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GAGE PREDICTS
BETTER TIES
Commercial Skies Made
Bright by Prosper
ity's Breeze.
Yet the Difficult Task of Cur
rency Reform Remains
to Be Solved.
Business Men of Boston Listen to
the Sound Logic of the Secre
tary of the Treasury.
BOSTON, Mass., July 27.— A company
of 150 of the leading business men of
Massachusetts, regardless of party affilia
tions, entertained Secretary of the Treas
ury Gage at dinner at the Tuileries this
afternoon. It was expected that Gage*
speech would define the financial policy
of the administration, but the Secretary's
remarks were confined almost entirely to
generalities. Secretary Gage said in part:
"We nave passed tnrough a wearisome
storm. The loss and cost have been
enormous, but to-day the skies are fair
and the breeze of prosperity brings com
fort and Drosnerity. Shall we not be per
mitted to rest and enjoy it? No; that
would be to foolishly wait for further dis
aster. The administrative branch of the
Government will not sleep nor rest in
active, lis influence will be for prompt,
judicious action. Evidence of this fact is
fresh at hand in the message just sub
mitted to Congress by the President. Rut
the administration cannot make laws. It
is, then, to the legislative body that your
thoughtful attention should be given if
you de-ire financial reform, lour Sena
tors and Representatives cannot con
sciously antagonize your well-considered
d- sires, but they must be constantly re
minded of what you demand. We have,
indeed, a delicate and difficult problem to
solve, the difficulty being aggravated by
the .fact that ignorance, prejudice and
passion enter in to complicate and vex the
solution. With these drawbacks we can,
nevertheless, with patience rind our way.
"The recommendation of the President
for a commission was admirable in tbis
that it suggested a way by which a body
of well-trained and thoughtful men could
be provided to consider, at leisure, with
out distraction from other pressing
themes, the important subject of currency
and banking reforms. It at the same
time opened a forum to which could be
aim tted every contributive suggestion
from all classes and conditions of man.
And if there is anything dear to an Amer
ican's heart i: ia the privilege of having
his say. Give him his say in court, let his
argument be heard, and then, if the jury
is against him, he rests satisfied.
"To these incidental moral advantages
may be added tbe reasonable expectation
that the commission would have been
able to gather in moat valuable informa
tion and finally to formulate wise recom
mendations worthy of early and favorable
consideration Dy Congress ,at the regular
session next winter. That the bill which
passed the House with promptness failed
of recognition in the Senate may be a
matter of regret, but not of discourage
ment.
"The two questions before the country
in the last political campaign were the
tariff and the currency. One of them is
already settled. Whatever the merits or
demerits of the new measure in its par
ticular items, it bas become the law of the
land. The revenues derived from it wili,
after a po sible brief interim, be ample for
proper Government expenditures, and il
the old aphorism be true that 'the reve
nue of tbe State is the Slate' we may say
without exaggeration that the State is re-
established.
"We have also reached a point where, |
with absolute data furnished, commerce
an l manufacture can make correct esti
mates and go upon their respective mis- |
.ions of exchange and production with
new sense of security. The responsible I
party in power, having successfully ■
covered this one important issue, may be
safely trusted to care equally well for the
other. On the financial side there is
really no pre. sing need for haste. There
is certainly no immediate occas on for
anxiety. With emple reserves in the pub
lic treasury, with financial centers in a
full supply of loanable funds, with interest
invitingly low, with crop prospects most
promising and a good market favorably
assured, with new mineral resources com
ing into view, with a territorial area
sufficient to carry its present population
many times multiplied, with a people ad
vancing in the cements of intelligence
and character, who dar. indulge in dole
ful forecasts?
"We need not ignore the fact that there
were many wounds to bi cured and ex
cited passion < to be calmed. Within the
. limits of half a lifetime the industrial
methods and processes have been revolu- j
■ tionized, and combinations in labor, trade
and manufactures have superseded to a
vast degree beyond the former processes
'of individual movement. It is philosophi
cal to believe that they are all evolution
ary, tending to a final higher and general
good, but in their immediate effects they
produce incidental injury in many direc
tions. Perceiving the injury to those hurt
they cry out, but cannot be persuaded that
any good can come out of so great an evil.
lime will do much to restore, and natural
laws everywhere operating will bring at
last their compensation. In the mean
time our astute lawmakers mu»t learn to
punish those who are gra.- ping new ele
ments of power to pervert them into agen
cies of inju tices and oppression. Prob
lems of democratic society are rapidly de
veloping in all directions and are many
and troublesome. They must be met with
patience. We must not lose faith nor
abate conrag ."
