The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 31, 1905, Page 4

THE SAN FR RULING OF SUPREME COURT IS AGAINST BEEF TRUST. Decision Favors Contention of Government Injunction Granted by the Lower Tribunal Re- straining Packers Made Permanent Special Dispatch to the Cali. ing permanent his injunction restraining the big packing companies from entering into a -ombination in viola- C HICAGO, Jan. 30.—Judge Grosscup, when informed of the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States mak- tion of the Sherman anti-trust law, declared that he belleved the action presaged a national movement for the control and supervision by the nation of the great corporations of the future. Said he: “The decision establishes the right of the Government to prevent combinations among the manufacturers of meats. It fortifies the Sherman act. It is & long step in the direction of effectual Government supervision. But to my mind the real significance of the decision 1s much deeper and far-reaching than even this. It effectively clears the decks for what I believe will be the next really great national movement—as the restriction and finally the abolition of slavery was the last great fundamental movement—the organization and supervision by the nation itself of the great corpora- tions of the future, a movement whose chief object will be, not so much to control prices, or merely to curb power, as to bring corporate ownership within the reach and reasonable confidence of the people at large, and thus to repeople- ize and republicanize again the industrial ownership of the country.” Judge C. C. Kohlsaat of the United States District Court said: “There never was any doubt in my mind that the Supreme Court would uphold Judge Grosscup's decision. It seemed perfectly clear, and I don't belleve that at any time there was another decision likely. This decision must be highly pleasing to President Roosevelt, as it opens the road to great possibilities along the line of a cure for the so- called trust evil.” Attorneys for the big packers refused to make any comment as to what action would be taken on the decision un- til detailed information as to:the scope of the order reached them. John §. Miller, who acted as special counsel for the packers in the proceedings, said: “The order, as I understand it, simply makes permanent the injunction restraining the packers from doing busi- ness in restraint of trade and in violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. They have assured me repeatedly that they have done nothing in violation of these laws, hence a permanent restraining order does not in any manner inconvenience them. It does not accuse them or convict them of any wrongdoing. The only thing’that I see that could be done would be to request a hearing of the case.” WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—The preme Court of the United States to- day decided the case of the United States vs. 8wift & Co., known as the beef trust case, charging a conspiracy among the packers to fix prices on fresh meats. The opinion was handed down by Justice Holmes and affirmed the décision of the court below, which was against the packers, In his opinion Justice Holmes dis- cussed at length the various conten- tions of the packers and disposed of them individually. He admitted that some of the charges were less specific than desirable, but said this was nec- essarily_true on account of the vast extent of the fleld covered. He added | that sufficlent evidence had been showh to prove continuous offenses and an offense of such a nature to justify the proceeding. The opinion continues the injunction granted against the packers under t law by the lower courts. The deci- sion was cuncurred in by all the mem- bers of the court. Summarizing the bills, Justice Holmes said: PURPOSES OF COMBINE. “It charges a combination of a domi- nant proportion of the dealers in fresh meats throughout the United States not to bid against each other in the livestock markets of the different States, to bid up prices for a few days in order to induce the cattlemen to send their stock to the stock yards; to fix prices at which they will sell, and to that end to restrict shipments of meat when necessary; to establish a uniform rule of credit to dealers, ana to keep a blacklist; to make uniform and improper charges for cartage, and finally to get less than lawful rates from the rallroads to the exclusion of competitors.” Referring to the allegation of lack of continuity in thc charges, he sald: ‘“‘Whatever may be thought concern- ing the proper construction of the stat- ute, a bill in equity is not to be read and construed as an indictment would have been read andsconstrued a hun- dred