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RECALL OF THURSTOH. Gresham's Request May Cause Unpleasant Complications. LIKE CATACASZY'S CASE. Similarity of the Charges Against Ministers From Ha waii and Russia. CIRCULATING WILD STORIES. Instigation of Certain Newspaper Articles Attacking the Ad ministration. "WASHINGTON, March 20.— An intimate friend of Minister Thurston, now in Wash ington, says that Thurston has no official information as to the request for his re call, while at the same time he has no doubt that such a suggestion will be made to the Hawaiian Government. It is likely, however, that Thurston will continue to look after Hawaiian interests in an un official manner. Thurston's friends say, as a matter of fact, that he never has been treated at the State Department as other Ministers have been treated. It is inti mated that Frank Hatch may be selected to succeed Thurston. It was learned late this afternoon that the Hawaiian Minister is accused, in addi tion to the giving out of facts, of having instigated newspaper articles in New York papers attacking the administration. This brings Thurston's case on all fours with the celebrated Catacaszy case, which caused so much comment during the ad ministration of President Grant. Catacaszy •was the Russian Minister here, and it had been clearly shown by the testimony of the newspaper men concerned that he fur nished the substance for articles published in the New York "World attacking the foreign policy of the administration, and critieicizing bitterly the attitude of the United States toward Russia, then in volved in a serious dispute with Great Britain. The Minister specifically denied responsibility for the publication, although it was undoubtedly brought home to him, and shown that he had revised the manu script before it was printed. There were other grievances against the Minister grow ing out of allegations of immorality and improper conduct toward the Perkins claim, then pending, although those mat ters were not made the ground of official complaint. On June 1*; Secretary Fish, by the direction of President Grant, directed our Minister to Russia to inform the Rus sian Government that the conduct of Mr. Catacaszy both officially and personally had been for some time past such as to im pair his usefulness to his Government and render intercourse either for business or social purposes disagreeabie. Under these circumstances the interests of both coun tries would be promoted and relations placed on a surer footing it the Russian legation here v,-as to be changed. The latosr mail from Honolulu has ar riv."i. Minister Thurston declined t.-> state whether it contained anything bear ing on the request of Secretary Gresham for Mr. Thurston's recall. The Minister maintains the absolute silence on the sub ject that he ha? since the report first appeared. The legation office is open to callers, however, and the usual business proceeds briskly between Minister Thurs ton and Mr. Hastings, secretary of the legation. The moment the recall" is men tioned Mr. Thnrston and his assistant lapse into >i!ence. It is believed from the fact that the com munication relating to Minister Thurston was sent out February 21 that there has been ample time for a response from the Hawaiian Government in the mail just received. Secretary Gresham's note reached San Kriiiu isco in time to catch a boat that would arrive at Honolulu about the last of February. Since then several ships have left Honolulu, the last ones reaching San Francisco and Vancouver re spectively about a week ago. They brought the official mail which has now arrived at the legation. It is known that it contains a long communication from Mr. Hatch, the Hawaiian Minister of Foreign Affairs! as Mr. Hastings rcceis-ed a brief message saying that such a communication was on its way. If the Hawaiian Government has replied Mr. Thurston would be the natural and only channel of communica tion to the State Department, as he re mains the official representative of Hawaii until his recall is actually accomplished. That Gresham asked for Mr. Thurston's recall there is no longer any doubt, though the manner in which it was put is not yet known. It is supposed the Hawaiian Gov ernment will communicate with its Min ister and seek his version of the circum stances before acceding to Secretary Gresham'e request. The communication from Hawaii, if it refers to the recall, as is thought extremely likely, may be a short reply to Mr. Gresham's request. Further developments, therefore, will be watched with great interest, especially the answer of Hawaii, as a declination to accede to Secretary Gresham's request doubtless would be followed by Minister Thurston being given his passports, an