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8 A TARIFF WOULD SAVE US FROM THE JAPANESE There is nothing that the champions of free trade can offer as a remedy against the inundation of the country by cheap goods from the Orient, and a protective tariff, wisely adjusted to the needs of American labor, is the only remedy the brain of political economists has yet de vised. It was shown in a general way in yester day's Call that, while the country is not now suffering from an invasion of Japa nese goods, the danger is not so remote as to quiet alarm. The wise man is he who provides against future calamities. The man, be lie statesman or patriotic citizen, who lives heedless of the future is like an Indian who dies leaving no more estate than a horse or a woif leaves. Bryan him self dwelt on the duty of looking out for posterity in his recent New York speech. It might well be asked what the future of this country would be if posterity were left to the hard luck of such competition as free trade leaves. Japan is industrious and cunning enough to provide for the market of the Orient and then reach out for the larger markets of Western civilization. It is then that American artisans would be compelled to meet conditions that are wholly un-American, and it is under such a system that wages would sink to a mini mum below anything ever seen in the New World. It is well, under such cir cumstances, to study still more carefully the details concerning Japanese work and wages. When Colonel Henry Pierce, a well known business man of St. Louis, was In San Francisco about a year ago, on his way from the Orient, where he Had made a thorough study of industrial conditions, he said: "On ail sides I have been amazed at the cunnine, industry and endurance of the little brown men. They are entering upon an industrial career that is sure to do harm to every nation where the West ern standards prevail unless checked by wi-e legislation." In the same tone recently spoke Manu facturer John Buel of Massachusetts after a thorough study of Japan and her indus tries. BOYS CHARGED WITH BURGLARY. Accused of Breaking Into a Grocery and Sa loon. CAUGHT IN THE CELLAR One of Them Intoxicated From Imbibing Too Much of the Stolen Liquor. THIY ALL DENY THE CHABGE- Claim That They Were Playing Hide and Seek When The Policeman Arrested Them. Four boys whose ages range from 11 to 16 were booked at the City Prison yester day morning on ths charge of burglary. rhe Four Young Defendants Arrested Yesterday on a Charge of Burglary. They are: George Burke, 11; Benny Smith, 14; Patrick Dillon, 16, and Frank Herrick, 16. When the wife of John Harris, grocer and saloon-keeper, 439 Grove street, opened the store yesterday morning and went into the saloon, she saw that some one had been there before her. Several i bottles of liquor, two or three boxes of cigars, plugs of tobacco and a number of bottles of sarsaparilla and iron bad disap peared from the shelves. Her husband reached the store about 9 o'clock, and she told him the place had been broken into. He notified Policeman I Fleming, and Flemiuy found the four boys in the cellar underneath the store. He had to drag two of them out by the feet. smith appeared to be the only one of I the four that had swallowed any of the liquor. He was considerably "under the influence." and when in the City Prison he became sick and nad a hard time of it lor half an hour. A search was made cf the cellar, and a box of cigars, some tobacco and a number of empty bottles were found, which Harris identified as having been taken from his store. The boys were seen in the prison, and How Free Trade, as Advocated by the Democrats, Would Inundate the Country With Cheap Oriental Goods* "My eyes have been opened," he paid, [ "to possibilities I had not dreamed of in the realm of cheap labor. Ido not want! to be understood as saying that Japan is at this moment a menace to us or to any j Highly civilized nation, but I do say that j those who say a people such as the Japan- j ese cannot compete disastrously with j Anglo-Saxons minimize the dangers. "I further say that the course if let aloue, the policy of free trade is suicidal. 