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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-03-28
Markets for American Products.

WASHINGTON, March 22.-The agri-
cultural department expects during the
month of April to issue a bulletin on
the worlds markets for American prod
ucts. The information for this publica-
ton has been acquired from the consuls
of the United States through the efforts
of Secretary Morton. Late in Decem-
Der, at his suggestion, circular letter
was sent to these officers, asking them
to report with reference to the consump-
ton in their districts of the products
named therein.
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Higgins Men Desert.

s WILMINGTON, Del, March 22.-The
significance in the break in the sena-
torial contest at Dover is that the Hig-
gins followers are ready to leave their
man for the purpose Of electing COM
nromisa candidate for senator.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-03-28
Civil Service Tor Chicaeo.

SPRINGFIELD, nls., March 22.-Thel
civil service bill passed the senate by q.
vote of 38 to 10. Governor Altgeld has
already promised that he will approve;
it to take effect before the coming city
elebtions in Chicago.
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GENERAL COOKE DEAD.

He Spent Forty-six Years in Continuous
Service for His Country.
DETROIT, March 22.-GenerM PhiiI
St.. George Cooke died at his home in
this city at 2 p. m. General Cooke was
native of Virginia and was So years
age. His career has been identified
with the army since his admission tc
West Point when only IA years Of age,
but he was also member of the bar OF
Virginia and had written several inter.
esting works, among which are . vol
ume on cavalry tactics, and scenes and
adventures in the army. General
Cooke had seen service in every field
where American valor has been dis,
played for 81 years. In the Black
Hawk war he was leading officer. He
was in high command in the conquest
of California and New Mexico. Upon
the
Breaking Out of the Rebellion
he became commander of the cavalry
reserve of the Army of the Potomac
and participated in all the important
events in the Peninsular campaign, at
Gaines Mill directly opposing his sou
in-law, General Stuart. He afterWard
superintendent the recruiting service and
in 1886 took command Of the depart
ment of the Platte. In 1874 he wasEre-
tired, after 46 years of continuous sefys
ice, with the rank Of brigadier general
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Minneapolis Pioneer Dead.

MINNEAPOLIS, March 21. - Captain
Michael Hoy, pioneer resident of Min.
neapolis and for many years prominent
in city affairs, is dead. He fought dur
ing the Rebellion in the First Mime
sofa. ~
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Minneapolis Pioneer Dead.

MINNEAPOLIS, March %. = Captain
Michael Hoy, a pioneer resident of Min.
neapolis and for many years prominent
In city affairs, Is dead. He fought dur
ing the Rebellion in the First Mime
sofa. 7sss
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The Case of G. G. Tobey.

WASHINGTON, March 22.-State SEN
ator Henry Keller, who has returned to
Washington, called at the White House
! to protest against the reappointment of
&c. g. Tobey as postmaster at Sank
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Held without Bail.

MILWAUKEE, March 21.-William
Loeber was held to trial without bail
for killing Ferdinand Moritz, cattle
dealer.
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STATE LEGISLATURE
TwENry-NlNTH BIENNIAL SESSION
Thursday, Feb. IL.

Thursday, Feb. IL. O. @5..
SENATE-After the presentation Of pc
titions and introduction of q few bills the
senate went to work on the calendar. Sen:
ator Ozmun's corrupt practice bill was
passed with but one dissenting vote. 1t is
S. F. %, to prevent corrupt practices in
elections, to limit the expenses Of candi-
dates and political committees, and to
provide penalties, etc Senator Iltis voted
against the bill.
S. F. $50, the Jones thistle bill, was
passed without opposition. 1t appropriates
$25, 600 for the destruction Of the noxious
weed. . A. - h Z s
Bills recommended to pass in committee
Of the whole: .,5.s-- s,"
To establish the Office of state entomolo-
gist at the experiment station. -.
To reincorporate villages Of 1000 inhab-
itants and over. 81 -
To define vagrancy and provide punish
ment therefor.
Relating to the requisites of summons
issued by justices of the peace 2e
To provide that q personal service of
notices must be made before the right to
redeem land or real property from sales
for local Improvements or other assess
ments can be extinguished. So. -s.a
To make adjacent lands to an incor-
porated village used as cemetery part of
such incorporation. ~@...
HOUSE Minneapolis through Mayor
Pratt, made the formal tender to the
house Of Loring park as capitol site.
The tender was q voluminous document.
After considerable discussion the matter
was referred to the judiciary committee.
The house then adjourned.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-26

STRANGE INCONSISTENCY.