act equal to the severance of diplomatic relations. In connection with these later Ha waiian developments, criticism is made by members of Congress stil! in the city of the failure of the Secretary of State to trans mit information of his act to Congress prior to its adjournment on March 4. The request for Mr. Thurston's recall was dispatched prior to February 21. Con gress had been informed officially that the Government would keep it posted on Ha waiian affairs and would supply it. with the correspondence relating thereto. Not withstanding this the Congressmen say no intimation has transpired that the representative of the Hawaiian Gov ernment to the United States had been de declared persona non grata and a step taken which may embarrass seriously the relations of the two Governments. The Honolulu Advertiser, which has just arrived here, clears up a mystery which has long puzzled officials here as to an entry in ex-Queen Liliuokalani's diary, stating on the day specified President Cleveland's present had been received by her. It was at once denied hen* that the President had. ever sent a present to the ex-Queen. The Advertiser now explains that Mrs. I'ominis received a report of the Board of Public Works at Chicago for the year 1893. Some one had taken the trouble to cover it handsomely in cloth and had also secured the personal cards of Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Gresham. The cards, the papers say, were placed inside the volume with a suit able statement of regard in forwarding it. The ex-Queen did not doubt the genuine ness of the present, it seems, nor suspect that some practical joker had been at work, and accordingly made the entry in her diary. The Honolulu paper states that the report contained "plenty of useful informa thai could be used to advantage by a pro gressive monarchy." XO MEVOLUTIOX TMERE. Reports of Uprisings in Salvador Flavor Strongly of " Fake." WASHINGTON, March 20.— Senor Lazo, the Guatemalan Minister, and Senor Calvo, the Costa Rico Charge d' Affaires, declare that the news of a revolution in Salvador in the interest of General Ezeta is entirely false. They thought it very singular that the steamer Saturn, which was the bearer of such important facts, did not communicate them to the Guatemalan or Mexican ports where she touched, and from where they could have been wired to this country, as are many other news items, but waited un til her arrival at San Francisco. Senors Lazo and Caivo say the fabric a tion of such a dispatch is verified, because they are in communication with the State of Salvador, although neither of them is a representative of that country. They are sure that they would have re ceived infoamation tnrough their corre spondents or otherwise in regard to such grave events, which are said to have hap penen in the early part of February. DOMAIN OF THE RED MEN. Work of Carrying Out pro visions for the Sale of Their Lands. In Some Cases the Indians Are Advised to Rent Tracts to Farmers. "WASHINGTON, March 20.— The Indian office, under the direction and supervision of Secretary Smith, will iind considerable work provided for in thela^t Indian appro priation bill which will keep it quite busy during the coming season. Among other things authorized in the bill is the appoint ment of a commission to negotiate with the Belknap Indians for the sale to the United States of a portion of the reserva tion in the north central portion of the State of Montana; also to negotiate with the Blaekfoot Indians for the sale of a por tion of their reservation in the northwest ern part of the same State. An appropri ation of $3.">00 has been made for this pur pose, and as the sum is so small it is quite possible that the commission will consist of employes of the Interior Department. Secretary Smith has said to all the visit ing delegations of Indians, no matter from what portion of the country they came, that if they have no desire to sell their lands the department has no purpose to urge them to do so. He prefers they should keep their lands where they can make use of them. To one delegation he recently said he thought it would be a good tiling if they would divide their reservation tracts among themselves in some equitable manner *n farm such portions as they could ;md lease the remainder to farmers who would pay them a reasonable sum for the privilege. In the case of the Belknap and Blaekfoot Indians it may be found advantageous to the Indians to dispose of a portion of their hinds, as the area is considered much larger than they can handle judiciously. Probably some difficulty will arise when the Secretary comes to carry out the por tion of the law providing for decrease of 20 per cent in the number of contract schools. He