1 It reminds me of a man who takes a lion I cub into his house. At first it is as gentle i as a cat, but some day its rough tongue J gets a hard lick at its master's face, breaks the skin, tastes the blood, and then it de vours its foster parent. I mean to say that trade is a civilized warfare, a strug gle for supremacy and a struggle as fierce and merciless as the steel of Spartan glad iators. We must say to the Orient, 'Keep I your wares for your own people, or pay us the highest tariff.' " That is the opinion of a practical man of affairs, given deliberately against the theories of the "Boy Orator of the Platte," i who says the American workman ought to I be forced to compete unaided against men j of all sorts and conditions, irrespective of j race, color or servitude. But the thought ful protectionist, viewing the pauper labor ot the world, says, "Never shall an Amer ican freeman be forced to meet the labor of hordes of overworked and underpaid slaves in foreign climes." It must be borne in mind that though Japan is more than 5000 milec away trans portation on the ocean is phenomenally i cheap. Sail charters can oe secured for j the voyage from Japan to San Francisco j at $2 50 a ton, but tne commercial genius of the people is such that they are forging ahead and will soon have great freight and : passenger lines from their principal ports | to America. Herrick acted as spokesman. They all denied being in the store or knowing any thing about the stolen articles. They belong to respectable families ami live in j the neighborhood. "Burke. Dillon and I," said Herrick, i "were at the theater last night, and as it was iate when we got out we walked around till about 2 o'clock, when we went to the Oakland Dairy on Ash avenue, be tween Uough and Octavia streets, to get a | ride round the City with one of the milk men. I had often done that before, and used to drive a wagon myself for John Evans. "The milkmen had gone and we did not know what to do. There was a coal wagon on the avenue with empty sacks in it and we slept in it till about 6 o'ciock. "We met Benny Smith shortly after 6 o'clock. He lives next door to the grocery. We spoke about going to the LurlirTe Baths to have a swim if we could get the money. Smith said there were some demijohns in his mother's cellar j and we could get them and sell them. "We got into the cellar by a hole in the rear ana thought we would have some fun J playing hide and seek. That was what I we were doing when the policeman came and arrested us. I had a piece of tobacco in my pocket which i bought. It wasn't taken from Harris' store." "Where didj you get the liquor?" was asked of Benny Smith, who was suffering from the effects of bis libations. "1 found a soda bottle in the cellar," he said, "with something in it and Idrank it. 1 didn't know it was whisky. Say," ha said to Dillon ; "where's my hat?" Dillon told him it was in his ceil. Little George Burke is the most inno cent-looking boy of the four, but he is said to be the toughest While Herrick was j reeling off his story George looked at bin ! with admiring eyes and occasional.'. --! nodded approval. George wore an injured air and could only whisper that it was too j bad boys couldn't play hide and seek with- I out being arrested. Six weeks ago George was arrested by Policeman Collins and booked for some public institution, but his father, a most respectable citizen, got him released. He has been a source of troubie to his family for a long time, pre ferring to roam the streets at night than stay at home. An investigation showed that the boys i might have effected an entrance to the j cellar by a hole in the rear wall of the | house adjoining the store. There is no ; dividing partition between that cellar and i the one underneath Harris' store. In the floor of Harris' store underneath the bar there is a" hole large enough to admit a man's body. Why it is there Harris does j not know, as it was there when he took possession a few weeks ago. There is a gradual incline from the floor of the cellar I to this hole and it would have been an | easy matter for the boys once they got into the cellar to crawl up the incline and through the hole in the floor to the store. The eround under the city of San Salva dor is full of caverns of unknown depths. A man was once digging a well there. The last stroke he gave with his pick the bottom fell out, and he and his pick fell through, nobody knows where. ♦ — ♦ — •— . Barry's Stab says Judge i*w was impaled. • THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1896. The articles of trade between the two countries are chiefly cotton goods, manu factured silks, rope, jute, carpets, bags, iron products and iron machinery, but ton*, watches, matches, bicycles and rubber goods. Those are imported en tirely by steamer now, the freight from Yokohama to San Francisco being usually $8 per ton. Freights from Japan to New York have during the past year reached the low ebb, of 40 shillings per ton meas urement. It will surprise the casual student of the Japanese question to know that more than sixty new factories of considerable mag nitude have been built in Japan in the past three years. Many factories of all grades and sizes are now being constructed. It was but a few weeks ago that the ma chinery of the Pioneer Woolen Mills of this City was bought for use in Japan. Those who negotiated the deal provided for skilled American workmen to go to Japan and teach the