The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 28, 1904, Page 2

" THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1904. JUST GROUND FOR MEDIATION | | | | OYAMA'S ARMIES ENVELOPING KUROPATKIN'S POSITION WILL SOON CLOSE IN FOR BATT LE — Dar Association’s Committee |+ on international Law Dis- (‘ouu’uuti ¥From Page 1, Column 5. cuisses the War in Orient |»ukden. 7Thus far the Russians have | | found little strength or pressure from | SRR G | the Jap: e center. Oyama seems to BIEPORTS OINQ ™ 13 be moving with great deliberation, REPORT: CONSIDERED probubly gathering strength for a | ——— rapid advance of both wings when the " . | attempt is made to close the net. Sir Robert Finley, Attorney! Although the imaginary line con- £ » necting the extreme Japanese advance General of England, Unable . east and west of Mukden 1o Attend the Convention ten miles below that ci dent that the fate of Mukden cannot long be delayed. If General Kurop: ———-—— 'kirv inténds to try to hold the ¢ e = fighting on his flanks will begi . LOUIS, Sept he second | most smmediately. ¥'s session of the American Bar As- ciation was called to order to-day by STRIKING FOR TIE PASS. resident Jam Hagerman of St | H Russia’s Main Position the Objective wt executive session, the of the Japanesc. | & n was resumed and the! ST. PETERSBURG, 28, 2:05 | s the Hon. Amos a. m.—The Mukden telegram to the ' tes Circuit Judge | Berlin Lokal Anzeiger, reporting that of St. Louis, was | the Japanese had crossed thé Hun| ranklin Ferris, of | River, fifty miles above the city, is| Thayer w believed to refer to scouting partie: ui £ heavy cold was unable ' of Japanes 3 of Japanese, w ce there was | w d the ad himself. The! in th ¢ | € rec i hes Se - ubje the address was “The Louis- b’;,.urzim 8 Fhe Sspeiches o Sepren-| 2n Its and De- Iufluence { The movement of Japanese forces on the Liao River, which was repo ed in a dispatch from General Sakha- roff to the general staff on Septe is all the more s i Judge Thayer's addres s occupied with s the reporis of of the reports a nchan is the startinz t of roac ding to Tie Pass, Mukder and Sin- | - MR Apath. Semern- ntin. The #@nnouncement that the | Abbott of Georgia | R ns are fortifying Fakoman, | and made &n address twen miles northeast of Muk- | - 3 xtent Will a Nation gen, shows that General Kuropat is Citizens in Foreign Coun- | preparing to chec the flanking | i movement on Tie Pass from the west, | I Association then listened to re-|in case Sinmintin should have to hel d f special committees. evacuated. | mittee on jurispru- The entire absence of news from Port Arthur, it is feared, indicates closer blockade there. Hitherto d patches from General Stoessel have been coming through semi- kly. The Admiralty has not received any details of the reported sea fight off a, at the southeastern e: y | aghalien. The Viadivostok it is understood, is still .d States has done much to harbor. The cannonading at m submitted its re- with sales of honorary combinations or trusts rt of the standing committee al law, which was adopt- s the more important year in the field of in- v cluding the review | | | 1 ¢ arbitration Was probably a Japanese attack on | F blockade runners. ‘ discusses the Russo-Jap- _ A telegram received here from | yme length, saying: Batoum, reporting t reservists are | ot Sor Four comm being transported along the Cauca- to pass t upon the merits of this war; submit that the Japanese f & character that affords just zround for mediation under the second title of The Hague convention.” The majority report of the standing ymmittee on commereial law was also | bmitted. A lengthy esentation of the report of the com- ittee on jurisprudence and law re-| rm. The r t of the committee on judi- il administration and remedial pro- dure was received and laid on the sian lines, brings the first intimation that troops there are being mobilized. There are only two army corps in the Caucasus, and one of these arently has been ordered to the Far East. - BOXERS P! MASSACRE. discussion followed the Distribute Circnlars Naming October | 17 as Date for Outbreak. SHANGHAI Sept. 27.