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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-19
TO HELP FRUIT-GROWERS.
An Effort Being Made to Collect D"'y
on CatrrdntS.


on, CstrrdntS.
WASHINGTON, D. c., April 1S.-Secre-
tary Carlisle and Assistant Secretary Ham
lin are interesting themselves in behalf Oh
California small-fruit growers. to prevent,
if possible. the free importation OF currants
into this country. The New York board OF
general appraisers recently decided that
under the new tariff law all currants, save
Zante currants, could be admitted free,
and so for several days past the Treasury
Department has received large mum Der OF
protests against allowing this decision to
stand. 1t is learned that yesterday Collec-
tor Kilbrath, at New York. heard argu
ments on both sides of the question, and
concluded the law was too plain to admit
of any other construction than that given
it by the board.
The action of Congress in striking all
currants from the dutiable list save those
grown in Greece, called Zante currants, was
blunder, and yet the amendments made
from time to time to the particular section
plainly shows an interested purpose on the
part of some to remove the duty from cur
rants. The Treasury officials have little
faith in a favorable result, and will very
likely appeal to the courts from the decision
of the New York board on behalf of the
small-fruit growers of the country.
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AN OPEN LETTER SENT.
If a Clear Expression Is Given
Line of Battle May Be
Unnecessary.
DOES HE WANT ALL GOLD?
Another Letter Might Set the
People Right Regarding the
Presidents Meaning.

OMAHA, NEBR., April 18.-Ex- Congress
man Bryan, through the Omaha paper of
which he is the editor, to-day made public
an open letter to the President in reply to
Mr.. Cleveland's recent financial epistle.
After praising Coins financial school the
letter says:
what do you mean by the phrase,
Sound money! In your letter you make
frequent use of that and kindred phrases.
In fact, in the course of your letter you
speak three times of sound money twice
OF safe currency once of sound cur
rency,' once of safe and sound currency,
once of safe and prudent financial ideas
and once of wholesome financial doctrine
You also speak once of 'debased cur
rency,' once of 'degenerated currency
and once of cheap money In one place
you describe your opponents as the forces
of silver monometallism, but you nowhere
explain what you mean by sound money"
or what you consider cheap money
"Now everybody favors sound money
and safe currency and a plain and
simple statement of what you mean by
these euphonious and universally admired
phrases might dispel the warclouds and
make line of battle unnecessary.
"If by Sound money you mean gold
standard, why did you avoid the use of the
word gold in your letter. If by safe
currency you mean bimetallism, why did
you avoid the use of the word 'bi-
metallism' in your letter?
Your opponents favor the free and I'M
limited coinage of gold bullion into dollars,
each containing 25.S grains of standard
gold. Are you in favor of this? Your OPP
ponents are in favor of the free and unlim-
tied coinage of silver bullion into dollars,
each containing 1925 grains of standard
silver. Are you in favor of this? II not,
are you in favor Of the coinage of silver
bullion into dollars of any size? If not in
favor of the free Coinage of silver, what
charge, if any, would you make for coin
age?
as the failure of gold standard advocates
to define their purposes and defend their
financial system due to lack of knowledge
of the subject or to an unwillingness to let
people know what they intend? If the
'proprieties of your official place. oblige
you to 'forego the enjoyment which
you would derive from the writing of
another letter explaining your last letter
and defining your position on the finan-
cial question please designate some one
who has authority to speak for you, so
that the people may be afforded an in
teIligent opportunity, as you suggest, to
study and decide this now paramount
public question"
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as to Great Britain's purpose, but he IS
hourly expecting an answer to his cabled
inquiry. From the delay in answering ne
believes the Nicaraguan Government is
vet uniformed as to the latest phase OF
the situation and it probably is in com
munication with its representative at Lon
don.
Sir Julian Pauncefote, the British EN-
bassador received no advices on the SUB.
iect to-day. While there is an absence OF
official information, the diplomatic OH
eials regard it as settled that Great Britain
will proceed to enforce her claim against
Nicaragua by moderate but firm means.
The impression also prevails that with Far,
lament in session the Government would
not risk an appeal to that body by moder-
Grating or yielding to the proposals OF
minor power.
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SAFE IN NEAH BAY PORT.
The Foundered Vessel Near Carmanah
Not the Beri9ay Sea.

