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The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
HUNTINGTON TO DEPART,
The Railway Magnate Is About
Ready to Start for the
East.
Congress Is About to Meet - There
Will Be No Annual Banquet
This Year.

C.P. Huntington will start East this
week. What day he will take his de-
parture is not determined, but it will
probably be tomorrow or Thursday. Con-
gress meets on the first Monday in Deem
Der. and so it is time that he was getting
back and preparing for his legislative
duties. 1t was hardly expected that the
departure would be taken SO hurriedly,
and it will be somewhat of disappoint-
ment to those who had been looking for
ward in expectation of the usual annual
banquet on Mob Hill. But there will be
no banquet this year.
day preparing for his departure, and will
start as soon as he can dispose of the bust
ness requiring his immediate personal at
tention. No reason is given for the de-
cision to leave SO suddenly. However, the
president of the Southern Pacific has been
out here now nearly two months, which is
as long as his usual annual stay in Califor.
mia.
He, with his family, will travel by
special train, of course, and only during
the daytime. From here he will go to Los
Angeles and will inspect the pier at Santa
Monica. He will go also to Riverside and
San Bernardino, and may possibly go to
San Diego. He will then go on direct to
New Orleans, unless he decides to stop at
Ell Paso and take trip over the Mexican
International. In case he goes into
Mexico he will travel no further than
Torrean, at the junction of the Mexican
Central and the International. He will
not go to the City of Mexico.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
Work of the Stanislaus and San
Joaquin Improvement
Company.
CHANGE IN THE DIRECTORY.
Iohn D. Mckee of the Tal1ant Bank Is
Elected President-Work to
Be Extended.

An important meeting of the Stanislaus
and San Joaquin Irrigation and Improve
ment Company was held at Stockton last
Saturday.
The original plans of the company have
been practically carried out, and the
fruition of the scheme that has cost so
many hundreds of thousands OF dollars
since it's inception is realized. In fact, the
affairs OF the corporation have been
brought to such a successful issue that the
only thing which remains to be done is to
gather up the loose ends and rest the
whole on thorough business foundation.
The first step in that direction was taken
last Saturday, when the company through
its directory elected John d. Mckee, cash
Ter of the Tallant Bank of this City, as
president. The directors. felt the need of a
thorough financier and astute business
man to take the helm and in the person
of Mr.. Mckee they have made no mistake.
The company has had considerable bust
ness with the bank of which the gentle
man in question is the cashier, and several
weeks ago he made a thorough lnvestlga-
ton of the works, with the result that the
company determined to secure his services
in a position where his scientific knowledge
and well-knoWn business capacity would
prove most valuable.
At the meeting last Saturday the two
| Led betters who have been connected With
the company from the first, withdrew be-
| cause of other enterprises in which they
wished to engage and their interests were
protected by Messrs Cowell & Harold and
! Mr.. Harrison. General III. l. Wiley and
| John D. Mckee were elected to their places
| on the board of directors. General Wiley
| is also the chief engineer.
| The valuation of the corporations prop
erty and irrigating plant is safely estimated
| at half a million dollars. It's valuable
| holdings comprise the immense dam on
the Stanislaus River, six miles above
knights Ford, and the sole water right.
! The minimum supply is 200 cubic feet per
! second, or 10000 miners inches. The ca
pacity of the bitches is aoout 400 cubic feet,
or 20 900 miners inches, per second. The
main canal is forty miles in length, an
other twenty miles and another ten miles,
| or about seven.y-five miles in all, lnclud-
ing short laterais
The company IS now having a branch
| constructed to the new town OF Escolon,
on the line of the new San Francisco and
San Joaquin Valley road. Water is run
ming through the Pennington branch and
the company has contracted for the sale OF
10000 acres or water at So 30 per acre.
Where TWENTY-FIVE contracts are made the
farmers pay 80 cents annually on the con-
tract, 30 cents interest and 81 80 rent. Ac-
cording to the contracts the lrr1gator can
use as much water as he needs, but nc
more. After two or three years the irri-
gated lands need less water every year and
the company has all the more with which
to supply new lands.
President Mckee said yesterday: 1.-THE
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
Further Cuts Made by the Rail.
road and the Steamship
Company.
FIVE DOLLARS TO PORTLAND.
Pacific Coast Steamship Company Takes
Hand-Eastern Roads May
Have to Come In.