The sharp interest with which the more
intelligent elements of our population are
studying the marvellous changes which
are going on in the government of Euro
pean cities, and particularly English cities,
must soon be productive of somewhat
similar changes in American cities. The
curious phase of the matter is that the
whole drift of municipal reform in Europe
is toward the introduction of the socialistic
principle i'll municipal affairs. This is so
diametrically opposed to the very soul and
essence of monarchical domination that
political economists and students of
sociology are bewildered.
John Morley has attempted an explana-
ton of the extraordinary condition of
affairs in Europe by saying: You may
safely entrust to local bodies powers which
would be mischievous and dangerous in
the hands of the central government" !"
When we observe, however, that the
powers entrusted to the local governing
bodies of Europe are being exercised solely
to secure the greater happiness and
prosperity of the people, and that aston
ishingly good results ensue from this exer-
else, while the central governments are
taking no such interest, we must conclude
that if Mr.. Morley is right the idea OF
maintaining central government which
ignores these duties is wrong. The differ
ence between the municipal and National
conceptions OF government in Europe are
vital and astonishing.
But that is of no immediate concern to
US in this country. 1t is more profitable
10 lo OF in, ai-
pal government that Europe is making.
In their efforts to better the condition of
their residents the cities are steadily
assuming control of important sources OF
supply and means of convenience. The
Hon. Robert 2. Porter, writing on this
subject in the North american Peview,
makes this surprising summary:
beginning with the muricipalization
of gas and water, the idea has extended to
tramways, markets, baths, libraries, pic
ture galleries, technical schools, artisans
dwellings, cricket fields, football grounds,
tennis courts, gymnasia for girls as well as
boys, regulation of refreshment tariffs,
free chairs in the park, free music, and
last, though not least, it is proposed to in
wade the sacred rights of John Bung him
self and municipaliZe the ginshops and
public-houses."
1t is clear that all of these matters bear
on the welfare of the residents, for they
affect the health, education and pleasure
of the people,, In assuming control of
these matters the city displaces private
enterprise, and that is the phase of the
question that is puzzling the economists.
For all that, there are some details of this
municipal control that are undeniably
wise, and it must be that the example set
by Europe and productive of so excellent
results will in time be adopted by he
more advanced and honestly conducted
American cities.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-26
A TIMELY END.

AS literature gained nothing by the life
of the younger Dumas, SO it will lose
nothing by his death. In not single
product of his active pen did he ever ex-
hibit more than the energy of prolific
hack and shrewd commercial instinct
which understood the art of coming money
out of perverted popular taste. Besides
lacking the marvellous fecundlty of I'M
aginatlon, ingenuity of construction and
gorgeous imagery of his father, he had not
the smallest conception of the ethics of his
trade. AS fond of mire and muck as is
Zola, as eagerly as he has rooted in hos
pitaIs and lazareitos, he still has been
moved by a conception of duty-he has
offered sores to cure by exposing them to
observation.
There is a wide gulf between portrayal
and pandering, but the younger Dumas
showed himself a master architect in
bridging it. Unable TO degrade art by
making of it clinic, as Zola does and
lacking the instinct which moved Hugo
and Daudet to paint wonderful pictures
which had no purpose other than the pro-
duction of art, he was confined to that form
OF writing in which pandering to vicious
tastes is badly concealed under the pre-
tense of depicting life. To read him or see
his plays is to eat hashish and drink aico-
hol His depletion of certain forms of life
never had the excuse of desire to cure /;
It's inevitable tendency was to aggravate
the disease.
A later and more insidious form of the
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-26
PERSONAL.

