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THOUSANDS ARE AGAINST THE FUNDING BILL
Mass-Meeting at Metropoli
tan Temple Jams the
House.
MANY HAD TO STAND.
Prominent Speakers Were Ap
plauded and Cheered to
the Echo.
STRONG RESOLUTIONS PASSED.
The Enthusiasm Was at Fever Heat.
Addresses of Those Who Spoke
Against the Bill.
If Mr. liuntington and his friends had
any idea that the funding bill is a popular
measure in San Francisco, they were
probably undeceived by the feeling ex
pressed at the monster mass-meeting held
MAYOR SUTRO MAKING HIS SPEECH.
at Metropolitan Temple last night to pro* '
test against the passage by Congress cf i
such a matter.
Long before the hour for the meeting to j
be called to order arrived thousands of '
people had assembled about the entrances
to the building and hundreds had already j
taken their s-eats. As prominent men ;
who were to act as vice-presidents or speak '
against the bill made their appearance,
they were cheered and followed into the j
hall by their admirers.
When Mayor Sutro, who acted as chair
man, rapped for order not a chair in the
vast hall was unoccupied and the aisles ;
and spaces \uider the galieries were i
packed. The gallery itself was crowded to
its utmost capacity, many being seated on ]
the steps that lead from the entrances to the j
railing that faces the platform. And it
was an enthusiastic patriotic audience !
that listened attentively to the speakers i
and applauded to the echo references to i
the country's welfare and the efforts I
being made to bring the railroad to !
a realization that its debts must be
paid. As each of the prominent citizens I
who spoke was introduced by the chair- I
man he was cheered and applauded un- \
til it became apparent that he was ready i
to speak, and then the noise ceased in- ■
Rtantly. The vice-presidents who occu- |
pied the platform in addition to the speak- j
ers aud the chairman were:
Judge E. W. McKmstry, Oscar Lewis, J.
llichard Freud. Charles" Ashton, Joseph
JBritton, I. J. Truman, Stewart Menzies,
H. L. Dodge, George K. Fitch, John T.
Doyle. F. V. Cator, Dr. Frank Cornwall,
Max Popper, E. 8. Barney, W. M. Bunker,
N. P. Cole, J. E. Scott, Joseph Leggett, W.
W. Thompson, M. McGlynn. George T.
Gaden, W. M. Coward, O. D. Baldwin,
Charles M. Sutro and George W. Monteith.
Mayor Jrutro opened the meeting with
an address, which was as follows:
Kellow-citizens, Ladies and Gentlemen— This
is the third year that we have assembled in
this hall to protest against the passage of a
funding bill. Twice the snake has been
scotched— not killed. It rises up again like a
hydra- headed monster, this time confident
and sure to thwart the will of the people.
There is a sack in Washington which 'is ex
pected to accomplish that result; whether it
will or not will soon be ascertained.
We are on the eve of a Presidenti al election.
Will any party dare to go before the Nation
under a suspicion and charge that it has been
bribed to commit the greatest outrage ever
perpetrated against the American people?
If a burglar were to appear before a court of
justice and propose to pay for the stolen prop
erty, provided the court granted him sufficient
time to make the payment, would that be
tolerated?
And yet this is pretty nearly what the Pacific
railroads a?k Congress to do.
After having juggled everything of value be
longing to these roads into their pockets, these
corporations declare they are willing to pay
the debt on the exhausted, drained property,
provided they nre given forty-four years in
which to do it, trusting of course to future
legislation to wipe out the debt altogether.
If a poor farmer mortgages his land he must,
when the debt becomes due, pay ii or the
mortgage will be foreclosed. Will the Congress
of the United States establish the principle
that the mortgage on these roads shall not be
foreclosed, and ihus discriminate between tltc
poor and the rich man? Shame upon the
American Congress that would indorse such a
proposition !
The law must take its course in the one case
as in the other.
The greatest of all tribunals, tne people of
the United States, will in November next sit
in judgment on the proposition and this re
lunding question will be made the foremost
plank in the platforms of all parties. Is there
any party that would dare to go before tne
people for their votes on any such proposition?
i say no. The people, in the might of their
outraged rights, would wipe out such a party
from the face of the earth.
This is not a question of dollars and cents;
it is a question of honor. The honor of the Na
lion is at stake. If any one has the temerity to
insult the American flag, do we not resent It?
]jo we ask what it will cost to protect our flag?
Would we not send armies and navies, at the
expense of millions, to avenge the insult? If a
criminal is brought before a court do we ask
what the trial will cost? No: justice must be
dealt out and the accused, if found guilty,
must be {finished.
C. P. Huntington has issued a manifesto to
Congress, in which he attempts to show that
tiie Nation will profit by the passing of the
funding bill. Shame on such a plan when the
honor of the Nation is at stake !