There is no cessation of hostilities in the
war over rates to Portland between the
Southern Pacific and the Oregon Railway
and Navigation Company. Yesterday
afternoon the Pacific Coast Steamship
Company was compelled to come in for
fear of losing passengers for the sound
and reduced it's rates from this City to Sc
attic from SIS to SS for frst-class and from
81 so to IS for second-class passengers.
The latest rates announced by the South
ern Pacific from San Francisco to Portland
on special trains leaving this City on the
days on which the steamers sail are $40 for
first-class tickets, including a sleeping
berth, and So for second class. The Oregon
Railway and Navigation rates are 30 and
50 so respectively for first and second class
passengers.
There were great many applicants for
tickets at the office of the steamship COM
pany yesterday, and the steamer Column
bia which goes out tomorrow, will carry
heavy load of passengers. The Southern
Pacific Company is also doing an immense
business. People going to Portland are
waiting for to-morrow's train, and 1t Is
probable that it will be necessary to run it
in two sections. The regular trains carry
ing passengers at the old rates will be al
most empty.
The Pacific Coast Steamship Company
found that passengers could go by the
Oregon Railway and Navigation Com
pany's steamers to Portland and by rail to
Seattle for Sill %, while their rates to
Seattle were $15. So yesterday they an
nounced cut to So first-ciass and S. for
second-class tickets to the sound by the
Walla Walla, Umatilla and City of Puebla.
But the Oregon Railway and Navigation
Company is not satisfied with one fight on
! it's hands The Alice Blanchard has been
running opposition to them in CARRYING
| freight, and in order to drive her out they
| Yesterday offered to take freight to Port
| land for 81 a ton.
| Before it is over this rate war may
reach much greater proportions and IN
volve other and bigger contestants. Some
of the Eastern roads may come in. The
rate of So for secondclass tickets to Port
! land makes cut via Portland to st. Paul.
| The rate via Ogden is SAT 80.
! The rate from Portland to st. Paul is
| $40, and with S. added from San Francisco
! to Portland the total is $45, a cut of 81 80.
! Or by steamer to Portland and rail to st.
Paul the cut would be SIS 40 on second
| class tickets. Then the Santa Fe runs
! through car to ST. Paul via Kansas City
for second-class passengers and the rate is
SAT 80. The question is are they going to
/ stand idle and see people GO by the cut
rates? The chances are that they are not.
/ Then again rates to points in Montana
are cut on second-class tickets. This
amounts to S. on tickets to Butte and Gar
rison and S. 05 to Helena for passen-
gers going via Portland, as against those
| going via Ogden. This upseJs things in
the ticket offices, of course, and in few
days things may become very lively.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
Rev. E. L. Burnett'S Graphic
Account of the Armenian
Atrocities.
INCITED BY THE SULTAN
Greece Should Regain Constantinople
and the Jews Return to Pales.
tine and Syria.

without doubt, the question of all
questions to-day is the Armenian ques-
ton" said the Rev. E. l.. Burnett, a
Presbyterian clergyman, who is partic-
ularly well informed upon the subject, in
an interview with CALL man yesterday.
Being requested to give THE CALL readers
the benefit of his wide knowledge upon
the Armenian situation, Mr.. Burnet said ::
The Sassoun massscTes a year ago shocked
and outraged the Christian world. So incred-
ible were the horrors OF rape, raplne, torture,
wholesale murder and butchery described in
the newspaper reports tina many candid minds
refused TO believe them. But, alas, the report
of the commission sent out by the powers to
investigate, though not yet published not only
fully confirms the worst phases of newspaper
reports, but presents a vast array OF details too
horrible for publication. We have also the re-
ports of eminent travellers and authors who
have during the past year visited the scene OF
lawiessness and bloodshed with Yisw OF pre-
Senting to the public inside facts bearing on
the Armenian question.
1t may be assumed that the outlines oil
geography, topography and history OF this
ancient and interesting country and people
are generally known; that the ancient seats Of
the Armenian people are in the mountains and
plateaus of Western Asia, whence are the
sources of the great rivers, the Euphrates and
the TigriS; that they have been q civilized and
Christianized people for fifteen centuries; thai
they were a nation governed by their OWE
kings for period OF more than thousand
wears previous to their becoming Turkish
province; that tyranny and injustice and
persecution have scattered them all over the
great western peninsula of Asia, called Asis
Minor, and have driven tens of thousand:
across the great mountain barrier of the eau
casus into Russia where they form no incon
siderable element OF population i'll the south
ern provinces.
since 1S47 Turkish rule, or rather misrule
has become more and more unbearable from
year to year.
So intolerable had it become. that at the close
OF the late Turko-Russian War, in 1878, in the
treaty of Berlin, the Christian powers stipu
lated for reforms in the government OF the Ar
menian provinces, and insisted that Armenian
Christians should be taken under the care and
protection OF the Christian powers.
From that time dates the settled policy of the
Turkish Government to settle the Armenian
question by exterminating the Armenians
And for seventeen years q system OF spoliation
robbery, murder and worse has been carried OF
by Kurdish armed bands and Turkish soldiers
aided and abetted by local civil authorities
all melted and directed in later years by the
Sultan himself.
To pursue this fiendish policy so long and sc
successfully, without being called to halt by
the Christian powers, is, indeed, one OF the
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19

