximum of 50 per cent, and prevent the companies borrowin on land values, limiting the power of VACCOM TUBE EVITS SOUND Electrical Engineer Hears Lo\v Murmur Following Its Dis- connection From Battery IR T cial Dispatch e Call. NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Following the | announcement in London a few days ago that an English experimenter had found that his vacuum tube emitted | light for days after it had been discon- | nected from his battery, W. J. Ham- | mer, an electrical engineering expert of | | this city, declared to-night that he had | obtained sounds from a vacuum tube in the same way. After disconnecting it he laid it down on a pasteboard box | filled with excelsior, in which it was to be sent to a factory. a low note in the room ang traced it to | the discarded tube. He called his wife to hear the sound and both timed the | duration of the murmur. After five minutes had elapsed Ham- mer reconnected the tube with his in-! duction coil and reheated the perforated disk for a period of twenty ‘seconds. | Then he disconnected it and laid it on the board. This time the disk had re- sponded to the heat more readily, or for some other reason kept up the sound | fifteen minutes. He said to-night: “Evidently the unusual conditions in the damaged X-ray tube made it pe-! culiarly sensitive to sound waves in the surrounding ether. Mme. Currie ob- served the same sort of phénomena in connection with experiments with ""i dium—not that it gave forth heat and | light indefinitely without loss of bulk or | weight spectroscopically, for that con- tradicted all ideas of the conservation | of energy, but that the light waves in | ! the ether stimulated the radium so that the radium gave forth its wonderful lu- | minosity."” J ————— RUMOR THAT FAIR HEIRS WILL SETTLE Story Is to the Effect That Smiths Will Be Stisfied With Sum of $125,000 Each. NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—Rumors are in circulation at Newmarket, N.| J., that the Smiths, heirs of Mrs. | agreed to settle. The story goes that each is to receive $125,000 and dis- continue further contest. The truth of this is doubted by the friends of the Smiths. William P. Smith has gone to Colorado and this is believed to have started the,rumors. e Californians in New York. NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—The follow- ing Californians are here: From San Francisco—J. J. Coleman, at the Grand Union; W. D. Creighton, at the Astor House; A. J. Kuster, at the Grand Union, P. Moulton, F. F. Moul- ton and wife, at the Gilsey; P. M. Pike, at the Union Square; O. McAl- lister, Miss E. P. McAllister, M. H. Kc- Allister and wife, at the Manh: Miss Herrin, at the M Hill; lh B. Mackenzie, at the Ye From Los Angeles—F. H. Barnes, at the Broadway Central; C. E. Cor- don, at the Herald Square. < cennected with | osition at the first opportu- | Suddenly he heard | the mortgage to the machinery and the buildings. The railway companies must apply for concessions to both the new Board of Commerce and the Foreign | Office. ! VA GREAT BRITAIN'S ATTITUDE. Foreign Office Declines to Discuss Re- port That It Will Aid Japan. LONDON, Dec. 23.—The British For- eign Office declined to discuss the state- ments made in dispatches from Berlin to-d: At the German and other em- bassies the impression prevailed, not, however, based on any official infor- amation from the PBritish-Government, that the Nussian-Japanese negotiations | have reached such a point thht it would | not be at all surprising if Great Brit- ain expressed her willingness, provid- ing Japan agrees to accept certain spe- cific compromises, to guarantee to back | up Japan, if necessary, by force of | arms. Baron Hayashi, the Japanese Minis- ter here, in an interview said “Nothing has actually been arrived at between Great Britdin and Japan regarding the course of action that will be pursued in the event of a Rus- so-Japanese war beyond the stipula- | tions of the Anglo-Japanese treaty." | The Mintster, while admitting some | such arrangement for the support of ! Japan by Great Britain, fails to see | how Japan's demands can be modified. | “I am getting very pessimistic re- garding the eventual outcome,” he satd. i “but 1 do not expect the question of | peace or war to be settled until after “ the new year. If the dispute can only be settied. by war, the present delay, is greatly to Russia’s ad- In common with other diplomats in | London, Baron Hayashi shares the be- | lief that Russia’s reply is not likely to be decisive. | A dispatch to the Reuter Telegram Company from Tokio say “Incessant activity prevails at mili- tary headquarters. The transport and other arrangements are complete. The Government is calmly awaiting the Russian reply, whieh, it is