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AN OBSTINATE JUROR.

The Examiners detective gang have
been defeated by an obstinate juror. The
Examiner is mad all through. 1t suggests
to the people of Fresno County that coat
Of tar and feathers would be proper pun
lshmeDt for man who does not let eleven
other men do his thinking. Whether
Heath is guilty of the murder of Nc
Whirter or is the victim of a web Of cir
cumstantal evidence woven about him by
the Erdminer's s detective gang is point
upon which there is fference Of opin-
ion. In the Borden murder trial there was
much the same web OF circumstantial evil
dence, a portion of which was shown on
the trial 10 have been manufactured. The
principles upon which the two cases were
conducted are vastly different In the
Borden case the general purpose Of the
trial was TO get at the truth, in the Heath
case the truth was assumed, and cirum-
stances were made to square with that as
sumption. The Examiner is not much
more successful in criminal practice than
In the direction of public affairs. When
that journal becomes a party to case the
people on general principles range on the
other side,
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PLEADS THE PAUPER ACT.

Coils p. Huntington is reported to have
issued a circular in New York warning
bankers to have nothing to do with any
bonds that may be issued by the proposed
Stockton and Bakersfield Railroad. on the
ground that The completion of that road
VIII impair tbe value OF Southern Pacific
securities He is said to claim that the
business of the San Joaquin Valley at
pTosen rates is necessary for the payment
of interest on bonds issued against the
three valley roads that form part OF the
Southern Pacific sys EN-. 1t is possible
that New ORR bankers may be interested
in keeping mp the market price of Southern
Pacific bonds, but the body of the people
are not. The Southern Pacific stem has
never been managed in the interests of the
people OF California. 1t was bonded a.
twice or more the cost of the roads to in
crease the private holdings of its owners.
Some OF the bonds have been sold, but the
invested bonds constitute the bulk of the
assets Of several large estates. The people
want com Deting railroad. In this case
they are going to have what they want.
If roads that are bonded at $40, 600 mile
cannot compete with roads not costing
more than $4,000 mile. the $4,000 roads
will have to be content with reduced
dividends on watered securities.
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THEORY VS.. PRACTICE.

There is no doubt whatever that some
OF the European exhibitors to the Worlds
Fair have disrega,ded the conditions under
which their goods were admitted free.
There Is constant wrangling between the
treasury agents and the exhibitors over
charges that goods have been offered for
sale. and the presumption is fair that it i s
not without cause. This moves free
trade contemporary to remark that it
would be more worthy of great nation
to throw open the gates of the ia ir and let
foreign exhibitors sell what they please.
This great and generous nation sentiment
Is somewhat expensive. 1t requires us to
admit everybody from all parts of the
world who wants to come. 1t requires us
TO admit free of duties goods from any
part of the world which the owners are
pleased to send here fo. sale. 1t requires
Americans to tax themselves to support
the Government while sharing the markets
OF the country with producers who do not
contribute to such purpose. 1t requires
the American laborer to surrender what
ever there may be in the conditions under
which ne labors to his greater advantage
than can be found in the conditions under
which his foreign competitor labors. 1t
will be observed, however, that theorists
who advocate the utmost liberality to for
eigners 90 not make personal application
Of their theories.
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PLEA FOR A RESTRICTED
SUFFRAGE.

