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Here's q Nut to Crack.

L have found the following interest,"
ing problem in an old note book,
writes Sir Walter Besant. I have no
recollection at all of its origin. Per-
haps everybody knows it. Perhaps
everybody does not. Those who do
not will find it, I think, unless they
bring algebra to bear upon it, rather
a tough nut to crack. Here it Is.
Once there were three niggers-their
wickedness is negligeable quantity
it does not enter into the problem
who robbed an orchard, carried away
the apples in sack, laid them up in a
barn for the night, and went to bed.
One of them woke up before dawn,
and, being distrustful Of his friends,
thought he would make sure of his
share, at once. He therefore went to
the barn, divided the apples into three
equal heaps-there was one over,
which he threw away-and carried off
his share. Another niger then woke
up with the same uneasiness and the
same resolution. He, too, divided the
apples into three heaps-there was one
over, which he threw away-tookbis
share and carried it off. And then the
third nigger woke up with the same
emotions; he, too, divided the apples
into three portions-there was one
over, which he threw away-took his
share, and departed. In tie morning
every one preserved silence oyer his
doings of the night; they divided the
apples which were left into three
heaps-one was over, which they
threw away-and so each took his
share. How many apples were there
in the sack2 There are many possible
answers-a whole series of numbers
but let us have the lowest number of
apples possible. Senior wrang-
lers must be good enough not to an
swer this question. Moralists, if they
please, may narrate the subsequent his
tory of these three niggers, apart from
the problem of their apples.
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Where ia the Sheriff.

LAURENs, Oct. 7.-Three negroes
have been killed in this county in the
last six days by negroes. No arrests.
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bow, now in the Salvation Army bar
racks of Kansas, who had known Tai
bot intimately, went out to California
to get the man accused OF murder. he
was taken to Wellington for trial.
The jury disagreed, and now he is to
be tried again. Were it not for the
bounding of John Meagher he would
90 free, so many years have elapsed
since the tragedy, but the twin brother
of the mayor of Caldwell swears that
Talbot shall either swing for the kill
ing or he will shoot him on sight if he
is released. .
"Many other murders grew out of
this killing. George Flatf, a hand
some, kidgloved killer, became mar
shal about the time of these troubles.
He was an impoverished gambler with
a college education. Flaf married
Mary Dearse, the wealthiest girl in the
county. His name became a terror on
the border that he was asked to resign
the marshalship. He declined, and
with storms of wrath he swore he
would run the town on his own hook.
That settled it. One dark night agents
of the conspirators riddled Flaff with
bullets. His pretty wife hired detect
ives to hunt down the slayers of her
murderous husband. They also died
with their boots on, very mysterious,
ly. Meanwhile, Frank Hunt, who had
been Flaff's deputy, became marshal.
Nobody ever doubted that he had a
hand in the killing of his chief, and
perhaps fired the fatal shot.
'These stories found their way to
the ears of Mary Flaf, the widow, and
J she began to attend dances and con-
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So soon as I met Governor Chamber
lain introduced myself to him, and 1
caught his eye and he WINGED under
the gaze of the Bald Eagle of Edge
field I felt that the victory was
won. He turned pale and } acked.
There was no fight in him on that day.
You all remember that when he fin
ished his speech he tried to slip off, and
threatened to send a file of men after
him and bring him back if he did not
return to the stand, as wished him es.
pecially to hear what had to say. l
spoke to him in rude and rough Ian
guage in order that the rude and rough
negro might understand it, and that
was my objective point. This was
what killed the spirit of the negro, to
see the governor of the State and the
chosen leader Of their party abused in
such unmeasured terms. They would
not stay to hear the speaking over,
but left in great disgust. He after
wards spoke at Newberry, where he
received similar treatment by Colonel
Lipscomb, Colonel Aiken and others ;
also at Abbeville, when again Colonels
Aiken and Cothran poured hot shot
into him. He again spoke at Midway,
Barnwell county, and was there con-
fronted by the Hon. G. D. Tlllman,
who also gave him such a severe
tongue lashing that he never spoke
again during the campaign.
'The State convention met on the
18th and we there met opposition to
Hampton's nomination. The fusion
lists in the convention, led by Generals
Conner and Hagood and others,
wanted Chamberlain nominated, or
no nomination for governor. General
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LIVELY At ANGELS CAMP.
An All-Night Town That Has
Now Increased to 5000
People.
ThrongS of Men Are Digging for Gold
on Various Parts of the
Mother Lode.