years ago, but it is to be taken to mean what it fairly conveys to a dis- passionate reader by a fairly exact use of English speech. Thus read, this bilt seems to us intended to allege succes- sive elements of a single connected scheme.” WITHIN REACH OF LAW. He disposed of the charge of “multi- fariousness” in the following language: “The scheme as a whole seems to us to be within reach of the law. The constituent elements, as we have stat- ed them, are enough to give to the scheme a body, and, for all that we can say, to accomplish it. Moreover, whatever we may think of them sep- arately, when we take them up as dis- tinct charges they are alleged as ele- ments of the scheme. It is suggested that the several acts charged are law- ful, and that intent can make no dif- ference. But they are bound together as the parts of a single plan. The plan may make the parts unlawful. Intent is almost essential to such a convention and is essential to such an attempt. ADVERTISEMENTS. 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Genvine Must Bear Fac-Simile Signature e Sherman anti-trust | selves to produce a resuit which the law seeks to prevent—for instance, the monopoly—but require further acts in addition to the mere forces of nature to bring that result to pass, an intent | | to bring to pass is necessary in order to produce a dangerous probability that it will happen.” TRAFFIC He also said: “The commission alleged embraces restraint and monopoly of trade withih a single State, although its effect upon commerce among the States is not ac- cident, secondary, remote or merely probable.” aking further on the question of rence with interstate commerce, Justice Holmes said that a charge was made of a combination of independent dealers to restrict. the competition of | the agents who purchase stock for | them in the stock yards. IS INTERSTATE. {ing establishments are,” he said, “largely in different States from those | of the stock yards, and the sellers of | the cattle, perhaps it is not too much | to assume, largely in different States | from either. The intent of the com- | bination is not merely to restrict com- petition among the parties, but, as we | have said, by force of the general al- | legation at the end of the bill, to aid [ in an attempt to monopolize commerce | among States. 2 | “When cattle are sent for sale from |a place in one State,- with the ex- | pectation that they will end their tran- | sit after purchase in another, and “The purchasers and their slaughter- | when in effect they do so, with the only | interruption necessary. being to. find & | purchaser at the stock yards, and when | this is a_ typical, constantly recurring | course, the current thus existing is & | and the purchase of the cattle is a part | and incident of such commerce.” no interstate commerce is involved In the sale of meats by the packers. Jus- tice Holmes said: MAY PROHIBIT POOLING. “The allegations of the second sec- tion, even if they import a technical passage of title at the slaughtering-: houses, also import that the sale to persons in other States and also that the shipments to other States are part of the transaction—'pursuant to such that the same things which are sent to agents are sold by them, and sufficlent- ly indicates that some, at least, of the sales are of the original packages. Moreover the sales are by persons in one State to persons in another. But we do not mean to imply that the rule which marks the point at which State taxation or regulation becomes permis- sible necessarily is beyond the scope of interference by Congress in cases where such interference is deemed necessary for the protection of com- merce among the States. Nor do we mean to intimate that the statute un- der consideration is limited to that point.” After referring in detall to the ob- jections to the original bill of com- plaint and disposing of all of them as insufficlent, Justice Holmes said: “The defendants cannot be ordered to compete, but they properly can be forbidden to g've directions or to make agreements not to compete.” Suggestions looking to the modifica- tion of the,injunction were made as follows: “No objection was made on the ground that it 1s not confined to the places specified in the bill. It seems to us, however, gn.t it ought to set forth more exactly $he transactions on which such directions, and agreements are forbldden. The trade in fresh meat referred to should be defined somewhat as it is In the bill, and the sales of stock should be confined to sales of stock at the stockyards or that bought at these yards for transport to another State.” MOODY SPEAKS OF RULING. dIz;nlnn.ktln[d of the Supreme Court ecision to-day Attorne; Moody said: T s “I was present in court when a synopsis of the decision was stated orally by Justice Holmes. There is no impropriety in my saying that, as I understand that statement, the opin- ion sustains in all respects the conten- tion of the Government and affirms the decree of the court below in all sub- stantial particulars. The case decides that the traffic in livestock transported from the State or Territory.of its origin to another State for sale and held there for sale 1is interstate commerce and that those engaged in buying and sell- ing such livestock are engaged in inter- state commerce. This question has been before the court twice before, but ;wu- l:?t}!: ;:ndm:ided betause the cases n whicl was presented tu: nth;; codnaidernllonm e “The decision condemns as an Sk lawful restraint of trade the eombI::- tion between Independent dealers to | suppress all competition in the pur- chase of lvestock thus situated. It condemns as an unlawful restraint of trade the combination between such dealers for the purpose of fixing and maintaining uniform prices in the sale of meat throughout- the country; it condemns as an unlawful restraint of trade the combination between such deelers to obtain preferential rates for sthe transportation of their product by | common carriers. The decision makes it clear that all combinations between independent individuals, partnerships or corporations ‘e “in Interstate | commerce by w! ~competition be- tweén them on sudh commerce is sup- | pressed -fall under the prohibition of the so-called anti-trust act.” With reference to the allegation that | sales’—and the third section imports | Su- | Where acts ‘are not sufficient in them- | anything with reference to any future procecdings in this or any other anti- trust case. et RULING FAVORS HARRIMAN. Snpreme Court Grants Petition in the Northern Securities Case. WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—The Bu- preme Court of the United States to- day granted the peptition for a writ of certiorari in the case of E. H. Har- riman and others versus the Northern Securities Company, growing out of the former decision of the court rela- tive to the distribution of the stock of the securitles company. The ef- fect of granting the writ is to bring the case to the Supreme Court for re- view. - Argument is set for February 20 after other cases on the calendar on that day. After the Government sult was de- cided against the merger, the securi- ties company decided to distribute the stock of each of the two railroad com- panies among the stockholders pro- portionately, instead of giving to each one the stock originally deposited by him as Harriman claims should have been done. Harriman and his asso- ciates represent the Northern Pacific stockholders and they represent $82,- 491,871 of stock. The present case was brought in the Circuit Court for the District of New Jersey, which granted an injunction against the securities company, prohibiting the disposal of the Northern Pacific Rail- road stock. The Circuit Court of Ap- peals reversed that decision, and its de¢iston would haVé BEst final, but for the decision reached to-day to review [the case. | current of commerce among the States, | — FAVORS LAND COMPANY. Supreme Tribunal Decides Case From Washington State. WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—In an opinion of Justice Brewer, the Su- preme Court of the United States af- firmed the opinion of ihe Supreme Court of the State of Washington, in the case of Susan A. Ramsey vs. the Tacoma Land Company. The case arose out of a controversy over land in Plerce County, Washington, that Mrs. Ramsey claimed by virtue of a home- stead entry, while the Tacoma Com- pany asserted title by virtue of pur- chase from the Northern Pacific Rail- road Companys The decision was fa- vorable to the land company and the Northern Pacific title. — JAIL FOR POSTAL RING. Supreme Court Decides Against Mach. en, Lorenz and Groff. A WASHINGTON, Jan. 80.—The BSu- preme Court of the United States to- day denfed the application of Machen, Lerenz and Groft for a writ of cer- tlorari In the case against them charg- |ing conspiracy to defraud the Gov- ernment in connection with the Post- office Department irregularities. The effect is to leave standing the decision of the Court of Appeals of the District ot Columbla finding them guilty as charged. Machen, Lorenz and the Groffs were sentenced to two years’ imprisonment and to pay a fine of $10,000 each. NAVAL SURGEON DIES FROM YELLOW FEVER Otto Kohlhaz of the Cruiser Boston Passes Away Suddenly at Panama. WASHINGTON, Jan. 80.