The B0Nndered Vessel Near CdTmGndh
Not the Bering Sea.
TACOMA, WASH, April 1s.-Edward
Johnson, one of the owners of the
Boring Sea, received dispatch from Neah
Bay last night in reply TO an inquiry an
nouncing that the vessel was all right and
had not been wrecked, as indicated in a
Port Townsend dispatch published yesUer-
day morning.
The dispatch added that the Bering Sea
sailed from Neah Bay the eighth of this
month, with a crew of five white men and
fifteen Indian sealers. She is 50-ton boat
and is on her maiden voyage. Captain
Larsen is from Seattle, as well as the four
other white men. The Indians were
shipped at Neah Bay. Mr.. Johnson said
the schooner would cruise along the coast,
hunting for seals, and would be gone all
summer, or until the close of the sealing
season.
The following special dispatch to the
Ledger from Victoria probably refers to
the same schooner:
VICTORIA, B. c., April 1S.-Collector
of Customs A. R. Milne yesterday received
the following telegram from Operator Day
kin of Carmanah giving most meager in
formation of the latest wreck on the south
west coast:
"a sealing schooner of about thirty or
forty tons is ashore six miles from here.
She is wreck and deserted, and l have
taken charge of her."
The name of the unlucky craft was not
mentioned in the dispatch, nor was this
information given in the Office messages
in the same connection received by the
Canadian Pacific Railroad Telegraph Com
pany. Mr.. Daykin had not returned to
the lighthouse from the scene of the yes
seI's coming ashore at late hour last
night and, in consequence, nothing could
be obtained over the wire. The schooner
is supposed to be one of the Indian feet,
this .supposition being based chiefly upon
the fact of her size.
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A VERDICT FOR BARTLETT.
Er- Congressman Cofeen Mast Pay His
Private Secretaries Claim.

Er- Congressman Cofeen Mast Pay His
Private Secretary's Claim.
CHEYENNE, WYo., April 1s-The case
of 1. S. Bartlett against ex-Congressman
Coffeen has been concluded in the District
Court. Mr.. Bartlett was private secretary
to Mr.. Coffeen from August, 1898, to Au-
gust, 1894. He alleged that the ex-Con-
gresham was in the habit of Withholding
from 500 to $50 per month from his secre-
tarys salary. This money, it was alleged,
Mr.. Coffeen gave to his daughter and
nephew, who were attending school in
Washington, for alleged services performed
in the capacity of stenographer and type
writer. Mr.. Bartlett further alleged that
Coffeen compelled him to contribute from
So to $40 per month as part of his Office
rent and hire of a typewriting machine.
In addition to the $50 per month with
held from his salary for twelve months,
Mr.. Bartlett asked for further Judgment
of S242 so for extraordinary services per-
formed III preparing numerous newspaper
interviews, eulogies and puffs, which were
prepared by him at Mr.. Coffeen's request
for the purpose of advertising the work
and accomplis hments of Wyoming's ex-
Congressman. Many ridiculous features
were brought out in the course of the trial.
The jury was out several hours, and
brought in verdict in Bartlett's favor for
1902 90
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EIkins Nor n Coudidnfe.

NEW YORK, n. Y, April lex
Senator G. Davis of West Virginia, father
in-law of Senator Stephen B. Elkins, was
at the Fifth-avenue Hotel last night. Mr..
Davis, who is Democrat, declared that his
son-in-law would positively not be candi-
date for the Republican nomination for the
Presidency. As to the Democratic nomi-
nee he did not agree with Senator Hill
that Southern man should be named.
But the Vice-President," he added,
''could well be selected from the South.
One thing wish to say emphatically. We
should not select any more candidates for
our party from New York. We have had
too many candidates from the Empire
State -
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Bedford NOT IN 1T.
The Big OH Boom VIII Be OF, a Cash Basis
There.