—Reports re- ceived from the northwestern part of the province of Shantung say that the | Shotuan “Boxers” are openly distoib- | uting prospectuses, couched in the read from Sir Robert F. | same language as those circulated be- torney General of England, fore the uprising of 1900. These pros-! » have delivered an address, | servances and fix October 17 | ne pectuses order precisely similas Ob-‘ nexr. as the date fe foreigners. or the extermination of all According to a dispatch from} Shanghai September 1, the North Chi- na Herald, commenting on recent oc= | currences at Tamingfu, province of| Pechili, where a number of Armerican | missionaries had to leave owing to the threatening attitude of the “Box- ers,” sald: It ought to be mentioned that news of h threatened risings travels swiftly and nothing sage. Its effect OYAMA'S VANGUARD DEFEATED. ues the Retreat- Russian Cavalry P ing Japas ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. general staff has received the follow- 1 General Sakharoff, % ny's vanguard, consisting of one battalio d two squadrons of ! cavalry, ha assumed the offensive, probably for reconnai¢sance, in the district between the Mandarin road und the heights of the village of Tou- myt His advance was stopped by our troops. The enemy retreated along the hole line, pursued by our cavalry. The enemy has not yet ad- vanced north of Davan, on the left bank of the Liao River, but an in- creased force has been observel in the hborhood of Sianchan. Japanese ca ry have appeared in the wvalley of the Liao River. e e JAPANESE LOSS IS HEAVY. Night Attack Upon Port Arth Thirteen Hundred Idves. LONDON, Sept. 27.—A telegram t a local news agency from St. Peters: burg a dispatch has been re-| ceived by the official news agency there from Harbin saying that the| Japanese lost 1300 killed during the | | night attack on Port Arthur on Sep- tember 18. The Russian warships, it is added, rendered valuable assistance | in repulsing the Japanese. S A Russia’s Bean Cakes Are Deadly. CHEFU, Sept. 7.—Chinese from Port Arthur say that the battle which began on September 19 continued in- termittently until September 24. In defending one fort the Russians rolled bean cakes down on the massed Jap- anese. These bean cakes are very heavy, and are pressed into the shape of circular grindstones. BT Winter Outfits on the Way. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 27.—The commissariat department is already prepared to furnish winter outfits for half a million- men. About 478,000 sets of fur caps, cloaks and boots are proceeding to the Far East. his regret that he was un- =nd the convention. general council recommended th F. M. Huffaker of Nevada be eclected a2 member of that body to rep- ént Nevada, that State not having ® represented in the council for NOTHING REMAINS OF VAST FORTUNE OF B. F. LANGI'ORD Pioneer of San Joaquin, Though Re- puted to Be Wealthy, Dies a ty vears. The Association ratified | Poor Man. ction of Huffaker. | STOCKTON, Sept. 27.—It appears, ciation then adjourned until | ¢t the late Senator Benjamin F. when th . - F n the convention Will ;. ngfora died comparatively a poor man. At one time he was sunpose(} “alifornians i 7 |to be one of the wealthiest men o ezoss e .m‘“ushlngton. | this section. He was engaged in near- HINGTON, Sept. 27.—The fol- | ly every great industry of the county alifornians are in Washing- | up to a few years ago. He was the At the New Willara—W. A. ' pioneer fruit grower of the county, é co: M. J | the great Langford orchard colony . B. A. Babrosis, Los An- | being of his foundation. As one of the Riggs House—W. H. the original company manufactufing | and wife, J. F. Haskell, of 'a combined harvester, as a banker BCO. and in many other ways he was sup- posed to have made fortunes. | = Although it was known that his | holdings were considerably reduced, | the statement made to-day that he died a poor man was received with | surprige. It is stated that he did not leave even life insurance. | The remains of ex-Senator Lang- |ford were taken to Oakland this e . Sir Knight Wm. H. Maneely, simicc s, Sinin: 32d Degree, of Mary Commandery, accompanied the body. JNO. J. FULTON. CO. I f S ey Philadelphia, Attends the Con- coupT ORDERS STOCKTON clave and Tells of His Narrow SOLON TO PAY AL‘L\lONY &cnpe From Death by Bright's Disease — Was Sustained by Ice Senator Muenter Must Take Care of | Packs When Put on Fulton’s Com- His Wife During Pendency of pound One Year Ago. Her' Divoree Suit. - g —— STOCKTON, Sept. 27—State Sena- = {'}’-1{_’_“P}"‘,me’l‘,;hman:eg;;{ml140; tor August E. Muenter has been or- Commandery, called at our office| dered to pay his wife $200 per month Conclave last week and gold | alimony, $200 costs and $508 attor- derful escape from death. He ! ney fe The order was made in the : nd opened up the con- Superior Court after a hearing at ng. Do I look like a|which it was brought out that the de- fendant’s ate. was worth abou dying with Bright's Dis stated that he had had both Bright's $149-000. Mrs. Muenter is suing for | o year ugo was so low he could not r:;::: mamh%l: hm‘lr‘u 2 time and at WANT TO PROTECT YOUTHS ut in ice packs. X 2 .3 leading physician of g;ilmlzf- TR WS OF B phia, at the head of one of the largest | institutions, sent word to him that he Temperance Advocates of Ventura ::]n:mhfd aev;rll' % 1 fecover under a| Start a Crusade Against Those medicine made in ‘ranci Sell Pulton's Compound, and he beliera o Who g ime. would cure him. He sent for it. and the, VENTURA, Sept. 37.