Congressman Loverlng presided at the
banquet. Jefferson Coolidge made an
address of come. Governor Wolcott
spoke for the State and Mayor Quincy for
the city. The burden of the speeches was
rejoicing that prosperity is at hand be
cause the tariff question is settled, with
incidental expression of a hope that some
thing would be done to better the finan
cial system. '■
Indian Girt A.-*aull*d and Murdered.
TOLEDO, lowa, July 27.— A pretty In
dian girl of the Tama trine was assaulted
and murdered Saturday night after a big
dance. The body was iound this morning.
As yet there is no clew to the murderer-,
but the authorities believe that it was the
act of some worthless white men who
Were hanging about the dancehouse on
the night of the murder. . The girl was
very popular among ncr own people, * and
it is possible that the Indians may kill
any one arrested for the crime. .
TENNESSEE'S NEW SENATOR-
Thomas B. Turley, just appointed United States Senator from Tennessee in
place of the late Isham G. Harris, is a well-known lawyer of Memphis. He has
never held office of any kind. He is a member of the law firm of Turley & Wright.
In 1870 he was married to Miss Irene Rayner, the daughter of the late Eli Ray ncr
of Shelby County. Mr. Turley ia a native of Memphis and is 52 years old. He was
not yetoutof school when the war came, but he promptly enlisted in the Maynard
Rifles, Company I, One Hundred and Fifty-fourth Tennessee Regiment of the
Confederate army. He fought at Shiloh and was wounded there, ana he was also
wounded at Peachtree Creek:, before Atlanta. He was captured in the bsttle of
Nashville and taken to Camp Chase in Ohio and held there until March, 1805,
when he was excnanged and returned to the South. At the close of the war Mr.
Turley entered the University of Virginia and became a student of law. In 1870 he
removed to Memphis and that city has been his home ever since.
WEYLER'S RECALL
AGAIN ANNOUNCED
General Blanco Is Once
More Named as His
Successor.
Utter Failure of the Summer
Campaign the Cause
Assigned.
Sharp Encounters With Guerrillas
In Which the Cubans Are
Victorious.
HAVANA, Cuba. July 27.— The news
comes again that Weyler is to return to
Spain. His reca'l has been decided upon
by the Government, but will not be offi
cially published until the Government is
certain that a general of high standing
will taKe the responsibility of leading its
army in Cuba. Tne name of General
Blanco is mentioned again as Weyler's
successor, and it is persistently asserted
that Weyler will leave in a few days for
Snain.
It is now well known here that Weyler,
while in Sancti Spiritus, endeavored to se
cure an interview with Gomez for the pur
pose of offering him peace on the basis of
home rule. Weyler, it is thought, in
spite of Gomez's previous refusal to enter
upon any negotiations, would not reject a
direct proposition from him for a peaceful
conference, but Gomez's answer was even
more insulting than his previous ones.
"Tell General Weyler," he said to the
representative of the captain-general, "I
do not consider him a man of honor. He
is too deep in the mud to raise himself to
my level and confer with me."
The failure of Weyler is now acknowl
edged, even by th. most uncompromising
Spaniards. Weyler himself says that the
central Government has thwarted him in
his plans in order to satisfy public opinion
in the United States. According to the
captain-general, his treatment of the Cu
bans bas been far milder than would have
been the case if it had not been for the in
terference of Canovaa.
The immediate cause of Weyler's pres
ent disgrace was his futile attempt to
carry on a summer campaign in the east
and his reiterated reports that be had
pacified the central and western prov
inces, though the revolution proved to be
as strong in those district- as ever
The withdrawal of Spanisn troops from
Pinar del Rio, Havana and Matanzas has
not only strengthened the revolution at
those points, but has exposed the Spanish
troops thus driven to acivity to all the
deadly influences of the rainy season,
whic * have killed many hundreds of
them. In less than two weeks after their
departure from the west 40 per cent of the
soldiers were stricken witn either yellow
fever, malaria or dysentery.
News from Santiago de Cuba says that
after a skirmish with the insurgents the
Spanish guerrilla forces of Niguero had
to retire in haste because of stronger
Cuban forces approaching. '
They bad no time to save the convoy
they were carrying, so it fell into the
hands of the Cubans, who captured a
large quantity of arms and ammunition,
three large cases of medicines and six
mules loaded with other provisions. In a
previous engagement the Spanish losses
were nineteen Killed— among them some
officers— and thirty-one wounded. The
insurgents bad one killed and six
wounded.