is not allowed to make contracts with more than *<} per cent of the contract schools with which contracts were made for the present fiscal year. To decide just what schools shall be given up will cause some trouble, as all will probably desire to be retained. The Secretary is also author ized to negotiate with the San Carlos Indi ans for the sale of the coal lands on their reservation in Montana. He will also ap point a commission, for which $10,000 is provided, to secure the consent of the Southern Ute Indians and pay the ex penses of their removal, according to the terms of the law passed at the last session. nOVGES AN INCORPORATING TAX. Hut the I,ong Island. Traction Company Is in. a Receiver's Hands. NEW YORK, March 20. — Horace J. Myers of the tirm of A. M. Kidder & Co. has been appointed by the United States Circuit Court of West Virginia as receiver of the Long Island Traction Company. The appointment is in the nature of a friendly proceeding. In a circular to the directors it is as serted that a large majority of holders of the collateral trust notes have agreed to co-operate in the plan of reorganization, the condition being that $.500,000 be raised before March 28. It is the intention to pay the obligations io the receiver instead of the company. The Traction Company was incorporated in 1893 under the lawn of West Virginia and capitalized at $30,000,000. The Long Island Traction Company was organized later in West Virginia for the alleged pur pose of evading the paying of the incor porating tax in this State on the $30,000,000 capital, which was mainly on paper. The plan of reorganization was precipi tated by two suits brought by P. H. Flynn, a heavy stockholder in the Brooklyn City Railroad, which .is leased by the Long Island Traction Company. One suit is to annul the lease of the city road, and the ottier is to prevent the Traction Company from saddling more debts on the leased property. Mr. Jenkins, vice-president, then said that an assessment of $5 a share would be necessary to keep the Traction Company afluat. It is said that the appointment of the receiver will give the stockholders at least sixty days more in which to pay this assessment. Vtah'M Constitutional Convention. SALT LAKE, March 20.— The constitu tional convention spent most of the after noon in committee of the whole, consider ing the preamble and declaration of rights. Amendments to section 4 were offered providing for the taxation of church prop erty. After a lengthy debate the conven tion adjourned without reaching any con clusion. JKailroad Directors Ite-clccted. SALT LAKE, Utah, March 20.— The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Utah and Northern and Oregon Short Line Railroad was held here to-day. James Sharp, resident director, represented 170,000 shares of stock by proxy. The old board of directors was re-elected. I'erishrd During a Fire. NEW YORK, March 20.-At a fire this morning in a four-story house at 163 West Twenty-fifth street, John Murtz was burned to death. Tony Ketchum jumped from the third-story window, receiving in juries from which he died soon after. THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, MARCH 21, 1895. EXPLOSION IN A MINE Fifteen Men Killed at the Red Canyon in Wyoming. OTHERS ARE IMPRISONED Eight of the Unfortunates Burned Beyond Recog nition. ALWAYS CONSIDERED SAFE, But Escaping Gas Become Ignited From Some Unknown Cause. EVANSTON, Wyo., March 20.— At 5:45 o'clock this evening an explosion of gas occurred in the Rocky Mountain Coal and Iron Company'? mine No. 6at Red Can yon, seven miles from Evanston, with terrible results. James B. Bruce, mine foreman and ex- County Commissioner of Uintah County, Wyo., and four others were instantly killed by flying timbers. As far as found the others are: William Sellers Jr., rope runner; James Clark and Edward Cox, head car-putters. The other man has not been identified. All were killed by flying timbers. From twenty-live to fifty, who were in the mine at the time of the explosion, have not yet been rescued and are certainly dead. 0. B. Maltby, Andrew Mason and Jerry Crawford are badly hurt, but may recover. About 150 men are employed at this mine and most had gone out. Among those in the mine thought to be (load are: "Willard Brown, John Fearn, Samuel Thomas and son, old Mr. Burton, Samuel Hutchinson and William Sellers Sr. and son. The covering of the slope and buildings at the south were blown to splinters. The mine was considered one of the 9afest and best conducted in the State. Later— o. B. Maltby, superintendent of motive power, has since died, also a boy named Jerry Crawford. Eight men have been brought out of the mine so burned as to be past indentirication, with the ex ception of one, James Lamb. All hope of rescuing anybody alive is given up. The deathroll now numbers fifteen. THOSE XJSBRASKA. J,XXCHIXGS. Prosecution of the Slayers of Scott and Mrs. Holton. OMAHA, March 20.