We, the people of the Pacific Coast, are slaves
and have been made cowards by the terrorism
to which we have been so long subjected. This
arrogant and insolent corporation has domi
neered over us until our liberties as American
citizens have been nearly destroyed. By the
aid of a corrupt j udlciary and a venal press, and
i by a system of espionage, of threatened and
j actual punishment, they have managed to
I make cowards of honorable and patriotic citi
| zens. They have set before our youth an cx
i ample that has sapped the very foundation of
] honesty and patriotism.
Would there be any bosses if concentrated
| capital did not create them? The bribers are
the truly guilty; the bribed are the result
I largely of strong temptations placed in Their
! path when they are already half willing to ac
i cept them.
The great money power on earth is the Bank
; of Kngland. Its capital stock is £14.000,000 or
$70,000,000.
H we have heretofore lived under terrorism
! what will be the result if the oppressors are
! strengthened to the extent of if 80,000,00 0?
Why, under such a noxious power used for
evil' we shall continue dependants and slaves
for half a century or more to come.
Them corporation! have become Insolent,
arrogant and overbearing; they constitute
themselves into a secret tribunal to deal out
justice or rather injustice; they punish those
who have the temerity to oppose them; they
threaten financial ruin to any one who dares
resist their schemes against the people.
Why do we not have competing overland
railroads? Why do we not have the Nicaragua.
canalt Becauw the octopus, by bribery, chi
canery and misrepresentation, has managed to
defeat these beneficial undertakings.
Why <lo we have exaggerated port charges to
keep out the competition of shipping? Sup
posing a storekeeper should charge admission
to his store and exact a fee for standinp-room
in front of his counter— would he, think you,
have any customers?
That is what the octopus forces us to do with
our shipping; it makes us overcharge it and
drive it away, and thus strengthen the railroad
monopoly.
Through the machinations of this hydra
headed monster we are crippled, impoverished,
intimidated and enslaved; and shoulder to
shoulder, as one man, we should now stand
to prevent the perpetuation of this state cf
slavery.
Let us demand justice from Congress: let us
remind it that the passage of a funding hill is
not justice to us. It would be rewarding dis
honesty, rapacity and oppression.
I Let us prove that our manhood is not dead,
i that the spirit of the Revolutionary fathers is
I still living:, that we are not cowards nor slaw*.
Let our young men form clubs or companies
for self-defense in every precinct of the City ;
by word and deed the ladiesought toencourage
their fathers, brothers and husbands lo carp
on the good work persistently, and once again
the day of freedom will dawn and the sun of
justice, honor and prosperity s>hine over our
well-loved country.
When the applause which greeted his
words had subsided he introduced Mayor
John L. Davie of Oakland, who was re
ceived with cheers. He said :
"I crossed the bay this evening to aid in pro
i testing against the refunding scheme of the Cen
! tral Pacific Railway Company. A few men came
: together a few years ago with very little money
i and a great deal of nerve to build a railroad
' across the continent. When that road was
! completed they iound themselves mil
j lionaires five times over. Not 6atis
! fled with that, they started in to
! enslave your people. So lar have they suc
'. ceeded that scarcely a reprenentative of any
| mercantile firm dares to appear on a platform
| ana appeal against their rapacity. So arro
i gant nave they become that now they intend
'. to avoid by fraud and chicanery the payment
j of their just oblieations.
We have created this corporation and now
i we permit them to laugh in their sleeves at
; their creators. Just so long as this corporation
j can control the Legislature they will keep out
! out competition. If our Legislatures for the
| last thirty years had done nothing but try to
i keep out opposition railroads they could not
' have done better.
If you are men protest. Send back your rep
-1 resentatives with instructions to say to the
I railroads: "Pay your debts or we will take
i your roads and show you that we can run a
railroad iust as well as we can run a post
| office." You have let this octopus throw its
I tentacles about you until now you are in its
j power.
Colonel Thomas H. Barry said:
We are assembled here to evidence by our
i presence that the Southern Pacific has not put
I any shackles upon the people of California and
I the people of San Francisco.
If the road is bankrupt, if there is nothing
! for the people to receive, then there is enough
i confidence in the integrity in the people of the
; Tnited States to believe that if the mortgage is
' foreclosed the people of California can make it
pay. Jf the ten speakers who speak here to
night devoted their time to a bare recital of the
I mere iniquities which this corporation has
i perpetrated, it would not suffice for a litany of
i our woes.
We have no desire to-night to say
to these men who hold that the law is power
less that the very judicial arm of the Govern
ment which they have so often paralyzed is
confronted with so simple a proposition that
they cannot escape it. If you owe money, pay
it. The people of California say if you owe
money you must pay it. We say if the
road Is good enough for Mr. Huntington
it is good enough for the people. Imagine any
country or community in the world where any
discussion would be needed of such a proposi
tion. Only where the people, strong and pow
erful, have come to doubt their own strength.
They have come to fear they have created a
monster so powerful they are afraid to cope
with it. No man is so mean that the law shall
not protect him; no man is so great that he
can defy the law.