The Cubans were commanded by Gen
eral Vega, who ordered the Spanish
wounded left on tbe field to be humanely
treated and their wounds were dressed in
a neighboring hospital.
WUOBFORII 1.11,1, SAIL TO-BAY.
Rumors of a Bo* til- Reception Contem
plated by the Carlists.
NEW YORK, N. Y M July 27.-General
Woodford has completed all arrangements
to sail for Europe to-morrow. He says he
expects to go directly to London and
remain a week. There will also be a
week's stay at Paris. This partly confirms
the Madrid report that Woodford would
try 16 secure English and French co
operation in a joint indemnity demand
upon Spain.
MADRID, Spain, July 27.-Several pro
-
THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1897.
vincial newspapers say the Carlists are
preparing to receive General Woodford
with a hostile demonstration. Minis
terial organs advise the public to keep
cool, and El Correo (Liberal) says the
loyal, cultured people of Spain will see
that the new American Minister receives
good treatment. '"Besides," the newspaper
adds, "our situation is critical and it is
not to our interest to go looking for ad
ventures."
The Hebrexo t hnutauquan*.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 27.— Tbe
proceedings of the first annual Jewish
summer assembly were resumed to-day.
Among the speakers were: Dr. Louis
Grossman of Detroit, Simon Wolf of
Washington, L. l*. Leucht of New Or
leans and Professor Gottheil of Columbia
University. '■■]}
Smallpox Epidemic in Alabama.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., July 27.— There
are twenty-eight cases of smallpox here
and the disease is spreading in spite of
vaccination. At Bessemer a mob fired on
nurses and patients in the pesthouse last
night.
WAS NOT SATISFACTORY
California Delegates Were
Derelict at the Salt Lake
Congress.
They Failed to Obey Instructions in
the Matter of Convict-Made
Goods.
Previous to the departure of the dele
gates to the Trans-Mississippi Congress at
Salt Lake they were all instructed to do
all in their power to protect the manufac
turers of California from the inroads made
on its trade by tbe convict-goods dealers
of the Eastern States, who for years have
made the Pacific Coast the dumping
ground for their products.
The Manufacturers and Producers' Asso
ciation was particularly interested in this
matter, and to Tirey L. Ford, as a delegate,
President Kerr gave a letter of instruction,
which set forth most explicitly what the
local association wanted to accomplish. In
bis letter Mr. Kerr enumerated the many
articles tbat are being dumped into tbis
State every year and here ihey come
from. He gave figures that showed that
nearly ah of the prisons of the East are
sending convict goods to California
and at prices that make legitimate compe
tition out of the question, and the last re
quest was that ti.e lepresentatives from
this State do all they could in California's
interest.
It now seems that the delegates from
this State, to a great extent, have disre
garded their instructions. Mr. Ford has
returned from the congress and to Mr.
Ki-rr l.c sent the following letter, in ex
planation of why tne instructions were
not followe I:
Pursuant to request contained in your letter
of tne "2d ult., i.. relation to the question of
pure fool and the question of tne products of
convict labor, I d* .ire to say that I presented
botu questions to the California delegation to
the recent session of the Trans-Mississippi
Congress at Salt Lake with the following re
sults:
Considerable objection was made by a por
tion of the delegation to taking up the ques
tion of the products ot convict labor, and in
view of such expressed opposition by a por
tion of our delegation I did not deem it wise
to press that matter upon the congress.
In reiati n to the question of pure food I
found no such opposition upon the part of the
California delegation, and 1 therefore pre
pared what I believed to he a suitable resolu
tion, which I introduced and which received
the indorsement of the congress.
The resolution, a copy of which I regret to
say I did not preserve, will appear in the pub
lished proceedings of the congress and is to
the efl'ect that the congress would look with
favor upon any legislation, State or National,
which would prevent the sale of impure arti
cles under the guise of pure or unadulterated
iood products. I regret my inability to secure
the co-operation oi the California delegation
in the matter of the products of convict labor
Mr. Kerr was greatly surprised at this
information, and it is likely that the mat
ter will be seriously discussed at the next
meeting of the association. \
Senator M-hony All Right.
Senator J. 11. Mahony has succeeded in de
feating death once more. Notwithstanding
the severity Of the operation performed on
him at the German Hospital by Doctors Morse
ana Nob c. in which his head was almost cut
off In removing cancerous growths Irom his
neck, he ha. left the Hospital and is now at
his rooms in the Baldwin Hotel, apparently as
well as ever. He thinks every part cle of the
poisonous cancer has been removed and he
will nut be troubled in future by the reappear
ance of it in any form. In this he has the
hopes ana best wishes of his numerous iriends.