natives every detail of conducting the business and operating the machinery. With the frugal tastes and great poverty of the vast majority of the Japanese it is reasonable to say that the Japanese demand will fall far short of exhausting the supply of goods under the era of renewed inaustry now practically at hand. The first important step after the cun ning artisans of the Orient supply our markets will be to reacu out with true commercial instinct for the markets of this country. How well they can some day do that is seen by a reference to mere facts in detail. Henry Norman, the well-known cor respondent, has shown the dangers of the Japanese as competitors, and has com pletely exploded the idea that they have no talent. He says: "The actual manual skill of the Japa THE BOYCOTT IS A RAILWAY AMENITY As Used by General Pas senger Agents It Proved Successful. HARMONY THE RESULT. Canadian Pacific Brought to Time by the Asso ciation. ITS RESIGNATION WITHDRAWN American Railways Threatened to Leave It Absolutely to Its Own Resources. T. H. Goodman, general passenger agent of the Southern Pacific Railway Com pany, returned yesterday from New York and Chicago, where he had been engaged for some time with business of the West ern Passenger Association. The meetings which Mr. Goodman attended were of a dual character, as they combined pleasure with work. Many of the days during the annual gathering of the general passenger agents were given up exclusively to social pleasures of a varied character. Other days of course were devoted to business strictly, and then questions of vast importance received the serious consideration of the men in whose hands lie the management and control of passenger traffic all over the United States. This year, however, the subjects discussed were not al! of general importance, rules and internal affairs consuming most of the time. "The only really interesting matter which we considered," said Mr. Goodman yesterday, "was the resignation of the Canadian Pacific. I suppose that would interest the Pacific Coast. The Canadian Pacific sent in its resignation to the asso ciation, claiming it wished to be free from the binding agreement imposed upon it by membership in the association. It wanted concessions and to do business inde pendent of our rules. The association re fused to accept the resignation, but as the Canadian Pacific was insistent it was brought to time when the American roads announced that If the company withdrew they would have no further dealings with the main line of the Canadian Pacific This was too much for the Canadian Jine, and the result was the resignation was withdrawn. "Heretofore the great railway system over the northern frontier nad a clear ad vantage over American transcontinental lines. These roads have been compelled to operate under the interstate commerce law. They are not aided by the Govern ment so liberally as the Canadian road is subsidized and fostered. With considera ble assistance from the Dominion Govern ment the Canadian Pacific could afford to carry its on passenger or freieht traffic at rates much lower than those prevailing on the American transcontinental lines. So i whenever that road grew weary of re- I straint it presented documents to show that large differentials should be granted in its favor. As the association could see no remedy it usually acceded to their de mands and people could travel up into Canada, across to Vancouver, B. C., and I thence by steamer to San Francisco, for a i | trifle less than the fare directly over the i American route. "On this occasion, however, the Ameri- ! ; can roads submitted their plan, which was '< practically a boycott of the Canadian Pa cific, and the Doycott worked like a i charm." SOCIALISTIC VIEWS. The State Organiser Predicts Radical Changes In the Future. There was a large and attentive gather ing Thnsday night at 970 Foisom street, the headquarters of the Jewish Branch of the Socialist Labor Party. The chair was occupied -by Mark Leilas who ; introduced Theodore Lynch, the speaker of the even ing. ; He spoke on the topic "Why Ameri can Workingmen Should Become Social ists." • . ; After referring to the ■. augury of plenty and prosperity that the early settlers of this country enjoyed, when they had free access to the natural opportunities and to the bright promises of ; the revolution and the ■ ■ Declaration J of .