work is practically completed, and the
company is ready to settle down to bust
ness-that is to say, make its contracts,
furnish the water for thousands OF acres,
and see that portion of the fertile san
Joaquin blossom like the rose. we all
know how rich is the soil of the San Joa-
auin, and this practically inexhaustible
supply of water makes it certain to be-
come one of the garden spots of this gar
den State. No, this new position will not
interfere in the least with my duties at the
bank The bank has no interest in the
company, but in time it is likely | will
find it to my advantage to be more than
business and financial supervisor. There
are great things in store for that county
and for this COMPANY"
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
PACIFIC BANK SALE.
Suit to Compel the Transfer Brought
by the Continental Insurance
COmnany,

The Continental Insurance Company OF
New York is suing the Peoples Home
Savings Bank to compel it to execute an
agreement of sale entered into by the two
parties to the suit. The agreement was
made on November 6, 1895, and was for the
transfer of the old Pacific Bank property
on Sansome and Pine streets for consid-
Grafton of $4,000 Of this $4,000 was to
be put up upon the acceptance of the offer
and the balance afterward upon the execu-
ton of the deed.
The 900 was duly put up, the plaintiff
AYERS, and the remaining $4,000 is ready
at any time. But the bank people will
not execute the deed, and so the insurance
company is suing to have them compelled
to do so according to agreement.
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The Great American Privilege.
Portland oregonian.

The JOY of the approaching Thanksgiving
season is somewhat dashed by the thought of
the avalanche of puns in connection with the
carving of Turkey, some of which are already
appearing.
The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-11-19
HANDKERCH IBFS :!

uHNUAHllUu luFU
At 5 Cents Each.
1000 dozen LADIES' SHEER WHITE
LAWN HANDKERCHIEFS with Va
lenciennes lace edge, Ladies' Hand
Embroidered Initial Handkerchiefs,
Ladies Colored Bordered Hemstitched
Handkerchief, regular value 10c.
At IS Cents Each.
500 dozen LADIES' WHITE SCALLOPED
EMBROIDERED SHEER LAWN
HANDKERCHIEFS, regular value So
dozen.
At 3 for SO Cents.
300 dozen LADIES' w HITE HEM
STITCHED ALL-LINEN HAND-EM-
BROIDERED INITIAL HANDKER-
CHIEFS, six in fancy box for 81. regu-
lar value 25c each.
At 25 Cents Each.
200 dozen LADIES WHITE SCALLOPED
EMBROIDERED SHEER LAW n
HANDKERCHIEFS, guipure effects,
regular value 50 dozen.
NhUA N GAR! NhUA " EAK!
AT ST. SO Each.
LACE AND RIBBON COLLARETTES,
yoke of insertion and ribbon, with ruff
fe of Russian or Oriental lace, regular
value So.
At So. 80 Each.
LACE COLLARETTES, Vandyke points,
trimmed with net-top guipure lace,
ivory or butter shades, regular value
Sd 50.
At $500 Each.
CHIFFON COLLARETTES, Point Vense
squares, trimmed with Chiffon ruffies,
regular value So.
At So. so Each.
LACE COLLARETTES, Russian Van
dykes, trimmed with net-top Point
Venise lace, regular value $6 so.
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HOSIERY and UNDERWEAR !