Frank Hall, mining engineer OF thl:
City, formerly superintendent of grave
properties in Siskiyou County, has re-
turned here after two months experience
in examining mines on the mother lode In
Calaveras County.
He says things are exceedingly lively all
along the mother lode. The Tallock mine,
two miles south of the Utica, is being de-
veloped rapidly and the Eastern owners
are also stopping out ore. They have just
completed a new ten-stamp mill.
The Burney mine has been bonded by
San Francisco capitalists represented by
Mr.. Hall, who will now take the superin-
tendency of it. 1t is mile east of the
Utica. on the mother-lode belt. The new
company, Mr.. Hail says, is going to do big
work. 1t will sink the shaft, which is now
down to 160 feet, to a depth of 500 feet.
Already, he says, a seven-foot vein OF $6
ore has been opened.
''New companies are bonding and sink
ing right and left" he continued. dur
ing the last three or four months above
Angels and Altaville the operations have
assumed large proportions. At Carson
Hill, below Angels, there is a big stir.
Many new companies have been organized
and they are doing important work and
finding a good deal of ore.
The town of Angels is booming. There
are probably 5000 people there. Every
stage brings more. The people are both
from the East and from points on this
coast. The hotels cannot accommodate
them, there are so many, and they are
turning them away every night.
Building is going forward steadily.
There is new camp, called the Annex,
where things are rushing, as in the main
town. Angels is a place which runs all
night. The Utica mine there employs
alone 700 men, and there are enough more
miners in the immediate vicinity to make
things very lively.
1.-The mother lode there is three miles
wide, as not all may know, and it is not
till Carson Hill is reached that it comes to
point, and then widens out an l extends
far into TuoIumne County. For a long
distance this lode is as plain as Montgom-
cry street, and you may drive along it, for
there are good roads, and consequently no
need of pack-horses and burros, which are
so requisite IN 1T ugh, snowy countries.
There is no snow there. The ground
never freezes to amount to anything and
work can go right along the year round.
1t is no wonder, therefore, that men are
focking TO that section. The lode prom
ises so mucn, too, that the miners know
they are not taking the risks they would
if they went to the snowy camps OF
other States.
Much enthusiasm is shown by the
miners. The talk is all of strikes-not
labor strikes-and of what the country will
be when fully developed. In the two
months l was there 1 made very careful
examinations and was much impressed by
what saw. The ore is usually low grade,
but there is SO much of it and it is so easily
milled that the district is very captivat-
ing"
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FOR A ONE-CENT POSTAGE,
The National Board Of Trade
Favors a Cheaper Let
ter Rate.
Local Mercantile Organizations Are
Asked to Cooperate in the
Matter.

The National Board of Trade, located in
Washington, D. c., is earnestly agitatng
the proposition of having Congress make
the necessary change in the postage laws
SO that the public will have to pay only one
cent instead of two upon all letter postage.
The movement was started at the last
annual meeting OF the National Board of
Trade, held in Washington last January.
The proposed change was so favorably con-
sidered that special committee, called the
committee on one-cent letter postage, was
appointed to further investigate the sub
Ject and to enlist the cooperation OF all
trade organizations in every part of the
United States. The committee was further
directed to secure, if possible, the desired
changes IN the postal laws.
The investigation of the committee has
been such that it does not hesitate to
earnestly urge all influential bodies to par
tlclpate' in the movement for a cheaper
rate OF letter postage. Letters upon The
matter have been sent to several organiza-
tlons asking for cooperation and one to
Secretary b. Nj. Lelong of the State Board
OF Horticulture. One Of the strongest
arguments in favor of the movement is
statistical paragraph in the letter, in
which the committee saws:
That one-cent postage is both possible and
equitable is notably shown Iii the Postmaster
Generals report for 1890, where it is demon
strated that in that year. the revenue from
letter postage amounted to S3S, coo, ,OG0 while
the cost YVES only SO. .000, ,O30, leaving a proft
OF $30,000,000 from letter postage. Accord-
ing To this report, had letter postage in that
year been reduced to one cent there would still
have been profit OF 81 900 600 The simnle
tact Is that the business community and all
letter-Wrlters are ut present forced to paw
double postage in order that one favored class
OF mail matter may be charged oaly one cent a
pound or about one-twelfth the actual cost.
mail matter used by other departments of the
Government, and which should be charged to
their own account, are included in the exDense
of the Postal Department.
This committee feels that the mercantile as
we'll as the general community have long
enough submitted 10 the injustice of this d.
rect tax upon all citizens 10 favor one special
industry. They feel that the time has come
Tor action. A bill will be offered in the incom-
ing Congress providing for equalization OF
the postal rates and the reduction OF two-cent
letter postage TO one cent. But this bill will be
confronted with the seyerest antagonism of
those who now enjoy the benefit OF this unjust
olsc Elimination. TO successfully meet this op-
position viii require the cooperation of eiti-
zens from all sections of the country who at
the proper time will so emphatcally impress
lngton as to insure success in this popular
cause.
The committee asks that the matter be
taken up by those to whom the letters are
sent, and answers returned at once The
committee states that in the United States
there are hundreds of firms spending from
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Equivalent of an Avalanc III e /.