Do you say, Mr. Huntington, because you
have robbed California, do you say because
you are growing rich, while the necessaries in
our little homes are growing scarcer, you are
growing stronger? If you think tnatonthis
account you can defy the law this meeting
Fays that California may vote Democratic this
year and Republican next year, but whatever
her politics may be so far as you are concerned
you must pay your debts.
Henry E. Highton on being introduced
eaid:
This meetine converges upon a single point,
with two subdivisions. The point is the re
lease of the people of the State of California
from a more abject and poverty-breeding
slavery to the existing overland railroads than
they now endure. The two subdivisions are:
First, the defeat of each and every measure
that may be proposed in Congress for refund
ing the indebtedness of the Central Pacific
Corapaav; second, the immediate foreclosure of
the mortgages held by the Government against
that company.
1 take the liberty on my own account of
adding a third subdivision, namely: the re
storation to the security held by the Govern
ment of so much of its value as has been il
legally withdrawn, and the conversion of the
present holders of that withdrawn value into
trustees for all the bondholders, including
the Government, through the largest
equity suit in history, based, however,
upon ancient and simple principles,
and which, on the one hand, would not import
into the litigation the National sympathy
against a .direct attack UDon the Palo Alto
I'nivcrsiiy, and, on the other, would exclude
auy possible defense, based on & strained con-
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1895.
I struction of the State constitution or of State
legislation, defining the personal liability of
stockholders In corporations.
The argument on the main propositions be
fore the meeting has been long since closed.
The people of this State, and all people, trans
neting business through the Central Pacific
| Railroad Company, except the few thousand
within the sphere of its control or influence,
: are, and long have been, not only united, but
intensely determined in their opposition to re
| funding and in their advocacy of prompt fore
j closure.
Mayor Sut.ro then introduced Charles M.
! Shortridge, who said:
I think you will all agree with me that Mr.
! Hnntington's nerve is all right. He may have
; detects elsewhere, but in that respect he com
i mands admiration. We can hardly do other
■ wise than admire the nerve of men who went
j to the Government of these United States and
asked it to give them money and backing
enough to enable them to construct the great
■ eat railroad on the face of the earth, while less
; admirable, but not less nervy, was the cool
I manner with which, after the construction of
the road, they proceeded to loot it and pocket
the money.
The proceedings of Mr. Huntingdon and his
| associates in these later days have shown no
; decline in their original nerve stock. They
; have builded palaces, bought diamonds, lived
| in prodigality and purchased princes. They
i have had money to assist impecunious foreign
nobles to pay their gambling debts, money to
construct sumptuon.s hotels and money to in
j vest in the devolopment of Central Africa, but
I they have had no money to pay their debt to
1 the Government. When a man is in debt and
; cannot pay he is generally in a baa situation,
| but thes.e men are not. Huntington shows no
| signs of distress. His nerve is all right.
The reason why the railroad corporation is
unable to pay the debt it owes to the people is
because it has never tried to pay. The cor
poration has employed able and Brainy men to
i attend to many kinds of work, but it has never
employed one to devise a means of paying that
honest debt it owes to the Government that
created it and subsidized it. Mr. llun
tineton does not offer even to pay anything
on "account. Neither lie nor his associates nor
his prince make any attempt to curtail ex
penses in order to pay a cent. On the contrary,
he has had the audacity to ask the Govern
ment to fund the debt for 100 years at 2 per
I cent. After the first break, however, this was
too much even for his nerve, and he has since
offered to compromise on a plan to fund the
debt for forty-four years at 3 per cent. Even a
sand-lot audience could understand that
proposition and see the mingled audacity and
impudence in it.
One of the finest exhibitions of the nerve of
the man is evident in his statement that he is
trying to get the funding bill passed in the in
terest of California, and is attending to it as a
part of the business of the people. If he really
thinks he is there to do any business for us we
will send him word to-night that he can take
Henry E. Ilighton.
an immediate holiday. We have in Senator
Perkins of the Republican party and
Senator White of the Democratic, party
able men who are paid to attend to
our business at Washington, and they have
efficient help in the State delegation in the
House of Representatives. These men are
there to look after our aifairs. They should
u-H Mr. Huntington he is not needed to look
after the funding bill or any other part of the
people's business, and that it is the resolve of
California to entrust her affairs to men who
have less nerve, perhaps, but are more honest,
more patriotic and more devoted to all that is
implied in honesty and patriotism.
Charles A. Sumner was introduced by
the Mayor. He said :
The time has been when the brains are out
the man would die. Time has been when a
subject which has been intelligently discussed
in a community would eventually be solved.
It seems, however, that there is to be a re
presentation of the funding bill to Congress.
It has been said that the Government of the
TTnited States owes a great deal to the four
men who were instrumental in constructing
the Central Pacific Railroad. I deny it. The
stimulus came from the people of this State.
Long before any of these gentlemen were
identified with tne movement it had been can
vassed and projected. It was born of a popu
lar anpeal, and was made possible by the exi
gencies of the civil war. These people by their
claims to gratitude insult the intelligence of
every man who was in California at as early a
date as 185t> and 18(52. Yet C. P. Huntington
has the audacity to come forward, in behalf of
these mpn, and say, "I did it." It is said we
must defeat this bill on the ground that if we
do not we will be enslaved.