—Advocates of :\)(l:g ;‘,;‘;;;j.",;";‘:g: i(;]ldl;ne first good | temperance here have been roused to was then gradual and continions unti] | ACtVity by the drinking habits of the he is now the picture of health. youths of the town. They held a meet- He stated that Richard Filbert, an- ing last night and decided there were ?:g:‘r’e?:i?:;‘ né:.\':‘ :‘!.'Pdhiindelnm-. had | too many saloons in Ventura and to- 50 interested that be had pmhlb:;‘d‘l::: ? “,"’";.‘3}’ g‘t‘l‘:ngd e cfi’ Cm;:mu over a hundred bottles of Fulton's Com. | oaoi e i Ty pound to friends to get them started, | o Cp Driocd Jn circulation. Many and that he had given away aver two | SiSnatures were obtained. do::‘h!n‘::;lf: u‘s;z t::; :e had induced | R e T P a or whose wife tabet -1 Tries Steal Ride and urt. Bcribe it for her, and that the tgng{gfl o 5 i #ow admitted that “a miracle was being | REDDING, Sept. 27.—After being }7;”.‘1'.'.3"{‘3‘:«'?:?:..:5’:.“':: ‘r'ci‘covenng." | ejected from a train at Cottonwood, 0 was at- | n tending a wealthy citizen who was fad. | LUmer Sparr, a young v ing away with Bright's . A month from Oregon, sought to board it again. later he called on Mr. Maneeiy to tell | AS he ran along beside the track bim that the patient was so veq | ready to swing himself on the rods he and so teful to the nurse that he told failed to notice a trestle and fell if it kept up a year he would give | through it, a distance of twenty feet. ‘meflv ARG vl Onelsh‘;n‘llge;l was gislocaudhand he 3 y also two - | recelved injuries to his head that have g:fl:}‘xl:' mmm; '“"""b:nf Eh“:‘; left him in a comatose condition. The Sl Shverel. started a physicians at the hospital here fear He added that E. T. Snow of 1815 Co- that Sparr is injured internally and lumbia avenue had told him that there | Delieve that his injuries will prove were now fifiy-two physicians in Phila- | fatal. delphia regularly prescribing the Fulton Mr. Maneel, ———— Cattle Die From Neglect. SALINAS, Sept. 27.—County Veter- inarian G. F. Faulkner, who has just returned from the coast near Pacific | Grove, where he has been investigat- | ing the reported existence of a new | sipgle statement involves six recoveries | Cattle disease, says the report is among people of all of whom S8roundless. The cattle, he says, died were Suppesed to be and | from neglect. thought they M‘N‘k.u e e —————— We again announce wo! e udville curability of t's disease and dia- Becomes Va Actress. SAN JOSE, Sept. 27.—Miss Ger- Dbrtes in abont per cent of all cases. Scod for pamphlct and 1ist of agents to | trude Holmes, a well-known society girl of this city, has adopted the stage 0. 3. Fulton Co.. 409 Washington st., | for a profession. She made her de- n_Franeisco. [ but at the Unique Vaudeville Theater When to suspect Bright's Weakness or Joss of welght, pufly an-| 'coni Cruz this week. Miss Holmes is well known in Phila- degree Mason, d _questions above. y-second in the worl address is kles, hands or eyelids, kidney trouble > " o b w 1s a prominent member of the San arise the third ,_.: ‘drowsinesss— Lllmonuflnswlew. and pretty and one of more of these. : accomplished — LITTLE CHILD DROWNED i IN WATERS OF SPRING Three-Year-Old Boy Meets Death ‘While Doing Errand for His AMother. LODI, Sept. 27.—Orrin Davis, the | three-year-old son of J. L. Davis of | ‘Wallace, was drowned in a spring yes- terday. He had gone to obtain water | for the house and fell in. His mother | was the first to learn of his fate. It is surmised that the recent rains made the earth around the spring soft and that when the child reached down to dip up the water he fell in and was drowned. i —_——— | MELICK LEAVES HOSPITAL | FOR DEATHBED OF MOTHER | Official, Who Is Very 11, Refuses (DI Allow Sickness to Interfere With Filial Duty. SACRAMENTO, Sept. 237.—Walter S. Melick, secretary of the State Board of Examiners, who has been se- riously ill for some time, left the hos pital to-day and took the Owl train for Los Angeles to be in attendance at | his mother’s deathbed. His friends | attempted to dissuade him from go ing, but no consideration -of his own state of health would keep him from goilx;,g what he deemed to be filial uty. —_————— LADY CURZON’S CONDIFION CHANGES FOR THE WORSE Latsst News From Walmer Castle Leaves Little Hope for Her Recovery. LONDON, Sept. 27.—A dispatch from Walmer Castle to a lacal news | agency says: “It is learned on good authority | that Lady Curzon has undergone a | change for the worse and that her condition is critical.” ——— el . No Peace in Uruguay. BUENOS AYRES, Sept. 27.