The morning call., 1893-06-09

Samoa is very small group of volcanic
islands with a population of $4,000 and
revenue of about $4,000. Three great
| powers-the United States, England and
Germany-have guaranteed the neutrality
OF the Islands and recognized their inde-
| pendence under king elected by the peo-
! nle and under their own laws and customs.
In addition the powers have endowed
Samoa with Supreme Court, the Chief
justice OF which is Baron CedercrantZ, on
the handsome salary of $1,000. With all
| ms propping and regulation under the
Berlin treaty of 1889 Samoa is not happy.
| hlng Maltetoa reigns. but his rival, NJ Ia
taafa. has not lost hope of becoming
monarch, and. bv the latest dispatches, is
! appealing to Maletoa to permit a plebscite
on the question of who shall be ruler. AS
! lne Aing Is already in possession he de-
murs to any step which would ieopardize
! MS title. Failing satisfaction by the voice
/ OF the people Mataafa threatens war. and
unless the three powers or Robert Louis
! Stevenson can nart the rivals skuli-crackDg
knobS will be fl0urlshed Civilization gen.
| orally improves off the face of the earth.
| A prospectus for the Stockton and
| Bakersfield railroad is being drafted by
Air. Leeds of the Traffic Association, aud
! Will be considered at meeting of the
| association. AS soon as a certain amount
! of subscriptions has been obtained the
company will be incorporated. l: is an
enterprise so comparatively easy of ac-
comp iishment that obtaining the money
| necessary annot prove serious diff f'ulty.
! 10 open the line in admirable condition
as 10 roadbed, buildings and equipment
| the estimate Of cost is only from S3,000000
| 10 S4.000000. Once the trunk route is
completed. branch lines would be added,
( according TO the wants of the valley, which
would certainly advance in population.
Such line ought to pay from the day of
| opening, the cost of maintenance ana
| operating must lie exceedingly little in a
! level country. One OF the first effects of
! competition in the San Joaquin would be
| a demand in the Sacramento Valley to
! have competition and lower freight rates
! One good railway on an independent
footing should be the pioneer of many.
! The royalists in Hawaii are making poor
| use Of their time if they rely upon dyna-
mite 20 effec. any benefit for Lilinnkalani.
| An outrage seems to have been attempted.
| but what the dynamite was intended to
destroy is not clear. 1t would nave re-
quired more than few cartridges TO blow
up the Provisional Governments army
or the barracks in which they We're. but an
| explosion might have demoraliZed many.
| The result of the alarm is that the army
| has been augmented in preparation for a
/ r"yallst rising, and the question is being
! discussed whether the eX-Queen should
not be sent on her travels somewhere out
Of the KINGDOM. The right to do this is
/ fortified by any number of precedents in
other lands. Her Majesty does not yet
realize that her return TO the throne is ll-
possible. She has TO choose between en-
! J0ying life as private person and depor-
! tatlon.
The opening Of the Worlds Fair on
! Sundays has now reached auother stage
! Two Judges of the United States Circuit
! Court have decided in favor of the Unite0
| States District Attorneys application for
an injunction to restrain the management
from opening the gates on Sunday, and
one Judge has rendered a contrary de-
cision. This leads to an appeal to the
United States Supreme Court. If the case
! took its place on the ordinary calendar the
fair wOnjd be over before it could be
heard. Presumably the very determined
| people who insist upon jackson Park
being deserted on religious grounds will
| take some stems to have the point de-
termined promptly. The largest attend
ances have been on Sunday, and freedom
| to open Is evidently the only means by
which the Stockholders have the ghost of
rhance TO get their money back. They
probably think it unfortunate that the
management is complicated with the as
sistance Of the Government. but If they
get nothing back they have the honor of
| providing the greatest exhibition the earth
has seen.
Two tran-robbers in Iowa are disgusted
with their want of skill. They stopped
Burlington train, detached the cars they
thought were stored with loot. ran them
down the track and then proceeded to
sample the baggage-car. After taking so
much trouble they were Mortified to learn
That it was not the Denver express but an
ordinary local train carrying few gram
gers home, and with nothing to speak of
| in the messengers safe. They swnre
enough to startle the telegraph wires into
giving the Denver train ample warning.
Wheat has touched the lowest notch
known on the Chicago market. Il was
quoted yesterday at 63 cents, a lower fig
ure than in 1867, when the price fell TO
635 This is probably the bottom of the
decline, as better turn in the financial
rates must restore confidence. The Bank
0f England has reduced its discount rate
| from to per cent. sure sign that gold
IS getting easy, and New York begins 10
breathe more freely in spite of failures
and distrust.
The forecasts of the English harvest
| annually published by the London I'meS
are regarded very much in the light of an
official blue book. This year the forecast
is very gloomy. All the cereals are below
the average in England and Wales, the
| percentage 10 the bad being as much as II
In the case of wheat. Better crops in
| Scotland do not turn the scale in favor OF
| British agriculture. 1t will evidently be Il
year of suffering for the landed interests.
Landowners will. as before, make abate-
| mentS OF rent from 10 to 80 per cent; and
farmers, notwithstanding relief, will pro-
less themselves to be on the ragged edge
of de pair Under the English system
land has to support three classes-the
owner, the occupying tenant and the
iaborer-and is, therefore, grievousy bur
dened.
Australian prize-fgnters are now coming
to the United States as the promised land of
their profession. A few homicides have
disgusted the Aniipodeans with the manly
art and engagements are scarce. The