*'•; Independence, V the speaker showed by statistics now the nese artificer seems remarkable to us, but it does not strike his fellow-countrymen as being much out of tne common. In deed, ttie traveler in Japan soon learns to transfer his wonder from the individual to the nation. This extraordinary people are born with a manual dexterity that is simply astonishing. This is true of every body—men and women, low and high alike. The coolie will tie knots, repair a vehicle or lend a hand at anything you are doing with the knack of a man-of-warsman and the delicacy of a dentist; and any little job that requires intelligence and manual skill almost any Japanese will do for you." J. J. Rein says in his great worlc, "The Industries of Japan": "The eye and hand of the Japanese are ou the average more practical than those of the European. Even the ordinary man can generally make a fairly clear sketch of an article, route or map." It is tnus seen that, on the word of skill ful observers, the Japanese excel in many kinds of handicraft; that they seem to have a special skill almost from birth, and that, too, skill of a high grade, such as people in this country acquire by laborious processes and after years of hard study. Now, let the friends of unbridled free trade answer, Are American workmen to compete with such skill wnen it is offered at a few cents a day? Speaking of the low wage-rate in Japan, Sir Edwin Arnold has said: "The capacity of the Japanese and Chinese for incredible detail in their work makes them the most perfect workmen in the world, as tney are the most rapid. And when one realizes that this superior ability and capacity can be obtained there at an "average of 8 cents per day against twenty times that sum in America, it is not hard to see that there is reason to fear their competition." In the same warning spirit is the ob ardent hopes of our forefathers were im possible of realization to the great masses of the common people who are forced by the existing industrial conditions to grind out a bare existence at the treadmill of economic servitude to which they are un willing captives. He said in concluding, that with the increasing intelligence and united effort on ihe part of the wage workers there is every reason to hope for a change. During the discussion that followed the address short speeches were made by sev eral of those present, including George Speed, William Edlin, G. Cameron, E. Lux and Mr. Nagle. BROKE UP THE PARTY. Maurice Hogue Whacks His Wife With a Bruoinstitk. Maurice Hopue, 127% Rose avenue, went home last night in an ugly mood. He had been drinking, and when, his little son, who was having a birthaay party, ran up to him he toofe hold of his arm and twisted it till the boy yelled with pain. "Don't do that, Maurice," said Mrs. Hogue, as she went to the boy's assist ance. "I'll teach you to interfere," said Hogue, ana seizing a broomstick he whacked her over the head and legs till she ran scream ing out of the house. The birthday carty broke up in disorder and Mrs. Hogue and her boy went to the Receiving Hospital. The boy's arm was found to be ail right, but Mrs. Hogue had contusions on her scalp and legs. She declared that she would swear out a warrant for her husbana's arrest this morning on a chaipe of battery. A Young Man From India. To-morrow at 3 o'clock, at the Christian Association building, Mason and Ellis streets, Rev. J. C. Perkins, who has spent the last ten years in India, will address the mass-meeting for young men only. He is said to be the first graduate of the University of California C S. Perkins, the New Secretary of the Civic Federation. to enter the gospel ministry. He is a graduate of the class ot 1874 and also a graduate from in Ha . stln ? 8 Law College, acid for a time followed his profession in this City. Mr. Perkins is a native of Ban Francisco and has been eminently successful in his work in India. No doubt he will have a large crowd to i hear his adoress Sunday afternoon, as he will relate many reminiscences of his work. ♦ — ♦ — » Concerning Consumption. It is a known tact that the consumptives of he world flock to. California, thus endanger ing the lives of healthy people and making our i State one vast hospital, yAn able article on this ; subject will be found in this week's News Let. ter, which will be appreciated by the pro i fessional as well as by the layman. Something ; must be done to «op this undesirable influx, j and the writer demonstrates clearly the i r l?T n i for so doing and how it can be accom plished. The other departments of the paper are all up to their usual standard o: excel lence. ■:- ■ ■ . , :. --. ..y,--. -:•• - ■ • • •■. Gone Out of Business. The Pioneer Woolen-mills yesterday applied to the Superior Court for permission to dis solve the corporation. There were 1000 shares j of capital stock in the corporation. 