At Is Cents a Pair.
CHILDREN'S BLACK RIBBED COT
TON HOSE, double knees, heels and
toes, seamless, guaranteed fast black ,
regular price 20c.
At 25 Cents a Pair.
LADIES' BLACK MACO COTTON HOSE,
white feet, nigh spliced heels and toes,
Hermsdorf black, regular price three
pairs for 81.
At 33M Cents a Pair.
MISSES FINE RIBBED BLACK
EGYPTIAN COTTON HOSE, double
knees, spliced heels and toes, Herms-
dorf black, sizes to 9La, regular value
SOC.
At so Cents a Pair.
LADIES' IMPOR T ID CASHMERE
WOOL HOSE, high-spliced heels,
double soles and toes, natural gray,
black and tan shades, regular value 75c.
At IS Cents Each.
LADIES JERSEY RIBBED WOOL
MIXED VESTS, high neck, long
sleeves whIte, natural and black, reg
ular value 81.
At $3.50 Each.
LADIES FINE AUSTRALIAN WOOL
VESTS, high neck, long sleeves, and
high neck, short sleeves drawers to
match), warranted n-shrlnkable,
regular value SO so suit.
At $1.75 a Suit.
LADIES' JERSEY RIBBED WOOL
MIXED COMBINATION SUITS, ex-
ira fine grade, high neck, long sleeves,
guaranteed non-shrinkable, white and
natural, regular value,$2 %.
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new DRESS TRIMMINGS +!

JET TRIMMINGS, in Edgings. insertions
and Vandyke Points, also in Jet and
Colored Spangle Insertions, in all
widths and lowest prices.
JET AND COLORED BEAD YOKES, in
Chain and Epaulette patterns, compris-
ing the newest combination effects, in
great variety of patterns, all colors,
and at lowest prices.
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CORSETS. CORSETS.
At $1.OO.

At $1.OO.
IS dozen LADIES' CORSETS, made of
fine English cou til sateen, striped, long
waist and high bust, with patent loop
eyelets, fit guaranteed, black and drab
extra good value for 81 30.
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At 90 Cents.
1000 pairs 4-BUTTON KID GLOVES
Oarge buttons to match gloves), colors
brown, tan, mode, slate, navy, green
and red, regular value 81 80, will be Of
fered at 90c pair.
At S1.OO.
1000 pairs 2-CLASP PIQUE KID GLOVES,
black embroidered back, colors cream,
pearl and English reds, also white, reg
ular value 81 so, will be offered at 81 a
pair.
LADIES' WOODEN WAISTS!
At $3.50.
LADIES' WOOL WAISTS, extra full
sleeves, box-plaited back, full front,
finished with belt, in black, navy and
red, will be offered at 81 so each.
At $500.
LADIES' ALL-WOOL WAISTS, yoke
back and front finished with braid,
plated from yoke, full sleeves, made in
the latest style, regular price 81 IS, will
be offered at 81 each.
RIBBONS F! RIBBONS!
At s Cents.
300 pieces No. 5 ALL-SILK, SATIN AND
GROS-GRAIN RIBBON assorted col
ors, will be offered at &C yard.
At 10 Cents.
No. IL PINCH ALL-SILK, SATIN AND
GROS-GRAIN RIBBON, assorted col
ors, will be offered at 10c yard.
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NOW Is The Time To BUY DRY GOODS!


sold
to NAL
Of Holiday
Figures That Will Command the Immediate Attention
and Patronage of All Discriminating Buyers.
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CLOAK DEPARTMENT!
LADIES' JACKETS.

LADIES' poUBEBREAsTED
LADIES JACKETS black and navy Berlin twill coat backs nched
At $1,000
JACKETS of black lined throughout
will
be
collars
nbeo ed a
LADIES' CLOTH AND PLUSH CAPES.
WILDE
will be
At $3.50.
trimmed with Baltic SEAL $40 So will be
q.
LADIES ptly
AT
LADIES
IA with Tibet 5owfibe offered at s5
CHILDREN'S JACKETS.
At 4.5O $500.
ss Sasn 1s Rsas
nbeofere reds EACH
NEW FUR CAPES.
oftnela
GLIDING Wool Seal Maen opOu Arac
prices anging Iom$ each
MACKINTOSHES AND GOSSAMERS.
are MEMS AND BOYS MAcKN
RUBBER COATS at the lowest prices the city
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BLANKET DEPARTMENT.

/ 6LANkEl DEPAK MENl.
BLANKETS
cheaper ultimately than other SEE THEM
!
WHITE BLANKETS
| At
.
/ a.
5 WOOL BLANKETS, for 81
/
! s
/
LIE q
LINEN DEPARTMENT
Gents q yard.
/
/
|
yard
uefo6Oc
a Yard.
uefor4O
EXTRA SPECIALS!
WIDE Drery
. 800 . ..onsa
BLACK AND coLoRED
80 per cent OF regular
New Illustrated
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NECKWEAR! NECKWEAR /!