— Attorney-General Churchill and the attorneys for the de fense reached an agreement this evening and all the prisoners will be turned over to Sheriff Standiford of Cody County in the morning. They will be placed under $5000 bonds each to appear before the District Court at Butte, Nebr., to stand trial for the murder of Scott. It was agreed in the conference that the prisoners would waive examination and the amount of the bond was agreed upon. Attorney-General Churchill left this even ing for Atkinson, and from there he will go to Keya Paha County to look after the lynching of Mrs, Holton near Brocksburg. BDTTE, Nebr., March 20.— County At torney C. W. Lear has arrested two men named Hunt and Miller, charged with lynching Mrs. Holton near Brocksburg. They are desperate criminals. THE RAILROAD RESPONSIBLE. Ilattie Frost Receives Damages for Her Husband's Death. BUTTE, Mont., March 20.— Hattie Frost to-day secured a verdict for $15,000 dam ages in the United States Court against the Oregon Short Line and Utah Northern Railroad for the death of her husband, an engineer, who was killed in a collision sev eral years ago. The accident was caused by the opera tor failing to deliver an order to the en gineer. Judge Knowles made the im portant ruling that the operator was the agent of the company and not a servant, and therefore the railroad company was responsible for his negligence. RACING AT JTJEW ORLEANS. Winners in the Six Interesting Running Events. NEW ORLEANS, March 20.-Cool and clear. Track good. Six furlongs, Johnny McHale won, Flash second. Dr. Work third. Time, 1:16%. Four furlongs, Learman won, Sister Rosalind second, Uncle Lew third. Time :50V£. Six furlongs— Jenkins won ; King Craft second, Panini third. Time, 1:16. Seven furlongs, Mollie B won, Miss Galop second, Florence B third. Time 1:30. Six furlongs. Gold Dust won, St. Croix second,. Foxhall third. Time, 1:16. TELEGRAPHIC NEWS jN BRIEF. The Duchess of Leinster, the widow of the fifth Duke of Leinster, is dead. She was the daughter of the first Karl of Fcverhal and re puted the most beautiful woman in the United Kingdom. Negotiations were completed at Chicago which effect a combination of all the whisky interests of the country and practically assure to the Spirits Distilling Association, of which Receiver McNulta of the trust is chairman, ab solute control of the spirit output of the United States. There was much excitement when the first ballot was taken and it was found that Rigging 1 followers, with the exception of Representative Wilson, had voted for Edward G. Bradford of Newcastle. So far, eighty-six ballots have been taken fcince the Delaware Senatorial deadlock began. Richard B. Hartshorn, chairman of the reor ganization committee of the Distilling and Cal tle Feeding Company, says that the reports of cutting whisky prices are false. This applies to the whisky trust and the affiliated compa nies. If the remaining outside distillers are cutting prices they are doing it to their injury, he said. The Yachtsman of London of March 7 con tains an account of the capsizing of a yacht in Swan River, Perth, West Australia, March 4. Among those reported drowned was Edward Fox, who earned the soubriquet of "Modoc" when acting as correspondent of the New York Herald in the Modoc war. Afterward he be came r promoter of various enterprises, and went to England. Fox became prominent as a second for Borrowe in the Drayton-Borrowe duel negotiations. Xot Guided Solely by Finances. BERLIN, March 20.— Before the Budget Committee of the Riechstag to-day Hon. Wegner-Posadowski, replying to a question regarding the reported con version of the fours of the imperial loan, said that so long as the government was not convinced that the present abundance of money was an indi cation of a permanent economic condition of the Government, it would not resort to conversion. In no case would the Govern ment be guided exclusively by financial reasons. GAJtZA. YET JLITIXG. The Mexican Revolutionist Is in the State of Chiapas. EL PASO, Tex., March 20.— The report that Cartarina Garza, the Mexican revo lutionist, was killed at Bocas del Terro, Republic of Colombia, March 7, is positively denied by Victor Ochoa, another border revolutionist and a companion of Garza, who is now in jail here on the charge of violating the neutrality laws. Ochoa says he has heard from Garza regularly, and that he is now in.the State of Chiapas. A Moscow Hank Closes. BOISE, Idaho, March 20.