T. F. sanborn of Washington, D. c., is in the
City.
Sig Levy, a business man of visalia, is at the
Grand.
Dr. T. Gardner of Petaluma is at the Cali
fornia.
c. Brockman, business man OF Vallejo, is at
the Russ.
Professor o. V. Eaton of Stanford University
is at the Palace.
Dr. James l. Reed of New Jersey is among
recent arrivals.
P. L. Flanagan, a livestock-raiser of Reno, ar
rived here yesterday.
James O'Brien, the wealthy mining man of
Smartsville, is at the Russ.
J. w. Browning. merchant of Grand Island,
Nebr, reached here last night.
Ex-Superior Judge j. NJ. Wslling of Nevada
City is spending few days here.
Hugh McCrum a mining man OF Prescott,
Ariz., is registered at the Baldwin.
DR.. w. H. Stiles OF San Bernardino is at the
Baldwin, accompanied by his wife.
Allan Towle OF Towle, one of the big lumber
men OF the Truckee River, is at the Grand
F. L. Orcutt, an extensive wool grower and
dealer of Sacramento, is at the Grand Hotel.
Sheriff T. NJ. Brown of Eureka, Humboldt
County, is among the recent arrivals from the
north.
Francis Doud, the wealthy farmer, land
owner and banker of Monterey, is registered al
the Lick.
J. B. Pioda, the Swiss Minister to Washing.
ton, who has been on visit to outside points,
has returned to this City.
T. D. Murphy of Harqua Hala. Ariz., who
is interested there in gold properties and other
enterprises, is at the Occidental.
D. L. shirk, large cattle-owner of Shirk,
Eastern Oregon, arrived here yesterday. bring
ing with him several carloads of livestock.
James H. Wadsworth of Yreka, one of the
richest men in that part of the State, being
identified prominently in eattle-faising, is in
the City.
John J. Byrne, general passenger agent al
Los Angeles of the Atchfson, Topeka and Santa
Fe Railroad, is at the Palace, accompanied by
his daughter.
EChester Rowell or Fresno, at one time one oi
the owners OF the Republican there, and who
has been prominently discussed as candi
date for Congress, is in town.
w. A. Covarrubias of Los Angeles, United
States Marshal for the Southern District oi
California, who succeeded Mr.. Gard as the ap
pointee of President Cleveland, is in town.
Ell Lowry, business man of Fresno, is al
the Grand. Some time since, while hunting
by the accidental discharge of his gun, his lef
arm was so injured below the elbow that an
amputation was found necessary.
Among the arrivals on the steamer San Bias
yesterday was Colonel Delafield Du Bois of
New York, who is accompanied by his wife
Miss Mary Du Bois and Charles Goddard Du
Bois. They are at the Occidental and will
shortly visit friends at San Mateo.
George S. Nixon, the banker, of Winnemucca
New, is at the Lick. Mr.. Nixon is the owner oi
the Winnemucca Silver State, which he also
edits, and is credited with being the founder Of
the National silver party. He has been many
years in Nevada and is one of the most enthu.
siastic of free silver advocates
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-26

wayside and tints the fields. The songs OF the
birds possess a peculiar mellowness. The balm
OF new life permeates the atmosphere A
new splendor rides upon the sunoeams;
The song of the plowman is heard S1
as he follows the rolling furrow. The
schoolboy's whistle has a shriller note. Inc
migratory birds are appearing from the Iar
north to bask in Santa Cruz sunshine during
the sO-called winter season. sWeeter ira
GRANGE is perceived in the spicy odors dis.
filled from evergreen groves. The rosy tints OF
dawn and sunset lead the fancy into helds OF
dreamy speculation. All nature animate ana
inanimate, bathes in the smile OF the spring
time queen.
to those who are wearing mittens and ear
muffs among Eastern snowstorms. 1t VIII
not lessen their discomfort when we tell them
that our first Santa Cruz spring this year is q
little too warm TO suit the fas stidous tastes of
our citizens Those among us who have not
got over the foolish habit of buying 'fall and
winter clothing are either undergoing the
modification OF having to leave their new
dresses at home or are sweltering in clothes
altogether too warm for the season.
We have recently heard of some Eastern
people who propose to visit Santa Cruz in the
spring" meaning next April or May we sup
they need wait no longer. As we have often
remarked, a great mistake is made by visitors
who postpone the pleasure of sojourn in
Santa Cruz until "after the rainy season" 1t
cannot be too often repeated for the benefit of
such persons that there is no more favorable
season for the enjoyment here OF pleasures de-
pending upon exquisite weather. than the
period commencing with the first rains OF late
October or early November, and often continu-
ing without interruption until Christmas
OF the entire truth OF this statement, our
blizZard-blown friends beyond the Rockies
would be perfectly convinced if they could
the sweet springtime now regnant in the hills
wales and groves of Santa Cruz.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-26
JAPAN IN OUR MARKETS.