BRADFORD, Pa, April 1s.-As far as
speculation in oil is concerned, Bradford
was not in the hunt to-day to any extent.
Information was received from Oil City to
the effect that all outstanding oil trades
must be closed before more orders would
be accepted of any kind of margins, and
business would not be transacted in the
oil exchange until there was some money
in sight.
1t began to dawn on the people in Brad
ford that yesterdays slump was move
manipulated by the Standard to gobble up
what few certificates were in circulation,
and it is said no less than 500 OF them were
dumped on the market during the break.
There are but $50 of them outstanding, and
as soon as the remainder of them have
been sold speculation in oil will be thing
of the past.
Field operations continue brisk and will
probably remain so as long as the pipeline
price remains above the 50 mark. Refined
oil has advanced to 1914 cents per gallon in
this city by retail
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-19
Failure of a Woolcn Mtll.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, April 1S.-The
firm OF Sevill, Schofeld & Sons, proprietors
OF the Economy Wooden Mills, Manayunk,
executed an assignment for the benefit of
creditors to-day. The employees of the
mills, to the number of 500 out of a total of
nearly 1000 hands, went on strike Tues
day evening after making demand on
the firm for an increase of Is per cent in
wages. No statement of liabilities or as
sets has yet been made.
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NICARAGUAN CONCESSION,
No Likelihood of the Company
Losing Any of Its Rights
Already Granted.
Reports to That Effect Resulted
From Misapprehension
of the Ministers.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April 1S.-Dr
Guzman, the Nicaraguan Minister, was
asked to-day concerning report that Mic
aragua desired that the present Nicaraguan
Canal Company should surrender the con-
cession under which work has been done
thus far and that the United States and
Nicaragua should jointly undertake the
future work as governmental enterprise.
The Minister explained the report was due
to Misrepresentation. The Nicaraguan
Government had no wish. he said, that the
company should surrender its concession.
1t had every confidence that the company
would push the enterprise with all possible
speed.
Under the circumstances, DR.. Guzman
said, the joint governmental action was
not live one and it was needless to spec
ulate on contingency which Nicaragua
did not regard as remote possibility.
The Government wanted to give every en-
couragement to the company and did not
want the impression to get abroad that it
considered forfeiture likely or even pos
sible.
DR.. Guzman says the misrepresentation
arose through crediting to him statement
which he had com municated to the State
Department as an Enclosure. The state
ment had been made during an interview
between the United States Minister at
Nicaragua and the Government authorities.
1t was forwarded to DR.. Guzman and by
him sent to the State Department without
any intention of indorsing the views.
1t has since been found that the report
of the interview at Managua was very de-
fective. Minister Baker was talking in
English and understood no Spanish. The
Nicaraguan Minister was talking in Spanish
and understood no English. There was
naturally some misunderstanding from
which the recent reports have arisen.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-19
INSPECTORS REG UL4TIONS.
Baggage May Be Landed From Stedni-
ships after Sunset.

WASHINGTON, D. c., April 1S.-As-
sistant Secretary Hamlin to-day issued a
circular to Collectors of Customs directing
that hereafter when any steamship from
abroad shall reach her dock after the hour
of sunset the baggage and effects of her
passengers, other than emigrants, may be
delivered forthwith, waving the existing
requirements so far as they may affect the
treatment of passengers baggage. In
spectors are cautioned TO conduct them
selves with patience and courtesy while
examining baggage and are instructed that
the examinations are not so much with a
view to the duties incidentally collected as
to the prevention of intentional violations
of the customs laws.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-19
CURRAN CANYON AFFRAr.
Joe SyIresrer Shoots and Fatally Wounds
RGncher Brazil.