— Word is re ceived here that the Commercial Bank of Moscow closed its doors to-day. The president of the bank is I. C. Hattabaugh, who was County Treasurer up to January 14. He owes the State $17,590 and the officials have been pushing him for a settle ment. In the Xational Treasury, WASHINGTON, March 20.— T0-day's statement of the condition of the treasury shows: Available cash balance, $164,487, --7 gold reserve, $90,443,716. MAKINGS OP__A MILLIONAIEE. Neat Little Commercial Transaction of a Fruit Peddler. It is the generally held opinion among the clerks in sofne of the upstairs offices of the postoftice building that the "nate little bit ov a man" who has recently received permission to peddle fruit here during the lunch hour has in him all the makings of a millionaire. ' On the first day of his appearance he brought with him a large basket of rosy checked apples. "Northern Spoles," he called them and placed one on each clerk's desk. If the occupant of the desk offered to pay for the apple he was told that it was only a sample of the apples that the man proposed to keep in stock, and if the offer of tht apple was repulsed by some suspi cious clerk he was told that the obligation would be on the peddler's side if the clerk were to accept it. Next day there was a free distribution of a banana apiece, not a scrimpy banana, either, but a good fat banana, almost as large a> a rollinppin, and the presentation was accompanied by the richest of smiles and tho most delicate of blarneyings im aginable. On the third day the man brought a basket of oranges, and with them an apol ogy. He had "trapsed" all over New York, he saic', trying to get oranges of decent size fora reasonable price, but the supply was limited, owing to the "Floriday frosts," and all he had been able to get was "thim little runts." and for these he had to pay 5 cents apiece. But he hoped to do better when the California crop was fairly under way. Then, with the same rich smile, he began the distribution of oranges, but there seemed to be a prevailing impression among the clerks that the balance of obli gation was a little too much on one side now. A .sample gift of apples or bananas even, fruit that might be bought of any peddler, was all right, but when it came to running all over town for oranges which cost live cents apiece, it was a little too much like an imposition on good nature. So the clerks paid for their oranges; some of them at the rate of five cents apiece, and some at three for ten cents, while the chief clerk gave ten cents for a single orange. Next day the man appeared with a basket of mixed fruit, and laid an orange, an apple, and a banana on the first clerk's desk. ''How much ?" asked the clerk. "Well," said the man with a smile that would have broken Boucicault's heart with envy, so rich and winning, yet self deprecatory was it. "I'd loike to kape on giving you gintlemin a noice little bit of fruit ev'ry marnen, but I'm a poor man. It 'ud be about ten cents, sor." It was 10 cents all round and the clerks now feel that they are as completely bound as regular customers of the man as though there was a cast-iron contract between them. One chap, who has a very knobby head and who is considered the Vising sta tistician of the country, has computed that the man got back thirteen and twenty-six one-hundredths per cent over his original investment on the third day and that his prohts now range at seventeen and two tenths per cent above the legitimate.— New York Sun. GRIP IS APBICAN PEVES. A Traveler Who Has Gone Through the Dark Continent Says So. Up two flights of stairs under the roof of a double tenement house on Catherine street lies S. John Kuno, African pioneer and missionary, sick with African fever. After a four years' experience of mission ary work under the tropics he has returned with the usual missionary reward — a con sciousness of duties well performed, a troublesome and ineradicable disease and a large wad of photographs. The African fever is really a cross be tween malaria and influenza. Your head splits, you shiver and roast by turns, and when it is through with you you are so weak that you generally d"ie as a matter of preference. The doctors claim you can't have it in a temperature less than 52 degrees, but Mr. Kuno says he knows better. He has had it this week. Moreover he goes further and advances a new theory for sci entific consideration. The grip, he says, as far as he can Jearn, is nothing more than the African fever in a mild form. What is more, the disease started a few years ago, just after a lot of African missionaries had returned home and he is personally convinced that Afri can fever was among their baggage. The African disease, he says, the doctors know nothing about, and he thinks we treat the grip too mildly, being too much afraid of quinine. The dose for African fever in the niedical books is two grains at a time, but in Africa the old hands take as muoh as 120 grains at a crisis, putting it down liter ally in handfuls. He himself has taken so much that it has permanently affected his hearing, a continuous buzzing going on in his head like a spluttering telephone.