— Com- mander Niles, commanding the U. S. 8 Boston at Panama, has. notifled the Navy Department that Assistant Sur- geon Otto Kohlhasz, one of the officers of that ship recently stricken with yellow fever, died suddenly yesterday. Surgeon Kohlhaz was born in Min- nesota and appointed to the medical department of the na: from S Dakota in May, 1903.w £ —————— WASHINGTON, ;0 » Jan. 30.—Cq General Goodnow of Shanghal, c‘;lrll:‘: formally reported at the State Depart- ment to-day. He comes prepared to meet the charges made against him, which have been pending for nearly a year before the department. —————— Big Increase in Immigration. ‘WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—For the six months ended December 31 last 400,063 immigrants were admitted to the United States, against 324,641 for the corresponding period in 1902 and 403,966 for the corresponding period in 1208. —_———— Favors Figures on WASHINGTON, “Jan. 80.—The President to-day sent a message to Cengress calling attention to the fact that no statistics on marriage and ai- vorce have been collected since 1886, and recommended legislation. « —_——— Police Lexow Is Demanded. EW YORK, Jan. 80.—Resolutions calling for the appointment of a com- mittee of nine to inquire into the New York City Police Department were adopted at a meeting of prominent business men to-day. The Attorney General declined to sav | ———— Hazelton Planos Now at 514 Market. Wholesale and retail agency at'Pom- mer-Eilers, now at 514 Market street. Pianos at cut prices, ou easy payments. ¢ CISCO CALL, T DAY, JANUARY 31, 196 RAILROAD BILL [ARIZONA NAY IS AGREED UPON| ~ BE LEFT OLT {House Committee Votes to | Report a Combination of| Territories Esch - Townsend Measure dane MINORITY IS OPPOSED Will Be Ad-| ¥ Sl DATE FOR VOTE FIXED Goes Upon Record as in Oklahoma With Indian Ter- Favor of the Regulations ‘ That Davey Has Proposed| and New Mexico Another; —_— | i Committee on Interstate and Foreign means certain how many new States Commerce by a party vote to-day au- ! will be admitted to the Union under thorized a favorable report to the the agreement reached to-day to vote House on a bill extending authority to on the joint statehood bill and its nu- the Interstate Commerce Commission merous amendments on Febraury 7. to fix rates, increasing the size of the | There are prospects, however, that/| | commission from five to seven members | Oklahoma and Indian Territory will| | and creating a “court of transporta- come in as one State and that New | ! tion.” The bill 1s a combination of the | Mexico will come in as another, leav- | Bsch-Townsend measure, with amend- | ing Arizona as a Territory. | | ments taken from the Hepburn bill. Senator Beverldge, chairman of the | The action of the committee was Committee on_ Territories, who has | charge of the bill, concedes that In its | Teached after gession. 1astng Prac-| pregent form there is mo hope for its | i ticklly all day. At 10 o’'clock the eleven ' pagsage. He says that his desire now Republican members of the committee is to give statehood to the million and | met for the purpose of agreeing on a | & half of people of Oklahoma and In- | | bll. Eight of them were in favor of ;u:n ’ierfltory l; ;:h“ t]:dm;czn:’fih:;* | reporting the Hepburn bill, lacking one e A R e i | vote of being a majority. Townsend, ¢ {5 gaid that several members of | | Esch and Lovering were in favor of the Committee on Territories intend, if the Esch-Townsend proposition. Final- | they fail to defeat amendments to the |1y Chairman Hepburn moved to report bill, tc support the Foraker amend- | the Bsch-Townsend measure with ment, which they belleve would have | amendments, and then the Democratic an effect contrary to :l:m ::g:;gn x| | i were called its author. e Foraker ! e provides that either New Mexico o | cus on the bill. During this time it Arizona 'y a majority vote coul e- developed that two of thge six minority | feat the calling of a constitutional | members were not satisfled with the ' convention of the Territories to provide i | Davey bill. The four members who did for their admission, instead of requir- | | support it agreed to add two amend- ing a majority of all the votes of bothi | ments, one providing that where a rate Territories combined. | |is named by the commission affecting A_Members of the Territories Commit- | | two or more roads the commission, on tee are of the opinion that the people | | the failure of the roads to agree on a 9f the Territories, even Arizona, when | division of the rate, shall make a rul- | f8ce to face with a chance to come in | ing on the matter, and the other ex-: jointly as one State or remain as Ter- | pediting litigation over a rate that has | Titories for an indefinite period would | { been fixed by the commission. | vote to come in as one State. | The full committee