What is the ground for that assertion ? You
pay to-day from $1 to $3 more on every article
transported on this railroad than you ought to
at just rates of transportation. You do this on
a road built by the people's money. Is there
no slavery here ?
C. P. Huntingdon & few days ago said in re
gard to the election at Sacramento: "We do
not try to interfere with elections except to op
pose our enemies." Who are their enemies?
They can be judged by the character of their
friends. They arc known as the men who are
ready to do their work in conflict with the in
terests of the people. This Huntington bill is
simply a scheme to avoid an honest debt. They
say they are willing to pay, but not ready.
When will they be willing? The answer is
simple. They will be willing when they get
ready.
The Government by general and local patron
age gave to this road $440,000,000. More than
$1,000,000,000 has been paid into their cof
fers, vet now they claim to he bankrupt. They
say they will be ready in fourty-four years—
when Colonel Crocker will be. 74 years of age
and the only one capable of delivering the
goods.
Notwithstanding the audacity of this cor
poration in again presenting this iniquitous
bill, I am here to tell you they will pass it un
less the people of the Pacific Coast rise up in
their might and prevent it. You say the
people will rise up and oppose it. Where is
the representation that should be here on the
platform this evening. They are not here be
cause they fear their freights will be raised, or
in some other way they will Le brought under
the peculiar machinations of the Southern
Pacific.
This meeting will be published in the East
to the extent of about three lines. If it was a
corporal's guard and in favor of Hunt.ington it
would get a column. Your own puDlic press,
be it baid to your honor, is unanimous in this
matter, and though it takes a week to get there
It will have its effect in Washington.
If the people will be earnest and steadfast in
this matter C. P. Huntington will again meet
certain defeat. Are you prepared to pay freight
and passenger rates to put more money in the
capacious pockets of C. P. Huntington? The
Central Pacific cannot pay its debts while
Huntington is rich from the lootings of the
Central Pacific.
If American citizens allow themselves to be
plundered in daylightand then complain be
cause they have submitted don't you think they
deserve it. It seems very strange to discuss
such a simple proposition, but many queer
things get through Congress, and C. P. Hunt
ington has lost none of his ways that are dark.
The following resolutions were then read
by Secretary Reynolds, who prefaced the
reading with a few earnest remarks.
Whereas, Indifferent to defeat twice iu
flicted, a third attempt is now being made to
pass through Congress a funding bill regard
less of the fact that the people of this coast and
the United States are almost unanimously op
posed to granting any new privileges to men
who have robbed the Government of its securi
ties, and who have the effrontery to demand
an extension of time for many years at a low
rate of interest on debts due to the people;
and wheieas, the honor and life of the Govern
ment are involved in enforcing the obligations
of the rich as well as the poor; now, therefore,
be it
liesolved, That we demand of Congress that
the Pacific Railroad corporation be dealt with
as other debtors are, and that the mortgages
on their railroads be foreclosed. Be it further
Resolved, That the chairman of this meeting
is hereby empowered and requested to appoint
a committee of fifty, for the purpose of making
this a permanent, organization to oppose the
passage of any funding bill by Congress.
The resolutions were carried with a roar
of enthusiasm that shook the house.
A couple of socialists who were in the
main body of the house attempted to in
troduce resolutions on the subject of Gov
ernment ownership of the railroads, but as
it had been decided to discuss nothing but
the funding bill the Mayor declared them
out of order. Before declaring the meet
ing adjourned Mayor Sutro read the fol
lowing telegram "from ex-Congressman
Caminetti :
Jackson, Cal.
Mayor Sutro, San Francisco: Call a State con
vention. Permanent organization is necessary.
This would arouse other States, thus crystalliz
ing the sentiment. To strain a point in favor
of the railroads in this contest is treason to the
people. A. Caminetti.
This was loudly applauded, as was also
the following from Congressman Macuire:
Washington, D. C, Dec. 7, 1895.
Mayor Sutro, Chairman mass-meeting Mrtro
politan Temple: I congratulate you on your
prompt action. The voice of the peopfe of
California defeated the funding bill in the last
Congress, ana it will do it again if properly
called forth. The Pacific railroads must pay
their debts or the mortgage must be fore
closed. We may yet have a public trans
continental highway. James G. Maguire.
P. J. Sullivan, Barclay Henley, James
Mayor Davie of Oakland.
K. Barry, I. Richard Freud and Colonel
Rogers were billed to speak, but the late
ness of the hour prevented.
FOREIGN PACTS AND FANCIES.
Nearly $400,000 is the amount obtained
from the bicycle tax this year by the
French Government, the number of ma
chines declared being just under 200,000.
They are well spread over the whole coun
try, since Paris and the department of the
Seine returns 38,000, less than a fifth of
the toil.