— Springtield .Republican. BLONDE HEEOES GONE. Novelist* Complain That Modern Young "VI-ii Are Dark Haired. Where has the fair-haired laddie gone? A lady novelist, writing to a contempor ary, complains that the golden-haired youth is fast becoming extinct, and that heroes of fiction, to be true to nature-up to-date, must be endowed with dark locks. It was but a week or two ago that I commented on the discovery, made by an observant schoolmaster, that red-haired boys were now comparatively rare, so we are presumably reaching an era when the Soxon type of man will no longer exist. This is regrettable from a picturesque point of view, but there seems little reason why the novelist r-hould be exercised by the disappearance of the blonde male from our midst. It is my firm opinion that if the matter could be put to the vote it would be found that the majority of girls — who are, of course, the largest consumers of fiction— prefer the hero with soft, "doggy" brown eyes and blue-black hair to the insipid flaxen-polled and blue-eyed lover. But in any case there is no reason why the novelist should not give his or her readers what they like, and if fair-haired men really are so scarce, and really are ad mired, it will be all the more agreeable to meet with them in fiction, instead of com monplace dark men such as one encoun ters in real life.— Lady's Pictorial. Tea is raised in South Carolina. GENERAL COOK DEAD A Gallant Soldier Passes Away at His Home in Detroit. HIS ILLUSTRIOUS RECORD Subduer of Western Indians and One of the Conquerors of California. WAS LOYAL TO THE UNION. As Commander of the Cavalry in the Department of the Potomac He Earned His Laurels. DETROIT, Mich., March 20.— General Phillip St. George Cook died at his home in this city at 2 o'clock this afternoon. General Cook was a native of Virginia and was 85 years of age. His career had been identified with the army since his admission to West Point when only 14 years of age. He was also a member of the bar of Vir ginia, and has written several interesting works, among which are a volume on "Cav alry Tactics," "Scenes and Adventures in the Army" and "New Mexico and Califor nia." General Cook has seen service in every field where American valor has been dis played for fifty years. In the Black Hawk war he was a leadjng officer. He was in high command in the c onquest of Cali fornia and New Mexico. He dispersed the Lipans in 1853, and later led a raid against the Apaches. He was commander of the Department of Utah when the rebellion broke out in that land. Upon the breaking out of the rebellion, unlike most Southern officers, including his own son and his famous son-in-law, General .1. E. B. Stuart, he cast his sword for the Union. He became commander of the cavalry of the Army of the Potomae and partici pated in all the important events of the peninsular campaign at Games Mill, directly opposing his son-in-law. He afterward superintended the recruiting service, and in I860" took the Department of the Platte. He was breveted major-gen eral for his splendid service in the war. In 1>74 he was retired, after forty-six years of continuous service, with the rank of brigadier-general. He has lived in Detroit ever since. A BUG IS IN THE MEASURE Special Legislation That Af fects THE CELEBRATED Blythe Case. The Bill Is Before the Gov ernor, Who Has Full Information. An attempt has been made to seenre the passage of special legislation affecting the Blythe case. The measure drawn up for that purpose is Senate bill 762, relating to dismissal of appeals by the Supreme Court. It passed both houses of the Legislature and is now in the hands of the Governor. He has been informed as to its character, and inasmuch as he refused to sanction similar legislation affecting the Fair will case, in which, as an attorney, he is inter ested, it is thought hardly likely that he will approve this measure. "I have just been informed by. a gentle man, whom I shall not name," said Attor ney Highton last night, "that a bill has passed both houses of the Legislature, and is now in the hands of the Governor,' which was drawn up (so stated by its authors) for for the purpose of enabling the attorneys for Mrs. Hinckley to close up the Blythe case within thirty days. It is Senate bill Tti'2, and it is a most flagrant case of special legislation." Upon the surface the bill mentioned is a harmless though unnecessary measure. It adds nothing