when one is told that, according to the
calculations of DR.. Frelier, the total ex-
pendlture of energy in the avalanche which
occurred September IL near the famous
Gemmi Pass in the Alps was 1900, coo, COO
meter-tons, it gives one a vague and in
definite idea says the Electrical World
"In such huge figures few clphers more
or less have little influence on the mind,
but by reducing to everyday quantities
such as We have to deal with and pay for
in our meters better idea of the signifi-
canoe of the statement may be obtained.
The above amount of energy, which was
expended in one minute, is equivalent to
an activity of 1000, 900 horsepower, and
sufficient at the rate of ten fifteen-candle-
power lamps per horsepower to run about
10000 lamps five hours per day for one
whole year
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We're Twice Divorced,

For the second time Lucetta ]. Perry and
Samuel A. Perry were divorced yesterday.
They were married first in the early eighties,
and in 1889 were divorced. Soon after they
agreed to live together again, and so were once
more married. About year ago, however,
Mrs. Perry says, her husband deserted her,
and upon that ground she sued again and has
been awarded her second divorce. There are
two children, boys of Is and II years, who
were placed in care of their mother.
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MORNING SESSION
Board-30 Market-st Railway, 45.
AETERSooS Session
Board-25 Giant Powder Con. 1917; 25 Market
st Railway, as.
= streeta40 Oakland Gas, 501a; $4,000 p
Branch Railway Bonds. 951A.
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NOTICE OF MEETINGS.

- -~~>'-~---~~~-
"S CALIFORNIA COMMANDERY,
Is-S No l. Knights Templar-Stated AS <Assf1
sembly, THIS (Friday) EVENING, Decem- EfT
Der H. commencing al Z: 80 O'Clock. Mem Eg
bers OF sister communicates and soiourning
sir knights are courteously invited TO attend BY
order, Sir REUBEN p HURLBUT.
Eminent Commander
Sir HIRAM T. GRAVES, Recorder
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500 to $1,000 per annum for letter postage
and a one-cent rate would make mate
rial difference in their expense accounts.
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DARK CYCLERY-NEw WHEELS TO LET;
Aliister aud Powell 81. car lines
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SAN FRANCISCO CALI"