Senator Pugh Of Alabama has published
his views on the sltuatIOn; the only view
that, is new is that half the voters in
this country are incapable of self-gOvern-
ment, and the better class ought to be in
control" Even this is not new. fnr it pre-
walls in countries which hold to property
qualification, and has been embodied in
some of the most recent constitutions, such
as those of Canada and Australasia. Only
twice has it been in controversy in this
country, once when the const ution was
formed and the scheme of property quail
fica,ion defeated by Franklin's homely
parable Of the turkey, and again after the
war when tie suffrage was granted to the
negroes. But it is undenable that every
now and then, when elections turn out
differently from public expectation, a pro-
test is occasion ally heard against universal
suffrage. The adage about the voice of
the people being the voice Of God is at
times sharply condemned.
No one. indeed, who is familiar with
political science claims that the masses If
the people are unerring or that their de-
cisiOns as embodied in their votes are in
variably reliable. All that is contended
by the partsans of universal suffrage is
that it is better than any other system
which has thus far beentried or suggested.
A property Qualfca ton disfrar chiseS peO-
pie who have no property, among whom
some Of the best and wisest people are
often found. An hereditary qualification
cpnf-rs monopoly of power on class
which has never. in any country. ex-
ceeded the general average in intellect.
Thus qualifications, however based. ex-
cept the educational one, involve positive
injuries, while the injuries resulting from
universal suffrage are generally incidental
and epEemeral. Nations sometimes suffer
seriously from the ubstention of able
minds from public affairs, whereas the
evil which Is wrought by popular error
generally corrects itself in little while.
The Senator says that the affairs of the
patton should be administered by the
"better classes" That is a truism. The
question is who are the better classes? In
England the so-called better classes are
we'll born and live in three-story houses.
In the South the better classes used to own
slaves and now own Offices. In this coun-
try it is conceded that all men Of fair
intelligence and good character should be
encouraged to work together for good
government. Our political machinery is
designed to bring members of those classes
10 the front, and SO it generally does Mr..
Pugh implies that il does not. He concurs
with those who believe that the roughness
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and the knavery Of practical politics keep
The ''better classes" out of the political
arena. This, no doubt, is the situation IN
some localities, but to assume that the
entire country suffers in that way is
popular delusion. The distinguished Ala
bamian has been in Congress; he will not
deny that the three hundred and fifty odd
Congressmen and the eightyeiRht Sena-
tors are very superior intellectually to any
four hundred and thirty-eight gentlemen
whom he could pick out of the mass OF the
people bv any new process Of selection.
Mr.. Pugh looks at the question from a
local standpoint. He thinks the South
would be better governed if the negroes
did not vote. Very possibly. The SUI
frage was net conferred upon the members
of the colored race by reason OF their
ability to take part in public affairs. but
to furnish them with protection against
their late masters. 1t was the after-prlce
paid for slavery. The boon once granted
is irreyocab Bile. There never was an ln-
stance in all history of the disfranchlse-
ment of race which had enjoyed the
suffrage. that did not lead to revolution.
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PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.

The Florida Agricultural College has
conferred the degree of LII d. on Hon.
Hoke Smith, Secretary of the Interior.
Mrs. Lease has given $50 to the relief of
the striking Kansas miners. Sne did not
ask Mr.. Lease permission to do so. either.
Sarah r. Bolton. Indiana's pioneer poet
ess, is lying at deaths door in 1ndanapo-
lis. Among her productions is the famous
poem, Paddle Your Own Canoe"
Wiggin. the prophet, who sometimes re-
tires from predicting. but always back
slides again, announces that the star OF
Bethlehem is approaching the earth-that
ii is really comet.
Colonel r. G. Dvrenforth. the rain
maker. in whom some Chicago capitalists
placed good deal of confidence, but WHO
tailed to come up TO expectations, is still
an enthusiast on the subjrct.
There VIII soon be erected on Boston
Common an elaborate monument in honor
of Colonel Robert G. Shaw, who COM
manded the first colored regiment which
left Boston for the front during tie Civil
War.
The assertion is made that Rear-Admiral
Thomas 0. Selfridge. retired. is the Oldest
living officer in the United States navy
He is now in his ninet, first year, aud
was appointed as midshipman from Mas
sachusetts Oil New Years day. 1915
Through the efforts of Mrs. Lewis Rice
OF Frederick. Nd, enough money has been
cOlerted to put an imposing monument
over the grave of Francis Scott Key, au-
thor of Tue Star-spangled Banner" His
remains are inferred in Georgetown
Cd. CO. cemetery.
Oliver Sumner Teall. the New York soci-
ETY. leader. four-in-hand driver and all
round swell, who started an anti-treating
crusade month ago. is encouraged at the
progress OF his work. Thirty-one anti
treating societies have been organized
from Oneida. n. Y, to New Orleans.
The Countess If Clancarty. somewhat
widely known AS Belle Billion. may have
o go back t. the stage to make a living.
The English courts have decided that the
Dowager Countess. mother of the present
Earl, has absolute cOntrOl over all the
property left by her late husband.
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GOSSIP OF THE HOTELS.