Under the new French arbitration law
there wore fifty-one appeals by working
men last year and four by employers. The
masters refused to arbitrate in twenty-four
cases and the workmen in sixteen. There
were 3MI strikes during the year.
At St. Augustine's Waik, close to the
! parish church of Northbourne, near Dover,
I the place whe»-e the apostle to the English
first settled, a memorial lichgate has Deen
erected, where biers may be put down
I before entering the church.
Some 2400 Belgium 5-franc postage
stamps were recently discovered stowed
j away in a cupboard in a postofhoe at Curec
i hem. All were obsolete and therefore
{ valuable, and the Postoffice Department
put them up at auction and sold them for
36,000 francs.
From 8 in the morning to 8 in the even
ing 19,000 persons are traveling every hour
between the Marble Arch at Hyde Park
and the Mansion House in London. The
current moving toward the city reaches its
highest point, 11,000, at 2 o'clock; that
moving west an hour earlier. A curious
fact is thai there is not, as was supposed,
a great current into town in the morning
and a return current in the evening, but
that the motion is nearly the same iv both
directions. The persons who travel on
foot are twice as many as those who ride.
The chateau of Amboise has been bought
from the executors of the Comte de Paris
by the Due d'Aumale, who intends mak
ing it a home for the soldiers that fought
under him in Africa, after which it will
become a state museum like Chantilly.
Charles VIII was born and died in the
chateau; it was the scene of the bloody
massacre following the Conjuration d'Am
boise in 1560, Leonardo da Vinci is buried
in the chapel and Afcd el Kader was im
prisoned there for two years. In 1848 the
chateau was confiscated, but it was given
back to the Comte de Paris in 1872 by the
National Assembly with the other domain
lands that had belonged to Louis Phi
lippe. The restoration of the chateau was
begun twenty years ago by Viollet le Due.
•'Sporting Duchesa."
Duchess — One law for the rich and an
other for the Door, indeed ! I should think
there was when a dressmaker can get a ver
dict against a Duchess like this, with costs,
too, on evidence that was as false as the
French accent she gave it in. What had the
size of my waist to do with it? As my coun
sel said, it wasn't evidence, and she said
she'd never seen anything so much in evi
dence ; and the court roared ! My dear ! The
things that woman was allowed to get up
and say! Evidence! Impudence, I call
it, when it wasn't rank perjury. Not fit
me, indeed! Why, as I told 'em. Busvine
made me a habit that fitted me like a skin-,
and the Judge said, evidently the sort of
habit that was second nature, and the
idiots laughed. If there was one thing
that was in worse taste than his summing
up it was his jokes, and I told him so, and
he said I was guilty of contempt of court,
and I said, "What did such a court ex
pect?"
Too Easy.
"It's hard to tell just what the public
wants," said the theater manager, with a
sigh.
"It hasn't struck me that way." replied
the treasurer. "It seems painfully easy to
me. In nine cases out of ten it wants its
money back."— Washington Star.
Going Too Far.
Anxious Inquirer— Are you the man that
answers questions?
Clerk— Yes.
Anxious Inquirer— How much do you
get a week?— Bomerville Journal.
The author of the beautiful sacred lyric,
"There Is a Green Hill Far Away, "is Mrs.
Alexander, the wife of the Bishop of Derry,
and all hymn-loving England is much
concerned because she now lies at death's
door. t
CAMPBELL OFFERS TERMS
His Reply to the Proffers of
Agreement in the Lux
Estate.
FIVE SCHEMES SUBMITTED.
He Is Willing to Have the Property
Divided by Outsiders if
Necessary.
The latest phase of the litigation sur
rounding the old firm of Miller & Lux is
developing into offers of a compromise.
The German heirs of the estate of Miranda
Lux have been suing Henry Miiler for an
accounting of the affairs of the tirm, and
within the last few weeks repeated offers
to compromise have come from various
sources, particularly from Jesse Potter.
Jesse Potter was at one time executor of
the estate ol Miranda Lux, but some time
ago he vacated that position, and he is
now siring to break the will on the ground
that the testatrix at the time of the ex
ecution of the document was of unsound
mind.
Though Potter has made offers of com
promise there has never been any accepta
ble plan for an agreement submitted.
Henry Miller, one of the firm, also wished
the matter settled by agreement, if possi
ble, but no plan has come from him by
which any end of the litigation may be
amicably reached. The suit ior an ac
cuunting means the settlement of the en
tire affairs of the firm of Miller & Lux,
which were not in a very intelligible con
dition, and, as her property consisted
mainly of her interest in the firm, a settle
ment of the estate of Miranda Lux and a
satisfaction of the legacies left under her
will.
J. H. Campbell, attorney for the German
heirs, has now come forward from the
other side and has announced the terms
under which his clients will come to an
agreement. There are five propositions
submitted, and Mr. Potter is hard to suit
if at least one is not found satisfactory.