—Not- withstanding the general feeling of satisfaction in Uruguay over the con- clusion of a treaty of peace between | the Government and the revolutionists | eight revolutionary leaders, including | two members of the family of the ! late General Aparicio Saravia, have announced that they decline to recog- nize the action of General Munoz, who claimed to act for the revolutionists, and that they will continue hostilities under the command of General Pam- pillon, with a force estimated at 6000 men. Jail Breaker Is Recaptured. SANTA ROSA, Sept. 27.—Sheriff J. Bailey. of Willows, Glen County, re- turned to his home this afternoon from this city, having in custody W. J. Swift, a man who recently broke jail and escaped from the Sheriff’s charge. Swift had cut the throat of a resident of Willows during a scuffle and at his trial had been found guilty. He was sentenced to six months In the County Jail, but he tunneled from beneath the walls and secured his liberty before half that time had expired. —_———————— DETMOLD, Principality of % 27. t Leopold, eldest of n e son ot Co s'finn. —Cout the dead regent, has - + FREE——FREE——FREE TOBOGOAN SYRUP Made from Selected VERMONT MAPLE SUGAR. A Can of this Incomparable Syrup FREE with Want Ads. | while. WATER WAGON FOR KNIGHTS Returning Templars Visit California Exhibit at Fair, but Drink Only Ice Water TEXAS MAN'’S THEORY Exhibitor From Lone Star State Says Native Orchard- ists Imnvite Competition £ KO BY PAUL EDWARDS. CALL BUREAU, PRESS BUILD- ING, WORLD'S FAIR, Sept. Eastern Knights Templar who attend- ed the conclave in San Francisco have been prominent on the World's Fair grounds since that event, most of them having taken the opportunity to visit the exposition on their return home. 0 The Knights have come back filled' with feelings of the highest regard for | the Golden State and its metropolis and they have made themselves par- ticularly at home at the California and San Francisco buildings. At both those places it became peculiarly po- ticeable that they refused to accept any hospitality in the way of wines or other cheering beverage, even eschew. ing the claret punch served ag the Cal- ifornia building. “Why is it you people never drink anything?” asked State Commissioner ‘Wiggins of one of the Knights, his cu- riosity over the phenomenon becoming uncontainable. “I never heard that you had a blue ribbon auxiliary and | even if you never drank anything be- | fore in your lives, a trip to California | should teach you thar the vineyard ur Costs | ! has something good to offer.” ~‘Ah, that's just it,” replied Knight addressed, and his hand went o his head as if in recollection. “We have been to California. We don’t want anything more for a year. With | one accord, we all agreed to be good after we got over it and started on our way home. Place not the ruby wine in front of us. They bathed us in it out there in California. Some of the wet towels were only taken off as we neared St. Louis. We had the time of | our lives and we are not looking for anything more from the vine for a ‘When the Californians start in to give you a good time they give it to you and we had it in San Frapcisco. Ice water will do us for a long time to come. We all hope to go to California again.” Signs were immediately’ hung up in the State and the city buildings: “Ice water served here for Knights Tem- plar who have just come from Cali-| fornia.” There is a man in one of the Texas exhibits who has an original idea con- cerning the effect of California’s ad-’ vertising at the fair. Some original ideas are novel and some are amusing, but his is both. He sees thé same dan- ger to California from her advertising that some people imagine will befail the Caucasian nations through the en- lightenment of Japan and China — a danger that California will be undone by enlightening competitors. His idea is that California should practice the | clam act, as against the rest of the United Seates, and not let others know of the profits from her orchards and vineyards, so she can keep the busi- ness all to herself and let the other de- luded regions, with warm climates, go on raising buckwheat and squash— Texas in particular. It was to Webb Pearce of the Alame- da county display that the Texan un- bosomed himself and sounded the note of warning. “You fellows out there are going to ruin yourselves,” he said; “why, you'll have a dozen States pro- ducing all sorts of fruits and driving you out of business if you keep on showing yourself off like you are doing. Look at the effect of your display at the Chicago Fair and the stories about a man buying two acres of land on credit and asking for an option on the | Gould properties five years afterward, and all off apricots or Tokay grapes. Every State that thought it could grow fruit began booming the industry. Some people went broke, because their