Otto Normaiin's Failure.
M. Friedlander has been appointed assignee
lor the property owned by Normanu & Iverson,
ln the resort known as Normann's Cale under
the Baldwin Hotel. The place was fitted up
at considerable expense several months ago.
and its failure to score a success waa a sur
prise.
LABOR LEADERS
IN CONFERENCE
Adopt a Plan of Action
for Prosecution of
the Strike-
Promise Moral and Financial
Aid to the Struggling
Miners.
Will Hold Mass-Meetings In Their
Interest In Every City of
the Country.
WHEELING. W. Va., July 27.— The re
sult of the largest conference of labor
leaders in the history of trades unionism
and in the interest of the striking coal
miners was a vote to-day of moral and
financial aid and a determination to be
gin a campaign to awaken interest in the
strikers' condition. At 12 o'clock to-night
the committee appointed to prepare a
plan for successful prosecution of the
strike made its report, which was adopted
after much discussion. It provides that
on August 5 public meetings be held in
every city of the Union. Speakers will be
provided to fully acquaint the people with
the condition of the strikers.
In addition every organization of labor
will be expected to contribute financial
aid to the strikers. Each union will also
put organizers into West Virginia to work
under Ratchford's directions. They will
be assisted in every possible way except
by open sympathy with the strikers.
Agitator W. H. Miller was driven from
Fairmont to-night by a Deputy Sheriff on
the strength oi Judge Mason's injunction
preventing riotous assemblages. This
mornine a score of strikers' wives attacked
and injured several Italian miners.
The conference of labor leaders, which
was secret, began at noon, with President
Gompers of the American Federation of
Labor as chairman. The condition of the
strike was announced by President Dolan
of the Pittsburg District Mine-workers.
President Ratchford of the United Mine
worker.-, W. D. Mahone of the street rail
way organizations and Eugene Debs all
agreed that the men employed by the
New York and Cleveland Coal Company
in the Pittsburg district and the miners
in the West Virginia held must strike be
fore the battle can be won. The commit
tee was appointed to agree upon plans for
the prosecution of the strike included
Sovereign of the Knights of Labor, Mor
rissey of the Railway Trainmen and Presi
dent Gompers.
In antic. pation of to-day's conference
the strike situation seems to have taken
on unusual quietude. Contrary to re
ports, the Mononga men are at work in
greater numbers than ever. In the south-
em part of the State stories of accessions
to the strikers' ranks are also denied. In
terest in the strike in the Panhandle and
along the Ohio line is growing intense.
To-morrow the strikers will march to
Boggs Run and Elm Grove, where many
men are working. -
THE VXIFORMIIY MOVE.
Operators Meet at Pittsburg, but Xothing
I* Accomplished.
PITTSBURG, Pa., July 27.— Not half
the coal operators of the Pittsburg dis
trict attended the meeting to-day to secure
a "true uniformity" movement in coal
mining and thus paving the way to end
the strike. The river operators were con
spicuous by the absence of representative
men. In fact it is believed that the intro
duction of river men as a factor foredooms
the movement to defeat, as they were no
considered in the uniformity movement
eighteen -months ago.
A committee was appointed to prepare
a uniformity contract. Much of its report
consisted of parts of the uniformity con
tract of eighteen months ago. The new
matter is:
"Tbe question of thick and thin vein
differential shall be arbitrated if not
determined by the convention. If the
requisite 95 per cent of signers shall not
be obtained eighty subscribers may call a
meeting, modify the contract and pledge
the support of all subscribers to the action
of the meeting.
"To settle the question of wages a com
mission of nine operators and nine miners
shall select a board of arbitration."
The report was ordered printed. The
convention meets again to-morrow. A
prominent operator told The Call corre
spondent that it would be Impossible to
secure the signatures of 95 per cent of the
operators and that the movement would
consequently fall through. H___&
Governor Mount* Appeal for Aid.
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., July Gov
ernor Mount, following up his appeal for
funds with which to relieve the distress of
the striking miners, has appointed a com
mittee of seven to accept all money and
see to its prompt distribution. There is
no change in the strike situation in this
section. Seven thousand eight hundred
miners will stand solidly together. With.
aid, as a result of the Governor's action,
they say they can hold out indefinitely.
AX IMPOR JAT OOA XTIUX.
Building and Loan .- social ons League
to Meet at Detroi:
DETROIT, Mich., July To-morrow
the fifth annual convention of the United
States League of Local Building and Loan
Associations will open in the council
chamber and delegates from the East,
West and South are registering in large
numbers to-day at the headquarters in
the Hotel Cadillac.