772}* of ! w {|. l I ch wef e voted In favor of dissolution. This .s the last corporate act of a once pros i perous institution. The old North Beach mills I have been idle for years and have been turned over to a company of Japanese. All the obli ; gatlons and debts of the concern have been . straightened out, and now the corporation is | to dissolve. — • — • — • — On the steamer wharf of Algiers strang i W3 are besieged by the native beast ped j diem, extolling in broken French the mer | its of their tame baboons, jackals, monkeys i and young lions. Children Cry for Pitcher's Castoria. servation of Consul-General Jernigan of Shanghai, who said: "The steady gain indicated by the Japanese looms may be regarded by "Western manufacturers some what as the Hollander regards the first leak in the dikes that protect the mead ows of his home from overflow. The fu ture of Japan is evidently that of a great manufacturing nation." The foregoing quotations show some of the reasons why the friends of protection have for many years urged that American factories and workmen be saved from the ruinous competition of the growing Orient. Against none of these evils has Candidate Bryan ever offered a single remedy. Under the political ideas he loves the United States would soon become as bleak as the plains. Consul-General Mclvor says: "Japanese manufacturers are each year improving the grade of their fabrics and are thus demanding a larger proportion of Ameri can cotton," and each bale manufactured there means a decided loss to American workmen. The time is soon at hand when Japan will entirely cease importing goods and when she will reach out and supply the countries she lias been patronizing so long. All through Japan there are manifold evidences that her stirring people, consti tuting a population of 40,000,000. are awake to the advantages of manufacturing. Mills and factories are under way and a trained army of workmen will, ere an other decade, be turning out all kinds of goods at rates with which even the poor est paid countries of Europe cannot com pete. It does not matter what line of in dustry is investigated, for the conclusion is inevitable that Japan means to take her place among the great manufacturing na tions of the earth. It has thus been shown by a previous article on the subject and by the facts here presented that tne only way by which Americans can escape the evils of universal misery is by a wise protective tariff. It will not be many years before Jap anese goods, without protection, are sure to force tnemselves upon the American market. Added to their perseverance and rare skill the "little brown men" work for a few cents a day, the Government has no laws against child Jabor, and American workmen would suffer at every turn if left without the benign i iluences of a protection so adjusted as to insure pros perity to all. WILL HAVE ITS OWN FULL TICKET The Civic Federation De cides to Go Into Politics. LESSON OF VIGILANTES. The Time Has Come When the Federation Believes Re form Necessary. COMMITTEE REPORT ADOPTED. It Provides for a Municipal Ticket for the Coming Elec* tions. The Civic Federation held an executive session last night in Assembly Hall, Mills building, and adopted the report of its committee on political action. I. J. Tru man presided and about twenty members of the federation were present. The report recommended that a move ment be organized to dace before the voters of San Francisco a full municipal ticket. According to the announcement prepared for the press and given out after the meeting adjourned this report was dis cussed in detail and after a long consider ation of its various parts was adopted. The following was issued as the report of the committee: To the President and Members of the Civic I Federation— oentlembn: At our last meeting a committee \yas appointed to inquire into the present political situation, with a view of formulating some practical plan through which the taxpayers of this City mar be able at the ensuing election to prevent a repetition of thp municipal calamity now hanging over ut. Honoring and respecting the opinions of all our fellow-citizens, and their political preferences in National and State affairs, alter mature and deliberate consideration of tee important subject intrusted to our hands, we feel it incumbent upon us to candidly an nounce that in our opinion those great issues f>o essential to the perpetuity of our National Government bare no necessary relationship to the welfare and prosperity of local govern ments. The sad experience of the past in nearly every city of the United States has plainly demonstrated|the fact that municipal administration is beet subserved and a greater degree of progress reached by placing the af fairs of each locality in the hands of tho^e who have permanent" Interests in the honest management thereof regardless of party. The contending factions of both the Repub lican and Democratic parties, now at war ov-.t the spoils expected from the election in No vember next, are irreconcilable. Any settle- j ment or adjustment by either or both parties within their respective party lines, or the old familiar compromise through which eacfl may receive