hoped, will be' forthcoming without delay. Press dispatches from Korea report continued disturbances at Mokpho and the out- | break of a Tong Haik insurrection in | Chol-La-To province. The Tong Haiks are a party of malcontents, whose act- ‘l\lt\ was the immediate cause of the i war between China and Japan These | reports create uneasiness.” g | JAPANESE SQUADRON SAILS. { !supcrflnou: Woodwork on the Mi- ! kado’s Warships Being Removed. LONDON, De: 4—Special dispatches to the London morning newspapers | deal mainly with Japanese naval prepa- | rations. The Daily Mail's correspon- dents to-day admit that the steamers of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha have not yet been chartered and that no mobili- | zation orders have been issued, but itht‘)‘ give a rumor of the intention of FIRE DESTROYS A BIG BUILDING Blaze mel\s Out on the Up- per Floor of a Three-Story Brieck Edifice in Bakersfield . BAKERSFIELD, Dec. The three- | story brick building at (he corner of Nineteenth street and Chestnut avenue | owned by George Hopkins 1 cisco was to-night des of unknown origin. As a result from $10,000 to $15,000 worth of property was | destroyed and John Ramirez, a volun- teer fireman, lies in a dying condition at the County Hospital. The fire started in the third story, which had just been furnish:d as a lodging-house, and it had gained con- | siderable headway before an alarm was given. The firemen soon had four streams playing on the blaze and the | first and second floors were saved from destruction, but are badly damaged by water. It is impossible as yet to form an accurate estimate of the loss on the building, but the furniture, valued at several thousand dollars, was com- pletely destroyed. The loss is partly covered by insurance. A hose line was being run from the roof of an adjeining building, and it | was while handling this that Ramirez met with an accident. In the dark he | stumbled on the skylight and fell through to the floor beneath. His head rag badly crushed and he was removed to a hospital in an unconscious condi- tion. A physician who examined him | stated there is not the slightest hope of his recovery. At first great fear was expressed that the fire might spread and endanger the best business portion of the town, but it was held in check and prevented from spreading to adjoining buildings. —_—— PHYSICIAN SAYS GIRARD IS SERIOUSLY WOUNDED Prisoner’s Pulse Is Regarded as Un- favorable and He Undoubtediy Is Suffering Considerably. | SUISUN, Dec. 23.—Sheriff Frank | Grace of Santa Rosa arrived in Suisun |on the Oregon train to-night, having in his charge James Girard, who was arrested in Red Bluff yesterday, charged with the murder of Deputy Sheriff McKinnon in Sonuvma County a — | l from four gunshot wounds received at i the hands cf the officers who effected his capture. Sheriff Grace was com- pelled to remain here over night with his prisoner to await the departure of a train to Santa Rosa to-morrcw morn- ing. Girard was given lodgings in the County* Jail and Dr. Downing was called to ‘examine his wounds. The physician says that the prisoner’s pulse is unfavorable and that he :s undoubt- edly suffering = considerable pain. Girard, however, s very gritty and when interviewed in the jail seemed in- different to his fate. He said he did not think his wounds serious, aithough n,h thought on of the shots § m.‘ ifew weeks ago. Girard is suffering . Russia to seize Chlnw‘ng-ilo and re- port that a Japanese squadron of six battleships has left Sasho, 25 miles north of Nagasaki. The Daily Telegraph correspondemE at Nagasaki says that the Japanese fleet is replacing the Yocal soft coal in its bunkers with hard Weish steam coal and aiso that all superfluous wood work on the vessels is being removed. The Japanese legation here has no further news. Baron Hayashi, the Jap- anese Minister, and his staff will re- main in London over the Christmas holidays. In financial quarters, both in London and Paris, confidence is still unshaken that peace will be preserved. This con- nnnfl\lem‘e e reflected in the firmness ‘s bonds, which, though held a small extent in England, are held in France at an amount between $1,000,000,000 and $1,500,000,000, and it is contended that this fact alone will in- duce Foreign Minister Deleasse to take the strongest efforts to prevent Rus- sia going to war. The amountjof Jap- anese bonds held in Great Britain is said not to exceed $95,000,000. S s ia PATRIOTIC JAPANESE. Promise to Return to Orient in the Event of War With Russia. SAN JOSE, Dee. 23.