Senator w. A. PETER and wife OF Topeka.
Kans., arrvr d from Los Angeles yesterday and
registered at the Palac Hotel. S natOr PETER
only remained long enough 10 shake the dus'
from his clothing, for in an hour after bis arrl-
val he de arted for Monterey. where he will re-
main over Sunday. He will b. at the Palace on
Monday and will remain in the city for several
days. Senator PETER Is one Of the unique fig
ures in Congress. and was the leader OF the
PODullst faction during the last session.
James A. Burden of Philadelphia. who has
been at the Palace Hotel for several days win
his wife and sous. left last evening for Monte
rey for brief sojourn. The Burdens are
among the wealthiest residents OF the quaker
City, their fortune being estimated at twenty
millions. considerable part OF this money
was made previous 10 and during the war. Mr.
Burdens father, Peter A. Burden, being an
xtensive manufacturer of hOrSeshoes at Troy.
N. Y. H- secured the contract for furnishing
hOrseshOes to the Government during the re-
belliOD. At the Burden factories cOmpiete
horseshoe is now turned out every second.
Six young sons OF San Salvador are registered
at the Occidental Hotel. They are Taibert
PacaS, Joaquin R. Laga Antonio Pacas. Juan
T. Castro and Manuel S. TreasO. These LADS
are attending private school at San Mateo
and are in town to meet party OF friends from
San Salvador.
Ed. Steinman OF Los Angeles is guest at
the Lick House. MIR. Steinman, besides being
a popular young merchant in the City OF the
Angels. is brother OF Benjamin Stenman, the
Mayor of Sacramento.
trio OF interior newspaper men are at the
Grand Hotel. They are: Thomas M. Dawson
OF the Corning Observer q. d. Cummings OF
the Dunsmuir journal and Charles b. Whiting
of the CoIusa Herald. Mr. Cummings has just
returned from q two months visit TO the
Worlds Fair and Eastern cities,
Another well-known newspaper man in town
Is Frank L. Short OF the Fresno Republican.
he has been OverwOrk ed by reason Of the Nc
Whittier murder case in Fresno, and comes to
the bay for few days rest and recreation. He
is at the Palace.
w. +. Hadley, veteran hotel man from San
Diego. is reg egiStered at the Palace Hotel. Dur
ing the "boom" days in San Diego Mr.. Hadley
was 'mine host" at the Horton House, and he
became as we'll known as Father Horton, the
founder of San Diego. Another prominent
hotel man in the city is Stuart Kennedy OF the
Florence Hotel. He is registered at the Cali
fOrnia.
bon. A. A. Freeman, associate Judge OF the
Supreme Court of New Mexico. who has been
spending part OF his summer vacation in this
city, de- arted yesterday for San Di 90. While
here he had the pleasure of meeting and receiv-
ing warm greeting from his old personal
friend, Vice President Stevenson.
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cumstances any show of lack of conf
deEce on the part of depositors is un-
called for. 1t is understood that million
or two have been drawn out Of the banks
for speculative purposes. 1t is not known
that the money that was paid over the
counter during the brief run has been used
in legitimate business 1t has been traced
to speculation on the necessities of de-
posit0rs whose money was locked up.
Possibly the banks have had these specu-
lators in view when they have declined
to pay over large amounts without the
stipulated notice
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ONE VIEW OF 1T.

The Westminster Gazette Uondon) COM
ment is on meeting Of civii servants at
Simla, in India, at which gratitude was ex-
pressed for what has been done on the
silver question. 1t ackno Wedges the right
of these officials to rejoice. because they
are personally gamers by the change, and
then it appends these pertinent and f0rci-
BILE reflections:
But in The modern world we are all members
one OF auOth i, and no decision such as that of
Lord HerschelPs committee can be taken with
out causing lndr, CT results of a very different
kind from any included in the intentions of the
original actors. The Simla resolutions would
hardly be seconded, for instance by the miners
at Broken Hill. Indeed. we may put it In this
way: That thousands of miners In many parts
of the world have to be thrown out of work in
order that the Anglo Indian officials may still
be able TO send their sous TO Eton.
The silver rupee in India itself is Just as
good as ever it was. 1t is only when it is
sent to Europe to pay bills that the Anglo
Indian official finds the exchange against
him. This shows what a selfish thing a
financial polcv may be.
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BARNES REPORT.
Work of the District Attorneys Of
flee During the Year.