to the powers of the Supreme Court, but makes it obligatory on that tribunal to do just what it has always done— dismiss an appeal in which thereis no merit. It gives, however, to the re spondent the power of curtailing almost at pleasure the period that the court shall take for the consideration of an appeal. The proposed statute is a short one, its full text being as follows: The People of the State of California repre sented in Senate and Assembly do enact as fol lows : Section 1. A new section is hereby added to the Code of Civil Procedure of the State of California, No. 960, as follows. Section 960. All appeals heretofore taken, or that hereafter may be taken, to the Supreme Court without merit, or by one who has no in terest in the subject-matter of said action or proceeding, must be dismissed on the motion of any party interested upon ten days' notice being given to the party whose appeal is sought to be dismissed. Sec. 2. This act shall take effect immediately. The "bug in the bill," which renders it retroactive and special legislation and which makes it apply particularly to the Blythe case, is contained in the* phrase "heretofore taken." The legal status of the Blythe case at present is peculiar. Wnile an appeal from the main question was pending Mrs. Hinckley applied for a partial distribution of the estate. The de cree was granted, and from the unusual proceedings Alice Edith appealed. That appeal is still pending, and the estate can not be iinally settled till it be decided. ."The contention of the attorneys for Mrs. Hinckley if this bill becomes a, law," sain Mr. Highton, "will be that since Mrs. Blythe has been shown not to have been the wife of Thomas 11. Blythe she is not a party in interest. Then under the provi sions of the bill they will demand the dis missal of the appeal within ten days. The Governor has been notified of the matter, both by wire and by mail." Yesterday the bill was shown to several prominent attorneys of this city. Of them J. H. Tarn of 120 Gutter street, who for two terms occupied the bench in San Joaquin County, said: "The measure is most peculiar and must have a joker in it somewhere. Its provi sions are ridiculous, for no one not a party in interest can take an appeal, and if ah appeal is without merit the Supreme Court dismisses it anyway." Other attorneys expressed views in ac cordance with those of Judge Tarn, but when they were told that the Dlythe case was affected the request was invariably made that they be not quoted by name, as they had friends closely interested in the final result of the case. Uncle Sam as a Publisher. Uncle Ram owns the biggest book fac tory in the United States. One million books a yearis the product. As the aver age circulation of the books published by private concerns is less than five thousand and very few publishing houses issue more than twenty or thirty books in a year the rate for publication at the Government Printing Office is high. In addition to the book business, too, the public printing office turns out a daily newspaper for about nine or ten months of one year and three or more of the next regularly. For titnately it is a paper which requires no editing beyond the supervision of the makeup, and even that is regulated by a set of rules furnished to the Public Printer by the joint Printing Committee of the two Houses of Congress.— Boston Transcript. TO SEE PLANTS GKOW. Experiments by Which Their Growth May ±Je Both Seen and Heard. There are several ways of rendering the growth of plants both audible and visible, but the modus operandi in the latest im proved experiments is as follows: In order to make the growth of a very vigorous plant visible a fine platinum wire should be carefully attached to the growing part. The other end of the wire should be at tached to the end of a pencil pressed gently against a drum which is being driven by clockwork. If the growing be uniform "a straight line is marked on the paper, but the very slightest increase is shown by an inclined tracing. A slight modification of this arrange ment renders the growth audible. In this experiment the drum must be covered with platinum-foils of a certain width and sep arated from each other by spaces about one-eighth of an inch. These strips of platinum should be made to complete the circuit of a galvanic bat tery, to which an electric-bell is attached. In this case the bell is continually ringing while the plant is growing the height of the width of the strips used, and is silent while the pointer is passing over spaces be tween the strips of metal. The growing of corn may be heard direct by means of the microphone, and there are those who de clare they have heard it without ahv arti ficial assistance whatever.