a certain share of the offices, would simply result i i perpetuating the present dis graceful methods now being inflicted upon an already tux-eaten, boss-ridden community. The infamous plan oi dividing the offices as demonstrated at the last election is still fresh in our minds. While some of the bungling participants in that plot are now in San Quen lin the more timia and crafty ones, equally guilty, are occupying public places, and some are to-day tremblingly drawing the dishonest profits of their bold criminality. Under the present consolidation act there Is not now and cannot ever be hereafter any pro tection to property or property-owners from the ceaseless demands of corporations who are bonded and stocked far in excess of their legitimate value. Nor may we expect honest public service from either principal or sub ordinate municipal officers who are more or less dominated by persons or corporations of self-confessed dishonesty. Nomination and election to City office, ac cording to the customs prevalent to-day, mean merely common public plunder and aDJect private servitude whenever the occasion arises, regardless of the name of the party in power. Political party nominations of men hereto fore regarded as above reproach in a large ma jority oi cases after election have developed the fact that they were simply awaiting the opportunity, and misfortune has invariably overtaken the City's valuable privileges which they had been selected to protect. Deplorable evidence of this fact is already exemplified in the Geary-street railroad franchise. Under the prevailing farce of holding party primaries and the subsequent convention tableaux very few aggressively nonest and up right men are nominated for offices having political patronage. The time is now come tor the people themselves, who represent nine tentlisofthe voting capacity of this City, to say at the polls whether they wish to remain serfs to impecunious political criminals and place-hunters, led by an insignificant minor ity, or whether they desire to assert their American citizenship and assume a pan of tho'duties and responsibilities of City govern mental management. There can be no genuine betterment oi our City government until it is done by the people themselves outside of National party lines. It must be apparent to every one that any change will prove advantageous. There is only one method we can discover by which our municipal affairs can be conducted economically and honestly, and a violation of election laws be made as sure of punishment as a violation of any other law. Many of our fellow-citizen will readily re call the Vigilance Committee of 1856 and the elas 1 " of men who originally composed its membership. The cause and history of that organization are well known to all; and hard ly less exasperating tnan the schemes which gave it origin are tnose resorted to by the so called politicians of to-day. The exposure of the corrupt criminal prac tices developed at the trials of that committee aroused the masses to action lor self-protec tion, and a party cpmposed of the best citizens of the City was formed. For a period of about twelve years no city in the Union was better or more economically governed. These facts conclusively demonstrate that the time has come when a citizens' ticket of tried men, known to be true, regardless of former party affiliation, would carry every precinct in tne City and County of San Fran cisco. Therelore your committee would earnestly recommend that all good citizens urite in or ganizing a reform movement for the purpose of placing before the voters of tnis City a full municipal ticket that will commend itself to the support of all good citizens. C. B. Perkins, D. Gilbert Dexter, George T. Qadkn, R. Lambert. W. F. Harris, R. L. Rigdox, Committee. C. B. Perkins, the genial merchant and prominent member of the Simpson. Memorial M. E. Church, was unanimously elected secretary of the organization. FIREWORKS T O-NIGHT. Pacific Parlor No. 10, >\ S. G. W. , Will Celebrate at the Chutes. The chutes will be turned over to Pacific Parlor No. 10 of the Native Sons of the Golden West this evening, and the mem bers will have a jollification preparatory to the celebration at Stockton on Admis sion day. An elaborate and appropriate display of fireworks will be given, ana the set pieces will all be distinctly Californian. A bear flag will be raised and other emblems of the order will be shown in pyrotechnics. Conn Fredericks, the "demon cyclist," will coast down the chutes on his "bicycle at 10 o'clock. The committee in charge of the evening are W. H. Hazell, F. "W. Smith, J. G. Klemm, J. R. Kropp, D. L. Fitzgerald, J. J. Dunn, H. E. Faure, Charles McMenomy, John A. Steinbach and J. H. Cunningham. The ordinary rate of admission will be charged. THE GOODSPEE D