flee During the Year.
District Attorney William S. Barnes
filed his annual report yesterday. Ap-
pended was synopsis as follows:
"The report shows that we are now car.
rying upon our books grand total Of 1900
Eases, as against grand total of 1926 cases
for the fiscal year of 1922. There were $50
new cases received during the present fiscal
year. Out of these there have been 37S
convictions. OF these convictions 105 were
found guilty as charged, 16 were convicted
of lesser offenses felony). 3 of murder in
the first degree, 81 of burglary in the first
degree, Y Of burglary in the second
degree, and 45 Of misdemeanor.
One hundred and eight defendants
were acquitted, So charges against defeud-
ants sen fenced on other charges were dis
missed, was dismissed on account of the
death of the defendant, on account of
variance, on habeas corpus, 10 on de-
murrer. under The sixty-day rule and los
on account of lack of evidence to convict.
Out OF the grand total OF 1900 there are 165
cases pending against defendants dis
charged on their own rscOgniZance, 16S
cases against defendants sentenced on
other charges, 16 against insane persons.
100 fugitlves from justice ana 278 are pend
ing for trial. As against go for the fiscal
year ending June 80, 1892. while 13 prison
ers have been found guilty aud were
awaiting sentence on June 80. 1898. There
we're 40 writs OF habsas corpus issued dur
ing the last fiscl year. OF these 81 were
granted, 81 were denied and there are
50 in which no returns have been made up
TO June 80, 1893 TweDty-three minors
we1e committed to the State Reform School
at Whittier, no record being kept OF the
cases IN which complaints were refused !;
nor does this include minors sent to the
State School upon conviction OF felnnies
and sdemeanors. There were 131 ap-
pealed cases from the Police Court during
the present fiscal year. or these. Ga cases
were affirmed, 10 reversed and cause dis
missed. judgments were modified, and
there are 55 cases in which no returns were
made up to June 80. 1898, which. together
with 90 appealed cases carried from the
former fiscal year. makes a total Of Is cases
in which no returns were made up to the
close of the fiscal year.
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HIS REASONS FOR 1T.

The people of the United States have
sue h profound admiration for Mr.. Glad
stone that they would like his reasons for
the opinion that the new monetary policy
Of India will not create large demand for
gold. The rule that the increased use of
thing the supply Of which is fixed will in
crease the demand for it would seem to
apply to the new monetary policy of India.
But Mr. Gladstone intinates that 1t will
not. He seems to think that the functions
which have been performed for 250. .000. 600
OF people by silver may be devolved upon
gold without materially adding to the de-
mand for that metal. When Mr.. Gladstone
finds time 1t is to be hoped that he will
give his reasons for the faith that is in him.
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A BETTER FEELING.

So far as California is concerned the
financial storm is about over. The banks
are continuously relaxing in their policy of
locking up money to meet an impro ba BILE
emergency with, and as confidence re-
turns they will resume their old relations
with their customers. The furry has
served to show that depositors in our
banks have been in no danger of losing a
dollar OF their money. Even the two
banks which closed their doors are thor
oughly solvent. They had been more
yepturesome than other banks in loaning
money on industrial securities. but little
time is all that is needed to enable them
to pay dollar for dollar. Under these cir
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AN IMPORTANT DECISION.