met at 4 o’clock, | T ER and after voting down the Davey bill by a party vote the Republicans car- ried the Hepburn motion. The Demo- Receives the Sanction of the House crats gave notice that they would pre- Commlttee, \ n report. - Quently introduced in the House the H0uSs Committee on Xrrigation of Arid measure agreed on In order to have it Lands to-day authorized a favorable printed. report on the Senate bill providing for the Klamath Lake irrigation project SCOPE OF THE MEASURE. i Oregon and California. The bill The bill as reported contains twenty- was amended so as to obviate a man- two sections. Sections one and two ex- datory direction to the Secretary of tend authority to the Interstate Com- the Interior to actually locate an irri- | merce Commission, whenever after full gation projeet under a reclamation act. | hearing it has declared any existing —_—— | rate for the transportation of persons or preperty or any regulation or prac- tice whatsoever affecting the trans- portation of persons or property to be | in and an hour was given them to cau- KLAMATH PROJECT FAVORED. Date Set for Vote on Statehood. WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—The Sen- ate to-day agreed to vote on the joint | e statehood bill before adjournment on | unreasonable or unjustly diserimina- myesday, February 7, the amendments | tory, to declare and order what shall {, phe constdered on that date under be & just and reasonable rate, practic® tne ten minute rule. Senator Teller or regulation to be charged, imposed Or g, oke during the day in opposition to followed in the future in place of that the byl The bill to provide a $75,- found to be unreasonable or unjustly (o revenue cutter for the harbor of discriminatory, and the order of the gar Francisco was passed. commission: shall of its own force be- P i come operative thirty days after notice | has been given to the person or per-| sons direotly affected thereby; but at ,_ WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.After a pro- ¥ time within sixty days from date tracted debate the House to-day directly af- adopted the conference report on the Ot o of the commission executive, legislative and judiclal ap- Appropriation Bill Passed. Titled Britons Organize to Special Cable to The €all and the New York and deeming it to be contrary to law [ropriation bill. As agreed to, the bill taken up, and of Transportation, sitting as a court of appropriation bill was i quity, to have it reviewed and its Jaw- its consideration had not been con- | fulness, justness or reasonableness de- cluded when the House adjourned un- When the rates substituted by the s————————vs——————"} commission shall be a jolnt rate and the carriers fail to agree on the ap- within twenty days after notice of such X order, the commission after full hear- | ing may issue a supplementary order v T declaring the portion of such joint rate I | to be received by each carrier party ! ! | thereto, which shall take effect of its e der, subject to review like the original | order. | Bection 8 makes all proceedings be- | ord of evidence, findings and records of the commission, a part of the record in the case, to be sent to the court notice for review has been given. All proceedings before the court are to be D he New York conducted by the Attorney General Horais posmimbn Company, 0 0T Lo special counsel, with the approval of LONDON, Jan. 30.—Americans doubt- the Attorney General, and, moreover, is less will recall the assoclations that| given.full power, even during proceed- yere formed several years ago, after may institute proceedings in the Court Carries ,$29,132,242, ~The postoffice termined. til to-morrow. portionment thereof among themselves own force as part of the original or- | fore the commission, including the rec- of transportation within ten days after The commission, however, may employ |- oot o e _Conpen: ings to modify, suspend or annul its (he giscovery of a method of extracting former order, ruling or requirements. | HEAVY PENALTY IMPOSED. |+ Bection 4 imposes a penalty of a fine of $5000 a day for each day parties vio- late the rulings of the commission made under sections 1 and 2 of the bill. Section 5 defines the word ‘“‘person” to include corporations. Section € increases the membership of the commission #0 seven and makes | the salary of each $10,000 a year, and concludas: “The President shall ap- point, by and with the consent of the Senate, two additional Interstate Com- merce Commissioners. Not more than gold from sea water, and the derision with which the idea was laughed out of court. London folk now have an op- portunity to invest their money in such an undertaking, through which, it is | averred, an