MODESTO, CAL, April IS. = Word
reached Modesto this afternoon OF proba-
bly, fatal shooting ARRAY in the Curran
Canyon, Coast Range Mountains, thirty
miles west of Modesto. Last evening at s
o'clock A. J. Brazil, owner of band of
sheep, was shot by Joe Sylvester in the
left side, the pistol ball going through his
body. The trouble arose over a pair of
blankets left by Sylvester at Brazirs camp
last fall when he left the employ of Bra
I'll. The latter claimed to know nothing of
the transaction.
Witness es claim the shooting was with
out provocation, while Sylvester says he
fired in self-defense. Brazil lives in Oak
land. Sylvester is under arrest and will be
brought to the County Jail tomorrow.
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Co,tnterfeiter .Arrested.

CHICAGO, ILL, April 80. O. Jones,
formerly a newspaper artist. arrested last
night by the United States Secret Service
on charge of counterfeiting 2-cent
stamps, confessed to-day to Captain Porter
that he and Morrison are one and the
same.
Jones has been in Canada for a month,
returning yesterday. Secret service men
traced him to Cincinnati, where he wrote
to Chicago newspaper that his stamps
were for sale at Monterey, Mexico.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-19
TIRED OF BEING CITIZENS.
UnaGtitlG indians Petition to again Be-
come Government Yards.

UntGtiIlG indians Petition to again Be-
come Government WGrds.
PENDLETON, Or, April 18.-Chief PEG
of the Umatilla Indians and Chief Young
Chief of the Cayuses, accompanied by
John Mclean, interpreter, left to-day for
Washington. They are delegated by a
faction of the tribes to ask Congress to pass
new laws again making Indians on allot-
ment lands Government wards. Both be-
fore leaving said they are tired OF being
citizens, and want the Indian agent to
have authority as formerly. They said the
Indians are hopeless drunkards, and will
under the present rulings of the courts go
to ruin by squandering all they have.
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ASKS FOR INTERFERENCE.
DR.. BuchandH's Counsel Wants Bf.itisl
Protection From Execution.

DR.. Buchaman's Counsel Wants British
Protection From Execution.
WASHINGTON, d. c., April 1S.-The
British embassy has received a telegram
from the New York counsel of DR.. Buch-
anan, who is condemned to be electro
cuted next Monday, asking the Embassa-
doris intervention on the ground that DR..
Buchanan is British subject and has not
cen given fair trial according to the
constitution.
1t is understood that any action by Sir
Julian Pauncefote would be confined to an
unofficial suggestion to Secretary Gresham
that the Governor of New York be asked to
grant a temporary reprieve, Dat such a
suggestion is very unlikely, as the settled
policy of the British officials is to give full
credit to the action of the American courts.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-19
OREGON IMPROVEMENT TAXES.
Il Rehearing of the Case Granted al
Atbony, N. Y.

ALBANY, N, Y, April 1s.-Deputy
Comptroller Morgan gave a hearing this
afternoon in the matter OF the application
of the Oregon Improvement Company for
readjustment OF their corporation tax
imposed by the State. The company holds
its annual elections in New York, where it
has its Office. 1t also deposits its bonds,
ETC., in the safe deposit company of New
York City. 1t also pays a large force of
clerks and has a bank account in that city.
The State holds that SIC, 900 of its capital
is in actual operation in this State and has
imposed tax under the corporation tax
law for the past fourteen years. On the
other hand the company claims its capital
does not come within the provisions of the
law
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-19
LNoOME-TAx RECEIPTS.
The amount VIII Be Very Close to the
Criminal Estimate,

WASHINGTON, D. c., April 1S.-It is
authoritatively stated at the Treasury De-
partment that reports of collectors so far
received show that the amount of income
tax receipts no doubt will reach the esti-
mate made before the decision of the Su-
preme Court was rendered. This is inter
preted to mean about 100000. No
information as to the number and amount
of returns already reported is given out.
Much to the surprise and annoyance of
the officials information reached the de-
partment from several cities that income
tax returns were still being offered, and
asked for instructions.
Several returns were offered to the officer
for this city and he was instructed to re-
ceive them, subject to whatever action that
might be taken later.
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Sustained Rer. W. N. Cleveland.