ESTATE. A Decision on the Motion to Strike Out " and " in the Demurrer. Judge Coffey Denies the First With Exceptions and Sustains the Latter. In the matter of the will of Lucy C. Good9peed, deceased, for probate. Judge Coffey yesterday rendered a decision upon the motion of the respondents, represented by Delmas & Shortridgfl, to strike out parts of contest, and also upon the de murrer to the contest. Judge Coffey holds that the motion to strike out should be denied, saving the right of the respondents to have an amended contest filed, stating clearly and concisely the grounds of opposition to the probate of the proposea will. With re spect to the peculiar parts of the motion eranted facts only should be stated; facts as contradistinguished from the law, from argument, from hypothesis and from the evidence of facts. A legal inference or conclusion from the facts should not be stated; that is not the province of the pleadings under our system, which is to develop the facts. The contest is addressed to a certain in strument propounded for probate and, therefore, the motion to strike out such phrases as "pretended will" is proper. The phrase is unnecessary and redundant and should be ousted. In the opinion of the court the sixth ground of objection is especially worthy of censorious attention— the tender of issue concerning the condition of the de cedent at the time of her death. This is clearly not pertinent, necessary, relevant nor material to the issue. In other para graphs are alleged fraud, duress, menace and undue influence. These are but con clusions of law and tender no issuable facs, in the manner stated. The objections specified and enumerated NEW TO-DAY.' L Cheapest, Because the Best 5 GAILBORDEN { I EAGLE BRAND I L CONDENSED MILK X 2 t* s **?^ ,{ Or that little book, "Infant T J Set ' gfeat VaIUS tO mo t*>rs7s£! t : Y N. Y. 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Continuing the decision sayß: The demurrer should be sustained, because as it stands it becomes necessary to modify the pleading and bring it within the rules already adverted to, so that respondents may answer direct allegations, to the end that the issues involved may be clearly presented to the court upon the trial of the contest Particular attention is directed to the first ground ot demurrer— that the contest nusjoin* several causes of action. It is self-evident that fraud aud force cannot be exercised by the same person on the same Derson at the same time to achieve the same end. The evidence required to sustain the charges of fraud and of duress or menace would necessarily be opposed one to the other. Requiring different evi dence, they constitute different causes of ac tion within the purview of the code, and under section 427, C. C. F., the grounds should be separately stated. The allegations throughout the contest, amounting to a charge of conspiracy on tho part of Daniel Sullivan and other persons sin known to the contestants, are plainly de murrable, for certainly the proponents have a right to know the names of the conspirators. (Miller vs. MiDermott, 31 Cal., 271). Demurrer sustained; ten days to amend. TO FOLLOW "OLD PARD." Herbert Fairfleld'g Unsuccessful At- tempt to Commit Suicide. Herbert Fairheld, a boarder at the Va lencia-street Hotel, attempted to commit suicide last night. He went to his room, closed the door, turned on the gas and, covering his face with a piece of carpet, lay down on the floor to die. William Gerken, the proprietor, noticed the smell of escaping gas and found it proceeded from Fairfield's room. He opened the door and saw Fairrleid uncon scious on the floor. Fairfield was taken to the City and County Hospital. The doctors worked on him for some time until he was brought back to consciousness. Then he was taken back to the hotei. Fairheld has been assisting his brother for some time, who is a carrier for one of the morning papers. By occupation he is a fireman, but lost his po3ition during the strike on the Southern Pacific two years MO. In explaining his reason for attempting to end his life he said : "I used to fire for Cornwall, the oldest engineer on the Southern Pacific, who died on Tuesday. I was fond of the old man and went to his funeral yesterday. "His death made me despondent and I got drinking. I felt despondent over the old engineer's death, and a feeling came over me that the best thing I could do was to follow him to the grave. "The feeling was a pleasant one and I suffered no pain, but when the doctors were bringing me back to life than I suf fered the most excruciating agony for seme time. I don't think I will try it again." Fairheld is 32 years of age. He was married, but divorca from his wife. HEW TO-DAY.' AT THE No-Percentage Pharmacy, 953 Market Street. 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