BUSINESS OFFICE ofthe San Francisco CALI
sc Market street. open until 12 O'Clock every
night in the year.
BRANCH oFFICES-5sO Montgomery street.
ccrrer Clay: Jpen until $3.50 O'Clock.
SIS Hayes sereet, open until $3.50 O'Clock.
lib Larkn street, open until $3.50 O'Clock.
sW corner Sixteenth and Mission streets open
rrtil !o'clock.
2bls Mission street, open untfl o'clock.
116 Ninth street, open until $50 O'Clock.
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DEMoVED-DR. c. c. O'DONNELL TO $50
ll Market ST. Diseases Of women a speciality
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A pVICE FREE; DIVORCE AND PRoBATE
n,,ws laws speciality; suits, Superior Justice and
nouce S0uTts; terms reasonable; collections, etc
". HoW H. att ty-at-iaw 800 Market, cor STOCK ton
w W, DAVIDSON, ATTORNEY -AT-LAW W AID
-. San.ornla st. rma Ills; advice Sea
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nN OAKLAND BOAT, MONDAY, PRISE
~ Address q. l.. WAkEMAN. Bank of California.
POUND - THE GREATEST ALLrAROUND
stock accordions. mandolins banjos and guitars
in the city :prces lower than the lowest. KEENE'S
Pioneer Music-siore. Third st. corner Market.
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DERSONS WHO WANT TO PER CENT
i interes year on their money should consult
/. w. ENTZ & CO.. 40l Iafornia ST.
"A NY sum OF MONEY ADVANCED ON
~ your furniture, pianos real estate: lowest
rate: call and state your proposition write; open
evenings. j. NOoNAN. 1921 Mission ST.
-
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District Attorney to stand up, and was
fully identified by the witness as the man
who accompanied the robber who was
killed into the pawnshop. The detective
| stated that in searching the body of the
dead robber a scrap of paper was found
on which was written the following address
'1155 Folsom street." The following day
be accom- panied the Chief of Police of San
Jose to San Francisco, where they kept the
house at Folsom street under surveillance
and found it was occupied by several Rus
SLAMS, three of whom were then present in
the courtroom.
Thomas II. Bowlin of the San Francisco
Police Department stated that he was act
ing as jailer at the old City Hall during
the months of Decem Der and January last.
A portion of his duties was keeping a
record of arrests made: and offenses com
mitted. He produced copy of the prison
register for these months, and in the list
of arrests appears the name of John Du-
broff, one Of Kovalev's aliases, who is put
down as Russian, 80 years of age, by
occupation a shoemaker: He was arrested
by Officer MCGEE charged with; being
drunk. The. arresting officer, John Nc
arrest and j. M. Brodt, another police
man, told of the discovery of Mrs. Web
ber's watch in the closet in the City Prison.
o. H. Knight said that he entered the
old plaza saloon on the 1st of January.
There he met Kovalev and Petelon.
Kovalev was treating and displayed a
quantity of coin, and insisted on. giving
him some. He accepted S. or So and was
shortly afterward arrested, but released.
While there Kovaley produced news
paper and asked a boy to read it for him,
and the boy did so.
Albert Davis, a shoemaker, testified that
he had been acquainted with the prisoners
since November, 1898, when Kovalev ar
rived in San Franciscofrem Saghalien Isl
and" Kovalev was in his employ and
would: occasionally indulge freely in liquor
and be absent for days at a time. Last
November the defendant left his employ
to accompany. Stcherbakoy into the coun-
try. When he returned In January he was
better dressed than when he left
was flush with money and claimed that he
had been picking cherries and grapes in
the vicinity of Stockton and Sacramento.
A pair of trousers that were found among
the cast-off raiment in the sugar barrel in
the rear Of the Webber residence were
handed to him, and he positively identi-
fled them as having belonged to Kovalev.
When asked how he could answer SO posi-
lively he said:
"a man would certainly know the pants
worn by man who sat beside him for six
months; and see that line across the upper
portion of the legs of the garment-that
was made while using the wax-ends in
sewing.n
AS these words we're uttered everybody
in the courtroom listened with breathless
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respected and honored in France, is something

respected and honored in France, is something
beyond our comprehension.
The response, signed by Grand Marsh al
Overton, was coached in most patriotic
language, paying high tribute to France
and the services rendered the United
States by her countrymen, and ending
with:
We trust that our situation will appeal to
your superior intelligence, and that you will
probably credit u.s. not with any intention OF
an offensive discrimination, but only with
a desire to avoid serious embarrassment, for
that idea alone has governed the executive
committee in deciding to exclude all flags ex-
cept that of the United States.
You well know. gentlemen, that upon all
other public occasions you are at liberty to dis
play the flag of France Us prominently as you
may see fl and that it will always be trea ted
with the greatest consideration and respect.
Last night word was received at head
quarters that the French would parade
This response to the executive commit
tees appeal reflected credit on its tact and
ability and the loyalty of the Legion
Franchise, and has removed the only
cloud that had arisen to darken the atmos-
phere on the glorious Fourth.
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be greatly enlarged. The different sub
jects include the. botanical, under Miss NJ.
E. Norton, the instructor from the open
ing: of the first assembly on this coast;
cryptogram botany, land and marine;
under the leadership of Professor c. l..
Anderson; a course in zoology, IN
der the direction of Professor Heath
of Stanford University, to consist
of a. course of lectures on the structure,
habits and physiology of typical forms of
the marine animals which abound along
the coast of Pacific Grove. The lectures
will be accompanied by daily laboratory
work with fresh specimens, and excursions
along the coast to observe the animals in
their natural surroundings and habits of
life.
Professor c. W. Woodwork of the Uni
versity of California will have charge of
the department of anatomy again. The
School of Languages in French or German
will be conducted bv Professor Rudenan.
In art Professor Iras will give another
series of four or five outdoor lessons in
sketching from nature.
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TWO ENTIRE BUILDINGS.