ruit wasn’t good? Of course, but that won’t stop them. You know the gen- erally accepted theory outside of Cali- fornia now is that if a sufficient acre- age of fruit trees is planted the cli- mate will change so as to mature the fruit properly. That's what I hear on the low down is the secret of Califor- nia’s good fruit. Just the same as the theory that forest trees bring rain. Oh, some of us fellows in other States are getting wise and we are going to break in on this good thing that Cali- fornia thinks she has all to herself.” “Well, while they are all waiting for their orchards to produce, all we ask is that they sémg out to Alameda for their fruit supplf,” said Pearce. “We'll try to lay up a little money from those sales before competition kills us.” As a matter of fact. Texas has com- missioners in California now and has had at various times for years, gath- ering all possible information concern- ing the growing of fruits and grapes and sofl and climate. That State is working hard to_promote the fruit in- dustry. Its display at this fair, how- ever, doesn’t show it to be any serious rival of California at present and one of its representatives here has been State in the ,Union in fruit growing “except California.” It will be an im- portant fruit producing State some day, though. e CALIFORNIANS AT THE FAIR. ST. LOUIS, Sept. 27.—The following visitors have registered at the Califor- nia building: San Francisco—J. T. Clark, I B. Clark, Mrs. A. B. Huggins, F. R. McAlister, E. Bradley, 3 i vife, L. A. Lee, Mrs. ¥. B. . Donahue and wife, i M, Foster, J. 8. Bund, Jx;e‘.\r."Box%ue; W, Crew, L. Haas, M. P. Leighty, W. Sandee: Mrs. M. Schrueéder, O. Schrueder, A. L. Del mar. V., E. Freeman and wife, P. A. Worm- gr. AAA McAlister, Mri. Ffiu. fgnosdm;n.lflg. . " A" Sufridge, ‘G. M. Beremond, A. 3 C. E. Baker, A T. Johns, T. E. Wolt, H. W. Willis, M. M Liggett and wite. Los Angeles—J. T. Morgan and family, Mrs. H. A, Lewls, L. James, A. H. Cutter, Mrs, C. N. ‘Buckler,’ G| Rowley, E. S. Rowley and ife, V. Perkins, M. Nebbia, B. Parker, T. . Shields, 0. J. . F. E. Browne and | wité, A. Bank G. N. Parks, D. Emmert, A. P. Gill and_wite, N. Guilick, B. Emmert, E. E. Horton, Mi ..C. an, ia G o Hanifin, R. Schill- ‘Hutcheson, Cow: Oakland'—V. Rankin, A. aEW, B. B. Robison, C. Mrs. C. B, Miscelianeous—J. Cairns and wife, C. Cairns, Nevada City; J_ J. Saunders, Merced; Mrs. T. Seburn, Riverside; W. A. rs. P. Redding; H. L. Radford, Mrs, w. Freidenrich, 8. G. Gassaway, in SUNDAY CALL. See Announcement on Classified / Page. Johnson, Pomona; F. E. Johnston and ‘tamily, Napa; G. M. Paurer, Pasadena; A, H. Biggs, Sacramento; H. C., Dewey. Pomona; P. = Cothrim, Sacramento; L. G. Hurlbutt and wife, Sespe: R. Donald 'and wite, M. F. Donald, Birds Landing; G. Nolen, . _Vallejo; Mrs.' J. C. : W R den, Dixon; H. Cormttane, od Biug; T, Wobler, Grase uff; T. Wol Roberts, Vacaville; G. F. Mc- H. ; C. L. the ' heard to say that it could beat any | SUPREME COURT WILL RENDER DECISION TO-DAY IN REPUBLICAN FACTIONS’ SUIT, OF WISCONSIN [APOLOGY WILL BE FORTHCOMING 1 icaminned From Page 1, Column 2. i | known though they be as Stalwarts. This fact—that the defeat of the Stalvguta and their elimination from | the situation would be to the benefit of | the Republican national ticket—does {not of course argue one way or the 9‘Lher as to the justice of their cause. This is the more irritating to them, of course, believing their cause to be | Just. Neither is the question of the | right or wrong of party management jor policy a question before the court. { It is simply one of ‘regularity”— Which convention was governed by the statutes provided in such cases. CLAIMS OF THE RIVALS. The Halfbreeds will tell you that the Stalwarts were mere bolters from the regularly called convention, and that the State Committee certified to its work. The Stalwarts will point you to the decision of the national convention in their favor and declare, as they did to the court, that the State Committee was not competent to pass judgment in'a matter in which a majority of its own members were personally interested. The Halfbreeds will quote from the lan- ! guage of the chairman of the com- mittee of three reporting to the na- tional convention that their decision had nothing to do with the State ticket and refer to the fact that the ontention in court is predicated on he proposition that the national convention is the highest political power and the claim of the Stalwarts that there is nothing therefore for the court to do but to follow it in its decision, while yet that convention had refused to assume responsibility in this matter and had practically submitted it to the court for determi- nation. But whatever the judgment of the court, there is no doubt that