For some years past the Legislature has
shown disposition to make the city of
San Francisco pay bills which contractors
could not collect from the real debtors.
The principle advanced has been that as
the contractors have done certain work
they had right to be paid. The premise
is correct. The error is in the assumption
that the bills might be collected of other
parties than those who had agreed to pay
them. The Legislature Of 1891 passed the
so-called Conlin contract bill. which au-
the Supervisors to pay out the
sum of S5401 81 to John I. ConIin or his
as-ignees dus him for street work per-
formed. A Superior Court Judge was
found who held that the act compelled the
city to pay whether the city was other
wise bound or not. This strange decision
has been set asi1e by the Supreme Court.
The latter holds that as the contract un-
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zine writer's, nOvelisis and artists. the lat
Ter a very detected body. for paint as one
will no pictures are selling except old mas
ters which are bought as an Investment
and not for the love OF art. Our Embassa-
doris speech was pronounced TOO long, to"
serious and too guieless. 1t was said of
him that he did not understand English
habits, and took the magnificent outbursts
OF cheering intended to sgnalize a sup
posed finish as signal to pour forth more
oratory. But it is comforting to learn
thai he was much admired and his sent-
ments were unexeeptionab BILE. So says the
Westminster Gazette.
The Duke of York and his bride received
altogether 1900 presents. and the mass was
sufficient to load twenty wagons. One
present will never arrive. The battle
ship Victoria, when she went to the bot
tom, carried with her the Joint contribu-
tiOns of the Mediterranean fleet. 1t was
some acknOw ledgment of the British tars'
good will that when the presents we're
placed on view the public were asked to
contribute to collecting boxes for the relief
fund on behalf Of the widows and chill
dren.
From London to Scotland at fifty or sixty
miles an hour is now luxurious ride for
thrd-class passenger Each express train
has dining-car for first-class and another
for third-class passengers, and the equip
ment is very luxurious. Luncheon is
served to the frst-class traveller al 60 cents
and dnner at So cents: to the third-class,
luncheon 80 cents and dinner 60. There
is little difference in the fare. Both classes
having smoking-rOoms The third-class
passenger is now treated so well that only
a small roporton of travellers take first
class tickets. and the second-class ears are
altogether abolished on some railways.
The express trains are carpeted and cush-
ioned throughout, and fast journey at
less than 2 cents a mile IS something to
appreciate.
News from the whalers in the north is
not so roseate as last year. when one ves-
sci caught an extraordinary number OF
bOwheads. The highest catch reported
is nine. But there is yet time for
good deal of happening. and the reports
in the autumn may be quite encouraging.
The crews have had hard buffeting with
the ice. and privations enough with cold
rough fare and the gloom Of months OF
darkness. Wrstched as is his life. the
sailor who goes whaling in these times has
the spirit of man in him in desiring oc
cupation. or he would prefer to drift about
as tramp,
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THE AUNT VICTOR.
Fight Over the Custody of
a Child.
A General Riot in Open Court When
the Mother Is Deprived of
Her Offspring.

There was a pretty wrangle in Judge
OF little child.
1t was on complaint brought by the
chiId's aunt. who claimed that she had al
ready had the care OF the child. Bella
Doherty, but Bella's mother, Oracle
Doherty, had willfully stolen the little one
and taken it to live with her on Tehama
street. The aunt maintained that Oracle
Doherty is not fl and roper person to
take charge of her daughter, and she de-
manded that the child be produced in
court and handed over to her care. :.
All parties appeared in court In full
force. Every conceivable relative was
there to do battle with testimony. In the
evidence it W as shown that Oracle Doher-
ty had been living apart from her husband
for the ast two years and had been lately
cOnsorting with man named johnson on
the water front. 1t was stated. moreover.
by one Of Gracie's friends that Oracle had
been unduly intimate with Johnson and
as a result was in delicate condition.
Gracie's mother, garrulOus OLD woman.
went on the stand and offered to take the
little one under her personal supervision.
Neither Judge nor counsel could stop this
old lady's flow of eloquence, and before
they could hustle her off the stand she had
biography Of herself and her relatives,
together with a precise statement of the
financial condition OF each.
Itwas soon evident to the Judge that
the aunt, presentable. well-dressed
woman, was the only fit person to be in
trusted with the care Of the little girl, and
an order was made to that effect. Then
there was scene.
No sooner had the bailiff Of the court
taken the little girl from her mother and
placed her in the expectant arms OF the
aunt than riot sprang up in court. The
child screamed, the mother howled. the
old woman Tough and everybody else had
hand in tho pie. Two bailiffs were not
enough to stop the panic. and it was not
until the aunt and child had made their
escape by back entrance and the old lady
ha0 been hustled out OF court that order
was partly restored, and soon the whole
company were moving down the corridor
toward their respective homes still talking
loudly, but resigned TO the worst. And
Judge Seawel lay back in his chair and
laughed with the rest.
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SILVER In 1873.

A writer on silver says that when the
coinage act of 1873 was passed events in
Europe had already started silver on its
downward course. It is contended, how
ever, that no one realized that one-half of
the money OF the world was topping over
precipice. There is a question about
that. The belief is quite general that the
effect of the dropping OF the silver dollar
from the list of American coins was antic-
ipated. That act was part of a we'll
defined purpose to increase the purchasing
power OF money by destroying half the
money in the world. Whether American
lawmakers were blind or knowing parties
to the conspiracy may possibly be ques-
ton.