Anion;, those on the ground are Hon.
Michael J. Brown, Philadelphia; Lafe W.
Sanborn, Galesburg, 111.; Herman W.Cel
leraiu., Cincinnati; Addison Burke,
editor of the Philadelphia Ledger; J seph
P.iist. clerk of the Philadelphia City Coun
cil; C. S. Hartough of Leavenworth, A.
J. Duncan of Columbus, deputy inspector
of building and loan associations of Ohio,
and Alberts. Barnum, treasurer of the
Illinois League.
The convention will be of more than or
dinary importance from the fact that the
conditions tbat have brought about the
collapse or legal entanglements of large
associations in Chicago and elsewhere
will be exhaustively discussed.
Must Pmi for 'Iheir foreign Clothing.
NEW YORK. N. V., July 27.—Ameri
cans returning from Europe this year find
that the customs officers are . far stricter
than before. Formerly a traveler could
bring in any amount of wearing apparel
and personal effects free. Now personal
effects costing over $100 must pay duty. •
itie-iele- Rider* Apt to Suffer.
CHICAGO, 111., July 27.— lii the rivalry
occurring in this neighborhood the bicy
cle-riders are apt to suffer. The suburban
towns around Chicago are now. threaten
ing to tax all bicyclists passing through.
FARMERS ALL
ARE JUBILANT
The Price of Flour Goes
Up Fifty Cents in
Ten Days.
0, S. Laumeister Gives His
Views on the- Wheat
Market.
The Tariff and Klondyke Gold Has
Helped to .Restore Confidence
in the Country.
With wheat tit $1 45 as against 66 cents
for the corresponding month of 1896. and
flour at $4 50 as against $3 40 per barrel in
July of last year, it would seem as if Cali
fornia was about to assume its original
station amone the foremost States of the
Union for good prices and high wages.
Flour has jumped up 50 cents a barrel
inside of the last ten days and other
products are keeping pace with this ad
vance.
In speaking of the increase in the price
of wheat during the past month C. S.
Laumeister, the millman, said:
The increase in the price of wheat and bar
ley within the past mouth Is nothing more nor
less than a return to the prosperous condition
oi California. We suffered on this coasi more
through sympathy with the suffering of the
Eastern people than irom any real cause
our own. Our State was never depressed
through its own fault.
Yes; I attribute the signing of the Dingley
bill by the President as one of the causes for
restoring th*- country to a condition of pros
perity and effluence. It cannot be denied that
during the entire administratiou oi President
Cleveland the condition of the country was
unsett.ed. Now that the tariff Is disposed of
and a fixed principle established the country
will undoubtedly lake a boom, so to speak.
Th- gold discovery in Alaska, too, wili help
this, not only on ihis coast but throughout the
East. In addition to this the scarcity of wheat
in France, Australia, South America and India
must of necessity raise the prices in the United
States.
I look to a brightfuture within the incoming
year, and I am in hopes that our darkest hours
have passed.
E. A. Bresse, grain broker, said:
It has been a long time since wheat-growers
have had reason to feel jubilant. Advancing
prices have been recorded lor a short period
each season during tne past three years, but
they came after the farmers had sold their
wheat io the middlemen, therefore no benefit
was derived by the producers. A change has
been brought about this year which has its
toundaiion upon natural causes. Every wheat
raiser who is within reach of a newspaper has
learned the conditions of wheat crop* abroad.
It is not an exaggeration to say that uo wheat
growins country oilier than America and Can
ada \Y-\i. have anything like a fair crop.
France leads the countries where the crop is
short. England will harvest at best not over
a two-thirds crop. Hungary, Instead of being
an exporting country, may find it nece.'Bary to
import wheat. India and Australia and Ar
gentine are out of the exporting business for
several mon ths to come.
Latest advices from Australia Indicate a re
quirement ol large quantities of Caiifornian
wheat to supply wants until their harvest,
which means January. South Africa will draw
heavily upon American wheal this year.
Russia's condition cannot be other than very
poor, as the censorship of that country has
forbidden crop condition reports to be sent
out. _.; ;';" -,'-.;•.. y
Shipments from Russia during the past two
months have been far below those of 1896
during the same period, and 1897 shipments
from the Argentine are many millions less
thnn those of 1896.
The one important item in the wheat situa
tion is the extremely low stocks of millers in
all countries. The experience of the past
three years has made mil ers reckless of tneir
own interests. Heretoiore they have been
flooded with wheat at harvest time.