Governor | La,Follette will go right along with his campaign. Should it favor the powerful faction of which Senator Spooner is the leader, and thus leave thc two factions at active warfare through the campaign, George W. Peck, Democratic nominee for Gov- ernor, has better than a fair chance for election and Democrats even hope to carry the State for Parker as a result of the dissatisfaction and the confu- sion which will result in the voting booths. Senator Spooner promised that the national ticket should not be endan- gered by the defection of the Stal- warts. He thought to keep his prom- ise by placing on the Stalwart ticket for elec{ors the same thirteen names that were on the Halfbreed ticket. | But there is a provision in the election law of Wisconsin, placed there by Re- publicans to defeat fusion, that has remained to plague these Stalwarts. No name of a candidate may appear upon two tickets. The electors nom- | inated by both conventions were asked | to designate which ticket they would go upon before the people. They chpse the La Follette ticket. Now, if the Stalwarts are declared “regular” and are given first place on the big ballot two things remain to be done. The Stalwarts must name other thi teen electors and so divide the Repub- lican vote on the national ticket, or , they must leave the place vacant and trust to the election, by the ald of | their own votes, of the men on the La | Follette ticket, which, by the decision | of the court, will have been declared to be not the regular Republican | ticket. CONFUSION IS CERTAIN. The La Follette men, the Half- | breeds, must, in case the decision of | the court favors the Stalwarts, take | some other name than plain “Repub- | lican” in order to get on the ticket at all. So, in case both factions are on | the ticket there must necessarily re- | sult great confusion which must in it- | self cost Mr. Roosevelt many votes. ! Should the Stalwarts take the place on the ballot of the regular Republican | ticket and should they on the ticket l leave the place of the electors vacant— | a strange thing for a regular Repub- lican ticket in a Presidential contest— | how many of the rank and file having | voted that ticket “straight,” would | turn to some other ticket to vote for | the Presidential electors, or rather, how | many would there be who would for- | get to do so? |, It will be seen that a nasty situa- tion exists in Wisconsin which is to be vitally influenced by to-morrow’s | decision of the Supreme Court to be | rendered on the 27th. If judgment | favors the Stalwarts, Wisconsin be- | comes a doubtful State. If it turns | down the Stalwarts it is not likely, in | view of all these circumstances, that | they will press their canvass, and by {a change of name still seek a place | on the ballot. The letter of Mr. Cook, announcing his purpose to abide by the decision, is accepted as an indica- | tion to this end, although members !of the following are fond of saying | since its publication that he is not the | Stalwarts. Those who know who the | Stalwarts are, how that their leaders | are big in political influence and were quickly accredited at the National Con- vention and how they are deemed | among the President’s stanchest | champions, can nevertheless easily un- | derstand why thew get but little com- | fort just now at Mr. Cortelyou’s office. e’ PARKER’S PENSION SCHEME. Commissioner Ware Says It Would Cost $25,000,000 to $40,000,000. WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.—Pension Commissioner Ware to-day said the cost of a service pension law such as Judge Parker suggested in his letter of acceptance would be from $25,000,000 to $40,000,000, depending upon the unknown number of veterans now unpensioned and upon the administra~ tion of the Jaw. | _“President Roosevelt's order,” said | Ware, “simply anticipates by a few | months, or a few years, what the vet- eran could get any way and the amounts that are paid out by reason of it, although difficult to compute, are comparatively small, especially in view of the saving which it makes in administration.” —te s SPEAKS IN MANY OITIES. i | BUTTE, Mont., Sept. 27.