AT ST. SO Each.
LACE AND RIBBON COLLARETTES,
yoke of insertion and ribbon, with ruff
fe OF Russian or Oriental lace, regular
value So.
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At $3.50 Each,

LACE COLLARETTES, Vandyke points,
trimmed with net-top guipure lace,
ivory or butter shades, regular value
81 so.
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At $500 Each

! CHIFFON COLLARETTES, Point Venise
squares, trimmed with Chiffon ruffles,
regular value So.
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CHILDREN'S JACKETS.

84.5 and $780,
collar Iun sleeves
Ibeofer edat
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NEW FUR CAPES.

styles in LADIES' FUR cAPE
ghom$7
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-05-19

More poople speak English than any
other language now I'm use ia tne elE'i'N,c
world. and the increase IN the use
English is so rapid that Il may ultimate
lv outstrip all the European iahs r"-
collectively. Al the beginning OF '"s
present century French stood az lno NO. ~,
OF languages in general use. nc"
per cent Of the people or EUROPE "','
America spoke French. Then followed
I'M tho order named: Russian. 10 per cent?
German rs per cent; Spanish 10 per
cent. English. y per cent. ana liala",
por cent French was the language OF
treaties. of fashion. Of international COT
rospOndoncc. and. 90 considerable 'N-
tent. Of commerce. At the beginning OF
the present century twice as many pco-
ple i'm Europe spoke French as English,
ana twice AS many spoke German as
English. More persons in Europe smoke
italian than English. and. n fact, Bag
lis1 had O. subordinate rank.
colonization in America and Australia,
ana particularly the enormous increase OK
population in the United states. favor
od the extension Of English. Colonization
boz South and Central America favored
Spanish. and i1 Brazil Portuguese. one
reason Of the rapid and neral cNtOn-
sion of the English language has
boon very much larger than from other
countries. end the English heNe made
their influence felt more iceis'ttlv cham
have the people of other nations il colo-
Mes Thus. for instance. Holland has
today extensive colonies iu various parts
of the world The present population OF
Holland is 100000. and of the Dutch
colonies. 100000 The area 0f Holland in
square miles is 3oeN. and of the Dutch
colonies $1,000 Buf The Dutch language
has never been extended f0 any great
The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1895-05-19
HE had ONLY BEEN DRINHING.
4 Citizen Of CovInEion Caused Some little
Excitement.

A white man named W. i. Smith. about
forty years old who claims 10 be from
COvngton. Va. was yesterday prisoner
in the county jail
About o'clock yesterday morning Con-
stables J. l.. Branch and T.. G. Green
were sent for by people living in the Vi
entity OF the Soldiers Home, who had
noticed the man moving about In the
neighborhood. and were suspicious as to
his intentions. The officers found the
stranger standing near the gate Of the
house OF Mr.. Bullock. When they told
him he was under arrest. he Immediately
became ugly, and dehed them 20 take
him. He was overpOwered. and removed
I'm a wagon 10 the jail Besides a hand
some gold watch. with the name ''W.
T.. Smith" and & IN money. a ladies'
handkerchief, with the name Graham,
in one corner. and "A trunk check Of tho
g. and o., were found on his person.
The prisoner declared that the hand
kerchief was not his own. and that he
did not know 20 whom 10 belonged. He
also denied that he had brought "A trunk
with him. when he arrived here Friday
from COvngtOn.
The man was committed 70 Jail by
Jutsice Lewis, for "A future hearing. He
Is evidently suffering from the effects
Of some drug. or has been on a long
spree. lie was In such "a nervous con-
dillon yesterday that he was unable 20
answer any Of the questions asked him.
lie claims that De is the proprietor of
livery stable. and the Coyington House
cafe in C0vinetOn He says that he
came 10 Richmond TO visit his sister.
Mrs. Davis. who lives. according 20 his
statement, on west clay street. lie could
not tell how he came % Doe out at the
Soldiers Home.
Late yesterday afternoon. Sergeant
Tomlnson communicated with tho Cow
ington authorities and learned that Smith
was OF respectable family. and had
been ON a spree for "A month. lie was
told 10 hold the man until his family
could send for him. Mr.. X. s. Davis.
who lives az NO. 1900 west Clay street.
is a brothcr-in-law. of Smith Last night
be heard Of his relatives unfortunate
predicament. and. went TO the Jail and
took him 20 his own home. where ne
can Doe properly nursed Squire Thomas
hancd the man.
Mr.. Davis said that no had received
letter from Covington. telling him that
Mr.. Smith was coming TO this city, and
asking him 20 look out for him.