unlimited supply of pre- | cious metal can be obtained from sea | water at a cost of ten pounds for every | 100 pounds extracted. Sir Willlam Ramsey, whose scientific reputation is of the highest, has been retained by a syndicate which is called the Industrial and Engineering Trust | (Limited) and the shareholders of which include Lord Brassey, Lord four Commissioners shall be appointed Tweeddale, the Hon. Allan Gibbs, sev- from the same political party.” | eral manufacturers and Albert Sande- S ction 7 establishes the Court of mann, former Governor of the Bank of Trensportation, to be compose® of five | England. The syndicate has a modest Circuit Judges of the United States. no capital of 3000 pounds in one-pound two of whom shall be from the same shares. The inventor of the process by ! Judicial district. | which it is hoped to make a corner in NINE THOUSAND FALSE BALLOTS Adams in Denver in the mitted Into the Ustion | Election of Last Novemberi Regulation EXPERTS MAKE REPORT ‘ontest, Otherwise Not —_— WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—The House| WASHINGTON, Jan. 30.—It is by no | DENVER, Jan. 30.—Ten ballot boxes | were reported on by experts to-day In the joint legisiative committee hear- ing of the Peabcdy-Adams guberna- torial contest. The experts alleged that out of 3044 ballots 723 were written by two or three persons. The examination of ballots in county on behalf of Peabody has now been completed, 104 ballot boxes having been opened. The experts’ reports show that 29,141 votes were cast in these 104 precincts, of which 19,161 were ! for Adams and 9311 for Peabody. The experts reported that 780 of the Dem- ocratic and 1220 Republican ballots were fraudulent, as they were writtén by from one to four persons. If the Legislature should grant the original petition of former Governor Peabody and throw out the entire vote | of all these precincts, Peabody’s plu- rality in the State would be 76. If, however, the Legislature should deduct the ballots alleged to be fraudulent from the good ones, Adams would still have a plurality of 2186. Six more ballot boxes will be report- ed on to-morrow. With this rej the contestant will have finished his case hefore the committee. Wednesday aft- ernoon the attorneys for the cons testee will begin to introduce evidence. In the trial of Peter Miller, an elec- tion judge, who served in Precinct 8 of ‘Ward 7, on the charge of fraull in con- nection with his conduct of the elec- tion, the ballot box was brought into the West Side Criminal Court “and opened to-day. The contents showed nineteen straight Republican tickets, tiventy scratched tickets and 215 straight Democratic tickets. This cor- | responds with the returns made to the | election commission. During to-day, however, sixty-two persons went on the stand and swore that they were residents of the precinct and voted the straight Republican ticket on Novem- | ber 8. Miller is at present serving sentench in the County Jall for contempt of the Supreme Court election injunctive or- der. The ballot box opened to-day was not used in evidence at the contempt proceedings for the reason that attor- neys for the defense obfected. —_————— SENATORIAL DEADLOCK IN MISSOURI CONTINUES Members of the Assembly Pair and Only a Small Vote Is Cast. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Jan. 30.— Another ballot, the eleventh, was taken to-day In joint session for United States Senator to succeed Francis M. Cockrell without result, and the ses- sion was dissolved until to-miorrow. The ballot resulted as follows: Cock- rell, 60; Niedringhaus, 46, Kerens, 11, and Hays of Putnam County, 1. The total vote cast was 108, requiring G5 to elect. .Most of the absentees were paired. There were eight pairs in the Senate and 25 in the House. —_—e————— WEALTHY WOMAN DIES WHEN DECLARED INSANE Mrs. Ymcy Orandall of Denver Lives | But Two Hours After Verdict. DENVER, Jan. 30.—Mrs. Lucy Ann Crandall, a ploneer of this city, died t- day two hours after a jury had pronounced her iniane and incapable of managing her business affairs. She had property valued at $400,000 and the lunacy proceedings were instituted by relatives. Instead of a conservator, an administrator for her estate will ! now be appointed. g e ) wie o B BT CONPLETE [N WEBER CASE Five More Added at Session Yesterday to the Seven Men Previously Selected L et Special Dispatch to The Call AUBURN, Jan. 30.