Things have changed. Farmers are awake
to their interests and will not part with their
wheat at unreasonably low prices. They know
conditions warrant old-time prices and are
playing their cards to that end. Europeans
have an exa.gerated idea of America's wneat
stocks, but while this season's crop * Tonuses
to surpass that of 1896 by 100,000,000 bushels
the fact must not be lost sight of that "the in
visible supply" that is in farmers' hands is
probably 100,000,000 bushels short of last
year. How any one can figure out differently
is beyond comprehension.
Another fact that bears strongly, which
many are overlooking, is that Europe requires
thirteen months' supplies this crop year in
stead of twelve— a very uncommon occurrence.
Many argue that the decline in silver must
act as a wall against wheat advancing. One
cannot eat silver, however, but must eat tne
products of wheat. Countries where silver
values affect the price of wheat luckily have
no wheat to sell this year. ....
A lew figures regarding wheat conditions
may be of value to those who are studying the
situation. It is not a high estimate to give
the invisible a d visible supply, of wheat or
July 1 at 30,000,000 tushels I The Govern
ment Agricultural Department estimates witt
ter, and Spring whet: st 520,000,000 bushels.
This wouid make a lotal of , 550.000,000
bushels. These figures are not far .rom cor
rect. Our home wants are estimated at 4.09
bushels per capita. The population of the
United States is '70.000.000. making in
round numbers 295,000,090 bushels, a very
low estimate: seeding, etc., 50,000,000 bush
els, a total of 345.000,000 bushels.
Exports from ihe United States, crop of
1896, were 156,000,000 bushels, making upon
this basis 511,000,000 bushels that are re
quired from American slocks. Under ordinary
conditions ti.ese figures leave a surplus of 50,
--000,000 bushels. Un*ess foreign conditions
have been misrepresented, which is not at all
likely, it is sale to say that America will be
called upon to spare .225.000.000 bushels for
export this year, which would' exhaust our
stocks. These figuies have not been arrived
at for speculative purposes; they are cold
facts, which lime will prove correct, re
gardless ol temporary actions of the market.
A cereal which has been a strong factor in
whea: depression ha. 'been corn. i Iv 1895 and
1896 the corn yield whs ..immense, reaching
2,300,000.000 bushels last yea.-. The exports
of corn for the crop year ending July 1 were
175,000,000 bushels, equal to any two years
previous.
In one week 8,000,000 were cleared from
Atlantic ports, The conditions this year are
not favorable. Reliable information gives the
shortage at 500,000,000 bushels. I This would
indicate on July 1 a yield of 1,850,000
bushels, but severe damage has resulted since
that time, which must have reduced this esti
mate- . " '■•■■.•-"■'■,■ >■>■__
Before corn came into general use abroad it
required 1,750,000,000 bushels for home re
quirements, or about what Is now expected of
me coming crop. Many argue that old stocks
are heavy, but that is a mistaken idea. Corn
has be*n used for fuel throughout Nebraska,
lowa, Minnesota ana the I. akolas during the
past two years. At market quotations ruling
during the periods mentioned it required $12
worth of coal to fill the agency of $9 worth of
corn.
Another feature which low prices bring
about is the matter of waste. Corn has been
far below the cost of production and is to-day.
There has been a firm undertone to the mar
ket of late which promises enlargement In tie
near future. The higher corn goes the better
for wheat. The sky seems clearing for the
tiller of the soil— surely better late than never.
Judgment' ii a Libel Suit.
Judge de Haven of the United States District
Court rendered a decree yesterday in the
libel of the Noyo Lumber Company against
the schooner Alice Kimball. B. H. Madison
and others to the 'effect " that the damages
snould be equally divided; 'that each party
should pay its own costs, and that the libelant
should recover the value o; the- services
rendered by the steamer Noyo in towing I the
scnooner. United States Commissioner Man
ley was instructed to take testimony, for the
purpose of fixing the amount of damages and
services. •■ - y _ ■'■■ -
The* First Fruitcar.
The first car of apricots leaving Santa Clara
Valley this season was shipped to-day by the
Berryessa Fruit-growers', Union, San Jose, to
Hamburg,' Germany, .via . Sunset . route and
steamer. .The shipment .consisted of 1000
lib-pound boxes of apricots. ' ■
A Niantic '.(Conn.) woman has taken
and preserved a New.York paper for forty
one years. .:.■_._ .v.. v.
ALL JURORS TO
GET THEIR FEES
Judge Hebbard Interprets
the Law Passed Two
Years Ago.
Interesting Point for Taxpayers
and Other Citizens of San
Francisco.
Additional Burden Imposed on the
Treasury by This New
Departure.