His offer of a compromise, he claimed, was
made in the best of faith, but the German
heirs have forestalled him in the terms
and have offered to Mr. Miller and to him
self, for the offer is not limited, all the
terms which seem feasible under the cir
cumstances. Following is Mr. Campbell's
letter to Henry Miller:
San Jose, Cal., December 3, 1895.
Henry Milltr Esq. —Dear Sir: We have al
ready written to you pointing out how incom
plete and objectionable is the agreement lately
submitted by you. To show now earnest we
are in seeking to have a settlement of the
affairs of the tirm of Miller & Lux we hereby
otter you all of the following plaus, out of
which you may take your choice :
But first the profits of the past eight months
and the livestock on the lands lately parti
tioned should be divided at once and the bills
receivable and overdue accounts put into the
hands of collectors of the various localities for
immediate collection and division. Further
receipts should be divided monthly.
As to the rejilty and the personalty naturally
going therewith, any of these methods of divi
sion will be satisfactory to the heirs:
1. Divide said property yourself into two di
visions and give us the right of choice.
2. Let the Lax heirs divide the property and
take your choice, or let the choice be deter
mined by chance or by bidding.
3. State an amount which you agree to take
or give for one-half of said property at the op
tion of the Lux heirs; 10 per cent within
thirty days; balance in ten equal yearly pay
ments; deferred payments bearing 6 per ceut
interest; compounded.
4. Select a commissioner; let the Lux heirs
select a second and these a third. Let this
board divide the property into two shares and
DR. WILLIAM D. JOHNSTON.
[From a photograph.]
let the choice or shares be bid for or settled by
chance, or
5. Let the said board divide the property as
they please. Choice to be settled as above. Let
them also settle every controversy, c. g., how
and by whom the business shall be conducted,
etc.
Any of these five plans will suit the German
heirs. If none are satisfactory to you pleaso
state why and we mny be able to remove the
objection In some one instance.
We should be pleased to have you submit a
few propositions in general terms as direct,
simple and comprehensive as the above for
our action.
But no method of division which includes a
continuance of the business seems to us feasi
ble which does not embrace a co-operative
management of it. Respectfully yours,
J. H. Campbell, for the German heirs.
OOYOTE AND DECOY DUCKS*
How m Poultry Farmer at Last Caught
the Culprit.
St. Louis Republic.
Although the coyote is essentially the
plains representative of the great wolf
family, he Bometimes invades the forest
lands, greatly to the prejudice of the forest
farms.
Cunning and treachery being its marked
characteristics, the coyote is no disgrace
to its kind. Picture an ordinary prairie
wolf with a last-stage-of-consumption ex
pression on his thievish countenance, his
teeth habitually exposed to the yellowing
influence of the arid region sun, and a
spirit of gaunt hunger pervading his every
look and action, and you have a good idea
of Mr. Coyote of the plains.
His cunning is illustrated by the follow
ing incident:
A poultry farmer living in the Pinon
timber, near Rio Piedre, a tributary of the
Rio Grande, had constructed a large reser
voir for the double purpose of affording
water in time of drought and furnishing a
swimming-place lor a fine lot of Muscovy
ducks. This brings us to the point. Those
ducks were the pride of the coyote's heart,
and more especially the stay of his
stomach. His visits to the duckpond
had the merit of regularity and the charm
of success.
The farmer is a great sportsman, and
has, among other field accessories, a case
of wooden decoy ducks. With these and a
little scheming he proposed to annihilate
the coyote.
Having placed the decoys in a sedgy
place in the lake, and kept his ducks con
fined all day, ho lay in concealment ready
o shoot the coyote, but the rascal was too
smart and never showed a hair. The
farmer gave it up in disgust, but neglected
to remove his decoys. Tne next night the
wolf went his rounds, and, rinding the
painted decoys, carried them to the far
thest point on the lake, for what purpose
I do not know; but when the ducks were
released in the morning they immediately
made for the decoys. The coyote was
there, as if keeping an appointment, and
— curtain.
Fixing his heart on vengeance and a
percussion cap on his muzzle-loader the
farmer made a systematic hunt for the
coyote and found him asleep on a ledge
of "rocks. The thief got a half-ounce bail
in his stomach, which, being unable to as
similate, he carried off a hundred yards,
where it caused his death.
DR. W. D. JOHNSTON DEAD
The Chair of Chemistry at Cooper
Medical College Left
Vacant.
A Well-Known Physician Who Figured
Prominently in the Bowers Case
Passes Away.
Dr. William D. Johnston, the well-known
physician, died at the Lane Hospital, Clay
and Webster streets, at an early hour yes
terday morning, after a painful illness of
three weeks.
The deceased medical man was well
known not only to the profession of which
he was an honored and respected member
but to people of this City and Ptate gen
erally, in consequence of the prominent
positions he held as chief of the chemistry
department of the State Mining Bureau
for a number of years and until he ten
dered his resignation to Governor Budd
last April; also through his occupying the
chair of chemistry and toxicology in the
Cooper Medical College from the founding
of that institution up to the time of his
death.
In addition to these responsible and
honorable positions, he had been fre
quently called into the courts as an expert
in medico-legal cases. The most promi
nent of these we:e the celebrated Dr.