WATERFOWL, N. Y, April 49,
Some time ago dispute at the Chaumont
Presbyterian Church resulted in the par
ishioners voting to ask for the resignation
of Rev. w. n. Cleveland, a brother Of
President Cleveland. An appeal to the
st. Lawrence Presbytery has been settled
by the approval of Rev. Mr.. Cleveland's
course and his election as representative
to the General Assembly of the Presby-
terrain Church
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SENsAr1oN AT TACOMA.
Investigating Alleged Shortages In the
Accounts of the Late Paul NchMLse.

ACCONHtS " Gtc LUG ANt oCHbt%S'
TACOMA, WASH, April 1S.-Sensational
rumors are in circulation here of large
shortages in the accounts of Paul Schulze,
the deposed general western land agent of
the Northern Pacific, who committed sui
eide last week. Officials of the Northern
Pacific are now conducting an investiga-
ton, aided by experts.
The statement that Paul Schulze had
written letter to Marie Wainwright, stat
ing that he intended to end his life and
giving his reasons for the act, is denied in
a dispatch received to-day from Quincy,
H., where Miss Wainwright is at present.
Miss Wainwright admitted that she and
Schulze were on terms of intimacy and
stated that it was none of the public's
business if she did receive a letter from
him.
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McConf.eIL Reainns.

CHICAGO, ILL, April 1s.-Ex- Judge
Samuel P. Mcconnell, who yesterday came
out as an advocate of the free coinage
OF silver, to-day rendered his resignation
as president of the Iroquois Club. Nc
Connell says the position he took on the
currency question he knew to be contrary
to tn at held by majority of the club, and
he felt it would be unfair for him to longer
act as the presiding officer.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-19
FIRST OF THE SEASON.
Il Man Killed While Goin0 to the Baseball
Ground.

CINCINNATI, OHIO, April ia horri-
bic accident attended the opening day of
the baseball season here. On one of the
densely crowded open electrical cars pass
ing up Vine street on its way to the
grounds an elderly man stood on the foot
rail on the side of the car. When the car
reached the canal bridge he was SO
far out that his body struck the ironwork
of the bridge. His ribs were broken, his
skull crushed ana as the car left the bridge
he fell dead on the street. He was identi-
fed as ]. Hilrich, iewelry peddler.
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scandal, was called this morning. A con-
tinuance was taken until Tuesday, April
%. The examination of Jones will be held
behind closed doors, and it is expected
that numerous arrests will follow, if they
have not already been made.
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INGALLS, ZOE silver.
He Wants the Presidential Candidate to
FAVOR the Metal.

KANSAS CITY, No., April ia spe-
cial to the journal from Macon, No., says:
In conversation with a member of the
G. A. R. at the State encampment being
held here, Hon. John ]. Ingalls, declared
he was not only in favor of putting plank
into the national platform favoring the
free and unlimited coinage OF silver, but
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that he was strongly in favor of nominal
ing candidate who was personally in
favor of that principle.
"Why," remarked prominent g. A. R.
member" you will knock out Mckinley"
NO." replied ex-senator ingalls,, II do
not mean that, or go SO far, because there
is plenty of time and men often change
their positions"
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GREAT BRIfArN,s DEMANDS.
Little Doubt That She Bfu Carry Ott the
Niearaguan Claims.

Little Doubt That She HfI Carry Ont the
Niearaguan Claims.
WASHINGTON, d. c., April 1s.-The
impression is growing here that President
Zelaya ofNicaragua has taken too optim-
istic view of the state of the relations be-
tween Great Britain and his own country
in assuming that the former has decided to
desist from carrying out her ultimatim to
Nicaragua and that she will agree to allow
the claim for indemnity to go to arbitra-
ton.
1t is regarded as significant fact here
that the Earl of Kimberly, the British For
eign Minister, has just returned suddenly
to London, and it is believed the true ex-
PLANTATION of the delay in action is to be
found in the fact that none of the subor-
dinates in the British Foreign Office felt
like assuming the responsibility for action
in the absence of the Earl.
DR.. Guzman, the Nicaragua Minister
here. has not heard from his Government