—With a speech at Anaconda late this after- noon and two in this city to-night, | Senator Charles W. Fairbanks con- ; cluded his second day in Montana. The itinerary for the day covered the line of the Northern Pacific Railroad party passed from the upper Yellow- stone country into the Gallatin Val- ley, crossing the continental divide. In addition to Anaconda and Butte cept Bozeman practically the entire population turned out to welcome the |’ e _« State Department Calls on | Attorney General to Aet in Gurney Fining Case Vice Presidential candidate and hi associates and the exception at Boze- | man was caused by a misunderstand- | | ing of the time of arrival. At Living-| ston and Big Timber the school chil- dren were marshaled for especial dis- | i play and formed a notable feature of | ! the meeting. | | At Bozeman the speaking platform | was erected on the street immediately | { under the windows of the law office | of ex-Congressman Hartman, who was | one of the leaders of the Silver Re- | | publicans’ bolt in 1896. He listened | to the speeches from his window and | STATE TO “BEG PARDON” Federal and Massachusetts Officials Investigating the Slight on British Embass from Bililngs to this point and the| one of the things he heard was a de-| nunciation of Senator Dolliver of the | Democratic party for deserting the silver men at the last convention and an invitation to those remaining out to return to the Republican fold. el it i WOULD BUY PRESIDENCY. Money Kings Said to Have Put $11,~ 000,000 Into Parker’s Fight. BOSTON, Mass., Sept. 27.—The Bos- i ton Journal to-day claims to have in- formation that a gigantic fund of $11,- 000,000 for the election of Parker was released yesterday by the publication of Parker’s letter of acceptance to the Presidential nomination. This fund was pledged some time ago by eleven millionaires, each contributing $1,- 000,000, the whole underwritten by | August Belmont, Parker’s manager. The eleven men who will be called upon to make good their promises are August Belmont, John D.Rockefeller, James J. Hill, Thomas D. Ryan, Her- man Ridder, O. H. P. Belmont, Jo-| seph Pulitzer, James K. Guffey, George Foster Peabody, James K. Jones and Henry G. Davis. o Chairman Thomas Taggart is de- clared by the Journal to be authority for this revelation to a delegation from one of the doubtful States to him for taking back funds needed in the pre- liminary canvass. This money will be used to flood doubtful States with Democratic workers, spellbinders and cash. The sure States will get but lit- tle of the fund, but New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, West Virginia, Delaware, Virginia, Maryland, Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin wil be flooded with speakers and coin. —_———— OF INTEREST TO PEOPLE OF THE PACIFIC COAST Postmasters Appointed to California | Offices—Patents Issued by Gov- | ernment to Local Inventors. | WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.—Louis S. Slevin has been appointed postmaster | at Carmel, Monterey County, Cal., vice John P. Staples, resigned; Ella Halde- | man appointed postmaster at Hick- man, Stanislaus County, vice John A. Dallas, resigned; Jonas Neum at Lau- | rel, Washington County, Oregon, vice | Finnis L. Brown, resigned. | L. C. Hall, George B. Collins of Bu-| reka and H. D. Wise of Oakland have | been admitted to practice before the Interior Department. The following patents were issued to-day: California—Andrew K. Andriano and P, Harbstri . Herautst, Direct Line Telephone San swit mechan- ism ‘for ‘intercommunicating telephone lines: | John F. Baker, assignor one-half to M. L. | French, Los Angeles, Cal., educational concen- | trator;” William O. Bell. Soldiers’ Home, rule | holder; Frederick W. Boecker, Oakland, bed | or couch; John S. Briggs, Los Angeles, feeder | for fruit pitting machines; William E. Brown, | Los Angeles, jar closure: Frank A. Busse, | Alameda, device for preventing refilling of bot- tles: Horace L. Cutter, Los Angsles, hygienic appliance for mouthpleces; Isaac T. Danks, | ignor to J. s, ‘Fresno, _automatic Samuel M. pump 3. | Hewitt, Del Monte, mutfler; James W. Hol- lenbeck and W. E. Palmer, San Franecisco, guide sheave for hoisting apparatus; Rudoiph | Fran C. Hornung, cisco, trotting spoon; Alex Ingraham and E. A. Stickney, Sacra- mento, combined axle cutter; Eiliott G. Jack- gon, San Francisco, puzzle; Willard C. James, | nga, space economizing house construo- | tion; Willard C. James. Los Angeles, apart- | ment construction; Henry Kirch, Santa Rosa, automatic road gate; Max Kolander, San Fran. cisco, assignor to O. Schmidt, Jersey City, ac- companiment guitar and zither; James Porte- ous, Fresno, W tooth fastening; Rischmuller, San Francieco, door opener. | Refssue—Samuel T. Wallace, Los Angeles, | hoist; Joseph Weyland, Los Angeles, self- ofling plane. | —_—— AUTO DEFEATS DEER IN RACE | | Special Dispatch to The Call. WILLOWS, Sept. 26.