Bowers case, where that medico had been
tried and convicted of the murder of his
wife by administering pills containing
a phosphorus substance, the ingredients of
wnich, on an analytical examination hy
Dr. Johnston, vera found in the woman's
stomach ; and the case of John Martin, r. •
cently tried in this City, where the two
widows of the deceased Martin brotheis
had legal complications regarding the
property left, with which the public is
familiar.
Dr. Johnston was born in Albany, N. V.,
in 1846, and came to California with his
parents when 8 years of age. He was edu
ceted in the public schools of San Fran
cisco, graduating from the High School,
after which he placed himself under the
preceptorship of the celebrated Dr. L. C.
Lane, and at the same time he entered
tbe medical department of the State Uni
versity, from which he graduated in 1871,
receiving the degree of doctor of medicine.
By the faculty at the Cooper College,
as well as by all his associates through
life, the deceased was much esteemed as a
genial, warm-hearted man. His funeral
will take place from the auditorium con
nected with Cooper College this afternoon
at 1 o'clock, under the auspices of Mount
Moriah Lodge of Free and Accepted
Masons, of which lodge the deceased was
a past master. In addition to this he was
a member of California Commandery,
Knights Templar, the order of Kniprhts of
Honor and the United Order of Workmen.
The deceased loaves a widow and four
children, two boys and two girls, the
youngest of whom" is 4 years of age.
SHARK STOPS A STEAMSHIP.
Xobody Believed the Yarn Until It Was
Officially Confirmed.
In a series of shark stories recently pub
lished in a London weekly one of the yarn
spinners tells this "rouser":
"I believe the record shark," said Bil
lings, "is an old twenty-footer which they
hemmed in in the harbor at Mauritius
with lighters, and which the ebb tide left
stranded in the mud."
"Babies, babies, all of 'em," said Mus
grove, "to this shark! Did you ever see a
shark big enough to stop" a P. and O.
steamer of 8000 tons?"
No one took it up; the silence was quite
oppressive.
"Well, this one," said he, "was basking
near the top of the water when the Hima
laya came steaming alonz, and she posi
tively cut half way through that shark,
and the carcass of the big tish proved so
great an obstruction that the skipper had
to stop the engines and back off."
Offers to bet all sorts of things, from
new hats to dozens of wine, that no shark
ever foiled could have kept in one piece
after being struck by the huge steamer,
and further, that the whole story came out
of an overworked brain, were showered
upon the Australian, who subsequently
produced a typewritten letter of which the
following is a true copy :
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Naviga- }
tion Company, 129 Leadenhall Street, t
E.C., 4th October, 1895. )
Dear Sir: We have to acknowledge the re
ceipt of your letter of the *2d inst., respecting
your recent voyage in the Himalaya, and in
reply thereto beg to say that we have looked
at the ship's log, find the incident you reter to
took place on th«(ith ult., and is recorded in
the log as follows:
"8:34 a. m.— Shark foul of stem.
"B:sß— Stopped.
"9 :04-AU clear. Proceeded full speed."
A somewhat similar incident occurred in the
case of the Victoria in April lost. We are,
yours faithfully, J - I} - B-^nes,
For the Managing Directors.
Medical Missionaries.
The success of the Christian medical
missionary abroad is yield new fruits.
First there rea few men where now there
are hundreds: then came the female medi
cal missionaries, who have achieved more
than their male colleagues; then came
female trained nurses, who are now to be
found in the more thickly populated, non-
Christian countries, and now, last of all,
native women are be:ng sent to Europe
and America, there to be educated as phy
sicians. ,
I The two who are in this country have
been re-enforced by Mei- Li-Shi and Ping-
Yung-Cheng, two Chinese women, who are
now studying' medicine at Ann Arbor,
Mich., by two Chinese and one Japa
nese, who arrived last month, but have
not yet matriculated at any collegiate in
stitution. In the London schools no less
than fifteen yonng .vonien from Japan,
China, and especially India, are pursuing
similar courses." One of these, an Indian
princess, has gone so far as to be taking a
special course at Oxford University. The
work which can be clone by these women
is far greater tl.an what might be supposed.
In all of these lands, but especially China
and India, there is a profound prejudice
against foreigners. It is not because they
»ire foreigners, but merely because most
foreigners have no caste or class distinc
tions, and violate those which prevail in
tne countries mentioned.
A prince, an embassador, a consul, a
general, a colonel, an admiral, a commo
dore and a captain are always welcomed
in the East, because their position is as
sured and because they themselves observe
a system of rank and etiquette which cor
responds very closely to their own. On
the other hand, in the Orient a merchant
or business man has a very low caste. In
addition to this complicated condition of
affairs it is universally regarded as shock
ingly immoral for men and women to
meet together socially. Woman's society
is composed exclusively of women
and man's of men. This accounts
for the success of our female med
ical missionaries, where the males
sometimes fail. When, however, the na
tive women who know and understand
fully the nature of class ana caste in their
own communities become qualified M.D.'s
they can penetrate any and every house
hold where sickness comes and, as Buduha
remamed in one of his most touching
fables: "Immortality is to be found in
that house where sickness and death have
never crossed the threshold." The few
Christians who are already carrying on
their double duty of healer of the body as
well as of the soul have had the greatest
success in both capacities.— Margherita
Arlina Hamm in New York Mail and Ex
press. . . . .