—The jury to try Adolph Weber on the charge of murder- ‘ ing his mother, Mary Weber, is now| complete. The five men selected at to- | day’s session are A. P. Hallbom of Newcastle, J.. Worthman of New Eng- | land Mills, George P. Perkins of New- castle, J. L. Pearson of Rocklin and Henry Jones of Sunny South. The other seven are F. J. Wall, T. W. Berry, J. P. Chubb, William Phillips, Dewitt Por- | ter, J. E. Doherty and F. E. Coburn. By both the prosecution and defense the jury is conceded to be a good one. | this | (MAKES APPEAL 10 THE USIONS Indications That the Other | Most of Them Cast for Alva German Government Official Promises Reforms in the of Labor |STRIKE RANKS GROWING “If County Vote Is Thrown Men Employed in a Mine ritory May Form One State, Out Peabody Will Win the| Owned by the State Lay Down Their Implements —_— BERLIN, Jan. 30.—Commerce and Industry Minister Moeller, speaking in the Prussian Diet to-day, said the Gov- ernment would press the bill regulating labor in mines. A few weeks would sufficc to prepare the proposed law. He had hoped that the Governmen! announcement that it intended to pass such a law would result in the strik- | ers returning to work, but to his great | regret they had not done 80, to their own loss and that of industry. Herr Moeller, replying to a deputa- tion of ceal strikers to-day, asked them to maintain a moderate attitude and they would retain th sympathy of right thinking people. The Govern- ment would do everything possible for them, | ESSEN, Jan. 10.—To-day’s official re- port of the coal miners’ strike was awalited with unusual interest, in view of the Government’s promised revision of the mining laws and the decision of the strike committee to stay out until the promise is redeemed. The report actually shows an increase of strikers. the number out being 195,015, against 194,286 on Saturday. { The Phoenix Iron Works at Ruhrort and Hamm have announced a shut- down, owing to the lack of coal, throw= ing 5500 workmen out of employment. BRESLAU, Jan. 30.—The strike | movement reached the upper Silesian district to-day, when 100 operators in the Queen Louise mine, belonging to the Prussian Government, demanded shorter hours and higher wages. The demand was refused and the workmen left the mine. _— % FINDS A "CATOR IN HIS BATHTUD ! Absent - Minded Student Is Bitten by the Reptile Pet of His Fraternity House Special Dispatch to The Call. MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, Jan. 30.— ‘While some of the Minnesota Univer- sity fraternities are content to be known to fame on account of spotted pups, prize terriers, colored parrots, trained cats, lobsters and other crea- tures, it was left to one society to pro- cure a pet alligator. When it arrived it was given the exclusive use of a bathtub. On Saturday night John Burridge, an absent-minded member of the frater- nity, decided to take a hot bath. After turnimg on the water he jumped into the tub, only to come out again faster than he went in. The hot water had [ got the better of the alligator’'s genial disposition and the reptila grabbed the bather by the leg. Surgeons are attending the student. Meanwhile the young alligator has been taken out of the bathtub, —_———— Santa Fe.Attorney Very IIL | TOPEKA, Kan, Jan. 30.—A. A. Hurd, general attorney for the Santa Fe, who has been suffering from ‘pnuemonia, shows a slight improve- ment to-night and the physicians say there is a chance for his recovery. DOAN'S PILLS. TESTS PATIENCE The Most Patlent San Prancisco Cltizen Must Show Annoyance at Times. » —_ Nothing spoils & good disposition, Nothing taxes a man’s g;tiencn Like any itchiness of the Itching piles almost crazy. All day it makes you miserable. All night it keeps you awake. Itch, Itch, Itch, with no relief. Just the same with Eczema, Can hardly keep from scratching it. You would do so but you know it makes you worse. Such miseries are daily decreasing. People are learning they can be cured. Learning Ointment. Plenty of proof that Doan’s Oint- drive you the merit of Doan’s | ment will curé Piles, Eczema or any itchiness of the skin. Section 8 provides that this court shall hold four regular sessions annu- ally in Washington. Special sestions may be held at other places. Section 9 authorizes the President to appoint five additional Circuit Court Judges. Section 10 grants the Court of Trans- portation exclusive original jurisdic- tion in all cases brought under the pro- visions of the bill and also the inter- state commerce act. Sections 12 and 13 relate to evidence before the court. The Court of Transportation is given power to summon before it all parties named as defendants or respondents in proceedings before it, and its subpenas for witnesses may ‘“run into any judi- cial district or any territory or posses- sion of the United States.” P e e iy REPORT ON STATE BANKS. Condition of the National Institutions in California. WASHINGTON, Jan. 80.