The extent to which Japanese goods
competing with home products are now
entering the American market puts the
tariff issue in a new light and is likely to
convince even the most stalwart Demo-
Gratis that the time has come for them to
reconsider the question Of free trade.
When it was merely matter OF competing
with European labor and European wages
men might believe the superiority OF
American skill, energy and machinery
would enable our factories to hold the
home market against the foreign rivals,
but now that the Oriental races enter the
field with an immense working population
content to labor at 50 month, no lntelll-
gent man can fail to see the ruinous folly
of leaving our industries exposed to such
competition.
The new aspect of affairs will be instruc-
tive, in fact, to some protectionists, as well
as to the free traders. Not a few of those
who favor protective tariff have been of
the opinion that the duties should be so
graded as to Just cover the difference be-
tween the cost of production in this
country and that in Europe. On this basis
of competition the duties on many articles
were comparatively light. These protec-
tionists will now have to reflect that
we need protection from the Orient as well
as from Europe. The duties, therefore,
on many articles which Oriental countries
have begun to produce will have to be
raised to point that will absolutely pro-
hibit the Importation OF such articles into
this country.
In considering the questions OF revenue
and tariff reform at the coming session
Congress can hardly fail to overlook the
new phase put upon the subject by the
increase of manufactures in Japan and the
probability of still larger increase in
China in the near future. The Pacific
Coast representatives of the Repu blican
party will certainly call the attention OF
their Eastern colleagues to the danger
that threatens. The facts and statistics
published in THE CALL will be as good a
document as any Congressman will need
to begin the campaign of education, and it
cannot be commenced too early. Our
manufacturers, merchants, workingmen,
and, in fact, the people generally, should
unite in sending petitions urging Congress
to Immediate action to protect our in
dustries and the wages of our people. 1t is
no ordinary issue that confronts us now.
Holding position on the extreme west of
the civilized world and Immediately con-
fronting the degraded hordes of the East
California must fight to preserve her homes
from the standards of the Orient. With US
it must be either Western wages or East
ern, and there is no time to be lost in
making the decision.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-26
BUILDING A HOME.

If large property owners in the interior
of the State would follow the example Of
San Francisco the problem of settling Cal
ifornia would be solved. Within the last
few years large unsettled areas in the
western and southern parts of the City
have been subdivided and offered to set
tiers on easy terms and the result has
been wonderful increase in the number
of homes owned by persons of small
means and a steady income. This has
served as leading inducement to streetcar
companies to extend their lines in all direc-
tions, and still better result has been
demand for good street improvements.
Every one who builds a home IN these
new districts adds to the value of the un-
sold lots, and as they are gradually taken
the value of the lots first bought is in
creased. 1t may seem to some that the
prices asked for lots are high, but we may
all be sure of two things: the price never
will be lower and will steadily increase.
Delay in making an effort to secure a lot
means higher price in the future and the
absence of a profit which present invest
ment would bring.
In yesterdays CALL the president of a
company selling lots on the installment
plan explained the benefits Of the system,
and as the plan which he carries out is
similar to all others of this kind his state
ment has a general value which every per-
son of small means should consider.
''To exemplify my plan," said he, ''sup-
pose man should buy home costing
$4,000, he would pay cash 90 per cent of
$4,000, which is $500, leaving $2400 on
mortgage, on which he would pay an in
stallment of $50 every month, interest
included in these installments. According
to this it would require 100 months to pay
out. Thirty dollars per month for 100
months amounts to 1920, to which add
$500 which was paid at the commence
ment and the total cost is $3.50. By this
plan one pays $50 for interest, but is not
paying rent for the 100 months. One
could not rent the same house for less
than $32 so per month, which in 100
months would amount to $2452, so the
$4,000 home would only cost $1417 so more
than would have been paid in rent, which
is the net cost of the home"
OF course it will be understood that
these figures are only relative. Some
homes would cost a great deal less than
$4,000, but the debt and the monthly pay
ments would be correspondingly small.
| There is probably not another city in the
| United States where there is so wide a
range in the choice of lots or where
| the terms of purchase are so easy. Any
one who can pay rent can buy home,
and, as the above example shows, it often
costs less to buy than to rent. The only
trouble is the initial payment, but as a
| little self-denial for a few months will pro-
duce that amount and assure permanent
| home, which at the same time may be
regarded as an investment on which a
profit undoubtedly may be made, it is
| eminently worth while to make the effort.
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-26
AROUND THE CORRIDORS.