—Yesterday two young men from Willows, Lorenzo Brown and Benjamin Hite, were rid- ing in an automobile along the river road near Jacinto, the country seat of | the Glenn’family. They were greatly | amazed to see, just ahead of them, a deer leap over a barbed wire fence and emerge into the county road. ; The deer increased its speed and was | soon in a serious predicament, for it| came to a place where turning uld.t was well nigh impossible, for on the left was a canal filled with water by the recent rains and on the right was a tall barbed wire fence which extend- ed for miles along the Glenn Rancho. | ‘The deer began a race for life and the automobilists accepted the challenge by turning on the juice. In the first part of the race the deer showed up to good advantage, but the pace soon began to weary it. For miles the ani- mal ran, but its strength could not last, and it fell to the side of the road just as the machine was closing the 8ap. The tourists rushed to Jacinto, as| they had no weapon with them, and | j tcld the inhabitants. Hunters were soon on the road and they found the animal near where it had fallen. A shot brought the deer to the ground. THE DAY’S DEAD. MIDDLESBORO, Ky., Sept. 27. — Colonel D. G. Colson, former Congress- man from the Eighteenth District and colonel of the Fourth Kentucky Regi- ment during the Spanish war, died | here to-night. He was one of the most prominent Republicgns in the State. poislntias S bl BAKERSFIELD, Sept. 27.—City a protracted was a native of England and served | in the Union army in the war of the rebellion. He was a pioneer in Ba- ki ersfield. ISR City Official's Wife Dead. SANTA ROSA, Sept. 27.—Mrs. Ma- ria M. Brown passed away at her res- idence on South Davis street to-day. She was the e of Councilman George S. Brown of this city. Mrs. Brown was a native of Ohio, aged 68 years - WASHINGTON, Sept. 27.—The State Department to-day called on the De- partment of Justice to take actioun in the case of Hugh Gurney, third secre- tary of the British Embassy, who was fined yesterday by Justice Phelps of Lee, Mass., for contempt of court and for speeding his automobile. It is ex- pected that Attorney General Moody will send a special District Attorney to Lee ta investigate the matter. BOSTON, Se_t. 27.—A telegram from Washington bearing on the fining of Third Secretary Gurney of the British Embassy by Judge Pmelps at Lee, Mass., yesterday, was received at the executive department at the State House to-day. Upon receipt of the dispatch by Lieutenant Governor Guild. who s acting Governor in the absence of Governor Bates, he at once sent dis- patches to Acting Secretary of State Adee, who signed the telegram from the State Department, and to Judge Phelps at Lee. The telegram to Judge Phelps said: The Assistant Attorney General! Informs me that if the facts are as stated you have in your endeavor to enforce the laws of Massa- chusetts for the security of life upon our highWays committed in this particular case a grave breach of international law. May I ask you to telegraph me at once If Mr Gur- ney was arrested and fined in spite of pro- test. Other channeis of redress are open In case of the viclation of Massachusetts laws by the diplomatic representatives of other nations. Therefore, if fine was imposed and collected, the commonwealth will apologize. The fine must be remitted and I need not suggest to one so respected as you the persomal amend that you will, of course, desire to make to Mr. Gurney for the error in method adopted by your court in this unusual case. Kindly forward me affidavit of the evidence of any breach of Massachusetts law. CURTIS GUILD JR., Lieutenant Governor, Acting Governor. Lieutenant Governor Guild said that no further action would be taken until he had heard from Judge Phelps. PITTSFIELD, Mass., Sept. 27i.—Jus- tice Phelps to-day was averse to dis- cussing the Gurney case. He said he did not wish to be paraded up and down the street. He felt emough of this had been done already. “If I find that I have made a mis- take I will gladly apologize,” he added. “I did only what I believed to be right.” ——————— VERY LIGHT TOP CROP OF COTTON IS EXPECTED WASHINGTON, Sept. .—The Government report shows that cotton opened rapidly in all sections, prema- turely in Georgia and Mississippi where picking is being pushed, but was de-« layed somewhat by rains in Florida, Mississippi, Oklahoma and Texas, and scarcity of pickers is reported from localities in central and eastern dis- tricts. Reports inaicate tnat a very light top crop may be expected. The salient features of statements from the principal cotton producing States are summarized as follows: Georgla—Bulk of crop gathered and mar- xeq;la‘ bl‘n central and southern sections. P Mississippi—Open cotton 1 in east by heavy rains and boll e v causing In Southwest Louisiana worms and caterpillars damage. Boll weevil locally nu- merous in one section and spreading in an- other. deteriorated. - r] ‘ery little shedding, It crop made only slight improvement. Texas—Little Injury to staple by showers ftor and the crop too far A. B. Smith Co., 116 Ellis, near Powell, Polytechntc College ji | i ? % H | I H P i L} i ITUTE. a3, 0y st young i sna N N g