—An agent of the Japanese Consul at San Francisco is at work among the Japanese resi- dents of this county enlisting aid in case of war between Japan and Rus- sia. It is said there are about 1000 Japanese in Santa Clara County, and they are promising financial aid and offering to return home to fight if war comes. The consular agent ad- dressed a large meeting of Japanese in | Star Hall at Alviso last night. The was handsomely decorated with | an and Japanese flags and pa- addresses held the audience un- til long after midnight. Many of those | present became so imbued with patri- | otic enthusiasm that they failed to: report- at the various orchards for | work to-day. The agent was taken for a cruise upon the bay off Alivso to-day and treated to a banquet. Santa Clara and this city will be visited next and then other points of the county. This missionary work will also extend throughout the State. Nearly every Japanese not married or engaged in business in this county is said to have volunteered to go home and fight Russia; the others have promised money for the cause. | ITALY WATCHING THE RIVALS. Rumor of Declaration of War Gains | Wide Currency in Rome. | ROME, Dec. 23.—The situation in the | Far East is being followed with great | interest here. The rumor which gained | wide currency in Rome that‘war had | been declared between Russia and Ja- pan was promptly contradicted by Oho- vama, the Japenese Minister to Italy. | who in an interview to-day said that | Japan had the complete sympathy of the United States, which desired the pacific development of Korea. The Min- | ister said he did not know what atti- tude would be taken by the United States Government in the case of war between Russia and Japan. ‘Rear Admiral Delibero, naval aid to King Victor Emmanuel, has been or- dered to the command of the Italian squadron in the Far East, rendered va- cant through the resignation of Ad- miral Mirabello as Minister of Marine. R RUSSIA'S REPLY IS READY. Early Conclusion of the Negotiations ‘With Japan Seems Unlikely. ST. PLTERSBURG, vec. 23.—Rus- sia’s reply to Japan is momentarily ex- pected to be delivered. The Foreign Office officials and diplomats continue to express the opinion that, as both parties earnestly desire a peaceful set- tlement, and as their allies have left nothing undone to this end, war will be averied. An early conclusion of the negot. .:s, however, seems unlikely. In regard to the Viadivostok dis- patch saying Viceroy Alexieff had been | authorized to settl> on the spot all questions concerning neighboring states, etc.. the Foreign Office declares that the Viceroy's powers remain as determined by the ukase issued on Au- gust 3. p = BATTLE ON CHINESE BORDER. ioreans Invade Mongolian Soil and Are Resisted by Hungchun Troops. SHANGHAI Dec. 22.—The Tartar general at Kirlin reports that an inde- ive battle has occurred between four battalions of Chinese from Hungchun and 1500 Koreans, who invaded Chinese territory from Kyeng-Chung in North- east Korea. BONDS T0 BUY TAFT ISSIES FRIAR LANDS MANT PARDONS Bureau in Charge Will Dis- Governor of Philippines Ex- pose of Holdings fo Present Tenants on Long Terms | AT Tl AGREEMENT IS SIGNED! —— Area Aggregates Nearly 400,- 000 Paid More Than $7,000,000 e MANILA, Dec. 23.—The agreement | for the sale of the friar lands has been signed, to take effect in six months, the time allowed for surveys and ex- amination of titles. The bureau or- ganized to administer the affairs of these lands will dispose of them when possible to the present tenants on long terms of payment. Three-fourths of this land is included within the popu- lated districts, which makes it a dif- ficult proposition for the administra- tive bureau. WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.—President Roosevelt and Secretaries Root and Shaw had an extended conference to- day regarding the issue of bonds for the raising of money with which to pay for the friar lands in the Philippines. Secretary Root is in receipt of a cablegram from Governor Taft an- nouncing that the contracts for the purchase of the lands were signed yes- terday. The provision for payment, Governor Taft indicates, is that the Government shall use due diligence in the necessary surveys, examination of title and sale qf bends, and shall con- summate the purchase within a pe- riod not excesding six months from the date of contract. Unless new sur- veys shall differ materially from the Villegas survey, the exact amount ¢ the purchase price of the lands is $7,239,784. The lands to be purchased aggregate 391,000 acres. Governor Taft's cablegram cludes as follows: _ “As soon as your recommendation is received will post act reciting making of contract and authorize you to issue bonds much the same in form as laws aythorizing issue of certificates of in- debtedness.” At the conference to-day it was de- termined to authorize the 'issue of $7,000,000 of 4 per cent Philippine bonds, con- redeemable after ten and within thirty year They will be offered for | sale early in January. An act of the last Congress provided for the issue of such bonds. They will be accepted by the Government as security for the de- posit of public bonds. Some details concerning the issue of the bords yet have to be worked out, but no doubt is expressed that a ready market for them will be found in lhls country. —_————————— COLLECTOR CRUZON RESIGNS POSITION | Recent Investigation Into Smuggling | in Porto Rico Causes Officer of Port to Step Out. SAN JUAN, P. R., Dec. 23.