A party of miners from the Yukon River
mines of Alaska arrived at Port Townsend
last week with their pockets bulging with
nuegets and gold dust. They had from
$ OX) to $5000 apiece, the result of two years
at the mines.
The Swedes of Chicago and Illinois are
about to celebrate the fiftieth anniversary
of their settlement in Illinois. There are
at present 43.03U Swedish born citizens m
\ Chicago, and about 75,000 in the State of
I Illinois.
The London Galloway Association con
sists of persons from Wigtownshire and
the Stewartry of Kircudbridge and has a
roll of about 200 members. The London
Lamfriesshire, has a membership of about
equal size.
DR. SHORES' COLUMN.
iTiiiiirir?
Read Carefully the List of Symp-
toms Prepared by Dr. A. J.
Shores for the Benefi^»of
Catarrhal Sufferers*
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Until Cured— All Medicines Fur-
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Mail.
Thousands of people are to-day suffering
from the baneful etiects of catarrh, in one or
the other of its various forms, without any
knowledge of the character of their ailmeiit.
Many diseases known under various specific
names are really of catarrhal origin and na-
ture. Every part of the mucous membrane of
the nose, throat, ears, lungs, stomach, liver,
bowels, kidneys and bladder are subject to
disease and "blight by catarrh. DR. A. J.
SHORES, the eminent specialist, has carefully
arranged a list of symptoms to enable many
sufferers to understand just what it is that ails
them:
"Is the breath foul?"
"Is the voice husky ?"
"Do you spit up slime ?"
"Do you ache all over?"
"Do you blow out scabs ?"
"Is the nose stopped up ?"
"Do you snore at night ?"
"Does your nose discharge ?"
"Docs the nose bleed easily ?"
"Is there tickling in the throat !**
"Do crusts form in the nose ?"
"Is the nose sore and tender ?"
"bo you sneeze a great deal ?"
"Is this worse toward night ?"
"Does the nose itch and burn ?"
" Is there pain in front of head ?'
"Is there pain across the eyes ?"
"Is there pain in back of head ?"
"Is your sense of smell leaving ?"
"Do you hawk to clear the throat V
"Is there a dropping in the throat ?"
"Is the throat dry in the mornings?"
"Are you losing your sense of taste ?"
"Do you sleep with the mouth open ?"
"Does your nose stop up toward night ?"
"Have you a cough ?"'
"Are you losing flesh?"
"Do you cough at night?"
"Have you pain in side?"
"Do you take cold easily?"
"Is your appetite variable?"
"Have you stitches in side?"
"Do you cough until you gag?"
"Are you low-sntrited at times?"
"Do you raise frothy material?"
"Do you spit up yellow matter?"
"Do you cough on going to bed?"
"Do you cough in the morning?"
"Is your cough short and hacking?"
"Do you spit up little cheesy lumps?"
"Have you a disgust for fatty foods?"
"Is there tickling behind the palate?"
"Have you pain behind breastbone?"
"Do you feel you are growing weaker?'^
"Is there a burning pain ia the throat?"
"Do you cough worse night and morning?"
"Do* you havo to sit up at night to get
breath? 1 ' <•
"Is your hearing failing ?"
"Do' your eyes discharge?"
"Are the ears dry and scaly?"
"Do the ears itch and burn."
"Is the WAX dry in the ears?"
"Is there a throbbinp in oars?"
'Are you gradually getting deaf"'
"Have you pain behind the eawf
"Is there a buzzing sound heard?"
"Do you have a ringing: in the ears?"
"Are'there cracking sounds heard?"
"Is your hearing bad cloudy days?"
"Do you have earache occasionally?"
"Are the sounds like steam escapini:?"
"Do you constantly hear noises in the ears?"
"Do your ears hurt when you blow the nose?"
"Is there a roarinsr like a wurerfall in head?"
"Do you heur better some days than otters?"
"Do the noises in the ears keep you awake? '
"When you blow your nose do the ears
crack?"
"Is your hearing worse when you have a
cold?" '
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* J charge will be for actual amount of
■ ra. J _ medicine used, which in no case shall
WWI exceed $3 a month until cured.
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(INCORPORATED),
Expert Specialists in the Cure of
Catarrh and All Forms of
Chronic Diseases.
Parlors— Second floor Nucleus Building, cor-
ner Third and Market streets, opposite Chron-
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Office Hours— 9 to 12 a. m., 2to 5 and 7to 3
P. M. ; Sundays, 10 to 111 a. m. Take elevator.
Persons living at a distance write for symp-
tom blank.