Judge Hebbard of the Superior Court
has decided that all jurors summoned and
who appear to try cases in the Superior
Court are entitled to be paid, per-diem
compensation whether they are called to
the jury-box or not. Thus is set at rest a
controversy that has caused considerable
trouble about the courts lor several years.
Incidentally, it will add several thous
and dollars annually to the cost of main
taining the courts.
Citizens who, day after day, have been
dragged from their usual vocations to
dance atten iance on the convenience or
caprice of Judges and lawyers have com
plained bitterly of their loss of time with
out any compensation for the hardship
thus arbitrarily imposed on them. They
have pointed to the fact that the salaries
of Judees and clerks and bailiffs were
paid whether any business was done or
not and have demanded to know why
jurors, if their services are necessary to
to the administration of justice, should
not also be properly remunerated by the
public for services rendered for the benefit
of lie community.
On the other hand economists in the
administration of the City's affairs have
insisted that citizenship, with its rights
and privileges, implies the bearing of such
burdens as may fall to the lot of tbe
citizen.
So many exemptions have been claimed
and allow d by law and courts, however,
tbat the list of those available for jury
duty has been materially reduced, afford
ing cause for complaint and supplying
ground lor the demand so often made
that all who are summoned to serve as
jurors shall be paid the usual fee, whether
accepted to try a case or not.
Samuel M. Hilton was the first to bring
the matter to a le.al test. He answered
to his name as a member of the panel for
twenty days, but wai not accepted to try
any case before the court. When ie
asked County Clerk Curry for his certifi
cate of service that officer reiused to issue
the paper because Mr. Hilton had not
actually served as a jvror, -o sun was
brought to enforce the claim. In rendering
his decision Judge Hebbard said:
The last law on the subject is an act entitled
"An act to establish the fees of county, town
ship and other officers and oi jurors and
witnesses in this State. approved March 28.
1895, which act contains the following lan
guage only in relation to jurors' fees:
For attending as a grand furor or juror In the
Superior Court, for eacn day's attendance, per
day, $_: ior attending Justices' Court, for eacb
juror sworn to try the cause, per dar, in civil cases
only, $2: lor each mile actually traveled in at
tending court as a juror, except in criminal cases
in Justices' Court, for which no allow., shall be
made, in going only, per mile, 15 cents.
Section 7of the act reads: "The following
county, township and other officers shall have
charge and co.lecc the following ices," and
the concluding sections of the act are as fol
lows:
Section 3. All acts and parts of acts Incon
sistent herewith are hereby repealed.
This act is in Its nature and scope general,
extending to every county in the State and to
every officer thereof, and to every fee tnereto
appertaining, the City and County of San
Francisco not excepted. (See Miller vs. Curry,
118 Cal., 644).
It is a new lawestablishingsueh fees, amend
atory of no particular aci, but repealing every
law upon the subject theretofore existing and
inconsistent with it. ft repeals the act of Feb
ruary 27, 1866, in so far as that act, by its
silence in providing no way by which a juror
may be paid for each day's attendance in cases
where he ls not sworn to try the case, is incon
sistent with it, and because the Supreme Court
in two late cases has decided that jurors are
entitled to per-diem compensation when they
are in attendance on the court (Jacobs vs. El
liott, 104 Cal., 318). and thata juror may be in
attendant upon court without being impan
eled to try a cau-e, and lor every day of such
attendance the statute authorizes him to be
compensated (Mason vs. Culbert, 108 Cal.,
249). It repeals the act of 1866 because it is a
general law, with no saving or excepting clause
as to the special act of 1866.
The court decided that previous enact
ments touching the issuance of certifi
cates by the County Clerk had not been
disturbed and the petitioner has a right
to demand such certificate and if ids
statement of facts be correct he is entitled
to payment out of the County treasury.
The demurrer to the petition was there
fore overruled and the County Clerk was
allowed five days in which to make
joinder of any fact he may be thereto ad
vised.
Thousands of dollars in withheld fees
will be presented at once with demand
for payment. Some few of those that ac
crued early in 1895 may be barred by the
statute of limitations. It is intimated
that the extra drain on the City treasury
on account of 'his new law will amount to
not less than $10,000 a year.
LETTER-CARRIERS.
Important Meeting of the Committee of
Arrangement) for the National
Convention.
The committee of arrangements of the
carriers' Association for the Na
tional convention, to be held in this City
from Monday, Septom ber t>, to Sunday,
September 12, met in Judge Conlan's
courtroom last night, Chairman Frank E.
Smith presiding. There was a full at
tendance.