—A ca-| blegram has been received from Sec- retary of the Treasury Shaw accept- ing the resignation of Alonzo Cruzon, Collector of Customs of Porto Rico. It is believed here that W. H. Elliott of Indiana, Commissioner of Interior for Porto Rico, will succeed Cruzon and he in turn will be succeeded by R. H. Post of New York, who at pres- ent is auditor of Porto Rico. It is reported that President Roose- | velt will permit Senator Beveridge of Indiana to name the new collector. , The resignation of Cruzon is the result of the recent investigations into the charges of smuggling made | against certain officers of the United States navy and Porto Rican officials. —_————————— BURGLARS TAKE SAFE AWAY ON A SLEIGH | Robbers Then Use Explosives and Se- cure $4000 in Gold Coin and Jewelry. BOULDER, Colo.,, Dec. 23.—The Sheriff here has received word from Elkhorn, a mining camp, that cracks- men entered a saloon at that place i and carried away the iron safe on a A quarter of a mile from town | sled. the robbers blew the safe open and secured $4000 in gold coin and jew- elry. — e Heavy Mail for England. NEW YORK, Dec. 23.—The White Star line steamship Teutonic, sailed to-day, carried 2853 sacks of mail for Great Britain. included more than 800,000 letters. —_———— ADVERTISEMENTS. “SLOANE’S’ 9 AT CHRISTMAS TIME Choicé Sczlections to Choose From Novel and Exclusive Designs in every department. We invite inspection of goods and comparison of prices. W. & J. SLOANE & CO. Carpets — Furniture — Draperies 114-116-118-120-122 Post Strect. The shipment | Acres and Price to Be! | ers on the approach of the | voilochy Ca tends Clemency to Prisoners on Eve of His Departure L.\‘DRU.\'E.\' LOOT AND MAIM Bnmlil.-x Rifle at Bosoboso Injure the and Town's P ISR Treasary Seriously Presidente MANILA. has pardo® Dec. Taft several Filipino prison- Christmas festival, Including the priest Leopardo Depusey, who was un sentence of death by a military court for burying alive the Presidente of Taytay, which had been commuted to penal servitude for a period of twenty Ladrones recently looted the muni pal treasury at Bosobosc, in Luzon. They cavtured the Presidente and cut the tendons «f his heels. The constab- ulary pursued the band and succeeded in recovering part of the stolen funds. Go nor Taft’s departure, arranged for to-day, has be delayed until to- morrow, the 24th iast. when it is ex- pected he will leave fo: the United States, via T¢ » and Henolulu. d pr w of Lord Abinger. LONDON, Dec. 23 —The late Lord Abinger, who died suddenly in Paris December 12, in his will left every- thing possible to his mother. The new peer, with whom the deceased was not particularly friendly, gets only the strictly entailed property, about 25990 acres in England. Lady Abinger, the deceased peer’s mother, v was the daughter of the late Commeodore Ma- gruder, U N., gets the historic In- and the town house, | with all its valuable collections of pie- which | ! | ! ! s } S e R A e L et S e tures and bric-a-brac. ADVERTISEMENTS. SECURED $175,000 ::FOR :: SAN FRANCISCO Plan is to Treat the Subject from a Practical Standpoint. MR. A. N. JACKSON, Who purchased the entire stock of the BANKRUPT FIRM OF THE BOSTON WOOLEN MILLS OF BOS- TON, MASS., on the 1%h inst., has secured the premises at 997 and 999 Market St., CORNER SIXTH, where he intends to dispose, of the same, beginning on Monday Next, the 28th Inst. The entire stock, consisting of the latest in Men’s, Boys’ and Children’s Suits, Overcoats, 'Pants, Ete. will be thrown ogen to the pub- lic at Prices That Will Create a Furor It is impossible to praise this eveat too highly. Every man, woman and child will be enraptured with the great bargain opportunities. Wait and Watch for This Great Event. Cosvaiiar 7, ALWAYS ON TIME For Christmas or any other occasion linen handled here is delivered when wanted and as wanted—in perfect condi- tion as to cleanliness and @nish—the shirts fit about the neck. col and cuffs are not rivals of saws and the work in gemeral is pleasing to the crit- ical eye. Can you ask more or expect less? <o saw edges. UNITED STATES LAUNDRY OFFICE 1004 MARKET STREET. Xear Powell. _ Phone South 420. Koliday Gifis EYE GLASSES OPERA GLASSES KODAKS And Other Useful Articles. '8 3 ~