—Reports to the Comptroller of the Currency on the condition of the national banks in | California, exclusive of San Francisco and Los Angeles, show: Loans and discounts, $22,706,197; gold coin re- serve in banks, $2,958,699; total spe- 09; legal tender notes, - $3,090,525; total $42,947,976; individual deposits, $2 985,105; percentage of legal reserve to deposits, 30.26. - ——————— Biddle Goes to the Rock Island. CHICAGO, Jan, 30.—W. B. Biddle. traffic manager of the Santa Fe, has been appointed third vice president of the Rock Islang, effective March 1. | the world’s gold is H. J. Snell. Sir ‘William Ramsay has made experi- | ments, of which he says in an informal ‘[repon that “there is no doubt Snell | has proved that gold can profitably be | obtained from sea water on a large | scale and the amount of gold obtained |is so large that whether the cost of treatment is four pounds a ton or the outside figure of eight pounds, which | it could not exceed, it would not make very much difference.” PLEADINGS OF WOMEN WIN A KESWICK JUDGE Court Remits Fines of Jurors Ad- judged Guilty of Contempt on | Petition of Female Friends. | REDDING, Jan. 30.—The women friends of the jurors who were ad- Keswick Saturday by Judge Hardey and ordered to pay a fine of $5 each to-day or be sent to jail because they brought in a verdict’ which not only acquitted a defendant of a battery charge but found the prosecuting of- ficials guilty of keeping the jurors | from their business, saved the fines for the jurors to-day. The women pe- | titioned the Judge to excuse the ju- rors and as the guilty ones confessed their error and begged the pardon of | the court the fines were remitted. el | ‘Extradition of Gessler Rosseaun. 1 HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 30.—Gov- ernor Pennypacker to-day honored the requisition of Governor Higgins | for the extradition of Gessler Ros- | seau, wanted at New York for send- ing an infernal machine to the dock of the steamship Umbria. Read the testimony of a il . W. | ; i San Owing to the illness of Juror T. W. Fraricisco, citizen? Berry, Judge Prewett has postponed a | T tunhyer heni{ns of the case until Thurs- | Mrs. A. F. Wick of 314 Tay street day morning at 9 o'clock. Adolph We- | says: “For ten years I had attacks ber, the accused, looked very pale in' of eczema on the back of my hand. court to-day. He said to The Call cor- It broke out between the knuckles, respondent: ““I am feeling very sick. causing a soreness and itching. When I have a sore throat and I fear I have (he attacks occurred I used internal the grip.” 8 1 dici i Sterndon: Dr.. 33 8. {and external medicines and paid as Late this after! Mules | ' ch as a dollar a box for ointment was summoned to attend young Weber. A Dr. Mules made a thorough examina- and salves’ and consulted physicians, tlon of Weber and said: “I found but never knew the moment when Adolph Weber t6 be far from well. the skin disease would return. His temperature is 101%. He has a bad Doan’s Ointment stopped the last sore throat. At the moment there is attack. During the last six months nothing of serious nature apparent, al- though the Symptoms point to a pos- sible attack of pneumonia.” The town is filled with people, drawn from all parts of the county, waiting to hear the testimony. When the case judged guilty of contempt of court at 18, taken up it is highly probable there will be three sessions daily. This would be in accordance with the views of the attorneys in the case, who are | non-residents. Attorney General Webh is particularly anxious to have the trial proceed with all possible haste. ———— Eskimos and Canadians Clash. SEATTLE, Jan. 30.—A special to the Post-Intelligencer from Dawson, Yukon Territory, says that a‘.vlcel’ Just received in that city from Nome state that serious trouble is imminent between the Eskimos and the Canadi- ans near Russian Mission on the Yu- kon river. According to the dispatch the trouble dates back to an old feud and is being encouraged by the medi- cine men of the warring tribes. Blood- shed is feared unless the Government takes immediate steps to bring about a settlement of the present dispute. there has not been a symptom of a recurrence.” For sale by all dealers. Price soc. Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., sole agents for the United States. Remember the name, Doan’s, and take no other. SORE 4ND BLEEDING GUMS Soft and spongy gums are made healthy by the mildly alkaline and astringent prop- erties of SOZODONT. It is the most | fragrant deodorizer and antiseptic dentifrics | known to the worl SOZODONT | - TOOTH POWDER | the complement of SOZODONT Liquid, has abrasive properties, yet is absolutely free trom grit and acid. T will mot tarnish gold fillings or scratch the enamel. 8 FORMS : LIQUID, POWDER, PASTE: S ) /