attention., and at the conclusion: Of his
evidence a ripple of satisfaction ran
through the assemblage. Here was ma
terial evidence connecting: the prisoner
with the foul crime. When: the photo
graph of the dead man, who was killed at
San Jose, was shown him be. positively
identified it as the picture of .Steherbakoy.:
George Petelon, the next witness, when
handed the watch and chain of the MUIR
dereo woman, Topped il. pin the position.
it would occupy on !. a. vest and gazed
critically at it, while a hush crept over the
crowded room. Long and mpressiYely he.
examined it, turning it. from side to. side,
until the District Attorney stepped for
ward and arranged the chain on*hissyest.:
Petelon then slowly and irppressiYely said:.
!. ~ es, that is. the chain that Kovalev.
wore on New Years eve when he came TO-
my room. !" 81. u. il : ><= :
AT this the Interpreter and said
that the: prisoner. wished to state that be.
wore no chain when he visited thewit-
ness. l. ::: :=: =.
Before the taking of evidence was con-
Guided the court adjourned. >: =>:. ;.. Il. :.
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KECUTIvE COMMITTEE.

in it for him if he would vote for school
site offered by Miles Dodd at $4,000. The
site is not worth the amount.
Pitman of the Board of Education says
his influence was asked by Howard, but no
money was proposed. Howard denies the
accusation. Kingery will bring it before
the Council at the regular meeting next
MONDAY, at which time Kingery's wife,
who heard the conversation, viii testify to
the offer of money made by Howard.
The property is located ON the northeast
corner of Grand View avenue and Eighth
street. Kingery says Howard made bona
fide offer OF 5000 for his vote and will inn
peach the Street Superintendent.
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HEIR TO pAST RICHES.

A Restauratemr Comes Into Possession
of an Italian Estate.
los ANGELES, CAL, July q. Scotto,
proprietor of the United States restaurant,
received word to-day that he had fallen
heir to 1000 900 francs in Italy. His uncle
died a number of years ago. The estate
was taken by the Government, who looked
up the heirs and notified Scotto that he is
the only heir. He leaves for Italy in few
days to claim the fortune.
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represented. Music and dancing was in
dulged in until II O'Clock, when the as
.semblage adjourned to the Occidental
Hotel, where the annual banquet took
place. There-was much toast-making and
Speaking. -.
School Trustee for Courthouse District.
was unanimously elected president of the
association for the. ensuing year.
Professor T. L. Burk has been reelected
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with, similar to the troubles encountered
in San Francisco, but it now has the salts
faction of knowing that its handling of
the question has been crowned with sue
cess. The rule that none but American
flags be displayed in the parade brought
forth only one objection, and that from
the Legion Franchise. The following was
a portion of the communication of its
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ond bass. .A.concert will be given blythe
!. Treble Clef Quartet: which is under. the
leadership. OF Mrs Mariner Campbell, the
quartet consisting of Miss Beatrice Priest;
! Mrs.A Noble, Miss Jeanette Wilcox and
Mrs. ]. Z: Birmingham. = +.
The Instrumental orchestra of"the First
Congregational Sanday-school Of. Oakland
is here under.the leadership-of a. "A. Stew
art. Miss: Charlotte Gruenhagen, violinist,
is: again with the. assembly, with MISS
Nellie Shirley. who ranks among the best
lazy cornetf5i on Tia COAST.
The department of: study.t this year will