— Chicago times. Only Gentlemen Play the Amateur Game. All amateur poker players are gentle men. There is no exception to the rule, and the amateur poker players themselves are authority for the statement. Two be lated pedestrians were on their way home the other night, and a* they were passing a house just inside the limits of the semi business section of itfe city a.party of five men emerged noiselessly" from the door- way. "Hello!" remarked one of the men on their way uptown ; "poker party." "What makes you think so?" asked the other. "Sure thing; one of them is addressing the others collectively as 'gentlemen.' It's one of the peculiarities of the game. When a number of fellows meet to play poker, if they are not intimately acquainted, they invariably address their remarks to the whole gathering as 'gentlemen.' I don't know why it is unless it is to keep them constantly reminded of the fact that 'holdouts,' dealing from the bottom of the pack and other methods of the professional gamblers are not expected to be introduced into the game. All I know is that the members of these gatherings are invariably 'gentlemen.' Just notice it and you will see I am right." — Chicago Herald. Two Saved by Car-Fenders. Edward Sites Jr., 10 years of age, son of Edward Sites, Saturday morning had a narrow escape from serious injury in con sequence of the good services of a fender of car 113 of the Baltimore Traction line. The boy was crossing Fayette street at the corner of Poppleton. The car was in charge of Gripman William Geislein, who said that he tried hard to stop it, but the fender struck the little fellow and tossed him into the net. He was carried a short distance on the fender, when the car was stopped, and to the surprise of those who wit nessed the accident the boy crawled from the fender and ran away. He was only scratched about the right arm and leg. Samuel J. Kelso, 60 years of age, was knocked down by cable-car 18 of the Balti more City Passenger Railway's line, at Baltimore' and Gay streets, Saturday morn ing, and was caught in the fender. He was extricated and escaped with a slight cut on the head. — The Baltimore American, March 4. NEW TO-DAY. 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SLOANE & CO., 641, 643, 645 and 647 Market St., it, "' 3xr jßzaci 1 paxjaos nOTEZj. CROSSMAN HAS ARMS. During This Trip the Al lianca Takes No Chances. HE KNOWS HIS BUSINESS, And Therefore Could Easily Prepare a Chart for the President. THAT BRITISH FLAG YARN. The Captain of the Offending: Span ish Cruiser Makes a Peculiar Report. NEW YOKK, March 20.— The steamship Allianca, which was fired upon by a Span ish gunboat, sailed for Colon to-day. A report that she is to carry rifles and muni tions of war when she puts to sea was con firmed by the agents of the line. The fact of her doing so, it was explained, was not remarkable or in any way sensational. The company acts as carrier of arms to the Colombian Government on nearly every trip of its vessels. Ie is a perfectly legiti mate trade and violates no law. Captain Grossman was seen by an Asso ciated Press reporter to-day, just before his steamer, the Allianca, sailed for Colon, and was asked what he had to say regarding the statement that President Cleveland had expressed great dissatisfaction with what were claimed to be glaring incon sistencies in the statement submitted by Captain Crossman. "Well," said he, "I don't care to criticise the President of the United States, but I do think I know my business. I have spent thirty-six years learning it and I think I am competent to prepare an ac curate chart and description of my ship's course at sea. If the President had re quested my appearance in Washington to personally explain the matter, I think I could have satisfied him in five minutes. There is nothing more to be said about the affair." KEY WEST, March 20.- La Union, the constitutional semi-official newspaper at Havana, reviews the allegations in the Allianca case and gives the opinion that if the vessel was really nred upon the Spanish commander was fully justified. It says the Spanish navy is unconquera ble, and adds: It would be well for the United States to bear this in mind in con tentions that may arise through the ad venturers and traitors who make war on Spain and her noble sons; and let that nation remember that laws of neutrality were made by nations that know how to respect them. HAVANA, March 20.— The report of the captain of the cruiser Conde de Venadito, which fired on the Allianca on March 8, lias been made public. In his report he says the cruiser was steaming leisurely along within a mile and a half of land. The captain reasserts that the steamer was within the three-mile limit and was flying the British flag. 3