striking looking old man, with an exceed
lngly thick growth of long and flowing white
hair, and with whiskers reaching about to his
waist, arrived here yesterday on the steamer
San Bias from Central America, end soon
thereafter registered at the Russ.
He was the living embodiment of Santa
Claus, as represented at the average Christmas
festivities, to most people who saw him, while
to Others he was Rip Van Winkle, just after his
long sleep in the Adirondaeks, as portrayed by
Joseph Jefferson. Others yet called him the
Count OF Monte Cristo, and as the Count he
continues to be known at the hotel.
None of the names seemed at oil out OF place
Tor him, SO wonderful was the makeup which
nature gave him, but an incident occurred
shortly after his arrival which impressed the
curious throng of onlookers that he was a
veritable Monte Cristo. The trunks and other
effects of the old man had been placed tempo
rarily at the head OF the stairs, some distance
away from the desk on the office floor.
The so-called Count desired after while to
get some Mexican cigars from small trunk
on top Of the pile. He unlocked it, but forgot
to lock 1t again. When the porter came along
to remove the baggage to q permanent place
the contents of the unlocked trunk fell to the
floor.
There was revealed a strange sight. Gold
silver and greenbacks rolled out and scattered
The San Francisco call., 1895-11-26

about in profusion, the gold tens and twen-
ties and the silver dollars chasing themselves
over the marble floor. There was a scampering
to gather up the money, for there was great
deal of it-how much nobody could tell--but, as
it appeared, several thousand dollars at least.
The old gentleman laughed and shouted, en-
joying the scramble for the money as much as
any one present. 1t was with difficulty at last
gathered up and taken away. The old gentle
man proved to be Antonio Nabolina, the
widely known pioneer of Visalia, who for the
past sixteen months has been at his mine in
Central America, and was just getting home.
al am a Mexican by birth, and came to Cali
fornia in 184S," said he. ~ took up a ranch
near Visalia, and l and my two sons own three
ranches there now, besides large herds of cat
tie and sheep. Our ranches are so valuable
that Miller & Lux offered us 5000, 900 for them
some time ago, but we would not sell.
This money you saw roll out of my trunk
here is the result of the sale of gold from my
mine, the Donna Maria, located 16O miles
from Trinidad. 1t is good mine, for 1 have
been offered $1S 900 for it, and in the last
three months l have cleaned up an average of
$1,000 month from it. 1t is placer mine,
easy to work and we'll located. Ten Indian
miners dig this all out for me.
az am "A years old, and my hair and beard is
as white as it will ever get, but 1 feel very
young, ana never felt stronger than do now.
This is a good world to live in. never had
any fault to find with it. Anywhere in the
San Joaquin Valley if you will ask tor the AL
fonso Andrade rancho or for the owner who
is myself they will all tell you. Everybody
knows me-"
The old man, to entertain the throng of men
and boys around him, deigned a time or two
to tie his long whiskers in knot, and once or
twice he put them over his face. They covered
his face so completely that 1t could not be seen
Mr.. Nabolina will leave for home in day or
two. He says he will go back to his mine in
| about month.