Communications were read from various
associations in the East that large num
bers of delegates and Others would visit
the City during the convention with their
families, and itis expected that over 1000
delegates will be present.
After reports of sub-committees were
read it was decided to commence canvass
ing at once for fruit, flowers and money, j
as $7000 will be required to make the con
vention a success. .-'
There will be a parade on the afternoon
of September 6 and that evening the open
ing exercises will be held in Odd Fe. lows'
Hall. On Admission day the visiting dele
gates will be driven to the Presidio, the
Park and the Cliff House, and in the
evening will be entertained at a banquet.
Sentember 11 will be "letter-carriers
night" at the Mechanics' Fair, and the
closing day, September 12, the delegates
will be treated to an excursion on the bay.
.-= A letter was read from Horace G. Piatt, !
secretary of the Hopkins Institute of : Art, |
extending an invitation to the delegates !
to visit the institute.
The souvenir badge adopted some time
ago will have lor a background a repre
sentation in colors of the American hag,
which wili be the colors worn by the dele
gates. .
I The Rosy Freshness
/And a velvety softness of the akin is inva-
Iriably obtained by those who use Pozzomi's
■Complexion Powder.
WELBURN HELD
FOR TRIAL
i Ex-Speaker Gould of San
I Joaquin Assists the
Defense.
No Evidence for the Prisoner
and He Was Held on
Two Charges.
His Bonds Eaised From Five Thou
sand to Ten Thousand
Dollars.
Oaca M. Welburn, ex-Collector of In
ternal Revenue, appeared in Judge
Hoacoct's court yesterday morning wiih.
Gavin McNab of this City and Frank H.
Gould of Stockton as his attorneys, lor
further examination on the charge of
having embezzled portions of the salary
of Cleric Aiken in his oflice.
The Government was represented by
United States Attorney Foote and Assist*
ant Attorney Schlesinger.
The continuance until yesterday was for
the purpose of allowing the defense to in
troduce the testimony of Louis Loupe,
ox-chief deputy for Mr. Wl'.burn, nnd the
testimony of such otner witnesses as they
might choose to call on behalf of the
defendant. But tbe announcement was
made that Mr. Loupe was yet too ill to ap
pear.
Thereupon Mr. McNab announced th:it
he waived all further examination for his
client, but the announcement caused no
surprise to the attorneys for the Govern
ment. It had been rumored about for
several days that the defense would not
put in any ev. dence at all, it not being de
sired that their case should be foreshad
owed at this time.
Judge Heacock in giving his decision
said:
There is only one order for mc to make, and
that is to hold the defendant for trial beiore
the District Court. The bonds heretofore
fixed have been $5000 and $10,000, but the
criminality is such and as no defense has
Deen made, and as this is a case of a public
officer, I think it my duty to fix a like amount
of bail in each ca>-e. I therefore fix the amount
of bail at $10,000 in each case, and in default
thereof that the defendant be remanded to
the custody of the United States Marshal.
The bonds previously fixed were $5000
on one charge and $10,000 on the o'her.
Daniel M. Burns, who was on the old
bonds on the criminal charge, signed the
new bonds, and after some delay the
other surety, Thomas H. Williams Jr.,
appeared and also signed them, after
which the prisoner was released.
It is a significant tact, not heretofore
mentioned, that Louis Loupe waa not
subpenaed at all. In view of this neglect
on the part of Attorney McNab, his reflec
tions upon Mr. Loupe's motives may be
rated as below par.
A BORN THIEF.
He Says He Inherited a Tendency to
Steal Kverything.
United States Commissioner Haacock
yesterday morning held Frank. Sigmund
to answer a charge of stealing brass cast
ings irom the United States ship Omaha.
The evidence in the case of Charles 01
--cott was accepted as evidence in the case
against Sigmund. Olcott was watchman
on board the Omaha and was the princi
pal in the scheme of plunder. He told
Assistant Attorney Schlesinger yesterday
that he intended to plead guilty to the
indictment.
"I was born a thief," he said. "My '
father was a thief before me and I in
herited the tendency.'"
It would not console the prisoner if he
were informed that Judge de Haven
might have inherited a propensity for "
inflicting the highest sentence known to
the law on criminals of Olcott's stamp.
Mrs- Gross* Furniture.
Judge HeDbard has given judgment in favor
of Mrs. Martha Gross and against J. Nunan
and the Sheriff for the sum of $97. The de
fendants removed furniture which belonged
to ibe plaintiff, and the court found that such
action was not justifiable, for the reason that
though the lady's husband had mot tgaged the
chattels they in fact belonged to her.
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